Rival Consoles

One of the UK’s most influential creators of electronic music, Rival Consoles, is back with a new album Now Is, marking a new chapter in an ongoing quest for refinement and evolution. London-based producer Ryan Lee West, better known under the name Rival Consoles, is notable for making synthesisers sound human and atmospheric. Over the course of a critically acclaimed fifteen-year career, his music has diversified from the challenging electronic output of his early EPs, to gradually becoming more conceptual and metamorphic with his albums. In October 2022 Rival Consoles released his latest studio album Now Is on Erased Tapes, and is presenting it with a brand new unique performance that will take the form of an immersive audio-visual experience in which he will present material from across the last decade of his career and beyond. From deep ambient works to his unique version of techno, and traversing the vast spectrum in between, the show will be a long-form narrative of ideas, many heard live for the first time.

“Impossible to ignore, and hard to forget” — Pitchfork

“Now Is finds West at the apex of his game” — Electronic Sound

“Rival Consoles makes a conscious attempt to push back against everyday bleakness” — Clash