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Ed/10-20 has been hard at it since the release of his self-titled album a few months back, inspired by the really warm reception to it!
Now completed and mastered, we have 15 new tracks from him, which will be released over a series of four EPs, entitled the ‘Landforms’ series – ‘Isthmus’, ‘Mountain’, ‘Island’, and ‘Lake’.

He’s put together a fifteen minute mix using some of the tracks from the EPs’ which you can grab from http://highpointlowlife.com/?p=814

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Always gotta be contradictory, don’t we?! Just when i say we’re going all digital, we then go do another limited run of 100 cd-rs! :)

The Village Orchestra - I Can Hear The Sirens Singing Again

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Glasgow’s Ruaridh Law is as prolific as he is talented, with a multitude of aliases and projects to his name. From the prose inspired electronics of The Marcia Blaine School For Girls, his drone project as Accrual ( with Alasdair Satchel), the infamy of The Village Unit (live spoof ragga collaboration with fellow Marcian, Production Unit), his more techno leaning…

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Got a few wee Highpoint Lowlife updates for you again..

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- Tigrics - Brokenret (Friskfisk mixes)

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Our latest from the essential Mr Tigrics, this time ably assisted by one of his friends and favorite musician, Friskfisk - a 3track EP of twisted acidic overtones and analog drum machines.

Between Tigrics' fetish for home made modular synth kits, and Friskfisk's strict no computer policy, the sounds created and used in this EP are simply mindblowing, free flowing over tight rolling 606 patterns. Two of the tracks are collaborative remixes of tracks from Tigrics' earlier 'Brokenret'…

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Back at ye with an amazing new album this month..

10-20 - 10-20

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If you've been following our blog you would have heard me mention this new release a few times, and there's also an mp3 available for download from -
http://highpointlowlife.com/downloads/1020_arcadeagle.mp3

The album is a claustrophobic hulk of a release, constructed from parts of discarded machinery, short-circuiting currents of krautrock, broken hip hop structures, dense aquatic substreams and spectral elements, all of which are funnelled towards a single cohesive hypnotic pulse.

Based in devon, the coastal and elemental forces of the producer's environment are evident in the…

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PRODUCTION UNIT - HALF OF A HOLE

Production Unit: a member of longtime art terrorist music makers, The Marcia Blaine School For Girls, alongside The Village Orchestra and Beaker, and also one of the DJ forces behind Glasgow’s forward thinking monthly club, Numbers.

Here he presents two distinct tracks woven together through a maximal use of low-end and dancehall derived rhythms and space.

The more technoid attack of ‘A Little Hope’ comes on with a thundering beat and a snaking synthline, before the wall of bass surges forward and shredded vocal textures create a hypnotic hook, all building toward…

Aiight, first missive of 2009! Hope yer all well.

If you've been following the blog ( http://highpointlowlife.com/blog/blog.php ) , you'll have seen we're making some major changes - going almost wholly digital! You'll find more info on the blog post about making the decision which was a hard one, but now that i've made the choice, it feels like a massive weight off my mind and such a rush of freedom and inspiration - rather than having only one or two releases planned for the next six months and the stress of shifting enough units to move onto the next,…

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back now, after a week away at the Curfew Tower in Northern Ireland - absolutely awesome time! (see blog for details: http://highpointlowlife.com/blog/blog.php )

perfect timing too, The Hot City 12" landed this morning, and is now up for sale on our site at: http://highpointlowlife.com/releaseinfo.php?id=32 (all 12" sales will come with an email link to the 320kbps files too)

His recent set for the Mary Anne Hobbs show went down really well, and for those that missed it, you can download an archive of the show from:
http://core.thomaslaupstad.com/mary-anne-hobbs-experimental-2008-11-26-mount-kimbie-vs-hot-city/

Heres my blurb of Hot City from the website:
"Hot City melds…

hey! new Highpoint Lowlife signing, Hot City, played a 15 minute set on last night's Mary Anne Hobbs' show - listen here for the next 7 days:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/maryannehobbs/

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finally - the long wait is over - Jacob Borshard's new album 'A Glow In The Dark' is now available for free download from his website at http://www.creebobby.com/ - the third and final in his epic trilogy of ukulele outsider art, full of wry funny lyrics, tales of lost love and dreams of a slowly receding youth. Like a good comic book, you find yourself lost in his world of words even when the protagonists luck is firmly out, which is pretty much all of the time. Like Charlie Brown meets Happy Days, drawn by James…

Hey, hope all is well!
Couple of new things for ye this month..

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Intrepid explorer Mat Ranson, more well known around these parts as Fisk Industries, may well have just taken off on an around-the-world expedition, but he didn't leave without dropping a few new releases our way.

His first release is called Kwaidan, a one-off project inspired by Masaki Kobayashi's ghost movie of the same name.

Awash with kinetic energy, the music bristles with texture and ghostly treated sound sources, aiming to hint at the eerieness of Kobayashi's original ghost stories. Two tracks, each close…