Our journey of ISOLATION AND REJECTION comes to a close, with our fifth and final volume of rejected and orphaned sounds, collated for your pleasure and also to raised money for The Brick, a brilliant charity in Wigan.
We’ve raised £2,000 so far, which is amazing – and we’ve also given a home to sounds otherwise left out in the rain or down the back of the sofa, or brutally cast aside by evil record label bosses as they seek fame, fortune or some kind of ‘coherence’ to their own compilations. The fools.
Volume 5 is the perfect way to end this project, featuring the likes of Mammoth Beat Organ (Sam Underwood and Graham Dunning), Cahn Ingold Prelog, Assembled Minds, jonny mugwump, Jonathan Sharp, ARC Soundtracks, Accidental Tones and many many more.
There are 24 in total on Volume 5, making 115 tracks released across the whole series. That’s a stat for you.
ISOLATION AND REJECTION was born out of thinking about what happened to all the tracks that didn’t make it onto those fancy compilations (you know the ones), and then turned into a larger-than-planned project to collect, collate and promote rejected sounds. This is not an isolation project – it’s a rejection project.
We asked artists “Did you get rejected from that compilation? Did you send something somewhere, and then nothing happened? Did that one weird track not quite fit on the new album? Did you lose that guaranteed hit in the (actual or virtual) loft and have just stumbled across it? Well this is the compilation for you!”
All income raised is going to The Brick in Wigan – a charity on the front line of supporting those most in need, seeking to address the inequalities across our country exacerbated by COVID-19, but there all along.
Artists contributing to the series include Time Attendant, Howlround, Dolly Dolly, Cahn Ingold Prelog, Alison Cotton, Farmer Glitch, Rupert Lally, Sone Institute, The Declining Winter, TVO, Ekoplekz, Kemper Norton, Boobs of Doom, Grey Frequency, Elizabeth Joan Kelly, Thomas Ragsdale and many many more. Some you will know and some maybe you won’t.
TRACK LISTING
1. Accidental Tones - Mute
2. ARC Soundtracks - Exhibit F
3. Assembled Minds - The Eerie Machine Hums a Barley Song to the Sun
4. Bit Cloudy - Secret Genes
5. Blood Everywhere - Retaliate First
6. Cahn Ingold Prelog - Diweddion
7. das fax mattinger - Sommerhit (live at Fluc Mensa)
8. Digital Observations - Robot Isolation
9. Dogs Versus Shadows - C.C.P
10. Dominic Bradnum - Lo-Fi Symphony for Portslade-by-Sea (Requiem for BLANK 5)
11. Isobel Ccircle~ - Devour Isolation
12. Jonathan Sharp - Brides Beck
13. jonny mugwump – the mirror cracked
14. Laica - (Kakinuma) Traces of the soul
15. Mammoth Beat Organ - Mast
16. Petrine Cross - Absorbed In Artificial Night
17. Quartersized - Limiting
18. Simpl_Machine - The Worst In Me
19. Synthetic Villains - Rhythm & Weep (Remix)
20. The Both And - Tomorrowland
21. The Kendal Mintcake - ∞%Y
22. The Metamorph - The Wisdom Of Orac
23. The Phlod-Nar - Flames & Thunder
24. Utility Player - Heat Evolution
Volumes 1, 2, 3 and 4 are out now. Volume 5 is the end.
Front & Follow explored the outer reaches of modern music with the sole, perhaps overly ambitious, aim of offering you something a little different. Front & Follow was a project of the Watson Marriage Experiment, and is currently in hibernation. Don’t tell anyone.
Gated Canal Community was dreamt up in the pub by Spenser, Justin and Becca. We play records on the radio, we write about them, and we write about other things.
Front & Follow explored the outer reaches of modern music with the sole, perhaps overly ambitious, aim of offering you something a little different. Front & Follow was a project of the Watson Marriage Experiment, and is currently in hibernation. Don’t tell anyone.
Gated Canal Community was dreamt up in the pub by Spenser, Justin and Becca. We play records on the radio, we write about them, and we write about other things.
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