In 2024 myself Jack Packer and Warren Grech decided it was time to put the 1st Psylons single and both BBC sessions onto YouTube. After many many months of tinkering for your pleasure we have finally uploaded them. Unfortunatly Mr Edwards is no longer with us, but we are 100% sure he would approve.
Saturday, 17 May 2025
Monday, 28 April 2025
Writers for the series included Fay Weldon, J.B.Priestley, Susan Cooper, Joan Aiken.
What is also rather wonderful about Shadows was the exceptionally good intros to the series. A total of 3 different intros were used across all three series. My Personal favorite was the intro to the 2nd series with the animated bird flying, high contrast tower blocks and the creepy girl standing still whilst her shadow skips on a pale blue landscape.
Some of the stories are perhaps a bit obvious/cliched and samey (After School & Waiting Room) some are fun (Dutch Schlitz's Shoes, The Man Who Hated Children) The Inheritance is a personal Favorite and definitely has a Folk Horror edge to it. A very fine and often over looked series. If you do get the chance check out all three intros here.
Saturday, 29 March 2025
Test Transmission Archive Reel 56
About 12 months ago I decided I needed a break from the Test Transmission Archive reel mixes. Was not sure at the time if or when I would do another..but here we are nearly 12 months later and it is time for Test Transmission Archive Reel 56. A Psych, Electronic, Acid Folk (and all other goodies) mix. To keep you all entertained this mix is 2 hours long and contains all sorts of ear worms, Focus Group, Funkadelic, Sweetwater, Joe Meek, Levitation, Dudley Moore, Fairport Convention, Genesis, Amon Duul ll, Forest, Fair Mothers and much more. I should say this is not the start of reguler Test Transmission mixes, but maybe the start of some random every now and then mixes.
So until next time strap yourself in for a right old audio head massage.
Tracklist
Focus Group - Bachoo
Bonzo Dog - We are Normal
Amon Duul ll - Pale Gallery
Ivor Cutler - I Got No Common Sense
Pink Floyd - Heart Beat Pig Meat
Funkadelic - What is Soul
Julian Cope - Transporting
Schifrin/Holmes - The Pidgeon Toad Orange Peel
Sweetwater - In a Rainbow
Fifty Foot Hose - Cauldron
Large Plants - Every Single Day
Psylons - Midnight Sun
Broadcast - The Be Colony
Fairport Convention - If I had a Ribbon Bow
Joe Meek - Entry of the Globbots
Joe Harriott John Mayer Double Quintet - Acka Raga
Spectrum - You Satisfy Me
Genesis - The Conqueror
Delia Derbyshire - Ziwzih Ziwzih
Lother and the Hand People - L O V E
United States of America - Coming Down
Forest - Graveyard
Levitation - Pieces of Mary
Bruce Haack - Incantation
Silver Apples - A Pox On You
Elephants Memory - Old Man Willow
Gershon Kingsley - Pop Corn
White Noise - Here Come The Fleas
Belbury Poly - Chapel Perilous
Fair Mothers - Birds Bees and Tiny Fleas
Dudley Moore - Bedazzled
The 101 Strings - Flameout
Tangerine Dream - Ultima Thule Part 1
Red Crayola - Hurricane Fighter Plane
Free Design - Make the Madness Stop
Saturday, 22 March 2025
Berial at Bevill's Leam 12inch Available Again
The plan was not to repress and leave it as a limited release that was now no longer available on vinyl. However after a recent tidy up and change of distributor at Castles in Space, a few of these red 12inch singles appeared. A few are now on sale again on the Castles in Space Bandcamp page and myself and Mr Powell have a few to make available soon.
When recording the album “Sad Old Tatty Bunting”, I decided it needed a
spoken word track. I wanted to mix this in the style of The Velvet
Underground track, 'The Gift', with the vocals hard panned to the left
and music to the right. I approached singer/songwriter Douglas E Powell
and asked him if he would be interested in writing a short story for
this purpose. Doug came back to me sometime later with a 13/14 minute
tale about ancient giant crabs and a burial at a place called 'Bevill’s
Leam'.
I loved the story, however it was too long, way too long. There was only
about 7 minutes spare for the last track on the album. So Doug went
back to work on it and presented me with a shortened version. The voice
was recorded and mixed, hard panning left and right.
“Sad Old Tatty Bunting” was released on Castles in Space in Feb 2022.
In the Spring of 2022 I started thinking about the full version of
'Bevill’s Leam', and started to think that we should revisit the track
in order to record and release the long version using Doug’s full text
as originally planned.
I told my label, Castles in Space that I wanted to do
the 12” in the style of a DIY white label. We agreed on no cover
artwork and only a white sleeve with an A5 paper insert. Taking
inspiration from Public Image’s “Metal Box” a red typewriter font was
chosen for all the text. Colin Morrison at CiS proposed a red vinyl pressing
because he’s like that.
So, with all the label details worked out, the last remaining problem we
had was that Doug no longer had the original full story! So in double
quick time he set to work and re-wrote and re-recorded the whole thing.
It turned out Longer, darker and better.
Myself and long time friend and producer Jack Packer set to work
remixing the new version of 'Bevill’s Leam'. Some new tracks were laid
down with additional sounds and effects and then Doug’s new extended
vocal (sounding amazing) was sewn into the mix.
This new version of the track is very different from the album version,
having a fuller sound and sharper clarity. Doug’s vocal was perfect, and
the new musical additions created a more balanced and atmospheric feel.
The B side instrumental version was slightly extended, and again some
new sounds and effects added.
So there you have it…the full story of Burial at Bevill’s Leam in glorious hand numbered,
red 12" 45rpm format.
Sunday, 23 February 2025
Clip Clop Non Stop (Belbury Poly Mix) by Keith Seatman and Belbury Poly
Monday, 30 December 2024
Freak Zone Best of 2024
Was absolutly blown away and so chuffed to have been included in Stuart Maconie's Best of 2024 Freak Zone show (Dec 29th) Really did not see that coming at all. So a massive thankyou to Mr Maconie and all who bought my last CD/Digi release a skip and a song to see us along.
Happy New year to you all
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00269xj
Monday, 16 December 2024
Electronic Sound End of year Top 100.
A nice end of year surprise. My last self release CD/Digi made it into
the Electronic Sound Mag end of year top 100. Number 14. Def did not see
that coming. Hopefully new Castles in Space Album and remix single
2025. Also for your listening pleasure something from my past should make an appearence early 2025.
Tuesday, 3 December 2024
Bedham Church/School Room
Saturday, 12 October 2024
A Shindig an Electronic Sound and a Fortean Times
Some recent reviews for the last long player a skip and a song to see us along.
Available from Bandcamp
A Shindig an Electronic Sound and a Fortean Times
Saturday, 7 September 2024
Friday, 16 August 2024
Saturday, 6 July 2024
New long player. a skip and a song to see us along Excerpts
Title: a skip and a song to see us along
Artist: keith seatman
Release Date: 16th August 2024
Cat No: ksa 011
Released by: K.S.Audio
Format: CD, Digi from Bandcamp
a skip and a song to see us
along is
the 8th album by Keith Seatman and his 1st non-Castles in
Space album release since 2017.
Castles in Space will be releasing a new LP
from Keith in Feb 2025 and a
remix 7inch single in late 2024.
In the meantime this release is a collection of 10 new tunes featuring more of
his Odd Electronics, Psych, Radiophonics, Drone, quirky melodies, samples and
random thoughts. Douglas E Powell joins Keith again and supplies Acoustic
Guitar on track 10 jumbled letters.
a skip and a song to see us along Excerpts
Sunday, 28 April 2024
FC Judd
Some years back I posted somewhere (could have been here or elsewhere) some
images from my top find Tape Recording for Everyone by Electronic Music
Pioneer F C Judd.
If you have never had the pleasure of listening to FC Judd's work then a visit to here
will sort you out. I Around the same time I had the good fortune to receive
from a friend of mine these lovely Castle Sound Effects EPs by FC Judd.
Some basic sound effects on the records (Applause, Car Crash, Foot
Steps) but on the Haunted House EP are a couple of very interesting
pieces, track 2 and 3 on side one. Mysterioso (special fx music) and
Fright (special fx music) Electronic Sounds and Music is full of some very interesting radiophonic/drone, and is quite a spacey selection, with titles Cosmos-composition with etherial element, Vortex-composition with mystery element and sound effects like Spaceship take off, Ring Modulation, Space Vehicle, Sibilation.For much much more on FC Judd check out Ian Helliwell's Practical Electronica FC Judd Documentry.
Saturday, 13 April 2024
Test Transmission Archive Reel 55 (OST, TV and Library Music)
Here we are Test Transmission Archive Reel 55, and this time round we have a one hour forty three minute OST
Library and TV Music mix. However all things must come to an end and
with that in mind its time for the Test Transmission Archive Reel’s to
stop for now. Have been doing these since 2011, so maybe time for a
break.
I might do another at a much later date, then again I might not. So until the we meet again, thank you all for listening your support and fantastic comments over the years.
I
have been asked by Kate Bosworth to contribute a mix for a
December/Winter Dark Train which I am really looking forward to, so keep
em peeled for that.
For now its a goodbye.
Alain Legrand - Magic Roundabout
Ron Goodwin - Miss Marple's Theme
Alan Moorhouse - Psychodale
Don Partridge - Homeless Bones
Johnny Flynn - Detectorists
The Settlers - Lightning Tree
Georges Delerue - Desert Crusader
Mr Brooks - The Family
Neal Hefti - Duel at Diablo
John Baker - Dial M for Murder
Captain Zorro - Phantasm
Angela Morley - When 8 Bells Toll
John Carpenter - Mathew Ghost Story
Joan Baez - Silent Running
Krysztof Komeda - Rosemary's Baby Main Theme
Kenny Everet & Mike Vickers - Captain Kremmen
Paul Williams - The Devils Men
Giorgio Moroder - Pauls Theme
Harry Robinson - Vampire Lovers
John Barry - The Lion In Winter
Ennio Morricone - The Men from Shiloh
Goblin - Suspiria
J Arel & J C Petit - No. 6's Speech
Lalo Schifrin - Theme from Enter The Dragon
George Martin - Bond Meets Solitaire
Reg Wale - Fruity Flutes (Farmhouse Kitchen)
Laurie Johnson - Happy Go Lively
Alan Hawkshaw - Blarney's Stoned
Yann Tiersen - La Valse D'Amélie
Vangelis - La Petite Fille De La Mar
Jim Williams - Walking Here Two Shadows Went
Roger Webb - Shadows of Fear
Max Harris - Guerney Slade
Paddy Kingsland - The Changes (Suite)
Booth, Hayes, Arthey - The Double Deckers
Rita Tushingham & Lyn Redgrave - Smashing Time
Denton and Cooke - Quiller
Micheal Fassbender - I Love You All
Allan Grey - The Stairway To Heaven
Mary Habberfield - Man in White suit
Elizabeth Parker - Davil's Lightening
Scharf,Bricusse,Newley - The Wondrous Boat Ride
Wednesday, 3 April 2024
Some Vinyl and CDs still available and floating about
Bob Fischer Electronic Sound (March 2022)
Keith has gradually risen to the top of the pile of the hauntology genre. For this new album It’s an album of wonky, kaleidoscopic psychedelia and has some genuinely scary moments on offer. It’s like some mad, arcade feature, I am again caught up in a seemingly never ending fairground nightmare, there’s a ton of synths and backwards guitar riffs vying for my attention.
Andrew Young Terrascope (May 2022)
Ghostbox Records/Belbury Music Shop.
This 5 song 10inch EP combines the plaintive
English voice of Powell placed amongst Germanic analogue organ, synths and
sequencers creating the type of dark Cold War soundscapes favoured by the
Radiophonic Workshop to the Human League. Floydian incidental music for a late
70s post nuclear meltdown drama.
Shindig Magazine (Jan 2019)
This is by the great Keith Seatman. Over the last 13 years has released 7 solo albums,
all of them unique and interesting."
Stuart Maconie, Freak Zone BBC 6 Music June 2023