Another Q & A with T!TN

As regular readers of this blog will know, we are very interesting people. We say stuff and we think stuff too. So, it's probably not surprising that we've been asked to do another Q & A session on a music blog. You can read our latest interrogation on the 'House in the Sand' music blog 

This comes hot on the heels of the Q & A that appeared on the excellent Revival Synth Website. 

If this isn't enough to sate your curiosity about Tingle In The Netherlands  there's another recent Q & A on the RealSoundsOK blog.

 We've said it before and will do so again: it's the DJs, bloggers and podcasters, who promote independent musicians such as ourselves, who make all the difference; we don't have a budget or team of staff promoting our music - we do it all ourselves, so the work (which is usually unpaid) that these guys do really does help to get our music out there. Thanks everyone!

 If any readers still have unanswered questions re. T!TN and our artistic venture, do please enquire in the comments or say hello via any of the following sites:

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Jingles In The Netherlands: Latest Podcasts.

There’s been a bit of a craze of late for DJs and podcasters to include station idents and jingles created by some of the artists that they play on their shows. We have been happy to join in with this jolly jape and even went so far as to put a call out via our facebook page for anyone who wants a jingle to speak up. And they did. 

A few people missed the point a bit and asked for jingles even though they’re not DJs and don’t create podcasts; others have missed the point that we’re a band and seem to think that we’re some sort of PR company that promotes online radio. Must remedy that misconception...

However, we fully understand how easy it is to get confused and / or side tracked by the sheer volume of information that the internet bombards us all with. That’s possibly why we ended up spending a whole evening creating a random homage to the wonderful Norris Nuvo when we were supposed to be doing station idents. We’re still laughing at the bombastic kazoo climax on this one.



More recently we have produced a couple of idents that have appeared on the latest edition of Bob Osborne’s Aural Delights and Skerat’s Synthopia show, both of which you can catch up with further down the page. Owen decided to create some new musical riffs to accompany the voice over instead of using a current track. He ended up getting so far into the zone that he created two new riffs that we think we might expand on for future Tingle In The Netherlands tracks. Or maybe we won’t...You’ll have to listen to the podcasts below if you want to hear them. 

First up is this week’s Synthopia. Playlist and description courtesy of Skerat, followed by Bob Osborne’s Aural Delights 35.

Click the title link to go to the podomatic website as blogger has taken exception to the widget.
'Synthopia 38 - Boy was that shoutbox fun 5th July' Playlist:
Marco Marra – Fantasia Si Gotika
https://soundcloud.com/synthmusic1080
Alien Skin – 19th Century Girl
http://www.alienskinmusic.com/
Alien Skin – The Secret Garden
Alpha Point – Alive (Purple Explosion Mix by Purple Fog Side)
https://soundcloud.com/alphapoint
Daybehavior – It’s A game (Marsheaux Remix)
http://www.daybehavior.com/
Asian Envy – The Wolf
http://www.asianenvy.com/
Asian Envy – The Beautiful Girls & Boys (feat. Kendrew)
Silver Factory Superstars – Need to Love (Feat EJ Norman)
http://www.silverfactorysuperstars.com/
Platform One – Control (Clockwork Mix by Vashta Nerada)
http://www.platform-one.com/
Tingle in the Netherlands – Mammals
https://www.facebook.com/tingleinthenetherlands
Cinemascape – Modern Death
http://www.cinemascape.se/
Cinemascape – Name of Things 
http://synthopia.podomatic.com/

Bob Osborne's Aural Delights Podcast 35
Featured brand new albums from Exchange and Disappears - a pick of the best new and unsigned music and a selection of classic obscurities......it's eclectic and rather groovy - more info at www.bobonscr.com

Aural Delights Podcast 35 by Bob Osborne's Podcasts on Mixcloud

How do we like our radio? 50 shades of dark, but we’ll start with these two...

 Being creatures of night (HT) and attired exclusively in black (Owen – he’s very stylish) we have been whiling away the wee small hours delighting in the shadowy worlds of two online radio shows that have shared our oeuvre. 

The first is the ever eclectic ‘When Big Joan Sets Up’ which this week was as dark and startling as a Barbie doll’s mutilated eye sockets, so of course we fitted right in having penned a tune about a metaphorically dead prostitute. 

The featured artist on this week’s show was a band called ‘Autopsy’ who whilst being a little out of our comfort zone, now hold a special place in our stone cold hearts as this was the first time one of our tracks has been played alongside anything with the title of ‘Slaughter At The Beast House’. Being veggie / vegan types, we probably shouldn’t like that sort of thing, but you can’t fault the exuberance of the track.  You can listen to the show via bcb’s Listen Again page.
  
Apparently the link that we posted to last week’s show broke under the weight of our millions of fans trying to access it, so one at a time please this week...

Listen out too for a proper mentally mashed up version of an old Del Shannon tune that you will recognise in the first instance, after which...things get a tad weird. ‘When Big Joan Sets Up’ is a breath of fresh air especially after some of the turgid mainstream swill that was on offer at Worthy Farm last week. You can also get the full playlist via host Phil’s blog.

A slightly less raucous shade of black can be found on the new Enter The Shadows Radio site which streams music from artists that have been played on previous shows. 

We’re on there along with our friends Factory Acts. There’s a great long lists of artists, in fact, including The Cure; Chris and Cosey; Pierre Normal (a current favourite of Owen’s); Kas Product; New Order; Portishead; The Smiths; Ultravox; Sisters of Mercy; Cocteau Twins; Bowie and many more as they say on the K-tel adverts.

We’d suggest you visit the site and stream some music. 

 

Owen as 'Air Fracture' featured on The Synth Caresses Blog.

Before Tingle In The Netherlands, there was Air Fracture, Owen’s ambient music project. Owen has produced three albums and two EPs under the Air Fracture banner, the earliest of which was recently showcased on the Synth Caresses blog.

The Synth Caresses blog comes highly recommended, especially for fans of ambient music, but you will find a variety of posts and reviews on there including a review of OMD’s recent release, ‘English Electric’. 

You can visit Synth Caresses and read about Owen’s inspiration, techniques and influences as well as hearing a few examples from the ‘Early Works’ album.

 

The blog is very easy to navigate if you’re searching for different genres and artists, and is very professionally put together. Don’t take our word for it though – go and visit the blog for yourself. You can start by reading the post re. Owen’s work here. 

For more on Air Fracture:

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Rob Harvey's Saturday Breakfast Show and Revival Synth's Q & A: 29th June 2013

Thanks to Rob Harvey for playing another one of our tracks on his consistently good Saturday Breakfast Show and also for giving us a name check on his blog. 

It’s also thanks to Rob that our music found its way into the ears of Andy Jordan, the curator of the Revival Synth website, which is an unrivalled treasure trove of information on the currently very vibrant synth music scene. 

The Revival Synth site is regularly updated with news, gigs details, interviews and links to LOADS of synth bands like ourselves, which leads us to Saturday’s Q & A feature which saw Tingle In The Netherlands being quizzed re. the origin of our name; the inspiration for our songs and why we don’t consider ourselves to be a live band, plus much more. You can read the interview in full if you click here. 

So, thank you to Andy and Rob. You can listen to Rob’s show via the mixcloud widget below. Here’s the show description from Rob himself: 

The edited down version of my 3 hour breakfast show - first Broadcast on June 29th 2013.

Along with great tracks that we love, we had a few new beauties- Martyn Bailey for example and we hear about a Muscular elder statesman's movie return...... Plus we get to hear 3 more tracks from our April Creative Sessions, that were recorded live over 24 hours at the Brentwood Centre, and in this show we enjoyed 3 from all girl Duran Duran Tribute band: Joanne Joanne.

Join me every Saturday from 7 till 10am LIVE - www.phoenixfm.com - feel free to follow and Tweet me via @ROBRV

The June 29th Saturday Breakfast Show on Phoenix 98 FM (Edited) by Robrv on Mixcloud