There are only 30 of these desirable transparent vinyl sides in existence, which have each been painstakingly cut in realtime by Jacques of the handcut label, Artifex in Barcelona.

Auction 1 - Auction 2

Meanwhile the monome.org community have compiled a fundraiser compilation, with 100% of the sale proceeds being donated to Médecins Sans Frontières.

“…their beats sound more ingenious than ever” - Pitchfork Review

“…As per usual it’s bursting with energy, madness, and tons of skewed invention” - Bleep

“…some of the oddest future funk around… a skilled melange of live instrumentation and electronic studio trickery” - Boomkat

Listen here.

Spandex - Bermuda Triangle from Hand on the Plow on Vimeo.

Click through to view in full HD.

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We are very proud to present the debut release from our new artist imagineIAM.

(Merry Go Round) will be released on January 12th 2009 in vinyl and digital flavours, featuring 3 original tracks, a Beckett & Taylor remix and an uncredited track exclusive to the vinyl.

imagineIAM hails from Louisiana, USA and has delivered a heavy, heavy debut for us. You’ll be hearing a lot more from him.

Buy right now from or BLEEP.

Listen here.

We are very pleased to offer up a full length, high quality recording of the Spandex gig at last Saturday’s Sleep Debt party in London. This is a strictly hardware based set, MPC and Nord G2 in your face.

Download it here or here.
(118.61 MB - 320kbps VBR MP3)

Or listen to a 2 minute preview:

Spandex - “I love my V50″

If that’s not enough for you he will be playing alongside THE BLACK E , the fearsome duo of Plow compadre Cristian Vogel and the multi-talented Ben Pest.

Despite the artists coming from as far as Barcelona and.. Nottingham… it’ll definitely be a ‘home crowd’ and a great atmosphere so please join us.

SUB returns, this time showcasing the best of Cristian Vogel’s Sleep Debt label. Following on from their awesome live PA at Bloc 2008 (the highlight of the weekend for us), The Black E (Cristian Vogel & Ben Pest) return for another improvised, hardware mash-up, playing their own style of techno; forward thinking, but with strong roots in the Chi-Town, Jacking Minimal sounds of the early 90s. Not to be missed!! Spandex will also be dropping by for more hardware based techno mayhem, and if that’s not enough, Coin Operated CEO, DJ Mustard Gunn will be finishing things off with his bag of bangers.

Saturday 27th September /// 9pm – 3.30am /// £7
Gramaphone, Commercial St, E1
Buy tickets in advance here.

All nicely warming up for the new Spandex 12″ due early 2009.

Jesus. Thank god for that. But we can’t really just piss about as we are knees deep with the writing of our debut album. It’s going to be a cracker, we hear the summer of 2008 is ‘all about wonky’.

To celebrate the milestone of finally getting HOTP007 out the door we are giving away a free MP3 of Me Too. Me Too is our remix of the title track which you can download by clicking here. Or listen with the widget below.

“Nothing needs to rhyme with me, the singer growls, and indeed, it’s hard to see what could. The song’s in its own league.” - Pitchfork Media

“…they make for an odd couple, but then that’s what B&T are all about.”
Spannered

“Superbly brain-wrong bit of human/machine hybrid funk that sits right outside of genres” - Mixmag

To read more and listen go here.

This series got some very nice press from magazines such as FACT and Spannered.

In other very welcome news, the HOTP007 vinyl is FINALLY on the way, due in the shops May 12th. This record has been such a saga with distribution problems, pressing and mastering problems.

Signal Series, Satunday

It’s been a phenomenal amount of work so thank the gods it’s coming out now. The pressing sounds fantastic, thanks to the brinkmanship and mastering wizardry of Cristian Vogel at Station 55 Studio in Barcelona and Rashad at Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin. What a team.

HOTP007 will be released on 12″ and digital formats in early January 2008. This four track release features two new songs and two remixes from the prolific Cristian Vogel.

Beckett & Taylor, Tuesday

Cristian’s remixes were composed using a prototype version of his bespoke techno tracking system The Never Engine, which is also the title of his jacking new solo album on Tresor Berlin. Also highly recommended is the recent rocking album from Cristian’s band Night of the Brain and a CD of experimental music which Cristian composed in collaboration with the choreographer Gilles Jobin. If only Beckett & Taylor were so industrious…

The other news is that our US fans can now buy Plow music on the new Amazon.com mp3 download service. Amazon is completely DRM free so a much better alternative to iTunes… although frankly we and other small labels see a much better return if you buy MP3’s from Bleep or Boomkat. All the B’s please, all the B’s.

Beckett & Taylor recently remixed the track Midnight Swim by Parisian artist Para One. The 12″ is in most good shops on the Institubes label.

“While the main remixes on this 12″ (Riton, Surkin) will please more mainstream house and electro-house floors, this one from favourites of this page and Hand On The Plow mainstays Beckett & Taylor will please the most warped of minds. Grafting jacking Chi-town house to massive sub bass notes, voice cut-ups and fierce drum production creates a startlingly original and kicking track.” - Mixmag

“…take their hands off the plow long enough to outclass their fellows” - Stylus Magazine

“Beckett & Taylor: The new masters of skewed house” - Nuloop.com

“the wonderful beckett and taylor turn the original inside out” - Rough Trade