MUSINGS AND RUMINATIONS
"As you approach the truth, your solitude will increase....."
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Michel Houellebecq
"Even the articulate or brutal sounds of the globe must be all so many languages
and ciphers that all have their corresponding keys - have their own grammar and syntax ;
and thus the least things in the universe must be secret mirrors to the greatest."
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Thomas De Quincey
"After three thousand years of explosion, by means of fragmentary and mechanical
technologies, the Western world is imploding. During the mechanical ages we had
extended our bodies in space. Today, after more than a century of electric
technology, we have extended our central nervous system itself in a global
embrace, abolishing both space and time as far as our planet is concerned.
Rapidly, we approach the final phase of the extensions of man - the technological
simulation of consciousness, when the creative process of knowing will be
collectively and corporately extended to the whole of human society, much as we
have already extended our senses and our nerves by the various media."
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Marshall McLuhan - Understanding Media (1964)
"When you return to this mundane sphere from your visionary world, you would seem to leave a
Neapolitan spring for a Lapland winter - to quit paradise for earth - heaven for hell !
Taste the hashish, guest of mine - taste the hashish !"
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Alexander Dumas, 'The Count of Monte Cristo', 1844
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench,
a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free,
and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
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Hunter S. Thompson
"On the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums,
the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics."
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Richard Feynman (Messenger Lectures at Cornell University 1964-5)
NEWS
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2012...Stairs To The Midnight City, VOLUME 2
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Selections from Stairs To The Midnight City, VOL.2 will be posted throughout 2012 (and beyond).
New music will be added to the
DigitalStore as it becomes available.
Selections will be added to iTunes and other services later in the year.
Previews will be posted first in the
AudioGallery, and occasionally here in the news section.
Full-track streams of new material will not be made available for the time being - this will happen later when the project
is nearing completion and there is a sufficiently varied range of material to offer on various platforms.
Anyway, all of this will take a while, thanks for your patience, and happy new year!
James
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Listen on GROOVESHARK
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A good selection of music is now on
Grooveshark, with new music being added reguarly.
The main catalogue is
HERE
The Astral Republic link is
HERE
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Selected Music now on SPOTIFY
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A very small selection of music is now on
Spotify, with more titles being added later in the year.
You can listen to full track streams using the service, which is currently only available in Europe and
the United States. First, you need to download the application at
>Spotify.com
if you're not already using the service.
The artist link is
HERE
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17th July 2011 - ASTRAL REPUBLIC 'TELEPHOTO' single
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'TELEPHOTO' - the first
ASTRAL REPUBLIC single is now live. Previews below.
Available from the
DigitalStore right now, and from iTunes August 1.
TELEPHOTO Mix1 preview
TELEPHOTO Mix2 preview
TELEPHOTO Pitch Edit preview
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10th June 2011 - BOUNDARY CONDITIONS
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BOUNDARY CONDITIONS is live.
Boundary Conditions - short preview
Boundary Conditions - 12 minute preview
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31st May 2011 - BOUNDARY CONDITIONS
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Big sound envelope and coruscating megastructure BOUNDARY CONDITIONS is nearing completion.
Previews will be posted later in June.
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21st April 2011 - Prayer Wheel 2000
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A special remastered version of the original Prayer Wheel is now available in two edits -
a full-length version (22'38") and a shorter edit (15'57"). MP3 Previews and downloads below.
Prayer Wheel 2000 - preview
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16th April 2011 - Remastered Selections from Conquistadores
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Remastered selections from the
Conquistadores album (2004) are now available to preview and download below.
Skan Nine From Outta Space and
Septemberfield are the first two tracks, a couple more will follow soon.
Skan Nine From Outta Space - preview
Septemberfield - preview
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12th April 2011 - TRANSAURORA now live
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TRANSAURORA, the first piece from Volume Two of Stairs To The Midnight City, is now live in the
DigitalStore .
A single, serpentine electro-orchestral meditation of thirty eight minutes duration, you can listen to two previews of the work below.
TransAurora - 5 minute preview
TransAurora - 7 minute preview
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STAIRS TO THE MIDNIGHT CITY, VOLUME ONE (2010)
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Mind-bending musical travelogue and encyclopaedic aesthetic compendium,
STAIRS TO THE MIDNIGHT CITY is
a large scale production encompassing the spectrum of contemporary music.
VOLUME ONEof a projected five volume series is complete - and is available in variety of download formats, and on CD and DVD.
High quality MP3s, CD-quality WAV files and studio-quality 24-bit WAV files can be purchased and downloaded from the
DigitalStore
Other online stockists include
iTunes and
Further Volumes from the entire cycle will be released in coming years.
Stairs To The Midnight City ::::: ITUNES ::::
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Direct Links to individual albums on iTunes
ALBUM ONE
ALBUM TWO
ALBUM THREE
ALBUM FOUR
ALBUM FIVE
ALBUM SIX
ALBUM SEVEN
Stairs To The Midnight City ::::: MP3 Albums :::::
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Volume One's seven albums are now available as MP3 Albums from the
DigitalStore .
Albums contain 320kbps audio encoded directly from 24-bit studio masters, cover artwork jpegs, and tracklistings.
MP3 excerpts to preview and download from STAIRS TO THE MIDNIGHT CITY.
Cick on titles to listen.
February and March 2010
Collage 8 - Magellan Frieze Fragment
Collage 1 - Morphia Assemblage
the Sea - Collage Mix
Diaphon / Little Fissures
Cordoba Spectra
Circuit of Venus
Faultlines - Rhythm Mix
Faultlines - Instrumental
Collage 4 - Kingdom of The Middle Image
Signals
Collage 6 - Spectres of Angelus
Collage 7 - Elysium Adapted
Concord Redux Collage
Encyclopaedias of Space
Cordons
Screensaver
Collage 3 - Star Song Redux
The Evil Has Landed
January 2010
Navajo Star Song
Data Is My Image - Mix2
Descent
The Dissolving Page
Epiphany of the Tri State Waves
December 2009
Alvarado - Ambient Cut
Air Reliquary
November 2009
Chorale V1
Chorale V2 - Filter Mix
September 2009
Composites 2 - Polychoral Emblems
Temple of Five Suns
Alvarado 2
Saturn Dust Pilot
August 2009
Fragment
Simulacra
New Flora - SunGods Mix
July 2009
the Sea
May 2009
Aural Mats in the Hyperflora
January 2009
Concord Redux 1 - Space Glacier Mix
Concord Redux 2 - Byzantium Mix
Composites
Overture - Time Tunnel Cut
February - September 2008
Elevator (Hemispheres Mix)
Zone7
Polyhedrals
Overture - Dub Mix
Setting Sail
In the Whispering Leaves 1
Treeforms
Desert Matrix
Symmetrical Study
Materials
Materials / Remix
In the Whispering Leaves 2
Geto Spektar (Merge Mix)
Elevator - MetaTerminal Cut
Spiral
Spiral 2
November 2008
Tape Crusader 1 (Scorched Earth Policy Mix)
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