Saturday, 28 March 2009

Frequency Six

Recent finds from myspace searches and magic humans...

Lou Breed
Really love this guys stuff, reminded me of Danimals (formerly Jonti Danimals). Very simple composition, rolling drums and just awesome vocals. 'I Stole This Hat' and 'Cardboard Hands' are my favourite but they all are awesome (all song on the myspace really quiet).
http://www.myspace.com/loubreed

Origami Biro
Shown to me by the very special Dan Fluid. Delicate and beautiful acoustic loops with micro-sounds woven inbetween, the track Vitreous Detachment is featuring in my April mix for Fluid Radio.
http://www.myspace.com/origamibiro

Woodnote
Hes done an awsome remix of my track Length & Brecth and the rest of his stuff is pretty promising. Kinda funky trip-hop with a slight cinematic glaze. My description are becoming less accurate and more food related. Check out 'Macavity' and 'Pretty Colours'.
http://www.myspace.com/woodnotesound

Dam Funk
This is Future Funk. I've listened to the song Gold on infinite repeat since my friend (a dope photographer) showed it to me. Patrick Holderness i love you, infact Dam Funk is just a catalyst for my undying affection.
http://www.stonesthrow.com/damfunk
http://www.myspace.com/damfunk

Monday, 9 March 2009

Drop-D Interview

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Following up from a mention about my free EP, Drop-d's Adam Lacey very kindly offered me an interview about me and my music! Admitedly it's very strange to eloquently translate my music into a coherent piece of prose, but i think i managed to do it with out sounding too pretentious...i hope. A big thanks to Tenaka whose been spreading the word about my stuff to the Irish folk, without him this wouldn't have happened. Cheers bro!

Read the full interview here.

Monday, 2 March 2009

FAME

So as i was casually scouring the internet for mentions of my music, i came across a review of my EP on a Russian website! I asked googled to translate it for me:

"Maternity Media Svezhezapuschenny site celebrates its first creation in a series of free artist album release Halogen (Adam Janota-Bzowski).Music E to the core IDM and ambient in one bottle. can only pozhelate British comrades every development, success and a lot of releases, which would write that."
Link
How sweet of them.

I did find a new review (in English) that Minimax wrote, describing my music as deep and sexy downtempo electronica.....mmmmmm.
Click here to see the whole review

Saturday, 21 February 2009

Halogen Motion Mix

Iambic asked me to make a mix for his Phuture Frequency drum and bass centered radio podcast site. The Motion Podcast section deals with mixes of various genres and has some really great stuff up there. My mix has some tracks of many of the people i have mentioned in the Frequency posts on this blog, also included are some previews from my debut album, an awesome track from a recent find: Friendly Foliage, and also a track from my mate Dirty Long Legs who is also one quarter of our 80s inspired music power team (all will be revealed).

Tracklisting:
Juri - Thought It Was Love
Saine - Live A Little
Friendly Foliage - The Way to The Western Sea
Jonti Danimals - Nightshift in Blue
Rumpistol - Rehux
Praveen - Float
Dirty Long Legs - Eugene and Ezra
Halogen - Millicent
Juri - Void
Bluermutt - Shaping My Vision of a Nice Day
Helios - Shoulder to Hand
Halogen - Etik
Fennesz - Perfume for Winter
Listen and download here

Monday, 16 February 2009

Free We Yes You No track

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The Maternity website is growing! Although still in its prepubescent developing stages, i am happy to announce that the track 'I Live In NY' by We Yes You No is available for free to download off the maternity website.
Its a delicate and melancholy piece of music that commences the gradual release of their entire EP 'Somewhere on a Train' and it's awesome so go on and download it.
Maternitymedia.com

Monday, 9 February 2009

You Are Atlas

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I finally uploaded the album to archive.org
i thought it was safest there, it's a magical place and people actually listen to your music, which is nice.
Continuing with the previous ethos employed by the past albums, all music is improvised and recorded on to cassette tape. This means there is a lot of muffled whispers and random clattering, which can be interpreted as added 'ambience' if you like...
I condensed about 3 hours of material into 8 separate tracks, its very strange, but i like that and hope you will too.
Download Link

Friday, 6 February 2009

Halogen Remix Competition

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The mythical creatures of the www.idmforums.com suggested a separate remix EP of my track 'Length & Brecht' that appears on the epic and awesome IDMF002 - Concord compilation.
Amongst all the parts I also included the two complete raw audio takes of vocals that i recorded courtesy of the lovely Rose.
Deadline for entries is 30th March
Join the forum and download the stems here.
Download IDMF002-Concord.