Natural History Remixes: Part 1 from Blu Mar Ten, designed by ithinkitsnice, is is available to buy now on vinyl and digital download from all the usual places.

Blu Mar Ten have just announced the release of their Natural History Remixes: Part 1, which I created the artwork for.

The vinyl features reworkings by Seba and Bop, while the digital download features an additional remix by the wonderful Badmammal from San Francisco.

For the build up to the release, Blu Mar Ten also asked me to create some animated titles and visuals for the Youtube previews of the tracks.

Part 2 in the series will be announced in the coming month.

This is the promo art I made for my good friend (and one-time flatmate) Paul Reset‘s long running record label Nerve Recordings‘ swansong, which is closing after nearly 10 years of releases on vinyl, and latterly digital — a huge and frankly rare achievement for any independent label. The 3-track release features Saburuko and another good friend of mine, Morphy, including his his too-long unreleased ‘Glasgow Rockers’.

In the past year, Paul decided to cease issuing records on vinyl and released Nerve’s entire catalogue of over 60 tracks for free download. Now he’s decided to wrap it up for good, but it’s definitely going out on a high. Congratulations on everything you’ve accomplished over the years with Nerve, Paul. It was an honour to create the artwork for this release.

And yeah, yeah, digital art made to look like grungy, printed matter is a old-hat. I hope you can see the intention for it to look like a vintage poster is actually the idea. Actually, I don’t care.

Nerve030 – Saburuko vs Morphy is available now. Listen to and download the tracks for free here.

All of Nerve’s previous relelases are now available for free on www.nerverecordings.co.uk

Some beauties from a visit to Newport, Rhode Island, USA earlier this year.

Anji Bee of Lovespirals has just posted up some of the first shots of their new 100% recycled digipack CD album, Future Past. I’ll add some of my own as soon as my copy arrives in the post.

Copies of Blu Mar Ten‘s new album ‘Natural History’ finally arrived, so I’ve added these pics to the rest of the work I have done for them.

The CD comes in a card sleeve and includes a 6 page roll-fold booklet and one art card, while the double vinyl comes with printed inner-sleeves and an A1 poster.

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I just (actually last week) delivered the artwork for Californian ‘dreamy electro-acoustic indie pop’ band Lovespirals‘ fourth studio Album, entitled Future Past.

The artwork for the 6-panel digipack is made up from a mixture of hand rendered and digital type set alongside the photography of Susan Jennings.

Eco-friendly Lovespirals naturally insisted on green (not just the colour) packaging; the digipack is printed on 100% recycled stock with 100% recycled plastic trays, printed with vegetable-based inks and coated with water-based biodegradable varnishes, provided by Groove House Manufacturing in California.

Packshots as soon as I get the finished article.

I’ve just made these video titles for Blu Mar Ten’s Youtube album preview, including a little non-narrative montage of some of the album artwork. It’s based on a full video promo for one of the tracks which is in progress now and should be coming in the next few weeks.

Now I’ve got about a week’s worth of A drawing A Day to catch up on…

Update 27/10/09

I’ve just been informed by Chris Blu Mar Ten that this video has received 2 ‘Honors’ on YouTube; one for being the the 75th most viewed in the United Kingdom and, perhaps bizarrely, another being the 81st most viewed music video in Russia. I’m not entirely sure what to make of that — and it’s all down to Blu Mar Ten’s popularity, make no mistake — but I think that’s good going. It’s certainly received over 1200 views in under 48 hours. I’m happy with that.

Here’s a preview of the artwork for electronic music veterans Blu Mar Ten’s new album, Natural History, which is being manufactured as I write and is scheduled for an early November release.

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