Experimental French imprint Bip-hop, which has just delivered the first studio album by Brighton-based artist Bela Emerson and the ninth instalment in its excellent Bip-hop Generation series, will be celebrating ten years at the forefront of experimental music with an exclusive CD given away to subscribers with the March issue of The Wire.
The label, spearheaded by music activist Philippe Petit, a music journalist, radio DJ and musician, amongst other things, has released music by artists as diverse as Si-Cut.db, Twine, Spaceheads, Scanner, Angel, Iris Garrelfs, Rothko, Bovine Life, Janek Schaefer or the third collaborative effort between Max Eastley and David Toop, and featured the likes of Murcof, Burnt Friedman, Arovane, Datach’I, Schneider TM, Phonem, Ilpo Vaisänen, Taylor Deupree or FM3.
In 2002, the label started a new series of collaborative efforts entitled Reciprocess +/vs. in which two artists offered common compositions and remixes of each other’s work. So far, two volumes have been made available; the first one was a collaboration between Scottish artist Bovine Life, AKA Chris Dooks, and German artist Komet (Frank Bretschneider), and the second documented the collaboration between Stephan Mathieu and Douglas Benford. The CD given away in next month’s issue of The Wire is the third installment in this series, but this time, the project is curated by Philippe Petit and will feature eighty minutes of material from Aidan Baker, Chapter 24, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Simon Fisher Turner, Klangwart, Douglas Benford, Martkovo, Bela Emerson, Kumo, Eugene S. Robinson, Severin 24, Jason Forrest, Lydia Lunch, Jean-Hervé Peron, Strings Of Consciousness, Sybarite, Jeru and dDamage.
