Abandoned Sheep

MUSIC : Michael Jackson

2009-06-26T10:06:00.001Z

Seems appropriate to share this with you :

Ghouls 'n Ghosts Are Not My Lover by Binster

MUSIC : Dick, You're Fired! WIP

2009-06-22T10:59:00.003Z

A track that is nearing completion :

Dick, You're Fired! (Beta5) by Binster

It features a sample from the movie RoboCop. This is second album bound - probably the closing track. Enjoy!

MUSIC : LuQas - Creeper (Binster Remix)

2009-04-22T13:34:00.021Z

OUT NOW ON YELLOW FINGER COMMUNICATIONS, LuQas's debut single "Creeper" is backed by remixes from Yreane, JoeBot and myself.

Here's a stream of my remix. You can buy any or all four tracks from Juno, TrackItDown and Beatport.

LuQaS - Creeper (Binster Remix) 128 by Yellowfinger

COMMUNITY : ASAP activity kersplosion

2009-03-23T17:06:00.005Z

Those production masters A Scholar And A Physician have pulled out their collective finger and are making their album happen, having signed to Brainlove Records.

Step one? Release "She's A Witch" as a triple A-side single, alongside "I'm Not Normal" and "Shouldn't Dwell".

Step two? Make a video for "She's A Witch".

Dilligent followers of this anemic webpage will know that I have contributed tracks to the ASAP free albums, collaborated on the 'overnight sensation' Mario Dirty Mix with ASAP and richBRF, and have even played on stage at Truck Festival as backing for ASAP. I even rapped once. As such, I wholeheartedly endorse this product or service. As details on where to buy the single and album appear, I'll add 'em.

If you need more reason to check out the video, know this: they rhyme "Witch" with "Quidditch".

COMMUNITY : Visiting The Village

2009-03-12T10:58:00.002Z

nervous_testpilot, in his other real world guise as Indie Games developer Paul Taylor has, along with co-developer Ian Hardingham, kicked off a periodic gaming discussion mp3 show called Visiting The Village.

Episode One has just gone live, so head over and have a listen! As an added incentive, you can hear a variety of tracks from my album Abandoned in the background.

MUSIC : MidWinter

2009-01-22T09:22:00.004Z

New tune up!

Binster - MidWinter by Binster

A little bit of electromelodic loveliness to keep you warm in the winter months (sorry it's coming out towards the end of January, but I ain't a fast musicker as I'm sure the updates to this page will indicate).

Head on over to Reunion Music and you can download this track from the Music Download page - it's release #114. Enjoy!

COMMUNITY : nervous_testpilot Mirror's Edge remix

2008-12-05T14:29:00.005Z

Still Alive - Lisa Miskovsky (nervous_testpilot's soundtrack mix) by nervous_testpilot

nervous_testpilot has produced a remix of Mirror's Edge's theme song "Still Alive" for a remix competition.

Here's details about it : Still Alive - Lisa Miskovsky - nervous_testpilot's soundtrack mix

If you like it, and you want it to be heard by EA then if you could favourite the mix on JamGlue that'd be ace. It involves signing up to the site, but it's free and seems quite nifty.

MUSIC : Mixsets streaming

2008-12-01T13:52:00.002Z

I've just uploaded all of the mixsets I've completed so far to Soundcloud. You can stream or download them, and the streaming versions have pop-up timed tracklisting info, so you can pinpoint and skip past the awful Scatman cutup I did in the 2004 Dr.AwkwArD mix.

Binster/Dr.AwkwArD mixsets on Soundcloud

Also, if you scroll the page down a bit and look in the right hand column, you'll find all the mixsets, along with all my other stuff, in little streaming widget thingies.

COMMUNITY : Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix Official Soundtrack

2008-11-30T13:23:00.002Z

OCRemix, I site for which I have produced a number of remixes, has produced the soundtrack to the recent HD remake of Street Fighter 2. It's an officially endorsed-by-Capcom kinda thing - I think this is a world first :)

OC ReMix: Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix Official Soundtrack

You can download the soundtrack for free at the link above. Go for it, it's ace!

COMMUNITY : Reunion netlabel

2008-11-19T15:05:00.002Z

Platonist sends word along that his Reunion netlabel has changed address.

You can now find all the free music (over 100 tracks, and including four pieces by me) at :

http://platonistmusic.com/reunion/

Head on over and download the free aceness!

MUSIC : Nervous_testpilot's Steve's Lament Remix

2008-09-10T22:24:00.003Z

Woosh!

Binster - Steve's Lament (nervous testpilot remix) by nervous_testpilot

An epic remix of Steve's Lament, by trance superstar nervous_testpilot. Ear-huggingly lovely stuff.

MUSIC : Realism on Soundcloud

2008-08-25T16:16:00.006Z

I'm setting some stuff up on SoundCloud at the mo.

Binster on SoundCloud

Therein you'll find a smattering of tracks from "Abandoned", plus "So Angry" and a new track, which isn't quite final yet, called "Realism". In fact, let's try embedding it...

Realism by Binster

That seems to work :)

Go there, have a listen, enjoy, and feel free to drop music that you think I'd like to hear into my drop box.

MUSIC : Trademark Collaboration Free Download

2008-07-10T16:37:00.002Z

Back in 2006 Trademark asked me if I'd like to collaborate on a track with them. Seeing as they're brilliant Electro-Pop Lab Technicians, I said yes and we did.

The result has just turned up over on their website where they are currently giving away free MP3s of stuff that hasn't appeared on either of their albums, Want More and Raise The Stakes.

The track's called Get Out While I Can and I added little plinky bits and strings and synth stuff in the background.

Download "Get Out While I Can" by Trademark Ft. Binster

Enjoy!

COMMUNITY : OneMoreDisco

2008-06-30T09:17:00.003Z

One More Disco is a music blog that brings ace music to the ears of its listeners. They've put up a post about my album, Abandoned, which is extremely flattering :)

I compell you all to head on over and see what else they are writing about.

MUSIC : So Angry Released!

2008-06-23T08:26:00.005Z

So Angry by Binster

It's out now!

SO ANGRY + Rennie Pilgrem remix
Out now at Beatport!

Available exclusively from www.beatport.com, on Diverted Traffic records. Featuring a mind-bending remix from Rennie Pilgrem, So Angry has been described as "One of those tunes that will tear the club in half" by Rob Savage of the Groovediggerz, and "An electro-fied version of the hairy lemon disolving vitamin pickmeup in a breakbeat dancefloor format!" by NAPT.

MUSIC : Abandoned, the album, released

2008-04-21T21:31:00.008Z

That's it, I've had it with these mother loving tracks on this mother loving album. Everybody strap in! I'm about to open some loving windows.

The album is done. Go to the page linked above and enjoy a high quality stream of 12 tracks, plus a short story about a tyre, courtesy of MeibatsuRen.

Enjoy the album. I enjoyed making it.

MUSIC : Minus One released on Reunion Studios

2008-03-27T00:47:00.005Z

New tune for you!

Minus One by Binster

Well, new to you. It's actually been languishing on my hard drive for quite a while now, waiting for the impending release of Abandoned the album which seems to be in a stagnant period. Moop. Ah well.

The track is called Minus One and is available as part of the Reunion Studios-released download-only free compilation album "Vast Present & Future" grabbable below :

Reunion Studios - Vast Present & Future

It's track number 2. It features me singing. Through a vocoder. Enjoy!

MUSIC : Syntax Era (C64 Remix CD)

2008-02-21T13:58:00.001Z

Do you like 80s music? Do you like C64 game tunes? Want to hear the two collide? Then look no further!

17 tracks, each one a classic game soundtrack produced in the style of a classic 80s pop hit.

My take on Ghouls and Ghosts in the style of Billie Jean features as track number 5.

Enjoy!

GENERAL : January 2008 update

2008-01-14T21:24:00.000Z

Just a mini update for the new year.

Soon, although I'm not entirely sure when, you will be able to get your mitts on "So Angry", courtesy of Diverted Traffic records. It will be backed by a remix by the one, the only, the father of the genre, Rennie Pilgrem. Crikey!

Also, there's still some more stuff from me (or more accurately Dr.AwkwArD) coming on Re:Connect Records. "Realism", one of my recent tracks which I'm not calling finished until I'm totally happy with it, may well feature on the release, but I don't think it'll be the A side - there's more slamming business to be dealt with first :)

Also a track I've had on my hard drive for well over a year will be seeing the light of day as part of a compilation release over at Reunion Studios. The track's called "Minus One" and it's a melancholy electroballad with heavily vocodered vocals from yours truly. More news on that as and when.

Parp!

MUSIC : Steve's Lament

2007-10-28T22:53:00.002Z

A new tune for your ears!

Steve's Lament by Binster

This one was started off as a background music piece for a friend of mine (called Steve) which went a bit too melodic for him to use, but I decided to name it after him all the same.

It's being released via Reunion Studios, a free netlabel through which I previously released Yvek. It's a lovely melodic one, plinky and chorally and all that.

Enjoy!

MUSIC : Dr.AwkwArD Mixset on Re:Connect Radio

2007-09-19T14:02:00.000Z

I've completed a 60 minute mix for The Re:Connect Show over on NSBradio. It was played on the 19th September 2007.

If you missed it, don't despair! It can be heard on the show's archive over at Re:Connect radio.

Here's the tracklist :

01. Dr.Awkward - Survival Instinct (Jariten Mix) [Re:Connect]
02. Brotherman - The Evil In Me [CDR]
03. Roxiller - Creature Feature [Rec]
04. High Eight - Thru Time [Re:Connect]
05. Way Out West - Melt [Black Hole]
06. Shiloh - All These Things [Baroque]
07. Digitalism - Anything New [Virgin]
08. Binster - So Angry [CDR]
09. Pilch - Beats Workin’ [Breakin Even]
10. Beta - Trojan (C83 Mix) [Re:Connect]
11. Dr.Awkard - Survival Instinct (Refunk Mix) [Re:Connect]
12. Trademark - Toe The Line (Rich’s Saturate The Line Mix) [Truck Records]

Enjoy!

PHOTO : Lolcat Thing

2007-09-11T16:44:00.000Z

Thanks to Carl Warner for posing, and Richard Whitelock for cameraing.

GENERAL : August 2007 update

2007-08-29T22:19:00.000Z

I'm back from the Big Chill, and I'll upload some photos from that, and the Isle of Wight festival, at some point in the future.

Musically, things are going well. I've completed yet another Tim Follin tribute track for a different project - more news on that soon - and So Angry is currently getting signed for release, backed by a remix from someone rather special...

As for the album stuff I hinted at in the last update, you'll be pleased to hear that I'm working on the final few tracks and edits here and there on a collection of works that will go by the name Abandoned. 12 tracks, some you've heard, some new versions of tracks you've heard, and some totally new stuff. Should be a giggle.

GENERAL : July 2007 update

2007-07-03T19:46:00.000Z

I have returned from the Isle of Wight festival intact, so you can all stop worrying now. I got photos a plenty, but haven't got around to getting them off the camera yet.

The weekend was ace, but the festival wasn't as good as it could be - maybe I've been spoiled by Glasto and the Big Chill, but a festival with only one stage and where you have to buy drinks tokens to get drinks seems a bit... odd. Ah well, Big Chill's but a few short weeks away.

In the interim, I've got a follow up track to So Angry on the go which will hopefully be done soonish. This stuff I've been doing recently is seemingly not fitting quite so nicely with my older stuff, so that leads me to believe it will belong on the second album, which of course begs the response...

"...second album? But where's the first one?"

Where indeed?...

MUSIC : Survival Instinct 12" + MP3 OUT NOW!

2007-04-22T23:05:00.004Z

Survival Instinct by Binster

IT'S ON! I just spotted this review, which I've cribbed from DJ Mag :

You can now buy the single on vinyl from the following outlets :

Buy it from Streetwise!
Buy it from Redeye!
Buy it from Juno!
Buy it from Breakbeat Online!
Buy it from Know How Records!
Buy it from Chemical Records!

Buy it in America from OnBeat Music!

Or if you're a digital kind of person Download it from DJDownload!