‘Pitch Twit – Oink’ – Sic Outfit’s 5th release is out now! Its an electronica/breakbeat Pitch Twit classic and its available for free (no registration needed) from Sound Cloud here – http://soundcloud.com/pitchtwit/oink/download
OK so I’m behind on releases due to a holiday to the West Coast of the US (amazing!) and I broke my promise of one release per month. Or did I?! This next release will go out on Thursday the 29th July, just inside the end of themonth. Earlier versions of this track helped to define Pitch Twit: it was this track that led to Sidewards – Pitch Twit’s first ever release. The original inspiration came from a huge track I’m sure you’ll know – the Timo Maas mix of Azzido Da Bass’s track entitled Doom’s Night.
This one will be free again, this time on Creative Commons’ most liberal license allowing commercial use and alteration, and there’ll be WAV versions available for the DJs. Is there anything left to give? Don’t answer that.
Here’s what Dancen Dancen music blog said about the track:-
“I have been pretty busy the last few days preparing everything for tomorrows Discolabevent, that explains the lack of updates in the last days. Just now I was packing my virtual record case, and there is one track, which I’m looking forward to play: Impetus by Pitch Twit. I was pretty surprised hearing the track the first time, because the last release by Pitch Twit I did was a straight electro bomb. But Impetus plays in another game, called Techno! It carries a certain feeling, which only few tracks each year are able to create: It’s timeless. If I would be floating in outer space, this would be my soundtrack, and it would have companions like Gregor Treshers “A thousand nights”. The track is eight minutes long, but Pitch Twit managed to create a brilliant structure, which keeps the track morphing from minute to minute. There is not a single second nor a single beat too much in this stroke of a true genius. The bass is warm and embracing, the synths interesting, but unobtrusive, and the break at 2:20 makes me wanna telling every living creature in the universe that I love it. Believe me, this piece of music will once be seen as a milestone of the development of electronic music. Pitch Twit, I take my hat off – Thanks” Dancen Dancen Music Blog
“Alluring and addictive…..refreshing” – Daily Music Guide
“The world of Pitch Twit is somewhere I really didn’t want to leave” - Noise Makes Enemies
“Great arrangement, great assets, great music – love it!”- Dancen Dancen
Pitch Twit is the pseudonym of Yorkshire musician and producer Tom Sidebottom. This young producer’s music is about melody and energy and when he’s not making it, he’s issuing it.
Impetus is Pitch Twit’s 4th single release on his DIY indie label: Sic Outfit. The single contains two mixes – the original, and a cut down edit. The genre is electro-techno and the track is similar to the likes of Lutzenkirchen, Extrawelt, Popof and Sebastian Leger.
For more information on this release please contact
Tom Sidebottom +44(0)7932 079000 tom@sicoutfit.com
Heads We Dance asked me to do a remix and also a blog of my five favourite things. Here it is. Right Here. Just there underneath.
Pitch Twit’s Five Favourite (Random) things
My favourite chocolate cake
This cake is the best chocolate cake I have ever eaten. Whenever I make it, anyone who tries it always can’t actually believe how good it is. When I do it I use Green & Blacks chocolate and instead of using all dark, I use half 70% and half milk. It is a ridiculous cake. It might even make you giggle whilst you’re eating it.
Ingrediants
For the cake:
200g good quality dark chocolate , about 60% cocoa solids
200g butter , cut in pieces
1 tbsp instant coffee granules
85g self-raising flour
85g plain flour
1⁄4 tsp bicarbonate of soda
200g light muscovado sugar
200g golden caster sugar
25g cocoa powder
3 medium eggs
75ml buttermilk (5 tbsp)
grated chocolate or curls, to decorate
Ganache:-
200g good-quality dark chocolate , as above
284ml carton double cream (pouring type)
2 tbsp golden caster sugar
Method
Butter a 20cm round cake tin (7.5cm deep) and line the base. Preheat the oven to fan 140C/conventional 160C/ gas 3. Break the chocolate in pieces into a medium, heavy-based pan. Tip in the butter, then mix the coffee granules into 125ml/4fl oz cold water and pour into the pan. Warm through over a low heat just until everything is melted – don’t overheat. Or melt in the microwave on Medium for about 5 minutes, stirring half way through.
While the chocolate is melting, mix the two flours, bicarbonate of soda, sugars and cocoa in a big bowl, mixing with your hands to get rid of any lumps. Beat the eggs in a bowl and stir in the buttermilk.
Now pour the melted chocolate mixture and the egg mixture into the flour mixture, stirring just until everything is well blended and you have a smooth, quite runny consistency. Pour this into the tin and bake for 1 hour 25- 1 hour 30 minutes – if you push a skewer in the centre it should come out clean and the top should feel firm (don’t worry if it cracks a bit). Leave to cool in the tin (don’t worry if it dips slightly), then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
When the cake is cold, cut it horizontally into three. Make the ganache: chop the chocolate into small pieces and tip into a bowl. Pour the cream into a pan, add the sugar, and heat until it is about to boil. Take off the heat and pour it over the chocolate. Stir until the chocolate has melted and the mixture is smooth.
Sandwich the layers together with just a little of the ganache. Pour the rest over the cake letting it fall down the sides and smoothing to cover with a palette knife. Decorate with grated chocolate or a pile of chocolate curls. The cake keeps moist and gooey for 3-4 days.
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My favourite African guitarist – D’Gary
I saw this guitarist at the Canmore Folk Festival back in 2004 and was instantly blown away by the technicality of his playing and of the rhythms that were being used by him and his band. I got an album (Akato Meso) and have listened to it loads – as opposed to other times at festivals when you really love a live performance by an artist you’ve never heard of – rush off and buy the CD only to get it home and find that its actually rubbish. Beautiful amazing music.
I went to Leh while I was travelling round northern India a few years ago with my girlfriend. The dry looking part in the top right of the pic is the old town and the green bit everywhere else is the nicer bit though. We stayed there for about two weeks and really chilled out. Rooms are about 50p a night – less if you want a long term stay. If you eat at the right places you can get a meal for about 30p. If I ever wanted to write a book, or do a concept album or something like that, I’d just spend six months in Leh over a summer just doing exactly what I wanted and nothing more.
Ages ago I was in New York with two good mates, and one of them (Chris Sharkey) knew where to go for some really in your face contemporary hard funk from some of New York’s finest jazz musicians. If you go to New York you HAVE to go and see the Wayne Krantz Trio. This little gig goes down as my favourite intimate gig of all time (and the other times I went there). The level of musicianship is beyond the level you could previously comprehend (especially the drumming) and the grooves are just so sick!
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Favourite Dangerous Ride – Metal Bob Sleigh, China
I was in some place in China with a band I was with at the time and we came across this crazy and rather dangerous ride. Apparently there’s one at one of the Great Wall sites in Beijing, so if you ever go to see the Great Wall of China, go to the section where that ride is – its well well good! I made a video whilst I went down it………
