In no particular order - Bloc Party, High Contrast, Pendulum, Coldplay, Athlete, Chemical Brothers, Idlewild, Imogen Heap, Delays, Mylo, Jenna G, Elbow, Zero 7, Shy FX, The Cure, Lemon Jelly, Arcade Fire, Counting Crows, Flaming Lips, Mr Scruff, Tom Vek, Prodigy, The Postal Service, Hot Chip, John Butler Trio, Guillemots, Chicane, Kid Beyond, Bonobo, Amon Tobin, London Elektricity, New Order, Eva Cassidy, Air, Human Traffic (film and soundtrack), Cypress Hill, KT Tunstall, Bob Marley, Asian Dub Foundation, Chemical Brothers, Dennis Rollins, The Fugees, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Doves, Roni Size, Goo Goo Dolls, Jack Johnson, Jamie Lidell, John Mayer, Dave Matthews Band, Barenaked Ladies, Krafty Kuts, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Tears for Fears, Sufjan Stevens, Underworld, The Herbaliser and more ....
Sounds Like
Bloc Party, Athlete and High Contrast all got in the same room and took something to expand the mind!
Flying With Penguins are an electronic duo based in Edinburgh. Backgrounds in guitar music and a heavy dose of electronic influence results in a combination of funky breaks, weaving synths, catchy guitar hooks, powerful vocals and realtime looping, creating experimental yet accessible songs, exciting when performed live.
Artist influences include The Postal Service, Bonobo, New Order, The Album Leaf, Interpol, The Cure, most Drum and Bass, Athlete, Mr Scruff, Imogen Heap, Hot Chip and more. Tunes you can groove to, cry to, sing along to and move to. Each is a journey.
We are currently working on some new material for an album. We've chosen to write the album in order and we're currently up to track 5. I suppose that means we're about half way there but there's no date set for finishing it. This means we're also taking a break from gigging (although we might play the odd one here or there so still send us booking requests). Soon we should be back with some cracking new tunes and a slight change in style. Our new stuff is quite ambient and atmospheric but still with a punchy groove. Watch this space for more details and tunes when they're ready.
"Flying With Penguins impressed us with their fusion of loops and riffs and kept the crowd entertained ... A blend of electronic and traditional instrumentation techniques wrapped up in a memorable performance." - review from our Limbo gig 17/04/08
Check out this new website, Alex is now self employed and his business (Fentek Audio) offers gig recording, music production and sound engineering services to Edinburgh and the local area. www.fentekaudio.co.uk
To celebrate our first 27 releases on Section 27 Netlabel, we proudly present to you "Sectioned", a compilation of 27 tracks, amounting to 2 hours across two discs of twisted electronic beats, discordant melodies, haunting passages, broken ambience, bending senses of time and space, microscopic glitches, pounding bass frequencies, sounds between sounds, the human voice and the audible sensation of music dissolving in acid. This is the sound of your mind's eye. This is the sound of the Sectioned... Strap yourself in and enjoy the experience.
Also features a 75 minute bonus disc "Sectioned : Nonimxs", including 9 remixes of selected Section 27 artists by Nonima and 2 original tracks created by Silent Snow and Nina Kardec using existing Nonima tracks.
It's essentially a music review aggregation service, providing a constantly updated chart of critical reaction to releases, with various ways for users to personalise the chart.
We're hoping the site will be another useful way for music lovers to find new music. So if you like it, please use it and also pass on the link.
Almost Tomorrow is the third full length collaboration album from Section 27 Netlabel founders Tam Ferrans and Andrew Paterson, under their Nonima & theAudiologist guise. This time around the sound is more melodic, and has a definite feeling of a complete and more mature sound than heard on the previous LP's "Dystopian Battle Hymns" and "Ceremony After Amputation". If you are familiar with their individual projects you may even be in for a slight surprise, as the tracks are not as beat driven like before, but are more atmospheric and sound, well... "bigger". In its 75 minutes, Almost Tomorrow takes you on a trip from the digital rain-soaked cavernous scraping in "Thoughtograph", the ethereal beat jittering of "The Colour of Rain", intercepted transmissions from unknown places in "Com-Intercept", "Ganzfeld"s huge yet strangely insect-like beats until everything you knew comes crashing around you in "Almost Tomorrow". Burning pianos, glitched out soundscapes and intricately programmed beatplay, this may well be their best work to date. Consider it the soundtrack to a rainy overcastday, but with just that glimmer of sunshine peeking from the clouds. "Almost Tomorrow" wears its heart on its sleeve.
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4 track EP, titled Call Signs, it provides the perfect introduction to
the band prior to the release of their debut album, Grappling Hooks, in
early 2010.
Hey friend remember us we would like to think you because wit out you we couldn't of gotten so far, we started this account 3years ago and we never would expect to go so far wit the band
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Hi there, we've uploaded a couple of tracks from our new EP. Check them out and spread the word if you like them!
Also
if you're local to us, we're launching the E.P. this Saturday at
Cabaret Voltaire in Edinburgh. If you buy a ticket for the show we'll
give you a free copy of the cd.
Hope all you gorgeous people are remembering Frantic Chant, Delta Mainline and White Heath this Saturday 6th June at The Granary in sunny Leith. Doors open 7.30pm, tickets available from www.leithfestival.com or take your chances and pay at the door.
North Atlantic Oscillation's "Hollywood Has Ended", from the forthcoming album Grappling Hooks, is featured in this month's Police Box compilation from TenTracks. It's here:
In case you haven't heard, TenTracks is a new music delivery service where you can buy exclusive 10-track compilations for £1, i.e. a mere 10p per track.
This month NAO are in the illustrious company of the excellent Found, Orkestra Del Sol, Fence Collective luminaries James Yorkston and King Creosote and exactly 5 others. Once again, that's £1 for ALL TEN TRACKS. Not bad, really.
Check out tracks from our fantastic recording session which produced the EP - 'Problems - Solve Youselves' and see what i could do for you over on my myspace
Buy the EP itself and find out more about the band on their myspace: Hey Vampires
