magnetic vinyl!

rar! the Magnetism vinyl arrived this morning, and looks/sound amazing!

All pre-orders were mailed out this afternoon, so expect yours soon if you ordered.

more info here

thanks!
thor

new Tigrics EP!

I fucking love Robi Tigrics! He's like the Nikola Tesla of electronic music, he just keeps digging deeper into building his own synths and getting to the root of sound. He's currently working on a follow-up EP to last years' 'Synki' album - this will be a 12" EP entitled 'Snyki' which I think will all be written using his ever evolving hardware setup. As a wee teaser, he's given us a four track EP with artwork, called 'p.e-e.p'. Its all encoded as lossless FLAC files, and bundled in a zip file which you can download from here.

Magnetism!

rar! new website and "Magnetism, That Electricity.." is live!



We're taking pre-orders on the vinyl at the moment - it's now being pressed and should be back in less than a month.

cdr version is shipping on wednesday, 2nd April, and you can purchase wav and 320kbps mp3s directly from here too. If you purchase either vinyl or cdr, i'll email you a link to your choise of download too, so while you're waiting for the mailman to arrive, you can be rocking mp3s or wav too.

let us know what you think of the website! *HUGE* kudos to Mat/Fisk for putting the design together - its lovely to have a fully designed website more inline with the style of our physical packaging now.

boOmkat

hey! just a quick one, to say our whole catalog is now available to download from the Boomkat website, both in high quality 320kbps mp3s or as flac downloads..

March Nnnnnnews!

My head is still reeling from Autechre's performance here in London last night, absolutely incredible! Being in a concrete car park, i was worried what the sound would be like, but the speaker stack was enormous and you could hear every detail crystal clear from anywhere inside. Their set was full on from the start to the end, very dance floor friendly and effortlessly moving from techno to hip hop rhythms, with suprisingly dub styled breaks, and the sound pallete was very uniquely Autechre. I hope someone managed to get a good recording of that!

aiight, well, quite a fair wee bit of news here..

"Magnetism, That Electricity..", the release is well under way now, and over being mastered with Twerk currently. I guestimate about 6 weeks before we have the finished vinyl back in our hands. double 12" vinyl package on heavy weight 180g vinyl, with four EPs, one each from the performers at our label showcase in january - Mandelbrot Set, Fisk Industries, The Village Orchestra, and The Marcia Blaine School for Girls. There will be 300 copies pressed up, with hand numbered certificates, and will come in a deluxe PVC clear plastic outer, with black paper sleeves housing the vinyl. Should be ace! You can hear one of the Marcia Blaine tracks 'The Ratio' if you head on over to Mary Anne Hobbs BBC homepage, and check out her Future Downloads section, which is a podcast featuring a selection of six tracks she thinks will become big over the next few months.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/maryannehobbs/futuredownloads.shtml
There will also be a run of 100 handnumberd cdrs in svelte slimline black DVD cases too, for people who don't have a turntable.

Straight up after that we have a MASSIVE release we're utterly stoked about.. Funckarma!
A five track EP named the 'Stub Dane EP', which is completely evil! Easily a 9 on the Richter scale - heavy instrumental hip hop with floor shaking bass and super punchy intricate sound production. This is the Funcken brothers take on dubstep, but its no mere imitation nor copy, this is genetic mutation, mad scientists injecting one DNA strand into another beast and creating a monster. Check out their homepage at http://www.funckarma.com/ to hear one of the tracks, "Woodface" in their flash player.


Here on our site we have a few new mp3 downloadable release for you:

There are two live recordings from our label showcase in january from Mandelbrot Set and Fisk Industries.
Check the bass when it comes in on that first Fisk Industries track he plays! Get them
here.

Following up on his recent "On Becoming An Island" release, we have an excellent new four track mp3 EP from Dave erstlaub, entitled "Trying To Reach You". Its a amazing EP, mesmerizing and full of glacial deep texturing and hypnotic structures. You can find that for download here

Well, i'm off up to Glasgow this weekend for Numbers at the Sub Club, Redshape headlining and Village Orchestra and Production Unit in support. Should be a good one! The following weekend quite a few of us are heading to the Bloc festival too, so if you see anyone in Highpoint Lowlife t-shirts, come say hello!

cheers,
thor

Labels: fisk industries, funckarma, magnetism, mandelbrot, mandelbrot set, marcia blaine, new releases, newsletter, village orchestra, vinyl

'Magnetism..' live sets

hello!
We've posted up the first two recordings, taken from our label showcase a few weeks back. These are only the Mandelbrot Set and Fisk Industries ones at the moment, but hopefully we'll be adding some more. There were some recording problems with the Marcia Blaine set unfortunately, but we can hopefully recover some of it, and we still have to encode the Village Orchestra set.
You can grab them from here or direct from the mp3 page under web exclusives.

enjoy!

Magnetism, That Electricity..

rar! happy 2008 to you all!
this month is all about:

Magnetism, That Electricity..

Live Sets from:
The Marcia Blaine School For Girls ( Highpoint Lowlife, Stuff Records)
The Village Orchestra ( Highpoint Lowlife, Stuff Records)
Fisk Industries ( Highpoint Lowlife, Mush Records)
Mandelbrot ( Highpoint Lowlife )

Saturday, January 26th 2008.
The Luminaire, Kilburn, London.
8pm - late. Cost £6.

The Highpoint Lowlife Label showcases it's diverse roster with a night of noise, bass and rhythmic destruction. Starting with the unbridled feedback and guitar pedal manipulation of Mandelbrot, through the low end skewed hip hop of Fisk Industries, building up to a pressure point with The Village Orchestra and Marcia Blaine School For Girls, and culminating in a turntable DJ set from Production Unit!


The Marcia Blaine School For Girls
based out of Glasgow, the MBSFG have been steadily building a solid reputation for unconventional electronics, rearranging elements of dancehall, techno, rave, hip hop and minimalism, and moulding it together into their own distinctive sound. The MBSFG have released a slew of records in recent years, with releases on Highpoint Lowlife, Stuff, Static Caravan, Dalriada, Benbecula and Awkward Silence, and also help run and DJ one of Glasgows most prominent underground monthly clubs, 'Numbers', now resident at Glasgow's legendary Sub Club.

The Village Orchestra
TVO is one third of the Marcia camp, and takes in a multitude of influences from sprawling ambience through to detroit techno. Expect a devastating dancefloor oriented set for this show.

Fisk Industries
Mat Ranson has been developing his Fisk Industries project for the past few years, and is truly on top of his game at the moment, as the bass gets deeper, the beats get dirtier and he pushes himself into further realms of evil instrumental hip hop. His recent sets have been nothing short of floor shaking in their cavernous resonance. With two EPs on Highpoint Lowlife, and various web releases, all of which were collected on a double disc album by Mush records last year, Fisk Industries will be showing off his latest works, set for release in 2008 on a new album.

Mandelbrot
Keung's Mandelbrot Set project released their debut album on HPLL on 2006, a pummeling take on shoegaze and postrock - as the band has mutated and changed through several lineups, the one thing that has remained consistent is the creativity and originality of his process and sound. Utilizing upwards of thirteen effects pedals for control of his guitar, the sounds which emanate from his setup are anything but recognisable. Taking pointers from the physical sound of Sun O))), the complex textures of Tim Hecker, and combining the sort of beautiful melodies which David Pajo/Papa M was known for, Mandelbrot juxtapose disparate elements into a completely immersive whole. Joined on stage by Lina on violin, the combination is intoxicating.

Production Unit
Another member of the MBSFG, and resident DJ at the Numbers club, expect some booty shaking mashups of techno, electro, hip hop, grime and whatever else he can throw in the mix!


It should be a night to remember! Tickets available from We Got Tickets

thanks! thorsten

Labels: gigs, live