James Leyland Kirby

A maker from Stockport, Britain who cranked away experimental produces at a seemingly inexhaustible price, Leyland Wayne Kirby was behind V/Vm, whose produces ranged from manipulations of pigs feeding to copyright-abusing manipulations of pop music, including a drastically misshapen edition of Chris DeBurgh’s “Woman in Crimson,” that was featured as NME’s solitary from the week in Sept 2000. In ’09 2009, Kirby began the History Usually Favours the Winners label, house to a large number of produces acknowledged to Kirby aliases just like the Caretaker as well as the Stranger, aswell as the Leyland Kirby series Unfortunately, The Future Is usually NO MORE What IT HAD BEEN. He stepped out of his personal orbit a little in 2013, when he released Viewing Deceased Empires in Decay, an recording of nightmarish atmosphere credited towards the Stranger, for the present day Like label. Throughout his many years of activity, Kirby offers used a variety of extra aliases — including Billy Ray Cyrix, the Edgeley Musher, as well as the Notorious P.We.G. — for one-offs and short-term tasks.