Thanks very much for your kind words, we both realy apreciate it, and im glad that you like the tapehexagonLife wrote:I. LOVE. This fucking tape. It never gets old. It's the only cassette I have and it's the main reason I went back to my stereo rather than MP3 players. Fuck yes for Acheronn.
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Cassette purchased! I've only had a quick flick though the sampler and can tell I will love it.
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I've registered on twoism just to show my appreciation for September Tape Fire. I have to admit that I found it through a music blog a few weeks ago (although I genuinely can't remember where), and have been playing it A LOT since. Both the ambient sounds and punchy beats add up to a fine EP, one that genuinely deserves to be heard by more people out there.
Not one to see musicians go hungry, I did some detective work and found myself on the theylivewesleep site where I ordered a copy of the cassette, even though I don't currently have the equipment to play it (my cassette deck died years ago, haven't got around to replacing it to date). I must have been one of the lucky few (25 copies for the first print!) because I found an air mail packet from Canada sat on the doormat this morning, with an Acheron cassette nestled within.
Further investigation led me to twoism, where I've now come to understand that both Pantheon and Geodesic make up Acheron. It's a great tale of the Internet that geographically displaced musicians can come to together in such a way and make such great music. I'd be keen to know how you both reach the sounds made in STF equipment-wise, but I understand that some folks prefer to keep that quiet so I won't be offended if you'd rather not impart your methods in that respect.
Hopefully there's more to come from Acheron, is there any new material planned on the horizon?
Not one to see musicians go hungry, I did some detective work and found myself on the theylivewesleep site where I ordered a copy of the cassette, even though I don't currently have the equipment to play it (my cassette deck died years ago, haven't got around to replacing it to date). I must have been one of the lucky few (25 copies for the first print!) because I found an air mail packet from Canada sat on the doormat this morning, with an Acheron cassette nestled within.
Further investigation led me to twoism, where I've now come to understand that both Pantheon and Geodesic make up Acheron. It's a great tale of the Internet that geographically displaced musicians can come to together in such a way and make such great music. I'd be keen to know how you both reach the sounds made in STF equipment-wise, but I understand that some folks prefer to keep that quiet so I won't be offended if you'd rather not impart your methods in that respect.
Hopefully there's more to come from Acheron, is there any new material planned on the horizon?
Hi Bosbos, welcome on twoism
Thanks, I'm glad that you enjoy STF.
We mainly used Abelton 8, music maker, a tiny tape recorder ( that was my recorder equipement), and guitars. Pantheon used some pre amps tube too If I remember right. But he will tell you that better than me, he's the most equipped of us and he speak english better than me...
We have some unreleased tracks from the STF session, we hope to release the best of them on a STF extented cd edition, like a 4 or 5 tracks add. We don't plan to work on any new material right now, but I hope to make an acheron album in the futur when I will have the equipment for.
Thanks, I'm glad that you enjoy STF.
We mainly used Abelton 8, music maker, a tiny tape recorder ( that was my recorder equipement), and guitars. Pantheon used some pre amps tube too If I remember right. But he will tell you that better than me, he's the most equipped of us and he speak english better than me...
We have some unreleased tracks from the STF session, we hope to release the best of them on a STF extented cd edition, like a 4 or 5 tracks add. We don't plan to work on any new material right now, but I hope to make an acheron album in the futur when I will have the equipment for.
Hey bosbos,
First thanks for your kind words, and I realy admire the fact that you hunted for us to let us know.
I dont mind sharing details about the equipment:
Ableton Live 8 was used for sequencing and rough compositons.
Most of the sounds were recorded onto tape at some point using my Akai400D or my TascamPortastudio, where they could be played back at different speeds. I also took some sounds threw my homemade valve preamp, to rough them up a bit more. Most of the colouring realy comes from creative use of the inbuilt ableton effects, we didnt use any external plugins.
Since we both made music before we started to colaberate, we would oftain sample parts of our own songs and let the other person remix them. This way I think we get a nice range of different styles/sounds. Each track was sent back and forth between me and Geo, each time having a little more added in or changed until we both agreed that it was complete.
Yes as Geo says, we have been planning a CD release with a good number of new tracks.
Watch this space...
Thanks again for getting in touch, thats realy good of you
First thanks for your kind words, and I realy admire the fact that you hunted for us to let us know.
I dont mind sharing details about the equipment:
Ableton Live 8 was used for sequencing and rough compositons.
Most of the sounds were recorded onto tape at some point using my Akai400D or my TascamPortastudio, where they could be played back at different speeds. I also took some sounds threw my homemade valve preamp, to rough them up a bit more. Most of the colouring realy comes from creative use of the inbuilt ableton effects, we didnt use any external plugins.
Since we both made music before we started to colaberate, we would oftain sample parts of our own songs and let the other person remix them. This way I think we get a nice range of different styles/sounds. Each track was sent back and forth between me and Geo, each time having a little more added in or changed until we both agreed that it was complete.
Yes as Geo says, we have been planning a CD release with a good number of new tracks.
Watch this space...
Thanks again for getting in touch, thats realy good of you
Digital version now available on bandcamp :
http://acheron.bandcamp.com/album/september-tape-fire
(I also have one tape from the first run (the grey one) for someone who wasn't able to catch it from They live we sleep before the sold out, 6 euros with mailing, just P.M me.)
Thanks for all your comments !
http://acheron.bandcamp.com/album/september-tape-fire
(I also have one tape from the first run (the grey one) for someone who wasn't able to catch it from They live we sleep before the sold out, 6 euros with mailing, just P.M me.)
Thanks for all your comments !
I just found the download code fonctionnality on Bandcamp, so we made some free codes to download the album for our twoism friends.
Every support is really appreciated by Pantheon and me but money is a serious bitch sometimes so if you need a free code there are some codes for this great community, you can send me a P.M for one.
Enter the code here : http://acheron.bandcamp.com/yum
Every support is really appreciated by Pantheon and me but money is a serious bitch sometimes so if you need a free code there are some codes for this great community, you can send me a P.M for one.
Enter the code here : http://acheron.bandcamp.com/yum
Thanks Joseph,JosephG wrote: I have been listening to this album all day. These are really... fantastic pieces. I'm hooked. Literally hooked. Especially Trance and Rain Dance...
Not only was it was realy fun to make, but it makes us even more happy that people like it
Hopefully there will be more to come in the future too, in the meen time my ep will be out soon (shameless plug ;P).
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Forgot to say I received the tape a couple of weeks back and absolutely love it! It's one of those records that are really complemented by tape...really crisp sounding percussion and bass. Super.
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No I think I purchased it before the mp3 version went up on Bandcamp, would be cool to have a digi version to put on the iPod thoughGeodesic wrote:Thanks manHave you received the mp3 version with the tape ?
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Thanks man!Geodesic wrote:I will send you a free code tomorrow.
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I can't thank you enough for making this available on Bandcamp. I've not had a cassette player in years and this such a cracking release that I would have missed out on otherwise. Hangs together really well as a collection of tracks and I love the production.
Sounds like the two of you work in a very similar way to myself and Andy (Redpoint/French Curves) - batting tunes between you, adding and adjusting things until you're both happy.
Kind of a weird way of working, but when it produces something as good as this, it's well worth it.
Sounds like the two of you work in a very similar way to myself and Andy (Redpoint/French Curves) - batting tunes between you, adding and adjusting things until you're both happy.
Kind of a weird way of working, but when it produces something as good as this, it's well worth it.
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What a great album, It really is one of my favourite albums of 2011. I sent it to Steven McCauley who presents Electric Mainline on BBC Radio Foyle. I Believe he bought it off bandcamp. Hopefully it will get some airtime 
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