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Seminal Ambient expressionist Lawrence English announces a landmark new album. – Backseat Mafia
Lawrence English has now devoted nearly 25 years to exploring sound as an idea, as a physical thing, as an experience and as a phenomenon. A theorist, writer, artist, curator and composer, to simply say he’s prolific minimises the constant discovery all his work communicates. Plus the music, from himself and others, released on the label he’s guided throughout this time, Room40, represents an ever- evolving sonic document of the experimental, ambient and electronic- so really kind of seminal. What’s trying to be said here is that the announcement of a new Lawrence English album has leverage which is more than justified. Within the leftfield this is some event, especially…
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First Ever Release Of BBC Radio Sessions By Seminal UK Industrial Metal Act – Backseat Mafia
Cold Spring is extremely proud to announce the first ever release of the legendary BBC radio sessions that the seminal Nottingham-formed industrial metal act Pitchshifter recorded for the late, great John Peel in the early 1990s. These ultra heavy tracks were recorded over two sessions at the iconic BBC Maida Vale Studios on 28th April 1991 and 30th March 1993 and were sourced directly from the BBC Archives (with thanks), with careful remastering for CD and vinyl. The 1991 session was recorded during the same period that saw the release of the band’s debut album, ‘Industrial’ (Deaf Records/Peaceville), with the 1993 session recorded around the time of its follow-up, ‘Desensitized’ (Earache). “If…
