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Lighterthief: “All Done Things” and “The Hoodoo”
A Swindon based music collective formed in the late 1990s by musician/producer Stuart Rowe. Operating somewhere between a band, a record label and a production company, it is an output for the work of a continually evolving group of musicians, singers and producers, including Andy Partridge. |
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Ape House Blog/Podcast
The podcast/blog section on the Ape site has audio and video podcasts and a blog section to entertain you. Currently available: “Jen Olive Tells It Gently - Warm Robot” and much more. . . |
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APE Radio
It's here, 24 hour APE Radio, streaming you songs, music and articles by all the wonderful APE artists. Newer artists will be added as they join and may even hear some exclusive content. |
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“Chalkhills and Children”
MIDI sequenced by Steve Clarke for the 1997 XTC Convention in Basingstoke, UK. As he says, “I used it in conjunction with a Roland SC88 Sound Canvas to perform the song. That's why there is no melody on the file. It was intended as a backing track.”
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“Happy Families”
29, August 1997
composed by: Andy Partridge
Steve Johnson writes, “Okay, this MIDI file is an older one that I've had lying around since before there was General MIDI, so I quickly made a few alterations to it to make it a GM file. This sequence was done by me on an Atari ST using Dr. T's KCS and Omega II. It was quickly thrown together in a couple of hours, so it's kind of minimalistic, plus some of the pieces of this song were not totally figured out (since there's no XTC sheet music out there...YET!). Anyway, please excuse their exclusion/modification (mainly the intro and ending piano chords and bits of the bass part). I believe the drums were remapped correctly to fit the GM standard, but I could be wrong on one or two of the drum instruments. Anyway, I'm a big XTC fan and hope other fans (as well as XTC newbies) enjoy this -- well, as much as a MIDI file CAN be enjoyed.”
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Monstrance: “I Lovely Cosmonaut”
“XTC's Andy Partridge's latest project sees him team up with the original XTC keyboard player Barry Andrews and drummer Martyn Barker. . . a disparate floating exploration of a piece which finds our three musical explorers high above the earth.” |
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Tunetribe “Podcast 96: XTC”, January 15, 2017
“Originally released in 1986, Skylarking is seen by many as XTC's finest hour. But let's face it, even if we were talking about one of the band's lesser works this podcast would be a must because XTC main man Andy Partridge graced us with a good couple of hours of his time. He spills the beans on everything from Todd Rundgren, stagefright, Colin Moulding and looking like Napoleon Dynamite at school. He even performs an inpromptu song for us! If you're an XTC fan, this is the motherload!” |
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“Scissor Man”
MIDI sequenced by Ed Daranciang and submitted to Chalkhills long ago.
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XTC, Live · Paradiso · 1980, recorded by Ab Stammeshaus
“In 1980 the album «Black Sea» came out and XTC was touring . . . They came to Amsterdam for a concert in the Paradiso concert hall. I was there and took some photos from the audience with my camera loaded with slides-film. . . I also found a cassette tape with the Dutch radio broadcast of the concert in 1980 in Paradiso. I [ripped] the cassette tape . . . and filtered out the tape-hiss.” [We believe this concert was recorded 15 December 1979.] |
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XTC4U.org
Numerous interesting audio and video tidbits, mostly in lossless SHN and/or FLAC formats. Free the boots! |
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Your Atom Bomb
That odd noise from the end of “Mole From The Ministry”. Slowed down and reversed for your listening pleasure by J.D. Mack. (Thanks also to Steve Perley.)
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