"The music-obsessed, drinking man's songwriter of choice" LOUDER THAN WAR

Transpire Digital is an independent and open genre record label based in the United Kingdom. Founded in April 2012 with the mission to push talent forwards.


Demos & Licensing: sales@transpire-digital.com

With a shared love of battered books and old films, The Comet Line is the sound of cars crashing in slow motion, of lives sliding imperceptibly out of sync, and of plans going horribly awry.
At its core The Comet Line is the sound of cars colliding and hearts breaking just out of the line of sight. It’s the sound of brilliant plans going to waste and innocent games gone tragically wrong; of night-sweats and deep, menacing dreams you can’t wake up from. 

Finally, The Comet Line is the sound of what happens when the lights go out. Enjoy.

Making things go beep and bang using a homemade contraption that I like to call the BassCase - a DAWless synth case with an OPZ, Organelle M and three Volcas - Kick, Sample and Bass.  FX through two mini Kaoss Pads and a Yellow Fall delay pedal, multitrack recording on a Zoom H6 and finally belting into the eardrums of all and sundry through a pair of minirig speakers and sub :)

*** First Sample Pack coming soon! ***

Founded in the UK in 2008, The Quietus is one of the world’s leading independent websites for quality longform writing on visionary and modernist music and culture, covering all genres with an equal weighting.

The Quietus treats the emerging artists of the genre-melting present with the same reverence the mainstream reserves for the stale canon of yesteryear. We look to reappraise and revitalise those artistic pioneers abandoned in the hinterland.

We champion trailblazing and illuminating cultural journalism from around the world – numerous successful writers and broadcasters are first published on our pages.

After years held back by a creaking old website, The Quietus (tQ to our friends) has been regenerated, providing an indispensable portal to a realm of cultural discovery, devilment and debate.

“The Quietus believes in the power of cultural criticism to cut through the noise of social media and the ultimately disappointing guidance of tech platform algorithms. To write down a series of words that have never been combined before, expressing a complex series of emotions, thoughts and experiences that unites writer and reader at a level that feels telepathic and changes the joint experience of reality: That is the definition of magic.” – tQ Co-founder John Doran.

Sonnox is a software company dedicated to designing high quality audio processing plug-ins. Oxford Plugins are used by professionals all over the world for a wide range of audio applications, from music to broadcast and post production.

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