Hola!

A bumper great big bag o' updates for y'all this month: releases ahoy. . . news on the events front. . . all that and, as the cliché goes, a bag of chips. So nae messin' about, let's hop and a skip and a jump to it.

This week! The D_rradio Remixed album is released! Waxa eh? There's a wide range of quality remixes, rerubs, rehashes, rewinds and reworkings on offer from the following list of marvellous purveyors of electronic beats: Manual, Depth Affect, The Matinee Orchestra, Cathode, Offthesky, Piano Magic, Matthew Rozeik, Populous, juxta phona, and port-royal! Cor!

And remember! There's only 500 copies left of this - our distributors demands for this have far outstripped supply already on this one, so you don't want to sleep on it. You can always buy this through our website itself (and maybe take advantage of our ‘d_rradio + d_rradio remixed albums for a tenner' offer while stocks last), or from our preferred stockists: RPM, alt.vinyl and Beatdown in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, or online from our preferred retailers rather than the chain stores: Norman Records, Boomkat, CD Baby, Action Records, or Rhythm Online.

More in the release department, our little hairy chum Narbi has pulled some time out of the bag and cobbled together some very swish packaging for The Retail Sectors' 'March of Incurable Workaholic' / 'Song About a Girl Who Killed Herself Yesterday' single, out on November 17th. This will be an 8" clear square lathe cut numbered vinyl in cotton paper sleeve (not that we're pretentious or anything, look out for DIST16 coming in a limited-edition of three rusty radiator packaging or summit), and every copy comes with a free download code so that you can download the tracks in 320kps, .FLAC or .wav format. And we're taking pre-orders now! Yowser!

Incidentally, speaking of The Retail Sectors, sadly they (he) will NOT be touring Europe in November due to health issues, so our Newcastle Head of Steam launch party will not go ahead. Apologies about that, and we hope Kentaro gets well soon.

And now onto events! We're chuffed to bits to announce that Thrill Jockey's High Places will play the Head of Steam in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on November 16th. High Places have created intricate sounds out of using bass-heavy yet crisp beats, lilting vocal melodies and syncopated rhythmic lines performed on folk percussion instruments, guitar duets turned into treated samples, and percussive lines created from the manipulation of household objects, all with a myriad of reverb, with a heartingly abrasive wash of punishing volume. It's all great stuff, like a not-gash A Man Called Adam with human minimal techno warmth; a kind of sunkissed Animal Collective. Support comes from everybody's favourite chamberphonics exponent, Cathode; and elegant soundscaping folk chanteuse Nathalie Stern, and it costs a five in. Bargain at four times the price.

Also, coming up on December 4th, we have the incredible Kania Tieffer heading to town. Hailing from France but now residing in the United States Of Belgium, Kania has been cacking out pleasantly disturbed lo-fi "almost danceable funny music" from her Brussels' laboratory since 2005 with cheap children's keyboards, a battered old computer and an electric guitar. The music itself is a spewed and spurting mishmash of fake nonsense r'n'b and vitriolic electropop that handily provides scant references points. After some web-eps, 7" singles and tracks in a few compilations, she released her debut album on Bordeaux's wwilko records, following that up with recordings on her own Uhh Records imprint. The otter-fixated maiden has toured all around Europe, and now Distraction brings her to Newcastle for your pleasure. Support comes from needlessly hostile idiot Dressed in Wires (who else?), DJ Search Warrant, and another to be confirmed.

And that's yr lot. More releases new soon; there's another SIX releases in the pipeline, we just have to pencil them in.

Stay with it folks,
distraction. x.