Free Compilation

Just one more thing before the weekend finishes. As a pre-new-album-release extra, here’s a collection of some previously deleted tracks (mostly off the now-gone albums ‘Shatterbrain’ and ‘Rebop’) which I’ve put together with a few unreleased tracks, including my entry into the Warp/Bleep song competition last year, “Trampoline”. Help yourself, it’s all free with no strings….

Preview: ‘Crash St’ Album Mix on Mixcloud

Here’s a preview of the new album as a single mix – ‘Crash St’ Album Mix Cloudcast on Mixcloud.

Preview: ‘Crash St’ Album Mix on Mixcloud, posted with vodpod

Pixicast 013 – ‘Monkeytron’

Hullo. Just under two weeks to the release of ‘Crash St’. Can’t wait.

In the meantime, Marie Craven and Co have put together another episode of their monthly new music podcast “Pixicast”. It’s up to episode 13 already and this month is entitled ‘Monkeytron’. Nice, that; especially as it just happens to be the title of the track of mine they’ve included in the playlist. Also featured are the great Adrian Carter, Deon Vozov, Toffeetronic and many more.

Also, rather hypocritically I feel, but in the spirit of sharing, I’ve returned to Twitter after a much-needed social networking break. It’s nice to ‘see’ some of the old faces.

Finally, Pinklogik’s remix album is out on Monday 20th February. Please do go and download it.

 

Recommended – Churn Milk Joan, Severed Heads and Bratislava

Yep, I’m blogging again….I love to blog, yessiree.

Anyway, after a quick trawl of Bandcamp (something I don’t do enough of); I’ve found some music, old and new, to get excited about. Most of it is pay-what-you-want/free.

These aren’t reviews, let’s be clear about that. I’m just pointing you in their direction because I think the music’s marvelous.

Churn Milk Joan – One

Richard Knutson (a member of Plum Flower Embroidery) and Colin Robinson (Big Block 454) push all the right buttons with a finely-judged balance of eccentricity and accessibility on their new mini-album. Touches of Bowie, Talking Heads and prog with sprinkles of electro-funk. Pay-what-you-want, but worth paying for.

Big Block 454 – Bratislava

The aforementioned Colin Robinson’s other band. Highly prolific producers of oddness which melds Zappa, funk, jazz and prog-rock in an extremely attractive musical parcel. I really love their music and this album is worth downloading for the track ‘Anglezarke’ alone.

Severed Heads – City Slab Horror

The cover to this album gave me the shivers when I was 17. Utter brilliance from Australian avantist Tom Ellard’s long-standing music project. I was delighted to see that the Heads had joined the Bandcamp revolution, providing every release they’ve recorded since 1979. Severed Heads were hugely influential on electronica and dance music: pre-empting electro, trance and cut-up samplism by about 10 years. Expect weirdness and darkness and a sly sense of humour. Like Cabaret Voltaire without the relentless seriousness.

Archive and Wicker Man

A very quick post, this. Here are two items of ‘old stuff’; one a collection of old tracks, the other a (winces), ahem, ‘mash-up’. Both free to download, if you want to….

Archive on Last.fm

and:

Britt Ekland/Paul Giovanni – Willow’s Song (Dementio13 Reconstruction)

What’s Been Happening and What’s Coming Up

Yep….. time is marching on. I’ve been extra busy doing the dayjob, which I expected, it’s always a bit manic after Christmas. So I’m glad I got a bit obsessive, writing and recording new tracks between September and December. It seems like all the hard work is done on that front. The new album’s been uploaded to Bandcamp for quite a while. Preview links were sent to a few selected people; people who have supported and encouraged me over the past few years.

Over on Dementio13.com I’ve been experimenting with pre-orders, with mixed results. So, the experiment has paid-off in enabling me to realise that pre-orders are fairly pointless in my case. There’s no real benefit for listeners or for me. That’s not a universal truth though…… some bands/artists may find it works for them, particularly if they’re taking physical orders such as CDs or USB drives.

So, here’s where I repeat myself from previous posts. The album, ‘Crash St’ will be available on 1st March as a pay-what-you-want download (pre-orders are still available in the meantime for an ultra-low price). As way of celebration, I’ve got another live mix on Dandelion Radio, on Pete Jackson’s show throughout March from the 1st.

I’m also currently working (rather slowly) on a remix for Marie Craven’s project with Canadian DJ/producer Crimson Death.

In 9 days (20th Feb), Pinklogik releases her album of remixes of her track ‘Playing With Sticks’. My remix is track 12. Here’s a little preview of the whole album in bitesize chunks:

And here are four preview tracks from ‘Crash St’:

Musician/writer Oliver Arditi said this about the album:

“I listen to a lot of entirely electronic music, but most of it is either of a relatively superficial, energetic nature, or it deliberately exploits the coldness and impersonality of synthetic sound. Dementio 13 has mastered the art of creating human music, organic music that breathes, while capitalising on the power and impact of the machine. It’s not dance music, though it utilises a lot of dance music vocabulary, and it isn’t rock, although it likewise employs its language. It’s just what it is: music that challenges, stimulates and entertains, and while it’s like a lot of other things, there’s nothing else that’s quite like it.”

While Dandelion Radio DJ Mark Whitby writes:

“a sneak peak of his forthcoming Crash St album (due on 1 March) reveals him to be still moving forward in invigorating and never predictable directions, his exploratory electronica more varied in texture and mood than pretty much any of his contemporaries.”

So, there you are. Am excited, enthused and very happy about it all. That’s all that’s fit to print at the moment. Enjoy your weekend.

Soundcloud Cloudburst

I’ve posted a whole load of stuff on Soundcloud over the past few days…… much of which is free to download. Hope you can make some use of it…

More to come…

A Preview of ‘Moonface’

A quick little preview of the track, ‘Moonface’ on Youtube.

Another Review

Ok, I know I said I’d be a bit quiet this week, blog-wise. But I couldn’t let this pass-by as it’s thrilled and vulcanized me…..makes the music-making all worthwhile. This is a wonderful preview of my live mix on Mark Whitby’s Dandelion show, as documented by Mark on his excellent Unwashed Territories netlabel blog. Go HERE to read it.

The Last Post – New News

Well, it’s the last post of this weekend, anyway. It’s been a productive two days, but my posting (somewhat fervent this weekend, I’ll admit) will go on hold as the trials and tribulations of the workplace take hold during the week.

Anyway, as I sip my wine in a most civilized way, I just want to tell you about a little pre-new-release present I have uploaded today. As you may know, I tend to delete older releases. But I deleted one album that is a personal favourite of mine, a favourite for sentimental reasons and because it sounds quite different to nearly all of my other releases. I also know that some regular listeners of mine really quite liked the album from their comments.

“Sub Urbian” was recorded in the Autumn of 2006 in my old house during a time when my old eMac was returned to Apple to fix a dodgy CRT screen. So, the album was recorded on an ancient Pentium PC with a Soundblaster Awe64 soundcard with home-made soundfonts, a Yamaha SU10 and a Bontempi reed organ using Cubase 3.5 to sequence everything. A minimal and lo-fi set-up, to say the least.

I’ve put it on Dementio13.com as a free download. It’s a straightforward album of sampladelic melodic instrumental stuff. Help yourself….go on, knock yerself out. Have a great week…..