10×10:08 – Malcolm Middleton // River of Slime

10″ Split EP with CDR.

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Malcolm Middleton

“Vinyl 10 Malc?:

My friend Gav (aka OnTheFly) who runs De-Fence Records asked a few months back if I’d be interested in doing a split 10″ for his label. I said ‘yes’.

It was initially going to be as HDBA but that didn’t work out so I decided to go with a couple of recent songs I’d written over the summer. They don’t seem to fit anywhere else so voila, the 3 songs will be fitted onto one side of a 10″ and youíll be able to get hold of a copy soon.

It was recently made SINGLE OF THE WEEK by The List magazine (thanks!), albeit jointly with a couple of old jazz bozos”.

“But The List is thrilled to reunite Arab Strap’s Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton for Joint Single of the Month. Moffat’s outstanding tryst with Bill Wells continues apace with the ‘Cruel Summer’ EP (*****, Chemikal Underground) which allies their stifled-jazz take on Bananarama with a brand-new lovelorn serenade and a Hallowe’en dog-collar fantasy, while Malcolm Middleton lavishes us with a series of deadpan, gorgeous, down-home odes on ’10×10:08′(*****, De-Fence), an excellent split EP with FOUND’s electro-deviant River of Slime.” – The List

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River of Slime

It took a while for us to get a hold of RoS tracks and it’ll probably take us longer to get a biog from him.

So for now all I’ll say is that Kev Sim, one third of Edinburgh’s FOUND (10X10:04) is a busy man. When he’s not writing and touring with FOUND, he’s out tearing it up with River of Slime. River of Slime’s weapon of choice is the fully-loaded MPC1000 sampler, and play it well he does. It’s all about playing live, nothing’s pre-sequenced and there’s not a laptop in sight.

For 10X10:08 we’ve got a selection of five tracks recorded live, and mixed exclusively for De-Fence.