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19 tracks completed here at WhatStudio for the massive new record from Unstoppable Sweeties Show. One super varied session and the first in my permanent space set in the rooftop of St Brides, Liverpool. More news on this soon

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Day recording Luke Mawdsley for solo works in an 80x80 (i think) church hall... Nice!

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Tracking finished with Salt The Snail for forthcoming EP I think?

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All tracks mastered to within an inch of their lives by Ste Cole at Whatstudio, bar one.

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Unstoppable Sweeties Show Debut Album “TUCK: A Town with a Cat Mayor” NOW available. A new act with a stunning collection of seriously mature / immature material for a debut release.

The album features some incredible melodic sax and unique vocal deliveries pitted against each other in a war for busy…totally bamboozling. Also note, this  is recorded at WhatStudio? ..so brims with quality on all levels here.

Tuck: A Town with a Cat Mayor by Unstoppable Sweeties Show

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Tracking finished for Unstoppable Sweetie Show s debut album.

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Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by What Studio?

12′ Vinyl / Download / CD from June 2016

a.P.A.t.T.s latest release Fun with Music (Pickled Egg - A Hawk and A Hacksaw, Bablicon,  Need New Body,  Daniel Johnston  etc) has received critical acclaim from Prog magazine referring to the albumas  “quintessential” to BBC’s Stuart Maconie stating it as “Their most accessible in a freaky kinda way.”

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Today some work I did with the lovely Cavalier Song will feature in the latest edition of The Wire: Adventures In Modern Music,  featured on their The Wire Tapper CD 39.  

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Cavalier Song news...

Excited to announce that on the 25th of January 2016   “Blezard' will be released on God Unknown records.   The 12" Vinyl will include an accompanying piece of textual objet d’art written by Mark Greenwood and artwork designed by Paul Rafferty.

You can now pre order the record at https://godunknownrecords.bandcamp.com/…/cavalier-song-blez…

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12′ Vinyl / Download

300 copies only. Release on Product Records. Handmade sleeves, plus inserts. All artwork by Sam Wiehl. It's beautiful.

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Cavalier Song has been working closely with WhatStudio for the last 6 months to collate 5 of the most delightfully epic tracks this side of Utopia. Expect a release coming soon available from God Unknown Records / POSTMUSIC

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Mother Earth

3-track EP recorded live to digital ADAT on the 13½th floor of the CUC/Novas building in the Baltic Triangle, Liverpool.

Released 16 July 2013        Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by What?Studio

Profane Geometry by Mother Earth

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‘Mallet Guitars Two’ is the second release by Ex-Easter Island Head. Expanding from the duo of their debut, ‘Mallet Guitars  One’ to a quartet, the piece is four movements for mallet guitars, percussion and trumpet.

Recorded, mixed & mastered by WhatStudio Live in the sumptuous surroundings of The Kazimier main dance floor.

Catalogue Number: LP048 Format: Ltd Edition Vinyl LP packaged in a full colour sleeve Release Date:17th September 2012

Originally commissioned for Liverpool Light Night (2010) and honed over a ten-month period of notable live performances alongside Rhys Chatham and Philip Jeck, ‘Mallet Guitars Two’ broadens the groups’ pulsing percussive minimalism into a full spectrum shimmer of electrified strings, chattering percussion and meditative brass.

Incorporating prepared third-bridge guitars to create a chorusing attack of alternating chords and a bamboo-struck field of flaring harmonics, ‘Mallet Guitars Two’ explores the melodic potential of overtones and drones generated through multiple electric guitars. Anchored by the mesmericrepetition of three fixed chords and incorporating tuned singing bowls alongside gong-like washes of cymbal, this composition exhibits a further refinement of Ex-Easter Island Head’s unique guitar minimalism.

Translated as “One who is lost”, Moai Hava is a ritually significant relic of the now lost Tangata Manu (Bird-Man) religion of Easter Island. Taken from a burial ground on the island in 1868 by the crew of the British ship HMS Topaze, it is unknown whether this name refers to a deceased ancestor or the act of removal from the island, but his relocation coincides with the cataclysmic end of a culture which had existed on the island for around one-thousand years.

Recorded live before an audience of several hundred people, ‘Music for Moai Hava’ was commissioned for performance around the statue itself in the cavernous atrium of the World Museum,Liverpool.

The piece sees Ex-Easter Island Head collaborating with members of the a.P.A.t.T Orchestra, an inclusive ensemble of no fixed size or instrumentation, bringing together players of all ages, abilities and backgrounds.

Performed with a twenty-seven piece ensemble, scored for mallet and third-bridge guitars, drums, hand percussion and voices, ‘Music For Moai Hava’ sees Ex-Easter Island Head’s guitar-struck minimalism at the centre of a ritualistic rattle of bamboo, handclaps, cymbals, bells, gongs and shakers before a horizon-line drone of prepared guitars ushers in a swelling chorus of wordless vocals, amplified by the five-storey space of the museum’s vast atrium.

Recorded and mixed by Stephen Cole at What?Studio

Track List:

Side A: Mallet Guitars Two, Movements 1 to 4

Side B: Music For Moai Hava

Available to purchase and download from Low Point records:

http://www.low-point.com/LP048.html

Pitchfork Said:

" A record of repetition and rumbling resonances so beguiling that it's easy to see how making it could have absorbed whole days... the prosaically titled "Mallet Guitars Two Second Movement", brings to mind Rhys Chatham's seminal work with tone, and John Cage's rhythmic sensibilities as filtered through early Clogs releases." Boomkat: "Drifting from the luxurious drone of the opening part into choppy percussive waves of guitar into almost total percussion...from the opening notes it’s clear the band are expertly placed to explore these styles with precision and confidence." Norman records: "Hypnotic, otherwordly experimental minimalism...four movements of hypnotic polyrhythms with shimmering chords and cymbal washes making a drowsy and immersive concoction which recalls the likes of Moondog, Philip Glass and Rhys Chatham. 5/5"

Also critically acclaimed the Wire's website.

Listen here

<a href="http://lowpoint.bandcamp.com/album/mallet-guitars-two-music-for-moai-hava" data-mce-href="http://lowpoint.bandcamp.com/album/mallet-guitars-two-music-for-moai-hava">Mallet Guitars Two / Music For Moai Hava by Ex-Easter Island Head</a></ifram

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The new release from Barberos on 12" vinyl and digital download.

Released 07/09/2012 by 'Et Mon Cul, C'est Du Tofu', 'Human Feather', Attila Tralala' and 'Wet Room'.

Mixed & mastered by WhatStudio

"Opening with the pummeling barbarism of

Hot Squash

, the record bleeds into a visceral assault on the senses in keeping with their choice support slots of

Chrome Hoof

,

Dalek

,

Action Beat

and

Melt Banana

.

Track two, Accent, is a warped detour through the entrails of deep psychosis which pauses for breath around the four minute mark before diving headlong into a warped abyss of bleak nose-bleed-inducing techno.

Modulated, frenetic synths and tribal clatter punctuate the noisy pop stomp of Les Noisettes while Colin & Candy has all the hallmarks of an a.P.A.t.T. dance hall number melding grinding electronica, jazz-time percussion and syncopated rhythms. Indeed, it should come as little surprise, that a.P.A.t.T.'s General Midi's production paws are all over the murky mixing desk." Liverplop ECHO

Mixed / Produced / Mastered by G.Midi & Barberos 2012. Recorded by J.Stig at DDTDB 2011.

Mixed by Stephen Cole at What?Studio Artwork by MJF Chance.

Listen Here

<a href="http://barberos.bandcamp.com/album/ooo-2" data-mce-href="http://barberos.bandcamp.com/album/ooo-2">OOO by Barberos</a>

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A Glasgow four-piece with a Basque singer, a Welsh violinist, a bassist from Bolton, and a puppeteer on drums, Tattie Toes have never subscribed to conventional notions of what a band should be.

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As a result, they’ve become one of the UK’s most inspiring underground acts, their songs combining Iberian, Balkan and Scottish folk with post-punk and free improvisation. This debut has been worth the wait, capturing the band’s live energy while highlighting their subtlety and invention. Nerea Bello’s vocals are a marvel, beautiful and freakish. Rafe Fitzpatrick’s violin reels through folk forms and free-jazz, while the rhythm section of Howie Reeve and Shane Connolly filter febrile Minutemen grooves through dub and improv strategies. A ravishing leap into the unknown.

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The latest album from Zombina and the Skeletones ‘The band under your bed’. A full on rock-o-thon.

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Must be the sixth or seventh time ZATZ have come back for Mastering from What Studio? Yes?

Charnel House Rock by Zombina and the Skeletones