Releases: UPLP01 Underpass "Disorienteering": **NEW!** Quotes about this album: "profoundly and spectacularly GREAT" Adam Walton, BBC Radio Wales "a joy to listen to... an excellent package in every sense." Kruger Magazine The debut album from Underpass, entitled Disorienteering, will seep into stores this January. Neatly wrapping up recent productions, it is equal parts glitchy hip-hop, electronica and guitar scapes. In other words, it's the gentler side of his output last heard on his Variable Architecture EP in 2006. "Channel Zero" has already impressed with its slinky guitar lines and crunched ambience as the online video crept out and netted the track plays from the likes of Bethan Elfyn on BBC Radio One and Adam Walton on BBC Radio Wales. Look out for the next video, "Leigh Delamere", part two of a visual triptych that accompanies the album. Like the music, it hints at a fixation with place, space, transportation and urban sprawl. Elsewhere, "Sorry To Meet You" keeps the tone subdued with its stuttering edits and shadowy vocoder, while tracks like "Security" and "Wapping" plunge into heavier glitchy hip-hop territory. Away from the electronics, "This Connectivity" stretches and builds a wall of distorted and delayed guitars. The album has given Underpass a chance to work with some of his favourite peers, crafting the track "Hold Your Dreams In" with long time friend Rhodri Viney, himself a chameleonic musician and vocalist. The artwork and packaging were designed by artist Hannah Biscombe, whose work you may have seen exhibited on the London Underground. As a youth, Lee Marshall began his musical adventures in a break from the claustrophobia of a dull suburb - by forming a series of guitar-led punk bands. This was roughly the time when creating your own scene was, for him, the only viable option. He continued to apply that ethos while graduating to his latter day work as Underpass, using his own Urban Planning Records label to hold analogue and digital mindsets in tension. Underpass continues to do remixes and productions for the dancefloor, showing his versatility as a producer. These have included a forthcoming remix of bleep pioneers Unique 3 for Mutate Records, and other tracks for the label that need to stay comfortably under wraps for now. These days, he always uses the name Underpass. Indeed, those who know him for his bass-heavy club material might find the musicality of this album a surprise. In the words of the man himself, "This album has been a while in the making. It made sense to offer like-minded tracks together. While the music I make doesn't always fit neatly into little genres, it's all me." http://www.underpass.org.uk Tracklist: 1. Micronesia [3:41] 2. Security [4:19] 3. A Life More Meaningful [4:20] 4. Wapping [4:45] 5. Channel Zero [4:51] 6. Fingers and Thumbs [3:37] 7. This Connectivity [4:19] 8. Leigh Delamere [4:41] 9. Electric Legoland [5:23] 10. Zombies Ate My Sadness [4:28] (featuring Rhodri Viney) 11. Sorry To Meet You [4:56] 12. Twenty Eight Days [4:04] 13. A Song For Edna [3:21] 14. Hold Your Dreams In [5:49] (featuring Rhodri Viney) Available to download now from our online store from December 5th 2009. Hold out for the c.d's coming Janurary 25th 2010 UPEP03 Variable Architecture E.P: First released on Virus B-23 records in 2006, now available again on Urban Planning. "Underpass has stepped aside from his upfront electro output with this 5 track ep of sheer sonic warmth. 'Spazhop' introduces itself with subtle electronic percussion and synths joined by the ghostly prescence of a soothing guitar...the sound of glitch hop that envokes emotion and mellow joy. Track two,'Let Go', carries the torch from 'Spazhop' and unfolds into mesmerising downtempo elegance taking in the soundtrack to a sunset over a city with dislocated vocals and washes of blips, bleeps and laidback beats. Following on is 'Sidings', immersed in fluid effects and more horizontal drums. The ep then takes a turning into a wonderland of guitar complemented rhythms and jittery patterns that sway and slide effortlessly. Through 'Anyone' we are lead to he closing piece. A love story of rich hip hop infused beats and floating walls of sound that come from a place where the likes of My Bloody Valentine have in the past created such beautiful pieces of music that are both delicate and confident...'Watching You Sleep', electronic angels that watch over us. A truly involving release destined for many late night moments and memories." Available to download now from our online store. Click here. UPEP02 Transit E.P: The second release from Underpass, the Transit e.p. Four tracks of warmer gentler listening electro. Available to download now from our online store. Click here. UPEP01 Multistorey E.P: Out now on Urban Planning records: Underpass. The Multistorey e.p. As played by Si Begg, Scape One, Bass Junkie, Annie Mac, Steve Lamaq and many more. Available to download now from our online store. Click here. Four tracks of scuffling bass-heavy electro. Limited numbers still available on 12" audiophile 180g Heavyweight Vinyl Full colour sleeve. Built in applemac �noballgames'09