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11/05/10 Vx

Vindicatrix funnels his alien art balladry thru the sofa-riddled confines of The Others in Stoke Newington this Thermsday 13th MMay...entrance to 'Voll Mond' is a mere brace of quids and if you have yet to witness the deft troubadour in action there's no freakscuse this time...support comes from a spoon that was wooden and some letters arranged in a funny way...BM

26/04/10 HOPE DODGER

Gary Mills has deftly stamped a marque on his beloved Northampton's bonce with a fearsome meddling in town planning for Alan Moore's new carousel ''Dodgem Logic'...the piece is as taut as Greyfriars' silhouette and we should be thankful that this degree of research and delving is being carried out in an age when most hacks can barely manage a coMMa between latte farts...superb work Admiral...bring ohm Collins...BM

 17/04/10 R.I.P JOHN 'DEADSTOCK' HICKLENTON

It is with a heavily inked flag that I salute an olde cohort of mine who passed away recently after a furious decade-long stint battling MS...John Hicklenton was a master of  adult crayons & a smile on shoulders...we spent many years into it and out of it as mates in the Godalming & Guildford LSD-spiked environs...Cheshire cat inducing times...JH unfurled many a densely-hued page for 2000AD and Crisis amongst others o'er his career and also extended his arm towards record sleeves for the bands Portion Control & his own Deadstock...a true one-off in that and any other realm...he was also the recent star of his own documental 'Here's Johnny'  in which he highlighted his plight in inimitable cavalier style...I regret not seeing you for such a long time mate but those memories are indelibly tattooed into my grey library...salut...IH

31/03/10 SHORT SHRIFT

Alby is currently bringing the MMolars so the Nesst has been transformed into a vast dental swab for the time being...despite the gums there are a couple of musty news nuggets to parp...Vindicatrix gives his erudite brass & woodwind bellows to CoMModore Meniscus thru the Glass window...a hearty parp to CM for further platforMM shoeing...Zeke Clough has rebranded Halfords as the 'Levenshulme Bicycle Orchestra' and moved it wholesale to his goo-inked wastelands with the release of the 'Nine Doors' album...Marlon Brando gets a puncture...the Baron will be filling in the gaps by playing the Slade back catalogue backwards at a Wire do on 1st April for a cast of estimable rentaghosts including Mark Fisher, Moon Wiring Club, Ghost Box & Joe Stannard...finally, 'SyMptoMs' could well be available on vinyl in the next couple of months coutesy of Olde English Spelling Bee...more ohm that hiving as and when it MManifests...Sequential Cervix

17/01/10 MME ARE GLASS

MMany Dankworths to CoMModore Meniscus for Bentos quillage...BM 

14/01/10  SHIT FREE

MM likes to think that it generally accommodates requests for promotional materials from new and enthused spores with open GPO wings but has been dismayed of late to receive a speight of requests that simply bark "Can I get this?"...some of these chancers should fucking back-order 'please' from the lexicon of lob and display a touch more 2nd Class - then they may well 'get'...Walled-In-E

22/10/09  EXOTIC PILES

I enjoyed my first hands-ohm radio foray courtesy of Mr. Mugwump's  Exotic Pylon show on Resonance FMM...nab here...a feisty Halloween shared with library/film oracle Mr. Martin from Quiet Pillage, JM himself & some technically-hitched goblins...MM037/MM038 got some air & I splayed limbs all o'er the alien equipment without due care...MMusty selector...BM

22/10/09  INBOXING

The current Julian Cope-adorned edition of The Wire  features MM ladled ohm the page in erudite fashion by Joseph Stannard plus Mark Fisher's quilling of the 'SyMptoMs' albuMM...s'all grist for the MMill...BM

06/10/09  MM036/MM034 - BRIAN MORANT /SyMptoMs 10"

As somewhat of a diversion from the symptoms of songs MM have seeped out a tape by spectral MMagpie Brian Morant entitled 'Discrete Head'...Brian was holding fort at the Nesst for a few days & simply couldn't help himself...synths were duetted, hard drives scoured & back catalogue plundered as Morant kept the TEAC running...the result is a hard day's drift thru a 42:22 ferric terrain...JiMM won't fix it...also, the MM034 'SyMptoMs' 10" is finally undulating...BM

16/09/09  MM035 - SyMptoMs CD

These talons took delivery of the 'SyMptoMs' cd today & all pre-orders have been posted to those loyal spores who continue to dig deep release after release - apprecii...I'm very satisfied with both the cd & its contents...not too sMMug mind...the 10" is currently swiMMing the channel & should be availed on October 5th from the usual emporia...it can't fail to fair worse than Derby Cunty presently - c'mon Cloughie...BM

28/06/09  MM032 - THE TOWER - ExhuMMed

The final installment of 'The Tower' farrago is currently oozing apace on a bitumen 4 track 12" at retailers vario...it's been a blast screen to work with Lord Klattr & further seeds for a neu project have been sown...take your collective minds from MJ for a MoMent...Michael Buble

06/06/09  BLEEPKAT 

Bleep are offering a stuffed to o'erflowing zipped compilation, which includes MM's 'Hummdrumm', for a sole gold coin until June 15th...you can just about hire a supermarket trolley for that these days...they also appear to have a few copies of the MM014 10" left too...Boomkat are also currently waving a few reduced MM products; MM022/MM017/MM015/MM013 all get a pasting...JiMM Kerr Rang M'lord

05/06/09 MM031 - TRAVELODGE ACETATE WINNER

Champion hoarder Mark Hynds was like a ferocious Apache out of the traps to snare the 'Travelogues 7: 'The End Of The Pier' 12" acetate coMMpetition prize...he camped outside Boomkat all night and pounced ohm the brittle platter before dawn...thanks to MMax Quirk for cutting & Boomkat for wafting the prize...enjoy the dust Mark.

05/05/09 MM030 - MIRED FOR SOUND

Finished copies of the flailing 'Picking O'er The Bones' beast were herded into the Nesst today by the RAC and Wire's current Kode9-encrusted issue has a classic portrait by Stubbs within its walls...Baron Phooey was Kodaked by the Admiral in Watford for the hell of it...Cable Hut Bugle

11/04/09 MM030 -  'PICKING O'ER THE BONES' - SHACKLETON FOUND AT THE END OF A  MAGBOW

It is with an outspoken gatefold breastplate that MM announces its first cd coMpendium comprising a Shackleton quad & sundry other queefes, farts & fugues from MM & Vindicatrix...a total carp of an album...Goitre MaMargs 

09/04/09 MMIX

A loyal spore has diced together a heady MMix which I stumbled across last night whilst foraging for personal fanfares out in the aether - ta for taking the tiMe to chiMe...BM

05/03/09 MM028 -  'THE HAUNTOLOGICAL SONG' - GOBBED OHM THE WING FROM THEE PRESENT

The Nesst is all a froth this month with 3-4 releases in the chamber pot awaiting the startheng gub...first up is a one-sided, etched 10" of medieval proportions called 'The Hauntological Song'...a wry, but no means sly, jab at the 'H' word...composed from the aural detritus of an actual life, rather than an imagined one; MM believe it's a genuine hauntological bull's-eye without sounding like scraping a shoe at Severs' House...push your hand right thru it...Brian MMoore

31/01/09 WEBSITE UPDATUMM

Web skin has been shod and all spores are very Wellcome to palpate the new parchment...BM 

12/12/2008 WIRE 'INNER SLEEVE' – 23 SKIDOO

BM has rolled out a few vowels for an 'Inner Sleeve' article in the current episode of the Wire. The featured sleeve is 'Tearing Up The Plans EP' by 23 Skidoo. A fucking corker. Equally, you could always buy the Sun instead. I did...Sa-vile

11/12/2008 MM026 – MM/VINDICATRIX 12”

MM026 has emerged as quick as a flash – too quickly. Originally intended as another 10” the format grew o'ernight into a 12”. Contained within are two tracks for spores to rave at. MM tease some libel on the 'A' with an ode to MJ called '24 Million Or Sell Neverland' while o'er on the 'AA' bauxite bard Vindicatrix gets swallowed whole by a Shackleton/MM dual version of his orchard musing 'Private Places' – available now at the usual head shops including Boomkat

11/11/2008 AG VS DGV - ‘LOS LOGOS 4’ – TOME HINAUS

Admiral Greyscale has a selection of his finest MM daubings coagulated in the latest of DGV’s ‘Los Logos’ series. The linen-clad 4 reels in some of the world’s finest locks & curls o’er 568 perb Specsavers and keeps the likes of Magma in shelf-buckling business. AG dovetails several classic MM designs from ‘Dead Air’ & ‘The Tower – Parts VIII-XVIII’ etc without birthing a sweat - this is no surprise as he’s currently in training for The Great North Run. Support the quill - Vander

06/11/2008 MASSIVE SMALLS – BUMPER CROP – MM024/25

While Fawkes has been busying his cadaver by rehashing the saltpetre MM too has been tilling the hardened soil with both claws. There are currently two new releases swilling around from Shackleton/MM & Cosmic Dennis Greenidge in the form of a 10” & mp3 respectively. Also, speaking of cadavers the MM014 Shackleton/MM 10” has been re-pressed in a limited quantity as a surplus of labels was discovered under the Admiral as he exited the Nesst. Again, these can be snaffled up at Boomkat etc. More news to come within daze - BM   

09/10/2008 ADMIRALGREYSCALE – NUFF IS NUFF – A SALUTE

Sadly, after many years of staunch creative input within the MM Nesst Admiral Greyscale has decided that permanent shore leave is now due. A personal debt of thanks to him is owed by me for rinsing his vast palette o’er the years in the name of MM and for sharing an uncanny & unique friendship (intact). A small paragraph cannot really do him justice but thankfully the legacy of  MM001 thru to MM024 will at least lend some permanency to his artistic genius. The visual aesthetic of the label is hugely indebted to the one like Gary Mills and his quill is the sharpest out there. MM will undoubtedly be fingers & thumbs for a while. Pure skill is rare - Gary has acres to bask in and his future projects will raise bridges & brows. All the best mate. A font farewell - Baron Mordant

16/08/2008 MORDANT MUSIC TRAVELOGUES 5: 'DATA CADENCE' - OUT NOW

A fifth stop on the 'Travelogues' tour slips a mike into the in-tray for the office ambience of 'Data Cadence'. This bleak beat slithers from the shoe town new town optimism of middle England into the grey daily grind of numerical data entry and payment in rheumatism. Available along with the rest of the 'Travelogues' series exclusively from Boomkat at either £0.99 (MP3) or £1.50 (FLAC). Listen & buy here.

Meanwhile, Mr Maxted's 'Lives & Privacy (94-89)' LP has received a superb notice from Release magazine. The piece can be read in the reviews section here - many thanks to stalwart Mordant supporter Peter Marks.

04/08/2008 MR MAXTED - 'LIVES & PRIVACY (94-89)' - BRAND NEW GREY VINYL LP OUT NOW

After nearly 9 months dormant, MM today announce the release of a brand new album from fresh Mordant recruit Mr. Maxted. 'Lives & Privacy (94-89)' collects 9 tracks from the analog synth archives of this Roehampton-based meddler on a beautiful grey vinyl platter.

Housed with a black corrugated stiffener & A5 'kit list' insert inside a PVC sleeve, this album is available now from this site ahead of other retailers at a series of prices according to location. If you're UK-based, you can buy the LP for £13, European customers can expect to pay £14, and it's £15 to punters residing anywhere else. For all info and purchasing options click here.

Late summer's crop promises to be fat - standby for plenty more brand new MM product over the coming weeks.

27/07/2008 THE SUNDAY TIMES - 'LIFE OUTSIDE THE LIBRARY' ARTICLE FEATURING MM

Today's edition of The Sunday Times includes an article on library music by Bethan Cole in which MM feature. We're flattered to have been approached for the piece and would like to thank Bethan for thinking of us (for the second time - Ms Cole penned an initial article which featured Mordant in the same paper back in March 2007). This new piece can be read here if your newsagent failed to furnish.

MM015 - 'Carrion Squared' is still available at the Mordant Music website-exclusive knock-down price of £6 (and comprises offcuts from a Boosey & Hawkes commission of brand new material rather than the 'remix' project referred to in the article) - to buy or read more click here.

01/07/2008 MORDANT MUSIC TRAVELOGUES 4: 'THANKS FOR THE MEME' - OUT NOW

Bali is the MM camper van's destination for this latest 'Travelogues' adventure, as a school of tourist pests release the bats over the MM021 tannoy. Available, as ever, exclusively from Boomkat at either £0.99 (MP3) or £1.50 (FLAC). See & hear here.

01/07/2008 MORDANTMUSIC.COM SALE EXTENDED

We at MM have succumbed under the soothing wafts of the season to extend the exclusive June sale right the way through the summer. Fill your boots.

01/06/2008 MORDANTMUSIC.COM JUNE SALE

MM announce today a month-long blitz on all key titles. This new sale - exclusive to this site - sees prices cut by as much as 40% on 'Dead Air' & 'Giant Man, Giant Plan' (£6 apiece, as are 'Carrion Squared' and 'The Tower - Parts VIII-XVIII') and a special offer bundle of 8 MM releases for an astonishing £30. All prices are inclusive of shipping wherever in the world you reside too, so do not miss out. Click here or on any of the red 'SALE' buttons to view everything on offer. Vite, vite!!!

26/05/2008 MORDANT MUSIC TRAVELOGUES 3: 'MUM PREPARED THE PIANO (AGONY & IVORY)' - OUT NOW

The Mordant magpie wings its' way back to blighty for the third part in the 'Travelogues' series, this time chiming in with the cracked keys of a long-detuned joanna. MM020 hums from a dislocated Kent-based sabbatical, and is once again available along with previous instalments at either £0.99 (MP3) or £1.50 (FLAC) exclusively from Boomkat - check it here.

24/04/2008 MORDANT MUSIC TRAVELOGUES 2: 'S'PORCHARD' - OUT NOW

MM's long winding road to nowhere stops off in Singapore for the second in the 'Travelogues' download-only series. MM019 - 'S'porchard' - sucks off the quasi-chrome solace of a far-eastern outposting, more of which will yield in time. Both 'Travelogues' 'pisodes are now available at the new low prices of £0.99 (MP3) and £1.50 (FLAC) exclusively from Boomkat - click here to hear a sample and/or to buy.

23/04/2008 MORDANT MUSIC BOOMKAT SALE

Those reptilian merchants at Boomkat have deigned to punt a wealth of Mordant Music gold at sub-low prices. This first ever MM sale sees plenty of stock - including MM013 'Dead Air', MM017 'Giant Man, Giant Plan' by Cosmic Dennis Greenidge and both 'Tower' releases - all on offer at under a fiver until June 1st. For christs' sake avail yourself while stocks last.

11/02/2008 'Giant Man, Giant Plan' has received a favourable review in the current February 2008 issue of The Wire.

04/02/2008 As from today (and after a short delay), Cosmic Dennis Greenidge's sprawling sonic retrospective, 'Giant Man, Giant Plan' (MM017) is finally available to buy from a number of online stores (as well as this site), including Boomkat ("makes Wesley Willis sound like Bono"), Warpmart, Rhythm, Piccadilly & HMV Japan. Get it.

Meanwhile, Mordant Music have risen from a dormancy spent with weasels and are currently writing songs for their next album.

28/11/2007 MORDANT MUSIC TRAVELOGUES 1: 'A BEAUTIFUL VESTA' - OUT NOW

MM follow hard on the built-up heels of CDG's fanfare with a first download-only release. MM018 - 'A Beautiful Vesta' - is the first in a series of soiled sonic documents relating a day tripper's disquiet, starting in Avebury, Wiltshire. This single-track release is available exclusively from Boomkat at either £1.99 or £2.99, depending on your taste for compression. Click here to hear a sample and/or buy.

Expect more 'Travelogues' in time, but for now Mordant will dismount to clear the lung.

24/11/2007 COSMIC DENNIS GREENIDGE 'GIANT MAN, GIANT PLAN' - OUT NOW

As from today, the brand new release from MM is available to buy from this site only. Dennis Greenidge's debut compendium (MM017) will be released elsewhere from the new year, but for now click here to purchase. 'Giant Man, Giant Plan' unequivocally slays spectres reared during the exorcised 'Dead Air' phase. Take a half-day, dust off the Grundig and deal with it. Never mind the bollock.

Hang about for even more brand new Mordant in a mere matter of days.

24/09/2007 EXCLUSIVE NEW TRACK FOR THE WIRE TAPPER 18

Mordant Music are delighted to announce the contribution of a brand new exclusive track to 'The Wire Tapper 18', the latest in The Wire magazine's series of free CDs. The CD comes with the latest issue and coincides with The Wire's 25th birthday revelries.

Entitled 'Den On VelluMM', the piece entwines material from two forthcoming MM releases. The first of these is a lovingly selected compendium of music from cosmic art minstrel Dennis Greenidge. This ebullient opus will appear before the year goes off.

The second volley on MM's horizon will occur sometime in 2008, and will in effect be the follow-up to 'Dead Air'. This major album release will mainline MM to nerve endings presently hardened & haunted by 2007's so far stolid pickings.

This track will only be available for as long as the magazine is on the shelves.

03/09/2007 All newcomers to MM and any reticent punters dredging the site may be interested to know that as from today a 12 track Mordant Music selection is available to download in mp3 format from Boomkat - click here to peruse and/or buy. The full handpicked sampler - comprising cuts from right across the MM canon including deleted rarities and a brand new exclusive track - is priced at a reprehensible £1.99. Individual tracks are alternatively obtainable for £0.99 each. Move to avail yourself of this outrageous offer now.

21/08/2007 Joint review for 'Carrion Squared' & 'The Tower - Parts VIII-XVIII' in the August 2007 issue of Plan B magazine also.

MM will shortly have some foaming news to impart upon the autumnal precipice regarding new material. Stay perched for updates....

14/08/2007 A joint review for MM015 & MM016 can be found in the new issue of Vice magazine (Vol. 5, No. 8). Maybe 'The Tower' would have fared a little better had the writer successfully found their 'Parts'....

Both albums have received an astutely written review at Dusted Magazine too.

04/08/2007 A four-star review for 'The Tower - Parts VIII-XVIII' can be seen in the new September 2007 issue of Mojo magazine.

20/07/2007 'Carrion Squared' and 'The Tower - Parts VIII-XVIII' have both been reviewed in the new August 2007 issue of The Wire magazine. Available from all the usual merchants.

01/07/2007 We've finally received a copy of the new Die Gestalten Verlag book 'Supersonic - Visuals For Music', in which the artwork for MM's 'Dead Air' campaign is featured. It's a mighty tome which highlights some stunning music-based packaging & poster graphics from the last year or two.

This is a highly recommended book for anyone with a passion for design and/or alternative & electronic music. Mordant Music are overjoyed to have been involved and would like to extend their sincere thanks to DGV.

09/06/2007 MM would like to welcome all to our brand new web valve.

Our two long-awaited new CD album releases for summer '07 - 'Carrion Squared' (MM015) & 'The Tower - Parts VIII-XVIII' (MM016) - are available to buy now. Click here to purchase on mordantmusic.com ahead of the full release elsewhere.

Alternatively, mp3 versions of both albums can be downloaded from Boomkat, again ahead of the rolled-out hard copy release.

09/06/2007 mordantmusic.com v 2.0 spores anew in the early hours....fumes still fresh....more updates to follow....