Saturday, December 01, 2007
Buy songs!
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Update
Things are going quite slowly... We're moving house soon, and selling our current one. We've got about 13 tracks in various stages of completion. Hmm, should really put out a single of the more finished ones. There's some stuff we're really proud of.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Tartan Podcast
Sadly, Mark Hunter has decided to call it a day on the old Tartan Podcast. Gabor from Electrical Language has put up a tribute, featuring Mark gushing about Interference... Shucks!
Mark has been a great supporter of Electrum since the start, and has plugged many of our tunes, and often. We wish him all the best in his future.
Meanwhile, on planet Electrum, we are still going, just been really busy in our day jobs / university. We're recording some tracks just now (Moving On and Just Don't Think You've Won so far) and hope to put out an album sometime soon (yeah, yeah, yeah - it'll be ten/twelve tracks, some stuff from the previous EPs, some new songs, some very old songs [Moving On was on the first demo of our first band, and is getting an overhaul] and a redone version of Whatever Happens, Happens with a proper chorus this time...).
Thanks for anyone reading this, and please leave comments!
Mark has been a great supporter of Electrum since the start, and has plugged many of our tunes, and often. We wish him all the best in his future.
Meanwhile, on planet Electrum, we are still going, just been really busy in our day jobs / university. We're recording some tracks just now (Moving On and Just Don't Think You've Won so far) and hope to put out an album sometime soon (yeah, yeah, yeah - it'll be ten/twelve tracks, some stuff from the previous EPs, some new songs, some very old songs [Moving On was on the first demo of our first band, and is getting an overhaul] and a redone version of Whatever Happens, Happens with a proper chorus this time...).
Thanks for anyone reading this, and please leave comments!
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Democrazy 2007
We've put "Interference" up for download on the Democrazy 2007 site. Please vote for us, and please vote in the May 2007 Scottish Elections (not for the Tories, or the SNP, or Labour - Lib Dems if you must, Green if you please).
Also, a sidenote that we won't be doing any live stuff. Months and pounds spent finding out it's just not fun.
Also, a sidenote that we won't be doing any live stuff. Months and pounds spent finding out it's just not fun.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Feed
Update
Hey, we're still going, just taking a break due to uni and work/book. We'll have a new EP - "A&R" - out in the summer, with three or four songs, maybe as many as six. We've rewritten Whatever Happens, Happens, so something might happen with that.
Thanks, and buy the records.
Thanks, and buy the records.
Labels: Electrum
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Website
Sorry, our hosting ran out and we didn't notice. Normal service resumed.
Friday, November 10, 2006
rehearsals
Right now our attention is mainly going into rehearsals for live shows. Quite a few unreleased songs being thrashed into shape by the four of us. A new chorus here, a better ending there. The limiting factor at the moment is how cold it's getting in our rehearsal room - not good for guitaring fingers and singing throats! There still may be scope for another guitar...
Anyway, we're in a good mood after our lovely review (see below).
Anyway, we're in a good mood after our lovely review (see below).
5 star review in 'Is This Music?'
Electrum
Whatever Happens, Happens
(Criminal)
Sometimes there's just something about a tune which makes you want to play some sort of air instrument. BANG, Electrum's EP kicks off with precise drums, but soon you'll be onto imaginary bass guitar, slung around your knees, Hooky-style. However, this only lasts until the chorus, where feedbacking guitar kicks in and an array of effects pedals do their work in building up a wall of noise. What's not required however is any helping the vocal, as Caireen beautifully and clearly intones a tale of relationship breakup which offsets the frenetic backing perfectly. 5-star stuff. [CC]
Whatever Happens, Happens
(Criminal)
Sometimes there's just something about a tune which makes you want to play some sort of air instrument. BANG, Electrum's EP kicks off with precise drums, but soon you'll be onto imaginary bass guitar, slung around your knees, Hooky-style. However, this only lasts until the chorus, where feedbacking guitar kicks in and an array of effects pedals do their work in building up a wall of noise. What's not required however is any helping the vocal, as Caireen beautifully and clearly intones a tale of relationship breakup which offsets the frenetic backing perfectly. 5-star stuff. [CC]
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Podcast safe tune
We have added 'One Shot', the third track from our "Whatever Happens, Happens" EP, to the podcast safe music network.
Rehearsal
We're having a rehearsal on Friday with a drummer. If all goes well we hope to get on with preparing for some live shows. At the moment it would just be a three piece - Caireen on guitar, keyboards and vocals, and Jamie switching between guitar and bass. If anyone would like to audition as a guitarist/keyboardist, please get in touch.
Sunday, July 30, 2006
Mperia
We're on the front page of Mperia. You can buy our whole discography from there.
Saturday, June 24, 2006
June
"One Shot" was played on the Tartan Podcast. Thanks again, Mark!
Thanks for all the nice feedback we've had regarding the "Whatever Happens, Happens" EP. We're working on the follow-up just now.
Thanks for all the nice feedback we've had regarding the "Whatever Happens, Happens" EP. We're working on the follow-up just now.
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Song Update
We've added an MP3 of "Whatever Happens, Happens" to our Mperia page.
Saturday, April 08, 2006
Band members wanted
We want musicians for live stuff. Need a pair of guitarists (rough keyboard skills in one would be good) and a shit-hot drummer. Edinburgh-based. If you're interested, send us an email - us@thisiselectrum.net.
Sunday, March 19, 2006
Web stuff
Please check the changes to the website. The alteration to the look we made at Christmas time is now finished. The Blog appears in a window, the audio is top, with an MPeria player - go buy the record if you haven't already.
Please feel free to leave comments, we want to hear from people. Check out our new myspace page, and add us.
Music: We've done some more to "Whatever Happens, Happens", and it's sounding even better. Those of you who've heard it knows how good it is, but we're tightening stuff up and making it more melodic, adding guitar parts and so on. "Ding Dong" needs some mixing tweaks, "Despite This" is ready to roll.
Thanks.
Please feel free to leave comments, we want to hear from people. Check out our new myspace page, and add us.
Music: We've done some more to "Whatever Happens, Happens", and it's sounding even better. Those of you who've heard it knows how good it is, but we're tightening stuff up and making it more melodic, adding guitar parts and so on. "Ding Dong" needs some mixing tweaks, "Despite This" is ready to roll.
Thanks.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Beware the ides of March
A quick note to say that the EP is still coming along, but things get in the way of spending all your days making music, like working and studying and so on. Things are going well, just need a window of time where we can get the final mixes done. It will be worth the wait...
We're going to make the "Like I Said" EP available through MPeria, probably tonight, so that you can buy MP3s of the songs. If enough people buy it, then we'll do the next EP that way. It is the 21st Century after all; you should get your records straight onto your PC, not through some 1980s shiny disc, or fulfilling someone's teenage vinyl fantasies.
We will be getting a lot more music done over the summer months, so stay checking it. There are about 8 or 9 songs in addition which are at a very loose stage of development but which sound great.
Oh, and we're getting several hundred downloads of "Army of Me" every month; if you're just linking directly from a search engine, then please stop doing it. If you're not, then drop us an email us@thisiselectrum.net and let us know what you think/thought or what kind of tea or coffee you are drinking right now.
We're going to make the "Like I Said" EP available through MPeria, probably tonight, so that you can buy MP3s of the songs. If enough people buy it, then we'll do the next EP that way. It is the 21st Century after all; you should get your records straight onto your PC, not through some 1980s shiny disc, or fulfilling someone's teenage vinyl fantasies.
We will be getting a lot more music done over the summer months, so stay checking it. There are about 8 or 9 songs in addition which are at a very loose stage of development but which sound great.
Oh, and we're getting several hundred downloads of "Army of Me" every month; if you're just linking directly from a search engine, then please stop doing it. If you're not, then drop us an email us@thisiselectrum.net and let us know what you think/thought or what kind of tea or coffee you are drinking right now.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Nice Blogging
myrealnameispete
I've said it before, but there is a risk this will become a fan site for Unpopular Records and the sister label I Wish I Was Unpopular Records. I can't help it. I was going to put up Fuck Forever by Babyshambles and write something attempting to be intelligent about how I simply refuse to have an opinion about Pete Docherty. But my thought processes, and will to pretend to be all clever, was HIJACKED by the lush vocals, sharp guitars....'I kept on walking'. When I arrived home I got straight into some paypal action and ordered Electrum's 'Like I Said'.
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Bits
Hi,
We're working on a new EP which we'll be releasing by the website, ourselves. It'll feature Whatever Happens, Happens and Despite This from the aborted 7", plus a new track, working title Ding Dong. Keep an eye out for it.
Also, found some more airplay:
fallout
We're working on a new EP which we'll be releasing by the website, ourselves. It'll feature Whatever Happens, Happens and Despite This from the aborted 7", plus a new track, working title Ding Dong. Keep an eye out for it.
Also, found some more airplay:
fallout
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Army of Me / Review
We switched server on Saturday and there were problems with the Army of Me MP3. It's fixed now... So go download it.
In other news:
Fact gave us a nice review this month,
In other news:
Fact gave us a nice review this month,
ELECTRUM
LIKE I SAID
(I WISH I WAS UNPOPULAR)
So, there is life after the death of the sorely underrated Slowloris. A female-led journey through pop crushed by bloody valentines and soothed by another corpse (The Delgados). Electrum should be turning up on a Sophia Coppola score near you.
Stewart Gardiner
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
Plan B
Check out this month's Plan B magazine, for an interview with us and a single review of the "Like I Said" EP. Thanks to all at the magazine. If you've trouble buying it, check Plan B website.
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Podsafe
We've been getting a lot of podcast love recently, and many thanks to you all for the play (especially Mark at Tartanpodcast. But here's a little helper, we've made Interference podsafe at music.podshow.com.
Dance Dance Dance Dance Dance to the Radio
Lots of nice airplay, podcast and mp3 blogs recently:
Press-wise, we've got a couple of features coming in decent magazines, but here's a single review from the next issue of FACT:
Hey there's a couple of amazing little gems out now on the art/music/words zine (and label) site I Wish I Was Unpopular. Of the three new releases the most dreamy and catchy is that by Electrum from Edinburgh (who are a duo comprised of members of slowloris).
Songs:Illinois
Kooba Radio
In Over Your Head Podcast
Press-wise, we've got a couple of features coming in decent magazines, but here's a single review from the next issue of FACT:
“A female led journey through pop crushed by bloody valentines and soothed by another corpse (The Delgados), Electrum should be turning up on a Sophia Coppola score near you.” (Stewart Gardiner)
Monday, August 22, 2005
Some press stuff
"It Was Summer" is on this issue's cover CD on Is This Music? magazine. Meanwhile, here's some things we found on the net, first from Unpopular:
...and:
The three new 3” releases are by Electrum, Blind Cowboys and Monster Bobby; the former is the debut by an ultra special mysterious duo from Edinburgh (even though the mystery is blown a bit by a review which mentions Jamie and Caireen’s former band – who I have to admit I had not heard), whilst the latter two are solo outings by various members of the Pipettes (or strictly speaking The Cassettes). Monster Bobby is, erm, Monster Bobby doing his electro-acoustic no-fi thang, whilst Blind Cowboys are Jon Falcone and Tom White (yes, that Tom White, of Electric Soft Parade, the ESP whose debut I think I slated horribly in the first issue of Careless Talk, if I’m not mistaken…) doing their own country tinged urbane thang. Oh and Electrum, since you ask, do a brilliant post-shoegaze dreamPOP thing that pisses on anything else I ever thought of as dreampop, so maybe it isn’t dreampop at all, but rather something altogether more special and modern and captivatingly good. Don’t believe me? You can download sample tracks on the I Wish I Was Unpopular site, before spending your pennies.
Tangents
...and:
Another Edinburgian duo, Electrum, provide some actual musicianship, if that's your bag, to finish.
Hauf Jaiket
Sunday, July 31, 2005
Commerce
Saturday, July 30, 2005
Tartan Podcast
Check out the article on us at Tartan Podcast, with a link to our Spotlight show from earlier this year. We will be played in the next show, so now's a good time to subscribe in iTunes or similar.
Thursday, July 21, 2005
Weirdness
Check this rather odd blog...!
1st August
The "Like I Said" EP is out on 1st August, on I Wish I Was Unpopular Records. It'll be available to buy from Unpopular after that date.
Tracklist:
1. Interference
2. It Was Summer
3. The Last Dance
Here's a review from the next issue of Is This Music? magazine, due out 1st August, too:
Electrum
LIke I Said EP
(I Wish I Was Unpopular)
Debut EP from a band comprised of former members of Slowloris - as may be obvious from Caireen's prominent and multi-faceted vocals, at times breathy but insistent as she intones on the politics of relationship. Also present and correct is Jamie, whipping up a maelstrom at the back - a more aggressive attack than might be expected, as layered guitar sets up a wall of noise and lays delicate fretwork over the top. However, the main talking point is the 3 beautifully melodic pop tunes.
4/5
Donald Bush
Is this Music?
So I guess cats are out of the bag as to our identities... I should point out that Caireen does at least half the guitaring on the EP - the rhythm part on Interference, the lead part on It Was Summer and the rhythm on The Last Dance (and piano).
The 7" on Unpopular is still planned for October. Can't remember if we've blogged that before, but now you know. "Whatever Happens, Happens" / "Despite This" is our next release.
Tracklist:
1. Interference
2. It Was Summer
3. The Last Dance
Here's a review from the next issue of Is This Music? magazine, due out 1st August, too:
Electrum
LIke I Said EP
(I Wish I Was Unpopular)
Debut EP from a band comprised of former members of Slowloris - as may be obvious from Caireen's prominent and multi-faceted vocals, at times breathy but insistent as she intones on the politics of relationship. Also present and correct is Jamie, whipping up a maelstrom at the back - a more aggressive attack than might be expected, as layered guitar sets up a wall of noise and lays delicate fretwork over the top. However, the main talking point is the 3 beautifully melodic pop tunes.
4/5
Donald Bush
Is this Music?
So I guess cats are out of the bag as to our identities... I should point out that Caireen does at least half the guitaring on the EP - the rhythm part on Interference, the lead part on It Was Summer and the rhythm on The Last Dance (and piano).
The 7" on Unpopular is still planned for October. Can't remember if we've blogged that before, but now you know. "Whatever Happens, Happens" / "Despite This" is our next release.
Monday, June 27, 2005
at last
we have now finally finished our first ep, though it's different from the one we were originally planning on. A few weeks ago, after a marathon of tweaking, mixing and mastering we sent our 3 songs off and were somewhat stunned when our record label man heard the 2 new tracks and said he wanted to release them as a 7" single on his bigger label.
Which is great! Only thing is, it wasn't to be released for another five months. So now we're doing a 3 track ep and a single, as the ep can be released on cd really fast. Of course there are more new tracks on the ep so we had to get down to more furious recording, finishing and fine-tuning (plus changing the copy on the artwork) before jiffy-bagging the whole thing off to the label.
It should be arriving there today.
Which is great! Only thing is, it wasn't to be released for another five months. So now we're doing a 3 track ep and a single, as the ep can be released on cd really fast. Of course there are more new tracks on the ep so we had to get down to more furious recording, finishing and fine-tuning (plus changing the copy on the artwork) before jiffy-bagging the whole thing off to the label.
It should be arriving there today.
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
What's happening?
Not updated this for a while... We're just about finished the EP, just some mixing and professional mastering to happen. It's sounding very good - there's a taster with a new version of "Interference" on the website. We'll announce it all once the release is set, etc.
In other news, we've been writing some new material, probably our second EP is already written... We've written new lyrics and tune to Army of Me, for which we wrote new music, anyway. More short, blasts of pop.
And, finally, we've had some play in podcasts - tartanpodcast.com played "Interference" last week, and coverville.com is putting "Army of Me" up on a show tonight. If you've never heard of a podcast, go and google - it's changing the way music is listened to, much the same way blogging is changing what we read. If you've come in from hearing us on one of those shows, please drop an email or a comment. We've had some frankly spectacular feedback so far.
Anyway, Peace and Something.
Electrum
In other news, we've been writing some new material, probably our second EP is already written... We've written new lyrics and tune to Army of Me, for which we wrote new music, anyway. More short, blasts of pop.
And, finally, we've had some play in podcasts - tartanpodcast.com played "Interference" last week, and coverville.com is putting "Army of Me" up on a show tonight. If you've never heard of a podcast, go and google - it's changing the way music is listened to, much the same way blogging is changing what we read. If you've come in from hearing us on one of those shows, please drop an email or a comment. We've had some frankly spectacular feedback so far.
Anyway, Peace and Something.
Electrum
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Whatever Happens, Happens
The EP will be finished this week. Sorting out the vocals and rerecording parts, having the bass guitar fixed so it's not out of tune all the time, and other stuff you just aren't interested in. But the good side is that you'll get your grubby mitts on it soon.
In other news, "Army of Me" will be included in a podcast very soon - more once it's updated. (FYI, podcasts are really good things, basically a radio show of uncopyrighted stuff in an MP3, for chucking on one's iPod, if one has one, etc.)
In other news, "Army of Me" will be included in a podcast very soon - more once it's updated. (FYI, podcasts are really good things, basically a radio show of uncopyrighted stuff in an MP3, for chucking on one's iPod, if one has one, etc.)
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Progress...
We've been busy recording of late. "Whatever Happens, Happens" is pretty much done, the vocals were recorded today and sound really great, edited the structure, and it's sounding really good. Very happy with it. Need to do some more work with "It was Summer" (working title) - there's a big build-up at the end we need to sort out, and pretty much all the parts will need to be rerecorded, which is pretty standard for these things. The third track is going to be a re-mixed version of "Interference" (not remixed as in a four to the floor beat stapled on, just the levels and sounds tweaked about - we've learnt quite a lot about mixing since we initially recorded it). There may or may not be a fourth song. But these three are gonna be killer, and very much value for money.
Friday, March 18, 2005
Sit Down
Our track is not going to be on "Army of Mexes", the Bjork "Army of Me" covers and remixes album. Oh well. Check out the details on bjork's site. It's for a good cause.
(We might reuse the music, which we rewrote from scratch, in a new song, but we might not.)
(We might reuse the music, which we rewrote from scratch, in a new song, but we might not.)
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Some more comments
Check Purpose Built Records for some more comments on our track (plus some other stuff on the album, obviously):
And they've raised £230.00 before the CD's been distributed. Which is obviously great.
"19: Electrum - Interference - a 2 piece male/female ensemble, catchy pop, criminally short [song] though."Of course, our philosophy is to keep stuff short and sharp. We'd rather you listen to the song twice than listen to the same chorus twice and a guitar solo which won't add anything to the song. The Aphex Twin's "Richard D. James" springs to mind, you can listen to it twice in the space of most electronic albums, and there are more ideas going on every second than in most people's hours. So there. But it's a nice comment, so thanks.
And they've raised £230.00 before the CD's been distributed. Which is obviously great.
Monday, February 28, 2005
News update 28/02/05
Electrum will have two releases out fairly soon, but here's a nice review:
The second release we're keeping under our hats a bit - it's an EP on a small-ish indie label. We'll be recording this over March, and will post updates soon. We've got about 4 or 5 songs we're working on just now - the best title is "Whatever Happens, Happens". We'll update this to let you know of the progress of recording and release details nearer the time.
We're still waiting to hear about the Bjork "Army of Mixes" thing, but a quick google shows that not many people have heard, so hopefully no news is good news...
Electrum: An Army Of Me (demo)The first release is "Interference" on a Tsunami charity compilation on Purpose Built Records, raising money for the Asian Tsunami. This is currently being printed and pressed and will be out shortly.
I had a CDR in the mail from this group the other day. Nothing else, just an unsleeved CDR. Very mysterious, just the way it should be. Very cool, just the way it should be. Continuing the cover version theme started by the Chris Stamey cut, this of course is a Bjork song, and, given that I’m no great Bjork fan, I have to say this is an unqualified success. The other cut on the CDR, an Electrum composition called ‘Interference’ is every bit as good: like Camera Obscura meets The Vibration (and incidentally, check out the Sink And Stove UK issue of the Vibration’s excellent Ear To The Ground EP). Expect to hear a lot more from this mysterious bunch.
from http://www.tangents.co.uk/tangents/main/2005/february /listening.html
The second release we're keeping under our hats a bit - it's an EP on a small-ish indie label. We'll be recording this over March, and will post updates soon. We've got about 4 or 5 songs we're working on just now - the best title is "Whatever Happens, Happens". We'll update this to let you know of the progress of recording and release details nearer the time.
We're still waiting to hear about the Bjork "Army of Mixes" thing, but a quick google shows that not many people have heard, so hopefully no news is good news...
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