Happy 100!

To help us get in the mood to celebrate, here's a new mix I made for Diesel U Music in London.

Download Here / Tracklisting Here

I suppose there's a couple of repeats but it IS for the real-life radio and I figured you'd forgive me, considering that there's no Michael Jackson on it, anywhere.

Talking of Radio, I made four jingles for Max Tundra's Rotogravure, my pal Ben's excellent show on Resonance Fm. (actually, their website seems a bit buggy right now, best head to london to tune in on 104.4fm). Anyway, I'll hopefully be repeating this feat every week until the close of the series - so listen out for them, Saturdays 2.30pm G.M.T.

PPS there's now a little widget on the top right of the blog (underneath dancing snoopy) that lets you listen to and indeed purchase THRASH'R by Germlin. If you're feeling flush and want to show a little bit of support for all this occasional free stuff, click download and choose your price. Thanks again to everyone who's bought a copy so far.

Berlin - Friday!

my set will be a collaboration with dan from mahjongg!
come along!

JOEMUS, LIVE

Live

JOEMUS (Glasgow/Berlin)

Nick, Joe and Bastian will create a fully live, semi improvised 'parallel' version of the Joemus record, before your very eyes. expect prog rubbing up with glam rubbing up with torch songs! freak out!

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TASOS STAMOU

myspace.com/tasosstamou
http://tasosstamou.wordpress.com/

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TOPMODEL

myspace.com/topmodeltopmodeltopmodel

Einlass - 21:00
Beginn - 22:00

mail for directions if you don't know the address!

rsvp here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106317914352&ref=nf

* drawing by Mehmet Ulusahin

trio

two tries

stills 03/06/09

famicon dvd!

our friends at FAMICON EXPRESS have their first DVD out!

THRASHR AVAILABLE NOW

long delayed Germlin album, available now!



pay what you want! please tell a friend / embed / pass on!
THANKS/ENJOY!

p.s there isn't going to be a physical release! this is the future, sorry!

"Trying Times" Revisited

Cross-Posted from Gay Against You Blog




I've been digging through the hard drive today, though I'd share the audio / music work that Lachlann and I did for our one-off Radio Show, on Diesel - U - Music, may 2008, "Trying Times".
The show had some vague and slightly nebulous themes, concerning parents, encouragement and something to to with 'meditative molding'. Oh, and Vic Galloway.

Gay Against You - Trying Times by betray_yr_friends

If anyone wants to commission Lachlann and I to make music / audio / sound design for their radio drama / show, please get in touch!

photos by joe miranda.

More Down Time

I got to thinking today that I've been doing a lot of collecting of music recently but not a whole lot of listening. I think this is partly due to being busy working on music myself (although sometimes mostly logistics etc. as much as composition, practice etc.) but i think the major change is not having enforced "down time" in the way that I used to.

Mostly, this would be sitting on buses or trains or boats, travelling long distances on my own, to shows, from shows, to visit people, going home. Something about the majority of travel I've been doing over the last year or so seems to cut this style of detachment off - Whether its the novelty of using the U Bahn, cycling more (No headphones, its very dangerous!) or travelling in a duo, or a group...

Emma and I have been talking a lot recently about use of time - How to make the most of leisure, switch off from work and generally do good stuff / useful stuff as much as possible. While I do find this is somewhat easier in Berlin, I still find the temptation to "work" (inverted commas referring to work sometimes meaning switching between Cubase, iPlayer playing Great British Menu and Myspace / Facebook) pretty strong.

Its even evident on this blog - The last four or five entries have all either been adverts for shows, or new music sites I've joined, or remixes of whatever!
We seem to be missing activities which are slow, time consuming, analog. No more internet! More bike rides, more baking.
But what about more music?

I'm wondering how I can reinstate this lost "down time" in my current lifestyle. Have i just fallen into the obvious musician trap, where anything related to "work" becomes tainted, somehow? Its proving quite difficult to just sit down and allot time to "listening to music", especially for more than a few minutes. - Anyone have any ideas?

Suggestions please!