new pselodux

Penguiv Man (early)

thinking of making some kind of ep/album with a bunch of short songs that are connected in some way, like a prog-tracker concept album haha!

final track list?

1. Jeff Graff (8:45)
2. Hats Off To You, Simon Tempest (7:44)
3. Usual Bridge III (10:32)
4. From The Rooftops (3:52)
5. Winterbell (10:40)
6. Reals (13:45)
7. Dreamity (9:47)


.. with a possible video for simon tempest too. depends on how long it takes me to get my head around vegas.

chasing a gorgeous european girl through a shopping centre

oh and 32 ways to kill a cyberdemon

-adam
-luke
-dirado
-sam
-ash
-mel
-p&t

winterbell snippit

featuring trayce on vocals!

i just pre-ordered this:

warp20 box set

To commemorate our 20th anniversary, we will release a deluxe special-edition of music and art, titled Warp20 (Box Set).

The package features new songs, older previously unreleased material from Warp artists, tracks selected as some of his personal favorites by co-founder Steve Beckett and the top ten pieces voted for by Warp fans on Warp20.net. It also includes a beautifully produced book showcasing the label’s rich design history, along with an exclusive hour-long mix and a locked-groove vinyl set.

Read on for more details.


WARP20 (BOX SET) PREORDER INFORMATION:

Warp20 (Box Set) will be available to preorder from Bleep.com. Orders received before 5th July will receive a discount of up to 15% (based on your currency).

Due to the premium specification of the item, there can only be one pressing. The quantity manufactured will be based largely on these early preorders, so ordering before 5th July will also guarantee you a copy.

A limited number of extra copies will be made for sale after 5th July at full price.

Orders will be shipped to arrive by 25th SEPTEMBER 2009.

PREORDER NOW FROM BLEEP.COM


WARP20 (BOX SET) CONTENTS:

Warp20 (Box Set) comes beautifully packaged in a 10 inch square slipcase wrapped in charcoal Buckram embossed paper with tipped-on gloss-laminated cover photograph, designed by YES, photographed by Dan Holdsworth.

Warp20 (1989-2009) The Complete Catalogue: 192 page book
10” square, 192 page full-colour, perfect-bound book. The complete-ist’s dream – a catalogue of artwork of every Warp release from its inception in 1989 to August 2009. Includes artwork from over 400 sleeves including work by the Designers Republic, Julian House, Build, Universal Everything and Kim Hiorthøy amongst others. Foreword by Warp co-founder Steve Beckett. Black un-coated board cover with debossed and foiled typography.

Warp20 (Chosen): Double CD album
The definitive best of Warp on 2 x CDs. Ten songs chosen by you (Warp20.net), ten songs chosen by Warp co-founder Steve Beckett. Packaged in deluxe case-bound 10” folder, exclusive to this box set. Your personal messages and memories from Warp20.net featured on pullout poster.

Warp20 (Recreated): Double CD album
2 x CDs featuring twenty brand new cover versions of Warp songs by Warp artists past and present; including tracks by Autechre, Harmonic 313, Jamie Lidell, Plaid, Clark, Maximo Park, Leila, Seefeel, Luke Vibert and more… Packaged in deluxe case-bound 10” folder exclusive to this box set.

Warp20 (Unheard): Triple 10” Vinyl
Secret treasures newly rediscovered from the Warp vaults. Unheard and rare tracks by Boards of Canada, Autechre, Broadcast, Elecktroids and others cut to 3 x 10” vinyl. Housed in uncoated card sleeves with debossed typography. Vinyl exclusive to Warp20 (Box Set).

Warp20 (Elemental): CD album
Specially-commissioned hour long piece by re-edit master Osymyso, made from sections, samples, and fragments of Warp music from the last 20 years. Exclusive to Warp20 (Box Set) and packaged in deluxe case bound 10” folder.

Warp20 (Infinite): Double 10” Vinyl
2 x 10” vinyl cuts of hand-picked locked-groove loops from Warp tracks. Four sides of loops for mixing fun. Exclusive to Warp20 (Box Set) and housed in uncoated card sleeves with debossed covers.

the new rooftop access album is going to be a cake of sound! dense and moist, zole.


tentative track list:

01. jeff graff
02. ezra
03. hats off to you, simon tempest
04. from the rooftops
05. a sharp approximation
06. form constant
07. dreamity
08. winterbell

track 7 may be split into parts scattered through the album, and the end perhaps combined with the intro of winterbell, though that probably means nothing to you cunts!

i really wish i could find the perfect band to join..
i kinda just want to join a straightforward indierock band, but i'd probably get bored of that. post-rock would be nice, but i'd keep expecting it to be like rooftop access. experimental is all well and good but sometimes i just want to play a song! and forget about metal because i just don't have the technical ability.
and spacerock would be absolutely great, but nobody seems to be into that anymore!

i just want a nice band of 3-5 people, with nice songs that occasionally veer into experimental/post-rock territory. maybe i'm looking in the wrong places!

i keep thinking of things to write in here while on my way to work, or while working, but then when i am finally on my lunch break, i forget what i wanted to write!

if anyone's interested, i've put some remix packs up for excellent universe. anyone who does a remix will get one in return!

Taste And Voice
The Excellent Universe

i've trimmed the multitracks down so they didn't take up so much space (just realised that flac compression would probably make this redundant anyway) but it shouldn't be too hard to see what goes where. both tracks are pretty straight as far as bpm goes, recorded to clicktrack etc.

also, if anyone wants a high quality version of the intro for 'the excellent universe', get it from the flac version of the track, available here:
http://rooftopaccess.bandcamp.com/
i didn't include it because it's essentially one live guitar track for the first 12 minutes.

Project 168 part four

some excellent stuff this time around!

and here's my ep:
Rooftop Access - Excellent Universe

and for a higher quality download (including flac), here it is on bandcamp:

i'm writing 'alt-country' stuff at the moment (or maybe country-ish post-rock?)

and the simplicity is kicking my ass

.. but i'm determined to write some awesome stuff.

i just need to learn how to sing, hehe.

since my 'pay for better quality' experiment failed, i've now made the usual bridge free in all formats! one condition though, if you download/listen, you must tell me what you think!

1. Pilot (8:43)
2. Sweetness Will Prevail (7:44)
3. The Usual Bridge, Part 1 (3:15)
4. The Usual Bridge, Part 2 (7:47)
5. Clo (2:32)
6. One In Three Pigeons Is A Robot (11:50)

this is something that i've been passively working on for a couple of years now. it was only when i finished the last track that i remembered that i had an incomplete ep of minimal electronic stuff!

it could be considered a 'single' from microleaps, most of the material on the ep was written around that time, though these tracks are a bit more 'dancey' than the songs on microleaps.

so here it is. free @ 128kbps, $5 for other formats!

Rooftop Access - Excellent Universe
01. Taste And Voice (7:23)
02. The Excellent Universe (18:47)

i'm pretty happy with it, considering i only spent about 6 hours on each track, and pretty much wrote each one left to right. which i guess is kinda weird for ambient post-metal.

"she may be a good kisser but she's very annoying. and that bright pink lipstick totally don't do nothin'."
"Hi, I'm Andre Rieu. Have a look at all of these things I've done. Would you like to buy one? No?"
"pianos. pianos and chains. all of the things that you can put in a piano. alphabet soup"
"reset muffins"
::

good evening

if you have a spare 12 minutes (yes i know it's long) please listen to my new song in progress, it's going to be on the new rooftop access album. this song has been evolving over the past 4 months or so, and in the last couple of weeks i've been writing new sections for it, i recorded the last 5 and a half minutes of it yesterday and today.

it's fairly fragmented because i've worked on each section separately, the change at 7:04 won't be so abrupt in the final version and the beginning will be a little more cohesive rather than just fading in.

anyway here it is:

Rooftop Access - Dreamity (early) (12:38, 18205048 bytes)

today is the fifth day that i've had blocked ears, as a result of the flu i had the weekend before last weekend. argh! i have antibiotics but they're not doooooiiiiinnnng anythiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggg

archive.org link

01. Poptori
02. Korus
03. Tip For Lights
04. The Diagonal Foot Movement
05. A Contraption
06. Mountains of the Moon (Digital)
07. Syntaxis v2.7

this is just a collection of stuff from before robo-tripper/pieces for triangulation (and a couple from just before i stopped writing electronic music). i put it on archive.org because i'm sick of weblabels refusing to use my cover art. maybe i'll put it somewhere else if i can be bothered, but i just want to put this out there, i've never put these tracks on any releases before and i think they're probably some of the best pieces i've written.