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Dark Company: return to the studio

Posted by Wudmaster on 09/03/12

After a quiet winter, Dark Company have made a welcome return to the studio to do more work on their enormous back catalogue. There has been progress on several fronts, including Bad Habits, Old Hands, Can of Worms and Mind Dance.

Earlier today, Pete was back in the studio for the first time in four months or so. Together we analysed the status of the recordings Dark Company are working on with a view to finishing recording the vocal parts for the Old Hands album and tweaking the things that need to be tweaked here and there.

Dark Company
have recently worked more on their Bad Habits album. Track #5, Nightshifters, is completely finished and mastered with a number of bonus mixes. It’s sounding absolutely fantastic and we look forward to releasing it to you!

Sven also made a return to the studio recently to re-record all of the drums for Days Like These, track #6 of the Bad Habits album. For the new drum parts, he bashed the drums somewhat harder than he had previously done to make a bigger sound, and being a rather large and powerful gentleman, his drums were well and truly bashed. The results sound great! (We are glad we are not Sven’s drums.) There are a few guitar oddities in Days Like These that we wish to get to the bottom of before it is mixed and mastered.

We have started to make better alpha mixes of the Can of Worms and Mind Dance albums. Both sets of mixes will start to be uploaded to their playlists here at Wud Records sometime soon.

Pete has also been busy creating new artwork and we have found some more of his older works as well. This means that we shall be sorting out all of his art pages. We will let you know when we fix them in our ‘News’ service, along with all further news of Dark Company.

Wud Records: shop shuffled

Posted by Wudmaster on 26/02/12

We have shuffled the order of the albums for sale at our shop at Bandcamp, to reflect the same page order of our artists as at Wud Records.

Older bands, which are no longer active, are arranged according to the time in which they existed.

Bands that are still active are arranged in order of overall historical sales volume, with Flicker being first as our biggest-selling artist. Active artists Flicker, Dark Company, The Bastard Sons of Dennis and Pok have their material arranged in order of newness.

These albums at Bandcamp are under construction:
Flicker: HappySad
The Bastard Sons of Dennis: Cosy Lube Turtle
The Bastard Sons of Dennis: Cherry Smoke Empire
Pok: Anthology

These albums at Bandcamp are awaiting remastering:
The Ug Brothers: Cute But Weird
Alien Heat: Red Rug Demo
Alien Heat: Essential

There are still two tracks on Flicker’s At Least 1000 Words album that need to be remastered.

There is a lot of secret hidden material at Bandcamp, which we plan to release soon when more artwork is developed. We shall let you know all about this in our ‘News’ service when it happens.

Flicker: It Starts Right Here

Posted by Wudmaster on 19/02/12

It Starts Right Here is the first track on a new Flicker album called HappySad and this track is now released here at Wud Records and at our shop at Bandcamp.

HappySad is under construction and new tracks will be added when they are finished. Anybody who downloads a track or the album for 89% or more of the eventual sales price will be sent free mp3 updates by email. This is like an investment in the album and means the investor will have rare ‘unfinished’ tracks when HappySad is finalised.

We will let Flicker fans know about updates to this album through our ‘News’ service and through social media such as Twitter and Facebook.

If you would like to listen to or download It Starts Right Here, you can do so by clicking here.

Pok: The Lecher

Posted by Wudmaster on 18/02/12

The Lecher is an old song by Pok that has been freshly recorded and uploaded to a new page of songs here at Wud Records. We have also released The Lecher for download at our shop at Bandcamp.

The Lecher was written in the music rooms at The King’s Grammar School, Ottery St. Mary in the spring of 1982. It is essentially just a riff and some jamming. It is no longer certain which lecher in particular this song was about.

When we finish more of Pok‘s early songs we will add them to the page we have simply titled Anthology and let his fans know through our ‘News’ service and through social media such as Facebook and Twitter.

This album is under construction and new songs will be added when they are finished. Cover art is also under construction and will be worked on at some time in the future.

Anybody who downloads a song or the album for 89% or more of the eventual sales price will be sent free mp3 updates by email. This is like an investment in the album and means the investor will have rare ‘unfinished’ tracks when Anthology is finalised.

If you would like to listen to or download The Lecher, you can do so by clicking here.

Pok: new album begins

Posted by Wudmaster on 12/02/12

Yesterday was the first day back in the Wud Records Studios for Pok, as the recording of his new album begins with an old song called The Lecher. The Lecher was originally created in 1982 when we were all still at school.

This new album from Pok will feature many wonderful songs from the ancient days, moving forwards to more recent times. It is difficult to say how long it will be or when this work will be completed as we are all rather busy, but to actually begin this great work is very pleasing.

We are still in the very early stages and this work has no title or artwork or release date or anything like that yet. We shall be keeping all of Pok‘s fans updated with the latest developments through our ‘News’ service.

If you would like to visit Pok’s pages here at Wud Records, you can do so by clicking here.

If you would like to visit his blog, The Pook of Pok, you can do so by clicking here.

Stephen Yates: electric guitar workshop details

Posted by Wudmaster on 11/02/12

Stephen Yates is organising his electric guitar workshops. The first will be 11am to 1:30pm (two one-hour sessions with a half hour break) on Saturday 3rd March 2012 and will take place at the Sound Gallery in the Phoenix Arts Centre, Gandy Street, Exeter. He is hoping these sessions will prove popular. Anyone interested please come along.