Kilbey Kennedy Remix Project

OK, here's your chance to impress us with your knob twiddling/mouse skills. Using the original individual audio files you can mix, mash, manipulate, mangle (moving on to p letters) pulp, pound, puree or plonkerize (I made that one up) your favourite Kilbey Kennedy song into something magical. Full details below....

PRESS RELEASE FROM SECOND MOTION RECORDS....

The KK Fan Remix Project: We are very excited to announce that YOU the fans can now participate in a special "Fan Only" remix project exclusive to Second Motion Records! If you are crafty with tracks, protools or just ever dreamed about remixing a track for Steve Kilbey or Martin Kennedy, this is your chance!

We are offering the stems for every song on the album available for free for each of you to download to your hearts content. With these stems you can work on your own remixes of the songs and submit them back to us no later than Dec 31st, 2009. We will share every remix with both Steve & Martin and narrow down the songs to our favorites. The plan is to sometime next year release a digital only 'fan remix' album.

How cool would it be to have your track featured in an upcoming release by Steve & Martin? If you are interested please grab these stems now (links below) and get working! Rules, deadlines and submission guidelines are below:

CONTEST GUIDELINES/FAQ:

1. Deadline: Contest is open worldwide, you do not have to be a US or Canadian citizen to enter. All submissions are due no later than Dec 31st, 2009 and must be emailed to: stephen (at) secondmotionrecords.com. Please do NOT email more than one track per email, if you are working on multiple tracks please use your own .mac public folder, a delivery method such as yousendit.com or email us for specific directions on how to submit before submitting. We are not responsible for lost files via spam folders or cyberspace issues. We will email you back acknowledgement of receipt.

Please note: we will ONLY accept Mp3 copies of the remixes initially. If you are selected as a finalist we will ask you for higher quality .wav or .aiff files at that time.

2. Snail Mail:

in lieu of email, you may also submit by mail to:

Second Motion Records
PO BOX 862
East Lansing, MI 48826
attn: KK Remix Contest

be sure to include your name, email address, and phone number to contact you. You must supply your own CDR and postage and we cannot return the disc.

3. Waiver: Very Important Note: by downloading the stems and submitting your tracks for submission, you hereby acknowledge that you will not receive any royalties for potential sales of these remixes (we have not decided on what we will do with them we just want to see what you guys can come up with!) but we will give you full credit for your remix if chosen and do some other special things in the future as a thank you. We want all of you fans to feel like you are a part of this album and feel like this is a great way for you to participate in helping us promote this for more and more people to discover. This is for promotional purposes only but we do reserve the right to full ownership of the copyright, publishing and royalties of these songs regardless of your participation.

4. Download: All tracks are at the links below, and are in .zip formats and are all .wav files. If you have any trouble downloading them there would be high traffic problems due to popularity. First, wait 30 minutes and try again, if the problem continues please email us and we will investigate the issues. Please only download one track/zip file at a time!

Please note, these tracks are large, each zip file is a minimum of 200MB to 450MB in size. Please ONLY download one track zip file at a time. If you are unfamiliar with the use of .wav files, remixes, or don't have the bandwidth to handle downloading files of this size please do not participate in this contest. These files are 100% virus free and we are not responsible for any problems they may cause to your computer, so download at your own risk.

4. Copyright: These tracks may not be redistributed, sold, streamed or used in any way without written approval from Second Motion Records, the composers and publishers of these tracks. All tracks are copyright control 2009-2010 licensed to Second Motion Records and any violation of these rights will result in punishment to the full extent of the law. By clicking these links you hereby acknowledge this agreement.

All of these things aside, let's have some fun with this! We cannot wait to hear what you guys have in mind!

STEMS: (Please for bandwidth reasons only download one at a time)

1. Eyes Ahead
2. My Will Be Yours
3. Stretch Into The Stars
4. Maybe Soon
5. Uh I Dunno
6. Thought of Leaving
7. Another Place
8. All Is One
9. Love Increased
10. The Other Place
11. Naked As A Star
12. Friends Are Gone

Kilbey Kennedy "Unseen Music Unheard Words" lands in North America

Second Motion Records is proud to announce the North American release of Steve Kilbey (The Church) & Martin Kennedy (All India Radio) present... "Unseen Music/Unheard Words" out Jan 26th 2010! 

Preorders: starting today, we are taking orders for a special limited edition "Digital Deluxe Version" of "Unseen Music/Unheard Words".  If you purchase either the CD or Digital album from Second Motions site you will also immediately receive a copy of an Ambient/Remix album of "Unseen Music Unheard Words" including  4 previously unreleased tracks including:

all is one - black satin mix

piano 4.9 (friends are gone original piano)

stretch into the stars - raw mix

maybe soon - all india radio mix

and one previously rare track done for our friends at Magnet Magazine:

eyes head - Magnet Magazine mix.

PRE-ORDER Digital Deluxe Version of "Unseen Music/Unheard Words"

Steve Kilbey & Martin Kennedy - album No 2 Part 2

Some more of our recording session at Jorden Brebach's (Dappled Cities, The Church) studio in Sydney. Steve worked his tonsils off for two days in 35+ degree heat, completing vocals for 11 songs. The work-in-progress song you'll hear is 'Hope' (working title).

Steve Kilbey & Martin Kennedy - album No 2 Part 1

Here we are at Jorden Brebach's (Dappled Cities, The Church) studio in Sydney recording Steve's vocals for our second album. Steve worked his tonsils off for two days in 35+ degree heat, completing vocals for 11 songs. The work-in-progress songs you'll hear are 'Intense' (working title) and 'Close'

New All India Radio, old paintings

Here's a time-lapse super 8 movie of me painting a number of years ago. You can't beat the lo-fi look of super 8 film. The music is an All India Radio song from our new album due sometime in 2010. I don't paint much anymore - much too busy with music these days!

Kilbey Kennedy Essential Music Industry Tips - 2. Time out

Destroy All Demos NOW

 
















 A few weeks ago a voice in my head told me to go through my box of crappy demo tapes and release them on an album. Stupidly I listened and I now present to you DESTROY ALL DEMOS, my ambient and electronic music doodles from the early 1980’s to the mid 1990’s (I'll save my indie rock demos for another day). Most of the tracks were recorded on cassette and reel to reel and mastered back onto cassette. So as you'd expect they are full of hiss, pops, dropouts and bad editing. But somehow, I like still them...yes they're bad, but good bad with lo-fi charm (so I've convinced myself) and many of them were the seeds for my later music projects.

Best of all, the album is FREE (I couldn't knowingly charge you for this stuff!). Click on the link below, then go to 'Download Album' and type in a zero amount (unless you're feeling generous), choose your preferred format and Bob's your uncle.

DOWNLOAD DESTROY ALL DEMOS

Here's one I prepared earlier

Now that I'm an unemployed bum, I'd like to think I can manage a blog cartoon a day, but I've already fallen behind. So here's one I prepared earlier. Like about 18 years earlier. It's a sketch for a possible painting of Craig McArthur who ran a studio called Whirled where my old band Pray TV recorded. It was supposed to help cover the bill. Not that I ever asked him if he wanted a painting instead of cash. In the end I never got around to it. Note the computer in front of the window in the top right corner (with the eye on the screen). Back in 1991, computers running software (Cubase in this case) were still pretty rare. That damn computer was Craig's new toy and it ruined some of the songs by replacing the real snare drum sound with a horrible 'thwacky' sample...for no reason other than it could. UGH. Glad we don't use computers anymore.....

Kilbey Kennedy Essential Music Industry Tips - 1.Travel Lightly

Recording Kilbey Kennedy songs in Sydney