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Customtone music video nominated at Supertoon international animation festival

Monday, August 1st, 2011

Can we get a big round of applause and a good luck cheer for Emilski & Nick Duggins, the creators of the music vid for Fracture & Neptune’s Customtone, who are off to Croatia today to attend the international animation festival, Supertoon.

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!!!

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Fracture & Neptune mini documentary part 2: Andy’s Shop

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

Andy Westbury is a record collector and digging enthusiast from London, England. He has a shop called Eldica Vinyl in Dalston, East London. This is a short film about record shops, digging for breaks and samples and how old sleeve design still influences today’s record labels.

In part two of two mini documentaries Fracture and Neptune take you to their favourite record shop and unearth some beats and bobs. Their album ‘Retrospect – A Decade of Fracture & Neptune’ is released on Astrophonica on 30th May 2011
More info on the album here wp.me/pW1Pu-bL
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For more information, live dates, biography or interview Q&A’s on Fracture & Neptune / Astrophonica contact This Is Reprise on (0)20 7729 0686 or erin@thisisreprise.com
For DJ bookings please contact tom@gramagency.co.uk
Filmed & Edited by Louis Ellison

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Fracture & Neptune Mini documentary part 1: Tone To The Bone

Friday, May 6th, 2011

Martin Fieber is a slide guitarist from London, England. He builds guitars under his own Customtone brand. This is a short film about hand made guitars, musical inspiration and how old styles and techniques can be used in today’s electronic music.

In part one of two mini documentaries Fracture and Neptune give you an insight and behind the scenes look at their musical history and the use of lap steel guitar in Drum and Bass. Their album ‘Retrospect – A Decade of Fracture & Neptune’ is released on Astrophonica on 30th May 2011
More info on the album here http://wp.me/pW1Pu-bL

For more information, live dates, biography or interview Q&A’s on Fracture & Neptune / Astrophonica contact This Is Reprise on (0)20 7729 0686 or erin@thisisreprise.com
For DJ bookings please contact tom@gramagency.co.uk
Filmed & Edited by Louis Ellison

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Astrophonica & UTILE present – Customtone official video

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

We are very proud to announce the Official Customtone video by resident Astrophonica artists Emilski & Nick Duggins. We are so happy with the result and we want to say a huge thank you for the hard work put in by the guys. I think you’ll agree it was all worth it.

Watch in full screen and let it load for a fully cosmic experience…

ASTROPHONICA in collaboration with UTILE present the video for Customtone by Fracture & Neptune, featuring Martin Fieber.

Created to celebrate the launch of the album ‘Retrospect – a Decade of Fracture & Neptune’, UTILE (Emilski and Nick Duggins) take us on a psychedelic journey into the Astrophonica universe.

design and animation by Emilski & Nick Duggins for UTILE contact@utilecreative.com

Customtone features the lap steel talent of Martin Fieber and will be available as part of a limited edition 12″ sampler for the the album. The sleeve art for this release will be hand printed and individually numbered by Emilski and willl be available at the end of May 2011

‘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 end of May 2011.

For more information, live dates, biography or interview Q&A’s on Fracture & Neptune / Astrophonica contact This Is Reprise on (0)20 7729 0686 or erin@thisisreprise.com

For DJ bookings please contact tom@gramagency.co.uk

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Sampling in Drum & Bass – Feature on Organic Beats Blog with some words from Fracture

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

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What’s up peeps? Just a little heads up on a feature on the Organic Beats website focusing on the art sampling, specifically within the D&B scene. As you know we are huge fans of sampling and samplers so when Kam Sandhu asked me if I wanted to shed some light on the subject, how could i refuse! So she transcribed while I waffled, poor girl. I did have to make her a coffee though, I was most put out.

Check out the feature here http://organicbeats.co.uk/blog/sampling/

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Astrophonica is 1 year old!

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

Wow, time has really caught up with us at Astrophonica and we have been so busy with stuff that we only just realised that as of 21st Sept we are 1 year old! It has flown by! Thinking back a year to a vague idea of starting a label so we could at least release a tune that we loved, Clissold, to the recognition and anticipation our releases now have brings a tear to our eyes! We are full steam ahead now! So thanks so much to everyone for making a great and inspiring year. Much more to come.

All together now… HAPPY BIRTHDAY ASTROPHONICA!!!!!!

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Fracture, Skitty & Nolige in the studio – Astrophonica Vs Foundation X

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Astrophonica met Foundation X last weekend in Wolverhampton for a marathon session of pure vibes. Foundation X is a label set up by Wolverhampton bad man Skitty and is set to do big things on the underground, taking it back to the roots.

In between BBQ Baby Chicken, Wolverhampton Wanderers wonder-goals (Fracture is an avid fan) and pints of Banks’s Bitter we managed to spend a lot of time in the studio and get something done that we are all very excited about.

More info soon… WATCH THIS SPACE!

APHA VS FX

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Support DJ Flight to replace Mary Anne Hobbs on BBC Radio 1

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/djflight/

So Mary Anne Hobbs has left the BBC after an immense career. Her show was amazing and will be missed. So who best to take over? Long time supporter of Fracture & Neptune and Astrophonica, DJ Flight!

Natalie has always been a DJ that we check for. I remember one time we went and saw her play at a now defunct club called ‘Home’ in London and she dropped Danny Breaks’ Aquatica, which at the time no one else was playing. This won her instant Astrophonica approval! Her shows on Rinse FM around the turn of the millenium and then on BBC 1Xtra were always packed full of music from across the board and thoroughly enjoyable.

So get on it and sign the petition for more good music on the FM airwaves!

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Some photos from the Emilsk Chicken Beef exhibition

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

A Massive big up to Emilski on a successful debut show. The work will be displayed and onsale in Tokyo Fixed for another couple of weeks. You can also get more information and buy work and T-shirts and all that jazz from Top Safe London

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Beat Mining with the Vinyl Hoover

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Here’s a great little show on record digging by Toby Amies. Features Steinski, Cold Cut and 45 King among others. It’s a seriously good listen and is a subject we are passionate about. I particularly enjoyed the Cold Cut commentary on the Paid In Full remix.

Check it out!

Beat Mining on speechification.com

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