New Album from Prawnshocker.

And now , presenting for your further delight and defecation, is the latest album from Prawnshocker. 

Excellent stuff!

Enjoy!!

More from Krakow

This time round it's a one off mix, based around samples recorded during the recent stay in Poland and mixed in with various bass loops and off kilter beats.

Live Music from Krakow!!

February 20th saw a weird and wonderful night in Krakow , Poland: Performing live at Baza in Krakow, was Dwoogie, with extra live sets from Prawnshocker and Pete Prescription.

Here is a link to the Facebook page of the event.

And Conny Plankton was there too, having made a special backing video for the night. The three live sets were filmed on a small flipcam by Conny Plankton, and later edits made to mix a version of just the live audio set against the video made for the night.

Having said that, our first video is the live set from Prawnshocker, playing with a backing video that was made and edited by Prawnshocker himself against  his own video:

The second version is Prawnshocker's own video mix, known as The Sepia Movie:

Next in the line up, we have the live set up from Pete Prescription, first playing live against a video backdrop...

...and then with live audio mixed into the Conny Plankton video mix.

And now, for the star turn of the night, with Dwoogie playing an amazing live set: 

...and then as a video mix with live audio mixed into the Conny Plankton video.

Further mention should be made of the reaction to this video, which has now been banned in ten countries!

We are working on getting this dispute sorted out - but apologies if any of these videos show up as being blocked from wherever you are watching it from!

Finally, an extra big thank you for Marcin Barski, who organised the gig for our three performers at Baza at Krakow and made it such an amazing night.

Thanks to to everyone who turned up - it really was a great night!

And of course, Baza is well worth checking out when you're in Krakow:

Baza, Floriańska 15, Kraków
Run by: Wojtek Kozielski
(an excellent bloke and great beer!)

Great people and excellent beer!

Northern Lights Mix

A Mix based on three separate takes using  series of samples and loops from "Northern Song" by the four Kings of EMI - mutilated, rearranged and generally modulated; then converted to an audio file and looped through the Gemini VST soft synth; double tracking added from the same midi file played through the Waldorf Rocket Desktop synth. And then the whole thing, multi-tracked and overdubbed with extra samples to bring you the epic chunk of audio madness I now present before your very ears.

R.I.P. Jak

Jak Sowerby: 1954-2017

One of my oldest friends, Jak Sowerby, passed away on the 3rd March 2017 after a short battle with cancer.

Jak was one of those highly creative people who wove in and out of people's lives: he was always buzzing with thousands of amazing ideas, from comix, to music, to video. He left behind pages and pages and pages of comix, untold lo fi tapes and a whole series of video projects. He had an infectious enthusiasm that would get people joining in the most unlikely of projects and ideas - dressing up as robots in cardboard boxes, singing into an old pair of headphones as a microphone while playing a three string guitar..

Lots of us got swept up in the mad ride that was Jak - without him there would be no Conny Plankton, and this blog would not exist. This post in the blog is a small showcase sent in by various friends and collaborators as a memory of Jak.

He will be sorely missed.

First is a tribute remix piece from Conny Plankton:





Next we have a series of Photographs from Dave Johnston - he and Jak went on many weird and wonderful adventures together:

 ..Jack chillin' at the Cannabis March in Brixton...

 An artistic rendering of our Jack by Dave...

Jack and Dave as Trekkies!

A Movie made with Jak and his brother Anth...

Next we have some comments and a contribution from Prawnshocker:




"Just heard that Jak died on Friday. Very sad news.
I improvised a lead vocal on this track of his, apart from the final rap, which was delivered by Jak.

Jak once told  me that he had a plan for the perfect crime. Then he added, "But it's only a two-man job, so one of you already knows too much"." 

Very sad news indeed."

From Michael Gilham we first have Bullshit Detector Van...

...and then, Atomic Bliss...

...and New! Just in - with production from the Reverend Dhumpa Phatti (to get all tracks converted to digital format and arranged in order) and new artwork cover from Conny Plankton, is the full length album from Jak Sowerby and Friends - Sanity Vampires is one of Jak's many musical projects, and the first full one to surface here on the pages of the blog (although some tracks from the album can be checked elsewhere in this post)...

...and there is more to come: watch this space!

No Fussy Put in

Another mix that came up in the form of a dream - a classic track from two master musicians who unfortunately have to remain nameless - that came up all stretched and distorted like...re creating the same sound took various settings on an Alesis Akira effects rack, extra effects and stretching through Audacity, and a general sense of little bit a this, little bit a that.

The original was great - now its waiting to take you off to another part of your head!

New Recordings from Dave Johnston!

...and continuing with the evolving theme of featuring guest recordings in this here blog, here are two pieces from Dave Johnston, the other half of AcidF*ck, our infamous electronic lo fi sampling outfit  from many moons ago! There's a possibility of some future collaborations coming up too, so watch this space!

In Dave's Words:

My Mind Turned Inside Out was recorded first, It started off being put together on a mixer but then went on to recording into a mac and laptop and assembling tracks on that. 




Also, in Dave's words:
This second track, I See Demons, was recorded completely digitally and I was a lot happier with the result. The vocals are from an interview with a schizophrenic I found on YouTube!