I’m currently writing an album with Ola Schmidt. Previews can be found on my Soundcloud page! http://soundcloud.com/minimaljames/tracks

A few weeks ago we put on a mini Stench Festival, with 2 nights of electronic music at The Great Central Gallery, Leicester. The first night was curated by Bathysphere with peformances from Asmo, Neil Unreal, Sam Dodson and myself. The second night was hosted by PVC, with performances from BJ Cole VS Myoptik, Phaelah, [...]

We’ve got a few live gigs coming up this month bass heavy Dubstep loaded with laptop glitches and turntable scratches. July 3rd Rubberdub @ Blue Print, Nottingham. W/ Ray Keith 16th July CDR @ Sophbeck, Leicester. 18th July Scrawling Metropolis @ The Fish Market, Northampton w/ Jon 1st 23rd July Braiile vs DROP @ Bacchus, [...]

The video above features Leicester artists talking about what the CDR nights mean to them. The next Leicester night is on the 16th July at Sophbeck, which is an open session for producers to bring their tracks along to hear on a club system. With a live set from Pure Phase and guest DJ’s Psykhomantus, [...]

I had a great time at Stench on Friday, the night featured 3 AV performances from Modulate, Mick Grierson, a collaboration by myself and Cuttlefish and a DJ set by Burntprogress. Photos by Stue Smith. more info on Stench at Stench.org.uk Mick Grierson Modulate

I’m performing a new piece with Sean Clark at the next Stench event. The line up includes Modulate, Mick Grierson and Burntprogress. More info on the line up: Modulate Birmingham-based Modulate (Oscillate/Higher Intelligence Agency) are a digital arts collective exploring experimental sound and audio visual. They will be performing a live set using multi-speakers and [...]

I’ve been working on an international sound exchange project called Soundson this week. I worked with students from The Lancaster School in Leicester, where we recorded environmental and voice sounds. Students composed with these sounds by chopping them up, looping, pitch shifting and time stretching. We then took part in a live exchange with Collège [...]

I had a great night at CDR Leicester last night, we managed to squeeze ten tracks in, which have all been written since the last Leicester CDR in March. It was great to hear them out. I just uploaded a few more tracks to the Pure Phase page on soundcloud. There’s new tracks and some [...]

We’re back at Sophbeck this Thursday. Bring along your tracks! Featuring guest DJs: Psykhomantus Pure Phase (me and Spencer) Dushume Jimi Oh Cardiac

I’ve been back in the studio with Asmo this week, working on the finishing touches to the track “The devils in the detail”. Its a duet of scratching meets circuit bent noise.