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Goblin Logic - An Album In Four Parts, On The Internet

Withiel: DALI'S ROTTWEILER

23:55 / 05.01.06

(Mods, feel free to move to Creation or delete if this is the wrong place)

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So, two years ago I started writing and recording music that seemed to fit together, rather than mish-mashes of magpied styles. Eventually, they started to form a collection of songs (including a couple of covers, which are sort of separate), and I feel that collection's more or less complete as of today, in that it encapsulates a time of my life and a selection of opinions and causes to which I may no longer hold, but feel affectionately towards. So it's a sort of musical time capsule to the furure. And I'd be very interested to see what a group of people with a wider musical experience would make of it*. A lot of it is a bit rough around the edges, but it's got the energy I wanted it to have, so I'm happy. Therefore, with no further ado:

(all files are smallish .mp3s or wmas, hosted on my own webspace)

~Goblin Logic~

(Part the First):PEOPLE OF EARTH...:

1: Introduction (Sonic Generator Initialisation)

2: You'll Be Glad (When I'm Dead)

3: Sleep Deprivation Ectoplasmic Blues.

4: Inversion

5: The City By Night (Interlude)

(Part the Second): I NEED SOMETHING TO KICK AGAINST:

6: Avebury Calling (Resumption)

7: Peter the Drunk's Song

8(a): Escapologasm!

8(b):Stuck in Suburbia

8(c):The Mind Gangster

9:Excuse Me, Officer, Have You Seen My Habeas Corpus? (Juvenilia)

10:RAZGE

(Part the Third) APOCRYPHA:

11:Orinoco Flow (Enya cover.)

12:Winter Lady (Leonard Cohen cover)

13:The Right Stuff (Robert Calvert cover)

(Part the Fourth): FADING AWAY:

14:I Awaken

Any comments (Even ones that say that This Sort Of Thing is What's Wrong With Music) greatly appreciated, and I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed playing and recording*.

*Ending with preposition : I am Bad.

**I have typed this sentence five times, and I can't get it to work. Apologies.

EDIT: 8a and 8b should now work.

Darumesten's second variety

15:44 / 09.01.06

Hi there Withiel ! Please take no offence but listening to these tracks I'm not able at all to say if they are a total crap or the most original stuff I've listened in years. Really.

23:53 / 09.01.06

May I add that "introduction" has left me both entertained and perplexed.

Yum

01:30 / 10.01.06

You know, I normally I don't like lo-fi stuff, but I rather dig this. I'm on 'Excuse me, Officer...' and the whole thing's quite fun. I'll definitely give it some more listening!

Also, the link to part 8a doesn't work, and I think you missed the .mp3 in the link to part 8b.

02:16 / 10.01.06

i dindt read your post properly and was about to ask you who was in this...
it sounds cool, dude.
you doing CDs as well?

and could you spin us some story shite around it? i always like wierd and wonderful backstory stuff with my musical wierd and wonderful.

02:19 / 10.01.06

Yeah, is there some sort of crazy story that goes with all of this? Oh, and that cover art is lovely!

02:44 / 10.01.06

the enya cover is the tits, by the way.
i may have to reform my old ska outfit specifically do a version of that.

one of them is a doctor now and the other is on stupid money, but i reckon i can swing em.

07:24 / 10.01.06

You're probably a lot less sane than I previously believed you to be. But I love it a lot. Where can I buy it with the cover art?

14:14 / 10.01.06

I'm about to give it a spin, but I had some problems downloading tracks 8a and 8b (I'm getting 1kb HTM files for both).

I'll post back after a listen to the rest of it.

14:47 / 10.01.06

(And I see Dakota already mentioned the file problems...)

Withiel, I've liked your stuff for a while, but something about it never quite clicked for me - something seemed to be missing, and I think it was context. Maybe it's just my own album bias, but hearing these tracks (many of which I've heard before) put together under the name "Goblin Logic" (perfect), and in a concrete order - suddenly it works for me, as a whole. It suggests a kind of Borrible-ish world where this music is inevitable.

Good stuff, I'd even say inspired. Do you have a frontpage for it I can direct people to? (And when can we hear 8a and 8b??)

17:11 / 10.01.06

(The first "choir" entrance in Peter the Drunk's Song is fall-off-your-chair brilliant.)

19:54 / 10.01.06

As is the clarinet solo, my favourite so far. 'I am the kaiser' - oh yeah...

02:27 / 11.01.06

The more I listen to this, the more I'm convinced you're a genius, Withiel. Will there be a CD set with the awesome cover art that I can send you a lot of money for?

13:26 / 11.01.06

If you can't wait for more, Withiel has posted a preview track from the next album over here in the Creation netlabels thread.

15:19 / 11.01.06

These are fantastic, Withel. I'm d-loading one or two a day and loving 'em all. I think you've struck a great balance between keeping the raw qualities of the mix and letting the music and lyrics come through. Thanks for sharing this. And add me to the growing chorus of voices crying out for a CD of this.

15:50 / 11.01.06

One of the missing tracks, Escapologasm, is also available at Mperia (along with a handful of other tracks).

The track Stuck in Suburbia is up at Cool Toad as, simply, Suburbia. Or at least.... Withiel, am I correct that this is the same track? Good one, anyway.

Withiel: DALI'S ROTTWEILER

13:02 / 14.01.06

Wow.
Firstly, I am immeasurably glad that people seem to be enjoying something I made this much, and I apologise for apparently ignoring you all - I've been off the internet for a couple of days and have only just got my computer working again. Lepidopteran: I am _gobsmacked_ that the music reminds you of a Borribles-esque world, because that was exactly the sort of thing I was going for at the time, and the Borribles books are in fact great favourites of mine. The more I think about it, the more the music reminds me of a sort of alternate postwar Britain, except for with Druidism as the state religion, and all kinds of odd stuff going on around the edges...
Hopefully, by the end of the day there will be an official page with a bit more information up, so that it's got an offical location on the interwebnet. People who want CDs - I'd not thought of this previously, but I'd definitely be able to work out a way of getting CDs out with a nice version of the cover art, some liner notes and a pretty CD stickery thing - this may be the wrong place for this discussion (we can always take it to PM), but if you'd like a physical copy, what sort of price range would be reasonable? (Given that it should be a fairly nice object, albeit home-made, perhaps between £3-£5?)
But yes. You're all lovely, and have made a slightly deranged young musician very happy.

17:18 / 14.01.06

Three to five quid sounds like a bargain. Yes yes. Do you take Paypal? Let me know when it's ready.

14:04 / 17.01.06

*bump*

For anyone who missed it first time round.

Also, I burned a CD to play in the car, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that there was all kinds of additional low-end going on which had previously been obscured by my crappy computer headphones. Oh, and my toddler son likes it, too.

15:01 / 17.01.06

So that's about, what, $6-$10 American? BARGAIN! Me want.

Withiel: DALI'S ROTTWEILER

15:30 / 17.01.06

Hurray! Lepidopteran, I have a track for the compilation which I'll link you to in PM (I'm not sure whether it's Good and New or Wispy and a Bit Crap yet), and I've yet to gush all over you about your wonderful, wonderful Getting of everything I've tried to do (especially the Borribles thing, which still blows me away). On the Dirty Capitalism front, I'm going to make a page with all the mp3s for free that's more official (life got in the way again), with a link to buy a packaged version of the album. This should be a proper little box thing with the cover art on it, a little card CD case (With more art on it, probably), a CD with the proper stickers etc, and an insert with lyrics, backstor(ies?), and probably a couple more pretty pictures. I would like to think I will have got these done (my accomodation is erratic at the moment) by the end of the month. And the next album...erks...by summer? Maybe more quickly, now I have a backlog of songs and a better grasp of the mechanics of it all.
And again, a very heartfelt thankyou to everyone who's enjoyed the music. Which is what it's there for, really.

Withiel: DALI'S ROTTWEILER

16:40 / 17.01.06

Furthermore, as promised, there's now an "official" download page here

Withiel: DALI'S ROTTWEILER

13:39 / 25.03.06

Not sure what the etiquette of this is, but I'm bumping the thread to say that I've worked out the album packaging (Larger foldout version of the art becomes the CD case, with a separate lyrics and extrabits booklet). Firstly, who wants one? Secondly, what would be the best way to organise postage, payment, and all that tedious business?

21:26 / 26.03.06

Oooh! Oooh! Check your PM's!

16:24 / 24.04.06

Oooh! Oooh! Check your PM's!

Again. Paging Dr. Withiel! Your customer service line seems to be down.

(This is really little more than a *bump* for selfish reasons, but if this thread is new to any of you, follow the above links and listen.)

02:31 / 25.04.06

I'm glad you did. I've badgered(!) him as well.