Broadcast 2000
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Broadcast 2000 is the musical creation of Joe Steer, a classical music graduate with a unique take on folk using computer-generated looping of acoustic instruments. The new seld-titled album is a worthy listen and comes highly recommended. New tracks have been added to channel 2 for your listening pleasure…
Earlier this year Joe Steer (aka Broadcast 2000) ventured out of his bedroom to work on some new music with superstar producer Eliot James (Kaiser Chiefs/Bloc Party). Together with help from Noah & the Whale’s Tom Hobden on violin they have come up with what will be Broadcast 2000′s first full length album.
The album will be released by Grönland Records across Europe on February 15th 2010. Limited edition release packs (CD album + T-shirt + cap + badge) are available now, and can be ordered here for just £20.
Track List:
1.Rouse Your Bones
2.Your Own Worst Enemy
3.That Sinking Feeling
4.Get Up And Go
5.I Hold My Breath
6.Gonna Build A Mountain
7.All Is Said And Done
8.Don’t Weigh Me Down
9.The Outsider Steps Inside
10.Take The Props Away
11.Changing Moves
Boomkat Review:
Following on from the Building Blocks EP released eighteen months or so back, this eponymous album finds multi-instrumentalist and classical music graduate Joe Steer delivering a snappy half-hour’s worth of music over the course of ten tracks – one of which is ‘Get Up And Go’, which you’ll all no doubt recall (on hearing it, at least) from some advert or other. Steer’s music is a kind of chirpy post-folk that calls upon lots of strings and glockenspiels, all bolted together with some neat electronic production. Frankly, very little has moved on since the release of Building Blocks, and chances are if you liked that, you’ll lap this up without finding yourself too taxed or fatigued afterwards. The articulate instrumental performances and their highly disciplined arrangements all suggest that Steer is an accomplished bedroom auteur, and If you ever dreamed that Beirut records sounded a bit less Eastern European and a bit more home counties, than reader, your ship has come in.
