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Moonbuilding - Back to School 2023

by Moonbuilding

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Cor. Issue Four. There’s some parenting wisdom that says after you’ve had three children you might as well have a few more as it makes no odds. Four to six is the sweet spot, apparently. Less stress they say. So here’s to our fourth. Check back in on those stress levels when we get to six.
Mags, not kids.

Do we need to remind you that Moonbuilding is brought to you by former Electronic Sound commissioning editor Neil Mason and published by Colin Morrison’s Castles In Space label? Or is that the sort of thing you know by now? Good, good. Let’s crack on.

On the cover of our Back To School issue we have star-in-the-making Maria Uzor whose debut solo album, ‘Soft Cuts’, is going to be fusing itself to turntables when it lands in October. You know Maria, right? From Sink Ya Teeth, the one lending her formidable pipes to Acid Klaus and Chk Chk Chk, that’s the one. We caught up with her in Norwich, her own back yard, for a freewheeling chat about everything from why art is magic to the new album and all points in between.

Elsewhere, we profile label-of-the-moment quiet details, there’s a frankly incredible interview with Captain Star creator Steven Appleby, and Ghost Box’s Jim Jupp gets busy with our There’s A First Time For Everything questions.

We review a big pile of the latest releases from labels including Castles In Space, Woodford Halse, Persistence Of Sound, Assai, Ahora, DiN, Werra Foxma, Ghost Box and many more as well as a look at new books by The Bunnymen’s Will Sergeant, The Cure’s Lol Tolhurst, one about The Radiophonic Workshop and a brilliant bio of The Chemical Brothers by the excellent Robin Turner. We’ve got a column from The Orb’s Alex Paterson and there’s the Captain Star cartoon strip, which you will know all about once you’ve read the incredible feature with creator Steven Appleby. We’re repeating ourselves now so it’s clearly time to stop.

Oh, hang on. Forgot the CD. This issue’s disc is ‘The Moonbuilding Miscellany - Volume One’. You should see the state of our inbox. Full isn’t the word. We figured a compilation of the more interesting corners wouldn’t go amiss. This first volume is put together by our Colin. He sweated bullets over this collection, and it shows as it’s a corker featuring tracks from the likes of Lo Five, Lone Bison, Twilight Sequence, Ojn, NCHX and more… righto, we are really stopping now.



THE MOONBUILDING STORY SO FAR…
During the early days of Electronic Sound, commissioning editor Neil Mason began to notice there was a steady flow of independent DIY labels serving up brilliant music with beautiful artwork on sought-after, limited-edition vinyl, cassette and CD releases.

He reviewed many of the early offerings and soon labels such as Castles In Space, Ghost Box, Clay Pipe Music, Spun Out Of Control, DiN and Burning Witches were regular fixtures on the pages of the monthly mag.

All these labels had echoes of any discerning music fan’s formative years, a time when you’d discover new music on via the likes Mute, 4AD, Small Wonder, Fast Product, Cherry Red, Rough Trade and many many more.

The idea for Moonbuilding was to create a home for the artists and labels Neil had been championing for nearly a decade into a new title that is very much in keeping with the DIY ethic of the artists and labels themselves.

Both Neil and Colin fondly recall hoovering up fanzines from the counters of their local record shops in the 1980s in search of their next new favourite band. Moonbuilding is made with the spirit of those indie fanzines spread liberally across its pages. Brace yourself for John Bull printing sets, vintage typewriters and Ben Day dots galore.


ABOUT US
Neil Mason has been at the sharp end of music publishing for a long time. He worked as a sub editor on dance music title Muzik before becoming albums editor, then reviews editor, at Melody Maker, features editor onNME.COM and the editor of War Child’s pre-iTunes music download site,warchildmusic.com. He was commissioning editor at Electronic Sound until April 2022.

Colin Morrison set up Castles In Space in 2015 and has released over 150 titles including acclaimed albums by Polypores, Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, Concretism, Field Lines Cartographer, The Twelve Hour Foundation and many more. In November 2021 he held the label’s first two-day Levitation festival in Whitby. It was so good it continues as an annual event.

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released September 29, 2023

THE MOONBUILDING STORY SO FAR…
During the early days of Electronic Sound, commissioning editor Neil Mason began to notice there was a steady flow of independent DIY labels serving up brilliant music with beautiful artwork on sought-after, limited-edition vinyl, cassette and CD releases.

He reviewed many of the early offerings and soon labels such as Castles In Space, Ghost Box, Clay Pipe Music, Spun Out Of Control, DiN and Burning Witches were regular fixtures on the pages of the monthly mag.

All these labels had echoes of any discerning music fan’s formative years, a time when you’d discover new music on via the likes Mute, 4AD, Small Wonder, Fast Product, Cherry Red, Rough Trade and many many more.

The idea for Moonbuilding was to create a home for the artists and labels Neil had been championing for nearly a decade into a new title that is very much in keeping with the DIY ethic of the artists and labels themselves.

Both Neil and Colin fondly recall hoovering up fanzines from the counters of their local record shops in the 1980s in search of their next new favourite band. Moonbuilding is made with the spirit of those indie fanzines spread liberally across its pages. Brace yourself for John Bull printing sets, vintage typewriters and Ben Day dots galore.


ABOUT US
Neil Mason has been at the sharp end of music publishing for a long time. He worked as a sub editor on dance music title Muzik before becoming albums editor, then reviews editor, at Melody Maker, features editor onNME.COM and the editor of War Child’s pre-iTunes music download site,warchildmusic.com. He was commissioning editor at Electronic Sound until April 2022.

Colin Morrison set up Castles In Space in 2015 and has released over 150 titles including acclaimed albums by Polypores, Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, Paul Cousins, Field Lines Cartographer, The Twelve Hour Foundation and many more. In November 2021 he held the label’s first two-day Levitation festival in Whitby. It was so good it continues as an annual event.

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Moonbuilding UK

Colin Morrison’s Castles In Space label has launched a new publishing venture in the shape of Moonbuilding mag.

The A5, 48-page full-colour title is fronted by former Electronic Sound commissioning editor Neil Mason and comes with a 13-track sampler CD featuring previews from forthcoming CiS releases and a number of exclusive tracks.
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