13 Jul
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High Frequency Bandwidth – Hell Fire and Brimstone

Written by Christian Nelson

Electronic duo High Frequency Bandwidth are set to release their debut full-length, Hell Fire and Brimstone, on the British label Malicious Damage.

HFB is the most recent project of Dr Alex Paterson, the brain behind the The Orb and all around electronic music guru. The duo’s other half is Dom Beken, a jack of all trades whose credentials include studio work for David Bowie and music production for everything from TV commercials to Bollywood Films. HFB have so far released several tracks digitally, and produced the score for the Playstation 3 game PixelJunk Shooter, which recently earned them a BAFTA nomination. On Hell Fire and Brimstone, Beken and Paterson continue to blend electronic beats and elements of hip-hop, with guest appearances by Funky DL and Dynamax of Zulu Nation. In keeping with their weird titular motif, all tracks on the new record begin with the letters H, F and B, along with almost everything else in the duo’s catalog so far.

In addition to Hell Fire and Brimstone, Malicious Damage is also releasing HFB’s first three EPs, all of which are untitled. EP 1 hits stores today, and the other two are slated for release later this month and in May.

Tracklist
01. Hundred Forty Billion feat. Dynamax
02. HeptaFleuroButryl feat. Funky DL
03. How Far Back?
04. Harmless Feather Bed feat. Dynamax
05. Hallo From Berlin
06. Hot From Behind
07. Happiness Feels Brilliant
08. Hill Film Blues feat. Dynamax
09. Hey, Fizzy Bubbles!
10. Hell Fire and Brimstone
11. Hidden Foto Banks
12. Holes for Black
13. Harmonic Five (Beatless)
14. Hitchcock’s First Bugle
15. Hitchcock’s First Blunder
16. High Five Brother
17. Huge Fiery Ball

Malicious Damage will release High Frequency Bandwidth’s Hell Fire and Brimstone on July 12th, 2010.
Label: Malicious Damage

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11 Apr
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The Black Dog: Music for Real Airports

Written by Christian Nelson

The Black Dog: Music for Real Airports

Soma Quality Recordings, 2010
Catalog#: somatbd003

Music for Real Airports is out on limited edition 180 g vinyl, I bought a web version, hoping to get the vinyl soon.

First off the Cover is beautiful work by Human, Mmm I love it. TBD’s Music For Adverts from 1996 flirted with Brian Eno’s Music for airports, the Dog’s new album is more of a tribute or celebration to Eno both in concept and sound, Dust brothers have reinvented themselves and i like it, beautiful warm drone ambient sounds from then first track to the last.

The band’s been busy recording sounds and voices. There are beautiful airport sounds and flight boarding announcements nicely weaved in to the tracks. I’ve been playing it on loop all day and it grow’s on me, listening to it is like a flight trip, everything is in place.

The opening track “M1″ opens up with traffic sounds and noises as if you were sitting in a cab or car to the airport terminal, the first dot on the map… the tracks slowly build up to descends in “Sleep Deprivation” Part 1 & 2… you are in the air, “Business Car Park 9” is the last track on the album and your last dot on the map you have reached your destination.

The Black Dog’s put heart and soul into making this Masterpiece, and it’s worthy a place on the ambient hall of fame, this is a modern  ambient classic and it shows once again that the best music is grown, feed and delivered in Sheffield UK.

Buy it! Music for Real Airports is a five star album.

Tracklist:
A1 M1
A2 Terminal EMA
B3 DISinformation Desk
B4 Passport Control
B5 Wait Behind This Line
C6 Empty Seat Calculations
C7 Strip Light Hate
D8 Future Delay Thinking
D9 Lounge
D10 Delay 9
E11 Sleep Deprivation 1
E12 Sleep Deprivation 2
F13 He Knows
F14 Business Car Park 9

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11 Apr
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Jana Winderen – Energy Field

Written by Christian Nelson

Jana Winderen – Energy Field

1. Aquaculture 18:00
2. Isolation/Measurement 12:11
3. Sense of Latent Power 20:04

This outstanding new Touch release is an album comprised of documents made by sound recordist Jana Winderen over a number of field trips to the Barents Sea, Greenland, and Norway.

Winderen’s focus takes in above-ground sounds of extreme Northern weather systems and the wildlife that inhabits such surroundings, but perhaps more significantly and insightfully, the Oslo-based artist makes probing recordings of sub-aqua environments/habitats using hydrophones.

Winderen delves deeply into glaciers, fjords, and the open ocean with her equipment, capturing incredible unseen worlds populated by baffling and wholly alien sounds. You’ll seldom have any idea as to what might be making some of these amazing noises, but among them are: “Sounds of crustaceans, fish such as cod, haddock, herring, and pollock recorded as they are hunting, calling for a mate or orientating themselves in their environment.”

The disc is divided into three lengthy pieces, each one assembled from a variety of different recordings, carefully layered and edited so as to give a flowing, seamless account of the various locales Winderen explored on her field trips. In terms of recording fidelity and all-round immersive brilliance, Energy Field is right up there alongside Chris Watson’s greatest works—it really is that good. Anyone with an affection for the art of sound recording will instantly adore this release; it’s an album that offers a consistently surprising and illuminating depiction of regions in our natural world that would otherwise be inaccessible to us.

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27 Mar
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Deliverace Coming Soon: Looks Incredible!

Written by Christian Nelson

Sure .. we’ve seen rally-type games before, but what you probably haven’t seen is one that just looks this good. Below is the first teaser trailer from Pixelbite Games of their debut App Store application, Deliverace. Imagine a classic top-down racing game like Neo Drift Out .. and then times it by ten!
I have to say, if this teaser video does depict anywhere close to what we can expect from Deliverace’s actual gameplay quality, I’m pretty excited. I think this one could be a pretty big hit.

Sure .. we’ve seen rally-type games before, but what you probably haven’t seen is one that just looks this good. Below is the first teaser trailer from Pixelbite Games of their debut App Store application, Deliverace. Imagine a classic top-down racing game like Neo Drift Out .. and then times it by ten!
I have to say, if this teaser video does depict anywhere close to what we can expect from Deliverace’s actual gameplay quality, I’m pretty excited. I think this one could be a pretty big hit.

With no word on pricing yet, it’s hard to tell just how much of a hit this will be on its debut. But, with 3D graphics like the above .. I think we’re in for quite a visual treat. According to the studio Deliverace is set to hit our iPhone screens ‘Early 2010? – and considering its the start of March already, I can’t see the release being too far away, can you?

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13 Jan
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Autechre: New album ‘Oversteps’

Written by Christian Nelson

Autechre – Oversteps
(WARP210)

22nd / 23rd March (2010)

- Deluxe Vinyl Edition
- Compact Disc
- High Quality Download

Made in The Designers Republic™ Deluxe Vinyl Edition

Double heavyweight 180gram vinyl, each disc packed in its own printed inner and outer card sleeves 900mm x 600mm double-sided poster printed on Offenbach ultra fine stock, folded within its own card sleeve Housed in printed and debossed rigid slipcase Included free with all Vinyl & CD orders on Bleep.com Your choice of 16bit / 44.1kHz or 24bit / 44.1kHz WAV version of the album Plus a 320kbps LAME encoded MP3 version of the album for your portable player These digital versions will be available to download direct from your Bleep account on day of release. Preorder ‘Oversteps’ now from Bleep

CD & VINYL TRACKLISTING

01. r ess
02. ilanders
03. known(1)
04. pt2ph8
05. qplay
06. see on see
07. Treale
08. os veix3
09. O=0
10. d-sho qub
11. st epreo
12. redfall
13. krYlon
14. Yuop

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