We are in the process of a complete website overhaul and will not be updating this page until the new site is complete. Please visit our roster page to see who we are lucky enough to be collaborating with. You can also follow us on Soudcloud, Facebook and twitter which will be updated daily.
In the mean time, please sit back and have a listen to some of the lovely sounds we are enjoying at the moment.
British producer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Riz Maslen, who records as Neotropic and Small Fish With Spine has been described as one of the most prominent women composers working in post-techno experimental electronics. In addition to her warm electronic programming, Maslen’s music also embraces folk, psychedelic pop and her interest in experimental film-making.
A Dancing Beggar adds his trade mark ghostly tones and hypnotic drones as the opening track for Neotropic’s remix album ‘Equestrienne Remixes’ out now via Architects + Heroes Records .
The Guardian’s highly respected music writer, Paul Lester has awarded Sun Glitters ‘New Band of The Day’ saying: “Victor Ferreira’s pitch-shifted vocals and chopped-up melodies create a compellingly itchy, glitchy R&B…finest example of chillwave synth-pop meets ambient dream-pop”.
You can read the full article over at the Guardian‘s website.
We are excited to welcome Portuguese festival of electronic music and digital art, Semibreve, to our exclusive Event/Festival roster.
The line up for the first edition of Semibreve festival has been announced. The festival takes place in Braga, in the north of Portugal, and will include a series of lectures, talks, performances and installations.
Lectures take place on 10 November at the Tibães Monastery. Speaking at Semibreve will be Hans Joachim Roedelius, Taylor Deupree, Stephan Mathieu, Vitor Joaquim and The Wire‘s publisher Tony Herrington. Performing at the Teatro Circo on 11–13 November are Qluster with Luma.Launisch, Taylor Deupree and Stephan Mathieu performing Transcriptions, Jon Hopkins, Fennesz joined by video artist Pedro Maia, Blac Koyote, alva noto, Vitor Joaquim, plus Murcof with AntiVJ. Braga various venues, 10–13 November.
We are pleased to announce that Type PR will be working with Brighton’s pioneering festival of new music and sound art, Soundwaves Festival 2011.
Soundwaves Festival
Step out of the ordinary and into a fun and endlessly fascinating world, a world which is created when artists begin to work without constraints when experimentation becomes the norm for both audience and artist alike, always pioneering, always something that bit different, Soundwaves Festival is totally unique in Brighton and in 2011 returns with an ambitious and hugely entertaining programme of events, exhibitions and experiences.
2011 line up includes David Thomas (Pere Ubu), Scanner, Leafcutter John, Kaffe Mathews, Anat Ben-Davis, The Letter Piece Company, The NKR, Lucia Tong, Shila Anaraki, Andre Borges, Sound Intermedia, CHROMA, Gazelle Twin, Mikhail Karikis, Amy Cunningham, Lost Parade, Martin Parker, Mira Calix, Me and Machine
TICKET DETAILS
WEEKEND PASS £25 (earlybird* price £20)
Admission to all festival events.
EVENING PASS £10 (earlybird* price £8)
Admission to all events for one day and to Comment! On Thursday 14th July & Friday 15th July.
All tickets, including taster tickets for individual performances on Friday 15th July, are available online at www.soundwaves-festival.org.uk (no booking fee)
OR from RESIDENT RECORDS, 28 Kensington Gardens, Brighton BN1 4AL Tel: 01273 606312
Or ROUNDER RECORDS, 19 Brighton Square, Brighton BN1 1HD tel: 01273 325440]
*ealybird passes and earlybird taster tickets for individual performances on Friday 15th July are ONLY available ON-LINE and until 24th June.
Further information can be found at their official website.
It’s been a while since we last updated our website, we’ve been very busy working on a number of exciting new projects which we will tell you a little about.
Firstly, we are over the moon to be working with Finish daydreamers, Paperfangs. The band are currently writing and recording new songs, in the mean time you can check out their previously released self-titled EP below.
Another artist we are excited to welcome to our PR roster is Brooklyn-based glo-fi multi-instrumentalist/producer, Frank Midnite aka Bright Future. BF is in the midst of recording his new LP which should be ready for release later this year. Check out a selection of previously released tracks, including remixes for Blackbird Blackbird and Foodstamps here.
The next addition to the Type family is the solo project of Portuguese musician, Luís Fernandes. Under the moniker The Astroboy, Luis is set to release his new album “The Chromium Fence” which explores ambient drone, analog synthesis and digital manipulation in August. You can check out the creepy 3D film clip HERE and preview three album tracks below.
As if that isn’t enough, we are very excited to be working on the new project by James Brooks formally of the Mute Records’ post-rock band, Appliance. The title of James’ new guise is Land Observations. LO sees Brooks exploring the relationship between layered, repetitive Electric 6 string guitar and motoric rhythms, via an interest in the concept of historic roads. The forthcoming 7″ EP is set to drop 4th July via Enraptured Records. Take a peak at what you can expect from the EP here.
And lastly we are very pleased to announce Type PR will be collaborating on the new EP by Piano Interrupted, which is suitably titled ‘Piano Interrupted EP2. Piano Interrupted is the brain child of Franz Kirmann and Tom Hodge. What began as a studio project blending their respective disciplines of classical minimalism and electronica has developed, with the addition of Greg Hall on cello and Eric Young on percussion, into a fully-formed improvising quartet. We can’t give you a taste of the new EP yet, but you can take a listen to their previously released EP via the media player below.
Sun Glitters: Everything Could Be Fine (Mini Album)
Sun Glitters is the playful moniker of Luxembourg native, Victor Ferreira. After many years of sound research through different genres under his previous guise, Sug(r)cane, Ferreira changed his recording name to Sun Glitters and started developing ideas for his debut album ‘Everything Could Be Fine’. Taking traditional vocal pop melodies, and injecting them with a dose of Technicolor, Ferreira applies a cut-and-paste technique; mixing layered pitch-shifted vocal samples, wonky beats, shoegaze and downtempo electro. Having been compared to Tri Angle Record’s Balam Acab, and following in the dub-steps of rising chillwave pin-ups Star Slinger and Holy Other, Sun Glitters creates beautifully mixed audio collages, and having just remixed ta track for Papercutz and with remixes in the pipeline for Blackbird Blackbird, Purity Ring, Lushlife, Niva and Space Ghost, Sun Glitters is a musical force to be reckoned with, so keep a keen eye on him in 2011.
Sun Glitters made it onto the Pitchfork Forkcast list. Read the article HERE
Check out Sun Glitters’ Bandcamp HERE.
Forthcoming Live dates:
-WED.23.03 at the d:qliq (LUX) with Take and Free the Robots
- FRI.20.05 at the Exit07 (LUX) with Darkstar
Type PR is happy to welcome the newest member of its publicist ranks, Rich Hanscomb. Rich fell in love with the written word about music during the early 90s when he read NME and Melody Maker cover to cover. He has written for the BBC, Dazed and Confused, The Times, Drowned in Sound any more other music journals as well as press releases for Morr Music’s ISAN. He once wrote a Best of Post-Rock list for FACT magazine which didn’t feature Sigur Ros. He is the in-house press officer at Brighton’s Willkommen Records, working with The Leisure Society, The Miserable Rich and Sons of Noel and Adrian. He makes music with his brother under the name Junkboy who have recorded for the likes of Moshi Moshi, Enraptured Records, Wool Recordings and Second Language Music.
Rich will be bringing his experience and indefatigable enthusiasm for those he represents to Type PR who are also happy with his commendable tea making abilities.
You can check out Junkboy HERE
GEO head honcho and Pere Ubu member, Gagarin will release a digital 7″ single taken from forthcoming Gagarin album – Biophilia – celebrating the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s first ever space flight. 3KA-3 was the codename for Yuris Vostok space craft, and Kedr( Cedar) was Yuri Gagarin’s call-sign on his first ever manned space flight on 12th April 1961.
Both tracks will be released as a virtual 7″ by GEO Records and distributed via Kudos. The single will be available for download Monday 18th April via all good digital stores.
Keep an eye on Gagarin’s movements HERE
A sample of ‘Stars Bring Us Closer’ by A Dancing Beggar from the forthcoming album ‘Follow The Dark As If It Were Light’ which will be released via Audiobulb Records in May. This video was created using public domain footage. For more music, visit A Dancing Beggar’s Official Blog
Stay in touch with all A Dancing Beggar happenings by signing up to the Audiobulb mailing list HERE
