Ryan Lee West, known by his stage name Rival Consoles, is a British
electronic music
Electronic music is a Music genre, genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or electronics, circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromech ...
ian, living in London. All of his albums and EPs have been released by
Erased Tapes Records.
Biography
West was born in
Leicester.
He learned to play guitar in his youth, but later switched to electronic production, studying music technology at
De Montfort University.
He initially used the stage name Aparatec, releasing an EP of material under that name in 2007. His first release as Rival Consoles was issued later in 2007 by
Erased Tapes Records, which has released all of his albums and EPs.
West has remixed tracks by
Jon Hopkins,
Vessels,
Ă“lafur Arnalds,
Nils Frahm,
Max Cooper,
Noisia,
Sasha
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and
Toydrum.
Rival Consoles' style is a combination of ambient, shoegaze, minimal techno and cinematic—often created with analogue synths, pedals and degraded processes. ''
Pitchfork'' described Rival Consoles' sound as "high-brow, avant-garde electronic music in the vein of Jon Hopkins and Nils Frahm".
West has also scored work for contemporary dance such as Alexander Whitley's ''Overflow'' and has scored an episode of Netflix's
Black Mirror ("
Striking Vipers
"Striking Vipers" is the first episode of the fifth series of the anthology series ''Black Mirror''. It was written by series creator Charlie Brooker and directed by Owen Harris. The episode was released on Netflix, along with the rest of series ...
"). His track "Recovery" was used in a 2020 television commercial for Blue Dragon foods.
Discography
Studio albums
Solo
*''IO'' (2009,
Erased Tapes)
*''Kid Velo'' (2011, Erased Tapes)
*''
Howl
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* ''The Howl'', a 1970 Italian film
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'' (2015, Erased Tapes)
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Night Melody
''Night Melody'' is the fourth studio album by British electronic musician Ryan Lee West, performing under his stage name Rival Consoles. It was released on 5 August 2016, Erased Tapes Records.
Production
Writing for ''Night Melody'' began in l ...
'' (2016, Erased Tapes) – mini-album
*''
Persona'' (2018, Erased Tapes)
*''Articulation'' (2020, Erased Tapes)
*''Overflow'' (2021, Erased Tapes)
*''Now Is'' (2022, Erased Tapes)
With other musicians
*''65/Milo'' (2009, with
Kiasmos)
EPs
*''The Decadent'' (2007, Erased Tapes)
*''Vemeer EP'' (2007, Erased Tapes, as Aparatec)
*''Helvetica'' (2009, Erased Tapes)
*''Odyssey'' (2014, Erased Tapes)
*''Sonne'' (2015, Erased Tapes)
*''Odyssey/Sonne'' (2015, Erased Tapes)
Remixes
* Four - Olafur Arnalds, Nils Frahm - Rival Consoles Remix
* Distant Light - Max Cooper - Rival Consoles Remix
* Cassette sessions E - Sasha - Rival Consoles Remix
* The Approach - Noisia - Rival Consoles Remix
* Jesus Song - Toydrum - Rival Consoles Remix
* Weightless - Neil Cowley Trio - Rival Consoles Remix
* Swim - Douglas Dare - Rival Consoles Remix
* Birds That Fly - Kidnap - Rival Consoles Remix
References
Living people
1985 births
People from Leicester
English electronic musicians
Erased Tapes Records artists
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