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March 20/09_


Hi all- our very own DJ and Producer Supremo, Michael Morph is playing this Saturday night at Matter in London alongside a fantastic lineup of some great DJs including Pendulum, James Lavelle (U.N.K.L.E), DJ Food, Aim etc. Doors 10pm-7am. Tickets £12 (adv), £15 (otd). Click here or flyer above for more details
Cheers
Pure Mint Recordings
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March 16/09_
Hi - Please come and support Nigel at the 12 Bar, London tonight - 16th March 2009.

January 26/09_
Rare double chance to come and see Nigel
of Bermondsey play tonight, 26th January 2009. At 8pm you can catch Nigel perform an acoustic set at The Slaughtered Lamb, in Clerkenwell, London (on stage at 8pm), followed by a later appearance at the legendary 12 Bar Club in central London at 11pm. Hope some of you can make one or the other.
Cheers
Pure Mint Recordings
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January 16/09_

We are really pleased to announce that Nigel of Bermondsey has been nominated for the XFM New Music Award 2009. He has made the 'Long List' of 46 artists who XFM reckon released the best albums of 2008. We must confess that we concur wholly with XFM's reasoning here; that being said, we would be sublimely grateful if you could click the link below and add your vote for Nigel. After the votes have been counted, the list will be shortened to 10, and then the winner will be announced. Voting for Nigel will bring you fantastic Karma, 99% guaranteed!! :-) Voting closes Friday 23rd January. Thanks for your support.

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Nigel is also playing live at the Albany Theatre in Deptford on Saturday 31st January 2009. Please come along. Furher information from Nigel's Myspace.
Pure Mint Recordings
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November 06/08_
Fantastc support for Nigel
of Bermondsey keeps coming.
(4/5) in the UK National newspaper The
Independent - "Stuffed
with panoramic, psych-pop arrangements..An absorbing and intriguing
debut"and another (4/5) from Beat
Surrender.

Click image/links to read in full.
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Nigel is also playing at The Water Rats (nr Kings X, London) on Monday 10th November.
On stage at 8:45pm. Please come and show some support.
Click on flyer below for more details:-
Pure Mint are off to LA for some meetings next week.
Web update on our return :-) Thanks for supporting our
label.
Pure Mint Recordings
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October 11/08_
Fantastc support for Nigel
of Bermondsey from loads of places; Radio
2, NME, Q
Radio, Clash Magazine etc.
Thanks to everyone.
Click image for full press.
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Nigel
has been performing here and there acrosss London and has
a gig at the Water Rats on 10th November. Further details
and discounted advance tickets from Nigel's Myspace
Short staffing over the summer led to fewer updates of the
web than usual...apologies. Michael
Morph's Do What You Want received awesome airplay and
reviews in the leading press, Mix Mag, iDJ, etc, it also charted
at #12 in the DMC Zzub charts. More information/press here
The
summer (if one can call it that this year) also saw the release
of Elevator Suite's Remixes
album which picked up support at both radio and mainstream
press. And we offered Matt
Kebbell a helping hand to get him up on iTunes.
Please check out all of these new releases, and let us know
what you think. Videos to some are available on youtube
and the releases are available on iTunes etc.
We
hope you enjoy the music
Pure Mint Recordings
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June 06/08_
New releases (coming very soon). Please check
back...
Clockwise from top left: Michael
Morph "Do What You Want", Elevator
Suite - Remixes, Matt Kebbell, Nigel Of Bermondsey
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April 14/08_
Michael Morph - Resident DJ -
Summer of Love 08, Audio, Brighton. This saturday
19th April. Click Flyer for more information.
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A couple of great compilations featuring our releases...

Breakbeat Bass (Vol 3)
Mixed
by Nick Thayer on Passenger Records; includes Michael Morph's "The
Crowd C'est Beau" (Aquasky mix) |

Cornerstone 076 - Promo CD (Radio/Tastemakers -
USA)
includes Michael Morph's "Do
What You Want" ft.
Yo Majesty (Deekline mix) |
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It is with great sadness that I have to report that a wonderfully
dear friend of ours, Running Water (aka Bevin Fagan), vocalist with seminal UK
reggae act Matumbi,
sadly passed away on the 2nd April 2008. You will be sorely
missed Run by all of us at Pure Mint. A real talent and
a true philospher and king. RIP brother.
Please click on the YouTube box below to watch a little tribute
video of some Super 8 footage we shot with Run on our legendary
debut Midem in Cannes in the South of France in 2003.....now
there were some fun adventures I could tell you about that little
trip.....ha... :-)
Bevin Fagan aka Running Water
Anthony,
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January 11/08_
Released on 3 track vinyl on 14th
January 2008 available from all good record shops or
direct from Pure Mint. Released digitally (with additional
mixes) on 21st January 2008 from
iTunes and all good download stores. Further info click here or click graphic
above to buy from iTunes.
Pure
Mint Recordings_
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December 21/07_
Well, what can we say… 2007 has been a truly great year
for us at Pure Mint Recordings and we are very excited to
see what 2008 brings. We would like to welcome our new artists Elevator Suite and Michael Morph - who
have set a very high standard for any new comers to the label.
We feel very lucky to have worked alongside some of the finest
out there today such as Aquasky, Alex
Metric, Crazy P, Deekline,
The Fix, Long Range, Geek Chic Soundsystem, Mawglee and Yo
Majesty. A lot of these releases will be out in the first
half of 2008…We also thank the legendary Margo
Guryan for granting us the pleasure of working with you
this year. Big thanks also to Dj magazine, Eddy Temple-Morris,
Mixmag, i-Dj, Annie Nightingale at Radio 1, M8, Drummer, Clash,
Uncut, Boys Toys and many more who have given us great reviews
and support during the last twelve months.
We are putting together a free Pure Mint Sampler so watch
this space for a limited FREE 7 track download early next year…We would also like
to thank you all for your interest and support in music, which
is what it is all about.
We wish you all a very Happy Christmas and a great New Year.
Pure
Mint Recordings_
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December 04/07_
Big shouts out to Eddy
Temple Morris for his fantastic support of Elevator Suite's The Wheel on his XFM show, and also to all the other DJ's and reviewers
up and down the country who have been 'bigging' up the track,
including Boys Toys who made The
Suite "Album of The Month!". Thanks.
The Wheel is now available to buy from all good record shops
or from iTunes etc.
Please click the image below for press/radio support
The Charlattans + Burt Bacharach x Stone Roses = Elevator
Suite
Musical Maths; Nice one!
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Lots of great new music and releases are planned for the New
Year, including the official release of Michael
Morph's first single for Pure Mint, The Crowd C'est Beau.
Please check back soon for full details.
Probable update b4 Christmas, but if not, have a good one,
and try and be nice to your family.
Much love and peace for 2008
Anthony x
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October 07/07_
What a wonderful month September was! In the UK, the
sun finally showed its face after a considerably long absence!,
lots of lovely people started playing Pure Mint records on
the radio (Annie Nightingale BBC Radio1,
Kiss FM, XFM, Ministry of Sound, Juice FM, etc. to
name a few) and lots of great reviews started coming in for Elevator Suite's eponymous second album. We'll do a full update on press
and radio plays for Michael Morph and Elevator Suite later
this week. Please check back soon.
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If you are at a loose end one evening during the next month
or so, please try and check out FreshFabrik on their tour of England, Wales and Scotland, supporting the
fabulous McQueen. FreshFabrik
have played with bands like AC/DC and Rammstein in their home
territory, but this is their first UK tour, so please come
out and show them your support. Thanks.
Click image for larger version.
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August 16/07_
Apologies for the delay in updating the web. Lots of
stuff been happening - all good :-)
We are just gearing up for the release of the amazing second
album by Elevator Suite.
Due for release 1st October 2007. Check out the 'Swell' bars up and down the UK during September for exclusive pre-release
'easy-listening'. And following on later in October
we have the debut single from the awesome Michael
Morph, with remixes from Aquasky, Crazy P and Long
Range amongst others....check back soon.
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A big thanks to all at the Planetary group in Boston for their
recent radio promotion of 16
Words across the States. The record ended up being
added at over 125 college and FM stations and even charted
at 4 in the top 10. And FreshFabrik will be touring
the UK in October and November supporting McQueen - more info
soon.
Two great legends
of the music industry sadly passed away recently:-
Anthony
Wilson 1950-2007
Lee
Hazlewood 1929-2007
RIP_Let the music play on.....
Peace.
Anthony 16.08.07
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May 29/07_
Margo's 16 Words is really starting to "explode" on YouTube; .....maybe
it's one of those missing Weapons of Mass Destruction!!
An increase of a further 12,000 viewings in the last 8 days
(over 22,000 to date!). Thank you everybody - please
keep spreading the word and feel free to pass round the link
to your friends.

Click image above to watch YouTube
video
But more than that......we are really pleased to announce
that 16 Words has now also reached the heart of the USA Administration.
Via an introduction from world renowned Barrister and Writer, Phillipe Sands QC, via one of Bill Clinton's most senior advisors,
16 Words has reached the ears of Joseph
C Wilson, the former Ambassador to Iraq, and the man sent
by the CIA in 2002 to investigate claims that Saddam was attempting
to buy Uranium.
Further
information on background to 16 Words here...
Joe and I have since been involved in a wonderful correspondence
and Joe has given the song a glowing personal endorsement
and quote:-
"16 Words" is a hauntingly effective anti war anthem
that uses George Bush's own words to condemn him. A listener
of this song, so powerful in its stark simplicity, comes away
understanding that the blood on Bush's hands stems from the
lies that came out of his mouth." -
Joe Wilson
Joe was one of the few 'honest' officials who was willing
to stand up to the Bush Administration when he claimed that Bush
was 'exaggerating' the threat of WMD's. It was Joe's
op-ed piece in the New York Times critiicising the 'rush to
war' that led to the identity of his wife Valerie Plame being
leaked and exposed by Scooter Libby (and quite possibly Cheney)
as a CIA agent. This of course is a criminal act and Libby was found guilty in March 07
and is currently awaiting sentencing as I write this.
Peace.
Anthony 29.05.07
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April 30/07_
Greetings all.
Big shouts out to KCRW (Los Angeles) for playing 16
Words and an especial thank you to the very influential Drowned
in Sound for their wonderful (and erudite) review of 16 Words. As Margo said to me [of the DIS review]; 'I love when people absolutely get my intention..!'. So thanks guys... ...much
appreciated and we're glad you got the humour!
Today sees the first single On
'n' On released from FreshFabrik's Finest backed with a brand new recording See
You Over There. Please click the image below to
take you through to our catalogue page where you can buy the
record and take a quick 'pre-listen'.
FreshFabrik_ON
'N' ON
Released today, 30th April. Click image to buy CD |
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It feels like summer is already here in the UK at the moment!
Which is nice :-)
Peace.
Anthony 30.04.07
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April 23/07_
And now for something completely different....
Margo Guryan_16
WORDS
Released today, 23rd April. Click image to buy Enhanced CD (features Video) |
Video_16
WORDS
More info.... |
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Today is St
George's Day in England.....
To commemorate this proud day we present to our audience a
wonderfully funny and satirical work of pure genius from a
true legend of the music industry Margo
Guryan. Taking its cue from a mix of Monty
Python meets Spitting Image,
16 Words is a very clever satire on the words used to justify
the current war with Iraq.
With Tony Blair once again referring to his
legacy last week, we offer 16
Words as a reminder of another part of his legacy,
the war in Iraq, and more importantly the reasons originally
given to justify such an invasion of Iraq.
We are honoured to be working with Margo to get this clever
and funny song and video to a wider audience.
Click here for further
information on the 16 Words, and their origins.
Oh.......
and by the way.....
St George kicked the ass of the Dragon!
Peace.
Anthony 23.04.07
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April 04/07_
Please
click on images above to watch the videos.....more information
soon.
Peace & Happy Easter.
Anthony 04.04.07
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March 08/07_
Robert Michael_ 1951-2007_RIP
I have
some very sad news to relate. Robert Michael, from T-Total,
passed away early on 1st March after a short illness.
Robert will be very sadly missed by all of us at Pure Mint
and we extend our condolences to his family and his many friends
and to his partner David. Robert was a hugely talented producer
and DJ and also a great personal friend; his “Healing
Song” was the first Mint Source record ever to be played
on the radio thanks to Norman Jay, and thanks to Robert's
music. I salute you Robert for your friendship and guidance
over the years, and may you rest in peace.
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We
are busy getting some new releases ready for April.
A big shout out to Ian
Camfield on XFM for playing FreshFabrik's On
“n” On last Sunday. Thank you.
Update soon_Peace x
Anthony 08.03.07
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January 19/07_
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Hi everyone. Please check out this month's edition of
Classic Rock featuring the legendary Robert
Plant (Led Zeppelin) on the front cover. On the cover also is a CD of the "best new music" of 2007, with a great track
from FreshFabrik. We hope you like it.
Lots of fantastic press has been coming in for the album and
we will shortly be releasing the first single.....please check
back here soon. We are off to Midem next week and will update the press and web fully on our return.
Thank you for your continued support. Let's together get the liars, deceivers, warmongerers and evil-doers
out of power!
Peace x
Anthony 19.01.07
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December
04/06_

FreshFabrik
are one of Hungary's leading hard-rock/alternative bands.
They have spent the past twelve years building a reputation as one
of the most dynamic and vital live bands on the European circuit
and have toured with German heavy metal maestros Rammstein, as well
as supporting Muse and stadium-rock giants AC/DC. Finest
is an album that we are very excited about here at Pure
Mint. The early pre-release reactions from both the
press and some very important industry figures have been phenomenal
and we sincerely hope that you will also love this album as much
as we do.
The record is a fantastic blend of alternative guitar/hard rock
with sublime melodies, all produced under the careful hands and
stewardship of internationally-renowned Smart Studios producer Mr.Colson
(Smashing Pumpkins, Skunk Anansie, Nirvana etc.). Please click on
the image above for further information.
The album is officially released on CD today (4th December 2006)
and also available from iTunes.
All other good record shops and download sites should also have
copies and stock soon. If any record shops do not have stock,
please order it, or alternatively you can always buy directly from
Pure Mint by clicking whereever you see the BUY
logo. We send records all around the world and our secure
credit card payment provider is Barclays.
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We are in the process of updating our catalogue and BUY links.
You will shortly be able to sample all the music for sale on our
website before buying. Please bear with us whilst we confirm
all the links and add the relevant sample clip buttons.
Love n Peace x
Anthony 04.12.06
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November 24/06_
Christmas will soon be upon us and we will shortly be releasing
a great album called Finest by
FreshFabrik,
that has already won over the ear of some very fine people indeed,
and which we are very proud to have on Pure Mint.
For a limited time, if you have a Sony PSP, you can download for
free a video to your PSP. The video is for the song On
'n' On taken from the album. Clicking the image below
will take you through to Sony's PSP download site..... an early
Christmas present for you lucky PSP owners from all of us here at
Pure Mint ;-)
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Click
on image left
to
download video.
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The album will shortly be avaialble in both digital and CD formats.
The images below are some examples of the wonderful artwork by David
Vigh @ Vitamin.
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Anthony 24.11.06
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September 19/06_
Hi everyone. A quick web-update. We are leaving
today to go to the music festival Popkomm
in Berlin, Germany to launch a couple of new projects, meet with
our distributors, and generally have a bit of a laugh and drink
some BEER! We will update the website properly on our return,
but here is a little teaser of a small part of the artwork from
an album we at Pure Mint Recordings are very proud to present and
which is due to launch later this year..... More soon.

Please also be introduced to
THE CALENDAR OF JOY. Feel free to become a friend, leave
comments and/or help spread the Joy! More on this madness
soon! Click image below for a link to the Calendar of Joy's
myspace page:-
Full update on our return from Berlin. Thank you for all of
your wonderful continued support from all over the world, and let's
together bring about a change (BLAIR IS GOING yipppeee!!!) and help
forge a new start under the banner of;
Peace.
Anthony 19.09.06
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July
23/06_

Pilgrimage to The Cedars In Lebanon
Csontvary Kosztka (1907) -
National
Gallery Budapest
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About 15 months ago, Bevin Fagan
(Matumbi/EMI)
and I (Anthony Hall) started writing & recording an album, that,
for the last year or so, has gone by the working title of THE
CEDARS OF LEBANON. We are due to start mixing the album soon
and hope to release it sometime in the New Year. Bevin also
contributed vocals to Heavy Deviance's
SAFE & WARM, which is featured on the album A
SLOW WALK DOWN THE STAIRS.
Bevin and I wanted to offer for free an MP3 monitor mix of THE
CEDARS OF LEBANON, so if you click on the painting above
or here it will
take you through to our Pure
Mint MYSPACE page - where you can
download the track for free for a limited period, and please feel
free to add your comments as we would love to know what you think
of it.
This is not about taking sides;
it is simply about stopping the bloodshed and violence. Pure Mint
has been very outspoken against the horrors of the last few years
(whoever the perpetrator), and this new war is no different. Either
we are all going to start living together (and
acknowledge and celebrate our differences), or, to coin a
phrase, “whatever" - which seems to me an admission that
we have all somehow failed.
Full web update soon.
Peace x
Anthony 23.07.06
July 17/06_
We apologise for the paucity of updates recently.....though
this is an excellent opportunity for us to extend a very big thank
you to everyone who has been dropping by our website over recent
months- the web-user stats have been showing a dramatic month by
month increase recently (and from all over the world, from China,
to Japan to the
USA, Africa and Europe
and even (Mr Bush) Iran!)
Thank you and please keep passing a good word around about the label
and its fresh 'ethos' as we very much appreciate this and are honoured
by your continued support.
Recently we have been very busy working away in the studio on some
exciting new releases we have planned for the label and we hope
to be in a position to provide a full update on these forthcoming
releases very soon. Please check back shortly. We are
also in the process of undertaking a slight revamp of the website,
so that archive material (particularly) is easier to get to.
More soon.
In the meantime (and particularly if you are in the UK) I hope you
continue to enjoy this glorious summer we have been having.
Peace
Anthony 17.07.06
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April 19/06_

Click on image above for full details.
All welcome.
Peace.
Anthony 19.04.06
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March 29/06_
"We will introduce ID cards
. . . rolling out initially on a voluntary
basis as people renew their passports" (The
Labour Party Manifesto 2005 p.54 [emphasis added])
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Some of you may know that yesterday our second chamber, -
The House of Lords - and for the 5th time - sent back to the House
of Commons the proposed ID Bill (currently doing the rounds at parliament)
for further revision.
The Lords have rejected the government's plans to introduce compulsory
ID cards with passport renewals.
Aside from the Lords'
genuinely held concerns about the potential for the serious risk
of compromising an individual's personal and private information
(and their legitimate concerns about the sharing of “the collected
data” in both the private and public sectors), the Lords have
also decided to stand up to this morally destitute government by
holding them up to their manifesto pledge!
And they are right to
do so; in fact a failure to act in this way effectively negates
the real purpose of having a 2nd chamber i.e. a body of the
executive that can act as a counterbalance and a check on the first.
It is an essential part of the democracy that Tony
and George claim to love so
much.
My tuppence – I am wholly
against the ID card scheme, although I could live with the Lords'
concession that it be available on an opt-in
or voluntary basis. I am against it for a simple reason
based on the legal principles of confidentiality
and privacy. Many proponents of the scheme posit that
‘since all of us have to prove who we are many times a day',
say when opening a bank account or signing a new tenancy agreement
(or such like), or signing in at work, ‘that
there will be no difference with an ID card'. In this
they are partially right , but really, they are somewhat 'missing
the point'.
Agreed
- we do have to prove our identity on a regular basis and I have
no problem with this and will happily continue to produce my passport
and some utility bills when opening, say, a new bank account.
The issue I have with
ID cards is not "proof of identity", it is just that that
under the current system, the relationship I have with the passport
office vis-a-vis my passport is to all intents and purposes confidential
and personal. I also have a confidential and personal relationship
with my bank, facilitated by the existence of my passport.
My passport however does not
have a confidential relationship with my bank, and nor should it!
Under the proposed ID system my passport and my bank are
linked like they never really were before, both in time and place,
and the traffic is in both directions i.e. from bank to passport
and from passport to bank. Under the current system, the
bank can legitimately check with the passport office about the validity
of my passport, but the passport office cannot find out if I have
a bank account without going through the legislative/judicial body
and applying due process. And rightly so – this
is confidential and private information.
I would imagine that the
technology will not be disimilar to the rather unimaginatively titled
“chip and pin”, where presumably you are going to have to prove
your ID by swiping your card, perhaps in situations that were previously
fairly mundane; such as, buying a public transport pass, staying
at a hotel, using your works' computer etc.
Every swipe will be logged
onto the system - where you are and at what time and with
pinpoint accuracy far superior to satellite technology – as this
is how computer systems work. There will also by necessity have
to be some form of communication (in both directions), presumably
down the telephony system (or its equivalent). Your
whole life will start to be recorded. The possibilities for
interception or misuse of the data are also clear.
Forget trying to protect the identity of your mistresses,
those weekend-away hotels, the flights to Egypt to torture prospective
Guantanamo guests!! Ha! Here comes Big Brother!
If you are a believer,
then God is rightly the only one capable of keeping or entitled
to keep a record. I don't think Tony Blair is God, although
perhaps Tony occasionally thinks otherwise! And if you don't
believe in God, then ask yourself this question, “do you really
want Tony to act and behave just like he is God?”
Sorry for the strong words
– kids look away – but this is bullshit legislation from a distrusted
and provenly dishonest regime, who clearly cannot keep to their
manifesto pledge. Reject it absolutely.
The ID bill is important and
its ramifications are huge and potentially very dangerous.
For once, although the Lords do have their issues, support them.
It might be their last most important act of defiance.
For further information on the potential
ramifications of the ID card, please click the link below.
Peace.
Anthony 29.03.06
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January
13/06_
A belated Happy New Year to you all. Pheww! - What a fantastic
response we have received to the Heavy
Deviance album from all the major UK press and Radio 1 FM &
Channel 4 TV etc., with still more coming in. And it was only
released a few weeks back!
Big big thanks; and an especially big 'thank you' to M8
magazine for making A SLOW WALK
their 16th favourite album of 2005 - alongside
Basement Jaxx, Laurent Garnier, Royksop, Chemical Brothers &
Scruff etc. Wow! - quite simply takes the breath away.
But then we knew we had a great album when we put the finishing
touches to it!
For a full list of press please click
here.
I have finally gotten around to digitizing the "launch party"
photos, so plase click here
for some photos of Heavy Deviance in action live. Please keep
an eye on the web for more live appeareances soon, plus a fantastic
range of t-shirts. Watch this space!
Thank you to everyone who has gone out and bought the album (or
downloaded it), and to everyone who has supported our fledgling
label right from the beginning. It is almost surreal to think
that we are now 3 years old (in one guise or another) - and it has
been quite some journey! Plus more to do and more to see and
more tunes to play and hear! - We have lots of great music and nights
out lined up for your pleasure in 2006.
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If you are having trouble finding some of our records in some of
the major chains then please note that there
are alternatives; HMV and Fopp both have stocks of Heavy
D in store and we are working on Virgin, who reviewed the record
on their Virgin.Net
site with a cracking 4 out of 5, yet currently, I am told,
are not taking stock. I put it down to post modernist irony
a.k.a bullshit!! So stock should be there hopefully soon, but if
you are having any problems getting hold of any of our tunes or
releases then please just drop me an
email and we will see if we can help.
The plethora of digital "saviours of the indies", iTunes
(...a staggering 20 million downloads
in the week before Christmas), Napster, Tunetribe, Karma
Download all have digital MP3's of our catalogue and you can also
always buy the physical records directly and securely from us here
in the UK.
I noted that HMV and their ilk were complaining this week about
their sales figures being eroded by the phenomenal digital consumption
uptake, but there are I think good reasons for this. Firstly
there are no ridiculous "returns" policies on digital.
And there's greater choice. It is an uphill struggle for the
"indie" labels to get product into the major retailers.
No such problems (on the whole) exist within the digital sector
- once you are in. It is not rocket science to realise that
without better support for the independent sector from the major
retailers (including the supermarkets), the indies will, by necessity,
have to concentrate more of their efforts on digital distribution,
where the risks are massively reduced and the labels are not at
the whim and call of "head buyers" and their inevitable
subjective opinions. These, are the long nails the retailers
appear only to keen to drive into their own coffins!
If you want to buy directly from us, please do. In fact it is better
for our business model. We ship promptly and securely throughout
the world, and we look forward to receiving your orders soon! :-)
We are backed by Barclays so all of your transactions are protected
and secure.
Here's to 2006 and England winning the World Cup! Yeah but no but
yeah but no but yeah!
Love and Peace
Anthony 13.01.06
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November 25/05_
A big thank you to everyone who made it down to the Heavy
Devance launch on Monday night in Shoreditch, and even if I
do say so myself, what a most excellent evening it was. Thank
you all for the brilliant attendance, the Photon's for the superb
visuals and judging from the hugely positive 'post-party'
responses, the band, well, quite simply a total success; and for
me personally, certainly one of my favourite Mint
parties of the last 3 years. Thank you to the DJ's and everyone
who worked 'behind the scenes' to make the night go so smoothly.
I am going to post pictures and more here soon.
In case anyone missed it, Hea vy Deviance were featured in
a 30 minute segment on Paul
Thomas's "ONE WORLD" show on BBC Radio 1 last Sunday
evening/Monday morning, discussing stuff and playing tracks from
the new album. You can here it again for a limited time on
the BBC's
Listen Again feature.
Anthony 25.11.05
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November 14/05_
We are incredibly proud and pleased to present the stunning debut
album from Heavy Deviance "A
Slow Walk Down The Stairs", which has already received
fabulous reviews in the UK music press with many more lined up for
November and December. Watch this space! Featuring collaborations
with Crazy Penis, amongst many others, this album is both simultaneously
groovy and chilled out, being a mish mash of many eclectic and tasteful
styles, all put together under the careful direction and control
of main Deviant, Mr. Wayne Roberts. The album is now available
to buy from all good record shops, on-line here, and also iTunes.
It is distributed by Revolver/Universal and please ask your local
record store to stock it if they have not already! Thanks.
To celebrate the launch of the LP, we are hosting a party at DUST
in Shoreditch on Monday 21st November 2005. Please
click on flyer above for full details.
The party is free (by advanced
guestlist) and with DJ sets from the fantastic Michael Morph
and Rhys Adams, supporting a full
band live appearance from the Heavy Deviance boys and girls,
this is assuredly a night to put on your best dancing shoes and
glad rags and come and join us in a toast to celebrate what some
journalists have already tipped as "one
of the best albums of the year". All are welcome.
Festivities start at 8pm sharp.
Reminder - we are hosting another Room To Manoeuvre this Friday
(18th November) at the Koba in Brighton. This is the first
of the new Friday night slots for this groovy little club. As with
all the Mint (and Funky Beeva) nights, soulful genuine real music
is on the menu, from start to finish! Full details here.
Peace. Anthony 14.11.05 x
October 29/05_
To all of you who have either purchased or downloaded a
copy of Baby's On Fire. ..we
salute you! Our sincere thanks. The record is now generally
available - at least in the UK - from all good record shops, and
please remember that you can also buy any of our releases securely
using your credit card through the website. Please click wherever
you see the
button.
Thanks once again to Rockamerica
for featuring the BOF
video on their October video pool across the USA from bars
to clubs and shopping malls, keeping fine company along with the
likes of luminaries such as Mariah Carey, Todd Terry, Faithless,
Deep Dish and Paul Van Dyke (to name but a few)!!
For those of you in Brighton this Sunday (30th Oct), our very own
DJ Attorney makes a rare outing on the decks; with guranteed 'boogie-on-down'
soul and funky beats for all, and a set from guest DJ Will B who
will also be spinning for your musical pleasure. This Sunday
is the last of the Sundays before Room
To Manoeuvre moves to its new Friday night slot from 18th November.
Please click on the flyer below for full details:

Photos from past R2M's
Channel
4 Music recently commented on the Heavy Deviance debut album
with the following kind words: "We tried to pick the best track
from this record but we couldn't. They are all quite wonderful."
Cheers. DMC Update recommended it with (4/5) in their issue
this week. Thanks again; there are many more reviews
and features lined up in November and December across the UK music
press, so please check back here for updates.
The album, A SLOW WALK DOWN THE STAIRS , is a real cracker/corker,
and takes the listener on a 'full on' musical journey through a
landscape fused from diverse musical influences. It is distributed
by Revolver/Universal in the UK and will be available to buy in
the shops and on-line from 14th November 2005. It would make
an ideal christmas present for Granny! and all serious music lovers
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We are launching the album at Dust in Shoreditch on Monday 21 st
November 2005 from 8pm til 12am, with DJ sets from Frankie Valley
(Grand Central) and Miichael Morph (File Under Music) , together
with a live band appearance from Heavy Deviance, which all of us
here at Pure Mint are really looking forward to. More details
and flyer/guestlist soon and all are welcome. It will be free
:-)
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ANT's POLITICAL RANT FOLLOWS_ for those with too much time on their
hands! (though I guess that's better than too much blood!)
So there you have it. One illegal war, at least two lying
heads of state - you know who you are - and now a senior official
of the USA government indicted
, for being, well, how do you put this politely; "A Lying Son
of a Bitch" .
Interesting days- Someone indicted for lying about a leak, but no-one
indicted for the leak....strange! If you are not up to speed
on this particular story - then
I suggest you read some background here - as this case has
got the good 'ole Attorney
very excited over the last few months, if for no other reason than
the likely fall out from the imminent public trial will, at minimum,
be very damaging for the G reat W hore B abylon (and his cronies),
and if extended, perhaps even be fatal for the Administration;
that is, of course, if we are not all sidetracked in the meantime
by a war with Iran or Bird Flu, or an Alien Invasion, or......
DJ Attorney has a question: Does Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald
actually have the balls to take this investigation a little further
up the "chain of command", and disover, as part of that investigation,
who actually forged the infamous Niger Uranium documents (i.e. the
very same forgeries that the British first, and then the US,
second, relied upon to take us to war) and why? If so, then
this could all get very interesting. The truth will out in
the end, Mr. Tony and Mr. George. Someone forged these documents....may
I ask if if was perhaps either of you? But of course, that
would be just a "conspiracy theory!" Of course, silly me.
Which brings me neatly, Mr 'GWB', to Osama; we all know that he
did not and could not have flown the planes on his own (unless he
had an amazing remote controlled device - now there's a thought
- in the "bat cave" in Afghanistan), so logically he must have acted
in a "conspiracy" with others. Please note the words .
"Your theory", George, of " his conspiracy ", has, absent proof,
only as much validity as any other "conspiracy theory", absent proof.
Bush says "Libby
is presumed innocent" . I am wondering - Why does this
funadamental (and proper) rule of law not similarly apply to Guantanamo
detainees or even to Mr Bin Laden? Show me the money! (proof), George,
and you get my support! Simple.
With lying statesmen at the helm, I guess the gullible will believe
anything - but for me, simply repeating the mantra "The bad boys!
It was them that did it" is far from sufficient and is actually
pretty insulting to our intelligence. Let us hope that we
do not waste this fabulous opportunity to get to the bottom of this
horrible affair and with God's grace, find the real answers, and
thereby discover the truth.
Politics (and Ant's rants) over for now.
Webupdate imminent.
Thanks for supporting our funky little label. Love n Peace x
Anthony 28.10.05
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September 13/05_
Hi all – big apologies for the long delay in updating the website
– it's been busy, busy, busy. Pheww! Baby's
On Fire (BOF) on pre-release on iTunes
hit #5 (UK dance), #33
(USA) dance and pretty much everywhere else in between, and is currently
#5 on the Video-C on line charts
and received 5 “dancing men” out of 5
in Update for two weeks running at the end of August!!! with other
press here and other press there and soon to be seen on RockAmerica,
USA!! Thanks everybody. For a current full list of
press/support, please
click here.
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Illustrations
by Sophie Henson
Heavy Deviance_A Slow Walk
Down The Stairs
We are very pleased to announce that we have signed a deal with
Revolver/Universal Music
in the UK , so the full physical release of BOF is set for
the end of this month. In the meantime we have very
limited stocks of the first pressings available to buy from
our brand new web-shop,
where you can now buy safely with all major credit and debit cards
(using SSL secure technology through our electronic payment partners,
Barclays) directly
from us. Thank you to our first customers who have already
found the shop! Cheers, your custom is very much appreciated.
We have also just finished our very own MP3 download shop
- provided courtesy of DA
Recordings - so if you would like to collect some of the earlier
releases on MP3, please click wherever you see the MP3 icon.
We are also now listed on most of the major download sites, iTunes,
Karma, Tunetribe etc.
Beata Pozitiva (DJ Tilos Radio Budapest) and I are just off to Popkomm
in Berlin for a couple of days taking with us some of the great
new works we have coming out on Pure Mint over the next few months.
T-Total & Marc, obviously, but also the wonderful debut
album from Heavy Deviance, which has just returned from the manufacturer,
looking ‘spankingly' cool and hot! The illustrations above
are a little taster from the front cover artwork by Sophie Henson.
If you keep a well trained ear to the ground, you will be hearing
a lot more of this great album throughout the network of Swell bars
up and down the UK during this forthcoming October. Full
physical and digital release to follow later this Autumn.
Proper update when we return from Germany. Got to shoot...
Peace x
Anthony 13.09.05
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August 14/05_
Quick reminder that we are hosting another Room
To Manoeuvre tonight at the KoBa in Brighton, with guest DJ
Rhys Adams (Grand Central/ARP). We are starting to get some
great feedback on Baby's On Fire,
and if you would like to view an excerpt from the video, produced
by our good friends and 'grand masters of light', The Photon Shepherds,
please click on the screenshots below.
Click image above to view Video
Love and Peace x
Anthony 14.08.05
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August
9/05_
Hooray. Big shouts out to Apple (and Miriam in particular)
for your fantastic support of the label. Baby's On Fire is
available from today on exclusive pre-release download from iTunes.
Please click on the graphic below to purchase your own copy of this
'kicking little pop/dance' cross-over single featuring the legendary
Marc Almond (Soft Cell)
on vocals. Physical product release will be later this month,
and I shall post a preview of the amazing video here on the web
later this week.

Baby's On Fire/Take Me Away _T-Total ft. Marc Almond
4 track ep. exclusive pre-release download (iTunes) 9.8.05
To all who made it down to our recent funky night-out in Brighton
(Room To Manouevre) , a big thank
you! We will post some photos very soon. The night was
a wonderfully intimate and groovy affair with Jim (from Crazy
P ) and Wayne (from Heavy Deviance
) providing the night's funky beats. We have another one
set for this Sunday (14th August), so please click here for venue,
admission, times etc. All are welcome.
More soon.....and thank you for all of your continued support.
Anthony 09.08.05
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July 22/05_

ROOM TO MANOEUVRE _ 31st July 2005
Jim Baron (Crazy Penis) & Wayne Roberts (Heavy Deviance)
We are very pleased to announce the launch of a new regular party
night, ROOM TO MANOEUVRE , at
a club called Koba in Brighton.
In association with Funky Beeva, the first night features the most
excellent Crazy Penis doing a DJ set and Heavy Deviance also spinning
the tunes, including, I am sure, some from the forthcoming album
A SLOW WALK DOWN THE STAIRS. With Crazy
Penis on something of a roll at the moment and an exciting
new album out on Shiva soon with a tour of Australia planned in
September and the UK in October, this is guaranteed to be a night
of tuneful soulful funky ass beats. All are welcome, and please
click on the flyer above for further info.
What with the bombings, the shootings, the Olympics and the rather
'ill-thought out' rush towards more excessive executive powers,
London seems, at the moment, to have been metaphysically transported
somewhere into Terry Gilliam's extended alter ego (see Brazil
), and as a result a little out of sorts, but London is and
always has been a strong place. A wonderfully cosmopolitan
city that has never been an easy city to live in, but has always
remained a welcoming, artisically and intellectually stimulating
place to live and be part of, and where "free thought" has always
flourished, and is perhaps one of its stronger and more noble attributes.
It would be a tragedy if we were all to so unilaterally and unquestioningly
give that up. History has countless records of evil lurking in the
strangest places, with its multifarious tentacles, here there and
everywhere. All of us at Pure Mint extend our deepest sympathies
to all of those affected by the recent terrible events. It
really is a cliche, but the answer is Love, and perhaps this particular
cliche is true.
Peace. x
Anthony 22.07.05
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June 26/05_
Only time for a very quick web update before I go off on a small
holiday. The T-Total/Marc single is coming along perfectly
- please come back soon, as we will be posting a link to see a special
preview clip of the brilliant video (produced by the most excellent
Photons ), and which
is almost now complete.
Here is a taster of the artwork for the time being.

T-Total featuring Marc Almond _BABY'S ON FIRE/TAKE ME AWAY
Design by Vitamin.
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We are really pleased to announce that we have been accepted onto
Apple's i-Tunes, so very shortly you will be able to get hold of
our music to play on your i-Pods...
Here's some "food for thought" about the Live8 concert for July
2nd with Sir Bob;.......I was just wondering.....but you know how
each act (U2, Coldplay etc.) is gonna be playing to literally billions
of peple - 5.5 billion according to the Mirror Newspaper this morning
- I was thinking, wouldn't it be a lovely and perhaps proper gesture
if the record companies gave, say, 50% of their increased profits
resulting from any increased sales made as a result of an act's
appearance at Live8, to African aid agencies? It would be
a fairly easy task to prove "increased profits" by reference to
the previous 2 months sales against the 2 months post Live8.
Just a thought.
Otherwise it looks to me that the Artists and the Labels are really
only benefiting themselves, or is that a little harsh? Only
an idea, and Sir Bob, if you want one of my acts, I'll give you
50% of the increased profits for a 2 month period after the date
of performance. Guaranteed. Your shout...Sir Bob.
See you soon. Peace.
Anthony 26.06.05
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June01/05_

T-Total featuring Marc Almond _BABY'S ON FIRE
Photo by Michelle Robek (c.) 2005
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Hello all and a "warm" welcome to everyone to the 'ever so slightly
different world' of PURE MINT . It is the first of June today
and we have lots of exciting news for you ;-) - most of it of a
fiery nature.....
First off, and in a very exciting move for the label, we have a
single, planned for release exclusively on iTunes on Tuesday 9th
August and physically released two weeks thereafter, from T-TOTAL
featuring guest vocals from world renowned SOFT CELL vocalist MARC
ALMOND . We are really proud and happy to be working with
both Robert and Tim and Marc, and we think you will also be very
happy and impressed with the results. The track is a double
A side to be released on both 12" single and also on CD, and we
have also shot a lovely video for the song with Marc and the boys,
which we are currently editing, and which we are sure is going to
help 'raise the temperature' significantly.
Please check back here soon, but for the time being, I hope you
enjoy the fun little JPEG teaser above, and the flames are intentional!!
I am told we are heading for a heat wave this summer (apparently),
so it is time to make this baby burn! Burn baby burn....

A Beeva Night, in association with Funky Beeva. Line
up...
For all those who are around in Amsterdam next weekend (12th June),
and fancy getting away from all the "constituional nonsense" gripping
the Netherlands (and France), then please come along to our party
at Bitterzoet . It
is on Sunday 12th with our regulars Heavy Deviance and Barth Fader.
Please click on the flyer (above) for further details.
The new HEAVY DEVIANCE album
"A SLOW WALK DOWN THE STAIRS" is scheduled for a September 05 release,
so please also check back here soon for updates on the album.
It is sounding and looking absolutely wonderful....more soon.
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Business News -
We are currently in the process of updating the SHOPPING
LIST section of the website, which we will shortly be dramatically
improving for your 'shopping pleasure'. We have been very
gratefully offered an electronic payment systm by BARCLAYS BANK,
so very soon you will be able to deal directly with us using their
SSL secure payment processing system, in the knowledge that your
transactions will be fully secure and protected.
The new shop should be up and running within the next few weeks
and I would like to take this opportunity to thank ALL OF YOU who
regularly 'drop by' our website each month. The stats are hugely
impressive and have been very encouraging to this little indie label
(that we are), so welcome everybody, whether you are accessing us
from IRAN or INDIA, the USA or JAPAN, or pretty much everywhere
in between. We value and appreciate your support. Thanks.
MP3s
We are also currently in discussions with the major MP3 providers
and you should, with a good tail wind, be seeing and hearing a lot
more from us soon.
For now, please take care, and if you are minded to give praise,
'thank God'. Let's all pray that the next 4 years (under the stewardship
of Mr Blair) involves a little less state sponsored genocide than
the last 4 years.
Regards
DJ Attorney. 01.06.05
April25/05_
Hi all.
Congtratulations are hereby extended to Wayne Roberts from HEAVY
DEVIANCE for the hugely entertaining screening of his debut
short feature WINFORD LOCKINGTON's HEALTH & SAFETY video at
the EXP-TV "Short Film" Network
event at 93 Feet East on Saturday 23rd April 2005.
The film, a wonderfully irreverent take on 'industry standard' corporate
instruction videos, together with its main character (Wayne's "alter-ego"
WINFORD LOCKINGTON ), went down an absolute storm with the audience,
and I wish Wayne all the very best of success with it. 'Winford'
will also hopefully soon to be getting his first television broadcast
transmission on Sky and NTL shortly, and I will post an update here
when I know more. Please check back for details. For
the time being, here is the cover from the DVD... and a copy of
the flyer from the event.

Flyer......

EXP-TV - Short Film Network .
A big thank you is also extended to everyone who was able to make
the HOLY BEEVASHIP party at
Bitterzoet, Amsterdam on the 3rd April. It was great to see
all of you there and we will be back soon to hold another.
Please check the web for updates on all of our events and parties.
We are 'mastering' a new 12" vinyl this Tuesday for an exciting
new single from one of our acts (with special "guest vocals" to
be revealed soon...!!), which we are also preparing a great new
video for. It will be released later this summer 2005 and
I will update the web properly soon. The long awaited debut
Heavy Deviance album, which now has a name "A SLOW WALK DOWN THE
STAIRS" , is currently being 'top & tailed' ready for your forthcoming
listening pleasure. Again, an update soon.
All best wishes for now. Use your vote wisely. My advice
- Avoid Liars.
Anthony. 25.04.05
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March
25/05_
Happy Easter to everybody. It's 'Good Friday' today, a bit
of a 'misnomer' whatever your religious viewpoint. But I won't
start off on one. Not just yet anyway.
We are having another party THE HOLY
BEEVASHIP with the zany and wonderful Funky
Beeva crew at Bitterzoet
in Amsterdam on 3rd April 2005. It all 'kicks off' at
around 10pm with DJ sets from Amsterdam legend Bart Fader, the UK's
Michael Morph and our very own Heavy Deviance headlining the night.
I hope as many of you as possible can come and "boogey on down"
with us all. Guranteed fun for all...;-)
Please click on the Flyer for further details / admission / address:

Funky Beeva in association with Pure Mint Recordings:
The Holy Beevaship
Canada has been and gone and I would like to thank everybody I got
to hang out with, and all the great people I got to meet, for your
hospitality and kindness. It was a hoot. Ta.
Canada is a wonderful country full of really great people and it
was an honour to be invited by Canadian Music Week and the BPI to
come to Toronto and let all you lovely Canadians know what we at
Pure Mint have been up to, and give you a 'taster' of what we have
coming up over the next few months......watch this space.
Exciting things are afoot!
Here is a picture of the CN Tower. Unfortunately I left my
camera at home, so there are only a few other photos that I took
- with one of those disposable cameras - but please have a look.
I also got the chance to make a flying visit to Niagra falls - which
was very impressive and definitiely worth seeing.

The CN Tower , Toronto, Canada
More Photos.....
Forthcoming Pure Mint releases are moving steadily towards the production
line, including an exiting new single which we are currently keeping
the wraps on. Update soon.
Ant's Rants (new websection - Ed!) - Whilst everyone argues about
the release of the Attorney General's advice, and whether it is
a legally privileged document or not, it seems to me that somehow
we are all missing the point,..... somewhat. The question
is not whether the advice should be released but whether the war
was legal? If it was, then we don't need to see the advice,
if it wasn't then someone has been "negligent".
Peace. x.
Anthony. 25.03.05
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February
12/05_
Hi all. Quick web-update. Just got back from a fantastically
productive and hugely fun Midem (though admittedly probably the
coldest Midem ever on record!!!!). This year we had to keep
drinking just to keep warm! Honest!
I am very pleased to announce that we will soon be travelling again,
as we have been invited by Canadian
Music Week and the BPI
to take part in a sponsored trade mission to Canada (March 2- 6)
for the CMW festival in Toronto. More info soon.
The Blvd. Directed by Danny
Minnick. Produced by Friends
Productions. 2005. Movie features
Crazy Penis - Fly (taken
from Flowers in the
Attic).
We are also really proud to announce that we have just licensed
the first of the label's tunes to a great movie, which has just
been releaed on DVD in the USA and is scheduled for its Hollywood
premiere soon (see image above). THE
BLVD, directed by "skate" legend Danny Minnick,
takes you behind the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, and features
cameo appearances from superstars such as Quentin
Tarrantino, Harold Hunter (Kids)
and Max Perlich (Drugstore Cowboy),
coupled with breaktaking footage of some of Hollywoods best "pro"
skaters.
Crazy Penis open the film in
their inimitable disco house style, with the movie then taking you
on a rollercoaster (Ed- skateboard!)
high energy ride around Hollywood (and its back streets and the
famous Boulevard itself), all bouncing along to a kicking soundtrack
from the likes of Flava Fav, Weezer, Ralph Myerz and many others.
Produced by Friends Productions in LA, please check out their website
www.friendsproductions.tv
to get more info and/or order copies. A big thank you is extended
to Darryl at Universal/Geffen for helping to make this happen for
us. Thanks.
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For those of you who
were able to make it to Lannie's gig in January, a big thank you
also. The evening was a wonderfully intimate session, with
Run (Lannie) singing a variety of pieces from his past cannon/ouvre
together with many of his newer orginals. Please click here
for a few photos of Run in action.
A new date for the party diary. We shall be back in Amsterdam
again at Bitterzoet
for another party with our very good friends at Funky
Beeva on 3 April 2005. Full line-up and details to follow
shortly.
The debut album from Heavy
Deviance is currently having the finishing touches put to it
and pre-release promo copies will be with us soon.
Peace. x.
Anthony. 12.02.05
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January
7/05_
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I wish all of our regular and our new visitors a prosperous and
successful 'fun-filled' 2005 - I don't know about you lot, but I
have a suspiciously good feeling that this year will be a really
great year for music.
With that in mind, our very own 'living-legend' Running Water (aka
Lannie Fagan) - lead singer with world renowned reggae artists Matumbi
(Trojan/EMI)- is kicking off the start of 2005 with an intimate
session for London's 12 Bar Club on Tin Pan Alley.
The date is Wednesday 19th Jaunary from 7:30pm. Please click
here for futher details of the
venue's address.

I would like to extend a big thank you to the editors of M8
and Notion magazines for featuring great
profiles of the label in their January 2005 issues.
For those
of you who were able to make it to our party in Amsterdam just before
Christmas, I have posted a few photos below. The Funky
Beeva crew did us all proud and promoted an excellently enjoyable
evening that was brilliantly attended and fantastically well "danced"!!!!
And that's what Life's all about I reckon; it's not
about blowing the shit out of the deserts (and the people)
of Iraq in the 'duplicitious bollocks' of so-called "democracy",
nor about 'lying' to the country (....whilst 'lying-low'
in Egypt!)- it's just about spending as much time as possible boogying
on down with beautiful people to groovy tunes. Or at least
it should be!
We are off to Cannes for Midem
in just over two weeks time to spread "more love" and
to let loose some great new MINT tunes....so an update on my return.
Peace to all.
Anthony. 07.01.05
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November
27/04_
Hello all and welcome.
It has been a little while
since the last proper web-update, and I am very pleased to say that
in the meantime we have started supplying Cisco
Records - a great chain of vinyl shops in Tokyo, Osaka and Sapporo. Welcome
to everyone in Japan who has maybe bought or heard one of our tunes
recently. Thanks for your support and I hope that you enjoy
wondering around our website.
We are also pleased to
announce that in conjunction with our very good friends - the
Funky Beeva crew - we are having a little celebration in Amsterdam
on Sunday 12th December 2004. It coincides almost exactly with
our birthday 2 years ago, so please come and celebrate our 2nd birthday
party with our friends and us. DJ sets from Heavy Deviance
(Pure Mint), Frankie Valley (Grand Central), Michael Morph (File
Under Music) and local legend Barth Fader (Fatbeats). The party
is from 10pm til 3am, only 5 Euros entry and the venue - Bitterzoet
- is excellent. All are welcome.
Full line-up/address
Industry Gossip.....
Apple
Corps (Beatles) and Apple Computers are still @ log-a-heads
and currently heading for the English High Courts to determine their
fascinating dispute! - ok it's fascinating
for me (DJ Attorney). Apple Computers recently changed
lawyers in mid-stream going from Linklaters to Freshfields - which
I must say seems an exceedingly strange thing to do. Maybe
they were getting the wrong advice, or perhaps advice they didn't
want to hear??!
Full details of the dispute
are thin on the ground, though it appears to hinge on a trademark
settlement agreement - rather than
a disputed trademark - which the parties entered into in the
early eighties. Apparently, so the rumours go, Apple USA agreed
not to enter the music industry - eerrrm; i-Tunes and Logic Audio
come along! And U2 endorsed i-Pods; eerm....does anyone remember
'Zooropa' or perhaps Bono has selective memory?
I understand one of Apple
USA's arguments may be that no-one then envisaged computers would
be powerful enough to deliver music, such as they are now. Well
- eeerrrm - what were the NED
Synclavier, the
Fairlight, and even the humble Mini-Moog
all about then, if not a form of computer "delivering"
music!…..and I am fairly confident that the Beatles wouldn't have
taken too kindly to Robert Moog releasing, say, the Apple
Moog in 1967/68; although I think the pair of them should
seriously consider making one now!……and while we are at it, isn't
an agreement once signed supposedly binding on both the parties
thereafter, caveat
emptor 'n' all! Or are we all heading into dangerous uncharted
territory here - where technological improvements negate the legality
or otherwise of previously negotiated and properly represented commercial
agreements?!
I sincerely hope that
I have not bored you with this one, but our very own DJ Attorney
is really looking forward to seeing how the case turns out (..he
doesn't get out much!…) and "the nutter"
is even considering booking a seat at the Royal Courts of Justice
to see if the Beatles have truly got the [bottle/gall!] (delete
as appropriate). I will let you know how it develops.
Enough for now. Early
date for the diaries. Lannie Glenmore Fagan (Running
Water) - lead singer with Matumbi and currently working on some
great new stuff for Pure Mint - is playing the 12 Bar Club on Denmark
Street in mid Jan 05. More details soon.
That's all for now.
Anthony. 27.11.04
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September 21/04_
Quick update...
Heavy Deviance has started
picking up some excellent press for 'Make
Me Feel It' with a loverly 4 dancing men out of 5 from
DMC Update (09_04) and the rather pastoral quote "...a
quartet of mixes of this deep and mellow number..bucolic impressions
and dream inducing electronic in mind. Nice one chaps!".
Lovely lovely.
Bucolic according to the dictionary - means; 'of or relating to
herdsmen' - which brings to mind Coleridge's opiate induced dream
poems, such as; ..."in xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure
dome decree...where alph the sacred river ran from caverns measureless
to man.." and so on and so forth. - Editors
note.
DJ Attorney was featured as a Tastemaker in the 11th September Music
Week, quoted as the MD of Mint
Source - not my fault BBH - honest!
And Freedom Republic's StarShaking
has started to pick up some fantastic interest from Zane Lowe at
BBC Radio 1 (winner of the 2004 NME Best Radio Award) - who featured
the band as part of the Fresh Meat segment of his show last week
- and also from Steve Lamacq who recently aired the track on his
BBC Radio 6. Thanks guys. Sure and solid quality support
is beginning to grow for what we all at Mint know to be a great
little band.
To hear exerpts from (or
buy over internet) any of our catalogue please click here
and then click more info.
All the best for now.
Attorney.
21_09_04
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August
27/04_
JAPAN_ well, what can I say?
When we landed in Tokyo,
the next day Mount Fuji went red

Photo (c) the
Japan Times /Kyodo Photos.
......which according to the Japan Times is an auspicious sign,
which itself apparently means ñauguring good fortuneî
and whose fundamental derivation is said to ultimately be taken
from ïthe flight of birds'. Nice; though I digress somewhat.
It was an honour and a privilege
to be a guest in Japan and I had a wonderful and amazing time in
a truly hospitable country; and made some excellent new friends
along the way....amongst both my fellow UK ñmissionariesî
- all of whom were promoting some fantastic new music - and also
with the many great Japanese contacts and associates we were fortunate
to meet and be introduced to.
A very big thank you is extended to Wendy Wyatt & Crispin Parry
from the BPI, Phil Patterson from UKTI and Keith and David in Japan
for the superlative organisation and for your wonderful company
throughout the week. On the label side, we have already been following
up a number of interesting "avenues" and Pure Mint very much hopes
to be back in Japan soon and certainly we shall be getting our records
there even sooner.
Tokyo is a fantastic city and it was great to get the opportunity
to meet up also with our Japanese licensee ageHa
( T-Totals - Feel The Rain/
Junior Vasquez ) and thank you also to Yuuki for the VIP treatment
at Womb . There are too many
others to thank individually so please take a blanket ñtaî
from me. Ta. I shall though personally thank Taiyo Nagano from the
Photon Shepherds for his help and friendship during my stay in Japan.
I will see you back in London soon Taiyo.
MINT NEWS_
On the Mint front we are starting to pick up some interest for Heavy
Deviance 's ' Make Me Feel It
' (a lovely 4 track 12" ep of dream inducing electronica/house)
with, I am told, a forthcoming 4/5 review in the influential DMC
update and wonderful support for the label from Annie Mac on Radio
1. Thanks.
Freedom
Republic 's Starshaking/40 Days
is available on a limited edition 7" vinyl with a cleverly
designed and very stylish sleeve from all quality purveyors of recordings.
A big thank you to Rick
O'Shea for recently supporting the track with a week's playlist
on his RTE show in Dublin in July. Cheers. Please
ask at your local record shop if you are having trouble finding
the vinyl and you can also hear snippets of the tracks here
.
NAPSTER_
We have also started getting
the Catalogue put onto various
downloads. The first available Pure Mint tracks are "Starshaking"
and "40 Days" by Freedom Republic and if you haven't got a turntable
then maybe you might want to get an MP3 of both tracks. They are
up on Napster UK . More downloads
will shortly be available.
That'll do for now.
Anthony 27.08.04
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July 31/04_
Just a quick update of the news. A very big thank you
to everyone who came down and supported us on a horrible and seriously
stormy night a few weeks back at Madame Jo Jo's. It was a
great fun night and thank you also to all the acts who performed.
I am off to Japan later today to make a presentation to the Japanese
Music and Media industries with the kind support of the BPI and
the DTI. It is a real privilege to be offered the opportunity
and I confess that I am really looking forward to it.
I will update
the web properly on my return. Many thanks for your continued
support.
Anthony
31.7.04
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July
5/04_
I thought I would update the web this time pictorially. We
are having a party this Wednesday (7th July). All are cordially
invited. Freedom Republic
, Khus Khus and MC
Blaze are on live duties; Heavy
Deviance and Frankie Valley (Grand
Central) on the decks. Festivities commence at 8pm.
Madame Jo Jo's. Soho. London.
Recording Sonic Flok . Soon to be featured on
ITV's Mixmasters with the
Photon Shepherds .
I thought you might like
to see the cover for the forthcoming 7" single Starshaking
b/w 40 Days out soon on Pure Mint. It's another wonderful
design from David.
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A: Star Shaking
B: 40 Days
7" vinyl disco bag. |
MINT NEWS _ Some news in the
Mint camp
The label has very kindly been offered an opportunity by the BPI
and the department of Trade and Industry to make a presentation
to the Japanese music industry in Tokyo at the beginning of August.
We are proud to be in the very good company of labels such as Fabric,
Sanctuary, One Little Indian and No Half Measures. All of
us at Mint are very much looking forward to spreading around more
of the Mint music (and some of the Hippie Punk ethic) to a wider
base both in the UK and abroad. More on the trip later.
 |
Map of
Japan
(c) CIA.
All Rights Reserved, including " due
process " |
Other news. We are putting the finishing touches to a kicking
little single from the Master Assassin, MC Blaze; there should be
some promos doing the rounds soon.
I thought I would also take this opportunity to thank everyone who
has been supporting the label from its inception and I feel confident
that we can now build on some really solid foundations with some
of the fabulous artists we are working with. A special thanks
to Daniel (our recent work placement student) for being so helpful
around the office and continued thanks to Pete Norman at Heathman
's for making our vinyl sound so loud, punchy and wonderfully
warm.
 |
 |
| Daniel Sengupta |
Pete Norman |
Peace.
Anthony 5.7.04
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May
20/04_
The astute of you amongst us will realise that we haven’t
updated the website in absolutely ages and that we have made some
fundamental changes to Mint Source, including changing the colour
of the website and establishing our new label Pure Mint Recordings
Limited. Pure Mint is a wholly new sister company to Mint Source
and the website
www.mint-source.com
now redirects to www.pure-mint.com.
The question is why?
Out of good faith I didn’t think it appropriate that we keep
updating www.mint-source.com
during the last few months (although we have just had our busiest
and most commercially productive three months) until we could determine
whether this dispute, that we innocently found ourselves in, could
be resolved. It doesn’t now appear that we can resolve that
dispute. So let me introduce you to Pure
Mint Recordings, a proverbial “phoenix from the fire”.
Mint Source Recordings remains alive as a legal entity and will
continue to remain so in order to enforce what we call “goodwill”
in the name of Mint Source in the fields of records and music promotion.
However, Mint Source will not put out any new material in the applicable
territories until the “threat of legal action” it faces
has either been removed from it, or determined by an appropriate
court of law.
What happened? And when? For a quick précis of the dispute
please>Click
here
For a brief news update on what Mint Source was “up to”
prior to May 1st 2004 and what Pure Mint has been doing since, please
continue reading.
Mint Source’s music (with videos created by The Photon Shepherds)
were also featured on 25,000 promo DVD’s “Sneak Preview”
released through O2 by eyetoeye. I think most of these have already
gone, but you might be lucky at your local O2.
Mint Source (and Entertainment
Advice) were recent guests at the One Weekend BBC Radio 1 seminar
and panel in Londonderry Northern Ireland where both Anthony and Len
spoke on a panel to a very keen youth audience looking for advice
on breaking into the Music Industry. Big thanks to Matt Fernand and
everyone else at Radio 1 who helped facilitate this.
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 |
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| Len & Ant in full flow... |
|
..in Londonderry with Radio1 FM |
Anthony was also invited as a guest speaker/panellist in Miami at
the recent Winter Music Conference in March, and was quoted in the
daily Miami Herald (circ. 1,000,0000). They spelled both Anthony’s
and the company’s name wrongly (Mint Sauce) – but I guess
with the new Pure Mint this will become a thing of the past. It used
to happen quite often BBH - beware!
Miami photos
The Photon Shepherds have been commissioned by The Mixmasters to produce
a 10 minute audio visual work which will air on ITV in July. Congratulations!
Pure Mint is currently putting the finishing touches to the first
releases on label and Heavy Deviance’s MAKE ME FEEL IT will
soon be with us.
That’s all for now folks. Sorry about the length of the news,
but I have been wanting to clear the air for some time. I am tired
of having the proverbial “sword of Damocles” hanging over
my head, particularly when it is being held by a business whose principal
business occupation is advertising and not music. If it were a music
company, I would put my hands up and admit defeat!
See ya later,
Anthony x
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February 28/04_
Sorry for the long delay in updating the news, but this has
been as a result of all of us being a) rather busy; b) out of the
country a lot; and c) making new music!
What's been happening....
January saw Len and Ant in Cannes getting up to lots of wonderful
shenanigans, making some great new contacts both personally and
for business, and generally just having a bit of a laugh in the
South of France. We took a CDR of some new releases, which all went
down very well, and here is a photo-op in classic "politician
style" of me giving the Minister of State for Trade and Industry
(the Rt Hon Mike O'Brien MP) a copy of the forthcoming release "Lifestealer"
by Khus Khus at the Katie Melua party hosted by the BPI. I must
actually write to him to see if he likes it but maybe everyone is
too busy with Clare Short at the moment! The Rt Hon Member is in
the privileged position of currently being the owner of 1 of only
3 promos! Apologies for the quality of the photo but it's from Len'
Phone - and Len by the way asserts copyright!

It was great to be promoting both the label and our new legal endeavour
Entertainment Advice (which is now, after some hard graft in January
and February, very much "up and running") and some business
has already starting coming in for both the label and the business.
My most enjoyable party was probably the Danish night - where there
were liberal amounts of free champagne and hors d'ouevres, but our
night out with Sam from Aim will probably be best remembered if
only for not getting thrown out of the club (and for being rather
pissed on our last night).
Meanwhile Dash and Wayne were out in Australia living it up on tour
with Crazy Penis; and I have seen the photos, so nuff said! Congratulations
to the Photons as their Crazy Penis video is apparently on rotation
on MTV Asia and some other far-east channel...hooray!
We have just got the whites back on Heavy Deviance and Lifestealer
so you all be able to hear them soon. We have also started work
on finishing off a couple of newer things - more later - and we
are off to Miami at the beginning of March to the Winter Music Conference
taking with us lots and lots of very sexy "sexed up" vinyl.
Oh and the Carl Cox compilation FACT II is out in Australia featuring
T-Total's "Feel the Rain" and the Mastercuts Chill is
out and available to buy featuring Heavy Deviance's "Eastern
Lights".
I would like to thank Melissa from the Renaissance Club and Mark
Powell (bespoke tailor) for allowing us to put on the music and
visuals for the party with you recently at the Mango. It was a great
night of fashion music and wine and we got the dancing going with
some solid low down Mint Source tunes!
We are in the process of updating the web properly soon (and particularly
the artist pages) which we should have up and running some time
soon after getting back from Miami. In the meantime enjoy the coming
spring, and keep on dancing!
Anthony 28.2.04
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December 30/03_
As 2003 draws to an end, I would like to take this opportunity to
thank everyone who has supported us through our first amazing year;
to all who came to the parties, to everyone who has bought one of
our records and to all the DJ's that have played Mint Source tunes
on the radio and in clubs. A special thank you is also extended
to the DJ's who have licensed our records for their own compilations.
It's been a great debut year for the label; and with lots of new
stuff (parties/releases) planned already for 2004 I thought I would
take a moment to list an overview of some of the highlights.
December 10th 2002
- We launch the label at the Bug Bar in Brixton. Music comes from
London's Finest, Heavy Deviance, T-Total, Fire and Water and the
Last Fast One.
January 2003
- a mad mental wonderful week in Cannes, with Running Water and
the Mint Source crew. We partied as if the end of the world was
coming (...better not wish to hard as it might still come!) and
released our first press release - re. Mint Source's 'Weapons of
Mass Delusion'!! Norman Jay MBE airs the first Mint Source radio
play, 'The Healing Song' from The Hint of Mint debut double vinyl.
February 2003
- Parties in London. We take on office/studio space in London.
March 2003
- A trip to Budapest for our first overseas party. Heavy Deviance
and the Carbon Fools provide the music. The head of the UK students'
union Ents. body comes with us to see what we are all about!
May 2003
- 'Mint in the Loft' at the Rhythm Factory, Whitechapel. Another
mad party night with music from Neon Heights, Heavy Deviance, DJ
Attorney, DIY, Smokescreen and others coupled with 3 screens of
visuals from the Photon Shepherds. Also, 'A Mint Night', our first
party in Amsterdam.
June 2003
- 'Budding Stuff', a night of new audio and cutting edge visual
talent brought to you in partnership with Saatchi and Saatchi. Norman
Jay plays Crazy Penis off the pre-release 'Flowers in the Attic'
album. We sign up with www.recordstore.co.uk for Internet distribution.
July 2003
- Parties in London and Amsterdam.
August 2003 - We sign with Amato for UK distribution, attend Popkomm
in Koln and extend the Mint Source presence throughout Germany and
beyond. 'Mint It!' at the Rhythm Factory is a sell out success with
music supplied by Frankie Valley (Grand Central), Heavy Deviance,
DJ Attorney/MC Blaze, Crazy Penis and our friends at Digital Dance.
September 2003
- Impressive PR start UK pr. MC Blaze and DJ Attorney play a gig
for The Prince's Trust in Trafalgar Square, London.
October 2003
- Anthony goes to the States on business. Makes excellent contacts
with some of the leading DJ's, promoters and labels working in America,
with the Mint tunes being very favourably received. T-Total's 'Healing
Song/Feel the Rain' released to critical acclaim from DJ's/press.
'Feel the Rain' is licensed to a Carl Cox compilation in Australia.
November 2003
- Excellent reviews for 'Flowers' in Mixmag, Record Collector, DJ,
International DJ, Logo etc. More radio plays, including our first
BBC Radio 1 airplay. Mint Source signs Benelux distribution with
Fount Music in the Netherlands. Radio plays across the continent
from Italy to Germany and in between. Flowers in the Attic released
in the UK. Mint Source web site hits received from 54 countries
(from the USA to Russia, Japan to Africa, South America to Europe...and
still rising). DJ Attorney and DigiDub provide music for the Anti-War
coalition's "Stop Bush" rally in Trafalgar Square, playing
to over 100,000 people.
December 2003
- We finish off the year with Heavy Deviance's 'Eastern Lights"
released. 'Eastern Lights' is licensed to the seminal 'Mastercuts'
compilation series. Crazy Penis' 'Fly' is licensed to Norman Jay
MBE's next compilation. Further BBC Radio 1 plays, XFM plays etc.
Further licensing requests from Japan and Taiwan have also just
come in, so please watch this space.
Thank you everybody; a busy, fruitful and extremely rewarding first
year that took the company literally all over the world!!
I would like to especially thank Dash and Wayne and Darbs for making
Mint Source a company we can truly be proud of and for committing
so much of your time and energy! Words will not suffice! And also
to David, Greg, Taiyo and Kay from the Photon Shepherds for all
the party visuals and for creating the amazing Mint Source design
aesthetic. Thank you's also to Sian and Pascale for your help.
The Mint Source release schedule is taking great shape for 2004
and my sideline career (independent legal consultant to the media
industries) is also growing steadily. Len Bendel (another bass playing
solicitor!) and I are launching a new specialist media law advice
service called 'Entertainment Advice' in January 2004, to provide
'no-nonsense sound legal advice at inexpensive rates' to our growing
client roster (which includes leading artists, actresses, independent
television production companies, bands and producers etc.). The
website for this will be up and running soon.
So I am left now only to wish you all a prosperous and successful
New Year and hope that in 2004 we can put the liars, deceivers,
and warmongers behind us once and for all, and together begin to
build a better world for all based on the principles of truth, equality
and justice.
Anthony. 30.12.03
November
28/03_
In 1963 Bob Dylan wrote the song "With God On Our Side"
which included the lyrics:
"To hate them and fear them,
To run and to hide,
You never ask questions
When God's on your side."
(©Warner Brothers 1963)
Last Thursday, 20th November 2003, Mint Source was kindly invited
to provide some of the music at the "Stop Bush Rally"
in Trafalgar Square, which passed both peaceably and had a fantastic
joyous "party" atmosphere to the whole day's event. DJ
Attorney spun a few tunes and Helen and Lee from Digidub (see photo
below) performed a couple of wonderful new numbers, including the
first public performance of "Lifestealer".

I felt incredibly humbled and honoured to be able also to play the
final song of the day (Primal Scream's "Come Together")
to the many thousands and thousands of people crowded into Trafalgar
Square (estimates vary between 100,000- 200,000 according to police
and the organisers...and however which way you look at it, that's
a heck of a lot of people for a "school day"). The 'sound
and vision' of so many people singing "come together, as one"
in unison will stay with me forever. Thank you Simon from Headancer
for letting us take part in the day's events....and while we're
at it; the diversity of groups and racial backgrounds that makes
up the Anti War coalition is its greatest strength; notwithstanding
the "neo-cons" suggestion that it shows its "rag
bag" weakness. They are wrong, pure and simple! People can,
and do, want to live together. It's just greedy individuals who
want us to be divisive; and the time has now come, in my opinion,
to tell them to fuck off! Go on - fuck off!
Flowers continues to pick up excellent reviews, including one in
this December's Mixmag (4/5) with the quote; "....a gorgeous
collection from the Loft dwellers...". All of us at Mint Source
are absolutely delighted with the critical response the album has
received in the press. We are starting to promote the record to
a few key radio/specialist DJ's so we sincerely hope you will be
hearing more of our hard work and endeavours on the nation's radio
airwaves very soon. Thanks also to Seb
Fontaine at Radio 1 for his support of T-Total's "Feel
the Rain"/ "Healing Song".
Given that I started this update with a mention of God, and as our
"glorious leaders" Bush and Blair often seem to emphasise
their personal special relationship with the Almighty, I wondered
how they both might interpret (theologically speaking) the following
passage from the Scriptures (which on the face of it appears to
relate to them/weapons of mass delusion/collateral damage etc.)
Proverbs 6 v.16-19
16. These six things doth the Lord hate; yea seven are an abomination
to him:
17. A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
18. An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift
in running to mischief,
19. A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord
among breathren"
Alright - bible studies over for this month. Back to the business
of Rock'n'Roll!
Good friends of mine over at Grow Collective are having a little
celebratory pre-Christmas party "Cohesion 11" in Shoreditch
on 14th December 2003, where both Mint Source and the Photon Shepherds
will be (respectively) spinning a few tunes and projecting some
new visuals. Click
here for details. It would be great to see as many of you there
as can make it. A £2.50 donation is suggested to cover costs.
Anthony
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November 18.11.03_
Flowers in the Attic has
now been officially released (Hurrah and Hooray!) and is starting
to pick up a number of very positive reviews (DJ, Record Collector,
IDj) with more to come, and a few great radio plays here and there
(..thank you's to Rob
Da Bank on Radio 1 and Norman
Jay MBE on BBC Radio London and Rick D and Dave FM at Switch
FM in Nottingham for your fantastic support). We recently concluded
a number of excellent business meetings at the Amsterdam Dance Event,
including appointing a Benelux distributor; Fount Music. Thanks
for your support Welmer and I look forward to a successful partnership
together. You may also have noticed a slight re-design of the website;
we have added little icons of our current releases and pre-release
videos at the top of the home page to help you get straight to the
music. Quicker!
I hope you have already bought your Christmas presents because a
little bird tells me that between the 10th November and 26th January
2004 shelf space in the chain record stores in the UK is tight due
to the abundance of Christmas fodder and pap (or as good old Pete
Young at Jazz FM termed it; 'throwaway fluff!'). "So Sis, sorry;
but it's Britney again this year!! But hey; you also get a free
pack of 'Britney Stickers' this time round!" Flowers is available
here and there up and down the country (a modest but solid opening),
so bear with us and it'll be in all good records shop near you soon;
or please ask your local shop to stock it the meantime (you can
hear excerpts from the album here). It is a top album and you will
not be disappointed. And if you are; tell me why. Please. T-Total's
wonderful and tribal "Feel the Rain" and "The Healing
Song" is also available and our distributor Amato can be contacted
here (020) 838 8330. And thanks Leigh (at Amato) for all the updates
and support.
Alternatively you can also buy the record on-line from many different
places on the web (or from our website here), and as the artist
and label make more money that way, please feel free to let the
gargantuan corporate shops (with their huge high street overheads)
and the oligarchs that run them go in the direction they seem so
desperately to want to go in. All's well that ends well! We're alive
and kicking and Flowers will be a great album in 10 or 20 years
time, not just for the next few "Designer
Mag" months.
The last couple of weeks have been rather hectic (but wonderfully
productive) for Mint Source with so many good things coming along
and so many new friends to thank. Los Angeles was the start of a
long series of 'budding beginnings' for the company (with so many
new pwople, all of whom seemed to really to take to the Mint Source
ethic and music) and also saw an increase in the number of strange
and unexpected run-ins and coincidences (not that I believe in the
concept of 'a coincidence'); let's just posit that whoever or whatever
is dealing out the cards of "fate" is perhaps getting
impatient to see who holds the winning hand.
A big thank you to Daryl (my old boss!) for lunch and also to Richard
from Psychobaby Records for dinner and access to some of your wonderful
contacts. After a couple of wonderful days in the sun in LA (..which
sadly caught fire after I left! A bit like Portugal earlier in the
summer!), I headed to New York for The CMJ music Marathon; a conference
aimed at college radio in the States (which has broken many many
great acts over the years). 5 days in New York is as indescribable
as the city itself. I never tire of the city and a big thank you
is warmly extended to all my New York friends (both old and new);
Eric (sorry I missed you), Maryam, Cori and Paul in particular.
Here is a photo of me with Mike Schwab from Lift Promotion at an
excellent little party they hosted one night in a club in the meatpacking
area.Mike and I have started discussions about getting some promotion
going in college radio; so watch this space.

Copies of Flowers were liberally passed around to discerning dj's
and labels (from Mr Scruff and DJ Spinna, to Verve, Interscope and
Island records) and Mint Source will be back in the States very
soon; but for much less business next time, and more partying!
Congratulations are extended from all the Mint Source camp to Crazy
Penis (who are off on tour in Australia with Groove Armada and The
Streets in January) and also to our designers the Photon Shepherds
who are providing the visuals (for your retinas!!..so to speak!).
Mint Source are hard at work putting together some new stuff as
we speak including a possible limited edition white label which
may be considered a little contentious to say the least!
STOP PRESS - MC BLAZE and DJ ATTORNEY are playing in Trafalgar Square
on Thursday 20th November as part of the STOP BUSH rally; that is
if the CIA and Bush's cronies will let the rally go ahead with music!
Watch this space!
Anthony
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October 20/10/2003_
“When I say Southside, you
say Yo!”; less of an epigram this month, more of a clarion
call!
Sorry for the delay in updating the news, as I have been a little
busy, though I am very pleased to report that a number of reviews
for Flowers in the Attic have been confirmed in some major magazines
for November and December. I hope the respective publications
enjoy it as much as we have enjoyed putting it together and thank
you for your support.
The Photons are busy
producing some great new visuals (and have put up their website
where you can check out some of their wonderful talents), and we
are talking to a couple of people about some more Mint parties soon. We
are all beginning to feel the itch to party again, so watch this
space.
Congratulations and thanks are due to Tim and Robert from T-TOTAL
whose FEEL THE RAIN is being included on a Carl Cox compilation
in Australia and also for all the positive press and dj support
on THE HEALING SONG, which has just been released through Amato
this week. A big thanks is also extended to Steve Lawlor at
Kiss FM and to the numerous other DJ’s who have been supporting
what is a really great tune. To hear snippets, please click
here. And if your local record shop doesn’t have it,
please ask them to get in touch with Amato, or alternatively please
feel free to order it through the web if more convenient.
The quote at the top comes from MC Blaze’s ‘Southside’. We
have just put the finishing touches to a DVD produced and directed
for Mint by Greg McKneally of the Photon Shepherds, of the performance
by MC Blaze and DJ Attorney at the recent Prince’s Trust mini-festival
in Trafalgar Square. Both the video and tune are awesome, and
very lyrically astute and very pescient. MC Blaze is most definitely
one to watch, so if you want to watch him as well, please click
here for the streaming video of the DVD.
That’s about it for now. I am in Los Angeles and then
on to New York for CMJ this week, and Dash and Wayne will be at
ADE (the Amsterdam Dance Event) at the end of October. Will
update sooner next time. Promise.
Anthony. 20.10.03
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September 19/09/03_
London's Finest feat. DJ Attorney and MC Blaze are playing in Trafalgar
Square as part of the "Walk
About London" festival in association with the Prince's
Trust this Sunday 21st September 2003. On stage at 1:15pm
so please come along and give your support if you are in town.
Please also come and support Wayne (from Heavy Deviance) who, as
one of 5 artists in residence for Creative
Rooms, is showcasing some of the finest young talent in the
East Midlands at The Powerhouse, Victoria Studios Nottingham on
Thursday 25th September 2003. Featuring a six piece hip-hop group
LINCS, a full gospel choir, Nottingham Youth Orchestra and the Nottingham
school of Samba (plus a guest appearance from me on the grand piano),
it is sure to be a whole lot of fun (and it is all in a great cause).
There are two performances (at 2:30pm and 4:30pm) and it is free
to the general public.
I will update the news properly soon, but for time being here is
an epigram that I came across and which I thought fitted Mint Source
perfectly. I am told it comes from Cicero (who was writing
around 70BC) although it seems more like King Solomon's wisdom to
me.
"Two brothers go to see a judge to
divide an estate that they have been left, though neither can decide
a fair way to divide it. The judge suggests to one brother
that he should divide the estate, and that the other brother should
get first choice!!"
Neat. I like that.
Mint Source are also back in Southend on Saturday 27th September
2003 for another night of dubbed out soulful classics at the Sunrooms
(9:30pm-2am). Guest DJ is Beata Pozitiva (Tilos Radio Budapest)
who is over from Hungary. Please check out Events
for more info.
Anthony.
September 02/09/03_
Welcome everyone to the 'multi-dimensional' universe of Mint Source.
To those of you who have been here before, my thanks, and to those
of you who are here for the first time, please enjoy your stay.
Things are now picking up nicely.
First things first; a very big thank you to everyone who came down
to our recent "MINT IT!" night at The Rhythm Factory to
see Crazy Penis, Frankie Valley, Heavy Deviance et al perform wonderful
sets. Thanks to MC Blaze for a wonderful PA and "MC set"
and a special thanks to Digital Dance for providing a wonderful
second room. The turnout was hugely welcomed and the night was great
fun. Busy doing some business at the moment so please watch this
space for our next party.
Popkomm has been and gone and was both hugely entertaining and also
fruitful for business. The BPI and Aim provided an excellent platform
for supporting new British music and a special thanks to Matt (from
the BPI) for your very kind words of support, which greatly encourage
me. The picture below is of Running Water (from Fire and Water)
singing with our new German friends the night we took over the piano
bar lobby at the hotel for a good old fashioned "sing-a-long",
that managed to wake two guests up at 4am who, thankfully, had the
graciousness to join us with a bottle of champagne!!

Here are some key dates:
Flowers is officially released nationwide on Monday 3rd November,
ably supported by Heavy Deviance's first single Eastern Lights (feat.
a kicking remix by Neon Heights) taken from the album. With a national
PR campaign and a national bar promotion, it should be available
from all good record shops, and if your local shop would like to
get hold of a copy please ask them to contact our distributor Amato
Distribution on (020) 8838 8330. Flowers in the Attic was recently
reviewed in an influential Cultural and Political publication in
Hungary, receiving 4/5 and the quote: "..if you're bored of
the current music, then you'd be better off choosing this album,
for the dark side is not always the winner."
Robert and Tim's (T-Total) The Healing Song is picking up a lot
of FM radio play; Kiss, Tay, Power, Southern etc. and is no.2 in
influential DJ Antoine 909's chart presently and has an official
release date set of 13th October. I was heartened (and humbled)
by the great response (and the kind words) Mint Source received
at Koln from a lot of great people. So here's looking forward....
We are currently hard at work putting together a brand new Mint
Source project, which in the manner of naming "combat operations"
that the "so-called" Allies seem to be so keen on these
days, we are naming "Son of the Bitch!", but more
on this soon - but have no fear, for notwithstanding the "aggressive"
coded name, there'll be lots more hearts and flowers. And we are
even talking to the Russians about it!
For music is the key ingredient of the principal dimension of Mint
Source. Music as art, music for perhaps enlightenment and music
that is just so "damn groovy" that you cannot but help
to "shake yer ass" to it. 'Cause, afterall, there's nowt
wrong with a bit of "ass shaking"
Tootle pip!
Anthony
August 12/8/03_
All of us at Mint Source are very pleased to announce that
we have signed an exclusive UK distribution deal with Amato, who
have been established for over 10 years and distribute a wide and
eclectic roster of great labels. We will be celebrating at the Rhythm
Factory, Whitechapel on bank holiday Saturday 23rd August together
with Crazy Penis, Frankie Valley (Grand Central), Heavy Deviance,
guest MC’s, visual delights from the wonderful Photons and
the second room provided by our special guests Digital Dance. So
please come along if you can make it.
Full line-up is here.
Things are hotting up. Literally! The world continues on some kind
of maniacal suicide mission, and apparently ring-tone downloads
is now a bigger market (in filthy lucre) than the CD singles market.
‘Hey – have you heard my new ring tone? It’s kicking
and just listen to that frequency response.’ Times are strange
indeed.
To all those who made the Pure Mint at the Whitehorse, thank you
for your support. Due to an altercation occurring we are putting
"Pure Mint" on ice for a while. Watch this space!
We are off to Germany this week to Popkomm (which is an industry
event in Koln) and I am really looking forward to it. Will update
the news upon our return.
Anthony
July 23/7/03_
Just back from Amsterdam after the weekend’s party and I thought
you all might appreciate the picture below of my mind finally exploding!
What with my commandeering of a bus at Terminal 1 in true "Hollywood
Style", BA on strike at Heathrow (we won’t go there!)
and almost not having most of our records (we certainly will not
go there either! again!) - it is a miracle that the party even took
place! But took place it most certainly did. Thanks are due once
again to Dash for making the night run perfectly; it is always such
a pleasure for me to be able to form so many new friendships in
your esteemed company.
Photo: Kay Shin
More photos...
We are proud to present our new monthly night PURE MINT starting
Friday 1st August 2003 (and the first Friday of the month thereafter)
at the Whitehorse, Brixton Hill, Brixton. It is free before 10pm
and only £2 afterwards. The launch will feature sets from
special guest DJ Frankie Valley (Grand Central) and the Mint Source
regulars Juan Le Jack and London’s Finest, together with a
guest appearance by South London’s rapper and composer MC
Blaze and a tasty side order of delectable visuals by The Photon
Shepherds. The Whitehorse is a lovely venue with the bar staying
open until 1am and it would be great to see as many of you there
as are able to make it. Full line-up, venue address and flyer details
can be found here. Alternatively
please drop Mint Source your email above, and we will send you an
e-flyer.
Advance warning: Mint It –
23rd August 2003 (bank holiday Saturday til 5am) Rhythm Factory
– confirmed line-up and flyer very soon!
Salutations,
Anthony
June 2003 28/06/03_
Firstly I must offer my apologies for the delay in updating the
website, but we have been hard at work debugging and making a few
enhancements, as well as progressing the business of Mint Source
and its varied and wondrous artists. Some of these additions you
may already have noticed, like the email subscription on the top
right. If you let us know your email, we can then more easily keep
you informed of upcoming events and releases.
‘Flowers in the Attic’ (the CD version) is now back
from the manufacturers and looking and sounding great! Thank you
David for all your hard work in helping to get this together. The
www.recordstore.co.uk
has agreed to start handling our internet distribution, so please
get our your credit cards, sell your body and start buying it. Click
SHOPPING LIST, then CATALOGUE and hit BUY (about 15 times each please!…if
you can afford it!!!!), and if you’re just "buy curious"
please click here and start
listening to some of the tunes. The sound links are optimised for
broadband.
Big thanks to Norman Jay MBE (www.normanjay.com)
for playing Crazy Penis’ FLY from the compilation on his giant
45 playlist (15/6), and the first two (very favourable) reviews
for the album have also just come in:www.digitaldance.com
where it got 8 out of 10, and July’s International DJ (IDj);
a very respectable 4 out of 5. We are finalising a number of shops
in Nottingham, London and a few others dotted here and there where
you will also be able to buy the CD in the material world so please
check back here and I will post the details very shortly.
The next Mint party is at the Akhnaton in Amsterdam, Netherlands
on Saturday 19th July. Yes, we’re going back to create more
havoc in the bohemian centre of Europe! Chris Todd from Crazy Penis
is coming over to play a DJ set, together with local favourites
Barth Fader, London’s Finest and the Heavy Deviance crew.
If you are out there, or know friends who might like to come, please
contact Mint Source for an emailable flyer.
Further details are also available
here.
A retrospective big thank you to everyone who very kindly gave their
services and loaned us their wonderful artwork for the ‘Budding
Stuff’ party we held last week at Saatchi & Saatchi’s
private bar The Pregnant Man. The evening was a wonderful success
with an excellent turn-out, top tunes and of course the ‘mint’
visuals! Will that be the usual then, Sir? We are now in discussions
with Saatchi’s to turn this into something of a more regular
thing, so watch this space, and soon we will be putting up a gallery
space on our web pages to showcase some of the artists. If you want
to check out the invitation, please click here. Special thanks are
also kindly extended to Appletons Rum for providing the fantastic
free mohito bar, and also to the Flower Lounge for making the place
look and smell gorgeous.
We are currently mastering the alternate vinyl version of Flowers
together with some new Mint Source goodies, and with a bit of help
from a good tail wind, we should have the finished product back
within the next three weeks or so and available to buy.
Other Mint Source news:
Fire and Water are in the Mint studios early July polishing off
some new tracks…..London’s Finest has recently starting
collaborating with Scorpio Productions on some new tunes –
a demo version of their first fruits ‘Life After Death’
can be heard here…..The motley Heavy Deviance crew are busy
working all over the shop (Juan is currently chilling in Portugal…lucky
sod!) and Eastern Lights will be available to buy within the next
2-3 weeks….and Matt Kebbell, a new Mint man, was recently
seen in the studio putting down some ethereal and haunting music.
Last, but not least, we now have a regular monthly night we are
calling Pure Mint starting on the first Friday of the month (1st
August for the first one) at the White Horse in Brixton, a lovely
bar/club venue with a 1a.m. licence. More on this on the next update.
Oh - and one for your diaries – next Mint in the Loft (‘til
5a.m.) is Saturday August 23rd at the Rhythm Factory, Whitchapel.
I noticed the "oh so controversial…not" Easy Jet
advert the other day when cycling on my way into work, and it reminded
me of a press release we issued in January 2003 at Midem that referred
to ‘Weapons of Mass Delusion’. Since we firmly believe
that Mint Source were the first to ‘coin the phrase’,
unless, that is, we are grossly mistaken – and if so, we’ll
just blame our own spooks as it seems to be ‘de rigeur’
these days) - we are now consulting in top level meetings with our
lawyers to see if we can establish the truth behind the whole matter………since
you never know what you might find……if you just dig
deep enough!
Love and peace
Anthony
May
2003 29/05/03_
I am a little overwhelmed.
Mint in the Loft, Sunday just past, and a huge thanks from all of
us at Mint Source to everyone who made the night one to truly remember.
The Photon Shepherds' visuals were awesome; thank you to Osborne
and Tom for a wicked set that I actually got some time to dance
to, and the Crazy Heavy Valley combo, well what can I say! To all
the dj's and each of the performers, my deepest thanks. To Sian
and Darby; thanks for running the door. To all of you that came
(and I feel very honoured) - a very big thank you - and to all those
that made it back to ours, that was a lot of fun. Everyone tells
me that the party was wonderful, so I'll guess we'll just take that
for a fact! And if nothing else, it shows that we are all beginning
to speak with one voice.
We have a few things we are busy planning at the moment, including
another gig in Amsterdam for Mid-July and another London party in
August. In addition we are putting the Mint Source bells and whistles
on a couple of things for June and early July, which I will update
the web with next time around.
Anthony
May 2003 15/05/03_
Phew! Amsterdam was very
kind to us. Thank you Dash for your generous hospitality; a special
thank you to Barth and Taco (an excellent set that I really enjoyed!)
and also to Passionflower and to everyone who came out to support
us. The Mint posse all, unanimously, had a wonderful evening and
weekend!!!!….and we are now in the process of planning another
party, provisionally for the w/e 18th July. Watch this space.
BMG have now very kindly given their consent (thank you Paul) for
the fabulous Bent remix of the seminal Hall and Oates track "I
can’t go for that", recently sampled on the Simply Red
comeback single, to be included on the brand new Mint Source compilation
"Flowers in the Attic", which is now, as I write, being
dutifully polished and smoothed off by our conscientious band of
merry Mint Source elves. Featuring heavyweights like Crazy Penis,
the aforementioned Bent, Frankie Valley, Heavy Deviance, the wonderful
‘Lectric Ladies (shake that ass! touch that tit!) and of course
Neon Heights and many many more, Flowers in the Attic is set for
release on Monday 23rd June 2003. I’ll post more info on all
the artists on the web soon….but I have just been a little
pleasantly busy recently…
We are holding another party!
Mint in the Loft will take place this coming bank holiday Sunday
25th May 2003 at The Rhythm Factory in Whitechapel – from
around 8pm til 5am, and we have, for your delectation in two rooms,
a whole host of stupendous dj’s and live p.a’s, including
many of the acts on Flowers, Tom from Smokescreen and Oz from DIY,
3 projectors of live moving images and 3 slide projectors under
the caring control of the Photon Shepherds, and all for £6
in advance or £8 on the night. If you would like to get a
ticket please email tickets@mint-source.com. You are all very welcome
and it would be great to see you there.
Still looks like peace remains a distant ship on the horizon though
I think that it is starting to sail our way. The madness of what
has just happened in Iraq cannot be allowed to be the way that mankind
continues to resolve its troubles, however dire the need, and, as
Ozzy said on leaving Sony, "[surely] it is time for some new
ideas".
Anthony
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Ute from Passionflower - Catacombs (Amsterdam)
2/5/03
April 2003 23/04/03_
A conundrum for you all;
You know how a double negative effectively makes a positive…..well…..does
it follow that evil fighting evil somehow makes a "good"…errmm?
Not sure about that one!?
Lots of exciting news in the Mint Source camp but where to start…..where
to start….
The Mint Source "posse" is currently fervently working
away putting the finishing touches to a sublime new compilation
that the very kind boys and girls in the Loft Bar Nottingham have
compiled for us. Entitled "Flowers in the Attic" the record
features some of the UK’s leading DJ’s and seminal deep
house producers including, amongst others, Mary Anne Hobbs favourites
NEON HEIGHTS, CRAZY PENIS, BENT, DIY/SMOKESCREEN, our very own HEAVY
DEVIANCE and a whole host of other gems. We shall be releasing Flowers
in The Attic in both a CD and alternate Vinyl version, so there
should be something there for everyone. A big big thank you to Simon
(Neon Heights), Dave and everyone at the Loft. Your generosity is
much appreciated.
We will be launching the album at the Rhythm Factory, Whitechapel
on Sunday 25th May 2003 (it’s the bank holiday, it’s
an "all-nighter" and as an added bonus there will be a
secret "after gig" party to keep us going during the holiday
Monday). The night will feature many of the acts on the compilation
together with a host of Mint Source regulars (including a live set
from Hungary’s CARBON FOOLS). Two rooms of classic tunes and
genius visual projections from THE PHOTON SHEPHERDS…so please
keep the date free. A flyer/poster will be up on the website soon.
Please check back for full line-up, admission charges and guest
list.
For those able to make it, we are also promoting a party at the
Catacomb Studio (Haarlemmerstraat 124c, Amsterdam) on Friday 2nd
May 2003. With sets by Juan Le Jacque and DJ Goodlad (Heavy Deviance),
London’s Finest, local dutch Dj’s Barth Vader and Taco
Fett, and a live set from Mint Source’s PASSIONFLOWER (and
many others), the night is sure to be a hedonistic pleasure bash
as only the ‘Dam’ can provide!! And of course Sian and
Anthony will be in attendance to hand out the goodies!
Please check out the flyer under Events. And if you can’t
make it, but have friends in Amsterdam, please let them know. Email
info@mint-source.com for
a copy of the email flyer.
Other news:
White labels are flying out of the Mint Source studio as we speak.
First up we have MOSQUITO by the Carbon Fools, on a twelve featuring,
in addition to the original, a breakbeat dance floor killer TARZANINO
and Law’s (from the Last Fast One) Dub Steppas remix of MOSQUITO.
A TINT OF MINT (featuring ECTAMORPH’s house stomper "YOU
GIVE" and VIOLANTE’s SUPERWOMAN) is also grooving its
way out. An official release will be out shortly. In addition, I
have just received back the whiteys of HEAVY DEVIANCE’s "EASTERN
LIGHTS" backed with the heavy dubby bluesy "ROOM TO MANOUEVRE"
on the B side which is sure to be a regular in clubs across Europe
(and America if it can sort its act out!!) this summer!
More news to follow….stay posted, keep "minted"
and remember that whatever you’re told, most of it is usually
bullshit!
Anthony. 23.4.03
March (update) 03/03_
Some good news. Essential has agreed to start distributing "A
Hint of Mint" in the UK. In France, Cire Jaune has also agreed
to start distributing the label through their independent network,
Virgin and FNAC stores throughout France. To get in touch with either,
please see our contact page.
The Carbon Fools have kindly agreed to come over to play the next
party on the 25th May 2003 - it's being held at the Rhythm Factory
(Whitechapel) on the Sunday night of the bank holiday weekend -
so the perfect excuse to get trolleyed - and it will be going 'til
5am. I hope lots of you will be able to come. A flyer, the finalised
line-up and advance tickets will be with us soon!!
We are also holding another party (for those of you who can make
it) in Amsterdam on Friday 2nd May at the Catacombs - the line-up
is not yet settled, but will involve at least one local dj and act,
and a heavy (no doubt deviant) Mint Source posse! Flyer to follow,
please email info@mint-source.com
for further details.
I am off to New York again early April and will update the web on
my return.
Much love. Peace.
Anthony
March
news 03/03_
My good friend Toby, who now lives and studies in Paris, says there
are only two important things in life; "love" and "art".
It seems, having witnessed what must be one of the most inexcusably
poor displays of so called "democractic diplomacy" that
the world can ever have possibly seen, that we (as a collective
whole) lack both art and love. Which seems a bit of a tragedy. Anyhow...
Mint Source has been very busy over the last couple of months and
I am sorry for the delay in revising the website. I will be updating
the news section properly later this week, and following the huge
success of the Carbon Fools sortie recently in Budapest, we are
now well into planning two new parties; one for Amsterdam in early
May, and the other a party in London, for the end of May. Please
keep an eye on the web for further details.
More later.....
19.03.03
February
news 02/03_
The Mint Source "posse" are off travelling again. This
time it’s Budapest, Hungary, with the head of Making Waves
(NUS Students Ents body) to see the Carbon Fools. London’s
Finest is playing a soul funk set Thursday evening 27th February
with Croatian DJ|’s "Dzihan and Kamien" at the Citadella
(Budapest) and Juan Le Jacque will be playing a DJ set with Titusz
and the Carbon Fools at the Kultiplex Budapest on Saturday evening
1st March 2003. All are welcome (if you can make it there!)
January news 01/03_
28.01 - MIDEM, Cannes,
France
Thankyous will not suffice (and this website seems to be rather
clogged with thanks lately - but what the hell it's better than
blowing the shit out of the desert whilst trying to sell your toys!).....but.........the
posse did us proud!!! Rob, Jo, Polly, Julia and Matt - thank you.
Cannes has now been and gone - and none of us seem to remember much
of it, other than the oysters exacted their revenge on me - that'll
teach me to pre-empt my own happiness.
Where to start. We met David (a French journalist writing for Les
Inrocks - the French NME) in the bar of the Martinez, forged what
I am sure will be an eternal friendship (you just kind of know them
when they come along...it's all in the eyes, or is it the ay's that
have it!) and then we all continued at a party which we hobbled
together with the speakers from my laptop, back at the apartments.
David wrote a fabulous and glowing article (thank you..) about the
label which appeared in Les Inrocks. We also got a small piece in
the MIDEM daily news, the businessy bit of press that accompanies
the festival, which respectfully quoted me as saying that the majors
should not complain about their customers stealing from them, when
they were stealing from their artists! But all done in the nicest
possible taste! I assure you.
We met with the controller of RFI (Radio France International -
BBC Radio1 equivalent i am told) who loved the label's concept and
music and even invited Pascale for a private drink. Thank you also
to Matt and Sarah and your colleagues at the BPI for promoting us,
particularly when we failed to turn up until after lunch, or was
that breakfast!
A special thanks to Norman Jay MBE, who has now played Leslie and
Robert's track "THE HEALING SONG" two weeks in succession
on the Giant 45 selection on his Sunday night show on BBC Radio
London. Norman's website can be found here: http://www.normanjay.com
Juan Le Jacques and DJ Goodlad (Heavy Deviance) did us proud on
the BPI MIDEM promo CD (some 5000 i understand were given away at
MIDEM) sandwiched between a David Holmes track and the 250,000 seller
Big Brovaz's "Nu Flow". It's definitely time for a new
flow. The Mint Source promo CD's seemed to ebb consistently away
from the BPI stand which was also nice.
One night we took over the Hilton Savoy, with the complicity of
Didier the amazing house pianist, where Run and Chester from Chicago
sang duets and competed in a singing competition that was sublime
to listen to. I even played a poor Marilyn Monroe inspired version
of "I don't like Mondays", but we'll forget about that!
A thank you also to Becky from Sheffield for singing.
Run (from Fire and Water) was amazing all week - everwhere i went
with Pascale to meet the posse (after we'd done some business),
i would hear our music. Run kept giving each establishment one of
the HINT OF MINT promo cd's and they played it, a number of times.
It was nice to hear our music, cause afterall this is what it is
all about.
But this could go on forever.....
I am off to New York on the 31st January for a week to follow up
some meetings i had last November. We've put together another compilation
CD which i am taking to New York which is called "TO NEW YORK
WITH LOVE" which everyone i have played it to so far has liked.
It is in an early stage, but more on this will follow. The TINT
OF MINT second vinyl is virtually ready and the quality (and quantity!)
of great music i keep getting sent is wonderful. If we can keep
our heads, i think that we are possibly on to something here. It's
really afterall only a business model based on the principles of
respect and trust. Thank you all for your help and i will update
the web again on my return from New York.
Anthony.
18.01.03_
Mint Source are very
pleased to announce the appointment of Judith Weaterton (Appetite
PR) to handle the label's pr and press. Formerly Head of Press at
Polydor and Arista, Judith can be contacted on appetitepr@ntlworld.com
01.03_
THE LABEL LAUNCH
A very big thankyou to everyone who was able to make it down to
the Bug Bar for the launch of the label on the 10th December 2002.
And a special thanks to the Last Fast One, Frank and Run, Wayne,
Anne, Robert, Sam, Catrine, London’s Finest and Christina
for playing and the last thanks especially for Pascale who got the
whole thing to work! The evening seemed to go very well on balance
- few hiccups here and there - and a couple of good things have
come from it as a result and more importantly everybody seemed to
have a great time. So let’s all continue the party!
Which brings us to…..
The Launch Pad– Opening Night 19/02/03
The Bug Bar has kindly agreed to us starting a monthly Wednesday
night there from February 19th. We are calling it "The Launch
Pad" and it will feature a night very similar to the label’s
launch but cut down on the bands to one, and have three dj's not
four. I hope you can all make the first one. Stef and Ute from Passion
Flower are coming from Amsterdam to play, and the rest of the line-up
should be sorted by early January. We will have a flyer soon. If
you would like to get an "emailable" flyer, please let
us know your email.
MIDEM/ BPI (18th January – 23rd January 2003)
Mint Source is off to Cannes for MIDEM in January with a small posse
(for wont of a better word). MIDEM is the international Music Industry
festival (in its 37th year) where the world’s music industry
meets for conferences, licensing, new acts, business etc. Running
Water will do a bit of busking.
The BPI (British Phonographic Industry – governing body) have
very kindly allowed us to come under their umbrella at reduced cost
and "Notts Plaza" (by Heavy Deviance) is being featured
on their MIDEM promo CD. Pascale and Anthony will investigate some
business! And if it all gets troublesome at least she can speak
French. We are very proud to be taking a lot of new music to MIDEM
showing the eclectic forward direction of the label, together with
A Hint of Mint (vinyl) and promo cd.
MUSIC WEEK/ LAUNCH
As a result of the launch a freelance music week journalist called
Mint Source. We met and had a very interesting conversation. We
should have a very small introductory piece about the label in the
pre-MIDEM issue (which I believe is dated 6th January 2003).
NEW YORK
Mint Source went to New York at the end of November 2002, principally
for Anthony to get admitted as a New York attorney, but also to
have a couple of meetings for the label. Those meetings went well
and we shall be following them up in early January. Updates will
follow.
WEB UPDATE/ T-SHIRTS etc.
When we get back from MIDEM the first priority will be to work a
little more on the website, which will become more interactive and
include more levels. We will have sections with biographies and
pictures of the various Mint Source acts, sound clips, video clips
and various links. We hope also to start a gallery of designs and
photographs and paintings from some of our many talented friends;
and writings/poems whatever. We shall see. There will also be a
section where you can get hold of records slip mats t-shirts and
postcards/prints etc.
NEXT UPDATE after MIDEM…………………………….
December
news 01/03_
12.02
To celebrate its launch, Mint Source is holding a party at the BUG
BAR in Brixton on 10th December 2002 from 7.30 pm - 2 am.The night
will feature both live music and dj sets from a number of artists
featured on "A Hint of Mint" our first release- a double
12" vinyl. A promotional CD will also be distributed featuring
11 contemporary exciting new acts and musicians from Hungary, Jamaica,
Germany, Italy, Holland, Pakistan and of course the UK. So come
down and party with us on the 10th December 2002 @ the Bug Bar.
IT'S FREE AND EVERYBODY IS WELCOME !
Bug Bar
St Matthew's Church
Brixton.
London SW12 1JF
Nearest Tube : Brixton (Victoria Line)
www.bugbrixton.co.uk
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