am not getting the song in my email, could someone help with a direct download or something :)

Mr Fogg has just done an fanstastic write-up of some of the songs he loves. An insight into how he's come to make such an awesome song. Read it here: http://safetyfunandlearning.com/2012/01/28/148-mr-fogg-told-me-to/

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Tycho "Awake" LP on Ghostly International
Release date: MARCH 18, 2014

Purchase "Awake": shop.iso50.com/collections/awake

formats:
CD/LP/DIGITAL

artwork by:
ISO50

For nearly a decade, Tycho has been known as the musical alias of Scott Hansen, but with the release of Awake – his second LP for Ghostly International – the solo project has evolved into a three-piece band. Relating closer to post-rock than ambient soundscapes, the record is situated in the present, sounding more like Hansen than drawing from his influences. “This is, in many ways, the first true Tycho record.”

Following 2011’s Dive LP, the San Francisco-based designer toured extensively, and with a full band on stage, his sound coalesced into a percussive, organic whole. Zac Brown (guitars, bass) rejoined Scott on the road for this tour, but it was the particular addition of Rory O’Connor’s live drumming that ultimately sent Hansen back to the studio with a more precise vision. “After the tour, I decided that I wanted to capture the more energetic, driven sound of the live show on the next album,” Hansen recalls. Bringing musicians into Tycho’s creative process was a step towards expanding his own songwriting and advancing the project beyond its current sound.

In a cabin near Tahoe last winter, Zac and Scott began fleshing out the structure of the new record, but it wasn’t until they set up shop in the hills of Santa Cruz with Rory that it all fell into place. “It crystallized the vision of how the drums would come to the forefront on this record,” says Hansen. The sound was much more stripped-down and concise with more organic instruments in the fold. Songs like “Montana” and “Awake” are a departure from Tycho’s previous material – unique to the group effort poured into the songs on the new record – while “See” and “Dye” echo ideas from previous works, bridging a middle ground between the old and new. Working with Count Eldridge, who also engineered Dive, the team could fixate on the pulses that Tycho might previously layer under synthesizers and exhume them with distinct bass and guitar patterns.

Also known for his design work as ISO50, Hansen’s visual and sonic efforts have dovetailed throughout the course of his career. “This is the first time in my life I've dropped everything to focus on one artistic pursuit,” notes Hansen. Previous Tycho releases came to fruition when an amalgam of songs were nearing completion, but Awake is where music becomes the focus and true expression becomes the result.

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Awake

"I'll Keep Coming" (04) from the new Low Roar album, 0. 
Pre-order at bit.ly/1iTCbp6.

I'll Keep Coming

When I woke up this morning and heard a singing comet I couldn't resist singing something back. This rough and ready little ode to the spirit of adventure and solar-powered batteries is the result. Think of it as a duet between Mr Fogg and Comet 67P.

Don't Let The Light Go Out

Earlier this year Micachu scored Jonathan Glazer's movie Under The Skin starring Scarlett Johansson. Seven years before that - and two years before her debut album came out - she made this furious and impatient remix of the original 7-inch version of Seciov that has never been heard until now.

Re-discovered in a pile of old hard drives earlier this month and uploaded as a document of what we were both thinking and doing at the time - Mica restlessly experimenting with sounds and rhythms and me recording songs in my bedroom with a £30 microphone.

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Seciov (Micachu 2007 Remix)

Written arranged and performed by Mr Fogg

Produced by Valgeir Sigurdsson and Mr Fogg
Mixed by Valgeir Sigurdsson



Stay Out Of The Sun

Low Roar - Nobody Else

Lyrics:

We are brilliant
We are lucky
And we don't need your help
The best food
The best genes
We look after ourselves

And you know
If we got here
Then so could anyone else
Before point at me
Take a look at yourself

We don't crawl out of the swamp
Unless we get what we want
Unless we get what we want
Unless we get get get oh no
We don't crawl out of the swamp
Unless we get what we want
Unless we get what we want
Unless we get get get oh

Look yourself in the eye
You'll see you could be like me
My brains
My luck
My dollars is all you need

We don't crawl out of the swamp
Unless we get what we want
Unless we get what we want
Unless we get get get oh no
We don't crawl out of the swamp
Unless we get what we want
Unless we get what we want
Unless we get get get oh

We Don't Crawl Out Of The Swamp (Unless We Get What We Want)

Where I live, deep in the countryside, the roads are empty of cars. There are no planes in the sky. It is perfectly silent. 

I spend all day at home with my children, and when I leave the house once a day I see nobody else on the footpath. 

We are sealed off from the rest of the world with the sunshine and the apple blossom. 

On the surface, we are living in paradise. But we are only here because we are in the midst of a global crisis that is killing thousands of people every day. Holding those two ideas in your head at the same time is exhausting and disorienting. And this song is the best way I know to express that.

Lyrics:

We are forced to live
In Paradise
The four of us
Don't go outside
We play games and build and climb
And the sun shines

When your car's not racing
There's less blur at this pace, and
How clear I see your faces

I am the threat that you see through
I am the heat
you don't feel
Till I'm under you

We are forced to live
In Paradise
The four of us
Meanwhile outside
They put their face against the fire
Day after night

If you hear me complaining
About cancelled trips on planes, then
Show me where I'm failing

I am the threat that you see through
I am the heat 
You don't feel
Till I'm under you

5 June 2020

In Paradise

Hours

Oxford-based musician and founder of Kicking Ink Recordings. 

"Genius" - NME / "Stunning" - Dazed & Confused / "Wonderful" - Zane Lowe, BBC Radio 1

office@kickinginkrecordings.co.uk

Stay Out Of The Sun

Mr Fogg

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