The Dastardly Diaries Chapter 4 - The Blues Cause - Now available! [Free Download]

A stripped down, Mp3 player friendly, digestible-in-one-sitting read from Muttley, aka Foci’s Left (producer), aka Mick Robert Buckingham.

Within The Dastardly Diaries Chapter 4 lies a tackling of “the blues cause” as an overarching theme, and music of this quality to soothe.

Inside you’re getting:

TDD Chapter 4 ClipZIP - four full length, high quality tracks from post-rockers Audiocaeneat!, (Jungle) experimentalist GlassBox, and enuui (Ambient). Plus 11 more specially chosen audio clips from the likes of Code, Paradox, Atoms For Peace (Thom Yorke’s new project) and Boduf Songs. That’s 15 new sounds in all!

Through The Looking Glass (TL), Lughole Lubricants (LL) and Mind’s Ear (ME) provide sections for discussion on how music heals the blues, with retrospective selections of great amounts of great content. Meta language - where things seem to be wrong - remains a strong feature of decompiling the fusions present.

Lawrence English’s excellent “A Young Person’s Guide To Hustling In Music And The Arts” rounds out the scripted package with choice insights on how you can play ball musically.

Finally, along with a selection of fine images, Muttley has contributed a 3 deck Jungle / Drum & Bass mix called “Transients” to the ZIP archive.

I hope you enjoy the read and listen.

Best wishes

Michael

Big up Mick!

Grab everything here:

The Dastardly Diaries Chapter 4 - The Blues Cause - Now available! [Free Download]

Source: SoundCloud / GlassBox

GlassBox - Grahams Number

Studio Pressure - Resolution
The Spirit - Open Spaces
Future Engineers - Image
DJ Krust - The Resister
Studio Pressure - The Physical
Phaze 1 - Try A Style
Photek - Complex
Decoder - The Difference
Served Chilled feat. Juliette Ede - Airbourne
Genotype - Angry Business
The Spirit - Chapter two
D.N.A - D.N.A
Undercover Agent - Dream
Doc Scott - It’s Yours
Liftin Spirits - Break It Up
Venom - Mystery

Oldschool atmospheric stuff for the first 20ish minutes, then into some darker techstep and back out into some jungle tunes. Made this for my car a couple years ago.

Source: SoundCloud / GlassBox

GlassBox - In My Mind

Sometimes I forget to post my own stuff. Putting an EP together at the moment. Jungle vibes.

Source: SoundCloud / GlassBox

GlassBox - Come On

Finally got set up after moving, flexing my new headphones ;)

Source: SoundCloud / GlassBox

Shameless self promotion today, I’ve launched a shiny new Bandcamp page as well as a Facebook page. In celebration of that, I’m re-releasing some old tunes with some spiffy new album art, FOR FREE. Head over to Bandcamp and grab the tunes, and send me a like / comment on Facebook to keep updated with future stuff.  For those unfamiliar with Bandcamp, Buy Now is your download link, its set to 0$’s. You can grab whatever format you want.
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Shameless self promotion today, I’ve launched a shiny new Bandcamp page as well as a Facebook page.

In celebration of that, I’m re-releasing some old tunes with some spiffy new album art, FOR FREE.

Head over to Bandcamp and grab the tunes, and send me a like / comment on Facebook to keep updated with future stuff. 

For those unfamiliar with Bandcamp, Buy Now is your download link, its set to 0$’s. You can grab whatever format you want.

GlassBox - 4am Fight

Playing around with Presonus Studio 1 some more, 140 breakbeat stuff (unmastered, the sub bass is too loud/needs compression, you’ve been warned). It’s not quite as plugin friendly as Ableton, but the interface is awesome. Kind of a shame, it could be sooo much better if older plug-ins worked, maybe I’m just missing something. The default instruments are pretty cool though.

Source: SoundCloud / GlassBox

GlassBox - Grahams Number

All oldschool, early to mid 90’s jungle, atmospheric-ish stuff that gets more jump-up-ish toward the end.

Download here if it suits you

I got around to making a track list:

Studio Pressure - Resolution
The Spirit - Open Spaces
Future Engineers - Image
DJ Krust - The Resister
Studio Pressure - The Physical
Phaze 1 - Try a Style
Photek - Complex
Decoder - The Difference
Served Chilled feat Juliette Ede - Airbourne
Genotype - Angry Business
The Spirit - Chapter Two
D.N.A. - D.N.A.
Undercover Agent - Dream
Doc Scott - It’s Yours
Liftin Spirits - Break It Up
Venom - Mystery
 

GlassBox - There’s No Rush (clip)

I’d Just finished typing this into a newsletter i’m laying out, because it’s uber boring… when one of my aforementioned vinyl shipments arrived. Tis’ a glorious day. So.. enjoy a track I’m probably never going to finish (I was just testing out studio one, which is awesome btw), because it’s friday. 

Source: SoundCloud / GlassBox

GlassBox - 07-19-12 - House Mini-Mix

  1. Outta Limits - Mission Control (Ricky Montanari & David Ruberto Re-Entry Dub)
  2. Photek - Aviator
  3. King Force - Doggie Style (Mike’s International Mix)
  4. Resketch - Tides Of Change
  5. The Fog - Been A Long Time (Original Club Mix)

Playing around with some of that old house I was digging up the other day

GlassBox - 0029

Just bouncing this so I can listen to it later… the last bit gets a little chaotic with stroby disco business.

Source: SoundCloud / GlassBox

GlassBox - Wisdom Tooth

Had this laying around for a while, lost interest in it. So up on SC it goes.

Source: SoundCloud / GlassBox