Tuesday, 15 March 2016

The Hatcliffe House Tapes - Track Guide Booklet


Printout version of the
Track Guide
for the complete
Hatcliffe House Tapes
Series 2001-2012

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Monday, 14 March 2016

The Hatcliffe House Tapes - The Complete Series 2001-2012 - Boxset - IDS017




Super Limited Edition 12 Cassette Boxset 




12 Multi-colour, colour coded Cassettes in a rare double gatefold 12 pack cassette case.
1 Track Guide booklet including interviews from 
John Lee Richardson,
Craig Ray Tomlin and Rob Distant,
Equipment list, 3D Glasses, 3D Posters, Hologram, Mini Posters, Stickers and Secret codes to unlock hidden content online.

Available form:




Wednesday, 9 March 2016

Space Capsule 03-04-16 ElectroChillDown Mix


Space Capsule 
03-04-16 
ElectroChillDown Mix

Featuring 2 tracks from The Hatcliffe House Tapes Series...

Opening up the set with:
 1. The Hatcliffe House Tapes -    
then the 3rd track in:
3. The Hatcliffe House Tapes -

Big thanks to Jason for having me on the show....and mentioning the upcoming boxset....
stay tuned for more details..... 









Wednesday, 2 March 2016

The Hatcliffe House Tapes on the Space Capsule this Friday...


The Space Capsule 
The Hatcliffe House Tapes
 will be on the airwaves this 
Friday at 11 pm CST and  
Sunday at 8 pm CST 
on demand on Monday at 
streaming live at  

Friday, 26 February 2016

The Hatcliffe House Tapes - Volume 12 - Tools and Techniques - IDS016


The Hatcliffe House Tapes

- Volume 12 -

Tools and Techniques



C60
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Side A

1. Logo Tone 12
- Synthesizer - John Lee Richardson
 
2. BlurRed
- Synthesizer/Drum Machine/Organ - John Lee Richardson
- Bass - Craig Tomlin


 3. Weaver
- Synthesizer/Drum Machine/Organ/Bass - John Lee Richardson
 
4. Death To My Piece Of Mind
- Synthesizers/Drums/Drum Machine - John Lee Richardson
- Vocals - Rob Distant

 
5. Prepared Feedback Room
- Vocals/Microphone Feedback Array/Synthesizers - John Lee Richardson
- Guitar - Rob
Distant
 
6. Quarks In
- Synthesizer/Drum Machine/Organ - John Lee Richardson
- Guitar - Rob
Distant
 
7. It's Alright
- Vocals/Guitar/Drums/Bass -
Rob Distant
 - Remix/Tape Effects/Dub Effects - John Lee Richardson
 
8. Who's A Liar
- Vocals/Guitar/Drums/Bass - Rob
Distant
 - Remix/Tape Effects/Dub Effects - John Lee Richardson
 
9. Raindrops On The Window Plain
- Synthesizers/Organ - John Lee Richardson


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Side B

10. Out Of View
- Synthesizer/Drum Machine/Organ - John Lee Richardson
- Guitar - Craig Tomlin

 
11. Nano World
- Organ/Drum Machine/Dub Effects - John Lee Richardson
 
12. Around And Down
- Guitar/Bass/Drum Machines/Synthesizers/Organ - John Lee Richardson
 
13. Don't Expect.....Respect
- Drum Machine - John Lee Richardson
- Guitar - Rob
Distant
 
14. The Last Page
- Synthesizers/Organ/Drum Machine - John Lee Richardson
 
15. Impulse
- Synthesizers/Organ/Drum Machine - John Lee Richardson
 
16. The Final Hurdle
- Guitar/Synthesizers/Drum Machine/Organ - John Lee Richardson
 
17. The Vanishing
- Organ/Synthesizers - John Lee Richardson  
18. Distant
- Organ/Synthesizer/Lighter/Radiator/Cardboard Box - John Lee Richardson
 
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Music by: 
John Lee Richardson
Rob Distant
Craig Tomlin

 

Recorded at Hatcliffe House
Circa 2001-2012

  
Remastered and Mixed by
John Lee Richardson 2015

at The Saints Room
 
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Volume 12 and the Final Chapter in the 
 Hatcliffe House Tape series is . . .

Availble on.....
 C60 Cassette / CD and Digital Download 
from.....





...TOOLS...


Equipment List:  
Hatcliffe House Studio 
-2001-2012-

-:Computers/Consoles:-

Laptop
Playstation 1 (Music Generator/Music 2000/Fluid)
Playstation 2 (MTV Music Generator)
Various PC's

-:Software:-

Ableton Live 5
Ableton Live 8
Arturia Storm
Native Instruments Limelite Solo
Propellerheads Reason
Sony Soundforge Acid Pro
Various Free VST Plugins

-:Recording Equipment:-

Casio Song Star Dual Cassette Karaoke Machine
Portable Radio/Cassette Recorder
Sony MZ-N510 Minidisc Recorder
Technics sl-eh790 Stereo System/Cassette Recorder/Record Player
TEAC CD-RW890MKII-B CD Recorder
Various Cassette Player/Recorders
Various DVD Players
Various Video Player/Recorders

-:Mixers:-

Akai APC40
Numark CDX CD Decks x2
M Audio NRV 10
Peavey MP600 Power Amp Mixer (B)
Pioneer DJM500 Mixer

-:Synthesizers/Keyboards/Organs/Drum Machines:-

Air Organ (B)
Casio Rapman Keyboard
Korg Electribe EA-1
Korg Electribe EA-1 MKII (B)
Korg Electribe ER-1 MKII (B)
Korg ElecTribe SX (ESX-1) (B)
Korg MS20 Legacy USB Controller
Korg MS2000 (B)
Korg Monotribe
Korg Monotron Delay
Korg Kaoss Pad 1 (B)
Korg Kaoss Pad Quad
Novation Supernova II (B)
Roland SH-201
Roland MC-303 Groovebox
Yamaha DJX-2 Keyboard
Yamaha Electone EL-100 Organ
Yamaha Portasound PSS-470 (B)
Yamaha DD-20 Electronic Drum Kit (B)
Yamaha DTX500K Electronic Drum Kit (B)

-:Various Instruments/Mics/Effects:-

Acoustic Guitars (B)
Amps (B)
Bongos (B)
Challenge VP Bass (B)
Drum Kits (B)
Effect Pedals(MultiFX/Distortion/Overdrive/Compressor/Delay/Reverb/Flanger/Chorus/Ring Modulator etc...) (B)
Flutes (B)
Found Objects/Everyday Sounds (Wind/Radiators/Clocks/Boxes/Bins/Toys Etc...)
Kazoo
Microphones (B)
Electric Violin (B)
Guitars (B)
Percussion (Tambourine/Triangle/Shakers/Rattlers/Found Objects etc...)
Sitar (B)
Violin (B)


(B) = Borrowed Equipment


"I would like to thank everyone who has lent me musical equipment over the years, without you alot of these tracks would of never have been made..."

Craig/Rob/Simon/Phil/Cooper/Dean/Sanders/Karl/Anth/Tim/Jason/Casper and Beaney for Computer Spares and Repairs. 



 ...TECHNIQUES... 
  
As you can see on the equipment list, the equipment wasn't the best, we made use of what we had and tried to make as interesting sounds from them as we could. Most of the recordings were improvised, coming from experiments with the equipment through an array of effects to modulate and twist the sounds so they sounded nothing like the original sound. Creating a sound pallet for me to mix live over the top of either Craig or Rob, playing more conventional instruments, with effects over the master channel to help blend the overall sound together.

At first the recordings went straight onto cassette tape, before i got a computer around 2003. The computer opened up so many possibilities for recording, especially multi tracking and editing. Although we always used the computer for recording after that point, i still to this day record the final mix back onto tape, then back onto the computer, to get that vintage feel you can only capture through recording onto tape. Everything was also run through a Peavey Amp/Mixer which gave off a nice hiss and reverb too. It made the recorded sound more live and real, rather than polished and faked. Craig and Rob came from a band background and I was a synth and sound/visual production nerd...I still am. We were all into our own music styles, but met in middle when it came to post punk, new wave, krautrock and psychedelic music. We were bored of the music scene, especially the rock scene at the time and wanted to do something new, taking influence from past masters like CAN/Joy Division/Pink Floyd/Kraftwerk/Cabaret Voltaire/Tangerine Dream/BBC Radiophonic Workshop...the list goes on and on. I was also making alot of dance music at the same time too, that's how i started off in music production and i have never stopped, my next series will see/hear my solo electronic music recorded at Hatcliffe House during this same time period; under my Acrelid alias.

At the time i was a big fan of Labels like Warp/Rephlex/Ghostbox and alot of influence came from artists like Richard D. James, Broadcast, Boards of Canada, The Advisory Circle and Autechre. These were artists who were doing something very interesting with music at the time and helped push the art form forwards, in many cases taking a step back to move forward. It was discovering Krautrock, New Wave and Library music that really kick started things off with me wanting to explore working with guitarists/bassist and drummers in a more conventional format, rather than recording solo electronic experiments by myself. This all started off when i was younger, i was given a cassette tape compilation called "2000 Girls and 1 Guitar" coming from a Rave background this opened me up to all sorts of Space/krautrock gems, the tape started with Can "Spoon Live" then moved onto Neu "Neuschnee" these two tracks alone blew my mind. The cassette continued through a krautrock and new wave odyssey, with such greats like Faust/Kraftwerk/Cabaret Voltaire/Cluster/Stereolab etc... making an appearance to my ears for the very first time. I thank Craig Bennett to this day for that tape as it took my music in totally different and new directions. The tape was so well put together as Mr Bennett is a master at compilation albums, each track seemed to roll into the other, seamlessly. This and my DJ background and love for mixtape culture, is why i decided when compiling The Hatcliffe House Tape recordings, to mix them together into volumes, finding tracks which fit a feel or genre, which roll into each other. Hoping to recapture that feeling i had when listening to that tape for the first time, and with hope, new listeners can share that same experience with this series.
Another big influence was the Hauntology scene what was emerging at the time, through labels like Ghostbox and the work of Broadcast and Boards of Canada. This appeal for vintage electronica got me wondering down all sorts of strange library music avenues, a never ending treasure trove of forgotten sounds and sonic exploration, which i am still exploring to this day. The BBC Radiophonic Workshop got me re-interested in exploring and experimenting with the tape format, something which had seemed to of disappeared at the time with the rise of digital technology, but i am happy to see it re-emerging today.

I am a self taught musician and producer and in the days before i had access to knowledge through the internet, i had to work stuff out for myself as i didn't know anyone into the same sort of stuff i.e. synths. I didn't get my first midi lead until 2005, i used to sync everything up manually and cut out the parts that went out of sync, syncing up layers on my CD decks, using a DVD player as a sampler. I had a CD burner, which i used to record layers on to, The purchase of Ableton 5 was a massive help when syncing up audio layers and made multi tracking/Editing and looping more possible, also i could add effects from Ableton straight onto the recording channel and effect things live whilst recording. Craig and Rob used to come round to the flat regularly, Craig i have known since school and is one of my oldest friends and Rob i met through a mate who introduced us and throughout boredom we just started jamming, plug the guitar or bass in and jam along to a track i had set up at the time. This evolved over time as we became more involved in what we were making. I started to acquire alot of borrowed equipment as people started to hear our experiments and lent us the equipment they weren’t using at the time, on loan. So the spare room in my flat after my lodgers had moved out, turned into a studio, a drum kit in a flat was a bit cheeky, but i got away with it by recording loops and layers during the day while the other Tennant was at work, then mix the layers in ableton at night. Craig and Rob would come round for a session, record a load of stuff, then go home and i would be left to mix it all together as i pleased, unless like in many instances, we nailed it in one take. To be honest I used to record nearly everything into one layer up until a few years ago when i got an audio interface which allowed me to record multiple layers at once. This meant we had to get things right on that take, notes, audio levels and the mix or the whole recording would be ruined. So it had to be tight, which was a pain in the arse in the early days before i figured out Midi and took alot of multiple takes to get right, but it's very enjoyable for me listening back and wondering...how did i do that with what we had. I would of liked to have done a full equipment list on each track on the album artwork to show this process, but my memory failed me in too many instances, so i just stuck to a summary and full equipment list at the end, for the listener to decipher. In all i recorded over 300 hours worth of music in my time between 2001-2012 at Hatcliffe House. This first Hatcliffe House Tapes series is a small fraction of that.

Before i move onto my next compilation series of archive releases I would like to thank everyone who has ever visited Hatcliffe House, all my Family, Friends, Acquaintances, Musicians and Random People. Without you this music would have never of been possible and it helped shape who i am today.



Thank you...
John Lee Richardson








Wednesday, 17 February 2016

Tools and Techniques...Stop Motion Animation Painting GIF + Nano World Preview


The Hatcliffe House Tapes
 - Volume 12 - 
Tools and Techniques 
.....Coming Soon!!!




Heres a GIF of a stop motion frame animation painting i did with Rob Distant in 2005....the idea was i draw or paint a line take a photo...then Rob would do the same.....until we ended up with this.....enjoy

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Nano World Preview......................................




This track was made in one take on my old Yamaha Electone EL-100 Organ, I used the drum section on the organ to create the beats which was triggered by MIDI from my Korg Electribe ER-1, combining that with the arps on the organ and bass section, which was dubbed live with an array of Delay and Reverb Pedals, recorded straight onto Tape in 2005 at Hatcliffe House by John Lee Richardson.

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-Taken from:-


The Hatcliffe House Tapes
- Volume 12 -
Tools and Techniques


Coming soon to... indifferentspace.bandcamp.com/
 

*This will be the final installment of this series... 
A Limited Edition run of the whole series
in a 12 Cassette Pack to come shortly
......................enjoy







Tuesday, 29 December 2015

THE UNEXPLAINED SOUNDS GROUP - The First Annual Report


I am very happy to announce my music will be part of this upcoming release from the Unexplained Sounds Group.......
One of my "OSCILLOPEISIA" tracks entitled "THE NEW COLONY"
from my 2015 (3" Mini CD/Digital) release "COSMICA"
is at track number 44 on the compilation
featuring 91 tracks from
artists all over the world
in...................
 
The Unexplained Sounds Group
- The First Annual Report - 





Tracklist
 
  
No. Artist             Track Title                     
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1...Kshatriy...........Samantabhadra (Extract).........
2...Sonologyst.........Nocturnal Anomalies.............
3...vÄäristymä.........Ennen Muuta.....................
4...Steve Reich........Phase Patterns..................
5...Sovijus............Tibetans........................
6...Breaking Wood......Taklamakan......................
7...Simon Balestrazzi..Something On My Doorstep........
8...Hans Castrup.......Wheater Pattern.................
9...Pharmakustik.......Stator 2........................
10..Zach Zinn..........Bristlewheel....................
11..Morton Subotnick...Silver Apples Part I............
12..Kirchheim vs NSN...Radiation Blues.................
13..Mario Guida........La Sonde........................
14..David Stevens......All Remains.....................
15..Massimo Discepoli..A Random Place In The Sea.......
16..Vesicatoria........Apparition......................
17..Lars Bröndum.......Kluster Textur..................
18..Naughty Saw &......................................
....Art Electronix.....The 4th Energy Block............
19..Globoscuro.........Dei Giorni Morti................
20..Blackhole Factory..Snake River Dream 141206........
21..Aktarus Aksam......Resurexi........................
22..Bedtime for........................................
....Robots.............Lo-fi Diving....................
23..Claudio Ferrari &..................................
....Bruno Gussoni......Eppure Soffia Ancora............
24..D.N.P..............Low Clouds Across Birmingham....
25..Melodie Des........................................
....Vergessens.........Blurred Touches.................
26..Knobstat...........Punkto Sen Reveno...............
27..Kyrmaan............Restart.........................
28..A. L. Guillén......La Lucha........................
29..Michael Brückner...Three Systems Shifting..........
30..Antonio Murga......Alien Intuition.................
31..Janne Nummela......Peace Simulation................
32..Monade.............Bora............................
33..Berthelot..........Torsion Sémantique..............
34..Dal Verme..........A Curious Part Of The Planet....
35..Christian Fiesel...On The Tail Of The Hammer.......
36..Karakasa Kozō......Tales From The Eidolic Fields...
37..The Tara...........................................
....Experiment.........Radiophonic Deviations..........
38..Coven..............Calling To Indifference.........
39..David Lee Myers....Feedback Music EF21.............
40..Mutation Urbaine...Phénomène Inconnu...............
41..Soundreamer Days...Through The Mist................
42..Walter Fini........Descend To Hell.................
43..Raphael Leray......Meditation......................
44..AV-K...............Alchemy.........................
.......................(Giorgio Ricci_AV-K Rmx)........
45.Oscillopeisia.The New Colony..........
46..Limited Liability..................................
....Sounds.............Ian.............................
47..David Ramos........Pay Me And I'll Tell You........
.......................I Love You......................
48..Frank Shulte.......String Organum - Mistel 01......
49..Juan Antonio.......................................
....Nieto..............Improvisation N.6...............
50..Eric the Taylor....The Summon......................
51..Emerge.............Nucleon.........................
52..Sysselmann.........Ferdar..........................
53..Marta Zapparoli....T Killer Memory Cells Into......
.......................Body Fibers.....................
54..No Way Out.........Ex Tenebris Lux.................
55..Gregg Skloff.......Necarney City Lights............
56..Jonatan Liljedahl..Ptolemaic Sequence..............
57..Joseph Curven......Suspension (Because Mix)........
58..Arín Dodó..........La Herencia Del Boxeador Sonado.
59..Laurent Dolcino....Chaque Chaque...................
60..Frans Kedes........AMFM At 3am.....................
61..Lee Riley..........Nightcrawler....................
62..Metek..............the Right Hand Path.............
63..MKF's Approach &...................................
....Nobodisoundz.......Ode Planante....................
64..Nonorder Lab.......Touching The Void...............
65..Nula.cc............56700 In The Twilight, 2........
66..Pylon..............Virnam..........................
67..Pythagora..........Mumble..........................
68..Septimus Keen......The Twice Setting Sun...........
69..Embers Below Zero..Maelstrom.......................
70..Remo De Vico.......Qualcosa Di Nero................
71..Lo Ki..............Preparation-Purification........
72..The Volume.........................................
....Settings Folder....Un Hommage......................
73..kNiFeLoOp..........After Dark......................
74..MutanT.R.I.........Act One.........................
75..Edwin Lucchesi.....Lucerne.........................
76..The X..............Nakregde II.....................
77..Front Sonore.......Ondée...........................
78..Øystein Jorgensen..Well Of Tears...................
79..Shadow Pugilist....Confine.........................
80..Arne Borgan........508.............................
81..Harmergeddon.......Señeg úd........................
82..Ilir Lluka.........Uviol...........................
83..Viewfound..........Den.............................
84..Steve Moshier......Unsuspecting Seepage............
85..Bryce Eiman........If 6, Then 9....................
86..Esa Ruoho..........Incoming (Live).................
87..II III II III......Onar............................
88..Hypernomad.........Strange Afternoon...............
89..Ideofon¡a..........................................
....Ancestral..........Coagula.........................
90..Tole...............Matériel Brut...................
91..Philippe Lamy......Parkbeatsi......................
92..Giacomo Salis......Absence.........................
93..RWM................Always A Part Of My Heart.......


 Preview at:
 https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/…/unexplained-s…
* all tracks are previously unreleased
 on Unexplained Sounds Group



 A few words from the curator...................................

After one year of explorations into the US, UK, Italian, Spanish, French, Eastern European, Scandinavian and German experimental underground music scenes, it is now time for Unexplained Sounds Group to bring together the top artist selection into one comprehensive survey. It’s difficult to communicate in a few words the richness of experience and knowledge I gained by being in touch with so many creative artists from these countries, it’s been beautiful to go deep into the differing music cultures and be able to enrich my understanding of them. I wish to profoundly thank all of the musicians, DJs, bloggers, labels, writers, free thinkers and passionate fans who believed in this project. Thanks to them, Unexplained Sounds Group has grown from an idea into a reality and is now a point of reference for many people around the world.

People’s enthusiasm has given me the energy both to go on with new explorations into more countries’ scenes and to delve deeper into the experimental audio territories of countries I wasn’t able to examine more thoroughly. So I hope 2016 will be a year of further 

adventures in music and “unexplained sounds”. 

It’s impossible to thank the hundreds of people who were close to me throughout this time, but I would like to mention some of them who were vital for the whole work:
All the artists who featured on USG surveys;
Thomas Herbst for his kind support and permission to include Steve Reich and Morton Subotnick tracks from his Karlmusic 

label catalogue: karlrecords.bandcamp.com ;

DJ Giacomo Elettrodo, from Rome, 
for his transmission “Prove Tecniche di Trasmissione” 
on Radio Onda Rossa: www.ondarossa.info ;
Pedro Menchaca, for his great support and friendship on Radio Kras from Gijon, Spain: radiokras.blogspot.com ;
Tom Byrne, from Dublin, for his never-ending support on the “Sentient” radio show: www.facebook.com/tom.byrne.547?fref=nf
Andre Quaresma for his support on the Coimbra University radio show “The Music Makers” www.facebook.com/themusicmakersruc/?fref=ts
Ben Ponton for his collaboration with Resonance FM radio from London: www.resonancefm.com
Christian Fiesel (Fzk Wolf) and Scott Boatright for support on their radio shows “Modul303” and “Sounds From the Corridor” : www.modul303.com?lang=en ..... www.facebook.com/scott.boatright?fref=ts ;
Benjamin Pereira for his great support with reviews on the “catalogue of wonders” blog and “the fabrication of wonders” web magazine: www.facebook.com/thefabricationofwonders/?fref=ts ;
Alessandro Flux Violante and Mark Barton for their reviews: fluxproject.altervista.org marklosingtoday.wordpress.com ;
Valerie Kabis: www.vkabis.com ,

Camelia Mirescu: www.cameliamirescu.com/index.php?lang=it

CEsar Naves: noterustas.blogspot.it , 
Rosanna Di Antonio: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009346066815&sk=about

Philippe Neau Nobodisoundz: philippeneau.blogspot.it , and E Gabriel Edvy: www.facebook.com/gabriel.edvy for their support and creativity on artworks and video; 
Cesar Naves and Jaime Rguez for their friendship and never ending support in Spain: www.facebook.com/cesar.m.naves?fref=ts

Tracy Perry for support on her show “Expansion of Presence” : www.mixcloud.com/TracysEOP/;
Purple Crow for his great support and precious advice on every aspect of work and life: www.facebook.com/purple.crow.1?fref=ts .

Antonio Cristofaro for his help and support on Wednesday nights: www.facebook.com/antonio.blacksun.77?fref=ts .

Also, I want to thank all of the Unexplained Sounds Group followers. Without you, this project simply wouldn’t exist.
You will find, on this final report of 2015, a wide selection of the artists who have featured in previous surveys, with new and unreleased tracks, along with five additional honored guests who together comprise a 2015 sigillum: Steve Reich, Morton Subotnick (two of the world’s most important living composers), Claudio Ferrari - Bruno Gussoni duo from Italy, Simon Balestrazzi from Italy.
Music is out there.
Sonologyst
Release December 29, 2015
Edited by Unexplained Sounds Group
Curated by Sonologyst ( sonologyst.tumblr.com )
Cover picture by E Gabriel Edvy


 Big Thanks to Ra for all his hard work with the
Unexplained Sounds Group and continued
support for my music....