Hi guys,

well its been a long time since I kept up with things and I have been badly delayed on many fronts for various reasons. But I am back now and have lots of exciting news...after toying around with the idea of going fully offline with my musical projects I kind of 'saw the light' and took a couple of weeks 'off'...refreshed I am still certain that apart from an old small EP in the summer on Acroplane, this may well be the last Koen Park work I do...we'll see I guess.

Next up, a little over a week ago I had two rather special releases come out and in conjunction with some rather superb friends/artists under my Koen Park guise...namely Koen Park: Remixes, Reworkings and Reimaginings over at the excellent I, Absentee label and Koen Park: Remixes, Reworkings and Reimaginings in a Quiet Form at my long term favourite label and shop since I lived in Old Street, London - Smallfish records. The first is a double CD (very limited), the second a little 3" CD. Both releases see some very talented friends and artists remix work from my Grey Night Clouds and Everything In Shadow albums (on Experimedia), whilst disc 2 on the double album sees me remixing others work over the past year. Here's the info:

Koen Park - Remixes, Reworkings And Reimaginings IA017

Tracklist:
Disc 1:
1. I Fall Into You (Falling Into You Remix By Das Rote Telefon)
2. The Sunset Industry (Fugenn And The White Elephants Remix)
3. Your Broadcast (Cheju Remix) [clip]
4. Agenda 21 (Portal Remix)
5. Phusik� (Trills Remix)
6. An H-R Diagram (IJO Remix)
7. A.Hoffmann (Gabriel Remix) [clip]
8. I Fall Into You (Falling Out Of You Remix By Isocore)
9. The Sunset Industry (The Dandelion Council Crayola Sunset Mix) [clip]
10. People As Ants (Phasen Remix) [clip]
11. Tear Road (Mrs Jynx Remix) [clip]
12. Surrounded By Pigments (Pastel Mmx By Milieu)
13. Fixed Luminosities (Reimagined By Loafeye) [clip]

Disc 2:
1. All Apologies - Fog_Lost (Ian Hawgood Remix)
2. Tidy Kid - Fragments 1 (Koen Park Remix)
3. Phasen - What Carbonation Sounds Like (Through People Remix By Koen Park)
4. D.D. NewMole - Rare White Albino (Itabashi Remix By Koen Park)
5. Phasen - Listen While You Walk (Koen Park Remix) [clip]
6. Mall Security - Overlapping Pixelated Hearts (For�t Remix By Koen Park)
7. Vertical67 - Spring Recorder (Koen Park Remix) [clip]
8. D.D. NewMole - Rare White Albino (Funabashi Remix By Koen Park) [clip]
9. Rumorse - Azucena Drops (Koen Park Remix) [clip]
10. Entertainment For The Braindead - Colors (Washed With Pastel Remix By Ian Hawgood)
11. All Apologies - Air (Ian Hawgood Remix)

Information:
All original music by Ian Hawgood. Original music on disc 1 taken from the Koen Park albums Grey Night Clouds and Everything In Shadow on Experimedia (http://www.experimedia.net) - available now. This album is partnered the 3" EP Koen Park Remixes, Reworkings And Reimaginings In A Quiet Form on Smallfish (http://www.smallfish.co.uk). Thanks to Jeremy, Sean, Mike, Christian, Sven, Pedro, Warren and all the artists involved for their great work, support and friendship. This album is for my mate Tom.

Limited to 100 copies, individually numbered in the disc prints. Smallfish's companion 3" EP is available separately here, featuring additional ambient/minimal remixes from Corey Fuller, Konntinent, Jeremy Bible and Celer.

As you can see at the bottom here, the Smallfish EP has remixes by the rather excellent Corey Fuller, Konntinent, Jeremy Bible and Celer. From what I understand the albums are selling out fast so if you want a copy of either you have to be very very quick. The double album is dedicated to my very very good friend and old chum Tom Priddle, the Smallfish EP is for my sister Melanie. HUGE thanks to Sean at I, Absentee and Mike at Smallfish for the love, friendship and support - and a special thanks to all the artists who worked so hard on these great releases :) To buy and hear samples of the albums please go to the following for info:::

http://www.i-absentee.com/news.html

http://www.smallfish.co.uk/shop/release/?cat=FISH8CM-35">http://www.smallfish.co.uk/shop/release/?cat=FISH8CM-35

http://www.experimedia.net/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&products_id=193">http://www.experimedia.net/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&products_id=193

http://www.experimedia.net/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&products_id=194

http://www.normanrecords.com/records/107170

http://n5mailorder.com/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&cPath=9&products_id=648

https://www.bentcrayon.com/

http://www.u-cover.com/mailorder/description.php?II=4881&UID=2009042918124375.185.144.102¤cy=eur

Although the albums may well have sold out at some of these by now. If you are an artist involved with these projects you WILL be getting a copy of Everything In Shadow and the double album - and I am really sorry for the delay in telling you about these releases as its been very very hectic with the labels, almost moved and well, all sorts of the usual really. I haven't got my copies of the I, Absentee releases yet due to a cock up by the wonderful postal services of the world but once I do I will send these out. If you are a distributor who would like copies of the albums let me know or contact the labels directly.

Last but certainly not least I also released my final net label album under the Koen Park guise. It came out about 2 weeks ago on the wonderful Acroplane label and was a kind of 2 year failed project of mine, and a kind of science (or something like that) test of mine...maybe a social study? Its called 'Computers Are Not Our Friends' and the artwork (some might find it rather shocking ;) is by the wonderful Lisa (I Heart Bellies / Willies) Crowne. If you don't know Lisa's artwork she's the lass who did my Pastoral Pioneer cover and is frankly, a bit of a genius. To see more, buy a tee shirt and contact her about work etc go here:

http://www.myspace.com/iheartwillies

The album was intended to sort of break new ground for me, to push the details of my electronic work out far more than just having fun old my old vintage gear and its been 2 years in the making. But I just couldn't push it any further without ruining it really as I seem to have lost my electronica edge recently :( and so I happily left it alone and realised, with all its inadequecies it was still the most experimental and ambitious work I had done...originally to be called The Grace Period...I decided to make it all political and slag off the internet (oh the irony)...and people (net nerds) weren't happy...I also got political but more for fun and boredom of the whole American election than anything...again upsetting some people! Its a pretty weird record by Koen Park standards...and it may well be my last Koen Park album...dunno...I will have one final Koen Park mini-album at Acroplane in September but this is very old garage jams - more melodic again...but that's it for me mostly on that front...for a while at least. To get the (free) album go here and please don't be too shocked by the words and pictures...i do love computers, honest:

http://www.acroplane.co.uk/node/211

Huge thanks to Paul for this and his constant support. Also, go download a bunch of the other stuff from the label - its superb (especially Automatic Tasty, Red Box recorder, Vertical 67, WagaWaga and RV/VL...among others). This is also likely to be my last net release for a very very long time (not inc the sept release) as I am just too booked up with other stuff for at least the next year...