REQUEST STOP is a 16 track compilation loosely based around the theme of bus travel and its related infrastructure. All proceeds from this release will be donated to the Autonomous Winter Shelter, a housing network and mutual aid initiative who aim to provide a safe and warm space for people to stay, create, and take care of themselves and others within a community environment. AWS were violently evicted from their home in June 2023 and it is our hope that the money raised through this fundraiser compilation can contribute to the collective’s future activities and solidarity fund in the face of the on-going brutality of austerity and the cost of living crisis in the UK.
Direct contributions can be made to the solidarity fund to help AWS sort out basic items like toiletries, sleeping bags, mattresses and other items needed urgently here:
opencollective.com/solidarity-cafe/projects/autonomous-winter-shelter-supp
REQUEST STOP features a mixture of Brachliegen alumni and a number of new arrivals. Contributions to the comp range from audio documentary and sound collage to pounding rhythmic industrial noise and anarcho bus punk live from the depot. Blistering tapework, electro-acoustic experimental folk, warped techno, minimalist compositions, field recordings, deconstructed grimescapes, heavy electronics and demented psychojazz all conspire in solidarity against the dereliction of social care.
Contributors:
Jo Montgomerie is a sound artist based in Manchester, and has released on Helen Scarsdale Agency, Industrial Coast & Brachligen Tapes.
Sly and the Family Drone are from London — the neo-jazz wrecking crew have released on Cruel Nature & Love Love Records, among others.
Howlround’s tapework alchemy emanates from London, and has been released on Touch, The Tapeworm & Castles In Space, among others.
Rosso Polare are from Brescia & Milan, and have released their experimental improv on Sagome & Takoroku, among others.
Heavy Cloud is Cornwall-based Ryan Hooper who makes work inspired by memory and landscapes, in sound, collage & text, and has released on Brachliegen, Rusted Tone & Falt.
TEARS|OV tease the boundaries between electro-acoustics and dramaturgy; from London, they have released on The Tapeworm, The Wormhole, Bloxham Tapes and Industrial Coast.
LIKE WEEDS, the UK harsh head Kenny Sanderson, is based in Tokyo and has unleashed slow motion concrete noise riddims through Phage, Deathbed & Brachliegen, among others.
1012 is an Iceman Junglist Kru return // GLA 2 SOUTH LDN
Yiskāh is a sound artist from Cornwall who's work addresses the sonic agency of disadvantaged communities & nature, and is a member of the mighty Thee Alcoholics.
SW1n-Hunter is is the life-long learning project of Adam Denton; based in London, with releases on Industrial Coast, Tribe Tapes & Blind Tapes.
Vinegar Tom is from Zone 5 but currently based in Deal, Kent and has released on Brachliegen Tapes, most recently with Megzbow.
Georgie McVicar is from London, and has released on Conditional & Church Encore; they are a member of avant-oi group Italia 90 & spoken word deconstructionists Egg Meat.
Mark Dicker is based in Oslo; formerly a member of casio-grind band trencher, he has released solo heavy tackle on Hominid Sounds, Bunkland & Brachliegen, among others.
TOP DECK are anarcho London bus punks and celebrate the joy of riding atop one of the capitol's big red bastards.
Deep Vain live codes from a base in London, and co-runs the label Cherche Encore.
Degradation are from the bowels of South London; releases on Brachliegen Tapes include Leadlined, The Yule Goat and Heavier Than The Death Of The Labour Party.
released February 2, 2024
Mastered by Jack Chuter
except track 7: LIKE WEEDS - NO TRACE AT ALL - mastered by Grant Richardson
Artwork by Dan Shortall
Design by Brachliegen Tapes