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DJ Format’s LP is out today. Double vinyl, CD and digital download. Get physical copies here and downloads here. Aside from the obvious listening experience, we also suggest you buy the vinyl so you can fully enjoy the stunning artwork by Mr.Krum. 

See earlier post for details on our joint live shows kicking off in Brighton on the 2nd of March.

27 February 2012 • dj format Mr.Krum vinyl music hip hop edan Mr.Lif live design art vinyl

Here is the stunning artwork by Luke Insect for our new single.

Laura J Martin & The Simonsound

A. Spy - Laura J Martin (The Simonsound remix)

B. Inside Your Bones - The Simonsound featuring Laura J Martin

Available towards the end of April on Battered Ornament Records - Limited numbered 7” Vinyl and digital download.

7 April 2011 • luke insect artwork design vinyl music sound laura j martin simonsound electronic flute oscillator psychedelic battered ornaments Finders Keepers

The Tone Generation’s Ian Helliwell will be giving a talk at the Royal College of Music, :ondon on the 18th of November at 5.15 PM. Its free, so if you enjoy electronic music from this period or just want to find out how this Expo in particular made such an impact by exposing challenging experimental music, film, design and architecture to the masses, go and check it out.

Expo 67: Electronic Music for a World of Tomorrow
At Montreal`s Expo 67, electronic music and multi-screen cinema were brought together on a scale previously unseen, drawing from ideas and techniques fostered by avant garde composers and filmmakers. This highly experimental approach was thrust into the commercial exhibition arena via the massive popularity of Expo 67, and experienced by millions of visitors with no previous knowledge of such challenging work. National government as well as corporate pavilions featured new audio-visual presentations, and involved many of the most cutting edge artists of the day.
This forum will consider the circumstances and impact of experimental music and film colliding with the mainstream, and to give a sense of the sights and sounds of the Montreal fair, Ian will premiere his specially made split-screen collage of archive music, audio extracts and photographic stills.

Full details here

Ian Helliwell’s website

11 November 2010 • expo 67 experimental music electronic music sound design avant garde Ian Helliwell Montreal Worlds Fair multi screen cinema architecture film

Its a great time to stock up on electronic music inspired tee-shirts. Our hand screen printed ‘Reverse Engineering’ tee’s produced by Dan at Another Fine Mesh are now available to order from our website, and Chalk Brighton have fantastic Moog Tee-shirts designed by DJ Food/Strictly Kev for sale. The tee features the classic Moog/Dick Hyman/futuristic typeface made up of 100’s of artists that have used the iconic Moog synthesiser (including us!). Go and order one now!

4 November 2010 • tee-shirts Moog Reverse Engineering synthesiser music clothing design screen printing DJ Food Strictly Kev

I’ve picked up a lot of great books recently and this new haul came from a trip to Lincoln. A great selection of 60’s and 70’s science books all with beautiful photo’s and diagrams. Fascinating Experiments in Physics is particularly good and even contains a chapter on sound with a music concrete feature entitled Music without the do-re-mi.

5 September 2010 • books science experiments covers design 60's 70's

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The Simonsound LP design notebook. Emily Macaulay’s bits and bobs from the sleeve design process.

16 May 2010 • emily macaulay design album the simonsound reverse engineering music electronic space sci-fi

I visited Disney EPCOT Center recently and thoroughly enjoyed wandering around the futuristic buildings with high tech Monorail trains whizzing smoothly past every few minutes. The highlight and center piece of EPCOT is the huge geodesic dome ‘Spaceship Earth’ that houses the ride of the same name.  I hadn’t realized that this dome’s structure was designed by the same man who was responsible for the USA’s Geodesic Dome at the 1967 Worlds Fair in Montreal. On further reading it would seem that Frank Heger was involved in many exciting futuristic space age designs during the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s including the Monsanto House of the Future, a NASA Lunar Module simulator and a structure to house a multi mirror telescope in Arizona.

Frank Heger’s website

Listen to electronic music composed for Expo’s.

26 April 2010 • EPCOT futuristic design architecture Disney Frank Heger Geodesic Dome Buckminster Fuller Expo 67 Spaceship Earth