HOLKHAM DRONES

My album Holkham Drones is out now, but it buy it, i hope you like it.

and look above at this wonderful gig in Shepherds Bush, get some tickets before it's too late.

26th August at Ginglik in Shepherds Bush...

Look you here people in London, this be a gig you can't miss. I'm going to do a full on modular synth set with noise and madness, so be prepared. The wonderful Walls are playing too, which will repair your soul. Also Mr Michael Page will be bringing his maths beats to confuse your brain. The ever wonderful Mr Holden will be getting his weird on at the dowo-decks and the equally impressive Mr Fake will also be driving the DJ tractor for a stint. WOW I hear you say, and you are right.

GET TICKETS.

H O N E Y C O M B . E P

OUT TODAY!

Out today on AMAZING SOUNDS is my new ep. You can buy it as a download, or you can find it on (very limited - 500 only) 12" Vinyl in a record shop.

Here's a brief description of the tracks;

Honeycomb - James has played it out quite a bit, it's got some nice noise on it and a nice synth arpeggio part too. I was working on this track at the same time as I was doing 'Little Wonderment' from my last BC record, so the tracks (in my mind at least) are from the same brain place. Also, there's a clap sound in it, which I don't do very often, so enjoy it for the three or four bars it's around for.

113 - The synths from this are from a quasi-generative synth/sequencer patch I made in Reaktor, and the drums were the last thing I recorded with my xBase09 before I sold it to Nathan.

Present - Made with my SidStation and 4 drum samples very quickly, kind of a empty gesture musically speaking, but play this in a club and people melt. You only live once, sometimes you've just got to turn the volume up and dance.

Schmitt Swell - A collection of homemade schmitt trigger oscillators droning away. If you ever want to build your own oscillators then schmitt trigger's are a good place to starts because they're easy and cheap, and they can sound pretty amazing.

RIGHT, I'm off to make a coffee.

Nathan's GIANT SOUND ASH CLOUD.

I can't believe it's been almost a year since Nathan released (mother's gone to)HARD I(ce)SLANDS... but that's the truth, time flies, unlike airplanes in the UK at the moment, which are grounded because of the giant ash cloud... which brings me to my next point, SOUND CLOUD is a giant web site full of music, and if you like music, which I do, then you'll probably want to know that Nathan has just started his own page on THE GIANT SOUND ASH CLOUD.

(note: this blog post is going to be totally confusing if you read it in the future when we've all forgotten about that volcano in Iceland)

nathan RULES o.k.

nathan's new record 'HARD ISLANDS' is out NOW! it's awesome.

Last BC party at the End

As you should know by now, the end of The End is near. This Saturday will be the last Border Community party at the legendary venue, so unless you've got a ridiculously good excuse then you have to come. Ellen Allien is playing, awesome, Nathan is playing, awesome awesome, as ever Scott and James are on main room DJ duties, double wicked and totally WOOOH, and Kieran Hebden will be camping out all night in the lounge, yeah baby, yeah.

Drum machine, oh drum machine...

I've been seriously considering the purchase of an Elektron Machinedrum.  Since I sold my Jomox XBase09 to Nathan, I have tried to satisfy my drum machine hunger with an MFB Kult, which, despite its size and limited controls, is really great... but it's not got that magic wonder that the Machinedrum seems to offer.  So, as is often the way with moments of gear-lust, I hit on youtube to see if I could talk my self out of it.  It almost worked because the majority of youtube videos feature the dullest of the dull minimal-beat workouts that make me want quit doing dance music and live in the forrest in a shed with only a Putney for company.  But then I found this video...

...and now I want to live in a shed in the forrest with a Machinedrum.