Like TraceKaiser I was also there But im younger than him and therefore slightly more scared of drunken murderes who own storeage in birmingham.

It was absolutely insane at The Chip Sessions when Syphus got out his violin. Holy fuck that was a good performance haha.
Play some more gigs in town man! Preferrably not in bars so I don't have to pretend I'm like 5 years older than I am this time Bloody "Think 21" policy...

@tacticalbread

DO IT!

I was actually thinking about picking the violin back up for exactly this purpose.

Thanks for the kind words, chaps. Progress is steady but slow - I've got approximately eighteen godzillion other things on and having time to work on the Syphus release is a rare treat. The EBM band I'm in has some big gigs and possibly touring coming up, and we're frantically rewriting 8 years' worth of stuff for that. Not to mention depping, gigging and playing on other people's records - all of which pay and are my only source of income at the minute

Anyway, I think this album will be called Arquebus and the plan is to have a limited-run physical release, a cheap or donationware digital release and an accompanying module-format musicdisk release. The musicdisk won't feature all the tunes and will be EP-sized...but people will be able to run it in the browser and enjoy all its visuals and easter eggs. Just as soon as I've coded some visuals and easter eggs...

Anyway, enough blab; it ain't real until it's released, so there's no point in musing on about it. I'll put out a few preview tracks when I get around to it (and when I have something good enough to distribute) and make the obligatory song and dance on twitter, Bitfellas, TCTD, pouet, etc.

I trap Syphus in my basement for five fucking minutes, then this happens >: (

Live feed from CDK's basement:

They're not locked in; he's locked out.

Thank you! Very early start this morning and this made me laugh so hard my co-workers gave me "looks"

Syphus Syndrome:

In psychology, Syphus syndrome is a term used to describe a paradoxical psychological phenomenon wherein hostages express adulation and have positive feelings towards their captors, believing themselves to be Newcastle-based musician, Syphus, mistaking a lack of abuse from their captors as an act of acceptance into the chip music scene.

"Weird" is a bit extreme, don't you think? Words hurt, man

Fuck yeah

you may be completely fucking insane, for reference

so damn siked.

dude you need to stop calling that school girl you keep locked in the basement syphus.  its confusing her even more than being locked in a basement by a weird english guy.  she has no idea what a tracker is or what you expect her to do with all those old computers you keep putting in front of her.

He's an excellent live performer, I've seen him play 4 or 5 times now, really nice guy too. He's absolutely insane on violin and keytar, one of the highlights for me was his duet with goto80 in Newcastle.

You can't write music when you're locked in my basement