The Paisley Babylon album Chemical Erotica is finally in its finishing stages and will be available for purchase and download within a week or two. There are 14 hallucinatory tracks that promise unusual journeys into inner and outer space.
Look for more details on the album soon including free downloads, exclusive tracks and more…
One of the many Paisley Babylon-connected projects is Binary Partners, and BP was a last-minute addition to the lineup of a December 22 show at Chicago’s Rock Pile venue. A 45-minute set included some bits and pieces of Paisley Babylon material, plus the video mashup Satan’s Greatest Hits, which was projected as part of the Paisley Babylon Beautiful Chaos performances in Chicago two years ago and rears it’s Not Safe For Work head once more for the Binary Partners set. Stay tuned for images, video and sounds from the performance….
Paisley Babylon’s next full-length release is nearly finished. Called “Electronic Acid”, the album so far is 11 tracks of surrealism, a dose of harsh ambient, a dash of power electronics, aural hallucinations and inner journeys to outer space. Samples are coming soon, and there will be a single or two released from this album in remixed form prior to the official album launch.
In the meantime, Paisley Babylon’s Joe Wallace has been working with Esmeralda Trujillo on a project called Binary Partners, with a live performance scheduled in December ahead of a full-length LP release scheduled for early 2013. In the meantime, here’s a sample of what to expect from Binary Partners, which is a return to old-school first generation industrial and experimental music (before the industrial genre became overtaken by sequenced drum tracks, cocaine abuse, and football fans–think Throbbing Gristle, Coil, and Wire rather than Ministry and Pigface.)
The latest Paisley Babylon track posted on Soundcloud is a dub-tacular excursion into outer space. Have a listen and full speed ahead on the surreal dub sounds!
The latest Paisley Babylon news is soundtrack-related; PB is scoring music and atmospheres for the Chicago indie short film, 45 RPM. It’s a murder mystery featuring a clue heard on a seven-inch single and there will be sinister music and Morricone-esque cues throughout.
A rough cut of the film is being worked at the time of this writing and Paisley Babylon heads into the studio soon to record the eerie sounds required, as well as intro and closing credit music.
This isn’t the first time Paisley Babylon has done soundtrack sounds, but it’s the first horror film project and it’s hoped that this will be a larger part of the Paisley Babylon experience in the future. Soundtracks are a particular favorite in the PB camp; Ennio Morricone, Bruno Nicolai, John Carpenter, Dust Brothers, so many name and sounds…all married to images on the silver screen, but just as powerful as stand-alone musical experiences.
45 RPM wrapped principal photography in August and will hit the film festival and horror convention circuit in 2013; updates on the film and soundtrack as things develop.
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