you're a few years overdue, I spent them waiting here for you...

One of my favourite bands of all time were The Get Up Kids but they split up a few years back and continued with their numerous side projects or other bands, these bands were also good but for me they never captured the same energy and emotion as TGUK. They lacked something that was only ever there before, although they never seemed to be chasing after what they had back, just changing, growing but I suspect all that may change with ex-frontman and songwriter for The Get Up Kids, Matt Pryor and his new album Confidence Man.

The first track to be heard off it, Loralai, has recently been uploaded to his Myspace page as a taster for the album and it has got me very excited. It's not The Get Up Kids but then again I don't want it to be.

Loralai is a short acoustic ballad in which Pryor battles with a love that for some reason has gone astray. It's never wet, nor is it never blaming or laying guilt. More just stating the facts, almost a stream of consciousness which plays out over a simple melody.

I can't get enough of it and have high hopes for the album, its out on 29th July.

You can listen to Loralai at www.myspace.com/mattpryorsongs

The Robot Soap Factory: Two New Tracks

I feel this is quite a big milestone for me, for about 3 or 4 years now i have been working towards this point, i started out DJ'ing when I was 17 with a different plan to most other bedroom DJs, my plan was that being a big DJ would never be my main goal, it would only be a stepping stone to the next level... production.
I have studied music production at various different levels and analysed music inside and out, however, when it came to making my own i was confronted by quite a large problem... what is my style?
I'd never thought of it before, when i DJ i play whatever the hell i want, house, electro, techno, minimal, 80's, 90's etc. But when it comes to production everyone has their own unique sound. I had no idea where to start.

So i came up with a plan, and quite a good one i think. A concept album... sort of. I would make four tracks of different styles which i enjoyed the most, and from that i could work out where i wanted to go.

My first would be the distorted electro style, a sort of 'Ed Banger/Boys Noize' inspired sound, Justice, SebastiAn etc. But with a bit more of a beat.

My second would be the classic old school house style, fused with the similar Institubes style such as Surkin and Bobmo.

My third would be a minimal style inspired by various artists such as Gui Boratto, Andre Crom, Oliver Huntemann and Booka Shade.

And my fourth, well i'm still not 100% certain, but i'm thinking a style based on Daft Punk's Discovery album mixed with the old Italo Disco style.

So far i have made two of the four tracks, and here they are:

Correct Effect - Smoke and Lasers (Classic House)

Correct Effect - Effective (Distorted Electro)

These tracks are also on my new myspace page: www.myspace.com/correcteffect

My third is in the pipeline as we speak... I'll keep everyone updated.