"More jams culled from sessions both live in the field and at home, again sometimes touching on alternate-universe takes on tracks destined for LP and CD issue. Huge chord swathes, babbling ectoplasm rituals, crunching delay unit swing, weird time tricks, scattershot beats, all propped up with shards of the patented ASC heavy tonal foundation. Edition of 150 in colour ASC corporate house-style. 8 tracks 44 minutes."
"Content this time around is highly nitrous, with much overloaded top-end twinkle...taking the demented recent ASC live persona and twisting it further with heavy collage/layering techniques. Offset this with remedial drumbox stumble and mysterious processed tracks and you know there's only one hotel you can be checking into. Edition of 150...7 tracks, 42 minutes."
"Recording of the ASC power trio, live at Subcurrent festival in Glasgow, April 2006. Neil Campbell and Tirath Singh Nirmala throw down string/wind/electro action which is then mangled by Richard Youngs brutal FX. Heavy liquid 35 minute suite in four movements."
"After a winter spent with new baby, jamming aphex/theo parrish (dazed daytimes) and axolotl/dead machines (graveyard shift), comes the new Astral Social disk. In here, there’s a mix of recent obsessions = raw reel-to-reel edits, steamrollered riffing, garage dream music, splattered eurodisco, FX madness all culminating in a deep wallow in beatless birdsong ecstacy. Respendent in full-colour artwork for the first time. 5 tracks, 40+ mins."
"Kicks off kinda new age, sampling a Mick Flower blissed-out groove
pretty early on, before taking a dive into total alien territory,
only to be brought back to earth by a homely pop number before the
last 4 tracks twist it all over the shop again, comprising as they do
mash-ups/remixes by the enigmatic Tirath Singh Nirmala (aka "the
artist formerly known as John Clyde-Evans). 10 tracks, 47 minutes."
