Friday, January 20, 2006

The jig is up! And by jig I mean music.

The entire Circa1984 Records back catalogue is once again available to download! At long last, after a downtime of a couple of years, it's all back up again. That's nearly five years worth of music.

You can download the music from each individual release page. Follow the links in the sidebar.

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Friday, December 30, 2005

New Records signees

Circa1984 Records is proud to welcome two new musicians to the fold, Elias Adriano and Edward Roland. Together they form st Elvis. They're a little bit jazzy, a little bit loungey, very much improvisery, and are currently writing their, as yet untitled, debut. We hope to have something to show soon enough.

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Monday, December 26, 2005

KrimZon's Atlas

KrimZon has put up his Christmas song, which he wrote just before Christmas in 1997. It's called Atlas, and his old-skewl stuff is really cool, you can check out the song (and hopefully the album it's from soon!) on his artists page.

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Music, to be precise

At long last, the Circa1984 Records website is redesigned, now as a branch of the Circal collective. I hope the new design is to everybody's tastes; I certainly think it looks nicer. It should also be tons easier to find whatever it is you're looking for. But we're open to suggestions! If you think things could be done a bit better, send me an e-mail. A new heading in the title bar, some content you think we should put up, anything.

Now for a rundown of what's happening.

Blitz is on fire. His work just gets better and better, and we're glad to be providing him the space on the internet to make his music available. Although he's only put out two official releases with us thus far (the incredible debut Residue, and the followup single Kyoto) we've also got about three hours worth of live material up in the appropriate section. Check it out if you fancy something to relax to.

I (me, myself, Terry Goodwin) am working on my third solo album, under the Loaner moniker; my first full collection of original songs since 1984 in 2002. I also wrote a single orchestral piece for a friend this Christmas, and although it's been given a catalogue number and it's an official release, a download has been put on indefinite hold. We'll see.

New signee Woyk (Phil Loynes, of Red Rising) is working on his own debut, a much more electronic, rough-edged spinner than the typical output of RR, and it promises to be something special. You can get to some work-in-progress samples on his myspace through his section.

The latest release in the Circa1984 canon comes from solo-guitarist RedwaX (Ricky Knight of the recently renamed Baldwins, formerly Self Service) and is entitled A Very RedwaX Christmas. Given the catalogue number CIR029, RedwaX Christmas represents the second release on Circa1984 Records by RedwaX. I'll have to try and get some of his older, pre-Silus work up on the site.

We hope you like what you hear.

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