08/04/08

I've been working on this album for too long. It suffered set backs along the way like my hard disk drive burning out, my laptop monitor screen stopping working, star wars eposide III on the playstation, Tenchu stealth assisins III on the playstation, work, a sudden lack of new keyboards at car boot sales and my girlfriend running off with a pikey welshman. It's been finished for a couple of months now and been in the hands of Mr Alan Witts of 62 East Avenue Oxford...WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO DO THE MASTERING ALAN?

I've just finished building my new prototype corridor studio in Oxford - photos to follow and things are looking up as I'm about to start working on a remix for Pope Joan and getting a new live set together for touring in July.

03/03/08

Following on from last years ‘Underfelt’ EP we are incredibly proud to announce the release of the debut Mewgatz long-player.

Ed McGregor aka Mewgatz first came to our attention 5 years ago when we heard the weirdest and most warped sounds we’d ever heard pouring out of a tiny halls-of-residence boxroom at Brighton University where Ed was then studying Music and Visual Arts. Over the 5 years that followed we watched with bated-breath as Ed morphed from a delicate and intriguing electonica artist into the schizophrenic circuit-destroying assaultist that he is today.

The full length is 12 abstract electronic love-ballards constructed around the manipulated brain of a plethora of abandoned keyboards and electronic gadgets. It’s a modern-day introspective pop masterpiece that is demandingly pioneering but never un-accessible.

Artists like Mewgatz are the reason that Jim and I first started a label all those years ago and we’re all incredibly proud to be involved with such a promising new talent.

This page is set up as the blog home for Mewgatz where in the following months leading up to the release of his record Ed will be updating you all with the progress of his recordings, his live shows and all the weird and wonderful electronic ‘car-booty’ that Ed discovers each weekend as he travels the length and breadth of the UK.

Here are a few quick snaps we took of Ed in his home-studio putting the finishing touches to the first recordings of his new album.

Mewgatz in the Studio 1

Mewgatz in the Studio 2

 

Love,

Bootleg Al and Team OIB x