Electronic Explorations - 020 - Highpoint Lowlife [90:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

(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.