Electraparade

Oh, two posts in one night. Aren't you lucky? (As some Roman guy said, luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. I don't know how that's relevant though)

So this is Electraparade:


Twelve electro classics for the twenty-first century, you see? It says so on the front. Well, more strictly, eleven electro classics - one of them is by us:

1. Martin Degville "Planet Bi"
2. Electraset "Just Another Number"
3. Alien 6 "Close to Perfection"
4. Starbase 109 "Engineering Workshop"
5. Electroflex "Appreciate Me"
6. Hypernova "My Light"
7. One Moment "Cold Stare"
8. Neuvogue "Random Number Generator"
9. Synthface "With Your Love" (Studio Version)
10. Payola Disco "Skinny Girl"
11. The Silent Age "Contrition"
12. Silver Factory Superstars "Still Love"

The CD was put together by Electraset, who can be found there. You can track down the others on MySpace as well, which is what I did. Some of them are pretty good. Some are better than good. And others put us to shame completely. One of them comes from Birmingham.

I think if I had to choose, my favourites would have to be Starbase 109, partly because their song is excellent, partly because they have a song called Vacuum Cleaner, and partly because they wear nice hats. I would like a hat like that.

So anyway, I'll return to this subject when I've heard the CD in full, but if the samples on MySpace are anything to go by, it's a pretty good CD. Except for our track, of course.

More on that story later...

Attention! I bring news.

The next single might be Beneath the Silent Skies, and may (or may not) be ready imminently. It could have some extra tracks on it, including Part 2 of the title track. Nothing is certain.

Yes, summer is here, so a song about butterflies and killing time is in order. But I'll tell you more about that another time. We've got somewhere between five and ten b-sides ready to roll (as that is what b-sides do), so there's enough for another single afterwards. There might even be enough for another one after that.

We did talk at one point about doing a compilation of spare tracks and remixes. This might not happen this year, due to the thing I'm going to write about in a second, but I hope it will appear at some point in the future, as we're building up quite a big pile of decent spare stuff now. Maybe we should try Swap Shop.

Anyway, the next album, which will probably not be called H9, is well under way. We're currently in the demoing/writing stage, which is generally followed by the recording stage, and then the releasing stage, and finally the getting on with something else stage. Of course, anything could happen, as I probably mentioned above, as the demoing/writing stage of what would eventually become Dusk lasted about three years. On the other hand, this time we've been very happy with the way things have gone, and we've already got enough good tracks to fill an acceptably good album. As I said previously, this going to be as uptempo as we get.

And finally... somehow, by quirk of fate, we have appeared on a compilation called Electraparade. The specifics will follow very shortly, and I'll try to think of some imaginative things to say about it, which might prove difficult, given that I haven't heard it yet.

Oh, hello, by the way.