Tidy Kid

FREE 2nd EP Download available at www.umor-rex.com!
3rd EP is now complete and will be released as a free download ep in July. The First Single is titled, When Young Think Old. The 2nd Single to be released later this month is now also available as a remix project.
Artists who are keen to create their own unique versions of this track can download high quality wav. file stems via this clickable line of text
Remixes will be chosen and featured on tidykid.com, various net labels, compilations and eventually at house party's and in your portable music playing devices, ja ja i like.....................
Finished tracking and sub mixing for the debut Red Paintings Album. We are now ready to do a final 2 weeks worth of mixing with some one other then ourselves. A fresh outlook on a long long project. Read about sie record producer head space of Tidy Kid here!
Some current stuff:
What's up? Tidy has just finished creating a 25 minute long performance piece , which was then filmed as a collaboration project between sie kid and artist, Nick McGavern. It is now being edited for use in a variety of post production releases, online version available in July and limited hard copy available in October. This was presented together with an art exhibition at Alchemix Studios in Brisbane Australia, see the pictures section for art work and stills from the performance. More exhibition details here! Below is a sampler...........
Tidy Kid and Tengu
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Also around April, a new EP will arise. Following this will be a few trips around the world, including time to create the Debut Album, due out late this year. After saying hi to some moo cows, I’ve decided to lift some more project restrictions. This should allow me to become both, more popular sounding with some pieces and more indescribable in other songs. Contrast is the name of the game for me, why? Because it’s harder to achieve and it helps to broaden my awareness. I don’t like conservatives. I also like people (sometimes) and by doing this and perhaps allowing myself to spread music that many can enjoy, I might be able to achieve something new in a world that currently thinks nothing is new (Other Other Other). Something truly unconditioned meeting in your face conditioning with moments of humour. That seems like a mature step for now.
Enjoy your stay, if you really want to, you can read some journal entries , toot.
Peace...........waves.........pears
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Press Info:
Tidy Kid : Experimental Musician and Record Producer.
Tidy Kid is a fictional musical character, conceptualised to help push innovative musical experimentations, in the hope for a new outlook and philosophy on life and the brain's relationship with ones spirit. In other words, concept driven sound projects, which urge your view's to push through modern trends. It currently sounds a bit like electronica......however what lies next is a full length Album, which will bend it self between, the biological self and the non biological self, or other. I am you, you are me, you know what i'm getting at, let's go grow this tree.....peace.......waves
1st EP: People Sit In Cars (limited edition short player, Purchase HERE)
People Sit In Cars is Tidy Kid's current hard copy EP which was boxed up and delivered in September 2006. It is available for purchase by clicking here and from www.tidykidmusic.com . Through White Label Music, you'll also find it on Itunes
The Ep is a collection of short audio pieces, constructed on top of vocal + single accompaniment, improvised one takers, with layers of electro , nylon 5 string guitars, object sounds, vocal harmony's and real drum sounds manipulated to suit each piece. All sounds are hand placed, no samplers/midi etc are used. Project Conditioning rules were defined before starting this tidy kid project. "It helps me to identify motivations, related to how the recording is to take place, how to transduce the sound and being at ease with restrictions in audio mixing and mastering". The debut is based around a pretty pure signal chain, eliminating any negative concerns with ones creativity. It may seem like a frustrative way to compose, with restrictions that disallow a wider pallet of sounds, but it's an exercise, which is simply leading up to the next step. Onward Mr Spiral, let me see you twist.........
2nd EP: Frozen Flower Pot (available as a free download, press pic)
Frozen Flower Pot is a waking dream in a bright New York flat. Yes, it’s winter and there’s a cat under your bed, its ears are twitchy (so maybe this is the cat’s waking dream – or is it the dream of that dying plant on the windowsill? No, let’s not say dying, but dormant.) While listening you may think you’re rising out of bed, but you’re not, actually it’s the flat around you that’s coming to life – see the radiator click along the floorboards to the washroom? See the toaster stretch and shudder? This is how I feel while listening to Tidy Kid’s much-too-brief EP Frozen Flower Pot. Four songs comprising a dream that’ll linger, that’ll make you wish you had stayed in bed just a little longer (though while in bed something was telling you get up now, get up now). Yes, the room was bright, and there was a Cheshire Cat grin in your sleeping face, and the sun worked its way across the room. Flower, Frozen, Smell, Snail, those are the song titles. Their oneiric arsenal consists of soft guitar passages, analogue creaks and electronic crunches, loops of captured noise, and such a voice. Tidy Kid’s falsetto will seep inside you; it’s a voice that lives well beyond being spoken, that drifts through the room well after the singer has left it. Now I’m not sure what I hear in the opening track, “Flower,” but I know something’s going to happen soon, and I will suffer. I might be hunted, or haunted, but it’s probably neither. All the more disturbing. The song quickly unfolds to life, literally you feel it stretch and awake. There’s something subtly humorous about the play of sounds in this song. The ominous refrain creates a disquieting counterbalance. Next comes “Frozen,” and the sounds of crunching through snow, that’s what I hear, yes that dream of a midnight walk through the park, who was I heading to see? But wait, the fire alarm goes off. Or did it? No, back to sleep… but wait? Next comes “Smell,” perhaps the brightest, sunniest of the songs, which is an odd thing to say considering the sorrow in the lyrics, which involve selling your cat, and maybe a phone, and maybe a doll, and most definitely your soul. But the sun rises each day and you move forward, right?The final track, “Snail,” has less ambition, it merely wants to be. Like a snail it lacks the solid form of the other songs, you expect it to take shape but it remains elusive. The vocals may be at their most haunting here, resigned, though not unhappy. The thing is, there’s uncertainty throughout, everything is just below the surface about to surface but probably not ready to surface. Don’t stir the cat. The man in the bed is asleep. The inanimate wants to take over for a while, so maybe just let it do that. Of course it’s disquieting but rest in bed, for this morning’s waking dream of a frozen flower pot will oversee all. (Review by Lee Thompson) The 2nd EP is an online only EP, and can be downloaded, printed and played by visiting the Umor Rex Net Label. Press Here to download it! Don't hesitate, quickly now!
Tidy Kid featured in M-Tronic's yearly compilation cd , and Kipper Records, catch of the day 3, limited edition CD compilation. (press pics for more)
I hear there is an Album a foot?
The Album is underway, lifting the earlier restrictions of EP 1 and 2. The Album will be titled, "I Drew A Line". Currently sound libraries are being created in studio, with project conditionings and rules being developed. Tidy Kid is going to put everything he has into this Album, a true artistic effort, with tracks above the drawn line associating them selves with this world, and sounds below the line turning their back to the safety's and walls that make up this conditioned game. The official Tidy Kid website will .. new project rules, thoughts and motivations, realisations and of course audio as it comes to hand. Nice to meet you, please come again, peace........waves