Happy Friday!
Singularity 02: Shit And Shine - Above Ground Pool
Singularity: demanding tracks for long attention spans.
Today we release the second in our series of new music commissioned with the Quietus.
When I’m looking for vocal samples, I always go to YouTube and
search the word 'argument’. I found some videos called
'Grumpy Grandpa' and they were perfect.
No politics or agenda, just an angry old guy bitching. In the vid, he
accidentally backs his car into an above ground swimming pool and destroys it.
Hilarious. Classic Shit And Shine. Repetition. Noise. A little humour…
Craig Clouse aka Shit And Shine
We've packaged this in a run of super limited lathes - each in hand designed and produced sleeves, foil stamped and individually engraved and painted single-sided lathes. The 51st comes in a special hand made box. Everything was designed and made in the (award winning!!) state51 Atelier.
Maximalist botheration from the Austin, Texas noise-mangler. This sounds like Suicide red-lining the score to an American edition of You’ve Been Framed. Ten minutes of tectonic rumbles underpinned by ratcheting percussion reinforce the mania of the car-meets-swimming-pool sample at the heart of this. It’s hilarious and bolshy. Just the way Shit and Shine likes it.
Brood X Cycles - Sleep Nameless Fear
Debut album from Nik Void and Alex Tucker
This eight-track debut is as rugged as it is deep, and while it carries the established hallmarks of the two participating musicians, ‘Sleep Nameless Fear’ simmers with new working methods and unfamiliar sonics for Brood X Cycles. It dates from a two-day studio session three years ago (then subject to a longer editing process) involving Nik Colk Void – erstwhile Factory Floor member and more recent foil to Cosey Fanni Tutti/Chris Carter, with a fresh volley of praise recent sent her way for debut solo album ‘Bucked Up Space’ – and Alexander Tucker, similarly restless in his projects, though you might know him as Microcorps or half of Grumbling Fur. Central to this sound, instrumentally speaking, is their respective modular synth setups, pushed together to make one megabrain and embellished with guitar, cello and vocals – though you’d be forgiven for not recognising the post-treatment results as such. Sometimes the duo land on something like proto-techno or the more peculiar fringes of minimal synth (‘No Rival’), elsewhere a celestial string drone akin to Tony Conrad or Grumbling Fur’s more ‘out’ moments (‘Educational Space’). When it’s over, you’ll realise the Brood X Cycles project was overdue.
state51 Factory Session
The Rothko Collective join the Conservatoire Series.
More good things from the state51 factory: youth-led contemporary music ensemble Rothko Collective perform works by Caroline Shaw and Dominic Stokes
The ensemble aims to provide an accessible space for younger artists to collaborate via workshops, commissions and concerts: a perfect fit for the state51 Conservatoire series, which champions exceptional emerging artists in an alternative setting.
Greedmag Launch
We're hosting an Ableton Live workshop at the Greed shop this Tuesday, in conjunction with Music Hackspace. Follow socials for more info or drop us a line to attend. We'll be launching Greedmag issue 3 and selling a load of records and things from the state51 Atelier.
Have a great weekend!
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