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Line

About Me


"Plaintive voice times delectable electro prettiness times a monstrous bass equals Line....... Touching and defiant" - Lend Me Your Ears
Line is Neil Wells.
Until recently an electronic sideline to his main musical interests (including the bands Seachange (Matador), Savoy Grand (Pickled Egg/Glitterhouse) and Escapologists), his 2005 debut 7", 'A Snowstorm in a Globe/Observe the Mechanics' , "borrow(s) the sunglasses-at-night menace that bruises Depeche Mode's darker work before mingling it with the kind of detachment normally associated with Colder" (Boomkat).
A slew of compilation appearances followed, as well as live shows with the likes of Fog, Alias, The Bug, DMX Krew, Kid606, Debasser, Cylob, and Panda Bear, topped off this year by an appearance on Uncharted Audio's " Signals" subscription 7" series alongside artists such as Plaid, Si Begg, King Cannibal and labelmate Cursor Miner.
Now focussing on the electronic stuff, Line's debut LP, 'Hearts', spins strands of lo-fi electro, acid, indie rock and techno into heartrending love songs and is scheduled for a February 9th, 2009 release on Uncharted Audio.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 30/11/2005
Band Website: http://www.anytwopoints.com
Band Members: Me.
Influences: Radioactive Man, Ceephax Acid Crew, Kraftwerk, Wheat, (Smog)/Bill Callahan, Bogdan Raczynski, The Magnetic Fields, Fennesz, LCD Soundsystem, Ikkyo Mahl, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Fog, The Chap, Schneider TM, Ovuca, To Rococo Rot, Ladytron, Cursor Miner, The Notwist, My Bloody Valentine, Hood, Lawrence, Speedy J, Grandaddy, Khonnor, Codeine, Tim Wright, Audion, Jim O’Rourke

Record Label: Uncharted Audio
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Album launch party this Saturday @Ginglik

So.... LAUNCH PARTY! Ginglik, in Shepherd's Bush, this Saturday 14th.I will be performing at10.30 sharp so don't delay your arrival. Warm-up from the all-new UAallstar dj crew, and topped off with a t...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:53:00 GMT

Preorder 'Hearts' now!

Well, its finally happened. Yeah, thats right. You can, if you want, hand over money and get my album for that money.http://unchartedaudio.com/releases/unch011/If you preorder the LP you also get a ...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:12:00 GMT

Chinese Room EP out today!

I've done a digital-only EP as a kind of taster for the album. It's called the 'Chinese Room' EP and consists of two exclusive tracks, 'Half-Smile' and 'To Draw a Line', as well as remixes of tracks f...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:21:00 GMT

My favourite albums of the year....

I've not done a top 10, so much as a top 7 or so- there were plenty of other albums which I thought were great (see the 'honourable mentions' list at the bottom), but these are the ones I'll probably ...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:04:00 GMT

Digital Signals

Just a quick one. Some select tracks from Uncharted Audio's 'Signals' 73 series are now available for digital download, including my track, 'How I Saved the World Single-Handed', Plaid's fantastic rem...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:25:00 GMT

TECHNO

Techno&. ah, techno. I don't think it's quite true to say that there are two kinds of people in the world regarding techno- it's an enigma, and its public reputation- as a soundtrack to all-night exce...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:02:00 GMT

Bill Callahan/(smog)

'The Doctor Came at Dawn', the first (smog) record I bought, wasn't something I immediately warmed to- Bill Callahan (he's recently ditched the (smog) moniker in favour of his given name) isn't an art...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:55:00 GMT

Jeskola Buzz

Jeskola Buzz is, at heart, a sample tracker- if not the geekiest form of music production software, then it's certainly in the top 5. Programs like OctaMed for the Commodore Amiga and FastTracker II f...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:29:00 GMT

’Hearts’

(you can also read this at http://www.anytwopoints.com if you'd prefer)Hello. My name is Neil Wells and I record electronic music under the name 'Line'. I have made an album, 'Hearts', which will be r...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:50:00 GMT

A Tribute to John Peel

I've donated a previously unreleased track to A Tribute to John Peel.Download the whole session from their site- it's dead good.
Posted by on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 11:41:00 GMT