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See the Christmas Bleep roundup that was sent out at Christmas here, compiling some of the best of the music from all labels that went up on the site during last year. The next Bleep update will be sent during Feb, some of the new labels going up on bleep within the next week include Kranky, Memphis Industries, Hydrogen Dukebox, Melodic, Fire Records and more.

Harmonic 33

Harmonic 33 aka Mark Pritchard (Jedi Knights, Reload, Global Communications) and Dave Brinkworth, release Music for Film, Television and Radio Vol. 1 on 7th February.
The album harks back to the early days of 60s and 70s electronic library music - KPM, Telemusic, Bosworth, De Wolfe and Chappell, the electric eclectics of Dick Hyman and Jean-Jacques Perrey, but with the glorious gloss and wide screen vision of the classic movie soundtracks of John Barry, Ennio Morricone and Lalo Schifrin. Instead of taking the easy road and making an album by sampling other people’s records, Pritchard and Brinkworth pay their dues by capturing the vintage and dynamic of the records they love, making the songs from scratch at their opulent Presshouse studios, based down in Devon.
Order in Warpmart
Preview on Bleep

Prefuse 73
Jimmy Edgar

Jimmy Edgar
 The new Prefuse73 album will be released on 24th March. Surrounded By Silence brings together the new album from Prefuse73 (aka Scott Herren) is released on 24th March. The album brings together the wide-ranging collaborations and connections he has made with like-minded musicians over the last couple of years whilst recording and touring.
Contributors include: Ghostface and El-P, Aesop Rock, Masta killa + GZA (!), DJ Nobody, Beans, Broadcast, Cafe Tacuba, Tyondai braxton, Claudia + Alejandra Deheza, The books, Camu, Pedro, and Kazu (blonde redhead.) Phew.

New Single 21st Feb: "the first single is called: HIDEYAFACE, and there are some M.C.s rhyming on this particular track that maybe outside of "PrefuseRLand", wouldn't rock on the same track - but they do indeed. In one corner we have the man known as: EL-Producto, some know him as: EL-P. In the other corner there is a: Tony Starks a.k.a Ghostface outta the island of Shaolin.... THAT'S FEB.21st. - complete with an El-p mix and then will follow a storm of shit to rock.." Preview now on Bleep
The Prefuse73 site has the latest from Scott of all goings on with his various projects including Piano Overlord and La Correccion, well worth half an hour of your time.

Maximo Park



Maximo’s second single Apply Some Pressure is released on 21st Feb on CD and limited 7” vinyl.
Their brand-new site is now live, featuring diary and gallery sections, audio, video and more.
You can pre-order the single for a bargain price of 99p at the HMV site here, and the band play an instore (& signing) at HMV Newcastle on 21st February at 5pm. They are on tour now throughout the UK, see the live dates below for complete list. Apply Some Pressure on Bleep
Maximo Park have finished recording their debut album with renowned producer Paul Epworth, due out in May.The Park head to the States for live dates during March. Tour dates TBA but they include a show at this year's South By SouthWest music festival in Austin.

Boom Bip Album & Download single
Squarepusher - Ultravisitor


 Lex Records: Boom Bip’s second solo studio album is released on February 21st on Lex Records. Titled Blue Eyed In The Red Room , the album features collaborations with singers Gruff Rhys (from The Super Furry Animals) and Nina Nastasia (Touch & Go Records).The album will be available on 2LP, CD and deluxe limited CD formats. The limited CD version contains a bonus disc with a 13 minute long exclusive song called Red Room that captures one of the album sessions.
A 2-track download-only single is available exclusively from Bleep now, featuring the Gruff Rhys vocal track Do’s & Don’ts plus an instrumental The Move

Analord

Savath & Savalas

 Richard D James releases a series of vinyl-only EPs on Rephlex records under the name Analord. The 10th EP in the series comes with a special binder to hold all the 12”s and is available direct from Rephlex (first pressing sold out), while editions 1 & 2 are in Warpmart now with 3-9 to follow over the next few months. As the name implies, the series are based around analogue sounds and styles, utilising Richard’s legendary (and possibly unequalled) collection of vintage analogue gear he has built up over the years. The title was first coined by Luke Vibert on an EP for Planet Mu, who also released the heavily analogue-based album YosepH in 2003.

Autechre

We are very pleased to announce that a new Autechre album Untilted will be released in April. Not only that, but Autechre will be touring live throughout the UK, Europe, USA and Japan during April, May and June. Watch the Warp site for more details soon.


Warp/Sinfonietta Berlin

A Warp / London Sinfonietta extravaganza show will take place in Berlin on March 4th 2005. The orchestra will perform program 1 of the ongoing Warp / Sinfonietta collaboration that first appeared at the Royal Festival Hall in March 2003 as part of the Ether Festival. Mira Calix will perform live (with insects) and the show features rescores of Aphex Twin, Boards Of Canada, Squarepusher alongside specially made visuals by Flat-E and Bluespoon. There will also be screenings of special filmwork by Chris Cunningham and others. Full Info



Jamie Lidell

Jamie Lidell has completed his long-awaited new album, due for release in June. Multiply is an incredible album of electronic soul and RnB, that should see Jamie take his rightful place as one of the best vocalists of his generation. The album includes a separate DVD by Jamie’s visual collaborator Pablo Fiasco, with films and edits of their live shows performed over the last year.


Vasarely Festival

After 2 editions in ‘03 and ‘04, the Territoires Electroniques festival takes place once more at the Fondation Vasarely in Aix en Provence on 3-5th June. Lineup TBA.
Images from 2004’s event here Information Here Book now for Easyjet to Marseilles and Eurostar/TGV For information please email vasarely@warprecords.com






Warp Live
More details in Warp live listings

Elsewhere

Relief :: London

Fri 4th & Sat 5th Feb
2 night spectacular, all proceeds go to Oxfam’s Tsunami relief fund.
Luke Vibert, Plaid, Unique 3, Alex Paterson, The Bug + MCs Cylob, EDMX , Keith Tenniswood, Strictly Kev, Much, much more Info

Mira Calix

Feb 12 Paris, Le Triptyque


Maximo Park

More info

Feb
01 Newcastle Foundation
04 Newcastle Northumbria University
05 London Frog
13 Leeds Cockpit
14 Wolverhampton Little Civic
15 Birmingham Jug Of Ale
16 London Infinity Club
17 Exeter Cavern
19 Bristol Louisiana
20 Liverpool Barfly
21 Newcastle HMV Instore
21 Newcastle Cluny
22 Glasgow Barfly
24 Sheffield University
25 Manchester Dry Bar
26 Middlesborough Empire
Mar
10 London Camden Crawl Festival



Prefuse 73

Prefuse 73 Live :: (Full 4-piece band)

March
Fri 25 Osaka Mother Hall
Sun 27 Tokyo 0-East

April
Thu 7 London Scala
Fri 8 Brussels Domino Festival
Sat 9 Utrecht Nu Heros Festival
Sun 10 Amsterdam Melkweg
Mon 11 Luxembourg Kultufabrick
Tue 12 Koln Gebaude 9
Wed 13 Hamburg Schlachthof
Thu 14 Berlin Volksbuhne
Sat 16 Milan TDK Dance Festival
Sun 17 Rome TBC
Tue 19 Marseille Le Poste a Galene
Thu 21 Barcelona Bikini
Fri 22 Vienna Donau Festival @ Oesterreichalle
Sat 23 Bourges Printemps de Bourges Festival
Sun 24 Camber ATP @ Camber sands Holiday Camp
Mon 25 Paris Point Ephemere

 

Wheels NYC

Fri 4th Feb
Shadetek, Jega, Datachi, Yellotone
Buddy Peace, DJs: Wheels, Record Camp & more
@ Rothko Full Info


Wheels London

March 4th, Electrowerkz
B12, Plaid, Disjecta, Luke Vibert, Skam, Spezial material Info

Warp Films

Chris Cunningham’s short film Rubber Johnny with music by Aphex Twin is now finished and will premiere this spring - before being made available on DVD and to download via Bleep.
Shane Meadow’s Dead Man’s Shoes has been nominated for a BAFTA in the Best British Film category, the ceremony takes place on 12th February. Last week the film won the South Bank Award for best film of 2004.
DMS Soundtrack & Graphic Novel in Warpmart. The DVD will be available everywhere on 21st March, more info
The next Shane Meadows feature for Warp Films Monkey Trap also starring Paddy Considine is in production now.

Chris Morris

A six part comedy series Nathan Barley will begin on UK Channel 4 in February, co-written by Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker, who originally created the Barley character for his TV Go Home website. It stars Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt, the Perrier-award winning pair behind the Mighty Boosh, regular Morris collaborate Kevin Eldon, plus Nina Sosanya and Ben Whishaw. ”Nathan Barley is 26. He is a Webmaster, guerrilla filmmaker, screenwriter, DJ and in his own words, a "self-facilitating media node"… He's an absolute fucking tool.”
More Info


Strictly Kev : Raiding the 20th Century

Strictly Kev (aka DJ Food) has produced his magnum opus, the definitive all-time document of cut-up and sample based music to date, an incredible work encompassing everything from Steve Reich to Kylie, William Burroughs to Dangermouse. Raiding The 20th Century is lovingly put together with as much aknowledgment of the theory and history behind the music as on the tracks themselves, and features spoken word commentary from Paul Morley, responsible for the Art of Noise track of the same name. Now available as a bittorrent download, you’ll have to find it yourself but the DJ Food site would be a good starting point..

In a similar vein, check out also Osymyso’s 50 for 05 weekly palindromic download project.