Lead Track from the forthcoming  album Klang! released 12/08/13 to share on freshnet uploader.

CONEY ISLAND SOUND - Klang

Remixed by the ever wonderful Bitmap and taken from the download version of the debut Coney Island Sound album Klang! released 12/08/2013.

Introducing Mr Kellogg (Bitmap Remix)

Klang! (Minotaur Shock Remix)

Klang - (Thrash Hat's Genghis Klang! Remix)

Listen back to the Coney Island Sound profile feature on Stephen McCauley's wonderful BBC radio show Electric Mainline.

In Profile on BBC Electric Mainline

A lovely remix from Callum Cairns aka Little Rivers.

http://www.littlerivers.co.uk
http://littleriversmusic.bandcamp.com

Introducing Mr Kellogg (Little Rivers Remix)

ASIWYFA "Big Thinks Do Remarkable" (Coney Island Sound Remix)

This is the A-Side of my debut Single. I've been very Lucky and it's picked up radio plays on BBC Northern Ireland (Electric Mainline), BBC 6 (Tom Robinson and Steve Lamaq's Shows), XFM (Jon Hillcock, New Noise best of 2008), NME Radio, BFBS (John Kennedy Show) and College Radio in Canada.



Also available are tracks on the Compilation Catch of the Day Vol. 3 ( Kipper Records): "Nautical by Nature" and I Can Count Vol.2 ( I CAn Count Records): "Bring my love's unwanted arrow".



Remixes to date for Alaska in Winter ( "Berlin", "Balkan Lowrider Anthem"), O Fracas ("16 Beats"), Skibunny feat. Maps ("Remember Me").



Look out also for the a remix of Tunng's Hustle on Soundcloud.



More remixes on the way soon and an album to follow this year.



Introducing Mr Kellogg

This is the B-Side of my debut Single. 



It features a spoken contribution from the performer Cal Stewart in character as Uncle Josh Weathersby. Stewart died in 1919 and the performance is taken from an old Cylinder recording. 



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Stewart



It also features lots of Lemonade fizzing through a Kaoss pad.....



Radio plays to date on BBC Northern Ireland (Electric Mainline), BBC 6 (Tom Robinson &amp; Steve Lamaq's Shows), XFM (Jon Hillcock, New Noise best of 2008), NME Radio, BFBS (John Kennedy Show) and College Radio in Canada.



Also available are tracks on the Compilation Catch of the Day Vol. 3 ( Kipper Records): "Nautical by Nature" and I Can Count Vol.2 ( I CAn Count Records): "Bring my love's unwanted arrow".



Remixes to date for Alaska in Winter ( "Berlin", "Balkan Lowrider Anthem"), O Fracas ("16 Beats"), Skibunny feat. Maps ("Remember Me").



Look out also for the a remix of Tunng's Hustle on Soundcloud.



More remixes on the way soon and an album to follow this year.



The Lemonade Song

I’ve recently finished a new remix for old friends Skibunny!

I had a pop at their lovely tune ‘Remember Me’.

It features vocals from Mute Record’s Mercury Nominee Maps.

Lots of drums, percussion, tape delay guitars, layered vocals, flute, clarinet and the Juno 106 i got for Christmas!

An excerpt of the original is on their myspace player.

The debut Skibunny album is out this year on Smalltown America (home of Fighting with Wire, Jetplane Landing, Oppenheimer, And So I Watch You From Afar). Release info and free download from their website.

Skibunny feat. Maps "Remember Me" (Coney Island Sound Remix)

This was released on a limited CD, put together offshore on a fishing trawler, in a handmade sleeve. The compilation also features great folks like Tidy Kid and The Motifs.

http://www.kipperrecords.co.uk/artists/coneyislandsound/index.htm

There's a bit of found item percussion, sticks from the shore at Robin Hood's Bay in Yorkshire. I've been told that it's a little Moondog in places. There's Accordion, Chopped Guitar, Strings and a bit of Korg Polysix. 

The download is avaialble from itunes

Nautical by Nature

This was released recently on a lovely compilation on Manchester's Red Deer Club Recordings. Red Deer Club vol.4features tracks from Jonnie Common, Stealing Sheep, Jess Bryant &amp; Awesome Wells...

Just follow the instructions to download the whole thing free:

http://www.reddeerclub.co.uk/shop/releases/volume-4/

This one started out with recordings made at an amusement arcade on Scarborough Seafront.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31547734@N08/4223342614/

I played with the speeds of rhythms cut from recordings of a table hockey game and started transposing the puck Klangs. A tune began to emerge and the next logical step was to add some Toy Piano and Casio. There's a hint of Steel band, plucked strings, theremin and Melotron amongst other things....



Klang

This uses elements from a cylinder recording of Mr Charles Kellogg, "The Nature Singer"......An early naturalist and Vaudeville performer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kellogg_%28naturalist%29
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80qtP4o7rjs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPONVsr0ePg

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1521510

This and "Introducing Mr Kellogg" may appear on a "Nature Singer" themed EP somewhere down the line, expanding the themes in both songs and using a lot of other materials generated around the time of recording.....


The Mockingbird and the Moose

Getting back into the swing of things musical. 

Trying to finish some of the smaller tunes i have lying around, then maybe look at how they all fit together for some sort of collection. 

Which usually means new tunes emerge as well.....this is one of them. 

A little clockwork instrumental.

Shrodinger's PIano next  or perhaps a couple of tunes from A Charlie Brown Christmas...x



Schroeder's Cat

An updated version of "Life in a Northern Town"......

I posted this a while ago in Demo form and here's a more finished version. Snippets of conversation from a Cleethorpes charity shop and an instrumental with strings and some brass in there now too.

Probably thinking about how lives intersect with others in mundane ways and places. Charity shops allow you to cross paths with other lives objects too, I wonder how Darren and Julie got on......

I never did buy those Farah Slacks....

Life in a Northern Town

Another clockwork instrumental that may make the album. This took the progression from a little opening tune for Klang that i didn't know what to do with and added moogs and cut up guitars, woodwind and pianos.

Inspired by a Delia Derbyshire tune of the same name....

Science and Health

Another little clockwork instrumental...Romaji (Romanized Japanese).

Very much hoping to find a Japanese home for the album, this may make an EP after or follow up.

I bought the pickup sticks in a charity shop and use them a lot for percussion tracks. 

Woodwind, piano, toy piano and moog also to the fore in this one.

Romaji

A remix i did for Belfast friends Not Squares....

It's a lovely upbeat original so i controversially made things more downtempo but swingy.....and i got to play around with some vocal tranposition fun.

Not Squares - Fall Far (Coney Island Sound Remix)

A remix i did for the ever wonderful Fonda 500. This is on their I Hate Fonda 500 album which features a host of remixing talent tackling their latest album.

This was a gentle atmospheric little tune on their I Heart Fonda 500 Album:
https://fonda500.bandcamp.com/track/the-hearts-that-rarely-roar

The remix album is also available on Tape and CD from their bandcamp:

https://fonda500.bandcamp.com/album/i-hate-fonda-500

Fonda 500 "The Hearts That Rarely Roar" (Coney Island Sound Remix)

The Tabbynacle Choir and their disco version of "Deck the Halls", from a Flexidisc release in 1982.

Enjoy;

Tabbynacle Choir-Deck the Halls (Audio Christmas Card)

Archival Tendencies///////Tonight We're Gonna Remix Like it's 1999?


So Christmas and New Year is a time for catching up.

I picked up an old Jen Sx1000 synth from Mark @Scoredrawmusic.com in Belfast. 

As i often do I posted a picture on Flickr which Alex from Tracer AMC commented on:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31547734@N08/5307977556/

Myself and Mark had done a Remix for Tracer which used the Jen sometime around the end of 1999 so well before Coney Island Sound, Mark's Skibunny (band) and in the early days of Olympic Lifts before i was involved.

I'd been looking for a copy when i moved house recently but with no luck. Alex very kindly tracked it down and i'm posting it in all its....lofi....glory here.
It was definitely the first remix i'd done, probably the first piece of music I completed too. I think we were keen on Triple Five Soul clothing at the time hence the moniker.

Hasn't aged that badly, some clicks and pops but hey, we were learning! Acid 1, Pentium 2/3 PC and some guitar instructional samples from a record i'd found around the time.

Check out

http://www.traceramc.co.uk/
http://www.inpartmaint.com/thomason/top.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracer_AMC

http://www.scoredrawmusic.com/
http://www.scoredrawmusic.com/?page_id=265

Tracer AMC-Carin (Triple Five Soul Mix)(Pre Coney Island Sound circa 1999)

The debut album from Coney Island Sound: Klang!, is released on the Score Draw Music label and accompanied by remixes from Bitmap, Thrash Hat and Minotaur Shock.

It's a collage of light hearted cut-and-paste electronic music made at the seaside by sound archivist, Ewan Gordon.

Coney Island Sound is a project that fuses together samples of old recordings, junkshop synths, found sounds and acoustic instruments in a folk and electronica influenced mix.

Recently, "The Lemonade Song" was chosen as Lauren Laverne's headphones moment on her BBC6 Music breakfast show. 

Additionally Introducing Mr Kellogg was featured on Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone and Klang aired on national and regional BBC Introducing shows including Tom Robinson's show and BBC Across The Line.

Album tracks regularly feature on Amazing Radio.

A previous 7” release from Coney Island Sound was supported by BBC6 Music, BBC Radio Ulster, XFM, Resonance FM and Amazing Radio.

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