Blatant 'Henry Fool new track on website' advert

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Originally posted by Stephen Bennett:
We're hoping the new album should be available early 2002.

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Congratulations, Stephen.

BTW making early 2002 is perhaps a tough call by now, though...

Herman

Herm

Agreed - though we are really going to try!

Regards

Stephen

Stephen,

It's great to hear that not all bass players need to use fretted basses.. A fretless sounds so much sweeter and musical. Give Peter a big thumbs up from me.

'Poppy Q' wouldn't be out of place on a Caravan LP - Highest accolade I could give

All great stuff.. Added to my (never ending) CD purchase list.

-A-

for the kind words. What about your stuff? I see you're a musician too.

Regards

Stephen

About all I have had time to do in the last year or so is a 13 minute EP. It's all electronic based.. Exact style is a fusion of .. oh.. I dunno.. Biosphere meets Boards of Canada meets Royksopp meets FourTet.

No plans for any formal release but I'm very happy with the production quality of the EP.. The content itself.. well.. I'd listen to it.

I'm going to focus more on my music and less on my 'real' job next year when I finally get my bloody house finished !!

-A-

Thanks for that Stephen.

Alex

Alan

Sounds like the stuff we like to hear!

Is it on the net?

Regards

Stephen

I've got zero free-time to get anything sorted out right now. My life is pretty much on-hold until next year but I will be focusing my efforts on music at the earliest opportunity.

For my tunes, I've got digital masters on my PC and a few CD copies lying about.. I promise to get better organised one day.. maybe even a website (woo!)..

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Stephen,

Sounds well up to standard! You can't beat a nice bit of mellotron. Now get on with the rest please?

Alan,

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Exact style is a fusion of .. oh.. I dunno.. Biosphere meets Boards of Canada meets Royksopp meets FourTet

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Dunno FourTet, but I'd pay for a combination of the other three.

While we're on the subject of musical Forum contributors. Check out inkipak's web-site. Apart from interesting KLF-related stuff, there's a clutch of interesting electronica downloads from inkipak himself.

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Originally posted by Nick Lees:

Dunno FourTet, but I'd pay for a combination of the other three.

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WHAT !?! - "Four Tet" is Kieran Hebden who formed "Fridge" (Which I know you have). But it's in an Electronica stylee like DNTEL.. But better.

The CD you are looking for is "Pause" but try and get it with the bundled "Paws" re-mix CD. It's a must buy rather than a maybe..

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..for the kind words again! I was up until 3 sorting the studio stuff out last night. I'Pills' has had a good response so far and it's appearing on a Virgin Poland (ah, the big time ) compilation album.

Nicks right Alan - get the stuff somewhere we can hear it!

Regards

Stephen

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Originally posted by Stephen Bennett:

Nicks right Alan - get the stuff somewhere we can hear it!

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Anyone willing or able to post a few MP3's / .WAV files on a page for me ??

-A-

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Originally posted by Stephen Bennett:
it's appearing on a Virgin Poland (ah, the big time ) compilation album.

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Ah, the old "straight-to-piracy" strategy.

Alan,

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Anyone willing or able to post a few MP3's / .WAV files on a page for me ??

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I should have room for some MP3s, but not WAVs of any usefull length. Bung 'em over on email if you have broadband...else email me.

I've sent you an email about it.

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Nick quipped

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Ah, the old "straight-to-piracy" strategy.

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Nah - we'll remix for the album and add Hugh Hopper playing bass.

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You can't beat a nice bit of mellotron.

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Indeed. I think it's the most inspirational instrument known to man.

Stephen

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Originally posted by Stephen Bennett:

Nah - we'll remix for the album and add Hugh Hopper playing bass.

Stephen

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Can we have Richard Sinclair instead? Hmmm. Mind you, then you'd have to chuck Tim off lead vocals, because it'd be a crime against music to have Richard in the band and not do the singing.

Back to the album - are we going to get a similar proportion of instrumental to vocal tracks? I thought the first one had that just about right.

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Indeed. I think it's the most inspirational instrument known to man.

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There can't be that many working mellotrons knocking about these days - and I would have thought there's a fair chance it has a history - any ideas?

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Back to the album - are we going to get a similar proportion of instrumental to vocal tracks? I thought the first one had that just about right.

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I think it'll be the same-ish. It's looking that way.

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There can't be that many working mellotrons knocking about these days - and I would have thought there's a fair chance it has a history - any ideas?

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The one I've used came from a studio in London. I don't think it's been around at all anywhere interesting.

I do, however have the Roland D50 used by Jon Hiesman on 'A Touch of frost' and the EMU EMAX used by White Town on 'Your Woman'!

Regards

Stephen

PS -I wasn't joking about Hugh - he's releasing some stuff on Burning Shed. It's an album of loops and cut ups of the likes of Robert Wyatt and Elton Dean in a contemporay ambient beat setting - so Tim says

Biosphere meets Boards of Canada meets Royksopp meets FourTet.

I like the sound of this too. Although I don't know Biosphere (which one to buy?) the other 3 are great. Any chance you could send me a CD to listen to?

Anna

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Originally posted by Anna Tooth:
Biosphere meets Boards of Canada meets Royksopp meets FourTet.

I like the sound of this too. Although I don't know Biosphere (which one to buy?) the other 3 are great. Any chance you could send me a CD to listen to?

Anna

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Alan,

Make sure you get at least £50,000 advance from her and full artistic rights - otherwise Anna'll have you recording mood music versions of Stock Aitken & Waterman hits before you know it.

I never get this response when I say that The Fire Thieves sounds like Blue Nile meets Prefab Sprout at Peter Gabriel and David Sylvians studio, while inviting the Cowboy Junkies, Caravan and U2 over for lunch.

Regards

Stephen

Orders piling up and no-one has heard this EP yet.. Maybe I'll be able to retire early after all !

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CD's will be in the post next week. (Should I just send it to the factory Anna ?)

[This message was edited by Alan Ball on THURSDAY 17 October 2002 at 08:54.]

usual address. Thanks.

Anna

Here, for your delectation, are four tracks from Alan. More Biosphere than Boards Of Canada (to me anyway) but not the less for that.

He'll be creating a "proper" web page for them, but in the meantime, these links are straight to 192 kbps MP3s:

Some of these boys are big (5MB) so broadband connection recommended!

Vector

Amphene

Oclude

Erdicum Septora

The tunes are effectively a single track with index splits so get your MP3 player to miss out any space in between if you can.

Oooh.. I'm so excited !!

-A-