I’m really looking forward to it and will be playing some work that is in progress for an upcoming release.

It should be lots of fun as the Alphabet Set celebrate 10 years of musical wonder. Official blurb follows!

Alphabet Set : Decade : 10th March

Live

• Automatic Tasty
• Ebauche
• Sixfootapprentice

DJ

• Mynameisjohn
• Olan
• Rodney
• Alphabet Set DJ’s

The Alphabet Set are back at 13 High St to celebrate our 10th anniversary with a SERIES of monthly parties that’ll feature a plethora of the artists and DJs that have released, gotten involved, helped out or just caught our ear over the decade. U is the latest and so far the finest incarnation of Molloys where the Alphabet Set ran our first sessions, with two areas of music over 4 floors. Expect to hear vinyl gems from roughly every style and from every era upstairs and live electronic jams in the basement.

Our goal at the time of starting, and still is, to provide a platform for bedroom producers and DJs to get out, play live, perform and release. These sessions will be no different with a mix of up and coming and established names in the monthly melting pot.

Admission is free and session runs 9 – 1.

Buy Now

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• Juno Download

Press Release

Originally from Ireland, Berlin based Simon Hayes has a fetish for the musically obscene. Expect a twisted mega-mash of grime, industrial Techno and jungle when he hits the Technics. On the production side his ability to fuse grimey deep bass with neck-snapping Electro and distorted Techno is second to none. Simon is an accomplished remix artist with works on Section27, Alkalinear and TakeOver Records. He is a regular contributor to Darkfloor and Mantis Radio. His earlier AgentCast DJ Mix has been enjoyed by thousands of listeners. If you thought mixing, remixing and producing weren’t enough for Simon you’d be right. Simon is label owner and manager of ‘Stasis Records’ a home of abstract electronics from Ireland and overseas. Be sure to check out his label for other killer releases.

It’s a very cool EP of eclectic electronica with a wide range of influences kicking in.

You can download this unique piece of electronic music for free over at Bandcamp in pretty much any format you choose, Mp3, FLAC, OGG, AAC, etc.

Download Jetstar by T-Woc now.

Press Blurb

So we live in the future these days, a time of plentiful digital bounty to make up for the shortfall in the real world. All recorded music is just a few clicks away if you know where to look. It’s easy to be overwhelmed as a listener, and as a producer and DJ, the more pies you have fingers in, the harder it is to define your sound. It’s an issue that t-woc has certainly had to deal with. A ultra-diverse DJ, Reggae selectah par excellence, helmsman of the alphabet set electronica collective, Hip-Hop fanatic, one of Ireland’s original dubsteppers and fan of many other things weird and wonderful in music.

So how do you fit all these influences in to your music and keep it coherent? The Jetstar EP is how. His 6th for Alphabet Set was done with the help of some vinyl, field recordings, an out of tune analogue synth, a trio of crusty vintage fx units and a dash of MPC. This is t-woc music – a blend of neck snapping beats, glistening electronic melodies, steppers vibes and proper basslines, often with a t-woc trademark twist at the end. Big grooves which could only have been made right now in 2011. Named after a track that didn’t make the cut, The Jetstar EP is available for free download Friday 30/09/11

Over the years I’ve built up a sizeable collection of great ambient music and I love putting together these mixes. Track list is below for those that are interested.

Tracklisting

1. Machine Drum – Cream Soda Part 1
2. Klimek – Pathways To Work
3. Gel-Sol – Mourning Wok
4. Chihei Hatakeyama – Sacred Flowers
5. Windy & Carl – Elevation
6. Fennesz – Glide
7. The Sight Below – Nowhere
8. Loscil – Showers of Ink
9. Secede – Ballroom Arcade
10. Sebastien Roux – Flicker
11. The Sight Below – At First Touch
12. Secede – Now I Can Weave Magic Spells
13. Brian McBride – Overture (for Other Halfs)
14. Esmerine – And They Left No Footprints In The Dust Behind Them
15. Hangedup – Broken Reel

Great news! Sunken Foal has new music for your listening pleasure – he’s released a new 6-track EP titled “Mother of God” and if it’s half as good as his Fallen Arches release on Planet Mu a while back, it’s going to be awesome.

This man writes some incredible electronic music. Well worth checking out.

You can read the release post over on Acroplane.org, or buy it directly from Boomkat, Addictech, Juno, Amazon, or Emusic.

Two years after their well-received Planet Mu album, Sunken Foal return with six tracks for Acroplane. Mother Of God finds their sound at a juncture of Alex Smoke-like, Autechre-referencing electronica in Low Mountain Light Socket and the mercury fuming synths and quickstep syncopations of Gift Knee Pads, while Colloidal Glass is a glassy IDM configuration and Platforms like some swaggering Gescom beat. Ace.

via Mother of God | Acroplane.org.

Lovely stuff.

Get the free music download here.

And if you like this, you should check out another free podcast download by Swarm Intelligence over at Invisible Agent.

I had hoped they’d get a gig date setup in Singapore, which I could probably have justified going to. No joy unfortunately. Still, now that they have another release in the works, Move of Ten, to be released on July 12th, perhaps they’ll continue do a few more gigs later in the year and I might catch them. It’s been quite a while since I last saw them – back in April 2006 – and it was an awesome gig. So would be nice to catch them again.

You can buy it on Bleep, or listen to it online over at clashmusic.com.

It’s not what I expected, but then again, Autechre rarely give you what you expect..

At the end of last year I got offered work on my first feature-film, titled Five Day Shelter (view info on IMDB). It struck me as quite a dark film and I had to be careful to avoid encouraging acts of self-harm as a result of overly dark musical content!

I had only 9 weeks to compose the score for the entire film, as well as handle the sound design. At the end of those 9 weeks I boarded a plane and headed to Chennai in order to oversee the post-production in a sound studio there. That took another 3 weeks. By the time we finished the film and I said farewell to the rest of the post-production team I was well and truly exhausted, possibly more so than I’ve ever been before (trying to compose a feature length score in that time whilst also trying to balance running a web-design company is not recommended).

I figured that seeing as I had travelled so far I might as well go a little further, and from India I flew to Kuala Lumpur and on to Phnom Penh in Cambodia, where I’ve holed up since. It’s given me a chance to catch up with some friends who’ve been living here for a while, including the proprietor of my first release, Invisible Agent boss Warren Daly.

I took a little time off around Christmas but have now settled into life in Cambodia and am going to be sticking around here for a while. What’s on the cards musically whilst I’m here?

• Score and sound design for “As The Light Leaks In”, short film by Stitch Films
• Remix of a track from John Dalton’s latest release
• Remix of a track from Love Rhino’s last album, Tumatakuru
• Brand new Ebauche track on a joint release on Stasis Records
• Mastering a new Danseizure release

Most of the above has to be completed in the next month, so I’m going to be a little busy for the next while.

Also, I finally got round to uploading and creating a release page for last years ABCNET EP, Mucilage Biopsy. If you haven’t heard it yet then head over here to download this free music release.

Another free music download release, this time it’s my long-awaited ABCNET EP, Mucilage Biopsy, which carries you through a dark and unusual landscape of sound.

Weird synths build into walls of sound and fall away into a breathtaking panorama of auditory hallucinations; bells chime and disappear into the distance; distorted voices bubble under the surface, before being washed away; and mangled beats, held at arms length, burst into view when they can be restrained no longer.

Listen to the full release online

As is the standard with the ABCNET format, there is only one track. Sort of a cross between a live mix and a release.
Download audio file (Ebauche-Mucilage-Biopsy-160.mp3)

Complete Net EP

You can download a zip of this free Net EP by clicking the link below, and it’s also available over on the Alphabet Set website.

• Mp3 Quality: 320kbps!
• File Size: 79Mb
• Album Artwork: Included

Download the full album, along with artwork.

Thanks

Thanks to the Alphabet Set for putting this out there and always being supportive. Thanks to Love Rhino for his kind words and a guest slot at his album launch where I got a chance to test this release out (and the impending nature of said album launch got me to pull my finger out and compose a large part of what’s on this EP).