Preview of the 13 tracks currently being put together for the album-in-progress.
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Album Preview
Sunday, April 10th, 2011Interim2
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
I’ve stuck another few tracks up that don’t fit in anywhere and are unlikely to be poked at again. This time around, it’s pretty much just glitch and noise music.
First track is the sound of an image reworked as a raw audio file, second track is a messed up guitar connection, third one is a heavily processed night field recording.
I’m not demanding anyone take notice. They’re there to be out of the way and to stop me trying to do anything else with them. It’s my equivalent of putting them on a shelf just out of reach.
mp3′s and stuff: noise.monofiopia.co.uk
As for y’know, ‘proper’ music, I’m now at 9 tracks/ 40 minutes, including a piano solo played with one finger, an outtake from John Carpenter’s secret dub album, what sounds like bits of a GY!BE track fed through a blender and a five-minute song with a three-minute intro (and a one-minute fade out). Still a couple of re-records to do and still have to make the digital tracks sound like they’re from the same album as the analogue ones.
Problem is, after writing that, I now want to call it ‘John Carpenter’s Secret Dub Album’.
Les Paul
Saturday, August 15th, 2009
I don’t think I had even listened to Les Paul musically until I heard one of the old Les Paul Shows on archive.org. I knew of him because he had his name on guitars, obviously, but through my own background I was well aware of how he was also the innovator of recording techniques that paved the way for how we listen to music now. Until digital recording came along we were using versions of the techniques developed by Les Paul, and even now we’re doing the same thing but in modified ways. Multitrack recording, overdubbing, tape delay – he was at the forefront.
Les Paul & Mary Ford - BrasilLes Paul & Mary Ford - Lover
Invaders Must Die + Band Commentary
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die
The Prodigy & Last.fm have just started a new approach to the whole album preview thing. They’ve got the whole album up and streaming, but each track is interspersed with the band talking about the track that’s playing. It’s actually quite interesting. Helps with identifying some of the samples too.
Last.fm : Invaders Must Die + Band Commentary
Sadly, little surprises me anymore.
Saturday, September 6th, 2008I don’t really care about US politics. While I’ll still casually listen in on what’s happening over there, I’m resigned to the fact that whatever happens, our government over here will kiss your ass just as willingly.
Does The World Need Another Indie Band?
Monday, July 21st, 2008A very nice article from The Independent yesterday. I particularly like the following quote from John Niven.
“I was in Gap a few weeks ago and there was some sort of generic indie music playing,” he says. “I was with a friend who’s a promoter and a bit younger than me. After about three or four tracks I asked him: ‘Whose LP is this?’ And he said, ‘No, it’s a compilation.’ Every track sounded identical. The guitars, the production; all these bands sound like they’re made in the same studio with the same producer. It’s such a ball-less, soulless, generic whitewashed indie sound. You could probably take a member from each band and throw them together in a new group and no one would be able to tell the difference. They’re completely interchangeable. Scouting for Girls are like the sound of Satan’s scrotum emptying. They’re abysmal.”
Also, quite possibly the most appropriate song to compliment the article:
Mikrofisch – The Kids Are All Shite
Makes me a lot more interested than the trailer did…
Sunday, November 25th, 2007But the $180 million Hollywood movie, which opens Dec. 7, is also drawing criticism from religious groups that describe it as “militantly atheistic,” “blasphemous,” “heretical,” and “diabolical.”
Full article here
Sarcastic song picks here :
Zacherle with Southern Culture On The Skids – Sinister PurposeÂ
Crystal Castles, Teenagers, These New Puritans @ DQ 3/11/07
Sunday, November 4th, 2007
These New Puritans in defiance of frontal lighting.
That’s not an exaggeration or anything… their whole set was lit only by strobing backlights, giving the whole thing a bit of a shadow puppet feel. Considering that These New Puritans were one of the two bands I was interested in seeing, it came as a double disappointment that a) I couldn’t ‘see’ them and b) they were rubbish live. It all kinda just sounded the same and blended together into some shadowy indie-dance blob.
The Teenagers however, who I wasn’t too concerned about seeing, were awesome. They’re almost a completely different band from their recorded material, with a lot more guitar work and just general energy than the music I’d heard before would suggest. Plus, they had proper lighting.
Crystal Castles took the lighting issue as far as it could go and performed pretty much in darkness for their set (which is why I have no photos) but it worked a lot better for them, with Alice jumping around in the flickering shadows and Ethin almost becoming part of the stage set. Didn’t seem to last too long, music-wise, but I’m guessing that until the band have enough material together for a full record, it never will be. The stompy, punky, 8-bit cacophony was just as awesome as I’d hoped though, and I really can’t wait to hear the full-length if it ever arrives…
Armageddon Days Are Here Again
Monday, September 17th, 2007 
(‘Tumbler Snapper rope tricks’ – explanation here)
Perhaps it’s a result of the Armageddon obsession… Maybe it has to do with the fact that we really are approaching an unprecedented tipping point of some kind, or maybe the Mayan’s really were onto something with their OCD fixation on the heavens.
(full article on Alterati )
The first video installment over at Postmodern Times is worth a watch too.
Noises:
Nine Inch Nails – The Day The World Went Away (monofiopia version)
Toner Low – Evil Machinery On The Rise
Lost In The Trees – A Nuclear Winter Wonderland
(seems to be a slightly different version of ‘I’ve Always Loved the Fall’)
Toner Low are playing Sheffield next month which is awesome, and if you haven’t heard Lost in the Trees until now, you’ve been missing out…
Last night's Dr. Who [Warning: contains veiled spoilers & sarcasm]
Sunday, July 1st, 2007Apparently I would have just looked bad if I ran off to the internets to complain about the Dr. Who finale just after it ended, so I’ve waited a bit. I’m not sure how that’s meant to help anything though.
Despite the annoying ‘flashback syndrome’ you tend to get with two-parters, it was actually quite good until the last 15 minutes, when it became almost unbearably ridiculous and laced with laughable undertones. Conceptually, of course, it’s something that’s been discussed and theorised over many times, with varying degrees of plausibility – I mean, Erich von Daniken‘s had almost an entire career suggesting similar theories. It all just comes across as being a bit silly when you apply a veiled comparison to the Doctor character though…
Next season, we shall most likely see the good Doctor travelling back a couple of millenia to amaze, astound and ultimately infuriate the locals with talk of beings in the sky, the occaisional light-hearted magic trick, and of course his ceaseless tolerance and goodwill towards mankind. He’ll end up having to regenerate in a cave at some point too.
Here’s some completely irrelevent music.
We Will Be Pilots – We Are Not The Doctors
(via Artrocker, from back when they had awesome compilation albums online for free)
Hangar 18 – Think Big
(From the hip-hop-tastic Definitive Swim compilation, which is still free online)
Meat Beat Manifesto – What’s Your Name?
(From the often overlooked Subliminal Sandwich double album)
Cyclefly – Supergod
(One of the best live bands I’ve ever seen, and on my list of favourite bands ever. Yeah, they broke up too. Also check out Declan & Christian’s new project, Mako, for things in a similar vein)
And, since it made such a nicely crafted impact in the first half of the finale:
Rogue Traders – Voodoo Child
