Independent Release via Tidy: (2 tracks)
& illustrations by David Sankey

Release Date : 16th Oct 2010

Featuring a remix by Bibio (warp)

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Net Label: Gozombie Records (7 tracks)

Release Date : 25th June 2010

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Net Label: Umor Rex (7 tracks)

Release Date : 14th April 2010

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Net Label: Test Tube (6 tracks)

Released: January 2009 ...

Cassette Version: Froggi Records

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Net label: acroplane (6 tracks)

Released: July 2008 ...

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Net label: Umor-Rex (4 tracks)

Released: January 2007...

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Independent Release via Tidy (6 tracks)

Released September 2006 ...

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Album 1: Dependio (to be released 2012)

Fast and delightfully orchestrated songs of vocal and found sound beat fleet.

"Collect your sounds. Believe in the natural occurrence of creation. Take on random happenings, chances, automatic writing. Love all schools of thought when it comes to audio production / era’s / formats. Energy perspective shifts of childish delight. When science fails"

An album to sum up the ideas dropped during the past 6 ep's. Technique: one take wonders, cut and looped inside a basic audio editing arrange page, no midi or soft Synths. All my own sounds. Happy arrogance.

EP 5 & 6: Toxic Feelings & Felling Toxic (released 2010)

well.. this ep and the next are a bunch of tracks taken from the past 2 years of me going around the bend . there is some good stuff there . but it is not the discovery that i was aiming tidy kid to be . i lost myself a bit . got a bit confused and didn't really have a concept . except to say that I felt like i had to step it up a notch . what ever that meant at the time .

I have realized that the loud nasty tracks that lay before me in these 2 eps are so documentative . so factual of the time and space that i was in . for this reason I'm very happy to release them . even though they have not much to do with where I'm heading . I kinda don't like them, but i do.

EP 4: One week with my Casio (released 2009)

Well this one is easy to guess

1 week only

only to use the sounds from a 80's Casio keyboard and to record the samples and sounds through mics through the onboard 4.5inch speaker

to play around with known song formulas, to tease, to keep melodies restricted, to fight against temptations, to be on the border of dissonance, to mix with a cassette mix in mind

EP 3: Performance Fragments (released 2008)

All drum sounds were recorded via a ribbon mic in a sound proof room, by using the contents of a tool box and some paint cans. These make up all the sounds, except for some synth work, vocal work and nylon string guitar.

The vocals were recorded originally during the composing process, but the vocals used on the final cd were taken from the live performance, with some harsh compression used to create an older, distorted sound.

We built the set after a few dinner meetings involving chop sticks

No rehearsals . I was not to look behind me at any point during the performance, in order to not have any reaction to the Tengu Demon . possibly seen as my inner demon . unrestricted thought . tunnel snow ball idea man

We performed to camera's . Door's opened for the public afterwards . They watched some of the camera un-edited captures, drank, looked at the art, stared, slept

EP 2: My Frozen Flower Pot (released 2007)

Some of the rules created include :

Adopting the same constraints as Project One, however adding the ability to use found objects around the apartment to create a larger variety of drum samples, still keeping real drum manipulations going, all hand placed without using any soft synth's, midi, samplers, funny plug ins..........

Tempo must vary even more then before. However and faster more frantic approach must be taken. Tidy Kid must push himself to feel daunted at first.

Reverb is allowed to play a bigger part in creating a wider and deeper spectral image, moments of ambient Electro are to be welcomed when seen fit.

A beard will be grown to prevent Tidy Kid from feeling to young, physically speaking. This will help to provide a larger contrast between the de conditioned child like nature of the music, and the appearance of the composer. So ha! Suck that you over grown tomato! But it is now realized that the face of this period will be the image of the 08 album.

A time line of 4 months, will be allowed until the next cd must be finished and ready for mastering. This starts today, September 1, 2006. Beard has commenced, feeling itchy and irritated.

Yes, it was a great period, I reflect in glee, but no the beard must come off, it's the 3rd period, and it's time to be thin, dressed in white only, and sporty.................

Some other thoughts for that frozen flower pot period ....

Thoughts and motivations : Tidy Kid likes to create music from his home, with a single microphone, pre-amp, all original samples taken from his commercial studio and mish mashed to play alongside an improvised guitar and vocal performance. The signal chain is pure of frustration, the technical side has diminished and stress levels are at an all time low. As written in the project one notes, the sonic boom of the mind is allowed to have an effect on all the sound waves being produced.

This 4 track EP has been created in response to Tidy Kid's first EP, People Sit In Cars. Where the first helped to create the sound and shape through conditioning rules, restrictions, complications, the 2 nd EP is a reaction to the conditioned world tidy kid has created for himself. In some ways, it's there to make Tidy Kid feel uneasy with creating an artist sound, and how easy it is, to get stuck in your own sound. All tracks through both EP's have been more or less, exercises. No single idea has been let loose, to play on it's own. For the moment, this is not a bad thing.

The 2nd EP has the same restrictions, same conditions as the first. It is also the completion of the first year of composing and therefore, what will cont. after this point is a heavily contrasted self proposed plan for an Album, due in 09, hehe. My Frozen Flower Pot also starts to bring into the equation the idea of large contrast, not only within single tracks, but also from track to track. The CD finishes of with a track called Snail, which is a one take classical guitar performance, improvised on the spot, first thing in the morning, with simple additions of voice, keys and drums. For Tidy Kid, it's the perfect way to let go of what has been, enjoy in it, but to now, look forward and sprout another limb. Tidy Kid would love to thank Umor Rex, for taking on this 2nd EP, a fantastic net label.

EP 1: People sit in cars (released 2006)

Some of the rules created include:

All material must pass through air or leads near to the composer, as a born sound, transduced onto either a tape recording or DAW recording. This allows for, quantum physically speaking, the artists mind to effect the sound's potential, to reflect the inner self and become his/her own.

A limited use of recording equipment has been set aside for project 1, including a single microphone, stereo outboard pre-amp, an editing system, and 2 small studio speakers, together with the instruments, the voice, sound objects, acoustic guitars, percussion, a single synth toy, and a few self made instruments. This keeps the material world at a simple purity level, disallowing the need for something that can't be, or isn't to be. Music in this project, is aimed to come from the person, and not influenced by the instruments conditioned function. However, with contrast in mind, the conditioned self is allowed to poke his/her head in at times, it's a collaborative trip.

All tracks must vary in tempo.

A limited amount of mixing tools are available, to direct most of the artistic mind during tracking, rather then post. Post production should be kept relatively simple.

Only 5 string guitars are allowed.....