Freetime

Here is the video for the track 'Freetime' taken from the album 'The Empire Never Ended', available from most digital shops. Available Here

You can also purchase the track from iTunes for only 59p. 

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MESSAGES RECEIVED

AUTOFAC have signed a brand new digital distribution deal that will for the first time make the work of Autofac available to own from a variety of digital music stores/shops. The first release 'The Empire Never Ended' is now available for purchase on a number of digital shops such as play.com for £5.99 for the full album or 99p per track. Each download is 320 kbps quality. Meanwhile you can listen and download a track from the album (below)

PROMO



BLURB

‘The Empire Never Ended’ is a collection of electronic-based works composed and developed between 2006 and 2012.  AUTOFAC have taken ‘bedroom’ recording to the next logical level, having re-imagined the world as a post-apocalyptic landscape where the only songs one can recall are electronic fables about failed ambitions, war metaphors, fractured childhoods, odes to the ‘closedown’ announcement on early 80s television, fear of the future and misplaced pop euphoria. One might say that ‘Empire.’ could have been recovered from a time capsule or a ‘drop box’ with hints, nods and tears to the alternative past which once celebrated Jean-Michel Jarre, Gary Numan, Kraftwerk and Boards of Canada, before the catastrophe, if it wasn’t bursting with its own fresh ideas, input and bittersweet love of electronic music.

TRACK-LISTING

1  Metropolitan Part 1

2  Bristol

3  DeCosta

4  Protect and Survive

5  Sideward One

6  Umbilical

7  Freetime

8  The Sky of Alaska

9  Reasons To Be Bitter Part Four

10 Lonely Bedroom Conspiracy

11  Siren

12  Secretly Amazing

13  Monaco Afternoon

14 Metropolitan Part 5

CREDITS

All tracks Written and Produced by J. Winstanley. All rights reserved. 2012.

Artwork created by J. Winstanley/D. Kenyon.

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For a limited time this side project is available as a high quality free download from mediafire (link below).

Tracks.

Overture
World Premiere
Mnesis
Pulverised
Gnawing Decades
Deluxe Version
Tears in a dream
Hate Effigy
Second Life
Zombies
Finale

Written and produced by Winstanley on the iPad 2.

Replika by Winstanley

LATE NIGHT TALES FROM DECEMBER

Here is a mix tape I've compiled which is suitable for cold December nights. If you have Spotify please click on the link below the track list.

Tracks.

1. Kavinsky-Nightcall
2. Charlie-Spacer woman
3. Imagination-Just an illusion (dub remix)
4. Anton Romezz- Sunshine in Karelia (Havana Candy remix)
5. Games-Shadows in bloom
6. Clint Mansell- Are you receiving?
7. Glass Candy- Digital Versicolor
8. David Lynch- Good day today
9. Johnny L-Ooh I like it
10. Mantra- Intensify (I love you)
11. Zomby-Ecstasy versions
12. The Field- Everybody's got to learn sometime
13. John Maus- Cop killer
14. Space-Magic fly
15. Rondo Veneziano- La serenissima
16. Laurie Anderson-O Superman
17. Japan- Ghosts
18. Godley and Creme- Under your thumb
19. Soft Cell-Bedsitter (Extended version)
20. Jon and Vangelis- State of independence
21. Elton John-Song for Guy

Go To This Mix Tape

NEW PERSONA

Autofac's new 7-track EP 'Persona' has been completed. Selected HQ tracks from the EP have been made available via Soundcloud and Bandcamp as well as the Autofac's Facebook page. The EP was recorded between August to early November. The EP includes two compositions that were written in the 1990s. 'Nausea' was originally written in 1994 and 'Crime and Punishment' was composed in 1996. They were both re-recorded for this EP.

AUTOFAC/Persona

1. Generic Nobody
2. Bilboquet
3. Crime and Punishment
4. This is by them
5. Destroy me
6. Nausea
7. Candidate 001

Credits.
Written and Produced by AUTOFAC.
Artwork by AutoCreate.
Copyright. Two Thousand and Eleven.

  Generic Nobody by AUTOFAC

HISTORY IN REVERSE

1. I have forgiven everything
2. Sexy terrorist
3. I died
4. Monaco afternoon

Written and Produced by AUTOFAC.
Artwork; AutoCreate
Copyright. Two Thousand and Six.

ULYSSES 21: Mini-Autobiography

This is the artwork to the first AUTOFAC album that was made in 2001. This is the tracklisting.

1. Massive Existence Failure
2. Monochrome
3. Displaced
4. Ulysses 21
5. Rollerdiscolover
6. Corridors
7. Spacerage
8. Bingo Bus
9. Zamyatin
10. Pluto

This album was constructed and recorded during the summer of 2001 by AUTOFAC. This album was exclusively constructed, layered and mixed with royalty free loops. The emphasis was on sound and rhythm. The album was constructed on the computer, mixed and mastered onto Mini-disc.

What follows is a mini-autobiography created for myspace in 2006 and updated tday website by AUTOFAC.

Started getting interested in music when I was 8, watching the likes of Soft Cell, Japan, OMD and ABBA on Top of the Pops in the early 80s.

I eventually got a decent 'ghetto blaster' in 1985 and taped my favourite songs from the Top 40 every week. Often these would include a-ha, Madonna, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, New Order and Depeche Mode. When I was 13 I got a paper round, bought a record player and bought my own 12" singles, and albums of the aforementioned bands, and also got into Kraftwerk and a lot of Euro disco/pop and Chicago House music.

When I was 15 my income was supplimented when I collected glasses for a nice pub, and could buy even more records, and beer.

At 17 I had a sizeable record collection, and also got into dance music, and stuff by 808 State, and The KLF (totally, inexplicably bypassing the much of the Madchester period, save for Electronic and New Order), I became a DJ. (Not the mixing kind, or the naff Wedding kind, but some kind of reasonable compromise between the two).

As the 90s progressed I did have a mild obsession with MTV Europe and many of the techno pop tracks that were often played, long before the MTV signal was split into each European country and MTV became nothing more than reality TV. These were the days of Ray Cokes, Steve Blaine, Paul King and Simone. 

I DJ'd for a while, worked in a nightclub (but not as a DJ all the time) and got into that German techno-trance vibe, but also into serious commercial artists, such as Radiohead, Mercury Rev, Manic Street Preachers, Flaming Lips, etc. I also listened to classical music and stuff by Philip Glass, and the twisted sounds of Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada.

I've been writing and developing stuff since 1990 but only took it semi-seriously in 2001, when I actually began to enjoy what I did. I work with keyboards and things like that. I tried to learn guitar but I was hopeless and it was pointless since I didn't even at least look cool like the many famous non/bad guitarists in history. Still, in this climate of guitar dominated pop what the world needs even less than another electronic enigma is another guitar band. 

Since 2001 I've produced a couple of albums and EP's. 

In 2007 I had the privillige of being featured on BBC 6 music digital radio  for a whole hour where I gave an interview and played a selection of music.

Throughout 2007 I worked on and produced an album of songs I co-wrote in the 1990s with a friends of mine called Shane. This album was completed in late 2008.

I've recently completed two albums (I Survey Everything and World War Terminus-2010) and have been working and putting out new EPs via Bandcamp and Soundcloud.  

I still love listening to music, mostly electronic, but also Italo disco, classical and bits of everything. When I'm not making music, or thinking of making music, I like compiling 'mixtapes' of my current or old favourites or writing about things. 

I'm working on more projects and things for the near future, although they'll be ready when they're ready. 

A CONVENTIONAL AUTUMNAL PLAYLIST

Here's a playlist of music I've selected for the season of Autumn. Just click on the link below.

A CONVENTIONAL AUTUMNAL PLAYLIST