Posts Tagged ‘Fracture’

A little stocking filler from Astrophonica

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

Here’s a nice little early Christmas stocking filler from us at Astrophonica and Loopmasters.

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

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Fracture / Fracture & Neptune – Bad Habit / Music Y’all / Play That Record OUT NOW

Sunday, November 27th, 2011

Hello guys, we’re back with another cosmic installment of the Astrophonica story. Following on from the release of our album, “Retrospect – A Decade Of Fracture & Neptune”, we return with our second single of the year, headed by Fracture’s ‘Bad Habit’ b/w Fracture & Neptune’s ‘Music Y’all’ and finished off with a nice digital exclusive to the new Astrophonica store, ‘Play That Record’ by Fracture. Available to order now, shipping Monday 28th November.

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.

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Got a Bad Habit?

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

According to my friends, some of my Bad Habits are ‘my sarcasm’, ‘touching their computer screen when I point at things’ and ‘sometimes wearing a hat when cooking in the kitchen (?!)’. I have many more but I’m gonna keep them to myself for now as this is about you not me…

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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Fracture on Stamina’s Rinse FM show MP3

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

On the evening of Tuesday the 26th July 2011 I joined old friend Stamina on his weekly show on London’s Rinse FM.

We dug deep, played a selection of old and new, surprised each other with certain tunes and had a good old laugh. Big up club 30s.

Download the MP3 of the show here

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Fracture & Mark System – Yeah, But… / Closed Circuit – Subtitles Music

Saturday, July 23rd, 2011

For those of you who don’t know, Fracture & Mark System have been working together in D&B since the 90s. For those of you who locked in to their shows on Rude FM, thanks for the text messages. It’s now about 13 years later and we’ve finally got a record out together. It’s on Teebee’s Subtitles label (music from which used to get heavy rotation on their Rude FM shows) and features the tracks ‘Yeah, But…’ and ‘Closed Circuit’. We enjoyed making them and we hope you enjoy them too.

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!

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Astrophonica and Loopmasters present – Cosmic Drum & Bass sample pack

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

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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

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The Weeknd – What You Need [DJ Fracture's Wreck You Weekend Dubplate]

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

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!

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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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Fracture remix out on Pinecone Moonshine now – Vinyl & CD

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

More Astrophonica goodness for your ears, this time in the form of a dirty, dirty remix….

Sub – So Finster Die Nacht [Fracture's Astrophonica Remix]

Sub – So Finster Die Nacht [Fracture's Astrophonica Remix] – Pinecone Moonshine Recs by Fracture And Neptune

This one has been getting regular play and i can tell you now it was great fun to make! It’s now available on The Painting Space EP brought to you by Pinecone Moonshine, from California. It’s available on 3X12″ vinyl & CD. The vinyl is limited to 150 copies so get in there quick to own one! The Equinox and Fanu remixes along with a wide collection of left field drum and bass ensure this will sell quickly and become a collectors item. A huge big up to Nic TVG for sorting this out and long live independent labels releasing vinyl….

So head over to http://www.pineconemoonshine.com to grab a copy and find out more about it.

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