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ARTISTS
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| ABOUT STEREO MINUS ONE |
Dan Haines (aka Stereo Minus One) has released four albums on Machine Records since founding the label in 2001.
Read an Interview published in Trosi (in 2006).
Dan has also featured on the Metal.Machine Music and Machine Music 2 compilations and two compilations released by other labels. 'Alarums', from The Sound Inside Sound, was included on You're All Over The Map... (WRN59) and 'The Night in Ruins', from 2004's TOTL. album, was included on An Eloquent Mass: Experiments In Sound v1 (KRF13) in 2003.
As well as running the label, promoting Terminal (2003- 06), and numerous live and DJ appearances, Dan has recently completed an album project for Fourier Transform and has forthcoming tracks on their Brave New Wales compilation and Machine's Machine Music 3 .
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| REVIEWS FOR TOTL. |
SOUND NATION:
'Imagine the combination of a sun-warped country record playing at the wrong speed and the nauseating chime of a knackered Ice Cream van being chased by an Apache Stike helicopter, and you have almost got the opening to this delightful record. Cardiff's Machine Records are responsible for unleashing Stereo Minus One's third album, and as usual the beats are twisted, jarring and enveloped in a world of static terror and occasional shafts of warped bliss.
Open My Hand is a spacious stream of glitchy treats, perhaps making more of a concession to actual 'songs' than a lot of SMO's earlier offerings - and this is no bad thing. It is safe to say that Totl is a must for fans of everything in the vein of Rephlex and Warp Records, and the title track testifies this, embodying that lovely industrial glitch dynamic that Kid 606 and the like have made their own. Oh, and you could almost dance to it.
Agitate clicks along like a German freight train and 65 Days offers more menancing breaks, pehaps a noted highlight is the ambient bleepery of The Night In Ruins, recalling Matmos at their most minimal. Time & Technology shimmers like a lovely, slow burning wind farm, and with the Kraut-laced Outro you have here a challenging and utterly accessible bag of noise. Sweet.'
SMALLFISH RECORDS:
"An excellently varied piece of work from STEREO MINUS
| ONE on this label that I'm not at all familiar with. You ought to check it out though, if you're into labels like SCHEMATIC, BETA BODEGA or REPHLEX as it manages to casually mash up playful electronics, phat, dancehall style basslines (at times) and some thoroughly engaging electronic manipulation. A bargain at this price as well. Nice."
BUZZ MAGAZINE:
'More quality budget bass'n' breaks from Cardiff's number one underground electronics imprint ... Stereo Minus One's album is a huge step on from the previous two, recorded in 2001 and 2002 respectively; the beats are less Baby's First, the noise less freeform, all packing a crunchy breakbeat-you-can't-dance-to feel. Shades of Two Lone Swordsman and Third Eye Foundation in here, and you wouldn't listen to them at 4am with The Fear either.'
SMALLFISH RECORDS:
'Second compilation from machine.records and it features a fully loaded track list from artists such as STEREO MINUS ONE, SUPERIMPOZER, ANATOMIST, MATT COOK, ORCOP and many more. Edgy, dense electronics with a harsh edge and the kind of rough beats and programming that Schematic used to be famous for. This is more experimental though, to be fair and although there's a fair amount of melody here and there it's generally all about the beats and noises. Well worth checking out if you haven't heard of them before.'
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| 2006 SHOWS |
| Date | Details | Venue |
| 07.09.06 | DJ Set w/ Dogmixer (Replicant Society), Lifting Gear Engineer (Machine),
Anatomist (Machine) | Terminal @ Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff |
| 03.09.06 | DJ Set w/ DJ Mod (Rebirth), Specific (Horizon), Mondo (Critical Mass), Rebellion (Basis), Odessa | All-Dayer for Medecins Sans Frontieres @ Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff |
| 29.06.06 | DJ Set w/ Randomnumber (Highpoint Lowlife), John Barnes (Machine/No Ground-R), Matt Cook (Machine) | Terminal @ Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff |
| 23.06.06 | DJ Set | Critical Mass @
Red Rooms, Cardiff |
| 19.06.06 | Live w/ Stabmaster Vinyl (High Quality), John Barnes (Machine/No Ground-R) | Machines In Our Souls @ Meze Lounge, Newport |
| 26.05.06 | Live w/ Mike Paradinas (Planet Mu), Orcop (Machine), Lifting Gear Engineer (Machine) | Slam On The Breaks @ Monkey Bar, Swansea |
| 25.05.06 | DJ Set w/ Kansas City Prophets (Seed), Access Tonal Communications (Machine), Loz Koleszko (1 Man Army), Michael J Rocks (1 Man Army) | Terminal @ Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff |
| 16.05.06 | DJ Set w/ Nathan Fake (Border Community), Orcop (Machine), Lifting Gear Engineer (Machine) | The Point, Cardiff Bay |
| 15.05.06 | DJ Set | Machines In Our Souls @ Meze Lounge, Newport |
| 04.05.06 | DJ Set w/ Schneider TM (City Slang/ Mute), Redfalls (Skipping Beats), Anatomist (Machine) | The Point, Cardiff Bay |
| 27.04.06 | DJ Set w/ Chris Clark (Warp Records), Yellotone (A.I. Records), MoQ (Seed Records), Oddskool (Machine) | Terminal @ Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff |
| 17.04.06 | DJ Set w/ Redfalls (Skipping Beats/ Machine) | Machines In Our Souls @ Meze Lounge, Newport |
| 08.04.06 | Live + DJ Set w/ LoVid (NYC), DJ Methodist (Post Office) | Static @ Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff |
| 30.03.06 | DJ Set w/ High Quality Recordings, The Doubtful Guest (Seed), Evils (Peski) | Terminal @ Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff |
| 20.03.06 | DJ Set w/ Orcop (Machine), Lifting Gear Engineer (Machine) | Machines In Our Souls @ Meze Lounge, Newport |
| 23.02.06 | DJ Set w/ Oddskool (Machine), Orcop (Machine), Fumezombie (Machine) | Terminal @ Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff |
| 20.02.06 | DJ Set w/ Evils (Peski), Eyes Knows Reality | Machines In Our Souls @ Meze Lounge, Newport |
| 26.01.06 | DJ Set w/ Cylob (Rephlex/ Breakin'), The Hidden Persuader / Info_Cifon (ATC), Manchuko | Terminal @ Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff |
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| 2003-2005 SHOWS |
| Date | Details | Venue |
| 22.12.05 | DJ Set w/ Redfalls, Dieselfitter, Matt Cook, Arcangle | Terminal @ Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff |
| 11.12.05 | DJ Set w/ DJ Beef Curtains, DJ Maxx Ramage, Bendy J, DJ Zammo, Orcop, Dave Taylor, Mondo | All-Dayer for Medecins Sans Frontieres @ Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff |
| 24.11.05 | DJ Set w/ Access Tonal Communications, Redfalls, Orcop, Anatomist | Terminal @ Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff |
| 20.10.05 | DJ Set w/ John Barnes, Fumezombie, Lifting Gear Engineer, Oddskool | Terminal @ Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff |
| 22.09.05 | DJ Set w/ Lifting Gear Engineer, Orcop, Dieselfitter | Terminal @ Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff |
| 11.09.05 | DJ Set w/ Mira Calix (Warp), dDamage (Planet Mu), Langage Computer, Ra, Superimpozer, Jethro Bagust, Lifting Gear Engineer | Digital Bricks @ The Spitz, London |
| 18.08.05 | Live and DJ Set w/ Orcop, Access Tonal Communications, Matt Cook | Terminal @ BSB, Cardiff |
| 06.08.05 | Live Set w/ Optimas Prime | Wildlife @ The Social, Cardiff Bay |
| 24.07.05 | DJ Set w/ Spex (3D Records), MOD (Bulletproof), Active, Fixed Rate, Urban Kompozure, Pacini, DJ Carnage, Tome, Dave Taylor | All-Dayer for Medecins Sans Frontieres @ Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff |
| 21.07.05 | DJ Set w/ Lifting Gear Engineer, Dieselfitter, Fumezombie, Anatomist | Terminal @ BSB, Cardiff |
| 17.06.05 | Live Set | Jacuzzi Junta @ Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff |
| 16.06.05 | DJ Set w/ John Barnes, Redfalls, Arcangle, Oddskool | Terminal @ BSB, Cardiff |
| 26.05.05 | Live + DJ Set w/ DJ Methodist (Post Office) | Terminal @ BSB, Cardiff |
| 24.05.05 | Live Set w/ Gary Smith + Shoji Hano, Magrethea | Dempseys, Cardiff |
| 21.04.05 | DJ Set w/ Matt Cook, Access Tonal Communications | Terminal @ BSB, Cardiff |
| 17.03.05 | DJ Set w/ Lifting Gear Engineer, Orcop | Terminal @ BSB, Cardiff |
| 17.02.05 | DJ Set w/ Superimpozer, Fumezombie, Anatomist | Terminal @ BSB, Cardiff |
| 13.02.05 | DJ Set w/ Mindset (DarkFM), Urban Kompozure (Dark FM), Active (DarkFM), True Meaning (Bulletproof), Kosmik Boy (Bulletproof), Pacini, MOD, Fixed Rate, Tome, Dave Taylor | All-Dayer for Medecins Sans Frontieres @ Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff |
| 20.01.05 | DJ Set w/ Orcop, Dieselfitter, Oddskool | Terminal @ BSB, Cardiff |
| 13.01.05 | Live Set w/ Superimpozer, Jethro Bagust, Lifting Gear Engineer | Hypnogogo @ The Foundry, London |
| 16.12.04 | DJ Set w/ The Instrument Panel, Lifting Gear Engineer, Arcangle | Terminal @ BSB, Cardiff |
| 18.11.04 | Live + DJ Set w/ Anatomist, Redfalls | Terminal @ BSB, Cardiff |
| 21.10.04 | DJ Set w/ Fumezombie, Orcop, Dieselfitter | Terminal @ BSB, Cardiff |
| 15.10.04 | DJ Set | Jacuzzi Junta @ Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff |
| 12.10.04 | Live Set w/ The Noise Ensemble | The Quarter @ Dempseys, Cardiff |
| 23.09.04 | DJ Set w/ Lifting Gear Engineer, Arcangle, Redfalls | Terminal @ BSB, Cardiff |
| 19.08.04 | DJ Set w/ Anatomist | Cafe Europa, Cardiff |
| 07.08.04 | Live Set w/ Anatomist, Lifing Gear Engineer | Compass Point Festival, Cardiff |
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20.05.04
22.04.04 | Live / DJ Set | Terminal @
Journeys, Cardiff |
| 24.03.04 | DJ Set w/ Superimpozer, Jethro Bagust, Girl Robot, Whelming Odds | Hypnogogo @ The Foundry, London |
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16.12.03 | Live / DJ Set | Terminal @
Journeys, Cardiff |
| 30.11.03 | Live Set w/ Llwybr Llaethog, DJ Jaffa | Alt+Shift Benefit @ Toucan Club, Cardiff |
| 18.11.03 | Live and DJ Set w/ Fumezombie | SoundBytes @ Journeys, Cardiff |
| 11.11.03 | DJ Set w/ The Instrument Panel, Anatomist | SoundBytes @ Journeys, Cardiff |
| 21.10.03 | DJ Set w/ Fumezombie, The Instrument Panel | SoundBytes @ Journeys, Cardiff |
| 14.10.03 | Live w/ The Captain | SoundBytes @ Journeys, Cardiff |
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