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Transistor Six / Frances

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About Me


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Transistor Six - website. (needs updating)
www.myspace.com/frances_castle - My other Myspace page.
Transistor Six is the musical project of Artist/Illustrator Frances Castle. She started making music in the mid to late 1990's on an old 4 track tape machine. Around about 1998 the Californian label 'Black Bean and Placenta' put out the first Transistor Six single (it was a one sided 12"!) The record became a John Peel favourite and got good reviews.
Frances eventually abandoned her old 4 track, and got to work, chopping and splicing and sampling old sounds on her computer, until she had made some thing warped and weird and new.
Singles on Elefant and many compilation appearances followed. In 2002 Black Bean put out the full length CD 'Johnny Where's My Purse?'.
Transistor Six is just Frances, but she has collaborated with Sexton Ming, The Iditarod, Jesse Todd Dockery, and Teamforest among others.
Half heard music from an open window. Old time attic sounds. London and the English country side, the Thames and pasture. Spaceage synths and the clang of a rusty gate. Victorian Streets and traffic lights. One girl trying to make the sounds in her head become real.
Buy the 2002 album "Johnny Wheres My Purse" on Black Bean and Placenta. Please contact me if you are interested in Transistor Six vinyl etc as I still have a few copies of some of the singles.
BBPTC 249 Transistor Six "Johnny, Where's My Purse?"
For UK customers it is £8.00 including P&PFor over sea's customers it is £10.00 including P&P

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/31/2006
Band Website: transistorsix.co.uk
Band Members: Frances Castle
Influences: The Kes sound track, Shirley Collins, The Copper Family, Joe Meek, lots of glitchy electronica bands, old field recordings of traditional singers. Neutral Milk Hotel, some Robert Wyatt, home made music. The summer time. The spring time. The Wickerman sound track. Incredible String Band. Generally poking about on computers. Old things. Swimming in the bracing English sea.
Record Label: Black Bean and Placenta, Elefant, various others.
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

inch by inch

If  anyone out there is  interested anymore...  I'm still working on new stuff, contructing each ditty inch by inch, as I listen, and then stratch my head.. trying to get it just right....
Posted by Transistor Six / Frances on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:37:00 PST

Winter is Here Again

You may have wondered where I had gone. Well I've been here, still here! and spending a lot of these cold dark  evenings making music for a new Transistor Six CD. I'm pleased with how its going. ...
Posted by Transistor Six / Frances on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:50:00 PST

Cheap Lidl Beers and Pop Music

I've spent the early spring heat wave working round the clock on illustration jobs, I haven't had the chance to step outside my flat much.However Regents park this weekend looked a bit like a scene fr...
Posted by Transistor Six / Frances on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:49:00 PST

In Progress

I've begun working on new music. Five tunes started now . Slowly piecing them together bit by bit. I had an idea it would be a concept album, and it will definitely only have 11 tracks. 11 tracks is t...
Posted by Transistor Six / Frances on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:26:00 PST

cats like plain crisps

This graffiti was up on a wall close to where I grew up. It really used to puzzle me what it meant. I remember it was also written on a wall by the cinema.  I'm not sure when it disappeared, some...
Posted by Transistor Six / Frances on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:23:00 PST

New Track 'One May Morning'

Up today the first New Transistor Six track in a long while. 'One May Morning' A little instrumental about the spring on this cold damp autumn morning.
Posted by Transistor Six / Frances on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:16:00 PST

back yard rocket ship

Since April this year my  song 'Backyard Rocket Ship' has been used as the run in/out music on  The Sean Organ Show on Resonance 104.4FM. I made the song back in the late 90s when I was liv...
Posted by Transistor Six / Frances on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:12:00 PST

musical finds

http://www.myspace.com/iamplinthI found plinth on Myspace last night, he has a cd called 'Victorian Machine Music' he collected sounds and samples from all sorts of victorian machines and made them i...
Posted by Transistor Six / Frances on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 08:59:00 PST

MP3

Tune Of The DayGreen Grows The Laurel- by Norma Waterson
Posted by Transistor Six / Frances on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:54:00 PST

Folk

The year I made the CD "Johnny Where's My Purse?" (2002 I think) I was waiting for an operation on the NHS, often I wasn't well enough to go into work. Spending a day at home working on the CD was a b...
Posted by Transistor Six / Frances on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 03:14:00 PST