Rival Consoles

Ryan Lee West (born 10 November 1985), known by his stage name Rival Consoles, is a British electronic musician, living in London. All of his albums and EPs have been released by Erased Tapes Records.

Biography West was born in Leicester. He learned to play guitar in his youth, but later switched to electronic production, studying music technology at De Montfort University.

Rival Consoles' style is a combination of ambient, shoegaze, minimal techno and cinematic—often created with analogue synths, pedals and degraded processes. Pitchfork described Rival Consoles' sound as "high-brow, avant-garde electronic music in the vein of Jon Hopkins and Nils Frahm".

West has also scored work for contemporary dance such as Alexander Whitley's Overflow and has scored an episode of Netflix's Black Mirror ("Striking Vipers"). His track "Recovery" was used in a 2020 television commercial for Blue Dragon foods. Kid Velo was also used in adverts for William Hill Vegas between 2011 and 2014.

West released his ninth studio album, Landscape from Memory, on 4 July 2025.

Discography Studio albums Solo IO (2009, Erased Tapes) Kid Velo (2011, Erased Tapes) Howl (2015, Erased Tapes) Night Melody (2016, Erased Tapes) – mini-album Persona (2018, Erased Tapes) Articulation (2020, Erased Tapes) Overflow (2021, Erased Tapes) Now Is (2022, Erased Tapes) Landscape from Memory (2025, Erased Tapes)

Game score MindsEye (2025, Erased Tapes)

With other musicians 65/Milo (2009, with Kiasmos)

EPs Vemeer (2007, Erased Tapes, as Aparatec) The Decadent (2007, Erased Tapes) Helvetica (2009, Erased Tapes) Odyssey (2014, Erased Tapes) Sonne (2015, Erased Tapes)

Remixes Four – Olafur Arnalds, Nils Frahm – Rival Consoles Remix (2016) Distant Light – Max Cooper – Rival Consoles Remix (2017) Cassette sessions E – Sasha – Rival Consoles Remix (2020) The Approach – Noisia – Rival Consoles Remix (2017) Jesus Song – Toydrum – Rival Consoles Remix (2017) Weightless – Neil Cowley Trio – Rival Consoles Remix (2018) Swim – Douglas Dare – Rival Consoles Remix (2014) Birds That Fly – Kidnap – Rival Consoles Remix In Mindibu – Stavroz – Rival Consoles Remix Snow Day – Catching Flies – Rival Consoles Remix Revolution – Tinlicker – Rival Consoles Remix (2024) Ghosts Again – Depeche Mode – Rival Consoles Remix (2023)