Commander Keen <commanderkeenmusic>


Commander Keen are a folk/ambient/electronic/postr
 ockish act from Glasgow in Scotland.

Commander Keen release material on hackpen records.

You can find Commander Keen's download single on itunes, emusic, http://www.resonancestore.com/hackpen/ and other places...

see www.myspace.com/commanderkeenmusic for myspacism.

The full my tascam dreams E.P. is officially launched on the 27th of september, but a few sneaky advanced copies are on sale in avalanche/mono in glasgow, avalanche in edinburgh and via paypal from www.commanderkeen.co.uk/shop.

Commander Keen says:

"remixing poorly produced pish makes you sad on the inside. boomy boomy acoustic guitars *gets the rage*" (50 weeks ago) me too! | Reply
Genre
Ambient
Folk
Experimental

Label
Hackpen Records
Indie Label

Hometown
Glasgow
UK

URL
http://www.bebo.com/commanderkeenmusic

Profile Created
April 2007

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  • new interview thing and aberdeen review

    hello all,

    there is a new interview feature thing on both is this music? and 17 seconds which you can find here:-

    http://www17seconds.blogspot.com/sea...

    and here:-

    http://www.isthismusic.com/commander...

    as well as a review of our gig in aberdeen with our label pals mouse eat and dumb instrument.

    http://www.isthismusic.com/mouse-eat...

    yay
    x

    0 Comments 604 days

  • reviews reviews reviews...

    Is This Music?

    "This five track mini-album is, without a doubt, one of the finest things I have heard all year. Imagine Sigur Ros, John Martyn and Squarepusher recording an album together. Imagine that the result was as beautiful as Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space. These five tracks are nothing less than an utterly bewitching mixture of folk and electronica (folk-tronica? Oh, whatever) that deserved to be heard by everyone. To listen to this is to be reminded why Durutti Column and Boards Of Canada deserve to be more popular., and to know that this is something that is special and deserved to be treasured. Including recent download only single ‘Panic Attack’ Commander Keen will hopefully be massive.

    5 stars "

    Tasty Fanzine

    "Despite being the brain child of a singular Glaswegian, Stuart Torrance, Commander Keen commandeers some fine guest musicians to play the beguiling selection of strings, brass and other traditional parts on this most atmospheric of mini-albums. Full of abstract whirrings and clicks, it takes the cinematic qualities of Sonver and combines them with a more earthy Scottish folk ethic. This is also reminiscent of the sort of stuff cropping up in Leeds quite a lot at the moment - Vessels, Alt track etc. 'She Dances' provides a fittingly regal end to this release with its unfolding harmonium part and increasingly urgent synths. Blissful.

    SB"

    Die Shellsuit

    "I shall direct you to my previous review of Commander Keen to give a sense of what you can expect from this release. I do not particularly feel like repeating what I said in it so this whilst feeling a little disjointed is only intended as an appendix if you will to what has gone before.

    Commander Keen are a wonderfully ambient Scottish group, an Adem like band if you will, but with less focus of vocals and more on the instrumental. Tracks that appear here as new delights is, the wonderfully sparse and almost rough sounding ‘My Tascam Dreams’ which leads almost perfectly into the thing of beauty that is ‘If I Thought You Heard This’.

    ‘You Know the Words’ could be described in any number of flowery similes or metaphors, I’ll try and avoid the cliques by simply leaving it at staggeringly serene. Also ironically enough it contains very little on lyrical front. Hurrah, we do indeed know all the words! Every bit of the track though has been carefully contextualised and layered to create some ethereal world of peace. So two is ‘She Dances’ which almost becomes glitch electronica with it controlled drumming and shift in tempo.

    There isn’t really much more to be said, if you’re a fan of electronica, instrumental, or music composition in general then you need Commander Keen in your life, both enchanting and bewildering, it provokes all sorts of thought.”

    9 on 10

    0 Comments 635 days

  • Gig and interview

    ok folks, just to let you know about this gig on the 13th at the classic grand, it should be an empty barrel of laughs.

    also i took part in tw interviews recently, one for dieshellsuit

    http://www.dieshellsuit.co.uk/articl...

    and one in the extra newspaper which i believe is a freebie in the west end.

    let me know if you find it, and if i sound like a tossbag
    xx

    0 Comments 731 days

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  • Aodhán
    Aodhán

    Ambient, folk, experimental. Sounds like my kind of thing. But my computer is completely broken, and won't play sound, or many other things.
    Great name btw.

    Anyway, perhaps you'll like my music

    www.bebo.com/thegonkat1am

    88 weeks ago
  • Greg Clare
    Greg Clare

    Epic
    Brilliant
    More please
    please please

    92 weeks ago
  • Rico
    Rico

    your tracks are amazing man, if u added a wee beat to it ud sound like chicane in his old days. any chance u could send me more of ur tracks man?!! wb

    100 weeks ago
  • Laura
    Laura

    hey sir spamsalot, i have somehow managed to block you on msn and cant seem to undo that wrong.... :( il try the old delete add again caper...

    woops!

    101 weeks ago
  • Xan Griffin
    Xan Griffin

    I know everyone everywhere. x

    113 weeks ago
  • AH!
    AH!

    Recorders are evil!

    113 weeks ago