album release

For over a year I’ve been working on a new album, plagued by writer’s block and lack of inspiration. However, the time has come where I can unleash it into the wild.

‘Inter alia’ is a ten track album under the cup fungus moniker which retains the darker electronica edge found in previous releases – without being quite as ‘bonkers and disturbing’. Overall, it feels a bit less frantic, and a bit more considered.

The album is available both digitally (on Bandcamp/Spotify/etc), and on cassette tape from my label Cow Tongue Taco Records. Downloads are free from there, but anybody who chooses to pay from will get an extra bonus track.

Artwork is by the fantastic Jake Brown aka Ghost Voices.

Today I’m releasing my first album since 2012, and the first one that’s mainly chiptune based since 2011: ‘drouth’.

The album is entirely composed on LSDJ using a bunch of different modified Gameboys, which were then in turn to control different instruments like a Commodore 64, Volca Bass, etc that play additional parts to give a much deeper sound. Along with a smattering of guitar and vocals, it’s much more an experimental (sometimes ambient) electronic album than a chiptune focussed one.

Unlike previous occasions, I’ve spent a lot more time putting the pieces together for this, even re-mastering the entire thing a few days ago when I realised that the original left the Gameboy sounding a little bit too harsh.

You can download it in full, for whatever price you choose, over at bandcamp – or stream at the bottom of the page.

Tracklist is as follows:

obsolete by design
mex
flight risk
bottle neck
lazarus pit
hang the joker
Mr. K
slinging dinghies
wealth sprouts wings
dinghy it
tip of the spear
playing the fool
dilettante
Koba

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experimental music from Glasgow with Gameboys, saws and other pish

cup fungus – inter alia LP

New Album: ‘drouth’ released today.