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Wud Records and Explicit Music: sites updated

Posted by Wudmaster on 14/04/09

As the erection of the Wud Records shop has been taking shape over the last few days, our regular visitors will no doubt notice one or two changes to some of the musical pages. These changes are likely to manifest across the entire site over time and make finding lyrics and song information much more straightforward when listening to music here.

There are one or two test pages about the place as well, although sadly Thudge seems to have crawled back into his shell of steaming slime. You can ignore test pages if you wish, or make comments on them in the forums. Build #3 of this site is looking like it’s coming up, so a hard hat and a strong awareness of gaping holes in the ground might be useful when navigating the site at present.

A whole heap of stuff has been added to the Explicit Music site, including all the information you’ll ever need concerning Dark Company’s Signmaker album.

Our technical department have concluded that the attempted re-run of The Blaze Tape was too glitchy to be used, as was a recording of a Lemming Meringue demo made at the notorious Flat D. So it’s back to the grinder once more for those sonic items.

On a more glorious note, the Search Party Demo songs that previously failed their quality control check have been repaired and reloaded to their proper page. Also uploaded to the Dark Company ‘out-takes’ page is a dodgy demo of Dark Company’s and Alien Heat’s Where Are You made by George one afternoon in 2001 on his old Tascam 244.

After the re-release of the Red Rug Demo, Alien Heat’s Essential is coming close to a re-release with new CD artwork. We have also discovered another band called Alien Heat! They come from Finland. The Wud Records team would like to shout out a big ‘HELLO!’ to all our new Finnish friends.

Wud Records: studio link achieved

Posted by Wudmaster on 13/04/09

Big news! The Wudmaster is as chuffed as a walrus at the start of mating season. Why is this, you might ask? Well, it’s all because a tremendous triumph of technological has occured. :-D

The two studios at Wud Records have been joined together in a particularly cunning way. It has taken about a year of beard twiddling, head scratching, soldering and occasional outbursts of bad language. Finally, in the wee small hours of Easter Monday morning, the machines all did what was hoped they someday might.

This means that for the first time since 1994 and the final days of Silent Running Studios, the analogue and digital realms can once again be merged into one, making things possible that have not been possible this century. It’s been a long 15 years…

Dark Company: Bad Habits at beta stage

Posted by Wudmaster on 12/04/09

It’s been a busy time for Dark Company at the Wud Records studio. After a reasonably large amount of twiddling, the entire Bad Habits album is now at Beta stage completion and has been pleasing the ears of a few humans. Further twiddlage is planned soon.

To keep Pete busy during the forthcoming weeks, an entire set of guides for the Mind Dance album have been recorded. This album only ever reached demo stage before, so we are looking forward to hearing how it develops. Sven the Mighty will be laying down the drums for Mind Dance when we have confirmed his work on Bad Habits is done.

Alchemeon: new playlist uploaded

Posted by Wudmaster on 07/04/09

A new playlist of Alchemeon songs has been uploaded. These are recent versions of the Alchemeon set and feature a new song, Crazy Mandy. Andy is yet to make an appearance on the Alchemeon recordings and it is hoped that he will be included in the next episode.

There will allegedly be a festival performance on 4th July, although at present there are few details available.

Clonk!: live show news

Posted by Wudmaster on 04/04/09

The mighty Clonk! will be playing live at the open mic night at The Angel, Queen Street, Exeter on Thursday 16th April 2009.

Alchemeon: Andy being integrated

Posted by Wudmaster on 02/04/09

Yesterday there was a highly successful Alchemeon rehearsal involving Pok, Andy and George. Andy is being integrated into the mighty Alchemeon line-up as lead vocalist.

There are some festival performances in the pipeline, including possibly the Mandala Stage at Glastonbury, some Sidmouth Folk Festival appearances and The Green Man Festival in Wales. More news will follow.