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1 November 2024 Daniel Prendiville releases his fourth album for 2024.

FOTHRACH is the latest in Daniel's series of Irish-language instrumental ambient/experimental albums.

The album can be downloaded exclusively from Bandcamp.

14 October 2024  

Daniel Prendiville's track Gaoth features on FENG PO PO, a compilation album released by the French=based net label, Camembert Électrique.

The theme of the compilation is the wind, and the term Feng Po Po derives from the name of the goddess of wind in Chinese mythology.

Other artists featured on the compilation are Thomas Park, M. Nomized and alfa00.

The album can be downloaded from Bandcamp.

 

13 October 2024  

Daniel Prendiville's track Ideal is the opening track on SONIC PULSATIONS, a compilation album released on the UK-based Institute For Alien Research net label.

The compilation is a tribute to the work of the famed contributor to theBCC Radiophonic Workshop, Delia Derbyshire.

The album also features tracks from el_masmore, Violent Chimp and Jessica Welles.

The album can be downloaded from Bandcamp.

 

2 October 2024  

Daniel Prendiville's track Out Of Allsorts features on A TRIBUTE TO THOMAS PARK, a compilation released by the US net label Completely Gone Recordings.

Thomas Park is an internationally-renowned musician in the fields of ambient music and noise, amongst other genres (we stand open to correction/clarification on this point...). He's still alive, so it's not a posthumous tribute. Heaven forfend...

Other artists featuring on this compilation include Christopher Alvarado, el_masmore and LR Friberg.

The compilation can be downloaded from Bandcamp.

 

29 September 2024  

Daniel Prendiville's track Oblique And Never Isometric is featured on QUADRANTS 3 - PART 2, another compilation released on the Cousin Silas Emporium net label.

Other artists featuring on the compilation include Mike Benoit, Ian Craig and Pete Swinton.

You can download the compilation from Bandcamp.

 

20 September 2024 Daniel Prendiville's track Off The Hook For Now features on QUADRANTS 3 - PART 1, a compilation released on the Cousin Silas Emporium net label.

Other artists featuring on the complation include Mean Flow, Ambi Case and Ron Shayler.

You can download the compilation from Bandcamp.

8 September 2024  

Daniel Prendiville's track Abacus, which appears on the AURORA 2024: LUMINOUS PATH release on the Aurora Compilations net label (see 2 March 2024 below), is featured on PHANTOM CIRCUIT #423 - PHANTOM LADY, a podcast produced by Beachy Head Radio in the UK.

Along with a variety of independent underground artists, the podcast also features tracks from Tangerine Dream, Duke Pearson, Holger Hiller and John Cage - august company indeed, and it's not even August anymore!

You can listen to the podcast here.

 

2 September 2024 Daniel Prendiville releases his third album for 2024 - a spoken word/ambient album entitled EXCERPTS FROM "100 PIECES".

The tracks are essentially texts from an abandoned poetry project, which were "set to music" in 2023.

The album is available to download exclusively from Bandcamp.

1 September 2024 Daniel Prendiville's track Trying To is featured on RADIO AMBIENT Vol 29, an online ambient music programme. You can listen to the programme here.

31 August 2024  

Daniel Prendiville's track Big  Hollow is featured on the compilation album raumforderungen,  released on the German-based net label Attenuation Circuit.

Other artists contributing to the album are Jon Shuemaker, LR Friberg and Wilfried Hanrath.

The album is available for download from Bandcamp.

 

4 August 2024  

Candid Spy Camera release their debut album - 118 - on Rencheque Recordings.

The two singles released earlier in support of the album (UMLAUT and TRAVEL) have received favourable comments and 118 continues in the sme musical vein as those fine singles - old-school, 70s style electronic music. It's almost as if it was specifically designed to cater for a specific musical demographic. But that would be a very cynical thing to do, wouldn't it?

Anyway, you can form your own view on 118, which is available for download exclusively from Bandcamp.

 

12 July 2024  

Daniel Prendiville has remixed the track NEVER TRY, released by the US dark electronica/synthpop group PreCog. The remix featrures on their new EP release on the UK-based Analogue Trash label.

Daniel's remix is described as a "brooding, percussion-driven ambient" track. Who knew...?

You can donwload the EP either via the Analogue Trash website or via PreCog's Bandcamp page.

Enjoy...

 

 

7 July 2024 Candid Spy Camera release their second single, TRAVEL/7Cs, to promote their forthcoming debut album 118

More cracking tunes from the masters of 70s style electronic music (it says here...).

Download the single exclusively from Bandcamp.

 

29 June 2024 Daniel Prendiville's track, Boa Viagem, features on TRIBUTE TO EISENLAGER (IN MEMORY), a compilation album released by the Brazilian netlabel Plataforma Recs.

The compilation is released as a tribute to the interntationally-renowned German musician and sound artist Norbert Kutz, who died in April 2024. The album feautres track from such figures as Pete Swinton, Antoine Trauma and  KR Seward. You can download the album exclusviely from Bandcamp.

Daniel had contributed to several album which Norbert had released as part of his Midnightradio Compilation series, and Daniel also recorded a collaboration album wth Norbert, ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, under his Norbert's Eisenlager moniker. That collaboration album can be downloaded exclusively from Bandcamp

Daniel always found Norbert a good and decent guy to deal with. Would that there were more people like Norbert out there. RIP.

 

20 June 2024  

Daniel Prendiville's track, Carn(iv)al Knowledge, is featured on BARBE À PAPA, the new compilation album released by French netlabel Camembert Electrique.

The album also features tracks by such luminaries of the underground ambient/electronica music scene as M. NOMIZED, Mean Flow  and Jon Shuemaker.

The album can be downloaded from Bandcamp.

 

9 June 2024  

Candid Spy Camera release their debut single UMLAUT/MESMERISED.

The single promotes their forthcoming debut album 118, which is scheduled to be released in Autumn 2024.

If you like 70s style electronic music, heavy on the vocoders, 

then this could be the very thinh for you!

The single can be downloaded exclusively from Bandcamp.

 

12 May 2024  

Daniel Prendiville releases his second abum for 2024.

LEANAÍ is an ambient electronic album that was inspired by an old photograph of his children.

The album is the latest in a series of Irish-language instrumental ambient albums (titter...) that Daniel has released over the last few years. With more to come.

The album can be downloaded exclusively from Bandcamp.

 

26 April 2024 Two tracks from INVISIBLE CAMOUFLAGE, Winter Skies by Wilfried Hanrath and Charlemagne by Daniel Prendiville feature on Atmospheres #447, the online ambient radio show curated by Bruce Gall on Future Beautiful Radio. 

You can listen to the show here.

12 April 2024 Daniel Prendiville's track Idea Vacuum fatures on S=K.logW, a compilation album from French net label Camembert Électrique.

Other artits featured on the compilaton include alfa00, Grosso Gadgetto and M.Nomized.

The album can be downloaded from Bandcamp.

6 April 2024  

Reincheque Recordings release INVISIBLE CAMOUFLAGE, the first in a series of multi-genre compilations which are planned for release over the coming years.

The album features tracks from artists such as My Hidden Agenda, Wilfried Hanrath, el_masmore, plasmaDOGplasma and Daniel Prendiville.

The genres covered, broadly, are IDM, ambient, punk and experimental electronic. Almost something for everyone, then...

The album is exclusively available as a FREE DOWNLOAD from Bandcamp.

 

1 April 2024 Daniel Prendiville's track Happy Now? is featured on the latest complation album from the Cousin Silas Emporium netlabel, QUADRANTS 1 - PART 2.

The album also features tracks from artists such as Allen Pitts, Puppy Bordiga, Sergio Mariani and Cousin Silas (himself).

The album can be downloaded from Bandcamp.

2 March 2024 Daniel Prendiville's track Cold War Storage is a featured track on RADIO AMBIENT Vol. 23, an ambient music channel on YouTube.  It's well worth clicking here to listen to the channel!

2 March 2024 Daniel Prendiville has two tracks featuring on compilations released by the Aurora Compilations net label.

Daniel's track A Scuba can be found on AURORA 2024: REFLECT AND IMPROVE, which is described as offering "a contemplative and cinematic atmosphere" that sets the tone for reflecting on personal expectations for the year 2024. On the basis of this, Daniel is obviously considering taking-up scuba diving as a hobby. Er, no... Other artists featuring in this compilation are Deborah Fialkiewicz and Pete Swinton. The compilation is downloadable from the Internet Archive here.

Meanwhile, Daniel's track Abacus is to be found on AURORA 2024: LUMINOUS PATH. This album features a mix of IDM and electronica tracks that are "great for setting intentions or simply enjoying on their own". The tracks have an "urban flair" which are great for listening to while working or navigating city environments. Other artists featured, in various guises, on this compilation, are LR Friberg and  Wilfried Hanrath. The compilation can be downloaded from the Internet Archive here.

21 February 2024  Daniel Prendiville's track Explanatory Parenthesis features on the new compilation from the z0 netlabel, FRACTALS. Other artists featured on the compilation include Wilfried Hanrath, M. Nomized and Mean Flow. The album can be downloaded from Bandcamp. Why not try it?
1 January 2024  

Reincheque Recordings are planning to release a multi-genre compilation album in April 2024.

We are looking for artists to submit material for possible inclusion in that album, and we have set up a Facebook event, where all the relevant information can be found.

Why not give it a go?

 

1 January 2024 Daniel Prendiville opens his account for 2024 with FREE STANDING VOL. 3, the latest in a series of compilation albums featuring experimental electronic tracks that did not feaure on any of Daniel's releases in 2023. An eclectic collection. Or possibly even a collectic eclection.

Download the albun exclusively from Bandcamp.