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Burst Couch#22 is at the usual place on Saturday 22nd September. Have a look at the events page to find out more. See you there!
Burst Couch #21
As part of Futuresonic EVNT Showcase. Burst Couch#21 featuring Si-Cut.db, Illuminati, Disco Operating System & Alexis. Visuals from Hollowsphere / VJ Fusion
Saturday 12th May, 20:00 - midnight. £3.00 door, FREE entry with Futuresonic wristband.
Briton's Protection Hotel, 50 Gt. Bridgewater St, Manchester, UK
CD Releases:
Illuminati - Meta Medica
Illuminati + King Dice - Espionage
Two new Lotta Continua releases from Illuminati. Click on the pics above for more information.
Constellation of Luminous Details
Also just released is a joint Lotta Continua/ Apple Pie records release called 'Constellation of Luminous Details', featuring sonic reconstructions of works by poet Philip Davenport. Production by our own Gareth Bibby (aka Disco Operating System) and featuring sound reconstuctions by David Clarkson (Illuminati), Gareth Bibby, Lee Patterson, Ben Gwilliam & Laurence Lane.
Shop: Our online store has been a little unwell of late, courtesy of those Paypal people pulling the rug from under us so to speak and significantly altering how their system works. Payments can currently be made direct to us by cheque.
Myspace: Those of you that way inclined may wish to peruse our various myspace activities:
www.myspace.com/daveclarksonilluminati
www.myspace.com/discooperatingsystem
Radio Play: Illuminati has had radio play in USA recently on Bovine Music Show 070121 and Phaelam 'dirtyradio' in California. Podcasts are available here
Burst Couch: Illuminati, Disco Operating System will be appearing at the Futuresonic Burst Couch night alongside si-cut.db at the Britons Protection Hotel, Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester, on May 12th 2007. More information can be had at the burst couch page here.
Projects for 2007: Coming soon from Illuminati is a mini album available only on download titled 'Five Themes for Future Reference'. This came about following a request from the netlab label based in Brighton UK. More info soon.
Well we've not been updating things round here, we do apologise.. However there are a few good things on the horizon gig wise with a weekend jam-packed with live action, all as part of the Futuresonic EVNT Showcase. Starting with:
Friday 19th July 2006 KR8Z Showcase. Gareth Bibby will be joining The Blendaholics live band on stage, at the Roadhouse, Manchester from 10.00pm. More details in a bit
Then on Saturday afternoon at Odd Bar in the Northern Quarter, Manchester, Disco Operating System and Albino Mosquito will be performing together musically for the first time, at A Dull Roar, organised by our old friend Steven McLaughlin, aka Straight. From 3pm til 7pm. More details from http://www.myspace.com/adullroar
Then in the evening it's off to The Briton's Protection, for our 20th Burst Couch event, featuring Illuminati, Jonanthan Fisher (www.hippocamp.net) and Triclops. More details at the Burst Couch Page here
There's plenty of other stuff going on as part of the festival too, just go to www.futuresonic.com
The next Burst Couch features an evening's worth of entertainment from Keith Rowe, Colin Potter and Phil Mouldycliff as RPM. It's on Monday 10th April at the Britons Protection in Manchester. For more details go to our Burst Couch page.
Hello again all, well it's been a quietly busy couple of months, both Illuminati and Disco Operating System have been putting finishing touches to their new releases, more of which later.
On the live front, Gareth Bibby aka D.O.S. plays live alongside Lied Music, Ben Reynolds and Matt Wand at Islington Mill in Salford on Friday 24th March. It's an invite / ticket only event, to stake your claim please email gareth@lotta-continua.co.uk and we'll sort it out for you. Islington Mill is on James Street in Salford and can be seen via Multimap here.
The next Burst Couch takes place on Monday 10th April, and we're very excited to have RPM performing, featuring Keith Rowe (AMM, Mimeo etc), Colin Potter (NWW, Monos, Ora etc) and sound artist Phil Mouldycliff who is currently curating the Debris Fields exhibition at Bolton Art Gallery. There'll be more information on our Burst Couch page as & when we have it, but can tell you now it'll be at the usual venue the Briton's Protection and will be six pounds on the door.
Blimey! Is it really two months since the last update? We hope 2006 is finding you well so far and that you've recovered from whatever revelry you may have or have not got up to over the festive period.
DOS and Illuminati are performing this month: Disco Operating System plays alongside many others at our friend Adrian 'Hollowsphere' Ball's all day event 'Most Significant Byte' in aid of Medecins Sans Frontiers on 14th January, at the Southern Hotel in Chorlton, Manchester. It kicks off at 2pm and Disco Operating System is playing first so get there early. More info here
Illuminati and DOS play one week later, 21st Jan at the Pyramid Arts Centre in Warrington as part of the Warrington Improvised Music Collective's winter festival. More details can be found here.
Next Burst Couch is on Wednesday 26th October at The Britons Protection in Manchester. Triclops, Mild Man Jan and Bess Keloid perform. See here for more details.
Burst Couch Autumn Season latest:
Next Burst Couch is on Wednesday 12th October at The Britons Protection in Manchester. Due to a severe equipment failure last time we've invited Stephen McLaughlin to return, and the leading light will be Illuminati. More info here.
Triclops return for their 20th ever appearance at the final Autumn season presentation on 26th October
Burst Couch Autumn Season:
In a sudden, uncharacteristic splurge of activity we are pleased to announce not one but three Burst Couch events in September and October, starting on Wednesday 28th Sept. Please look here for more details.
New Releases:
We can now confidently and joyously announce the imminent release of not one but three CDRs from Disco Operating System. The first, probably entitled 'Preston Guild' is a new album recorded exclusively at two performances in Preston, Lancs in late 2004 & early 2005. The other two are CD re-releases of cassette albums released by other labels some years back. 'Love in an Alligator' was released by the Baboon label in 2001 and the potentially entitled 'Royal Ordnance' was released by the highly respected oTo label in 2002. Both have been mildly re-mastered from the original digital recordings and offer an insight into the earlier, more rhythmic works of Disco Operating System. These recordings will make their official debut the Burst Couch#16 (see above) and more details will have appeared on the website by then.
Photos:
We've placed a few old photos from some of the first Burst Couch events, and even the old RSI 'Rotations' nights here.
Well it's been a while since our last update, due to various housemove & internet connection problem type issues, but we now seem to be back on the straight & narrow, fingers crossed.
The next Burst Couch event takes place on 23rd July as part of the Futuresonic festival EVNT showcase. Please click on the link above for more details.
The two events listed below - 'Intergration' and our presentation for the Chorlton Arts Festival both went smoothly, enjoyably and succesfully. There are pics from both events on our images page.
Expect some exciting news re: new releases coming very soon. Watch this space!!
Forthcoming Performances:
Intergration 4
Disco Operating System and Illuminati are performing at 'Intergration 4' alongside Colin Potter, Paul Bradley and The Other Collaborators on Sat 30th April at the St Peters Arts Centre, University of Central Lancashire in Preston, Lancs. The previous Intergrations have been superb events, and we're honoured to be performing as part of this one. Please do make the effort to get there. More details at www.twentyhertz.co.uk/intergration
8pm, 30/04/05, £5 Door
Chorlton Arts Festival
Adrian Ball & Gareth Bibby (aka Hollowsphere & Disco Operating System) are performing at this year's Chorlton Arts Festival, in Chorlton Cum Hardy, Manchester, at St Clements Church, St Clements Road (off Edge Lane), Chorlton on Thursday 26th May. Here's the blurb we gave them:
"Live manipulation of video images and sounds sourced from in and around Chorlton from Hollowsphere and Lotta Continua. To be mixed with other abstract sources to create and all-enveloping experience both relevant to and distanced from the locality".
For more details go to www.chorltonartsfestival.com
The Lotta Continua online shop is now open. so you can now purchase our wares online using the Paypal online payment system. You no longer need to be a subscriber to Paypal in order to use it's services as you can simply make a one off payment direct from your credit or debit card. It takes seconds, is secure and works!
As as special introductory offer, you can purchase Both Disco Operating System's 'Ultrasonic Bath' & Illuminati's 'Ocean Almanac' together for £15 GBP - AND - Triclops' 'Aerial Zorilla Connection' & 'Vacuum Obstruction Five' together for just £5 GBP. Now that's what I call a bargain! Go to our Online Shop here to find out more.
Forthcoming Performances:
Acoustic Saloon
Triclops will be playing at 'Acoustic Saloon' at the Taurus Bar, Canal St, Manchester on Saturday 16th April. This event is organised by the nice people of Electronica Fest from over the Pennines in lovely Hebden Bridge and also features music from Sloman, Daddy Octopus and There Was a Man, with visuals from our long term collaborator and friend VJ Fusion and - er - Dong..
8 - 1am, 16/04/05, £5 Door (£3.50 Conc)
Last Saturday's Burst Couch was a success! Thanks to all who came along, especially Stray & Paul for performing. There are a few piccies to have a look at on our photo page here
Burst Couch also saw the launch of our latest release to coincide with Triclops' return to the live stage. 'Vacuum Obstruction Five' is a 3" CDR recorded at Cord in Manchester last year (pics here) and is a complement to last year's 'Aerial Zorilla Connection'. See our list of wares here for more details.
Burst Couch #14:
Next up for the Burst Couch extravaganza we have performances from two of our friends at Newsense Recordings, King Dice and BOSAH, plus the long awaited return to the stage of our own 'beast with three backs', Triclops. As usual, visual representations will be overseen by vj fusion from Hollowsphere, and once again it promises to be a very fine event. 5th March 2005, Britons Protection, Manchester. There are more details at our Burst Couch page, Here.
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Burst Couch #13:
The next Burst Couch event, organised by us here at Lotta Continua is promising to be the best yet, with live performances by Karl Blake (Lemon Kittens, Shockheaded Peters), Colin Potter (Mirror, Nurse With Wound etc), Andrew Liles (Nextera,Microphonies), Tactile (aka John Everall - Sentrax Recordings, The Empty Quarter) and our very own Disco Operating System. There are more details at our Burst Couch page, Here
New Site:
Welcome all to the (at last) updated Lotta Continua website. Within here you will find all you need to know about Lotta Continua, Illuminati, Disco Operating System, Triclops and Burst Couch. Enjoy your visit.
John Peel - 1939-2004:
We at Lotta Continua have been deeply shocked and saddened by the news of the untimely death of John Peel. He was one in a million and shall be very sorely missed. The cause for new and underground music in Britain, and worldwide, has lost arguably it's finest and most humble champion. Our condolences go out to Sheila and his family. RIP John.
Review of LC 001 & 002 in September issue of The Wire:
.....Lotta Continua is another start-up label with clear-eyed confidence to slide a couple of extra zeroes into their catalogue numbers, and it's hard not to love them for it. There's a certain purity to the way these first two releases come packaged in uniform edition. Gareth Bibby, aka Disco Operating System, follows up his debut album 'You Don't....' with a neatly segmented flow of thoughtful electronic abstractions that make a good play for your attention. With Ocean Almanac, Dave Clarkson, aka Illuminati, heads into choppier waters after his 'Searching For A New Land'. Things are kept taught and tense on this voyage. Except for on the breezily buoyant "Bouvet Oya-Frozen Island", featuring WJ Clarkson on vibraphone, this is about the vicissitudes of morality. (quote from Bill Shakespeare on sleeve) Here's to the first 100 releases." - Ken Hollings