{"title":"Circuitry Electronic","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"moonbase-alpha","title":"Moonbase Alpha","description":"\u003cp\u003eCircuitry Electronic launches with a release that stands as a statement of intent -\u003cbr\u003ean artist with few true peers within English electronic music, with an album that\u003cbr\u003ejumps out of the speakers and slaps you around the chops.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eG-Man is Gez Varley - one half of Sheffield pioneers LFO, and thirty years into his\u003cbr\u003esolo career, with his first vinyl album release since Avanti on Force Inc way back in\u003cbr\u003e2002.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpeaking to DJ magazine in 2014 Gez recalled his early days working with Mark Bell\u003cbr\u003eas LFO: “We were influenced by groups like 808 State. Unique 3, Nightmares On\u003cbr\u003eWax and also stuff like Kraftwerk, Detroit techno and early electro. So when we first\u003cbr\u003ehooked up and made tunes together we just wanted to rock the dancefloor at our\u003cbr\u003elocal club The Warehouse”. Their eponymous track ‘LFO’ – a classic of the bleep\u003cbr\u003eand bass techno movement – was one of the first releases on the Warp label, gate-\u003cbr\u003ecrashing the UK’s Top 20 whilst annoying Simon Mayo along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaving worked with the likes of Richie Hawtin, Karl Bartos, Laurent Garnier, Art of\u003cbr\u003eNoise, Radiohead, YMO and Alan Wilder, in addition to the LFO output, you\u0026amp;#39;d expect Gez to know his way around a techno dancefloor rhythm and drum pattern, and this is an inventive funk-filled journey that never veers too far into experimental territory yet avoids the cliches and generic tropes that too often lose the listener when techno manifests in album form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the inaugural release on the Circuitry Electronic label this album plugs all the right\u003cbr\u003esockets; stay close for further electronic expansions on the theme on the label in the\u003cbr\u003ecoming months.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Circuitry Electronic","offers":[{"title":"2LP - Black","offer_id":56488023064907,"sku":"R6811-8063","price":33.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/NEXUS001.jpg?v=1770648648"},{"product_id":"anamchara","title":"Anamchara","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Woodleigh Research Facility was formed in 2015 by Nina and late studio partner Andrew Weatherall to help wrangle the vast output recorded together beyond his solo releases. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpotlighting nine tracks from the Apparently Solo series of EPs recorded between 2016- 2019 and released on Bandcamp in 2023, this lustrous time capsule marks the culmination of Walsh and Weatherall’s creative relationship born after they clicked at London’s earliest acid house clubs, becoming partners then managers of their Sabres Of Paradise\/Sabrettes labels before taking different paths by the late '90s. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn accomplished musician, Nina had learned the art of studio technology by the time they reunited and started working together in 2012. Created at her Facility 4 Studio situated in the dangerous, gang-ridden no man’s land between Streatham and Mitcham, Anamchara captures the super-prolific creative stretch starting in 2015 that produced Weatherall’s Convenanza and Qualia solo sets, W.R.F.’s The Phoenix Suburb (And Other Stories) plus a whole lot more. According to Nina, Andrew envisioned the spectacular ‘Borderland’ as natural successor to ‘Smokebelch’, his most revered track. When it came to his remix, Nina enlisted renowned viola virtuoso Sarah Sarhandi and composed new harmonies with Pachelbel’s Canon in D Minor in mind. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe set also catches the breakthrough period when, through Nina’s careful coaxing, Andrew started using the computer system she’d set up to better express his musical visions by arranging the elements, grooves and melodies she sent him. Still considered the UK’s greatest DJ-producer, Andrew’s arrangements were inspired by his club-igniting sets. “This allowed me to mix the colours for his palette whilst he was painting the picture,” says Nina. Anamchara straddles the gamut of musical styles explored by W.R.F. at this time, from slower paced psychedelic “drug chug” outings ‘We Two’. ‘Heat To Meat Ratio’, ‘Hidden Watchers Part 1’ to banging acid house and techno sometimes inspired by the violence outside the studio door, including ‘SCHLAP’, ‘Crack-Ed’ and churning acid juggernaut ‘Yacidik’ (“After much dangling of the acid carrot, Andrew took a bite and, after one familiar raised eyebrow, never looked back,” says Nina). \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany tracks fly elements from the enormous sonic library Nina inherited from late partner Erick Legrand that she called The Akashic Library of Sound. Marking Andrew’s 2016 admission into the vault, ‘Rattly Old Puffin’ boasts Erick’s psychedelic guitar and tumbling drum loop Weatherall would run with, including on ‘Borderland’. “Erick was like our third member,” says Nina. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBringing down the curtain, ‘Alma’’s exquisitely poignant melody that unfolds over thirteen time-stopping minutes was composed by Nina while navigating Erick’s birth and departure date anniversaries to accompany Andrew’s reading from Gordon Burn’s 1991 same-named novel at 2018’s Durham Literary Festival. Burn’s novel imagines early 60s popstrel Alma Cogan, who succumbed to cancer in 1966 surviving to reflect on fame. “Now it just makes me think of Erick. 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