Sounds
Here we find:-
- Mr Lemur goes French. A new vehicle, Fils d'un Ami de Bertram carries electronic/dance/ambient/industrial silliness to a new world of fun.
- Tunes from The Difficult 4th Album to tempt you like a mouse on a stick. The first proper release with words on for years, Dancing Monkeys.
- The Magma Trumpet Sessions have finally bobbed to the surface in the way that brown trout do in a pond. Check out t00 and t01. Feel our pain!
- The Classic Bendysisterasparagushead album in bite sized regular nuggets.
- Don't forget Dingus Time MP3's on Soundclick at
- As well as Peru MP3's on www.download.com
Are you looking for a classic Not Very Vintage Interval Phat Sound? Go down the bottom here to see how we really do it and what real-life objects we use.
Here we have MP3's and MIDI versions of selected lowlights of all the albums. Don't do MP3.com, they are notorious, that's what my dad says and he should know cos he hates Paul Weller. We actually DO have server space now to keep them all, so over the next few months I shall gradually put up the whole of Bendysister (including the documentary), Dingus Time and Peru as well as hard to find live recordings such as Bands on the Beck and the Gig on the Mount,
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Fils d'un Ami de Bertram
(Bonjour Bertram)
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The Difficult 4th Album
(4th Album)
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The Magma Trumpet Sessions
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Peru
(3rd Album)
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"Now That's What I call Unreleasable" EP
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It's Dingus Time
(2nd Album)
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Bendysisterasparagushead
(1st Album)
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Backing music from Peru
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Miscellaneous NVGIB music (unreleased )
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That is a common question.
The vocals are often patched through a rack of wet Roland football socks to give them a rich outdoor effect. Guitars I like to record when I'm on the move, public transport will do, but often just the rotation of the earth is enough and centripetal acceleration is great for dominant chords. For the synths I just go commando, it worked for Andy McNab and you can get a very earthy pink colour to the sound and plectrums in your pubes.
Any other noises are added by putting 3 cats in a booth with a PC and some beef flavoured MIDI trigger pads and a super-soaker. Backing vocals are done the same, but with less cats and more beef. There you are, simple, but surprisingly modern.
For those of you with a real gadgetry electronic need-to-know fever running through your veins, have a pint of water and then read the equipment list below....
Sequencers and Keyboard type things
- Yamaha QY10 - Incredibly basic 'fits in yer pocket' sequencer, known to us as simply The Box, This MIDI tool did us proud for our first 2 albums and has some really cheesy sounds on it. Ideal.
- Roland XP50 - for Peru we upgraded to this music workstation bringing us much joy, but it made my pockets get very baggy.
- Yamaha RM1x groovebox. A littel dated now, but good fun. Got it second ahnd from ebay.
- iPAQ 2750 Pocket PC with Griff sequencer - Using this for Album 4 now - it's fab, but gets lost sometimes in my baggy pockets.
- Cakewalk Sonar and the Soundfonts - a few songs for NVGIB4 will get done on this, but its so incredibly complicated I need a slide rule just to turn it on.
- Cubase SX 3 on a laptop - this is Fils d'un Ami de Bertram's favourite modus operandi.
Other stuff we use or have used
- Palm Bay custom electric guitar - you wont find this in the shops, unless someone nicks it off me and puts it in a shop. The neck is as smooth as linoleum, the action goes so low it should be locked in the slammer for lewd behaviour and the body is so brown you'd think it was made of chocolate and take a bite out of it by mistake and get woody shrapnel in your little foolish mouth.
- Any old woofty no-name acoustic we can get our grubby hands on. Too many to mention.
- Laney Linebacker 65 Watt combo amp - has done most of our live gigs up to now.
- Marshall MG15DFX amp - lovely little noise maker.
- Zoom 1010 multi-effects stomp box
- RAT overdrive stomp box
- Vestax Multi-effects guitar stomp box - This was bargainal and versatile. We used this on a lot of early songs like spooky peanut, and in combination with the RAT on "the pope....", but then it broke. I think it got chucked around a lot so I no longer use it, but the Zoom does the same thing and more. My brother has a Boss multi-effects pedal jobbie and he says its fab, so I might get one of those. I couldn't find a picture of it.
- Samson Q1 microphone - its nice and shiny. We will be using it on NVGIB4, cheers Daver.
- Samson C01U - USB microphone. This is just so cool. it has a little computerised plug a the end and deals out noises in 16bit chunks.
- Spirit Folio F16/2 mixer - nice, lots of knobs and buttons on it.
- Behringer B-Control Audio BCA2000 - I have one of these now and even though it skips a bit sometimes, I cannot bad mouth it a nasty word.
Other stuff we don't use and have wasted quite a bit of time and money on
- Novation Nova - Great sounds, right bugger to control. I said to the chap in the shop "Is it any good?" He replied "if you can't make great music with this, then it's you that's not very good". Well...........I'm not very good. Don't use it much.......
- Korg Drum machine thing - It looked great in the picture, same problem. Good sounds, difficult to use it and get a song together. By the time I found the right sound to use, I had forgotten the song I was about to write.
There, I hope your curiosity is sated now. Go and have a bath, you grubby techno-pervoid....... I know I will.
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