Second Thought
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Still here/New album!/fun.
Monday, April 2, 2007 at 10:13 AM
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Hello everyone. I'm still around. Just. Not had a soundcard for ages so been avoiding musicy computery stuff. But thought I'd pop back in again as I haven't posted for an age and have exciting news.
How is everyone? Anything exciting been going on with people here? Releases? Record contracts? Good to see some old names after browsing.
Right. Bit of spam to get me going.
Second Thought - Vacuum Road Songs
Vaccum Road Songs picks up exactly where Purlieu left off, leaving the cold, desolate countryside for the more human world of a big city. However, as we walk from the city's edge to its chaotic centre, it becomes obvious that the built up, hectic metropolis is not the safe haven originally thought, and the listener becomes lost and disoriented and even more lonely than in the countryside. Yet, through this confused melancholy and anxiety, there still shines through beauty hidden within the chaos.
Vacuum Road Songs is Ross Baker's second fully realised album as Second Thought, and takes the previous album's soundscapes, stuttering glitches and beatless ambience and applies them to harsher breakbeats, clattering IDM, driving techno and more melancholy ambient. Featuring a wider range of live instruments and field samples, the album is a successful themeatic and stylistic follow-up to 2004's Purlieu.
001. Borderline
002. Street
003. Rooms
004. Building
005. Fences
006. Rooftops
007. Vehicle
008. Tiwhwias
009. Machine
010. Selfdrive
011. Archway
012. Water Or Jazz
013. Rooftops
014. Night
Blah-de-blah. You can read the story that goes with the album on the website (http://www.secondthought.co.uk - click on Vacuum Road) and hear short clips of each track. There are also download links for tracks from it in the discography, although Machine and Rooftops have been all over the internet for a while now, so to speak.
Album will be put out by Jerky Oats Records, part of my final year university project, and will be available from May 14th through the website and at gigs. There will be an internationally distributed release later in the year.
Anyway, I hope everyone's good!
Drug use for children has for many an education and with obvious alarm to both parents on the increase almost yearly.
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Full-Source
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RE: Still here/New album!/fun.
Monday, April 2, 2007 at 11:17 AM
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P9FM
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RE: Still here/New album!/fun.
Monday, April 2, 2007 at 11:18 AM
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Congrats on getting the album out.
Are you going to do anything with the remixes?
not an Obliminal thought in his head
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Second Thought
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RE: Still here/New album!/fun.
Monday, April 2, 2007 at 12:07 PM
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Remixes will appear one day, not sure of the format yet though. Maybe an EP, we shall see, I have a set of six brilliant ones. Gonna see how it all goes with the album!
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Multi-Panel
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RE: Still here/New album!/fun.
Monday, April 2, 2007 at 12:54 PM
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i'll buy it 
maybe you'll become a VI-person..
tabloids use your FACE.
that's just the way it goes.
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Second Thought
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RE: Still here/New album!/fun.
Monday, April 2, 2007 at 5:37 PM
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Haha, what??
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Multi-Panel
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RE: Still here/New album!/fun.
Tuesday, April 3, 2007 at 12:17 AM
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hehe obscure joke
i quoted Just Jack.. English rap/garage guy.. has a hit right now. at least in these parts. (called Starz in their eyes, maybe it was a hit in the UK in 2004 or something ;) )
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Second Thought
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RE: Still here/New album!/fun.
Tuesday, May 1, 2007 at 11:52 AM
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This is now available for pre-order in the shop section of my site.
http://www.secondthought.co.uk
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Second Thought
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RE: Still here/New album!/fun.
Thursday, May 17, 2007 at 12:43 AM
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Oh God, my house is full of copies of this with nowhere to go now.
Out today!
Next one won't be three years in the making, I promise.
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RE: Still here/New album!/fun.
Friday, June 22, 2007 at 5:33 PM
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ordered
::twiddles thumbs::
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nokalypse
Joined: 06/11/02
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RE: Still here/New album!/fun.
Friday, June 22, 2007 at 11:12 PM
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Dude, I am excited to read about this. Only now did I find this thread.
I will also order a copy in a few days.
Great news man!
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Subtronik
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RE: Still here/New album!/fun.
Saturday, June 23, 2007 at 9:37 PM
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Hey, good to see you're still in the game.
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