The Highpoint Lowlife December newsletter 2007
Wherein lots of details are shared about new releases, downloads, upcoming live
shows and some more chat!

++ New Releases

thanks for the incredible support of both the Tigrics and Erstlaub releases!
In just over a month, we've sold most copies of both limited releases, enough to
cover the costs on them (doesn't happen often!).
There are around 20 copies of each left, so even if you have downloaded the free
128kbps mp3s from lastfm but don't have a copy of the limited physical releases,
resplendid in beautifully designed DVD size covers, you can purchase a copy
from:
Erstlaub - http://highpointlowlife.com/releaseinfo.php?id=25
Tigrics - http://highpointlowlife.com/releaseinfo.php?id=24

a sampling of new reviews:
Erstlaub:
"Erstlaub's first full release for Highpoint Lowlife is an ambitious piece with
vast evocative scope. Superbly assembled, this is certainly ranks amongst the
label's most fascinating releases." Milk Factory

"it's an entrancing listen so far -- definitely worthy of consideration if you
find yourself booked for a sensory deprivation tank, or just like to listen to
slow, meditative drone music." Wired Blogs - Listening Post

Tigrics:
"Synki is an epic journey into stunning electronically enhanced sound forms and
found sounds processed into dream-like sequences, some lasting just a few
seconds, others extending over twenty minutes, all demonstrating incredible
evocative nature." Milk Factory

"A veritable universe of field noises-stone scrapings, hydraulic creaks,
geological clatter, swishes-abstracts itself into alien form throughout, with
some of it often mutating into swelling loops. One might expect attention to
lapse over such a lengthy duration but not in this case. Bereznyei keeps the
level of invention high and hypnotic throughout, with the soundscape maintaining
its rhythmic momentum despite the incredible variety of sounds that constantly
reconfigure it." Textura.org

++ Web releases

We have an ace two track web EP for you this month from Monostation, who you may
know from their own self-released 3" EPs and also their Smallfish records
release. The EP is called Red Rust, and for anyone who knows their previous
drone based material, you'll be surprised by who Detroit-sounding these are in
comparison! Grab them from:
http://highpointlowlife.com/webrelease.php?id=26

++ Upcoming Shizzle..

First this weekend - you can catch myself DJing at the Murcof gig at Corsica
Studios this coming sunday the 2nd December. I'm well stoked to be asked to play
as i missed the recent Planetarium show Murcof played, and i heard it was ace!

XMas party! Next saturday, December 8th, we're back in the one and only Foundry
to host our annual xmas shindig - Mandelbrot will be headling the night,
composed this time of two members - main man Keung, and joined by Lina on
violin. In support, we'll have Brassica (who you may know from his Achrid output
on Benbecula) doing a live DJ mashup; Mat/Fisk Industries will be taking out his
new laptop to provide some weird ambient interludes to the evening by way of his
Zephyr Skate Team project, and providing the dj backdrop to all this will me
myself and iMax from Slow Sound System. It's gonna be loud, brash and fun - if
you're in London, do come along!

January - more heads up on what promise to be an audacious start to the new year
-
"Magnetism, That Electricty.." is the name for a new compilation release we're
currently putting together - a three EP collection album, featuring brand new
material from Mandelbrot, Fisk Industries and the Marcia Blaine camp. We've
launching the record at The Luminaire in London, on January 26th, where we'll
have all acts in attendance and playing live - Mandelbrot, Fisk Industries,
Marcia Blaine, and a very special technoid dancefloor set from The Village
Orchestra! After the live acts, the Marcia lads will be taking to the turntables
to show London why their Glasgow based club, Numbers, is so on fire at the
moment! Tickets available from: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/22883

thanks!
thorsten