The Decoders have been selected to be on the August Hit Disc, which tours around every NZ TV and Radio station..... Crash & Burn is soon to be released to Kiwi Ears.....
WATCH THIS SPACE and get ready to rock.....
A Massive happy new year to you all and hope you had a safe and rockin holiday.
Well its already been a big year for the Decoders and we’ve only just begun!
As of the 05th January 2008, Cellophane is available on iTunes! Thats right, you can finally get us electronically straight to your ears for your listening pleasure.
While you listen to our dulcet tunes why not take a peek at our 2 very first review, which featured in the New Zealand times newspaper (readership 80,000 here in London) and on www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk
Just copy the Links below into your browser
ITUNES (make sure you have iTunes on your system first!!)
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=269846327&s=143444&i=269846348
REVIEW 1
http://www.newzealandtimes.co.uk/living.aspx?ID=305
REVIEW 2
http://www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk/MagSitePages/Review.aspx?id=5613
UPCOMING GIGS
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Friday 18th Jan
Hope & Anchor
207 Upper St, London
10.30pm Start
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Friday Feb 22nd
Cafe Rocks Present
The Decoders
Live at the Cafe De Paris
3-4 Coventry St
Doors open 6.30
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Crash & Burn was captured on film during the weekend and what a day it was. Around 50 wonderful people turned up to partake in what was to be an exceptional shoot.
From Stunt men and Women to Armourers and Make-up & CGI artists to fully kitted soldiers, everyone got involved and gave it everything.
The Decoders (Jon, Martin, Blake and Justin) and on behalf of Robertson-Cook Productions (Darren and Louise Producer / Director team extraordinaire) we would like to thank you ALL for giving up so much to come and help us during this amazing day.
If you are interested in future projects please email us your details if we have not got them already, and we will add you to our database.
The Decoders Salute you all!!!
The Decoders debut album “Cellophane Veil” was completed in October 2006 and our CD is now available to purchase from the online store.
If you’re a “myspace” user then please add us as a friend, here’s our details :
www.myspace.com/thedecodersband
Blake and Jon first met up with Martin in summer 2004, when he recorded and produced a five track EP for them.
This included the songs “Humble” and “All Alone” and the band were using the name Emersion at this time.
Less than a year later “Emersion” had disbanded and so the three of them got together to write and record a full albums worth of material, this began in November 2005.
Between November 2005 and March 2006 the three members wrote 14 songs and also began to record the basic backing tracks, which would become the “Cellophane Veil” album.
Two of these initial ideas became “Dreams” and “State of mine” though they would be almost the last of the songs on the album to be finished!
During April/May and June, all the main Drums, Bass and Guitars were recorded , either at Jon’s self constructed Drum “room” or at Martin’s “Key Studios” at his home.
Jon recorded with a combination of live kit and also playing his home made “mesh head” Kit, which was used to trigger real drum samples from the BFD Drum plug-in.
Bass was recorded using either the Tech21 Bass Driver/Di or a Peavey TB Raxx valve preamp, through a Mackie 8 Buss desk.
All the guitars were recorded using either a Marshall JMP-1, a Matamp C7 valve amp or a home made 5 watt valve amp, SE-5a.
Also during this time, Blake’s guide vocals were being constantly updated to “master” vocal takes ( in between a couple of bouts of the flu! )
There was a small break in the process throughout July and August, when other commitments kept me away from the production, but some time away from the tracks kept things “fresh”.
September/October, was spent finishing all the details and overdubs of top line guitars etc, followed by three weeks of mixing and mastering the finished tracks, for those who are interested, this was done using Logic Pro7 recording software on a G5 mac and extensive use of Universal Audio plug-ins.
Any keyboard parts were recorded using a Korg Trinity and various plug-ins from Sampletank , Spectrasonics and Auturia software companies.
We spent a week away from the masters, before finally making any last minute adjustments/fixes to the mixes.
Although this whole process was spread across about 11 months, it probably took around 5 “solid” months of work to complete.
--Martin, November 2006--