bovaflux

Simple Circuit

2009-07-13T22:36:00.002+02:00

A forgotten track from a couple of months ago, which I found while digging around my hard drive...

Short and sweet, not much else to say!

Connect with it

2009-07-12T17:16:00.003+02:00

Ok, so for ages I avoided joining facebook, since I was already on a few social networking sites, and didn't want yet another to worry about. But after basically everyone I know getting into it, I've kind of caved in, and now I've added a fan page too.

Bovaflux on Facebook

Should I go the whole way and join twitter too?

It lives!!

2009-06-23T21:53:00.002+02:00

Been a while since I posted... Things went crazy at work for a bit, but that's all done with now, so for the last couple of weeks I've just been recovering and relaxing. I'm finding it hard getting back into writing tracks after a three month break, so I've just been playing around with some other ideas.

Sketchbook by bovaflux

They are kind of a bit different sounding to my usual thing, but sometimes you just have to clear this stuff out the way so you can crack on with it.

RE Nothing

2009-03-29T15:31:00.002+02:00

A few months ago Jordi Cabestany got in touch with me asking to use a track of mine in a video he was producing.. I got sent a copy of it, but didn't hear much else about it, until I randomly found it uploaded on the net today.

re nothing from kbs on Vimeo.

From what I can work out, I think it was shown at Lekuz Leku 2008, but that's about all I know. But anyway, it's an interesting piece, with an almost kalaediscopic look. The track used is called Kleine, from my album Where There Was Nothing.

Album news and current happenings

2009-03-26T20:56:00.004+01:00

My current project is almost Beta now, so time to work on music projects is becoming more and more rare. In a couple of months it should all be over though, so I'll be able to concentrate on things properly again, and maybe that third album will finally be finished! I was having a spin through some of the shortlisted tracks for it over the last week, and I think there's some really nice tracks to go on there (although I would say that I guess).

While taking ages to get a new album out can feel a bit frustrating at times, I think it probably means a better end product. I've thought I was close to finishing this album about three times already, but then I get sidetracked with other stuff, make some new tracks, go off a few old ones, and the album takes a new shape again. I think I have around 30 something tracks to consider for the next album, and the longer I leave it, the stronger the whole thing sounds. At the minute it's looking like being about 12-14 tracks, and around 50mins, which leaves a lot of left over material, which I will probably add here for free as a left overs EP, and maybe keep a few tracks just for live shows (always nice to save some fresh tracks for that).

So what exactly is it that I've been spending so much time on? Well, I guess I can reveal it now, since it was announced this week at GDC. Since moving to Germany I've been working with Keen Games to create the PSP and DS versions of G-Force. Sadly, not based on the old anime (that would have been too awesome), but based on what is more than likely going to be every 9 year olds favourite blockbuster of the year. Here's the trailer..

and here's a first look at the game over at IGN. (The screens obviously aren't from the PSP or DS versions though!)

New Ambient/Dubstep/Electronic mix

2009-03-07T18:34:00.003+01:00

Here's a little DJ Mix I did last weekend.. been a while since I did any mixing, and it probably shows, with a few rough transitions here and there, but hopefully the quality of the tracks makes up for the dodgy mixing!

February09Mix by bovaflux

The mix covers everything from ambient to dubstep, and is basically just a slice of what I've been listening to recently, plus a couple of my unreleased tracks dropped in too.

Tracklisting

Helios - Paper Tiger
Bracken - Four Thousand Style
Miwon - Round and Round
Kristuit Salu - Leitmotif
Lukid - Forma
Mrs Jynx - Dusty
Bovaflux - Brm
Pridon - She bit me first
Joker - Digidesign
Xela - Ut Nod Vivicaret
Bovaflux - Music Box
Bovaflux - Wobble Brain
Helios - The Toy Garden
Wisp - Among The Pines

The mix is hosted at Soundcloud, which I might use for hosting other mixes and track previews, so if you are registered, be sure to start following me there.

Fibla remix

2009-02-25T22:37:00.002+01:00

Got the news that my remix of Fibla will be released on the NOW remixed compilation on the 3rd of April. More news about that to come later, or if you want to stay totally up to date then head over to the Underscan website and sign up to their mailing list.

The last few days I've been listening to some great albums that I missed from 2008. First is from Bracken, which is a project by one of the guys from Hood. More electronic and experimental than his stuff with Hood, but still excellent and detailed, and a feels really at home on the Anticon label. The other release is from Ezekial Honig. I first heard his music after I got a copy of the album he did with Morgen Packard from Thor at Highpoint Lowlife. There's something about these super minimal tones mixed with scratcy evolving soundscapes the just pushes all the right buttons for me. Beautiful stuff. I'm hoping to find time soon to throw together a liitle mixtape for the site, and you'll no doubt be hearing some stuff from these two on there.

Beats & bugs & brains & bullets

2009-02-19T23:12:00.004+01:00

Another super busy week at work this week, as my current game heads to Alpha. Not too upset by the extra workload though, as I had a good weekend making music, completing two new tracks. Things will hopefully get a bit quieter next week though, so I can continue working on new stuff in the studio, and also spend a bit of time with House of the Dead: Overkill, which I just ordered from amazon uk (It won't be released here in Germany)! Looks like a lot of fun from the trailer, I totally love the way they've pitched it, even if it is clearly very Grindhouse influenced. The engine for the game was licenced from my previous employer, so there are even going to be some (very) tiny fragments of my code in there somewhere! :)

The crazy increase in web traffic here seems to have died down to more typical levels now - still no idea what triggered that! Looks like it may have encouraged some renewed interest in my releases going by the latest iTunes reports, although I have to wait a while for proper numbers to come through. Thanks to everyone who has been supporting my music over the last couple of weeks though, every sale slowly gets me closer to buying some new studio gear! One cheaper little addition I'm really tempted by is the pro upgrade for Novation's automap software.. Being able to map controls to send keystrokes sounds like it would help integrating the controller with renoise, since renoise doesn't have the usual support for transport controls. Will hopefully get sometime to try it all out next week (inbetween sessions of blood soaked zombie filled violence, obviously... Oh, and that reminds me, new Walking Dead and Invincible books out in a couple of weeks!)

Studio2009

2009-02-05T22:55:00.003+01:00

Recently I finally got round to setting up a second monitor on my machine here at home, and thought I'd use that as an excuse to show you all where it is I do all my music currently. As you can see, a pretty modest looking set up.

Let's take a full tour of the image! Just left of centre you see my old monitor, set up with a 90 degree rotation so I can offload a few plug ins there from the main screen, and have it as a virtual rack. With any luck, in a couple of years I can replace this with a (multi?)touch screen version, and have an even more virtual rack kind of experience! Until then, there's still the SL25 underneath there, for midi control and keyboard duties. The main monitor is a 19" monster, a gift from Petra, which you can see is running the greatest tracker of all time, Renoise.

Above that and to the right, you can see the miserable excuse of a speaker set up.. I've had this crappy hifi for over ten years now, and everything on it is broken, except for the speakers and audio input, which thankfully is all I need from it these days. Maybe it would be better if it broke, would be the push I need to finally get me some proper audio monitors..

And finally, up top you can see the print picture my brother gave me for my 30th birthday, of the late great John Peel. Having him watching over me kind of makes me feel a little under pressure at times. The little quote on there is typical Peel.. "I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking that sounded better when I played it the other night, at the wong speed". Awesome stuff.

One other thing for today, while wanting to upload the above photo (which btw I didn't have space for on my hosting account, so have just set up a flicker account), I noticed that there was a bit of a spike in traffic over the last couple of days.. Quite a large spike.. Like, 700Mb downloaded in the space of two days. And I don't have that many tracks on here to download, so that's way over the normal amount! Not quite sure what caused the rush of traffic, but if you have a clue, drop a comment here, I'm curious to know!

Busy

2009-02-04T22:35:00.003+01:00

The year has been pretty full on so far, so not much time for blog updates. We've had a busy few weeks at work as our game nears alpha, but it looks like things are starting to calm down again now. In between the late nights and pizza, I have actually managed to do some new music though, in the shape of a remix of Fibla for Underscan records. No word yet on the release date, but I'll add the info here when I have it.

The remix will probably be your first chance to here some of the new elements making their way into my music, namely my guitar. It took some time to get a good feeling for how I can blend it in with my normal song writing, but I think the last few tracks I made with it turned out pretty good. I'm actually thinking about trying out a side project of some sort, with a really limited set of equipment - just my guitar, my music box, and some kind of simple percussion. Might be a disaster, but I have a few ideas brewing, and in the worst case, I have some samples to reuse later. All I need now is a bit of a break from work!

Happy New Year

2009-01-09T22:39:00.004+01:00

Well, Christmas is over, and the new year has begun. Hope you all had a great break over the holiday. I had a couple of weeks off work, but didn't really get to spend much time on music, due to travelling around visiting family in England and Germany. It's going to be tough finding time over the next couple of weeks too, as the overtime is starting to increase at work now and starting to eat into my weekends.

Anyway, in typical first post of the new year style, it's about time for a top 10 of 2008..

TOP TEN THINGS IN 2008 (no particular order, and 3 or 4 of them aren't really from 2008)

British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?(Album)
Braid (Game)
dan le sac vs Scroobius Pip - Angles (Album)
Toshio Iwai / I am robot and proud (Gig)
Joy Division (Film / Music)
Shape of Broad Minds - Craft of the Lost Art (Album)
Portal: Still Alive (Game)
The Tuss - Rushup Edge(Album)
Venetian Snares - Detrimentalist (Album)
Kelpe - Sea inside body (Album)

British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
Maybe it was because I had just moved away from dear old Blighty just as this album was released, or maybe because this was such a great comeback after Open Season, but at the start of the year I just couldn't get enough of this. Proper indie rock with a distinctly british air to it, this album really managed to blend the raw energy of their debut with the more thoughtful song writing of the follow up to form their most solid album to date. Only sad thing was that they canceled their gig in Frankfurt, so I missed seeing them live (although I had only seen them 3 months earlier, just before leaving the UK!).

Braid
In the days of multi million dollar video game blockbusters, it's refreshing to see that the little guy can still come out and make something that leaves the rest standing. With Braid, Jonathon Blow has created a masterpiece of videogame design, combining incredibly well though out puzzles with an intriguing story. And I don't just mean, a typical game story, like hero saves the princess, or macho space marine saves the planet by killing thousands of aliens (although it does play with the first of these). Braid's story is multi layered, and is actually about something. The more you dig into it, the more you find, which is incredibly rare in games. It's very rare that a game blows my mind like Braid did, and I strongly encourage all of you to check it out. Yes, it's just an old skool platform game with a twist, but it's also so much more!

dan le sac vs Scroobius Pip - Angles
I have to admit, after hearing the single before most other people (it was dan that booked me for my last UK gig at the start of 2007), it took me ages to get around to buying the album. But I'm really glad I did. The album isn't all killer, but when these two get their mix of spoken word poetry and beaty electronica right, it's just incredible. Really look forward to more from these two.

Toshio Iwai / I am robot and proud
It's been a quiet year for gigs really, but this one really stands out for a few reasons. Basically, since it was tying in with the Musik Messe here in Frankfurt, rather than just a plain old gig, Toshio Iwai gave us a 45 min talk on how he developed the tenori-on, his musical background, etc, before then giving his performance. Really interesting stuff, and nicely hit the balance for me between games and music. After his performance, a little act from canada took to the stage called I am robot and proud. I was really looking forward to seeing him play, as he generally doesn't tour in europe, so it felt like a bit of a once in a lifetime opportunity. He played an awesome set, and is probably the only person I've seen that really looks like he can play a tenori-on! The other bands on the night kind of used them as gimmiks, but with I am robot and proud, it really just fit in so much better. And to top the night off, I also got my copy of Electroplankton signed by Toshio Iwai!

Joy Division
Joy Division has always been one of those bands that I'd heard about a lot, but never actually heard their music, or any of the detail about them. I ended up going to see Control at the cinema earlier in the year, which was a great movie, and really is a great introduction to the band and their music. Since then I've been digging into their two albums, and also just saw the new Joy Division documentary that came out recently. So yeah, awesome music, shame I'm about 30 years too late!

Shape of Broad Minds - Craft of the Lost Art
I think this might have technically been 2007, but fuck it, I was a few months late.. More boundary pushing stuff from the Lex Label, this is definitely the most interesting Hip-Hop release for me recently. Also worth checking out related projects, like Dr Who Dat?, Jneiro Jarel, and the excellent free release The Fantastic JJ Project.

Portal: Still Alive
I missed the original since I only really play games on consoles, but this years XBox Live Arcade release was still suitably awesome enough to hook me for a week. As with all the greatest games at the minute, it's kind of short, but with no padding, making this incredibly interesting to play from start to end. Some of the puzzles can really mess your head up, and you find yourself using the game's physics system in some incredible ways, it often had me just staring at the screen thinking "how the fuck did I just do that?" If you need your spatial awareness skill testing, are looking for one of the funniest games of the last few years, or you just like cake, then you have to play this game!

The Tuss - Rushup Edge
Was this 2007 or 2008? Whatever, I only got it this year I think.. Is it Aphex Twin? It kind of sounds like him, and all the internet rumours seem to point to it, but whoever made it, it's one of the most original electronic recording of the year (or last year).

Venetian Snares - Detrimentalist (Album)
Venetian Snares albums are always a bit hit and miss for me, but this is the first that I will play over and over since Chocolate Wheelchair. This is VSnares doing what I love him doing - going completely stupid, mashing up a thousand random ideas, and producing the hyper detailed over the top ultra rave music that makes all other music sound sleep inducing in comparison. When Aaron gets it right, he genuinely makes the most hardcore exciting music you could ever imagine, and on this album he's at his best. This album makes me long for the days when my brother and I would head of down for some all nighter breakcore action down in London town.. Great days.. Anyway, I would give this record 7 stars out of 7.

Kelpe - Sea inside body (Album)
I know, another that isn't actually from 2008.. I think this is actually 2004.. but who cares, I discoverd Kelpe this year, and that's what matters! Apparently we're both from pretty much the same part of England too, he's from Loughborough, while I grew up in a little town just down the road called Shepshed.. maybe it was homesickness that got me listening to him this year! But anyway, great electronic music with tight beats, warm synths, and a kind of nostalgic melancholy feel, just the thing for winter. He did actually release a new album in 2008, so I should probably have picked that up and had that in this list to be more up to date, but well.. I didn't..

Honourable mentions go to Lost Winds (Game), my new guitar, PicPic (Game), Mrs Jynx's The Standoffish Cat (album), Robert Kirkman (whose The Walking Dead and Invincible comics continues to be all kinds of awesome), Heat Sensor's Touch EP (more well known for some awesome production work with MF DOOM (as Viktor Vaughn), this 4 track EP is well worth hunting for) and DJ Rubbish - Armageddon Session Vol 2 (album).

I'd also like to thank everyone that bought my music this year, and also to those who donated via paypal (using the link on the menu on the left). Look forward to more releases this year!

Anything I missed?

New toy

2008-12-14T20:57:00.005+01:00

This weekend I've spent pretty much the whole time playing with my brand new iPod Touch. I've never really considered buying one, but my company decided to be completely awesome and buy one for everybody! I'm still not a fan of iTunes, but I have to say that I'm finding the iPod Touch experience pretty slick so far.

I think the most impressive thing is how integrated everything is.. The contacts list is a great example. You can tap on a contact in your list, tap on their address, and it switches to google maps and shows you their place on the map. Then you can tap to get directions from your current location (without gps). Then tap their name on the map again, tap their email address, and let them know you're on your way over!

I've already rushed over to the App Store to download a few bits and pieces - Last.fm so I can scrobble on the move, Guitar Toolkit, which is a handy chord guide for guitar newbies like me, and VNC, which let's you remotely control your PC.. very handy for kicking off some torrents on your home system ready for when you get back in the evening! :)

I'm still on the look out for some real music making apps for it.. I have a couple of weeks away from the main PC over xmas and new year, so I'm hoping to have some half decent portable options with me too. If you know any, then please add a comment below!

Oh, and in other recent news, the game I designed, PowerUp Forever, was released on Xbox360 Live Arcade. PS3 release should follow shortly. I've played the trial version a little bit, and I'm happy to say that it looks like it's turned out pretty good! I found a rather nice review here too!

What does your wlan sound like?

2008-12-06T23:59:00.003+01:00

Came across this really interesting DS Homebrew project today called sniff jazzbox. It basically converts the data being broadcast from all those wifi access points all around you, and converts them into music. It's a pretty cool concept, but I find the results a bit of a let down. Rather than creating any kind of sonic soundscape, i simply interprets the data into piano notes. I totally love the concept though, and would love someone to take it further. Imagine a cross between this and Korg's DS10, where the data would be interpreted to adjust parameters of the sounds being generated.. I'm sure that could produce some interesting results.

link here
and also check out this page of other DS Homebrew audio projects. Some excellent stuff there, especially GlitchDS.

New MP3 store

2008-12-06T15:39:00.007+01:00

I saw that Amazon UK has opened it's new MP3 store this week. There are a couple of my albums up there to buy if you feel that way inclined.

Also, I'm told that the release date for PowerUp Forever (the XBLA and PS3 game I created the concept for and contributed music to) will be released on the 18th December. Strange for an XBLA game to be released on a thursday, but there you go.

Audio experiment

2008-11-27T22:08:00.011+01:00

A couple of audio experiments.. First, I wanted to have a little look into an easy way to add some mp3 clips to the blog posts today, as it'd be nice to occasionally just drop in some bits and bobs that I'm working on. This is a track I made today, which mixes up a few thing from the past week or so.. The weather here has been quite wintery, with a fair bit of snow (by English standards anyway) over the weekend. I was also feeling a bit homesick after getting some nice cards and presents for my birthday last week, but also made to feel really welcome in Germany by a nice series of answer phone messages from pretty much all of my girlfriends relatives. This track is part of my effort to try and turn my music into more of a diary of what's happening for me. See what you think..

The track is a bit work in progress, not mastered properly, etc, but I thought it might be cool to make things a bit more immediate, so you hear lots of bits and pieces as I make them, and not have to wait years in between releases. The only thing that might get in the way is webspace, as I don't have that much at the minute! We'll see how it goes..

Some random other things from today..

I'm up to episode 10 of Gurren Lagann!! Although i was quite into this series from the first episode, episode 8 blew me away today, starting to develop a habit for it now.

I just finished Spider-Man: Web of Shadows DS. Twice. Best Spidey game since Spider-Man 2. Now back to Pic Pic....

First rumours of a PSP2 have started to appear.

GamesRadar had a great feature on non-game gamer gifts for xmas. Reminds me of all the awesome toys I want to waste money on, like this Chun-Li by Revoltech, and this mini Pac-Man arcade unit (sadly not playable!)

Gear

2008-11-25T22:19:00.005+01:00

I added a few new sections to the website today, including a bit of info on my current set up. While putting the list together, it reminded me how much free software I use in my set up. Some of my favourite VSTs are free, such as the awesome MDA plug pack, pluggo jnr and FreeAlpha. It's pretty incredible to think of the results you can get out of a music set up that literally costs nothing. I remember how hard it used to be when I was making tracks in Octamed, having to program in some faked delay effects by hand, as I just didn't have any effects plug ins or external fx units. Search on the net now and you'd find hundreds of them, along with countless other synths and effects, which can all be used in free sequencers/trackers.

Which reminds me, I came across another free bundle of plug in effects today..

Blue Cat Audio

Not had a chance to dig into them yet, but it looks like there could be some useful stuff in there, although nothing that sounds weird or revolutionary. If you are looking for something a bit weirder, you could try out Olga. I've only played about with that one a little bit, but it's pretty strange. For starters, the interface is all Russian (i think), making it a little hard to learn. Definitely has a sound of it's own though.

Site work

2008-11-16T19:42:00.006+01:00

Just a quick one to say that things might look a bit strange here for a few days as I start changing things around to fit into the new site... The blog doesn't match up with the existing site anymore, but once the new site is uploaded, it'll all make sense again.

One of the things I'm adding is a way to expand posts, so you don't have to scroll through too much to see a quick overview of the blog. I don't post that often, but when I do, it tends to be quite a lot, and it makes the blog look a bit heavy.

PowerUp Forever Review

2008-11-17T22:05:00.003+01:00

I don't often mention my videogames stuff here, but I just saw this video review of the game I did the original concept for, and am so excited I just have to post it! :)

It still counts as Bovaflux content too, as you can also (just about) hear the music I made for it in the last minute or two of the peice. Can't wait for this to finally get released!

New release, and plans for 2008

2008-01-27T12:31:00.001+01:00

Hi Folks,

The more observant amonst you may have noticed that it's been a while since any Bovaflux material has appeared.. 2007 turned out to be a bit of an odd year all round really, with lots of projects that never quite materialised. One nice thing was that happened was getting a track used in the graffiti documentary "Bomb it!", which would have been even better if I'd actually got to see the film.. maybe the dvd release this year? But yeah, apart from that, it was just stuff that didn't happen. The remixes, the EP, etc. This is partly down to outside factors, but also down to the fact that I was changing a lot too.. I quit my job and moved to Germany for starters, which as you can probably imagine, can be quite a time consuming thing to do.

Anyway, I've resolved that 2008 is gonna be the year that stuff starts happening again. I'm taking control of releases again, bringing back [d]-tached records, and most importantly to you, dear music lover, getting music out there. It's all starting with the EP which I finished in 2006, and has had it's release delayed time and time again. Sadly, it won't be appearing on vinyl now, but it will at least be appearing! Release is set for 3/3/08, and it is available for streaming right now at last.fm.

http://www.last.fm/music/Bovaflux/Yesterday%2C+Tomorrow%2C+Now

I'm also reliably informed that my remix for Emulsion will be coming out spring 2008, so you have that to look forward to as well. I have a second EP completed, which will probably arrive summer-ish time, featuring material completed last year. I recently surreptitiously uploaded a side project of mine to a random internet location too.. it's not particularly hard to trace back to me, but you know, the internet's a big place, so it could take you a while to find it. :)(further clues may appear through out the year too..)

So anyway, hope you're all having a good start to the new year, and I'll post again soon!

Eddie

New Bovaflux download EP available now!

2008-03-10T21:57:00.002+01:00

Yes, it's been a long time coming, but now it's finally here! I completed this EP early 2006, but due to delays with the label, it's only just now getting released. You can find it right now on emusic.com at the following link, and it will be appearing on iTunes, napster and all the usual places over the next couple of weeks..

http://www.emusic.com/album/Bovaflux-Yesterday-Tomorrow-Now-MP3-Download/11155813.html

I would spend some time here writing some stuff about how it sounds, but, you know, it's the internet, so why not just listen for yourself? The entire EP is here ready to stream..

http://www.last.fm/music/Bovaflux/Yesterday%2C+Tomorrow%2C+Now

You can also stream and download lots of previous releases too, including my releases on Highpoint Lowlife and [d]-tached.

http://www.last.fm/music/Bovaflux/+albums

Enjoy!

Eddie

Random November update

2008-11-03T22:55:00.006+01:00

Well, I just kind of realised that 2008 is on the way out.. is it really November already? Starting a new life in Germany has really made the time go fast, and at times I've really been wondering if I can still manage to keep up making music. But well, making music isn't really something you can just decide to stop doing, so I always find my way back to it. The harder thing is doing all the stuff that surrounds it, trying to promote it, updating the website, etc. I really think it's about time the site had a bit of a tidy up though, as it's getting pretty old looking in places.. about time some new tracks were uploaded too I think.

Anyway, I thought I'd also update you all on some of the little goings on from this year. Not a big year for releases, but still a few interesting bits and bobs.

First up there's a couple of remixes. First out was my remix for Fuck off Machete, which you can find here. The gang seem to have gone pretty quiet since that release, but I hope they return some day, the are an awesome bunch.

Next up was the remix for Emulsion, which I think has turned out as probably my favourite remix I've done. Check it out at the lens records site.

I also saw that "Bomb It!", the graffiti documentary by Jon Reiss was released on DVD this year. This excellent thought provoking film features the opening track from my 2005 album. I can't tell you how proud I was to see my name scroll up in the movie credits! :)

I also released the much delayed EP, Yesterday, Tomorrow, Now, on [d]-tached records. Many thanks to everyone who bought a copy, especially the growing number of bovaflux fans from Japan! One great thing about direct mp3 sales is that I really get to see where every copy gets sold, and it sometimes really surprises me.

There won't be any new releases from me now until next year, but I will start uploading a few new tracks to the website and myspace pages, leading up to the new album release next year. In the mean time, you might be interested to know that I have some music featured in a new XBox 360 Live Arcade game called Powerup Forever. The soundtrack is pretty interesting actually, as it tries to always present something new by randomly mixing together a set of ambient tracks with a set of beat tracks, to give a kind of endless mix of music. Also worth noting is that I created the original concept for the game, but had to leave development of it behind once I moved out here to Germany. I haven't had a look at the game since the early prototype stages, so it'll be interesting to see how it shapes up.

Time for a change...

2007-11-05T11:07:00.000+01:00

Hi Folks, No update for a while as I've been rather busy with non-Bovaflux things, namely preparing to move to Germany. That's right, I'll be leaving dear old Blighty for a new life in Frankfurt! Me and my girlfriend have been thinking about doing the move for around a year or so now, and we've decided to now make the leap. I'm still pretty nervous about the whole thing, but at the same time really excited and looking forward to all the new experiences. Expect a few hicups with the site as I make the transition, but hopefully it should all go smoothly. I'm guessing that I'll keep the .co.uk domain name for a while.. changing it to .de seems a bit weird, so if it does change at all, it'll probably go to bovaflux.com, since I'm like all international and that now.

So anyway, I've been so busy with getting a new job (will be working for keen Games) and planning the house move I've not been writing much new material, but I'm sure this will change once I've settled into the new place. The EP is still apparently just around the corner, so that may even appear before I've moved. We have the masters from Twerk, so it's just waiting to be
pressed really.

The other little bit of release news is that the remix I did for Emulsion should be getting a release early next year. Glad that's coming out, as it's a sweet little track. Still no word on the fomachete remix I did a while back.. that was supposed to come out as a download only release, but it may not be on the cards now.. I should chase it up really, if it's not going to get released I'll ask the band if they're cool with me just sticking it on the site for download.

And speaking of downloads.. I'm thinking of adding a new download only EP to the site. As you may have noticed from how long I've been waiting for the EP to appear, it can be a very slow process! I'm thinking I might try out side stepping all that stuff and put out an EP of about 5 tracks, free to download, with an option to donate via paypal for those of you who still feel music has some value! :) I'm guessing I won't get much chance to prepare everything this side of Christmas, what with the upcoming house move and everything, so expect to see it around January.

Ok, that's about it for now. I'll try and get back into making these posts a bit more frequent!

Eddie

movement

2007-07-15T14:04:00.000+02:00

It's been a bit quiet lately, sorry about that.. Things should begin to pick up a bit soon though, as the EP on SRL is due to appear very soon. Really looking forward to that, my first release on vinyl!

I'm also still hard at work on my next album, which is probably about 70% complete. I'm still looking for a label to release this, so if you are record label and have space on your schedule, drop me a mail.

2007-08-29T14:15:00.000+02:00

Hello again,

Couple of things to announce.. Firstly, the long awaited EP has now been mastered, so hopefully that won't be too far off now!

Secondly, we've now made my previous album, "Where there was nothing" available for free download at last.fm, so you can grab yourself a copy over there right now. If you want to show your support and encourage further releases, please consider a little donation using the link below! I still need to replace my broken old soundcard! :)

Oh, and if you would like a CD copy of the album, please get in touch, I still have a few knocking about here.

no live shows for a little while...

2007-04-29T17:57:00.000+02:00

After several years of use in shows across the UK, my trusty Hercules DJ console has finally died.. until I get that replaced I'm unable to play any shows. I'm ok for writing stuff, I'm making do with my PCs onboard soundcard, but the onboard soundcard on my laptop is really nasty and noisey, not really suitable for playing out. Plus, I used the DJ Console as a MIDI controller too, so without it, there's no show.

I'll hopefully find a worthy successor to it soon. If you want to help me out and donate towards it's replacement, feel free to add to the new gear fund by clicking the link below.