Cambridge! Oh, Cambridge!

Now: Sssssh, you lot. (Or turn it up loud).

Beautifully restrained, gently goosebump-inducing. Get it here. Is there going to be a Physical?

"Making Future Love tonight..."

Yes, yes, it's true, I admit it - I saw Gruppo Sportivo play live waaaaay back in the day and they were pretty good.

*hangs head in shame*

bad timing presents  

10 years of bad timing

Aid & Abet

For this special event we return to Aid & Abet artspace to present artists from regular to new who work in the spirit of Bad Timing — obsessive lo-fi electronics made with any and every kind of obsolete technology.

sculpture

Sculpture are a DIY music/animation duo, using zoetrope projector record deck, tape loops, cassettes, samples, cdj and lo-fi electronic noise to generate a retro-futurist sonic and visual overload. Sculpture create lo-fi beauty manipulating vintage domestic tape machines with handfulls of tapeloops, along the lines of Philip Jeck's old vinyl loops.

First seen at Bad Timing at our collaborative event with the legendary Kosmische club, we're very pleased to be able to present them in the context of Aid & Abet's main warehouse project space with large-scale projections onto decaying industrial walls and metalwork.

http://tapebox.co.uk/

hacker farm

'A celebration of the home-made, the salvaged and the hand-soldered. DIY electronics performed on obsolete tech and discarded, post-consumerist debris. Make-do and mend. Broken music for a Broken Britain.' Hacker Farm

http://hackerfarm.net/

pete um

Lo-fi electronic songs, neurotic and quixotic charity-shop funk, highly personal stereo.

Techno on Kid Shirt??!!! Whatever next, eh...?

For Joe Stannard.

Spread, disseminate, occupy.

Actually, make your own variants / analogues - this isn't a fucking autocracy!

However, have been waiting for someone to make something vaguely 'official' so that I can hack the typography.

I'm a bit late to the party, but stumbled over this by accident a few minutes ago and it's really rather good.

I'd like to say something clever about it, but it's late and clever words cost extra after 6pm.

It's been a long day. The best I can manage is: the opening drums / synth combo on "Ciccone Snap" sound like a dustbin-satellite broadcast - Trashy Sam's UroELEKtro Show via KvLR Monaco10 Musik-Sat.

St. Etienne cast adrift in alternate-1991r. 

*slides off chair like 2-D Eel-Boy*

But - just to be really annoying - I'm going to post a completely different track. And - even worse! - the other one didn't sound like that anyway.

"Big / Little Edie":

Hated 'Britpop', loved Tiger. It's a pretty straightforward equation.

Saw them in the late 90's, but they split up not long after. Wish they hadn't. Some of those B-Sides (actually, they were CDs - so the correct term should be "non-album-featured bonus-tracks" - but you get my drift) were terrific and pointed at some greater / stranger promise that was never quite fulfilled. I may have to post one or two of 'em some day. I think Tiger could have been like a...er, ummm, a latter-day, slightly down-home Associates - exotic, erratic and messy; beautifully lurid, yet also opaque. Shabby chic. The internet arrived just a bit too late for them and they fell between business models, stumbled over a crack in the record company's expectations and their own.

Shame.

Daniel, aka the wonderful Ship Canal, weighs in with a pretty spesh-sounding mix at Pontone.

Some chilled, slightly Kempernorton-esque sounds from The Lokster.        

Mac-ish / iPad-y psilocybe flashbacks. Rural downtime. Rural time-flow. Digital five-comb filters.

Pictures of Ham Hill. If you've never been there, it's like someone's turfed the surface of the moon.

I once saw a huge white horse there - an enormous un-horned unicorn; 4am spirit-familiar stuff - but it turned out to be a dog.

Sat on the top - at The Top of Everything - we saw The Glow...heard The Phantom Yeovil Hum. That weird...thing which, the second you hear it, it stops.

This sounds a bit like that.

The Night They Switched Old Yeovil Off.

The moon smiled too, just before it turned evil.

No, not the fucking clothes label, this...

We're amassing quite a chunk of material for second album *proper* - not entirely sure at this juncture what will or won't be on it - still trying to get a feel for the stuff that might fit together in one coherent bundle and, uh, still yield some textural variety. Crikey, that sounds like I might know what I'm on about! I don't.

Thanks to all our friends who took the time to write about or mention Poundland - if I've missed anyone, please make yourself known to us. All that... y'know, constantly Googling yourself and retweeting it just feels a bit...well...ugh. I'm just more interested in thanking the people who gave up their precious spare time to write / post something about us. That was pretty damn cool of them and is much appreciated.

Inga / Dean beautifully derail Daniel.

Excerpt.

A fabulous piece of musical (and visual) reappropriation from Ralph. An entire album, in fact. Latest in the Paper Round Tapes series.

I'll let him explain:

"It's a track-by-track entire album remix of the first album I ever got, at age 8: a ridiculous compilation called 'FIAT MILLION HITS'.
 
"It came free with our car; it featured songs that sold more than a million in 1983."

No prizes for guessing this one:

Love the 'crawling' hand bit.