David Emery OnlineMinotaur Shock - Amateur Dramatics
We’ve just launched a new site for Minotaur Shock which has a bit of a different twist – he’s rated and priced each track differently, based on criteria like ‘Musical Difficulty’ and ‘Computer Crash rating’:
The record company that releases my music, whilst steeped in history and home to a lot of my favourite records, spunks a lot of money on lavish felt-lined gilded box-sets made by nimble-fingered faerie folk who live in the woods. This means that artistes such as Minotaur Shock who will only ever sell a limited amount of records (because discerning listeners like yourselves are few and far between), do not command the same kind of influence over the Powers That Be and their kingdom of jewel-case goblins.
Consequently, this release, the third album proper I have created as Minotaur Shock, is no longer an album in the physical sense, it is content. Not content as in satisfied, but content as in digital bits and binary bobs. Now, you may think that I am less than enthusiastic about this, but you’d be mistaken. After initially being a bit miffed (I’m being honest; we’re all friends here), I started to think about the nature of an album, and how the way people listen and use it is changing.
The site also features some beautiful illustrations for each track, and utterly gratuitous slidey javascript stuff – well worth a look.
Visit ➔The Twitting Point. Or An Ode to Saturdays.
We sit dehydrating in front of the computer screen after hours in the gym trying to reduce years of beer gut cultivation. The sitting got boring and geeking out became our last bastion of escapism, to have all the knowledge and therefore, all the power. Some thing has happened to me and a whole generation of the tech-related fads: I don’t need nor want the power/knowledge, it seems like i just wanna digest it and get it away from me.
Knowledge digestion is my favourite hobby. I’m not sure if this is a good thing or not.
Visit ➔Becky by Be Your Own Pet
Great video for the best song off their last (and sadly final) album:
Visit ➔The Horrors Live
We’ve just launched this simple site for The Horrors – we’ve put a web cam in their studio and it makes for strangely compulsive viewing:
Visit ➔Psychedelic Horseshit vs Half Machine Records
“to: half machine records
subject: new wave hippies ep
dude, got the ep’s today, what the fuck is with the spaces in between the tracks. they were strung together with care. THERE ARE GUITAR AND DRUM PARTS CHOPPED IN HALF. i am beyond pissed off. this is why bands are supposed to get test pressings. this thing is a piece of junk now, completely worthless, and all copies must be burned or otherwise destroyed. i am deadly serious about this. if this gets out i will personally make it my job to see to it that every copy is retreived and destroyed. starting at yr offices.
-matt horseshit”
They’re going to burn all the copies; I love music industry stories like this…
Visit ➔Concrete and Glass
I would encourage everyone to go to this – looks like it’s going to be good fun.
Visit ➔Monkey: Journey to the West
One of the many, many things I’ve been working on recently. The album is amazing, by the way, and the BBC are going to use some of the music and animations as part of their Beijing Olympics coverage so you’re bound to come across some of it soon.
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