New Orbit Service track available on MOM CD from Beta-lactam Ring

New track from Orbit Service will be appearing on the MOM release on Beta-lactam Ring, (all proceeds going to help Chris' mom in her fight against stomach cancer).

We are super proud to have been asked to contribute for such a worthy cause. The new Orbit Service track features violin work from Elin Palmer (Crooked Fingers, Woven Hand, Munly and the Lee Lewis Harlots). Please click here to order a copy of the CD.

Other artists appearing on this special release include: CJ Boyd, One Starving Day, Nadja, Expo '70, Seven That Spells, Troum, Armchair Migraine Journey, LaSTPO, The Legendary Pink Dots, Nurse With Wound, Un Festin Sagital, Earthmonkey, Andrew Liles, Volcano The Bear, and Else Teicher (I hope I didn't leave anyone off!)

HEAVYWEIGHT DUB CHAMPION set to release Rise of the Champion Nation on May 5th, 2009

"Heavyweight Dub Champion restores all hope." - KRS-ONE

Founded in a log cabin at 9,000 feet in the mountains of Colorado, and now based in San Francisco, California, Heavyweight Dub Champion is a movement of interdimensional warriors representing the Army of the Last Champion. Firmly rooted in hip hop, dancehall, dub and electronic music, founder and Last Champion Manifesto author Resurrector transcends space and time wielding an arsenal of deep revolutionary audio with support from a evolving crew of co-conspirators that include co-founder Patch, Totter Todd, Dr. Israel, A.P.O.S.T.L.E, Jillian Ann and Stero-Lion. At the collective's core is the universal intention of inspiration, mind expansion and transformation through creative expression - all of which manifests in their collective artistic performance known as The Liberation Process.

Their award-winning debut album Survival Guide for the End of Time is a hard-hitting slab of revolutionary consciousness that continues to galvanize a growing legion of followers across the globe. Their unique sound, powerful presence and evolutionary message of self-determination have attracted the attention of many notable artists, critics and international festivals. Their music has been remixed by the legendary FreQ Nasty who included his mix of "Snared" on the recent FabricLive 42 compilation and, by rising star Bassnectar, whose mix of "Arrival" was released by the seminal San Francisco electronic label, OM Records. 2009 is poised to be a landmark year for Heavyweight Dub Champion with the global release of their new album Rise of the Champion Nation and their continued success on the international touring circuit.

Heavyweight Dub Champion - Rise of the Champion Nation

Rise of the Champion Nation is the highly anticipated, genre-bending new album from Heavyweight Dub Champion. Produced by Resurrector and Patch and recorded over the span of five years on multiple continents, Rise features collaborations with some of contemporary music's most incendiary vocalists, including Killah Priest, Dr. Israel, A.P.O.S.T.L.E. and three tracks with the legendary KRS ONE. More than 25 artists contributed to the album with additional production from Totter Todd. Building on the foundations of hip hop, dub, electronic music and ancient trance ritual - Heavyweight Dub Champion is breaking new ground and blazing new paths in what they term Sonic Shamanistic Alchemy.

Picking up where their debut album Survival Guide for the End of Time and its included 60 page Last Champion Manifesto left off, Rise of the Champion Nation is a "conceptual" album that follows the inner battle of the "Warrior," from the Arrival (of the Last Champion), through Warrior Divination One, Two and Three, to his emergence as the King Of The Mountain and the journey's end with the entrance to the Promised Land. Throughout the album Emcee VILL is again beckoned by "N.A.F. Agents" while on his quest to infiltrate Champion Nation and assassinate the Last Champion. Heavyweight Dub Champion's mission is simple: "The Unconditional Liberation of the Human Race."

"An ill-bent mix of apocalyptic hip hop dubtronica." - Westword Magazine

"Some of the hottest dub hop on the planet." - Marquee Magazine

"Their genius is the great virtue of 70's dub - never overdoing it." - L.A. Weekly

Rise of the Champion Nation features contributions from KRS ONE, Killah Priest, A.P.O.S.T.L.E., Dr. Israel, Totter Todd, Stero-Lion, Elf Tranzporter, Ganga Giri, Lady K, Emcee Vill, Lady K, J Criminology, Wailer B, Lynelle Moran, Dan West, Ivan "Choi" Khatchoyan, Hector Becerra, Emcee Vill, Vida-Sunshyne and DJ Illnaughty.

Mix Engineered by Oz Fritz
Mastered by Brian "Big Bass" Gardner

Impending Release: [reciprocess : +/vs.] documenting the process of musical reciprocality between Philippe Petit & friends

a new song showing the collab of Bela Emerson & Philippe Petit, feat. on vocals Randall Frazier of Orbit Service can be heard there:

www. myspace. com/philippepetit

[reciprocess : +/vs.]

documenting the process of musical reciprocality between Philippe Petit & friends

[bleep 39]

www. bip-hop. com

A few years ago BiP_HOp had started a series called "Reciprocess".

To celebrate 10 years since the inception of the label + his 25 years of activism/DJing, Philippe Petit composed a 70+ minute soundtrack, cut it into pieces which were sent to friends to add their spices to. 

The Wire magazine liked the idea and agreed to give it away with their issue # 301, in March 2009. 

The Cd will offer 80 minutes of exclusive music by:

01) BELA EMERSON (feat. vocals from RANDALL FRAZIER) & Philippe Petit

02) AIDAN BAKER & Philippe Petit

03) CHAPTER 24 & Philippe Petit

04) COSEY FANNI TUTTI & Philippe Petit

05) SIMON FISHER TURNER & Philippe Petit

06) KLANGWART & Philippe Petit

07) DOUGLAS BENFORD & Philippe Petit

08) dDAMAGE & Philippe Petit

09) MARKOVO & Philippe Petit

10) KUMO & Philippe Petit

11) EUGENE S. ROBINSON (courtesy of OXBOW) & Philippe Petit

12) SEVERIN 24 (feat. vocals from KATHY COMPTON) & Philippe Petit

13) JASON FORREST & Philippe Petit

14) LYDIA LUNCH & Philippe Petit

15) JEAN-HERVÉ PERON (art-Errorist/Faust) & Philippe Petit

16) JUSTIN K. BROADRICK & Philippe Petit

17) STRINGS OF CONSCIOUSNESS (Hervé Vincenti & Philippe Petit)

18) SYBARITE & Philippe Petit

in case you'd like to subscribe and secure a copy:

www. thewire. co. uk

PS: also worth your interest...

Bela Emerson : hespera [bleep 38]

4th album from the pioneering electric cellist who builds layers of rhythm and sound from every part of her instrument: sounds are looped, take on lives of their own, bounce off each other...the effect, as anyone who's heard her will testify, is mesmeric. 

SELECTED REVIEWS : 

present Emerson as a skilled and eclectically minded performer. Boomkat / UK

Legendary Pink Dots - Dissonance

driving the pack
from the rear
with a trumpet
with an axe
and a threat

driving to the precipice
windswept and wet
we're starving... neglected

eternally carving my course
on a landscape that's blighted and scorched
i've lighted a torch for the truth
we don't listen, we should
from the blind side
its a landslide
but in hindsight
i thought it was easier

but its all much too late to turn back
i'd lose face
and you'd turn on me
faithlessly put me away
in a place where my orders are echoes
my tortuous ghosts
in a space with no windows
and i'm counting on my toes

all this time to reflect
on my crimes on humanity
i'm screaming profanities
just give me a chance
i'll start over again
i confess i confess

yes, i blew it again

i confess i confess

yes. i blew it again

Antenne "Gloves On"

From the new CD "#3" on helmet room recordings

Legendary Pink Dots "Rainbows Too?" Video

"Rainbows Too?" by THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS

From the album, Plutonium Blonde, available Oct 7, 2008 from ROIR!

LegendaryPinkDots.Org

Legendary Pink Dots "Plutonium Blonde" plus N. American Tour!

Have you checked out the brand spankin' new Legendary Pink Dots site yet?

No? Well, you're missing out on some truly rad things, my friend!

Want to get into a Legendary Pink Dots show for FREE?

ROIR & The LPD are starting a Legendary Pink Dots "Plutonium Blonde" street team. Help us spread the word about the Plutonium Blonde album (out Oct. 7th!) & tour and weíll get you into a Legendary Pink Dots show for FREE!

If the ëPink Dots are playing in your town, help us spread the word. Email anna(at)roir-usa(dot)com with your name and address... and weíll send you posters & flyers for you to put up across town in record stores, book stores, schools, coffee shops, bars or wherever else you want (you know your town the best!). Take a couple photos and email them back to us a week before the showÖ weíll put your work up on the ROIR and LPD sites and weíll add you to the LPD guestlist!

New US Tour Date added!

Hey Chapel Hill, NC! Spend Halloween w/ the 'Pink Dots at the Local 506!

Plutonium Blonde US & Canada Tour

Thu 10/16 Vancouver, BC @ Richard's On Richards Cabaret
Fri 10/17 Portland, OR @ Berbati's Pan
Sat 10/18 Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
Mon 10/20 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
Tue 10/21 Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
Thu 10/23 Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater
Fri 10/24 Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
Sat 10/25 Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick
Sun 10/26 Toronto, ON @ The Mod Club
Mon 10/27 Montreal, QC @ Les Saints
Tue 10/28 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory
Wed 10/29 Boston, MA @ The Middle East Downstairs
Thu 10/30 Washington, DC @ Rock and Roll Hotel
Fri 10/31 Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
Sat 11/01 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
Sun 11/02 Orlando FL @ The Social
Mon 11/03 Tampa, FL @ Orpheum
Wed 11/05 Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
Sat 11/08 Austin, TX @ Stubb's BBQ
Sun 11/09 Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
Tue 11/11 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
Wed 11/12 Tempe, AZ @ Big Fish Pub
Thu 11/13 Los Angeles, CA @ Knitting Factory
Fri 11/14 San Francisco, CA @ Cafe du Nord
Sat 11/15 San Francisco, CA @ Cafe du Nord