It’s Here!!!

With pleasure I launch the ninth edition of The Bovine Life Support System : Hadron Collider Edition. I’ll have the tracklistings up by the end of the day (taken a day off work to do this!) but you can download it here (192kbps 120mb) or go to the listen page and preview it / stream it there!!! Thank Goodness, thanks for sticking with me on this one!!! NEW! alternate download here at smaller file size!

BLSS 09 FINISHED AT LAST!!!

Done it. Gonna upload it tomorrow. It’s a grrrrrrrrrrrrrreat selection!

Chris

THE BLOG IS NOT DEAD!

Hi folks, the blog is not dead, just been a family health crisis which I hope to iron out soon. Potentially, three shows might come at once!! Please email me at bovinelife@yahoo.com if you need to get in touch before then! Still a good show coming up! The legendary BLSS09 coming soon!

BLSS09 In 3 Days! In the meantime, listen to this nonsense!

Listen to these samples and then read! THE SHOW IS OUT IN A WEEK BY THE WAY!!! Editing it the noo. But my fave one of these is the last. Read the story about the samples after. If you like…

VSS200 Session – Orh

VSS200 Session – Moo

VSS200 Session – MMM

VSS200 Session – Minnow

VSS200 Session – Ahh

VSS200 Session – Eh

About three or four weeks ago I was in my local Salvation Army shop on Dumbarton Road in Glasgow. Actually I was only gazing through the window at a beloved 1980s sampling keyboard of old. Yamaha VSS-30… if you’re asking / selling. I thought I would ask to buy it.

When told I had to wait two weeks till it went into the public shop, at 9am on the table. I decided to get there at 9am. In fact, I got there at 8.30am just to be sure I would get this tactile vocal manger, this retro n-n-n-n-nineteen paul hardcastle stylee beauty. So beloved of “circuit benders”

Imagine my heavy heart when I spied the queue at the door.

But three were grannies. One was an indie-kid. I knew what he wanted. I resigned myself to defeat.

-Excuse me, are you here for the keyboard?

-yes.

-Ach, it’s yours then. Fair play to you.

-I’ve been here since 8am

-it’s the early bird etc.

So, I decided to try ebay. I was in retro-lust. I bid on one! I failed. I bid on another. Christ it went for £120!!!

I then decided, after much noodling on message boards that the VSS200 was almost as good, if not better in some respects. I bid again on ebay. I lost it. But it went back on sale! I bid £45 (they wanted £80) and got it plus £15 p&p.

I have just spent my first 24 hours with the machine. If you played the soundfiles that were me!