Holotype, by Orrest

Holotype

by Orrest

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1x handmade Cumbrian found-object assemblage in concrete base + A5 print. Assemblage will be chosen at random. Includes free download of Holotype.

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Hot on the heels of a bruising third release – Brothomstates’ archival timebomb, Untitled, sent from the past to destroy the present and very nearly succeeding – we have a somewhat smoother although no less singular dish to serve up.

Orrest is a multimedia artist from Manchester, whose name derives from a patch of Cumbria dear to him and central to this, his debut, project. A bitesize LP and series of associated objects, plucked from said Cumbrian landscape and arranged for home consumption, Holotype is as much a staunch (but sensitive) distillation of urban sonics – techy mid-90s IDM, contemporary UK bass music, Autonomic pop – as it is a psychogeographic sketch of the rural space it serenades.

Moreover, in an age of ‘studio muscle’, ‘sound design’ and ‘expert engineering’ (all on full display here, for what it’s worth), Holotype angles away from the huff, puff and hysteria. Avowedly off-piste, it skips to a musical, painterly, at times abstruse beat, in dialogue with yet disinterested in the brash and gaseous digital soundscapes of the day. ‘Popular’ music, yes, but lurking at the edges.

Defined as “the type specimen used in the original description of a species”, Holotype truly is a sonically self-contained and stringently self-generated beast, conceived, produced, mixed, mastered, assembled, packaged, printed and distributed by Orrest himself, with a gentle helping-hand from ourselves. Just as we did not all that long ago, we urge you to stumble across it.

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released February 2, 2018

Written, produced, mixed and mastered by Stuart Haffenden.

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An evolving repository of audio, artefacts and experimental interventions, run out of London.

We do vinyl / tape / digital / art objects / weird stuff no-one else likes.

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THIS IS LIVING

Dec 2022
Zetex

Sep 2021
Schwebungssummer

Jan 2021
Barry’s Bunker

Apr 2020
Impulsgenerator

Nov 2019
Dark Manoeuvres in the Orchestra

Apr 2019
Pottymouth

Dec 2018
Misc. Works

Jun 2018
Holotype

Feb 2018
Untitled

Dec 2017
Cacophonies

Mar 2017
Dungeon Ballads

Mar 2017

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