Back in the 80’s when robot dancing was a really big thing I thought that they were amazing. Some of their old tracks still are. These were some of them, although my favourite stuff from them was ‘Crisis’ and ‘Summer in the City’.
Month: May 2015
Is something new happening at Molecule synth?
Molecule Synth from Molecule Synth on Vimeo.
It seems to be a bit of a promo video, but I’ve no idea if anything new is happening with Molecule Synth.
This was the first (proper) single I ever bought
It made a huge impression on me and has influenced my musical choices ever since. I can remember playing it over and over again, both sides of course.
These days, when I find a 7″ copy of it, I feel an overwhelming urge to buy it. So when I found this one in a second hand record store for £1 I did buy it.
I’m sure that eventually I’ll end up with a stack of these. Not that that’s a huge problem of course.
First impressions of Nil By Mouth
I do like instrumental albums, and I enjoyed listening to this one from Blancmange. Not something they’ve particularly been known for in the past. Having said that, one of my all time favourite pieces from them is an instrumental. ‘Sad day’ is a stunningly beautiful piece in my opinion.
Anyway, this instrumental album is rather lovely in places and I’ve quite enjoyed hearing it. As with many instrumental albums I’ve found it all too easy to get distracted from the actual listening process and so it’ll need further and more diligent listening I feel. However, it’s off to a good start, and it isn’t something that’ll be consigned to dark places of my music collection.
PO series files released from Teenage Engineering
As usual, something pretty interesting from Teenage Engineering in the form of a competition to make a new case for the lovely PO series. They’ve released all the files anyone could possibly need for such a thing. It’ll be interesting to see what people come up with.
My old tracks: Well I got here didn’t I?
Fennesz … Becs
I’ve been a big fan of Fennesz for a long time now. Many years in fact, so when he brings out a new album I usually get it. This is a great album. Really enjoyable, although my favourite of all time is Venice, by a very long way indeed.
My old tracks: Passing the time of day
Finally starting to do something with my TouchBoard
TouchBoard up and running
TouchBoard battery
Back of the TouchBoard
TouchBoard in packaging
I backed the TouchBoard on kickstarter, but ever since I got it I haven’t either had the time to do anything proper with it, and haven’t had any ideas of projects to start with it either. But the other day I started having a few ideas of things I wanted to try out. So I got the box out and started to investigate what was in there as I hadn’t looked in ages.
It’s a nice kit, and everything works or at least seems to work just fine even though I haven’t touched it in ages. I’ll hopefully get to use it for a couple of projects soon enough.
I am Ashley Elsdon 