The following codes give you 10% off Fracture’s Cosmic Drum & Bass sample pack and Fracture’s Albino Presets pack which were both released earlier this year. Both of these are single use per customer and valid until Dec 24th.

Ho ho ho . . .

Cosmic Drum & Bass: FRAC1
Albino Presets: FRAC2

Available now on vinyl and digital from your favourite stores including www.surus.co.uk/astrophonica where the MP3 release ships free with vinyl purchase.

Share your worst Bad Habit on the Astrophonica Facebook wall and I’ll send this test press with one off painting by Emilski to the one that gets the most likes by Friday 18th November.

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The video has been nominated in the Animated Music Video category along with big hitters such as U2, Coldplay and The Who. We are seriously happy as the guys put in so much work for the video and really deserve this. Let’s hope we can take on the big guns!

Good luck lads!!!

Released via ST Holdings on 1st Aug in vinyl & digital format. You can order this right now from the Surus Store and if you order the vinyl you get the MP3 for FREE. What lovely people!

To celebrate the hugely successful ‘Retrospect – A Decade of Fracture & Neptune’ LP the guys will be touring across UK/Europe from September 16th – October 31st 2011. Coming with their distinct, unmistakeable Astrophonica sound, Charlie and Nelson are looking to spread the cosmic vibe and drop into all the major Drum & Bass destinations on their travels. If you have witnessed a Fracture & Neptune DJ set you will know it is an energy filled performance full of vibes, it’s obvious that they love what they do. If you haven’t, then now is your chance…

To whet your appetite for the forthcoming tour we have recently recorded the latest edition of the GRAM Agency podcast which is now available to download or stream from the Fracture & Neptune Soundcloud.

The tour will be managed by Grass Roots Agency so to book Fracture & Neptune for the Retrospect LP European tour please click here

For a campaign round-up on the Retrospect LP click here

GRAM Podcast June 2011 – Fracture & Neptune by Fracture And Neptune

Designed by Nick Duggins & Emilski, each sleeve has been individually hand printed and numbered. A relief of the artwork was created using the solar plate method which involves the exposing of an image onto a light sensitive plate. Once exposed, you are left with a relief of the image which is then inked up by hand using a roller. Each sleeve was laid on top of the freshly inked plate and then put through a press. This means that each sleeve is completely unique in it’s appearance.

The printing took place over an entire weekend at Astrophonica HQ by Emilski & Fracture. We totally pushed ourselves to the limit with this one, probably managing about 8 hours sleep in 3 days and a load of junk food. At times it was a very surreal experience but are very happy with how it has all turned out, you really are getting a piece of hearts with this one. So here it is…

Fracture & Neptune Featuring Martin Fieber – Customtone [Included on digital LP] by Fracture And Neptune

Fracture Featuring Chewie – Brain Freeze [Vinyl sampler only, no digital release!] by Fracture And Neptune

The vinyl release has been limited to a run of 500 with each of the sleeves lovingly printed by our very own hands and I can tell you now it took a whole weekend to do and Emilski still has ink under his fingernails! They look amazing, like nothing you’ve seen before and we are giving you the chance to win number 001 out of 500! A unique collectors item to say the least….

Prize:
No.1 of a 500 Limited Edition 12? ‘Customtone’ b/w ‘Brain Freeze’ in hand printed sleeves by Emilski. (‘Brain Freeze’ will be a vinyl release ONLY)
How to enter?
Simply follow this link to the Astrophonica facebook page and get your name on the wall! A winner will be drawn at random on the 20th June 2011.

Retrospect LP – A Decade Of Fracture & Neptune 12″ Vinyl Sampler by Fracture And Neptune

Full album: 30th May
iTunes album with bonus material: 6th June
Customtone / Brain Freeze Limited sampler 12″: 20th June

‘Retrospect – A Decade Of Fracture & Neptune’ is an 18 track, digital LP that brings together the classic, always cosmic, Fracture & Neptune sound from the year 2000 right up to the current date. Some released faves, some unreleased, some brand new and some unheard tracks from the vaults! All wonderfully remastered by Bob Macc and sounding better than ever. Release date is 30th May so BUY IT NOW from 7Digital, Juno, Boomkat, Digital-Tunes or find it at your favourite digital store

Along with the standard album release will be a special iTunes version of the album for which we have included the skills of many other artists and creatives to bring you a multimedia package including bonus tracks, the official Customtone music video, documentaries featuring Martin Fieber and Fracture & Neptune digging in their favourite record shop and a super slick pdf booklet including liner notes giving you an insight to each track and images and artwork by Emilksi & Nick Duggins. One of the bonus tracks is ‘Detached’ by Fracture which we get asked about a lot, so we included it for you.
Pre order it now from Itunes

To celebrate the release of ‘Retrospect – A Decade Of Fracture & Neptune’ we have a very special limited vinyl release featuring two brand new tracks. ‘Customtone ft Martin Fieber’ and ‘Brain Freeze ft Chewie’. Brain Freeze will never be released digitally so we are giving something back to the vinyl heads with this one.
The sleeve art will be hand printed and individually hand numbered numbered by Emilski. If you saw the artwork for the special test presses of The Limit, then you will know Emilski is amazing and that these will be very special. The vinyl release has been limited to a run of 500 with each of the sleeves lovingly printed by our very own hands and I can tell you now it took a whole weekend to do and Emilski still has ink under his fingernails! They look amazing, like nothing you’ve seen before and we are giving you the chance to win number 001 out of 500! A unique collectors item to say the least….

Prize:
No.1 of a 500 Limited Edition 12″ ‘Customtone’ b/w ‘Brain Freeze’ in hand printed sleeves by Emilski. (‘Brain Freeze’ will be a vinyl release ONLY)
How to enter?
Simply follow this link to the Astrophonica facebook page and get your name on the wall! A winner will be drawn at random on the 20th June 2011.

Good evening music producers of Earth. Producers of Earth origin or any other planet in the solar system. Good evening Planet Earth… Are you looking for that classic cosmic sound to your music? Are you wondering how you to make such extraterrestrial bass lines from tunes like The Limit or Hull Breach? Then look no further than Fracture’s Cosmic Drum & Bass sample pack for loopmasters.

I set out to make this sample pack with a very clear vision. I wanted create a pack which married the classic gritty sounds of vintage Drum & Bass with today’s contemporary sound and crystal clear high end production. This ethos and cross pollination of techniques is something that runs very strong in Fracture & Neptune productions and is the building blocks of our label, Astrophonica.

To do this I used a mixture of classic hardware gear including the E-Mu e6400 Sampler (what many people consider as the cornerstone of the 90′s Drum & Bass sound) and high end software such as Logic Pro to bring it all up to date. I wanted to create a sample pack that people will come back to in years to come, not just a collection of loops I already had lying around. Therefore, every loop and sound has been worked on specially for this pack and let me tell you it was often hard work stopping myself turning them into full tunes for my label!

Inside this pack you will find beats, bass lines, synth lines, guitar loops, fx loops and a whole load of one shot samples too. I’ve also included some construction kits which are full loops including all the elements you need to start a track. Lots of the samples have some wonderful hardware processing on them including valve compression and Z-plane filtering from the E-Mu sampler all EQd and tweaked to fit in to your modern day studio set up.

To buy, get more information on formats and to hear demo loops click here