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Recipe for a sunny day. 
Grab a chair, get your favourite book, 
mix a drink, sit in the sun. 
 

Sitting in the Sun

I'm ready to go! But where is the question? Maybe on the way to an old fashioned double album.

I'm Ready To Go

Mujha jinye dirvyanth

This is a suite (yes, very fancy!) of songs that is a fairly complete demo of the first side of an orchestral pop album I've been tinkering with for about 5 years. It started with the melody that you hear first, which I heard first in the middle of a bad nights sleep. And when I say heard, I really did think that someone was playing a radio somewhere. I walked around the house listening but soon realised it was in my head! I'll put it down to the fact that I was deep in study at Uni at the time for my music degree and was pretty much drowning in music. Anyway, I sang it into my phone and for once it sounded interesting the next morning (they rarely do). I developed the classical bit first but the rest just kind of grew organically, using the end of a piece to suggest the next piece. It's meant to be like a series of dreams that run together. I really enjoyed the process, hope you enjoy the results.

Requiem for the Night

More pop fun. Played this song in my first band in the mid/late 70's. Great fun revisiting it.

Hot on the heels of Bassnectar's Freestyle EP comes this brand new Jantsen single from Amorphous Music.

Last heard on the Freestyle Mixtape, this delirious slice of bass rave comes in original or Bassnectar remix. 

Available exclusively through Beatport:
http://www.beatport.com/release/when-the-beats-drop-single/987471

Get the Freestyle EP:
http://www.bassnectar.net/freestyle/


Jantsen - When The Beats Drop (Bassnectar Remix)

The Trunk Archives are an ongoing ever growing collection of obscure Beat Antique tracks. These pieces have been collected over the years and never found a spot on our previous releases. The Trunk Achieves is a place for new experimental Beats Antique tracks to find a home. Hope you enjoy... 

Fratres for Violin and Piano - (Arvo Part Remix - Beats Antique)

FREE DOWNLOAD HERE - 
http://beatsantique.bandcamp.com/track/daft-punk-get-lucky-feat-charles-butler-beats-antique-remix

This remix / cover came about because an old school friend of David Satori by the name of Charles Butler decided to post a video of himself playing a little diddy called "Get Lucky' from the badass french duo known as DAFT PUNK! This video inspired Beats Antique to feat. Charles in a collaboration and here you go! Charles is the reason David from Beats Antique plays Banjo so its been a pleasure collaborating with this fine young gentleman once again. Hope you enjoy and check out Charles's original cover and his music here ! ROCK ON ! 

Charles Butler YouTube 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kzt5dzyy-Q 

Charles Butler Music 
solo banjo version 
https://soundcloud.com/charlesbutler/get-lucky-solo-banjo

www.charlesbutler.net

Credits
released 31 May 2013 

Charles Butler - Banjo and Dobro 
David Satori - Bass, Percussion, Production 
Sidecar Tommy - Drums

Mastering and additional Engineering by Eric Oberthaler https://witchdoctormastering.com 

DAFT PUNK - GET LUCKY  (feat. Charles Butler) - Beats Antique - COVER

'JazzFluteSpaceMan' (or JFSM if you like) started as a tongue in cheek name for one of the recitals I did when I went back to College to study the flute. It kind of stuck, and Michael Ingvarson and myself are using it as a name for a project we're developing at the moment. Working out of Mike's 'Big Hand' studio and utilising his studio/keyboard expertise we are pushing each other to make the songs as rhythmically and sonically interesting as we can.
Marrying acoustic instruments with loops and electronica and of course some 70's jazz flute stylings, we are hoping to capture a 'Retro Futuristic' sound that raps around some (hopefully) good pop tunes. 

Great news! The 'jazzflutespaceman' album is now complete and available on CD Baby, iTunes and various other streaming apps.

The other, 'trampoline' set of songs is an album that I have done at home in my own, more limited studio. This album was designed to be a musical autobiography, with the songs tracking through childhood, to the present, and beyond. I loved the early albums of The Moody Blues, ('Days of Future Past' and 'In Search of the lost Chord' in particular) and I've borrowed from them the feeling of the concept album within the group of songs. 

The Trampoline album is now available on Bandcamp under the name 'The Woodshedder'. A bit confusing I know but I've been trying to find the right name for my solo stuff for a while now and the 'The Woodshedders' was an original band I started in the early 90's. From now on however I think all my solo stuff will be under the name 'James M' which I'm using for my latest collection of tunes (see below). 

Lastly I'm currently working on a new set of songs under the title 'The Lost 70's Double Album'. The title says it all, this is the album I would have made if I could have in the early 1970's.  I've taken inspiration from one of my favourite albums, Todd Rundgrens 'Something/Anything'. He described the first side as a "bouquet of ear catching melodies" and thats what I'm aspiring towards. 

P.S. Mike and I will also eventually get around to a new 'jazzflutespaceman' recording. You can check out some initial explorations on our Facebook page.

Sitting in the Sun

James Macdonald

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