Ali Chant (Engineer/Producer)
Stef Hambrook (Engineer/Producer)
John Parish (Producer)
Stevie Hawker (repairs Dept.)
Benji Hostler (tech/design)
Eddie 'Kid Carpet' Patrick (toys)
Guy 'Moses' Fowler (bass)
Jonny 'Eccles' Evans (Logistics)
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Equipment for those who give a shit
,in brief.......
CONSOLE...1970's Trident TSM series console (72 inputs),
RECORDERS..Otari MTR 90 Mk II, 24 Track 2" with Dolby A, Pro Tools HD2 Accel,
MONITORING......Main- Westlake BBSM10's, Yamaha NS10's, Mackie HR 824's, AKG LSM 50's. amps...BGW, Samson.
OUTBOARD..2X- UREI 1176, DBX 160A, SSL G-series bus compressor, Allison Gain Brain X2, Klark Teknik DN27A EQ, Watkins Tape Delay, Joe Meek SC2, TLA 5021 X2, Custom build stereo Spring reverb. Mics..Telefunken, Coles 4038's, AKG, Rode, Calrec, Sennheiser, Shure........
AMPS, '60s Vox AC30 piggyback, 70's Marshall Plexi X2, MusicMan bass, Ampeg Bass and plenty more pedals Guitars...Original Hammond Organ, baby grand Piano etc etc etc..
Influences
Anthing with imagination, excitment, unique, lucid, inspiring..
Sounds Like
Want to hear some of our work? It's all over Myspace.
-Check out...... Magicrays (Swiss), John Parish, Dionysos (Fr),Twenty Box Stories(swiss), Howe Gelb(USA), PJ Harvey, Gravenhurst, Mclusky, Shooting At Unarmed Men, Kid Carpet, Rose Kemp, Blackbud, Stars and Stereos, Termites, Male, Scout Niblett (USA), Figment, Scarlatti Tilt, Blue Room, The Dogs, The Francos, The Boots, Babel, Marta Collica (Italy), Marshallsea, Steveless, Bijou Scout, Caroline Martin, White Trash Ambition, The Girl From Headquarters, You and the Atom Bomb, 2 Hours Ten, The Kills, Jane Taylor, Big Joan, Fruit of the Doom, The Playwrites, to name but a few...............
Greetings!
Toybox is a recording studio based in central Bristol, UK.
We specialise in recording real instruments, and like using as much analogue gear as we can practically get away with...
We are not...however, computer-phobes. We will happily use/rape/rewire/sellotape it together, whatever it takes to get the right results.
We are into texture, tone, exciting performances, capturing space, good arrangement and musical ability.
We tend to work on the outskirts of leftfield guitar music, although we have have, on occasion, delved into most other genres...most recently: grime, post-rock, punk, electronica and even some shameless pop.
We use often use 24 track Tape, Pro Tools HD, an old Trident desk and a fair amount of tasty mics, outboard and beaten up old amps and instruments.
We are at your service....
MOST RAD NEWS ----------------------------- The awesome GANG GANG DANCE have re- scheduled the Bristol show. This will be one of two only headlining shows in the UK this year. The Bristol show will be the official warm-up for their show at Brixton Academy (supporting ANIMAL COLLECTIVE !) Wednesday 19th of August 2009 Qu Junktions & Glaive Concerts presents: GANG GANG DANCE + The Color of The Sun ~ Fleece ~ 12 St. Thomas Street Bristol BS1 6JJ 0117 945 0996 - 8PM - 12.00
Tickets 10 pounds in advance On sale at Bristol Ticket Shop, Here Shop and See Tickets. ------i-n-f-o-------------------- This gang gang from Brooklyn, have emerged from a very fertile, indigenous music scene in their neighbourhood but have branched out way WAY further with their hook ups and hooks. It is a ghetto world music that declines fey introspection but invites in disparate saturated sounds and bang bang dance dynamics. Their multi-faceted music style was first brought to our attention following a series of releases on forward-thinking label, The Social Registry; and subsequently, they have found a suitable home on Warp Records.
The bands assemblage of wonky techno, outer rock, faux arabesque and other strange, spiralling, sinuous music forms that transcend categorisation. Utterly unique and iconoclastic.
“The eclectism is exhilarating” Uncut
“Excellent… a psychotropid mind meld” – Plan B
“Gang Gang Dance may now ascend to the bona fide league of geniuses.” 8/10 – NME
Hello, dudest! Yes yes! My voice has gawn shite these last few weeks, so I need to do a little TLC on it... I hope to be up to 'scratch' (poor phrase, considering the state of the ol' vocal chords...) soon soon... Loads love, Lu XXX
hey y'all come and check these guys out from baltimore. way to get loose on a friday night! + i play alone but still bring the dirt pop glistening with noise sprinkles x A
Fresh from their show at Barcelona's Primavera festival, Teeth Mountain will be unleash their heavy concoction of new-wave tribal psychedelic sounds on Cube, using driving percussion like other bands use guitars.
Deep, thick layers of rhythms and overlays of ambiance, from the gritty to the sublime, this eight-piece outfit create a controlled mayhem of weighty neo-tribal trance music, part Indian, part African, part Balkan, and part Baltimore, that transforms consciousness and carries the group and their listeners to higher states.
The Wire magazine recently praised their 'refusal to acknowledge any kind of destination point for their jamming, achieving a convincing state of suspension throughout, helped by some engagingly forceful drumming.'
Teeth Mountain pummel with noise and drums but are always inviting and joyous, a new wave of tribal sounds in underground music. Be prepared to witness a heady, peyote-voodoo brew, getting you out of your seats and on your feet. Teeth Mountain will enthrall you in a rhythmic, musical spell.
"I don't know what god or gods you all are praying to but you're praying too fucking loud" Boston Police Department
Thanks Al. And thank you for some good ole funtime there in minehead....hope to be able to come record at some point. Take care! XO AP (- and Thøger should be daddy-fied by late july)
MONDAY 18TH OF MAY (POST ATP WEEKEND REJUVENATION EXPERIENCE)
Icy Demons is an experimental music project started by Bablicon's Griffin Rodriguez (credited as Blue Hawaii) and Man Man / Need New Body's Christopher Powell (Pow Pow). A project of various Chicago musicians, they have released three albums, Fight Back! on the Elephant 6-associated label Cloud Recordings. Tears of a Clone on the Eastern Developments Music, and in 2007 Miami Ice on Easel (Japan release only).
We have a new song up on our page. It's called "The Mysterious End Of Friend No.2?"
We hope you enjoy.
The Moles x
"The Moles have the telepathic ability to beam psychedelic music into receptive individuals frontal lobe. This music was made by utilizing this brainbeam. PRAISE THE MOLES. PRAISE THE INFINITE. PRAISE THE NEVER. PRAISE THE MOLE."
RNDM SLKTR RITES OF SPRING ALL DAY-R SATURDAY 21st of March / The Croft £5
the bands DETHSCALATOR GUM TAKES TOOTH THE COLOR OF THE SUN COWMAN
the DJs Antoni Maiovvi (Seed Records) - Italo Disco Future Space Love Party Machine Christopher - Flooded Treehouse Morpho - hard psych, kraut G - Russian Records Reliant - left electroniks, dark swing
this is where you should be on SATURDAY! MOTHER'S RUIN
Rampant Rabbit.
Continuing Leeds' strong tradition of exciting DIY noise rock, Rampant Rabbit are a rare and strange blend brewed in 2007. Musically, the dual bass trio deftly manoeuvre between complex math funk out riffs not dissimilar to Faraquet or Oxes and sludge-laden doom drones for fans of Boris or Melvins. Also they have fit young faces and lots of shouting.
Numbering just 8 strings between them members Henry Myers (Hank Haint, Zoob Toob) Luke James Webb (Dawn Chorus) & Adam Nodwell (Signuls, Massive Heron) have grown a maze of entangling rhythms on a solid foundation of mega-loud rock that celebrates influences including Fugazi, Shellac & Zu. Rampant Rabbit have already stunned crowds supporting the likes of I'm Being Good, Action Beat, Bilge Pump, That Fucking Tank, Take a Worm for a Walk Week, Lords, Nisennenmondai, Cleckhuddersfax & Oxes.
Rampant Rabbit will have a stricly limited edition EP 'Power Trio 2007 - 2009' on tour with them available only at the gigs!
If you like your drum kits Ludwig, your guitars Burns, and your amplifiers Vox AC30's, then The MASONICS are the band for you. This Medway beat-pop supergroup play prime garage-rock. …tis Elmer’s birthday too so come along & boogaloo!!
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