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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 

Category: Music
A Gary Numan/Ade Fenton dj mix will be featured on Dave Clarke's White Noise radio show this coming Saturday evening from 11pm GMT. 

White Noise is broadcast on 3FM across Europe and beyond and is also streamed live at the following address:

http://3voor12.vpro.nl/programmas/29794118
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Monday, February 02, 2009 

Category: Music

There's a new Ade Fenton BlogSpot page online.

The page contains blogs, news, a new techno dj mix by Ade and 2 brand new dj mixes by Ade and Gary Numan.

Click on the logo to go straight to the page.





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Friday, August 15, 2008 

Category: Music
August 14th 2008

Ade Fenton and Gary Numan are currently very hard at work in the studio working on the new GN album 'Splinter' which is due for release sometime in 2009.
They are also progressing very well with 'Resurrection', a collection of unused tracks from Numan's last 3 studio albums.

Additionally, they have just completed a remix of the new single by UK band IAMX called 'Spit It Out' and the new single by Maltese band Niki Gravino called 'Catwalk Baby'. Release dates for these to follow when we have some news.


A brand new Ade Fenton DJ mix is now online for your listening pleasure.
The set was recorded exclusively for Dave Clarke's brilliant White Noise radio show and was broadcast last Saturday across Europe.
To listen to the set, click on the following link: White Noise


Gary Numan's latest album 'Jagged Edge' has just been released. It features brand new, alternative versions of a selection of songs from Jagged, re-worked by Ade and Gary Numan, as well as an exclusive Ade Fenton track called 'Edge' which was used as the intro for Numan's Jagged World Tour.
The double CD is available to order from www.numan.co.uk


Ade has just finished producing the new album by UK industrial band Pro-jekt, entitled 'Reign of Scars'. More news on that soon.


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Wednesday, June 20, 2007 

Category: Music
The new Gary Numan vs. Ade Fenton single, 'The Leather Sea', will be released on July 30th, 2007, through Submission Records/Universal

CD-1 features 2 tracks:
'The Leather Sea' (Radio Edit) and 'The Leather Sea' (Ade Fenton Suicide Mix)


CD-2 features 3 tracks:
'The Leather Sea' (Album Version), a powerful new remix by Ade Fenton of the Gary Numan track 'Melt', and 'Healed', previously unavailable on CD

You can now pre-order the two CD singles at a special discounted rate by clicking on the following link:
www.townsend-records.co.uk/artist.php?artist=Gary+Numan+Vs+Ade+Fenton

A digital download version of the single will also feature the following tracklisting:
'The Leather Sea' (Radio Edit), 'The Leather Sea' (Ade Fenton Electro Mix) and 'One Day' (Extended Version)
We'll have details of how to pre-order this download very soon.



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Wednesday, May 09, 2007 
 
 
Ade Fenton - Artificial Perfect
 
'Ade Fenton's more industrial material can't have escaped the notice of those who like their tunes bleak and buzzing with a palpable sense of fear and paranoia, especially when they recall Trent Reznor's early efforts. But what really makes Artificial Perfect so compelling is the vocal contribution of cyber-warrior Gary Numan - when that instantly recognisable, robotic, detached and so
very trademark Numan drone appears, the songs take on a powerful identity.' METAL HAMMER
 
'Ade Fenton is best known for being an international and respected techno DJ, a renowned remixer, as well as being the co-producer of Gary Numan's acclaimed album Jagged. Numan himself guests on four tracks - the archetypical soaring choruses of the panoramic Numan-esque opener 'The Leather Sea' and the dark eerie edginess of the techno-Industrial Fenton collaboration 'Healing' being most notable. The Nine Inch Nails influenced 'Slide Away' is another sublime Numan-meets-Fenton mutation, with a lethal nightmarish twist. A cohesive and remarkably impressive debut album.' ROCK SOUND
 
'Ade Fenton is a techno DJ of no little fame himself and has helped to relaunch the career of synth pioneer Gary Numan. It was Fenton who helped make last year's Jagged as good as it was. Artificial Perfect exists comfortably at the industrial extremes with the likes of Nine Inch Nails and KMFDM and the attention to detail is admirable, straddling the divide between NIN's Pretty Hate Machine and Broken. The album also features Gary Numan's excellent vocals on four tracks.' CLASSIC ROCK
 
'After breathing new life into Gary Numan's oeuvre as producer on last year's Jagged, Ade Fenton, perhaps more widely known in the dance music world for running two specialist techno labels, has branched out and begun recording his own compositions. Numan returns the favour - Jagged was edgy and very well received - by contributing vocals to four tracks on Fenton's first solo album. Artificial Perfect is an album of abrupt twists and turns - punchy beats giving way to elegant piano lines. The overall sound is harsh but never thin, rhythmic complexity underpinning the grimy forcefulness of the songs. It all ends in a glorious blast of hissing vocals and pounding beats which build into a hypnotic loop on 'Machine'. It's not a long album and leaves you wishing for more - definitely one to return to again and again.' MUSIC OMH
 
'Ade Fenton co-produced Gary Numan's last album Jagged and with Numan guesting on four tracks here the similarities between the album sounds were always going to be striking. However, the songwriting is clearly not down to Numan and while the mood remains somber, other vocalists like Helen Tilley and Fenton himself give enough variation. Numan fans will love it but Fenton strikes a
clear path too.' FUTURE MUSIC
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Saturday, May 06, 2006 

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'Numan is still as vital as ever . . .  the Godfather is back and he's here to stay.' Kerrang
 
'The massive synths and guitars are stacked up like some Babelesque tower constructed from breezeblocks . . . it is supremely confident and the innovator of the late '70s never sounds like he's having to play catch-up.' Mojo
 
Jagged is a shudder-fest of consistent quality, with a dash of Eastern promise. Q Magazine
 
'If 2000's Pure album brought Numan back into focus, then Jagged gives his music fresh shape and vitality.' Metal Hammer
 
'A must for those who like their music dark and heavy.' The Sun
 
''Without Gary Numan there would be no industrial scene. Jagged is his latest offering and is a million times more haunting than anything this modern-day scene has to offer. Each track is a dark and brooding slab of gothic beauty with Gary Numan proving to the likes of Manson and co once and for all who the daddy really is.'
Big Cheese
 
'Jagged tells reflective stories of loss, sorrow and regret through dark, creeping rhythms that lurk beneath sheets of guitar, tempered by heady, almost suffocating, synths. The result is a bleak emotional holocaust of an album, evidencing the work of a truly precious artist whose continuing creativity should be cherished.' Rocksound
 
'Gary Numan now makes more sense than he did as a confused young pop droid. Endorsements from post-Goth noiseniks such as Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson have given Numan a new focus. 'Haunted' sounds like Led Zeppelins 'Kashmir' reinvented for distant dystopian futures. On 'Halo' and 'Pressure', beefed-up synths anchor their creators newfound grasp of rock dynamics.'
The Times
 
'Jagged is aggressive and dark, yet doesn't forget to pack the tunes too.'
Record Collector
 
'Powerful electronic rock . . .  a dense, moody collection, it can be thunderous one moment and ethereal the next, forbidding and mysterious, grinding and soaring.'
Classic Rock
 
'This is suitably atmospheric and rousing stuff, close in feel to the urban nightmare of 'Down In The Park' . . . One can only hope that this will mark a complete critical re-evaluation of such as visionary and misunderstood figure.'
Zero Magazine
 
'The beats are fresh, the incidental effects impact nicely and there's more energy here than there should be from someone who has been through the music industry mill for the last quarter of a century plus.'
Future Music
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Friday, March 10, 2006 

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Some great reviews of 'Jagged' have been coming in.........

'Recently Numan has undergone a renaissance and he's going for broke with these anthemic tunes. Underpinned by steroidal beats - some featuring real drums - the massive synths and guitars are stacked up like some Babelesque tower constructed from breezeblocks. Subtle it ain't - listening on headphones feels like putting one's head in a car crusher - but it is supremely confident and the innovator of the late '70s never sounds like he's having to play catch-up.'
Mojo
 
'The beats are fresh, the incidental effects impact nicely and there's more energy here than there should be from someone who has
been through the music industry mill for the last quarter of a century plus. . . When the chorus of tracks like 'Slave', 'In A Dark Place' and the superb 'Haunted' hit home, you see the lights lift and the arms raise just like they did in '79.'
Future Music
 
'Gary Numan has had a bit of a comeback in recent years thanks to The Sugababes, Basement Jaxx and Armand Van Helden. With electronic music made popular by the likes of Goldfrapp and The Killers, one of the innovators of this genre pushes things to a new level. This first studio album in five years has all the classic ingredients-crushing synths, guitars and dark industrial noise. 'Slave' is moody, atmospheric and challenging electronica with heavy beats. 'Haunted' and 'Halo' see Numan use live drums for the first time in 20 years and add that something else. While this might be a bit too grim for some, it's a must for those who like their music dark and heavy.'
The Sun
 
'The second coming of Gary Numan shows no signs of flagging or relenting. Jagged, the third album since the electro pioneer rediscovered his love of guitars, is further evidence of Gary's exceptional ability to mould and manipulate the essence of fragility into musical form. Slightly less direct than Pure but no less emphatic, Jagged tells reflective stories of loss, sorrow and regret through dark, creeping rhythms that lurk beneath sheets of guitar, tempered by heady, almost suffocating, synths. 'Pressure' ruminates with melodious yet haunting refrains, 'Blind' unleashes torrents of sound, and 'Slave' unleashes carefully gauged anguish. The result is a bleak emotional holocaust of an album, evidencing the work of a truely precious artist whose continuing creativity should be cherished.'
Rocksound
 
'Electronic pioneer Gary Numan's rehabilitation has come full circle, or at least as far as it is likely to. After producing some of the most forward looking albums of the late 70s/early '80s (Replicas, Telekon) he disappeared down the ill-advised route of trying to make white funk and then, even worse, straight up pop music, leading to total vilification. After being covered and feted by the likes of NIN and Marilyn Manson he has now taken his place as the elder statesman of industrial rock. And this is suitably atmospheric and rousing stuff, close in feel to the urban nightmare of 'Down In The Park', featuring as it does the Prodigy's live guitarist Rob Holliday and ex-members of NIN and Curve. One can only hope that this will mark a complete critical re-evaluation of such as visionary and misunderstood figure.' 
Zero Magazine
 
'Comparing his current sound to the synths on Replicas, for example, is rather like comparing Terminator to Terminator 2. If Replicas was the future in a Buck Rogers/Barbarella kind of way, then Jagged is a prophesised Android Armageddon, replete with a dark wave industrial metal soundtrack. It's scary but the special effects are spellbinding. Numan's vocals are superb throughout, still disconnected obviously, but in songs such as 'In A Dark Place' and 'Haunted' he conjures up the soaring choruses that fill your head to bursting. Elsewhere, barely audible noises clash with bulldozer guutars, whispered voices speak of isolation but suggest that you are not alone, and bass lines swell and bounce like steel ballons, combining to make Jagged an exhilarating, if at times claustrophobic, experience.'
Musicomh.com
 
'Powerful electronic rock - Numan's first studio album in five years is a very ambitious piece of work. When you see a tracklisting composed mostly of one-word titles, you begin to suspect this might be something of a weighty drama, and so it transpires. A dense, moody collection, it can be thunderous one moment and ethereal the next, forbidding and mysterious, grinding and soaring. 'Slave' takes a tribal course, while metal fans might appreciate the rock-friendly 'Halo' and the way electric guitars and real drums work with the electronics create gigantic surges in, for instance, 'Pressure'. The 'tunes' are largely repetitive, hypnotic and anthemic with Numan's chanting, treated vocals on the title track creating a particularly sinister ambience.
Classic Rock 
 
'On his last outing, 2000's Pure, he tied his colours to the goth-industrial mast and made a reasonable hash of it. This time DJ-producer Ade Fenton provides dark swirling electronics while Numan's strange cold tones float about adding minor key lamentations. Music entirely suitable for some fog-sodden sci-fi dystopia from the movies but, on this particular occasion, that's no bad thing.'
Beatmag.net
 
'This is his best work in a decade. There's even some potential for chart action here with 'In A Dark Place', especially, having enough links to the world of rawk to drag in a few Rammstein / Manson fans along the way.'
Metal4life.com
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