Production Unit

Apologies for the lack of updates from me.  I became a parent, which, in the book of excuses, ranks as a pretty good one.

‘Ghosts Tracks’ is out now on the estimable Highpoint Lowlife.  I’m really glad it’s out there.  Should be available on Beatport, Juno, iTunes and Boomkat.

I’ve made a mix to help pimp the EP – a podcast for Clash magazine, entitled ‘The First Door’.  I’m pretty pleased with it.

To read more about it, please note I’ve moved the mixes to a separate page.  Apologies to anyone linking from the Clash article who may have issues finding them via their linkage.

All the tracks on the EP can be previewed on Soundcloud, which, together with this site, is rapidly negating the utility of updating murdochspace at all.  Thinking of canning the myspack completely – it’s a cumbersome piece of shit that deserves to die.  There’s a bunch of other tripe on Soundcloud too.

I’m on twitter innit.

I made a Facebook fan page.

Think that’s about it.

Reading: I’ve just started devouring GB84 and I’m pretty impressed with it.

Listening: Been stuck on a loop getting ‘The First Door’ done, but basically Mount Kimbie and James Blake have been doing it for me recently.

My 5-track EP, initially entitled “The Bear Tracks”, has been returned from the estimable mastering talents of Audible Oddities and is, if I may say, sounding lush.  After some discussion with Thorsten, we’re going to go with “Ghost Tracks” as a title instead.  The unmastered versions are still previewable on the Murdochspace.

Nothing definite about a release date yet, but 5th April is likely.

I’d been contemplating a change in direction recently, turning to slower, dirge-like 4/4 territory, but being so pleased with the “Ghost Tracks” may lead me to try and fuse that with the more dubsteppy sound.  I’ve been listening to a lot of Four Tet and Linkwood, plus a bit of Omar S who I like more in theory than in practice, so might channel the more traditional PU sound alongside my new-found acceptance (i.e. non-hatred) of some forms of house music.  Here’s a first draft of something I did.  (speaking of Soundcloud, there’s an Aaliyah/The XX bootleg there too.  I’m not knocked out by The XX, but I thought the intro on their album was great and far too short, so I quantised and extended it for DJ use.)

(Firstborn is due in two weeks today!)