Here we were on Saturday night in Cambridge, performing our (so far unreleased) song In The Future. The gig started badly with an incomplete soundcheck and we had to abandon the visual projections I'd prepared for the show. However, reviewing the video footage afterwards it seems perhaps things weren't so bad after all!
This might be our last live performance for a while. Only time will tell... We also got some video footage of the mighty Spucktute who were (unusually) perforforming with guitars on some of their songs. Autistic Ex were also fantastic but unfortunately we had to rush off and catch our train back to London before Last July took to the stage.
Also of note: about the same time we were on stage, one of the songs off our new album got played on Midlands Metalheads Radio (listen to the recording of the show here).
London-based industrial act Non-Bio are excited to announce the forthcoming release of Machine Cold Wash, their new eight track mini album and first new release of 2014.
Machine Cold Wash marks a move towards a harsher and more aggressive style incorporating elements of powernoise. The recording will be available free of charge to download via Non-Bio’s page on Bandcamp.com commencing from Saturday 5th April but a small number of CD-Rs have also been produced for promotional purposes. The track Medicinema was previously released as a downloadable single (including an X-KiN remix as the b-side) for Halloween 2013 and a promotional video was uploaded to Youtube.
Non-Bio consists of founder Howard Gardner (programming, electronics, VJing and vocals) and Karl Lloyd of X-KiN fame (noizitar, sampler and backing vocals). Influences include Wumpscut, Noisuf-X, Skinny Puppy, Sheep On Drugs and Aphex Twin.
The first review of The Game EP is now online at goths.ru. However I'm a bit disappointed the two reviewers only gave it 4 and 4.5 stars out of ten. I ran the article through Google translation tool, but much of it came out as gibberish so I'm not entirely sure what they disliked about my music. Oh well. I know there are definitely some Russians who enjoy my music and I'm still waiting to see how it fares with English speaking reviewers; I'll keep my fingers crossed they like it better.
I got some much better news a couple of hours later: a track I recently made called "Placenta of the Universe" is being included on a compilation album, released by Brownian (e)Motion. This track's a foray back into the rhythmic noise genre; a style which I embraced in my early days of making music but have mostly neglected since 2010. It was quite nice to work in that style again! I haven't yet had a chance to download the compilation but it's here on Bandcamp - hopefully I will be able to listen to most of it tonight when I get home.
The new video is still coming on: here's the first special effects test footage I've produced:
Please note this video isn't a comprehensive how-to guide for circuit bending; it's more of a vague overview of what to expect. I've intentionally left some details out because half the fun of circuit bending is to research/discover the specific 'bends' for yourself but this might (or might not) set you off in the right direction.
