Bears From Labrador: Paradise Lost
Dylan Rippon: Jack Morrow Hills
Dylan Rippon: Tigershark
Solar: Astrodome
Solar’s debut album ‘Astrodome’. The album isn’t really a debut as if it had been released it would have arrived hard on the heels of the Six EPs. Recorded in Blue Mountain’s basement studio in 1999 and early 2000 the album saw the band continue to expand their sonic universe. James Bastard, the in-house engineer, […]
Grand Union: Spanish Dust Indian Rust
Grand Union’s ‘Spanish Dust Indian Rust’ is a compilation of tracks from the band’s two EPs recorded in 2001. Grand Union were a band born of frustration and grounded in the live experience and these recordings place great value on happenstance and spontaneity. There are weird and wonderful samples, the searching for ‘sounds that may […]
Dylan Rippon: Hail! Taikonauts
‘Hail! Taikonauts’ is Rippon’s second instrumental album. The various recordings were made over a three year period between 2004 and 2007. It is also a concept album. Inspired by an exhibition of Chinese Communist Poster Art and Lynn Pan’s book ‘Mao Memorabilia The Man And The Myth’, Rippon became intrigued by the power of nations […]
Dylan Rippon: Needles On Strange Acoustics
With ‘Needles On Strange Acoustics’ there’s an uncompromising dedication to looseness. Opening track ‘Night Fire’ is a swamp-song instrumental right on the edge of town. There’s Brian Jones-style slide playing, kitchen sink percussion, the purity of the single take. Beck’s ‘One Foot In The Grave’ (1994), Stina Nordenstam’s ‘And She Closed Her Eyes’ (1994), Bill […]
Grand Union: All That Indian Rust
Grand Union: All That Spanish Dust
Grand Union’s debut EP recorded in the spring of 2001 was released in May of the same year as a CD limited to an edition of 200 copies. The EP opens with ‘Hercules’, a beautiful farewell to the 20th Century. Howard Hughes, Elvis, Hendrix, Apollo, Big Oil, TV and The Radio – all the mythical […]
Solar: Six Suns
Six Suns is a double album compilation of the Six EPs released by Solar throughout 1998-1999 on their own label Diablo Fuel. Recording on to tape, either a Tascam 4-track or an AKAI 12-track, using an e64 sampler to generate beats and loops, Solar were part of the 90’s lo-fi revolution – the collision of […]
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