I started messing around with sin/cosin based grid manipulation a few days ago and posted the results on Flickr along with an abstract of the code and equation I used to generate the images.
This prompted Andy Best to amend the code to create two animations. Inspired by his efforts I decided to do my own animation in response.
The music is a quick edit I did of a Sir Drew bootleg 12” I’ve had for years and always loved.
Resonate is taking over the Masonic Hall in Frome on Wednesday 9th of July as part of the 2008 Frome Festival. This promises to be the biggest and best Resonate so far this year.
My second ever performance of my wonky downtempo live show with added spicy visuals… If you are in the area it would be great to see you there.
Been doing a little testing and preset design for the FAW guys for their new synth, Circle.
I have to say it’s been a delight to use. Very intuitive and lovely sounding with some very unique features that make getting oddness out of this synth a breeze.
Came up with this track in a few evenings and it’s 100% Circle. The only other bits are a touch of Reverence (Audio Damage reverb plug in) and the built in Ableton Live compressors and EQs.
It’s not often you get to meet a legend, but working at Real World you get more than your fair share.
Not long ago I was scared half to death by Robert Plant when he excused a sneeze in my office when I thought I was alone and obsorbed with code and today I got to meet (again) one of the kingpin producers in my world, Adrian Sherwood.
Adrian is at Real World Studios mixing a project for Little Axe - one of my favourite Real World artists - and I was there trying to capture some moments on video for the forthcoming EPK but during some downtime we chatted for a moment about music production and he offered up some top tips and my boss, York Tillyer, captured the moment when Sherwood laid down the knowledge.
Been off work sick over last week and so finally get round to doing a proper version of this mashup (ugh!) I used to do live when I was a DJ.
2 Serge Gainsbourg tracks (Initial BB and Bonnie & Clyde), a Royce Da 5”9 Vocal from a bit of vinyl I bought a few years back, two little audio surprises at the end and a dollop of boom bap.
Annoyed Kylie has nicked the same B&C loop I’ve been using for years but hey ho - Life, as they say, sucks.
Preview it above in the flash player and if you like you can get the 320k DL below.
Nice short checklist from Chris Randall at Analog Industries. This one’s my favourite.
“Hey, I think this track needs some percussion.” Sigh. Nobody but percussionists can actually play percussion worth a shit. See #3. If you own a studio, and you want to increase your hourly billing, just leave some maracas and a tambo lying about the control room.
Tom Robinson on Radio 6 played my Imagined Village remix at the end of his show this week.
Which was nice.
You can listen again till next Tuesday if you fancy it.. The track list looks eclectic to say the least!
The Imagined Village EP that includes my latest remix is now available to buy online at womadshop.com and you can listen to my remix after the jump.
This EP brings you a preview track from the forthcoming full length album (due for release on September 10) and three exclusive mixes only available on this special edition.
If you think you know about English folk music, think again. The Imagined Village project, the brainchild of producer and musician Simon Emmerson, has recast age-old traditions in the shape of the twenty-first century. A daring mix of ancient and modern, The Imagined Village fuses fiddles and squeezebox with dub beats and sitars. To do so it has gathered an extraordinary array of talent, including - on this exclusive EP - Martin Carthy, Eliza Carthy, Sheila Chandra, Billy Bragg, Chris Wood and Simon Emmerson.
EP Track Listing:
1. ‘England Half English Meets John Barleycorn’ was recorded and mixed by producer Simon Emmerson with Billy Bragg featuring Martin Carthy and Eliza Carthy. The spirit of the track, with its meeting of two songs, seemed in perfect keeping with the overall sentiment of The Imagined Village project
2. ‘Acres of Ground (Beats Mix)’ is an original song by Eliza Carthy, based around old traditional counting songs. Created through collaboration between Simon Emmerson and mix engineer Mass in their London Studio and Ben Ivitsky and Eliza in their Scottish studio. Another version of this song which will appear on the final album in a very different guise.
3. ‘Welcome Sailor’, a beautiful atmospheric collaboration between Sheila Chandra and Chris Wood, is a recording based on Lal Waterson’s traditional interpretation of the original folk tune. This track will appear on the forthcoming Imagined Village album.
4. ‘Cold, Hailey, Rainy Night - It’s Turned Out Nice Mix by Stabilizer’ grew out of a challenge set by The Imagined Village project on the Real World Remix website . The idea was to take this track - Transglobal Underground’s interpretation of Martin Carthy’s original track - and re-mix it. This song has been passed down from generation to generation through the oral tradition of folk music. It has now been re-invented in a radical fashion by the mysterious, uniquely- talented Stabilizer!
Tracks 1, 2 and 4 appear exclusively on this EP
It was a fun and unique project to get my teeth into and a new direction in my sound so you could see my remix as a preview to where my music is heading in general.
Just as a heads up you can hear my upcoming single, and it’s associated remix by Myagi on my virb profile
Not sure when it’ll be out. I’ll let you know on here when I found out but it’ll be released on Stellar Music and promoed through White Noise.