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- Jun 26, 12
My next release will be the Mysterium Tremendum EP and is out on the 10th October 2012. This will be my twelfth release since 2002 on my digital label (SZR) Music.
The EP has five tracks of electronic, techno dark, experimental, dub, psychedelic dark wave and can be streamed now from those fine folks at Spotify Deezer and rdio Or if you wish to buy it for your digital devices iTunes Juno eMusic and Amazon will be able to sort you out.
Sadly, due to unforeseen security issues I will no longer be hosting my music on SoundCloud until further notice. The Mysterium Tremendum EP features, as seen above, a hand-painted Indian ink cover from myself. It has been mastered by the magical Loz Gill at Fat As Funk Mastering.
- May 26, 12
In 1994, two weeks before I was made homeless, I met a drummer called Eddie through a mutual friend Lisa. Eddie was a lovely, interesting bloke and a Star Trek fan who played drums with a group called The Martians. We talked and after showing him my book of lyrics and poems he suggested I should come along to one of their rehearsals. After the first rehearsal in a squat at Ferncroft Avenue (which was soon to become my home), London, a two year odyssey of squatting, gigging, rehearsals, happenings, pop-up Martian squat shops, demonstrations, studio and home recording sessions, Exploding Cinema appearances, Megatripolis t-shirt selling/poetry reading and sci-fi cult madness enveloped my life in a vast tsunami of psilocybin, beans on toast and copious amounts of tea. Embedded below are three studio tracks I wrote with the band during this time (1994-1995) The recording was initially instigated (if my memory serves me well) at Al Scott’s studio and then completed and finished at a studio In Bermondsey. The band was the brainchild of Louis (aka Detreb, guitarist/songwriter. We each had our own Martian codename) and Nick (a mysterious and cosmic antipodean man, creator of the Martian t-shirt and author of The Martian Dictionary, who told me he alledegly used to write a regular column in an underground newspaper during the 60s called ‘About Most Things’, signing himself ‘The Walrus’ and a meeting he had with Sir Paul McCartney at a party in St. John’s Wood where Nick introduced himself to him as ‘The Walrus’. Yes indeed, if only I could verify this remarkably tall but tantalising tale I would be a very happy Martian!)
The band comprised of Louis (aka Detreb, guitars), Naomi (aka Glam, vocals/dancer), Alex (aka X-ela, The Martian Ali, vocals), Mike (Mr. Blooblap, guitars) Eddie (E-D, Drums), Rick (aka Ricochet, saxophone), and myself (Sheer Zed, vocals, percussion and a Casio sampler borrowed from Andy Ward of The Perennial Divide at one gig only) Over the two years we were together we played many gigs; The Rock Garden, The Zap Club, The Swan in Fulham, The George Robey, The Bull & Gate and The Powerhouse to name but a few. The tracks Battle Song, Teepee Resin and Family Tribe are sadly no longer streamable via SoundCloud due to security issues, though I will hopefully be able to release them via my NetLabel (SZR) Music at a future date. They were migrated and restored from the original knackered cassette tape by Adrian Finn at The Great Bear. This blog article is dedicated to the vision and life of Nick and all former Martians, wherever they may be. Death to homelessness and viva The Martian Revolution!
- May 06, 12
Tracks:
Colourbox – Edit the Dragon
The Fink Brothers – Mutants in Mega City One
Play Dead – Conspiracy
Modern English – 16 Days
Colourbox – Just Give ‘em Whiskey
A Certain Ratio - Flight
The Blue Aeroplanes – Action Painting
Wire – 12XU
The Wasps – Waiting For My Man
The Kamikaze Pilots – Sharon Signs to Cherry Red
The Sound – Golden Soldiers
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry – Talk About the Weather
The Comsat Angels – Dark Parade
The Waterboys – Bury My Heart
The Snake Corps – Science Kills
Death in June – Come Before Christ and Murder Love
The Rose of Avalanche – L.A. Rain
The Mighty Wah – Body and Soul
Joy Division – Warsaw
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry – Spinning Around
The Sound – Brute Force
(Here and there throughout the mixtape Alan Bennett reads from Winnie the Pooh)
It’s All Down in Black & White is a mixtape that changed my life. It’s a hand-made mixtape that was given to me by a man called Wilf. It has never left my side. During the 1980s I was studying art, art history, drama (officially) and music (unofficially though I did utilize the departments studio and attend some module classes) at Yeovil College, Somerset. The college refectory was always a heady place of roll-up smoke and tea drinking combined with the consumption of chips with melted cheese. One day through the windowed sheets of condensation in the refectory I saw a long coated, curly Mohicaned, tall and thin chap walking towards the college over the grass with an art folder under his arm. This was Stephen Wilmott (or Wilf as he was affectionately known to everyone). As soon as I met Wilf I instantly liked him. Wilf was a part of the Yeovil music and art scene. I looked up to him. He was inspirational and always generous with his time. He was often seen (as I was too) in Acorn Music looking at the vinyl. I recall visitng his home in Grass Royal in Yeovil one day. It was a massive shrine to vinyl. His collection ran up the stairs, into the kitchen, living room and bedroom. Wilf was in a group called The Psyco Daisies (later to be known as The Psycho Daisies) who played regularly and had released a beautiful album of music through their own label The Golden Pathway on cassette called Send No Flowers. Graham Moores of The Psycho Daisies has very kindly written to me on the subject of Send No Flowers and the mixtape’s creation; “Wilf used to come to my place to use my hi-fi equipment to make some of his tapes – It’s how I got to hear some great music. He might have used my copies of Colourbox and ACR’s Flight – possibly Wire 12XU from my copy of Wire – Live at the Roxy and the Joy Division and soundtracks too. Consumed lots of coffee and chocolate biscuits during these sessions…Send No Flowers was recorded on my Portastudio at Sutton Montis in the barn of Matt Cornish. Vox and Sound F/X added in my front room at Castle Cary – It was finally mixed down at Monitor in Milborne Port by Martin ‘Bastie’ Beresford.”
Since Wilf’s passing there has been a growing appreciation and celebration of his life and work. The mixtape has been a constant scorce of pleasure and inspiration to me over the years and has recently been lovingly transfered and migrated by Adrian Finn at The Great Bear. Sadly, due to unforeseen security issues I am currently unable to use SoundCloud to stream the mixtape. Hopefully I will be able to rectify this appalling situation in the future once I’m able to safely host it. I am not the only one to have benefited from Wilf’s mixtape kindness as Sarah Beatrice testifies. If you look carefully Wilf has written on the fly leaf of the mixtape cover these words; “When we’re born with nothing then we die with nothing. Least we say we’ve say we’ve try instead of giving up the fight.” I haven’t given up the fight Wilf and since your beautiful spirit has touched my life, I never will.
- Mar 25, 12
From 2001 to 2005 I had the pleasure and privilege of being a part of what John Wyman (the then head honcho at Media Kitchen) would call “The Content Incubation Society”. As a regular client at Media Kitchen Studio, Gardena, L.A. (producing one album, one EP and one single) I would come to know the crew that ran this remarkable studio and rehearsal space namely, John Wyman (producer/mastering engineer), John “Irvo” Irvine (producer/engineer) and the late, great Bill Krodell (He was an engineer/producer for area studios such as Pendragon, Jet City and Media Kitchen. He worked with bands such as Guns N’ Roses, Seinsfeld, Pennywise and Motörhead. He also recorded oprea singers, rap artists, gospel choirs and even relaxation therapists!) Irvo would regularly organise rehearsals, recordings and the occasional happening (which would eventually come under the name of Irvopalooza) The video document you see before you now is a casual, surreal, chaotic and non-professional VHS taping of one such happening that was streamed live on the night onto the internet via a PC cambot. The line-up that evening also featured a local band called The Rolling Blackouts (which are not included here but make up part of the audience) I had no control over the quality of the taping. Indeed, as you will see the whole evening was somewhat unhinged (including my performance) The cameraman was unknown to me and is sadly uncredited. The performance starts at 7:23 mins, so if you wish to fast forward past some experimental cut out puppetry, Irvo stopping hipster art nerds nailing up canvas onto the pristine Media Kitchen wall with the now legendary “Hey, brainiacs!!!” intervention and bizarre L.A. audience banter, then please do so. The previous year I had released my debut album ‘Music For Your Head’. The tracks featured here are from that recording and are as follows: 1 – But He Didn’t Know What He Wanted. 2 – Label. 3 – Sticky Glyph. 4 – New/Old. 5 – You Are My Sin. Since this recording many things have changed or passed; my weird postage stamp moustache, the orange shiny jacket and the great Bill Krodell. Many thanks go to Adrian Finn at The Great Bear for his migration of the VHS tape to digital. I would also like to thank the two John’s for their inspirational support and friendship. This video is dedicated to the memory of Bill Krodell.
- Jan 17, 12
My next release will be The Twelve Mithraic Eyes of Emergence EP due out on the 9th April 2012. These three tracks of experimental mutant starship stealth bomber electronica will be made available to stream, buy, tweet and like through The Orchard via all major online retailers, mobile and streaming services including iTunes eMusic Amazon Juno Deezer Spotify and Rdio. The EP has been mastered by the magical Loz Gill at Fat As Funk. The artwork is hand drawn by myself. This will be my eleventh release via my label (SZR) Music. Sadly, my SoundCloud page will no longer host my music due to unforeseen security issues. For more reading about Mithras read The Cosmic Mysteries of Mithras or indeed go here.
- Oct 07, 11
My new release the Hieroglyphica Flashback EP will be out 11-11-11. It features four tracks of dark, avant-garde, experimental electronica and will be made available via all major digital platforms for purchase or streaming via The Orchard including iTunes eMusic Amazon Deezer Spotify and Rdio The EP was mastered by the magical Loz Gill at Fat As Funk Mastering. The above cover art was hand drawn by myself. This will be my tenth release via my label (SZR) Music.
- Sep 24, 11
Ink Drawings By Keef from the artist Keef Patrick is an excellent and fine collection of work. In his handmade, screen printed limited edition (first run 50 copies only) book Keef says: “I would describe most of these drawings as “bio-morphic” where I imagine mother nature running amok, but they could also be called anatomical abstraction, or surrealism.” Keef is planning a second run of this book. If you wish to order a copy, book him for a gallery show or have any enquires about his drawings/prints, you can contact Keef via his email keefpatrick1@gmail.com. Keef has done numerous posters and design pieces for Queens of the Stone Age and Eagles of Death Metal.
- Aug 13, 11via vimeo.com
Prey is an excellent, robust and killer software that lets you keep track of your phone or laptop at all times, and will help you find it if it ever gets lost or stolen. In a recent article about the looting during the UK Riots, Greg Martin, an “Information Security Evangelist”, showed just how effective it can be. It’s lightweight, open source software, and free for anyone to use. Basically you install a tiny agent in your PC or phone, which silently waits for a remote signal to wake up and work its magic. This signal is sent either from the Internet or through an SMS message, and allows you to gather information regarding the device’s location, hardware and network status, and optionally trigger specific actions on it. You can quickly find out where your computer is located, who’s using it, and what he’s doing on it thanks to Prey’s powerful reports system. By marking your device as missing, Prey will gather all the evidence you request and send it either to your Control Panel account or directly to your mailbox.
- Aug 10, 11via youtube.com
New space-based images show the same tsunami that devastated Japan in March 2011 also caused a series of giant icebergs to break off halfway around the world in Antarctica. In total, the tsunami liberated about 48 square miles of icebergs from a region that had remained essentially unchanged for close to half a century. The largest iceberg that calved off of the Sulzberger Ice Shelf into the Ross Sea measured about 7 miles long by 4 miles wide. Go to http://www.igsoc.org/journal/current/205/j11j073.pdf for the full report.
