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Hello you. Happy new year. Enjoy the break? Yeah, not bad. Quite quiet, actually. Mostly family, you know... Right, so just a quickie to update you all before we go on our spring/summer hiatus/sabbatical/furlough. It looks like there will be three releases before we hibernate: a brilliant new album from Wilfried Hanrath, a career retrospective …
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Hi, Submariner-in-Chief Rob speaking. I just wanted to send a seasonal message and update you on news for next year. So, what a year! It was, I suppose, SBC's first full year as "a thing" (we first released stuff in 2017 but I think it was this year that earnt our spurs, carved our niche, …
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The Glove of Bones explains all you need to know about Afrodubism…
Spirits of Afrodubism
Today sees the release of the third (well fourth, but that’s a minor detail) GoB collaboration with ambient musician and guitar addict Cousin Silas.
This is the latest in an accidentally thematic series of ‘dub’ albums. Whether they are strictly speaking dub is up for debate, but there’s an underlying sonic connection to the form in there.
Now, whilst I’m broadly against ‘artists statements’ or digging through sources, connections, thought maps and project Gant planners and firmly believe Manifestos only count as useful when they mystify and confound their cause; I do think that this needs a little fleshing out. But I’ll be brief.
This song set features a number of speakers who have at various points given me contemplative food for thought. In the wider world, in these strange and faintly worrying times, there seems to be various National inclinations to look backward, not inward in…
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Aloha. A brief update about two releases we've just made available for pre-order. As ever, we're fashionably late to the party, announcing our first two cassette releases. First up, we're delighted to welcome Cousin Silas back to the Submarine Broadcasting Company imprint, on this occasion in tandem with our resident multimedia artist The Glove of …
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So that was July then. But here at Submarine Broadcasting Spires we've had no time for the World Cup, Love Island or lounging about in hammocks sipping banana daiquiris, no sirree Clive. No, we're committed to the making of music, sweet music, and we have served up a summer smorgasbord of aural treats. We've had …
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So as we announced on the 11th April, Exhibition 2018 is released, and now all tracks are available for download or on CD. To recap: "The Exhibition compilation is in three overlapping flavours: Red, Green and Blue. Very roughly speaking Red is the most experimental, this is where you'll find the noise, the field recordings, …
Wednesday 11th April sees the release of our major compilation for 2018, Exhibition. The Exhibition compilation is in three overlapping flavours: Red, Green and Blue. Very roughly speaking Red is the most experimental, this is where you'll find the noise, the field recordings, the zero bpm and so on; Green is mostly ambient, dark ambient, …
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Sombre Moon are UK-based electronic duo Amanda Jane Rogers and Steve Loxley. Their first single 'Blurred Reality' received considerable acclaim on its release in October, and it's easy to see why. It's a delicious slice of synth-pop; the song is exquisite, with great melodic hooks. Of course, the electronica space is a crowded one at …
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Today we launch our Kickstarter for our biggest release yet, Klang. The vinyl edition contains tracks from: Six By Seven Unimother 27 Oulu Space Jam Collective Dynamo Snackbar Peri Esvultras t.r. hand Beltism Don't do vinyl? That's OK, we have extended editions with 6 extra tracks on CD and digital download. We've got tee shirts, …
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