Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:30:08 — 143.8MB)

(01) – Four Tet – Ribbons – [Domino]
(02) – Wireman – Armour (Sean Matthews Remix) – [myspace_iamwireman]
(03) – Scuba – Poppies – [Hotflush Recordings]
(04) – iTAL tEK – Versus – [forthcoming on Planet Mu]
(05) – Kode9 & The Spaceape – Konfusion – [Hyperdub]
(06) – Mrs Jynx – Wooshgone – [Forthcoming on Planet Mu]
(07) – FaltyDL – Devastation – [FaltyDL.com]
(08) – AEVSVS (Venetian Snares Vs. Autechre) – Elephant Gear – [www.45tribute.com]
(09) – 2562 – Kameleon – [Tectonic]
(10) – The Marcia Blaine School For Girls – Bottle Stain – [Highpoint Lowlife]

Highpoint Lowlife Label Showcase

01 – Feld – tut tut – [Highpoint Lowlife]
02 – Funckarma – Pable Cath – [Highpoint Lowlife]
03 – Fisk Industries – Blood – [Highpoint Lowlife]
04 – Mandelbrot Set – Astronomy and Allied Sciences 1b – [Highpoint Lowlife]
05 – Erstlaub – Scanning For Daybreak – [Highpoint Lowlife]
06 – Erstlaub – Island (TVO’s ‘Departure (38)’ mix) – [Highpoint Lowlife]
07 – The Village Orchestra – The King Of All Tears (excerpt) – [Highpoint Lowlife]
08 – Production Unit – Single Water Body – [Highpoint Lowlife]
09 – Dalglish – dasda – [Highpoint Lowlife]
10 – The Marcia Blaine School For Girls – The Ratio – [Highpoint Lowlife]

(11) – Shed – Masque (A Made Up Sound – Remix) – [Soloaction]
(12) – Silent Servant – Disciple To Master – [Sandwell District]

http://www.highpointlowlife.com/home.php

Highpoint Lowlife is an independent electronic music record label based out of London.

The label was originally started in San Francisco in 2001, founded on the back of a weekly clubnight called :node run by the two founders Thorsten Sideb0ard and Joey Hurt.

The label’s musical output varies from ambient electronics through to ear-bursting Indie-rock, and has released music from a variety of artists such as n.Ln, Recon, Like A Stuntman, Glasgow’s Marcia Blaine School For Girls and Fuck-off Machete, Bovaflux, RandomNumber, Izu, Fisk Industries, Marshall Watson, Mandelbrot Set, Tigrics, and others.

FISK INDUSTRIES / MANDELBROT SET / VARIOUS – Magnetism, That Electricity
Highpoint Lowlife
MP3 Release // £6.99
ELECTRONICA
Catalogue Number: HPLL026

A compilation release from the Highpoint Lowlife crew, featuring a cross section of new work from a number of artists on their roster. A four-part suite of works by Mandelbrot Set introduces the collection, finding particular success with the more chaotic aspects of their string ensemble drone, as on the Stars Of The Lid-like tranquillity of the first part or the drama and tumult of the third.

When drums enter into the equation it all gets a bit too ordinary, but it’s a very strong showing nonetheless. Fisk Industries might sound like a biochemical research facility, but their music takes on an acerbic, urban wasteland quality that has roots in dubstep and the darker side of elecronica, trying out some Burial-style rimshot sounds on ‘Crowley’. The Village Orchestra put all their eggs into a single twenty-minute basket.

The name of that metaphorical basket is ‘The King Of All Tears’ a wafer thin drone that sounds rather like holding a shell up to your ear on a deserted beach. Or so I imagine. I don’t think that’s something I’ve ever actually done. Finally, The Marcia Blaine School For Girls dispense some classy beat-driven IDM, characterised by unashamedly digital, chronically out of fashion post-Autechre beat narratives, produced with considerable accomplishment.