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Cinematic dance music for the more discerning floors
Rival Consoles is youthful purveyor of intelligent dance music Ryan Lee West. With his highly anticipated debut album, West, the first born and long-standing artist on Erased Tapes, has crafted an electronic record to transcend the discerning and flirt a little with the club culture of summer 2009. I–II–III–‘IO’!
Born November 10th, ‘
1985’, Ryan Lee West grew up in the small city of Leicester in the midlands of England. Fascinated by sound from an early age, Ryan chose to dedicate his time to studying, experimenting with and producing sound at De Montfort University Leicester.
West strives to humanise and at the same time emphasise entirely computerised sounds to defy categorisation in modern electronic music. Rival Consoles combines a clever and complex mix of hard-hitting beats with catchy acid melodies.
Or as he describes it in his own words: ‘Rival Consoles is a musical project where I take ideas which are cheap and processed, and combine them with rich, unpredictable patterns – resulting in music which appears commercial yet typically against commercial music at the same time.’
Earlier EP releases clearly define his progression from ‘The Decadent EP’ and the follow-up 7-inch ‘Helvetica’, where instead of X-Box vs. Playstation, classical theory meets dance. More recently West contributes three album tracks, ‘Milo’, ‘Func’ and ‘ARP’ to his 12-inch split EP with Ólafur Arnalds’ minimal-techno outfit Kiasmos.
Rival Consoles is youthful purveyor of intelligent dance music Ryan Lee West. With his highly anticipated debut album, West, the first born and long-standing artist on Erased Tapes, has crafted an electronic record to transcend the discerning and flirt a little with the club culture of summer 2009. I–II–III–‘IO’!
Born November 10th, ‘
1985’, Ryan Lee West grew up in the small city of Leicester in the midlands of England. Fascinated by sound from an early age, Ryan chose to dedicate his time to studying, experimenting with and producing sound at De Montfort University Leicester.West strives to humanise and at the same time emphasise entirely computerised sounds to defy categorisation in modern electronic music. Rival Consoles combines a clever and complex mix of hard-hitting beats with catchy acid melodies.
Or as he describes it in his own words: ‘Rival Consoles is a musical project where I take ideas which are cheap and processed, and combine them with rich, unpredictable patterns – resulting in music which appears commercial yet typically against commercial music at the same time.’
Earlier EP releases clearly define his progression from ‘The Decadent EP’ and the follow-up 7-inch ‘Helvetica’, where instead of X-Box vs. Playstation, classical theory meets dance. More recently West contributes three album tracks, ‘
Milo’, ‘Func’ and ‘ARP’ to his 12-inch split EP with Ólafur Arnalds’ minimal-techno outfit Kiasmos.
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Shoutbox
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Destruction wrote:
Hurrah! More people seem to listening to him at last! Took me a lot longer than I had planned but finally got the other records, just as good as the first!
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ByRICHaRD wrote:
so so so so so so so so bloody satisfying! <3 it!
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tangled_ wrote:
XOXOXOXOXOX <3
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itsnotfun wrote:
I'm basing this off one track (1985), but Rival Consoles ARE FUCKING AWESOME!
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outloud_tooloud wrote:
i like how he mixes delicate classical instruments with tough electronic beats
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CLUEIT wrote:
Definitely the best act on the Erased Tapes label, by far!
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Destruction wrote:
Well what a difference a year makes from 28 to nearly 900 :) New 7" out now on Erased Tapes http://store.erasedtapes.com/main.aspx?gopage=eratp12&x=12 I shall be getting it as soon as PayPal hurries up and puts some money into my account.
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peramides wrote:
cool
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Eradunka wrote:
Rival Consoles!........Kitsch...YEAH....xP
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laaasi wrote:
amazing gig in Berlin!
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lakerdonald wrote:
mash-up with stars, the mars volta, rival consoles, and mewithoutYou: http://akissner.blogspot.com/2008/11/mash-up-stars-mars-volta-rival-consoles.html
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stevevincent wrote:
HAMMER!!! looking forward to see you live in cologne
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CLUEIT wrote:
What bright spark tagged this as post-rock? Amazing stuff nevertheless.
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lakerdonald wrote:
rival consoles' "kitsch" made top 5 songs of the week http://akissner.blogspot.com/2008/10/songs-of-week-10708.html
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RockenBeiLutz wrote:
Great EP!
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lakerdonald wrote:
http://akissner.blogspot.com/2008/09/various-artists-erased-tapes-collection.html review of "erased tapes" compilation featuring rival consoles
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Destruction wrote:
You can get it here http://store.erasedtapes.com/main.aspx?gopage=eratp5&x=5 it's not torrented but atleast it's supporting the artist and label :)
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BurntFingers wrote:
awesome.
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wewillrise123 wrote:
Anyone got any idea where i can acquire the EP....preferablly downloadable torrent would be nice!
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_dodo_ wrote:
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liftmuziek wrote about Rival Consoles in Headphone Commute's Best of 2009. yesterday afternoon
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