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New Cassette

March 1, 2011 Leave a comment

Today I got, finally, my copies of a cassette release, a split with Carlos Villena. He runs the label that released it, Mantricum. Late 2009 he approached to do some collaborative work and I work quickly on a piece based on his radio sounds. The idea was that it was it was to be a CD in an edition of 200 copies. I think the Freiband work, all computer based, fits best on CD or CDR. It was to be out soon (February last year). But it didn’t happen. In November it was still announced as a CD, so much to my unpleasant surprise, it became a cassette. I probably whined too much as Villena announces also a CD version of it, in an edition of 100. I have some for sale.

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Spartak remix

January 3, 2011 Leave a comment

from the label: A long time coming – this cassette (named ‘Version Room’ in homage to classic dub works) sees Spartak hand over each pieces from their first album ‘Tales From The Colony Room’ to be reworked and abstracted by some of their favourite artists from the last few years, going hand in hand with their openess to collaboration. Flirting between minimal electro-acoustic music to heavily processed noise, the seven deconstructions by Pillowdiver, Cleptoclectics, Tomasz Bednarczyk, Freiband, Lawrence English, Lim-Klumpes and Jasper TX are glorious explorations of new ideas within Spartak’s already unique sound.

This release comes in a trademark Stumptown Printers Brad! Pak (recycled brown) with two insert cards letter-pressed by Ben Owen at Middle Press and purchase also includes immediate download in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.

I have some for sale too!

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The New Blockaders

October 14, 2010 2 Comments

A long time ago I was asked by Richard Rupenus of The New Blockaders to do a remix, which was, much later, released on a 5LP set by Vinyl On Demand. Today I received a 2CD which has all the European remixes of The New Blockaders together. Its released by Auf Abwegen. I wondered why exactly this had to be re-issued, but its a fine compilation. The USA artists are on Important Records and the UK artists compiled by At War With False Noise (for completists). I doubt wether it will bring fame to the New Blockaders outside the extended family of noise. Oh, actually I did two remixes. The other one is still in my archive and was supposed to be released by Beta-Lactam Ring on a CD of various of those forgotten tracks (along with some other unreleased Freiband pieces), but that never happened. Anyone interested in releasing any of that, contact me for a full list of unreleased Freiband works.