new single: XYLITOL - GHOST OFFICE b/w LIBBE MATZ GANG - SOLVENT HALO on 7" (100 copies only: NO DL, NO REPRESS):
buy from here: http://xylitolmusic.blogspot.com
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"Xylitol is a one-man sound laboratory from London. On his recent mini-album 'Functionary' he welds post-punk/NDW electronic sensibilities with echoes of public-service soundtracks and Brutalist dancefloors." (Frances Morgan, Plan B Magazine)
xylitol spent the late 80s / early 90s failing to make techno with the aid of an amiga, a casiotone and a tascam 4 track. the resulting inadvertantly abrasive tape-noise / electro found its way onto a few cassette compilations under a variety of colourful pseudonyms
xylitol djed at the monthly london club 'kosmische' throughout the late 90s and 00s.
xylitol was an early member of the pop group they came from the stars i saw them.
xylitol music has been described as "like a tighter, more disciplined DER PLAN, if they'd come from Sheffield and been asked to score the theme tunes to scientific programmes", (bti.rip) and as "the product of an immaculate record collection" (the wire), which may be the nicest things anyone's ever said about me.
a couple of copies of the album 'FUNCTIONARY' are still available from MIMAROGLU MUSIC SALES:
www.mimaroglumusicsales.com/labels/pierogii-disc.html
all other releases are sold out
disk ography:
2011/2012: forthcoming XYLITOL / BELBURY POLY 7" split single on the Ghost Box label
FEB 2011: XYLITOL MUSIC PLAYED BY OTHER PEOPLE: remixes and collaborations by Woebot, Belbury Poly, Um, Nocturnal Emissions, Sculpture and a host of stars - double CD set. AVAILABLE NOW!
November 2008: xylitol - ghost office (magical youtube only disembodied digital preview edition)
May 2008: xylitol - Hardcore Butskellism + Selsdon Man (2 x 45rpm recycled-CD-records cut by Aleks Kolkowski - ltd edition of 1)
2007: xylitol - Error Bursts In Transmission (pierogiidisc 002) 3"cd
2007: v/a - kosmische oya sampler (ltd to 100 copies, features 1 exclusive xylitol track 'ichhabeangst')
2007: v/a - you are hear sessions 2002-6 (compilation cd compiled by magz and myself featuring exclusive live session tracks from pram, germlin, momus, david grubbs, noxagt, vanishing breed, juana molina, cartertutti, no bra and a galaxy of others recorded in the old resonance fm studio in denmark street)
2006: xylitol - functionary (pierogiidisc 001) 3"cd
2006: noxagt / ultralyd split lp (textile) - uncredited guest appearance on track A2 - www.noxagt.com
2006: v/a - disco_r.dance volume 1 2xCD (features 1 exclusive xylitol track)
2005: xylitol - a year of pierogii (cdr in gimmix foldout packaging made from music and video exchange price-stickers, ltd to 15 numbered copies [sold out]
2005: jim backhaus - vinyl negatives (transparent pva 7", 10" and 12" records, playable on a normal turntable - editions still available: electronic sound - locked-grooves; lieutenant pigeon; bounty killer; electrik cokernut; vanishing sounds of britain; 2 bad mice; undercover agent; black helicopter; mystery jungle record: all unique, exhibited at the foundry, london ec1 in spring 2005). [offers]
2004: they came from the stars i saw them vs various gimps - the idiot machine (compilation of unreleased tracks and remixes, including xylitol's astral_bunny super sunshine remix of authentatistic as described above) - i also have one last copy available, contact me if you want it.
2002: v/a - flatpack antenna (resonance fm fundraising compilation lp anti-curated by jimbackhaus + magzhall, ltd to 500 numbered copies, featuring stewart home, tennis, little timmy and samanthrax (a secret pseudonym of someone _very_ famous), and many others) £10 **LAST FEW STILL AVAILABLE**
1996: tangerine boner - pardon my boner (playable etched carboard 7" single, unique object. current whereabouts unknown)
1991/2 (?): amoeba frank - infinite space (c15 computer cassette)
**you can buy a copies of 'fuctionary' and 'error bursts in transmission' via the [buy now] paypal links above - if you're interested in any other stuff send me a myspace message or email me at jim (at) lumin (dot) org and put xylitol in the subject line**
Xylitol has shared stages with Pram, The Man From Uranus, Silver Apples, Chevron, Cutting Pink With Knives, Romvelope, Ommm, Le Couteau Jaune, Pete UM, Germlin, The Oscillation, Litmus, Gay Against You, Si {Cut} DB, Robert Hampson, Please, Bass Clef, The Bohman Brothers, Knives Ov Resistance, Methodist Centre, Striplight and several others. Xylitol music has been played on Radio 1's 'One World' Programme, Channel 4 Radio 'SlashMusic', Max Tundra's Rotogravure on Resonance FM, WFMU, The ICA Podcast, You Are Hear / Totally Radio and has had kind words spent on him by The Wire, Plan B, FACT Magazine, Drowned In Sound, Woebot, Simon Reynolds, Beyond The Implode RIP, Sit Down Man You're A Bloody Tragedy and maybe some other people too.
Xylitol has remixed They Came From The Stars I Saw Them, Disinformation v Strange Attractor and Ommm - the first of which was released about 2 years ago, the second of which will be out sometime soon, the third of which may see the light of day sometime maybe. Xylitol has also contributed music to the soundtrack of the feature film 'Katalin Varga' directed by Peter Strickland, also featuring the sinisterly hypnotic music of Steven Stapleton and Geoff Cox.
xylitol / woebot.tv interview:
