Zac's new solo album Field Recordings from the Edge of Hell

Zac has just released a new solo album under the name Dirty Knobs. It's an 8 hour (yes, you heard that right) electronic/drone/doom album called Field Recordings from the Edge of Hell.

You can stream the entire album for free, download a couple tracks for free (that total almost 60 minutes!) or purchase the entire 8 hour, 13 track album for only $1 (or more, if you'd like.)

One other thing that's free: telling everyone you know about it. Word of mouth is likely to be the only way people hear about this massive beast. So please take a second to "like" the album page, tweet the link or otherwise share the news with your friends.

Thanks!



Some early reviews:

“...I have little more to add...I swear I can hear organs playing from inside a pit...Wonderful.” - Warren Ellis (http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=11908)

"This is the music of Ry’leth. The songs sung by choirs of fallen angels, the inverse music of the spheres. Qlippothic music...Damn, this stuff EVOKES." - MG Farrelly (www.mgfarrelly.com?p=3341)

“I Think We May Have Just Received Tr00′s Album Of The Year In Our Email“ -Number of the Blog (http://thenumberoftheblog.com/2011/02/05/i-think-we-may-have-just-recieved-tr00s-album-of-the-year-in-our-email/)

“...something amazing...I get all sorts of ideas for really weird games.” - Krystian Majewski(http://gamedesignreviews.com/scrapbook/field-recordings-from-the-edge-of-hell/)

“...ponad 480 minut drone/ambient/noisu tylko dla twardzieli.” - Neiz nas tego (http://nieznasztego.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/presspack-29/)

Twitter:
“Can't recommend this enough...Stunning ambient drone, 8 hours of dread-grooves” @mgfarrelly
“I can see this driving me crazy after a while. Well, crazier.” @aspeed
“What a bargain: one dollar for eight hours of beautiful noise...” @_allroy
“Ok, this is Music I want to make games to.” @krystman
“Best background music for concentrating on work so far” @davidjbarton
“I dare you to listen to this whole album in one sitting” @syphoon
“Hämmentävää kamaa.” @mandrl
“AWESUM DRONE DOOM” @agpublic
“Perfect for work” @karohemd

Email:
"It's sort of put me in this state where everything else in my playlists sounds annoyingly short."
"...conjured up all sorts of images from some eternal nether world like a Beksinski painting, or the space and solitude of Dante or Milton's depictions of Hell, or real life wastelands like an Antarctic plain..."
"The fire horns is amazing."
"Keep me informed of further episodes of insanity."
"Big."

The Surfactants are now on Last.fm

Do you use Last.fm? Well, make sure to add The Surfactants to your play list! Check us out here. Thanks!

Vote for The Surfactants at Who Is The One

Hi peoples.

Please take 5 seconds of you time and vote for The Surfactants over at Who Is The One.

What exactly is that all about? It's a chance for The Surfactants to be remixed be the super cool Japanese producer Shinichi Osawa. He's done a ton of great electro/dance stuff, and he's currently running a competition to win a remix by him. The top 10 songs voted on by fans will be looked over by Shinichi, and he will pick one to remix. The track will then be released by his label Southern Fried Records.

Of course this is all a long shot, but the payoff would be pretty amazing for us. All you have to do is go to the site, enter in an email address on the left side (notice we didn't say that it has to be your email address...they do not send a confirmation email), click on "Listen & Vote" on the top right, then find "The One, The Wayward" by The Surfactants in the list of songs. Right now it's on the first page, but that will certainly change over time, so you might have to scroll through a few pages. [UPDATE: Yes, we are now on page 4. Entry has closed, so we should stay on the 4th page.] Don't worry, it is there! Then, hit "10" in the pull-down menu next to the "Submit" button, then hit "submit." That's it!

Thanks for helping us out. Please make sure to tell everyone you know about it as well. We'll need the help.

Thanks!

New Site, New Album

Hey there, and welcome to the new Surf site! Yeah, we finally joined the 21st century and moved on to web 2.0. Or something. All I know is that this is going to be a lot easier from now on, which means much more up-to-the-second news and updates. Just in time too, 'cause we're planning on hitting the streets pretty hard pretty soon. The best news is that you can now add that link on the very bottom of the page to your RSS reader and really stay up to date with the band.

Our main goal with this new site is to keep all of the fans collected into one space. With everyone posting everywhere it can get a little tough to track everyone and keep in touch as much as we'd like. Hopefully we'll get you all here together. We'll be posting new music and imagery here first, so, like I said, learn a bit about something like Bloglines and stay in the loop.

Well, what better way to kick off the new age with a look at the cover for the new album! Here it is:

Yeah, I know, pretty great, eh? Just wait till you hear the music.

Soon. Very soon.

[zb]