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Improvisatory, personal recordings made on various synthesisers between 1989 and 2017.
‘Amazing music that moves between abstract electronic experiments to melodic, DMT bent sounding, classical contemporary music and futuristic soundtracks from non-existing sci-fi movies you’ll wish you could see. It time-warps you from here to there then freezes the moment… very focused, unpretentious and highly emotive music . A wonderful and dreamy sound garden’ (Tako Reyenga, Music From Memory).
‘Chateauroux is mighty… A proper zoner. Flung on earth’ (John T. Gast).

A symphonic layering of phone-taps by Scanner and TT, aka DJ Sprinkles.
Plus some deep, glitchy Ambient by the label-boss, with piano and harpsichord.

Swaying, haunting tangos from Turkey, from the twenties to the fifties, drenched in tears and booze, regret and recrimination.

Besides the debut single She Is Beyond Good And Evil adding the ten-track album Alien Blood and Y Live.
Alien Blood unearths revelatory, never-before-heard material, including the studio recording of Kiss The Book,  a gloves-off version of We Are Time (Ricochet) and Words Disobey Me (Dennis The Menace Mix). It exposes the raw skeletons of iconic tracks such as Thief of Fire (Bass Addict), at its original velocity.
Y Live captures all the fierce urgency of the group’s live performances at the time, at a variety of locations including New York, Manchester and — on a bill with William Burroughs and Joy Division — Brussels. It bottles what was so thrilling about The Pop Group.

Too experimental for their label International Artists, back in 1967.

Their seminal 1979 LP debut with Dennis Bovell at the mixing board. 180g vinyl.

A third album of luscious sampladelic pop magic. Catchy, laid-back Beach Boys-esque pop and Laurel Canyon-bedsit-style loveliness.

‘Music is heard coming from Iron Chicken’s egg. The egg breaks and Tiny Clanger plays with all the notes from inside. The Soup Dragon eats most of them, so Tiny takes the last couple outside and plants them. He gets the cloud to rain on them, and they grow into beautiful music trees. Tiny Clanger conducts the first tune.’