Title: Melodrama

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Description: Measured, meticulous recordings on this beautiful new work from Machinefabriek. A gentle yet disconcerting 7” featuring two deeply emotive, rigorously focused and intensive compositions. Stunning as usual.

Background: “Champion Version said ‘Up for a new 7“ Rutger?’ A question like that is always a nice reminder for something I really like... to focus on a short amount of music. It’s a bit like writing a short story instead of a book. There’s still something of the “album feel” in there; two tracks that are closely related, both part of the same story. But there’s not the issue of having to deal with the arc or dynamics of a complete full length record. In a way, this gives me the freedom to be more explorative and playful, like you could probably hear in my previous Champion Version 7”, ‘Snoepgoed’, and in this new one ‘Melodrama’. These tracks started by recording an online drum machine with a dodgy 4-track, then playing that back through a few effects pedals and looping bits of it. The resulting rhythm is the foundation of ‘Melodrama 1’, on which I started to arrange midi instruments onto, very intuitively. What started as something with a sort of lo-fi Autechre feel, to me anyway, became something completely different. Quite cinematic, and perhaps a bit… melodramatic? Well, I guess sometimes that’s how I like it.” - Rutger Zuydervelt

Track(s): 1. Melodrama 1 2. Melodrama 2

Catalogue: CV201911

Format: 7”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 7 July 2019

Title: No Sails

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Description: Exploring a more relaxed, ambient and fragile aesthetic, we have the concluding 7” of this Rothko opus which starts with ‘No Sails’, an acoustic rendering into thoughtful and cinematic soundscapes. Submerge and lose yourself to the depths. The final side of this epic journey starts with the shivering whispers of ‘Into Sunlight’ where emotive bass drones create a sense of restraint, simplicity and pure calm. The lingering reverb drenched bass drifts of ‘Step Into Sunset’ settle proceedings perfectly, balanced and allowed to breathe, exquisite in its simplest form, nothing here is hurried, you hear incidents rise and fall gloriously, sounds arrive and slowly dissolve. Heavenly. Just heavenly.

Background: “Most of the tracks on ‘No Anchor No Chart No Rudder No Sails’ are my very first attempts at writing my own music. A lot of the other early tracks appeared on ‘A Negative For Francis’ and a couple surfaced on ‘Forty Years To Find A Voice’. The majority of them are on this collection which I originally put out on a few cassette releases and three of which I put out before the band was even formed. At the time I didn’t actually have a name for the band. That came later after I met Crawford Blair. It was my good friend Nick Olofsson who suggested I try and record my own material as I had actually decided to give up trying to join a band. So he said, “Why not do your own thing?”. About 75% of the tracks on this release were recorded at Nick’s flat in Kentish Town onto his Fostex Porta 05 four-track cassette recorder. Without him and his partner, Anet Mook, I doubt the group, and this music, would ever have existed.” - Mark Beazley

Information: Composed between 1997 and 1998, ‘No Anchor No Chart No Rudder No Sails’ was originally released in 2001 by the Burning Shed label as a collection of rare Rothko recordings. Mark Beazley has perfected his ethereal lullabies to create this definitive edition which is remastered and includes five new tracks with repackaged design by Department EH. Unquestionably, the timing of this reissue could hardly be more significant, not only because of Rothko’s forthcoming new album on Trace Recordings but also the recent and sad decision for the band to cease live performance. Essential updates of any versions you may already have in your record collections and quite possibly the finest moment on Champion Version to date, ‘No Anchor No Chart No Rudder No Sails’ is one of the very best and most unique bass driven records of all time. Simply sublime for the entire duration, this is the soundtrack to the most wonderful dream you ever had.

Track(s): 1. No Sails 2. Into Sunlight 3. Step Into Sunset

Catalogue: CV201910

Format: 7”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 28 July 2019

Title: No Rudder

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Description: Next up and channelled into a colossal metal chamber, Rothko present ‘No Rudder’, a minimal yet immersive composition, full to erupting with melodic undertones. This is Rothko at the peak of their powers. A fabulous piece. ‘From Ashes’ and ‘Feed Me Those Weird Leaves’ brings us full circle, back exclusively to electric bass experiments. These tracks are awe-inspiring, beyond supreme and into another dimension. As if you’re daydreaming. All encompassing and completely stunning.

Background: “Most of the tracks on ‘No Anchor No Chart No Rudder No Sails’ are my very first attempts at writing my own music. A lot of the other early tracks appeared on ‘A Negative For Francis’ and a couple surfaced on ‘Forty Years To Find A Voice’. The majority of them are on this collection which I originally put out on a few cassette releases and three of which I put out before the band was even formed. At the time I didn’t actually have a name for the band. That came later after I met Crawford Blair. It was my good friend Nick Olofsson who suggested I try and record my own material as I had actually decided to give up trying to join a band. So he said, “Why not do your own thing?”. About 75% of the tracks on this release were recorded at Nick’s flat in Kentish Town onto his Fostex Porta 05 four-track cassette recorder. Without him and his partner, Anet Mook, I doubt the group, and this music, would ever have existed.” - Mark Beazley

Information: Composed between 1997 and 1998, ‘No Anchor No Chart No Rudder No Sails’ was originally released in 2001 by the Burning Shed label as a collection of rare Rothko recordings. Mark Beazley has perfected his ethereal lullabies to create this definitive edition which is remastered and includes five new tracks with repackaged design by Department EH. Unquestionably, the timing of this reissue could hardly be more significant, not only because of Rothko’s forthcoming new album on Trace Recordings but also the recent and sad decision for the band to cease live performance. Essential updates of any versions you may already have in your record collections and quite possibly the finest moment on Champion Version to date, ‘No Anchor No Chart No Rudder No Sails’ is one of the very best and most unique bass driven records of all time. Simply sublime for the entire duration, this is the soundtrack to the most wonderful dream you ever had.

Track(s): 1. No Rudder 2. From Ashes 3. Feed Me Those Weird Leaves

Catalogue: CV201909

Format: 7”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 28 July 2019

Title: No Chart

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Description: The muted, grainy fragments of ‘No Chart’ open the second Rothko 7” in this series. A gorgeous and delicate introduction that evolves into a detuned and suffocating minimalism. And that feeling continues with ‘Shadowless’ with its subdued rhythms and distorted textures. Magnificent work. ‘For Vini’ is incredibly evocative with the softest massed strings sparingly plucked. It blends seamlessly into the granular and lyrical fretless bass of ‘Abstract’, a brooding and deliberately slow movement. The results here are a highlight. Just extraordinary music.

Background: “Most of the tracks on ‘No Anchor No Chart No Rudder No Sails’ are my very first attempts at writing my own music. A lot of the other early tracks appeared on ‘A Negative For Francis’ and a couple surfaced on ‘Forty Years To Find A Voice’. The majority of them are on this collection which I originally put out on a few cassette releases and three of which I put out before the band was even formed. At the time I didn’t actually have a name for the band. That came later after I met Crawford Blair. It was my good friend Nick Olofsson who suggested I try and record my own material as I had actually decided to give up trying to join a band. So he said, “Why not do your own thing?”. About 75% of the tracks on this release were recorded at Nick’s flat in Kentish Town onto his Fostex Porta 05 four-track cassette recorder. Without him and his partner, Anet Mook, I doubt the group, and this music, would ever have existed.” - Mark Beazley

Information: Composed between 1997 and 1998, ‘No Anchor No Chart No Rudder No Sails’ was originally released in 2001 by the Burning Shed label as a collection of rare Rothko recordings. Mark Beazley has perfected his ethereal lullabies to create this definitive edition which is remastered and includes five new tracks with repackaged design by Department EH. Unquestionably, the timing of this reissue could hardly be more significant, not only because of Rothko’s forthcoming new album on Trace Recordings but also the recent and sad decision for the band to cease live performance. Essential updates of any versions you may already have in your record collections and quite possibly the finest moment on Champion Version to date, ‘No Anchor No Chart No Rudder No Sails’ is one of the very best and most unique bass driven records of all time. Simply sublime for the entire duration, this is the soundtrack to the most wonderful dream you ever had.

Track(s): 1. No Chart 2. Shadowless 3. For Vini 4. Abstract

Catalogue: CV201908

Format: 7”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 30 June 2019

Title: No Anchor

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Description: The first 7” in this classic Rothko anthology features the melancholy and moving stretches of ‘No Anchor’ with its fleeting samples expertly weaved between the sparse layers of bass while ‘Extract’ reveals a gentle, hypnotic improvisation that tinkles and disappears before it’s really gotten underway. Astonishing. The simmering ‘Through Corridors’ is next, a faint progression that builds up slight sound statements gradually, eluding grand gestures in favour of something more understated and engaging. All compressed and squashed to destructive imperfection, ‘Spine’ gives a disconcerting ending with gnarly tones and murmurs of vinyl static. A fantastic first instalment.

Background: “Most of the tracks on ‘No Anchor No Chart No Rudder No Sails’ are my very first attempts at writing my own music. A lot of the other early tracks appeared on ‘A Negative For Francis’ and a couple surfaced on ‘Forty Years To Find A Voice’. The majority of them are on this collection which I originally put out on a few cassette releases and three of which I put out before the band was even formed. At the time I didn’t actually have a name for the band. That came later after I met Crawford Blair. It was my good friend Nick Olofsson who suggested I try and record my own material as I had actually decided to give up trying to join a band. So he said, “Why not do your own thing?”. About 75% of the tracks on this release were recorded at Nick’s flat in Kentish Town onto his Fostex Porta 05 four-track cassette recorder. Without him and his partner, Anet Mook, I doubt the group, and this music, would ever have existed.” - Mark Beazley

Information: Composed between 1997 and 1998, ‘No Anchor No Chart No Rudder No Sails’ was originally released in 2001 by the Burning Shed label as a collection of rare Rothko recordings. Mark Beazley has perfected his ethereal lullabies to create this definitive edition which is remastered and includes five new tracks with repackaged design by Department EH. Unquestionably, the timing of this reissue could hardly be more significant, not only because of Rothko’s forthcoming new album on Trace Recordings but also the recent and sad decision for the band to cease live performance. Essential updates of any versions you may already have in your record collections and quite possibly the finest moment on Champion Version to date, ‘No Anchor No Chart No Rudder No Sails’ is one of the very best and most unique bass driven records of all time. Simply sublime for the entire duration, this is the soundtrack to the most wonderful dream you ever had.

Track(s): 1. No Anchor 2. Extract 3. Through Corridors 4. Spine

Catalogue: CV201907

Format: 7”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 30 June 2019

Title: Solway Firth/Skinburness

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Description: Two completely beautiful compositions from Leicestershire’s Yellow6. Opening with ‘Solway Firth’, Jon Attwood weaves idyllic charm and emotionally deep guitar loops to create a shimmering atmosphere that you can get lost within. Sublime work. Then flip over for ‘Skinburness’ where fragmented guitars are entwined with crumbling layers which seem perfectly balanced and continually on the point of total collapse. Blissful soundscapes. Really lovely stuff.

Track(s): 1. Solway Firth 2. Skinburness

Catalogue: CV201905

Format: 7”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 23 June 2019

Title: I Always Wanted A Standing Cat (2/2)

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Description: Steve Roden and Stephen Vitiello return to Champion Version with this epic two part 7” ambient drone suite. The first track, ‘Invisible Helpers’, is a peaceful tape-loop like meditation featuring stunning swirls and textures. Real understated work. The first 7” finishes with the gorgeous ‘Your Trees, Follow’, a piece you’re longing to continue endlessly and could easily be expanded on with its spectacular shimmering atmospheres. The music on ‘In Dawns With Moon’ evokes the title perfectly as waves of refined sound experiments gradually unravel with sparsely plucked guitar textures that meld beneath crunchy billowing echoes. This track then segues into ‘Surrounded By Mountains’, an introverted collection of loops with a layering of scant notes that build and build upon each other before slowly fading away into the heavens. A grand drone flight, a myriad of beauty and an enduring masterpiece that we find enormously compelling. The music across ‘I Always Wanted A Standing Cat‘ is just sublime. You have one week.

Track(s): 1. In Dawns With Moon 2. Surrounded By Mountains

Catalogue: CV201904

Format: 7”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 12 May 2019

Title: I Always Wanted A Standing Cat (1/2)

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Description: Steve Roden and Stephen Vitiello return to Champion Version with this epic two part 7” ambient drone suite. The first track, ‘Invisible Helpers’, is a peaceful tape-loop like meditation featuring stunning swirls and textures. Real understated work. The first 7” finishes with the gorgeous ‘Your Trees, Follow’, a piece you’re longing to continue endlessly and could easily be expanded on with its spectacular shimmering atmospheres. The music on ‘In Dawns With Moon’ evokes the title perfectly as waves of refined sound experiments gradually unravel with sparsely plucked guitar textures that meld beneath crunchy billowing echoes. This track then segues into ‘Surrounded By Mountains’, an introverted collection of loops with a layering of scant notes that build and build upon each other before slowly fading away into the heavens. A grand drone flight, a myriad of beauty and an enduring masterpiece that we find enormously compelling. The music across ‘I Always Wanted A Standing Cat‘ is just sublime. You have one week.

Track(s): 1. Invisible Helpers 2. Your Trees, Follow

Catalogue: CV201903

Format: 7”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 12 May 2019

Title: Laptev’s Dance

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Description: The debut by underground percussionist Matt Pittori, under his My Winter Defence guise, ‘Laptev's Dance’ sees Matt emerging from beneath the wreckage of Minus Pilots to investigate a darker, more electronic sonic theme. During a recent concert in his home city of London, Matt revealed a confident foray into quiet, fragile and harmonic material while fusing dynamic and percussive elements. Sharing the title of the overall release is opener, ‘Laptev’s Dance’; it’s dense, prickly atmospherics are dark with treated effects and fleeting sections of melody rising up throughout. Bold contemplations are shrouded in hazy analogue synth washes, decaying beats and spectral reverbs. Very good. ‘Punctured Northern Skies’ is next and features panoramic pulse elements with deep, dark bass drones. It’s filled with epic, wistful tones, otherworldly and elaborate experiments of disconnected fragments and textures. Two sublime soundtrack pieces and a real work of art, you know what must be done.

Track(s): 1. Laptev’s Dance 2. Punctured Northern Skies

Catalogue: CV201902

Format: 10”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 5 May 2019

Title: Le Néant

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Description: Following a magnificent live performance in London last year, we asked Anne-Sophie Le Creurer to consider putting out a record with Champion Version and were overjoyed when she agreed. On ‘Le Néant’, Anne-Sophie reveals a marvellous collection of playful textures using clavinet, organs, lead synth, guitar, electric bass and flute. ‘Le Néant I’ offers a gentle clarity, permitting a vast amount of melodically engaged charm. ‘Le Néant II‘ is grandiose and imposing with harmonically entwined activity, a more effervescent composition. There’s an underlying beauty and sensitive pull steering your ears through the current of overtones and tuneful sound experiments. Highly unique and entirely engaging, ‘Le Néant’ is lush with elegant, absorbed tones. Dreamlike romanticism. Super.

Track(s): 1. Le Néant I 2. Le Néant II

Catalogue: CV201901

Format: 7”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 28 April 2019

Title: Metal/Wood

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Description: An amazing new 7” from Run Logan Run’s Andrew Neil Hayes. Taking what seems like a sparse set of elements, Hayes’ approach revolves around a trio of components which comprise of saxophone, moog synthesizer and a reverb pedal. Hayes presents the diminished sketches of ‘Metal/Wood’ in which a protracted drone of coiling clicks, whispers and analogue sounds combine to present complex impressions that expand well beyond the individual elements. Crumbling experiments slowly come to life, ‘Metal/Wood’ is a must have.

Track(s): 1. Metal 2. Wood

Catalogue: CV201816

Format: 7”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 9 December 2018

Title: Madrighe (2/2)

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Description: A heavy and intense mantra about Mediterranean profane ritualism. Blending obsessive rhythms and haunting percussion, tribal dance, heavy kicks, lo-fi buzzing, spoken word hypnosis, primordial energy and evocative vocals with thick drones, field recordings, pulsing feedback and massively distorted guitars, ‘Madrighe’ is the first work in a series dedicated to ancient themes from Sardinia Island, IlSantoBevitore’s native home.

Background: Continuing his research delving into ethnomusicological territories, ‘Madrighe’ is dedicated to ‘Berbos’, ancestral Sardinian prayers. Barbos are words, they are not normal words but rather magic formulas which have the power to cure people from evil as well as to cause it. Each track intends to recreate those fascinating pagan practices, translating them into modern musical codes. Madrighe is an ancient word which in Sardinian language means Matrice (Matrix). Four tracks linked together under the same Madrighe of spiritualism and ritualism of the mysterious Sardinia Island. A sense of archaism within a post-modern flavour embraces the entire record. Raw, yet sophisticated, Madrighe delves into the past and present at the same time. The most collaborative work so far, featuring London-based producer NoMoreWillRoam, multi-instrumentalist Davide Chessa on guitar feedback and screaming, vocal samples from Lani Rocillo and synths, hardware, percussions, tapes and field recordings by IlSantoBevitore.

Track(s): 1. Raw Plea 2. Berbos

Catalogue: CV201815

Format: 7”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 11 November 2018

Title: Madrighe (1/2)

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Description: A heavy and intense mantra about Mediterranean profane ritualism. Blending obsessive rhythms and haunting percussion, tribal dance, heavy kicks, lo-fi buzzing, spoken word hypnosis, primordial energy and evocative vocals with thick drones, field recordings, pulsing feedback and massively distorted guitars, ‘Madrighe’ is the first work in a series dedicated to ancient themes from Sardinia Island, IlSantoBevitore’s native home.

Background: Continuing his research delving into ethnomusicological territories, ‘Madrighe’ is dedicated to ‘Berbos’, ancestral Sardinian prayers. Barbos are words, they are not normal words but rather magic formulas which have the power to cure people from evil as well as to cause it. Each track intends to recreate those fascinating pagan practices, translating them into modern musical codes. Madrighe is an ancient word which in Sardinian language means Matrice (Matrix). Four tracks linked together under the same Madrighe of spiritualism and ritualism of the mysterious Sardinia Island. A sense of archaism within a post-modern flavour embraces the entire record. Raw, yet sophisticated, Madrighe delves into the past and present at the same time. The most collaborative work so far, featuring London-based producer NoMoreWillRoam, multi-instrumentalist Davide Chessa on guitar feedback and screaming, vocal samples from Lani Rocillo and synths, hardware, percussions, tapes and field recordings by IlSantoBevitore.

Track(s): 1. Tomorrow Happened 2. Clayey Essence

Catalogue: CV201814

Format: 7”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 11 November 2018

Title: Paradise Yard

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Description: ‘Paradise Yard’ is ambient minimalist composers Darkroom’s second release with Champion Version. The source material was recorded by Andrew Ostler with guest bassist Jordan Muscatello during the Champion Version Edition 1 live event, which was held Thursday, 12 October 2017 in London. These initial recordings were then reconstructed, edited and mixed by Darkroom members Andrew Ostler and Michael Bearpark with suggestions from Elif Yalvaç whose voice recordings are featured between February and June 2018. Restrained and elegant, the stature of Darkroom’s innate talent emerges in their treatment of the original recordings focussing and polishing them into extraordinary clear and new forms. Faint sound experiments extend into dream-like figments, while intricate manipulations build, resonate and disperse. More abstract than much of their previous catalogue with echoes of tape minimalist compositions and cinematic sound art, ‘Paradise Yard’ is a remarkably enduring piece of work. Incredible indeed.

Track(s): 1. Heavenly Meter 2. Paradise Yard

Catalogue: CV201813

Format: 10”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 28 October 2018

Title: Performances Of Masculinity

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Description: An enthralling suite of music composed and performed by Yann Novak. These two recordings contain some truly exquisite sound organisation by Novak who is regarded equally for his concepts and his music. ‘Performances Of Masculinity’ features a fascinating, fundamental blend of harmonic and discordant forces. Two beautiful renderings and some of the most absorbing recordings in Novak’s catalogue. Reserved but quietly optimistic. Gorgeous and essential.

Background: For this pair of tracks Novak drew inspiration from his upbringing in the Midwestern US, minutes from rural farmland, as a queer youth. ‘Performances Of Masculinity’ ruminates on toxic masculinity, its influence on human development and its broader presence in experimental music communities. ‘Crushing Vulnerability’ opens with a delicate drone that is slowly decimated by distortion and noise, mirroring a relationship to masculinity in which vulnerability is treated as a weakness in need of eradication. ‘Stifling Sensitivity’ follows with a dense, emotional drone that is slowly eroded until barely anything is left, reflecting masculinity’s doctrine of never revealing emotions. Sonically, both works reference noise and other aggressive forms of experimental music (or as close as Novak is able to get) with the intention of bringing awareness toward those spaces that still foster and sometimes celebrate toxic masculinity. The cover features a photo by longtime friend and collaborator Steven Miller.

Track(s): 1. Crushing Vulnerability 2. Stifling Sensitivity

Catalogue: CV201812

Format: 7”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 7 October 2018

Title: Melting Colours

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Description: Assured guitar experiments blended with tapes, ‘Melting Colours’ is constructed with a deliberate ambient fragility, moving through beautiful tapestries of sparse electronics and shimmering strands of guitar. For ‘Eraser Lazer’, Dollemore instills the feeling of icy stasis wandering through delicate guitar arpeggios and cinematic reverb leads, all building to a stunning resonant piece of measured post-rock. Next is the understated ‘Earth And Green’ where guitars drift freely together in the most wonderful fashion. You’ll find yourself being incapacitated by its all-enveloping slowness. Spatially enriched, otherworldly and thoroughly shrouded drone, ‘Melting Colours’ is one of Adrian Dollemore's most accomplished works to date. Just excellent.

Track(s): 1. Eraser Lazer 2. Earth And Green

Catalogue: CV201811

Format: 10”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 23 September 2018

Title: Every Little Bit Of Space

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Description: This is the debut Champion Version release from Rick Jensen’s The Oneirologist. Oneirology is the scientific study of dreams that seeks correlations between dreaming and current knowledge about the functions of the brain. The Oneirologist as a name is entirely appropriate and actually perfectly corresponds with the incredible music Jensen has created for this record. Being a contemporary of the free jazz scene in London, you know you can expect music of the highest order from Jenson. We appreciate that free jazz can divide some listeners, but Jensen’s work on ‘Every Little Bit Of Space’ has the capacity to sway the uninitiated, it manages to be absorbing without being trying, a major achievement in itself. Simply put, Jensen's work here is exemplary. Far out excursions.

Track(s): 1. Every Little Bit Of Space 2. My System Is Flawless

Catalogue: CV201810

Format: 7”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 2 September 2018

Title: Bias III+IV

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Description: A beautiful collection of faint minimalist compositions from London musician Thomas Stone. Integrating contrabassoon, various looping devices with activated percussion, the playing across the four parts of ‘Bias’ is completely, almost impossibly measured and recorded wonderfully. Profoundly unsettling and mesmerising, ‘Bias’ is free of any overextended intricacies with Stone conversing the most vital modern, minimalist music. He unfolds a delicate sound that develops with quiet melodic dexterity into something quite magnificent. An integral listen, ‘Bias’ really is a delight. Stunning.

Track(s): 1. Bias III 2. Bias IV

Catalogue: CV201809

Format: 7”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 12 August 2018

Title: Bias I+II

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Description: A beautiful collection of faint minimalist compositions from London musician Thomas Stone. Integrating contrabassoon, various looping devices with activated percussion, the playing across the four parts of ‘Bias’ is completely, almost impossibly measured and recorded wonderfully. Profoundly unsettling and mesmerising, ‘Bias’ is free of any overextended intricacies with Stone conversing the most vital modern, minimalist music. He unfolds a delicate sound that develops with quiet melodic dexterity into something quite magnificent. An integral listen, ‘Bias’ really is a delight. Stunning.

Track(s): 1. Bias I 2. Bias II

Catalogue: CV201808

Format: 7”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 12 August 2018

Title: Cantilevers

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Description: Transcendent, thick and looped ambient layering from Andrew Cooke and his excellent SALTINGS moniker. Cooke assembles a moving sound world fashioned from samples of dense drone layered with substantially manipulated field recordings. Over both sides, the results provide a broad sense of space and place with its declining harmonic structures and shimmering, sparse melodies reduced in an abstract impressionist fashion. Sprawling, epic and vast in scale, you have one week. 

Track(s): 1. Cantilevers I 2. Cantilevers II

Catalogue: CV201807

Format: 7”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 8 July 2018

Title: Cybals/Toy

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Description: Adrena Adrena is a collaboration between visual artist Daisy Dickinson and Japanese drummer E-Da Kazuhisa. Featuring a striking blend of electronica and progressive percussion welded into resonant shimmers, Adrena Adrena’s first release for Champion Version is titled ‘Cybals/Toy’. Over two sides we are immersed in the echoing glisten of Kazuhisa’s ceremonial practice, revealing a wonderful relationship between space, minimalism and texture. The A side establishes a determined trajectory, first demonstrating its vast parameters with bright harmonics that move supremely into a mix of pulsating and rolling percussion. The second side is focussed on the development of soft metallic pipe samples that are underpinned by slow and brooding drum loops creating a swirl of otherworldly atmospherics. In addition to the 7”, ‘Cybals/Toy’ comes with an accompanying book featuring striking photographs by Dickinson. The 28 page book is landscape orientation with final 21cm x 14.8cm dimensions printed onto 100% recycled, 115gsm white paper. Music and imagery to submerge. 

Track(s): 1. Cybals 2. Toy

Catalogue: CV201806

Format: 7”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 10 June 2018

Title: Paper Universe/The Anthropocene

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Description: Magnificent blissed out explorations from London’s The Untied Knot. The 7”s A side, ‘Paper Universe’, is a wonderful opener with evocative strangled guitar experiments sounding as if they are trying hard to work their way out of the loping bass melodies and glorious drum rhythms that are channelling from speaker to speaker. Toward the end of the track, the instruments all fall back and everything drops to a minimalist and twinkling backing. Just delightful. ‘The Anthropocene’ picks up where ‘Paper Universe’ left off filling the space with restrained airy atmospherics and loose improvising on the drums. The track builds superbly with a popping, insistent bassline and captivating drum patterns that are tightly locked together with barely perceptible electronic dashes that add further dimension. Fabulous production, beautiful arrangements and harmonies with moments of pure genius, the music on this 7'“ will have you flipping between sides incessantly. Much obliged.

Track(s): 1. Paper Universe 2. The Anthropocene

Catalogue: CV201805

Format: 7”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 13 May 2018

Title: An Analogue Mind

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Description: Establishing itself in the epic glacial movements of ‘This Changes Everything’ and ‘Whisperings’, Red On Maroon have a seemingly unlimited source of anguish on which to draw. Over stratums of effervescent aural resources, ‘An Analogue Mind’ develops the kind of panoramic soundtrack that has your mind move back and forth between daydreaming and blacking out. An incredible, immensely haunting blend of sparse ambience and modern classical compositions. Just incredible music.

Track(s): 1. This Changes Everything 2. Whisperings

Catalogue: CV201804

Format: 10”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 15 April 2018

Title: Seeking The Spheres

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Description: An arresting offering, this new release on Champion Version features a sublime collection of post-classical and post-jazz infused gestures by experimental duo Minus Pilots. With Matt Pittori on drums and percussion joining Adam Barringer on extended range electric bass duties, Minus Pilots shelve genre distinctions with a completely captivating suite of illuminating structures for their ‘Seeking The Spheres’ 10”. The result is a poignant, at times dreamlike, and often impulsive melding of dynamisms conceivably best described in terms of it’s stunning colours, volume changes and progressive individuality. The two proceed to unite, develop and dissolve across five pieces with beautifully natural subtleties and uncompromising crescendos. Spectacular and captivating to say the very least.

Track(s): 1. Mounting To Heavens 2. In Perfect Silence At The Stars 3. After Midnight Glimmer 4. I Know Of Nothing Else But Miracles 5. No Sleep Without Dreams

Catalogue: CV201803

Format: 10”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 11 March 2018

Title: Vindens Segl

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Description: Modern-classical genius øjeRum presents ‘Vindens Segl’, his first 10” offering with Champion Version. ‘Vindens’ is a minimalist swell of solo guitar keys shrouded in shimmering strings, sounding out a blissfully suppressed and wistful atmosphere while ‘Segl’ is more stable harmonically with melodic bells and thumb piano pieces improvised over constant bowed string lines. From time to time this continual pulse is heightened and transformed through alternating patterns on the bells resulting in a beautiful calm. A highly contemplative release, this is absolutely recommended.

Track(s): 1. Vindens A 2. Segl

Catalogue: CV201802

Format: 10”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 18 February 2018

Title: Factors

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Description: On his enthralling second release with Champion Version, London’s Thomas Stone focuses his attention evenly between an entirely instrumental palette of contrabassoon, samplers, loop pedals and activated percussion to create the all-encompassing, often blissful, quiet and mystical ‘Factors’. Relying on his meticulous feel for expressing resonant overtones, ‘Factors A’ is a deeply sombre, melancholic piece that's precisely focussed and wonderfully executed. Really magnificent work. Then comes the harmonic sculptures of ‘Factors B+C’, a majestic and glacially tense passage that quietly illuminates the blurred limits between acoustic and electronic practices. This track will completely engulf your senses. We are utterly blown away by this incredible record. One absolutely not to miss so be quick.

Track(s): 1. Factors A 2. Factors B+C

Catalogue: CV201801

Format: 10”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 21 January 2018

Title: Guesswork

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Description:  La Monte Young, one of the originators of drone, defined the genre in 2000 as ‘the sustained tone branch of minimalism’. When it comes to genre-defining releases, few sum up drone like the music contained on this masterful 7’. Completely and utterly essential.

Track(s): 1. Disownership 2. National Blither

Catalogue: CV201724

Format: 7'“

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 19 November 2017

Title: The Broca Ensemble With Georgina Brett

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Description: Ian Faragher, Jonathan Wood, Nigel Bryant, Richard Thompson and Michael Bearpark are joined by Georgina Brett for the Broca Ensemble’s debut with Champion Version. The music here highlights just how undeniably beautiful such simple elements can be moving beyond precision to deftly exhibit the enthralling breadth and quality of the collectives glacial structures. The result is magnificent and combined into a force much larger than its individual parts. A means to an exuberant end. Quite honestly, this record is essential.

Track(s): 1. The Broca Ensemble With Georgina Brett 2. The Broca Ensemble

Catalogue: CV201723

Format: 7”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 29 October 2017

Title: Iris/Ellipsis

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Description: Tomas Phillips and Kenneth Kirschner come together for their ‘Iris/Ellipsis’ 10”. ‘Iris’ is a beautiful composition of minimalist improvisations made up of gentle piano textures and evoking avant-garde experiments. Their beautiful work continues with ‘Ellipsis’, an exemplary study into abstract minimalism that unfolds slowly with sparse piano phrases and unsettling atmospherics. Phillips and Kirschner are on top of their game, masters of a highly poignant and wholly engaging sound palette. A completely enveloping record. Brilliant freeform refractions.

Track(s): 1. Iris 2. Ellipsis

Catalogue: CV201722

Format: 10”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 15 October 2017

Title: New River EP

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Description: Using guitar, various effects pedals, bass clarinet, modular synth and a laptop, the two movements on Darkroom’s ‘New River EP’ 10” sees Michael Bearpark and Andrew Ostler dissolving orchestration into more abstract static with slow moving glacial motifs blended with ghostly shifting chord sequences. ‘Tiny Life Reflecting Blue’ is classic Darkroom, developing a soothing, yet repetitive atmospheric hum while ‘Land Of Cake And Confusion’ underlines Bearpark’s and Ostler’s versatility and persevering drive as composers, presenting a supreme and emotive soundscape. Droning transmissions. You know what to do.

Track(s): 1. Tiny Life Reflecting Blue 2. Land Of Cake And Confusion

Catalogue: CV201721

Format: 10”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 1 October 2017

Title: Fight Score

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Description: Stirring up a sea of texture, ‘Fight Score’ is intensely focussed, powerful and concentrated. The music here has a claustrophobic feel, at times reminiscent of a John Carpenter soundtrack for all its otherworldly complexities. This new 10” illustrates just how masterful Machinefabriek is these days. Cinematic drones and glacial structures.

Background: “Memo Akten (as part of Marshmallow Laser Feast) and Rutger Zuydervelt worked together before, for Alexander Whitley’s dance performance ‘The Measures Taken’. But this time, dancers aren’t doing the moving, but the viewer is. FIGHT is a virtual reality experience that’s equally hypnotizing and disorientating. Memo Akten’s virtual reality artwork FIGHT premiered at the art/technology biënnale STRP (Eindhoven, March 2017), and was also shown at Sónar. Wearing an Oculus Rift headset, the viewer enters an abstract, exceedingly psychedelic 3D world. The video shows different patterns and colours to each eye, causing ‘binocular rivalry’, an effect in which the brain makes its own fluctuating mix of the images. With the driving music by Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek), FIGHT is an incredibly immersive experience. In the virtual reality version, the music is spatialized, reactive to the movements of the viewer. The Champion Version released soundtrack EP presents the music as a mixed stereo version. The second track on this EP is the soundscape that played in the room in which the installation was exhibited.” - Rutger Zuydervelt

Track(s): 1. Fight Score 2. Fight Ambient

Catalogue: CV201720

Format: 10"

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 17 September 2017

Title: Træerne & Intetheden XI-XII

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Description: This is it, the final part of the ‘Træerne & Intetheden’ series of 7"s by øjeRum. Continuing the theme, this is a tranquil reverie with gloomy currents of organ. It's a stunningly condensed and absorbing piece of music that will engulf the focussed listener. The perfect way to settle this perfect set of releases.

Track(s): 1. Part XI 2. Part XII

Catalogue: CV201719

Format: 7”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 3 September 2017

Title: Studies In Dissonance

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Description: Orphax is Amsterdam based musician and trained drummer Sietse van Erve’s musical project where the focus is firmly set on minimal ambient and drone. This is Orphax’s debut release with Champion Version having previously released material through Barreuh, Broken20, Silken Tofu, Striate Cortex, Suggestion and his own Moving Furniture label. ‘Studies In Dissonanc’ is beautifully distilled, arresting in its restraint and ease yet intensely resonant in its complexity. Beautiful music.

Background: “Studies in dissonance is a release with two tracks in which I try to play with sounds from one sound source and search for a dissonant sound which (to me) still sounds very pleasant to listen to. This is partly the joy of experiment, but partly also a protest towards the sweet, nice, lovely and way to clean ambient drones which are wiped from any tension we have been brought by so many other musicians the last 10 to 15 years. Of course not much wrong with this clean music, but let's all be honest some dissonance in our life so once in a while does lighten up the fire again. Let's celebrate the out-of-tune music and welcome back mistakes in music.” - Sietse van Erve

Track(s): 1. Organs 2. Horns

Catalogue: CV201718

Format: 7"

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 20 August 2017

Title: Træerne & Intetheden IX-X

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Description: We have the fourth and fifth instalments of øjeRum’s ‘Træerne & Intetheden’ 7” set available and more ambient drones to immerse yourself within. The music contained here is beautiful and languorous with harmonic reflections and fragmented tones. An absolute dream. Just wonderful.

Track(s): 1. Part IX 2. Part X

Catalogue: CV201717

Format: 7”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 6 August 2017

Title: Moksha

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Description: Our first release with Bristol based duo Run Logan Run, a highly unique, highly abstract and highly accomplished punk/jazz collaboration between drummer Dan Johnson and saxophonist Andrew Hayes. ‘Moksha’ documents a tangle of ferocious and original expressions with luscious rhythms and heavily effected, oscillating, multi-layered saxophone textures. An amazing, wild, freeform 7”, you’ll be flipping between the A and B side time and time again. It really is an incredible record. You know what needs to be done.

Track(s): 1. I 2. II

Catalogue: CV201716

Format: 7”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 23 July 2017

Title: Træerne & Intetheden VII-VIII

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Description: We have the fourth and fifth instalments of øjeRum’s ‘Træerne & Intetheden’ 7” set available and more ambient drones to immerse yourself within. The music contained here is beautiful and languorous with harmonic reflections and fragmented tones. An absolute dream. Just wonderful.

Track(s): 1. Part VII 2. Part VIII

Catalogue: CV201715

Format: 7”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 9 July 2017

Title: It Wells From The Rock, And Flows Away

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Description: Stereocilia’s debut with Champion Version and what a cracker it is. ‘It Wells From The Rock, And Flows Away’ opens with ‘The March Burn’, an otherworldly ascent into Bristol guitarist John Scott’s ambient timbre. It’s a seductive soundscape of swirling guitar drone backwashes infiltrated by subtle electric bass textures. The sublime splendour of ‘On the Plateau’ follows with Scott establishing a spectral mood with haunting guitar chord progressions looped over droning overtones and effected feedback. Stunning atmospherics.

Track(s): 1. The March Burn 2. On the Plateau

Catalogue: CV201714

Format: 7”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 25 June 2017

Title: Træerne & Intetheden V-VI

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Description: The second and third volumes in Paw Grabowski’s øjeRum ‘Træerne & Intetheden’ six-part 7” opus on Champion Version. There are more transcendent moments with slowly moving soundscapes that are glacial, ominous and completely calming. Fantastically lavish music. And lest we forget a mention of the artwork, which is as spectacular as ever. Dazzling beauty.

Track(s): 1. Part V 2. Part VI

Catalogue: CV201713

Format: 7”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 11 June 2017