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Here is a video for our collaborative single with DJ Format, ‘Battle of the Planets’. You can get the single on the new DJ Format LP, ‘Statement of Intent’.

We’ve added quite a few new shows to our current tour so hope to see you there. This weekend we are in Wrexham, Cardiff and Southampton.

May 4th - Le Zoo, Geneva

May 5th - Le Romandie - Lausanne

May 18th - Band on the Wall - Manchester

May 19th - The Yellow Rooms - Newton Abbot

May 24th - The Cluny - Newcastle

May 25th - The Shipping Forecast - Liverpool

May 26th - The Faversham - Leeds

June 15th - WTF @ Le Nouveau Casino - Paris

August 16th - The Tunnels - Aberdeen

August 17th - The Annexe Liquid Rooms - Edinburgh

August 18th - Koko - London

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The latest episode of the ongoing electronic music history series The Tone Generation, is now available here. Focusing on music composed on the legendary Buchla range of electronic music boxes, Ian Helliwell plays and discusses tracks by Morton Subotnick, Ernst Krenek, Michael Czajkowski, Warner Jepson, Bulent Arel and Arthur Krieger.

For those that delight in the old fashioned wireless transmissions, London’s Resonance FM will be broadcasting programme’s 19, 20 and 21 starting on February 23rd at 5pm then the next 2 Wednesday’s following that.

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The Simonsound newsletter – Nov 2010-10-22

GRAB YOUR 3D GLASSES AND LOOK INTO THE FUTURE - then read our newsletter!

Hello Earthlings! We have lots of exciting Simonsound news to tell you about but first of all we’d like to say thank you to everyone that has supported The Simonsound by buying the album, writing about it and spreading the word.  We really appreciate it.

News

Apart from a successful first live show at the legendary Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho, things have been a little quiet of late, but behind the scenes there has been much fevered activity.  We’ve been busy preparing our new live show (see below) working on a Simonsound track for the new DJ Format album, remixing a track for Laura J Martin as well as writing new material.

Tee Shirts

We have now got high quality hand screen printed Simonsound tee shirts in stock, featuring the album artwork by Emily Macaulay. Printed on high quality Fruit of the Loom tee-shirts, these are much more than your average band tee! Go to our website to order or pick one up at one of our shows (see below).

It’s 1984 on Mars – Free download

Fans of classic electro prepare for a treat.

At the start of the year we created a medley of It’s Just Begun and Tour de Mars, travelling in the time machine from the late 60’s Switched On sound to the 80’s drum machine era and mixing a selection of our favourite electro beats.   The medley was originally created for our appearance on Gilles Petersons BBC Radio 1 show earlier this year and we are now making it available as a free download, with super futuristic 3D artwork by Mr. Krum at Cold Rock Stuff. Get it here.

See a video of DJ Food playing ‘It’s 1984 on Mars’ at the Do-Over in LA.

Call it an early Christmas present and a way of celebrating our new live show! Which brings us nicely on to…..

Shows

We’ve got a few live shows planned over the next month and more to come next year. Featuring the super cosmic mix of synthesiser, space echo, tape loops, Debbie Clare on vocals and Laura J Martin on vocals, Flute and Mandolin; the addition of spaced out visual projections will be enough to blow the mind of even the most cosmic of space cadets anywhere in this Galaxy.

27th November – Wah Wah Live with The Unabombers, Quantic, Florian Keller, The Simonsound, The Hackney Colliery Band and Stac. The Scala, London

Tickets

 

10th December – From Inner Space to Outer Space with Laura J Martin, DJ Format (pysch and obscurities DJ set), screenings of trippy 60’s TV series UFO, 60’s space exploration films and live multi projector light show. The Duke of York’s Cinema, Brighton. Tickets.

 

18th December – Brownswood Records Christmas Party. Gilles Peterson, Mosca, The Simonsound, The 2 Bears and Ghost Poet. XOYO, London. Tickets.

 

For more up to date listings and details -

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15 November 2010 • electro electronic music live music synthesiser analogue XOYO Brownswood WAH WAH 45's Free download

‘The New Sound of Music’ is a 1979 BBC TV programme that looks at the history of recorded music from Barrel Organs right up to computer controlled synthesisers courtesy of EMS. There is lots of amazing material here, most of which is filmed at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, including demonstrations of music concrete using tape editing techniques, Malcom Clarke demonstrating the EMS Synthi 100, Dick Mills creating Dr Who sound fx using the EMS VCS3, and David Vorhaus demonstrating his MANIAC and Kaleidophon inventions.

There are 4 parts so make sure you check them all out.

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A quick look at tape loop creation and the mighty Macbeth M5N modular synth courtesy of Work Ethic. 

See also -  Work Ethic Simonsound feature.

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