a music and sound label
a music and sound label
Soundscapes, field recordings, net labels, web design, textures, film, short wave radio, genetic algorithm generated computer sound and occasional songs.
Clear (released 1 August 2011).
Free download from the Drey Grade bandcamp site.
Destroy All Tapes EP consists of 3 tracks so far (released 23 May 2011).
Available for free download from the Drey Grade bandcamp site.
This is an ever expanding release of remixes of previous Drey Grade tracks - hazy memory mixes.
1. Sineoise (10.14) Live at 'Stuck On A Name' Studios Nottingham - 14/09/09
2. Sineoise (7.48) Live at 'The New Inn' Littlehampton - 27/09/09
CD released December 2009
These are the words of the excellent net label Earth Monkey Productions -
"We are very proud to present to you our new compilation album Field Notes, featuring some exeptional sound artists from accross the globe. All the artists were asked to submit work that incorporated field recordings and we have 24 of the best for you for free download."
Drey Grade contribute the new track 'Step On It'.
Download free at www.earthmp.org. Released 18 August 2009.
Obscures Cake 1-2 , Obscures Cake 3-5, Abstract Sponge 1-4, MkUltra, The Curfew Clampdown, Cities and Villages, Zootopia 1, Six, Dreams of Escaping, Zootopia 2, Continuum.
Recorded originally in 1983-84 - this CD version August 2009
The Redoubt Bag Set is a collection of 6 CD's that includes nearly everything recorded by Drey Grade up to 2007. Includes a collage and a nice smelling bag.
Drey Grade - The Official Guide to Canterbury by Fete Recordings
Cassette Walkman recordings of passers by, vocal sketches, and ambient settings made during walks of the historic cobbled streets of Canterbury and nearby locations. These recordings were then treated and layered, used as vocal lines and sounds and finally merged with electronic rhythms, sequences and other found samples.
Originally released in 2004, this version has been re-mastered, re-ordered and given a new cover, for inclusion in the 6 CD Box/Bag set ‘Redoubt'.
Spit Freak/Come Out, Canterbury bRighton, TV Mini Series 2, Lie in the Sun, Cathedral, Feeling Groove Right, Query Eyes Again, Crypt Freak, Further Down, TV Mini Series 3, Dead Moose from 10, My Luck is far worse 2, Like Billy Piper, Azteca, Day to Dayness, Kent Field Afternoon Summer Year 2000.
Replaced by the remastered Redoubt Version
mini CD single. October 2002. £2.00
TV Mini-Series, Guysers, Return to the NcEaSvTe, Bonanza Deep Orange
CD album. July 1999. sold out
Remastered compilation of earlier cassette releases
Obscures Cake 1-5, Abstract Sponge 1-4, MkUltra, The Curfew Clampdown, Six, Dreams of Escaping, Cities and Villages, Zootopia 1, Continuum, Zootopia 2.
Hammer, Reality Censor, South Pole (live), Scarred for Life, Leisure, Without Hate, Final Leisure
They Worship a Killer, An Empty Shell, Cracked Upon the Heart, Spark a Change, Corruption, Drop the Mask, Seven Times, Banks and Dogs, Sexual Prowess
Collected sounds from various locations and instruments and bounced from one portable tape recorder to another (an early attempt to layer sounds!). Also includes early releases Calypso Baby Attacked by Mice on 101 international Records Skin Talk LP, North Pole/Beirut from Gor Sa Har various artists cassette, A-D-E-M-O 82': 4 track cassette, Backdrop C and If you call 2 a group live backing tapes and Drey Grade 1 - the first cassette of prime tracks from the pick 'n' mix box.
Thearly Years, Omitting 2 and 3, The Dreyness in My Heart, Through the Handsets, North Pole (original), Extrovert +, A Stark Realisation, Hole, The Cricket Characters, Lord Grade, Prowl Attack (Parts 1 and 2), Dusk, Extrovert -, One, Two, Three, Ramona, Brave City Men, Rave on City Man, I want to take you to Wales, Charity, 10 out of 10, Always Fog in Bonn, Identity, I've bin there, Lonely Walk Again, The Train Syndrome, Drill, Fred Trueman, 1.30, Lonely Strut, Love in the Vineyard, Calypso Baby Attacked by Mice, Repose Later, North Pole (unoriginal), Fear of Progress, Meshed Light, Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Drey Grade began with clicking clippers and birds tweeting on a hot summer Sunday morning in the garden as a solo idea but ended up involving a multigrade of people. The core line-up usually consisted of 2 people concentrating on the sound, and 2 on the visuals. At gigs, burnt and unburnt slides and cut ups of 8mm films were back projected onto tracing paper screens or front projected onto white sheets and generally an angry noise was made - it always just seemed to end up like that - with the song (if there was one there in the first place) usually going out the window, which seemed to annoy a lot of people most of the time. The recorded output, however, was more introspective and moody, like true serious young men and women with industrial overcoats.
Notable gigs - Supporting Strawberry Switchblade at The Escape Club in Brighton and early Zap Club events, when it was at the Richmond - more performance pieces at times than conventional gigs. Equipment used (for those who might be interested in such things) - Electronic Dream Plant Wasp, original Fostex and Tascam 4-track tape recorders, Sequential Circuits Pro 1, Commodore 64 Ultisynth using the SID sound chip, Dr. Rhythm drum machine, Syn Drum, home built Powertran digital delay line, Boss DE200 sampling digital delay line, Roland MC202 sequencer, Roland 808 and 909 drum machines, TB303 Bass line, Casio 1000P synth, Roland Juno 6 synth, Alesis Accessit spring reverb- bladibla......
Drey Grade - early studio cassette tracks converted to MP3 CD
(everything except 'Thearlyears', 'Beirut', 'Final Leisure 1999 mix', 'TV mini-series' and 'Official Guide to Canterbury')
Abstract Sponge 1-4, An Empty Shell, Banks and Dogs, Cities and Villages, Continuum, Corruption,Cracked upon the heart, Dreams of Escaping, Drop the Mask, Final Leisure, Hammer, Leisure, MkUltra, Obscures Cake 1-2, Obscures Cake 3-5, Reality Censor, Scarred for Life, Seven Times, Sexual Prowess, Six, South Pole, Spark a Change, They Worship a Killer, The Curfew Clampdown, Without Hate, Zootopia 1, Zootopia 2.
Drey Grade - early live tracks converted to MP3 CD
Abstract Sponge 1-4(Zootopia Jan 1985), Beirut(bedroom tape), Compassion(Chichester New park Community Centre 1985), Hammer(Carioca, Worthing, now a Co-op),
Hammer(Chichester New park Community Centre 1985 March),
Hammer(Chichester New park Community Centre 1985 May), Matter - 6 cheap jokes(Rustington Village Hall Oct 27 1983), Mr. Jameson(Chichester New park Community Centre 1985), Obscures Cake 1-2(Zootopia Jan 1985), Obscures Cake 3-5(Zootopia Jan 1985), South Pole(Rustington Village Hall Oct 27 1983), TOT - Mind Aches(Rustington Village Hall Oct 27 1983), Victor Jara(Escape Club, Brighton, supporting Strawberry Switchblade Nov 5 1983), Victor Jara(Rustington Village Hall Oct 27 1983), Without Hate(Chichester New park Community Centre 1985).
cassette tape culture
cassette culture essay
Fete 14 - FI‹LD S›T - EP 3 (Dec 2011)
Fete 13 - FI‹LD S›T - EP 2 (Nov 2011)
Fete 12 - Drey Grade - Clear (Aug 2011)
Fete 11 - Drey Grade - Destroy All Tapes EP (May 2011)
Fete 10 - FI‹LD S›T - EP 1 (2010)
Fete 9 - Drey Grade - Sineoise (2009)
Fete 8 - Drey Grade - Obscures Cake/Abstract Sponge + (2009)
Fete 7 - Drey Grade - Redoubt 6 CD Bag Set (1982-2007)
Fete 6 - Drey Grade - The Official Guide to Canterbury (Redoubt Vers 2007)
Fete 5 - The Daniel Grade - The Daniel Grade CD (2007)
Fete 4 - Drey Grade - The Official Guide to Canterbury (2004)
Fete 3 - Drey Grade - TV Mini-Series (2002)
Fete 2 - G.A.G - Frolics (2000)
Fete 1 - Drey Grade - Seven Times (1999)
Fete Recordings currently releases music by Drey Grade and
field recordings by FI‹LD S›T both aka GraemeATG.
There is also a bit of history...
It is Fete!
