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from mid 2010 alt.vinyl will be online only for its store and label. we had a big bash to see off our 6 years in our newcastle store..thanks to all who played on the night and most of all to all our regulars and friends..we'll see you in cyberspace

new out this year - releases by steven r smith & gareth davis, family elan and nalle. upcoming in the next few months more wax goodness by second family band, two helena espvall (espers) collaborations with tara burke (fursaxa) and marcia bassett (zaimph). following that we have two volcano the bear linked releases (one featuring jazzfinger) and a gem of a record featuring early wooden wand recordings... sign up to our newsletter or to facebook to hear more..

Graham: PINK NOISE 'Graffiti Youth' LP SUN ARAW 'Heavy Deeds' LP BILL ORCUTT 'A New Way To Pay Old Debts' LP JULIAN LYNCH 'Orange You Glad' LP EL-G 'Capitaine Present 5' LP VIBES 'Psychic' 7" TOPAZ RAGS 'Capricorn Born Again' LP NATURAL SNOW BUILDINGS 'Shadow kingdom' 2xCD / 3xLP GOD IN HACKNEY s/t triangular lathe WOVOKA 'I & II' 2xLP Ben: DEATHSPELL OMEGA / SVEST 'Veritas Diaboli Manet In Aeternum' LP HELL 'Teufelswerk' 2xCD / 3xLP VOLTIGEURS s/t CD PRURIENT 'Rose Pillar' LP+Book EYEBALLS 'Thief Of Men' CD OMAR SOULEYMAN 'Dabke 2020' MAJOR LAZER 'Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do' CD / LP GOD IN HACKNEY s/t triangular lathe GRAVEYARDS 'Screwed And Chopped' LP WORMSBLOOD 'mastery Of Creation Demos' CD Rich: HELL 'Teufelswerk' 2xCD / 3xLP DOOM 'Born Like This' CD / 2xLP BONG 'Bethmoora' 2xCD BLACK METEORIC STAR s/t CD MOS DEF 'The Ecstatic' CD / LP AAVIKKO 'Novo Atlantis' CD / LP GROUP DOUEH 'Treeg Salaam' CD / LP TLAHOUN GESSESSE '1940 - 2009' LP MOUNT ERRIE 'Wind's Poem' CD / LP CIRCLE 'Triumph' 2xCD / 2xLP ELIANE RADIGUE 'Triptych' CD V/A 'Sound Of Wonder' CD / 2xLP TEMPA T 'Next Hype' 12"

SATELLITE is proud to present _Towards a semi-autonomous self-perpetuating art (phone sex)_ __an audio installation by Cai Nyahoe ___Duration: 5min 44sec_ This sound piece is part of a series of works primarily exploring the role of the viewer in the production of art. In this piece the artist is seeking to restructure the contract between producer and consumer in a manner that favours the producer. This process has created a number of subtexts/by-products. Though no specific work is discussed a temporal work is generated through allusions to the dimensions of the piece, though these dimensions vary in relation to the ‘tasks’ requested by the artist: a device that simultaneously asserts and surrenders control of the work. In the context of other related pieces in particular "I really like you" (2007) Nyahoe has created a persona that is representative of a tendency inherent in the exhibition of work namely; the desire of the artist to seek external approval and conformation. Though this notion is taken to an extreme in this project these pieces; at times humorous are not entirely satirical. (phone sex) also inevitably leads the listener/viewer to question the nature of coercion and acceptable modes of behaviour in marginalised and inherently exploitative industries (in this case the sex trade). For the duration of the call certain unspoken rules are observed and a dual narrative is created: that of the artist seeking affirmation and the ‘client’ seeking physical gratification. It should be noted that although obscenity has been edited from the piece this is NOT in order to increase its palatability but rather to highlight the complicity of those hearing the work in the unfolding dialogue. SATELLITE is an independent 4 x 3 meter white cube project space for contemporary art situated at Alt Vinyl Record Store in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Satellite ( located within alt.vinyl ) presents Graeme Durant's solo exhibition 'Tundra'. Preview: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, Friday 31st July 2009 SATELLITE 61 Thornton Street Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 4AW United Kingdom 10:30 AM – 6:00 PM, Monday to Saturday SATELLITE is proud to present _TUNDRA _a solo exhibition of new sculpture by Graeme Durant. Durant's work stems from personal reflections upon certain materials and their transformations. Like the anagrammatical use of the artists name embedded in the title of the exhibition (that points, romantically, towards a collectively held understanding of the vast, treeless, perma-frost of a body of land); Durant similarly reorders a formalist sculptural vocabulary of form, volume and matter to play host to personal memory and experience. !!TEPRAC is a precarious rectilinear stack of four irregular, off-white cuboids on top of which sits a small wooden object in the form of an Archimedean Solid. This highly symmetrical, 'pure form' sits in opposition to the asymmetry of the architectonic white chipboard forms beneath it. Each of these units are carpeted on one face and, peculiarly sandwiched between the top and second object sits a generous block of foam brick. The dimension of each of these forms corresponds to a scaled version of all of the rooms in which the artist has lived. Durant begins with the abstract and leads us back towards representation, and somehow to a registration of his own presence in space and his own narrative.