Barking Spider Electronics

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• Genetically Modified (2000) - 12 tracks
• Sleep Is For The Week (2005) - 12 tracks

Well after making excuses for months as to why I couldn’t get any new music done I’ve finally written a new tune thanks to a bit of encouragement from my good mate Mr Parley. The first techno tune I’ve done in ages and the first tune in a while I’m happy with. I reckon it’s finished so check it out on my MySpace player and let me know what you think. It’s called “Put Up Pent Up”.

Have a good festive period!

To keep you going a couple of my side-project myspace pages have some tunage on them…

SCART Thug MySpace - My downtempo alter-ego
The Figures Of The Lost Dawn - Moody collaberation between myself and Paul Reset.

You can download a small Reason Refill of effects patches that I have created from http://www.barkingspider.co.uk/downloads/BSE-Effects-Volume1.zip.

RV7000 Patches - 8 patches - 4 echos, 3 fx, 1 reverb
Scream 4 Patches- 8 noisy patches
Combinator Patches - 4 effects patches (intended to be used as send effects) described below.

Echotape - A combination of reverb and delays with a bit of distortion for extra measure. An LFO sweeping the delay time produces an additional sound similar to an audio tape being slowed down and speeded up.

Delayed Again - A delay followed by another short delay - produces a very rich sound.

4 Delays - 4 delays running in parallel with optional phaser and lfo controlled filter.

Sordid Echo - After being run through a Scream4 to dirty things up a bit the sound progresses through a gated echo before being processed by the vocoder. Play with the patterns and timing in the Matrix Pattern Sequencer and try changing the modulator sound.

Your comments and suggestions are more than welcome.

Picked up a couple of cds from local folk in the past week or so - Accrual ‘Kirkville Blue’ and Miso Mixtape volume one - both were £5 or less and they’re both great - even more reason to support local artists!

Accrual - Kirkville Blue

Accrual are billed as an ‘improvised drone project’ which doesn’t exactly fill me with glee or indeed do them much justice. The two members of the band are Ruaridh Law (Marcia Blaine School for Girls, The Village Orchestra) on the electronics and Alasdair Satchel on guitar. Their sound is ambient and layered as you’d expect but with a lot more variation and melody than I’m used to in this type of music. There are times when some of the fx processing is reminiscent of Law’s Village Orchestra work but overall the cd holds it’s own and I would definitely recommend picking one up. Only £4.75 from unlabel! Accrual also have a cdr coming out on Diesel Combustible soon.

Miso Mix-Tape One

The first in a series of unmixed cds from Glasgow electronic night Miso. Featuring an all-star line up including Marcia Blaine, Christ., Vessel and Magnetophone. The cd is pretty varied starting with bit crushed beats and flowing pads from Vessel. The second track from Efterking is a more glitchy affair that morphs into almost folktronica territory. This is followed by tracks from the Marcias and Christ. which are fairly predictable if you know the artists but top drawer nevertheless. The remainder from Toman, Magnetophone and Blindfold arent really my cup of tea but well executed. You can find more info at the Miso site.

Other local stuff… Greenbank (Benbecula) has a very nice looking new website up and running with some nice tracks for download - Greenbank site.

After scratching my head for a while trying to work out how to convert my myspace profile to a music one and finally discovering that it’s not possible I’ve set up a new account - not much there yet but you can check out the whole of Property from the Tilt CD as an audio stream.

Barking Spider Electronics MySpace page

‘Tilt’ - a compilation of quality scottish underground techno is out now featuring BSE track ‘Property’. You can buy a copy online at the Intonations Web Site or from Avalanche (Cockburn Street), Elvis Shakespeare (Leith Walk) and Underground Solushn (Cockburn Street) - all in Edinburgh. Glasgow residents can pick up a copy in Rub A Dub.

Alan Hostage and MartinBSE are kicking off their new night Ghost in Edinburgh with a wee Tilt CD party featuring guests Stick 430 and Junior Lazarou. Free. 8-1. Basement of a boozer. Messy action nae doubt.

Ghost
8pm - 1am, Saturday 1st July,
Anderson’s Basement, Lothian Road, Edinburgh.

Stick 430, Junior Lazarou, Alan Hostage, MartinBSE - live techno and electro

FREE ENTRY

BSE live set belter industrial metal techno electro hybrid ‘Property’ is seeing a full release on ‘Tilt’ - a compilation CD of 12 diverse techno artists from Scotland.

You can get your own slice of the BSE pie for a mere £5 from the Intonations web site.

After more than a year off I’ll be firing up the laptop and taking it out live for the Intonations showcase at Froot on the 17th June.

Froot
17 June 2006
10:30pm - 4am
Room At The Top, Bathgate

Live: De-fault, MartinBSE, Junior Lazarou
Froot DJs: Craig Robb, Malky x and Patrick Canny

£5 entry

I’ll also be playing a set at the Institute Live in Edinburgh in the Autumn - more details nearer the time.