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Back in March Dom played me a very short CDR of Sealion at Favela one Thursday, well a slight re-edit of it, taking out the guitar parts. Lovely. But it was only 3 minutes and it was over before it began. So I said I’d extend it for him.

Anyway, once I got started I wanted a little more here, a little more there and then I got a bit absorbed with chopping the thing up and messing with it.

SO I ended up with this 6 minute monster. Dom loved it and I was happy. We were heading to Gilles’s Brownswood Basement for a special podcast and took it along. Gilles was really into it and as a result of playing it I got inundated with requests for a copy, but we weren’t sure what to do with it.

Then summer came, I got even more busy with Stac, the album, gigs, promoting and DJing besides. To cut a long story short, nothing happened and while I was away with Dom last week DJing in Montenegro, I decided to give the bugger away. So here it is. Download it now!

Last time I posted about this I was nearly at the end of mixing. Well that was a while ago now. The dust has settled on the Stac album – well for the time being, it’ll be getting kicked up again next week.

It was an interesting process which I’ve broken down a bit with people over the last couple of weeks. Ultimately I’ve learned a lot about recording and producing. The exciting thing is now turning those lessons to my own music over the coming months as I finish writing my 2nd album – but in the meantime…

Next week sees the release of a new Stac single All Or Nothing. This  7″ release is two remixes of the forthcoming album track, one by Len AfroSaxon and one by the loveliest man in all of London (and amazing, amazing producer to boot) Blue Daisy. Seeing as we’ve got some time to wait to hear Blue Daisy’s album it’s things like this we need to snap up in order to get our fill.

Doubling the excitement is the fact that there will be a video for this release too – created and filmed by a team that includes Marie-Claire Denyer who is also one of Stac’s stunning backing vocalists (it’s a creative family affair).

And after that – well I’ve got a little album preview mix coming up that will be posted here so keep your eyes open for that and we’ve got a beautiful giveaway lined up for you too. Not to mention the album launch – we’ll be playing the whole thing back-to-back with special guests, plus a choir and more…

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Other than that? Well we had the artwork back yesterday and the digi-booklet, both are stunning,we’ll show them to you soon. We’re planning plenty of rehearsals, plus we have a trip to Bergen to play at a festival at the end of May. I think that’s all – on the Stac front anyway.