Funtime Comics - Darkest Days

My latest comic in quite a while is a collaboration with Jason Brice, which is set to appear in the latest upcoming issue of Funtime, Christchurch's Comic book anthology, called "Darkest Day".

An 80 page special relief issue for the victims of the latest Christchurch earthquake. It will feature many other writers and artists including Dylan Horrocks, Richard Fairchild, Mike Athey and many more. All money made will go towards the Red Cross.

It will first be available at the Wellington Armageddon Expo on April 9th and 10th, then nationwide afterwards.

http://funtime.comics.org.nz/

http://www.redcross.org.nz

Songs of the Emptying Race: Second Thought Remixed

The Second Thought Remix album, which feature's Loose Link's remix of "Kelpie" is now available to download for free on the Bumpfoot Japanese netlabel, 19 tracks, 108 minutes long:

http://www.bumpfoot.net/foot170.html

We don't need no steeeenkin' cds!

Loose Link - Electron Mace EP

Out now on Jerky Oats, my new 13 track "EP":

"Loose Link's second release, the Electron Mace EP charts a gradual move away from his debut album, towards a more fractured sound, with samples, loops and beats fitting together in a less logical, more abstract manner. The first five tracks are all reworkings by Loose Link himself, while the second half of the package finds remixes in various styles, from the Euro-dance leanings of Dinimiciúla Duo, Option Command's more modern computer cool, cubus and Human
Robot's ambience, Second Thought's acid house and Flying Battery's computer catchy computer game jingle."

01. Electron Mace (Original)
02. Electron Mace (Chaotic Sweep)
03. Electron Mace (Engine)
04. Electron Mace (Pitch Hits)
05. Electron Mace (Exact Extracts)
06. Electron Mace (Sven Meyer Remix)
07. Electron Mace (Option Command Remix)
08. Electron Mace (Second Thought Remix)
09. Electron Mace (cubus Remix)
10. Electron Mace (Clockwork Keyboard Remix)
11. Electron Mace (Dinimiciúla Duo Remix)
12. Electron Mace (Flying Battery Remix)
13. Electron Mace (Human Robot Interaction Remix)

Very humbling to have your own tracks remixed by other people, especially if those people are from many corners of the globe (Ireland, the UK, Australia, USA, Spain and Germany). Very exciting release, and it's free to download!:

http://www.archive.org/compress/JOAT026

This is dedicated to those lost in the devastating Christchurch Quake that hit on February the 22nd, 167 confirmed dead so far...

Loose Link Included On Upcoming Remix Album

Loose Link's remix of the Second Thought track "Kelpie" will feature on his upcoming remix album "Songs Of The Emptying Race". The album also features remixes of past Second Thought tracks by Full-Source, Seafar, Merganser and more, plus 3 more tracks by Second Thought himself, and a recording from his latest liveset at Awakenings 2011:

Hulme (Mystified Remix)
Rooftops (Part 3)
Canal Seven (New Junction)
Meltwater (Off Land Recon)
Send More Bees (Sned Moor Bess)
Envtza (Aztvne)
Street (Tyrol mix)
Clouded (Austin Cassell Remix)
Moss (Merganser Remix)
Fences (Full-Source Remix)
Tekeli-li (Seafar Remix)
Parin Onia (Treatment)
Ice Shelf (Validine Chronus Remix)
Branches (Gliese 614 Remix)
Tiwhwias (Our King Is Dead! Retreat To The Sewers!)
Rooms (Brillman Remix)
Night Train (Live at Awakenings 2011)
Kelpie (Loose Link Remix)
Borderline (Mercurial Remix)

Available for download sometime in March.

"Kelpie" comes from Second Thought's third full album "Safernoc" which is available for download from FSOLDigital, the Future Sound Of London's online music store. Download costs £5:

http://www.yage.co.uk/newtesting/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&cPath=69&products_id=257

http://www.secondthought.co.uk/

Clockwork Keyboard - Watch The Clock EP

A collaboration between me and Joachim Rontxelius from Spain, what started off as a simple request to collaborate on a song for Random Proportions has turned into a full fledged project, which starts here. Close to 30 minutes of sweeping Clockscapes and toetapping Keybeats. This multi-part EP serves as a preview of what lies ahead, watch your clock...

"Composed deep within Keyclock Station, the Watch the Clock EP starts the journey, between brothers J. Drone from Spain and C. Channel from New Zealand, to collaborate and export different musical ideas using various equipment, the ever expanding wastebins of time (as one wiseman once put it) and USSR issued VST keyboards from Mars! More to come, Peace and Love!"

01. Watch the Clock (Part 1)
02. Watch the Clock (Part 2)
03. Watch the Clock (Part 3)
04. Watch the Clock (Part 4)
05. Watch the Clock (Part 5)

Download here from Jerky Oats:

http://www.archive.org/compress/JOAT023

Terminal Window

Available as a free download from Jerky Oats Records: Terminal Window - The FSOLBoard Album. Created and collected together into one sweeping weird and wonderful soundscape. 14 beautiful photographs taken by Pandemonium accompany the album, not looking too far from ready to be printed into a sell-able CD.

"Terminal Window is a music project from FSOLBoard, a community of Future Sound of London fans on the internet. Artists on the board were invited to contribute tracks and collaborations to
the album, given nothing but the title Terminal Window. The final record holds together incredibly well as an individual album, merging ambient breaks from the likes of Loose Link and Noisesurfer with more traditional ambience of Off Land and cubus, and more experimental sounds from Herd and Full-Source. This wide range of styles, knitted together into a single journey, leaves the album sounding not a million miles away from FSOL themselves."

01. Noisesurfer - Undomain
02. Loose Link - Electromagnetic Sound Nursery
03. cubus - Ratsshake tramadol Pseuccele
04. Herd - Tangent 43
05. Clockwork Keyboard - Clockwork Freakout
06. Second Thought - 1801-F.Deletion
07. Off Land - 13th Century Kitichi
08. Noisesurfer - Journey to the Moon
09. Full-Source - Nothing Days
10. Herd - Terminal Window
11. Second Thought - First Understanding
12. Clockwork Keyboard - Techwork Horror
13. Loose Link - Design Defect
14. Herd & Second Thought - Combiner

Download here:

http://www.archive.org/compress/JOAT015