Colin OOOD

If you use the word 'live' to describe what you do, you're telling people that at least part of the music they're listening to is being created live on stage. If that's not happening, you're not playing live, and (whether they care or not) the audience is being misled. Bottom line. If you're a live act, you'll be getting paid more for your appearance than you would if you were just DJing those same tracks. This is because you're supposed to be doing something special - something hard, something that most people can't do, something more involved than just pressing play, or using the buttons and faders on your JP8000 to control Traktor, without using the keyboard to play anything (as I saw one big name do for his headline set at a party here in Bristol a while ago). It's not about you. No matter who you are, no matter what incredible music you make, you - as a person - are as worthy of being paid to get up on stage just to dance as is that 18-yo candy raver with the pacifier who storms the stage during your set. And it's not even about the music you make; we can assume you wouldn't be there at all if your tracks weren't able to get a dancefloor moving. If you're telling people you're playing live, it's about what you're adding of your own real-time creativity to the music coming out of the speakers. I don't care what live acts do on stage, as long as they're busy doing stuff I can hear. And I mean - BUSY.

I close my eyes and pretend to be asleep. Takes about 5 minutes. Next morning I find I wasn't actually pretending!

Matteo started the track with us when he was in Bristol to play for Tribe of Frog. He had his laptop set up in my studio and when he went downstairs for a piss I changed his Facebook status to "English pizza is much better than the crap we get at home".

Hi Psynews! It's been a while. How ya doin'? So... It's exciting times here at the Stooodio. Our 5th album (in 18 years!) is finally ready! Four years after 'Fourthought' I am inordinately pleased to announce that OOOD - 'You Think You Are' will be released on Vertigo Records as VERTIGOCD28 on November 23rd 2012. Artist: OOOD Title: You Think You Are Label: Vertigo Records Cat: VERTIGOCD28 Format: CD + Digital download (MP3/Wav) Release date: November 23rd 2012 Mastered by: Colin Bennun Cover artwork: 'Water Ant' by Steve Berrington Distribution: Arabesque Links: OOOD www.oood.net Vertigo Records: www.vertigo-records.com Arabesque: http://www.arabesque...Itemid=99999999 Mastering: http://mastering.oood.net Cover artwork: http://steversworth.deviantart.com/ Previews: http://soundcloud.co...-think-you-are/ The CD pack will also come with this handy DJ slip for CD wallets, so you don't have to cut up the booklet:

OOOD - 'You Think You Are' album will be out in 2012, although we're going to wait until we have the complete package ready before we start looking for a label. The music is 99% done. Anix Gleo album is currently in mastering here, for Arkona Creation. 3 tracks in so far and all I can say is FUCKING HELL. The guy's a genius.

Fixed it for you. The name's Colin, by the way

Lies, it's all lies.

The actress Siena Miller is a bit of a psy fan, having been seen at various free parties in the UK. She and George Barker were an item at one point. There's also Bruce Parry, who made the Tribe (aka Going Tribal) TV documentary series - there's photos of him at the front of the Origin Stage dancefloor at Glade festival...

You guys, and people like you, who enjoy dancing to good ol' country acid music.

He was a very clever man, a visionary technologist, a good judge of design and an exceptional salesman. He was also apparently a bully and a tyrant in the workplace, traits which found their echos in the aggresively litigious and acquisitive behaviour of his company. He was a monopolist who, despite having dropped acid and despite referring to himself as a buddhist, kept his billions to himself and gave none to charity. His company's products were amongst the most obvious examples of built-in obsolescence whose attractive exterior design hid an interior that was intentionally difficult or impossible for the user to fix on their own, even for something as simple as changing a battery. Like many companies, Apple's product development and marketing rollout were designed specifically to entice people to spend again and again and again in the unnecessary and wasteful pursuit of technological fashion. He also denied paternity of his daughter for quite a few years. There is a hippy bullshit theory which says that cancer is caused by stress... his internal life must often have been difficult for him and for that he has my sympathy, as do his family and close friends. RIP Steve Jobs.

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So let me understand you correctly. You chose a particularly extreme interpretation of my words and based your reply to them on trying to make out I'm being unreasonable and petulant? There really is nothing to complain about WRT Ott's engineering/production skills. He's a recording engineer from the old-school days and has as close to 'golden ears' as anyone I've worked with. I wouldn't say he's 'a God' (your words) but then I wouldn't say that about anyone No-one's forcing you to enjoy what he does, but if you want to go on a campaign against how he uses vocals in the music he writes, 'good luck with that', as I think that judging from the amount of time he spends on tour, there's only very slightly many many more people who would disagree with your opinion.

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I'm glad you found something you like

Awesome album, I really like every track.

You're getting confused here, try actually reading what other people write. Nick doesn't sing on Younger Brother tracks. Ruu does. I don't know Ruu, never met him, although I'm sure the people who know him think he too is a nice bloke and Posford obviously thinks he's a good singer. YB's new direction is a bit bland for me - other bands do this kind of thing much better and more interestingly IMO - although the vocals work well enough given their context (and as long as you make an effort not to associate their new material with what they used to sound like). It's also worth remembering that the vocals on Ott's album are heavily edited and processed, and - as has been said above - are treated much more like an instrumental layer than a story-telling, intelligible vocal line. If you don't like the way Nick's voice sounds on Ott's music, what you're actually complaining about is Ott's production and writing style. Good luck with that.

In any group of 21 or more people, there is a 50% chance that two of them share a birthday. According to what Arthur C. Clarke wrote in 'Earthlight'. And who am I to argue with Arthur? He invented geostationary satellites.

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OOOD live sets to download: OOOD live @ Boom Festival 2010: http://www.sendspace.com/file/niccti

The vocalist on Adrift in Hilbert Space is indeed Naked Nick... I'm not that familiar with the tune (heard it a couple of times and don't remember being too offended) but Nick himself is a very talented guy - singer, acoustic guitarist and - especially - chillout DJ. Also a very lovely bloke, very gentle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UANP_15V3zU By rights this should be the cheesiest melody ever, but it's not. It's just perfect. Sounds beautiful as a piano piece too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g92Kw9yL8ck The main melody in this track has a lot to answer for. Tritone overload!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9xdB_n8XqA This whole track is one gorgeous melody. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvP8DN7QaZ0 The ultimate spiralmelodytunnel track..

I hate you, Olly*. *not really. Or at least, not very much and not for very long.

Thanks Yodhe for making the video, and thanks everyone for your kind words To this day, that track is a career high for me, and I am humbled by the affection with which it's remembered here. er fries with that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hyertzlhKo