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Songs from the edge of somewhere. A place that doesn’t announce itself. You step in and can’t tell if you’ve walked into a protest, a party, or the end of something.

Conil’s music comes from the blues and from the life that followed it. A voice marked by the places it’s been.

People heard it early.
Danny Thompson said, “You don’t sound like anyone else.”
Tchad Blake still plays Strange Part of the Country.
Peter Green walked into the studio one afternoon and cut a track.

The record didn’t arrive with noise. It surfaced—four stars in Q Magazine, a Blues Matters cover, a single reaching number three on the U.S. Alternative Radio Chart.

The early years were England. Then came New Orleans, New York, Berlin, the Himalayas, Kilimanjaro.

The second album is close now. Marc Ribot on guitar. Danny Thompson’s final sessions. Tchad Blake in Wales.

Some things reveal themselves only at the end.

"Simon's music and visuals are deep, emotive pieces, reminiscent of Chris & Cosey and Coil whilst still showing a crisp contemporary edge" PLEX

I have been a musician and producer for 35 years with releases on Wolf Trap, MixTape, On Test, Deca Rhythm, Domestica, Taro Records, Low Noise Productions, Wolf Trap and Werra Foxma I formed electronic post punk band Twelve 88 Cartel in 1984, was bass player in Psylons and later formed Seatman Separator with former Psylons playmates Keith Seatman and Jack Packer.

Since making my club DJ debut at Geushky in Portsmouth in 1995 I've played alongside some of techno’s finest names including Regis, Mark Broom, Oliver Ho, Truss, Ancient Methods, Darren Price, Billy Nasty, Ian Void, Umek, Aubrey, Actress, Luke Slater, Terry Mitchell Nax Acid and many more and have performed live A/V shows for Plex and Colony at Corsica Studios.

On radio I currently have a monthly show on Seance Radio which is broadcast on Sundays at 5pm and has featured guest mixes from The Gasman, DVNT, Stephanie Merchak, Lair, TVO, Kritzkom, Hence Therefore, Inge K and Dot Product and many others. I have also recorded guest mixes for Decoding The Void, Taro Records, Le Catalyste, Recovery Radio Show, A Darker Wave, Bleep43 and Det Sync. I also did a monthly show on Fnoob Techno Radio for two years which had guests including Billy Allen, Kamikaze Space Programme, Hiroaki Iizuka and Manni Dee.


infektedheadz crusty dub punk for the kontaminated people 
Marc from the Infekted Headz and I go way back to the ‘90s and hardcore front-line protests and the infamous London squat-party scene.

We reconnected via the internet many years later and Marc started sending some fantastic tunes for The Glorious Rant Show and his tracks nestled neatly amidst fresh hip-hop/dub and trad/fusion coming out of South East Asia.

In summary the first albums worth of tunes that were compiled and then featured on both the radio show and then released on Thang Long Records:

https://thanglongrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dub-for-the-kontaminated


.	87 Dub 05:33 
		
	2.	Los Banditos Del Diablo 04:20 
	
	3.	Don Dub 04:51 
	
	4.	Refugee Dub 05:18 
	
	5.	Viv in a Babylon 05:41 
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	6.	Atmosphere 04:09 
	
	7.	Piggy Truck 04:08 


One of the first tracks played was Refugee Dub and an intro featuring Ennio Morricano’s classic chimes from ‘??? once upon a time in the west ??, it  was irresistible – I had to play it on the show. 
The bass line in Don Dub also fitted in nicely, with well paced bass n drums and  full of floaty vocal samples. The real Pièce de résistance on the album is 87 Dub – when we came to releasing it and deciding on track order I encouraged the piece to go right up front. Despite the initial groove being in the very familiar drum and bass patterns, this track has a unique warmth, exquisite timing and high-rising vibration, and not so in your face, as a lot of D+B. We love it, and has to be one of our most played tracks of the year.
The album finishes with a tune to ensure none of us forget our punk routes and the Infekted Headz nod towards the Dead Kennedys with their own version of Police Truck.

https://thanglongrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fuckwar-24

The second album we worked on was outtakes (or tRackes *** youll have to decide on this bit!) from cxxxxx Camden studio xxxx and a collection of anti-war songs – it’s called FuckWar’24
TLR were more than keen to feature such greats as Adrian Sherwood from the legendary On-U Sound , his daughter – Denise Sherwood performs a haunting solo affected by the horrors of Gaza:
1000 Tears
The album opens with the hefty vocals of Jenny Bellestar (of Bellestar fame) – Living Hell
My Mother was a Refugee has that raggy London squat sound, hefty steppers accompanied by the almighty toasting vocals of MC Juggernaut. War in a Babylon follows in a similar vain, however it is much more jump-up.

As we are a label based in Vietnam we spent a long time thinking about how to split any money that may be received from FuckWar ‘24. Although a horrendous amount of choice for those in desperate need in 2024, we opted for something that was continuous and poignant to Vietnam.
 
This is a NOT-FOR-PROFIT Operation. 
All donations go directly to The Mines Advisory Group Vietnam 
The Album is made and compiled by Infekted Headz and friends: 

The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) is a global humanitarian and advocacy organisation that finds, removes and destroys landmines, cluster munitions and unexploded bombs from places affected by conflict. 

www.maginternational.org/what-we-do/where-we-work/vietnam/ 

Both Infekted Headz albums along with Marc’s musical genius and constant enthusiasm have been key to the impressive rise of the Thang Long Record label in its first year of 2024.
We are looking forward to new material, further collaboration and some live gigs in the Year of the Snake.

All the best

The Glorious Rant





I contemplate my seventh decade with a fresh impetus to make it memorable and finally prioritise personal love or disappointment ahead of mysteries of the physical universe.
 
I'm a perfectionist and 'jack of all trades', sing and most frequently play drums, electric and acoustic guitar, bass guitar, piano, keyboards, alto and tenor saxophone. All my work is self-written, and recorded and produced at home. Lovingly maintained tape machines have been superseded by multi-track hard-disk recording (still Emagic Logic 5.5.1 for Windows).

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