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Copies of Schengen's "Beijing" album unearthed

With a bit of digging around we have unearthed a limited number of copies of our 2006 album, "The Beijing of our career".

They are available to order now via the Paypal link below.

Schengen ~ "The Beijing of our career" CDR

Postage

UK incl. P&P £6.00 ROW incl. P&P £7.00

Thanks for your support.

PS That's an old picture, we haven't got that many left!

Schengen Ce Gil album, a handful of copies left

There are just a handful of Schengen's album Ce Gil left at Distant Noise. If you fancy grabbing one of the last ltd edition numbered copies, head over to Distant Noise and get yourself one. Cheers for your support!

http://www.luga.haveajoint.com/shop_new.html

As a taster here's the opening track to the album.

Duc by Schengen

UPDATE: All copies of 'Ce Gil' have now sold out. Thanks for your support.

By the way the Distant Noise remix album blogged about earlier has completely sold out in under a week!!

Stunning new Portal EP

Simply had to blog about this one. Portal is releasing a new EP 'Options' in March on Make Mine Music. I've been lucky enough to hear some of the tracks and they're blinding. Scott has kindly upped to Soundcloud an alternative mix of one of the tracks recorded with Ben Holton from Epic45 for everyone to hear. It's frankly superb. The track is entitled You're Building Over My Childhood and it's a lush slab of guitar pop with a tendency to stay in your brain long after hearing.

You're Building Over My Childhood (Ultra Mix) by Portal

The new Portal EP "Options" will be released in March 2009 on Make Mine Music (MMM048). The 20-minute CD features four new tracks:

1. Options (with vocals by Glen Johnson, courtesy of Future Conditional)
2. You're Building Over My Childhood (with vocals and additional guitars by Ben Holton, courtesy of Epic45 & My Autumn Empire)
3. Slow Burner (with vocals by Lorraine Lelis, who has previously sung with Mahogany and Auburn Lull)
4. Options (Future Conditional remix) (with vocals by Glen Johnson and Angèle David-Guillou, courtesy of Klima)

AKA APC40 Ableton controller

This new controller from Akai has just been announced at NAMM09. It's already lighting up the forums and creating a bit of stir. At first glance it looks so intuitive. Clip and scene triggers by cool looking LEDs (as readers of my blog you can never have enough LEDs), track faders, potentially motorised, who knows, plenty of track assignable and plugin-assignable pots as well. And that's just the top level functionality described I'm sure.

And we haven't even heard what Ableton are announcing later on today. Expected to be something along the lines of super MAX integration following months of collaborative work with Cycling74.

Details of the Akai here.

Schengen on the remix tip

Distant Noise have just released the remix album as part of their first series of CDs. The artists on the album are all those involved with the label's first series of releases that began at the start of the year. We were asked to remix Yellow 6's 'Kulturhuset' track.

This album along with a few remaining copies of the album we did earlier in the year for the label are available here

Ball bearing squencer

Would look awesome on a dark stage I'd expect.


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Schengen on BBC6Music!

Schengen were played on Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone on BBC6Music this weekend. He played 'Bake Off Part1' from our new album Ce Gil (available here).
I'm so stoked with this.

The show is available to 'Listen Again' for the next week. We're around 1hour 40 mins into the show and follow Robert Wyatt!
Link to the show's tracklisting

An album from Jellya

Just before my trip to Spain I started compiling the tracks for my debut Jelly Antler album. It was an interesting and revealing process on the back of the Schengen album, my mind is definitely ready for track listing decisions and some heavy editing and hours to be spent on mastering (no monitors again, and I don't think I can borrow this time).
11 tracks have made it through to the shortlist and they'll probably all stay which is gratifying at this stage. I've no title in mind at all at present, but I'm sure one will come up over a bottle of wine or three with E. The last two albums came that way.

Schengen Ce Gil Album reviews

We've received some cracking reviews for the new album. Here are the reviews from the mighty Norman Records and Small Fish.

Norman Records said...
Now on that limited Distant Noise CD label comes a new CD from Schengen, 'Ce Gil '. 10 tracks of atmospheric variable electronics from the former krautrocker. 'Fendered' is playful electro taking in snippets of Thieves Like Us era New Order with light techno touches. 'Duc' is aquatic, motorik electro. Some parts glide & glow with positive radiance. Really earthy & pretty, fluid textures, skittering beats, hypnotic Orbital-esque piano loops, digital bursts of fuzz....the list goes on. This is a quality release, an eclectic collection of moods from a quiet old master! Limited to 100 numbered copies so be quick!

This is pretty damn cool!"

Smallfish said...
Distant Noise have released some super CDs in the last couple of months and the Bristol duo of Schengen deliver the third in the series. This album pretty much defies categorization in many ways and I think that's why it's so good. Having said that it does mostly feature electronic music in many different shapes and forms. Thus, you get melodic, classic sounding electronica with sweet chords and homely tones. But, you also get some fairly hefty sounding old-school techno tracks with a minimal leaning and some very robust beats. In my opinion, that's actually when they're at their best as they really let loose some rocking moments. All in all in it's a brilliantly varied and extremely tidy set of tracks. Bravo.

The album is available from www.distantnoiserecords.co.uk

Monome radness (in yellow)

Yes.. yes I know this is good ;) VERY good.
Respect to Edison on the monome forums for this stunning piece of finger poppin.


edison's chops from edison on Vimeo.

bcr2000 demo

Just bookmarking

Schengen Ce Gil album Distant Noise Records

I am very pleased to announce that the new 10 track album by Schengen is out now and is available to buy at www.distantnoiserecords.co.uk
It costs £6 inc. p&p

Release date for the album

The new Schengen album Ce Gil will be released on

Monday 17th March

HERE

Schengen album finished

Delighted to have completed mastering on the new Schengen album on Saturday. It's sounding just right now and now contains some brilliant cuts from field recordings taken the week before in Munich.
CD is off to be pressed and we have a provisional launch date of the 10th March.
It will be available direct from Distant Noise Records

Preview track from the new Schengen album

We've just sent a track called 'Smashes' from the forthcoming Schengen album to Distant Noise . A sneaky peak from the mastering suite at Schengen control.

Click to hear it on their myspace player.

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Craymachine

A good friend of mine sent me this. It's an instant sound tool on the web that's a bit of fun. Great for the kids too! I've decided that rather than spend years trying to come anywhere near the brilliance of Disco Inferno, I can just press L and X on the Craymachine

http://www.zefrank.com/snm/index.html

On the Big Ship Thekla

are the Cardiacs (this Wednesday). I might head down there if not still feeling the grips of flu.

Nice new little monome doc

Just discovered this nice little documentary about monome. It's excellent glimpse behind-the-scenes. I love the way Brian just decides to solder together a new 256 unit for the film crew and play it.. superb.
In additon to a 256 I now want a pizza oven in my garden.