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the lava experiments

About Me


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The Lava Experiments are brought to you through a hole in the back of my head. Writing tunes is one of my favourite things. It makes me tick tock.



The first EP of the blackbody trilogy and the first release via Antimatter is available 19th May 2008. It includes, Electric Garden, Organise the Box, Beautiful Crystal Hall, Check in the Eye and Wakeup. A limited number of CD's are available from the Antimatter Music Shop . Digital release is via itunes.

Blackbody Vol 1


The five track EP 'Solar', released through Herb Recordings, is available from Boomkat .
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Solar EP

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Wavelength, the 2006 self-released album was only available at gigs or via myspace. The 11-track cd rapidly sold out and is no longer available as a hard copy. The entire album is available for full download here .
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Wavelength - Album

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/12/2005
Band Website: thelavaexperiments.co.uk
Band Members:

Fraser - writes, performs, records and produces

Roddy - resident live bass


Influences: Domotic, Ra-X, Sennen, The Duke Spirit, BoC, Aphex Twin, Count Five, Main, Swans, Rocket Science, Machinefabriek, Matthew Dear, Slowdive, Angels of Light, Seefeel, Mogwai, Susumu Yokota, The Black Angels, Gyorgy Ligeti, Deerhunter, LCD Sound System, The Flowers of Hell, Portishead, The Warlocks, Anthony & The Johnsons, The Lava Experiments, Loop, Spiritualized, Explosions in the Sky, Borealis, Fennesz, Amusement Parks on Fire, The Mars Volta, Sigur Ros, Pavement, dan le sac, Chapterhouse, The Postal Service, The Byrds, L.Pierre, Devendra Banhart, God Speed…, The Verve, She Wants Revenge, Audion, Royksopp, The Doors, The Mighty Boosh, Akron/Family, Sakamoto, The Black Keys, Pan Sonic, Radiohead, Sonic Youth, Joy Division, The Small Faces, Lamb, To Rococo Rot, U.N.K.L.E., Serena Maneesh, PJ Harvey, Ben Frost, Ulrich Schnauss, and the list goes on…….
Sounds Like:
A combination of guitars, vocals and analogue synths, being bent, broken, and twisted (or sometimes just slightly massaged) by other mediums.

Repetitive......
Ethereal......
Eclectic......

Record Label: Antimatter Music / Herb Recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Night at the Republic

Sunday night was the first Lava gig since January. The gap was not exactly intentional but it did give me the chance to get Blackbody Vol 1 mixed, mastered and released (many thanks to Antimatter for ...
Posted by the lava experiments on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:23:00 PST

Wavelength - Free Download

To celebrate the release of Blackbody Vol 1 and the launch of the new website, the debut album, Wavelength (released 2006) by The Lava Experiments is now available to download for free (http://www.the...
Posted by the lava experiments on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:20:00 PST

Blackbody Vol 1 Press Release

Antimatter Music | Mailout 1.3 | New ReleaseThe Lava Experiments: Blackbody Vol. I (LAVACDEP01) - Release date 19.05.08This Monday coming Glasgow band The Lava Experiments will release their debut on ...
Posted by the lava experiments on Fri, 16 May 2008 07:06:00 PST

Live review in Reverb mag

March/April Vol 02 Issue 08 "The Scottish duo of Fraser Rowan and Roddy Campbell produce some of the most gorgeous, post-rock/electronica you’re likely to hear any time soon. With a self-release...
Posted by the lava experiments on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:12:00 PST

Antimatter Music + a new live sound

What better way is there to celebrate a new allegiance with a record label than to play a gig. For the lava experiments, this was most certainly the case on Saturday 19th Jan 2008. For a few months ...
Posted by the lava experiments on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:08:00 PST

Airplay on Ghosts Dont Walk

The Lava Experiments received yet more air play (Build A Rainbow To Hang On The Window) on the Washington DC based Ghosts Don't Walk, radio station on Tuesday nightTuesday Sept 18th, 2007. Ghost Don...
Posted by the lava experiments on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:33:00 PST

Live Experiments @ Tronic

The opportunity to play Tronic was the impetus that was required to get 'the lava experiments' out of the home studio and onto the stage to play a small selection of the works recorded over the last 2...
Posted by the lava experiments on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:36:00 PST

Live Experiments

the lava experiments had its first live outing at Bar MISO in Glasgow, last week. The gig was kept relatively quiet as I was very much testing the water.   It's all very well creating lush ambie...
Posted by the lava experiments on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:23:00 PST

Airplay on Digital::Nimbus

I'm chuffed to blog that the lava experiments got airplay on Digital::Nimbus, 30th Dec 2006. D::N played Variance of Five, the only track featured on both the Solar EP (released by Herb Recording...
Posted by the lava experiments on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:11:00 PST

Website

The website is now live. www.thelavaexperiments.co.uk There are clips from each of the tracks on the album and EP for you to peruse at your leisure. There are a few pages still to be completed b...
Posted by the lava experiments on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 07:41:00 PST