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New EP in the works

I am soon going to be putting out an EP of about 4 or 5 brand new short songs on my own net label (that I just created this second) called ‘iambic music’.

The EP is the result of spending a few days back home in Worthing, and is 100% loop based. All the songs were completely improvised when recording and were done with one mic, positioned in the middle of the room, on the floor (I forgot my mic stand). 99% of everything is sampled from various instruments I own and utensils I found in the kitchen! There is only one bit of synthesis, but a load of interesting audio effects… So it’s quite organic sounding!  It’s just basically a sonic patch work of little ideas, all sewn together to make something whole.

I’ll keep you updated on its progress.

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iambic² to play Transmission Festival, Austria

We’re going back to Austria!! This time the lovely people at Transmission Festival have asked us to play them a very special set.

Poster:

Transmission Festival Flyer

You can find out more about the festival here: www.transmissionfestival.com

The festival runs from the 4th - 6th July, tickets are only €95 for the weekend pass! They go on sale at 8am (I presume this is Austrian time) on Thursday 1st May 2008.

Hope to see you there!!

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I was on Radio 1!

It’s got nothing to do with my music but last night I was on BBC Radio 1’s Drum ‘n’ Bass show hosted by Fabio talking about my podcast website (www.pfradio.com) that got featured. Have a listen by heading over to www.bbc.co.uk/radio1 and listening to the show, I’m on at around 1:45:00 into it!

Also, we played our first gig yesterday! Thanks to everyone who came along, it was really fun! A big thank you also goes out to Ableton Live for crashing halfway through a song :-/. Oh dear…

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First live show in London this Saturday!

We’ll be performing for the first time as a full live band on Saturday at Cafe 1001 in Brick Lane, London (opposite Rough Trade). It’s only going to be a short 30 - 35 minute set as there are other bands playing, and knowing my luck something will probably go horribly wrong during our set. BUT HOPEFULLY, it’ll be fun.

I am not sure what time we’ll be on, it’ll be sometime between 2 and 7pm. I should be informed of our exact time tomorrow. As we’re apparently quite “chilled” compared to other acts I think the promoter plans to put us on early…

Here is a map to the venue from Aldgate East station:
MAP

Also, anyone reading this is welcome to join us for a drink in the evening! Don’t hesitate to come and say hello to me and the band!

Hope to see you all there,

Guy

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More low quality pictures from practises

Here are some more pictures of us practising to perform live!

Guy + GeorgeGuy + George + Drum scoreTom + Justine

Guy + GeorgeGuyDrum kit

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Vote for my Radiohead remix

I should be revising for a C++ exam I have this afternoon, but instead I’ve been finishing off and submitting a Radiohead remix I did for fun.

Anyway, I need you all to vote for me!

Thanks!!

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New live date added

We’re going to be playing the Roxy in south london (not the indie club in soho) on April 17th. The cost of entry is TBC but it won’t be much. Our set will be much longer than the cafe 1001 one and we’ll hopefully have some kind of visuals going on at the same time.

For more info click on the ‘Live Dates’ link at the top of this page!

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Strange fan made music videos…

Oh man, there are some nut cases on the internet. Whilst trying to find the video of us performing Air in graz, I came across some fan made videos which are a bit… erm… weird. They probably aren’t safe for viewing in the workplace, but here they are none the less…

This is a bit more explicit…

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Facebook event listing for first live show!

If you’ve been sucked into the time wasting trap which is Facebook, then add our first gig to your events and help spread the word!!

Click the following link to visit the event page:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=8754454092

- Guy

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FM4 Review of ATSF

FM4, one of Austria’s biggest alternative radio stations, kindly decided to feature me on their home page and also wrote a bit about As The Snow Fell.

Here is a translation kindly provided by Bernhard at Laridae. Also thanks goes out to my flat mate Jess for the initial translation when I first read it!

Netlabelism
It was an article by my fm4 collegue Trishes that drew my attention on the
netlabel phenomenon.
I was all in for it, once i jumped on the then popular mono/tonik netlabel
train.
ADSL was old hat then already, so i was ready to download everything that
was so easily available through the net.

When out of the hype and the chaos in styles and qualities a specific
netlabel sound emerged, a derivat of dubhouse/minimal/ambient, things got
boring (exceptions like thinner.cc just proved the rule).
the anarchy was tamed and the sound got too homogenous.

(note: maybe there is a link to the enormous success of [ableton] live,
which enabled everyone to produce dubhouse. the famous/infamous ping-pong
delay virtually made tracks by itself).

so, i lost my focus on netlabels , my attention was more on
conventional/commercial vinyl releases by ordinary labels (oh! there’s a
seed for another story in there!) - and my doubts, that something decent
could grow out of “freeware” music.
now, i am starting to get curious again.
the production quality has made huge improvements, and even though most of
it is still “laptop music”, more and more analogue or even human vocals are
being used.
More and more time and passion is dedicated to production, and this idealism
creates attention and pleasure in listening in me - me, the music utopia
aficionado.

This time I want to present a release on LARIDAE, catalog number 037:
Iambic² - as the snow fell

Iambic2
My keyboard doesn’t allow the proper spelling of the artist name, it should
be iambic [square] - a typical phenomenon of the netlabel guild, to use
unpronouncable artist names to refuce commercialism and don’t commit to
stardom from the very first moment on.
British Guy Andrews hides behind the incomputable number and his sound is
not bulky at all.

“As the snow fell” is the 37th release on the laridae netlabel, the second
by Andrews on this platform, and like many other pieces of art based on
internet distribution, it’s all about dark ambient, foggy walls of sound.
What makes this album so different to most other releases in this genre are
the occasional streaks of sunlight, or, to put it even better - my attempts
to describe that Guy also sings or adds analogue instruments, like drums or
a guitar.
This may sound cynical, and it’s not new at all, but it fits perfectly into
the sound aesthetics of the total art work, and lifts it onto a level that
does more than underline the relevance of contemporary internet music.

Laridae describes itself trying to “offer a wide range of styles, everything
from idm/indietronics to rock/industrial”, and presents itself as
“counterpart to the other 95% of netlabels, that just release dub house
stuff”.
Iambic² makes a wonderful impression of what this manifest could mean.

P.S.
The package is one of the important things for music products, and that is
especially true for netlables.
So I want to pay respect to the artwork department.
Herwig Holzman has used photographs from Julia Töglhofer to design a
wonderful cover - so this download is also a visual delight.

Link to article: http://fm4.orf.at/schoenswetter/221748/main 

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