New Machine Records releases on Bleep.com

This Autumn, the entire Machine Records back-catalogue has been added to Warp Records' award-winning Bleep.com digital download site.

Over five years and around 40 releases, Machine Records has helped put the thriving South Wales scene firmly on the UK's electronic music map. Voted 'Best Label' at the last Welsh Music Awards, its music has enjoyed repeat airplay on Radio 1 (Huw Stephens, Bethan Elfyn, Rob da Bank, The Breezeblock) – Radio 3 (Mixing It), Radio Wales (Adam Walton), Radio Cymru (Huw Stephens, Huw Evans), The Selector (Andrea Oliver), Resonance FM (Frequenzen) and on internet radio stations including Sheffield Bleep and Another Fine Mess.

To celebrate our new partner, several Bleep.com exclusive releases are now available:


EAKUI | Keremkerem

New signing Eakui has released music in the UK experimental and electronic music scene over the last few years on labels like Worm Interface, the Struktur label (co-founded by Bovaflux), Benbecula, and Squarediscs, and has worked with MoQ (Seed Records). This first five-track EP on machine.records features angular, Autechre-tinged electro, sparse industrial tempos suddenly illuminated in the warmth of a drifting melody. Essential listening.


REDFALLS | If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now

Last year's download release brought the South Wales-based duo Radio 1, Radio Wales, and The Selector airplay (as well as a number 8 spot in Adam Walton's Top 50 of the year); If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now is an astonishing debut album. Showing the influence of the more abstract hip-hop beats of the likes of cLOUDEAD, the robotic precision of Kraftwerk, and the more restrained psychedelia of early Boards Of Canada, Redfalls' sound combines instant, melodic accessibility with dark, edgy atmospherics in a way that defines what machine.records is all about. We love this album!


BLOKE | Tears Of The Broken Warrior

As well as last November's machine.records download release, Bloke has a string of releases on Digital Kranky, ±G6PD, Kraked A.I., 2PlayerMusic, and Estrunax. Like his earlier music, Tears Of The Broken Warrior rushes headlong into breakcore battle with the pure frenetic energy of an adrenaline shot to the eye, reminding us why it's still worth listening to music faster than dubstep but not quite as demented as KFCcore - god bless 'em both! We particularly recommend blasting this album out of your car stereo as you cruise around with the top down. No, really.


ANATOMIST | In Fading Light

The brand new tracks on In Fading Light see the varied style of 2004's Material Witness EP and Violence Is Its own Reward album reach full maturity, with spectacular results. Where Violence delighted in switching genre and style, these new tracks sit effortlessly in their own space, defining Anatomist's unique sound. Over five tracks and more than half an hour's listening, trademark floor-shaking bass-lines, stripped down post-breakbeat rhythms, a hint of the new London sound - this new material establishes acts from Highpoint Lowlife such as Bovaflux and RandomNumber as kindred spirits - all emerge with a rare consistency of vision. Here's one to watch.

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