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This page includes a copy of the main archive listings at Mike
& the Alchemist's Synthetic Folk Archive. Generally speaking, the original site may be anything up
to a week or more ahead of this copy, so for the most recent additions to their archive please visit that
site instead.
Although our main focus is electronic, we are also keen to encourage preservation of our traditional songs and tunes, especially those which are more balladic, and less chorus-based, and to develop new ways of expressing individual and social experience within the general folk idiom. Accordingly, a number of tunes have been prepared (fairly roughly) for download, with lyrics where appropriate. We are particularly interested in fusing the very old with the very new. The Synthetic Folk project is a long-running attempt to generate up-to-date versions of traditional English folk songs before they are lost to the tradition altogether, and we also write our own neo-Folk tunes and songs, which we perform from time to time at local folk clubs. |
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Deconstruction (1993)
Stannett © 1992-1999. All rights reserved. This is where it all began! The first album in the Synthetic Folk genre. This is claimed by some to have the most bizarre, and the most blood-curdling, version of Long Lankin ever produced. What better recommendation could you ask for! Indeed, the entire collection is rather gruesome... CD - £5 per copy (limited period only)
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Monsters from the Id (1989)
Stannett © 1989-1999. All rights reserved. A contemplation on the "villain" of Forbidden Planet. The Krell were a highly evolved alien civilisation, but possessed deep-rooted monsters embeded within their unconscious minds. When they developed the technology to perform any act simply by willing it to be, the monsters asserted themselves while they slept and eradicated the entire population... This collection is a mixture of the gentle and the not so gentle. In addition to the RealAudio versions included here, the 15 main tracks are available for MP3 download from http://www.mp3.com/noisefactory. CD - £6 per copy (limited period only)
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Noisy's International Explosion The Practice Sessions (1989) NoiseFactory (Oates/Stannett) © 1989-1999. All rights reserved. Named as an ironic take on the duo's chances of becoming Hit Factory material, this started life as a collection of portastudio recordings, made entirely for fun. Their exuberance certainly shows through in the oddest places. Obviously never intended as a professional recording, we like it so much we decided to include it anyway despite (or maybe because of) the low-level hiss, the occasional bum notes, and the blatantly politically incorrect final track... |
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Pirates (1999)
Stannett © 1999. All rights reserved. Musical sketches of the good folk at interFace Pirate Radio, and their chatfriends, composed on an intermittent basis. As of July 1999 these are scheduled to be written at a rate of one or more every few days. These sketeches are frequently subject to revision, and will continue to be revised as appropriate until the collection is complete, at which time they will be overlaid to generate a unified pirate airscape, arranged for Roland XP-10 sound module, and released on CD. |
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SunRise (1999) The Second ISIS Collection Various Artists © 1999. All rights reserved. ISIS are a co-operative music publishing and production organisation based in Yorkshire (UK), but with folk/roots and recording artists internationally. They are keen that folk artists should help each other to promote the genre, and host sessions and workshops to promote local talent. You can find out more by visiting their web site. Most of the tracks on this album are non-synthetic, although Intervibos' enigmatic Do not attempt to grow a brain is a notable (and excellent) exception. The album as a whole is well produced and well performed. We love it! |
