Psychomat

[l=Psychomat] was initially set up as a sub-label to [a=Mr C]’s [l=Plink Plonk Records], run by Paul Rip. [a=Jono Podmore] was working closely with them at the time, producing techno and house, but as his own material was much more diverse it didn’t sit on [l=Plink Plonk Records], so [l=Psychomat] was created for the [a=Kumo] sound. Three 12”s were released: [i]Armed Response, 7 Buckets, Together[/i]; and the first [a=Kumo] album, [b][i]Kaminari[/b][/i] on double vinyl and CD back in ’97.
[a=Jono Podmore] was then lured away to Provence to work with [a=Irmin Schmidt] and the greater [a=Can] family. As he swanned around great European cities producing operas, music for films and TV, donning the mantle of [i]Professor der Praxis der Popular Musik[/i], downing litres of [i]Chateauneuf du Pape[/i] and [i]Gran Duque d’Alba[/i], and breathing life into the dusty valves of ancient analogue synthesis with [a=Metamono], [l=Psychomat] sat in intellectual cryogenesis awaiting rebirth. That rebirth that took place in March 2017 with the release of 7” [i]Miss Slipper/Lewes[/i] with Sound Writer [a=Swantje Lichtenstein], and continues with the [i]Impulsion EP[/i] with [a=Reason Stendec].