PARTNERS BURNINGRED have been designing us absolutely stunning flyers since Spring 2005. They offer full creative/multimedia services and other recent clients include the Welsh Music Foundation, Complete Control Music, Sound Nation, Associated Minds, Kyshera, Psychic Spies and many more... BLEEP.COM Our whole catalogue (2001- present) is now available through Warp Records' award-winning digital distribution site, Bleep.com. You can listen to full previews and download non-DRM protected, LAME encoded, VBR files for very reasonable prices! VENUES & PROMOTERS CLWB IFOR BACH Cardiff's 'Welsh Club' needs no introduction, consistently bringing the city the best in drum n bass, hip hop, indie and everything else... most importantly, Clwb is home to our monthly Terminal night! FORECAST  Colloborators on our recent CYLOB gig, FORECAST's non-stop schedule of shows is a thing of wonder, with hot talents in every concievable genre playing in Cardiff on what seems like an almost daily basis. When do they sleep? LESSON NO.1  Renegade promoters bringing cutting edge music of all kinds to Cardiff and Newport with alarming frequency. One day, thanks to their efforts, Cardiff will grow up to be a real city... JACUZZI JUNTA  Hosted at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff, Jacuzzi Junta rotates DJ's, live music, short films and general weirdness at 15-minute intervals. As the growing turnout indicates, the results are well worth your attention! THE SPITZ London's best venue for electronic/experimental sounds, The Spitz hosted Digital Bricks on September 11th 2005 as part of the Brick Lane Festival, with Warp, Planet Mu, Coredump, Quatermass, Seed and Machine artists on the bill. THE FOUNDRY Shoreditch venue with nightly excursions into strange and live music of all kinds. Including ours, at the more-or-less quarterly HYPNOGOGO, which is run by machine.records' own Superimpozer and Jethro Bagust, and regularly features other artists from the label. SPANNERED "A lively mix of some of the best bands around Sheffield, Live Electronica and some truly special DJ’s - from the funkiest to the dirtiest breaks and techno. All this takes place in one of Sheffields hidden gems, The Earl." Resident DJs include machine.records/ DubiousAudio artist JETHRO BAGUST. MULTIVITAMINS Created by Doudou Malicious in 2004, this London night showcases electronic talent every Tuesday at The Pool (EC2A/Old St) and once a month on a Thursday at Corsica Studios (SE17/Elephant & Castle). TOUCAN CLUB  The Toucan Club has long been providing Cardiff with a variety of chilled out nights and live bands, including the excellent Higher Learning hip-hop night (first Friday of the month). Back in November 2003, machine.records' STEREO MINUS ONE played at an event here. SLAM ON THE BREAKS  Swansea-based monthly night at Monkey featuring up and coming sounds in hip hop, breaks and electronica. Well worthing checking out. HIVE  "Electronic music often requires as much listening as dancing. The Hive Collective aims to promote new and exciting electronic music throughout Liverpool. We are interested not only in the sound of virtual stones dropping into infinite wells of zen-like depth or pile-driving 4-to-the-floor techno but in all forms of innovative electronica." LISTENING POSTS SHEFFIELD BLEEP Check out machine.mix 1 on rotation on this smart internet radio station, along with material from Warp, Seed and others. LAST.FM The majority of our back-catalogue is available as free streams on this very cool website, which makes a massive amount of music available for a free sign-up and quick download. This is the internet how it should be! APPROVED STOCKISTS SPILLERS RECORDS  Cardiff's essential record shop for all styles of good music. Claims to be the oldest in the world, definitely one of the best in the UK. Now with an online store... CATAPULT 100% VINYL  Cardiff's Catapult records is a mecca for dance-related new and second hand vinyl, CDs, tapes, tickets, t-shirts, and DJ hardware. Check out its newly revamped website, now selling machine.records releases. SEBON The online store for Welsh music - get your latest Peski, Slacyr, Boobytrap and Dockrad (and the rest) releases here - now selling machine.records releases. SMALLFISH RECORDS  London record store with an amazingly discerning catalogue of electronica, hip hop, dance, dub and all the rest - all available online too! Also magazines, books, merchandise etc. MEDIA BUZZ South Wales' listings magazine with reviews, previews and a comprehensive guide to gigs, arts, etc. Notorious for coming out a bit late, but always does a sterling job of making Cardiff seem much more intersting than it really is. SOUND NATION As you'd hope, the Welsh Music Foundation magazine is essential for everything on the Welsh music scene - great news, reviews, features and advice. INTRO MAGAZINE Radio One DJ Bethan Elfyn's new magazine with a very nice website featuring film and music news and reviews... SOUTHWALESMASSIVE The essential forum for all South Wales goings on! E|I MAGAZINE Darren Bergstein's beautifully produced magazine is fast becoming essential, with a broad and informed take on electronic music of all persuasions. ABSORB  An unusually discerning website for electronic music reviews, features, listings, plus excellent web-radio broadcasts... Don't know how we coped without it! KRUGER South Wales' fast-growing quarterly, free underground magazine with music reviews and interviews, and plenty of attitude... very nice. THE MYSTERY TOUR Website for Adam Walton's Sunday night show playing out new Welsh music and a variety of the best music you're ever likely to hear on the radio, basically. Also has a Welsh gig guide, archived shows for you to listen again, tracklistings, webslinks, etc. RADIO ONE IN WALES Website for Beth and Huw's Thurday night Radio 1 in Wales show, with a great gig guide, features on up and coming acts, listen again, tracklistings, etc. ONEMUSIC This show now runs in the late John Peel's Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night slots, between 11pm and 1am, and features DJs HUW STEPHENS, RAS KWAME, and ROB DA BANK getting seriously eclectic in honour of the man. The place on Radio 1 for new sounds. NOISELOOP Nice site for electronica news/reviews etc. Takes a while for things to appear on there but always interesting to read. EARLABS A great site for electronica/experimental music, online and small-scale labels, news, downloads, and a cool label putting out Futurist rarities and contemporary weirdness. 2MM - 2000 MILES MUSIC A portal for up and coming artists in the UK electronica scene. ERUTUFON|NOFUTURE  Electronic music web community run by Christian Vogel. LISTINGS & EVENTS CARDIFF UNDERGROUND  Excellent listings site for the Cardiff music scene run by Plug Two/ Full Steam/ My Kung Fu types, although occasionally you do wonder what possesed them to include some of the listings that appear there! THEKIDSAREBORED.COM Lovely electronica site with info on artists and events (check out the calendar). The guy who runs this also does internet radio broadcasts where he plays a good selection of new and all sorts, worth checking out. Plus, a great name. Obviously. SPRACI Site with lots of good info about events, labels, happenings... everywhere... UK CLUB LISTINGS UK-CL Online guide to the UK's Clubbing Community, featuring UK Club Directory, Dance Festivals, UK Club Round Up, Club Reviews, Clubbing Pictures, News, UK-CL DJ's and more. HYBRID STUDIOS  Community, directory, listings, resources for musicians, artists, writers etc. LINK2WALES The most detailed and the biggest archive of the alternative music scene in Wales and Liverpool - detailed coverage on bands, venues, fanzines, shows, etc. ONLINE REVIEWS & RESOURCES MUSICALBEAR Electronica news, views and reviews... nice design and nice writing too. Good for mashup/dancehall type stuff. BOOMKAT The website of Manchester's Pelicanneck Records, with an awesome stocklist and useful, reliable reviews - these people know the score and give you handy MP3 snippets, too! And BAKED GOODS is their sister distribution company, bringing all the best electronica to your local record shop. Unfortunately they seem hell-bent on ignoring our releases/ promos/ emails and phone calls, but I guess no one's perfect... PITCHFORK MEDIA Good site for the latest music news and reviews, features and downloads. Run by indie-kids,of course, but at least they have good indie tastes. METACRITIC Site that compiles and compares reviews of film, music, dvd/video, games... and so saves you the bother. OVERLOAD MEDIA  Sadly now in a dormant state but has a good archive of reviews/interviews about the electronic music scene. WELSH MUSIC FOUNDATION A not-for-profit organization set up in 2001 to provide support, advice, information and contacts to the Welsh music industry. Publishes Sound Nation monthly and a Welsh Music Directory annually... and other stuff, although I haven't worked out what yet. MUSICMOZ.ORG A comprehensive directory of all things music, edited by volunteers: music-related reviews, articles, factual information, biographies, and websites. MOREMUSIC Amazing collection of links and resources to do with music labels, shops, bands, websites, and everything else! ALLRECORDLABELS.COM A database of over 14,000 record label web sites indexed by genre, format, and location. DISCOGS.COM The essential online discography for electronic music and hip hop, put together by its users and impressively comprehensive. Takes a long time to get anything on there though. MACHINE.RECORDS ARTISTS BLOKE Homepage for Israel's finest electronic musician, Yaniv Navot, as well as for the ±G6PD label. DIESELFITTER Cardiff-based electronica artist with a nice website and even nicer downloads. Lovely. ALEXMILLS.ORG Lovely new website showcasing the photographic talents of Alex Mills, aka Dieselfitter. REWIRETHEFUTURE Website for electronic collective ACCESS TONAL COMMUNICATIONS, a heady brew of politics and free downloads! These guys are on top form and need your attention, now! ODDSKOOL  All about ODDSKOOL, plus other stuff so advanced I don't even understand what it is... DRONE Home to Drone/ARCANGLE, a talented South Wales-based electronica artist who was featured on the last machine.records compilation and also has a fine album coming out on My Kung Fu... if they ever get their act together and release it! POLAR ECLIPSE Website of South Wales electronica collective made up of LIFTING GEAR ENGINEER, ORCOP and NEZBIAN. ORCOP First a village named after him, now a whole website all about Gwydion ap Hywel? Check it out! WHITE ROSE NETWORK  Site of White Rose Network arts collective, features WILL SODERBERG's work, home of desiderata magazine. Doesn't seem to be updated much these days as Will is on a seemingly never-ending tour of the US. MUSICALSEX Website for Ben Kolb, whose work featured on our 2003 metal.machine music compilation, a Cardiff-based sound engineer and musician. OTHER LABELS WARP RECORDS  Still THE essential label, home to AUTECHRE, SQUAREPUSHER, PLAID, BOARDS OF CANADA, CHRIS CLARK and sometimes APHEX TWIN. Respect! FATCAT RECORDS  Excellent label and site with resources for DIY labels. Has a marked tendency toward the more downtempo and beautiful side of electronica. Artists include Sigur Rós, Múm, and Xinlisupreme. REPHLEX APHEX TWIN'S record label, home to machine.records' favorite BOGDAN RACZYNSKI, as well as other beat-fucking loonies such as THE BUG, ASTROBOTNIA, CYLOB and the rest! Has retained that certain something that WARP seem to have lost... AI RECORDS A quality label that's been making waves in the last year particularly but has been releasing solid stuff for the last 5. Home to the wonderful CLARO INTELECTO, FZV, YELLOTONE, and a slew of other interesting artists who fuse crystal production values and a pretty danceable approach with dark, deep weirdness. Highly recommended! PLANET MU MIKE PARADINAS' (µ-ZIQ) record label is truly home to all sorts of madness, like VENETIAN SNARES, SHITMAT, and REMARC to name a few. Seriously recommended. Booyaka! Booyaka! One for th' Junglists. AUDIOBULB  Excellent Sheffield-based "exploratory electronic music" label whose recent Switches compilation has got everyone listening. Their new Calika album, out in November, needs your serious attention. SEED  A London-based label run by the duo Posthuman, producers of glitchy (mostly) uptempo electronic joy since 2000 and famous for putting on the best events - sometimes in underground stations! Nice. Check out Seed Volume One. MILLE PLATEAUX Also home of FORCE INC. and POSTITION CHROME, MP features Kid 606, Curd Duca and many others. Left of leftfield electronica with slightly preposterous philosophical mumblings but good sounds.-Now very sadly closed down. :( DIGITAL HARDCORE RECORDINGS  Alec Empire and Atari Teenage Riot label with the hardest, nastiest beats in town. Destroy! But avoid the singing bits. DOMINO RECORDS  Purveyors fine indie from the likes of Elliott Smith, Smog, Jim O'Rourke, Four Tet, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Pram, Papa M, Clinic, etc. Recently lost the plot with Franz Ferdinand, though - when bands on your label start praising Scissors Sisters, it's time to cut the cord! ;-) FOURIER TRANSFORM  "We work to the brief that music should look as good as it sounds. We supply wholly desirable packages: things you'll be thoroughly proud to own. Things that will make your friends jealous." It's all true! HIGH QUALITY  "an imaginary record label run by geraint ffrancon, originally from snowdonia in wales and now based in bristol. the label's mission - to inject wonkyness into the universe - has been achieved to great effect in the last couple of years, with artists such as stabmaster vinyl, ap duw, blodyn tatws and ill informed". SLOW GRAFFITI  Excellent Welsh electronica label and promoter, home to Polanski and 2003's much-praised 'Little Planets in the Wires' compilation. Released the first Kid Carpet EP, too, and now involved with all manner of musical goodness around Cardiff. KOLORFORM RECORDS  A US based DIY record label releasing quality experimental music.