Other Colours of Noise

Phonode

Phonode is a new website devised by the UE collective. It will focus on the more exploratory fringes of electronic music, demystifying the techniques used by musicians and artists working in the field, reviewing albums and equipment as well as examining the new processes and ideas which drive its creation. As the boundaries between noise and techno blur, disparate scenes seem to cross-pollinate more than ever before, and electronic music returns to a more experimental DIY aesthetic – the time seems ripe to launch a fresh investigation into where electronic music is at, and where it’s going next…

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Al Thawra (work still in progress)

Don’t stop fighting for freedom Egypt

The Problem With Science

New documentary film by Michael Coldwell on philosopher Jim Schofield’s latest theories. Science has made several crucial assumptions that are fundamentally flawed, and may have skewed our view of the world around us.
Music is supplied by our friends in the Urban Exploration collective 🙂

Haikyo Volume One

New compilation album for free download from Dead-Channel.com – featuring the work of the Urban Exploration collective – Download here

Urban Exploration in the Ragged Kingdom

Ragged Kingdom Closing Party

Artist and anarchist Jamie Reid, perhaps best known for his work with the Sex Pistols, is currently exhibiting a retrospective of his work at Temple Works in Leeds. The exhibition is on until the July 14th closing with an evening of experimental music and art curated by the Urban Exploration collective.

Interview with Jamie Reid
Urban Exploration Page

Urban Exploration will present a 4 hour epic set involving collaborative improv with Oliver Knight (spoken word), Jenny Komowsky (classical singing), Rowan Reid (singer/songwriter), Umcorps (modular synthesist), and a Navajo indian spirit dancer….all with a backdrop of tipis, interactive visuals and the largest reverb room ever!

More info on this event from Temple Works

Who’s George? Find out on the final night of Jamie Reid’s Ragged Kingdom at Temple.Works.Leeds, July 14, 7:00 pm – 1:00 am.

A fundraiser for St George’s Crypt homeless shelter in memory of our much loved porter Brian Bird (1959 – 2012), the night will see Jamie himself back at Temple.Works.Leeds.  An evening of extraordinary experiences will include experimental electronic ambient collective Urban Exploration collaborating with an opera singer, a poet, a singer songwriter (Jamie’s daughter Rowan), a hip-hop mc and a modular synthesist, and an acoustic set by Brian’s friends the Urban Stage Band – moving  from the Joiners bar into the Open Loading bay for a night of sound, light and …dancing by our surprise guest, Dennis Lee Rogers, the Spirit Dancer of the Navajo Nation in proximity to Jamie’s immense tipis which form part of his ongoing work around the Eightfold year. Celebrated dancer, artist and educator, Dennis met Jamie Reid in 1998 while on tour in U.K and returned to open Ragged Kingdom.in London in October 2011  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q2Impc6pM8. Jamie’s piece Corporate Slavery currently hung in the Joiner’s Bar Main Gallery Space features Dennis himself.

Facebook Event Page

Life in the Overgrowth

Music by Urban Exploration

Arrangement and Video by Conflux

Hip Hop of the Arab Spring

Tunisian soundtrack to the revolution ^^

BBC article on Is hip hop driving the Arab Spring?

Music of the Egyptian revolution, including my own attempt Al Thawra.

Urban Exploration jamming at Temple Works

Urban Exploration – Subterranean

Urban Exploration’s debut release is out now on If The Kids records in Berlin. The EP is available from various online record shops including iTunes, Juno, Amazon and Beatport.

You can get the release here.

If you are taking part in the Black March protest, don’t worry, we will be posting this again in April, just wait till then 😉

Here are some previews of the release:

Bumper Xmas Stocking from Dead Channel

Hope your Crimbo festivities are going well and such!

Here’s a phat Christmas hamper for all eclectronic music lovers out there, from our very good friends at DC.

All free and festive, and the usual high quality we have come to expect from this growing net label. Get downloading people!

Click on the Album covers to download, or go to www.dead-channel.com for even more free music. Happy New Year 😉

Conflux – Sferic

New releases from Dead Channel

Our friends at Dead Channel have some amazing new music for your free acquisition. A pretty special new album from Chris Kubex, a collection of remixes from Naffdogg, Pocketsquare’s debut EP and an exclusive DJ set from an anonymous member of the Urban Exploration collective.

Find more great music for free at www.dead-channel.com

Superdeep Borehole

Abandoned Pork Pipes

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Our good friend and Urban Exploration collaborator, MJS, has been on another hair-raising expedition into Britain’s forgotten spaces. This one is a veritable “meat feast” of photographic wonders and daredevil discoveries for your delectation. Vegans need not apply…

“HISTORY: Pyestock was conceptualised in pre Elizabethan times after the great world wide pork pie famine. The idea was to create and stock pile pork pies in the event of other such catastrophes happening again. Over the years the institution decided to stick with the old English spelling of ‘pye’ as opposed to the modern equivalent ‘pie’, hence the name ‘Pyestock’.

PROCESS:After the swine is delivered to site, it is blown through a series of pipes at speeds not dissimilar to the speed of light in order to tenderise the meat.”

Mini-Jack by Urban Exploration

Urban Expo 1

Urban Exposition 1

Improvised music by Urban Exploration with Live visuals.

 

Urban Exploration Live Jam

Practicing hard for their debut performance at  Bridgnorth Music and Arts festival the Urban Exploration Collective have recorded this live improvised set.

Urban Exploration Live Debut

The whole collective have been busy preparing a monster setup of modular synths, drum machines, laptops, tape echoes, stomp boxes and miles of cable for their live debut as a performing group, at this year’s Bridgnorth Music and Arts Festival.

They will also be curating a whole day of experimental electronica and whole night of banging techno at the festival:

More information on the festival

Here is sneak preview from one of their early practices…

Headcleaner Blog

For those of you that liked the video we posted from “20 years of Braindance”, you will be glad to hear that you can keep up to date with Headcleaner’s movements on his new site:
http://headcleanersound.com/

It includes live videos, information and even some videos demonstrating the devices he has been building recently. Check it out!

Depot by Urban Exploration

Headcleaner @ Rephlex Night

Headcleaner’s awesome improvisation with a modular synth of his own creation! Easily the best thing at 20 years of Braindance, showing the old skool how it’s done basically. This is next level shit 😉

New track by Naffdogg

This is my new one, inspired by George R.R. Martin’s “Game of Thrones”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Game_of_Thrones

Cryptomnesia by Micoland

New track by Red Eye contributor Micoland.

Graffic Equalisers Compilation

Beta Birmingham, a new record label based in the midlands, has launched with an awesome compilation of wayward glitch-hop, drumstep and bass-heavy craziness called Graffic Equalisers. The album was released today on CD and digitally through Addictech and can be bought through the label for only 3 pounds sterling!

“Beta are proud to present our widely anticipated debut album ‘Graffic Equalisers’, 10 tracks of bass-heavy dancefloor dubs and next generation sub synthesis from the Midlands elite electronic producers. Graffic Equalisers’ weilds a furious artilliary of glitch hop, dubstep and drum and bass, AVAILABLE NOW! both digitally and as a limited edition CD. ‘Graffic Equalisers’ can be found at independent music retailers nationwide, however, it is also available directly from us for only £3 + p & p Visit http://www.betabirmingham.co.uk for more info!”

The compilation also features a track by Red Eye contributors Wobble N Dubb. Destroying Grandma’s House is one of their best tracks to date and is probably worth the asking price alone! Graffic Equalisers has only been available for several hours and Destroying Grandma’s House has already been remixed  – check it out below:::

http://www.betabirmingham.co.uk/

WOBBLE N DUBB – DESTROYING GRANDMAS HOUSE (GROOVEMERCHANT CAKE MIX) by the yardbird

Nephele by Bo Legz

Bo Legz is a female producer from Leeds. Fairly new to the game, she has a small following on soundcloud.

Her debut release ‘Masquerade’ will be available for download in winter 2011/12.

For more tracks go to: http://soundcloud.com/bo-legz

Wobble n Dubb – It’s Not Rocket Surgery [Review]

I’ve never been raped in either of my ears, but I imagine that the sensation would not be dissimilar to that of listening to the merciless new album from Wobble n Dubb. The duo’s debut album, a bass-heavy Techno hybrid called It’s Not Rocket Surgery, demands to be played loud: loud enough to make you think the room you’re in is the only piece of horrific reality left in existence, and everything outside has disappeared into the abyss. It will pulverise the soft tissue of your inner ear and maul at your ear drum to the point of near collapse; it will melt a fuse in your brain and trap you in a dark acid flashback of mental psychosis… It’s not for pussies, I’m for real.

The intro, Brain Science, sets the psychotic pace of the album. Wobble N Dubb ain’t messin’. The Godfathers of Ravecore have returned and they mean serious deviant mash-up business. The album starts for real with the pummelling rhythm of Kokoro’s Actroid pulling you into a futuristic nightmare realm of androids and robots, where the sublimely heavy kick-drums batter out the pace of a revolution. The epic Holy Shiite comes next, a track which not only gives you an insight into Wobble n Dubb’s troublesome sense of humour, it also shows them at the top of their game: eerie and unsettling glitched-out vocals mesh perfectly with pounding drums and a crushing bassline; every second is immaculately and painstakingly produced.

Full of blistering snares and nervous sounding bass, Shifty is just that: the theme tune to a man skulking away down an alley after indecently exposing himself to a schoolboy. The dirty bastard. Then comes the hammering bassline of Propa Wood, thrashing out the soundtrack to an imaginary scene in an imaginary documentary in which David Cameron gets ripped apart limb from limb by a naked midget with a tin opener, and screams of anguish erupt from his posh twat-hole of a mouth as his ridiculously annoying face gets sprayed with lumps of bile-soaked cartilage and chunks of bloody gristle. But that might just be me.

Wobble n Dubb – Propa Wood

The aptly titled Loud is a highlight – its unearthly sci-fi melody fuses immaculately with a thundering signature Wobble n Dubb bassline, and it morphs into a destructive and fierce rave anthem. Monstrously heavy Seppuku is a summoning to watch a ritual suicide by disembowelment – the wobbling bass takes prime position again, ripping apart your ear canal without so much as a bit of courtesy spit to ease the pain. Deal with it or fuck off, it seems to say. Gonzo throws you into a brutal Gabber insanity of thrashing spastics; but then Front Gammon pulls you back out with a jolly little melody, and makes you feel like you’ve landed in the middle of a rave down a rabbit hole with a clarted Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee ripping up the dance floor.

The atmospheric and dreamy Tiny Dinosaur Hands brings this demented album to a close in a way that’s actually verging on serene. Maybe Wobble N Dubb aren’t complete savages after all – they have at least had the decency to attempt to calm our troubled minds at the end of this psychotic saga that has been It’s Not Rocket Surgery.

But I do think it’s time for them to fuck off now. Don’t you?

Get the album NOW (at your peril) from Dead Channel
Wobble N Dubb on Soundcloud / Facebook
Check out The Wobble n Dubb takeover on The Otherside Radio show back in January 2011: download here.

New releases on Dead Channel

Our friends at Dead Channel are back with two new releases and more to follow in coming days. The net label, based in the North of England, aims to serve as a vehicle primarily for the transmission of electronic music that has little, or no other outlet, but all has been quiet for a few months due to other commitments by its artists. Now Dead Channel are back on air with releases from label stalwarts Wobble N Dubb and Micoland, with an EP to follow by Tokyo based techno-maverick, Little Nobody. Fans of Wobble N Dubb will be pleased to hear that their debut album It’s Not Rocket Surgery is now available for free download from the website and we’ll have a review of that up in the next few days from the legendary Lisa Right Eye. Until then you can download and listen to the new releases for yourself here:

www.dead-channel.com

Wobble N Dubb – It’s Not Rocket Surgery 

734 years in the making, Wobble N Dubb do not recommend you download their debut album, as it may distort your perception of reality as you know it.

After a year of polluting the underground rave scene with atrocious, viscerally-coagulated beat spasms, they retreated back to their secret lair in the Yorkshire mountains to push their manifesto of noise to it’s logical conclusion. The chromosomes of Coldcut, Point B, Modeselektor, Reso and Venetian Snares have been spliced into a genetically modified hyper-toxic foetus, in a collaboration with NASA and HP Sauce.
It’s Not Rocket Surgery but it sure as hell feels like it!

Conflux vs. Micoland – Ark Hive

This second retrospective of early works by Micoland has been compiled in the spirit of Spac Hand Luke Vs. Amen Andrews, in that both artists are in fact the same person. These tracks all date from 2007 and 2008 and feature both the Skam Records-inspired analogue experiments of his Conflux project, and the darker output of his Dubstep and Hip Hop tunes as Micoland.

The album’s tracks were written primarily on hardware such as the Roland Juno 6 and the Casio 101, through delay pedals and other cheap effects, giving the LP a unique feel, unlike much of the polished Dubstep released today. Many of the tracks here featured in the set he performed supporting Milanese at Room 237 in April 2008, but are released here, in all their lo-fi glory, for the first time.

Chris Kubex – The Trans Global Super Hyper Mega Bass EP

Download here

Our good friend Chris Kubex has a new release out on Kanji Kinetic’s Mutant Bass net label. After years of ripping up the dancefloors of Leeds and Birmingham, it looks like this extremely talented producer is finally getting the recognition he deserves. You can download it for free from the link above, and it’s more than worth the asking price 😉 For fans of heavy dance music Kubex delivers Bassline, Techno and Dubstep bangers aplenty, but this is Kubex, so don’t expect these to be mere DJ tools. Emotive chip-tune-style melodies, intricate beats and heavy bass jostle for your attention in these dense slabs of mainroom rave mayhem. Rinsin.

Listen here

Al Thawra (The Revolution)

Hip Hop track inspired by the Egyptian Revolution. Rhymes, beats and video by Red Eye contributor Micolagist.