Salford Electronics gets first vinyl LP with ‘Communique’
Salford Electronics (Dave Padbury) gets its first vinyl LP, “Communique,” a 300-copy edition out 9 October on Cold Spring.
Salford Electronics, the project of Dave Padbury, also known for his work as The Grey Wolves, releases “Communique” on LP through Cold Spring on 9 October. The catalog number is CSR372LP, and the release is limited to 300 hand-assembled copies with a hand-stamped sleeve and a sticker seal.
The nine tracks on “Communique” were written over the past decade and had previously circulated only as part of a digital-only “Communique” series that Padbury has self-released in installments since 2016. This LP marks the first time any of that material has had a physical, vinyl pressing, curated by Padbury specifically for the release. Cold Spring describes the record as “nine lo-fi electronic urban nightmares spiralling through Industrial decay, rain-drenched dark ambient, abrasive loops, brooding noise, and shards of scintillating electronics.”
“Communique” runs: “Homeless” (4:06), “Tipping Point” (3:09), “Inertia” (3:27), “Collapse” (3:19) and “Restraint” (2:21) on side A; “Cellophane” (4:34), “Absolution” (4:32), “Siege” (4:37) and “Fatal” (3:48) on side B. Salford Electronics performs at the Northern Nightmare noise festival in Manchester on 10 October, the day after the LP’s release.
About Salford Electronics
Salford Electronics is the solo project of Dave Padbury, based in Salford, UK, formed in 2015. Padbury’s other credits include The Grey Wolves and Death Pact International, both dating back to the 1980s. As Salford Electronics, he pursues industrial ambient and techno-adjacent electronics, releasing the digital “Communique” series in installments from 2016 onward and issuing the vinyl debut “Deconstruction” through Hospital Productions in 2019, backed with remixes by Ancient Methods and Vatican Shadow. He has since recorded “Raw” (2024) and “Instability of the Signal” (2024) with Simon Fisher Turner, the latter built from Padbury’s own sound sources reworked by Turner, and has traded remixes and collaborations with Vatican Shadow, Ancient Methods, Rupert Lally and Primitive Knot, including the joint releases “Connoisseurs of Ruination” and “Primitive Knot v Salford Electronics: Remixes Volume 1.” With “Communique,” Salford Electronics moves a decade of digital-only material onto vinyl for the first time.
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