Richard Forbes-Hamilton, ‘Working Water VI (green and turquoise)’, 2024, oil on linen, 40 x 30cm
This painting is featured in our OPEN CALL 2025 Exhibition.
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Richard Forbes-Hamilton an interdisciplinary painter living and working in Sheffield. His practice often explores singular ideas/motifs repeated through what might be conventionally seen as divergent methods including painting, experimental animation, sound, photography and textiles. He articulates his work through a personal understanding of methods attributed to painting, such as intuitive working, quality of surface/material and understanding through making. Central and reoccurring themes include the nature of experience, transformative thresholds of spaces/perspectives, and the resonance of images.
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Latest Beat Concern alert 🚨 link in bio ⛓⬆️
Beat Concern presents ACID CONCERN: Volume 1-3. This new series lets our Beat Concern fam go wild with their 303's regardless of style.
Acid Concern Volumes 1-3 is a triple attack from brothers in acid arms w/ Gloop, L/F/D/M and Taut + Tame all flexing their acid muscles across 27 tracks of face melting resonance and cut off frequencies.
Gloop throws down the lactic gauntlet of bouncing 90's IDM and cranks up the acid bass lines which screech and swell over Rephlex-esque melodies and breakbeats that re-live a really British flavour of techno with a distinct Sheffield bleep feel.
L/F/D/M returns to BC with 9 tracks of old school acid flavours to drop on your tongue. Using a straight up hardware set up, these direct traxx recall the early days of Phuture / Armando whilst driving these tracks and distressing them for a more modern dance floor feel.
Completing this trilogy is Taut + Tame, who moves from the dark electro techno of his previous EP and takes us through a soundtrack for a night clubbing where the tracks get progressively wonkier as the acid takes hold and starts dissolving the grey cells hour by hour. With the peaks and troughs of a night on the dance floor, one minute its peak time four on the floor and sweating in the corner, the next moment sounds are in not where you expect them and the bathroom isn't what it was at the start of the night!
RIYL for fans of Acid who know there is more than one way to cook up a 303 baseline! Big Up the Acid Concern
☀️Holding out for the summer☀️
+ a reminder to self to invest in a really fancy highlighter 'cause they truly make you snap 💫
📷 Richard Forbes-Hamilton
Holy shit guys! One of the things about leaving a job during a pandemic is that you don’t get a leaving party and all the sloppy messy drunkenness that comes with it. Today I received a leaving card and record from my amazing ex colleagues at CSS. #supertouched I’m have a beer and pretend you are all here wiv me. #cheers #soppybastard
Out Today!
Serpente's Irmãs cassette is now shipping, available on bandcamp and shops 💙
Portuguese for "Sisters," comprising of two 17 minute digressions, based on the Serpente live act circa late 2019.
Limited edition of 50, while stocks last... 🔥 bandcamp link in bio!
Mastering by @qualiasound
Artwork by @highestlearning
Getting on this late, having a go at the 10 day challenge - thanks for the nomination at the end of last year @fay_nicolson
Starting out with some pictures from uni days in Brighton @Bfap_ - I met some amazing people here and had the great pleasure of sharing a studio with Freddy Dewe Matthews, @jamesmurrayharrison@darrell_hawkins@jrayrayner and @maxwellwade
The first slide is a painting Max and I made painted of each other at the same time, we put it up in the painting departments corridor to welcome everyone at the beginning of the academic year, repainted it a bit a year later as a short tradition. We later learnt that our amazing tutor/technician Rob Hersey screwed the painting to the door of his office.
Then some paintings I made of James and (tired) Jess (sorry jess I know this painting is a bit gnarly) in the studio. Also a couple of studio photos maybe around assessment time maybe in the first or second year.
I think I wanted to start with something from this time as I'm sure a lot people are missing the opportunity for physically communal social/creative engagement at the moment. The amazing time I had Brighton and was for the largest part defined by the people I was surrounded by, and also having a constant physical space that provided a supportive social/creative/working environment.
I didn't experience anything remotely close to a perfect era, but it has been really disheartening to see higher/further education in art be squeezed through funding cuts/reduction of studio space/increase of fees (the list goes on) and all the shit that has come with - whether it be greater stress/pressure/lack of secure employment for staff, shifting culture from creative development to quantifiable professional attainment, or a more exclusive and less supportive experience for students (again the list goes on).
It seems like art education through universities is currently operating on an incredibly unsustainable model. Applause to all the people trying to make good of and/or challenging their institutions, and to all the individuals/groups who have provided or are working on alternative, more supportive, more sustainable models.
#10daychallenge #studio
Although the world outside has gone to shit, it’s always music that makes every situation better. This year I decided that all my releases would be from friends or friends of friends rather than just artists I liked and reached out to. Stupid not to when you’re surrounded by people who make music like the 8 releases we dropped this year. Big love to everyone for joining the journey and those that are lined up for 2021. Shouts outs to @hotsalvation and @jamesburges for the help too xx
Premier for @highestlearning track ‘All I Ever’ and interview with me about Beat Concern over at @zenevloed now! Scroll ➡️ to read it and hear the track .
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#zenevloed #techno #electronicmusic
Yep - they’re finally here! The first of our 4 x CS/DL drops of this year. All songs now available to listen to and scoop up at our bandcamp (⛓ in bio obvs). There is a cheaper bundle if you want all 4 and a reduction on all previous releases for a period too. Big up @highestlearning@mindgloop@severinblack@helltowne for the music XX
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#beatconcern #techno #idm #ebm #electronicmusic
All 4 tapes are now up for pre-order (⛓in bio) and drop this Friday (in time for payday). If you want to pick up all of these there is a discounted bundle for both digital and physical. Some of these tracks will not be getting put on streaming services so bandcamp is the only way! Enjoy! .
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#beatconcern #techno #industrialtechno #ebm #electro #ibm #electronicmusic #cassettes
Announcing the 3rd release in our drop this month is Higher Learning - Can You Feel It? Head to the Bandcamp to check it!
When music is hard to describe and truly doesn’t sit within easy frames of reference, it’s either really exciting or just a bit shit.
Luckily Richard Forbes-Hamilton serves up an EP of what 20 JFG described as “Industrial crypto-Pop…. Midnight reverb and towering drums; buried synth melody; long tape-sliped chords — somewhere around Fever Ray trying to land a slot on the Miami Vice soundtrack. Except, rather than compound a brutal, industrial sound, the vocal here is…pure pop. This could be (and should be) ripped from the event horizon of fucked-up pop (the heat death of the 80s).” As a visual artist (mans got talent) and an absorber of music from the last 30 years, Higher Learning distills his industrial leaning dubbed out tracks with spacial sound design and ultimately pushing insights into what pop can really mean in this new decade.
RIYL - Holly Herndon, Coil, Equinoxx, Andy Stott.
