New 7" single by me out May 11th. Yes, it's true. Honest.

Hello. Well life is really up in the air for me at the moment, for various reasons too dull/personal to bother you all with. However, one glimmer of good news is that there is actually some of my music available on a record from the wonderful Castles In Space label. A proper vinyl 7" single that you can play on a record player, with a cover and an insert sheet. It's been 14 years since I had a proper record of my own out.

It features two electronic instrumentals that I composed last year and polished to something approaching a shine this year. One is a moogy glam stomper, the other a theme tune for a non-existant regional TV news show from 1983. There are 300 copies available, half of the run on black vinyl and the other half on white. I designed the sleeve and all that, the audio was given a sonic buffing by the excellent Jon Brooks (Ghost Box/Clay Pipe/Trunk etc.) and there might be a surprise within that will be of use to about three people... I hope.

Anyway, it's officially released May 11th but you can pre-order it now. Many thanks to those who've already done so, and it's really nice to see names I don't know popping up on the sale pages as well as those that I do. The Bandcamp link is this: https://soundhog-cis.bandcamp.com/album/astrablast-newtown-parkway, and here's a video I did for one side, using a 1980s Sony video camera, a Panasonic mixer, a TV set and a VHS recorder. Hope you like.

It's 2018, apparently.

So it's been quite literally years since I posted on this thing. I'm still alive. I've been doing things, just not a lot. I've joined a noisy band, I've been dabbling in experimental analogue video techniques and made two promo videos for the band Gallops as a result, I've played a live show in a disused nuclear bunker, and other things too boring to mention. 2018 is mostly bringing major problems so far, but it's also bringing a nice actual 7" single release of original instrumental electronic material wot I dun, which should be available in the next couple of months. More news on that at some point soon, I hope. No, I don't make mixes or 'do DJ sets' or any of that stuff anymore. I think it's wise to know when to pack that sort of thing in... Anyway, onwards and downwards.