Recording new album

Busy recording new CARTER TUTTi (Cabal) album.

Beginning preparations

Aug
As is usually the way just when Cosey and I thought we had some time to get down to recording more material for our new Carter Tutti album offers of more projects turn up (gigs, gear reviews, music reviews, books and mastering the new TG+ boxed set), which are, of course, all impossible to turn down. However, in a week or so we're beginning preparations, video editing and rehearsals for our upcoming gigs in October.

July
I stayed at Sleazy's house in Western-super-Mare recently where we made our first attempts to get some of the initial sounds and ideas we had for RE~TG into some serious shape. I can summarise what we came up with in two words: exciting and productive. Sleazy is now in Thailand until 2004 but we are continuing to work on material via emailed files and iChat.

Remastering back catalogue

I've recently finished remastering some C&C back catalogue albums, a new C&C live CD and Cosey's forthcoming EAR4 album. Also for the last few weeks I have been trying to get my head around 'Ableton Live' and 'Logic 6' software. We've pretty much sussed out 'Live' now, in fact Cosey used it extensively on her new Selflessness project.

And we've finally started some serious work on our much delayed studio album, which will be released under our new monker: Carter Tutti.
Changing times ahead...

Mastering & remastering

April:
It's that time of year again and I'm rationalising the studio (yet again), which means I have a bunch of gear for sale. Follow this link for more details (ebay link expired).

March:
No news updates lately as I've been busy and there always seemed to be something that needed doing more than updating this site (till now that is).
I've been editing and mastering/remastering some C&C and CTI material (more news on that soon). Also, since the TG24 launch and TG exhibition we've been involved in another TG related project that we'll be announcing in a month or so.

We've also aquired some new gear and audio & video software, which we're very excited about and once we've got to grips with it all we'll be using it for some new projects and releases in the coming year.

TG24 CD boxed set

The Throbbing Gristle TG24 CD boxed set is officially released on the 23rd December 2002 by Industrial/Mute.

Follow this link to the Mute TG24 pages for details of the reservation procedure. (link expired)

A TG24 exhibition is running from 4th-7th December in London. More details here (link expired).

Last Chris & Cosey performance

Our Chris & Cosey gig in Antwerp went very well. Big thanks to all of you who travelled to Belgium see us.
We will be releasing CD (and maybe a DVD) of the performance next year.

That performance was our last show as Chris & Cosey - a change of name and direction of music are coming...

DJ set

Me and Cosey played another DJ set at the recent Mute IRREGULAR #9 in London. We had a really good time and we'd like to thank all those who came along to make the evening a superb event and particularly to all those bopping along to our spins.
We met up with a few faces from the past, some label mates and a lot of Chris & Cosey and TG fans too. Praise too to Vic20 and Richard Kirk for some particularly fine performances.

We've had a few more DJ offers since so maybe this could be an enjoyable offshoot of C&C.

Book featuring me (& TG)

I've just received a copy of a new academic electronic music reference book that features quite a few pages (22) of my early electronic music work with TG. It also includes pictures of TG, me, my gear and some of my Gristleizer diagrams too! The book is titled: Elektoakustische Musik by Elan Ungeheuer. ISBN 3-89007-425-1. Published by Laaber.
Although some parts of the TG section are in English the majority of the book is written in German. It's also very large and heavy so getting it through the post could be problematic, but I'm sure most libraries could order it.

Rebuilding, reorganising and rewiring

I recently spent three weeks rebuilding, reorganising and rewiring our studio. This was something that was long overdue but turned out to be a far more complex and time consuming task than I originally anticipated. Everything is now pretty much back up to full spec but we still haven't actually got around to recording yet.

The TG boxed set and IR re-launch are still on track and the whole project is moving along nicely. As a kind of 'primer' we are releasing a new 'best of' TG album and are in discussion with various artists who are interested in re mixing a TG track for commercial release prior to the launch. More soonish...

For the last couple of weeks or so I've been assisting Cosey with some photography and live Art pieces.

Shopping crazy

Well we're back from our jaunt to the sunshine State and a great time we had too! We met up with many old and dear friends and also went a bit 'shopping crazy'. If I get some spare hours I'll post a few holiday pictures here at some point. We came back to a few hundred emails and the jet lag seemed to linger longer than usual but I'm pretty much back up to speed with current projects. The TG boxed set masters have been burned and approved and I'll be delivering them to Mute in a week or so.

We intend to start work on our new C&C album in the coming months, more news on that as and when it happens.