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

High Frequency Bandwidth is online!

Heavy Funk Bass, Hairy Fuzzy Balls, Hope Fun Baby, Hippy’s Full Brunch, Heavenly Fried Bananas, Hideous Face Bends, Highlands First Bank, Hydrogen Fart Bomb, Hen’s Breath Fixation, Hitchcock’s First Blunder…

Rr a technical term regarding aural expansion developments called High Frequency Bandwidth.

These initials are important. ‘All our song titles fit the letters H. F. B.,’ says Dr Alex Paterson, who has embarked on the new High Frequency Bandwidth project with Dom Beken. The two men are about to make some Huge F***ing Broohaha with their mission to inject some original hiphop innovation, sonic anarchy and earth-level raunch into the electronic foragings they’ve become known for with, for starters, The Orb.

Dom & Alex in the Studio

Dom currently runs music production company ‘and music’ with composer Ant Adams, making radio and TV commercials but also finding time for a band called Belka and Stelka, who released last year’s Tales From The Projection Room album. He started as a drummer in Liverpool after finishing his history degree there, going on to the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.

Dom started hanging out at the city’s Parr Street Studios, graduating from making tea to programming and engineering, working with artists including Manson, Echo and the Bunnymen, Pete Wiley and Graeme Park. Since relocating to London he has worked with names including Bowie, Lulu, Placebo’s Brian Molko, Liberty X and Pink Floyd’s Rick Wright. A long-term collaboration with Pink Floyd’s touring bassist Guy Pratt not only led to scoring TV programmes like Channel 4’s Spaced but to his old friend Dr Alex Paterson.

Alex is, of course, The Orb: for 20 years the ultimate embodiment of the acid house spirit, before and beyond, from early avant electronic and ambient to the furthest galaxies with major success. The Orb recently released acclaimed album The Dream while currently enjoying a flurry of reissues which now make all their albums up until 2001’s Cydonia available in deluxe form.

Alex loves a good satellite project: first himself, Dom and Guy formed the Transit Kings with original Orb member Jimmy Cauty, making the Living In A Giant Candle Winking At God album and touring festivals. After that, Alex and Dom’s Heavy Flapping Bollocks were inflamed with creative juices bursting to escape and, while Dom joined in Orb activities, H.F.B. started to materialise.

It cannot be overlooked that Dom’s studio, where the pair cook up their intoxicating sonic stews, is the old projection room at Ealing Studios, legendary home of classic British comedy, horror and war movies since the 1930s.

With the ghosts of Will Hay and Charles Hawtrey stalking the corridors, some spirit of mischief can’t fail to seep into the air, mixing with Dom’s live playing and production flights steered by the Head, Feet and Bonkers noise ratios of the good Doctor.

‘Horrific Bush Fire’ charts an a slow-boat to exotic hiphop climes complete with mutated guitar and wailing gospel vocal while ‘High Five Brother’ marks Alex singing, a throaty soul counterpart to the flying female vocals. ‘Hip Hop Blue Film’ takes a denser route through the sonic undergrowth.

There are hundreds of music styles and genres, for example; Electronic, Leftfield, Techno, IDM, Ambient,  Dub, Rock to name a few of my favorites. Neil Barnes must feel proud of his work having a Genre / Style named after his band, I cant speak for Neil but i would most certainly feel flattered at least.

This post is not entirely about music styles i want to focus on High Frequency Bandwidth also know as HFB, These initials are important. ‘All our song titles fit the letters H. F. B.,’ says Dr Alex Paterson, This is an spaced-out idea that only our good old Doc. Paterson could come up with, don’t you agree with me? 

I have been listening to some of High Frequency Bandwidth (I’ll just write HFB from now on) tracks ‘Horrific Bush Fire’ ‘High Five Brother’ ‘Hidden Foto Banks’ ‘Hitchcock’s First Bugle’ and ‘Hip Hop Blue Film’ after hours of countless listening i must say that it will be rather hard to generalize this duos style of music. So I suggest that we simply create a new one “HFB”! I think Alex Paterson’s worth this recognition, he has been the driving force in creating new groundbreaking sounds and music for 2 decades! Give the man something! I would bake him a cake if he were in the neighborhood.

And I’m pretty sure that Alex officially debuts with vocals on ‘High Five Brother’ Amazing! This man, myth and legend never cease to amaze me Love you Alex, If you haven’t noticed! Listening to HFB is like breathing clean air, it’s a fresh breeze in this B.-Spears-Radioland-polluted ocean of diarrhea! My solution to global warming is to ban all these commercial stations polluting our air and atmosphere with all this c**p! And i’d put Dr. Alex  in charge performing ambient exorcism to purify our environment at least on the sonic level. 

HFB’s forthcoming album release date is set to September 2009, but when i comes to anything that is Orb-Realted i have learned to have faith and i have this gut feeling that we’ll be spinning the new HFB album much sooner then that. Oh and a bird sang to me and told me that the title has changed to Hell, Fire & Brimstone. So strap on people we’re on for a ride. H.F.B!!!

Alex Paterson and Dom Beken been working together on The Clock Machine Turns You On: Volume 2 a great compilation from Malicious Damage their new project is called High Frequency Bandwidth (HFB).

The first first release appears on Loverush UK! Compilation. Track 6. Loverush UK!  Ft Molly Bancroft – Fountains Of Youth (HFB Rmx) (4:10)

I love this remix it’s awesome! It starts with a sample were Nelson Mandela is saying – I am Nelson Mandela, and also a funny laughter that I think belong to Chevy Chase my favorite comedian. This is promising and I really look forward to what will come next from these two blokes.

Dom Beken’s been engineering on several Transit King Albums and done some DJ mixing on I’ll Be Black Compilation Among other albums. I’m looking forward to listening to new “Orb” and (HFB) stuff from these two guys.

Artist: Loverush UK! Ft Molly Bancroft / Avatar One ft Alexandra Greene
Album: Fountains Of Youth / Open Up
Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/release/1650903
Label: Loverush Digital
Catalog#: none
Released: 2008
Style: Progressive House

Tracklist:
1 Loverush UK!  Ft Molly Bancroft – Fountains Of Youth (Original Mix) (5:17)
2 Loverush UK!  Ft Molly Bancroft – Fountains Of Youth (Kinky Roland Dreamscape Rmx) (7:46)
3 Loverush UK!  Ft Molly Bancroft – Fountains Of Youth (Arnold T Rmx) (7:17)
4 Loverush UK!  Ft Molly Bancroft – Fountains Of Youth (Damien.S Rmx) (7:06)
5 Loverush UK!  Ft Molly Bancroft – Fountains Of Youth (Kawa 1/2 Flight Rmx) (7:10)
6 Loverush UK!  Ft Molly Bancroft – Fountains Of Youth (HFB Rmx) (4:10)
7 Loverush UK!  Ft Molly Bancroft – Fountains Of Youth (Avatar One Rmx) (5:36)
8 Avatar One  ft Alexandra Greene – Open Up (Original Mix) (7:09)
9 Avatar One  ft Alexandra Greene – Open Up (Damien.S Rmx) (7:15)
10 Avatar One  ft Alexandra Greene – Open Up (Tom Noize Rmx) (5:45)
11 Avatar One  ft Alexandra Greene – Open Up (Elucidate Rmx) (7:42)