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BOYD the Second

first fold + Marclar present Bring Out Your Dead II Posh One, Deep Grass, Them Use Them, Papa November and Juneau Brothers. An evening of live electronic music and visuals Thursday 27th October 2011 £3 on the door, 8:00pm till Late at the Bull’s Head in Moseley We are well excited about this event and [...]

Images from first fold’s BOYD event

In order to document first fold’s Bring Out Your Dead event in September 2011, we asked artist and photographer Craig Earp to take some shots. Craig is a seasoned live events photographer and took some fantastic shots, here is a selection that coincides with the events running order. Visit Craig’s Website for other photographs and [...]

Grand Union Rehearsals

This image, taken using the cheeky ap photosynth, shows our sound/visual rehearsals at Grand Union’s perfectly formed exhibition space, where first fold will bring their first bespoke live event Bring Out Your Dead. Come along and enjoy the weird and quirky, the melodic electronics of The Resource Centre, powerful soundscapes from Einstellung and everything in between. This Friday 30th September, [...]

BOYD

We are getting excited and working towards our Audio/Visual extravaganza Bring Out Your Dead. The evening will feature: DJ Set by Pierre and Karlheiz including special guest The Plague Doctor. Them Use Them Live Set. The Assembled Minds Matt Saunders from Magnetophone presents his solo project. Papa November Live set featuring Spunkle and Kipp Jones. The Resource Centre [...]

first fold Vs media

Tom McKibbin from Music In Oxford reviews Music For DXing by Spunkle Spunkle somehow manages to create an album that captures the hermetic sense of isolation that the hobby of DXing superficially seems to suggest. A series of cyclical melodies are combined with the sounds of the hobby (ie. radio static) and the results are [...]

Spunkle eclipses Muse!

Insane news from the distant past just in from Music in Oxford. In their interview with Nightshift magazine (the Shift in Shifty Disco), Ronan Munro reveals… It’s worth remembering too that when we were doing Shifty Disco, me and Mac turned down the chance to release Muse’s debut single because we thought they were a [...]

New releases for January

January will see the following new releases from First Fold: The Assembled Minds – Tomorrow Curves A Small Party Of Pressure – Soft Zoo Spunkle – Music For DXing New artist pages for The Assembled Minds and A Small Party Of Pressure will follow shortly. In the meantime follow the links above to read more [...]

Spunkle Music for DXing

Next release schedule includes Spunkle‘s Music for DXING, the CD master arrived in a customised envelope, the design by James Davies is part of his ongoing postcard series.  Jim creates and sends out postal art regularly to a friend or contact, before sending them out he scans and posts them on his flickr account. It is [...]

Buffet V’s Spunkle

Thank you to the groovy ladies at Buffet Disco/Radio for playing Spunkle’s impending classic Theme From Spunkle. Check Buffet’s myspace and Radio show on BCB Radio

Spunkle, Live

The lot of the independent publisher is a hard one.  In choosing to hand-craft their wares, they face long, endless weekends and evenings of printing and cutting and glueing and assembling.  Slowly, with almost glacial accumulation, piles of CDs amass on every available domestic surface; kitchen table, chairs, stairs etc.  The floor suffers from the [...]