February 18, 2005 | Posted by Blair at 4:56 PM

Further down into the electronic depths...

digital dangers
"Open Sesame" by Bitstream

So here we are, Friday evening, the weekend just around the corner, and I'm driving this robotic land-barge further down into the digital rabbit-hole. Bitstream give us seriously dangerous levels of electronic noise, but with a human heartbeat's pulse to it - its electro, but in the old-school Detroit/new-school UK sense - meaning in the darkest sense.

Think Drexcyia and Richard D. James playing along side Ellen Allien, Andrea Parker and Dave Clarke - actually, all of those folks are caning the Brothers Conner's latest effort.

Steve + Dave Conner = Bitstream - They've been in the electronic music game for a while now, releasing a couple of 12"s a year to mighty mighty accolades by critics and peers alike. The long-awaited full-length, Domestic Economy 7, is released by Modern Love, the label-incarnation of boomkat.com, who I knew as Pelicanneck records, an awesome little record shop in Manchester's city-center that I used to frequent and spend far too much money at. (It was in this awesome old building that'd been converted into a mall or baazar-like place made up of all these mini-stores - can any Mancunians out there remind me what the place was called?)

Anywho, if you're into this fractured electro/techno thing they've got going on (and I'm positive many of you out there are), check out this track, and buy the album - available here (UK), or here (US).

Have an awesome (long) weekend!

Comments

I lived in Manchester for three years. Loved it. I think the building you're talking about is "Affleck's Palace" - a total mecca.

Posted by: bluherb at February 18, 2005 10:06 PM

Brothers, eh? A worthy replacement to Orbital.

Posted by: DigitalDjigit at February 19, 2005 12:44 PM

YES! Thank you bluherb, Affleck's Palace it is! Damn, I loved that place - that place, along with Vinyl Exchange and Picadilly Records, was very much responsible for my always needing to eat beans on toast and other dirt-cheap food-stuffs, b/c all my money was going to records and clubs...

Posted by: robot blair at February 19, 2005 1:19 PM

I was a poor and hedonistic History of Modern Art student, living on a diet of cheap fishcakes from Kwik-Save.

But we all managed to save some pennies taking a 'Magic Bus' right? Now, the people you'd meet at night on those buses.. 'just mad for it' as a manc would say...

Posted by: bluherb at February 20, 2005 10:11 AM

Actually its in my mate Nicola's kitsch cafe gallery called Oklahoma in mcr

Posted by: MELANOTAN at February 23, 2005 4:46 PM
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