Category: Blow Up Records

We’re pleased to announce today that Baltic Fleet has made it into the GIT Awards 2013 shortlist.

The GIT Award celebrates and promotes the best of Merseyside music, and the shortlist provides a snapshot of the year in music, recognising artistic achievement across a range of genres. Here are the 12 artists that have made this year’s GIT Award shortlist read more about the awards here

Read more about Baltic Fleet’s 2012 second album Towers here

We’re pleased to announce that Alfa 9 will be playing their first live show in over four years. The band – Ali Heath, Leon Jones, Phil Mason have expanded the line up to include John Bradbury on drums (who replaces Andy Vernon) and Chris Hillman on bass for the forthcoming live dates which are as follows:

Sat 9th Mar. • LONDON at Queen Of Hoxton (This Feeling) – on stage 9pm
Sat 23rd Mar. • STOKE-ON-TRENT at Fat Cats, Stoke-on-Trent (Octopus Club)
Thur 28th Mar. • LONDON supporting CORNERSHOP 229 The Venue W1
Sat 20th Apr. • STOKE-ON-TRENT at THE SUGARMILL

Daiquiri Fantomas will release their debut single Moon Raga on April 1st 2013, to be followed by their debut album ‘MHz Invasion’ this May on Blow Up Records. Daiquiri Fantomas are an experimental musical duo from Sicily, founded in 2010 by composers and multi-instrumentalists Marco Barrano and Dario Sanguedolce.  Experimenting with acoustic instruments and vintage electronics crossed over with new technologies, their sound has a distinctive “retro-futuristic” flavour, giving a nod both to the 60s/70s (Progressive Rock, Sci-fi b-movies soundtracks, Kosmische musik etc.) and to contemporary electronica, the duo citing The Beatles, Kraftwerk, John Barry and Air as some of their favourite bands.

The single is available as free download for a limited time from daiquirifantomas.com or from their facebook page

Alfa 9‘s second album ‘Gone To Ground‘ gets its official release on March 11th and the band will be signing the first 100 copies, but they’ll only by available from the official Blow Up / Alfa 9 shop.

Plus you can buy their other releases, including other limited goodies. There are even a few copies of their first album ‘Then We Begin‘ on vinyl signed by the first line-up.

Not one but three Blow Up Records albums made it into the end of year polls for 2012 including Vive Le Rock, Crack Magazine, Louder Than War, Liverpool Echo & some very nice blogs too…

Fay Hallam & The Bongolian  ‘Lost In Sound‘: read press here • more about the album

Baltic Fleet album ‘Towers‘: read press here  • more about the album

Alfa 9 ‘Gone To Ground‘ (not even out yet!): read press here • more about the album

See all artists press here

“Leaving For A Day” is a brand new track taken from the forthcoming new edition of Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck‘s debut album “Days Come And Go” which has now been expanded to include additional tracks. The album made the top five list of albums of the year for Sweden’s national newspaper Sydsvenskan.

Check out the video for “Leaving For A Day”, a compilation of footage filmed during the bands last visit to the UK, including a Rough Trade East in-store, an appearance at Dot-To-Dot Festival Bristol, a support slot with Camera Obscura at King’s College, a show at the Blow Up Metro Club on Oxford Street and an acoustic session at the V&A.

2008 is set to be the most release-packed year yet for Blow Up with several new projects from 2007 being wrapped up and set for release, including The Bongolian‘s 3rd album & debuts from new signings Baltic Fleet & Silvery:

4th feb 2008
THE BONGOLIAN – Outer Bongolia
The third solo outing for BBM’s Nasser Bouzida aka The Bongolian.
See below

25th feb 2008
BALTIC FLEETBlack Lounge / 3 Dollar Dress
A cracking double A-sided limited Krautrocking dancefloor essential! Taken from the forthcoming self-titled debut album.
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3rd mar 2008
SILVERY – Horrors / Orders
Silvery release their limited debut 45 ‘Horrors’/’Orders’ as a taste of their forthcoming debut album (late Spring 2008). Its a double A-sided blast of infectious eccentric British pop, and with first track ‘Horrors’ coming in at 1’47 it’s not long before you’ll be wanting to play again. The single which has aready had more than one spin by BBC’s Steve Lamacq, and this week won Zane Lowe’s Fresh Meat contest on BBC Radio 1.
‘Horrors’ is accompanied by a brilliant animated video by Alasdair Brotherson.
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10th mar 2008
BALTIC FLEET– Baltic Fleet
Whilst on a World Tour playing keyboards for Echo & The Bunnymen, Liverpool-based artist Paul Fleming began to write what would come to be his debut album ‘Baltic Fleet‘. With a laptop and any instruments that were to hand he would capture, in music, what inspired him in each city around the world, and a sound was born influenced by artists such as Eno, The Doves, NEU!, Sigur Ros and DJ Shadow. Read more

and coming soon…

SILVERY– album debut
BIG BOSS MAN – 3rd album
UNTITLED PROJECT – debut single & album

Big Boss Man have been invited to record a live session for Mark Lamarr at the BBC’s famous Maida Vale studios, including tracks from Full English Beat Breakfast – hear the session this Saturday 18th September on BBC Radio 2 at Midnight

A double A-sided limited Krautrocking dancefloor essential!

Taken from the forthcoming self-titled debut album ‘Baltic Fleet’ the single is released on 25th February (UK) on Ltd. 7″ (500 copies only) as part of the Blow Up 45s series and Digital.

This single has been picked as one of Piccadilly’s Record of The Week (3rd March).

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baltic fleet

links…
myspace.com/blowuprecs
myspace.com/balticfleet

buy…
hmv.co.uk(free p+p) / Norman Records / Piccadilly / Rough Trade / Rhythm Online
& all good indies

download…

New Big Boss Man ‘Full English Beat Breakfast’ – out now!

The long-awaited 3rd album fromBig Boss Man

Blow Up is pleased to announce that the long awaited third album from Big Boss Man – ‘Full English Beat Breakfast‘ is now out. Its another superb spaced-out selection of prime 60’s inspired dancefloor tracks– available on CD, a lovely vinyl LP and as a download from all good retailers.

• In Session with Mark Lamarr, BBC Radio 2, Sat. 18th Sep.
  Big Boss Man have been invited to record a live session for Mark Lamarr at the BBC’s famous Maida Vale studios, including tracks from Full English Beat Breakfast – hear the session this Saturday 18th September on BBC Radio 2 at Midnight more details

“Excellent” Mark Lamarr, BBC Radio 2

“The Sgt Pepper of boogaloo – and you can’t go without breakfast, can you?”
music 4/5, sonic 4/5 Hi-Fi Choice

“It’s one of those albums where you wished you were the drummer, or had thought of the concept first!”
5/5 Drummer Magazine

“Effortlessly hip” 4 stars – Echoes

“Their best album yet ” 4 stars – Record Collector

“Big Boss Man are back and groovier than ever. If Charlie Croker from The Italian Job was still alive – he would be dancing to this, and recommendations don’t come any better than that!” 7/10 Clash

“We’ve got 14 scorching hot tracks here. It’s all good I promise you, and then some. This is an album you most definitely should own and one which other musicians will be jealous of” Scootering ‘Recommended Listening’

“Will knock you flat on your back and boogaloo a victory lap”
7/10 Loud & Quiet

“Perennial party starters Big Boss Man are back with their third album. For loud’n’proud modish club soul, this is it!” Shindig!

“Big Boss Man — returning to blow our minds with an excellent dish on Blow Up Records! The Boss has been tearing it up for years now with a blend of organ heavy grooves, funky drums, vamping guitars and even some occasional vocals — and Full English Beat Breakfast is as loveable as anything they’ve done to date” Dusty Groove

ORDER, DO IT NOW ….

DOWNLOAD ….

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