About Me
Our first Glasgow gig featuring bands from the first and second release:
Psykick Dancehall began in Brighton in 2004, putting on the likes of Magik Markers, Black Egg, the Polly Shang
Kuan Band, Yellow Swans, Gang Gang Dance, Tight Meat, Blood Stereo, Raccoo-oo-oon and Jack Rose...
Now split between Glasgow and London, in Autumn 2008 we launched the long awaited debut
release for Psykick Dancehall Recordings...
4 discs featuring
Blood Stereo
Towering Breaker
PartWildHorsesManeOnBothSides
Nackt Insecten
Helhesten
Chora
Divine Coils
Usurper
Each set came with a concertina book containing full-colour artwork by each of the bands.
Edition of 80. NOW SOLD OUT.
Some words:
Psykick Dancehall present music from some of the most exciting and innovative groups currently working in the UK.
The bands represented here have all honed an improvisatory method based less on performance artifice and ecstatic submission than attention to a multi-faceted, reciprocal and open dynamic in which a love for original audio articulation engenders an artistry wholly connected with the “liveness†of collective improvisation, one fully engaged with the spaces between listening and spontaneous composition.
The variety of approach in this collective enterprise is a testament to the fertility of the ideas being exchanged, with avant-mong practitioners Blood Stereo blurring the line between human/animal utterance and Chora revelling in the shatter of exponential resonance alongside the explicitly spatial & tonal hocquets of Parting Wild Horse’s Mane and Divine Coils, Helhesten and Towering Breaker’s beautiful loci of bodily abstraction, Nackt Insecten’s beams of cosmic beard and Usurper’s joyously luddite expedition to the limits of wilful ambiguity and the corners of improvised deconstruction.
Four 3-inch cds packaged in a 7-inch slipcase with artwork from each band holds all this joy together.
JL 10/06/08
Some more words:
"Stunning hand-made art set that rounds up some of the most interesting free/noise/out moves coming out of the UK underground right now. The debut release on a new imprint from members of Towering Breaker and Helhesten, this fantastic looking set comes in a hard plastic sleeve and features a fold-out cover that has four mounted 3" CD-Rs in the front and individual full-colour 7" style sleeves for each group mounted in a fold-out accordion-style book. It's one of the most eye-boggling labours of love to come out of the CD-R underground in a while and the music is 100% on form, running from Blood Stereo's spuzzy tape-scrunch action through Kosmiche tone-dialling from Nackt Insecten, fucked-up sound poetry and improvised splutter from Towering Breaker, zoned free jazz ethno-drones from the always-amazing Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides, live outdoor ritual from Usurper and a ton more. Really, a great release, highly recommended."
David Keenan, from the Volcanic Tongue website
We are now putting together the second release in this series - further details to be announced soon.
