Woob 1194 Re-released: Copies to Give Away, Paul Frankland Interview -part II
Fellow ex-emit artist Paul Frankland has re-released his Woob 1194 album, and we have three free copies to give away. We also have free copies of a brand new version of Giant Stroke, a track from Emit 1197, to give away!
Simply add a comment to this post and we will draw three names out of a super-chilled hat in a week (Sunday 27th December 09). Plus, everyone who adds a comment will recieve a free copy of the special Woob track. Please add your email with your comment, it won’t be displayed and we delete them all after the draw has finished.
In the second part of my interview with Paul we talk more about the recording process…
MAT JARVIS: How did you approach the recording of the album?
PAUL FRANKLAND: The performing/mixing of tracks was similar for all. For example with - ‘On Earth’ I would start with all the faders down on the mixing desk, a couple of synths set up for live improvised performance, various tape/DAT decks for triggering long samples (Atari CPU was midi only) and the sequencer would have up to 24 midi tracks (5 minute loops) I could cut in and out on the fly (similar to Ableton Live). The engineer would then hit record on the DAT and I would take it from there. All EQ and FX were obviously set up beforehand, although they would get tweaked during the mix.
MAT: You mentioned the improvised part in ‘On Earth’ in part I of our interview, what do you remember about the other tracks on the album?
PAUL:
Odonna- Spending five hours making the perfect vocal loop on an Akai s1000 (so that it didn’t click!)
Wuub - Nearly cutting it from the Album completely because it just seemed too nice.
Strange Air - Doing nine passes in a row, each one completely different.
Emperor - I think half the track is a master fade.
MJ: And how about the second album, and the new album?
PF: That whole working method saw me through the first Woob album, the second was a lot more structured with mostly predefined arrangements.
The new material shares a similar approach to the first album, with the added benefits a modern studio environment brings. The new track (released 1st Jan) is built from a really simple live musical performance and then additional layers of musical sound design and fx have been added. The updated website has a cinematic style teaser trailer…
Woob - UQ Trailer from Antenna > on Vimeo.
Read part I of this interview
Woob 1194 on iTunes
Buy Woob 1194 on Bandcamp
Woob official web site
Add a comment below to win a copy of Woob 1194…
(Remember to add your email address for us to contact you with the free track. It won’t be displayed and we delete them all after the draw)
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Five hours well spent. Odonna is the most beautiful track. Those vocal loops are so powerful and emotive. You can’t help but become engulfed by the whole thing.
I remember some of my friends being in disbelief that On Earth was over 30 minutes long.
Can’t wait to hear the new stuff.
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This is really special and emotional music. Glad it has been re-released. :-)
One of the best releases from the series, back then, and still truly wonderfull scapes!
a very good album, sometimes tribal, sometimes chill, hop that the re-release will be on Digipak format.
My favourite track is “Wuub” with the samples taken from the Dark Shadows movie : “Alex … you know there’s only one way we’re going to end all of this … we’ve got to get back in there … and find Carlotta … because she’s the one who’s keeping the spirit alive”.
It gives me goose-pimples
Wow !!
That’s so great news. I was awaiting this for very long time!!!
Maybe the only sad thing is that there are only digital downloads?! or missed I something?
It was at the beginning of our relationship that we played this album almost every night. Our oldest is almost 13 now. The cd got lost a couple of years ago. This is going to bring back some fine memories ;-)
Thanx Paul from Holland
nostalgia cures (some)…
Please tell me this is not a download only and bring on Woob II!!!
He hallo Fré!!
woob - perfect for a cold vinter.
its always great to see what into making some tracks.
I bought this Lp in about 1994 I was working in Lyme Regis Dorset UK, I used to walk up and down the Jurassic coast on my day’s off, Sometimes in the winter, with this among others on my Walkman.
A few years later I gave it away as a taster of ambient to friend and didn’t really think much more about it, until the past few years as I now recall it’s brilliance from listening to sound bites on various sites on the internet.
It’s a great LP and reminds me about the layering of sound and conections of electronica and acoustic structure. I’m much into environmental issues and this somehow seems part of it’s acoustic meditation.
I wish I still owned it..
Take Care, have a great Christmas everyone.
Greg…
Hi all, thanks for your comments.
Can I remind people to add their emails with the comments as we need to contact you with the free track and the full album if/ when you win.
The emails won’t be displayed (if you enter it into the ‘email box’, and we delete them all after the draw.
Good luck everyone, and happy Christmas!
Mat
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I really want this album ever since I discovered some excellent Emit releases (incl. the Gas album) but from the interview and subsequent posts it isn’t clear wether it will be released as a physical product (i.e. cd). Has anyone more info on that?
Beautiful. Welcome back. This is just perfect ; this music both excites and inhibits thought simultaneously.
Hi.i love odonna track!woob 1194 is the best ambient album ever!!.thanks!
Woob 1194 and 4495 as well as Gas 0095 defined the whole em:t collection to me and were pretty much the reason I started to collect the series almost 15 years ago. I can’t believe it’s been that long. These albums are unforgettable, still some of my all-time favorites. I can’t wait to hear the new material.
Happy holidays and all the best wishes for 2010!
Gerrit
PS: I would love to see it released as digipak and/or vinyl! I’m always willing to pay extra for a tangible item :)
Well that’s a nice surprise just before Christmas. Keep the grooves flowing !
splendid music indeed
I’m so glad to hear from Woob again since I thought he had decided to stop releasing music. Even after years of frequent listening, 1194 hasn’t lost its magic. Merci pour ces voyages inoubliables à travers les sons et les images.
My comment is …
this make me extremely happy, as well happy holidays to the microscopics family.
Woob 1194, my second prefer emit album after Gas 0095. “On Earth” is one of the most beautifull travel on the ambient planet. So very happy that Paul is Back ! Welcome back : ).
Woob 1194 is one of my all-time favorite ambient albums, I’m thrilled to hear it’s getting re-released!
Greetings all - we wish for peace on the blue planet for everyone. One day we will all be free of enslavery of the machine that traps the ghost - the first law of thermodyanmics will see us tripping the light fantastic across the sytem - Namaste xxxx
SO totally happy this will be re-released. Really enjoyed all of em:t label releases.
Charles
Around 4 or 5 years ago a buddy of mine was going on and on about Woob, who at the time I had suprisingly never heard of. He brought over 1194 and about halfway through the first track my mind was made up to start tracking down all things Woob. (Hasn’t been easy - or cheap!) Completely and utterly brilliant music.
Agree with many others, though that a physical CD reissue is really necessary for something like this!
Odonna is my fave as well.
I bought that star trek episode used in the dialog near the end, was difficult to discover which ep until i found that her name on that episode is actually “Odona”.
And one day some years back i was watching the making of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon it was when Yo-Yo Ma began describing how he scored the film that i realized that it his voice in the beginning of Odonna!
I couldn’t believe it.
J
1194 has always been one of those albums that Ive wanted to know about the process involved in recording and mixing. So glad for the re-realease and anxiously awaiting the new material
=)
this is a great record that makes you feel relaxed and intune with the world. Glad to see it released so new listeners can get into the woob.
I would be happy to win Woob 1194
Sound like Snow in my mountain/lake area :))) thanks
Excellent music, those overtones are really impressive.
Thanks for the giveaway!
My ultimate desert island disc.
Amazing, I was listening to this yesterday! To this day people are blown away by this album when I play it. This album is still the yardstick for measuring electronic cinemascapes.
I’m glad this is being re-released, excellent album!!
Great news: Woob 1194 is one of the few must-have electronic album, very hard to find so a real pleasure to heard it again :)
What a great way to start the day to hear of new Woob. My email is xxx@gmail.com
(Yikes Michael, putting your email in the email box is enough. I’ve blocked out your email to protect you from spambots - thanks, Paul)
Finally!!
I am so glad that after all these years, the silence has finally been broken and Paul Frankland is back. 1194 is one of the best albums EVER recorded. It’s interesting to read about the recording process as well. There was always so much mystery surrounding Paul/Woob with no pictures of him or interviews with him that my friend and I used to joke that he was the penguin on the cover. Some divine, highly intelligent penguin hidden by a shadowy government agency, haha.
Excellent interview Mat.
Woob remastered? That just made my holiday! What a great album!
Ah, 1194. That beautiful album with the distant scream that always jarred me out of one mindstate and put me in another :)
It’s amazing how such primitive comuting was used to make such a lush electronic masterpiece! :)
Sounds like something I’d seriously want!
I’ve only recently discovered em:t Records, but I sort of feel like I’ve always known them. I mean, most of the tracks I’ve heard so far felt strangely nostalgic even on the first listen.
Sad to see such polished electronic music go under the radar, hopefully these recent re-releases will help ensure it’ll never be completely forgotten.
Excellent :D
Paul Frankland: Thank you for creating music that transports and uplifts the soul, and for inspiring me to make noise too. It’s great to know that we’ll be hearing more from you.
really exciting news. long awaited masterpiece.
very nice! looking forward to hearing more new material from woob.
Outstanding news! An early treat from Santa.
Woob back on CD? This has made my year - I have been after the Em:it albums for nearly a decade, after rediscovering a track of an old Future Music comp.
Lovely stuff. Looking forward to the new release.
Just discovered this yesterday from a tweet. Downloaded off iTunes 30 seconds later. WOW this is good. Can’t believe I haven’t heard about it before now.
Quite wonderful
A real masterpiece
A classic album resurfaces for a new generation! Don’t miss out this time, folks.
I stumbled on this today as over the years I have periodically googled our man WOOB. Since the early days of the em:t series I have been listening…….
When I 1st heard 1194 I was hooked and in my opinion it is one of (if not the best) ambient album ever made. I treasure my digipak in my archive……..but glad to see that it is released on itunes for all to enjoy.
If you don’t have it get it quick…..
If it doesn’t make your skin tingle you should seek medical attention before it is too late ;)….
Can’t wait for new material let the count down begin!
I’d say welcome back, but you’ve never really been away…
1194 is the best ambient release ever and it’s long overdue to be re-released. i hope that other em:t artists follow in the footsteps of woob and gas!
This is the sort of stuff I’d want to play on a proper full-spectrum analogue sound system, even on a Macbook you can feel how rich and multi-layered these tracks are. A very welcome discovery!
Looking forwards for new Woob material and I would be very happy to know where I can get hold of the 1194 re release.
I originally have it on mini disc ( when I was collecting music this way ) and if I am right it must be near to 10 years now.
Can’t wait to buy one of the copies and listen to new staff.
I love the “open air” sound of Woob and thumbs up to Matt Jarvis for a lot of work on ambient music, the gas album and for putting on line a Woob interview.
Wow, new Woob material - I feel like I’ve been waiting a decade and a half for this news! Gotta say I love that half of emperor is a fade out - I’ve always thought that, never being quite sure when the track is over. Thanks for the interview Matt, great to know that Paul is still around.
The 1194 album has been such a huge influence to me. I have been anxiously awaiting to hear the new material for ages. I can’t wait!
Whatever happened to the third Journeyman album?
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Sounds like I might be the only person here who hasn’t actually heard 1194… :(
I have heard of Woob though! Woob’s Sunrise Dub of Journeyman’s ‘Latneiro’ is one of my favourite tracks of all time!
I also have 4495 which I am just reacquainting myself with. Loving the layered tablas of ‘Creek’..
1194 & 4495 both top notch albums that have carried me through years of late nights at the computer screen. truly classic albums that more than stand the test of time - they may even get more potent with age….
Physical CD release PLEEEEEEASE! All time classic, but mentally priced on eBay etc.
I’m too Physical CD release please. Woob Sound is beautiful soundscape!
1194 is my favorite ambient album of all time. I’m one of the lucky ones that own it on CD. I’m thrilled that Paul has picked up Woob again. I’m sure the new material will not disappoint. The new mix of Giant Stroke is lush. love it! Great Interview!
Very excited that there will be new material! Is this re release a remaster? I already own the old CD but I’ll buy it again if it’s remastered. Without a doubt one of the best releases from the em:t catalogue.
Great to see your new activity, and the breathing of new life into the classics! Your SoundCloud page has a great selection as well. Hope to hear more soon!
The Em:t revival continues. Long live the new flesh!
Love it! I’m still getting into this kind of music but the more I listen to it the more I like it !
Probably still my most wanted em:t release among those that are still missing in my collection, and that I ultimately gave up hunting for on ebay a few years back… So thumbs up for the re-release, and +1 for a physical CD!!
cheers & Merry Christmas,
Philip
very nice stuff, glad to hear once more.
Very excited about such re-release. gives a (yet late I know) chance to one out of the jewel box from em:t
Thanks for all your great comments.
The competition is now closed and we will be announcing the winner later and sending everyone their free Woob track via email, so let me know if you haven’t received an email in the next few days.
If I’m not too late - could I still have a copy of the new track emailed to me? Thanks very much! And welcome back!
Hi Chris,
Sure, I’m still waiting for all the track codes anyway, so you caught it just in time.
Thanks everyone for the comments. I didnt expect such a great response! Its a real incentive to carry on with more woob excursions.
@Del - fantastic
@Jason - I never new who that was ! (r.e yo-yo)
@Mike Mullen - LOL
Thanks again everyone and special thanks to Mat Jarvis for helping spread the word and posting the interview
Have a great new Year.
Paul.
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It’s still not clear if this is going to get a physical release!
@Ronald and everyone interested in cd release -
Lossless audio download only - for now
But there may be some limited runs of 1194 and the new album later this year.
all the best
Woob
Ok, thx for the update, will wait for this then.
Woooooooohooooo.
New Woob!
Cant believe it, have been waiting sooo long for this.
Shame i just missed out on the comp though.
to be honest i only came across woob today.. and i think it’s quality ambient because well.. i simply can’t describe what i hear and it carries me round and round through feelings and galaxies.
today was a good day! ^^
Funny, I spontaneously revisited my Em:t collection this past week, after many years, and bought the game Osmos, and remembered how much I love the early-mid ’90s electronic sound… Since its been about 20 years, I guess its time for that era to receive some focus!
I’ve only come across Woob the other day. Really interesting thought provoking ambient. As I dig deeper into his stuff I can already tell its going to influence my sound.