80's Rock

For Fans of:
Dire Straits, Duran Duran, INXS, Midnight Oil, New Order, OMD, R.E.M, Queen, Simple Minds, The Sisters of Mercy, Tears For Fears, The Bangles, The Cure, The Police, U2, 4AD

Red Nova:
Marty Ness - Guitar, Vocal, Bass, Keys
Josh Parker - Drums, Lead Guitar

The Roland Stoves (aka The Interzone amongst other monikers) were pioneers in the techno, electronica and ambient scenes from the early 90's. Many recordings were made during the period '91 - '96, and at least three albums, several eps and a full length promo video were completed, but nothing received a general release. 

In the end only a few demos ever made it out of their Moonbase Alpha studio, mainly handed personally to contemporary artists like Aphex Twin, Orbital, The Shamen, The Orb, Drum Club, Eat Static, Coldcut etc. and a multitude of techno DJs. 

It seems that the diversity of styles that were being output made for an unlikely fit with the various labels of the time. A possible release on Aphex's Rephlex imprint was not mutually agreed, Mighty Force (who first issued Aphex Twin's Didgeridoo) couldn't take it all on board, Planet Dog appeared unreachable and discussions with Rob at Warp were unfortunately cut short.. Even an introduction to Novamute from Richie Hawtin led nowhere leaving The Stoves languishing in the wilderness.

The tracks featured here are from a selection of remasters in an ongoing project to resurrect The Roland Stoves from obscurity...

'High audio cuisine specially blended by machine'

Outa Interzone with The Roland Stoves down in Devon to The Soundbeams via Decibel and Visibel up in London along with much Big Chilling to a new aspect in Spain. Baggins has been playing and making music (and visuals) for quite some time now. Other tunes can be found elsewhere so I'm gonna use this profile to upload a few sketches / unfinished ideas and collaborations that happened along the way...

The Soundbeams project started life when Jez Jekyll and Chris Bagust began producing tunes together in London at the end of the '90s. Various recording trips to a family hideout on the Cornish coast helped develop a broadly chilled out melodic vein. Meanwhile back in London a more funky dance orientated outlook was embraced.

Further trips to the house by the sea in Cornwall added a fresh vibe and enabled various collaborations to blossom. Vocal tracks were laid down with Robin Scott's (M - Pop Music) daughter Djalenga and later Joan Coffey, bass from Dom Orr (who has since recorded and played live with us) and extra synthetics from DJ Docleaf and Sam Cowling.

A good collection of tracks grew up out of these partnerships, which was later augmented with O'Neil Wright, who became the third man on the team.

Enjoy!

Driven to write poetry, then songs, from an early age. It's a calling, it's from the heart and it just keeps on keeping on...

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