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radium88

the ideal soundtrack to falling asleep underwater.

About Me

MyGen Profile GeneratorThe way the four of us met was an accident, a sheer fluke. We were actually washed up on the beach together at the seaside resort that dare not speak its name. Gradually we descended upon Nottingham like an embarrassing infection, trying to escape the past with its salty waves of nostalgia.Nowadays, though, because of events too ghastly to mention we are currently in hiding. Nobody knows where we live, or even whether we really exist.... Nevertheless, we have at long last completed the follow-up to metamorphosis (2004) and it's ready now! Samples may be streamed at http:www.cdbaby.com/cd/radium885 All our earlier albums are available from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, CDBaby and associated digital distributers including iTunes, emusic, napster, rhapsody etc. Our CDBaby pages are most simply accessed from the discography page of our website. Fans of strict chronology will already have spotted the 2006 album Wow! Infotainment! This is actually a collection of tunes from the past 5 years or so that never made it onto albums because they were too jolly and didn't quite fit the increasingly chilled mood our music seems to be taking nowadays, plus some remixes we did of ourselves. Despite not being a "proper" album it's been getting quite a bit of airplay notably from Pulse Rated and Radio Gets Wild who nominated us for another award to go with the album of the year one they gave us for metamorphosis. Nice. But right now it's the new album "only Science can tell us the Truth" you can hear. This is easily our most coherent, mellow and indeed enthusiastically recieved album as far as press and radio are concerned. So far we it has recieved airplay from Echoes Radio, Musical Starstreams, Chillcast, Robocast Radio, radioZerogravity, Idyllic Music, Dave's Lounge, Below Zero, Starsend, The Cosmic Lounge, Melodious Synth, Spherical Sounds, Le Vestibule, The Overflow, BBC Radio Nottingham and many others. Other stuff we did - a remix for Banco de Gaia and a track on ambient compilation em:t003. Our stuff has been used for soundtracks on a number of TV programmes around the world too.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/25/2006
Band Website: radium88.net
Band Members: tim thwaites - piano, programming, keyboards, guitar, harmonica, voice, autoharp, melodica, mandolin; jema davies - voice; matt clare - guitar; clare hunt - violin, string arrangements, voice; mike clifford - cornet;with the occasional assistance of matt cambridge - guitar, cello
Influences: moby, bjork, brian eno, the orb, massive attack, orbital, alabama3, fatboy slim, augustus pablo, sigur ros, beck, new order, lamb, philip glass, bob dylan, frederic chopin, the revolutionary army of the infant jesus, transglobal underground, velvet underground, leftfield, banco de gaia, pwei, underworld, franz schumann, portishead, faithless, the clash.
Sounds Like: in our time we've gone all the way from skank-tastic gypsy punk to dub techno via the hip-hop tune bob dylan and the band never quite got around to making. one minute it's spaghetti western trance, the next arabic gospel country-blues. these days we're in an eclectic ambient downtempo trip-hoppy sort of mode, ideal chill-out music, kind of like philip glass jamming with early orb.
Record Label: lotek
Type of Label: None

My Blog

only Science can tell us the Truth?

We got this review for our new album (it's in march 2007 reviews at Leftlion.co.uk if you're interested) describing it as the ideal way for prof. Richard Dawkins to further his atheisti...
Posted by radium88 on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:43:00 PST

write your own radium88 biography. guaranteed 15% extra true!

those of you who have visited us at http://www.radium88.net will be familiar with the startling and some would say unbelievable and obviously completely made up nature of the history of how we ca...
Posted by radium88 on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 12:10:00 PST

Facts which Ought to be True

Starting off in what we laughingly call the Real World, radium actually began with Tim and Jem as a sort of Sonny and Cher meets Carter USM punk/synth duo. Or does their past hold a darker secret........
Posted by radium88 on Wed, 24 May 2006 08:30:00 PST

Movies we'd definitely pay to see

Guns of the Secret Seven
Posted by radium88 on Tue, 16 May 2006 06:59:00 PST

Are we in the future yet?

And speaking of which, hasn't the future been rubbish so far! When we were little we were promised if not teleportation then at the very least jet-packs, computers you could converse meaningfully with...
Posted by radium88 on Sun, 14 May 2006 08:43:00 PST