"Alpha, the third line, and beta" is my new nightmare mantra...

I can smell the Old Spice and see the kipper ties. Beardtastic!

@concretism: I wouldn't be at all surprised if the brothers Sandison were too.

This is fantastic, love the synth work! well done :)

This is my original hauntology playlist that I've kept updated since about 2011. I can't bear to take it down!

All tracks written and produced by Chris Sharp.

(c) 2010 - 2022 Chris Sharp. 
(p) 2010 - 2022 Chris Sharp.

All rights reserved. Strictly no unauthorised use.

Places Past

Haven't really finished this, still a nice enough listen I think. Don't know if I'll finish this one, sounds a bit tooo much like a Squarepusher track I really like. Wasn't intentional. I was experimenting with some music theory and this came out :D

art of flight

Shattering whispers, secrets, hideous children

Alice Kemp has a new album due to be released by Coherent States in autumn 2021.

/// UPDDATE ///  'TO ALL MY HIDEOUS CHILDREN' RELEASED JULY 2022. DIGITAL, CASSETTE, AND BLACKENED BOX EDITIONS.


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alicekemp.net
coherentstates.com

To All My Hideous Children

Grotesque III

If in a plane, a third line crosses two others...

Written and produced by Chris Sharp.

(c) 2013 Chris Sharp
(p) 2013 Chris Sharp

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The Sum of the Angles

Uvila

Free download.

Watch the video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdRAN7TTqLc&t=3s&ab_channel=Concretism

Written and produced by Chris Sharp.

Pork

dreams and nightmares

Track written for a compilation album on the Russian Library label, released 20th October 2023. Vinyls are sold out, but you can still download here:

https://russianlibrary.bandcamp.com/album/l-series-5-aeaaea2-listening-center-concretism-revbjelde-aural-design-ondness

Written and produced by Chris Sharp.
(c) 2023 Chris Sharp
(p) 2023 Chris Sharp
Strictly no unauthorised use.

The World We were Promised

'A monument, to one small act of defiance.'

Written and produced by Chris Sharp.

(c) 2014 Chris Sharp
(p) 2014 Chris Sharp

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Telex Ghosts

Our new reactors will provide safe, clean power for decades to come, and are not at all for producing plutonium for nuclear weapons. 

Written and produced by Chris Sharp.

(c) 2014 Chris Sharp
(p) 2014 Chris Sharp

All rights strictly reserved. No unauthorised use.

Magnox

Of Frisbees and Pylons

Lo-fi Synthpop 4

Another taster track from my album 'For Concrete and Country', out now. 

Available on vinyl and download from:

https://www.normanrecords.com/records/170617-concretism-for-concrete-and-country

Written and produced by Chris Sharp.
(c) 2018 Chris Sharp
(p) 2018 Chris Sharp
All rights reserved. Strictly no unauthorised use.

New Governments for a New Nation

Artist: Ursula Bonger
Title: Rhythmus 80 (bonus track, originally released on 7" vinyl 'Pluto hat einen Mond', Maas Media 2010)
Album: Recordings 1969-1988
Format: LP/DL
Label#: faitiche01 (2018 remastered version)
Release date: Oct 26th 2018

Ursula Bogner: Recordings 1969-1988 

Faitiche is ten years old. October 2008 saw the release of Ursula Bogner - Recordings 1969-1988, for which the label was created. While working as a scientist in the pharmaceuticals sector, Ursula Bogner experimented with electronic music, undiscovered, for over three decades. When Jan Jelinek first heard Bogner’s work in 2008, he was enthusiastic. The resulting album, compiled by Jelinek from Bogner’s extensive oeuvre, is being reissued in a remastered version (LP/digital) to mark the label’s tenth anniversary. The new version also includes four bonus tracks that were previously only available on a vinyl 7" single (Ursula Bogner: Pluto hat einen Mond, Maas Media Verlag 2010).

From the reviews of Recordings 1969-1988 in 2008:

pitchfork.com
Most of Recordings 1969-1988 sounds simultaneously like pop and art. Bogner's M.O. is to take a few simple loops - rumbling bass, watery plops, chirping squalls, laserlike blasts - and overlap them, producing songs so sweet they'll make you laugh (the elephant-march opener "Begleitung für Tuba"), so repetitive they'll hypnotize you (the swinging "Inversion"), and so inventive they sound alien (the robotic "2 Ton").

The Wire Magazine
Despite Bogner's status as a bona fide outsider artist, her music opens up a surprising number of connections. It's terse, yet playful; cosmic in reach, yet human in scale. Much of the strange, laconic material collected here would fit seamlessly alonside the recent anthology of work by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop's John Baker - and there are occasional, skewed parallels with the gentle pulsations of Cluster and Harmonia.  

residentadvisor.net
Recordings 1969-1988 collects 16 of these early electronic collages, many of which clock under two minutes, and presents them as a crate-digging, proto-techno discovery along the lines of BBC Radiophonic Workshop alumni such as Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire. Raymond Scott comes to mind as well. Bogner's work exhibits that same kind of curiosity with what those machines could do: it's simple and short and imperfect.

Ursula Bogner: Rhythmus 80 (2018 remaster, bonus track)

gentle reminders

Music of a lost future. Since 2010.

Independent musician. Releases on vinyl. Plays live. Remixes sometimes.

Soundtracks for Rook Films, the BBC and Sean Reynard.

All music including drum patterns, loops and sound design written and created entirely from scratch using analogue and digital hardware synths, drum machines, tape bouncing, self-sampling and a lot of processing. I do not use any sample library loops, sample packs, sounds or effects etc.

All music written and produced by Chris Sharp.

© 2010 - 2023
℗ 2010 - 2023

All rights reserved. Strictly no unauthorised use or distribution.

Nice things:

'Brilliant! Concretism is the perfect accompaniment to Scarfolk'
- Richard Littler, Creator of Scarfolk

'Enjoyable well-executed stuff.'
- Simon Reynolds, Retromania

'[Concretism is] one of the most uncompromising godfathers of electronically-fashioned conceptualism from the last half-decade or so.' - Adrian, Concrete Islands

'[For Concrete and Country] is brimful of Sharp's signature sound. The attention to detail, both in terms of music and as an artefact, is the sort of thing that should see you lot in an orderly queue.'
- Electronic Sound Magazine

'How f*cking great is Concretism? An absolute masterclass in electronic music.' - A Farewell to Hexes

'a fackin' synth legend' - Lone Bison

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