Second Storey AKA Al Tourettes Announces Margosa Heights EP
Without trying to making it into a ‘thing’ in its own right, there’s a bit of a coincidence that’s appearing for some of our Houndstooth artists. Following Dylan Richards’ chrysalis-like metamorphosis into House of Black Lanterns, Alec Storey is the latest artist to shift phase and re-christen his output after signing to our label; progressing from the Al Tourettes moniker in favour of the more becoming, Second Storey. Whilst his new name might be in homage to the musical path set forth for him by his father, the four-track Margosa Heights EP sounds very little like anything you’ve heard from the Bristol based producer before.
Over the years Storey has emerged and evolved somewhat from the self-styled ‘swamp music’ of his early days, building and growing his artistic palette as he feasted on the influence of people like Portishead, Metalheadz and Herbie Hancock and the electronic music that he found himself surrounded with whilst growing up as part of the Molotov soundsystem on the Norfolk/Suffolk borders. He’s always produced music that’s alluded quite openly to his passions for free party soundsystems and rave culture – the type of music that’s always existed in an advanced state of diaspora - but with his new material he experiments with the very inertia of the music that inspired him in the first place.
The Margosa Heights EP will be released physically on 12" vinyl on the 24th June 2013, with the digital following a week later. You can pre-order your copy here.
If you order your 12” from the fabric or Houndstooth store(s) you'll also receive the WAV files for free upon release. Pre-orders will be charged at a discounted rate of £7 or £6 for fabricfirst members.
Paul Woolford's Special Request moniker was launched in March 2012 via a self-released white label 12”. A shrewd merging of UK house and pirate radio beamed jungle trends, the 12” showcased Woolford’s blend of infectious, rave tunes could sit in all kinds of sets, from 120bpm techno to 170bpm drum & bass. To date there have been four Special Request transmissions; released only on vinyl, they’ve all since long sold out.
The project captures and distils the energy and unruly conventions of the UK’s pirate radio stations, using that DIY/anything and everything goes approach as a springboard and an inspiration for a series of productions that amply blazed through chaotic, eye of the storm jungle tearouts as well as they did through hard and heavy, darkside techno.
Special Request will release his fifth 12”, a 4 track EP that includes remixes from Brooklyn upstart, Anthony Naples and PAN artist, Lee Gamble, via Houndstooth on 22nd July 2013, with digital to follow on the 29th. As ever, pre-order your vinyl copy from the Houndstooth store to receive WAVs upon digital release.
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