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Paul Littlewood

Paul Littlewood has a signature arrangement style, a way of doing songs. No fancy tricks, no production wizardry, just subtly changing low-key textures and a voice. Born and raised in South Yorkshire in the North of England he has spent most of his 30 years writing and performing, developing a sound which is uniquely inspired by his changing surroundings. A huge fan of lo-fi, all of his compositions are recorded on a beloved Zoom MRS-1266, 8 track recorder, giving listeners freedom to find in them what they wish.

Check out the interview by Johnno with Paul in Pick and Ding on Fresh on the Net. [here]

Paul Littlewood performs the song Photograph from the new EP out Sept 18th from Three Sixty on Vimeo.

Paul LIttlewood performs the song Meadow from Three Sixty on Vimeo.

‘Poignant and ethereal blues music.’
Paul Robson-Now Then

‘This haunting spectral music will seep into your soul and steal it.‘
Electric Ghost Journal

‘This is not music that forces its meanings on the listener, but if you give it some attention, and some time, you may well find these transparently beautiful sounds become an integral part of your landscape.’ Oliver Ardetti
Lo-Fi Recording Equipment list
Zoom MRS-1266 8 track recorder, ADK Condenser Mic, SM57 Dynamic Mic, D112 Dynamic Mic, Epiphone EJ 200 Acoustic gtr, Yamaha SG 200 Electric gtr, Fender strat, Hohner electric piano , Yamaha APX 5NA Acoustic gtr, Korg Monotron Synth, Electro Harmonix Gtr Synth Pedal.

Paul Littewood website

Releases
Out September 18th 2012

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boyChild

Genres: Electronica / Glitch / Indie

Artist Bio

boyChild was initially inspired to start creating music in the early 90’s when pirate radio was the main source of new and exciting music. Hours would be spent taping and cataloguing these shows on cassettes accompanied by constant aerial tweaking. A chance discovery of a copy of MED (a basic tracker music program) meant that this boy’s life would now follow a different path.

After many years locked away studying his craft, boyChild at last settled on his own sound. Described by others as beautiful and melancholic, it is electronic in its construction, but with an organic and human feel to it. With glitching electronic noises working alongside real piano, violin and cello part the result is a unique combination of cold and warm, sad and uplifting. The genre is hard to pin down, and this is deliberate.

Influences (but not necessarily sound-a-likes) include modern classical/soundtrack artists such as Craig Armstrong, Philip Glass, Hans Zimmer, to electronic artists like Venetian Snares, The Flashbulb and of course The Prodigy, who were a large influence in boyChild’s formative years.

A humble studio setup keeps things simple and allows ideas to form quickly and naturally. The technology comes second place to letting a story be told. Each musical project is based around a particular memory, often from childhood.

Boychild was interviewd by Grungecake, read the rest here

How did boyChild come to be? What is the significance of the boyChild character?

Well, for as long as I can remember my younger sister has called me boychild. I don’t know when it started, or why, but it seemed to stick and so it was the obvious choice for an alter ego. The idea of having this other character front my musical output appealed to me. I wanted something to hide behind ‘cos I’m shy. And when I stumbled across this designer who had these illustrations of the boy character it all just seemed to fit. I had been making music years ago, very different to what I make now, but then I stopped, for quite some time. Personal events led me to get inspired to do it again, and with a new and more focused direction. And this time I had a name and an identity.

Sr Mandril

Genres:Jazz/Funky House/Electro-acoustic

Sr.Mandril´s first album was released on 2005 when Germán González and Ramsés Ramírez mixed their ideas on the creation of this project. This way the electronic elements are combined with acoustic and electrical instruments, creating a construction of colours, sounds and influences that go from acid jazz and ambient to latin, and from lounge to funk with a slice of house.

After releasing a debut homonym album, which “Rolling Stone” considered one of the 10 best latin albums of the year , Sr. Mandril released it´s second production in 2008, “Terragroove”, which was considered by “Indie Rocks Mag” one of the 100 best albums of the decade with an exquisit blend of funk, acid jazz, and rock with electronic and latin elements.

SR Mandril on Reverb Nation

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DISCOGRAPHY:

“Naco es Chido-Botellita de Jerez Soundtrack (2010)

“Music for moving images vol.3 (Three Sixty Records 2010)

”Uni Radio 3 Años” (Uni Radio 2010)

“Soundtrip Mexico” (Piranha / Germany 2009)

“Juegos Inocentes Soundtrack” (Intolerancia Mexico 2009)

“Sr Mandril – Terragroove (Three Sixty Records 2009)

“Intolerancia 2.2” (Intolerancia Records 2008)

“Sr. Mandril – Terragroove (Intolerancia / Discos Konfort 2008)

“Music for moving images vol. 2” (Three Sixty Records 2007)

“Sr. Mandril – Lover” (Three Sixty Records 2007)

“Sr. Mandril – Brillo” (Three Sixty Records 2007)

“Sr. Mandril” (Discos Konfort / Noise Kontrol 2005)

“Androide Prazer” (Noise Kontrol 2005)

“Adán y Eva (todavía) Soundtrack” (Noise Kontrol 2005)

“Antojitos Mexicanos Vol. 1” (Cremosonic.com 2005)

“The Now Sound of Mexico” (King a Groove Records Canada 2004)

“Máximas Texturas 06” (Discos Konfort 2004)

“Máximas Texturas 10” (Discos Konfort 2004)

“Mexico Sessions Vol. 1” (Bons Records 2003)

Jimmy the Fingers

Genres: Electronica / House / Indie

Artist Bio

The Debut single from Jimmy The Fingers is positive message to all the girls out there, in a way only Jimmy The Fingers could do. The Single comes with remixes from The Melovskys of Mexico City and Darkhorse from San Francisco.

Look out for the increasingly popular video to the single shot by Steve Glashier at Nothing To See Here productions, with a little help from a lot of friends, and fast becoming a hit on youtube

Born under a bad sign between a rock and a hard place, Jimmy soon hit the skids and took to loitering outside the local chip shop in his cape, playing his demo on an old ghetto blaster whilst scrabbling around for tit-bits and narrowly avoiding kebab meat thrown at him for trying to drink peoples beer. Darkhorse AKA Graham Shrimpton of Three Sixty Records heard the tape, found him covered in chips in a nearby dumpster, dusted him down, and discovered the kid actually had some talent. Taking him on and producing his debut album for release on Three Sixty Records. Graham co-produced the Grammy winning album Global Drum Project.

“Imagine Prince and Beck fighting over cider, Frank Zappa and Jack Johnson taking bets in the corner, dirty electro is playing in the background on the jukebox and you’ve got the Jimmy The Fingers sound.” 360

In his youth Jimmy busted out toons under the monikers Superdense Child and Zooface, and as a DJ has rubbed shoulders with the likes of Afrika Bambaata, Radio One’s Breezeblock show, Rahzel, Krafty Kuts, The Herbaliser, Fatboy Slim, Bonobo, and many more. He played keys in bands with Quantic, TM Juke, and Alice Russell from blossoming Brighton label Tru Thoughts. Then he found out he could sing, so he struck out on his own. Nowadays he works live with Kaoss Pads, synths and a cape.

“Jimmy The Fingers writes about life as he sees it; a joyous and just plain silly occasion, marred only by the wonders of temptation and the melancholy. His musical stylings ever changing, he’s always one step ahead of the kids.” 360

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Jonny Alford

Genres: Folk / Indie / Folktronica

Artist Bio

Armed with an acoustic guitar, a mandolin and a pot of gravy granules for percussion, Jonny Alford has produced an album of timeless uplifting songwriting. With tinges of folk and country but without the indulges of either, Jonny’s songs have a simplistic beauty which speaks for themselves. His music is the perfect soundtrack to this summer with its sun soaked harmonies and lifting melodies. Jonny’s music has already been used on tv by the BBC/PBS series Monarchy: The Royal Family at work. Which is in the top 10 DVD sales in the UK at the moment, in the documentary Freedom Fuels by Mofilms and by Apple for its Telluride Film festival podcast about the film festival.

A message from Jonny
“I started recording early. There’s a tape of me playing ‘Peggy Sue’ aged 3 years old. I studied composition at Coventry and then at Birmingham. Coventry being the inspiration for the song ‘Wainbody Ave’ – it was the road that led to the college and it had the freakiest trees all the way up it. The ones that have had the branches cut thick and straight so they look awkward and stunted yet strangely imposing. The ones I’ve drawn are a bit friendlier looking than the real ones. At Birmingham I played a lot of Gamelan music, which is good for the soul and gentle on a hangover. For most of my time as a student I kind of forgot about writing songs and mainly wrote contemporary classical music, finished my degree then immediatley returned to writing simple guitar music, oh well…Somewhere along the line I also played with the Birmingham band Delta for about a year. I appear briefly on the album ‘Hard Light’. Since then I’ve been doing a few gigs around London, Reading and Bucks, often with Chris, Dave and Steve(the band) backing me. ENJOY.”

Electro 7

Genres: Electronica / Glitch / Indie

Artist Bio

Electro 7 are an interesting mixed bag. A Mexican, Cuban and Italian combine to create the sounds of Cuba merged with Electronica, Reggae, Hip Hop and Drum & Bass and then twisted into pop music!

“The idea behind the band is to create soulful, contemporary Cuban music while experimenting with electronic sounds.”

Electro 7 have been around a few years, but it wasn’t until band leader Dr Panic hooked up with long time friend and traditional Cuban musician, Raul Oviedo, that their sound started to take shape. They then bought in pop producer Paolo Marcellini and the band was complete.

All three have been very busy recording and touring musicians, that had other band projects taking up their time. But in the last year the focus has been on this exciting new band and they are quickly picking up a fan base in Mexico and around the world.

The sound is still very authentic and at times is pure Cuban, and really hits the spot. A mix of exotic Latin rhythms and vocals from sun bleached, rum soaked Havana back streets with cool, contemporary, electronic, urban sounds from Mexico City’s burgeoning dance music culture.

Electro 7

Raul Oviedo (Cuba) : Vocals, Background Vocals and Percussions.

Rodrigo Baills aka. Dr. Panic (Mexico) : Acoustic, Electric Gtrs and Programming.

Paolo Marcellini (Italy) : Electric Upright Bass and Synth Bass.

Space Funghi Project

“With an abstract flow, reminiscent of Miles Davis after a long night on cocktails, playing over Red Holt, in the Mos Eisley Bar. “

The unique programming and production of their music, along with the blending of live instrumentation (drums, bass, guitar and sax), mixing many different styles and moods together, creates the resulting hybrid of electro/ lounge/ ambient/ drumn’bass/ and jazz(now thats a lot of genres all in one), but you have to hear it to, for yourself. Their music helps paint a picture of the spectacular sunsets in the bands’ native sunny Mexico. All trained musicians (and you can here that down to the drums), these guys met while working on a TV show in Mexico. During the break when they jammed they had an idea that now is The Space Funghi Project.

Space Funghi Project create a unique sound, with great production, that lays somewhere in-between Amon Tobin and Underworld.

Instrumentation

Dr. Panic : Gtrs and Programming

La Luchis Drums : Drums

Capt’n Turbina : Sax

Mr. Pink : Electric Upright Bass

James Bernard

James has been producing EDM since 1993 under many different monikers. His earliest releases were on the legendary UK record label, Rising High Records, where he was label-mates with artists like Luke Vibert, Mixmaster Morris, The Black Dog, Union Jack and Hardfloor!

James has released many records since 1993. As Influx on Sapho records, a sister label of UK label Rising High. His first ambient album, Atmospherics was released in 1994 on well respected label Rising High. He also releases on Isophlux Records (as Influx and Protocol), Analog Records (as Influx), BML Records (as Influx) and now on Three Sixty Records. Please See Discogs.com for his complete discography.

As the trance scene evolved and became more commercialized, James started to experiment with producing other types of electronic music. Soon, Influx had changed it’s sound into a more IDM, syncopated style and more releases followed on a slew of other indie labels (Isophlux, Analog Records and more) and resulted in him signing to TVT/Wax Trax records in 1998 as the primary member of the group “Expansion Union”.

A song that was written in his bedroom, named “Playing with Lightning” as a working title, had gotten the attention of someone with New Line Cinema who chose to use the song for the movie “Blade” (with Wesley Snipes) and include it on the companion soundtrack CD. Over 700,000 copies of that CD were sold and James received a gold record for his achievement.

James spent many years also as the face of Korg, doing demos for the Electribe series and also as part of the Korg Sound Design team, where he created sounds and patterns for many of their synths including… EA-1/ER-1/ES-1/EMX1, MS2000, microKorg, The Legacy Collection and many others.

Fast forward to 2012 and James is still producing lots of music and his sound has matured greatly. One minute he might be working on some epic bass style track, the next an ambient/electro-infused texture.

Musical Influences….more than I can list…. but here are ones that have always influenced me. Brian Eno, Philip Glass, David Bowie, Chopin, Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Autechre, Plaid, The Black Dog, Bochum Welt, everything released on the Wax Trax! label, This Mortal Coil and electronic music from the 80’s. Some more recent ones… Herbert, Murcof, Venetian Snares, Luke Vibert.

The Furze

When 4 Blokes from Maidenhead in England found each other in school it was kismet. The Furze… were born. Inspired by those who pioneered before them… The Furze transformed their collective influences along with their own original offerings to create a sound impossible to pigeonhole. This band will blow you away with their hard earned reputation for eclectic edgy creativity and an unforgettable style that has earned them the accolade of “…One of our most effervescent pop bands…’Stealin’ Beats’ sets camp midway between Air and The Strokes, knocks out a fizzy pyjama party pop masterpiece” NME. A testament to why The Furze repeatedly transform bystanders into hardcore fans, and it was The Furze infamous live sound that ignited what was to follow…

“The sound fluctuates between sheer venom spitting rock to the more subdued morning after, lazy day anthems. spine tingling, awe inspiring, that’s-exactly-how-I-feel music.” (’04)

Then known by another name, the four that is the The Furze released GOLD DUST NOISE (’02). A collaboration with Ignition Records (Oasis and Mercury Rev), and producer Jim Abbiss (Bjork, Sneaker Pimps, U.N.K.L.E., DJ Shadow, Kasabian). The early release E.P. “STEALIN BEATS”, was acclaimed by Radio One and NME as “Single of the week”… a force to be reckoned with.

Toured endlessly in the U.K playing along side a huge variety of acts from early Aqualung, Feeder and Kaiser Chiefs to The Darkness as well as playing many festivals and headline sets affirming them as “one of the best live acts on the scene” Sir Bob Geldof. The next step was a short tour in California … beginning with a charity gig at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and wrapping up in L.A. by headlining at the famed Troubadour and dropping in to support the late legendary Elliot Smith. As well as numerous guest appearances, other projects have found them writing the sound tracks for films ‘Happily Even After by San Franciscan moviemaker, Unsu Lee. And ‘Hello You’; a full length feature film from highly acclaimed director, John Keats.

Konami approached the boys for a track and used “Stealin Beats” for the first Playstation 2 dancing game ‘Dancing Stage Megamix’, which has sold over 500,000 copies worldwide, and started a worldwide craze. Half the album was used for the award winning Channel 4 comedy series ‘Teachers’ series 2 & 3. Apple inc. also approached us for music to use in projects, for things like ‘Logic Pro’ and Final Cut Pro, their music and video footage is now being used in Apple’s promotional material.

A combination of The Furze well earned experience, loyal fans and a do it yourself style, has realized the release of 4 singles , two albums, an EP of demos; “SKELETON” (rare) which marked the Launch of their own record label ‘Cagey Records’.

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Kid Galahad

The abandoned car belonging to the band Kid Galahad was found in a car park along the coast of South East Cornwall. The car was found the morning after a gig the band had played in High Wycombe. It seems they left the gig and drove straight to Cornwall due to recording commitments. A search of the immediate area, especially in the pubs and strip clubs turned up nothing. A spokesman for the band said “it’s like they just vanished.” All that was found in the car was a pair of Wallace and Gromit Boxer shorts and a tape in the player of their Triumph Herald. It was reported that on the night of their disappearance there were strange lights in the sky over Cornwall and locals report hearing strange noises.??The Tape was turned over to us here at Three SIxty Records in the USA via it’s long standing relationship with the band by the bands estate controllers.??As a tribute to the Band that was Kid Galahad we have mastered the music found on the Tape and are releasing the music that was found.?A set of recordings that you will agree defines the talented song writing abilities of a band that will be missed.??A history of the band??Individually creative with a thirst for musical perfection and knowledge, it was not until the four school friends (Ash, Cavey, Paul and Wookie) came together as Kid Galahad that their creative spark was fully ignited.

After some time spent doing the inaugural lap on the live circuit, Kid Galahad were snapped up by independent label, Ignition Records. This meeting of artistic minds resulted in the genesis of their debut album, Gold Dust Noise. This album received critical acclaim by the music press and more importantly the (ever increasing) mass of Kid Galahad fans. Though the relationship with Ignition is no more, the last 24 months have probably been amongst the busiest for Kid Galahad. ??Kid G a.k.a Kid Galahad recorded and released their first album in 2001 called GOLD DUST NOISE . A collaboration with Ignition Records (Oasis and Mercury Rev ), and producer Jim Abbiss (Bjork ,Sneaker Pimps ,U.N.K.L.E., DJ Shadow). The album was critically well received with the E.P. STEALIN BEATS , acclaimed by BBC Radio One and NME as “Single of the week”. ??

Kid G have toured the U.K playing along side a huge variety of acts like Oasis , Supergrass ,The Darkness ,Marillion to the Kaiser Chiefs & Kings of Leon , as well as headlining many sets, affirming Kid G as “one of the best live acts on the scene” – Sir Bob Geldof .? ?They have been to the USA twice once for a short tour in California … beginning with an Aids charity gig in Golden Gate Park, SF, and in L.A. by headlining at the famed Troubadour and dropping in to support the legendary Elliot Smith (R.I.P). ??The other time was to team up with film makers Hotbed, to score the film, Happily Even After out on DVD in November 2005, starring Jason Behr, Marina Black and Fay Masterson, Directed by Unsu Lee, produced by Paul Barnett.??Latest projects include “Happily, Even After” (Hotbed), scoring & appearing in the movie “Hello You” directed by John Keates as themselves, landing a track “Stealin Beats” on the Konami game “Dancing Stage Megamix.“ The Konami PS2 game has sold well over 500,000 copies globally. Other TV credits are; Eastenders (BBC1/PBS), Teachers (ITV/BBC America), Good Girls Don’t (Oxygen/BBC2) , Burton Snowboards (NBC) and Apple Computers(web). ???

“…One of our most effervescent pop bands… “Stealin’ Beats” sets camp midway between Air and The Strokes, knocks out a fizzy pajama party pop masterpiece” – NME

Want to know where Kid Galahad went? it’s on the wiki page.