Psychonavigation Records Dublin,Ireland

[Psycho]

Hey folks!

A pleasure to be part of The Black Dog forum!

This following thread will keep you informed of all the goings on with our record label 'Psychonavigation Records'

Firstly a little background on the label if I may.

Founded in August 2000 by Keith Downey, Psychonavigation Records is Ireland's leading Chill-out / Electronic music label. Our company is known for working with some of the world's biggest music producers around the globe. Artists such as The Orb, Beat Foundation (Groove Armada), Move D, Gel-Sol, Mixmaster Morris, Richard H Kirk, Animal Collective and homegrown musicians such as The Pale & RSAG have all contributed to the label's success. The label has just celebrated it's 35th release in the form of Anodyne 'Corrosion'.

We love to hear peoples comments good or bad associated with the label so please feel free to contribute to this thread.

We'll also be popping in and out of other threads on the board with our own personal views on various topics.

Cheers for reading!

Keith Downey
Psychonavigation
http://www.psychonavigation.com
http://www.myspace.com/psychonavigationrecordsartists

[Babaluma]

welcome keith!

are you ken's long lost relative?

your roedelius release looks very interesting!

all the best,

gregg

[Psycho]

Hi Gregg,

Ha no were not related man.

Yes were pretty happy with the Roedelius release it helped the label's profile greatly!

Cheers,

Keith

[Psycho]

This weeks news

Anodyne 'Corrosion' LP

Fresh off the back of Brawdcast's Hip-Hop album, Psychonavigation Records takes it up a few gears and brings you the new album from Anodyne.

'Corrosion' is the work of producer Colin N Cloughley and his latest creation is strictly aimed for the dancefloor. Fans of Ambient/Breaks/Techno will find this record most appealing!

Take a look at the press sheet below for a guide of what's an offer over the albums twelve tracks.

The album gets it's official Irish / USA release on CD & Digital download this coming
Friday (23rd). UK/ROW follows on May 10th.

If your itching for a sneak preview of the album you can listen to samples here : http://www.myspace.com/anodyneireland

If your a journalist and would like to review the album mail us back for a promo!

If you'd like to buy the album you can grab a disc direct from our web shop : http://www.psychonavigation.com/releases.html

Thanks to everyone for your continued support.

Keep it independent!


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Anodyne Supports Autechre (Warp)!!

Anodyne launches his album with a Live performance alongside electronic pioneers Autechre & DJ. Rob Hall (Skam) this coming Friday in the Button Factory. Anodyne is on stage shortly after midnight. This will be an incredible night of electronic grooves. Grab a tickets from tickets.ie!


Enjoy the weekend.

[cdw]

Hello Keith,

I'll check out your site and links, good to see you on the board.

[Psycho]

Fresh from his Live set supporting Autechre last night,Anodyne makes a trip to RTE studios this evening for an interview and to perform a Live set on Ceol Eire.

6pm-7pm listen live here : http://www.rte.ie/pulse

[Psycho]

Final track of the night, last show of Autechre's Oversteps tour. Rob Hall drops Anodyne - Walk Into Darkness and destroys the place.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ3TWzZy ... r_embedded

[Psycho]

Anodyne Interview and liveset @ Ceol Eire. Stream and download.

http://electro.ie/ceoleire/index.php?en ... 424-201801

Enjoy

[Martin Dust]

Great stuff Keith

[Psycho]

Nice one Martin!

[kendo]

Ha no were not related man.

I've often wondered about it, because the names are so similar.
It seems if your ancestors were from Ireland, it's downEY, and Scotland it's downIE.

Welcome to the board anyway, Keith.

[Psycho]

'It seems if your ancestors were from Ireland, it's downEY, and Scotland it's downIE'

Yep seems the case Ken!

Nice one

Keith

[Psycho]

Anodyne 'Corrosion Album

CD :

(Ireland) City Discs,Road Records,Spindizzy,HMV & Tower Records.

(USA) Darla.com

(UK/ROW) From the 10th May the CD will be available from Bleep.com, Boomkat, Juno, Rough Trade,HMV.co.uk,Tower.com etc..



Digital :

Itunes - http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/corrosion/id356351356

Bleep - http://bleep.com/index.php?page=release ... seid=24524

Beatport - https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/con ... /Corrosion

Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Corrosion/dp/B003A4X7V2

7 Digital - http://ie.7digital.com/artists/anodyne/corrosion/

Read more: http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuse ... z0mgxTodij

[Psycho]

The Anodyne album is currently no.3 in the Bleep.com download chart

http://www.bleep.com

Thanks for the support!

[Psycho]

Anodyne seems to be making good in the Juno charts.
http://www.juno.co.uk/leftfield/charts/ ... /download/

Also here's one of the first online reviews of the albums
http://www.zenbeatsblog.com/?tag=/Anodyne

More very soon

[Psycho]

AU Magazine Review

Colin Cloughley is one of Ireland’s unsung heroes. Returning to his Anodyne project after a 14-year hiatus, he unveils his latest opus to the world via the delightful Dublin-based cottage industry that is Psychonavigation Records. To say that the album is a journey of sorts would be an understatement. Corrosion comes over like the memoirs of an experienced electronic mind and despite what the name Anodyne suggests, this is far from a tame or colourless offering.

Blending deep, minimalistic textures, Cloughley offers a serious sonic experiment, projecting his own twisted vision of techno via dark soundscapes and deeply absorbing basslines. His use of melody, while subtle, provides a solid backdrop for the elements of acid and breakbeat that he blends here with clinical precision. Corrosion’s collision of dark ambience and austere beats will appeal to any future-obsessed raver. Matt Hazley

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

KEY TRACKS: ‘CHEMICAL SUNSET’, ‘WALK INTO DARKNESS’.
FOR FANS OF: AUTECHRE, THE BLACK DOG.

Taken from : http://iheartau.com/reviews/anodyne-corrosion/

[Psycho]

Psychonavigation Records takes over the controls at Ireland's national station 2FM this evening at 4am to bring you another 60 minutes of tunes from our back catalogue! Expect 2 exclusive tracks from Enrico Coniglio's new album forthcoming on the label.Also past favourites from Mick Chillage,Anodyne,R.S.A.G.,Matthew Devereux,The Caretaker....

The mix goes out live at 4am here : http://www.rte.ie/2fm

Listen back to it from Monday morning here : http://plus2.info/elpis/ipod.htm

More information here : http://www.psychonavigation.com

[Psycho]

Taken from : http://popstalinist.blogspot.com/2010/0 ... -2010.html

Anodyne used to be on Skam, the fabled label run by early-mid 90's Autechre, the original home of Boards of Canada and others. After over a decade of relative silence, Anodyne is back supporting Autechre on their recent European tour and coming out with their first album in 14 years, Corrosion.

I started off as an IDM kid, as you might know. Over 10 years since the zenith of that particular scene, the signature Artificial Intelligence sound is becoming harder and harder to find - so many acts have gone off in different directions, to more straightforward acid sounds (AFX, Luke Vibert), to jazz (Squarepusher, Plaid), techno (The Black Dog) or to silence (Boards of Canada). Corrosion sounds out of time, sounding at first like a forgotten early-90's Warp album only recently uncovered and released, before it starts to take on the characteristics of many recognizable strains of IDM. It's sort of a "super IDM" album.

The common frame of reference is early Autechre. We're talking Incunabula here - there are the looming, dystopic sci-fi synth pads and majestic swoops of that era in the IDM luminaries' sound, but this album is a relic of those times when IDM was electronic dance music that you could listen to through headphones. This is a dance record. The first track " even with its dreamy, echoing synths, retains the muscular bass and 4/4 beat of club music, and the dark, unmistakably Skam-esque "Close Your Eyes" breaks down into acid house sequencing in the final minutes of the song. The propulsive drum and bass of "Awaken from your Dream" late Aphex Twin crossed with the almost church-like organic synth sensibility of Boards of Canada.

Title track "Corrosion" is straight out of Incunabula, with its robotic drum break and its booming, dark rave bass. "Darken" starts off bordering on EBM before transitioning into hard acid. "Goodbye is Never Enough" gives a brief reprieve back through the austere, bottomless soundscapes of early Autechre before coming back to hardcore dark rave in "Wasteland", sounding almost like a lost Filth-era Venetian Snares track before those familiar haunting synths start floating around on top of it. "707" moves the Autechre comparisons forward a bit, to the towering sci-fi epics of Tri Repetae ++. It's the breakout track on a strong album.

"Chemical Sunset" is something of a misstep, its overabundant attitude and booming 4/4 beat running roughshod over all other elements of the song. "Haze" recalls the dark rave that Detrimentalist-era Venetian Snares evoked so well - the addition of acid bass later in the song makes it sound like a particularly good Last Step tune. "Walk Into Darkness" follows along those same lines, with an even bigger, thudding rhythm before shifting into seriously dancefloor-ready breaks. By all rights, it should be tearing up any goth / EBM night it gets dropped into. The final track, "Alchemy", with its shuffling beat and distant pads, gives way to a seriously fantastic rave buildup, a great way to end the album.

I'm doing Anodyne a disservice by describing (and thus defining) their music strictly in terms of the output of other artists, but it's just too difficult to describe music as "IDM" and leave that as a good descriptor of what it sounds like, and it's just not often that a record like this comes out, these days. Anodyne has a very distinct take on what we know of as IDM, one that's darker and more dancefloor-oriented than you might expect. Definitely worth a listen for fans of any of the artists I mentioned.

[Psycho]

Hello folks,

It's been a tough job going through all the demos but we've picked out albums and singles for the remainder of 2010.

Some gems for your listening pleasure

Your continued support is greatly appreciated.

Keep it independent!

Psychonavigation



Psychonavigation Records May 2010 - November 2010

Tiny Magnetic Pets - Love Is A Stranger (TMP cover the Eurythmics classic) Radio single

Sean Quinn - Skylines [Ambient] Re-release of the debut album from the droog with the moog CD / Digital Download

Antonio Trinchera - Voce Falena [Ambient Soundscapes / Classical] Digipack CD /
Digital Download

Brawdcast - 3 Amigos [Hip-Hop / Downtempo] Remixes by Gel-Sol,Cuttooth,Lackluster & Anodyne Digital Download

Anodyne - Remixes [Techno / Electronica] Remixes by The Black Dog, Lackluster, Mick Chillage + more tbc. Limited 12" Vinyl + Digital Download

Common Tongue - want & longing [Live Electronics / Seán Óg] Released on Psychonavigation's offshoot label 'Nippi Records' Digipack CD / Digital Download

Gel-Sol - K8EMA [Ambient / Chillout] Digipack CD / Digital Download

Enrico Coniglio - Salicornie (Areavirus Topofonie Vol 2) [Ambient / Environmental / Classical] Digipack CD / Digital Download

Buckminster Fuzeboard [Downtempo] 'TBC' Digipack CD / Digital Download


http://www.myspace.com/sinestesia00
http://www.myspace.com/brawdcast
http://www.myspace.com/anodyneireland
http://www.eigsecarlow.ie/2010-programm ... mon-tongue
http://www.gel-sol.com
http://www.enricoconiglio.com

[Psycho]

Hey guys,

Currently we are busy compiling the remixes of Anodyne's 'Corrosion' album.

Here's the first mix in from Dublin producer Mick Chillage

http://soundcloud.com/mick-chillage/ano ... it-version

Over the coming weeks we'll post more edited versions of the various remixes

http://www.psychonavigation.com/corrosion.html

[Babaluma]

cool, i just mastered a gel-sol remix by dialog>

http://www.dialogmusic.com/wordpress/

very nice stuff!

[taoyoyo]

... Mick Chillage very kindly played one of the Dialog> tracks ('Mindeep') that I co-wrote on one of his radio shows recently (and gave me a shoutout too, which was nice as it doesn't often happen!).

http://soundcloud.com/the-chillage-idiots/the-chillage-idiots-xfm-dublin-may-13th-2010

It's a small world!

[Psycho]

Good to hear Taoyoyo & Babaluma!!

Latest Anodyne - Corrosion review just in

http://www.textura.org/reviews/anodyne.htm

Anodyne: Corrosion
Psychonavigation

Ireland-based electronic producer Colin N Cloughley delivers the goods on his latest anodyne outing Corrosion. On twelve tracks influenced by the likes of Autechre, Black Dog, and U-Ziq, Cloughley gives his old-school electro-acid-IDM a viral twist by powering most of it with fulminating breakbeats. The album opens on an atmospheric tip with the brooding techno of “When The Sky Fell Down” but its low-key vibe hardly suggests that what comes after will be as powerful and heavy as it turns out to be. A “Firestarter”-like breakbeat attack gives “Close Your Eyes” considerable oomph while sweeping string synths and cryptic voice murmurs bring a dark and cinematic ambiance to the tune. There's nothing lacklustre about “Darken” either when its pounding beats throb and acid synths burn with epic determination; the track's style may be familiar, but the energy and enthusiasm levels Cloughley brings to the material are through the roof. “Chemical Sunset” apparently was inspired by a drive Cloughley took through Dublin as the sunlight faded but, in keeping with its title, the track also oozes the kind of middle-of-the-night delirium one associates with rave culture, especially when its synthetic strings arc across the multi-hued sky, and fireballs such as “Haze,” “Walk Into Darkness,” and “Alchemy” show that there's no shortage of energy when the album hits the home stretch. Think pulsating cuts filled with sweeping synth atmospherics and driven by raw, stomping beats and you're pretty much there.

June 2010