Album Preview "The Coracle and The Yellow Shell

Album Preview "The Coracle and The Yellow Shell by concretedog

Just thrown up a little preview handful of tracks from my new album "The Coracle and the Yellow Shell". It's scheduled for release on warm data under catalogue number DAT031 sometime late Jan early Feb 2012....I'm going to release it on a pay what you think it's worth/donation type scheme so everyone can get it!

For the people who listened to my last ep (some years ago) this album is quite a different bag as although it uses much electronic/homebuilt/hacked stuff it features much more acoustic instrumentation and has a different vi be about it. If you are however desparate to support concretedog in the meantime you can always purchase my last ep "Until Forever" here ;)

Album tracks finished Artwork on the way.

Aaaaah indeed, I have finished mixing the album and the artwork is in the pipeline. Then hand it to the labelboss who will curate and describe and release......can't wait.....not long now....

Great New Blog

A great new blog about building Lunetta type soundmakers has sprung up written by Draal who not only posts comments here but is also a throughly nice fellow.

Check it out here and I'll add it to my links.

A piece of history

Couldn't resist this charity shop find yesterday a lovely wooden framed 150 in 1 electronics projects board in perfect order. A little bit of googling around shows this one dates from the year I was born 1976. It has the book of experiments/projects with it which includes lots of noise making/oscillator projects......maybe I can get an ep out of this beauty!

A silly project...mini lathe chuck

I've just got back my mig welder which had been on a rather long term loan and once setup in my shed I wanted a little job to do to test it and my auto darkening mask (20 quid off ebay). So I made up this little chuck from a washer and some tiny mechano nuts. I have a job in mind in that eventually I'd like to  setup my dremel as a mini lathe and turn some tiny knobs to fit some trim pots I am going to use in a future synth build. Not the easiest job as the mig is not really the best bit of kit for this, brazing would have been much neater and easier...haven't got brazing gear though!

Lungwah's "This World" Remix

The mighty Lungwah has performed his sonic surgery on my track "This World"

Concretedog - This World (That Lungwah Remix) by Lungwah

The original was released on "Data Protection" DAT018 which you can find and listen to (and buy) here

http://warmdata.bandcamp.com/album/data-protection

Still cooking up the album

This frying pan seems to feature on most tracks....