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PUBINF 013EP
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"Long-time wielder of the modular-flame, Ralph Cumbers has a distinguished CV for the likes of Punch Drunk and his own Magic+Dreams imprint. Here, across four extended sequences he shines, taking the crystalline drive and coarse groove of the acclaimed Reeling Skullways LP into hotwired groove zones. 'Sometimes the only way out is to go further in' starts the trip. Take care dear listener; once you're in track one, you may not want to escape from its grip, its cyclical riffs, its space dust licks, its buttered bass notes. Then, the sadness. The mournful minor key shuffle of 'elsewhen' is sheer blue-note Blade Runner melancholy. Then, the euphoria. Instant gratification hits you on 'faster than the speed of love' a click-pump-click-pump kick surrounded by jagged sawtones, straight to the chest. Through swirling, speed-addled melodies Clef then leads us - Detroit nights under Hackney sodium lights. Then, to a breath. Bugbranded arrives at an all too premature end with 'neon black and vulcane' a glistening collage of white noise splash, acidic whispers and head-nod-chug. This is techno how it was dreamed in Belleville, re-imagined by a genius with a synth or three. In Clef we trust, for all our magic and dreams. Limited edition of 500 in debossed house sleeve, individually hand numbered."
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PUBINF 011EP
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"Public Information search the West Coast skies to Los Angeles, to find Katie Gately, still in the throes of academe, playing at new pop forms. This record in July bloom is a bold and exciting taster of what is in store, around the corner. Six tracks of frightening ambition. A prime distillation in computer-music-pop. More alarming - this is her debut release, she has been making organized sound for just over a year. Screech, crumble, gurgle, crack: the opening track 'Ice' a storm of cluster tones and sequenced-bursts sets the standard. Then, to a potential Top ten smasher gone mutant. 'Last Day' is the first time we hear Katie's voice, first looped and torn, then glowing, euphoric and beaming from deep inside a crashing-banging-beat system. Similar patterns follow across this half-dozen. Fractured vocalizations, bittersweet harmonies, freaked alien voices all living, breathing in deep fried motherboards of acute computer programming and field sound."
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PUBINF 009EP
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"The first in a series of limited edition 12" aimed at the dancefloor. IVVVO, a young producer from Portugal with previous form on Opal Tapes and is closely affiliated with the Photonz crew - The Future EP presents his most exciting work yet. Six transmissions long - vinyl scarred, abrasive, and heartbroken, IVVVO reaches into early UK rave music for inspiration, but twists the end-game. The yearning vocal, the minor key whisper, the shuffling breakbeat, the bleep, the bloop, and the seeping tape-bleed all present. Yet IVVVO mangles these core elements of dance music past into something that sizzles headfirst into 2013. Opening cut 'Darkness in My Soul' kicks off the record in a sad glare of tone bursts, aching lead lines and throbbing kicks. Elsewhere he reaches into his bag for stinging hats and nagging hooks. All tracks clock in shy of five minutes. IVVVO's way is the quick release, the instant blast, the cute melodic touch... smoldering in warehouse black. No time for bloated dance formulas here. And then, the piano. Bookending either side sits a pair of devastating miniatures, played on his grandma's piano, prepared, cloaked in hiss and ending these plates with a kiss of forlorn ambience. A funereal flourish to the death of rave... to the future."
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PUBINF 010LP
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"In January 2012, Public Information released a 35 track compendium of F.C. Judd's music and sound, called Electronics without Tears. Fast forward to spring 2013 and they are back with Fred for a very special LP to re-ignite his legacy. For their tenth release, Public Information asked some of their favorite artists working today to submit a reinterpretation of the greatly undervalued electronics pioneer, Frederick Charles Judd. With the entire archive of Fred's sounds, tone experiments, field recordings and lectures to work from, they were left to produce an audio artifact befitting of Judd himself. The players invited: Chris Carter, Perc, Pye Corner Audio, Holly Herndon, Mordant Music, Peter Rehberg, Bandshell, Ekoplekz, The Boats, Leyland Kirby, Karen Gwyer, and Ian Helliwell. Interpretations on F.C. Judd opens with Fred himself, welcoming us into his world before Ian Helliwell takes us into a fractured loop of radio static and gargled musique concrete. From here we lurch through pure tape trips (Leyland Kirby, Chris Carter) dubwise refractions (Karen Gwyer, The Boats PCA), haunted never-zones (Ekoplekz, Mordant Music, Perc), sublime vocal deconstructions (Holly Herndon) and frightening slashes of electronic deviance (Peter Rehberg, Bandshell). Throughout inspirations, Fred is never far away, reminding us how important visionaries like him stalk even the most future-bound of electronic music."
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PUBINF 008LP
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"This is the debut record of malformed electronic-pop and modular fury from from Chicago two-piece Acteurs. From the chest-rattling kick of the opening track to the radon hailstorm of dub-techno epic 'Freezing Fog' it's clear that the pair, Jeremy Lemos and Brian Case, know their way around a mixing desk. Acteurs: proponents of bass to make systems quiver, drums that punch the gloom, electronics to scythe and screech into darkest night - a psychedelic overload. Acteurs: purveyors of pop-not-pop; itchy Cluster tones; frazzled Factory keys; LCD oscillations; Neu-motorik thrust; Argabright playgrounds; repetition, repetition, repetition. Dream an Acteurs dream. Sodium streetlights, grey smoke. Chromium staircases and black glass buildings. Acid rains. Cyberpunk racers. Dead TV channels. Amped-out brains. Come join their future-primitive world of stark and brutal groove, metallic avant-pop, and precise mechanical funk."
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PUBINF 007LP
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"From the sun-blemished bleep of Parry Music to the black marble night-haunts of Fingers Crossed. Public Information wraps up warm and closes its curtains for the winter months ahead. Their darkest record so far. The protagonists: Ivan Afanasyev and Anya Kuts (Red Bull Music Academy artist 2013). The location: deepest Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia, Russia. They are Love Cult and this is their debut LP. Since 2009 Love Cult music has seeped through various ferric cracks (Blackest Rainbow, Brave Mysteries). They have traveled and toured with Ensemble Economique, High Wolf, and Lucky Dragons. They run the cassette label Full of Nothing. But it is here on Public Information they find their perfect muse. Wordless chorals from far, far away, mangled Roland drum machines, decomposed Russian TV samples, endless microphone feedback, twisted Finnish kantele, throbbing bass dynamics, sky-bound folk songs, slow decay. In freezing snow-tipped woodland, Fingers Crossed howls for your ears. Nine stormy mantras from a beautiful lost space. The sad whispers of Grouper, the furious noise of Yellow Swans, the empty rooms of KTL, the gothic angles of Hannett , the crumbling ghosts of Basinski. Distill these elements in hard vodka and minus-20 degree Karelia winter and you only come half way to understanding the lonely, strange music that Love Cult make."
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PUBINF 005LP
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"Austin Cesear, here with his first ever release. An LP shaped on the west coast of America... a Bay Area backdrop. Welcome to Cruise Forever. Not a great deal is known about Austin himself, but that matters not, these ten tracks tell us much. From the strobing synth arcs and cosmic-pulse of opener 'Cloud Hall' to the narcotic, dubwise-nod of album closer 'Travelers of Faith,' Cruise Forever represents an innovative, exhilarating ride, loaded with twists, turns and trips from the floor to the comedown. The claustrophobic Chi-town melancholy of 'The Groove,' the hard-Brum-meets-Berghain techno of 'The Beast' and the massive nine-minute vocal rush of 'Shut In' are where the dance-floor moments collide: raw, expressive, euphoric moments in the sun and the dark. Then we shift toward stranger more insular climes... A fractured middle-east sampledelia, 'Peralta Palace,' lonely walks through the gloaming 'Forest Forever' and 'Mountain Ascension,' then soaring climbs into clipped, watery electronics, 'In the Depths.' This is a special record from a bold, young producer. A Public Information guarantee."
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PUBINF 004EP
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"Five brand new emissions from Bristol's premier electronicist Nick Edwards, alias Ekolplekz. Three-hundred copies only, no repress. Opening with a glorious ode to the founder and oldest surviving member of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, 'Dick Mills Blues' we are deep inside a mournful place, lathered in digital vapour trails and infectious circuit-gunk. Soon drops a nod to King Tubby down Dromilly Avenue, sliding the biggest drums this side of Dub-Kingston, slowly dissolving in pure liquid drift. Rocketing onto the flip we are plunged into a headlong fizz of modular scorch with 'Neutronik' and into the fractal Chris & Cosey cabaret of 'Jugglin' For Jesus,' before our heads are gently assaulted in wave after wave of gaseous Radiophonic noise with 'Clayton Freak.' Somewhere holed up inside these single-take, unique abstractions is the sound of pop-electronic, it beats roughly, strangely against the vinyl groove-wall, in sweet disharmony just waiting to be discovered by your stylus."
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PUBINF 003CD
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"Public Information presents the first ever compilation of the lost work of British electronic music pioneer Frederick Charles Judd. Electronics Without Tears represents a mammoth undertaking between Public Information, film artist Ian Helliwell and F.C. Judd's widow Freda and son Peter. Trawling through his tape archives Public Information have pulled almost an hour's worth of material into a sonic whole that easily stands alongside that of Judd's better known peers, Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram and John Baker. Fred pursued a career marked by innovation, invention and exploration, disseminating his new electronic music across the country through lectures, radio and writing. The 35 tracks on Electronic Without Tears highlight a prolific and thrilling era in Fred's life, next generation music and sound entirely made at home, with self-built equipment."
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