jumping on the bandcamp

After hearing loads of good things (including lots from our friends at Concrete Moniker who’ve been using it for a while), I’ve moved the whole operation over to Bandcamp. Ultimately this will lead to the EP no longer being available for free download, although if you still haven’t grabbed it during the 9+ months that its been free you can still do so from Bandcamp – for a limited time only so be quick! – but even once we start charging to download, you’ll still be able to stream it in full for free. You have to give your email address to download, which will mean that you will be added to our mailing list, but of course you will always have the option to unsubscribe at any point. You’ll also notice the newly reissued EP is available to buy and there’s pictures of it in all its glory – exciting!

reissue picture

I’ve been a bit slack recently with recording live gigs for free download (sorry), but I’m planning to get right back on it for upcoming gigs – live recordings will always be there to download free of charge, although of course you’ll always be able to make a donation…

Check out our Bandcamp site here, and as always I’d be interested to hear any comments (good or bad) about the new system – get in touch by emailing info@beatsnpieces.net

Posted by Ben on 22/09/2010 at 17:20 in news, site and tagged , , . Leave comments here.



remix number three

It gives me enormous pleasure to present to you the third (and final… for now!) in the series of Beats & Pieces remixes, and its one I’ve been looking forward to sharing since it arrived in my inbox a few weeks ago. Rodrigo Constanzo has completely reworked ‘broken’ and it sounds awesome, a fitting end to three weeks of exciting remixes – hope you’ve enjoyed them as much as we have! If you missed the previous weeks’ remixes you can download them all in a single zip file here.

As with the other remixes, its been made available to download for free, but if you enjoy it we’d appreciate it if you considered making a donation to support our work by clicking the big yellow ‘Donate’ button on the right hand side of the Efpi site – ta!

Posted by Ben on 28/07/2010 at 11:08 in b&p friends, news and tagged , , , , , . Leave comments here.



remix number two

The second in the series of Beats & Pieces remixes is now available to download over on the Efpi website; this week its ‘bake’ that’s been reworked by Dileu (aka Owain Roberts, aka Messner). Many will know that Owain also plays trombone on the EP, so its been really interesting to hear what he’s done with the track!

Again its been made available for you to download for free, but if you enjoy it please consider making a donation to support out work by clicking the big yellow ‘Donate’ button on the right hand side of the Efpi site – ta!

Posted by Ben on 21/07/2010 at 11:54 in b&p friends, news and tagged , , , , , , , . Leave comments here.



Beats & Pieces EP remixed

In the run up to our gig at the Manchester Jazz Festival on Saturday July 31st, and to celebrate both the end of our first UK tour and the 2nd anniversary of our first ever gig at the 2008 festival, we invited some close friends of Efpi to have a go at remixing some of the EP tracks. We’re chuffed with how they’ve turned out, its really exciting for us and we can’t wait for you to hear them!

The first remix (of ‘broken’ by Tullis Rennie) is available to download over at the Efpi Records site, and another remix will be made available each week until the mjf gig. As always, we’ve made the music available for free but if you enjoy it please consider making a donation to support both Beats & Pieces and the Efpi label – there’s a big yellow ‘Donate’ button at the side of every page on the Efpi site.

Thanks again to all the guys for their efforts in remixing, its been a really exciting process!

Go download! Let us know what you think…

Posted by Ben on 13/07/2010 at 23:31 in b&p friends, news and tagged , , , . Leave comments here.