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Sent to me last night by Tim Love Lee was this delicious (and heartbreaking) link to a current eBay auction - up for grabs is a lovely piece of gear "rescued from a BBC Studio", the "Bonger". 

Photo by Tom Goldsmith

Might this have been a piece used by Delia Derbyshire herself? I'm not wildly knowledgable about the lesser publicized pieces of gear they may have used, so if anyone knows anything about this, do tell! I'm assuming it was used by the Radiophonic Workshop...

 Here's a bit about it on MatrixSynth.

Contact the seller, Tom Goldsmith from  HiFiSupply.co.uk  here via the auction.

 As we're on the subject of things lovely and Radiophonic, we will be traveling to the UK in a few days and will be nestled there for a month. Perhaps we'll visit a few Radiophonic spots as well as a quest to learn more about the wonderful Daphne Oram:

(Above photo from SoundonSound.com and this fantastic article)

...and the gear....and Ms. Derbyshire....

If you have any Radiophonic Workshop goodness you'd like to share with us, please do! It makes the world spin so sweetly.

This year, I have had the lovely opportunity to remix some of my favorite artists, including Bat For Lashes, Tori Amos and of course, the lovely Polly Scattergood!
Today in the UK (and November 17th in the USA) , she has released the 'Bunny Club EP' , which contains the following (of which her acoustic demos are particularly cool!) :

1. Bunny Club (The Chatterleys Single Mix) 
2. Unforgiving Arms (Single Edit) 
3. Nitrogen Pink (Tara Busch's Analog Suicide Mix) 
4. Please Don't Touch (Acoustic Demo) 
5. Nitrogen Pink (Acoustic Demo)

Download it here.

 I remember 'Nitrogen Pink ' was the first song I heard by Polly, and I was particularly  stunned & stirred to joy by the lyrics and her art of unraveling a composition into such beautiful, teetering chaos....Produced by Simon Fisher Turner, 'Nitrogen Pink' is full of lovely stems to play with;  the swirling , snarling bleeps and monsterous fuzz of the Minimoog being a particular sonic treat to play with.

For the remix, I saught to wrap Polly's vocal, (which gradually unravels in the original) in a sweet, snarly cloak of analogue grit, fizz, blip and glimmer, then perhaps drag it by its wings through a forest suitable for a Brothers Grimm fairy tale....with heavy, sleazy drums to anchor beneath (pardon the 'Tara-speak'). Hopefully tasty!

So....

Back to Polly's EP, I was curious as to the story behind the song "Bunny Club". I loved the engaging lyrics full of childlike melancholy in the sleazy dreaminess of a nightclub...disturbing and sweet! As the story goes in Polly's words:

"...Bunny Club is one of my older songs, I wrote it around the same time as Nitrogen Pink, when I was living in South London....
I decided in the end that the message of Bunny Club was in the lyrics, I wanted the vocals to be up front and powerful. It is a song that I feel when played live invites people in, they can take as much or as little of it as they want, some people listen intently, other people dance to it, for that reason its one of my favorites to play live...."

Be sure to also pop over to Polly's Myspace blog - she is currently doing a very cool 'cassette giveaway' - the cassette contains the album version of "Bunny Club" and the B Side is my Analog Suicide Mix of Nitrogen Pink!

Pop over here to scoop up your "Bunny Club EP" ! May the sweet sounds make your Monday....Also - stay tuned for more remix news!

Below: Here's live (audio) footage of Polly's lovely version of 'Puff the Magic Dragon"...ah!

A few months back, I received an email from Seth and Michelle (AKA Compute-her) of the lovely '8 Bit Weapon'. 

First off, read more about 8 Bit Weapon and their arsenal of 8 bit weapons here; and check out their new video:

 Great news, Sony has released a sample library containing some of their scrumptious 8 bit wonders! Pop over to their news page as many great things are happening for them, including new 8 Bit Weapon & Compute - her iPhone apps. Read more news here.

 Here's more about the sound library from Seth & Michelle:

"We have some kind of odd music gear news for you. Sony Creative Software has released our loop and sample library called, "8 Bit Weapon: A Chiptune Odyssey". The library contains real sounds from each of the following computers/consoles: Apple II, Commodore 64, NES, Gameboy, and the Atari 2600. Each system library has everything from drums, bass and synth to special effects.
Both Michelle (aka ComputeHer) and I have featured song demos built into the collection to boot!

The sound library works with ACID, Ableton Live, Cubase, Garage Band, Logic, Soundtrack, BeatMaker for iPhone and more!

Users who purchase the "Green" Downloadable version of the Sony loop library will get the full MP3 release of our "Electric High EP" plus an exclusive track "Break Beat Bonanza" as an added bonus!

Click the link to see Sony's official page."

Love it? Surely more to come.

Good Afternoon and happy Monday! May I start Free Mp3 Monday with a song for you? There are several lovely tracks that everyone has send to the AnalogSuicide Free Mp3 Monday Group....but I thought we'd start with this....a Tara Busch demo slicing through the sunset like an east Hollywood vapour trail over Griffith Park. Or something like that...

  Climb On O Pilot! by TaraBusch

And the sounds to send you into your week:

Electric Mystical Soul Vibration - theatre of odd by tonytooke

Friendly Fire by Synoiz

Mittelschmertz - Winterlight remix by autorotation

50.000 Miles High(Alt.Take)=Chemical Bros.Rmx by PointsG-AZURESUNRECORDS  

The Lucky Ones by the analog affair

And for a nice audio/visual break; I've been wanting to post Synthie Frau for a while! Here she is. Find the rest of her lovely videos here:

A few more for a happy Monday indeed: 

GeminEye - Petrol by laurielaptop

Love Explodes by thelittlephilistines

01 tensori (wiener process) by spacekraft

Here I am with red wine & popcorn...ready to watch Synth Britannia? Many thanks to VideodromeDisco on YouTube. I've posted the first 3 parts here; pop over here for the rest. Enjoy!