<img src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/down-review.jpg" width="170" align="left" height="113" /><a href="http://music.hiddenshoal.com">Hidden Shoal Recordings</a> today announced the signing of electronica duo <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/down-review/">Down Review</a> to its roster of artists.

Acclaimed electronic producers Medard Fischer (<a href="http://www.myspace.com/arclabmusic" target="_blank">Arc Lab</a>) and Tim Arndt (<a href="http://www.myspace.com/neartheparenthesis" target="_blank">Near The Parenthesis</a>) have never been in the same room nor even spoken. But from their online musical collaboration comes Down Review, melding their unique sensibilities to create a delicious hybrid - warm, human electronica for alienating times.

Down Review’s initial collaboration was featured on Near the Parenthesis’ album <em>Of Soft Construction</em> (<a href="http://n5md.com/" target="_blank">n5MD</a>, 2007). Their work on the track ‘Sitting in a Room’ was clearly a departure from the typical NTP aesthetic, situating Medard’s drum-programming wizardry and signature basslines beneath Arndt’s more ethereal creations.  The result was arguably the album’s stand-out track, which “rather anomalously adds bass-heavy funkiness to the sparkling flow” (<a href="http://www.textura.org/" target="_blank">Textura</a>).

Down Review’s debut EP <em>From Here, For Anyone</em> is to be released by Hidden Shoal on 11th August, preceded by the single ‘Anything is Everything’ on 9th July.

Read a full press release <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Down_Review_Signing.pdf">here</a> and listen to a sneak preview of the upcoming single ‘Anything is Everything’ on <a href="http://www.myspace.com/downreview" target="_blank">Down Review's Myspace page</a>.