{"id":502,"date":"2007-04-04T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=502"},"modified":"2007-04-04T09:22:27","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T08:22:27","slug":"temposhark-tom-plays-with-his-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"temposhark &#8211; tom plays with his dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">normally each day brings a few surprises in the form of  shabby cd-r releases, unwanted major label compilations and thanfully the odd  gem. so when a 10 inch single in a pure gold cover with a question mark cut out  revealing the dayglo pink vinyl within i have to admit i was already  smitten.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">as said article was the debut release,  <EM>neon?,<\/EM>&nbsp;by fashionista loved electro synth&nbsp;freaksters  <STRONG>temposhark <\/STRONG>then things got better as the needle hit the groove  with the dirty analogue noises and rather seedy atmosphere. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">amazingly, following this dramatic entry to the  world of pop the band followed this up with a couple of excellent singles,  <EM>invisible ink, <\/EM>and the gorgeous <EM>its better to have loved <\/EM>which  was given a well deserved widescreen makeover by guru pop producer <EM>guy  sigsworth, <\/EM>which also featured a brilliant <STRONG>metronomy<\/STRONG> remix  of <EM>not that big (<\/EM>feat. <STRONG>imogen heap<\/STRONG>), and the lastest single to be released being the beautiful  packaging of the dancefloor stomper,&nbsp;<EM>joy.<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">since then things to outsiders have been somewhat  quiet other than rob giving us an insight into his world via the bands myspace  hangout.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">however, i received word yesterday, that the album  proper is now finished and in its final stages (artwork etc). so to celebrate  the continuing story of this fine electro pop act i dug into the archives, and  retreived an early demo album that i was lucky to find in the bins of a record  shop that was closing down (in fact i picked up all 3 copies!). i will admit  that the <EM>sampler <\/EM>isn&#8217;t a perfect release as the band were obviously in  need of some studio spit and polish, but it does give&nbsp;an indication of the  excellence that was to follow.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">alongside the normal demo tracks was this little  extra bootleg styled nugget, <EM>tom plays with his dinner,<\/EM>&nbsp;that  splices in <STRONG>suzanne vegas<\/STRONG> well known <EM>toms diner <\/EM>loops  with the jittery electro, so i thought i&#8217;d give it an new lease of life out on  the wire.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">enjoy.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>mp3<\/EM> &#8211; <STRONG>temposhark<\/STRONG> &#8211; <A href=\"http:\/\/www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/music\/temposhark.mp3\">tom plays with his  dinner <\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>more detail : <\/EM>&#8212; <A href=\"http:\/\/temposhark.com\/site\/home\/\">here<\/A> &#8212; <A href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/temposhark\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>normally each day brings a few surprises in the form of shabby cd-r releases, unwanted major label compilations and thanfully the odd gem. so when a 10 inch single in a pure gold cover with a question mark cut out revealing the dayglo pink vinyl within i have to admit i was already smitten. as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mp3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}