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Idiosyncratic Aesthetics – Tape Echo Exhibition Launch at Donuts, Bristol, 31st August

peverelist — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:59:51 +0000

A new exhibition from Bristol based designer and Livity Sound collaborator Alex Digard aka Tape Echo is launching at the Donuts store, Bristol on Friday 31st August.

Tape-Echo started in mid 2009, a small blog set up to document the underground music scene in Bristol. All the posts were typed by hand on a typewriter found in the back of a charity shop, the mistakes and cross outs were left in as a reaction against the super-clean, digital format of the internet and, as a nod towards to zine culture and the recent closure of some of the most respected Drum n Bass magazines around.

Then in late 2011, Studio Tape-Echo launched ‘Tape-Echo publication001′ a 32-page, fully typewritten, quarter-fold, colour newspaper, showing that print still has a place alongside its ever-present digital counterpart. The first issue was stocked worldwide and featured exclusive interviews with some of the leading lights of the UK underground. It sold out in no time, leaving many desperate for issue number 2 ‚ which is set to appear very soon.

The ‘grubby simplicity’ aesthetic of the studio, rooted in a love of analog working methods and sound-system culture, has been slowly developing since then. Hours spent unearthing wooden type samples, poring over rare books, experimenting with old cameras and film, self-publishing zines, releasing records, drinking endless cups of coffee…

More recently the studio has been working with some of the finest and most respected names in the UK underground, from established brands including Punch Drunk, Resident Advisor and Clear Skyz through to newer acts and imprints like Gutterfunk, Peng Sound, BRSTL and, perhaps the most well known, Livity Sound.

Be it via the now iconic B&W photographs of the early Dubplate Monthly dances or the hearts and minds graphic approach to the recent Gorgon Sound/Dubkasm release on Peng Sound that saw the first pressing sell out before it had even hit shops, the slightly off kilter, analog aesthetic that the studio has been refining is synonymous with the new generation of underground music producers and artists.

‘Idiosyncratic Aesthetics’ is the first exhibition of the small studio’s collective output, an opportunity to view on a large scale the mixed media output that defines Studio Tape-Echo. Expect decaying sheet metal, vintage typewriters, screen-prints, cassette tapes, projections, products of photocopier abuse as well as a plethora of ephemera that makes the studio as idiosyncratic as it is.

Please join us at Donuts on Perry Road (Bristol) on Friday the 31st of August from 6pm onwards.

The afterparty for the exhibition starts at 10pm in The Bank (Stokes Croft) and we have some of our favourite artists on the decks playing the finest in Dub, House and Techno music.
Entry is free and the joint will be jumpin’ till the early hours.

For more info please email us at ‘info (at) tape-echo.com’

A Facebook group for the event can be found here – http://www.facebook.com/events/475182665840131

www.tape-echo.com
studio.tape-echo.com
www.donutsthestore.co.uk

Livity Sound LIVE in the Boiler Room

peverelist — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:50:36 +0000

Bass Clef ‘Ghost Kicks in the Spiral’ Official Video

peverelist — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:43:34 +0000

Esther May directed official video of my favourite track from Bass Clef’s ‘Reeling Skullways’ album on Punch Drunk.

BASS CLEF ‘ghost kicks in the spiral’ HD from Bass Clef on Vimeo.

Peverelist Livity Sound showcase 30 minute mix for Radio 1

peverelist — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:03:56 +0000

Benji B invited me to present a showcase mix for my new Livity Sound label for his Radio 1 show at the end of Feb this year. You can stream or download the mix on Soundcloud. If you like it, please tweet @therealbenjib and let him know!

You can catch the full Livity Sound live experience (Kowton, Asusu and Peverelist) at Room 1 of Fabric, London 6th April 2012 and hopefully a town near you soon.

Tracklist :

Asusu — Too Much Time Has Passed (Livity Sound)
Kowton — Jam01 acetate
Peverelist & Kowton — Raw Code acetate
Kowton — More Games acetate
Kowton — End Point acetate
Asusu — Sister (Livity Sound)
Peverelist — Erosions (Livity Sound)
Peverelist — Salt Water (Livity Sound)
Peverelist — Livity acetate

**** EDIT : NEW DOWNLOAD LINK HERE – https://www.yousendit.com/download/M3BrK3BPUzd0NjlsQXNUQw ****

Dubkasm ft Rudey Lee & Solo Banton – ‘Emotion’ / ‘Are You Ready’ VIDEO

peverelist — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:30:05 +0000

Bristol’s Dubkasm featuring Rudey Lee & Solo Banton – ‘Emotion/Are You Ready’. Taken from the forthcoming ‘Emotion’ EP on Sufferah’s … Continue reading →

Peverelist mix for Sonic Router

peverelist — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:11:40 +0000

New year, new mix.

Check it at the Sonic Router website.

Szare – Triplicate [Horizontal Ground]
Asusu – Too Much Time Has Passed [Livity Sound]
Levon Vincent – Revs/cost [Novel Sound]
Bass Clef – Electricity Comes From Other Planets
Funkineven – Beat Crash [Apron]
Kowton – Jam001
Alex Coulton – Bounce
Kowton & Pev – Raw Code
Kowton – End Point
Pev – Salt Water
Asusu – Sister [Livity Sound]
Pev – Erosion(s)
Pev – Livity
Zhou – Noboru [Punch Drunk]

Ekoplekz ‘Devil Mixture’ VIDEO

peverelist — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:01:27 +0000

Jade Boyd’s official video for Ekoplekz’s ‘Devil Mixture’ taken from the Intrusive Incidentalz Vol 1 LP.

Ekoplekz: Devil Mixture from Jade Boyd on Vimeo.

Two Big Sound – Seven Nights a Week

peverelist — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:59:14 +0000

First part of a great documentary on UK Sound by Shottsman featuring Trevor Sax, Jah Screechie, Levi Roots, Tippa Irie, Snr San, Jah Prento, Blacka Dread, Daddy Kernal, Philip Levi, Echo Minott, and Chris Peckings.

TWO BIG SOUND revisits the ‘platinum era’ of the UK sound system in which two sounds ruled, The mighty Saxon Studio sound and the legendary Sir Coxsone sound.

In memory of Smiley Culture, one of the UK ‘s Finest Pioneer MC Lyricists.

Bristol street art : See No Evil project : Aug 2011

peverelist — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:20:24 +0000

Ekoplekz ‘Intrusive Incidentalz Vol 1′ LP (Punch Drunk)

peverelist — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:15:40 +0000

Pre-order your copy here. All purchases from www.punchdrunkmusic.com come complete with free digital version.

Following critically acclaimed releases with Mordant Music and Further Records earlier this year, Ekoplekz delivers his first album for Punch Drunk.

Dispensing entirely with notions of accessibility and dancefloor friendliness, ‘Intrusive Incidentalz vol.1′ is a 12 track collection of dark, oppressive atmospheres and violently unstable interludes, developed through studio improvisation and inspired by childhood memories of terrifying electronic soundtrack music from the 1970s, yet combined with a post-dubstep sensibility and a sense of dread informed by the social, economic and political climate of life in 2011.

A bleak retro-futurist fantasy, or oblique soundtrack for a broken Britain?

The truth probably lies somewhere between the two.

Vinyl tracklist :

Intrusion 1

Neutronik II
Stahlman Gas
Devil Mixture
Critical Condition
Mangler Fish
Soviet Drum Brain Attack

Intrusion 2

Terror/Danger
Clodsteps
Rogue Circuits
Chemical Analysis
Psionik Trance
Maelstrom

Release date 19th September 2011 (LP and digital)