Ok, here's the latest on the samplers. I know some people have been waiting a *long* time for these. This is for two reasons...number one, I ran out of stock and had to get more. number two, I'm absolutely bloody useless and the post office is miles away and I just haven't gotten around to sorting it out.

So it's basically all my fault and I'm really really sorry. All outstanding orders will be posted this week. I'm also going to take them off sale cause frankly it's more hassle than I can afford at the moment (this is what you get from working in a wilderness!).

Massive apologies to those who have been waiting. You will have them asap, I promise.

Andy.

We have new things! Yes, finally! It's been a slow summer for us at Digitonal towers but we have not been idle. The album is very, very, very nearly finished...promise...and sounding wicked. In addition, this month sees two new releases and some live activity back on the radar. Bring on the dancing news!

Fragile State Compilation

It's barely covering it to say that Fragile State are one of our biggest influences. Their 2005 Big Chill set will go down for me as one of the all time classic festival sets and their brand of downtempo with touches of jazz, world and electronica remain the sound of summer for many more to come. So it's been a bit of an honour to be asked to contribute to this 3cd reissue set with a remix of Song of Departure.

It's out on October the 22nd and you can preorder it here.

Signals

Whilst we're talking remixing, there's a Digitonal remix of On/Off's One Day Machines on this very, very cool, ultra-limited edition 7" subscription series which is available now on the peerless Uncharted Audio records. A nice departure from our usual style, this is string free, has some phat breaks and even a vocoded vocal and has been very well recieved amongst the electronica cogniscenti. The rest of the series is stunning, with every release containing something special from some very big name artists in the scene indeed (like Si Begg for instance!). It is essential listening and subs are running out so go forth and pick it up.

For full details of the series and how to subscribe, click here.

Live Music

Announced this week are Digitonal live bookings at the very marvellous Drop Beats not Bombs at Birmingham's Custard Factory on November the 10th alongside the likes of Mixmaster Morris and Pete Lawrence, and our first festival booking for 2008 at Bloc Weekend alongside too big a lineup to even contemplate. We'll also hopefully be doing a pre-christmas gig at Cargo. Watch this space for details.

Hopefully see some of you at the Distillers in Hammersmith tonight (from 8pm) for the Just Music Cafe night with our stripped down lineup.

As the eagle eyed may have spotted if they've looked at the About section lately, there have been some changes within the band lately. Callum Macmillan has seen his glittering career in broadcast graphics and effects get frankly ridiculously busy lately and since we're gearing up to finish our new album, we've decided to part company for now. In his place we've drafted in Josh Docherty from our brothers Posthuman who will be taking on Cal's beatsmithing role and putting his hand in for some of the album production.

We wish Cal all the best with his pixels and hope to work with him again in the near future.

We'll be announcing some new live dates in the near future, including a return to our favourite toilet, Ginglik in November and a pre-christmas blowout, plus news of some hot remix action.

Hola,

We have some new live news. Andy Digitonal will be crossing the Atlantic again in a few weeks. Originally he was going to be seeing our mates 65daysofstatic rock Madison Square Gardens but The Cure have postponed that tour and their loss is our gain as Andy will now be doing an exclusive laptop set at Share. Expect to hear some new album material and classics remixed with a New York state of mind.

In addition to this, our new home Just Music are starting a new night up at The Distillers in Hammersmith. We'll be taking to the stage on October the 18th along with acoustic act Padma.

Full details in the live section.

p.s. international orders for the sampler went out this week so if you don't have it in a few days, drop us a mail.

An hour of the finest tracks from the Toytronic Records backcatalogue.

thanks to http://www.undergroundelectrics.com/ for the hosting:

1) Ochre - Sticklebrick Symphony
2) NumNum - Toytronic Jingle
3) Infinite Scale - InMotion
4) Abfarht Hinwil - Trilogy
5) Loess - Sixt
6) Gimmik - Backtobasics
7) Ochre - REM Sleep Research
8) Mr Projectile - Capcavernal
9) Miles Tillman - Through the tubes
10) Dude - Wave
11) NumNum - Hinum
12) Abfarht Hinwil - Radiowellen
13) Infinite Scale - Fade
14) Multiplex - All within you

mixed by andy.digitonal for purple-radio.co.uk

http://www.undergroundelectrics.com/em_pee_threes/digitonal_-_toytronic_mix.mp3

Andy Digitonal appears regularly on http://www.purple-radio.co.uk with a two hour Sunday Session of the finest in warm melodic electronica, classical and anything beautiful.

update on sampler orders - all international orders are going out tomorrow. sorry for the delays, it's been mental here.