Demo of the Week

[Tommy BOO]

[AdamW]

I think [hope] that everything's working fine... goddamn technology!

Happy new year, everyone... this is the first Demo of the Week for 2006

Downloadable, this week, Camarthen band Nikolai's hypermelodic, alt rock nugget, 'Lemon Yellow'.

Feel free to enjoy.

http://adamwalton.co.uk/music/lemonyellow.mp3

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[Guest]

This week, the return of the Doll... Carl 'Little Hands of Thunder' Bevan makes grrr! prog punk pastapiece, in a loft.

With free widdly guitar solo.

http://adamwalton.co.uk/music/Destiny_Calls_The_geniuses_1.mp3

[AdamW]

that was me, obviously ;0)
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[meltin_has_turned]

Is this the chap from 60ft dolls? I used to love the song "Stay" and "Alisons Room".
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[AdamW]

Hi Meltin - yes, it's Carl Bevan, who used to be the drummer in that most excellent, and unhinged, of three-pieces.
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[meltin_has_turned]

Cheers Adam, i would really like to know what you think of my newly completed track on myspace "shoulder to cry on". If you have time you can access the link via the "feel free to listen" thread. Due to temporary difficulties its cuts out a little prematurely. But there is enough there to get a grasp of the track.

Cheers
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[AdamW]

myspace is spazzing out -- America must be 'awake' ;0)

I'll try tomorrow morning.

thanks
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[John Mc]

The poq one that sounded a bit like Blur and Air (Bl-air?) and the "Another Sunny Day..." have been the best of the demo's so far i think. Did you get much response to any of them on your radio show Adam?

[AdamW]

Hi John - the tracks get downloaded 5 - 600 times, and some of them have provoked [a little] discussion elsewhere. I have had a lot of e-mails from listeners about the tracks... some positive, some negative. As an outlet for these bands' [generally unsigned] music, it has proved useful, and - hopefully - will continue to do so.

I think that *I* need to be a little more exacting in my choices. A couple of the tracks - and I'm not going to name names - aren't, in retrospect, that good.

For what it's worth, my favourites are the poq track too, and the Soft-Hearted Scientists one.
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[meltin_has_turned]

Hi Adam, wondered if you had a chance to listen to my track. Any feedback would be appreciated.


http://www.myspace.com/hobbsysdemos

Thanking you
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[AdamW]

[AdamW]

Not a demo, in the original sense of the word; this week, Ruthin's Soundhog pitches in with his first, new, publically released remix work in over a year.

http://adamwalton.co.uk/music/20060115soundhogvsdepechemode.mp3

Here's a brief Soundhog bio...

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Soundhog initially came to prominence surfing the wave of interest that emanated from the mash-up phenomenon of the early noughties. However, unlike the legion of chancers who descended on that scene – clutching bog standard acapella b-sides and a pirated copy of Fruity Loops – Soundhog was only getting attention for something that he had been experimenting with since he was a kid in the 80’s, working with cassette decks [hence his pseudonym] and a finely-poised pause button.

Anyone who heard his radical melding of Mogwai and the Beatles’ Day in the Life [A Day in Tracy’s Life] will bear testimony to the man’s peerless production standards, technique and great taste.

Because of this encyclopaedic knowledge and far-ranging love of music, Soundhog’s mash-ups, bootlegs, whatever you want to call them, elevated his work above the morass. His reputation on ‘the scene’ ranked with that of Richard ‘X’, Freelance Hellraiser and that band from Belgium whose timely collating of the phenomenon brought it to a wider, and more fickle, audience, but also sounded its death knell.

However, Soundhog had already demonstrated skills above and beyond his peers with a skilful bootleg of Kylie Minogue’s anodyne, ‘Slow’. He stripped away the bog-standard backing track and played his own, on Fender Rhodes, giving the track a sexual funk sadly lacking on the original. It garnered airplay all over Europe and America, but his work’s popularity soon attracted the attention of the BPI who, stupidly, threatened legal action if he didn’t take his downloads off his website – neglecting the fact that a great deal of people, myself included, went out and bought a clutch of records that we would never have gone anywhere near if Soundhog hadn’t shown us the light.

So, Soundhog found himself, to all intents and purposes, cut off from his audience. Fortunately, he had the skill and ability to get himself a record deal with London-based Corsair Records. A critically lauded 12” and CD single of original material appeared, Curdler, in the autumn of 2004.

Since then Soundhog has busied himself doing mixes for XFM, Virgin / Liquid, BBC Radio Wales and DJ’ing in some of Europe’s most discerning clubs [Razzmatazz, Barcelona; Mokka Cukka, Budapest; Mascotte, Zurich].

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[bravecaptain]

ACE!

mx

[AdamW]

BOOOOOST!!!!

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Horrible name [glow]. Brilliant music [chimes]. dovesnobasswithmyheadman.

http://adamwalton.co.uk/music/2006021201chimes.mp3

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