The London label will release the Brooklyn duo’s Thieves EP next month.
For someone with reasonably limited exposure, Austin Cesear has managed to leave quite an impression with his releases thus far. It helps of course that his sound has found favour with those steering such vaunted ships as Opal Tapes, Proibito and Public Information, for whom he returns to serve a follow-up to his Cruise Forever debut, but such affiliations only speak to the quality of the music rather than some notion of right-place-right-time hype. His first long player on Public Information was certainly a striking affair that drew on all manner of house and techno abstractions to make its presence felt, with plenty of dubby sensibilities rubbed into its muscles and ample breathing room for experimentation. It’s a premise that continues with West Side, a six-tracker reportedly written in homage to the docks of Oakland, California; although music of this nature is fairly wide open to thematic interpretation.
The San Francisco-based producer will return to Public Information with a six-track mini LP later this month.
Material from Kerry Leimer, Jon Hassell, Joan Bibiloni, library music from Public Information and an in-depth look at Scottish minimal synth feature in the round-up of May’s best reissues and archival releases.
Records from Acteurs, Palms Trax, House of Spirits, Joakim and more were among the best this week.
The industrially-minded Chicago pair will release a five-track mini LP next month.
The forthcoming Happy Machine: Standard Music Library 1970-2010 will feature 31 tracks spanning 40 years from the UK library music institution.
In a post-internet age where access to the internet and a Spotify account offer a contemporary variant on the homemade mixtape, officially sanctioned compilations retain an ever more defined and important role for our listening habits. As the gaping hole of the internet gets ever wider, the chance for the past and the present to be contextualised by those who possess the requisite tastes and knowledge, it’s clear from the selection process for this list that 2013 was a year that celebrated the enduring strength and the scope afforded by the humble compilation, with the following ten inclusions representing the many forms that the medium takes.
Here label overviews from Keysound and L.I.E.S. rub shoulders with archival reappraisals and diverse selections from respected diggers, whilst collections gathering together the works of artists such as Livity Sound and Mr Beatnick are complemented by conceptual and compelling compilations from Unknown Precept, Perc’s Submit label and the always interesting Public Information.
Watch a video for “My Boy” taken from the Russian pair’s forthcoming EP for the Night School label.
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Everyone has a few records that make them genuinely afraid. Maybe you were seven years old and heard “Ghost Riders In The Sky” and suddenly the abstract concept of death clicked for the first time. Maybe it was the lead singer of Throbbing Gristle reciting descriptions of human suffering over droney electronic static. Maybe you ingested something at a club once, and the lurching rumble of DVS1’s “Falling” instilled a deep sense of being utterly alone, even in the middle of a packed dance floor.
Limited 7-inch features Ian Helliwell’s collage of the recent Interpretations on F.C. Judd LP.
Public Information will introduce another unknown artist in the form of Los Angeles-based producer Katie Gately.
We have the first look on the video for the lead cut from the Portuguese producer’s recent EP for Public Information.
A title like Future says a lot about an artist’s intentions, before even a jot of music has come forth. Of course it can be interpreted in many ways, from a statement on where music should be heading, where it could be heading, where it is heading, to even where people imagined it was heading thirty years prior – although let’s not get bogged down in retro-futurism, there’s plenty of that around already.
Listen to a live set from Public Information’s Austin Cesear, recorded in San Francisco last weekend.
Young Turks, Public Information, Créme Organization and Antinote feature amongst a baker’s dozen of record sleeves from May.
Full details have emerged of Portuguese producer IVVVO’s debut for the Public Information label.
Those who are familiar with the output of Public Information – which has carved itself an interesting niche in library and early electronic music reissues, cracked sonics from the likes of Ekoplekz and Austin Cesear, and monochrome pop from Acteurs and Love Cult – may be surprised that its latest record is, for want of a better description, a collection of remixes. The label has so far shied away from getting other artists to reinterpret the work of those on its label, choosing instead to hone an aesthetic that inhabits a dark musical world running parallel to any current trends in experimental electronic music.
Public Information will be selecting at this weekend’s inaugural Pleasure Principle festival – get an idea of what to expect with this mixtape.