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26/1/2021

 
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'visual mixtape' of images selected by Laura Moeller Henriksen as a birthday present for Benjamin Whitehill

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24/10/2019

 
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SCree Fucking Junk / Jehova'S Fitness tour Split

23/10/2019

 
Scree Fucking Junk are set to embark on a little tour with noise rock duo Jehova's Fitness and to celebrate the #screefuckingjehovasfitnesstourjunk we’re taking a bunch of 7” lathes (cut by the excellent Loose Hair Lathe Cuts loosehair.bandcamp.com) on the road with us.

  • 24/10 - Geyger, Berlin
  • 26/10 - die Schute, Hamburg
  • 28/10 - 5e, Copenhagen
  • 29/10 - Amok, Aarhus
  • 30/10 - Maskinen, Svendborg
  • 31/10 - MusicMakerSpace, Copenhagen
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The split is released on The House Organ where you can find a whole host of other groovy stuff from Murray Royston-Ward and affiliated projects

Here's what Posset-bot has to say about it:

"On ‘What the sound that starts with its Nick’s spanner. It’s all the rawness of fuxxhorn this is all the sort of sunshine. The map? But with a early-morning vigour, the tape suggests, and it’s the map of ‘chunng-fhhfhhung’ classic ‘Waterfalls’ the spectre of the dumplings of sound as copper, ‘fuh’ with a infinite brain is that dry. A whop-bam-a-loo-bop-a-whop-bam-boo! A wheexing Delicate as a little sound of the Kinder Dach Lieder’ will carved into the world of Berlin snaps into the ether in an tears? stripped to the timing, it is a whole thing of these crackly downloads, in worthy of the Half-Nelson. I’m incapable of direction takes off in the bounty of the dune. A cacophonous tearing of found-sound are the unmistakable sound of Benjamin Disraeli."

psychic computer wave

14/9/2019

 
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Difficult Folk is very happy to have produced a run of cassettes of Psychic Computer Wave by electronic canoodler Aidan Taylor

The album is an exploration into a post-apocalyptic sound-world where circuitry is embedded into the DNA of existence. Much the same as is the case with Aidan's life..

Aidan is an auto-didactically educated engineer and electronics hacker, currently engaged in PHD research surrounding 'maker' culture, with an involvement in various academic, charity and community based projects. Having designed his own analogue synths as well as working as a Hardware Development Engineer, his skills and interest in "making with electronics" extend from the technical through the social to the artistic and the musical. And despite the obvious technical craft that has gone into this album, it is the human element that really asserts itself.

There is plenty of emotion at play here. And the landscapes of noise, drone and delicate modular exchanges that form the basis of the music are always in service to it's narrative course. And it's not just the vulnerable quality of Aidan's spoken word that evokes the human. The voice, being finely woven into the fabric of the music, only serves as a precursor to the emotive movements he manages to coax from his machines. This is symbiotic music. There's an analogue rawness to the aesthetics Aidan works with. One that works in conjunction with a sensitivity of sound. 

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9/2/2019

 
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16/11/2018

 
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31/10/2018

 
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LALALALA

25/4/2018

 
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R.I.P M.E.S

20/3/2018

 

OTOMATIK MUZIEK #5

31/1/2018

 
'The Month of January' re-released in shortened twenty minute form, as part of the first edition of Otomatik Muziek's 'Echonomy Series' alongside Julius Gabriel:

OTOMATIKMUZIEK>BANDCAMP>COM
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4/12/2017

 
“I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed, we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheels. For a long time, we were parked a few yards beyond without getting out, fully absorbed in the sight of the corpse. The horror and despair at so much bloody flesh, nauseating in part, and in part very beautiful, was fairly equivalent to our usual impression upon seeing one another.”
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long live scree fucking junk

2/11/2017

 
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20/7/2017

 

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15/7/2017

 
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The tale of douglas firs..

At this edition of "Ich Hör Dauernd Hühner" 'Douglas Firs' were born. A guitar/ violin drone and spoken word trio consisting of
 Ben Whitehill and Isaac Ray + Ruth Maria-Adam (Schrein/Flamingo Creatures/Datashock). This name was acquired largely through administrative error. As such the group have now adopted a new one; 'Dead Lifts.' This name was suggested to Isaac in a dream and therefore lives up somewhat to the serendipity of the groups initial mis-billing. But will nonetheless also likely change in time.

The end...

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9/7/2017

 
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A Temple by The Sea is the first release by YSTLUM GWYN, a collaboration between Bethan Lloyd and Ben Whitehill. The album was arranged from material recorded over a couple of days in November, in a vicarage in Llandudno, N. Wales; and the presence of the neighbouring church, sitting empty save for it's ghosts, looms heavy over the recordings. The house that was their setting served as surrogate temple for a domestic ritual - a communion of sound in consecration of the old building to secular yet devotional tones and echos - and preceded an album of spectral presence. Bethan's pensive melodies and layered vocalisations sing from distant hills, born on the squall of Ben's electro-acoustic investigations. The colours in a tapestry of tempestuous noise. Invocations summoning other strange voices.. Within the walls or above the ceiling, out to sea.
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inside the mind of Georgina kloss

6/6/2017

 
We'll miss her now she's gone
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27/5/2017

 
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ORNAMENTS #2 [percussion edition]

14/3/2017

 
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the rustling agitations and morphing, metallic landscapes of

YORGOS DIMITRIADIS

the anarchic clamour of

BASTIAN HAGEDORN

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a microcosmic presentation of resonant abrasions from

BENJAMIN WHITEHILL

POPISSUCHAVIRILEMONGREL

10/1/2017

 
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5/10/2016

 
the lowest cardinal number, half of two
a single thing
viewed as taking the place of a group
just one as opposed to any more
or to none at all
electronics all circuit bent
he put one hand around her neck
and one around her waist
a glass tube closed at one end

none of this yet was a mistake

one afternoon in late October
a
 noteworthy example
of something identical: the same
a mist rose out of the river
weekend drizzle and fog
a domino or dice with one spot
​a
 person of a specified kind
extraordinary yet inexplicably not

intangibly tied to a passing smile


a conversation between two loud speakers
in agreement / microtonal harmonies
I for one am becoming sick of writing
following the vogue of deleted existence
unique
single
she hadn't had much sleep recently
one thing corresponds to or is exchanged for another
not all instances fall neatly into these categories
a few, there are one or two signs worth watching for
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but i'm done fucking thinking about it

remnants...

4/10/2016

 

OrNAments #1

1/10/2016

 
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elegant investigations of the guitar from

JON COLLIN

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the singular cello probing of

ANSGAR WILKEN
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​a one off trio performance for two guitars, tape and voice
by BEN WHITEHILL, MATHEW JOHNSON and BETHAN LLOYD (Ystlum)

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29/9/2016

 
The Month of January
It was in the month of January
The snow melted as it fell
An aquarian winter
The ground knew better than the sky 
Ivy crawling the walls of a disused bunker
That sober refuge
Where I took solace
In another future 
Yet to be visited
Though it's over now
We sat
In retrograde fashion
Discussing how our bodies orbited about each other
Or about some other point
All around fresh anthropocene relics
Still twitching
numb with slogans and memories
A salt tear fell from my eye
A baby cried
Bitterly
We carried out hearts
Still pierced with cold
​Through the winter's night

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25/6/2016

 
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​\==================/of crystalline things

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31/3/2016

 
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