Isan, Bovaflux, Fisk Industries and e.g.0

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Highpoint Lowlife and [no.signal] present live:

ISAN (Morr Music)
BOVAFLUX (Highpoint Lowlife / Struktur )
FISK INDUSTRIES (Highpoint Lowlife)
E.G.0 ([no.signal])

at The Horse Hospital, London
17th February 2005

£5 entrance / starts 7:30pm

Isan (Morr Music)
Robin Saville and Antony Ryan met in Leicester in 1991. They discovered a shared love of electronic music and analog sounds, and began to collaborate on music. Later, after moving to seperate towns, the duo created ISAN (Integrated Services Analog Network) to provide a virtual studio in which to continue their audio experiments. Relying on warm analogue sounds and simple melodies more than on complexity and total abstraction, their futuristic twee take on pop music, is at once quirky, original and dreamy. The duo began releasing music as Isan with numerous 7"s and EPs on a variety of indie-hybrid labels, including Liquefaction Empire, Atomic Recordings, Wurlitzer Jukebox, Fragment Recordings, Earworm, Static Caravan, Bad Jazz, and Tugboat - among them several limited and hard-to-find 7"s -- which earned Isan a crossover audience from the start. Alongside artists like Lali Puna, Christian Kleine, and Styrofoam, the duo now consider their spiritual home to be Berlin's Morr Music.

BOVAFLUX (Struktur/Highpoint Lowlife)
Birmingham based Eddie Symons is the man behind the Bovaflux music, and also label boss for Struktur Records, whose excellent series of Color Module compilations have highlighted some of the best home grown UK electronic talent around. Bovaflux has been releasing music since '99, and has a string of singles, EP's and web releases under his belt, including compilation appearances alongside the likes of Janek Schaefer, Irrestible Force, The Marcia Blaine School For Girls, Burnt Friedman, Pole, Shitmat and Luke Vibert. Currently he is finishing up an album on Highpoint Lowlife records for release in summer of 2005. He plays out frequently, touring often with the Adverse Camber crew.

FISK INDUSTRIES (Highpoint Lowlife)
London based Mat Ranson, aka Fisk Industries released his debut EP just over a year ago to critical acclaim, with his own stylized take on analog melodies and kinetic crunchy breaks, garnering reviews such as "Urged forward by tastily treated breaks and given weighty ballast by generous swathes of cybernetic low end" in the Wire, and LOGO Magazine "Reminiscent of the math rock of Boards Of Canada yet as emotionally involving as the collected works of Eric Satie, it's convoluted, clever, involving, and.. and.. words fail me. If you think you don't like electronica, you really should hear this; it's the sound of worlds collapsing". He has been honing his live sounds and performance over the past year debuting at the London Placard Headphone Festival, a string of dodgy club, backyard and house shows, and most recently played at the tsk!tsk!/Adaadat2 year birthday party alongside Pro Forma (the now evolved formed band of Franz Ferdinand drummer Paul Thompson).