Monday 19 December 2011

UPSET THE RHYTHM on NTS RADIO


Hey everyone, we just started doing a monthly radio show on NTS, we'll be bringing you lots of live sessions, new releases and heaps of our favourite songs, you can hear on first "effort" and/or "attempt" featuring live recordings of TOTAL CONTROL, THE PHEROMOANS, SAUNA YOUTH and MICKEY GLOSS here:

UTR / DEC 2011 / NTS RADIO

The tracklisting is as follows...

FUTURE ISLANDS - On The Water
MICKEY GLOSS - Live at Upset The Rhythm x 1 song
COIL - Dark River
YUSSUF JERUSALEM - You Broke My Heart In Two
SAUNA YOUTH - Live at Upset the Rhythm x 2 songs
GROUP INERANE - Ikabkaban
NAT BALDWIN - A Little Lost
HARLAN T. BOBO - My Life
ED SCHRADER'S MUSIC BEAT - Do The Manuver
BEBETUNE$ - LI$$TENING WITH MY EYEZZZ (feature yung cea$er)
GROUPER - He Knows (Live in Christchurch)
FUCKING FLYIN' A-HEADS - Swiss Cheese Back
THE PHEROMOANS - Live at Upset the Rhythm x 3 songs
CHEIKHA RIMITTI - Debri Debri
WAY THROUGH - Swaddywell
GRAHAM LAMBKIN - Dripping Junk
THE PONYS - 1209 Seminary
JULIANNA BARWICK - The Magic Place (The Recycle Culture Uplift)
TOTAL CONTROL -
Live at Upset the Rhythm x 4 songs
DEAF WISH - Elementary School
KATE BUSH - Wild Man
GARY WAR - Don't Go Out Tonight
PEEPHOLES - Step One
THE HAXAN CLOAK - Incantation
HENRY FLYNT - Stereo Piano

Tuesday 13 December 2011

UPSET THE RHYTHM'S KINGDOM TOUR


Featuring…

GENTLE FRIENDLY

WAY THROUGH

PEEPHOLES


FEBRUARY 2012

Friday 3 – BRIGHTON – Green Door Store

Saturday 4 – MANCHESTER – Kraak Gallery

Sunday 5 – CARDIFF - Undertone

Tuesday 7 – LONDON – CafĂ© Oto

Wednesday 8 – LEEDS – Brudenell Social Club

Thursday 9 – NEWCASTLE – Teasy Does It

Friday 10 – GLASGOW – Nice N Sleazy

Saturday 11 – LEAMINGTON SPA – Leamington Assembly

Sunday 12 – CAMBRIDGE – The Portland


Over the last eight years Upset The Rhythm have inexhaustibly sought out the best underground sounds from all over the world. With fifty releases under their belt and their inspired series of YES WAY festivals they continually focus the spotlight on the UK’s own idiosyncratic DIY music. February 2012 sees the label hit the road with three incredibly inventive bands from their native soil to bring their pastoral punk, junked rhythms and tribal synth dance parties to the near and far of the United Kingdom. Upset The Rhythm’s Kingdom Tour sees GENTLE FRIENDLY, WAY THROUGH and PEEPHOLES team up to present a revolving lineup that resonates deep within landscape, drawing on forgotten pasts and remembered futures in equal measure.


Here’s a more in depth look at all the UTR artists featured on the tour…


GENTLE FRIENDLY are a duo from London, comprised of David Morris and Richard Manber, who have a penchant for circular melodies, tidal fuzz and rapid junked rhythms. With an austere setup of Casio keyboard, vocals and drums (sometimes electronic) the band push against the pop boundary, trapping their songs on record like a continuous sun-warped field recording. 2009 saw Gentle Friendly release their debut album 'Ride Slow' to critical acclaim, with Pitchfork even citing Clipse and Lil Wayne as influences on the band. Since then Gentle Friendly have remodeled and rebuilt their sound into a stronger beast at their home studio called Deep House. Bringing us up to date, new EP 'Rrrrrrr' is the first fruit to fall from the tree, with its seven tracks washing the band's insistent prism punk alongside more tender, filmic textures.

http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/gentlefriendly.shtml


WAY THROUGH are a pastoral punk duo originally from Shropshire, now residing in London. Informed by the field as much as the flyover, Way Through write songs which phase in and out with guitar, tapes, damaged drums and vocals. Using wrong-footed repetition, rapid interplay and free-looping happenstance the band create a ragged yet intuitive tapestry of sound. Their songs walk the streets of market towns, wait forever at bus stops and lose themselves in edgelands. Way Through find great resonance with the spirit of place and try and channel its feeling into their music, joining the dots between lost places and deteriorating histories. Their debut album 'Arrow Shower' is out now on Upset The Rhythm, alongside the band's new deep map project of London's East End.

http://waythroughwithyou.blogspot.com/


PEEPHOLES are Katia Barrett (drums, vocals) and Nick Carlisle (keyboards). The Brighton / London duo formed in 2006 after bonding over a Chinese violin and the quietest of music. Pretty soon they turned the volume up and hit on their winning strategy of soaring, stammering synth lines, tribalised drumming and low-slung vocals. Walking a tightrope between underground punk and dance music, Peepholes write cloaked anthems as likely to open celestial gates with keys of repetition as to soundtrack a slow motion fairground accident. Their sound is otherworldly, aching with wild beats, echoing with cavernous atmospheres. Upset The Rhythm have released a split 12” and a mini-album entitled ‘Caligula’ most recently.

http://wearepeepholes.co.uk/





Monday 12 December 2011

PEEPHOLES - 'Caligula' OUT TODAY / New MP3


Today sees the release of our new record from PEEPHOLES! It's an epic mini-album of throbbing synth, heavy drum workouts and vocal swirling par excellence, in short extremely required listening; one of our best records yet! Check out closing track 'Picture The World In Signs' below!!

£8 INCLUDING POSTAGE HERE


PEEPHOLES are Katia Barrett (drums, vocals) and Nick Carlisle (keyboards). The Brighton / London duo formed in 2006 after bonding over a Chinese violin and the quietest of music. Pretty soon they turned the volume up and hit on their winning strategy of soaring, stammering synth lines, tribalised drumming and low-slung vocals. Walking a tightrope between underground punk and dance music, Peepholes write cloaked anthems as likely to open celestial gates with keys of repetition as to soundtrack a slow motion fairground accident. Their sound is otherworldly, aching with wild beats, echoing with cavernous atmospheres.

PEEPHOLES - Picture The World In Signs by Upset the Rhythm

Decidedly more motorik than the other tracks, 'Picture The World In Signs' finds relish in its unrelenting groove, allowing Kat to pitch plunge her vocal amongst the folds of psychedelic keyboard warmth. Like a resurgent memory, halfway through, the song recalls another direction, drowning in static waves, crushed drums and weird electronic parallels. The track reaches another plain, a new level higher than before, an evolving consciousness which is so true of Peepholes in general and this new record especially.