Resist

Back in February Pye Corner Audio released an expensive box set compiling his Where Things Are Hollow series along with some new tracks and remixes. It's a comprehensive album and a deep dive into PCA world, where analogue synths and drum machines conjure up murky ambient, blurred electronic soundscapes, 70s sci fi/ TV and subterranean drones. The new Where Things Are Hollow included a remix John Talabot did back in 2020 which shifts Pye Corner Audio into slightly different territory, a powering, thumping breakbeat providing eight minutes of direct propulsion.

Resist (Jon Talabot Remix)

Pye Corner Audio regularly releases new music onto his Bandcamp page. At the start of August a two track EP came out, Matrix, which veered into shadowy cosmische house. Get it here. And closer to home Pye Corner Audio is playing live at Yard in Manchester, a venue in Cheetham Hill in the shadow of HMP Strangeways, at the end of September. There are still some tickets available- and I'll be able to enthuse to Martyn Jenkins directly about his music as some of The Flightpath Estate DJ team are playing support to both Pye Corner Audio and Shunt Voltage. 

Dream Food Resistor

This came out last Friday, a superb slice of slinky, wonky dance floor action, Dream Food by Spatial Awareness. The title is apt- there are aspects of this track that do feel very dreamy, the warm disorientation of waking from an odd but pleasant dream, the distorted vocal playing off against the synth melody as the drums patter away in a 122 BPM sweet spot. Lovely stuff- there's a dub mix too, seven minutes of pared back, stripped down but equally tripped out music. 

Meanwhile over at Paisley Dark in Leeds, Shunt Voltage have released an EP of dark, dancefloor mutant acid house, a track called Resistor. 

There are remixes too, one from label boss John Payntor as Space Age Freak Out, a lovely chuggy one courtesy of Cosmikuro, a banger from Mindbender, and one by Adult DVD (possibly not an act to Google if you're on a work computer). Find them all here. 

Fully Automatic

We reach day 14 of our two week self- isolation period today. In some ways it's been a long fortnight and in some ways it has actually gone fairly quickly. That's true of 2020 as a whole isn't? The year despite everything that has happened has seemed stuck on pause since mid- March. At the time of writing our daughter has mostly recovered from having Covid (and they may tell you that teenagers will sail through it but she has had a range of symptoms and was pretty unwell for a few days) and the rest of us are Covid free (touch wood etc), including our son who is clinically extremely vulnerable. We have had to have some strict isolation within the household to keep it contained. On Sunday we can leave the house for the first time in two weeks. I've really been feeling the lack of exercise this week. On Wednesday night I ran up and down our garden. Our garden is about twenty five long, in 1902 when the house was built it was probably just a yard. By the time I'd taken a few strides I had to stop and turn around. To anyone watching from upstairs on either side I must have looked like I'd finally lost it. 

Here, in an unrelated way, is some dark, punchy, industrial acid from Manchester's Shunt Voltage, the sort of track that hits the spot in the early hours and has bodies moving and dancefloors heaving.

Buy it from Bandcamp with a Quantal remix, price two pounds. 

Grey Border

Shunt Voltage are a Manchester based electronic outfit who make tough, industrial house music, littered with bits of dub and bobs of acid.

Link Up throbs and grinds, a vocal sample buried beneath layers of sound.



This one, Grey Border, is even better, more acidic with loops, an Eastern sounding noise and lots of synthy bleeps. Capable of turning your head inside out when played at volume.

Function

This should stir you out of your Boxing Day haze. The Shunt Voltage are from Manchester and released this at the end of November- a monster of a groove, synths battling over the top and a robotic voice. Intense. At £1 for both the original and Unleaded versions there's no need to go fighting in the sales for a bargain either.