"Deceptively simple, enormously catchy modern electro, eschewing
fashionable digital trickery for good old analog skills" XLR8R
BLEEP (UK)
“Right on the cusp of bliss and melancholia.”
The WIRE (UK)
"LOWFISH earns props...for doing it the hard way."
GROOVE (Germany)
“Traces of Delia Derbyshire, Mort Garson and Aphex Twin.”
TITLE: Grey With Breaks
Suction058 vinyl LP / CD / digital full-length
RELEASE DATE: May 5, 2023
After a recent, acclaimed EP on Madrid’s Analogical Force label, Suction Records is thrilled to announce “Grey With Breaks,” the 8th full-length album by Lowfish. The electro veteran, who’s been programming 808s since the early ‘90s, returns to Suction Records, the label he co-founded and debuted on in 1997. “Grey With Breaks” is an electro record, with thick analog basslines and TR-808 boom tschak front & centre, but Lowfish’s electro-style stands out from the pack. Not only is the LP devoid of the Drexciya/Dopplereffekt worship that permeates the scene these days, it also rarely hits above 110bpm, oozing with melancholic melody.
The 9-track vinyl LP comes housed in a stunning reverse-board jacket, and is limited to 400 copies, with 100 copies on CLOUDY-GREY-VINYL. The CD, in a reverse-board digipack, is expanded to 19 tracks, adding previously-vinyl-only cuts from past Suction Records singles and EPs “Hello Tinnitus” (suction023), “C.D.S.N.” (suction038), and “Hypersensitivity” (suction046).
LOWFISH "THAW" EP on Barcelona’s inimitable Analogical Force label.
"Canada’s foremost robot returns to his higher-BPM electro-form with “Thaw EP.” Four analog-heavy tracks of melancholic system-100 and 808 workouts combined with icy strings and the catchy synth work he’s known for.
Includes a previously unreleased version of the much-lauded “8_OP” (originally released on Satamile Records NYC, 2006) to ensure things heat and melt accordingly. A whirlwind of emotion right on the cusp of bliss and melancholia. Artwork comes from Geometric Love / UK".
You can buy it here (digital or vinyl).
ABOUT LOWFISH
Lowfish is long-shelf-life Canadian electronic musician and producer Gregory De Rocher.
Known for his unique flavour of melancholy ambient electro and timeless, moody, early-Aphex-inspired melodic IDM, his catalogue spans 30 years with releases on Suction Records (Toronto), Ersatz Audio (Detroit), Satamile (NYC), Analogical Force (Barcelona), Hymen (Germany), Noise Factory (CAN), Vynalogica (NL) and Awkward Silence (UK), plus compilation appearances for Ghostly International, Lo Recordings, Crème Organization and Turbo Recordings.
Lowfish's music has been licensed to 25+ television programmes in 18 countries, many still airing 15 years on, with additional library and sound-design work for Nickelodeon and BBC One.
He's played live alongside the likes of Legowelt, Solvent, Bola, ADULT., Carl Finlow, upsammy, Beau Wanzer, Ectomorph, Tiga, Ellen Allien, 2manydjs, Charles Manier, David Kristian, Ulrich Schnauss, Skanfrom, Speedy J, Biosphere and many more.
In 1997, he co-founded Toronto's Suction Records with Jason Amm (AKA Solvent, who has run the label since 2008) — a label built to release their own music and that of like-minded robot weirdos including Skanfrom (Sleeparchive), D'Arcangelo, ISAN and David Kristian. Early Suction records reached a worldwide audience via production and distribution partnerships with Morr Music, Forced Exposure and Belgium's K-RAA-K3.
Eight albums later, Lowfish still makes his music the hard way: TR-808, Jupiter, System-100, the odd Moog, and analog delays.