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Customtone vinyl is here

Monday, June 20th, 2011

We at Astrophonica are extremely excited to announce the release of Customtone / Brain Freeze, as taken from the Retrospect – A Decade Of Fracture & Neptune LP. Full release is 27th June through ST Holdings but as ever, we do have some advance copies for sale over in the shop right now. Remember that Brain Freeze is available only on vinyl, so that means no digital release. The reason we are so excited is that this is the most special vinyl release on the label so far. Why is it so special? Let me tell you…

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

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Win a hand printed and limited copy of ‘Fracture & Neptune – Customtone’ 12″ vinyl

Friday, May 27th, 2011

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

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Retrospect LP full release details including vinyl giveaway comp

Friday, May 27th, 2011

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.

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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
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

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Astrophonica & Emilski Colab. LTD Edition of 10 Hand painted test presses of Fracture & Neptune ‘The Limit’. SOLD OUT!

Monday, September 27th, 2010

**This item has now sold out**

To commemorate our most anticipated release so far, Astrophonica and Emilski have collaborated to produce a unique and extremely limited piece for all record collectors and connoisseurs of hand made art work. An edition of 10 hand painted test presses of Astrophonica 004; ‘The Limit / Get Lost’

pic1 hand painted TP

Staying true to the Astrophonica ethos of attention to fine detail and the use of traditional methods, Emilski has used sign writing techniques and comic book styles to create a galactic backdrop for the classic script style lettering that compliment not only the music on this release but the overall vibe of Astrophonica and Fracture & Neptune.

Each of the 10 records are completely individual and are signed and numbered by Emilski. Don’t miss this rare chance to be one of the 10 most far-out diggers in the universe. Pricing and order details are at the end of this post

To highlight the thought and care that has gone into this project we captured the process on film, check it out…

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As we know that this is a collector piece but you may also like to batter these tunes at a club or on radio we are giving you the opportunity to buy one of the hand painted TPs and an exclusive full release artwork promo copy at the same time. We will have the full artwork promos for sale exclusively on astrophonica.com/shop on Weds 29th Sept and will ship your order then. Full release date is 25th Oct via ST Holdings.

Pricing as follows

1 x Hand painted test press = £30
1 x Hand painted test press & 1 x full artwork promo = £32.50

postage & packaging for both items;

UK First Class – 1 vinyl = £2.75 / 2 vinyl = £3.25
UK Recorded Delivery – 1 vinyl £3.50 / 2 vinyl £4.00

EU First Class – 1 vinyl = £3.50 / 2 vinyl = £4.50
EU Recorded – 1 vinyl = £8.00 / 2 vinyl = £9.00

Rest Of World First Class – 1 vinyl = £6.00 / 2 vinyl = £8.00
Rest Of World Recorded – 1 vinyl = £10.50 / 2 vinyl = £12.50

Please paypal your order to astrophonica@googlemail.com stating postage type and your address.

if there are any special postage requests or multiple orders please us the same email for you query and we will get straight back to you.

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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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