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READ ALL ABOUT IT: Cavendish Release Reviewed In The Wire
Famously the domain of genre-bending, boundary-breaking musicians, music magazine The Wire have reviewed one of our library releases in their latest print issue, calling it “out of this world”!
Pioneers 04: Mordant Music is the fourth in our Pioneers series (also featuring Dot Allison, Tod Dockstader and Rick Wakeman), and was an opportunity to give free rein to some of the most forward-thinking experimental electronic music artists around, creating an album of weird and wonderful, but broadcast-friendly music.
Mordant Music has become a name synonymous with the brilliant, bizarre and psychedelic. The label has built a reputation for releasing music from the very edges of the musical universe, with FACT magazine calling them “vital, unpredictable and captivating”. For this album they have brought together Shackleton, Ekoplekz and Baron Mordant from the label to deliver us an album of brilliant drones and atmospheres, from the emotive to the disturbing.
Known to his friends as Sam Shackleton, and to fans all over the world as Shackleton, Reiner Zufall is a purveyor of dark, intense and incredibly forward-thinking electronic music. Stalker, released by Mordant Music in 2004, was picked up by Rough Trade Records and included on their Best of 2004 compilation. Since then he has gone on to release a mix album for the legendary Fabric club/label, with further releases on Honest Jon’s Records and his own Skull Disco and Woe To The Septic Heart labels.
Nick Edwards from Bristol is Ekoplekz and assorted side-projects, including eMMplekz (with Baron Mordant), Ekoclef (with Bassclef), Ensemble Skalectrik, PLKZFX etc. He has released with a huge range of legendary leftfield labels including Planet Mu, Punch Drunk, Mordant Music, Editions Mego, Further, Perc Trax, Feral Tapes, Public Information and Magic & Dreams.
As a curator of the leftest of leftfield, Baron Mordant has built a solid reputation, reinforced by his own artistic endeavours which include his collaboration with the BFI, soundtracking a set of public information films.
