Peter Sibley is punk royalty, and Rhythm Factory’s star factor. Peter was original founder of Rochdale punk band Fuzzknobs and had numerous college radio and chart hits during the 80s before joining Rhythm Factory in 1991. Half a generation senior to his bandmates, and filled with worldly knowledge from days of punk touring, he regularly whinges about the years in tourbuses with support acts like the Sniveling Sh*ts. Best regarded as vocalist, guitarist and keyboardist, he’s the ‘post-punk’ face of Rhythm Factory, while his technical expertise behind the mixing desk has also landed him numerous gigs around Morrowvale, such as an engineer at the local Northern Lights church, and giving him (and his numerous band activities) a welcoming space to record after lights out.
Peter Sibley’s chatty demeanour influences his podcast at the local Whinford Hospital radio station; hosting amongst other things a monthly “Mixtape” Podcast where tours listeners through his record collection while recounting anecdotes from his colorful past.
Although well known for his life of wanton experimentation, Peter is now married to a virtual woman, Rinko, who lives in a Japanese-made app called “FunjuDatingWives” available on the Google Play Store.
Notable Peter Sibley projects and appearances include:
Before admitting oneself to most hospitals, a seat in the waiting room is obligatory. But something unusual prevails here. Hospital (Day 070) is presented as a grand tour through an experimental lab site where diagnosing urban malaise is a daily concern. You study the notice board as you wait for your number to be called, […]
CD / Download Rhythm Factory “Saves The Day” (Day 044) draws further from ambient, jungle and progressive house, as composer / producer Eric Scott unveils a series of electronica miniatures.
CD | Download “On the Trail of the Latin House Lover” (Day 042) shows Rhythm Factory exploring – while getting lost in a pre-Autumnal – new musical territory. Composer/producer Eric Scott is at his most spatial here, opening with a meditational trilogy: the beatless “AESM (Light Remix),” melding into the percussive ambient mind-field of “The Stenotelegrapher” and resolving […]
CD / Download Rhythm Factory “The Case of the Chiming Clock” (Day 042) lifts the shroud, and reduces the fictitious, mystery-solving electronics trio to a solo artist. Producer and composer Eric Scott draws influence from the ambient (“Drumbience Modulator”), drum’n’bass (“Snake Charmer,” “Swing Kids Fly Off”, “®-018”) and breakbeat (“Gamma”) as much as straightforward techno (“Burst […]
CD | Download With “Primer” (Day 034), Rhythm Factory (producer/composer Eric Scott) replaces a darker outer coat of ambient IDM electronica, with a lighter, latex micropercussion as its dominant texture. Presenting a set of instrumental explorations: “Bianca,” “Microhomemusic,” “Auntie Nell’s Cash Skeleton” and “Quillocet” define the edges of the stage. Depending upon one’s interpretation of the word primer; […]
CD | Download “Suck” (Day 024) evolved quickly – beyond the simple companion EP to “Push” it was intended to be – into a proper album on its own. Rhythm Factory’s ten new tracks are fueled by the darker Drum’n’Basscounterpanes of “Zikcfukc (Livin Large),” “Zaouk (Petropolis),” and “Zuq (Itch To Scratch)”… Meanwhile, anthemic basslines and guitars […]
CD | Download “Push” (Day 022) shows Rhythm Factory as a shadow of its former self, in this long-awaited reinvention, ditching its identity as protagonist of “journey musics,” and immersing itself deeper into a progressive, dreamhouse bath. Composer/ producer Eric Scott returns to the studio after a 4-year hiatus (…after singing mostly the equivalent of 95 separate […]
CD | Download “All Mine” (Day 014) – the proposed single from Rhythm Factory‘s “Play Pop!” – was mislaid as official catalogue product, while mastering decisions held up the latter title’s release in 1992. The single was shelved, and has only just recently seen the light of the millennium. Powered by deeply insistent, resonant grooves and […]
CD | Download In the late 1980s, and on into the year 1990, Rhythm Factory remixed a total of 11 tracks by Eric Scott, as “Play House!” (Day 012). These tracks signaled, for Eric, a shift away from indie-pop songwriting, pushing him further into the realm of the underground club mix. Vocal takes originally recorded were stripped […]
CD | Download Rhythm Factory’s 1991 “In The Acid” (Day 004) brings Middle-Eastern modalities into a meeting with abrasive samples and stabs, to create two pieces of a cinematic, albeit coarser, exotic flavor. Eric Scott: “These formed at a time when my interest in Belgian New Beat and Hardfloor aligned with release of the first […]
CD | Download Rhythm Factory’s “Technopolitan” (Day 002) was realized in 1991 as a solo remix endeavor for producer/composer Eric Scott, in which he recontextualises 15 of his favorite self-penned indie pop tracks. Fueled in equal parts by obsessions with Belgian New Beat, Electronic Body Music and Acid House, the mix becomes a single work of […]
Genres: Electronica / Instrumental / Progressive House / Acid House / Progressive Ambient Jupiter, Pete and Gez (they avoid using their surnames publicly) have a claim to fame in the development of obscure and unusual technologies, building equipment by hand that merges crude with state of the art and in sound research. Originally calling themselves […]
