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Since uploading clubsofa prompted such a lively debate, I herewith present ‘Prior Art’ the collection of ‘Return to Netley, things have changed’, tracks written between 1994 and 2001. Some of these tracks were written with Danny, some were written with Sacha, and some by Danny or myself alone - see if you can spot which are which. Return to Netley played infrequently, and almost exclusively in churches. I have procured a church for my Open House exhibition in May, perhaps an opportunity to perform again…

NB These tracks are purposely uncompressed, demonstrating a very high dynamic range - if you play them loud, and your speakers blow up, don’t blame me.

1. Tease [5.2mb] mp3
2. Disc [2.6mb] mp3
3. Spend [4.6mb] mp3
4. Peanut Butter [4.5mb] mp3
5. Squirt [4.9mb] mp3
6. Hominid [4.6mb] mp3
7. Compound Fracture [3.5mb] mp3
8. BOTB [4.0mb] mp3
9. Replication [4.8mb] mp3
10. Manners [3.1mb] mp3
11. Chant B [6.5mb] mp3
12. Korsakoff’s Psychosis [6.7mb] mp3
13. YMCO [3.2mb] mp3

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Clubsofa was a series of musical experiments performed between 1995 and 1998 collected together as an album. It’s a ’solo record’, if you will, since all of the pieces were composed alone, on a shitty 486dx PC running cakewalk. Some of them have been featured as background music to some of my timelapse painting films, but this is the first time I’ve released them together as mp3s since the end of the nineties (when they had their own website).

As ever, it appears my experiment in free music distribution was perhaps ahead of its time, since I think the site closed before the iPod was released…

1. Anandamide [6.6mb] mp3
2. The Pump (featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger) [3.9mb] mp3
3. Blank For Special Messages [6.4mb] mp3
4. Debriefed [3.9mb] mp3
5. Nonesuch [2.2mb] mp3
6. Sure [6.7mb] mp3
7. Urban Renewal [4.5mb] mp3
8. Land of Comf [5.9mb] mp3
9. Bedtime [6.4mb] mp3
10. Uncle Monty [7.7mb] mp3

I’ve no particular reason for re-releasing this now, beyond the generosity of my hosting provider allowing me to see what effect it has on bandwidth usage…

Enjoy.

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All this messing about with video for the shardcore inquisition prompted me to see what else was sitting unwatched on my dusty pile of DV tapes. I came across this gem, and felt compelled to share it with the world.

Return to netley, things have changed perform their chart topping hit “compound fracture” at north london’s prestigious ‘bull and gate’ emporium.

netley compound fracture bull gate live

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we are all terrorists now [6.76 mb] - memepool

This is your country, love it or leave it;
Beat the shit out of anybody who criticises it.
The blind lead the mute, lead the deaf, lead the dead
The politically correct, the criminally inept,
The Word made Flesh….
We are all terrorists now.
We are all terrorists now.

Gimme your poor, yours starved, your huddled masses,
Your immigrants and underclasses
Asylum seekers without work passes
Human flotsam in a sea of shame
Terrorists by another name
Paedophiles, thought-criminals,
And all the other subliminals
Who pass like phantoms through our world.
We are all terrorists now.
We are all terrorists now.

Hijab-hooded muslims stalking your towns
Civil Rights junkies whose sympathies are known.
Off-message weapons inspectors aid and abet,
Women with blast-injuries who cannot forget,
Military Crusaders and their cold-regret,
We are all terrorists now.
We are all terrorists now.
We are all terrorists now.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch
Apache gunships and grunts from Ohio
Kill only terrorists.
War without end,
War without terror waged against terror.
The limbless, the blind, the halt and the lame;
Suffer the little children who die in your name.
Whatever you call them their fate is the same.
We are all terrorists now.
We are all terrorists now.
We are all terrorists now.

(No-one is innocent)

Nothing now can ever be known
All is assertion in the name of the Crown.
We don’t do evidence anymore
It’s become an encumbrance to the practise of law.
The gagged accused may now have his say,
Now just be careful okay?
We know what you’re thinking
But we can’t tell you who, where, what, or why.
Your guilt’s a State secret
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO COMPLY!
Remember you’re nothing when you’re sent down
For an indefinite sentence for an indefinite crime.
Don’t oppose the State if you can’t do the time!
We are all terrorists now.
Death be not proud
We are all martyrs now.

We are all terrorists now.
Blend into the crowd
For we are all terrorists now.

We are all terrorists now.
(Prove who you are
Prove you’re no threat)
We are all terrorists now.
(You may be out of luck,
You may be desperate.)

We are all terrorists now.
We are all terrorists now.

The bombs in Spain fall mainly on the trains.

We are all terrorists now.
We are all terrorists now.

Thank you very much.
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO COMPLY!

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adenosinetriphosphate [3.58 mb]

science

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