The new album ‘Re-mixing: The Last Seaweed Collecting Hut At Freshwater West’ is limited to 100 and you can purchase now by Cheque or Paypal (see bottom of page). Price is £10 includes postage & packing.

Dafydd (STYLUS) has now finally finished putting the final touches to a special remix project that commemorates ten years of the first Stylus album that was released on Ochre Records back in 1999,‘The Last Seaweed Collecting Hut At Freshwater West’. The album is titled ‘Re-mixing: The Last Seaweed Collecting Hut At Freshwater West’ - A 10^th Anniversary Stylus Remix Project. The album which is released this month is now available by mail-order.

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Dafydd is rightly quite excited about the project. “I began mixing the original recordings from scratch having not listened to those recordings for a good couple of years. What was surprising was that some of the re-mixed tracks are nearly two minutes longer than the originals! I obviously must of thought the tracks were long enough when fading down in the original mix so it was nice to discover that the original recordings were longer!”.

The music on the debut album ‘The Last Seaweed Collecting Hut at Freshwater West’ (Ochre Records October 1999) was influenced by the last remaining seaweed collecting hut at Freshwater West in Pembrokeshire. The Seaweed Hut is the last remaining one of it’s kind on the Pembrokeshire coast, built by families at the turn of the century where they collected high quality seaweed from the beaches to dry in the huts before selling it to be cooked as laver bread. Morgan explains that “Time and tide, and in particular strong Atlantic south westerly winds, have destroyed all its companions. The huts were built by local families who used them to dry out the high quality seaweed they collected from beaches before selling it to be cooked as laver bread”. The tracks on the album have attempted to evoke the feel of the hut at various times of the year and at various times of the day and night. Dafydd adds ‘The hut though has recently been restored and has lost a lot of it’s character of the state it was in when it influenced the writing of the album, however I accept the restoration work was much needed as the old hut was on it’s last legs’. Edwin Pouncey in The Wire likened the debut album to that of La Monte Young concluding ‘The listener is invited to envision the ruined hut at various stages of the year, as his electronic windstorm howls rhythmically around the flimsy structure. Bizzare as it sounds, the music is curiously moving and empathetic’, whilst Stewart Lee in The Sunday Times likened the album to 1997’s ‘Dutch Harbor’, the Boxhead Ensemble’s portrayal of an Alaskan fishing town.

‘Re-mixing: The Last Seaweed Collecting Hut At Freshwater West’ is fourth release on the SRC (Stylus Recording Company) label and is the follow up to the ‘Last Night Before The Colour’ album that was released earlier this year in March. The other previous two releases were ‘NTB’ from 2008 which was written and inspired by the Newport Transporter Bridge and the ‘Listen, Time Passes’ album which was released in December 2006.

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