Friday, December 22, 2006

How to Get Notified of Blog Updates....

Apparently you can sign up to get notified of updates to my blog (or any blog) at www.weblogs.com. Presumably you'd get sent an email... sounds handy.

machine.records festive stuff... :)

Hey... so 2006 is pretty much dust, hope you had fun?

We did. Let's see... First we put together a string of top notch shows for you: Cylob (Rephlex/Breakin'), The Hidden Persuader, Info_Cifon, Oddskool, Orcop, Fumezombie, Stabmaster Vinyl (High Quality Recordings), The Doubtful Guest (Planet Mu/ Seed), Evils (Peski), LoVid (NYC), DJ Methodist (Post Office), Chris Clark (Warp), Yellotone (AI), MoQ (Seed), Schneider TM (Mute), Redfalls, Anatomist, Nathan Fake (Border Community), Lifting Gear Engineer, Kansas City Prophets (Seed), Loz Koleszko (1 Man Army), Michael J Rocks (1 Man Army), RandomNumber (Highpoint Lowlife), John Barnes, and Dogmixer (Replicant Society)... as well as support slots with Subtle (Lex) and Mike Paradinas (Planet Mu) and at a host of other events.

Big up to Forecast for making some of these shows possible, to the artists, Clwb Ifor Bach (where most of them happened), Machines In Our Souls, Lesson No 1, and all of you who came along!

Then we had those new releases... 11 altogether - every one of them garnering praise and much-deserved radio airplay on stations like BBC Radio 1 (Huw Stephens, Rob da Bank, Mary Anne Hobbs), BBC Radio Wales (Adam Walton), BBC Radio Cymru (Huw Stephens and Huw Evans), The Selector (Andrea Oliver), Another Nice Mess (Marcelle van Hoof) and elsewhere. Thank you for supporting the Welsh electronica scene.

In order of release:























And, in another new development for 2006, all these releases (and the rest of the catalogue) are available in high-quality MP3 format from www.bleep.com.

2007 is going to be here before you know it... watch this space for news about our new release schedule and more!

In the meantime, check out the new Drone album, 'Colour For Money' (on My Kung Fu; Drone has previously released a track on machine.records as Arcangle and put in some stirling shows at Terminal), Industrial Circus at the Tafod in Cardiff (home to regular sets from Orcop and, coming up soon, Access Tonal Communications), Superimpozer's new 'Thought Fungus' album (on DubiousAudio), and the Skipping Beats label (run by Redfalls and friends). All good stuff.

Cheers
Dan

www.machine-records.com.

Monday, December 18, 2006

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

bits and pieces


London...


Silver Spurs @ Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff


Somewhere Between Auckland and Wellington....


The Mount, New Zealand


It's a mountain, stupid.

Just a Few More Vancouver Pictures.... Grouse Mountain





Music

... and finally some decent-looking weather!



Well, that's the forecast for this week (11-15th December) anyway... given how sunburned I was after a day that was only 16 degrees it's a little scary actually!

Monday, December 11, 2006

5th December - 'Christmas Works Do'

Somehow I managed to feature in a few of the pictures taken at our Christmas 'works do' - lawn bowls at Wellington Bowls Club. Actually good to do, except for the ridiculous sunburn I got from being outside all afternoon. Apart from the redness, the worst part was brutal definition of my hairline... That's me in the bright blue t-shirt (with black jacket in two of the pics)!