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Clan Analogue back catalogue : the Festival Years

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:45:31 GMT

Everyone's releasing back catalogue it seems. My friends at Transmission Communications are also working on their 1990s back catalogue too. In the email this afternoon from this little missive from Clan Analogue: included in this is my first solo album-length release G-Type Nerve Agent (CA023), and a lot of these other albums have withstood the test of time, Pear Shaped in particular but I still listen to Disco Stu and the first Deepchild album too, as well as various tracks off all the others. A fine collection of music is represented here!

Clan Analogue: The Festival Years

Clan Analogue are pleased to announce that a selection of its classic releases from the years 1998 to 2001 are now available in digital format from iTunes and other digital retailers. These albums are from an era when Clan Analogue snuck in through the back door of the corporate music industry, signing a lucrative distribution deal with Festival Records and releasing a series of albums still hailed as classic milestones in modern Australian electronic music.

Clan Analogue will shortly be releasing Re Cognition: The Clan Analogue Legacy Collection, a selection of the greatest tracks from the history of Clan Analogue, on a triple disc set, including a bonus CD of new remixes and DVD containing all the filmclips and the Plug In & Switch On documentary.

Now available in digital non-physical format are:

Jaunt 2: A Sojourn in Bass – various artists (catalogue number CA017)
A throbbing journey through drum’n’bass, dub, trip hop and downbeat grooves, with tracks by many Australian electro-funk luminaries.

Telemetry Orchestra - Live Better Electrically (catalogue number CA019)
Debut album from indie-dance crossover act Telemetry Orchestra, combining funk grooves with deep analogue synthesis in a new form of spaced-out electro-lounge.

Cognition Two: 20 Disco Greats – various artists (catalogue number CA020)
20 Disco Greats took Australian electronica deep into the Disco ghetto of funky beats and smooth basslines. Nominated for a Dance Music Award!

Disco Stu – Adult Themes (catalogue number CA022)
Prior to Englishman in Ibiza fame, Disco Stu released Adult Themes, a minimalist conglomerate of mangled disco samples, sparse electronics and driving basslines.

Nerve Agent – G-Type Nerve Agent (catalogue number CA023)
Staking out an area between fucked-up dub and funked-up techno with a dash of house thrown in, the debut release from the artist who later became Victor X-Ray.

5000 Fingers of Dr T – Buttsqueezer (catalogue number CA024)
5000 Fingers of Dr T present a collection of funky tracks, tasty tunes, buzzy squelches and groovy electro beats.

Cognition Three – various artists (catalogue number CA025)
A deviant beat-based sound journey and an extraordinary excursion into electronica audio bliss of the purest form, from tech-house to deep bass.

Deepchild – Hymns From Babylon (catalogue number CA026)
The debut album release from the internationally renowned Deepchild, an eclectic album of experimental breaks, analogue blips and dirty bass-laden grooves.

Pear Shaped – Pear Shaped (catalogue number CA027)
The side project from Atone’s Andy Fitzgerald, fusing smooth dub, drum’n’bass and hip hop, with collaborators such as Jodi Phillis and Serena Gartner.

Two Releases at archive.org

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 02:35:54 GMT

I've put two full releases up on archive.org - an old Nerve Agent EP and also Victor Xray material from earlier this year.

Because it's archive.org, you get a choice of formats - the original VBR MP3, 64k MP3, or OGG, and you can also stream and playlist them from their site.

Nerve Agent - Amphibian Preset

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:21:55 GMT

Last.Fm just gets cooler and cooler every week. Now they have this little embeddable player (Flash) that allows you to stick tracks on a webpage using their streaming service. What's nice about it is that it's all perfectly legal; the music is licensed from records labels. In this case, I uploaded this material myself directly to Last.Fm (being the copyright holder and all, and it being out of print). Without further ado, I present, Amphibian Preset by Nerve Agent off the G-Type Nerve Agent album (also found on one of the Freaky Loops CDs).

Alien Jungle Planet '06 (mp3)

Sun, 23 Apr 2006 01:17:23 GMT

A completely re-done version of the old Nerve Agent track Alien Jungle Planet (original version). The new version is much updated with a slower, heavier, more menacing, vibe than the original. No samples of the original were used - this is a completely reconstructed mix.

Download MP3 of Alien Jungle Planet '06.

There's a forthcoming album of Clan Analogue remixes which includes yet another mix of this classic track, by Ant Banister of Lunar Module & Galactic Gangstars. You'll have to buy the album to hear that one.

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The Yard, 4ZZZ-fm

Mon, 19 Sep 2005 08:34:19 GMT

Big Up to Basmati from The Yard, 4ZZZ FM's Dub Reggae show (6pm Sunday evenings on 4ZZZ 102.1FM in Brisbane) for playing a couple of tracks of mine; namely Desmond Tiny's Dub & Love Dub So.

I went on Saturday night to The Yard's monthly roots, dub & dancehall event, AKA the Rhythm Collision Sound System, which is currently held upstairs at the Pavilion Hotel in West End. This is a pretty nice venue, comfy seating area and bar tables and nice open area for dancing with a good clean sound system that's not overdriven and sounds sweet. If you like dub reggae & dancehall (and if not why are you at this blog anyway?!) and can make it along I reccommend that you subscribe to their mailing list and mosey along to their next event.