Hand on the Plow http://www.handontheplow.org Hand on the Plow Records Thu, 08 May 2008 18:39:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en New Beckett & Taylor out Monday.Free MP3. http://www.handontheplow.org/2008/04/30/new-beckett-taylor-out-mondayfree-mp3/ http://www.handontheplow.org/2008/04/30/new-beckett-taylor-out-mondayfree-mp3/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:38:54 +0000 Plow http://www.handontheplow.org/2008/04/30/new-beckett-taylor-out-mondayfree-mp3/ After many months of delay the vinyl of the Beckett & Taylor release World of Me will finally hit the shops next monday, 5th May 2008.

Jesus. Thank god for that. But we can’t really just piss about as we are knees deep with the writing of our debut album. It’s going to be a cracker, we hear the summer of 2008 is ‘all about wonky’.

World of Me

To celebrate the milestone of finally getting HOTP007 out the door we are giving away a free MP3 of Me Too. Me Too is our remix of the title track which you can download by clicking here. Or listen with the widget below.

“Nothing needs to rhyme with me, the singer growls, and indeed, it’s hard to see what could. The song’s in its own league.” - Pitchfork Media

“…they make for an odd couple, but then that’s what B&T are all about.”
Spannered

“Superbly brain-wrong bit of human/machine hybrid funk that sits right outside of genres” - Mixmag

To read more and listen go here.

]]> http://www.handontheplow.org/2008/04/30/new-beckett-taylor-out-mondayfree-mp3/feed/ New digital stockists - Other Music http://www.handontheplow.org/2008/04/28/new-digital-stockists-other-music/ http://www.handontheplow.org/2008/04/28/new-digital-stockists-other-music/#comments Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:45:14 +0000 Plow http://www.handontheplow.org/2008/04/28/new-digital-stockists-other-music/ We’ve been slowly but surely boosting our digital distribution over the past couple of years and we are pretty happy with it as it stands now. For a full list of digital stockists click on the shop link in the nav bar.
Other Music

Recent notable additions include the digital wing of the renowned New York record store Other Music and the new store What People Play, a digital music venture by the German electronic distributor Word and Sound. Of course our music is still available from all the old favourites including iTunes , Warp’s BLEEP Shop, Boomkat Digital and Juno Digital.

]]> http://www.handontheplow.org/2008/04/28/new-digital-stockists-other-music/feed/ Beckett & Taylor - Signals 7″ http://www.handontheplow.org/2008/04/17/beckett-taylor-signals-7/ http://www.handontheplow.org/2008/04/17/beckett-taylor-signals-7/#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:41:17 +0000 Plow http://www.handontheplow.org/2008/04/17/beckett-taylor-signals-7/ Beckett & Taylor have a track featured on a 7″ in the Signal Series, released by the Uncharted Audio label. Click through for an mp3 sample.

This series got some very nice press from magazines such as FACT and Spannered.

In other very welcome news, the HOTP007 vinyl is FINALLY on the way, due in the shops May 12th. This record has been such a saga with distribution problems, pressing and mastering problems.

Signals Series
Signal Series, Satunday

It’s been a phenomenal amount of work so thank the gods it’s coming out now. The pressing sounds fantastic, thanks to the brinkmanship and mastering wizardry of Cristian Vogel at Station 55 Studio in Barcelona and Rashad at Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin. What a team.

]]> http://www.handontheplow.org/2008/04/17/beckett-taylor-signals-7/feed/ Beckett & Taylor - World of Me - HOTP007 http://www.handontheplow.org/2007/09/30/beckett-taylor-world-of-me-hotp007/ http://www.handontheplow.org/2007/09/30/beckett-taylor-world-of-me-hotp007/#comments Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:38:57 +0000 Plow http://www.handontheplow.org/2007/09/30/beckett-taylor-world-of-me-hotp007/ Beckett & Taylor are currently putting the final touches to their next single World of Me.

HOTP007 will be released on 12″ and digital formats in early January 2008. This four track release features two new songs and two remixes from the prolific Cristian Vogel.

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Beckett & Taylor, Tuesday

Cristian’s remixes were composed using a prototype version of his bespoke techno tracking system The Never Engine, which is also the title of his jacking new solo album on Tresor Berlin. Also highly recommended is the recent rocking album from Cristian’s band Night of the Brain and a CD of experimental music which Cristian composed in collaboration with the choreographer Gilles Jobin. If only Beckett & Taylor were so industrious…

The other news is that our US fans can now buy Plow music on the new Amazon.com mp3 download service. Amazon is completely DRM free so a much better alternative to iTunes… although frankly we and other small labels see a much better return if you buy MP3’s from Bleep, Boomkat or Beatport. All the B’s please, all the B’s.

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Beckett & Taylor recently remixed the track Midnight Swim by Parisian artist Para One. The 12″ is in most good shops on the Institubes label.

“While the main remixes on this 12″ (Riton, Surkin) will please more mainstream house and electro-house floors, this one from favourites of this page and Hand On The Plow mainstays Beckett & Taylor will please the most warped of minds. Grafting jacking Chi-town house to massive sub bass notes, voice cut-ups and fierce drum production creates a startlingly original and kicking track.” - Mixmag

“…take their hands off the plow long enough to outclass their fellows” - Stylus Magazine

“Beckett & Taylor: The new masters of skewed house” - Nuloop.com

“the wonderful beckett and taylor turn the original inside out” - Rough Trade

Remix ]]> http://www.handontheplow.org/2007/05/18/para-one-remix/feed/ Megamix http://www.handontheplow.org/2007/03/13/megamix/ http://www.handontheplow.org/2007/03/13/megamix/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:03:04 +0000 Plow http://www.handontheplow.org/2007/03/13/megamix/ Spannered

Purveyors of quality web journalism Spannered are hosting an exclusive interview with Beckett & Taylor.

“Fancy a spot of organic market techno? Spannered dons its wellies and meets the lads behind a label truly in a field of its own.”

Also included is an exclusive Hand on the Plow Megamix produced by Spandex and Taylor, a rip-roaring ride through the Plow catalogue in a Jive-Bunny fashion.

]]> http://www.handontheplow.org/2007/03/13/megamix/feed/ Boomkat Digital http://www.handontheplow.org/2007/03/02/boomkat-digital/ http://www.handontheplow.org/2007/03/02/boomkat-digital/#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:18:03 +0000 Plow http://www.handontheplow.org/2007/03/02/boomkat-digital/ >Klick the Kat ]]> Booming Kat

Those nice folks over at Boomkat are doing a promotion all this week to highlight the fact they are now selling our MP3’s.

Booming Kat
>>Klick the Kat

]]> http://www.handontheplow.org/2007/03/02/boomkat-digital/feed/ Laszlo Plows new Trax http://www.handontheplow.org/2007/01/20/laszlo-plows-new-trax/ http://www.handontheplow.org/2007/01/20/laszlo-plows-new-trax/#comments Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:15:18 +0000 Plow http://www.handontheplow.org/2007/01/20/laszlo-plows-new-trax/ The next release on Hand on the Plow is a solo release by Laszlo Beckett. This original and jacking platter sees Laszlo spin off from the Beckett & Taylor partnership to explore his dark booty shaking tendencies.

Plowtrax Vol.1 will be released on 12″ vinyl and digital formats on January 29th 2007.
Read more and listen here. ]]> http://www.handontheplow.org/2007/01/20/laszlo-plows-new-trax/feed/ Spandex has landed, non-lossy. http://www.handontheplow.org/2006/11/10/spandex-has-landed-non-lossy/ http://www.handontheplow.org/2006/11/10/spandex-has-landed-non-lossy/#comments Thu, 09 Nov 2006 23:12:30 +0000 Plow http://www.handontheplow.org/2006/11/10/spandex-has-landed-non-lossy/

Spandex - (What’s Wrong With You)
HOTP005 - 12″ Vinyl + Digital

We are mightily chuffed to announce the release of the fifth Hand on the Plow record by our favourite artist… SPANDEX… and also equally chuffed that it has become our third Boomkat single of the week in a row!

HOTP005 is our first release simultaneously available in glorious lossless digital formats, for the weight conscious we have FLAC’s (BLEEP), for the careless gluttons we have WAV’s (Juno) or pick the files fresh and crisp from the corporate orchard that is (iTunes).
His housey grooves are full of twisted bendy noises flying off in all directions… the production is sublime. - Mixmag

Spandex has a knack of turning lazy mumbling into the funkiest dancefloor tracks out there. What’s Wrong With You does this brilliantly with burbling soul and stuttered blues funk, all wrapped up in his skintight production secrets.

Read more and Listen
]]> http://www.handontheplow.org/2006/11/10/spandex-has-landed-non-lossy/feed/ HOTP004 in the shops now. http://www.handontheplow.org/2006/10/26/hotp004-in-the-shops-now/ http://www.handontheplow.org/2006/10/26/hotp004-in-the-shops-now/#comments Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:46:16 +0000 Plow http://www.handontheplow.org/2006/10/26/hotp004-in-the-shops-now/

Pleated Lemon - (Surefire Hit)
HOTP004 - 12″ Vinyl

Is in the shops now. Distributed worldwide by Baked Goods.

To buy Vinyl visit Boomkat (UK), where we are listed as single of the week!, or to buy MP3’s visit Pleated Lemon Warp’s BLEEP Shop or Juno Digital.

“You know this isn’t even satire, it’s just endearing shite” - Pleated Lemon

Pleated Lemon - Getting drunk to make music to get drunk to.
Coming from the twisted mind of Spandex and his maniacal cohort DYTCH is this latest plate, a 12″ somehow destined to be a huge pop hit if we do say so ourselves. Beginning with the future playground anthem ‘Cocks and Fannies’ we’re instantly catapulted into the surreal world of Pleated Lemon.

“Sounds like bill cosby on shit fife eccies” - well known scottish producer

Read more and Listen

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