As recent years have seen auteuristic labels like L.I.E.S., PAN, Blackest Ever Black and White Material serve as the punk rock upstarts of experimental techno, Stephen Bishop's Opal Tapes label has worked on an increasingly interesting tandem.At the helm of Opal Tapes, Bishop envelopes a fairly dizzying array of sounds: techno with a fine layer of grit, noodling house melodies that are never quite run straight, DIY without the sanctimony, industrial without the coldness. It's this dichotomy that, as Basic House, he weaves into his contribution to the MIXED BY series.Tracklisting:Coil - Where Are You?Crawl Unit - You SufferSleaford Mods - DonkeyFamous Moonking - MK4Basic House - Canon LoPharmakon - PittedWolf Eyes - Burn Your House DownEx-Easter Island Head - Mallet Guitars Three Third MovementAgathe Max - GlacesD.Å.R.F.D.H.S. - KADAVERDICIPLINKaren Gwyer - Free Food / One Men StriperSeabat - Deep Ocean CanyonMatmos - SpondeeLil Ugly Mane - Uneven CompromiseBasic House will be playing at Supersonic Festival in Birmingham, which runs the weekend of May 30th - 31st.More information is available here.
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