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Documentary Feature 83 mins
A film by Nichola Bruce
Music by Matt Johnson
Bitten by the ‘Moonbug‘, photographer Steve Pyke sets out on a journey across America in his search to meet and photograph the men who walked on the moon.
My good friend Riz Maslen aka Neotropic has a new sound piece installed at Kew Gardens in London called ‘The Alpine Path’. It’s on from May 14th to Sept 25th at The Davies Alpine House, more info here
Check the ball section near the end – amazing
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New 6 track EP from DJ Shadow just jumped out of nowhere –
3 ‘new’ tracks
(2 have been floating around for a bit) and 3 remixes of same.
‘I Gotta Rokk’ will be his new ‘Organ Donor’ I think. Grab mp3, CD of vinyl versions here.
Yep, ANOTHER one, Ian Hodgson is churning them out right now, the new offering from the mysterious Blank Workshop is ‘Somewhere a Fox is Getting Married’. Limited to 450 copies, it’s a full length LP housed in a thick double card sleeve and comes with a large poster of the cover art. Released on the 10th May you can pre-order it here and there’s more info here about the tracks.
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Incredible motion typography with music by Forss
CUSTOMTONE by Fracture & Neptune feat. Martin Fieber from Astrophonica on Vimeo.
Brand new Fracture & Neptune video for ‘Customtone’ video by resident Astrophonica artists Emilski & Nick Duggins.
My good friend David Vallade did this for our very own local record store – Rat Records in Camberwell. Even though they are a used store they’re celebrating too and I’ll be playing up at the Lock Lounge in Camden Saturday night too.
Out today, Black Mill Tapes Volume 2: Do You Synthesize? More info here – Pye Corner Audio
Out on both 12″ vinyl and digital download via the Cheap Thrills label are 2011 remixes of this classic. Fast forward to the Lone remix which just kills it, a perfect blend of old and new. He manages to retain the soul of the original whilst updating it with modern production touches to make it sound fresh again, the man really does it justice where most remixes like this miss the point.
Love this cover for the new Gnod and White Hills LP
With added Trunk power! You know the drill by now… Ghost Box shop
A couple of weeks ago Ollie Teeba (one half of the mighty Herbaliser) followed myself, DJ Format, Andy Smith and Mr Thing at the Classic Material night in Old St. The year he was helping celebrate was 1991 and, whilst researching records to play for the night, he found he had 17 hours of material!
He ended up playing a 3 hour set and kindly put down over 4 hours for us to enjoy via his new mixcloud page. The next night is on April 16th with Big Ted and the year will be, you’ve guessed it, 1992.
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In June I’ll be mixing the next installment of the 64 Bar Music challenge, first instigated by members of the Ninja Tune forum. A quick crash course in 64 Bar Music: the concept is simple, a tempo is decided upon for each new challenge and you write a piece of music, in any style, no longer than 64 bars. The poll to decide the bpm for 64:6 (there have been five so far) has just been set at 110 bpm.
Anyone can join in and the best of the entries will be turned into a mix by yours truly, debuting in July. If you fancy a bit of that then hop along to 64BarMusic and check out the details, deadline is June 1st. It’s an excellent way to get your production heard in amongst producers both released and unreleased. People like Dr. Rubberfunk, Proof of Concept, Remdog, Tom Central, dtnl, AGT Rave Cru and DJ Moneyshot have already contributed and there are many excellent unknowns who have taken part in the past.
Nicely done collage of images over the making of 10cc’s best known song.
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Taken from the new Wagon Christ album ‘Toomorrow’, out now on CD, LP and download
The ‘Chunkothy’ video is directed and animated by Celyn Brazier at Nexus with Beccy McCray providing invaluable production skills. Bali Engel helped colour and provided the beautiful animated sequences for the insect loop and fishes. Margot Tsakiri-Scanatovits and Manav Dhir also provided colouring skills and contributed to the animation of the insects. Steve Mc Inerney constructed the final edit with perfect timing and imagination.
The animation was created in Photoshop, with most sequences on one layer. It was as simple as that really. No gimmicks, no tweeny motion tricks, no cgi. Celyn created small beat guides for reference, sometimes following the rhythm, for example on the bouncy ball loops, but mostly as many random patterns and as much weird sh*t that she could possibly make in six weeks.
CREDITS
Celyn Brazier – directing, deigning, colouring, animating
Beccy Mccray – producer
Steve Mcinerney – editor
Bali Engel – colouring, animating
Margot Tsakiri-scanatovits – assistant colouring
Manav Dhir – assistant colouring
