Balloonacy wins Webby award and is nominated for D&AD
By Simon James | May 5, 2009
Orange Balloonacy scooped a Webby and has been nominated for a pretigious D&AD award. The Webby Awards reward excellence online and we are proud to have been involved in creating the sound design for Balloonacy last year.
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The Tone Generation Programme 13 - Electronics in Jazz
By Simon James | December 28, 2008
In this hour long special Ian Helliwell digs out tracks from his collection by Tom Dissevelt, Bernard Parmegiani, John Baker, Miles Davis, Archie Shepp, Nucleus, Freddie Hubbard/Ilhan Mimaroglu, Paul Bley, Sun Ra and Herbie Hancock to illustrate the theme, and as usual explains a bit of background about each one.
As always I really enjoyed producing this episode of The Tone Generation. The Paul Bley track is a definite highlight for me.
Get the MP3 or subscribe to the series here.
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Welcome to Mars music downloads
By Simon James | December 23, 2008
The Welcome to Mars album is now available to download and comes with over 10 extra tracks not available anywhere else. Originally composed for the radio series written and presented by Ken Hollings, the music evokes the fear and excitement of the future in the 1950’s. The Wire recently said of the music that it “…not only evokes the mood of the era, it also stands on its own as inventively conceptual electronic music“.
Download the 28 track album here for $12.99
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New Simonsound track and snippets from mix CD up on Myspace
By Simon James | November 27, 2008
Couple of new bits up on the Simonsound MySpace. First a little sneak preview of the mysterious mix that has found its way into the public domain. We have heard reports that this mix of space music and psychedelic sound can be found in some shops. Originally created purely for our own pleasure the mix features music that has inspired us in creating our own tracks, and 3 original Simonsound tracks. Its a great introduction to the world of The Simonsound.
Buy it at Rough Trade Phonica Juno (where they get the tracklisting wrong) Fat City
Next is another track from the forthcoming Simonsound album Reverse Engineering. Bakers Dozen is heavily inspired by library music from the 60’s and 70’s, the kind of instrumental music you might have heard in the background for cult TV shows or adverts. Using the sound of a cork being popped from an empty bottle of gin as its main instrument the track is also inspired by the work of BBC Radiophonic Workshop composer John Baker, famous for taking everyday sounds and creating music with them.
Bakers Dozen will soon be available as a free download to people who sign up for the Simonsound newsletter. You can do that here.
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Welcome to Mars CD’s now available
By Simon James | November 26, 2008
The music I composed for the Welcome to Mars radio series is now available on CD when you buy the book of the same name written by Ken Hollings. The first 250 books come with the CD and then there will be a number on sale seperately. I am also going to make the album available as a digital download in December.
(Note: digital downloads now available here)
Welcome to Mars is published by Strange Attractor Press.
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