King For A Day - Volume 2!

We didn't expect it would be a near-full year before the second volume in the XTC-fan-tribute King For A Day series would be released - but it's here - available for free download (or get ALL 130+ covers on the CD-R for super cheap! Details on the page).

Sirona Records 300!

Hot off the press! Arnaud Barbe, who runs the Sirona Records netlabel, just unleashed his 300th release, Sincerity Is The Key: a virtual box set of containing over 7 CDs...9 hours of free music.

Exclusive tracks from familiar names like c4, as well as recent HP additions Origami Repetika and Jared C. Balogh. Lee contributed a previously-unreleased turntable piece called "The Screaming Tunnel". Way to go Arnaud, but 9 hours?!

New release: Music inspired by the writings of Isaac Asimov

In possibly his most nerdy move yet, Lee Rosevere's latest project is music inspired by the writing of Isaac Asimov, known for his many science-fiction stories.

Each composition is named after the corresponding sci-fi short story (sorry you'll have to visit your library or download a complete collection of short stories to read the originals, copyright infringement and all that).

Similar in style to the three installments of the Light Years albums (I, II and III), the music is reminiscent of unofficial scores for non-existent sci-fi movies. It isn't essential to be familiar with the Asimov stories the songs are named after, but it does enhance the listening experience. Lee's comments on each track are available in the liner notes below.

Artwork: Front | Back | Inner Liner Notes (doc)

Stream album | Download album

Tracks: (320 kbps)

1. Multivac

2. Dreaming Is A Private Thing

3. The Machine That Won The War

4. It's Such A Beautiful Day

5. Eyes Do More Than See

6. The Dead Past

7. Gimmicks Three

8. The Ugly Little Boy

9. The Last Question

10. Nightfall

Video: "Le Voyage Dans La Lune (The Machine That Won The War)"

mp4 | ogg | wmv



Cover photo by Andy Morris (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Hello 2012...

Happy New Year!

Things are jumping already, as we've got a number of releases ready to go... first up, a new artist to the roster Jared C. Balogh, and his experiemental modern-classical release Rhythms Of Life, similar in style to the Synclavier work of Zappa. Free download!

And Lee has joined up with the new Disquiet/Junto audio group, started by Marc who runs the influential Disquiet website. The first 'assignment' for the group was to record the sound of ice in a glass and make something out of it... we recommend checking out all the interesting results, but this is what Lee came up with:

More soon!

End of the year...

One last update before the ending of the year, special thanks to David at actsofsilence.com who listed two of our releases on his list of 100 notable netlabel releases of 2011 for Lee's Symphony for Monotron (I, II, III), and our Classicality of /'Zəeppə compilation. Thanks David!

We have some new music to come in 2012 already (wait for everything to slow down again), but right now here are a couple of very cool videos that use some of Lee's music from the Vimeo music store... and oddly enough, all three of them feature time-lapse photograph and all three feature music from The Ambient Baby! Perhaps we should start a new genre of music... slo-mo?







Thanks for downloading any of our releases this past year and here's to 2012...hopefully without solar flares.

new single: Origami Repetika

This is a debut release on Happy Puppy from Adam Sigmund, aka Origami Repetika, aka Agent 220 of Origami Republika (universal network of people who are interested in sharing expressions).

Origami Repetika has a number of releases on our close friends Adam Crammond's proc-records.net label, as well as the infamous 20kpbs and abulia concepts.

"These are two tracks I recently finished before taking a break for the rest of 2011 as my new wife and I are getting a place of our own right after christmas... I had a good time adding ambientish subtleties on top of my repetitive drums and bass."

The first track "one two 3 4" starts off as sounding like an experimental mic-in-track, the processed vocal textures and sweeping synths bounce all around your head; the b-side "love love what can you say love" is like a lost 80s remix (recommended if you're familiar with The Legends Facts and Figures album).  It's a groovy little single and we hope you enjoy it.

Download single | Stream single

Artwork by Jeremy Keith: Front

Tracks: (320 kbps)

1. one two 3 4

2. love love what can you say love

released November 5, 2011

Trick or Treat!

A stormy night pushes you to toward a huge and dark house belonging to the reclusive Dr. Slocum, a mysterious genius who converted a closed asylum into an evil labratory, where he hides from the world with his menage of monsters of science. But the ghosts that haunted the asylum are still there...

Once inside you hear ghostly pianos with no-one playing them, strange moans and cries of terror, floating spirits, dark and empty operating chambers, and more than one dungeon inhabited by abandoned 'experiments'...

You always see those "Sounds of Horror" CDs for sale in the shops during Halloween, and most of the time they are of the 'overdoing-it' variety in design. They are always more comical or cartoony, than actually scary.

So Lee Rosevere designed this nearly 45 minute spooky-suite of truly unsettling and disturbing sounds, free to use for all your Halloween purposes.

Listening on headphones will prove the most rewarding (and creepy) experience, but it's also great for putting in the front window of your house to add eerie ambience during the trick-or-treating hours.

It is intended for non-commercial personal use. If you are holding a charity event and would like to use it, please be our guest.

Happy haunting!

Artwork by Justus Hayes/Shoes on Wires (CC BY 2.0)

Tracks: (256 and 128 kbps)

1. Trick Or Treat 256 128 (44:40)