new Paranoid video art...

Inspired by Brian Eno's video installations, but with a darker, more Paranoid twist. Audio from forthcoming winter podcast... click here to view

Autumn 2010 Podcast

The sixteenth episode in our podcast series is now online!

This one features a single 13-minute track - a re-interpreation of a William Blake poem 'Night' as read by Lauren Crawley. A number of autumnal field recordings were used on the track and incorporated as percussion effects. Have a listen using the link above or find the Paranoid Podcast in the iTunes store and subcribe for free.

PF News Sept/Oct 2010

Hi PF people, just a quick update with the latest paranoid news...

Firstly, we have lots of recording currently going on both for future editions of the podcast and CD releases.

The next CD release will be Cris's 3rd City Paranoid album 'Closedown'. This is all pressed up and nearly ready to go. We are currently lining up a release date for Winter 2010. Watch this space!

Finally for now, this is now the official home of the Paranoid Foundation and can be accessed either via www.paranoidfoundation.blogspot.com or via www.paranoidfoundation.com. Our email remains the same... info@paranoidfoundation.com

Look out for further news here very soon!

Summer 2010 Paranoid Podcast

...is now here. The Antimatter EP features 4 sinister beat-driven industrial electronic motifs. Distorted riffs and machine noise collide with unsettling atmospherics to engage body and mind in equal measure.

The EP is available for free download as part of the ongoing 'Paranoid Podcast' series here: http://paranoidfoundation.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/5 or subscribe in itunes or other digital media players.

Updates...

On our facebook, myspace and at www.paranoidfoundation.com where you can hear a selection of PF tunes including 'nothing ventured' - a track from the latest CD Paranoid Motive's 'disruptive potential'.

Enjoy...

PARANOID MOTIVES - DISRUPTIVE POTENTIAL - OUT TODAY!!!

...on CD and download from CD Baby, iTunes and other reputable retailers.

Think dark, post punk with motorik, krautrock-esque rhythms and male-female lyrical interplay and you're just about there.



purchase, play (loud), enjoy!

Next Release: Paranoid Motives 17th May 2010

The Paranoid Foundation label present their eleventh release: ‘disruptive potential’, the debut album from Paranoid Motives. It will be available from 17th May 2010 on CD from CD Baby and download from iTunes, Napster, Amazon and other reputable retailers.

Based in Canterbury, UK, this new group consist of Rory Kettles (drums), Gemma Dickens (vocals) and Cris Lee (whatever else). Taking the Paranoid Foundation blueprint of doom-laden soundscapes and dark lyrical themes, the trio present nine tracks and 28 minutes of skewed ambient rock with a heavy post-punk atmosphere. Dub and electronica influences are much in evidence and are propelled along on a krautrock-esque motorik groove. Look out for it soon!

Derelict Places video...

Here's a link to an atmospheric video I shot at an abandoned canal lock. It accompanies the first track from the Slow Harvest - Derelict Places set... watch it now!!!

Spring is in the Air!

It's only a couple of weeks since the Winter 2010 Paranoid Podcast appeared, but it's time to move on already. Some unexpected sunshine this past week has brought on an early spring at paranoid HQ and so another edition has popped up unexpectedly.

The Spring 2010 podcast features our great 'lost' album from 2005 'Skylines of the Future'. Having just released our debut set 'Foundations' earlier that year, we originally spent many months on the follow-up but things didn't quite work out as expected. Revisiting the original recordings just this past week, everything suddenly and unexpectedly fell into place. Expect lo-fi ambience with layered electronic effects deployed to explore contemplative themes. This is an album that we're particularly proud of. 37 minutes of essential paranoia HERE

New Review

A late review has rolled in for our last CD release, Paranoid Entity's '4Closure'. The review comes from the excellent Psychotropic Zone and can be found here

Podcast error, now rectified!

In my haste to upload edition 13 of the podcast last week I made the mistake of putting up a low-res version of the audio. Whoops! However, I have now rectified this. If you downloaded/listened to said podcast before today, you may want to revisit it and hear it as it was intended to be heard... by clicking here

Apologies!

Paranoid Podcast Winter 2010

With the cold, dark conditions currently evident in the UK's bleak winter, it seems appropriate to provide a new soundtrack via the Paranoid Podcast.

The 13th and latest installment in this free podcast series is the Captive Thoughts/Surveillance State EP - a 2 track, 27 (approx) minute soundtrack to the big brother society that we reside in.

Subcribe/access podcast editions for free HERE

It's here...

...the Infectious Unease Radio Compilation Volume 1. A 4CD set featuring 62 uneasy listening tracks from a variety of acts from around the world. Put together by Infectious Unease Radio's Gordon Taylor in Melbourne, Australia, this compilation is second to none. If you have at least a passing interest in dark music then you will find something to enjoy here.

Having listened to the 4CD compilation in its entirety I am impressed by the quality of the music and the diversity of musical styles represented - everything from electro, EDM, industrial, rock, dark folk etc. It's an honour to have one of our tracks (Waste Train - new and exclusive!) included.

The compilation can be ordered from Dark Stereo with worldwide shipping available.

New Infection Unease radio compilation album featuring exclusive PF track out now!

The Paranoid Foundation is pleased to announce that our friends from Melbourne, Australia, Infectious Unease radio, have just released a new 4CD compilation album. Alongside the other dark and experimental sounds it features a new and exclusive Paranoid Foundation track 'Waste Train'.

More details and ordering information here

Happy Listening!

Happy New Year/Decade

Happy New Year and indeed decade paranoid people of the world! Apologies for being so quiet of late, but it has been a busy time for all of us in one way or another.

Anyway, while the blog may not have been a hive of activity, our musical projects have been somewhat more so. We have product new and old this year and will provide some more details soon. However I can reveal that I am currently in the process of mastering what will be our first retrospective compilation featuring our most loved tracks since 2004 plus a couple of new ones. The collection will be entitled 'reflections and distortions' and will be both the perfect intro and summary of our work thus far. And not only will a CD/download be available, but our first foray into non-musical merchandise will extend into the realms of an accompanying t-shirt.

Exciting times. Look out for further updates sooner rather than later! Take care all...