Strangely Perfect

No fuss. My old friend Jeff recently died. The track now playing was one of the last pieces we did together.  It’s Jeff’s creation  and is one of my favourite Crawling Chaos tracks.  This is a pre-Waqqaz version from a cassette that has travelled round France, been in various glove compartments and cupboard floors. I’ve [...]

Cupboard cleanout. Dust of ages. Mists of time. Tape of hissiness. This is the Crawling Chaos, Magnum Innoninandum cassette cover, the second hard release from Crawling Chaos, producers of innovative music originating from Northumberland.  This follows on from the Green tape. It is really a statement of intent. Q.  How do I feel about it, [...]

I’ve had ATV‘s Action Time Vision in my head today. They say everyone has one good tune in them and every tune has one good take – well this is it on both counts for Ferguson and Perry. But what a tune and what a take! This is a better mp3, if you’re looking… Now [...]

In last week’s webcast from Collective Voice (7 Feb 2008), presenter Rory mentioned that Joe Meek, the iconic gay gun-toting creative genius couldn’t read or write music notation or even play an instrument. Yet he somehow made iconic tunes that most people will recognise even if they don’t know who did what. This is the [...]

Fear and loathing of music and sounds made me clear out all Crawling Chaos memories from my house – and life.

Extra information about the final years of Crawling Chaos when visiting the White Elephant in Ashington last weekend

I’ve put an original “Gygno” on the Crawling Chaos site here. The track is almost complete apart from the fact that Paul’s voice and singing weren’t right. So I did it, and it was about then that Paul stopped singing with Crawling Chaos. I’ve pulled it from an old test cassette tape. There are quite [...]

INSERT_MAP I’ve used some extra software that I’ve “re-found” (!!!) on my PC to adjust the sound a bit (well a lot actually) of these two consecutive tracks from a live gig recorded at “The Golden Eagle” pub in Blyth, Northumberland in 1980-ish. The sound is pretty crap on the cassette and the tape is [...]

As promised, I’ve squeezed some juice out of some Freak Elektrik tracks that I have on an old cassette. The band played in the North-East of England in the early 80s – I’d love to know what Lorny and Ian, Moyly and George are up to now. Crawling Chaos shared some times with them.. Anyway, [...]

I’ve decided to keep the Chaos stuff on the Chaos site instead of spreading it around. It just seems more sensible and it should be easier to maintain and synchronise. Er, that’s all – apart from I’ve found an old Freak Elektrik demo cassette. The quality is pretty bad (actually, really bad), but I’ll clean [...]

This site, by Mark Ayres, gives a description of the Doctor Who theme as it was created by Delia Derbyshire from the Ron Grainer score. In conversation with Paul yesterday, I was recalling how I started music by recording short or medium wave radio tuning, heterodyning and interference sounds onto a cassette and then chopped [...]