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Just as Public Enemy's "Rebel Without a Pause," this music was made with machines, but do you give a fuck? No. Just roll up your sleeves and stick your hands up the arse of this thoroughbred stallion. Inhale the fumes, gag on the gas. Andrea's Kit won't change your life, but maybe it's time you changed your underwear?

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Junket
Mini Drama
Kumiko Kit
Call From There
Throw the Zero

Barbed is Alex and Alex previously responsible for the 'plunderphonic' classic 'Barbed' released on the legendary Recommended label way back in 1994. Veterans of stupidly long concerts with the likes of Negativland, People Like Us and the Tape Beatles, they went on to join an embryonic Add N to X, provide the soundtrack for Joram ten Brink's arthouse classic 'The Man Who Couldn't Feel' and supply material for numerous compilations, live records & remixes. But yet all the time they yearned to make a different kind of music, one that was at the same time familiar and yet alien, pop fluff with hidden spikes...barbed as it were. And this is it 'Doubleclick Countryside'.

"Barbed, the reclusive black-sheep of the UK experimental family." --Motion

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Double Click Countryside
Slow Jazz
$50 Story
Philadelphia
A High Tiger
Swing
How About Some Dragonflies?

Batfinks got into the free party scene; through the Moss Lane/Strangeways party people he met the lovely Arie Bolt, whose strange outlook on life and chikamalee vocals seemed to fit in with his. He then released a couple of EPs through Jonathon Fisher's Hippocamp.net and did a remix for the Sirconical's Gioco 12-inch, and it all seemed to grab the attention of the listening folk. Finally some discs made their way to the Lo Recordings office and the new Lo offshoot label, Loaf. And what strange and marvelous music it is--twisted pop beyond your wildest dreams and perhaps beyond your endurance, so malignantly and magically warped it is.

ELO, Aphex Twin, The Beach Boys, Kate Bush and Frank Zappa, all fried up and served with a double helping of rave noodles.

"It's music, Jim, but not as we know it."

Staggering, startling and strangely beautiful. Let a little Batfinks into your life.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Peppercorn
Futt
And So
Im Ylearning

Recent shows throughout London have seen the band getting deeper and stronger, weaving the songs into a haunting web of acid-tinged folk with sweet harmonies, chiming guitars, spaced-out brass, and touches of electronic deviance.

The songs here have been lovingly polished and brought into focus by the team of Robin Proper-Sheppard (God Machine, Sophia) and Kenny Jones, and offer a sweet taste of the righteous sound of Dark Captain Light Captain. Rejoice!

"In an increasing world of electro beats and synthesizers, Dark Captain Light Captain offer a depth and substance beyond the label of their clothes or brightness of their jeans and trainers." --Supersweet Magazine

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Circles
Robot Command Centre
They Be Underwater
Walls

"Jealous Enemies b/w Mid-Session Interval" is the debut recordings from the Captains, their unique (but strangely familiar) textured sound and vocal harmonies is without a doubt an indication of greater things to come. A follow up single ("80,000 Reasons b/w Walls") will be released in April 2008 with their debut LP scheduled for a May release.

"Dark Captain Light Captain are beautiful, dense, textured, slightly scary and constantly engaging" Drowned in Sound

"It's gentle, massively understated, but its gets right inside your head and stays there" CMU Daily

""Think Beta Band meeting Ride, with Godspeed! You Black Emperor and King of Convenience looking on approvingly" TuneTribe (Dark Captain, Light Captain Featured in Tips for 2007)

"... a beautifully delicate and deliciously fragile thing of quiet breathless breathy, restrained, delicate, delicate beauty" The Organ

"They manage to sound fresh and exciting while remaining strangely familiar, to retain the rough edged quality of a DIY recording while sounding more than competently produced and, all-in-all, win us over with a minimum of effort and a quiet, lackadaisical confidence." Supersweet Magazine

"... and undercurrent of mystery and an idea of late night idea scribbling and quietly strumming while the world is sleeping nearby, perhaps even just through the walls and not to be woken". 99x/10

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Jealous Enemies
Mid-Session Interval

"Jealous Enemies b/w Mid-Session Interval" is the debut recordings from the Captains, their unique (but strangely familiar) textured sound and vocal harmonies is without a doubt an indication of greater things to come. A follow up single ("80,000 Reasons b/w Walls") will be released in April 2008 with their debut LP scheduled for a May release.

"Dark Captain Light Captain are beautiful, dense, textured, slightly scary and constantly engaging" Drowned in Sound

"It's gentle, massively understated, but its gets right inside your head and stays there" CMU Daily

""Think Beta Band meeting Ride, with Godspeed! You Black Emperor and King of Convenience looking on approvingly" TuneTribe (Dark Captain, Light Captain Featured in Tips for 2007)

"... a beautifully delicate and deliciously fragile thing of quiet breathless breathy, restrained, delicate, delicate beauty" The Organ

"They manage to sound fresh and exciting while remaining strangely familiar, to retain the rough edged quality of a DIY recording while sounding more than competently produced and, all-in-all, win us over with a minimum of effort and a quiet, lackadaisical confidence." Supersweet Magazine

"... and undercurrent of mystery and an idea of late night idea scribbling and quietly strumming while the world is sleeping nearby, perhaps even just through the walls and not to be woken". 99x/10

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Jealous Enemies
Mid-Session Interval

Seven Guitars With a Cloud of Milk is Gable's second album, containing 18 tracks clocking in at just under 40 minutes. The songs cover such diverse topics as group suicide, the state of urban music, self-realization, cats, and drunk foxes, in the best tradition of DIY bands like The Vaselines, Violent Femmes, and Beat Happening.

In the coming months, the band will be playing shows throughout France as well as elsewhere in Europe, and a UK tour is in the works following the release of Seven Guitars With a Cloud of Milk.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Noone Knows Why?
Ella
Tibidibim
Second Rhythm
Hawai
Birds Sucks
Someday Not Soon
Old Policeman
Puree Hiphop
Full Blast
Monsterland
Miserable Song
Miou
Chicken
Sam Et Pilou
Chaos
Irish Coffee
Drunk Fox In London

There's really little to compare with the feeling this music evokes-- perhaps Arthur Russell in his most oblique and gentle, early Penguin Cafe Orchestra, half-heard folk music on a far away isle-- It's almost too fragile to absorb and yet imbued with a lasting emotional resonance rarely found in this world of electronic rough and tumble.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Airs Vs 1
Fools (Detuned Guitar Version)
Leo & Lydia Vs 2
Airs Vs 2

Like Jamie Lidells hairy Scottish cousin on a sunny day beach stroll with James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem. Kid Twist is Colin Bailey, a native of Oban (a small fishing town on the west coast of Scotland) who re-located to Glasgow as a keen nipper to play in Metal bands. There he immersed himself in the vibrant electronic music scene that inspired him to make the music in front of you now.

Moving to London, Kid Twist met up with LOAF label-mate Pierre Conti (the man behind Andrea's Kit)who helped with production duties on this EP. Along a handful of early adopters of the Twist Sound is Mary-Anne Hobbs, who has already aired demo versions of "I Can't Dance" and "Ah Oo Ee You You" on her late night R1 Show. Meantime our man is busy working on his debut album, produced by electronica pioneer (and Bjork/U2 conspirator) Howie B, while continuing to DJ at and co-promote one of Glasgow"s fastest growing club nights, Kaput!.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

I Can't Dance
Calculator
Canada Day
Voices & Light
Ah Oo Ee You You

Somewhere in the German countryside, inside a small under equipped studio, four cows are constantly exploring their weird version of lo-fi electronic country music. They are known as The Lonesomes. Well, either that or they are actually the solo recording entity of musician Adi Gelbart, who claims he is just the cows' manager. Though the Lonesomes' music originates from country, it seems to cover a great range of styles and influences from easy-listening through lo-fi minimalism to broken jazz and library music, creating an entirely new genre-- "Cow-Fii."

At times like a delicate update of Soft Machine, at other times recalling the offbeat insanity of Joe Meek, the deep psych vibes of Edan or the otherworld pop of Grandaddy, This Is Cow-Fi is nothing if not unique and in these increasingly conservative times, a welcome breath of fresh air amongst the mass of slop rock and techno bores that abound. The Lonesomes released their debut album-- a tribute to the great outdoors-- at the end of 2003 to rave reviews. It was played extensively on the famous New-Jersey based radio station WFMU, where the album was also featured on a top 10 albums of the year list. Since then, Adi has collaborated with esteemed bedroom musicians Dan Deacon (Carpark Records) and Frederik Schikowski and his work has been included on numerous compilations for the Mille Plateaux and Digital Kranky labels.

Say it loud I love cows and I'm proud!

...(The Lonesomes) is a fun release, and though it may seem like a novelty at first, it has a certain inner depth that makes it a much more durable record. Matt Shimmer, Indieville

The Lonesomesi new disc is a quite lovely amalgamation of warm, fuzzy electronic synth-pop laden with effects, fiddles, guitar and xylophones WFMU

30-second MP3 excerpts:

2001
Season Finale
Work Song
Anne's Mood
Thunder Road
Hotel 70
Holstein Riot
Heavy Water
Lakeside 5PM
Almauftrieb
Freezeout
Crop Circle
Emoo
(Now) I Am Still Lonesome
Riverbank 3AM
The International Anthems Of The Cows
On The Lonesome Way Home

This quote from the late great critic seems somehow appropriate when describing the music of Charlie March. Not to say that his music is any way old fashioned but thereis an underlying depth, an emotional sensibility that you donit hear much these days and is all the more unusual coming from someone born only 24 years ago.

After The Clouds Clear is the debut EP from Charlie March. Charlie has worked previously in eThe Toy Orchestrai with Andy Ramsay of Stereolab/Europa 51 as well as providing soundtracks for various short films and installations. For this EP Charlie has gathered around him a diverse selection of talented musicians, lending this project an unusual and distinctive charm.

Joe Mount AKA Metronomy is a rising star in the electronica scene and has produced, mixed and contributed a remix for the EP. Dominic Murcott of the High Llamas did the strings arrangements while the Elysian Quartet (Simon Fisher-Turner, Killa Kela, Hot Chip and Max De Wardener) provided the lush and cheerful strings.

Like a soft collision between Aphex Twin at his most melodic and Nick Drake at his string soaked best or some hybrid of Steve Reich and Syd Barrett scoring a Tim Burton movie, the music of Charlie March has a lingering, delicate beauty that will be around for a long time.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Goodbye Penny
Francisca's Theme
London
Animals
Piano Song (Metronomy Remix)

"In The End" features four concise tunes, none longer than two and a half minutes. The first of them is a cover of Daniel Johnston's classic "True Love Will Find You in The End," the lo-fi arrangement of the original, replaced with lush strings and delicate vocals. "Piano Song" is reminiscent of Nico at her most melodic, whilst "Thinking of You" marries gamelan clang with stately piano. The EP closes with the gorgeous drfiting vibes of "When The Clouds Clear," like Steve Reich having tea with Ray Coniff.

"In The End" sees Charlie continuing his collaborations with Joe Mount AKA Metronomy who produced the EP, High Llamas member Dominic Murcott (string arrangements and vibraphone) and The Elysian Quartet (Hot Chip, Simon Fisher-Turner and Max De Wardener) who provide the lush strings.

Charlie is currently finishing a remix for The Klaxons and working on his debut album with High Llamas' main man (and arranger extraordinaire) Sean O'Hagan.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

In The End
When The Clouds Clear
Piano Song
Thinking Of You...

I Dreamt Constellations Sang is the second release for LOAF: Lo Alternative Frequencies, a new label operating under Lo Recordings' roof. This new venture creates a dialogue between visual artists and musicians by releasing quality music paired with inspired artwork in strictly limited proportions.

The artwork featured on this release is Sergei Sviatchenko's Free Horse With Little White And Blue Spots. Sviatchenko has had numerous solo and group exhibitions across Europe and the USA, and in 2002 founded the Senko Studio, a gallery showing emergent artists from all around the world.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Awaking
Stanly Park
Childhood
Lost Lagoon
Sigh
The River Has Frozen Over
Asleeping in the Sunshine
Night Bugs Sing Silently
Moonlight
Looking for My Constellation
Fireworks
Starbright Reflected in the River of Canada
Smile and Yawn

Nathan Fake, Border Community's young star and Oliver's tour-mate, lends a hand to rearrange the blissfully confusing "Cluods in the Haed" into a psychedelic techno affair that has been getting dancefloor support from Border Community chief James Holden. Canadian Nathan Johnson, also known as Hrdvsion, chops Oliver's popiest moment into a chirpy clockwork math workout.

Loaf's own Andrea's Kit takes the epic "I Want it All" a notch down toward a heavy, analogue-synth bloodbath, while Morr Music's Isan (who recently collaborated with Oliver on the lovely "Brave the Cold" from Loaf's Christmas compilation That Fuzzy Feeling) morphs "Drunk Fun in London" into a reverb-drenched waltz. The orchestral piece, "If Yellow Were Sad," gets a droney makeover from post-rock veterans Rothko, and to conclude, Oliver includes an extended live version of the EP2 crowd-pleaser, "Her Doorbell."

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Cluods In The Haed (Nathan Fake Remix)
Buckets Of Hen's Feathers (Hrdvsion Remix)
I Want It All (But Have Nothing Andrea's Kit Remix)
Drunk Fun In London (Isan Remix)
If Yellow Were Sad (Rothko Remix)
Her Doorbell (Extended Live Version)

Spectac is quite the veteran of the Irish electronica circuit. In fact he actually started making waves in Dublin in 1993 under his PSR-400 moniker, using only guitar pedals, broken turntables and scrap metal. Spectac has not confined his creative output to the Emerald Isle, far from it; heis actually released music around the world, from Poland to China and back again, delighting many with his compositions and execution.

After a debut live show supporting Lee Scratch Perry, he quickly notched up several European festivals and a varied range of fans to boot. But not content with showcasing himself to the world, Spectac returned refreshed and has been key in set-up iFront End Syntheticsi, a record label dedicated to Eire-Tronic-Eire (excuse the pun).

Their roster includes Planet Muis Ambulance, Rod and Spectac himself (check out his debut album Rabbid.)

Paul is currently working on a live show, to take on the road in the next few months Some previous press:

i...sounds like it has grown of its own accord in the woods at night, emerging spectre-like from the shadows...highly recommended albumi n warpmart

i...anthemic, pounding, stately, slinky, and alien...i n grooves magazine

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Pentagular
Citadel
Doing Ghosties With The Woman
Firewyrr
Big Stick

Now what do you get but compilations full of turkeys that should've have popped their clogs years ago with titles like ' The Best Christmas Album In The World Ever.'

Well now LOAF has teamed up with London's premier promoter of all things chilled, The Arctic Circle, to present "That Fuzzy Feeling" a collection of mostly original Christmas songs and carols. Fifteen tracks from a variety of artists and labels each with a new take on the traditional Christmas hymn. The result is just what you need to rekindle those warm ' fuzzy feelings' that Christmas used to be all about.

Artists include Vincent Oliver, Hauschska, Canon Blue, Rothko, Sean O'Hagan (High Lamas).

Packaging is a snowy-white digipak limited to 100 for US holiday consumption.

To celebrate all things Christmas the annual Arctic Circle Christmas Carols Concert will be held on December 5th at the beautiful Union Chappel, Islington and will feature The North Sea Radio Orchestra, Ellis Island Sound, David Julyan and Dollboy Windpipe Arkestra who contributed to the compilation).

30-second MP3 excerpts:

"Snowstorm In A Snow Globe" - Fuzzy Lights
"Halcyon" - Canon Blue
"Look Darling, It's Starting To Snow" - Dollboy
"Brave The Cold" - Vincent Oliver And Isan
"Family, Giving" - Peter Broderick
"Christmas In Hawthorne" - Ellis Island Sound
"Mouth Half Open" - Imaginationandmymother
"Pulverschnee" - Hauschka And Andy Nice
"While December Turns" - Rothko And The Sleeping Years
"Cammy Tack" - Sean O'Hagan
"Flutter" - Gavouna
"67 South" - David Julyan
"Winter Cabin (Edit)" - Si-Cut-Db
"Sing To Me (Rainy Christmas)" - Klima
"O Come O Come Emmanuel" - North Sea Radio Orchestra

"..by all accounts Vincent Oliver is a name you should remember and perhaps bandy about if that's what you like to do - ..For a first time release this is really on a very accomplished and thoughtful level. Well deserving of its beautiful packaging, this is a gentle epic that will whip up a quiet storm." Warpmart, UK

"Vincent Oliver creates kaleidoscopic music with touches of irony and full of purity that subtly reference a variety of inspirations" Trax Magazine

"...Vincent Oliver puts forward a fluid intelligent electronica which will garner him respect from established artists" Popnews, France.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Buckets Of Hen's Feathers
I Want It All
Her Doorbell
Clouds In The Head
Outro

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Drunk Fun In London
A Piece Called Bad Ending
So Big Eyes
If Yellow Were Sad

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