Song of the day: ‘Sister’ Sufjan Stevens

I bought the album Seven Swans a while back, but hadn’t got round to listening till recently. On first listen it was a bit like, yeah, acoustic American folk, nice enough, but on repeated listens, has depth and sincerity.

It’s probably not the most immediate song on the album (he album opener [...]

Warsaw Village Band – CE remix

Download:

Mateusz
(CE Remix)

 

 While we work on brand new CE tracks to release on our next EP, here’s a little interim piece for you.
It’s a remix of the Warsaw Village Band’s song ‘Mathew’. I heard it on a BBC4 documentary about them, and thought it was such a great track I wanted to have a little play [...]

Music 1.0 is dead, apparently

Bring on Music 2.0…
Five hundred members of the music business gathered in New York for the Digital Music Forum East to discuss the exciting new world of digital music. You, know the one that started in about ‘98…
So apparently they’ve realised

DRM on purchased music is dead

About time too. It’s still with us though. Best analogy [...]

Rehearsal 25th Feb

A few pics from yesterday’s rehearsal
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Looks of fierce concentration as we try out the two new songs, still codenamed K7 & L1. We really should come up with some proper names for them!
A good rehearsal, most of the time spent learning the new ones. Still some work to do on them structure-wise – not too [...]

Cat-in-a-box

Ever since I got rid of my lumpen old 19″ CRT monitor, our cat Magnus has had great difficulty in finding a good sleeping spot. The old CRT was great (from a cat perspective): it was warm and had a lovely large flat top he could sit on and watch all the procedings in the [...]

CE EP: Progress Report 01

The new Cassette Electrik EP is in progress and I thought I would keep track of it’s progress from concept to production to release to response.
CONCEPT
It’s important to have  goals to work towards and a natural one for a band is a CD release. With the album released only two months ago, it’s a [...]

CE_update

As promised (to who?!) this will serve also as an update service for CE activities. Also a kind of diary for me too, otherwise you just kind of forget the things you’ve done!
So what we up to, eh? We been a bit quiet of late, not much of a public profile to speak of, not [...]

Ooh Lovely

Allow me to Geek out for a brief moment…

So what is this? Landscape photgraphy? Some lego? No, silly, it’s a microchip die (the wafer of silicon before packinging into a chip). Yes, I know you already knew that, it’s bleeding obvious, innit?
This particular one is the Intel Penryn, a quad-core chip found in the [...]

Money & Artistry

It’s easy to get obsessed with file sharing, piracy, collapsing record industry, and argue endlessly about DRM, 360-artist deals, etc, etc, ad naseum, but actually these are just the latest symptoms of squaring a difficult circle: the relation of art to money. It’s never been a comfortable relationship as they are fundamentally entirely different entities [...]

Simian Mobile Disco – gig review

Simian Mobile Disco / The Whip 13.02.08, London Astoria
What better way to warm up for Valentines than a night of banging techno, eh? But it wasn’t quite what I expected, and possibly not quite what the audience expected either.
It’s not that the Simian’s were bad – I enjoyed it on the whole – but [...]