As the Battles gig on august 24 has an early curfew, we've decided to have an after show party around the corner in Crawdaddy. Doors will be at 11.30pm till late. Warp record's Chris Cark is the going to headline the event, for this live performance he will be joined by drummer Rob Lee. Special guests are Ambulance.

CLARK

It's very rare that an artist delivers an album to Warp's offices that absolutely everyone gets excited about, but Body Riddle is one of those albums. Clark has managed to gracefully meld together a live rhythmic intensity with the vast sonic freedom of modern laptop electronics to create something new yet recognizable for fans of all ambitious music.

Shortening his name to Clark and channeling his always restless creativity into Body Riddle, his new longplayer, Chris Clark returns. By hijacking the conventional live instrumentation of rock, draping it in the cloak of electronic composition and running it through the kaleidoscopic filters of krautrock, sunburnt psychedelia and musique concrete Clark has created a force to be reckoned with.

Album opener ³Herr Barr² is a curious bit of chunky mutant funk that explores what might have happened if Liquid Liquid played Dusseldorf in the early 70¹s using Kraftwerk¹s homemade synthesizers. ³Herzog² takes the heavy yet melodic analog fuzz of new-jacks like Justice and Simian Mobile Disco and re-casts it as a sweeping prog-rock cloud. The damaged disco bounce of ³Ted² will appeal to even the most timid of dancefloor crowds, despite its underlying bizarreness. ³Vengeance Drools² twists driving post-rock that recalls Tortoise, This Heat and Silver Apples at their toughest.

From undulating analog masterpieces to skittering melodic curveballs, Body Riddle is far and away one of the most original albums of the year, filling a void left in electronic music by the absence of true risk-takers. A perfect balance of abstraction and focus, this record should place Clark firmly among the ranks of maverick artists whose influence spans oceans and genres.

Recent tours and performances with post-rock giants 65daysofstatic and Tortoise have sent the clear message that like these bands, Clark will not be pigeonholed. This new sound demands a new live experience from Clark and it¹s exciting to see him rise to the challenge. The Clarky clubby set is still there, but for those that want something fresh & edgy, the new fully live show using mashedup drums & more improv elements promises an exciting experience.