Paranoid Foundation

Podcast 20 ready for download

2012-02-06T05:52:00.001-08:00

The latest episode of the Paranoid Podcast is now available to download.

This time we have one long track of 32 mins duration. Entirely instrumental, the music could best be described as dark, hypnotic and perhaps somewhat psychedelic.

Listen HERE or subscribe in iTunes.

Paranoid Podcast 19 - Winter 2011/2012

2011-11-29T14:52:00.000-08:00

Hi all...

After a brief hiatus, the Paranoid Podcast returns with episode 19. This time we feature more of Crispin Lee's solo excursions under the guise of Paranoid 404. A short 5-track set of brand new material, clocking in at around 16 minutes. In Crispin's own words:

"The following five tracks are a one-off set of recordings to keep the chill at bay, as another Winter of discontent closes in. No titles, no vocals: just a series of unplanned, one-take recordings that fitted together. Enjoy."
Crispin Lee, November 2011

Paranoid 404 - Untitled
Tracks A, B, C, D, E

Click the link at the top of the page, subscribe in iTunes or listen HERE

Paranoid Radio Vol. 4 - Spotify Playlist

2011-09-30T08:18:00.000-07:00

Just posted - our latest Spotify playlist featuring another hour of dark music that has influenced or inspired us over the years. Artists include Silver Apples, the Orb, Broadcast and plenty more besides.

If you have Spotify, click HERE

2011-09-26T06:33:00.000-07:00

Another great review for City Paranoid's 'Closedown' courtesy of Dj Astro at Finland's Psychotropic Zone e-zine:

Okay, some more hallucinatory, ice-cold ambient aural tapestry from Paranoid Foundation’s Crispin Lee from London. As you can maybe conclude from the title of this 26-minute 11-tracker, Lee indicates that this is his last disc under the City Paranoid name and the guy is now going to focus on the more collective Paranoid Foundation project again. As usual, Lee tells his dark stories over the psychedelic and very experimental sonic landscape created with manipulated field recordings and acoustic and electronic sound sources in his cool as a cucumber, minimal and motionless style, and there’s no rhythm or melody to be found. Well, maybe there is a bit of melody on the final track “When We Wake” that is also in other ways somewhat different from the otherwise quite similar, short tracks. The atmosphere is very dark, bleak and forlorn, but I still (or just because of it) find myself enjoying the ride.

Link to the the original review HERE

Paranoid Foundation on CFBX 92.5 FM in BC, Canada

2011-09-15T05:32:00.000-07:00

more airplay to report:

Paranoid Foundation's 'Threads' is currently riding high in the electronic music charts compiled by Kamloops Campus/Community Radio station, CFBX 92.5 FM in BC, Canada... http://thex.ca/charts/topgenres.php

City Paranoid - Closedown - OUT NOW!!! On CD and mp3

2011-09-06T02:49:00.001-07:00

I am pleased to announce that after some delays, Crispin's latest solo CD 'Closedown' under his 'City Paranoid' pseudonym is out today on the Paranoid Foundation label! It is available on CD and mp3 direct from the Paranoid Foundation store above or via the usual sources... CDBaby, itunes, amazon and all good retailers!

This is one for the fans of our more extreme, dark ambient style. A late night, dark room, headphones listen for sure...

Paranoid Foundation in German alternative magazine, Sonic Seducer

2011-08-21T06:29:00.000-07:00

Our track 'Skybound Threats' from our 'Threads' album is featured on the cover CD of the latest September 2011 edition of German alternative magazine, Sonic Seducer. Here is the link to the CD featuring full tracklisting and info on each act, (though you'll need to understand German!)... http://www.sonic-seducer.de/index.php/CD-Beilage/_.html

'The Organ' e-zine review 'Threads'

2011-08-20T13:45:00.000-07:00

It's always nice to stumble upon something unexpected like this...

'Threads' was 'thing of the day' on UK e-zine The Organ for 10th August... check out their intruiging interpretation of our work here... http://www.organart.demon.co.uk/organthing232.html

Paranoid Foundation on 'No Pigeonholes', KOWS FM, California

2011-08-09T14:18:00.000-07:00

More airplay for the Paranoid Foundation, the track 'On the Way to Forgetting' opening the latest 'No Pigeonholes' radio show on KOWS FM in Occidental, California, presented by DJ Don Campau. The show was originally broadcast on 4th August, but don't worry if you missed it, the podcast is available for download now... http://nopigeonholesexp.podomatic.com/

No Pigeonholes EXP
hosted by Don Campau
www.doncampau.com
KOWS-FM, Occidental California
www.kows.fm
4 August 2011 part 1 ( 6-7 PM)

artist/title/ label-source

Paranoid Foundation/ On The Way To Forgetting/ Paranoid Foundation CD
Kirdec/ Das Germeinsame schiksel/ Syrphe 3” CD
Trademark Project/ Cobol/ Utility CD
Zeena Parkins/ Devotion/ Table Of The Elements LP
Alex Jenkins Sound Immersion/ Ali Baba/ Prescott CD
Riogordo Freedom Orchestra/ Golden Swarm/ Tiny Tapes CD
Engstrom-Fleeger/ Conversational Etude #1/ Ping CD
Evans-Altieri-Pluta/ Sum And Difference/ Carrier CD
Byron Blackburn/ 90 Is Halfway To 100/ Prescott CD
Brume/ Les Trois Cercles/---cassette
Hal McGee/ On My Radar/ Hal Tapes CD
Mystery Hearsay/ Into The Tomb/ Mystery Hearsay CD
Ostravska Banda/ Monadologie by Bernhard Lang/ Mutable CD
Random Touch/ Flocks Of Fancy/ Token Boy CD
Phantom Limb & Earth’s Hypnogogia/ Civil Twilight 2/---CD

Enjoy...

Paranoid Foundation in German magazine, Dark Spy

2011-07-28T12:52:00.000-07:00

Paranoid Foundation are featured in the July edition of German print magazine Dark Spy with the title track from our latest album 'Threads' on the cover CD... http://www.dark-spy.com/Onlineshop/pi7/pd97.html for info.

The magazine features the best in bizarre and underground music, this issue also boasting articles on Depeche Mode, Lady Gaga and Rammstein amongst others.

The full tracklisting of the CD:
01. The Moon And The Nightspirit - "Felleg Utjan" 5:40
02. Gates Of Dawn - "Hunting Me" 4:40
03. House Of Usher - "Speak By Tonque" 4:38
04. Gates Of Dawn - "for You" 5:28
05. Cylix - "So Much For Love (dark edit)" 4:14
06. Genetiks - "Zwei Schritte" 3:38
07. Desastroes - "Electric Butterfly (wynardtage remix)" 5:29
08. Paranoid Foundation - "Threads" 4:27
09. Frequenz Of Future - "Stand Up And Be A Man" 4:04
10. The Truth About Frank - "Shadow Sex" 4:40

On sale now!

Paranoid Foundation on Le Vestibule radio show

2011-07-13T04:27:00.002-07:00

The track 'No Ties That Bind' from the Paranoid Foundation 'Threads' album features on the July 9, 2011 playlist of the 730th edition of radio show "Le Vestibule" - specialized in all the genres that are a part of the Electronic and Alternative music scenes presented every Saturday night with DJ Jean-Francois Fecteau from 9 PM to 11 PM on CFOU 89.1 FM, the radio station of University of Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada.

The podcast version of the July 9, 2011 radio show Le Vestibule is available on line as a stream at:
http://www.archive.org/download/levestibule9juillet2011cfou/levestibule9juillet2011cfou_vbr.m3u

Cheers

Paranoid Foundation on 'No Pigeonholes'

2011-06-29T11:01:00.000-07:00

More airplay for the Paranoid Foundation... 'Skybound Threats' from Threads will be played on DJ Don Campau's 'No Pigeonholes EXP' radio show KOWS-FM, California, podcast will appear here... http://nopigeonholesexp.podomatic.com/

Glasswerk UK review Threads

2011-06-19T07:24:00.000-07:00

More good press for the new album! You can find the review here... http://www.glasswerk.co.uk/reviews/national/9810/Paranoid+Foundation

Paranoid Foundation on Infectious Unease Radio

2011-06-13T12:48:00.000-07:00

Infectious Unease Radio in Melbourne, Australia will be playing music from Paranoid Foundation's 'Threads' on the next show... 96.5 Inner FM with live web streaming.

Details at http://www.infectiousuneaseradio.com/infectious_main.html

Update (15/06/2011):
Full playlist of latest Infectious Unease Radio show HERE

The new Paranoid Foundation (mini) album Threads out today!

2011-06-13T03:50:00.000-07:00

It's finally here! The new PF mini album, Threads, is out now. 6 tracks, 30 minutes of all-new material. Beat-driven dark electronica. Available now from iTunes, Amazon, CDBaby and other sites as an mp3 download. Our finest release yet? You decide...

Paranoid Radio Volume 3 now online!!!

2011-06-08T02:00:00.000-07:00

A third Spotify playlist is now online featuring another plethora of our influences and inspirations. It's as eclectic as the previous two playlists and you can get it HERE or by clicking on the link towards the top of this site...

First review for new mini PF album 'Threads'

2011-06-07T12:59:00.000-07:00

The new 6-track Paranoid Foundation mini-album 'Threads' is out June 13th (next Monday) mp3 download-only via iTunes, Amazon, CD Baby and the usual retailers. In the meantime, here's a link to its first review courtesy of Dutch 'zine Vital Weekly... http://modisti.com/11/2011/06/07/vital-weekly-784

The full review...

PARANOID FOUNDATION – THREADS (CD by Paranoid Foundation)
Andrew Walker worked two months abroad on a ship in the cold South Atlantic Ocean. He spent every spare moment of work to create music in his little cabin. He worked with the pre-recorded voice of Crispin Lee. His voice was already great mixed at the album Closedown (Vital Weekly 775) with drony sound layers. For now Andrew Walker mixes the voice with less abstract music. Every track has it's own rhythm and beats which supported by dark tones and basic melodies. The music is dark, ongoing, melancholic and atmospheric. The minimal melodies take care for open moments in the compressed mood. The music refers to Electronic Body Music, like Front 242, but less industrial and aggressive. The strength of Paranoid Foundation is that they know how to create an strong atmosphere in a short moment. The albums have a straight idea and they work it out in the time they needed it and no minute longer. Great album! (JKH)

New Paranoid Foundation mini-album

2011-05-25T06:34:00.000-07:00

We are pleased to announce that a new Paranoid Foundation mini-album entitled 'Threads' is to be released on 13th June 2011.

'Threads' clocks in at just over 30 minutes and features six all-new tracks:

Threads
No Ties that Bind
Commitment
Skybound Threats
On the Way to Forgetting
These Amber Hours

The album will be available only as an mp3 download from iTunes, CDBaby etc and will of course feature in our store at the top of this page!

This is set to be our most immediate release to date with all tracks featuring heavy beats, vocals and our trademark dark ambience. Check back soon for more info!

Paranoid Radio Vol.2

2011-05-13T12:45:00.000-07:00

A second Spotify playlist has just been created featuring some more of our influences and inspirations. Plenty of new and old sounds from dub to dubstep and everything in-between. A further 15 tracks of some of the finest dark sounds ever produced!

Find it HERE or by clicking on the link towards the top of this site...

Neu! Paranoid Podcast and Paranoid Radio...

2011-04-25T08:22:00.000-07:00

Hi, greetings of the season and may we present two good reasons to read on... Paranoid Podcast 18 has just been posted and we also unveil the first of which we hope will be many Spotify playlists.

Paranoid Podcast 18 Spring 2011 - Paranoid 404 - Standalone
This month we dig deep into the archives to present one of Cris's 'Paranoid 404' solo works from around 10 years ago! 'Standalone' is a 27-minute, 5 track journey into dark, instrumental ambient drone and can be found by clicking on the link at the top of the page or CLICK HERE!
This is essential late, late-night listening...

Paranoid Radio Volume 1
For those of you who use Spotify, Andy has compiled a playlist, featuring a selection of tracks by some of our greatest inspirations. Expect a good dose of post punk, ambient, kosmiche rock, dub and lots more besides. This will be the first in a series, tune in by CLICKING HERE!

'Closedown' album review and airplay

2011-04-09T13:28:00.000-07:00

Here's a roundup of the latest activity from the Paranoid Foundation:

The first review of the new City Paranoid album 'Closedown' is in courtesy of Dutch zine, Vital Weekly:

Closedown is the latest CD from Crispin Lee under the name City Paranoid and is a follow-up of of Dream's Edge (2004) and A Means to No End ( 2008). Closedown will be the final chapter of his set of solo recordings under the name City Paranoid. The album is very intense and built up of 11 tracks in a period of 26 minutes. The tracks are created by highly manipulated field-recordings, and acoustic and electronic sound sources. His voice tells a story, but I cannot follow it, because of my lack the English language, but also because of the way the voice is mixed in drony, noisy sound layers. But maybe this is also the meaning of these short stories with titles like Hitched, Now Understood, Terminal Nation, At Peace with Nothing and Silent Running. That we will never know what the thoughts are of this man who is living in a city which fears him a lot by all the dangerous moments, vehicles and people. Cause if we really know what in his mind than we can track and expose him. City Paranoid is a short well-composed piece of dark music with a unique personal touch. (JKH)

The link can be found here... http://www.vitalweekly.net/775.html and for a limited time, you can hear us on the Vital Weekly podcast here... http://www.vitalweekly.net/podcast.html

Also, the track 'Broken Up' was played on Canadian radio show 'Le Vestibule' on CFOU 89.1 FM, Quebec. If you missed that, that is also on a podcast here... http://www.archive.org/download/levestibule2avril2011cfou/levestibule2avril2011cfou_vbr.m3u and here... http://www.archive.org/download/levestibule2avril2011cfou/levestibule2avril2011cfou_vbr_mp3.zip

DJ Don Campau has also played tracks from the album on his 'No Pigeonholes' radio shows broadcasting on KOWS-FM from Occidental, California, USA. The podcast edition is here... http://nopigeonholesexp.podomatic.com and also on his show on the www.luver.com, with the podcast for that here... http://doncampau.podomatic.com/

Good to see the release is being well received, more to follow we hope!

Delay and other PF News (edited 13th May)...

2011-03-29T13:39:00.001-07:00

Owing to a delay with our distributors, City Paranoid's 'Closedown' release has now been put back until 5th September. Many apologies to those fans eager for this, but it is sure to be worth the wait.

Additional news:
The next Paranoid Foundation album is in advance stages of production and we have pencilled in a release for Autumn 2011. Further details to follow... watch this space!

Finally the next podcast is scheduled to go up late April and will feature a 5-track, full album-length suite of Cris's instrumental drone work.

next up...

2011-02-15T03:09:00.000-08:00

CLOSEDOWN is the latest recorded output from Crispin Lee under his City Paranoid moniker following Dream’s Edge (2004) and A Means to No End (2008). Assembled several years ago and originally intended for release in late 2010, Crispin has indicated that this eleven-track, 26-minute collection will be the final chapter in his set of solo recordings under the City Paranoid name. In the immediate future he is preparing once again to concentrate on the collaborative Paranoid Foundation project.

CLOSEDOWN is a lo-fi, fictional chronicle of breakdown and redemption divided into eleven short tracks, set to a grittily ethereal palette of manipulated field recordings, acoustic and electronic sound sources. An uncompromising and challenging listen, CLOSEDOWN is complimented perfectly by the dark, psychological cover imagery provided by resident Paranoid Foundation artist, Tetsu Okada.

Tracklisting:
1 Hitched
2 Now Understood
3 Terminal Nation
4 The Wrong Woman
5 Final Rites
6 Too Much Harm
7 Broken Up
8 At Peace With Nothing
9 Silent Running
10 Perhaps Today
11 When We Wake

The album will be released on 4th April. To whet your appetite in the meantime, you can view the video to "Perhaps Today" here...

Winter 2011 Paranoid Podcast

2011-01-06T17:39:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year, and to celebrate, episode 17 of the Paranoid Podcast has just been uploaded.

This time you can hear our interview on London's art radio station, Resonance 104.4FM - originally broadcast live as part of the Scaledown radio show in June 2006. Cris and Andy talk about the origins of the Paranoid Foundation and about their influences and working techniques. It also features a track each from the first two PF albums plus an exclusive live track not available anywhere else. Worth a listen, I'm sure you'll agree!

Get it for free here... http://paranoidfoundation.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/5 or subscribe in itunes or other digital media players.

new Paranoid video art...

2010-12-03T03:35:00.000-08:00

Inspired by Brian Eno's video installations, but with a darker, more Paranoid twist. Audio from forthcoming winter podcast... click here to view

Autumn 2010 Podcast

2010-10-05T07:36:00.001-07:00

The sixteenth episode in our podcast series is now online!

This one features a single 13-minute track - a re-interpreation of a William Blake poem 'Night' as read by Lauren Crawley. A number of autumnal field recordings were used on the track and incorporated as percussion effects. Have a listen using the link above or find the Paranoid Podcast in the iTunes store and subcribe for free.

PF News Sept/Oct 2010

2010-09-27T05:01:00.000-07:00

Hi PF people, just a quick update with the latest paranoid news...

Firstly, we have lots of recording currently going on both for future editions of the podcast and CD releases.

The next CD release will be Cris's 3rd City Paranoid album 'Closedown'. This is all pressed up and nearly ready to go. We are currently lining up a release date for Winter 2010. Watch this space!

Finally for now, this is now the official home of the Paranoid Foundation and can be accessed either via www.paranoidfoundation.blogspot.com or via www.paranoidfoundation.com. Our email remains the same... info@paranoidfoundation.com

Look out for further news here very soon!

Summer 2010 Paranoid Podcast

2010-07-25T12:47:00.000-07:00

...is now here. The Antimatter EP features 4 sinister beat-driven industrial electronic motifs. Distorted riffs and machine noise collide with unsettling atmospherics to engage body and mind in equal measure.

The EP is available for free download as part of the ongoing 'Paranoid Podcast' series here: http://paranoidfoundation.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/5 or subscribe in itunes or other digital media players.

Updates...

2010-05-28T10:13:00.000-07:00

On our facebook, myspace and at www.paranoidfoundation.com where you can hear a selection of PF tunes including 'nothing ventured' - a track from the latest CD Paranoid Motive's 'disruptive potential'.

Enjoy...

PARANOID MOTIVES - DISRUPTIVE POTENTIAL - OUT TODAY!!!

2010-05-16T19:59:00.000-07:00

...on CD and download from CD Baby, iTunes and other reputable retailers.

Think dark, post punk with motorik, krautrock-esque rhythms and male-female lyrical interplay and you're just about there.

purchase, play (loud), enjoy!

Next Release: Paranoid Motives 17th May 2010

2010-03-16T08:12:00.000-07:00

The Paranoid Foundation label present their eleventh release: ‘disruptive potential’, the debut album from Paranoid Motives. It will be available from 17th May 2010 on CD from CD Baby and download from iTunes, Napster, Amazon and other reputable retailers.

Based in Canterbury, UK, this new group consist of Rory Kettles (drums), Gemma Dickens (vocals) and Cris Lee (whatever else). Taking the Paranoid Foundation blueprint of doom-laden soundscapes and dark lyrical themes, the trio present nine tracks and 28 minutes of skewed ambient rock with a heavy post-punk atmosphere. Dub and electronica influences are much in evidence and are propelled along on a krautrock-esque motorik groove. Look out for it soon!

Derelict Places video...

2010-03-04T16:59:00.000-08:00

Here's a link to an atmospheric video I shot at an abandoned canal lock. It accompanies the first track from the Slow Harvest - Derelict Places set... watch it now!!!

Spring is in the Air!

2010-03-03T12:05:00.000-08:00

It's only a couple of weeks since the Winter 2010 Paranoid Podcast appeared, but it's time to move on already. Some unexpected sunshine this past week has brought on an early spring at paranoid HQ and so another edition has popped up unexpectedly.

The Spring 2010 podcast features our great 'lost' album from 2005 'Skylines of the Future'. Having just released our debut set 'Foundations' earlier that year, we originally spent many months on the follow-up but things didn't quite work out as expected. Revisiting the original recordings just this past week, everything suddenly and unexpectedly fell into place. Expect lo-fi ambience with layered electronic effects deployed to explore contemplative themes. This is an album that we're particularly proud of. 37 minutes of essential paranoia HERE

New Review

2010-02-25T06:54:00.001-08:00

A late review has rolled in for our last CD release, Paranoid Entity's '4Closure'. The review comes from the excellent Psychotropic Zone and can be found here

Podcast error, now rectified!

2010-02-24T08:33:00.000-08:00

In my haste to upload edition 13 of the podcast last week I made the mistake of putting up a low-res version of the audio. Whoops! However, I have now rectified this. If you downloaded/listened to said podcast before today, you may want to revisit it and hear it as it was intended to be heard... by clicking here

Apologies!

Paranoid Podcast Winter 2010

2010-02-18T04:14:00.001-08:00

With the cold, dark conditions currently evident in the UK's bleak winter, it seems appropriate to provide a new soundtrack via the Paranoid Podcast.

The 13th and latest installment in this free podcast series is the Captive Thoughts/Surveillance State EP - a 2 track, 27 (approx) minute soundtrack to the big brother society that we reside in.

Subcribe/access podcast editions for free HERE

It's here...

2010-02-10T13:20:00.001-08:00

...the Infectious Unease Radio Compilation Volume 1. A 4CD set featuring 62 uneasy listening tracks from a variety of acts from around the world. Put together by Infectious Unease Radio's Gordon Taylor in Melbourne, Australia, this compilation is second to none. If you have at least a passing interest in dark music then you will find something to enjoy here.

Having listened to the 4CD compilation in its entirety I am impressed by the quality of the music and the diversity of musical styles represented - everything from electro, EDM, industrial, rock, dark folk etc. It's an honour to have one of our tracks (Waste Train - new and exclusive!) included.

The compilation can be ordered from Dark Stereo with worldwide shipping available.

New Infection Unease radio compilation album featuring exclusive PF track out now!

2010-01-28T17:05:00.000-08:00

The Paranoid Foundation is pleased to announce that our friends from Melbourne, Australia, Infectious Unease radio, have just released a new 4CD compilation album. Alongside the other dark and experimental sounds it features a new and exclusive Paranoid Foundation track 'Waste Train'.

More details and ordering information here

Happy Listening!

Happy New Year/Decade

2010-01-06T16:46:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year and indeed decade paranoid people of the world! Apologies for being so quiet of late, but it has been a busy time for all of us in one way or another.

Anyway, while the blog may not have been a hive of activity, our musical projects have been somewhat more so. We have product new and old this year and will provide some more details soon. However I can reveal that I am currently in the process of mastering what will be our first retrospective compilation featuring our most loved tracks since 2004 plus a couple of new ones. The collection will be entitled 'reflections and distortions' and will be both the perfect intro and summary of our work thus far. And not only will a CD/download be available, but our first foray into non-musical merchandise will extend into the realms of an accompanying t-shirt.

Exciting times. Look out for further updates sooner rather than later! Take care all...

Back from the dead!

2009-09-25T04:08:00.000-07:00

Hi all and apologies for the lack of updates lately, however all is well in our Paranoid world and as if to prove it, we have another free podcast queued up and ready to go.

The September podcast will be the last one for the time being (we have after all put out a new release every month for the past 12 months!!! - no mean feat!). We will be putting podcasts up a little less frequently from now on, but what a treat we have for you this time...

Another mini-album in fact. Clocking in at around the 24 minute mark, 'Enclosed' is another step further into the darkness and exhibits a startling mastery over the dark ambient genre where acoustic elements and sound manipulation combine with Cris's dark lyrical themes in an uncomparable manner.

Hear it for yourself... HERE or subscribe via the iTunes store!

Dark Grave

2009-07-10T13:24:00.000-07:00

The Paranoid Foundation can now be found in the band directory at www.darkgrave.com - the gothic music ezine. Of course, we would hardly consider ourselves as goths or a part of any definitive scene for that matter. However, that said, we certainly do have a certain attraction to the darker side of life/music/art...

August Podcast

2009-07-08T13:24:00.000-07:00

Since i'm going to be away for much of the summer, August comes early for Paranoid fans. The August podcast is now online and can be found in the usual places i.e. in iTunes or by clicking HERE.

It's another exclusive piece... this time a 25-minute instrumental outtake from the Paranoid 404 'Anew Design' sessions back in 2007. This project saw Cris experiment with minimal synth and electronic textures and the podcast features a brooding trip into his distinctive haunted audio atmospherics.

The August podcast is the 11th of the series. This is the penultimate edition for the time being... expect another great episode in September and then a little more infrequently from then onwards. However we are keeping ourselves very busy in other areas... expect to hear more about our ongoing activities very soon!

No Pigeonholes>European Edition

2009-06-27T12:20:00.000-07:00

More airplay for the Paranoid Entity CD! This time Don Campau will be playing the track 'Don't Tell' on his eclectic radio show 'No Pigeonholes' on Radio Marabu, Germany, via European FM, Shortwave and Internet broadcast. www.radiomarabu.de

You can find out more about Don Campau and his radio shows and the various projects that he is involved with HERE

Don has been playing the best in independent and experimental music since the 80's, so it's certainly worth checking out his broadcasts.

Recession Era

2009-06-23T02:53:00.000-07:00

It's podcast time, and for the month of July, we have another of my solo pieces. This one is entitled 'Recession Era' and the concept is to portray the mood of the current economic downturn and its social consequences via a 30 minute audio piece. Like the rest of the series, you can download it/listen for free.

To create the music, I used only a selection of instruments and audio devices that were lying unused around my home. Most of them were budget, lo-fi instruments chosen to give the desired gritty sound I was looking for. They included... electric guitar, harmonium, viola, theremin, drum machine and buddha machine. The piece was created and mixed in a single session and is thus full of glitches, errors and suchlike that I feel give character and are in keeping with the general theme of recession and the need for audio thriftyness!

See what you think by listening... HERE.

You can also subscribe to the series in iTunes - just search for Paranoid Podcast in the iTunes store.

On the airwaves

2009-06-22T03:13:00.000-07:00

The first radio play for the Paranoid Entity disc is happening, courtesy of two of our favourite shows...

Firstly the excellent 'Le Vestibule' show hosted by Jean-Francois Fecteau on CFOU 89,1 FM, Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada has already played the second track from the album, 'Don't Tell'. Even if you missed this show, you can listen again and will find the archives HERE

Secondly, another of our favourite broadcasters, Gordon Taylor will be playing material from the disc for the first time on his Infectious Unease show, tomorrow 23rd June. The show is on from 11pm–1am Tuesdays on 96.5 Inner FM Melbourne, Australia (Eastern Standard Daylight saving time). For more information on this show, click HERE

We hope you manage to tune in and enjoy what you hear, both shows are an excellent resource for the best in dark alternative music and we highly recommend that you check them out...

New Review

2009-06-21T15:17:00.000-07:00

...this time for the Paranoid Entity disc. The first review (that we know about) to roll in for the 4Closure release.

It comes courtesy of Frans de Waard at the Dutch Vital Weekly web/e-mail magazine. Frans has never been our greatest fan, but we are our course grateful that he takes the time to review our material.

CLICK HERE to see the review (scroll down and find the piece towards the end of the page).

Here's hoping he'll like the next one better!

Psychotropic Zone Review

2009-06-19T02:58:00.000-07:00

We have had a late review for our last Paranoid Foundation album 'Life Death Indifference' roll in from the excellent Psychotropic Zone. This Finnish ezine run by Santtu Laakso predominantly covers the best in psychedelic music so we are honoured that he gave our disc a listen since it somewhat falls between the cracks of many genres. Anyhow, the review is a good one, and you can find it HERE

If that whets your appetite and you'd like to hear more then the disc can be found for sale on CDBaby (along with several of our other releases HERE or just search for Paranoid Foundation on iTunes if downloads are more your thing!

More links to reviews of our material coming up soon...

Killing Joke

2009-06-18T09:06:00.000-07:00

Blog time again... i've been away for a couple weeks on holiday, hence the lack of posts. My trip away included a visit to the Isle of Wight festival. This event can be rather too mainstream for my tastes, but due to it being held in my home town I usually attend. And for me there is often something worthwhile going on in amongst the more obvious pop acts.

This year's best performance for me was by Killing Joke... a band whose catalogue i've dipped my toe into over the years without finding much out about them. I remember being intruiged by their 'love like blood' single back in the 80's (when I was still a child!) and a few years later had a cassette copy of their 2nd album 'What's THIS for...!' . In the early 90's I was seduced by their 'Exorcism' single and subsequent 'Pandemonium' album after hearing that Jaz Coleman insisted on recording his vocals in the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid in Egypt! Very rock'n'roll and something that surely goes a long way to creating a cult aura.

Anyway... nothing prepared me for their absolutely blinding performance on the Sunday night in the Big Top. Dark, heavy and hypnotic with inter-song banter about war, UFO's and the dead. It appeared to scare many of the unprepared festival go-ers, but the performance was right up my street! I've always been strongly attracted to the darker side of life and the Joke soundtracked where my head was at on Sunday night perfectly. Go see them soon if you can. Here's a picture that hopefully conveys the shamanistic vibe perfectly. Vocalist Jaz Coleman triumphantly holds aloft some kind of talismanic device that rather disturbingly contains a portion of deceased bassist Paul Raven's ashes...

Podcast time again!

2009-06-04T14:23:00.000-07:00

It seemed like that no sooner had I uploaded the May edition, June appeared and so here is another edition of our podcast.

This month we have another free and exclusive download: an all-new mini Paranoid Foundation album! 'Breaker' is a 10 track, 25 minute ambient-noir album. Heavy on the dark textures and featuring guitar, bass, synth textures and field recordings, each of the short tracks feels like a brief sonic postcard from the abyss.

Click here for June Paranoid Podcast!

No album artwork for this one, here are a few of my images that for me conjure up the mood...

Enjoy!

It's here...

2009-06-01T08:07:00.000-07:00

Our 10th release! On sale soon. Details to follow...

Announcing the May Podcast edition

2009-05-19T12:49:00.000-07:00

Another month... another Paranoid Podcast! For May we have a unique edition of somewhat historical significance. A collection of Crispin Lee's early works entitled 'This Was the Future... Then'.

As a teenager in SE London during the 1990's, Cris was immersing himself in an eclectic selection of punk, post punk, indie and outsider music. Bands such as the Sex Pistols, the Fall, Joy Division and Flying Saucer Attack provided the musical foundations that inspired him to begin crafting his own material in his own distinctive style. With raw instrumentation accompanied by tormented lyrics, the origins of the paranoid sound can be found here.

Listen here for free... http://paranoidfoundation.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/5 or search for Paranoid Podcast in the iTunes store.

Reason to be cheerful...

2009-05-13T06:07:00.000-07:00

...no, nothing to do with a new happy-sounding Paranoid Foundation. Just sharing some insight into the creative process!

Ok, so there are many ways of recording and generating sounds and between us, we have probably tried most of them. However, inevitably bringing everything together whether we are using electronic or acoustic instruments or even field recordings involves using some kind of computer software.

One particular piece of music software I have used consistently throughout the past few years is 'Reason' - a virtual studio application from a Swedish company, Propellerheads. Reason enables you to sequence together drum beats, samples and create all manner of weird and wonderful sounds. I've just (finally!) upgraded to the latest version (4) of the the software and it has some pretty incredible new editions. Including a rather amazing sounding synthesizer module:

These past few days i've had a lot of fun getting my head around the new functions and generating various off-the-wall noises. However, having all this functionality counts for nothing without the desire to create and some good ideas to go with it.

In fact many of my favourite pieces of music were created using limited tools or very basic instrumentation. As useful as it is to be able to create any sort of tone imaginable, having limited means often forces you to think in a more creative manner. With a program like Reason 4, it's important to take a disciplined approach and not get lost in a novelty soundworld... something i'm only just getting to grips with.

Right, where did I put that manual...!

Disturbed?

2009-05-11T04:37:00.000-07:00

Being a proudly underground act and producing music of a dark and uncommercial nature is unlikely to endear us to a vast fanbase and score us high on the hit parade, but we have been selling a consistent quantity of CDs/downloads each month. However, eclipsing all other sales is one track in particular.

'Disturbed' is the 4th track on our 3rd PF album 'the Music of Chance'. I happen to think it's a pretty solid effort on that particular album, but then it sits nicely with all the other material on there. For some reason though it is our top seller by quite some margin. We have no idea why, but suspect it's getting some heavy rotation out there on an internet radio station?! Care to enlighten us?

In any case it's great to know that people are checking out are tracks, and interesting that tunes are being played in isolation. We generally sequence albums together to be taken in as a whole so we were a bit surprised. But, hey it's all good.

Btw, the thought entered my head that the keen downloaders out there might be confusing our track with someone else's, but a quick itunes search only threw up 2 other tunes entitled 'disturbed'... one by Peter Gabriel and the other by the Sugababes. Any fans of either purchasing our track by mistake might quite possibly be very disturbed indeed! Yes please...

Introducing the band...

2009-05-07T07:36:00.000-07:00

In order to bypass the madness of posting to and updating several websites, this will now be the main repository of Paranoid Foundation news and general musings on day-to-day life.

In case you have been hiding under a huge rock, or possibly just oblivious to the (very) underground dark ambient/industrial/whatever-you-want-to-call-it scene, the Paranoid Foundation are a musical/multimedia act focusing on the darker elements of the human psyche. For samples of our music and details of our CDs/downloads/podcasts amongst many other things, please visit our website at http://www.paranoidfoundation.com/. Otherwise, feel free to hangout here and get an idea of what we are all about.

There are 3 main members of the 'Foundation... myself (Andy) - I take care of day-to-day business and contribute various sounds and the occasional piece of artwork, Cris - the resident musical genius and Tetsu - our Japanese artist extraordinaire. We have been plying our trade for nearly 6 years now.

As far as latest news is concerned... we are currently preparing for our 10th official release! For the first time in our history, we are expanding our horizons and not restricting ourselves to our own musical output. Not quite... Cris was the instigator and had a hand in the production of our next CD, but it also features various other musical and not-so-musical personnel. All going well, it'll be out at some point during the summer.

So... the CD in question features 3 tracks, comes in at a shade under 30 minutes and is entitled '4Closure' with 'Paranoid Entity' as the artist name.

File under 'dark and spacey'. Here's what the artwork will look like:

More details to follow...