Written and recorded in Whitby, York and Rotherham (UK) during summer 2010 by Mark Fell.
Mastered at Dubplates and Mastering Berlin in 2010 by Lupo.
Packaged in 4 panel dgipack with day-glow orange and silver foil print
"Middle sized member of the UL range, the UL8, a three unit system, embodies the good looks and high performance associated with Celestion designed products. Utilising the HD1000 pressured dome tweeter and an 8 inch mid/bass driver, which together a similar sized A.B.R. combine to give an overall frequency response of 30 Hz to 28 kHz. The mid/bass drivers large magnet system perfectly controls the excursions of the specially processed Bextrene cone assembly with its 1.5 inch voice coil. Designed to a precise specification, the UL8 achieves highly realistic ‘music’ reproduction."
This project takes its name from the Celestion UL8 speaker. My older brother bought a pair of these when i was starting comprehensive school, and between his 10cc and Supertramp records i first encountered electronically synthesized sound at high volumes. I soon noticed a pattern emerging in my musical tastes which excluded guitars or drums. Instead i favoured almost exclusively the electronic textures and rhythms of The Human League, Fad Gadget and other synthesiser based music of that period. I was quite curious about this prejudice and would try to work out why Kraftwerk sounded so much better than a rock band of the time.
So began my interest in the texture of synthetic sound - there was something much more beautiful (and perhaps more emotionally charged) about a sustained square wave than any guitar solo. I began search out and replay sections of music which dropped to a single sound - these, for some reason, were the best. This interest increased when....... more
Written and recorded in Whitby, York and Rotherham (UK) during summer 2010 by Mark Fell.
Mastered at Dubplates and Mastering Berlin in 2010 by Lupo.
Packaged in 4 panel dgipack with day-glow orange and silver foil print
"Middle sized member of the UL range, the UL8, a three unit system, embodies the good looks and high performance associated with Celestion designed products. Utilising the HD1000 pressured dome tweeter and an 8 inch mid/bass driver, which together a similar sized A.B.R. combine to give an overall frequency response of 30 Hz to 28 kHz. The mid/bass drivers large magnet system perfectly controls the excursions of the specially processed Bextrene cone assembly with its 1.5 inch voice coil. Designed to a precise specification, the UL8 achieves highly realistic ‘music’ reproduction."
This project takes its name from the Celestion UL8 speaker. My older brother bought a pair of these when i was starting comprehensive school, and between his 10cc and Supertramp records i first encountered electronically synthesized sound at high volumes. I soon noticed a pattern emerging in my musical tastes which excluded guitars or drums. Instead i favoured almost exclusively the electronic textures and rhythms of The Human League, Fad Gadget and other synthesiser based music of that period. I was quite curious about this prejudice and would try to work out why Kraftwerk sounded so much better than a rock band of the time.
So began my interest in the texture of synthetic sound - there was something much more beautiful (and perhaps more emotionally charged) about a sustained square wave than any guitar solo. I began search out and replay sections of music which dropped to a single sound - these, for some reason, were the best. This interest increased when....... more