Browse by Label: LO RECORDINGS (UK)

Artist:	VA
Title:	Lo Recordings Vol. 4: Further Mutations
Label:	LO RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	LO 005CD

Fourth volume of this impressive compilation series (previous volumes are: Extreme Possibilities, Collaborations & United Mutations. Incredible line-up of: Twisted Science, Peter Kraut, Sycophants, Luke Vibert, David Kristian, Cujo (Amon Tobin), Wormhole, Burzoootie, Voafose (Jeremy Simmonds), Hood, Barbed, Mellowtrons, Fish Out Of Water (w/ Robert Wyatt), The Underdog, Ganger, Richard Thomas, Chasm (Robert Hampson), Bedouin Ascent, Thurston Moore & Eugene Chadbourne, 2 Player & DJ Vadim and Freezer. All tracks are exclusive and unavailable elsewhere. "The finest exponents of non-classifiable out there Lofi, electronic, Geetar, Hip Hop, Drum & Bass, Noise, Breakbeat, Free jazz, blah blah....essential listening for the How Generation."

Artist:	THOMAS/THE WORMHOLES, RICHARD
Title:	Seven Point Plan to Destroy Astrology
Label:	LO RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	LO 010CD

"Logical pairing of these two 'outsider' acts by their UK record label, Lo Recordings. Richard Thomas was introduced to the world via his tracks on the initial Invisible Soundtracks volume on Leaf, and has since released a 12" and full-length CD for Lo (the brilliant Shoes and Radios Attract Paint, a set of multichannel tape constructs that through some tormented logic earned him the tag 'The Welsh Sun-Ra') and a recent 7" for Leaf. The Wormholes are low-bit live improvising rock 'unit' who sired a few tracks which found their way onto the Mutations series of compilations (that would be United Mutations and Further Mutations, both on Lo) thusly introducing them to the whole lot of miscreants aligned with said releasing organization. Thomas' analog-tape 're-productions' refashion The Wormholes' July '97 London show into something that's not quite 'post-rock' or 'electronic(a)', it's more free-jazz/concreté in spirit. Sounds jump out of the stereo spread in no particular order." -- Hrvatski.

Artist:	BRIK, ADDIE
Title:	My Little Pony Ride
Label:	LO RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	LO 014EP

"Awesome six track EP which boasts a Plaid mix. A surprisingly ear-friendly release from Lo Recordings with vocals, melody, strings and much Twin Peaks style beauty. Addie Brik is an American singer/musician who has sung with Sugarhill Gang, Wendy & Lisa and more recently Luke Vibert & DJ Cole on the highly acclaimed Stop the Panic album. On this record, Addie is joined by Jono Modmore, the Russian Chamber Orchestra of London, Richard Thomas, and of course Plaid, whose stunning remix of 'Bonded' is released here for the first time on vinyl."

Artist:	TWISTED SCIENCE
Title:	Deep and Warm
Label:	LO RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	LO 015CD

"A brand new offering from Twisted Science, a.k.a. Jon Tye. After last year's most abrasive and critically acclaimed The Sharpest Tool In The Box comes Deep and Warm, an altogether more friendly album and yet still deeply twisted. A cut and paste collage that recalls the cinematic scope of DJ Shadow, the layered psychedelia of Jim O'Rourke or Cornelius at his most abstract. This is electronic music at its most challenging, yet like the recent Uziq album, full of melody and humor."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Alternative 3 (Original Soundtrack)
Label:	LO RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	LO 019CD

"Conspiracy theory alert! In 1977 Anglia Television aired a documentary called 'Alternative 3' as one of their Science Report programmes. A3's basic premise is that our planet is doomed to die from global warming and America and Russia have been secretly co-operating for decades, have colonised Mars with selected superior humans and plan to leave the rest of the human race to die when the time comes. The response to the broadcast was unprecedented with many people phoning in, newspaper articles and even questions in the house. In an effort to stop the panic the producers of the programme issued a statement claiming that the show was in fact a hoax and had been originally scheduled for broadcast on April Fools day. This bizarre story has now been made into a major feature film starring Cornelia Fischer and Oliver Tubb with a suitably eclectic electronic score featuring Add N to X, Stereolab and Hairy Butter that recalls classic sci-fi soundtracks of the 70's such as The Adromeda Strain and Demon Seed. The film itself will be released in the summer of 2001 with preview screenings scheduled to coincide with the release of the album."

Artist:	ROTHKO
Title:	Not Gone. Not Forgotten.
Label:	LO RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	LO 024CD

"The band Rothko have built up quite a name for themselves both in their home country of England and abroad. Anyone who's seen them live knows what a colossal sound they're capable of, equaled only perhaps by Godspeed, Mogwai, or Sonic Youth at their finest moments. With three basses, the group improvises melodies, effects, wall of sound tones, all tied together by great musicianship and a collaborative feeling for when not to play. Space is a crucial part of this music. Not Gone. Not Forgotten. takes in live recordings from the last 4 years, including their very first show ever at the Hope & Anchor in London, right up to June of 2001. With eight of the tracks previously unreleased, some of them only ever played once, this album is the only document of how Rothko sound as a live 3-bass phenomenon."

Artist:	YOKOTA, SUSUMU
Title:	Symbol
Label:	LO RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	LO 045CD

"Susumu Yokota should need no introduction. The composer's musical innovations know no stylistic boundaries, and his work in the field of electronic music in particular has helped reshape the genre and made fans of Thom Yorke, Philip Glass and Brian Eno. Symbol is reckoned by Yokota to be his masterpiece. It's an extraordinary work that fuses classical strains with ambient, world-beat and electronic music in a breathtaking kaleidoscope of sound. Repeated listens draw the listener deep into his world, and reveal the true scope of Yokota's achievement. Featuring the incredible voice of avant garde composer/vocalist Meredith Monk, Symbol includes pieces by Debussy, Mahler, Ravel, Tchaikovsky and even Beethoven, interwoven with synth washes and electronic filigree, reimagined in the fecund imagination of Yokota. No one else would have even attempted such a daring task and only Yokota could have succeeded."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Back to Black
Label:	LO RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	LO 055CD

"In line with Lo Recordings reissue compilations Because You're Funky and Luke Vibert's Nuggets, Back To Black is a fascinating collection of R'n'B, dub, funk and jazz music from the '60s and '70s. The CD reflects the political and musical radicalism central to much of the important art of the 20th century. Picking from two decades where music took some of its greatest chances, Back To Black can be considered historically important even though it is simply so much fun. The album showcases a superb selection of music from the 'Lost Generation' featuring classic dub from King Tubby, the cosmic jazz of Andy Bey, the resonant Brit Funk of Cymande to authentic gangland street rhythms from the late '50s. Compiled by legendary London crate-digger Steve Picton."

Artist:	YOKOTA AND ROTHKO, SUSUMU
Title:	Distant Sounds of Summer
Label:	LO RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	LO 056CD

"A collaboration with Too Pure and Lo Recordings artists Rothko, Distant Sounds of Summer is Susumu Yokota's most accessible album to date. The record features the stunning voice of Caroline Ross over looping beats, resonant bass and wide-open spaces, creating an epic widescreen tour de force that simmers with subtle beauty. The resonant echoes of twanging tones resemble a deep sea Ry Cooder soundtrack, while Ross's pure and fragile vocal tones add a classic English folk touch. At times, the broken beats and world music ambience fuse to form a supernatural kind of funk like Mad Lib's most space-bound moments. Yokota's masterful production guides the music into a tangible whole that is wholly enveloping, a startling and wonderful new world of sound."

Artist:	YOKOTA, SUSUMU
Title:	Wonder Waltz
Label:	LO RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	LO 057CD

"Another year, another superb album from Susumu Yokota. With Yokota, it's never just another album though, is it? As an artist continually stretching the boundaries, Yokota is always up to something new, and Wonder Waltz is no exception. Inspired by his recent collaboration with vocalist Caroline Ross, Yokota invited four distinct musicians to record what may be his most unusual album yet. Alongside Ross, Wonder Waltz features Moravian violinist and singer Iva Bittova (a regular performer with Bang On A Can), Japanese singer and fashion icon Hahimi Karie, and French DJ Alex From Tokyo, who conversely is now famous in Japan. If this were a film it would be directed by Ingmar Bergman or Ang Lee -- The Seventh Seal meets Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon -- a phantasmagoria of unusual sounds, textures, spectral voices and deep beats. From these disparate elements Yokota creates a deep web of sound that encompasses everything from dub, folk, techno, gamelan, guitar raga, classical and avant garde."

Artist:	BLACK DEVIL
Title:	28 After
Label:	LO RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	LO 058CD

"After nearly thirty years, Black Devil's 'extremely rare disco masterpiece' finally receives a proper follow-up. 28 After is an epic journey into the deepest electronic disco, full of haunting vocals, warped lyrics, twisted yet melodic electronics and crisp dance beats. In 2004, Aphex Twin's Rephlex label released an album by Black Devil called Disco Club, a re-issue of a long-lost supposedly 'Italo disco' classic from 1978. Given its absurdly modern sound many doubted its authenticity, some even suggesting that it was a collaboration between Richard James and Luke Vibert. The real story is stranger still. Although credited to Joachim Sherylee and Junior Claristidge and executive producer Jacky Giordano, the album is actually the work of obscure French producer Bernard Fevre, until now known solely for two incredibly rare tracks, the electronic masterpiece The Strange World of Bernard Fevre and the even rarer Earthmessage (as sampled by The Chemical Brothers on 'Got Glint?' from the Surrender album). Now comes a 'new album,' so similar in sound and structure to the original album that it's impossible to know if it was created near the time of its predecessor, or in the last few years. Mr. Fevre's not divulging when or where it was recorded."

Artist:	BLACK DEVIL DISCO CLUB
Title:	Black Devil In Dub
Label:	LO RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	LO 060CD

"Hot on the heels of last year's incredible 28 After album, Black Devil returns with a sinister, psychedelic disco sound which recalls both Joy Division and Giorgio Moroder. Containing six electronic dub versions of the album tracks by the Devil himself plus six by some of the Devil's biggest fans who just happen to be some of the best exponents of the cosmic nu disco sound, Black Devil In Dub pushes the envelope far out into the deepest realms of cosmic disco exploration."

Artist:	CURSOR MINER
Title:	Hair of the Dog
Label:	LO RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$7.50
Catalog #:	LO 1204EP

"Cursor Miner delivers a double dose of electronic madness with a new single that's both a preview of the forthcoming full-length, Danceflaw, and a follow-up to one of 2004's biggest dancefloor hits, 'Sport Of Kings.' 'Hair of the Dog' is a stripped down electro-breaks killer that rocks any floor, whereas epic shuffle-beat anthem, 'Spassfaktor,' comes on like Alter Ego meets Gary Glitter. They both have the authentic 'Cursor Miner sound' and are guaranteed to cause maximum dancefloor mayhem."

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Artist:	VA
Title:	Collaborations Vol. 2
Label:	LO RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	LO 002CD

Artist:	VA
Title:	United Mutations (Lo Recordings Vol 3)
Label:	LO RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	LO 003CD

Artist:	FLOWERS MEETS CYLOB/ORBITAL
Title:	1999/Chime Mixes
Label:	LO RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	LO 013EP

Artist:	HAIRY BUTTER
Title:
Label:	LO RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LO 021CD