The Belong and Telefon Tel Aviv members have a new project ready to air on Spectrum Spools.
With a life time of synthesis to his name, a third solo album under his belt and the evolving Sendai collaboration bending the rules of what’s considered to be functional dance music, Belgian sound artist Yves De Mey is profiled by James Manning.
A third album from Ren Schofield entitled LP for John Elliott and Peter Rehberg’s label will arrive in June.
Spectrum Spools has always worn its influences on its sleeve, but it’s been rarer to find the label actually reaching backward to highlight the artists that shaped the sound so closely attached to John Elliot and the Cleveland set. 2012 saw a reissue of the undersold, now hopefully classic record Flux by Robert Turman, followed by a repress of Sensation Fixer Franco Falsini’s mellow soundtrack to a film about cocaine called Cold Nose. Both are heady, semi-ambient affairs, combining experimentalism with motorique persuasiveness and an eye for sequenced electronic music as an inwardly psychedelic and progressive movement – which obviously plugs into the contemporary work put out by Spectrum Spools.
The respected Italian producer has collaborated with the vocalist on a new album due on Spectrum Spools in March.
A new edition of the celebrated musician’s highly regarded Music For Amplified Keyboard Instruments is due on the label in March.
Scott Wilson runs down the best reissues and archival releases of the year, with records from Dark Entries, Music From Memory, Light In The Attic and more making the cut.
The Cleveland artist pays homage to late ’90s French house in our latest podcast.
Wet rocks. Throw a handful down a dank well whose dark abyss leads to the uninhabitable cracks between earth’s tectonic plates, record it (somehow), and the results I imagine would sound like Phobos. Giuseppe Tillieci, as he’s proven, is a versed producer of modular electronics; a producer whose name continually follows Donato Dozzy’s when their Voices From The Lake collaboration is concerned. He is, however, a formidable DJ, as well as the go-to mastering engineer for Prologue, Northern Electronics and Morphine Records. And after years of self preservation from the centre stage of electronic music – as lauded as his work with Dozzy is – Spectrum Spools finally bring to light the lone talent of Neel.
The Italian producer and mastering engineer will release his debut LP on Spectrum Spools in November.
Releases from Spectrum Spools, Cititrax, Morphine and Hyperdub feature alongside some impressive looking new labels.
This is what reissue culture should be all about. In the tidal surge of techno that leaves myriads of records scattered across the world in its wake, there is always an abundance of mythical gems littered amongst the flotsam and jetsam. Most artists with a career more than ten years long have a discography populated with plentiful near misses, incidental labels, fleeting ideas and chance pressings. Before the fact, no-one involved really knows if a release will be the one that bites, and so some much-pressed timeless classics can be snapped up now for 50 pence while others ignite a ferocious mark-up mentality through scarcity and reputation.
The Aquaplano Sessions sees the classic productions from the Italian pair reissued by John Elliot’s label.
Steve Moore’s debut release on Spectrum Spools goes by the name Pangaea Ultima, and refers to a potential super-continent formation, occurring sometime in the next 250 million years. This mighty fusion of land-mass is part of an ongoing cycle that saw the formation of Pangaea, 300 million years ago.
The artist otherwise known as Bee Mask guides us through five records that hold particular resonance to him and his working practices.
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