writing and recording...

"Norway has trolls... so more power lines will be needed, that's just the way it is..."

word-up...

how the devil be thee?! all good i hope...?! life on planet bwoi has been proper hectic of late... mostly, as a way of celebrating the gradual return of my hearing, with the good stuff - the writing, the playing and the recording... and to make it just that lil' bit better, there's even a few gigs coming up...

happy time...

between one thing and another, there's definitely been a lot of writing recently... one i am hoping to debut on friday is tentatively called 'luggage', and has this kinda 'happy-eels' type vibe to it... there's a few more acoustic ones, that i shall be slipping into the set over the summer...

lately, i have been working on a couple of 'less' acoustic tunes... there's the TRE remix of 'Love Once', which has this retro-bigbeat/monster-synth vibe going on...

and then there's 'flatbread'... which is loosely based on a shopping list. initially i was aiming for a 90's b-side kinda vibe, with definite hints of 'go to the bank' by james... not a b-side i know, but definitely the kinda start point i was thinking of...

a flatbread, although not the one i was singing about...

it has admittedly 'wandered off' a bit, but is nearly finished and ready to make happy in your ear-holes...

its got aliens, flatbread, (conspiracy) intrigue, and a healthy slice of weirdness (whether or not the sound of pan-fried bacon makes it to the final mix remains to be seen)... pretty much what you've come to expect after all this time...

thus i shall leave you, for now, with this lil' couplet, which may/may-not explain something/everything/nothing [delete as applicable]...

"there's a little piece missing from deep inside the tiger...
there's a string-pull light sits on top of the mirror..."

alles klar?! though not...

i hope the world is good with y'all... i shall return, for now, to my beavering...

peace-out y'all

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being busy... [contrary to popular belief]

word up y'all!! i hope the world is good with you...

just wanted to let you know, that i have been most busy over the last couple of weeks... and not just sitting in the dark in a deep funk about the lame shape of megatron's head...

there's some really cool (and slightly out-there) stuff planned for 2012, i'll have some exciting news on new developments soon - all in, i think its gonna be a blinding year...

there has been recording, writing, mixing... updating, and all kinds of technical tomfoolery... all the details will become clear with time, but here's a lil' look-see at a few of the early ones...

first up is the new-look http://www.fatbwoi.com which has been given a bit of a spring clean/new wardrobe... the new menu is easier to navigate, and there's some secret stuff hidden around the site which can only be found by clicking on pictures and links...

the plan is to add more of these quite soon, once everything's up and running...

so if you haven't been over for a while, then there's no better time than now to go and check it out!!

also there's a couple of new ways to get your bwoi fix...

http://fatbwoi.tumblr.com - lies somewhere between the micro-weirdness of twitter, and the full-on randomness here on planet bwoi... mostly pictures, retro toys, comics, computer games and general brain candy i find whilst searching the web...

and

http://fatbwoiaudiodepository.tumblr.com - blog style audio depository... a bit like delving into a bag of sweets at the cinema as, if you hit the random button, you're never quite sure what you're going to get. there'll be some exclusive stuff posted on here, as well as all the old/new favourites, so keep checking back and sampling the musical tidbits...

peace-out y'all

tagbank

word up you crazy cats!! y'all good?!?

it would appear that the time for 'Parva Doodles' is nearly upon us! (oh yes indeedy!)

yup, there's been a whole lot of mixing down here at culture corner, and i think i'm just about ready to unleash my baby into the world...

best billed as - "the answer to a question nobody asked...", i promise to provide a more in-depth (and indeed clear) explanation very soon, but for now that's as good a starting point as any...

so without further ado, ladies and gentlemen i present to you a sneak preview (the opening track, in fact) from the forthcoming 'Parva Doodles' EP...



coming soon to speakers near you...

peace-out y'all

fatbwoi @ reverbnation

word up you crazy cats...

just a quick one to let you now that there is now another place on the web where you can get your bwoi fix...

si senor y senoritas, it is now possible to keep track of the comings and goings of el chico gordo via the magic of reverbnation...

there's a page, here's a link and everything...

http://www.reverbnation.com/fatbwoi

its got a player, which currently features tracks off both the new 'Love Once' EP, and also from FB5's classic 'Relentless' EP... you can even see the naked-in-a-cape 'Bullet' video there too - happy time

there's a whole bunch of share-y business, a chart (i moved up a whooping 98k places globally yesterday - far out), and a large pile of other bwoi related goodness...

i'll be uploading some more goodies soon, i'm currently reeling from having moved my profile up from 17% complete to 94%... it would appear that the 90's numbers are really working for me about now...

so why not pop over and have a look see... it'll be fun 8)

another great feature is you can paste widgets with bwoi music on them all over the place... thus 

and, as another happy bonus... my facebook page is now using the reverbnation player rather than the patchy facebook one which wouldn't let you skip through tunes, and was just a bit lame...

that's right y'all...

a shiny new player over at http://www.facebook.com/fatbwoi.13

the party is on this side of the car...

happy time

proto-roscoe music... (everyone needs someone)

ghetto's look the best...

when they've been blessed...

and spot-lit on...

a stage...

...yeah man, that's exactly how that thought looked in my head too...

listened to this a couple of times in the last few days...

i go through phases with it, its about 7 (even quite possibly 8) years old, and a genuine heavens-to-betsy example of proto-roscoe music... the importance of which will become clear later on...

short answer, is that its part of the answer to 'that' question - "what would it sound like if fatbwoi made electronic music?" (or quite possibly "what does the bwoi sound like when he's playing something else?" regardless of whether or not either of these questions were actually asked...)

this one is from my days in 'the kiosk'... we were like spiritual experimental rock/dance/alternative crossover... (quite possibly a genre before its time), a 3 piece consisting of me on sampler, synths, guitar and occasional bass; a guy called phil on battered acoustic and occasional bass; and the legend johnathan bannister on vocals, sometimes bass and assorted percussion, wind and prayer instruments... 

we had quite a few tracks, generally built around beats and deceptively complex layers of sound provided by the big red sampler... the use of which did lead to a few hairy program changes at times when i was supposed to be playing the guitar...

this is the track where i snuck a pseudo-reggae breakdown in whilst the other two were making a cup of tea... oops...

the flute at the end (when the whole 16th century vibe kicks in) is a beautiful lil' thing, and probably deserved recording in a much more professional manner than it was... but we were running this whole lo-fi trip at the time, so y'know...

but yeaman, it bounces along on its own pitch-shifted hi-hats tip quite happily, and features a judicious application of ludicrous effects... personally, i don't see what more a producer could ask for...

so if you ever wonder what i sound like armed with a sampler, as part of an experimental trio (or even if you haven't), why not give it a whirl?!

you can listen to it, and even download it for free (in glorious mp3 format), should you so desire, from last.fm... via the magic of the link below...

http://www.last.fm/music/The+Kiosk/_/Everyone+Needs+Someone

motorway driving

learnt me an important lesson today... listening to the beastie boys first thing in the morning can affect your outlook to the day in a manner similar to the shamen... the wailing down the motorway may have contributed to the feeling, (there ain't nothin' beats a slice of 'intergalatic' while the sun is sortin' its business out...) but the basic principle still holds...

although, truth be told, i didn't start the music until after the early morning shipping forecast... gotta love the shipping forecast (there's a whole bunch of gale-force action today btw)... its a proper soothing influence... if i ever pull up at home after a gig and the shipping forecast is on, no matter how much i need to go, nobody passes go until the forecast is done...

in the morning it does seem a bit more random (nonsensical) yet equally soothing... as with all unscientific studies this result may have been influenced by beastie-boy-contamination...

then i'm in tesco... event horizion top of the £5 dvd chart (and rightly so) in a lovely special edition box with a red cover (i quite like the red, although the green tinged faces of the original poster are truly iconic)... and there's a sweeper thingy... its beeping...

its not quite as funky as the dishwasher from the other day... but it would appear that i'm still making a beat in my head, except - disaster! the beep is about 1/32 too long and is jarring with the offbeat i'm putting in the last bar of the beat...

at this point i just want to wrestle the sweeper thingy off the attendant shouting "this lacks the funk of the dishwasher from the other day", and work my funky thang on the on-off switch to make it fit the beat, or at the very least get a bit of a remix goin' on...

but i restrained myself and continued to mooch around the shop... thinking about dishwashers

or more specifically how my certified crack-head parental unit used to soak and wash all the dishes before loading them into a prehistoric (5 car wide) borscht dishwasher (faded ancient black and yellowing plastic, used to put out about 95dB of random noise - beat that matlab!)... isn't that a bit like going up to your mate mike and saying "woof" with the purpose of expressing the notion you just bought a dog?

or...

well actually that's about as far as that thought got, cos by this point i was back to beatcraftin' with my mind...

kinda jazzy number, with a bit of a shuffle... some nice ride work, and then in came the upright bass...

happy time