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Let It Happen: Paddy Shine's Baker's Dozen
Paddy Shine is one of the most relentless instigators in the underground, both as part of Gnod and in myriad other projects. Ahead of the release of his collaborative folk project Moundabout alongside Phil Masterson on Rocket this summer, he guides Harry Sword through 13 vital slabs.
Imbued with cosmic magnificence and chaos energy, the music of Paddy Shine - both his work in Gnod, solo recordings and countless collaborations - simultaneously taps multiple facets of the modern underground and an ancient, palpably mossy bearing.
Since 2007, Gnod have operated not so much as band but more free wheeling audio hydra, encompassing a welter of collaborators and channelling sounds that roam from hypnotic dronewerks (Infinity Machines; Mirror) to raging politicised noise rock (Just Say No To The Pyscho Right Wing Capitalist Facist Death Machine; La Mort Du Sens) and roiling, dense psychedelia firmly planted in specific time and place (Hexen Valley).
Based for many years at a housing cooperative/arts centre in Islington Mill in Salford, Gnod (who now revolve around a tighter nucleas of Paddy Shine, Jesse Webb and Chris Haslam from a Hebden Valley base) hone in on a hypnotic, distorted but frequently propulsive sweet spot shared by bands on labels like God Unknown, Rocket and Wrong Speed - the weirder, wonkier side of heavy, essentially - while their Tesla Tapes imprint has also served as a vital underground hub for the wider Gnod family, with an eclectic release schedule encompassing lo-fi electronics, industrial, field recordings and all manner else...
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