We've finally got the new website done then. If you have any comments about how you think it can improve, please let us know through the message board or by emailing info@accidentalrecords.com. Thanks for coming to take a look.
Now you can [almost] buy our records in the online shop, hear a 30 minute mix from one of our artists once a month and find pictures, biographies and news about gigs and releases on all the Accidental and Soundslike artists. We will also be streaming a new video once a month, starting in December with an excerpt from Lenka Clayton's 'Qaeda, Quality, Question, Quickly Quickly, Quiet' film which Accidental has just released as a limited edition 12" and which is available through our online shop or from www.boomkat.com who are doing an exclusive run of an extra 500 copies. In the months to come, we'll be streaming videos by, amongst others, Brooks, Mara Carlyle, Matthew Herbert and Mugison.
As usual, it's been ages since the last bit of website news so there's a stack to tell. This year we've released albums by Max de Wardener, Mara Carlyle, Brooks, The Soft Pink Truth and Mugison and put on many shows and parties. In September we did a very special night at the Union Chapel in London. The 'Accidental Powercut' invited our artists to play completely acoustically and, except for the use of a couple of lapel microphones for the vocals, they pulled it off. Max de Wardener, John Matthias, Dani Siciliano and Mara Carlyle all turned in blinding performances and 300 or so people in the audience kept incredibly quiet. The MC for the night was London's official Town Crier replete with ceremonial uniform and a noisy bell. In October, Mara Carlyle did 5 dates with Bebel Gilberto around the UK and played gigs in Holland and Ireland. She'll be playing in Gateshead and London before Christmas so please check the 'Diary' section of the site if you'd like more details on all of our artists live and DJ dates.
From the very quiet to the very noisy... In November we hosted the main room at Fabric. Brooks and The Soft Pink Truth played live and Matthew and I (Raf Rundell) played records. We also did a party in London last weekend with the guys from Werkdiscs. Brooks has been to Japan twice in the last few months and has DJed in Zurich, Berlin, Madrid, Sydney and Melbourne. The Soft Pink Truth played the Paradiso in Amsterdam and a festival in Turin. Mugison, meanwhile, continued his bid for world domination by playing support to Super Furry Animals in London, at Sonar Sound in Sao Paolo, and all over his native Iceland, including a show-stopping performance at Nasa in Reykjavik for the Airwaves festival. Matthew Herbert performed the first show with his new 'Plat Du Jour' project at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London and the Pompidou Centre in Paris. 'Plat Du Jour' itself is being cooked up (sorry) in the studio and will be out sometime before the summer of 2005. For more details on the album, visit www.platdujour.co.uk. You can also hear Matthew's production work for Roisin Murphy, she of Moloko fame, on a collection of three 12"s to be released by Echo at the beginning of the next year.
We're also busy getting all other our releases ready with singles by Mara Carlyle and Brooks and a new album and single by Mugison on the way. The 'I Blame Dido EP' by Mara Carlyle will be released in March and a Brooks single with a remix from Akufen will be released soon afterwards. There's an additional Brooks single planned with remixes in the works from Beckett and Taylor and Hot Chip. Mugison's new album, 'Mugimama, Is This Monkey Music?' is ready, sounding totally awesome, and will be released in the spring. Before that, a 12" and CD single featuring music from both the new album and his soundtrack album, 'Niceland' will become available. Unfortunately, though some copies may have filtered through, a problem with the packaging on his 'Niceland' album has delayed its release in many countries. We'll keep you updated here but copies should be available very shortly. In the meantime, it's available by mail order from our online shop.
We also have plans to release singles by Zimbabwean artist, Chartwell, and The Soft Pink Truth, including, we hope, his fabulous remix of Otto Von Shirach's 'Whip me down' which should also be included on a Schematic remixes compilation next year. Max de Wardener, meanwhile, is back in the studio and currently working on a remix of Two Banks Of Four. If you haven't heard his debut album, 'Where I am today', we recommend you do.
Max's album, along with many other Accidental and Soundslike releases, is now available as a digital download at www.bleep.com and we will be expanding our digital distribution in 2005.
We are now also looking after the 'Virtu' series of compilations in Europe, with each edition released in very special packaging. The first edition included a Herbert exclusive ('24 hrs') along with tracks by Dani Siciliano, Charles Webster, Arto Lindsay, Hefner, Cinematic Orchestra, Akufen and Metro Area. The second edition arrives in 2005 and includes Colder, Grand National, Willis, Lali Puna and an unreleased Herbert remix. All the Virtu compilations will be available in our online shop.
Finally, a big thank you to everyone who sent us demo CDs in 2004. We do our very best to give feedback on everything we receive though a lack of time sometimes means it takes a long time or, occasionally, a CD may slip through the net. Please continue to send us music you think might be suitable to the address at the top of the website.
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