Archive for the ‘Nagamatzu’ Category

Nagamatzu’s first gig – October 2nd 1982

October 2, 2024

Stephen is hard at work, transferring old recordings of Nagamatzu from minidisc (sourced from original cassettes). You can find them at their Bandcamp page but I wanted to highlight this one in particular, which is the first time we played live. We used the Ferrograph Logic 7 reel to reel recorder for backing tracks, with various guitars and Dave Campbell’s jet flanger (thanks Dave!).

Jo Farrell did a reading of a short text written by me after the first track (thanks Jo!).

Here it is, in all its glory

‘Electronic Tuesday’ interview now on Mixcloud!

May 28, 2021

‘Additive Noise Function’ triple vinyl

March 12, 2019

Close To The Noise Floor Presents… Additive Noise Function: Formative UK, European & North American Electronica 1978-84, Various Artists Limited Edition Triple LP – including the Nagamatzu classic ‘Faith’, which was recorded in my parents’ dining room in Ipswich in 1983, by John Bowers.

ANF4More details and order link here

The Du Cane Court ‘Studio’ aka ‘Mission Control’

January 14, 2017

The ‘studio’ at Du Cane Court, in Balham, South West London, where I recorded and arranged many albums and tracks including ‘False Dawn’, ‘Die Datenschleuder’, ‘Knowledge’, ‘Prismatic’, the Lagowski Chromium Industries 12″ series, Nagamatzu and engineered Lustmord, Terror Against Terror and Isolrubin BK. That is Lustmord’s Akai keyboard in the foreground, which we used as a MIDI controller and sampler. A while after this, I got a Yamaha DX11 to control my MIDI equipment and sold the TEAC 8 track and Seck 12-8-2 mixer to Paul Rooney, the guitarist from Vice Squad.Lagowski at Mission Control

Electronic Sound – The Electronic Music Magazine Issue 2.0

May 17, 2016

MorphysoundThis wonderful print version of Electronic Sound is now available here and includes an interview with me and many luminaries of the electronic music world about the early days of this type of music in the UK and the new Cherry Red Records 4-CD compilation ‘Close to the Noise Floor’. It’s beautifully produced and has a huge number of features about gear and people involved in all areas of electronics in music.

Close to the Noise Floor – Cherry Red Records 4CD compilation

January 25, 2016

CTTNFPromo from the release’s FB page ‘We’re delighted to announce CTTNF will be released on April 29th. 4CDs of ‘Proto-Synth Pop, DIY Techno and Ambient Exploration’, accompanied by over 9,000 words of artist recollections, sleeve notes and an introductory essay by Dave Henderson. Coming to a record shop near you, or directly from Cherry Red Records’. Here you can see the press release with full band list CLOSE TO THE NOISE FLOOR PRESS RELEASE

 

USA v LHO

December 19, 2012

Stephen Jarvis of VII Sins has created a great video cut up for my 1988 track ‘USA v LHO’ from ‘Nadir’. You can view it here and get the album for only $4 here at Bandcamp