My two Stylusboy remixes have seen the light of day on his new ‘Remixed’ EP, which was just released on Record Store Day. Listen to the opening track of the EP below (my take on the track ‘Whole Picture’) or click through to hear the rest of the EP.

West-Midlands songstress Olivia Broadfield set up a remix competition in conjunction with Propellerheads - I know her of old from the Coventry singer-songwriter circuit, and couldn’t help but get involved. I’m very pleased with this, but we’ll find out in time whether that makes it a winner. Either way, enjoy. You can listen to the original song here, if you’re interested, or listen to all the entries in this Soundcloud group.

UPDATE:

I did not win this competition!

I’m very pleased to say I’ll be producing an album for Birmingham post-rockers Sunrise Over Europe in just a few days’ time - you can read their blog about it here, but we’ll be recording in a Dormston church, which should make for good post-rock surroundings, and I’m hella excited to make a decent record for these guys. We played with them a number of times in Fiction Fight, and they’re undoubtedly one of the finest things we’ve seen on the local circuit. Expect moody, echoey, cerebral, epic things.

I remixed a track from my band’s album, which you can stream, or download for free, here. The track’s our ‘single’, but being a tiny band we don’t really do singles. I remixed it anyway.

My band Fiction Fight recently released our debut LP, ‘I Am a Thief’. Apart from obviously being involved in writing and playing the thing, I also produced, engineered and mastered it. 

You can stream the whole thing, but you can also download it - you can choose what to pay, and you can pay nothing if you want (and seeing as we had no studio or printing costs, it really is kosher to do that). I’m very proud of this, and it’s got me some new remixing work, which is awesome.

I attach here a remix from about a year ago - I entered a Gonjasufi remix competition, and didn’t win. So you can download this track for nothin’, through Soundcloud, if you so wish. Or just listen.

I recently had the pleasure of spending a week with the London (+misc.) band Catapults - we recorded 2 songs as a new EP, which is going to be distributed by some mutual friends. Although they don’t get much chance to play together at the moment, I think they show a lot of promise - think La Dispute, Hot Cross, Pianos Become the Teeth and other ‘The Wave’ bands.

Listen to one song above and get following them for future information about the release. Listen loud.

My friend Chloe Edmonds, a.k.a. Tom’s Sister, released her album earlier this year. It’s a quirky, piano-led pop affair, reminiscent of Regina Spektor in her more lo-fi days. We recorded the album quite fast and it’s rough round the edges, but a great listen all the same. I ended up playing a lot on the record, and getting to do fun things like string arrangements. The good news is you can stream or download it through Bandcamp. And paying for the thing will go towards her current mission work in Hawaii and beyond.

Here’s some taster tracks, and an irreverent remix I did to stick on the end.