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Hauschka set to perform at this year’s ATP Festival

2012-05-18T12:46+00:00

Haushka has now been officially added to the bill of the All Tomorrow's Parties curated by The National festival which will happen at Butlins Holiday Centre, Minehead, England from the 7th-9th December 2012.

Tickets available HERE

New Featured band on Demo Website

2012-05-18T11:53+00:00

London based experimental group Day Lineal have been selected as our latest featured band on the demo website.

Check out their track 'Become 03' on our player below or alternatively go to the newly launched and improved Demo Site where you can find out more about Day Lineal as well as listen to our latest favourite demos and extensive archive.

New Dazed and Confused interview with Max Richter

2012-05-18T10:44+00:00

Max Richter has been interviewed for Dazed and Confused about his recent collaboration with artist collective rAndom International and choreographer Wayne Mcgreggor for the latest exhibition 'Future Self' now showing at MADE in Berlin.

Read the article HERE

Check out this amazing 'Future Self' Video Below:

Hauschka announces US tour with violinist Hilary Hahn

2012-05-17T15:19+00:00

Hauschka has announced a US tour beginning May 28th in Los Angeles. He’ll be playing a few dates with virtuoso violinist Hilary Hahn, veteran of both the London Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. Hauschka will be releasing two 12" records in the coming months that include remixes of his songs by Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer, as well as by a few other electronic musicians.

Dates:
28 May - El Rey Theater, Los Angeles CA +
29 May - Neptune Theatre, Seattle WA +
07 Jun - Doug Fir, Portland OR *
18 Jun - Birchmere, Washington DC +
20 Jun - City Winery, New York NY +
21 Jun - ICA Theatre, Boston MA +
22 Jun - Helsinki, Hudson NY *

* Hauschka - solo prepared piano
+ w/ Hilary Hahn

Dustin O’Halloran Japan tour dates confirmed

2012-05-16T12:48+00:00

Dustin O'Halloran has confirmed he will perform a series of solo piano performances in Japan later this year.

Dates:

26 Sep - Musicasa, Tokyo, JP
29 Sep - Gugenheim House, Kobe , JP
30 Sep - Sonorium, Tokyo, JP

Max Richter new Opera ‘SUM’ Opens in London next week

2012-05-16T10:30+00:00

Max Richter has colloborated with the Royal Ballet's Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor to create a fascinating new chamber opera for the Linbury Studio Theatre. The piece is based on the bestselling novel Sum: Forty Tales From the Afterlives by David Eagleman and is directed by McGregor.

The result is an intriguing vision of a possible journey after death, populated by computers, suburban anterooms and mind-strecthing scenarios that incorporates film, music and performance. Through this use of different mediums, SUM explores an interactive audience experience and takes opera to a whole new level of existence.

Performances run from 23/05/12 to 02/06/12 and tickets can be found here.

Dates:

23 May- Royal Opera House, London, UK
24 May- Royal Opera House, London, UK
25 May- Royal Opera House, London, UK (Two Performances)
26 May- Royal Opera House, London, UK (Two Performances)
28 May- Royal Opera House, London, UK
29 May- Royal Opera House, London, UK
30 May- Royal Opera House, London, UK
31 May- Royal Opera House, London, UK
1 June- Royal Opera House, London, UK (Two Performances)
2 June- Royal Opera House, London, UK (Two Performances)

Photo by Lucy Johnson.

130701 Transcendentalists Tour starts TONIGHT

2012-05-15T17:36+00:00

We are excited to announce that FatCat's 'post-classical' imprint 130701 Records will be represented in live venues across Europe in May by Jóhann Jóhannsson, Hauschka and Dustin O'Halloran. Starting TONIGHT in Amsterdam, this stretch of dates also includes a triple headline bill at London's beautiful Barbican Hall on May 18th.

The tour will also coincide with the release of a very limited, tour-only, hand-numbered 12" EP featuring brand new, exclusive works from all three artists. The EP is backed with specially-selected live recordings of special versions and new arrangements of existing pieces.

For full dates, see below or head to www.130701.com to access more info, ticket links and an exclusive (and FREE) 8-track sampler download featuring each of the artists here.

15 May - De Duif, Amsterdam, Netherlands
16 May - Heimathafen Neukölln, Berlin, Germany
17 May - Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
18 May - The Barbican Hall, London, UK
19 May - Cork Opera House, Cork, Ireland
20 May - Sugar Club, Dublin, Ireland
21 May - Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK
22 May - Cafe De La Danse, Paris, France

Maps & Atlases Lick session

2012-05-14T16:17+00:00

Our friends at Lick, in Brighton make delicious frozen yoghurt and love music. They invited Maps & Atlases along to do a session and grab some fro-yo, you can watch it online

Moshcam film The Twilight Sad

2012-05-14T15:51+00:00

Back in November of 2011 the guys from Moshcam.com went and filmed The Twilight Sad playing at The Borderline in London. It's now up on their site and you can watch 'At The Burnside' and 'Alphabet' as if you were in the room, from the comfort of your own home. Or anywhere you can get an internet connection in fact.

PAWS ‘Misled Youth’ EP is OUT TODAY!

2012-05-14T12:37+00:00

The 'Misled Youth' EP by PAWS is out today. It's a cassette and comes with a download coupon that you can redeem for MP3s of the EP. Grab it from our webstore here.

The EP launch party is in London on Wednesday, event details here.

The band are on Twitter and Facebook.

New Bowlegs ‘Call Back’ interview with Odonis Odonis

2012-05-10T11:31+00:00

Bowlegs have just posted a great new interview with Odonis Odonis's front man Dean Tzenos. The band, who spent the last month extensively touring across the UK and Europe are set to play a very special 'home' gig at the FatCat Great Escape Showcase this Friday (11th May).

Read full Interview HERE

Odonis Odonis new Galapagos session upload

2012-05-09T15:55+00:00

Galapagos Presents have just uploaded the second video taken from Odonis Odonis' recent live session in Brighton.

Check out Ledged Up below and stay tuned for the final installment which will be rolled out in the next few days!

Two new Odonis Odonis Brighton shows Tomorrow!

2012-05-09T15:15+00:00

Odonis Odonis have just announced they will be performing two free shows in Brighton tomorrow.

10th May - Mrs Fitzherberts, Brighton, UK. Full Details HERE

10th May - Green Door Store, Brighton UK . Full Details HERE

New Featured artist on Demo Website

2012-05-09T12:35+00:00

French electronic mastermind Niebroj has been selected as the latest featured artist on our Demo website.

A man of few words Niebroj is 26, lives in France and references Jackson and His Computer Band as his master.
In his music he looks for interesting, tasteful and creative sounds.
He currently splits his time between making more dynamic and loud if less noisy tracks and looking for a label.

Find out more here:
http://soundcloud.com/niebroj-2

http://www.myspace.com/niebroj

Niebroj portrait drawn by a spanish artist javigarciaherrero.blogspot.com

Live footage of Maps & Atlases in Paris

2012-05-09T12:08+00:00

Mowno went down to the Maps & Atlases gig at la Fleche d'Or in Paris, and filmed 3 songs - 'Fever', 'Remote & Dark years' and old favourite 'Witch'. It's great footage and well worth a watch/listen. You can find out more about Mowno here, they are also on Facebook and Twitter.

U.S. Girls live video & tour

2012-05-09T11:03+00:00

Check out this live footage of U.S. Girls performing 'The Island Song', in Austria at the weekend. She's on tour in Europe at the moment, dates here

Odonis Odonis release music video for ‘New World’

2012-05-09T10:51+00:00

Odonis Odonis have released a video for their song 'New World', a symphony of visual distortion that marries perfectly with this mind plummeting track!

Check it out Below

Odonis Odonis - Galapagos session online now

2012-05-08T14:58+00:00

Odonis Odonis - on a rare free moment on their mammoth UK / Europe tour - recorded a top-drawer, 3-song set with Brighton's Galapagos Presents video-blog site last month. Featuring new single Busted Lip and album cuts Ledged Up and Hollandaze, the session was recorded in the Galapagos curators' friend's living room (evidently to the irritation of the neighbours).

Check out Busted Lip below and stay tuned for the rest of the tracks as they are rolled out over the next few days.

Odonis Odonis will be performing at the FatCat showcase at this year's Great Escape Festival alongside PAWS, We Were Promised Jetpacks and The Twilight Sad at Coalition at 7pm on Friday May 11th.

The band's stunning debut LP Hollandaze is currently available for a special tour price of just £2.99! Click HERE for info and buying options.

U.S. Girls European tour announced

2012-05-04T11:54+00:00

The inimitable U.S. Girls (aka Meghan Remy) starts her European tour today in Berlin, other dates listed below.

04 May Marie-Antoinette - Berlin (de)

05 May Festspielhaus - St-Pölten (at)

06 May Klub Final - Prague (cz)

07 May Galerie No Smoking - Strasbourg (fr)

08 May Hirscheneck - Basel (ch)

09 May L' Usine KAB - Genève (ch)

10 May Le Sonic - Lyon (fr)

12 May Les Nuits Botanique - Brussels (be)

13 May Subbacultcha NL - Occi - Amsterdam (nl)

15 May Bethnal Green Working Men's Club - London (uk)

16 May Le Petit Bain - Paris (fr)

Watch the video for 'If These Walls Could Talk', released on Palmist Records.

Breton - ‘Jostle’ now available for pre-order

2012-05-04T11:38+00:00

You can now pre-order the forthcoming Breton single 'Jostle' ahead of it's June 11th release date. It's a double A side with 'Foam', which was inspired by the Solidarity uprising in Gdansk that led to the downfall of Communism in Poland.

Grab it from our webstore here. Breton are on the road for much of this summer so see if they're playing near you here.