Pulse festival was great.
Heard some great bands and had a brilliant time.
I played a 50 minute set on the Courtyard Stage on the Saturday. Looking forward to next year already.
Set up : Macbook Pro , Komplete Audio 6 N.I sound card, Akai APC40
Thanks Pulse see you next year.
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Pulse Festival. 10th & 11th May 2013.
I have had the pleasure of being invited to play at this years Pulse Festival, near my hometown, Southampton. I have heard lots of positive things about the festival from previous years, but have yet to see it myself.
I am looking forwards to enjoying a range of music, and joining many others that are there to support the cause. Pulse festival was founded in 2010 to support the Childrens Heart Unit in Southampton. It has been a huge success and continued to grow since it’s set up just three years ago. After speaking to one of the organisers, Mark Ward, I can only see an exiting future for Pulse, and am very keen to be a part of it. This year has plenty of things to offer for people of all ages and music genres, and who wouldn’t want to go and have a bit of a knees up, discover some new music, and support such a worthy cause?
More info & Tickets here – Pulse Festival
music that doesn’t drop.
Quite often when people hear my music they’ll tell me it doesn’t drop. It doesn’t quite ‘go there’. I definitely agree with this. However, I used to want my music to drop, and after working for the past 6 months on my new material, and indeed developing a new sound, I’ve reached a musical understanding with myself, that the intention of it is to just teeter on the edge of going there, and not actually commit to becoming a dance track. It seems that my talent lies in composing tunes that flirt with the idea, but don’t take you there. Whether this is just a fancy disguise for being lazy, I am yet to find out.
I’ve had people draw different conclusions and make vastly different comparisons of my work, which I love. Its fantastic that people can all hear the same piece of music, but all have a different way of listening to it, and therefor have a different experience to the person sat next to them. So I thought i’d put a few songs/artists on here that people have mentioned being similar to me, so you can have a listen and completely agree or disagree, or remain indifferent to!
Arguably, those tracks do have very dance based elements. The music I like to reference and enjoy listening to is a mixture of full on dance tracks, and ambient/electronic soundscape pieces, which I think is how I arrive at the product I now have.
Its all quite exciting from here on in really. Although its taken what feels like a big chunk of my life to get this project finished, its finally there. I am so relieved I can draw a line under it, and move on to noisier and tastier ventures!
‘A Very New Everything’ [2013] will be released through Bit-Phalanx, watch this space for more info.
Bowie
London show, HK119 / One Little Indian Records / Bit Phalanx.
What a night! my first gig in London, also my first gig with Bit Phalanx. Amazing music and lovely peeps thanks!
London show
On Tuesday I am playing in Londons Babble Jar supporting some wonderful artists.
HK119 being one of them! This is the start of my new EP emerging through live sets. 
A Very New Everything – new release 2013.
I have a new release coming out soon through Bit-Phalanx.
It’s going to be available as a free download, and there will also be a handful of hard copies for the physical peeps out there.
Influence on this record from Burial, Nicolas Jaar, Janek Schaefer, and a little bit of Apparat.
New Release, coming soon.
I have just sent off my first track to be mastered today, whilst i’m adding the finishing touches to one of the other tracks.
The new EP is more exciting, current, and fresh (for me) than my last one ever was. Kayla Painter (2012), seemed like an experiment to me, to see if I could finish some songs, run a launch night, and get my stuff on Spotify. This project feels very different, it feels like I am releasing something because I have a group of songs that really want to be heard and remixed and enjoyed! Since my last release I have been gradually building a home studio, and I’m now the lucky owner of some grand equipment.
My new home studio set up consists of
KRK Rokit 6 active monitors
iMac
LG monitor
Shure SM58
NI Komplete Audio 6 (soundcard)
DT100 beyerdynamic
EWQL orchestra
Logic Pro 9
Ableton Live 8
NI Komplete 7 (instruments & effects)
It has certainly been an interesting 8 month project, and I’m really excited to push it forward to your ears. I’d say theres plenty of influence from my favourite musicians, but even more so, Burial, Nicolas Jaar, Steve Reich and Will Wiesenfeld.
A Very New Everything (2013) – Kayla Painter – release date tbc.
sneak peak
