Herd and Unherd is now available in almost every digital format you can think of, thanks to the fine folks at bandcamp.com . You want FLAC, AAC, OGG ?! Pick a flavor. And all of it wonderfully DRM free!

http://borfultang.bandcamp.com/

A beacon of light transmitted from his hermetic dwelling in Oakland, California, Borful Tang is proud to bring
a grip of exclusive new material to People Like Us' mind bending DO or DIY show on WFMU. With the help
of producer/engineer Dominic Cramp (Evangelista, Vulcanus 68, Qulfus) Mr. Tang has crafted a handful of
short narrative pieces compromised of nuggets from his vast vault of found sounds: a news report on the
Commodore 64; a warped skipping Jesus record for children; an Austrian synth demonstration DVD; the
Sapphire and Steele box set! It is all source material for this fiendish cut-up specialist. And all of it set to a
musical interplay that puts him in a class all his own. These pieces are also in support and celebration of
Borful Tang's latest release, Herd and Unherd, out now on Gigante Sound.

Wednesday, August 4 , 7 - 8pm
WFMU
broadcasting at 91.1 fm in New York, at 90.1 fm in the Hudson Valley, and with gobs and gobs of online offerings.
http://wfmu.org/

After a three year hiatus, Borful Tang is back with Herd and Unherd. The Aquarius Records review says it better than we can:

"At long last, a new release from the elusive and mysterious Borful Tang (for his head scratching back history, please refer to our reviews for his Root cd and On The Back Of A Dying Beast 2cd-r). A mischievous sound collagist, he's like some peculiar sonic macrame'd synthesis of Negativland, John Oswald's Plunderphonics,
BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and the Sun City Girls / Sublime Frequencies camp... but he doesn't stop there!
He can match immersive wits with the best of the dronologists too.

At times Herd And Unherd is languidly lulling, at others it's a barrel of percolating loopiness, while still at
others sinisterly possessed. Mr. Tang is clearly something of an obsessive collector of sound sources. He's amassed a vaultful of tapes and vinyl - field recordings, video game soundtracks, religious AM radio broadcasts and other disembodied voices to name just a few. He consults with them, meticulously pares and processes 'em, and the pieces are then refashioned into something which is altogether new, yet haunted by
the eclectic phantoms of the past. Add to this sonic palette an arsenal of a homemade electronic gadgets,
and you have something festooned with mad scientist goggles and soldering goo. Go on, give your ears a
wild feast to munch on. Recommended!"

T H E M A Y S debut release on Gigante Sound is now available! "K N O W F I" is on sale through
Aquarius Records in San Francisco. As they say:

"We'd recommend that you sit right down, settle in for a spell, and allow the heavily processed and densely layered drones, fleeting melodies, found sounds and other noise generators melt together into every crack
and crevice of your ear drums. Awash with ever-evolving warbly, woobly wonderfulness! "

There is also a really great live recording in the Archive of K N O W F I being played simultaneously on 13 boomboxes on top of a hill overlooking San Francisco. The different types of media (tape, mp3, CD) put each boombox slightly out of phase and with the different frequency limitations of the various speakers,
creates surprisngly deep, ever mutating drones.

- Setting up the boomboxes - Tank Hill, San Francisco, CA

Rokhausen's outrageous knees-up good time contribution to the Meltdown has found its way to Polish web radio station, radio*sitka, on the Istota Ssaca show :

http://istotassaca.blogspot.com/2010/06/cz39-heavy-sun-fun.html

Check out a rundown on Motown Meltdown in Polish with syrup synth solo in the background! :

Along with Africans, the "probably gay" and a penis tree, Borful Tang has been mocked in a Serious
Business forum on Interviewing at ShaggyBevo.com.

Do a Find on the page for : 'Massive Horn', to see the defaming misuse of his likeness.

http://www.shaggybevo.com/board/showthread.php/39550-Bringing-a-picture-to-a-job-interview

Our lawyers have been informed.

The Wire magazine's Adventures in Modern Music show on London's Resonance FM, will be featuring a medley of selections from our most recent release, Motown Meltdown: Volume 2, on today's broadcast!

Listen in London on 104.4FM
Listen live on the web at http://resonancefm.com/listen

UK time : 9-10:30pm
West Coast USA time : 1-2:30pm
East Coast USA time : 4-5:30pm

If you missed it, you can find it in the show's archive at: http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/4447/

Motown Meltdown: Volume 2 is out today! The deadly duo of Blanketship and Qulfus have now opened their vault of Motown karaoke and original multi-track recordings to other artists. Alongside our two tunesmiths, featured on this release are: mashup maniac Rokhausen, electro chemist Vytear, dub maestro Lord Tang,
and Gigante Sound's own T H E M A Y S and Beaks Plinth. Volume 2 brings you a wider spectrum of sounds than the first volume, it's wilder, woolier and weirder than ever before! :: CLICK HERE ::

Dominic is on tour in Europe next month with Evangelista:

07.05.2010 Krems (AT), Donaufestival
10.05.2010 Copenhagen (DK), Loppen
11.05.2010 Oslo (NO), Cafe Mono
12.05.2010 Bergen (NO), Landmark
14.05.2010 Goeteborg (SE), Koloni @ Kulturhamnen
15.05.2010 Rostock (DE), JAZ
17.05.2010 Berlin (DE), HAU2 w/ The Psychic Paramount
19.05.2010 Groningen (NL), Vera
20.05.2010 Krefeld (DE), Kulturrampe
21.05.2010 Brussels (BE), Maison des Musiques
22.05.2010 Bielefeld (DE), Bunker Ulmenwall

Motown Meltdown Vol. 2 is almost ready to go. We are working on the art work and mastering at the moment .
It will be releasing at the end of the month and we happy about it because it's not just us! Contributing to this volume of reworkings and maulings are Vytear, T H E M A Y S, Rockhausen and more!

http://www.myspace.com/vytear
http://www.myspace.com/wearethemays
http://www.myspace.com/rokhausen

We were asked by Vicky Bennet of the great People Like Us to do some radio spots for her upcoming 24
hour broadcast on WFMU. They were fun and totally ridiculous! If you want spots for your show, give us a holler!:

Motown Meltdown Vol. 2 promo
Grandma
Flare Reports
For the Kids
Borful Tang promo
Adam and Eve

New Blanketship and Borful Tang records almost ready to go. Music done, art in process. Have a listen of what's to come:

Blanketship - Fantasma

DOWNLOAD

Borful Tang - Herd and Unherd

New site launched. Check out the new Music Archive section for out of print, live recordings, radio sessions.

Blanketship made #73 on KUSF's top 90.3 records of 2009! We beat Tortoise!! Congratulations Mr. Ship:

Check out our ad in the December issue of The Wire...

Review of the latest Blanketship, "The Sound of Fun Surrounds You/ Klangwunder" in the November issue
of The Wire: