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Chaffy sighting by Alan Kerr, Glasgow. Thanks Alan!

A very merry christmas to everyone who's joined the search for our beloved Chaffies since the hunt started in summer this year. In just a few months, we've seen Chaffies from Taiwan, Norway, Australia, and everywhere in between!
The search for Chaffy will not only continue next year (keep an eye out for a huge batch of China sightings coming soon!), but will go big-league. There's a VERY exciting Find Chaffy announcement coming soon which'll bring our appeal to a massive audience, hopefully we can announce it soooon!

But for now, have a wonderful christmas and new year, and do spare a thought for our poor lonely (bit stupid) Chaffies. Wherever they are.
(tomorrow, merry xmas from Bear!)

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The second half of this year has been a bizarre one. There's been practically no work around, which meant I buried myself chin-deep into my own projects. Finishing Kochi, setting up bearfoo.com (Weapons Grade Plutonium! updates today. yes?), and a handful of things besides which i can't yet mention. The key to getting work, far as i'm concerned, is to just keep working. Blithely ignoring the fact that no one's hiring you, because they're obviously wrong.

But one thing I did concentrate on was a children's book I wanted to do. I worked up the concept, did a few pages of finish art, asked around for contacts and sent a bundle of proposals off to various publishers. Now, it should be said i've been sending work to children's publishers for literally a decade (balls), probably irritating the hell out of them, and got nothing but rejections, ignored, and 'what the fuck is this supposed to BE?' letters. It never stopped me though, the enthusiasm for a new idea FAR outweighs the fear of being rejected. It's a joyous short-term-memory idiocy i think.

But this time it was different. A publisher got back to me the very next day, saying they were interested. The day after, another. The day after, another. At one point five different publishers were weighing it up, which is just ridiculous to me. Everyone's on crack. Or having a very-laboured and complicated joke.

Within a few weeks I'd chosen who seemed best for the project, and am very excited to say I'm working on my first children's book ^_^

Now I'm obviously limited on what I can say. It's for a rather big children's book publisher (their sheer enthusiasm for the idea convinced me). I'm writing and drawing it, in fact so far they're letting me run riot. And its about a character of mine already floating about, you may have seen him.

The only panic in my eyes was the time. This book is scheduled to come out next summer, which means it needs to be finished for february. Thats nearly 50 full-colour pages written, pencilled, inked and coloured, half of which are INTENSELY detailed, in about two and a half months. And i'm working large size too, A2 for the original art. If we pull this off, i can modestly say i think it's going to look fantastic. But i'm working this baby all through christmas and out the other side just to try and get a good head start, i'm back to working 13 hour days, 7 days a week where possible. And don't get me wrong, i love working like this, a proper long day drawing this bobbins is such a buzz for me. But two weeks in to the schedule, and i can already feel the mental blocks forming.

So if I haven't emailed you back or I go full-hermit over winter, this is the reason why. I'm so bloody excited to do my first children's book, I've always wanted to do one, to proper bum the mainstream and see what they make of me. And as soon as I'm allowed to announce what it's all about, i will. If you've been following me on that there stupid twitter you may be able to piece it together from my ramblings on the subject, but for now it's a secret.

FUCKING YAY ^_^

Country: Croatia
Style: Electronic, Low-Fi, Melancholy
Similar: Goldfrapp, Parker & Lily, Oceanographer, Coastal

Albums:
Sleepers Vs. Satellites (2000)
&
The Thursday Machine (2005)

http://www.mediafire.com/?z2wzzjtydy3

you can keep your Ben 10 action-fister and your go-go hamster sulphur licks, for christmas i would like one of THESE please Sunty Clorz!

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hey everybody,

just thought i'd share something new. it's the DotContemporary release of Ryu's Boy EP. very crazy electronic/folk/pop stuff. i found this guy through myspace a few months ago and i convinced Cylon to release it. i hope all of you will check it out. you can find it here:

http://www.dotcontemporary.com/boy_ep.html

Artist: The Winter War In Tibet
Title: Eurasia Deluxe
#ca341
Date: 2009-12-11
Keywords: improvisation; psychedelic rock; kraut rock; post rock; ambient; shoegazing; minimal; experimental; drone; avant-garde
(320 kbps)

"Magical music on "Eurasia" is full of apprentice's patience, unruffled cal and Buddhist leniency towards all living beings. We hear insisde ourselves what is there and take it as it is". Simply speaking, they are playing the air and aren't being in a stew. The most important discipline of The Winter War In Tibet is the lightness and naturalness - the lightness and naturalness of running water.

Band THE WINTER WAR IN TIBET was formed in 2008 in Minsk, Belarus. This is collaboration of musicians from Minsk groups BOGOMATER’ CVETOV (FLOWERMOTHER), URLA MAKABRA, INSUMTHINMAGMA, CHILDREN OF ISHIZUKE TREE, THE SHAPE, SANGIITA SHUNAKA and SNEZHINKI. A distinctive feature of the band’s music are the sound experimentation and improvisations at the junction of ethnic, rave and rock. Band’s name comes from the similar book written by Swiss writer Friedrich Durrenmatt. THE WINTER WAR IN TIBET has made its debut at the opening of the international festival “Kamen” («Камень») in Minsk in October 2008, accompanying Damo Suzuki, the world-known vocalist of cult German kraut-rock band CAN. In 2009 the band recorded about 20 improvisatory releases.
Contact:
http://www.lastfm.ru/music/The+Winter+War+in+Tibet

DL:
http://www.archive.org/details/ca341_twwt
http://www.clinicalarchives.spyw.com

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there's been a slight change on The Peanut Tape ordering info
if you want a copy
just go here


http://tohiptohoptapes.bigcartel.com/pr ... lon-peanut

sorry for all of the confusion
i really hope you will pick up a copy
thanks so much for caring!

The Observatory - Dark Folke [2009]
Quality: VBR (CD Rip)
Genre: Progressive / electronic / Math Rock
Download: hxxp://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ittegmn00kz

DARK FOLKE, their fourth album, is officially out. Recorded and mixed earlier this year in Bergen Norway, they worked once again with their friend and respected producer Jørgen Træen who has also worked with some of our personal favourites like Ultralyd, Motorpsycho and Jaga Jazzist.
Their time at Duper was filled with lots of ideas, plenty of jokin’around, some tough moments, and many warm memories. Opposite to that but equally as intense was the Bergen weather, wet and freezin’. They think the album reflects this extremity.
What came next was unexpected. They hooked up with metal/hardcore/underground illustrator and designer Justin Bartlett aka Vberkvlt. Justin is a detail-obsessed, maniacally passionate artist, also a diehard Depeche Mode fan. He is the man behind the wicked art of SUNN O))), Moss, Aura Noir and more.
They said:It’s hard to describe one’s own work. The math prog rock of our 3rd album A far cry from here has morphed into a fluid mystical beast. Most songs have no drums. But there is rhythm. Only the type of rhythm associated with an invisible pulse. An implied rhythm. Five folks sitting around a fire. A metaphorical fire. Chanting for the rain to come. (Source: Cat Socrates)

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The Peanut Tape is out now
it's a cassette single we did with Cylon
and it consists of two five minute tracks
it's limited to twenty-five copies and it's available for order though To Hip To Hop Tapes
for more ordering info go here:

www.myspace.com/tohiptohop

we really hope some of you will pick up a copy
let us know if you do
thanks for caring

finneyerkes