Man From Uranus - MFU transmission

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MFU TALK

ALWAYS NEW VIDEOS GOING UP ALL THE TIME, ALMOST WEEKLY, SO STAY TUNED.

Rock with Electronics www.myspace.com/outermusic
has a new 40 minute cassette for sail for £3.50 from here:

www.fadedwords.co.uk/results.php?labelid=4528

The first full length in what promises to be a long line of cassettes from improv group Rock with Electronics. This release essentially does what it says on the tin; garage rock and Diddley beat with wailing keyboards and synth wizardry blistering over head. Recording live straight to video recorder and reassembled, cut up and spliced with Man from Uranus at the controls, space and time make the place. Good time rock and roll for those with a penchant for the outer limits of Sun Ra, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Arthur Lyman and the occasional Library Music excursion.

Limited to 48 copies, each cassette has an individually made cover, so everyone is unique. Totally different designs with collage and hand painting.

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MFU plays

NO-No-Logic Festival Barcelona, Spain, Saturday 28 November 2009

British Wildlife show in Leeds, at the Brudenell sound, Saturday 27 March 2010

mFu, Paris France, Nov 2008

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FREAKY FLICKS returns to the Arts Picturehouse in Cambridge

FRIDAY 20 November for the first year anniversary of Freaky Flicks

and the theme is NUCLEAR NIGHT ll = lots of explosions and radiation.

Free entry 930pm

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AMAZING SCIENCE FRICTION VOL.ONE is the first CD release for MAN FROM URANUS on the
new label ((((outer music)))) beginning a campaign of several LP and CD releases in the following
years to come.
This first CD serves as a foundational retrospective of music made by MFU between
2003 and 2008 at the Advanced Centre for Outer Music in Cambridge UK,
and includes 23 moods of all varieties played mainly on analogue and digital
synthesizers, electric combo organs, theremin etc.
Had Karlheinz Stockhausen made LoFi Electronic Rock music and been into Jean-Jacques Perrey and The Stooges, then this is close to what it would have sounded like - abstract, weird, outer Space - Beautiful
melodies, scary moments, excessive daft sillyness. Lots of stilted Cartoon pop and synthesizer solo freakouts.
Includes collaborations with Agaskodo Teliverek, Broadcast, horn and cello players, and amateur YouTube solo death metal drummers captured and slowed down on magnetic tape producing the effect of John Bonham in a blender.

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In the UK it can be purchased by mail order via HARVEST TIME

http://www.htrecords.co.uk

and

NORMAN RECORDS

http://www.normanrecords.com/records/102411

In Europe it can be purchased online from:

LESDISQUES BLASPHEMATOIRES DU PALATIN

http://www.lesdisquesblasphematoiresdupalatin.tk

and from:

http://www.groovecollector.com/item/2/0-1611-990024-1-0/113628657/man-from-uranus-amazing-science-friction-vol.-1.html

http://www.cdandlp.com/item/2/0-1611-0-1-0/113628657/man-from-uranus-amazing-science-friction-vol.-1.html

The CD has also been picked up inlarge quantities by my friends at FREAKSVILLE records in Benelux for distribution to record shops in Belgium and France. Through Freaksville and Disco-babel an MFU tour is in the planning for France and Belgium in November 2008.

Here is what THE WIRE had to say about Amazing Science Friction Vol one:

MFU is a quintessentially English phenomenon - in fact, it's tempting to be more specific and describe him as a quintessentially Cambridge phenomenon. A maverick boffin oblivious to the wider musical landscape, MFU constructs appealingly eccentric snippets of fizzing analogue psychedelia which seems to owe as much to the quirky, Moogtastic sounds of 70s cult TV as they do to groups like Stereolab or Broadcast (who make a couple of guest appearances here). This album anthologises recordings made over the last four years and for the most part it's a volley of brief, breezy and barely-suppressed giggles, complete with comedy titles and whimsical samples. But a couple of tracks suggest greater substance: "New Planet Professor" revels in a soaring, consciousness-expanding keyboard solo which coould have been excised from some mystical Caravan bootleg, while the closing "Space Station 3 On The Shores Of Infinity" stretches out through 12 minutes of cosmic, Radiophonic space.

And this is what Norman Records had to say:

This rules.... bonkers electronics in a library music styling which I think is gonna appeal to folks who like the Radiophonic Workshop gear as well as Ghost Box shenanigans. It's probably a bit more playful than those folks though..... think of the music a 1970's super computer would be making on an Open University special. It does go a bit spazzed out and fans of Agoskodo Teliverek will recognise a song from their album on here played with MFA. It's a lot of fun though and it doesn't take itself too seriously. Lots of spaceship whirring noises and outer space weirdness pervade this 23 track funstick but as a child brought up on Sapphire & Steel this rules my world. Well recommended!!

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