As an update from my previous post, Mike Tournier has given permission for a one minute sample clip from the Thorns and Roses promotional CD to be posted: Thorns and Roses sample MP3.

The sample is now also available on the discography page.

In addition, Mike gave me some more information about this version of the track, as opposed to the version that will appear on the album:

This is still considered to be a remix of “thorns”. The original slow version has been mixed properly, and will appear on the album.

I’m still unclear as to what the distribution channels will be for this release, but will let you know as soon as possible so you can all snatch up your own copies.

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Posted in Site, Syntax | Tagged , , | 8 Comments | Posted on January 30, 2011 by Martin Paul Eve

Well, I had a rather nice evening today when the new Syntax Promo CD — Thorns and Roses — arrived in the post! Here are some obligatory shots of the cover and so forth:

Front Cover Thorns and Roses

CD Thorns and Roses

The CD itself is a one track promo running to 6 minutes and 7 seconds and is utterly different to the promo version that made its MySpace debut a year or so ago. It is far more “dancey”, for want of a better word, and I think that those who prefer this side of Syntax won’t be disappointed. That said, it still maintains the mellow quality so suited to Jan Burton’s voice. I will be adding this to the discography, but won’t be posting any sample clips until cleared with Mike T. It also appears that the website featured as the domain name suffix isn’t up yet.

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Posted in Syntax | Tagged , , | 3 Comments | Posted on January 27, 2011 by Martin Paul Eve

Thanks to the tireless work of jUSTIN cREDIBLE, who must take all the credit for the great quality scans we now have, the discography has just been updated with the first batch of images including CD scans, inlays, front and back covers.

The plan is, eventually, to have the entire spectrum covered for easy issue identification. I hope to add some every weekend for the next few weeks!

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Posted in Site | Tagged | Leave a comment | Posted on January 16, 2011 by Martin Paul Eve

As I mentioned in the last post, Jan Burton of Syntax has also been involved in some other projects, and I wanted to give a heads-up about another release with which he was involved.

Metrik – The Departure EP

Metrik - The Departure EP

  1. T-1000
  2. The Arrival (feat. Jan Burton)
  3. Metrik vs. Smith & Selway – The Departure
  4. Learn to Fly (feat. Jan Burton)
  5. Inner Child
  6. The Arrival (Instrumental)
  7. Learn to Fly (Instrumental)

This is a fast drum & bass release, but Jan’s melancholic overtones certainly sobered the pieces to the point where I enjoyed them — D&B is certainly not my favourite genre.

You can buy the Metric EP at the following locations (not listing the vinyl version, as that doesn’t feature Jan):

Digital at Juno
Digital at Viper
Digital at Beatport
Digital at iTunes

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Posted in Fatal, Syntax | Tagged | 4 Comments | Posted on December 20, 2010 by Martin Paul Eve

A quick note to say that I’ve added a newly discovered Fatal promo to the discography, thanks again to a tip-off from Cory.



The promo is called “Occupied” (well, that’s the first track name, so I’m referring to it as that) and consists of four tracks:

  1. Occupied
  2. Closer
  3. Lyrical Insulin
  4. Error Head

The sleeve (as seen above and on the discography page, which now has image support back) features a blurred head image on the front with the caption “fatal TM [as in: trademark]“. The reverse side has the track list followed by:

www.myspace.com/Fatalmusic

For more info please contact:
steve.malins@btinternet.com or call 0208 459 1150/07949 134 974

Thanks to jUSTIN cREDIBLE for doing the necessary work for the discography samples which are online now.

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Posted in Fatal | Tagged , | 2 Comments | Posted on December 18, 2010 by Martin Paul Eve

Super8 and Tab: Empire

This is a brief heads-up to let you know that Super8 and Tab’s new album, Empire features Jan Burton and Mike Tournier, aka. Syntax.

Says Mike Tournier:

Jan has a few bits and bobs out at the moment. He’s got a few tracks on a new album by Finnish DJs, Super8 and Tab called “Empire”. The title track is something we co-wrote but my favorite track on the album is called “Free Love”. He was quite surprised that it was included in an otherwise dance led record, but I think it sounds quite ‘Syntaxy”. He’s also singing on the new Eric Prydz single “Niton (The Reason)”. I think Eric is releasing another track (not sure of the title) that I co-wrote with Jan next.

So there’s a nice new item for the collection. Please remember to support the artists: buy the album

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Posted in Syntax | Tagged , , | 2 Comments | Posted on December 17, 2010 by Martin Paul Eve

Hello all!

I’ve just had some rather pleasing news from Mike Tournier regarding the upcoming Syntax album. First of all, the reason that the album has taken so long is that it is entirely self-funded; there’s no record company to pay up-front expenses, so it’s had to be something that happens “as and when”.

Over the course of the last year, Mike and Jan have been working with engineer John Pennington to put the final mixes of the tracks together. John used to do the live sound for Fluke and has also worked with Moby, Roysopp and the Swedish singer, Robyn, so that’s a pretty good CV for a sound engineer! John is also an interesting figure historically for Fluke as, Mike tells me, he was also involved in several of the nineties Fluke remixes including “Out of Control” by the Rolling Stones, “Full Moon” by Robert Miles and “Theme for Great Cities” by the Simple Minds. He was also involved in “Dirty Little Mouth” from the Playing by Heart soundtrack.

However, the Syntax album is really getting there now and the plan is to put out a promo CD of Thorns and Roses early next year, followed by an album sampler and then the full version. The new mix of Thorns and Roses is really great and substantially different to the MySpace demo version a while back; it has a far more electronic (and for me, exciting) feel while still keeping the beauty of the primitive version.

More as it comes in!

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Posted in Fluke, Syntax | Tagged , , , | 8 Comments | Posted on December 16, 2010 by Martin Paul Eve

So many posts, so little time.

Courtesy of jUSTIN cREDIBLE, here’s two lovely videos from the Tabernacle gig with enhanced audio, re-synchronized to fit the video as best as possible.

Enjoy!

Groovy Feeling:

Sympathy for the Devil:

The, obvious, disadvantage of this new audio is you miss out on my sing-along skills… hmmm!

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Posted in Fan Projects, Fluke, jUSTIN cREDIBLE | Leave a comment | Posted on December 15, 2010 by Martin Paul Eve

Thanks to Cory for the info (and jUSTIN cREDIBLE here at 2bp HQ for dividing up the samples), the discography now contains complete timing info and samples for Fatal’s promo CD, Periodic Breathing. As and when I get time to do further work on the codebase, I’ll add the images there as well.

Upcoming in the next few days are further Fluke DJs mixes and that ever elusive news on Syntax for which you’ve all been waiting!

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Posted in Fatal, Site, Syntax | Leave a comment | Posted on December 14, 2010 by Martin Paul Eve

The way things are going around here, you’d think it was Christmas or something…

As before, here’s the conditions:

1.) If you like the tracks, you will go buy them
2.) If you are the copyright holder and do not want the material hosted here, contact me and I will instantly remove it. Email: martin [at] 2bitpie.net. Please bear in mind, before you take action, however, that we run this site as devotees of the music of Fluke and most of our visitors are like-minded collectors whose actions are extremely unlikely to hurt your commercial interests — we only collect recordings that are not commercially available, or have been mixed, for the sake of completion.

This is a Fluke DJs set when they appeared on KISS FM. There is very little info available on this set (it’s been a while since I listened to it and I can’t even remember a date), but we could, obviously, work out a tracklist using Shazam if anybody felt up to it…

Files: Fluke DJs Live on KISS FM

– UPDATE: thanks to jUSTIN for the following information: aired 24th of August in 2001 by Jon Digweed on Kiss 100

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Posted in Fluke | 1 Comment | Posted on December 14, 2010 by Martin Paul Eve