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A.R.Kane 25: Totem series complete singles collection

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 04:26:30 GMT

Tomorrow (Monday, October 1st, 2012) the A.R.Kane complete singles collection is released via One Little indian Records, to mark a quarter century of Dreampop.

Two years in the making, OLI and I had to scrape the belly of the earth to gather all the tracks and get the rights and all suchness. I worked with ENTWURF's JP to put together the artwork - it features miniatures of all the singles covers in the form of an inserted booklet - he has done an exemplary job, I'm sure you'll agree.

Buy it as part of the Totem series and get the free booklet featuring a biography of the Kane by Simon Reynolds, and a single-by-single interview with moi. Get it from One Little Indian here, at the OLI Web store or check your local independent.

Some ruseful links here:

Facebook A.R.Kane Official
review in ClashMusic
All Music track listing
Album sampler on SoundCloud
Guardian interview with Rudy
Review on Mojo

I have done enough interviews the past couple months to put me off for another 25 years, so when I've finshed typing, I'm plugging in my fx and make like a dreampopper. Isn't music just the best thing, ever!

R Kane

Lollita Box -25 years

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:28:35 GMT

UPDATE - OCTOBER 7TH 2012 - The product is been suspended due to lack of interest. If you pre-ordered via this site then you will have received your refund last week.
Please read on to see what you missed ...

A.R.Kane will commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 4AD release Lollita, with this extremely limited edition box set, packed with music and gorgeous artwork.
The theme is around the original artwork (photo by Jeurgen Teller, design by 4AD/23 Envelope's Vaughn Oliver).

Lollita Box - Contains

Screen-printed T-shirt with image front and back, as per the original
A pair of quality, individually numbered screen prints, featuring front and back image
Postcard pack - 6 cards
The A.R.Kane complete singles compilation by One Little Indian - featuring the Lollita single, produced by Robin 'Cocteau Twin' Guthrie
Signed letter of thanks and eternal membership to the fan club 'Up Home' that doesn't really exist
A surprise something, maybe
Boxed in a canvas slip, hand printed with the A.R.Kane 25th Anniversary logo

Everything will be hand-made-printed and individually numbered and signed and wrapped beautifully, so it's like real special!
EXTREMELY LIMTED EDITION on first come basis - if you're interested then reserve now via
info a t arkane.co.uk
with subject line 'Lollita Box'.

The box standard price will be £120 but will be discounted 33 1/3 % to £80 for the first 50 pre-orders.
You will be able to order next week.

All the best

The Management

Tina Burton's promo video for 'Knife'

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:28:12 GMT

::1986 tina burton film student at nelp plaistow east london::tres experimental handheld 8mm movie cameras and 8mm scratched film loops she created the live visual noise to compliment our freeform soundscapades::early shows were a blend of warhol factory acid test pollock action sub pop king tubby eastend punk affirming epileptic chaos procreant urge of sorts ::andi findley sonicpahrmacy found an old onelittleindianpromo you push a knife into my womb when you're sad vhs tape that has the last 2mins capturing the live performance::in the show we see live footage of alex singing rudy playing geetah russel smith on bass maggie tambala on vocals and location footage shot in the stratford rec water lane alex in shades and anita tambala skipping and shit::tina transferred to video and edited the old 3 machine way at nelp and made the best video of the decade i think you will agree:: thank you andi tina and all those behind the scenes without whom this life would have been different and possibly funnier::

You push a knife into my womb - 25th Anniversary

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 20:02:30 GMT

twenty four summers and twenty five years have slipped by hardly noticed since this raggedy-assed contusion of a single oozed into the anti-collective consciousness all splinters and sunshine and dreams and stuff the title track influenced by atmospheres riff you push a knife into my womb a simple reference to paranoid sadomasochistic dysfunctional relationship insecurity had to be renamed to the refrain when you're sad because of the early murmurings of pc morality at camp rough trade as the artwork photography proves so after a particularly anti-punk start these east end ruffians the black jesus and mary chain as they were originally described by some twit were let loose on the world re cording with the flux s drummer the name escapes me and russell smith the first band bass player produced by ray shulman and engineered by one little Indian impresario derek burkett at berry street studios famous for the smell of rancid coffe and pissy carpets with essence of lee scratch perry and a nice little jewish café around the corner where wed argue with the apparently anarcho punks but we thought they were just hippies with skinhead hair dos about whether eggs were meat and chickens periods and eat latkas with beetroot and radish sauce yum yum and maggie tambala sang the backing vocals on knife and andi sang backing on the cinema show inflected haunting the b side yes it is called haunting not so far away although given the precedent set by the a side you never know a song that was directly inspired by a dream of being with someone once loved but now lost and on awakening being cloaked in that indescribale in words anyway emotion so i suppose one could posit that haunting was the first dreampo below are shots of artwork shot and compiled by paul white of me company and the track as seen on youtube there is a proper video in existence filmed by tina burton but im damned if I still have a copy so if anyone does let me know and ill give you a special gift filled with splinters and sunlight and dreams and stuff enjoy

Actual title - You push a knife into my womb	Actual title - Haunting

Green Hazed Daze

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 19:22:33 GMT

Green Hazed Daze was the lead track on the Love Sick EP released OCTOBER MCMLXXXVIII, on Rough Trade Records. Inspired by Miles, Brubeck, playground songs, and Jefferson Airplane, it swings in a 5/4 psychedelic soul groove. Ha ha hah!

Working to a deadline of "Finish the mix by Monday for the cut, or the EP doesn't get realeased this year" kinda nonsense, Alex and Rudy labored the weekend in their basement studio, finishing around 4am Monday morning. Rudy left, and Alex thought he'd have one more listen.
He hit play on the 1/2" master tape but there was a deadly silence. Around 20 seconds of knob twiddling and Alex realised he'd actually hit 'Play + Record', unwittingly erasing the intro section of the final mix, and with no back up copy.

Rudy returned around 8am for the trip to the mastering rooms, only to find a goggle-eyed, sheepish Alex; he'd stayed up all night trying to reproduce the mix, until finally, he spliced his best effort intro into the original.

Best thing that could've happend - it made the song!