Liberez will be playing at the Colchester Arts Centre on Sunday the 28th of November, supporting Part Chimp.
http://www.colchesterartscentre.com/
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
Distribution
As of the 22nd of November (ie, yesterday), Alter is now distributed in the UK via Cargo Records. Please e mail info@cargorecords.co.uk for any distribution enquiries. Direct mailorder will still operate as usual through the store.
Any other enquiries should, as ever, be directed to alterstock@googlemail.com.
Any other enquiries should, as ever, be directed to alterstock@googlemail.com.
ALT04: Hieroglyphic Being - "A Romance Of 2 Planets" 12"
Alter is delighted to announce the release of a new e.p from HIEROGLYPHIC BEING, aka Jamal Moss, who has been active on the Chicago dance scene for over 15 years as a prolific DJ, producer and artist in his own right. With his Hieroglyphic Being project he has nailed a highly unique sound that draws from a melting pot of influences such as Acid, Chicago House, Industrial and New Age music, which is produced through primitive means and successfully captures a raw intensity that other artists in his world often promise, but rarely ever deliver convincingly. His work stands alone in his field as being highly individualistic, and Jamal continues to follow his own special path after countless releases for labels such as International Deejay Gigolos, Mathematics, 6277, and even Sony Europe. "A Romance Of 2 Planets" presents three new pieces of off center techno which incorporate primal four to the floor drum machine stabs, erratic and disjointed melodies that duck and dive around arpeggiated synth lines, and a self imposed rough style of editing.
Limited to 500 copies on 12" vinyl, cut at 33rpm, and housed in colour LP sleeves.
Available direct from the online shop.
ALT03 - Design A Wave - "Live On Your Yard" 12"
Tom Hirst has been making music for many moons. Initial buds featured tape collages, distangled pop music, various dictaphone experiments, and over time all this meshed and warped into his solo musical venture known as Design A Wave. Initiated in the late 90s, the project was loosely named after one of the gangs in the Troma film Surf Nazis Must Die which, alongside other similar movies and music of it's time, informed a particular vision of an idealized weird - a trashy synth orientated 80s B-movie soundtrack, which provided an aesthetic platform on which to dive, surf and ride.
Over time the sound grew vocals, a live component formed, and a shift away from abstract recordings via more overt emotional territory brings us to the current byproduct. "Live On Your Yard" is an E.P that presents 4 tracks of emotive and melancholic synth pop that point towards the eccentricity of artists like Snakefinger and Tuxedomoon, the synthetic slickness and charity shop glamour of Italo Disco, and the misery of coldwave. This is the first vinyl release in Design a Wave's 10 year history, following on from a slew of humble and privately distributed cdrs, and also the first Design A Wave recording to feature external musicians - Melissa Osborne on synth, and Will Saunders on bass.
Limited to 300 copies. Recorded by John Hannon at No Recording Studio 2010, and mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates and Mastering. The track "Remedy" will also appear on the Rough Trade Shop's "Synth Wave 10" compilation, due for release in November 2010.
Available direct from the online shop.
Monday, 22 November 2010
Design A Wave on Rough Trade Shops "Synth Wave" compilation
The Design A Wave track "Remedy" is featured on a new compilation of contemporary synth pop that has been released today by the inhouse label at the Rough Trade shop. It can be ordered from here.
Video clip for "Remedy" below.
Design A Wave - Remedy from des wav on Vimeo.
Saturday, 13 November 2010
Monday, 1 November 2010
Shop.
The Alter online shop is now open, stocking the back catalogue and other related items!
http://alterstock.bigcartel.com/
http://alterstock.bigcartel.com/
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