Rival Consoles

Rival Consoles to Play Canada on First North American Tour in Five Years

PUBLISHED Jun 6, 2023

Rival Consoles has announced a North American tour, with details arriving alongside new single "Coda," which you can hear below. This fall...

Exclaim!'s Top 10 Dance and Electronic Albums

Best of 2018

PUBLISHED Dec 12, 2018

This year, established electronic masters like Jon Hopkins, DJ Koze and Leon Vynehall outdid themselves by refining and finessing their mus...

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Persona

PUBLISHED Apr 9, 2018

Over the past decade, Ryan Lee West (aka Rival Consoles) has been crafting a brand of instrumental electronic music that has come off earne...

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Night Melody

PUBLISHED Aug 3, 2016

As 2015's Howl was enjoying critical acclaim in electronic circles across the globe, its composer Ryan Lee West (a.k.a. Rival Consoles) was...

Rival Consoles Reveals His Humanistic Approach to 'Howl'

PUBLISHED Nov 10, 2015

Rival Consoles, the musical project of Ryan Lee West, has been patiently building for a number of years now. His last two EPs, Sonne and Od...

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Simple Life

PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2015

"My process is pretty simple really," explains Ryan Lee West, the man behind Rival Consoles. "It's nothing really technical that a wizard h...

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Howl

PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2015

Howl is an album named after the moaning synthesizer on its title track, and as Rival Consoles, a.k.a. Ryan Lee West, puts it himself: "It'...

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MAC Salle Principale, Montreal QC, May 29

PUBLISHED May 30, 2015

Leave it to MUTEK to bring an unsung gem like Rival Consoles to the stage. Consoles, aka Ryan Lee West, has been around for years, but seem...