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Beautifully packaged and mastered Digipack CD with four-sided colour artwork. Hear Sleight Of NAND in its intended crystal digital quality showcasing Richard’s mind-expanding frequency spectrum, and hold a lovely piece of art to boot. Sounds seriously big!

“Of greatest interest is his ability to smoothly move from percussion-led breaks to drone-led concrete and back, via glitch, looped beats…using the studio itself to create ‘natural’ feedback. Reminds me of Johnny Greenwood’s Bodysong soundtrack; can’t be a bad thing.” High Voltage

“every moment you try to chart the style it differs to keep the listener guessing…. Richard has ultimately bared his soul, in every track there are pieces of him dotted all over each tone… no wonder Concrete Moniker are so excited about his work.” Quenched Music

Clicks and cuts have never sounded so homegrown or heart-warming.

Concrete Moniker presents the debut album from Manchester-based electronic improviser and producer, Richard Knight. He is already well known on the local scene for curating the infamous ‘Electronic Organica’ nights as well as his avant-house and experimental minimal techno self-releases.

This debut album is his first full-length solo offering, and offers a devilishly diverse, wide-ranging and downright thrilling set of new recordings, exclusive for release on Concrete Moniker.

The reference points range far and wide: hypnotic electronic gamelan explorations; abstracted minimal techno; Steve Reich-influenced phasing minimalism; Raster Noton-flavoured glitchy electronica; ambient drones and current UK bass music rumblings.

All of these are filtered and warped into Knight’s palette, and the result is something quite arresting, and totally unique. Experimentalism stays always at the forefront of his mind but groove, melody and old-school beat making in his heart.

What makes this debut album all the more astounding is the source material – gained exclusively from mixing desks used on their own, without any input. By utilising feedback and feedforward techniques between desks, Knight coaxes a gorgeously organic and rich soundworld from some of his collector’s set of gear (at last count over 20 mixers!).