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Tonefloat releases a new vinyl only release of recordings by SW's ongoing experiments with drone and ambient music as Bass Communion. Litany is taken from new recordings using choral/vocal samples and looping techniques. These experiments may lead to a full album at some stage, but in the meantime 23 minutes of work in progress will be issued as a 2-track 12inch EP. The ep comes in a beautiful sleeve designed by Carl Glover and will be available in limited editions of 1,000 copies on black 180 grams vinyl and 250 copies on coloured 180 grams vinyl.

You can pre-order now from the Tonefloat store, or from Burning Shed. Release date is late July.

Another new Bass Communion release "Chiaroscuro", a CD of the live performance in Antwerp in November 2008 in a beautiful Japanese gatefold mini LP sleeve, will also shortly be available. However, this release will be exclusive to SW's own mail order outlet Headphone Dust. More news shortly.

The forthcoming Steven Wilson NSRGNTS RMXS CD has now been expanded into a 6 track mini album, running almost 40 minutes.

RMXS was originally announced as two EPs, split between a CD and a 12 vinyl release. But at the 11th hour a remix from New York dark hip hop artists dälek came in that totally blew us away, and we couldn't wait to put it out so it has been added it to the CD version of RMXS. In addition given the quality of the Abandoner remixes in the competition (and the number of votes we have had for the 8 finalists) we've decided that the winner, still to be established, will now also be included on a physical release.

The newly expanded NSRGNTS RMXS 6 track mini-album will receive a full retail release in August, but an advance run of 5,000 copies will be shipping from the KScope store from June 29th (please note that the Kscope edition and the retail edition will be exactly the same).

The vinyl release will remain unchanged (still 3 tracks, 1000 copies, only available from Kscope store) and a digital version with all eight tracks will be available in August.

SW's debut album Insurgentes was released earlier this year on Kscope. The album received a great reception, not just from fans and critics but also from fellow artists. Several of these artists have now remixed tracks from the album and NSRGNTS RMXS is a selection of these mixes.

The CD edition features a mix of the albums opening track Harmony Korine by David A. Sitek, currently enjoying massive critical acclaim as leader / producer of TV On The Radio. It also features mixes of tracks by Engineers, Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson) and Fear Falls Burning.

The 12 vinyl edition of NSRGNTS RMXS will be limited to 1000 copies and will only be available from the Kscope store. It also features the David A. Sitek mix along with two mixes of Only Child by Pat Mastelotto.

Both the CD and 12 inch are available to pre-order now from the KScope store.

Finally a digital edition will collect all six tracks available on the CD and 12 inch, and will also feature the winner of the remix competition which has been running on the Insurgentes site.

The competition offered fans the chance to remix the track Abandoner. With the competition now closed, Steven has listened to all the entries and created a shortlist of eight mixes. These mixes are all available to listen to on insurgentes.org and you can vote for your favourite. Voting ends on May 29th.

Steve would also like to take the opportunity to thank all the wonderful submissions to the remix competition, over 200, all of which were listened to!

Headphone Dust have a small number of copies of the bonus CD from the original Insurgentes special edition available to people who did not manage to get one of the book editions (if you did already get one please don't email us!)

For details on how to obtain a copy, go to Headphone Dust Mail Order.

You can now purchase the Bass Communion / Pig "Live in Mexico City" album as an mp3 download or high quality FLAC download from Burning Shed. Beautifully recorded within the natural ambience of Laboratorio de Arte Alameda in Mexico City on 27th Feb 2008, this is a collaboration between SW on guitar/laptop, and the noise / improv group from Mexico. Originally released on vinyl only by Important Records in 2008.