Trademark EP, by Stoloff & Hopkinson (10" on Pause 2)

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 The devious duo are back* with their fabulous sonic gadgets and the illest-fitted suits in the West. Stoloff & Hopkinson use machines to create music that would have been implausible in the 20th century, yet is immediately familiar, witty, human and not quite right. The Trademark EP sets them apart from their electronically gifted peers by way of layered beats, intricate sounds, rich melody and French lyrical flow blended with a unique grasp of reality.

September 02 saw the resurgence of the S&H live extravaganza. The duo, defiantly opposed to the hidden-hairless-men-behind-bleeping-banks-of-equipment school of electronic music performance, spent 18 months engineering a unique brand of fully-functional oversize keyboard (over what size? Over 12ft!). In order to suitably position them for global takeover, they also shot a new intro film in space (rather then there previously location-specific interludes). This al-most-mighty genius combined with their new body-pop worthy little ditties, made for quite a show.

Previous (until now, rare [due to the technically-intensive nature of each and every show]) incarnations of Essenhaitch-live have treated audiences at the Big Chill and the Light Surgeons curated 'Media Circus' (Sheffield) to former-elongated equipment performance and expertly merged alternative audio to Frankenstein. Essenhaitch hope to be able to find some miraculous way to do move live shows, keep your eyes posted on our live shows page for details.

* (only previously to be found on their own Your Medical Records imprint and Japanese label, Angels Egg)

**point to note**: this release does not contain the title (Trademark EP) anywhere on the artwork, it does however contain the track titles, idead_dual_woodpecker.

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