HOT CITY! oh yeah!

rar! lots going on - new 12" by Hot City is now off for pressing, and should be back early December. We're killing two birds with one stone, and throwing a release party/xmas party at the excellent Cafe Oto, London, on December 16th. The 12 is pretty full-on house music, with hearty big doses of 2Step/UKG and bass thrown in there and i'm well happy with! I'm sure you won't be disappointed either. I'll get some more info up here soon and some samples, plus set up pre-orders for it. In the meantime, you can check out two other Hot City tracks over on his lastfm page

thanks! thor

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Kwaidan review

many thanks to Joe Muggs for a very nice Kwaidan review in the latest issue of the Wire magazine:

"With both Geiom and Appleblim exploring territories below 130bpm, a new kind of dubstep House is looking increasingly promising, and it's that which Mat Ranson - usually known for glitch-hop as Fisk Industries - explores here. Both of these tracks evolve and unfold over almost 12 minute timescales; unlike many on the finges of dubstep, though, they don't simply rework Basic Channel tropes, but work with a sharper focussed soundfield, making use of the sawing, jagged oscillator hum beloved of Skream and those who follow him. In 'Hoichi', it rises up steadily in triple rhythm through snatches of dubbed-out chanted voices and ticking hi-hats, then falls away like a dream image. In 'Masaki' the buzzing is sharper, more electrical, and exactly follows the notes of a dub bassline through a more episodic development, with the dancehall syncopation enhanced by castanets and congas"

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

festivals net and unsound

TVO and Production Unit are back down in London this week, hosting the bar area of Shunt for the thursday night session of the Netaudio festival. The Netaudio festival starts tomorrow evening, running for four nights, and has an absolutely amazing line up across the four days.
Full line up and details here

I'll be down for tomorrow evening and thursdays, but will unfortunately miss the weekend's events as i'll be out DJing in Krakow, Poland, as part of the Lastfm Dj team at the Unsound festival. (so i guess its not that unfortunate! :)

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Kwaidan

New release just added to the website - Kwaidan, a digital only release comprised of two long evolving synth heavy slow techno builders. The Kwaidan project is a one-off by Mat Ranson, inspired by watching the movie of the same name by Masaki Kobayashi.

Mastered by Twerk, and available to purchase for £3 as either FLAC files or 320kbps MP3s here.

thanks!
thor

Friday, October 3, 2008

Triptych

The intrepid adventurer Mat/Fisk Industries is taking leave of these shores for the next year as he and his girlfriend travel the world in search of the best found sounds in the seven continents. We've given him a big batch of stickers to vandalise south east asia and nepal with, and in return he's given us a wee 3 track web EP as a send off gift. Three lush tracks of deep sound, crisp off-kilter rhythms and warped synth. Download the EP here.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Village Orchestra live set for download

'lo! I've just uploaded a live recording from The Village Orchestra's most recent London performance, our 'Towards The Singularity' gig from August.

grab it here

All based around sound recording made in and around Dalston, and using a Max/MSP patch especially written for the event.

hope you enjoy!

Monday, September 29, 2008

TVO and Production Unit Djing London 3rd October

TVO and Production Unit are down in London this weekend, DJing for this
amazing line-up on October 3rd:

Live:
VLADISLAV DELAY
SND
REDSHAPE

Held at Cargo, 83 Rivington Street, this event is curated by the Wire magazine as part of the new Concrete and Glass festival going on across the 2nd and 3rd, in over 50 venues across east london.

Full festival lineup at: http://www.concreteandglass.co.uk/

You can buy individual event tickets if you go through the ticket links too..

what a fucking lineup, it should be amazing!