I’m taking USA / Canada / Mexico etc… bookings for the first two weeks in Feb. If anyone is interested please get in touch, the sooner the better due to my limited period of time out there.

I’ve a number of confirmations already, so i’m pleased to day i’ll make it over from the 29th Jan. Really looking forward to following up my recent sightseeing stint in NY early this year.

KING CANNIBAL SAYS…

Well another week, another remix has hit the skids.

I’m pretty gutted my remix of Frankmusik’s 3 Little Words isn’t going to get a release due to the whole single being scrapped. Despite it being very much a remix of a VERY poppy song, and a VERY poppy remix at that, i’m still really proud of it (this may raise a chuckle but i’m really happy with my hand clap production on this!). I’ve spoken before about the sound of a quality producer and how it should run much deeper than a single genre, and this was something that i very much kept in mind when working on this.  Another reason I’m disappointed is that its also my first venture in to working with drum & bass on a very typical level in terms of genre constraints, which is why i’ve attained permission to offer this out for a freedownload as a Wav file on the link below. Enjoy.

http://www.ninjatune.net/secure.php?id=8T1ZK1LL

On a side note i don’t even have any of the promo cds sent out, so if anyone happens to have a spare copy please let me know.

KING CANNIBAL SAYS…

The last few weeks i’ve picked up a couple of doom / dubstep crossover releases, whilst the tracks are very hit and miss i’m really happy to see that more people are actually putting these sounds together . The current side of dubstep the seem to be pushing things forward at the moment are the more skippy melodic crew, so its good to see the darker half finding new sounds and shapes even if it is only a couple of releases. I’ve coincidentally enough been wrestling with my own 8 minute doom laden dubstep techno track these last few weeks myself tentatively titled ‘The Doooom’ until something better occurs to me (and it can’t include any of the words ‘dark’, ‘night’ or ‘black’ i’ve more than rinsed them enough by now).

Anyway, here are the releases i spotted.

Black Magick Society – Rituals Of Initiation Ep http://www.junodownload.com/products/1486542-02.htm

Neurosis Orchestra – Noir Desire EP
http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/360444-01.htm

KING CANNIBAL SAYS…

Audio from the forthcoming Dj Food’s ‘The Shape Of Thing That Hum’ EP is now up on Soundcloud. The release is out on December the 14th,so in the meanwhile get your ears round these. This is even more noteworthy as i was on mixing duties for the lead track  Sentinal (Shadow Guard).

Strictly Kev himself says…. “Here are 3 tracks from my next EP, streamable via Soundcloud – there 5 tracks in all with a further 3 remixes on the download. Sentinel is a collaboration with DK and GIANT is a cover of The The without the vocal which will be added to a remixed version on the album.“

From Spykidelic:

Coming November on Important: “Limiited edition of 500 copies pressed at RTI and packaged in heavy duty jackets screen printed at Monoroid. Featuring Tony F Wilson (Spykidelic/Knives ov Resistance), Neil Halstead (Slowdive/Mojave 3), & Sarah Peacock (Seefeel). Zurich began as a 1994 musical partnership between Neil Halstead then of Slowdive and Tony F Wilson. The two recorded a handful of tracks when Halstead was shortly to begin work on Slowdive’s final and most experimental album Pygmalion. Recorded at a time when the popularity of ambient techno was at its peak, these recordings are remarkably austere by comparison. Following the release of Pygmalion, Halstead would disband Slowdive and abandon sound experimentation to create more song-based material in Mojave 3. Shortly thereafter, Wilson began collaborating with drum & bass producer and engineer Joe Gray on more rhythm based, yet still atmospheric productions. Too Scared to Breath features the voice of Seefeel’s Sarah Peacock and sounds not unlike prime Autechre and Aphex. Militia (Dynamic Warfare) on the other hand mirrors the post-metal Dub of Techno Animal and Scorn. All of the recordings were lost until very recently when Touch recording artist Mark Van Hoen found the tracks on old CD-Rs and cassettes he was given by Wilson some years ago.

KING CANNIBAL INSTRUCTS…

Stay tuned for another FREE TRACK next week!

KING CANNIBAL SAYS…

To coincide with my having a few days of down time due to feeling a bit ill i’ve upload sections from my next Ninja Tune release ‘Downtime’ / ‘Stone Tape Theory’. Alongside them you can hear my remix of Frankmusik’s ‘3 Little Words’ which sadly is due to remain unreleased as the whole release has been scrapped (no reflection on my work!). Yes this remix is poppy in the extreme but sometimes its good to just go with the flow and serve the tune you’ve been asked to work on. This was also a big thing for me as it is the first ‘proper’ drum & bass track i’ve ever attempted.

You can check the myspace player here. 

In other news i’ve also just returned from 2 days in Switzerland (for LUF) and Belgium (De Kreun). I can’t say i’m completely 100% happy with both gigs due to encountering some issues with Ableton causing certain audio sections to start cutting out and some problems with one of my midi controllers at LUF due to someone throwing a glass of beer at the stage causing some of the buttons to become un-responsive. Still i went on to turn out a set well over 2 hours long, more then twice what i was initially asked to do. Lets hope i can address these issues before the next two gigs in Bristol & Brixton over Halloween weekend.