PRINTED CIRCUIT
[PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PAGE IS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION!]
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PRESS
& BOOKING : clairecircuit@gmail.com |
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RELEASE
: Control, Escape coming soon! Vinyl & download on Chinchilla-Tone
& Catmobile |
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VIDEO
: Printed
Circuit - Movements (video 2006) |
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Although the 1980s references come thick and fast in Printed Circuit reviews, thats only one aspect of the music she makes. Her attention to detail - and her determination to make each song better than the last - ensures innovative programming that gives her music life and provides a unique twist on the traditional synthpop sound. Where electronic music is often soulless, repetitive and cold, Printed Circuit is bright, melodic and carefully-crafted electronic pop. Claire Broadley began making music as a solo artist in June 1999, aged 19. During the next five years, she released records on labels like Tigerbeat6, Elefant, 555 and her own label, Catmobile. Influences are continually taken from diverse sources, most obviously from the Acorn Electron computer games of her youth, but the only real constant is her own ability to tessellate simple melodies into far more complex compositions. In more recent years, Andrew Raine (of Leeds 6 DIY infamy; Cops&Robbers, Brown Owl, etc) has become an integral part of Printed Circuit's live shows, cemented by a 2 month world tour in 2005 to Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the USA. 2009 brings the arrival of a third member (we'll leave that for Claire to announce), and a new album entitled 'Control, Escape' coming soon on Chinchilla-Tone and Catmobile! “You
could think of Printed Circuit as a kind of safari park, a safe place
for an endangered species to roam and play, shielded from the evolutionary
progress raging unstoppably outside. Clare [sic] Broadley’s amiable,
wide-eyed electro-pop project has reached its second album, but as the
title of the opening track (”Continue? Y/N”) makes clear,
she remains as besotted by 1980s home computing and first generation
video games as ever. In Printed Circuit’s brightly coloured, hermetically
sealed world, the Commodore 64 still reigns supreme and The Human League
will never be toppled from Top Of The Pops. Broadley’s chunky,
child friendly basslines are like Giorgio Moroder rebuilt in Lego. It’s
such a comfortable, immediately convincing sound world that it’s
all too easy to spend Wonderful Technique’s dinky 30 minute running
time smiling at the retro flourishes rather than concentrating on the
considerable subtlety with which these seemingly artless songs are put
together. But tracks like “Movements” and “Osaka Slalom”
are littered with unexpected chord changes and surprising little twists
and turns. Printed Circuit’s mannered naivety is only skin deep”.
(The Wire, August 2007)
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