music
The tracks cover a variety of genres and artists from electronic and instrumental through to drum & bass and rock. Please listen to and download any of the tracks below for use with your short film. Please note the songs are no longer available for download - please visit the label's website for information on how to buy.
Black Canvas
We Rise
Black Canvas make music straight from the heart, music with consciousness. Their debut album "Rise" is simply complex, inspired by life, naturally grown and delivered personally. This album is a distillation of experience, gained first hand from living in "The land of the blind". The essence of the music is love and faith, courage, tenderness, generosity and sacrifice.
Like all much of their work, this song is inspired from living in a difficult and testing environment that is the ghetto. Avoiding the common pitfalls of this lifestyle, staying righteous and rising above.
Ed Solo & Skool Of Thought Feat. Darrison
Love your Life
If you had to list the top 10 hottest producers in breaks over the past 12 months, Ed Solo & Skool of Thought would be dead certs for a podium finish. Hotter than an aerobics class held in a sauna with the central heating cranked up to the max, they have provided a host of huge singles, including "When I Was a Yout", "Love Your Life" and "Babylon Breaks", along with the thundering remixes of Groove Armada¹s "Superstylin" and Freestylers v Pendulum "Painkiller".
"Love Your Life" is an anti "bling" summer anthem encouraging a positive attitude and non materialistic approach to life.
Husky Rescue
Blueberry Tree Part III
Husky Rescue build big, if laid back, music that suggests every
feeling Nyberg wants to convey without becoming bogged down in
specifics; “an emotional ride with the lyrics opening a world around
the music” is how he describes it.
Strings Of Consciousness
Cleanliness is Next to Godliness
As the centrepiece of SOC’s album Our Moon is Full, the Marseilles ensemble takes the listener on a terrifying journey through desolate western, tension building drone and intense release in the form of electronic splintered beats. The vocal version, also available, features Oxbow’s Eugene Robinson setting the (potentially bloody) scene.
Motormark
We Are The Public
Inspired staccato bursts of guitar driven by drum machines enhanced by bleeps and distortion, result in an adrenaline rush of melodic punk that lifts the spirit and puts a smile back on your face. From the album Chrome Tape.
Gella
Chi Kaa Coo
New signing to Fat! Records, Gella mixes influences from the likes
of Tipper, Si Begg & Aphex Twin with a Hip Hop attitude that has
resulted in a unique mix of tight electronic production and innovative
musical ideas…
Debut album out in 2008…
Alec Empire
SuEcide
Alec Empire, as leader of Atari Teenage Riot and in his own right had released over one hundred records ranging across many genres but always pushing at the barriers of contemporary music. This track is taken from a compilation of early work – Limited Editions 1990-94
Tatsuhiko Asano
66
Tatsuhiko Asano is an accomplished Japanese guitarist and programmer whose meticulously beautiful compositions inspired Alec Empire to form his innovative contemporary music label Geist.
John Hopkins
Nightjar
A frequent Brian Eno collaborator, Jon Hopkins had worked with Massive Attack, Coldplay, David Holmes, King Creosote and many more, having made a name for himself as a uniquely talented producer. Apart from constant TV scoring, he is currently working with Eno on the forthcoming Peter Jackson film, Lovely Bones and supplying music for The Random Dance Company for a production which premieres in Spring 2008.
Honeyroot
Nobody Loves You
Honeyroot is a collaboration between electronica pioneers Glenn Gregory and Keith Lowndes, producing soulful electronica at its finest. As well as their two critically acclaimed albums, The Sun Will Come and Sound Echo Location, Honeyroot have provided music for numerous films and US & UK TV shows and commercials.
Echaskech
7th Fall
The unique style of melodic dance rhythms blended by Echaskech create a spectrum of flavours from the warm chord progressions of Brian Eno and Urlich Shnauss and the deep bass of Orbital. Their visualist Mach V joins them to add an extra element, creating an awesome audiovisual tour de force. Their cinematic sound has culminated in the scoring of the film The Brink, by director Patrick Astwood, due for release next year.
Efterklang
Him Poe Poc
Efterklang is a sprawling collective of young Danish musicians, coalescing around a core of five permanent members. Both live and on record they are a mesmerising proposition: vibrant, evocative music in widescreen. 'Him Poe Poe' is taken from their new album ‘Parades’. Efterklang manage to be both magnificently ambitious and engagingly intimate; a breathtaking panorama of sound with few clear antecedents.
Nancy Elizabeth
8 Brown Legs
With an intuitive understanding of melody and dynamics, Nancy Elizabeth brings a refreshingly Northern turn of phrase to her work. Unpretentious but effortlessly ambitious, Nancy turns the retro, less-is-more aesthetic of the current acoustic revival on its head. Not content with writing and singing all the songs herself, the 23 year-old also plays most of the instruments, including guitar, khim, Indian harmonium, Appalachian dulcimer and bouzouki, amongst many others. Taken from her debut album – Battle and Victory.
Wildbirds & Peacedrums
Doubt/Hope
The latest signings to The Leaf Label, Swedish duo Mariam Wallentin and Andreas Werliin build their music on vocals and drums, developing it with electronics and a variety of instruments such as sitar, glockenspiel and dulcimer. A perfect mix of spiritual pop, free-blues and raw soul music makes this band one of the most arresting in Sweden today. Debut album Heartcore is out early 2008.
Ammoncontact
A Zillion Tambourines
Ammoncontact, positioned between LA's jazz and hip hop scenes, thread a brawny bass loop through clattering jazz drums and synths concluding in a deep, glitchy and syncopated slice of futuristic hip hop.
Andrew Weatherall
Edie 11
Taken from Weatherall's aclaimed debut ep, this chunky slice of dub techno has proved hugely popular on DJs turntables. Its blend of driving beats, dirty bass and chopped up guitar keeps the Swordsman sounding one step ahead.
Two Lone Swordsmen
No Girl In My Plan (instrumental)
This filthy medly of blues, rock n roll and electronica is available for the first time sans the vocals.No Girl In My Plan is one of the most poplular tracks off the Two Lone Swordsmen's recent album Wrong Meeting.
The Long Blondes
Once And Never Again
The Long Blondes are five achingly cool fashionistas from Sheffield.
Fronted by the incredible Kate Jackson, their first album 'Someone to
Drive You Home' thrilled indie fans last year. The track 'Once and
Never Again' is a ballbusting exposé of the confused youth of
the indie disco scene.
Eric Bachmann
Lonesome Warrior
Self-recorded in a hotel in Buxton, NC we hear and espert songwriter
further honing his craft. Bachmann’s warm vocals and deceptively
simple arrangements keep the song’s quiet elegance ardent and
complete. Taken from the album To The Races.
Grandad Bob
Monster
Electronic Folk Duo from music's most
mystical home, Sheffield. The cold, hard city of steel that has always
managed to deliver some of the most beautiful broken beats and
emotional journey's in music. Grandadbob are like no other - songs and
melodies to wash you with love.
Caged Baby
Hello There (radio edit)
A young talent from the Brighton Shores
who's debut Album "Will See You Now" caused a stir in the belly of
Electronic music. Tom Gandey has worked with Ashley Beedle, Tracey
Thorn, David Byrne and Justin Robertson to name but a few. He has
a new album out in 2008 that will take you on another journey through
lushness and light to the far reaches of deep space.
The Heavy (Counter Records)
Our Special Place
Rare B-side from the durrty durrty voodoo-soul five-piece taking us back a little closer to singer Swaby’s roots in hip hop and soul with a touch of country, his voice floating over acoustic guitar and breakbeat to devastating effect.
Gifted and Blessed (Just Isn't Music Records)
Music For Dealing With Aggression
Twisted and paranoid tech-soul from this hyped LA producer.
Fila Brazilia (23 Records)
And Flesh
Fila Brazillia have always been something of a cult, albeit one with a huge and devoted membership, and one reason for the affection they continue to enjoy is the fact that no-one can ever be sure of what a forthcoming Fila album is going to sound like - other than eccentric. This track is taken from their tenth album.
Jah Wobble
On The Right Road
Aside from being the pioneering bass-player with John Lydon's PiL, he played on Primal Scream's "Screamadelica", co-wrote and played on Bjork's "Play Dead", had a Top 20 hit with his band Invaders Of The Heart ("Visons Of You", sung by Sinead O'Connor), played with Massive Attack and The Orb, released albums in collaboration with both Brian Eno and Can, etc. etc. He's also done ad commissions and film scores.
Cromagnon Band
Mouth Of Madness
The Cromagnon Band are a four piece
progressive jazz/funk act based in London, featuring flute, saxophone,
rhodes, analogue synthesizers, drums/percussion and bass. They have a
moody, cinematic sound and a head-nodding back beat, with influences
from various early 70's European psychedelic jazz and rock bands and
sound tracks.
Ali Love
Secret Sunday Lover
Both tracks are taken from the forthcoming album – Love Music. Listen closely and you’ll hear Lou Reed and Iggy, The Beach Boys, P-Funk beats, hints of Kool and the Gang or Earth Wind and Fire’s disco grooves along with Phil Spector pop, Latin Hip Hop and, of course, the sound of contemporary clubland, all mixed up in short, sweet, cinematic songs that hook you in and leave you wanting more.
Colman Brothers
She Who Dares (Big Band Original)
Wah Wah 45s slip you another length of latin/jazz pressure from those Colman Brothers! As you should already be aware, brothers Mat and Andrew Colman have been writing together for the last 6 years. Their music combines traditional latin and jazz flavours with contemporary beats and the kind of horn power you´d expect from this duo of brass masters.
Lukid
Onandon
While most teenagers struggle with cracking voices, strange bodily changes and the ever-present lure of guiltily beating themselves off to the lingerie section of the Argos catalogue, Lukid was stuck to his computer screen pleasuring himself in an entirely different manner.
Wakeup
And while you might expect most young producers these days to be either knocking out tomytronic drill and bass or inane bopalong indie in regional accents, Lukid's voice is a far cry from the norm. There's a shocking maturity to the tracks which belie his youthfulness: like seeing a baby reciting Baudrillard or a chinchilla juggling swords. This is no freak sideshow for pimple-popping. Onandon is chock full of timeless instrumental slow-chug classics which might even have your Dad tapping his foot along to and remarking "ooh, that's got a good beat."