Category Archives: Music

The Illustrated Aliens Project

This year I have started an ongoing project called ‘Illustrated Aliens’. Every day I am creating a new character/creature/alien that through the month will build up to a whole planet illustration featuring all the aliens of that month. I have … Continue reading

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New Handymartian Website

I have just updated the Handymartian website. Instead of just being a useless holding page it is now a hub for all the music stuff I make. I’ll be adding more stuff to it at some point but for now … Continue reading

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Handymartian “Digital Mixtape Two”

I’ve just uploaded a new Digital Mixtape to Soundcloud. Here it is: If you can’t see the player above click here. ‘But what are these digital mixtapes?’ I hear you ask. Here’s an explanation… I like to tinker about with … Continue reading

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A Digital Introduction…

This is the first video for my Handymartian project. This tune is called “Digital Introduction…” and is the first song off the first “Digital Mixtape”. These mixtapes pull together various songs, sounds and audio ideas into an EP sized chunk. … Continue reading

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Jagger to Warhol

This is one of the best briefing letters I’ve ever seen. Click on it to see it bigger. Found here.

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I Lived On The Moon

I love this music video by Yannick Plug for the French band Kwoon. You can see more information about it on a dedicated site here.

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Handymartian

The use of music has always been an important part of my animations. On a number of occasions I’ve been able to create the sound effects and music myself and I always do this under the pseudonym of Handymartian. I … Continue reading

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Guy Garvey

As today is the Mercury Music Awards I thought I’d post a link to the radio show from the lead singer of last year’s winners, Elbow. Every Sunday night on BBC 6 Music Guy Garvey presents his ‘Finest Hour’ show. … Continue reading

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Pitchfork's View Of 2000-09 In Music

Over at Pitchfork they have started to compile their end of the decade lists of best albums and best tracks (the tracks are up now, albums are coming up later in the year). This is accompanied by a series of … Continue reading

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These Are My Twisted Words

Radiohead have made a new song available called “These Are My Twisted Words”. Above is the artwork that accompanies the download. You also get a pdf with a set of images and instructions to make your own printed artwork. Click … Continue reading

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