alka update

alka has recently signed to electronic eel , an up and coming electronic label out of philadelphia. look foward to a full length release (titled: principles of suffocation) from alka in April or May when both physical CDs and high quality downloads will be available.

in the meantime check out electronic eel’s free monthly podcast for some great varied and previously unheard electronic music:

www.electroniceel.com

www.myspace.com/electroniceelrecords

roger hearts apple

there is a great write up on roger over at apple.com

trouble everyday alka remix

“Codeword” UK single releasing soon on Vacuous Pop Records

It will be available at all fine record shops across the UK and online as well.

They will be in both CD and limited edition vinyl formats.

Art work is being done by Richard Lippold (The Angels / The Deadly singer) **see above***

A demo version of “Pedestrian” will be the b-side and the cd version will include a bonus remix by Bryan Michael (artist behind electronic project “Alka”, part of the The 99X/10 Collective with Roger O’donnell from the cure and others)

you can hear the remix under Trouble Everyday here: VPOP

… don’t worry everybody.. it’s still me.. this remix is a bit of a departure from my normal sound.. i think i was listening to a lot of DEVO (or somebody!?) when i did this remix..

bryan

alka

ruxpin: icelandic IDM producer and all around swell guy

Ruxpin is Jónas Þór Guðmundsson and I can honestly say he is a great person and a true friend of electronic musicians everywhere.  I am posting an announcement for his long awaited new full length release: Elysium.  He is also currently remixing a track for Meason’s upcoming EP.

October, 1 2006:  Release of Elysium on Itunes

Elysium will be released on Itunes one week before the CD hits the stores.  The Itunes Exclusive album will include one extra track, Sadeness (which is on his myspace profile).  You can buy the whole album or individual tracks.

I’ve heard some of Jonas’ recent tracks and it is some of the best electronic music out there, i’m sure everyone here will love it.  Here is an older video for everyone’s enjoyment:

Take me Back to Your House by Basement Jaxx

I really like this video and song! I just read an interview with Basement Jaxx in Chart online (Canadian music magazine which i get in my inbox to keep me somewhat up to date on the canadian music scene, since dear reader i am a Canadian and living in England) So Cossack dancers banjo playing giant mandolins with people inside and lots of bears make this video great.. but who is this singer? i am very curious now, i know she is canadian, i have never heard of her and here she is co-writing and featured in a BJ song? i am very curious how it happened.. anyone?
watching it again i think she looks so familiar.. also the melody is familiar.. the line ‘take me home’ there is another kind of dancey song that i cant put my finger on with the same melody but the lyrics ‘get in the zone’ is it Britney? might be that Britney and Madonna song..?
its going to drive me crazy.

the trials of updating your home studio

so… up until now, i’ve been recording with Logic Pro on a 1GB Powerbook G4.. a very stable setup but limited in its processor power for the amount of tracks and effects i seem to utilize. Solution: buy a newer Power PC Quad G5 tower.. the top of the line APPLE (excluding the new INTEL MACS, which not all of my plug-ins and software will work on yet). Well, it’s a very nice computer so far, but Logic doesn’t want to behave at this point… crashes, etc. So i decided to do a little more research into this and have found that Logic does not support all 4 processors in the quad!, something i of course did not find out about before the purchase… there are rumors (hopefully true) that APPLE will correct this situation but as for now.. i’m stuck. Anyhow, i’m sure things will get a bit better for me as i adjust into the new system, i mean Logic does work, i just expected that a pro APPLE program would function a bit better on a pro APPLE computer. Hope i didn’t bore everyone to death with the tech stuff…
bryan
alka

magic time with coloured construction paper..

this is such a sweet video for the band lullatone that i found while browsing the audio dregs record label site.. they fittingly call themselves pajama pop and are from Japan..
http://myspace.com/lullatone
it also plays right into my interest/burgeoning obsession for stop frame animation.. and makes me think of being 5 and under, the intense creativity i poured through blunt orange plastic scissors onto coloured construction paper.. the masterpieces i was sure i was making.. i do vividly remember the frustration i felt with those very limiting scissors at that time..

Welcome to the 99X/10 music blog..

We are a group of musicians all on a label based in the UK but with artists from all over the place..
We each and all spend so much time listening to music i thought it might be a good idea to amass all the mountains of our opinions in one easy to read space!..
So welcome to the ongoing conversation about everything right and wrong in the world of music from our skewed and bias perspective!
xo Erin Lang
99X/10