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A Field Full of Sunken Horses

by Moon Wiring Club

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  • WHEN A NEW TRICK COMES OUT, I DO AN OLD ONE ~

    A huge TRIPLE compact disc set of archive / unreleased / unearthed all-fancy MWC sounds to celebrate their 10th / 100th / 10,000th year of functionality in 2016.

    Shrinkwrapped 3xCD in a delightfully designed multi-panel digifile with 4 pockets, one for each disc and one to house a massively detailed A2 double-sided poster. The finish is double-printed reverse board.

    Boomkat Product Review:

    'Epic 3CD set celebrating 10 years of Moon Wiring Club via 66 tracks of unreleased, archive and obscure tracks, all remastered splendidly to form something like an 'alternative best of'. It's chronological, so you get the first disc covering 2003-2009, the second 2010-2011, and the third 2012-2013. None of the tracks have been on CD before!

    Moon Wiring Club breaks out the black pudding bunting to celebrate 10 years of quintessentially northern english surreality with When A New Trick Comes Out, I Do An Old One, collecting three discs of cherry-picked freaks and ill-conceived ideas sourced from the nether region of his steam-powered hard drive. Fair to say that after a decade of exploring this sound, MWC brilliantly and definitely sounds like nobody but himself.

    If you’ve had the head to follow the MWC and Gecophonic saga over the years so far, you’ll no doubt be as a charmed and baffled as us by its darkly sophisticated sense of glamour and maze of Escher-esque looping arrangements which never seem to go anywhere, yet always make you feel like you’ve been somewhere else.

    The first disc, A Field Full Of Sunken Horses hearkens back to MWC’s earliest phase c. 2003-2009, including a higher quality version of the titular fan fave which was issued as 128kbps MP3 only by The Wire in 2005, and now appears in higher quality along with the flanging, bubbling magick of Rotten Druid and the bandy-legged swagger of Owd Lads Night, each making canny, secretive use of samples procured from the fecund charity shops and second hand record stores of Clinkskell.

    His 2nd disc, Tripping In The Elizabethan Sense brings us up to the period surrounding Clutch It Like A Gonk, namely variations on a “dance” music theme. But that’s dance music from Clinkskell, some time in a dimension that’s familiar yet parallel to our own, and the results spell out a slew of wrong-steps and mystic fogtrots which, if they came from this dimension, would have predated the ‘90s’ fixation with multiple CD mixes of the same songs. At 22 tracks long, it’s clear that MWC isn’t short on ideas, and that sometimes it’s his overlooked bits that can be the strangest components in Clinkskell’s fractal mosaic.

    The final disc is a descent into the bowels of MWC. Under the title We In This Hill Are Alive he relinquishes a farther 22 tracks of undulating soundscapes, taking inspiration from the rugged hills and valleys surrounding Clinksell to render a series of deep topographical studies mapping plasmic links between stone circles, hill mounds and ancient folk dressed in cutting edge couture and leaning into the dreamiest corners of Coil-esque electronics with Midsummer Visitation.

    This is a music and upside down world unto itself, one where clocks go backwards and anthropomorphic fancies are an everyday occurrence. It’s a world that will be familiar to many, and seductive to many more.'

    Simon Reynolds Blissblog kindly write-up 09/12/16:

    'MWC celebrates a decade of dank 'n' manky beat-seepage with a three-disc, sumptuously packaged retrospective, clogged to the rim with sundry oddments. Tracks from the sessions for albums that didn't quite fit the finished article. An entire differently mixed and maculate version of one LP. Peculiar-angled, spavined retakes of old familiar favorites.

    Disc A - titled A Field Full of Sunken Horses, trailed in the preview reel as "twenty-two tracks of authentic wistful atmospheric Northern English soggy knackered magical musical nonsense - for real" - pulls together tunes from 2003-2009. The core, says, Ian, are the four tracks from the MP3 EP A Field Full of Sunken Horses that The Wire hosted. There's a couple of tunes also from the barely-released I'm More Than A Memory Now, from 2007 - which I only recently learned was actually Moon Wiring Club's debut album, not as I'd believed, An Audience of Art Deco Eyes. My favorite thing here is "Penfriends", hitherto only available on the ASDA mix and presented now in a wondrously glistening new print. That tune sets off all sorts of private memory-shivers for me - but no use prying, I'm keeping my lips sealed. Of the disc as a whole, Ian notes, "What I hear from this... is the ‘Charity Shop’ secondhand element, in places a rough quality that captures the years I spent collecting things."

    Disc B - titled Tripping in the Elizabethan Sense, trailed in the infomercial as "twenty-two tracks of alternative Gonk renditions fizzed up swanking music for the ultimate in ghost party delirium - for double real" - is a different version of 2011's Clutch it Like a Gonk. Ian says he's really into "the idea of alternate mixes, something you used to get in 90s electronic music all the time but now it doesn’t really seem to happen. I wonder if it’s something to do with the method of making music, with modern digital-audio workstations you have so many options you can change all the internal elements of a track to your heart's content, but if you're using something based in the 90s the memory constraints don’t really allow this." Alongside the reimagined Gonk, there's a track ("Galaxy Class") from an unfinished project called "Cronky Disco" and another ("Hunted By Sentient Topiary") from a planned EP themed around the concept of twin towns, "using German vocal samples from a Bavarian Clinkskell." My favourite tune on this disc is "Special Nougat (Ghastly Nougat Mix)", which juxtaposes a nagging nodding-dog carnival-pulse with Doc Scott-esque swoops of black-cloud malevolence. But I'm also rather partial to "Tudorbethan Jobbernowl (Full Jobbernowl Mix)" which again seems to taunt the listener with its jeering melody-riffs and antic air, offset with one those classic MWC reverb-basslines that seems to probe moistly into one's auditory nethers.

    Disc C - titled We In This Hill Are All Alive, trailed as "twenty-two tracks of dark reality twilight white peak magical moorland music for the ultimate in spectral landscape shenanigans - for triple real" - is an unreleased album originally planned to be next in the sequence after Clutch It Like A Gonk. But Ian got pulled in different directions ("odd time signatures" with Today Bread, Tomorrow Secrets, then "a clothing-based computer game" with A Fondness For Fancy Hats). Ian reveals that a particular influence on We In This Hill Are All Alive was a certain "Weird English Countryside" text. This disc contains Ian's own favourite MWC tune, "Eternal Lovebirds (Midnight Mix)" - verily a darkly and dankly enchanting lattice of glints and whispers. My ear is also entranced by the vocal wibbles of "If You had The Key."'

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CD A escaped from WHEN A NEW TRICK COMES OUT, I DO AN OLD ONE 3xCD Compilation

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released December 2, 2016

'He've Got Saint Lawrence on the Shoulder' contains elements of 'Military Flux' by Time Attendant 2006

All audio captured in the Curtain Draped Studio by Mr Paris Green and Dr Lettow-Vorbeck 1596-1992

Written and Produced by the Moon Wiring Club, at the Blank Workshop, Clinkskell, Northern England.

Mastered by Jon Brooks @ Newyattsounds

Sleeve design by Kynaston Mass

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