TROPA MACACA and HELM and FRACTAL SKULLS tomorrow

Good thawing, I mean morning!
Huge thanks go out to everyone for coming to our Pete Swanson show last week, what a powerful performance; both sinuous and truly visceral! Those same qualities are both going to be echoed at tomorrow's show for Portugal duo TROPA MACACA too. TROPA MACACA enshrine a tribal-digital form of instinctual electronic music that's as infectious as it is adventurous. Joining them on tour is HELM, who released one of our favourite records from last year, "Impossible Symmetry" on Pan. Opening the show at The Sebright Arms we have mesmeric bucolics from THE FRACTAL SKULLS, whilst LONDONEARS will be DJing for us much weird-out jams throughout the night. Really looking forward to it!
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TROPA MACACA (Siltbreeze / Software)
HELM (Pan Records)
THE FRACTAL SKULLS
LONDONEARS DJs
Wednesday 23 January
The Sebright Arms, 31-35 Coate Street, Bethnal Green, E2 9AG
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/193798

TROPA MACACA are the ambient-noise duo of André Abel and Joana da Conceição and have been going strong from their Portugal home base since 2005, whilst glooping out into the world with releases via Qbico and Siltbreeze. The newly released follow up to 2009′s 'Sensação Do Princípio' on Siltbreeze, 'Ectoplasma' finds Tropa Macaca moving to Software Records (the sub-label of Mexican Summer owned by Oneohtrix Point Never’s Dan Lopatin) and was described by Dummy Magazine as “a lesson in pure sound design as potent as SND or Aaron Dilloway, yet filled with an unctuous listenability, a primordial, glowing slime that’s as addictive yet stately as the best in the genre”, which pretty much captures their sublimating electronic trip.
http://www.tropamacaca.com/ectoplasma.htm

HELM is the solo project of Luke Younger, one half of the London/Berlin noise duo Birds Of Delay, and label boss at Alterstock Records. He has just released “Impossible Symmetry”, his third full length record, on the brilliant Berlin based PAN label. It marks a new chapter in the artists' canon as it's his first to be informed by live performance rather than studio experimentation, incorporating more extensive use of electronic elements and moments of rhythmic dark ambience recalling the outputs from early Coil and Cabaret Voltaire at times.
http://alterstock.blogspot.co.uk/

THE FRACTAL SKULLS is the musical project of 25 year old Buckinghamshire based Chris Smith. Using the basic building blocks of analogue generated loops and minimalist drone, and drawing influences from the classic Krautrock of Cluster and Harmonia, as well as dub pioneers like King Tubby, The Fractal Skulls weave subtly evolving patterns of hypnotic sound to produce kosmische music that transcends the sum of its deceptively simple parts. Debut full length LP, ‘Rayleigh Scattering’, was recently released on Subexotic Records. The album was composed over a two year period during which Chris travelled widely, and the music is steeped in the atmospheres of locations as far afield as Croatia, Paris, and New York City, as well as the bucolic surrounds of the English countryside in which much of the work was laid down.
http://fractalskulls.com/

LONDONEARS DJs
http://www.londonears.com/


Great!  One last thing before we depart, our friend is organising a brilliant show at Cafe Oto this Saturday for RICHARD YOUNGS, DAMON & NAOMI and SEAMING. Sounds like a winner, here's some more info if you fancy it: http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/richard-youngs-damon-and-naomi-seaming.shtm
Thanks for reading as always,
See you tomorrow,
UTR
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XIU XIU & EUGENE S. ROBINSON: SAL MINEO
DEATH SHANTIES (Alex Neilson & Co)
DEAD DAYS BEYOND HELP
Wednesday 6 February
Cafe Oto, 18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £9.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/197816

DAN DEACON
MOZART'S SISTER
LONDONEARS DJs
Thursday 14 February
Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, EC2A 3PQ
8pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/196042

Upset The Rhythm and SPACE present two evenings of video and music
as part of HUMAN WAVE: The Videotapes of Raymond Pettibon...

RAYMOND PETTIBON "FILM NIGHT" 1
Featuring…
WOOLF
PRIMITIVE PARTS
FEATURE
Screening: Raymond Pettibon: Sir Drone (1989. 55 min, colour, sound)
Friday 15 February
SPACE, 129-131 Mare Street, Hackney, E8 3RH
7.30pm | FREE SHOW!!!

FEBRUARY MAKES A BRIDGE
"An Upset The Rhythm and Night School Records Label Showcase" featuring…
GOLDEN GRRRLS
TRASH KIT
PEEPHOLES
WAY THROUGH
APOSTILLE
HALO HALO
BOMBER JACKETS
PACO SALA
EDIBLE ARRANGEMENTS
Saturday 16 February
The Yard Theatre, Unit 2, Queen's Yard, Hackney Wick, E9 5EN
1pm - 11pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/200040

FABULOUS DIAMONDS
THE WHARVES
Monday 18 February
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £5.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/203699

RAYMOND PETTIBON "FILM NIGHT" 2
Featuring…
WAY THROUGH
APOSTILLE
SHOPPING
Screening: Raymond Pettibon: Citizen Tania (1989, 87min, colour, sound)
Thursday 7 March
SPACE, 129-131 Mare Street, Hackney, E8 3RH
7.30pm | FREE SHOW!!!

MATMOS
PEOPLE LIKE US
Tuesday 19 March
XOYO, 32-37 Cowper Street, Old Street, EC2A 4AW
8pm | £10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/194892

WILD NOTHING
Thursday 21 March
The Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King's Cross, N1 9NL
7.30pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/192626

MIRRORING
(GROUPER + TINY VIPERS)
Wednesday 27 March
The Yard Theatre, Unit 2, Queen's Yard, Hackney Wick, E9 5EN
7.30pm | £13.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/202453

JESSICA BAILIFF
BODUF SONGS
MATAWAN
Wednesday 17 April
Cafe Oto, 18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/197657

SUN ARAW
SONIC BOOM DJ SET
Thursday 18 April
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/200244

BARN OWL
KOEN HOLTKAMP
A-SUN AMISSA
Wednesday 1 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/202474

HUMAN WAVE - The Videotapes of Raymond Pettibon

Thank you Gina!

FEBRUARY MAKES A BRIDGE

FEBRUARY MAKES A BRIDGE
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'February Makes A Bridge' is a double record label showcase uniting Upset The Rhythm with Night School in the aim of taking the DIY concert out of it's expected parameters and into interesting new pastures to enhance the potency of the music and its effect on the audience.

Taking it's name from one of George Herbert's proverbs, 'February Makes A Bridge' not only signifies a coming together to leap into the sunshine of the new year, it also attempts to link the event with its setting, The Yard Theatre. The Yard Theatre is a newly built raked amphitheatre in the Elizabethan style constructed in a once dormant warehouse in Queen's Yard, Hackney Wick. Herbert was born during the reign of 'The Virgin Queen' and we can hear his February echo in this building, with this event.

'February Makes A Bridge' will take place on Saturday 16 February from 1pm - 11pm at The Yard Theatre.
The full address for the event is The Yard Theatre, Unit 2, Queen's Yard, Hackney Wick, E9 5EN
Tickets cost £7 and are available here: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/200040

Performing at this special one off event are the following acts affiliated with Night School and Upset The Rhythm:

GOLDEN GRRRLS
Roughed-up, winsome, noise-inflected perfect pop.
http://goldengrrrls.tumblr.com/

TRASH KIT
Face-painted flag-bearers with a wild feel for melody and a heartfelt kick inside each song.
http://trashkitrules.blogspot.co.uk/

WAY THROUGH
Land-locked pastoral punk, informed as much by the field as the fly-over.
http://waythroughwithyou.blogspot.co.uk/

APOSTILLE
Electro-ecstatic keyboard quests, distorted handclaps and vocal incantation.
https://soundcloud.com/apostille

HALO HALO
Hyper melodic Sinawi pop vibes shot through with clattering technicolour.
http://halohalomixmix.blogspot.co.uk/

PEEPHOLES
Cloaked anthems of primal beats, hallucinatory vocals and synth euphoria.
http://wearepeepholes.co.uk/

BOMBER JACKETS
Minimal versus mundane synth-damaged realists.
https://soundcloud.com/bomberjackets

PACO SALA
Opiated rhythms, spiralling harmony and the pervading sense of a tender isolationism.
https://soundcloud.com/paco-sala

EDIBLE ARRANGEMENTS
Haunted pools of spooked keyboard, floating song and tumbling guitar-n-drum.
https://soundcloud.com/ediblearrangements

First show of 2013!!!

Upset The Rhythm presents...

PETE SWANSON
MARK FELL
RAIME DJs
Monday 14 January
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/197656

PETE SWANSON is a New York-based musician, once a member of the exhilarating noise duo Yellow Swans, he’s been making plenty of solo music since they disbanded in 2008. Straddling a line between free guitar noise and singed electronics, Swanson's recent album on Type, ‘Man With Potential’, shows that Pete now lives in a techno multiverse, where the dank pulsing soundscapes that helped birth his old band have only got wilder. Whilst Yellow Swans used pulses to underpin their cascading white noise, Swanson puts the chattering 140bpm percussion at center stage, not least on the album’s opening track, charmingly titled ‘Misery Beat’. Setting the stage for the music to follow, we are thrown into chattering synthesized squeals and dense kick drums before being smacked around the head with the kind of slippery noise lead we’ve not heard since ‘Going Places’. This is Birmingham techno filtered through the mists of the Pacific Northwest, and all the better for it! Elsewhere ‘Remote View’ explores a more downtempo sound; coming across like post apocalyptic house music as heard from a club bathroom. With ‘Man With Potential’ and it's follow up EP 'Pro Style', Pete Swanson has crafted his most defining statements to date; a blistering collection of contemporary club music with a deafening noise twist. It might not be easy listening, but who said life had to be easy?
https://soundcloud.com/pete-swans

MARK FELL operates uncompromisingly on the bleeding edge of digital music production. He's in possession of a beautifully rare talent; the ability to make highly academic music with an innately, dare we say, accessible edge. He himself and many others may not agree, but there's something so listenable to his rhythmically-driven and melodically aware style that we can't help but hear him in that context. As half of the seriously goalpost moving SND, and more recently responsible for the unspooled but strangely disciplined house productions on Editions Mego's Sensate Focus 12" series, one might've guessed that the Sheffield-based artist was responsible, given his prior form deconstructing garage and techno. It's Fell's digital synthesis where the real magic lies. The dreamy melodies and uncanny repetitions, not to mention the sheer unctuousness of the sounds employed lend him a sonic topology of his very own that well worth losing yourself in. Mark Fell has records available now through Editions Mego, Raster-Noton, Line and Hobby Industries.
http://www.markfell.com/wiki/

RAIME (DJ set) are Joe Andrews and Tom Halstead, an enigmatic London-based duo seeking to re-establish electronic composition as a physical and emotionally inquisitive force. Their debut album, 'Quarter Turns Over A Living Line' was released on sharp London label Blackest Ever Black last November to rave reviews, and this show sees them DJing throughout the evening.
http://blackesteverblack.blogspot.co.uk/

CLECKHUDDERSFAX ON TOUR

 

Starting out in the better half of the last decade, Cleckhuddersfax have more strings to their bow than most bands - the four piece scramble through genres like a lightning hit on a record shop. Broadly speaking their music is soaked in new wave bounce, pools of progressive slop and middle eastern arcs, all driven onwards by the insistent pulse of glam punk forgotten.We released their brilliant album 'Spen Beck' back in 2010 and this January sees them hit European roads playing shows all over. Look out below...

CLECKHUDDERSFAX - EURO TOUR 2013

January
10th: Leeds - Wharf Chambers
11th: Brighton - Sticky Mike's Frog Bar
12th: Rouen - L'Oreille Qui Traine
13th: Rennes - La Bascule
14th: Nantes - Le Stakhanov
15th: Bordeaux - Novo Local
16th: Getaria - venue tbc
17th: Madrid - La Faena II
18th: Zaragoza - Arrebato
19th: Alicante - venue tbc
20th: Barcelona - Casal de Roquetes
21st: Toulouse - Pavillon Sauvage
22nd: Nimes - Le 34
23rd: Bourges - Le Manoir
24th: Le Mans - Le Lezard
25th: Amanlis - D37 cafe
26th: Paris - Instants Chavires
27th: London - 113 Dalston Lane