Here’s an MP3 archive of our recent guest show on Ministry Of Sound radio. Enjoy!
May 27th, 2011
Win a hand printed and limited copy of ‘Fracture & Neptune – Customtone’ 12″ vinyl
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.
Retrospect LP – A Decade Of Fracture & Neptune 12″ Vinyl Sampler by Fracture And Neptune
May 27th, 2011
Retrospect LP full release details including vinyl giveaway comp
Hi guys, it’s here! Fracture & Neptune – Retrospect ‘A Decade Of Fracture & Neptune’ is now available to buy from your favourite store. Below are details on the various format of this release.
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.
May 26th, 2011
Fracture & Neptune mini documentary part 2: Andy’s Shop
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
facebook.com/Astrophonica
facebook.com/pages/Eldica/376105503800
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
May 17th, 2011
Astrophonica and Loopmasters present – Cosmic Drum & Bass sample pack
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
May 6th, 2011
Fracture & Neptune Mini documentary part 1: Tone To The Bone
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
May 2nd, 2011
The Weeknd – What You Need [DJ Fracture's Wreck You Weekend Dubplate]
Due to popular demand I have decided to give you guys something back and make this track available for download from our soundcloud page! Click the booty in the image below to get your prize!
This is a little remix I did of a song that I absolutely love. I cut it to dubplate at Music House in London and it sounds suuuuuuuper sweet.
Check out the-weeknd.com for more info on the original album, it’s great!
April 19th, 2011
Astrophonica & UTILE present – Customtone official video
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
April 5th, 2011
Retrospect LP – A Decade Of Fracture & Neptune
Wow can you believe it, we’ve been at it for about 11 years now! To celebrate this we have put together our first ever long player, a retrospective of our career so far…
‘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 30th May 2011.
To make this project even more special we have enlisted the skills of many other artists and creatives to bring you a multimedia package including an official music video, documentaries featuring Martin Fieber and us digging in our favourite record shop, photos of Fracture & Neptune HQ through the years and artwork courtesy of Emilski & Nick Duggins. All this extra material will be available via the iTunes version of the album, including bonus tracks and demos and liner notes on each of the tracks.
Retrospect LP – A Decade Of Fracture & Neptune [exclusive clips] by Fracture And Neptune
To celebrate the release of ‘Retrospect – A Decade Of Fracture & Neptune’ we have a very special limited vinyl release featuring two brand new tracks. The sleeve art for this release will be hand printed and individually 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, very special. Keep your eyes peeled end of May 2011
Customtone picks up where our 2006 track Ventura (Med School) left off, with distant ghostly slide guitar courtesy of steel string veteran Martin Fieber and emotive song structure. It has become a firm personal favourite of ours and encapsulates the Fracture & Neptune sound perfectly… Tone to the bone!
On the flip side we find Fracture teaming up with the mysterious Chewie to create a paranoid and murky stepper entited Brain Freeze. With trade mark Astrophonica mid range moans and neck snap beats this one will sit in the collection nicely next to the label’s previous 4 releases.
Retrospect LP – A Decade Of Fracture & Neptune 12″ Vinyl Sampler by Fracture And Neptune
Art and design are a massive part of the Astrophonica ethos and to commemorate the release of Customtone resident artists Emilski & Nick Duggins have created a quite simply breathtaking video for the track. Described as a psychedelic journey into the Astrophonica universe, Headtop have crafted a pencil and ink drawn stop frame animation that combines classic and contemporary animation techniques.
The result? think Hans Richter on acid, art deco astrology and comic book constellations, so rich in detail we reckon you’ll be hitting the replay button again and again. Watch this space…
Now we feel old… But here’s to another 10 years!
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
March 29th, 2011
Sampling in Drum & Bass – Feature on Organic Beats Blog with some words from Fracture
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/
