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Monday, 13 June 2011
The new Paranoid Foundation (mini) album Threads out today!
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...
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
Paranoid Radio Volume 3 now online!!!
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...
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
First review for new mini PF album 'Threads'
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)
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)
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
New Paranoid Foundation mini-album
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!
'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!
Friday, 13 May 2011
Paranoid Radio Vol.2
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...
Find it HERE or by clicking on the link towards the top of this site...
Monday, 25 April 2011
Neu! Paranoid Podcast and Paranoid Radio...
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!
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!
Saturday, 9 April 2011
'Closedown' album review and airplay
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!
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!
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