Soundhog - Newtown Parkway

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Two track 7" single on Castles In Space, released May 11th 2018. The first new solo outing from Soundhog in more than a decade is a fabulous, spangly affair. Uniquely Ben, this is a fantastic record delivering a pair of tunes constructed earlier this year using vintage synths in the depths of a now abandoned studio in North Wales.
The single has been expertly mastered for vinyl/digital by Jon Brooks. Says Ben: "One side is best experienced in a 1984 Austin Maestro, driving endlessly around Milton Keynes, from cassette. The other is best experienced in a 1974 Morris Marina, driving endlessly around Wolverhampton, from 8-track cartridge. I’ll leave you to decide which is which."

[@trevorrandom]

Right up my street ☺

[@alaskaonpause]

Really excellent work, Ben. Nice one.

[@livvy94]

I hope you're doing okay! I just discovered your hearthis page, really been enjoying it!

[@Tweetlord]

This is amazing!

[@soundhog09]

Thank you, Simon!

[@raharuko]

real cool demoscene shit, what were the visuals done on?

[@soundhog09]

All done using an '80s Sony video camera, a TV and a Panasonic MX10 video mixer, recorded to VHS. I had intended to do some BBC Micro or C64 graphics for it as well, but I didn't get time to sadly. Plus my 6510 coding skills are rather rusty these days!

[@gr1lly]

Am I allowed to ask about the thing on the 7”?

[@soundhog09]

What thing might that be? (Yes, you probably are.)

[@gr1lly]

the secret track (great music btw, I like listening to it while reading scarfolk - you should probably get in touch with them) - do you have an output of the programme it runs? 87D

[@soundhog09]

@@gr1lly It's for loading into a BBC Microcomputer - it prints 'my' logo (or more technically, EMITape's logo) in teletext graphics and has a little message with it. Some of it's in assembly language so I can't show the listing on here, but it's not really that impressive... more of an experiment to see if it worked!