Trance, dance and back to stance ...gone blonde again

Thought I'd have a  change to match my trance/dance/whatever twist in musical direction.

Snowed into the studio, and...

Massive thank yous to The Unsigned Side and MTMBroadcasting for playing 'Burn Down (electricity mix)' and 'Dusk in the Woods' respectively over the weekend. The response from The Spacekase Show’s listeners in particular was immense.

I'm told The Spacekase Show (MTM) are also to play 'Girl Star' on Friday, and Kaptain Spacekase's astounding, liquid dubstep remix of 'Dusk in the Woods' will also air shortly.

Mark Johnson from www.silverfactorysuperstars.com has produced a superb, exciting 80's style remix of my 'Here Is The Light' which comes in three forms, 'Illuminate mix', 'Extended Illuminate' and 'Instrumental Illuminate'. We are working out how to release these, but it is some excellent work.

I cannot thank these people enough (and Jaspa at MTM) and their listeners enough for their tremendous support.

In other news, my collaboration song with Kaptain Spacekase  is now in full flow and sounding mint. It will be finished on my part by midweek, and is then to be mastered by Audio Animals http://www.audioanimals.co.uk/ in London with a (fingers crossed) view to them releasing it later.

There is also talk of AA releasing ‘Dusk In the Woods’ as a single alongside 2 cracking remixes…early days but I will keep you posted.

Collaboration Update

Well, just to say that track 6 of my album collab with the very talented Mark Sheppard from The Offering (Cambridge UK) is in the bag. The tracks frankly just get cooler and the album gets hotter. I'm so enjoying this twisty turny genre rollercoaster. There are 2 more on my to do list at the moment but I suspect we won't want to stop there.

Kaptain Spacekase is to play 'Dusk In The Woods' from the new Tokyo Witch Hunt album 'Eclectic Electric' on his MTM Broadcasting show this Friday 8-10pm, and I will appear on his 3 Track Takeova with my 3 favourite D and B/ Dance etc tracks in a couple of weeks, ranting about why I like the ones I've picked to play.

He has also brilliantly remixed it so we wait to see if his label would like it with a potential to go to video.

Following that I will  also be starting a  vocal writing session on a  collab with the Kaptain shortly.

Oh, and They have put me in the New Barnsley Museum...erghum.... well, they have put me into the Sound Archives as one of the best 50 musicians to come out of the town.. nice eh? and many thanks to those who suggested I was included.

And I am about to turn blonde again :)


All good..catch you soon x

Just coming up for Air!

HEY! Happy New Year!

(No, it's not a  pipe before you start)
Well, my apologies for a  MASSIVE delay  in ranting about what I'm up to but I AM actually trying to find times when I can breathe at the moment. Excitement abound,  here's the lowdown...(and let's hope it hasn't snowed before you get to the end.)

• I am in the final stages of confirming the shift of my three weekly kickboxing classes within the club to a  new venue, a  proper boxing gym where everyone will benefit from the superb facilities so I'm attempting to get that organised ..everyone is pretty excited!

• The knee has been a bitch of late since I stopped Hydro, so I am back on programme 2 in an attempt to sort it out and class 2 was this morning. Utterly brilliant with the dreaded 'guest' Physio and I loved every minute.

So, to Music......Music Has Gone WILD.

• The Tokyo Witch Hunt album, 'Eclectic Electric' is on iTunes (as you know) and at various other places and getting downloads. Following far more people than I imagined wanting it on CD, I have some limited CDs currently in production, with nice fancy artwork, waiting for the new gigs when we start them.
•  I have decided that I will turn down any gigs that are low key and pub style because they are bad for morale and a waste of everyone's time (except the few who are good enough to turn out) so we will only do quality shows. Waiting, waiting...
• Johnny Normal, who regularly supports Adam and The Ants, Blancmange, Altered Images and Glitter Band on tour has asked me numerous  times to share a stage with him (as Tokyo Witch Hunt) and we are determined to get that sorted this year.

• 'Burn Down' from the album reached number 6 yesterday in the Sheffield Pop charts on Reverbnation. NO, of course it's little more than a minute achievement, but it's a positive pointer and that is all that counts.

• '(Here Is) The Light' is currently being remixed (actually ENTIRELY remixed with a  different feel) by Mark Johnson of Silver Factory Superstars who are described as "one of Britain’s brightest pop music hopes", so I am frantic to see what he does with it.

• I am currently writing track 6 of the Izzie Voodoo And The Offering album ( with the tremendous Mark Sheppard (Cambridge) providing instrumentation and myself providing vocals, lyrics, melody and guitars), and that is proving to be immense..a total mixture of genres but nailed together with a definite electronica theme and influences pulling from all over the place from blues to industrial. Track 6, though, is without question Gary Numanesque.

• All Over It Records (Sheffield) Currently have a  dance track which features my vocals (the most challenging vocal project I've done to date) working into a mix for a much bigger record label's interest, and have also put it out to a  second DJ for a further second mix so I'm waiting on updates for that.
• I am shortly to start work on vocals, melody etc for at track with Phil Webster, a great electronic songwriter from Bradford.

• and (I think) finally  there are to be one or two collabs with Kaptain Spacekase (signed to a  London based record label), Producer of drum n bass, dubstep, guitarist and music maestro of the superb hip hop band Zipheadz... The Kaptain is a 'descendant' of my beloved Kentish city, Rochester so there's a bit of a sugary 'aww' factor built into that one.

..and someone has just thrown a  job at me......I have been head hunted :/

Hope 13 is treating you all well,

Izz xx