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Xurba

About Me

Will Brazier-Smith is a guitarist, keyboardist and midi programmer from England. He teaches electric guitar and music technology in the West Country, as well as performing live playing Jazz guitar. The author of an ebook for beginner guitar, he has also authored three websites:
www.xurba.co.uk
www.xurbatronics.co.uk
www.illuminance.me.uk
Two Xurba albums are available on:
Beatport
iTunes
Amazon
mTraks
Rhapsody
Napster
eMusic
Six albums and two E.Ps are available from www.xurba.co.uk
Xurba tracks feature on three compilation albums:
A massive Xurbatronic refill for Reason 4 is available now from Dance Midi Samples LTD. It features over 50 separate custom Combinator instruments, many in the style of Boards of Canada, Tangerine Dream and the Ozric Tentacles. It's a bargain at only £15.99! The link is below, check it out:
Xurbatronics Old Skool Dance Samples & MIDI pack - the ultimate construction kit for classic Acid and Techno enthusiasts:

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/09/2006
Band Website: http://www.xurba.co.uk
Band Members: Will Brazier-Smith
Influences: Allan Holdsworth, Gong, Hatfield and the North, National Health, Gentle Giant, The Sea Nymphs, Ozric Tentacles, Wire, He Said, Boards of Canada, Gary Numan, Hector Zazou, Henry Cow, Keith Le Blanc, Soma Sonic, Planet Boelex, Tangerine Dream, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Talk Talk, Syzygy, Mosaik, Slem, Motionfield, Numina, Ulrich Schnauss, Plaid, Ruxpin, Sektor, Richard H. Kirk, Xerxes, Sleepy Rabbit, Infinite Scale, Kettel, Datassette, Blamstrain, Echion, Chimerical Child, Bowery Electric, Casino Versus Japan, Arovane, Loafeye, Marumari, Nautilis, Proem, Orange Crush, Boreal Network, Gabriel, Mrs. Jynx, Portal, Track53, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Corwin Trails, Fieldtriqp, Distruc, Freescha, Locust, Melissa Welch, Plone, Vector Lovers, Trickform, Ishq, Susumu Yokota, Sun Dummy, The Dandelion Council, Gridlock, Tycho, Stockfinster, Plat, Bitstream, Biosphere, Higher Intelligence Agency, Gallerie Stratique, Verbose, Readymade, Butterfly Child, Alexander Chereshnev, Mikael Fyrek, Danny Kreutzfeldt, Mercurial, Alexandroid, Love Spirals Downwards, Madstyle, Abyssal Plains, Supine, Kunster 5, Alexey V, Sabi, The X-Dump, Affective Disorder, Opiate, Porn Sword Tobacco, Flutterspot, Jel, SubtractiveLAD & Bitcrush, Future Sound of London, Dream Lab, Fern, Direwires & Freder, Hills West, Cloud People, DJ Cybo, Global Communication, Komsomol, BitBasic, Eight Frozen Modules, Brothomstates, Phortran, Blackberry, Aquaboogie.
Sounds Like: Electronica, IDM.
Record Label: Kahvi Collective
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Breaking out of cyberspace

I was pondering on modern life in western civilisation today, and came to the realisation that computers really have affected our social lives and ability to interact with others on a one-to-one level...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:50:00 GMT

Ring around a neutron, a pocket full of protons, a fission! A Fission, we all fall down..

Scientists will be testing their new machine designed to replicate the conditions of 'the big bang' on Wednesday. Apparently, there are concerns that a small black hole may be created which will suck ...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:58:00 GMT

Orwellian implications of modern day U.K

Some rather interesting and unnerving developments here in the U.K of late,a couple of news articles have been circulating about surveillance - local councilshere have been threatened with revocation ...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:12:00 GMT

He who laughs - lasts.

I seem to be working on a lot of Jazz at the moment - the new Xurba album is coming on well, but I am awaiting the addition of Native Instruments Komplete to my sonic arsenal before the final few tra...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:05:00 GMT

Pop is a palindrome

It just occurred to me recently whilst ruminating about public opinion oflength of tracks the difference between the two most common plaintive cries:"It’s too long!" and "It’s too short!"....
Posted by on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:57:00 GMT

The Third Symbol and Music From The Clear Channel

Music From The Clear Channel is now available from quite a few online shops,so I thought I would post some links for anyone interested...AmazonNapsteriTunesRhapsodyeMusicmTraksBeatport are selling Mus...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:05:00 GMT

Isochronal signals

Good news all round at the moment, Kahvi have released a Xurba album,'Music From The Clear Channel', it is available on Beatport currently.In February 2008 it will also be available on iTunes, plus ...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:41:00 GMT

Holiday!

I'm on holiday for two weeks or so - and I'm thinking of going abroad to have a break from practising guitar, teaching music technology and working on the drum and bass project. I've recently purcha...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 06:07:00 GMT

Listening to: Alexey V's 'Serbia'

The Drum & Bass project is well under way, and I'm enjoying the deviation from the Xurba project. I've been out doing some field recording to collect ambiences this weekend, and catching up with m...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 07:08:00 GMT

Eidetic memories passing by

I'm on holiday for two week from teaching and Music Technology at the moment, but I don't seem to have any money to go anywhere! Have started a Drum and Bass project, which could take about a year to ...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:53:00 GMT