Its first version is a collection of "New Weird Electronic Artists"
Sheffield artists Adrian Flanagan and Dean Honer's project Eccenttronic Research Council is launching their own DIY brand Desolate Spools.
The first version is a compilation called Eccentronic Research Council Presents: Wayward Freaks From Synthetic Streets Volume 1, which includes a new group of "quirky" electronic music artists who were invited to work in the band's analog recording studio in Sheffield. ERC also contributed their own tracks to the release with Maxine Peake, who is often collaborating. You can listen to that song below.
To commemorate the launch of the label and its first release this month, ERC will hold a pair of label exhibitions, which will include performances by the compilation contributors Wet Man, DIMITRI, Damp Carpet and South Yorkshire Mick Hucknall. They will perform at The Social in London on November 12th (with additional Lias Saoudi DJ performance) and at The Shakespeare in Sheffield on November 13th (with the collective participation of Outernational Yorkshire DJ).
You can find more information about the compilation on the Bandcamp page of the Eccentronic Research Council, which will be released digitally and on limited-edition cassette tapes. Read on to learn about the extensive interviews between ERC's Adrian Flanagan and some of the new artists in the release, as well as videos of their tracks.
Desolate Spools will release the Eccentronic Research Committee Gift: Wayward Freaks from Synthetic Street Volume 1 on November 12, 2021.
Adrian Flanagan and Dean Horner
Desolate Spools prides itself on collaborating with novel and weird electronic pop artists. Can you tell us something about the process of putting this assembly together?
Dean Honer: Adrian found the artist and sent me all the songs. I already know some artists, but most of them have never listened to any music. The next step is to choose the tracks we like and try to make some of them so that they work together as a coherent album. I think all the tracks were originally recorded in a home studio.
Adrian Flanagan: Yes, I sneaked into a few DMs and made suggestions to people that they actually couldn't understand. I promise that as a label, we will put the silver spoon in their mouths, and at least for 24 hours, they will feel more special than ever. I did not break my promise, but my mother wants her tableware! Seriously, I know what it's like to float for years without anyone letting you rest or letting you enter the so-called secrets of the music industry. Of course, if you are a bit "quirky" or not suitable for any fashionable music scene centered in London, you really won't go to see it. That's why I think it's a good idea for us to start our own little music. Weird scenes and record companies that are incompatible with music.
Dean has a great studio. In the past ten years, I have made many acclaimed and culturally rich records with him. There is little or no industry support, so we think we will try to help some new ones. At least the voices of like-minded artists can be heard, even if only to illuminate people-or to be a small stepping stone to something bigger.
You ask where all the weird pop artists went on the ERC opening repertoire?
DH: Sheffield has always been the birthplace of electronically synthesized music and the sound of the future, from Voltaire to the Human League and Warp records, to the various incarnations of Adrian and me. Even during the depression of the Sheffield guitar rock era, which was spawned by Arctic Monkeys and their descendants, we let the synthetic flag fly. Now it looks like the synthesizer is back, but for us it never disappeared.
AF: My favorite pop music, or music in general, is always created by real weirdos or at least weird frontliners. There seems to be a clear lack of such artists now. If they look up, this seems to be done by some kids who have just left St. Martin or British schools, where they are taught and encouraged to walk around wearing a Breville toaster on their heads, while acting like a bloody Kate Bush Yelling. Involving some cute fruit cakes is undoubtedly part of Desolate Spools' agenda.
You will host several Desolate Spools launch events in the next few weeks. Tell us more about these.
AF: Yes, I think it might be interesting to perform almost Dadaist performances on those old-style live commentary shows from the 1960s and show some of the new weird electronic demons we have been given. Therefore, we will let this Eastern European singer named Dimitri chat and sing between performances, and then let other untrained people relax. My friend Lias Saoudi from The Moonlandingz and Fat White Family will also be a DJ in the London show. He really likes acid houses and juicing, so if this is not enough to attract opponents, I don't know what will happen.
God Hole is the solo nickname of Christy Graff, a New York resident and outside artist.
Why choose the alias Shendong?
Christy Graff: It comes from an episode of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," which is one of my favorite comedies. A character said that he has a "god hole", a lot of people use religion to fill their emptiness, but because he doesn't believe in God, he wants to fill it with cats. It really spoke to me.
Can you tell us about your background and tell me about your single "All Things Falling Apart"?
CG: Music is the most important thing in my life, whether it is making or listening. I can usually play my album in a small cave in my bedroom, get lost somewhere on the streets of New York, or sit in a local cemetery and write my sketchbook; I just want to figure out where I am in the world.
"All Things Falling Apart" is a song I originally composed and recorded in 2017. It was used as the final project of the high school music technology class. Last summer, when I worked with the Eccentronic research committee to make some changes to it, it was injected with new vitality. This song is based on my experience in a mental hospital and my relationship with the mental health system. Its creation is very cathartic. If there is anything to make up for that experience, it is that it is an endless fountain of artistic inspiration for me.
How did you finally build a DIY label in Sheffield?
CG: About six years ago, when I became obsessed with Fat White Family, I started to enter the vast British music world. He naturally took me to The Moonlandingz and other bands, and through the power of social media, Adrian [Flanagan] And I met personally. The rest is history! I think this is a good match. This opportunity has brought me a lot of happiness and new motivation.
Dimitri is an Eastern European with no specific location and lives in the People's Republic of South Yorkshire.
Dimitri’s adoration is obvious on the streets of South Yorkshire-people will show strange gestures when they pass you on the street, heterosexual men offer you roses, and your live performance is more like being lost and deprived of rights People preach, but with romantic melody and electronic beats. Why do you think you have such an impact on the audience?
Dimitri: Followers of Dimitri; music, characters, and information are open-minded people. They seem to be at odds with the normal grays that appear daily. They seek freedom of expression without judgment, and make beautiful songs and Fans of merchandise. When these followers gather together, they become a powerful group that can promote passion, business, and pleasure. They are collectively referred to as Branch Dimitrians. It is indeed very common for heterosexual men among them to offer roses in DIMITRI love songs.
Can you tell us something about your song "That's That" and the power of earworms? In addition, who is the mysterious Prime Minister Rossi?
D:'That's That' was developed and created as a tool to promote a new vision for the future. It is not what we are told to do, but what we, people, choose to do. That's it. Rosey PM is the second most pleasant person you may meet. If an angel smokes Moroccan cigarettes, she has the voice of an angel. While in charge of synthesizers, drum machines and production for one of her numbers, it was obvious that she should lend the verse "That's it". She did it, that's it. An earworm was born. Earworms are a powerful tool. They cannot be planned or created, but when they arrive, they are inevitable. That's it.
As a European living in Brexit, do you think table service in pubs and bars (implemented in the year of the Great Plague) should not continue?
Dimitri: One cannot solve the chess problem while trying to attract the attention of the bartender. As someone who refuses to line up in public, I welcome the switch to table service. I would rather waste time sitting at my table thinking deeply or talking with lovers, friends and business partners. However, table service created its own epidemic, the rise of QR codes. A serious artistic failure on a large scale.
Wet Man is the solo nickname of Sheffield resident and strange guy Jack Clayton.
Why did you choose the pseudonym Wet Man?
Jack Clayton: Growing up, I have always used the term "wet man" to describe men who lack personality, depth, and presence. The best example can be seen in indie bands in the early 2000s. They complained about their girlfriends in a complaining voice. I think they lacked strength and dignity. Then I realized that people use the word "Wet Man" just like me, and it's a common term for those who despise the dominant white middle-class men taking over the music industry. I like to use phrases as titles, such as "The Buzzcocks", which is basically like calling myself a fool. I use Wet Man to belittle me; I show you fragility, weakness and despair, not that it is not "wet" music, I just want you to notice what a "shit business" it might be. Later, when we quarreled, my predecessor called me "wet man", so I think I was asking for ownership.
I can hear the influence of Cabaret Voltaire in the late 70s and Fat Truckers in the early 00s in your music. The rough synthesizer sound seems to be almost a generation, and it will be rebuilt from Sheffield every 10 years. Back to the music. Is it true that your father played for a while in the Voltaire cabaret?
JC: I have an unhealthy obsession with the old Sheffield bands, as mentioned in Martin Lillikers' book Beats Working For A Living, and I have secretly listened to a large number of original pirated copies of unknown Sheffield bands on record players. Style single my parents are at work. What impressed me was the song "Nag Nag Nag" performed by Voltaire. I think this is the coolest record I have ever heard. When I was in my 20s, my father humbly mentioned that he played the bass for them in several shows, and some photos were taken of him performing with Stephen Mallinder and Richard H. Kirk at The Leadmill in Sheffield. Photo. It’s weird to see someone who looks like me playing with such a heavyweight in music, but not only did he play in Cabs for a while, but he also inspired a young, easy-going group in a group called Artery. Influenced Jarvis Cocker. I don’t know if it’s arrogant to say that this voice is in my blood, I may be the last offspring of this scene, but it may explain my aversion to worldliness and fancy.
Your single "I Believe in the Lizardman" has experienced devious politicians and stone-throwing independent singers spending too much time on YouTube and falling into the trap of conspiracy theories in the past 18 months. It is very "era" and the world has changed. It's kind of crazy. Do you think the irony of this song will disappear in the "Ickettes" of the world?
JC: I'm very confused. Even people around me say that the coronavirus is a conspiracy. I found that even as a supporter of freedom of speech, this is an argument that lacks logic. I also find it very offensive, because people are already dead, and of course they should be ridiculous to say these things to their grieving family members. I think this shows that as a large population, we are easily affected. I think David Ike is a dangerous man, and so is Rupert Murdoch. Large-scale feeding of disadvantaged groups is manipulation and will drive people into the abyss of paranoia, despair and isolation. This is why David Icke is on my hot list. I hope he will not read this article because I really hope that "Ickettes" has "I Believe in Lizard People" as their national anthem, and they don't know to point out these claims. How ridiculous. Although unlikely, if all this is true, and Barack Obama is a lizard, I will eat my own hands.
Adult entertainment is Chazza Cartwright, a resident, artist, musician and lyricist of Salford's strange district, and fellow Salford compatriot Adrian Flanagan (Adrian Flanagan).
Tell us your best out-of-body experience?
Chazza Cartwright: I am almost not in my body-now I have convinced myself that I am a small tree. I want to say that for me, this is a live improvisation with Suzuki Dharma. This definitely makes me float in the corner of the roof, staring at myself. This is just one of the musical moments when you are purely lost in the wild fire of enjoyment. Since childhood, this person has been one of my biggest sources of inspiration. I remember feeling my blood, only my blood.
You and your partner "in grime" (me) Adrian Flanagan are seen in the north as Bridget Bardo and Serge Gansbu of the Twilight psychic dance, with this in mind What song would you ask the DJ to play in "Peak Twilight"?
CC: It all depends on me at the time, but the most likely one is "4 Floors Of Whores" by Tzusing.
The lyrics you write for Adult Entertainment are like opaque, surreal and emotional dreams and nightmares played in real time, but they are also often very interesting and sharp. Who is your favorite author/what is your favorite book?
CC: Henry Miller and Argos catalog.
Damp Carpet is the nickname of the lyrical, dull and sweet music Micky Milky Graham. Micky Milky Graham is a weird man who lives on a boat near Canvey Island in Essex.
You are a gentleman who lives on a boat. How long have you lived there and what benefits do you think? Also, what laws can be broken on water but not on land?
Micky Milky Graham: I have lived on the ship for more than a year; this is a lawless place, because I am afraid of retaliation, I will not name it. I'm not sure about the water law; anyway, I just break all the good ones. Solitude is the best, quiet is the best (unless they worship the sea god by sacrificing sea creatures).
Victorian gentlemen often wore beautiful lamb chops and moustaches to prove their masculinity to "coming" suitors. What is the most masculine thing you have ever done?
MMG: My most masculine behavior is to breastfeed my cat for charity, even though I think my cat keeps money.
You have a cute and gloomy song called "Northern Motion"-what is it about?
MMG: The dangers of wet floors and the importance of super absorbent mop heads.
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