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Warp Records opens download site

The highly influential and extraordinarily left field label Warp Records have opened a new website to get you iPod's mouth watering. Bleep.com will feature downloads from all Warp artists and in celebration of it's set up they are offering you, the humble public, two unreleased Squarepusher tracks; Square Window, a devastating electronic ballad, and the acid frenzy of Talk About You And Me.

If you prefer to have a product in your hand though, never fear, there will, however, be an extremely limited 12" pressing of these two tracks (which also includes the album title track, Ultravisitor) sold in indie shops and available through www.warpmart.com.

Squarepusher's ninth album, Ultravisitor is released on 8 March. As part of a Contemporary Music Network live tour in March, Squarepusher, together with the London Sinfonietta, will collaborate in an historic meeting of traditional and contemporary musical ideas.

A continuation of the Warp Works and 20th Century Masters event that debuted at the 2003 Ether Festival, this year Squarepusher and Jamie Lidell will tour with the London Sinfonietta for five UK dates, their music heard alongside the London Sinfonietta's performance of works by pioneering classical composers Reich, Cage, Antheil, Varèse as well as three new pieces by Aphex Twin. Praised as "a brilliantly conceived concert" by New York Times, the 2004 event promises to be spectacular. Dates as follows:

12 March 04 - Ether Festival, RFH London
13 March 04 - Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry
16 March 04 - Anvil, Basingstoke
26 March 04 - Dome, Brighton
27 March 04 - Royal Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool


New up on the Indigo Flow site is a biography of Warp Records featuring many free audio links: www.indigoflow.co.uk/downloads/warp.html