Colorfield Records is the brainchild of recording engineer and producer Pete Min, operating out of Lucy’s Meat Market, the studio he owns and runs in Northeast Los Angeles. On his Colorfield debut, Earthshine, he forgoes the funk in favour of more ethereal moods. Butterss’s solo debut, Activities – on which they play bass guitar, double bass, guitar, keyboards, synths, percussion, flute and vocals – was constructed at Lucy’s Meat Market from chopped and shaped snippets of improvisations. “Running Backwards” is a great example, embellished with sonar pings, mellow ripples, lushly multi-tracked horn parts and a cartwheeling sax solo. Read Daniel Spicer’s full Unlimited Editions column on Colorfield in The Wire 496.