These are the Top 20 Most Played Tracks from Wud Records at SoundCloud in 2015.

We hope there are some you like! Thanks very much for your support. \,,/(^_^)\,,/

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20 Most Played Tracks of 2015

Well, its been six months since I last released a track and who better to create a new song with but the incredible Ren Faye! We wanted to create something upbeat, something chilled yet positive - and here it is. 

Hope you like it!

You can hear more of Ren's work at 
https://soundcloud.com/renfaye-1

Sunset Sky (feat. Ren Faye)

wanted to put this out for now,
im still working on it but felt like its time for a demo.

dirty hands demo.mp3

Appalachian Verdict

Lucia Santos (Vocais, guitarra, baixo e bateria eletronica)

2024

Perda De Tempo

Strange Town

My remix and master of The Western Den performed live at Telefunken Studios.
All audio files have been engineered and recorded by TELEFUNKEN Elektroakustik and are presented for educational and demonstrational purposes only.

The Western Den- Like You Do (Live) KRB Mix MP3

Party Man by Now.

Music and lyrics by Mark Drower.

Copyright © 1982 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1982 MGD Music/Explicit Music.

Musicians:
Mark Drower – vocals, acoustic guitar
Jon Kneebone – drums, percussion
George Davies – lead guitar

Also present but not plugged in:
Pok
Pete Rippin

PARTY MAN
I’m a Party Man
I live in squares
I move by threes and fours
Well I can say and do almost anything
Big Brother’s word is law

Believe me I’m a Party Man
Through and through
They own me to the core
Well I can read your thoughts, believe you me
Big Brother’s word is law

Believe me I’m a Party Man
Or so you’ll find
Plus good and the best
Well we’ll kill you and all your kind
Remove you like the rest

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be
B.B. without end
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be
B. B. – Amen

I’m a Party Man
I live in squares
I move by threes and fours
Well I can say and do almost anything
Big Brother’s word is law

Believe me I’m a Party Man
Through and through
They own me to the core
Well I can read your thoughts, believe you me
Big Brother’s word is law

Believe me we’re all Party Men
Or so you’ll find
Plus good and the best
Well we’ll kill you and all your kind
Remove you like the rest

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be
B.B. without end
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be
B. B. – Amen
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be
B.B. without it
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be
B. B. – Amen

We’re all Party Men
We live in squares
We move by threes and fours
Well we can say and do almost anything
Big Brother’s word is law

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be
B.B. without end
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be
B. B. – Amen
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be
B.B. without end
Without end

See also:
http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/now/inauguration
http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/now/inauguration/party-man
https://twitter.com/WudRecords

Inauguration

03/10/1982

Now: Party Man

Colt 44 by Dark Company, from the album Benign Inquisition.

*** demo/work-in-progress ***

Lyrics by P. Greatorex.
Music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex.

Copyright © 2015 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 2000 Explicit Music.

Recorded and engineered at Wud Records Studio One.

Performers:
Vocals - PJ Speed
Guitars - Zak Black
Keys - Josh Reynes
Bass - Maxx Damage
Drums - Sven Stiglund

COLT 44
Desdemona was a loner
Trouble was no-one had told her
What would be right
What would see right
What would come up and tap her on the shoulder

I see Lily kinda silly
Her icy stare was oh so chilly
Does she know it
Will she blow it
Does she see she’s got to show it

Ladies with long barrelled guns
Ladies with long barrelled guns
Ladies with long barrelled guns
Ladies with long barrelled guns, ah ah ah

Yeah Rebecca gotta connect her
Move the levers that will select her
Is she lying
Is she sighing
Is she saying you must protect her

Ladies with long barrelled guns
Ladies with long barrelled guns
Ladies with long barrelled guns
Ladies with long barrelled guns, ah ah ah

Esmerelda what was it held her
Does she think one day they'd sell her
Can she stay there
Just like lay there
Is she waiting for you to tell her

Ladies with long barrelled guns
Ladies with long barrelled guns
Ladies with long barrelled guns
Ladies with long barrelled guns, ah ah ah
Ladies with long barrelled guns
Ladies with long barrelled guns
Ladies with long barrelled guns
Ladies with long barrelled guns, ah ah ah

Fun Facts:
This song is in the key of Cm and is 136BPM.
The Plank was tuned down to Bb-Eb-Ab-Db to make things sound super-low.
Despite the cold icy bleak beauty of this song, we can reassure the listener that this particular tale had a happy ending a few years later.

See also:
http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/benign-inquisition
http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/dark-company/benign-inquisition/colt-44
twitter.com/#!/Dark_Company
https://twitter.com/WudRecords

Benign Inquisition

Colt 44

Downloads

Dark Company: Colt 44 (alpha mix)

Farsight by Flicker.
Album: At Least 1000 Words

Music by G. Davies/D. Danielli/G. Barbe/N. Board.

Performers:
George: guitars, synths, keys, samples
Dave: bass, drums, samples 

Samples:
Maharaj Ji, Jonathan Agnew, stinsv.com

Project directed by George Davies.

Drums recorded at Clark’s Cottage, West Putford, North Devon.
Strings recorded at Chiseldon House, Exeter.

Engineered, mixed, produced and mastered by Dave Danielli.
Remastered at Wud Records Studios (uk) 2012.
Remastered again at Wud Records Studios (EU) August 2023.

Originally released 31st July 2002.
First re-release 12th May 2012.
Second re-release 1st September 2023.

Copyright © 2023 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1995 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
* Farsight is the oldest piece on the album At Least 1000 Words.
* It is a piece that George wrote around March 1995, during the days of The Ug Brothers.
* Any recordings of the original have been lost to the vortices of time and the land of refugee cassettes – the Tape Void, as the Ug drummer Graham used to call it.
* Originally there were words for it too.
* These lyrics described the kingdoms of the mind, those inner spaces, places and temples; the mythology of the self that begins in early childhood, a mysterious and magical place that is a sanctuary where only you can go, a place that is reachable in the blink of an eye yet can be so far, far away in space, time and reality.
* This place never really allows any other individual, however close a relationship and understanding they may have with you, ‘access all areas’ – perhaps for the best, as we all need our own castle to retreat to occasionally.
* Farsight is dedicated to that very world that exists within all of us, our private fantasy space, where we go in our dreamtime, and the place from where art comes or is filtered through to us from the farside perhaps, and the zone you are in when you are ‘in the zone’.
* Dave then wrote some other more Ug-like words.
* The only two that can be recalled are “wondering why”.
* The Ug Brothers disbanded before the song was ever performed live.
* This was a great shame as Farsight was one of the band’s collective favourites and one of the last new pieces they worked upon.
* We have been unable to dig up any Ug Brothers recordings of Farsight.
* Natalie, the Ug singer, came up with a vocal melody for the lost lyrics penned by Dave.
* A small fragment of that melody remains, in the very beginning of the lead guitar part, the rest again vanished forever to the realms of nilspace.
* This instrumental version of Farsight seemed to be a convenient resolution.
* In as many ways as possible it is largely true to the original Ug Brothers version.
* The piece begins in G minor but ends in C major and runs at 120 bpm.
* That was exactly the speed of the rhythm of the bridge on the USS Enterprise in the first Star Trek series, a sound which we used from the website www.stinsv.com, and just seemed perfect by its synchronicity.
* As the piece begins you can hear a Klingon door opening, from the same site – to let you in.
* Flicker tried to get the sound of a motor race into the soundscape, but it didn’t work so was left out.
* The percussion is probably not so different from the original played by Graham, again lost to the mists of time.
* Dave certainly delayed coming in with the full drumkit to the exact same point as The Ug Brothers.
* Dave’s beautifully expressive and critically acclaimed bassline, played on the Fender, was what drove and made the piece distinct.
* All the guitar parts are played on the Ice Maiden apart from the lead line, which was recorded using Nicodemus.
* Full details here: https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words/farsight

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/
https://www.discogs.com/release/17114565-Flicker-At-Least-1000-Words
https://www.redbubble.com/people/flickermusic/shop
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
https://linktr.ee/flickermusic

At Least 1000 Words

Farsight

Download

Flicker: Farsight

Moonpath by Flicker.
Album: At Least 1000 Words

Music by G. Davies/D. Danielli.    

Performers:
George: guitars, Plank, synths, percussion
Dave: drums, djembe

Project directed by George Davies.

Drums recorded at The Old Mill Studios, Thorverton.
Recording engineer: Greg Daniels
Strings, synths and percussion recorded at Chiseldon House, Exeter.

Engineered, mixed, produced and mastered by Dave Danielli.
Remastered at Wud Records Studios (uk) 2012.
Remastered again at Wud Records Studios (EU) August 2023.

Originally released 31st July 2002.
First re-release 12th May 2012.
Second re-release 1st September 2023.

Copyright © 2023 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 2000 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
* After dark, when the moon is low in the sky, it makes a beautiful shiny road to itself all the way along the top of the sea.
* The moon always looks so beautiful on the sea at Sidmouth, where Flicker and their friends used to go.
* Sidmouth is bang in the centre of Lyme Bay, and the sea looks so big.
* The moonpath there was even better before all the breakwaters were built.
* The guitar parts for Moonpath were all played using the Ice Maiden, which is double tracked left and right.
* The rhythm guitar was the origin of the track and carries the melody as well.
* The tempo is 138 BPM and the key is C# minor.
* There are many hybrid chords involving fretted notes and harmoonics.
* Moonpath ends up on a B.
* Full details here: https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words/moonpath

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/at-least-1000-words/
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/moonpath
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words
https://www.discogs.com/release/17114565-Flicker-At-Least-1000-Words
https://www.redbubble.com/people/flickermusic/shop
https://twitter.com/flickermusic
https://www.instagram.com/wudrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/flickermusic
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
https://linktr.ee/flickermusic

Moonpath

Flicker: Moonpath

That's No Way to Pay a Bodyguard by Wud

Words and music by George Davies.
Recorded and produced by Ian Dent at Daylight Recording Studios, Honiton.
Remastered at Wud Records Studio One.

Copyright © 1985 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1983 Explicit Music.

Performers:
Ken Staple – voices
George Davies – guitars

THAT’S NO WAY TO PAY A BODYGUARD
Well there’s whisky on the shelf
What are you running from?
Do you know if you’re coming or going?
Well I have got an idea
You’ll need someone to look after you
Just like I know that I can do

And you know that’s not what I want from you
And you know it’s over when the day is through

Well that’s no way to pay a bodyguard
I don’t want to be tied down
And I am so afraid of you
Because I know just what you can do

And you know that’s not what I want from you
And you know it’s over when the day is through

Fun Facts:
This song in the key of Am was written a few days after George spent a day in the Stokeinteignhead music studio of a friend of his father’s.
Said friend of father played the two chords that begin the song as he tested that the necessary things were all on.
Having never seen the second chord before, George thought “Aha!”, although he spent most of the day fiddling with the rather magnificent organ and all its sounds and buttons and levers.
The instrumental section that goes C-Bb-F-G-Am-Em-Bm-Dm originally had some lyrics that made a chorus that spoke of such things as sheep, fields, grass and the relative merits of the colours thereof.
These were soon dropped due to being too silly.
Fairly near the start of this version George almost makes a right mess of the lead guitar - again - but just about manages to get away with it.
It’s take 3407, or thereabouts.
The guitar used for this song was a Westone Paduak, which has subsequently seen a fair amount of action over the years and now lives at Cliff’s house.
The sound of the guitar was never really quite right on this recording.
It sounded much better when played through an Electric Mistress and a proper amplifier.
This version also misses the drums and bass guitar.
Ken is extremely restrained in the performance.
The title of this song was too long for the eventual cassette that was produced, and was truncated to simply Bodyguard.
This song was something a campfire favourite amongst the Wud posse.

See also:
www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/wudtheband
www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/wud/daylight-demo/thats-no-way-to-pay-a-bodyguard
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/daylight-demo
https://twitter.com/WudRecords

Daylight Demo

That's No Way to Pay a Bodyguard

Wud: That's No Way to Pay a Bodyguard (DD)

Master of the Universe by Laughing Sun.
EP: Cander

This is a cover of a song by Hawkwind, from their 1971 album Xin Search of Space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Space
https://open.spotify.com/track/3q4hJtKfWjpJrEFtSFmqAf

MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE
I am the centre of this universe
The wind of time is blowing through me
And it’s all moving relative to me
It’s all a figment of my mind
In a world that I’ve designed
I’m charged with cosmic energy
Has the world gone mad or is it me?

I am the creator of this universe
And all that it was meant to be
So that we might learn to see
Foolishness that lives in us
And stupidity that we must suss
How to banish from our minds
If you call this living I must be blind.

★

Performers:
Simon Miller – voice, guitar
George Davies – guitar, voice
Marc Greatorex – bass

Credits:
Music and lyrics by Nik Turner and Dave Brock.
This arrangement by Laughing Sun.

Recorded live at 31 Cowick Lane, Exeter, 4th September 1985.
Remastered at Wud Records Studios 2023.

Originally released 12th September 1985.

Cover art by Pok.
Graphic design by Sam James.

Copyright ℗ 1971 United Artists.
Copyright © 1985 Wud Records.

About This Recording:
This recording is from a bootleg cassette recorded nearly 40 years ago. The cassette machine was placed to hopefully capture as much of the sound as possible, whilst being in a convenient spot to turn on and off.

Although we have managed a massive improvement to the quality of the audio, there remains a certain amount of hiss and rumble and ambient noise. Traffic can just about be heard passing by on the main road outside from time to time. There are various shufflings of feet and papers, clickings of effects pedals and machines, and so on. It’s a very genuine recording, and we love it for what it is.

The audio quality was never going to match today’s squeaky-clean digital standards due to the nature of the source material. As such, we have come to embrace the remaining hiss and rumble. They are a crucial part of the organic atmospherics that contribute to making this EP such a special listening experience.

Fun Facts:
* Master of the Universe is a cover of a song by Hawkwind.
* Marc plays Excaliber, his short scale Kay bass.
* Simon plays Ken’s black Shaftesbury Les Paul copy.
* All instruments and mics are plugged in to an HH 5-channel PA head and a pair of HH dual concentric cabs mounted on their poles.
* The audio was captured by a Phillips cassette machine located somewhere in the room.
* There are various ambient noises, such as the click of pedals and the shufflings of feet and papers (possibly Rizla).
* The filtering effect on George’s guitar comes from a Hohner Instant Funk.
* This is now a very rare boutique pedal and was part of a quartet of effects, which included a Valve Overdrive, Chorus/Flanger and Phase Shifter.
* There is a sublime moment where the funked-up guitar somehow sounds like a banjo.
* Just in the middle of this passage of jamming, Pok comes back in with the vocal slightly unexpectedly, curtailing the solo.
* George, who is in the middle of his flow in this moment, burbles and wobbles his way through the confusion and myrth.
* Laughing Sun covered a few other Hawkwind songs, including Hassan-I-Sabbah, Spirit of the Age and Assault and Battery.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/laughing-sun/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/laughing-sun/cander/
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/master-of-the-universe-2
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/laughing-sun/cander/master-of-the-universe
https://www.facebook.com/pokthebard
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

Cander

Master of the Universe

Laughing Sun: Master of the Universe

Live Cover of the Gorillaz Feel Good Inc. Performed at Duke St studios recorded by Meirion Townsend 

Feel Good Inc.

Lyrics by The Bummers.
Music by Sean Doyle and Fox Capone.
Sean Doyle - rhythm guitars, vocals
Ben Shooter - lead and rhythm guitars, vocals
Clay Hakes - bass
Fox Capone - drums

Engineered by Michael O'Keefe at Record Office Records, New Orleans LA and by The Bummers at Nut Milk Recordings, New Orleans LA.
Mixed and mastered by John Naclerio at Nada Recordings, Montgomery NY.

Art by Tim Dimmock.

Quitman

Lauren Lakis - Better Lover

Since I Last Saw You (Janice Long BBC Wales Isolation Session | 28/5/20)

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LEGACY ARTISTS:
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* Unfortunately...

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Laughing Sun: Master of the Universe

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