Ghostpoet - Cold Win(Weir Mix)

I am almost relieved more than anything else to finally announce I've actually managed to finish and upload a new song! I looked back at the original files and I actually started this back in 2012. I realise now also that I haven't completed anything for almost four years.
This is probably one of the most complex pieces of music I've written, so many layers of strings, drum patterns, time signatures and a constant fight to stop the final mixdown sounding like a dirgeful wall of noise.
I'm not really sure what it is anymore. It's sort of my homage to Morricone's spaghetti western scores.
It's called El Toro, I hope you don't think it's bullshit.
Incredible original artwork by my man Mr Mostyn.
Please give it a listen, I'd love to hear what you think, it's also free to download because I'm nice like that. Tell your mums and dads...x

El Toro

The Weir - Leave Me Alone ft Adrian Champion & Natascha Eleonore

The Weir - Run Before You Walk ft Logan &amp; Frank Costa

Recording of my live set at Club EQ, Southsea on 07/04/12.

Tracklisting:
TRAIL OF THE DEAD - GIANTS CAUSEWAY
PELICAN CITY - THE SEARCH
sample from THE PARKING LOT MOVIE
LEFTFIELD - SWORDS(weir edit)
THE WEIR - LEAVE ME ALONE ft ADRIAN CHAMPION
ARCHIVE - COLLAPSE COLLIDE
DJ SHADOW - FIXED INCOME
THE WEIR - POSITIVE VIBES ft GOODWORD
GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR - STATIC
sample from THE THIN RED LINE
BECK - EVERYBODY'S GOTTA LEARN SOMETIME(weir edit)
HANDSOME BOY MODELLING SCHOOL - SUNSHINE
sample from FOALS - BLUE BLOOD
THE WEIR - CONFRONT ft SEEZ MICS
RJD2 - NEW RADIUS
sample from WHITE LIGHTNIN'
RADIOHEAD - TALKSHOW HOST
ANTICON - SAVIOR
THE WEIR - WE WALK BETWEEN RAINDROPS
sample from ROCKY IV
sample from RJD2 - FINAL FRONTIER

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The Weir - Live Set

The Weir - Confront ft SeezMics

The Weir - We Walk Between Raindrops

Kassassin Street - Play Dead RMX

Hailing from Southsea, UK is the one man production army that is The Weir. For over a decade his blend of Hip Hop influenced bedroom composition has trickled out with a consistency in quality but more importantly growth. 

Never one to shy away from experimentation, his earlier instrumental releases were clearly inspired by the beats of producers such as the RZA, Prince Paul, DJ Shadow, Pete Rock and DJ Premier, but his sound has always progressed via a string of self released and inventively titled EP's - Fandango!, Airborne Toxic Event, Devil May Care and the bemusing Legend of Kid Icarus - the backdrop to a mystical fantasy set against a distant stratosphere, a soundscape of slipstreams and turbulence, cool breezes and blue sky. All of this experience acted as an experimental love letter to the aforementioned artists and to others such as composer Ennio Morricone and producer Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, the music was clearly becoming something more than just beats and noise.

Skyhooks brought it all back home. To hip hop. To song. Without eschewing the more experimental edge crafted previously. Skyhooks is clearly still being approached as a soundtrack, to what? Only the Weir knows and we, the listeners can only speculate. This digital only release set the groundwork for what has become The Weir of today, which is more than a bedroom artist; a craftsman, and he shows no sign of slowing down. Recently producing a track with Seez Mics from Educated Consumers. Winning the remix competition for Laura Vane & The Vipertone's 110% coming out on Unique Records in June 2012 and the possibility of a physical release of Skyhooks. The Weir is an artist who wants to move forward, insists on change - whilst never forgetting his roots.

With a promo EP to be released this summer which will include tracks from Skyhooks, the Seez Mics track and a smattering of new material and with a beautiful new EP of instrumentals entitled 'Gaslamp Romance' in the can and ready to go - we'll be hearing much more from the Weir, the only question is when?

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