Owlbinos of Northfield has been around as a project since around 2005. After making a racket with moderate success for some long forgotten Brum noise makers like The Robots of Death, Hannon eld Illinois & Gravepaintings, sharing stages with the likes of Black Dice Sightings, Oxbow Khanate & Boredoms, Owlbinos was eventually hatched.
In the beginning Owlbinos took old recordings made on mini discs and manipulated them using e ffect pedals & car boot sale found kids sampling keyboards to make a mess of lofi congealed soundscapes (his words!). It has since developed with technology to be more structured, and with his own self imposed dogma code, to be more beatless and use long drones & unconventional rhythmic foundscapes. He most definitely still has his feet in Lofi, and he fi nds inspiration from his family & the beautiful surroundings of his current nest in the Lickey hills. In March 2015 Romeda Records released 'Cinnamon Fog' to Download, aptly this was also available on a 1.44MB Floppy Disk featuring extremely lofi versions of the original track, remixes & an exclusive to the Disk track. January 2016 saw the release of the Owlbinos of Northfield's debut album 'My Spirit Animal is a Goth Teenager' again on Romeda and as a special limited edition Cassette pack and to Download. A Cassette of remixes followed and this also featured a new Owlbinos track 'Solihull = Zelda Hair'. In September 2016 Romeda released a special limited edition Owlbinos CD 'Dinoshur', which notably has packaging and design inspired by and produced by his children at the family home.
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Revisit 25 years of the great Smalltown Supersound label with this megamix by Prins Thomas, containing hits & rarities from the catalog. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 4, 2018