Six Twenty Negative, by The Twelve Hour Foundation

Six Twenty Negative

by The Twelve Hour Foundation

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clusterfact Analog sounds with cracking tunes, an uplifting combination. Favorite track: Through Violet Perspex.

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1.	Hot Dust 03:35	buy track
2.	Unseen Depths of Ha-ha 02:38	buy track
3.	Chalk Factory 03:50	buy track
4.	Radicle Emerging 03:20	buy track
5.	Lincoln Castle Engine Room 02:38	buy track
6.	Through Violet Perspex 03:31	buy track
7.	Jones Carousel 02:08	buy track
8.	Elastic Limit 03:47	buy track
9.	Polivoks 04:42	buy track
10.	New Holland Pier 02:34	buy track
11.	Six Twenty Negative 03:03	buy track
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Castles in Space press release:

Bristol's Twelve Hour Foundation return to Castles in Space with their first new LP since 2018's long sold out "tree little milk egg book...and other non sequiturs". Their blend of musique concrète, treated field recordings, library music, early electronic pop and the Radiophonic work of John Baker and Paddy Kingsland has never sounded better.

The initial inspiration for the album is a journey - regularly taken by Jez Butler until the end of the 70s, from Cleethorpes to Hull, by diesel multiple train and British Rail paddle steamer, hence track titles like "Lincoln Castle Engine Room", "New Holland Pier" and "Chalk Factory" - a reference to a small production plant viewed from the train window that rendered the neighbouring landscape white. The ferries and pier were scrapped following the opening of the Humber bridge.
As with the previous album, the idea behind most of the music is to draw on abstract childhood emotions and their associated memories. It's an incredibly warm and evocative listening experience.

The majority of tracks are expertly underpinned by a musique concrète backing, drawing on the band's recordings of household objects. In most cases, the bass was derived from a length of ribbed plastic tubing, the cymbals from a metal kitchen draining rack, and the pads/chords from the filtered sound of an electric hair clipper. This is overlaid with vintage analogue synthesizers, treated field recordings and - on a couple of tracks - the odd vocal or flute line. The track "Polivoks" takes it's title from the Soviet analogue synthesizer of the same name which was manufactured throughout the 1980s.

The album's sleeve was designed in keeping with the scholastic nature of much of the music, incorporating Polly Hulse's photos from the University of Bristol's School of Chemistry.

The album's title, "Six Twenty Negative" refers to the film used in the Kodak Brownie Box camera. Famous for producing slightly wooly prints from large individual negatives.

The record itself is pressed on heavyweight brown vinyl. The high gloss sleeve has authentic foldback tabs making for a wonderfully tactile and alluring package.

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released May 7, 2021

Released November 20, 2020

Polly Hulse: Yamaha CS-10, flute, vocals, field recordings
Jez Butler: Moog Rogue, Korg Volca Keys, concrète sequences

Photos: Polly
Layout: Jez

Recorded and mixed by The Twelve Hour Foundation at Boum, Bristol.

All tracks written by Butler/Hulse 2020; Copyright Control 2020

Thanks to Colin Morrison, Castles in Sapce

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The Twelve Hour Foundation Bristol, UK

The Twelve Hour Foundation is an electronic/musique concrète group based in Bristol.

The line-up comprises Polly Hulse (analogue synth/rhythms) and Jez Butler (analogue synth/concrète sequences).

Live shows have included Supernormal Festival 2015, The Delaware Road, Reading, slots with Go Kart Mozart, Happy Meals and The Lovely Eggs. ... more

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