Dowlais Ironworks
Dowlais Ironworks
Dowlais Ironworks
Dowlais Ironworks
Dowlais Ironworks
Dowlais Ironworks
Dowlais Ironworks
Dowlais Ironworks
Dowlais Ironworks
Dowlais Ironworks
Dowlais Ironworks
Dowlais Ironworks
Dowlais Ironworks
Dowlais Ironworks
Dowlais Ironworks
Dowlais Ironworks

Founded 1759,
under John Guest it progressed;
By 1845,
biggest in the world for iron.

Dowlais Ironworks
Dowlais Ironworks
Dowlais Ironworks
Dowlais Ironworks

88 000 tons a year;
18 blast furnaces;
Supplier to the first railway;
88 hundred working here.

Dowlais Ironworks
Dowlais Ironworks
Dowlais Ironworks
Dowlais Ironworks

First to produce Bessemer (Dowlais Ironworks),
in 1865 (Dowlais Ironworks);
Innovation changed the world (Dowlais Ironworks):
Steel rolled in Merthyr (Dowlais Ironworks).

Dowlais Ironworks
Dowlais Ironworks
Dowlais Ironworks
Dowlais Ironworks


Dowlais Ironworks (excerpt)

Stuttgarter Strasse
road to the future,
Northern Avenue
Junction 32.

McArthurGlen is
displacing Pyle,
Margam Park is
zehr versatile.

1-2-3-4, M4, M4
1-2-3-4, M4, M4

Passing Port Talbot
closed windows, despair,
passion for acting,
a breath of fresh air.

Baglan is changing
solvents vacated,
Now they are making
tissue paper.

1-2-3-4, M4, M4
1-2-3-4, M4, M4

Take the next exit
to Briton Ferry,
The Waterfront or
onwards to Sketty,

Pont Abraham soon
so put your foot down,
refuel and refresh
and turn the car round.

1-2-3-4, M4, M4
1-2-3-4, M4, M4

M Vier (excerpt)

D.R.A.G.O.N. D.A.T.A
Dragon Data
D.R.A.G.O.N. D.A.T.A
Dragon Data

Advanced 8-bit CPU
with an RS-232

Dragon User magazine;
Microdeal is supporting

D.R.A.G.O.N. D.A.T.A
DRAGON DATA
D.R.A.G.O.N. D.A.T.A
DRAGON DATA

Only showing upper case,
Shouting out it lost its place

Games and graphics we want more,
Want Sinclair or Commodore

D.R.A.G.O.N. D.A.T.A
Dragon Data
D.R.A.G.O.N. D.A.T.A
Dragon Data

32 kilobytes random access memory
64 kilobytes random access memory

Welsh computer was ill-starred
Business sold to Eurohard

Emulators keep alive
And the Dragon Archive

D.R.A.G.O.N. D.A.T.A
Dragon Data
D.R.A.G.O.N. D.A.T.A
Dragon Data 

D.R.A.G.O.N. D.A.T.A. (excerpt)

Aberthaw B
Aberthaw B
Aberthaw B
Aberthaw B
Aberthaw B
Aberthaw B
Aberthaw B
Aberthaw B
Aberthaw B
Aberthaw B
Aberthaw B
Aberthaw B
Aberthaw B
Aberthaw B
Aberthaw B
Aberthaw B

Aberthaw B (coal-fired power station)
Next to the sea (outfall brings bass for fishermen)

1500 MW
Opened early 70s
Three boilers burning coal
making power is the goal

Aberthaw B (coal-fired power station)
Next to the sea (outfall brings bass for fishermen)

All the coal it comes by rail
Most of it it comes from Wales
Neath, Aberpergwm line
Onllwyn, Cwmgwrach to Hirwaun.

Aberthaw B (coal-fired power station)
Next to the sea (outfall brings bass for fishermen)

Now to make emissions less:
low-sulphur coal, some biomass,
Flue gas desulphurised -
not enough in some folks' eyes.

Aberthaw B (coal-fired power station)
Next to the sea (outfall brings bass for fishermen)

Aberthaw B (coal-fired power station)
Next to the sea (outfall brings bass for fishermen)

Aberthaw B (coal-fired power station)
Next to the sea (outfall brings bass for fishermen)

Aberthaw B (coal-fired power station)
Next to the sea (outfall brings bass for fishermen)

Aberthaw B (excerpt)

Sleighbells...choirs...brass...the grammar of 'Christmas' music is identifiable to the point of cliche. Is it possible to make music that has none of these signature sounds, but is still 'Christmassy'? If so, what could it sound like? Here is my attempt at a Christmas track without the usual yuletide tricks. It's inspired by watching some old Morecambe and Wise Christmas specials, in particular those sketches where Ernie is trying to introduce the guest in his serious, slightly smarmy way, whilst Eric is pratting about, disrupting his flow. I was in a hotel room in Berlin at the time, which probably explains the rest of the musical grammar on display. 

Erich'n'Ernie

DJ Magazine: "Your robot butler will love it"

“Stuttgarter Strasse...road to the future”

Part homage to a certain legendary German synth quartet, part history lesson at the Isaac Asimov School for Young Robots, Stuttgarter Strasse is the sound of teknologische musik in an era of progress and a spirit of European friendship. Ansichtskarten aus Wales (“Postcards from Wales”), a 4-track EP based on an imaginary road trip through South Wales by the aforementioned German synth pioneers is available to download for your listening pleasure from Bandcamp, iTunes and all good digital retailers, with a vinyl release planned for later in 2012. 

All tracks written, recorded and produced by Stuttgarter Strasse. Copyright 2011.
Mastered by Donal Whelan at Hafod Mastering.
Sleeve by Bubblewrap Collective: <a href="http://www.bubblewrapcollective.co.uk">www.bubblewrapcollective.co.uk</a>
Photos: Old Merthyr Tydfil, Stuart Herbert, <a href="http://www.old-computers.com">www.old-computers.com</a>, Chris Bell.

Disorient Hearing DH001

PRESS FOR STUTTGARTER STRASSE:

DJ Magazine: "Your robot butler will love it"

Clash Music: http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/wax-analysis-3

"...now short pop over the River Severn to Cardiff home to Counter Cultural Heroes Super Furry Animals and a whole host of ambient / noise freaks. One such freak is Justin Toland who records under various names such as Location Baked.

http://locationbaked.bandcamp.com/ and most recently Stuttgarter Strasse
http://soundcloud.com/stuttgarter-strasse

A Deutsche electronische themed tribute to South Wales in his own words: "Stuttgarter Strasse...Road to the future”..

Part homage to a certain legendary German synth quartet, part history lesson at the Isaac Asimov School for Young Robots, Stuttgarter Strasse is the sound of teknologische musik in an era of progress and a spirit of European friendship. "Ansichtskarten aus Wales (“Postcards from Wales”), a 4-track EP based on an imaginary road trip through South Wales by the aforementioned German synth pioneers will be available to download for your listening pleasure in November 2011, with a vinyl release planned for 2012."

Keep an ear out for this youngster - interesting art and music concepts are bound to flow from his digital hive over the coming years..."

Buzz Magazine, December 2011/January 2012:
"[Dowlais Ironworks'] prominent use of vocoder and slow-to-flatlining beats remind me of what Cylob was doing circa Cut the Midrange, Drop the Bass. This pleases me." (Noel Gardner)

Electroneg:
"Rather deliciously bonkers"

While I've got your attention, you might like to check out the musique concrete/sample-based loops of my other project, Location Baked, also on soundcloud. Ta.