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Dec 30, 2011 • Here’s a special mix that we’ve finally finished just in time to catch the end of Tummy Touch records 15th anniversary year. This was a pretty epic undertaking for us, we started with well over 8 hours of music (and that was after we cherry picked) which we managed to edit down to the 80...
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Jul 29, 2011 • Our new single Black Widow is out now. Featuring the wonderful talents of Kreeps on theremin and remix duties, Free Blood (Rong/DFA) and our very own Royal Appointment. We’ve been long-time fans of !!! (Chk Chk Ck) and John Pugh‘s new project Free Blood so were over the moon when they agreed to a remix. You’ll...
Sadly I have forgotten pretty much everything about how I came across this Les Rythmes Digitales live album. What I can recall is that it was official, Jacques Lu Cont (aka uber producer Stuart Price) put it together as an exclusive for some now defunct online mp3 store, and that he relished the opportunity at being able...
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Dec 17, 2011 • A few weeks ago we came across this video of an exquisitely built circuit bent Casio MT-40 synth (via J Saul Kane of DC Recordings) which comes with a total of 26 modifications. Now, the MT-40 (and it’s grey MT-41 successor) is a classic in its own right, mainly for single-handedly inventing the massively popular Sleng...
Vince Clarke doesn’t really need much on an introduction. He’s synonymous with synth pop, and a legend in the history of electronic music as a founding member of Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Erasure (and not forgetting his recent reunion with Martin Gore as VCMG). Needless to say, we’ve always been fans of his. Anyway, I’d...
Gothic was my first introduction to Ken Russell at the tender age of 15. I even managed to smuggle it into my English class for something we were doing about the Romantic Poets. “Here Miss Best is Julian Sands running naked along a roof top but he is playing the part of Percy Shelley so...
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Nov 23, 2011 • Some beautiful examples of early colour animation. Believe it or not many of these were shown in regular movie theaters, such as Radio City Music Hall, usually preceding the big film releases of the time.
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Nov 21, 2011 • We’ve been long-time appreciators of The Chap, and four albums in they’ve decided to put out a best of collection. We’ll let the videos and music do all the talking. All that needs to be said is that if they’re good enough for Wendy & Lisa (see final video above) then that’s all you should need...
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Nov 16, 2011 • Archive two track session recorded for Resonance FM, London in 2007 that we found gathering digital dust in our iTunes library. Vocals - Anne Booty Guitar – Matty Skylab Drums - Martin Dean Bass - Adam de Gruchy
Another of our favourite and now sadly defunct bands, Add N To (X). The sound of dirty, old, submissive analogue synths being forced to do things against their will. Add N To (X) – Take Me To Your Leader Add N To (X) – Poker Roll (Pok ‘er ‘ole) Add N To (X) – Metal...
I always find it pretty exciting when new tidbits like the one below come to light, especially considering how much we already know about A Clockwork Orange. This great interview with Malcolm McDowell and Leon Vitali is full of ‘em. McDowell on how the iconic white Droog outfits came about… The codpiece and the white...
Star Axis is an amazing piece of sculpture (still unfinished some 35 years after work began) in the New Mexico desert by artist Charles Ross. I could quite easily imagine this cropping up in a Kenneth Anger film. I just dearly wish we had the time and money to pay it a visit. Judging by...
I first came across Cluck! The True Story Of Chickens In The Cinema at the Hoxton Book Depositary about eight years ago. It’s a bible for all things foul and feathered across sixty odd years of cinema. Yes people we’re talking everything from Freaks and Stroszek (little nuggets of which we’ve featured below), through to...
Les Rythmes Digitales live album
Jan 24, 2012
Tummy Touch Records 15th Anniversary mixtape
Dec 30, 2011
Casio MT-40 S-CAT build
Dec 17, 2011
Vince Clarke’s Dome Studio
Dec 6, 2011
Ken Russell
Nov 30, 2011
Early Colour Animation (Watch)
Nov 23, 2011
The Chap – We Are The Best (Watch/Listen)
Nov 21, 2011