Highpoint Lowlife newsletter, June 2008

hello there!
Quite a stack of news this month, from London and Bristol release gigs going on,
12" heavyweight vinyl, and webreleases!


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[hpll027] - Funckarma - Dubstoned EP1
Currently being pressed and due back with me in about two weeks time. Roel
Funcken went along to the laquer cut and says it was sounding amazing! 180g
vinyl with five tracks of evil instrumental hip hop with a hefty dubstep
influence to it. Its not a million miles away from their previous output as
Shadow Huntaz on Skam records: heavily bass-laden, head-nodding grooves with
some severely twisted synth lines.
We have an mp3 taster you can grab from:
http://highpointlowlife.com/downloads/funckarma_dubsnippet.mp3
it's sorta like a megamix of their dubstoned tracks from this EP1 plus future
releases too.

RELEASE PARTY! We're hosting two UK release parties for the record, one in
London and one in Bristol.

Both shows will feature Funckarma and Fisk Industries, and we also have Ikonika
playing at the London show. I have *hopefully* got a very special guest lined up
for the Bristol show, which i'm just waiting on confirmation on at the moment -
keep checking the highpointlowlife.com website for more details.

June 25th - Plastic People, London
June 27th - The Cube Cinema, Bristol

The record is now available for pre-order on our site at:
http://highpointlowlife.com/releaseinfo.php?id=27

Buy tickets for the London show from:
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/30296


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[hpw031] Fisk Industries - Magnetic Fisk Remixes
Just uploaded a new downloadable free web release today - three remixes of Fisk
Industries tracks from the recent "Magnetism.." release.
One deconstructed synth-laden rebuild by Brassica, and two complete
dissassemblies from Yard!
Download it from: http://highpointlowlife.com/downloads.php


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[hpll026] Magnetism, That Electricity..
These have been moving really fast, down to just over a hundred copies left.
Now available in most good stores - Rough Trade, Phonica, Rubadub, Boomkat plus
all your usual download stores.
We've had a load of ace reviews coming in:

"The seventy-five minute release exemplifies Highpoint Lowlife's customary
attention to detail (optical illusions printed on the discs can be viewed when
they're playing) plus the sequencing's well-considered too (e.g., following
Ranson's song-like pieces with Law's epic). It would be no exaggeration to
characterize Magnetism, That Electricity as one of the most solid
electronic-oriented releases to appear in some time and a stronger argument for
Highpoint Lowlife's distinctive corner of the musical universe would also be
hard to find."
Textura.org

"While the label encourages people to "upload, share and play" their music
wherever and whenever, it is the dedication to such brilliantly packaged,
special edition releases that earns the kudos here. This particular 12" double
vinyl release certainly looks the part, while its eclectic content turns the
label compilation concept on its head. Choosing to showcase four of their
artists, each band is given one side of vinyl each to impress, which goes a long
way more than the standard single track, found on most other collective
releases. What's more, all four bands here offer up fresh, unreleased material
increasing the value for money stakes tenfold."
Angry Ape

"Magnetism, That Electricity demonstrates the wide angled approach of Highpoint
Lowlife and its utterly modern vision. With only three hundred copies of this
double EP pressed on vinyl and a hundred CDRs, this is yet again a released that
should be snapped up before it's gone for ever."
The Milk Factory

"The production values and level of attention to detail hark back to the
industrious post-punk independent labels of the late Seventies/early Eighties."
Straight No Chase

If you want to buy a copy direct from us, grab it from:
http://highpointlowlife.com/releaseinfo.php?id=26


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Aiight! if you're in the neighbourhood, get yerself along to one of the release
parties - i've got a feeling these are gonna be legendary! And as always check
out our blog at http://highpointlowlife.com/blog/blog.php for updates,
downloads, reviews, mixes and general blether.

thanks!
thor