Phylum Sinter’s debut LP for MMR ‘Detroit Nocturnes’ is released today, March 2nd 2010 via IODA distribution and available at all good online stores. You can get a free download of 'Before The Sun Blinds Us' (featuring vocals by Tamara Finlay) below. If you like it then check out the rest of this great album.
Phylum Sinter's debut LP for MMR 'Detroit Nocturnes' will be released March 2nd 2010 via IODA distribution. The track listing will be as follows... Track Listing:01 - To Be Cyclic 02 - City Of Memories 03 - Stained Glass Menagerie 04 - Ansi Asios (Memory Buffer Edit) 05 - A Conception Serene (Rest For The Wicked Mix) PREVIEW HERE 06 - Before The Sun Blinds Us (Feat. Tamara Finlay) PREVIEW HERE 07 - City Of Memories (Forgotten Mix by citizenGreen)We've been discussing doing this release for over two years... but it was totally worth the wait! Phylum Sinter Bio:Born, raised, and currently entrenched just outside Detroit, Phylum Sinter is the working alias of 29-year-old Christopher Todd.Self-taught in piano and guitar from an early age, he began meddling with computers in a vaguely musical way in the mid 90s. After severe overexposure to Detroit Techno, raves, and Berlin’s take on electronic music, he began to drift toward musical structures that are less about moving bodies and more about moving minds.In 2001, both the creative direction and the name were chosen, and Todd’s focus was aimed at composing songs that are at once familiar and experimental. Phylum Sinter's music is innovative and original, and is certainly well in keeping with Detroit’s rich and revolutionary musical history.LATEST: Featured Release by our distributors, IODA.
And yet more good reviews come in for 'Proper Horror Show', Prince Kong's quintessential dosage of dub grime nastiness.
From Boomkat.com...What do you get if you cross the DJ Producer with Diplo and The Bug? Maybe something close to Prince Kong on 'Proper Horror Show'. After a couple of storm-troopin ragga cuts for Alphabet Set and !Kaboogie Records he's made an even more uncompromising effort for the newly minted Ghetto Quietly label, reeling between bushwacka Ragga-gabber on 'Angsta' feat Jah Balance, to hyper-Soca rinseouts featuring MC Quilombola on 'Whailt' and 'Cazz'. It's fair to say there's not really owt around like this so it's the finest example of this style that you're going to find.boomkat.com... and Kong also has several other releases on the go at present.This is what the nice chaps at Wire magazine had to say about one of these in the October '09 edition..."Cool single mixing classic reggae topping with a screwed up industrial underlayer. The tension between the forces is hypnotic."Proper Horror Show is available as download and 2x12 inch vinyl from all good stores. <img src="http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k126/cooleykrotch/wellsick.gif" border="0" alt="Prince Kong" />
MMR's new sister label Ghetto Quietly launches in Dublin this weekend with a rock solid line up of Prince Kong, Bluefood and A-Force peddling their sonic wares along with various MCs.
Prince Kong's 'Proper Horror Show' on 2 x 12 inch vinyl will be the label's first release and expect much of the material from this release to feature in Kong's set.
Dublin based Ghetto Quietly will concentrate on limited runs of vinyl for local artists... thus far: Prince Kong, Bluefood and A-Force. Expect GQ vinyls to coincide roughly with MMR digital download releases for these Irish artists.
Perhaps not so much a sister label as a bastard cousin.. the one your Mom never wanted you to hang out with as they were from the wrong side of the tracks!
This ones been in the works for a long time!!Phylum Sinter will be releasing his long awaited MMR debut release in November. 'Detroit Nocturnes' is a fitting tribute to the city that shaped the electronic music revolution that twenty eight year old Christopher Todd grew up to be a part of. Watch this space for further details.
Ian Neal's incredible 'Kingdom Of The Birds' is now featured on top US music site indiefeed.com.'Kingdom Of The Birds' is taken from the 'All In The Golden Afternoon...' LP and was one of the stand out tracks on the excellent Amorphous Androgynous (FSOL) compilation 'A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind Volume 1 - Cosmic Space Music'. Ian Neal's LP is available from all good online retailers via IODA distribution.http://indiefeed.com/2009/10/ian-neal/
It's time for the next episode of my radio show 'Kick Down The Statues'. This will be broadcast on Proton Radio this Monday, 5th October at 10am EST/7am PST/3pm GMT on the excellent B-Sides show hosted by DJ Chloe Harris from Seattle.
The show features everything and anything; something old, something new; and a load of exclusives from forthcoming Middle Management Recordings artists and releases. No rules, no boundaries... just great music.
The first half begins with truly amazing Scottish band The Aliens and finishes with major label catastrophes, Mumm-Ra. No stronger argument is needed for the current deconstruction of the mainstream music industry - both these bands should be/should have been massive. The Aliens are currently working on LP number three right now and Mumm-Ra sadly split last year. 'She's Got You High' has to be one of the most perfect indie-pop records ever made - and if anybody at their label had any clue as to what they were doing - this should have sold by the bucket load.
Sticking with the Seattle theme... this is also the debut outing for new MMR artist, nineteen year old Holly Prothman. Expect her debut solo release sometime next year... and she will also be fronting and providing vocals for my own project under the 'Aviatrix' moniker.
Elsewhere, there are more exclusives from MMR in the shape of Phylum Sinter's 'Ansi Ansios' from his forthcoming 'Detroit Nocturnes' ep expected in November... and hot on Prince Kong's heels out of Dublin - the amazing Bluefood with his stunning 'Beau Breaks'.
We conclude with some peak time mayhem - CDJJJ's 'Fencing' and Acid Girls "The Numbers Song' providing the hands in the air and rump shaking moments.
Hopefully there's a little something for everyone here.
Kick Down The Statues.
Lorin MMR
Part 1 (Everything But The Kitchen Sink)
The Aliens - Rox (Pet Rock) The Aliens - Robot Man (Pet Rock) David Holmes - Yen On A Carousel (Warner Bros) Holly Prothman - Solid Ground (MMR demo) Ulrich Schnauss - Einfeld (Domino) Holly Prothman - Lost Love (MMR demo) Phylum Sinter - Ansi Ansios (MMR promo) Mumm-Ra - She's Got You High (Columbia)
Part 2 (Booty Shake)
Bluefood - Beau Breaks (MMR promo) An-ten-nae - Warning (feat. Bucanner) (Muti Music) Stormboy - Chrome (Summer Rain Recordings) CDJJJ - Fencing (Super 6) Acid Girls - The Numbers Song (iheartcomix) Arthur Oskan vs Spiral - Sun Squall (unsigned)
Middle Management Recordings are delighted to welcome Holly Prothman to our family. Nineteen year old Holly is a multi-instrumentalist from just outside of Seattle, WA... and has been producing her own music and writing since the age of fifteen. Her amazing vocal talent has already appeared on several club tracks and her songwriting talent goes from strength to strength. Holly will be releasing her first music via MMR in 2010.
To hear a taste of Holly Prothman's music and voice, check out Kick Down The Statues Radio Show, Episode 2 - coming shortly.
We will be releasing Ian Neal's impressive LP 'All In The Golden Afternoon...' on Tuesday 29th September, 2009 (via IODA distribution, USA). The kind people at IODA have already given it 'featured release' status on their Promonet site. If you haven't heard about this then sign up... it's a great source of new music and free promo tracks whether you are a DJ, blogger, podcaster, promoter, music biz person or just a complete music head. Check out MMR releases and thousands of others here...
Middle Management Recordings is an independent Portland, Oregon based label established in 2009 to showcase and expose some of the best new music from around the world: primarily psychedelia and electronica – but also encompassing many, many other styles and influences.
Artistes released or with releases pending thus far include: from Derbyshire, UK – the Air tinged progressive folk-rock psychedelia and all round cosmic space music of IAN NEAL; from Dublin, Ireland – Yardee / ASBO inducing Breakcore and Dub(step?) from audio terrorist supreme – PRINCE KONG; from Detroit, Michigan – well crafted, downtempo electronica from PHYLUM SINTER; from Nottingham, UK – earnest, guitar driven, northern musical fables and tales from LUCCA; and from Portland, Oregon – the Donna Summer on DMT / Disco-tech of AVIATRIX…. also from the fair city of Dublin – the eclectic floor-filling dub breaks of BLUEFOOD… and the stripped down minimalist dub of A – FORCE. More to follow.
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