Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

Track: Leo Abrahams pushes six strings into a pyroclastic flow of glitch on ‘Spiral Trem’

GRADUATE of the esteemed Royal Academy of Music, and a man who’s collaborated musically with a host of the truly great and good – that CV including, since you ask,…

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See: Rival Consoles drops the darkly pulsing choreography of ‘Monster’ ahead of tomorrow’s album

WITH a sooo hotly anticipated album, Overflow, out in the racks tomorrow, December 3rd, for Erased Tapes – the label originally set up specifically to bring Ryan Lee West’s musical…

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News: Fresh from trepanning with Squarepusher, SCALPING announce British headlining dates for the start of the year

BRISTOL’S quite literally skull-reshaping post-rave quartet Scalping, fresh from what must’ve been a sonically mental tour in support of Warp Records bass ‘n’ breaks genius Squarepusher, are back out on…

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News: Seefeel and KMRU warp and weft on a limited remix cassette, ‘Rapture To Rupt’

THE MORE you think about it, the more it makes sense that these two artists should get together: Warp, Rephlex and Too Pure ambient electronic dub explorers Seefeel, who’ve benefitted…

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News: New Mute songsmith Quinquis drops the noir electro of ‘Adkrog’, reveals 37-date European tour

DANIEL MILLER’S independent mainstay Mute have revealed the latest addition to an already diverse and dazzling stable; and that signing comes in the shape of Quinquis, the new project of…

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Track: Jacana People – ‘And The Lake Was …’: a masterful lope of electronica atmospheres with Neil Cowley at the keys

IF YOU’RE a fan of the leftfield musics, ambient and textural and nuanced, whatever its provenance, be it modern compositional or electronic or anywhere through the ultraviolets and infrareds along…

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See: The short monochrome film for the dreamy Saint Etienne festive single, ‘Winter Coat’

CAST your mind to a far-off time, if you will: the 1980s and before. And then: the Christmas music you’d hear. Back then, before t’interweb and swipe-right, there wasn’t really…

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News: Jack Cheshire finally launches his excellent ‘Fractal Future Plays’ album with a gig and a live stream

JACK CHESHIRE is a voyage in the best traditions of a very British strain of pastorally inflected psychedelia who, by some as-yet unexplained quirk of the space-time continuum, isn’t as…

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See: The intrusive flicker of memory brings disquiet to Fhunyue Gao & Sven Kacirek’s theremin and breaks drift ‘Bowie’

THE POTENT, experimental sonic meeting of minds that is Fhunyue Gao and Sven Kacirek came about quite by chance, and with a first single and video from that meeting, “Bowie”,…

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See: Full Time Hobby sign Devon’s Pale Blue Eyes, who debut with the smart new wave of ‘TV Flicker’

NEWLY signed to the ace Full Time Hobby, where they’ll find themselves grazing amongst the likes of Tunng, The Besnard Lakes and Dana Gavanski, Pale Blue Eyes are a young…

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