Royksopp; Lali Puna; Morr Music; Guitar; My Bloody Valentine; Lemon Jelly; Doves; New Order; Sigur Ros; Alfred Hitchcock; Air; Zero 7; Susumo Yakota; Ulrich Schnauss; Johnny Marr; Gorillaz; Stereolab; Robert Moog; The Album Leaf; Mum; Talk Talk; Radiohead; Goldfrapp; The Postal Service; The Glorious; Brabazon; Bonobo; Mew; Bjork; Christian Kleine; Four Tet; Frogpocket; Monolake; Oval; Prefuse 73; Portishead; September Collective; Static; To Rococco Rot; Wagon Christ; White Town; Stina Nordenstam; Emiliana Torrini; Miles Davis; Gustav Holst; Steve Reich; Ennio Morricone; Lalo Schifrin; Hans Zimmer; The Necks; Bill Evans; Supergrass; Kate Bush; Suede; Elbow; Money Mark; Roxy Music; Brian Eno; The Stars of the Lid; Labradford; Pan American; Isan; Mogwai; Cornelius; Psapp; Franz Ferdinand; The Notwist; Minotaur Shock; Cluster; Kraftwerk; Magnet; The Boards of Canada; Arovane; D J Spooky; Ryoji Ikeda; Carsten Nicolai; Aphex Twin; Autechre; Lamb; Sia; Rufus Wainwright; John Barry; Jeff Buckley; The Beatles; Quantic; The Mighty Boosh; Green Wing
Part of our music created for 'The Seashell and the Clergyman' (1927, Germaine Dulac).
Funkspiel is Nick Prior, Bill Walsh and Sam Healy mucking around with musical gadgets to create catchy electropop tunes and indulge our new wave tendencies. As well as recording, we perform live with a wide array of instruments and stage visuals – we recently supported Ulrich Schnauss at a sell-out show in The Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh. We've written soundtracks for films, commercials and stage productions (including some new electronic scores for old Dada films from the 1920s, screened at The Edinburgh Filmhouse) and we've also created remixes for several bands including Zoey Van Goey. We've also had our own tunes played on BBC Radio One (Steve Lamacq) and BBC 6 Music (Vic McGlynn).
Currently, we're working on putting a long-overdue album together. Feel free to drop us a line or come and see us play live. Cheers, Bill, Sam and Nick.
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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.
Where fantasy becomes reality, Confusion Is Sex invites freaks, weirdos, princesses, kings, slaves... CiS is an environment rather than just a music night. It's like walking into a David Lynch set where the weird is normal, giving people the chance to be something they're not.
This Friday 26th June 8PM SecretCDs @ The Tron Hunter Sq £5
Lypsync for a Lullaby "Edinburgh's answer to Sigur Ros" "invigorating mix of light and shade. . . Big, big music!"
Foundlings "A fine blend of pin-point almost spoken word vocals and tales of journeys along England’s psychotic autobahns - the spirit of the age." ". . .a kind of My Bloody Valentine for Motorway City times and One More Grain disciples." "Stone Roses for Neu heads!"
The Foundling Wheel "It's beepy, it's insane, it's shouty. It's angry but clever. It makes me want to drive a motorcycle the wrong way down the motorway. Naked." "braiding chromatic sheets of singeing electro-bending between frayed laces of gleaming melody." "Experimental mental music for robots to have sex to"
Heya Funkspiel! Just checkin if you guys might be able to vote for us to win our heat in Battle4Bella? If we win the whole competition, we get to play a slot at Belladrum music festival!
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.
Saturday 11th April 7pm SNEAKY PETE'S 73 Cowgate Edinburgh
PAPER PLANES myspace.com/glasgowpaperplanes ". . . dance inducing and occasionally air-punching, surf-tinged, indie-pop. . . .disco rhythms and sonic riffs to make teeth grind plus singer Jen's raw yet engaging vocals enrapturing the entire audience . . . guitar based indie/ artrock tinged with a dark surf feel that effortlessly crosses over the boundaries of post-punk. "
THE FOUNDLING WHEEL www.myspace.com/thefoundlingwheel The Foundling Wheel builds noise-saturated, melodic mountains of programmed polyrhythms and bitcrushed distortion . . . "braiding chromatic sheets of singeing electro-bending between frayed laces of gleaming melody." . . . "Experimental mental music for robots to have sex to"
Hoy! Here is a chance to get an exclusive peak at my remix of Fujiya & Miyagi's 'Dishwasher' which is the b-side to their next single released in April.
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