I'll Give You Electro remix video

The concept of choice

A few weeks ago, we released the second half of the second single from Transmission, I'll Give You Electro. If you've come across us recently, you're no doubt having trouble deciding which of them to buy. So here's a little summary...

I'll Give You Electro I
The original version of the single contains four tracks - the slightly rejigged Single Version, plus three exclusive new b-sides: Dissolution, Weather the Storm and The Journey Here.



I'll Give You Electro II
The second version may look a bit more orange, but it contains three tracks - a completely different remix, the Imperfect Attitude Mix, and another two new b-sides: These Four Walls and Black Earth.



Hopefully this helps you a little with your decision. Of course, if you're really struggling, why not just buy both of them? With seven tracks spread across both formats, they're exceedingly good value for money.

I'll Give You Electro - sleeve notes

Hello again.

This is the solution to which we turn: Another single and some exclusive previously unreleased material. More often than not, previously unreleased material is previously unreleased for good reason. That may still be the case here (we’ll very charitably let you decide), but Black Earth and These Four Walls came very close to getting released a while ago, so it seemed only fair that they should be let out into the big, wide, virtual world.

We collaborated on this new remix of I'll Give You Electro, merrily throwing electronic ideas across the Atlantic, which turned out to be more practical than putting messages in bottles. The result is ironically less in your face electro, but by then it was too late to rename the song, so please forgive this slightly misleading advertising.

In case you're wondering, this is the second part of the I'll Give You Electro single. The first part contains another remix of the title track, which we called the single version, and three more exclusive songs. As these are digital singles, we're afraid that there isn't a special collector's slipcase to put them both in. Now please excuse us while we have a cup of tea and work out what we're doing next...

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Eyeballing video

Looking in both directions

It's a bit late for a 2011 retrospective, but then again, why not? We were both away over the Christmas period, so here's your slightly delayed entry...

All round, we think we had a Very Good Year. We finally released our ninth album Transmission, and managed to squeeze out a further six b-sides and a healthy handful of remixes on the singles Better Days, I'll Give You Electro and Remission. We've learnt a lot, particularly from the wonderful remixes which Sappy was kind enough to do for us towards the end of the year. We've also re-recorded some old tracks for our own amusement, which may one day see the light of day. Finally, if that weren't enough, we started work on four brand new tracks which we're saving for our next album.

After 2010, 2009 and 2008 being largely quiet, that's a lot of stuff that we've done there.

We've already kicked off 2012 with I'll Give You Electro II, and we're intending to follow that with another single soon. We're currently working on three or four b-sides and we've got another four or five remixes we're playing with too. At the same time we're thinking about what would be on a Transmission "special edition" if it happened, working out how to open up more of our back catalogue to the wider world, and toying with the visual medium too.

But more on all of that to come. Thanks to everyone who has supported or helped us in the last few months. Happy new year!

iTunes and Spotify

I'll Give You Electro II, our new single, is out now.

Here's yer actual iTunes link. For some reason it isn't classified as "clean" this time round, but don't worry - it doesn't have any naughty words in it.

And here's your Spotify link. Every time you listen to it on Spotify, we earn literally fractions of pennies, so make sure you listen lots and enjoy it!

I'll Give You More

We're about to do a bit of a reshuffle for our last "proper" single I'll Give You Electro.

It all started when we realised we'd all kind of forgotten to put it on iTunes. The first single Better Days has actually done quite well on there, selling over 2 copies (in addition to earning us nearly 50p from multiple plays on Spotify). So we decided to rectify the situation by adding I'll Give You Electro as well.

Then as we thought about it, we realised we actually preferred the remixed version, and we also had some nice new b-sides which we could put on there too. So actually it's ended up being a completely different single.

The tracks this time around are:

1. I'll Give You Electro (Imperfect Attitude Mix)
2. These Four Walls
3. Black Earth

The first track is exactly the same as you've already enjoyed on the Remission remix EP, and so is also completely free. On Bandcamp, it's called I'll Give You Electro II so you can tell them apart. I'll also put up iTunes and Spotify links as they become available.

So, since everything has changed, we've changed the front cover picture too. It's changed colour a bit, and it's now got some extra worms on it too:

Oh yes, and it's released on Monday February 6th. The original single is still entirely available through Bandcamp, including the original single version and three more b-sides, now for the very reasonable price of £3.

The album Transmission will also make it onto iTunes at some stage, but we're thinking of maybe putting together a "special" edition later in the year, so we'll hold off for the time being, and if that doesn't happen then we'll just put the normal version on there.

Remission - sleeve notes

<Remission Statement>

The story of the remix is one that shaped electronic music over much of its history. It evolved from little more than an extended version to fill up the extra few minutes of vinyl in the early 1980s to a slew of 10 minute long re-imaginings by the 1990s.

But taking something you've been slaving over for years, as we had with our recent album <Transmission>, and handing it over to someone else is quite an emotional experience. Imagine our astonishment, therefore, when the first one came back, Sappy's wonderful Treble Up remix of Eyeballing.

We were taken aback. It took the song in directions that truly would never have occurred to us. In fact, we liked it so much that we immediately asked for a mix of I'll Give You Electro as well.

At the same time we've been playing with our own gentle electronic reworkings of False Dawn and I'll Give You Electro, and so we are now able to present <Remission>. And yes, we know this isn't a 12” single. But we hope you'll forgive us the slight self-indulgence. It should be.