Abandoned Sheep

MUSIC : Nervous_testpilot's Steve's Lament Remix

2008-09-10T22:24:00.003Z

Woosh!

Binster - Steve's Lament (nervous testpilot remix) by nervous_testpilot

An epic remix of Steve's Lament, by trance superstar nervous_testpilot. Ear-huggingly lovely stuff.

MUSIC : Realism on Soundcloud

2008-08-25T16:16:00.006Z

I'm setting some stuff up on SoundCloud at the mo.

Binster on SoundCloud

Therein you'll find a smattering of tracks from "Abandoned", plus "So Angry" and a new track, which isn't quite final yet, called "Realism". In fact, let's try embedding it...

Realism by Binster

That seems to work :)

Go there, have a listen, enjoy, and feel free to drop music that you think I'd like to hear into my drop box.

MUSIC : Trademark Collaboration Free Download

2008-07-10T16:37:00.002Z

Back in 2006 Trademark asked me if I'd like to collaborate on a track with them. Seeing as they're brilliant Electro-Pop Lab Technicians, I said yes and we did.

The result has just turned up over on their website where they are currently giving away free MP3s of stuff that hasn't appeared on either of their albums, Want More and Raise The Stakes.

The track's called Get Out While I Can and I added little plinky bits and strings and synth stuff in the background.

Download "Get Out While I Can" by Trademark Ft. Binster

Enjoy!

COMMUNITY : OneMoreDisco

2008-06-30T09:17:00.003Z

One More Disco is a music blog that brings ace music to the ears of its listeners. They've put up a post about my album, Abandoned, which is extremely flattering :)

I compell you all to head on over and see what else they are writing about.

MUSIC : So Angry Released!

2008-06-23T08:26:00.005Z

So Angry by Binster

It's out now!

SO ANGRY + Rennie Pilgrem remix
Out now at Beatport!

Available exclusively from www.beatport.com, on Diverted Traffic records. Featuring a mind-bending remix from Rennie Pilgrem, So Angry has been described as "One of those tunes that will tear the club in half" by Rob Savage of the Groovediggerz, and "An electro-fied version of the hairy lemon disolving vitamin pickmeup in a breakbeat dancefloor format!" by NAPT.

MUSIC : Abandoned, the album, released

2008-04-21T21:31:00.008Z

That's it, I've had it with these mother loving tracks on this mother loving album. Everybody strap in! I'm about to open some loving windows.

The album is done. Go to the page linked above and enjoy a high quality stream of 12 tracks, plus a short story about a tyre, courtesy of MeibatsuRen.

Enjoy the album. I enjoyed making it.

MUSIC : Minus One released on Reunion Studios

2008-03-27T00:47:00.005Z

New tune for you!

Minus One by Binster

Well, new to you. It's actually been languishing on my hard drive for quite a while now, waiting for the impending release of Abandoned the album which seems to be in a stagnant period. Moop. Ah well.

The track is called Minus One and is available as part of the Reunion Studios-released download-only free compilation album "Vast Present & Future" grabbable below :

Reunion Studios - Vast Present & Future

It's track number 2. It features me singing. Through a vocoder. Enjoy!

MUSIC : Syntax Era (C64 Remix CD)

2008-02-21T13:58:00.001Z

Do you like 80s music? Do you like C64 game tunes? Want to hear the two collide? Then look no further!

17 tracks, each one a classic game soundtrack produced in the style of a classic 80s pop hit.

My take on Ghouls and Ghosts in the style of Billie Jean features as track number 5.

Enjoy!

GENERAL : January 2008 update

2008-01-14T21:24:00.000Z

Just a mini update for the new year.

Soon, although I'm not entirely sure when, you will be able to get your mitts on "So Angry", courtesy of Diverted Traffic records. It will be backed by a remix by the one, the only, the father of the genre, Rennie Pilgrem. Crikey!

Also, there's still some more stuff from me (or more accurately Dr.AwkwArD) coming on Re:Connect Records. "Realism", one of my recent tracks which I'm not calling finished until I'm totally happy with it, may well feature on the release, but I don't think it'll be the A side - there's more slamming business to be dealt with first :)

Also a track I've had on my hard drive for well over a year will be seeing the light of day as part of a compilation release over at Reunion Studios. The track's called "Minus One" and it's a melancholy electroballad with heavily vocodered vocals from yours truly. More news on that as and when.

Parp!

MUSIC : Steve's Lament

2007-10-28T22:53:00.002Z

A new tune for your ears!

Steve's Lament by Binster

This one was started off as a background music piece for a friend of mine (called Steve) which went a bit too melodic for him to use, but I decided to name it after him all the same.

It's being released via Reunion Studios, a free netlabel through which I previously released Yvek. It's a lovely melodic one, plinky and chorally and all that.

Enjoy!

MUSIC : Dr.AwkwArD Mixset on Re:Connect Radio

2007-09-19T14:02:00.000Z

I've completed a 60 minute mix for The Re:Connect Show over on NSBradio. It was played on the 19th September 2007.

If you missed it, don't despair! It can be heard on the show's archive over at Re:Connect radio.

Here's the tracklist :

01. Dr.Awkward - Survival Instinct (Jariten Mix) [Re:Connect]
02. Brotherman - The Evil In Me [CDR]
03. Roxiller - Creature Feature [Rec]
04. High Eight - Thru Time [Re:Connect]
05. Way Out West - Melt [Black Hole]
06. Shiloh - All These Things [Baroque]
07. Digitalism - Anything New [Virgin]
08. Binster - So Angry [CDR]
09. Pilch - Beats Workin’ [Breakin Even]
10. Beta - Trojan (C83 Mix) [Re:Connect]
11. Dr.Awkard - Survival Instinct (Refunk Mix) [Re:Connect]
12. Trademark - Toe The Line (Rich’s Saturate The Line Mix) [Truck Records]

Enjoy!

PHOTO : Lolcat Thing

2007-09-11T16:44:00.000Z

Thanks to Carl Warner for posing, and Richard Whitelock for cameraing.

GENERAL : August 2007 update

2007-08-29T22:19:00.000Z

I'm back from the Big Chill, and I'll upload some photos from that, and the Isle of Wight festival, at some point in the future.

Musically, things are going well. I've completed yet another Tim Follin tribute track for a different project - more news on that soon - and So Angry is currently getting signed for release, backed by a remix from someone rather special...

As for the album stuff I hinted at in the last update, you'll be pleased to hear that I'm working on the final few tracks and edits here and there on a collection of works that will go by the name Abandoned. 12 tracks, some you've heard, some new versions of tracks you've heard, and some totally new stuff. Should be a giggle.

GENERAL : July 2007 update

2007-07-03T19:46:00.000Z

I have returned from the Isle of Wight festival intact, so you can all stop worrying now. I got photos a plenty, but haven't got around to getting them off the camera yet.

The weekend was ace, but the festival wasn't as good as it could be - maybe I've been spoiled by Glasto and the Big Chill, but a festival with only one stage and where you have to buy drinks tokens to get drinks seems a bit... odd. Ah well, Big Chill's but a few short weeks away.

In the interim, I've got a follow up track to So Angry on the go which will hopefully be done soonish. This stuff I've been doing recently is seemingly not fitting quite so nicely with my older stuff, so that leads me to believe it will belong on the second album, which of course begs the response...

"...second album? But where's the first one?"

Where indeed?...

MUSIC : Survival Instinct 12" + MP3 OUT NOW!

2007-04-22T23:05:00.004Z

Survival Instinct by Binster

IT'S ON! I just spotted this review, which I've cribbed from DJ Mag :

You can now buy the single on vinyl from the following outlets :

Buy it from Streetwise!
Buy it from Redeye!
Buy it from Juno!
Buy it from Breakbeat Online!
Buy it from Know How Records!
Buy it from Chemical Records!

Buy it in America from OnBeat Music!

Or if you're a digital kind of person Download it from DJDownload!

MUSIC : So Angry

2007-04-18T00:34:00.001Z

Crunchy beats, bleepy beeps and a monster drop.

So Angry by Binster

Buy the track here :

So Angry, at Beatport

Enjoy!

PHOTO : Snowboarding 2007

2007-03-19T23:44:00.001Z

Signs
Originally uploaded by binster.

I'm back! I'm not dead! Didn't even break any ribs this time!

PHOTO : Tom 1988 - 2007

2007-01-26T19:43:00.001Z

Tom Portrait
Originally uploaded by binster.

At the risk of turning this informative website into a tedious blog, here's a post about my pet cat of 18 years, Tom, who recently died.

He was an ace cat and I'll miss him loads. Please indulge me by clicking through this series of photos of him.

GENERAL : Award-winner!

2007-01-22T09:31:00.002Z

I'd like to thank the Academy.

Remix of the Year Awards 2006 at www.remix64.com

Ghouls And Ghosts (Poltergeist Mix) by Binster

Thank you to everyone who voted for my track, Poltergeist Mix, to bring it up to second place for C64 Remix of the year, and 1st place for Most Innovative Remix of the Year, and for placing me as 5th place Remixer of the Year.

You guys are ace and it's for you that I do the tunes, so I appreciate the appreciation you've shown.

PHOTO : Xmas Walk 2006

2007-01-03T00:25:00.000Z

Xmas Walk 2006 - Angry Sheeps
Originally uploaded by binster.

It's that time of year again. Time for me to go on, then upload some photos from, a Christmassy walk around my home town's splendid local countryside.

This year it was crisp and clear, what with it being vaguely unseasonally warm, so no lovely snowy pics like last time. However, you do get some pictures of sheep, and another shot to add to the 'Abandoned' photo collection.

Enjoy!

GENERAL : Label sorting

2006-12-30T16:10:00.000Z

Labels are go! I'll put some links up under the site logo so that you can sort the site by the four post catagories - General, Community, Photo and Music.

Now you can get to the meat of the matter, like, double quick fast stylee! Win!

COMMUNITY : nervous_testpilot music

2006-12-22T11:53:00.000Z

A Christmas treat from the Nervous one!

nervous_testpilot's Download store

Go here, and you can download some absolutely wonderful music from vintage-era nervous_testpilot. They're 50p a track, so you really can't complain, and they range from the sublime (No New Messages) to the ridiculous (Stupid and Happy are Often the Same).

No one knows a square wave like nervous_testpilot knows a square wave.

MUSIC : Mister Stay Puft

2006-12-18T15:12:00.002Z

I've finally finished it!

Mister Stay-Puft by Binster

After much pestering from various people, I've actually pulled my finger out and given the Stay Puft a proper ending.

A playful breaksy track with spooky synths and a sample from a dirt cheap Disney knock off Aladdin dvd I found for £1. As usual.

Merry Christmas!

MUSIC : Reunion Studio releases Yvek

2006-11-22T13:53:00.002Z

Well, it's an oldie, but it seems to have its fans, and as such Yvek has been granted an mp3 release over at Reunion Studios.

Yvek by Binster

It's a site that offers lots of electro tunes, produced in a variety of packages (I spotted some Impulse Tracker tunes in there - that takes me back!) all for free. Well worth a snoop!

Yvek was produced about three years ago, in Reason 1 of all packages, as a B-Side to Self Help (the tune which eventually made its way onto the ASAP Uplifting Album - download that, and all the other albums here) and features a plethora of Star Trek samples as well as some old skool game-style synth jazz-noodling.

Enjoy!

GENERAL : RSS Feed

2006-11-10T10:18:00.000Z

I'm not exactly au fait with this new fangled technology known as RSS feeds. Someone at work set up something called the RSS Owl for me, but all I use it for is a cheap joke about turning my owl on. But anyway.

Behold - Abandoned Sheep's RSS feed! You can use this in some way I expect. It's now got its own link over there on the right, along with links to my MySpace page and my Flickr page. Enjoy!