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Dirty Fire Project EP released by Xynthetic (free download)

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:11:39 GMT

*ahem* If I could just blow me own trumpet for a sec...

Dirty Fire Project's debut EP is now available as a free digital download from Xynthetic Records.

Dirty Fire Project

XSN008: too Many teeth EP

A debut EP filled with beat-driven, electronic IDM, merging metallic glitch with atmospheric melodies.

The EP features four tracks, running 21 mins.:

Fuff
Examination
Lament
Never Been to Tokyo

Xynthetic Records

For more information and download links, please see the Xynthetic Release Page

w00t!

~aFx

Dirty Fire Project EP out in April

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 23:44:35 GMT

Not only is there a phat eclipse hanging like God's own Hob Nob, high in the sky, but I'm hard at work finishing tracks for my very own EP! Xynthetic Recs found my page on Myspace and wrote saying that they really liked "Never Been To Tokyo" and "Examination".

So.. I've been working on new versions of those two tracks plus two new ones - "Lament" and "Fuff" (working title) and they're nearly there... nearly there...

Dirty Fire Project - too Many teeth

Out in April from Xynthetic Records (free digital download - no DRM, released under Creative Commons Licence)

Bwahahahahahaaha.

~aFx

Adz is getting his hair cut! [Update]

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:48:34 GMT

Update:

The great day arrived! And yes... there are pictures:

Firstly, may I introduce the 'orrible mop:

Just about to set out:

Nervous... nervous...

No going back now, that's my pony tail on the table in front of me! And that cut is just /so/ f**king emo:

Yuppie cut. And a frown:

Almost there! Finally rid of those blatantly annoying bits round the back of my ears... little b*stards:

Done and with a curious sense of detachment that comes from 30 minutes of your heart racing:

The 'after' shot... There goes the hippie...:

Thanks so much to everyone that donated! (£145 has been raised (so far) for Amnesty.)

(If you wanted to and haven't gotten around to it then this page will be open for another 3 weeks - http://www.justgiving.com/adzgetsacut)

Cheers,

~Adz :)

Crikey, Adz is getting a hair cut!

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:46:58 GMT

Hey folks :)

I have decided after much internal struggle, debate and general shenanigans that it is high time that I Got My Hair Cut. o.O

In light of this historical occasion, I wondered whether any of you bunch of lovely people would fancy sponsoring me (Amnesty International) just so I can hold my head up high when I step into the barber's chair ? (and if not the barbers, hopefully I can get fussed over by pretty women at the cheap hairdressers round the corner :) )

I've set up a donation page on JustGiving which is at this address: http://www.justgiving.com/adzGetsACut

The haircut is happening next Saturday and the page will be open for donations for a month.

Please help these hard-working people at Amnesty International do a really horrible job.

Huge apologies to people who will no longer recognise me :)

~aFx

Fire meet

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:55:04 GMT

Ahhhhh just back from Cornwall. Been to a fire-spinners meet down near St Ives for a really good few days. Beach parties and much campsite silliness abounded. I'll post some pics when I get this film developed.

Incidently, Glade was amazing. I'd post some pictures but I found that when I got back, the lens on my phone was really smudged :/

Anyway, I'm off to bed. Night all.

~aFx

more festival madness

Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:07:32 GMT

Just about got my shit together for Glade festival... glow toys, camping equipment, music and the occasional item of clothing.. It would probably have been harder had I actually unpacked a lot of my stuff after Play festival a few weeks ago. Just lucky I guess ;)

More Samsung related goodness

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 22:08:32 GMT

My phone being the former piece of Samsung goodness.

However, rather in love with my new mp3 player...

Samsung YP-Z5 4gb flash ram player, rather sweet (but a few quirks about tags and file names, we shall soldier through).

Yum.

aFx

Play Festival 2006

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:49:32 GMT

I've had a most excellent weekend.

Play Festival is a community meet for juggling, poi and staff spinning groups and individuals from all over Europe. This year it was held at Fordham Farm in Market Drayton, Shropshire.

I went by myself and without really knowing anybody, but I was made to feel so welcome by this wonderful bunch of people that I had an excellent time (although there were troughs where you realise that you've run out of socialising instinct and really would like people around that you know better.. but I guess I've made a start.) The atmosphere was great, friendly and frequently hillarious :)

The various goings-on were centered around a large circus big-top tent. Many workshops on everything from various forms of juggling, poi techniques, staff work, to Pimms drinking and chocolate eating were held during the 3 main days. At night there were talent shows, fire performances, comedy, cabaret and DJs.

I've learned a whole lot of new moves and technique while just being around all these talented people. I -highly- recommend getting to one of these events if you're at all interested in such things or if you just want to spend a weekend with a load of cool folk. Why aren't more festivals like this?

To top a fantastic weekend - on the Sunday night 174 of us attempted to break a world record for the largest number of people doing a choreographed fire spin. I can't wait to see the pictures from this (there are a few floating about already here for instance). We arranged ourselves in concentric rings of people grouped by the equipment they were using. Poi spinners on the outside, Staff spinners inside of that (about 49 of us), Double staff spinners inside of that, Devil-sticks inside of that with Nunchucks and Fire-Hula people in the middle. It did get quite toasty when everyone lit up but it was an amazing sight :)

Anyway, I'm blatantly going to more juggling/poi meets in the future. They are just too good to miss :)

aFx

Found!

Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:24:50 GMT

I'm stunned.

Considering that I lost my phone on a Friday night on a bus going to the middle of Manchester, you really wouldn't expect it but some blessed soul actually handed it in :)

It'll be a couple of days till I can take the call barring off but I'm absolutely gobsmacked.

Only last week I was looking at these two sites:

"How not to steal a Sidekick"

and

"How not to sell a laptop on eBay"

Both of which came up in conversation on Friday evening itself.

Bizarre.

:)

Bah

Sat, 17 Jun 2006 14:02:48 GMT

Lost my phone :(

Will keep y'all posted once I'm back on the air.

Damnit.

Never Been To Tokyo (new dFp track)

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:54:01 GMT

Hi folks,

Thought it about time I put this track up. It's one of the first things I did with a sequencer. Chilled synths and some quite filthy drums.

Hope you like it :)

You can find Dirty Fire Project's music at: http://www.myspace.com/dirtyfireprojectmusic

~aFx

new Dirty Fire Project track - Examination (2006)

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 23:11:13 GMT

Oh.. and while I'm updating stuff...

Check out Dirty Fire Project's page at MySpace for a new track "Examination (2006 remix)" plus there's a techno track there called Genk which you may or may not like.

Fuck it. I like it. So should you.

~aFx

For the purposes of this conversation, call me Pedro

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 23:08:36 GMT

*cough*

I GOT PROMOTED!

Mahahahahhahaha.

I get to change my work signature to Signor Developer a.k.a. "Gringo"

Only taken 5 years to get back to the occupation I was in.. Damn it.

~aFx

Bored Meme (4 of everything)

Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:22:13 GMT

Stolen off digitalangel - Bored Meme

Four jobs I have had:
1. Systems Architect
2. Senior Developer
3. tECHN1CAL wRIT3R
4. Telemarketeer (which I hated and, for that matter, was fired from)

Four movies I would watch over and over:
1. Aliens
2. Ghostbusters
3. The Empire Strikes Back (and I /have/ watched this over and over, but it was a cut down version of the Hoth battle on my 5th birthday :) )
4. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Four places I have lived:
1. Redhill
2. Docklands
3. Stockport
4. Basildon (well, I hung around for weeks and weeks anyway)

Four tv shows I love to watch:
1. Spaced
2. Babylon 5
3. Late Night Poker
4. Battlestar Galactica (new version)

Four places I have been on vacation:
1. Brittany
2. Corfu
3. Venice
4. Amsterdam

Four websites I visit often:
1. Urban Dead
2. MySpace
3. eBay
4. MiniNova (torrents)

Four of my favorite foods:
1. Spicy tomato ramen noodles
2. Bacon and grilled tomato sarnie
3. Tomato Soup (can you see a trend here?)
4. Mega sarnie (ham or turkey with cheese, mayonaisse, ketchup and a full packet of crisps embedded in it)

Four things I always have on me:
1. Mobile
2. Pen
3. Lingering feeling of paranoia
4. Chewing Gum or Cigarettes, depending on how my quitting regime is going on that particular day

Good God

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 13:10:12 GMT

30?!? Hell's teeth! How did that happen?!?

Much celebrating last weekend, with a heavy St Patrick's day, a meal on saturday followed by seeing Crazy P in Manchester, has led me to this weekend with it's family related shenanigans, a fantastic set of pressies and which shall be followed, tonight by seeing Imogen Heap play :)

Oh, yes, I nearly forgot.

I bought a car :)

aFx

Tracks

Mon, 13 Mar 2006 00:38:32 GMT

Tonight I was treated to the experience of hearing some of the tracks that two of my friends have been working on, after I set them up with some music software and gave what advice that I could. I'm -so- impressed with what they're producing... it's making me think that what with a total of 3 friends producing tracks as well as me, it would be a good idea to set up a label for the results. I guess the only trouble is that the we're all producing different styles of music, from acid techno to ambient to electro to drum and bass. But that can work, right?

Anyway, I'll be thinking about this some more.

aFx

ps. Recovered from lurgy. Joy.

bah. rubbish.

Sun, 26 Feb 2006 13:11:46 GMT

Oh how terribly amusing.

After a week of just plain feeling like shite, with a temperature on Monday night and a headache that hasn't stopped, the glands beneath my ears decided to balloon up like a pair of motherfuckers on Friday.

I very much doubt that I'm going to be able to get to work this week.. barely been able to get out of bed!

Fuck's sake.

aFx.

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:26:16 GMT

Shelves, shelves, shelves and more shelves.

Bedroom finally getting well on its way to being sorted out, stable platform found for future site of record decks, cupboards excavated and being prepared for yet more shelves. I've housed three PCs and my amp in the shell of a Philips mini-computer (where mini means 5'x4'x3' with a 12" steel fan in the bottom; they just don't build them like they used to, thank fuck) which has sorted out a whole quadrant of the space. Things are still in a rapid state of flux and I still need to excavate my bed after storing stuff on it temporarily.

However, things are definitely improving.

Yay for horizontal space.

~aFx

gah

Sun, 05 Feb 2006 22:51:07 GMT

Ahhhh dear. Definitely feeling like I went and got wasted this weekend.

Ensconced back home after seeing Jodi for her birthday celebrations at The Pink Toothbrush club in Rayleigh followed by a session and a half, followed by me struggling to get back up the country while feeling especially ropey, all in order to get back to Manchester for the birthday meal of another of my best friends Liz. -Just- made it during the starters and managed to chew and everything. Good get together with my Manchester mates last night, all told. Today I managed to see both the Matt's ('Big' Matt (goes by the DJ name Jester) and 'little' Matt (goes by the DJ name Sleepy Hollow)) and returned a fixed and configured PC back to one of their mates. All packed with lots of interesting music toys and samples.

It's getting interesting that now, between the two Matt's and I, we have a steadily growing collection of our own tracks. Sleepy is an acid-techno head and he's now got a fairly impressive studio setup that he's getting much better at using. Jester has been writing things in collaboration with one of our friends we both know from college, quite an eclectic range of tunes; from techno to dubby-electro tracks. They're getting very good results out of the limited facilities they've got access to (slow, shit PC) and it's a pleasure to hear the results (vague glow with pride of a technology-teaching job well done.) My own stuff is getting added to, slowly. I've been so ridiculously busy with work that I haven't had time in the evenings to sit and play with things. For the latest idea it is blatantly bootleg material as it's a mix of one of my tunes with one by Clipse. Damn copyright. There must be a way.

So, I'm thinking that maybe it would be worth getting us all together in the same co-operative.

Watch thith thpace.

~aFx

MySpace pages

Sat, 14 Jan 2006 10:32:26 GMT

Oh... and I've set up a couple of MySpace pages, one for dFp stuff, one for moi. Yes - I know the names are confusing but I wasn't mad sure on what I was doing with the accounts at first...
http://www.myspace.com/dirtyfireprojectmusic -- Dirty Fire Project music
http://www.myspace.com/dirtyfireproject -- my page at myspace

Gahh.

Sat, 14 Jan 2006 10:29:29 GMT

Finally given up smoking. I mean, it's about time and I've got my best mate Steve (http://www.lanroth.com/) doing the same with the agreement of No Scryking. No spliffs neither which is very upsetting. Damn it. Anyway, we gave up on Monday and I survived the pub last night after a couple days of being twitchy and munching liquorice sticks. Very fatiguing though but it feels like exactly the right thing to do.

Anyway, hope you lot are doing okay. Things are alreet up in Mancunia.

Hugs and slaps where appropriate.

aFx

Big Chill 2005 pics

Tue, 09 Aug 2005 21:12:55 GMT

More Big Chill 2005 pics can be found here...

Big Chill 2005 ( @ Torquemaya.net )

aFx

5 head off to Big Chill

Tue, 09 Aug 2005 18:33:53 GMT

Photo-0237,
originally uploaded by Fractos.

Sombreros in convoy, 5 of the total 12 head down the hill at the beginning of Big Chill 2005

Big Chill 2005...

Tue, 09 Aug 2005 18:30:17 GMT

Photo-0267,
originally uploaded by Fractos.

Mistiness at the Big Chill...

More WTH pictures...

Fri, 29 Jul 2005 23:22:47 GMT

Hi folks,

More pics from WTH 2005 .. Friday has been fun with much network shenanigans, seeing lock bumping sessions and massive great big thunderstorms :)

Friday (WTH conference)

Clouds	Clouds 2	Clouds 3
Clouds 4	Jump boots	Jump boots
Main street cafe	Main street cafe	Rust In Pieces
Lock Bumping (revisited) session	Main street	Event tents
Fibre forest	Fibre forest	Fibre forest
Fibre forest bloom	Fibre forest bloom	Fibre forest bloom

Brr. Tis a bit nippy.

aFx