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Critical Best

About Me

"My music is not modern, it is merely badly played"
Arnold Schoenberg
RELEASES
CRITICAL BEST - THIS AND THAT

http://www.archive.org/details/CriticalBest-ThisAndThatscun0 03

CRITICAL BEST - ONLY REAL COWBOYS READ THE BIBLE

http://www.archive.org/details/CriticalBest-ONLYREALCOWBOYSR EADTHEBIBLEscun002

CRITICAL BEST - MECONIUM

www.archive.org/details/CriticalBest-Meconiumscun001

LAUGHING IN THE FACE OF MAINSTREAM - A DADAIST AUDIO COMPILATION
www.archive.org/details/DADA050
(my track is featured on Part 5 of this compilation)

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ABOUT ME
I make music with a laptop. I am not original

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 27/04/2006
Band Website: http://circushands.blogspot.com/
Band Members: Marc'o van Bastard & Percy Laptop Bastard
Influences: Delia Derbyshire, The Buddha Machine, Kid 606, Venetian Snares, Christian Fennesz, Guilty Connector, Merzbow, µ-Ziq, Xiu Xiu, Richie Hawtin, Dave Clarke, V/VM, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, John Baker, Ryoji Ikeda, Jani Christou, John Carpenter, George Romero, David Lynch, Takashi Miike, Trevor Brown, Zdsislaw Beksinski, Douglas Coupland, Haruki Murakami, Robert Kirkman, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Nicholas Hawksmoor
Sounds Like: A cat in a bin
Record Label: Dadaist Audio / Scunnered Records / Noise-Joy
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Best of 2008

You can see my 'Best of 2008' list here - http://circushands.blogspot.com/2009/01/2008-in-sound-and-fu ry.htmlOo oo - there's a new track up on the player - 'Gnostic Mass'.  It's off the forthcoming al...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:15:00 GMT

New Release

Hello folks,In the pre-amble before my second full length album is released, I've decided to put out a wee EP, with a few covers, remixes and other unreleased stuff.It's called 'This And That', and it...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:21:00 GMT

THIS IS THE NEWS

Hello peeps,Percy Laptop Bastard is back, and fixed.  Most of the tracks and bits & pieces were recovered, so everything should be cool, if a little later than planned.The album will probably...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:43:00 GMT

CATASTROPHE

So, my laptop has died a horrible death There's a good chance I've irretrievably lost a few tracks, and some other bits and pieces, which is pretty shit I've not totally assessed the backups, though, ...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:26:00 GMT

Trevor Brown is really quite cool

Just wanted to say thanks to Trevor Brown, for linking to here from his blog. As you know, I have a track named after him, which is going to feature on the new album.  I sent him an email, just t...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:05:00 GMT

NEW RELEASE

Hello peeps, I'm happy to announce my second second release, 'ONLY REAL COWBOYS READ THE BIBLE' - a 13 minute noise soundscape inspired by the harsh violence of the frontier lands of the 1...
Posted by on Thu, 15 May 2008 07:18:00 GMT

Critical Best on The Sixty One

Dunno how many of you use www.thesixtyone.com/, but I now have a page on there:http://www.thesixtyone.com/jinginakipunxxx/collection/ all/Where you can go and listen to 3 of my tracks, and bump them if...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:17:00 GMT

New stuff on the horizon

Alrighty folks,Just finished 3 new tracks today, so I'm really making headway on the new album.  Unfortunately, it's not the awesomely coherent masterpiece I was hoping - I can't seem to keep any...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:09:00 GMT

More Last.fm news

Hey peeps, Forgot to mention - you can now download the full Meconium album from the Critical Best Last.fm page: http://www.last.fm/music/Critical+Best/Meconium Go there and do your dirty bu...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:23:00 GMT

Another new track available

Another new track available on the player. It's called "Arundel Tomb", and it's based off Philip Larkin's poem, 'An Arundel Tomb'. Again, still a work in progress - needs a wee bit of tweaking
Posted by on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:52:00 GMT