Hello, just when we thought it had all gone quiet, there are a couple of small things to mention.

Firstly is a new track on an excellent compilation on Fluid Audio records entitled "Hope". It's a charity compilation for Toybox, a charity providing aid, shelter and support for homeless children in Latin America and we're very happy to give them unreleased track "We Three", alongside cuts from Halogen, Iambic and many other top notch electronica artists. Although We Three has appeared in various live recordings, this is the first proper studio version of the track and we hope you'll like it.

Hope is out now.

Secondly, Andy has been tempted out for one last quick laptop gig, supporting our long time collaborators and friends 65daysofstatic at a brand new Clash Music night at The Social, W1.

Full details here and in the live section and tickets are a fiver.

tata for now.

My heartfelt apologies for missing out on the Sounds from the Other City festival last weekend. An unavoidable personal situation meant that I had to pull out at last minute. Once again, we fail to play the North-West! I hear it was an amazing day and I'm gutted to have been forced to miss it.

Particular apologies to K-Beard who has been trying to book us for years now. I hope that we'll have another opportunity in the future.

On that note, and since I've had a few emails asking about our live schedule for the Summer - Digitonal is effectively on hold for the moment whilst I become a father (!!!) and do some writing. Things have been tough for us lately with the general slump in everything musical, and we're feeling a definite need to regroup, rethink and get on with our real lives for a change.

I hope this isn't the end of the road (and strongly suspect that it isn't!), but for now, that's it for Digitonal. We may be making some older material available again soon, including, hopefully, The Shining rescore soundtrack, and there are a couple of remixes I've done recently which will surface, including a cracking one for Alice Russell (which sadly looks like it's being left out of their competition). I will try and make it available soon, label permitting.

Thanks to everybody as always for their support and messages and we'll stay in touch.

Andy.:

Silver Poetry has been released and is available at the following sites:

Listen and download from iTunes
Juno Download (320mp3/Wav)
e-Music (subscription based)

Save Your Light for Darker Days is also available on iTunes again.

Clash Music is pretty much the best music monthly in the UK right now. So it was a bit of a no-brainer when we were asked to compile a podcast for them as part of their DJ Mix podcast series. Andy has put together 40 mins of emotive, classically influenced electronica...really a primer to his own sound and a branch of electronic music that isn't normally given much coverage but which we have been and continue to be, profoundly influenced by.

We hope you enjoy it. More information and a download link at the Clash Music DJ Mix Podcast page

The Digitonal ClashMusic Dj Mix tracklisting

Jvox - Cadona (n5md)
Elegi - Despotiets Vesen (Miasmah)
SonVer - Anonima (Disconnected Music)
Max Richter - Song for Yulia (130701/Fatcat)
Digitonal - Emberkreiss (Just Music)
Ochre - Lifewish (Benbecula)
Rena Jones - Driftwood (Native State)
Bola - Pfane pt1 (Skam)
Jon Hopkins - Searchlight (Just Music)
Posthuman - Beautiful Beast (Seed Records)
Vangelis - Chews Eye Shop (Esper Edition, Unreleased)
John Metcalfe - The Shock of Recognition (Big Chill)

The new Digitonal single, Silver Poetry is released on digital format through Just Music next Monday, 16th of March.

It's backed with an alternate, downbeat mix of A Lighter Touch which was previously only ever available on a Big Chill compilation, and two other fantastic remixes:

Gone (Winter North Atlantic remix)
A stunning bit of Folktronica from the Giovanni Chrome recordings artist and our old mate from Sheffield, and recently played by Gilles Peterson.

93 Years On (Maps and Diagrams remix)
Our longtime mate Tim Diagram, co-honcho of the fabulous Cactus Island records that released our In Silence EP, turns in what can only be described as an ambient classic. A stunning soundscape that out Blade Runner's the original track and will be the soundtrack to our Summer Sunsets this year. Whilst we're bigging it up, we should also mention that Tim's superb album Smeg is still available and is just about the best bit of proper ambient electronica you're liable to find at the moment and we strongly recommend it.

The single will be available from Monday from iTunes and the Just Music Digital Store for a low price.

In the meantime, here is a video shot by our mate Jim from our first Union Chapel gig last year, performing the title track:

p.s. Andy Digitonal is now on Twitter and about to get mental in Minehead at Bloc this weekend in his AGT Rave Cru persona. Feel free to follow him!

p.p.s. We are assured by our label that Save Your Light for Darker Days will be imminently available to buy from iTunes and all good retailers. Just Music have a new distribution deal and the record should be available everywhere now. The Just Music store always has it in stock as well. Please do email us by clicking the little envelope above if you have any troubles finding it.