Colin OOOD

Thanks Fuse although OOOD is NOT Voice of Cod; they just share one member - me. No... but bring on the "looking so hard at it you see things that aren't there"! Hmm... dunno. The tracks are different lengths according to Discog, but since I don't have those CDs I can only assume that either one is from aLIVE and one is from our Phantasm 12", especially if one has more going on - I remember adding to the track for a live version, after it was first released.

Generally, by the time a track is half-written it's pretty obvious what it needs to be called. Sometimes a track will be finished before a name turns up, and sometimes a track will have its name changed long after the fact. It works all ways.

Where is 'coneland'? Like the guy said... book us and we will come.

Thanks Fuse It makes me sad sometimes (in my pathetic, egotistical way) that you rarely see our name in those lists of old-school acts that come up for various reasons both here and on other forums. Wherever I go people tell us how much they like what we've done (very flattering) but when it comes to 'public displays of affection' it seems sometimes as if we'd never released anything, let alone been gigging internationally since 1994. I dunno, I'll ask them next time I see them. Ok, gotta correct some things here There used to be 3 of us in OOOD, now there are 4. Nigel isn't with us, and Ramsay Melhuish and Ryo Potier have joined. They're old old friends and phenomenal DJs; it's a crying shame they (and Steve!) don't push themselves to play out more. Unconscious Collective is exactly the same people as OOOD, but yes, this is what we call our non-dancefloor output. Expect an album soon, once Free Range is out of the way and we can decide which tracks to use. We've got a few! (By the way, on this page, one name jumps out at me in particular... sorry you didn't like it so much Ukiro... ) Tricky one this, sometimes it feels like that to me too, but then I remember that the music I make on my own is nothing like the music we make as OOOD. Since I started posting on forums and promoting my various projects on the internet I have obviously got more attention than I would otherwise have done, and this sometimes leads me to think (mistakenly) that I'm the most important person in the band. But this is untrue, on a more fundamental level than just me being the main programmer and engineer of the band. The one thing that we have always agreed on amongst ourselves (and I'm so glad this is still true with the current line-up) is that the most important thing of all is that we write the best music we can possibly make, irrespective of who originates any particular idea or tweaks the bassline just-so. I am very much a collaborative producer when it comes to electronic music, and every OOOD track is an equal split between whoever is involved in it. Easy for me too, sometimes! (see above) Ryo and Steve have posted a couple of times on Psy-Forum.co.uk but they have much more important things going on in their lives than the internet, for example... er... their lives. One thing I'd really like to do is take the OOOD live show out and about much more as our music works very well live, especially outdoors in the sun (as long as it's not too hot to dance!). Unfortunately, since there are four of us, it's expensive for us to play outside the UK and sadly it seems that for too many promoters, the effect on the dancefloor of four musicians jamming, improvising and playing prepared riffs over truly psychedelic trance music is not worth our plane fare. I'm hoping and praying that Free Range will do something to change this, and that we'll get the opportunity to play at a festival near you soon.

Wow... I'm very touched and flattered - firstly that someone should see fit to start a thread about our project and secondly that enough people are actually interested enough in OOOD to make a proper conversation about it! It's not very often that people start a thread about us so I'm going to take full advantage of this one... hope I don't bore you but OOOD is obviously something very close to my heart and on forums like this, where I have a social life, I don't really want to talk too much about the music in case people think I'm pushing it in their faces. You've started it now though... I'll take your points one by one. As DP would say, "let me take you through the comments and questions"... I have a project with Chris Organic ("Benefactor"), which has released a couple of tracks on Organic - one on the Tsunami benefit 3xCD and one on Invasion From Hyperspace. I also had a project with Tim Healey (Quirk and Electric Tease) called "Dallas Kiss" which released on Automatic and other labels. I've also written a couple of tracks with my good friend and ex-Psynews member Mike Indidginus, and have started (but not yet finished) tracks with Pop Stream, Tron, Fromem Ory and probably five or six others that slip my mind right now! Well, the album is called Free Range so that should give you some idea It's all main-room dancefloor stuff, and although every track is properly psychedelic in the way that much 'psytrance' isn't any more, we're not limiting ourselves to the narrow psytrance pigeon-holes. The tempos of the tracks range from 130 bpm to 144, and although I'm obviously totally biassed I think there's a lot of music on the album that will totally surprise people whilst still really doing the business on the dancefloor. I can't wait to hear what people think of Oh My (Good Golly Me) or Eye Of The Beholder (a collaboration between me and Ott)! Amongst the four of us, and for native English speaking people it's OOOD as in FOOOD (or, indeed ooooohed ). I've heard it pronounced as O-O-O-D, or "owed", or "triple-OD" (which is kind of apt cos there used to be three of us in the band ). Uh-Oh...OD!!!?!?!? is a new one to me! When I came up with the name it was an acronym for "Out Of Our Depth" and to me this is still what it means, but we are all (and Steve is in particular) fond of coming up with alternative meanings; Only On One Dinosaur is one particular favourite of mine. Phobium - glad you like Silence! It was our first release as a band, and sometime soon when the album is out of the way we're going to remix it. Firstly, they're not just 'my' tracks - 95% of OOOD tracks are made in collaboration with the rest of the band - Silence is one exception. I'm just the only band-member who uses the net to promote the music in this way. Secondly, the two tracks you mention are part of a three-track 'cycle' (for want of a better word). We started by writing The Unwinding Mind, a chillout D&B track you can hear on Breathing Space. We took elements of that track and wrote Mind The Unwinding, which goes from chillout D&B to 4-to-the-floor. Then we took elements of both those tracks and wrote Find Your Mind (also on Breathing Space), 10 minutes of pure minimal psytrance with a lift at the end that sends shivers down my spine even today. Damion - you smell. But I agree with you on all points, except for your comparison of our first two albums. IMO the writing on aLIVE is better than Breathing Space, but Breathing Space works better on a dancefloor production-wise. And of course I'm reading this - this is the one time when my daily Google search for "OOOD" has come up trumps!

Absolutely fucking awesome in their day.

*raises hand*

Sending a mastering engineer a pre-compressed mix greatly limits the options available in the mastering process. It says "I know you won't want to EQ, or add reverb, or stereo-enhance, or do anything to the track before the compression (which, by the way, I got EXACTLY right with my CPU-enhanced plugin)..." When I get sent a track for mastering that has been through any kind of compression whatsoever, the first thing I do is ask the producer to send me an uncompressed mix. I'll also ask them if they wanted to acheive a particular effect with the compression they added (eg, 'pumping'), and work with the raw mix to get the very best from the track that I can, in line with the original wishes of the producer. Sending me a compressed mix to master is like sitting me in a F1 race-car and telling me I can only use the first three gears.

Please do not do this. It makes the mastering engineer's job much much harder than it needs to be. Have you ever tried to un-compress a mix that has gone through a limiter?

Shit Andy, you get the best gigs.

Use the search [/isra]

If only...

If it aroused you, then the phrase "what I saw aroused me" is obviously true.

Roll up folks, see Dave Arc-I and Ott DJ back to... er... back at the Psy-Forum.co.uk fundraiser, Feb 18th. If you don't know who these people are, click the above link to find out.

No, just the Voice of Cod (badum - TISH) Anyway, Dino is Gay. (NOT WORK SAFE)

Certainly a good way to keep warm when the care home stops being able to afford to heat the dayroom. Well, for 20 minutes or so at least, until it goes all cold and clammy in your pants.

Surely 'soiling' is more your style, Dave?

I see you've met Nigel.

Dunno about anyone else but all the OOOD releases up to 2001 contain real 303. Ours was given (along with a TR606) to Nigel by Thrash (ex Orb) in payment for a bunch of electronic work he did for the guy.

Give it time, discog profile updates have to be approved by moderators before they go live. In the meantime, here are the links: http://www.triskelemanagement.com/uc.html http://www.triskelemanagement.com/oood.html

PA System = Public Address system PA = Public Appearance of an artist not involving performance Live PA = Public Appearance of an artist involving performance These definitions come from 20 years of involvement with the club and trance scenes in the UK. I don't particularly care what the rest of you use them to mean, these are the industry definitions here. Sure, they get abused here as much as anywhere else, but those are the root definitions.

Thanks for the link I updated the Unconscious Collective profile a little... the links now work fine.

I still haven't got a copy of this, despite producing and co-writing a track on it. I came up with the title, too, and Michele said she'd credit me for it... did she?

Met him a couple of times. Nice guy with a good sense of humour. I shared a stage with him in 2004 when OOOD were doing a 4-way b2b DJ set right before Hallucinogen live; it was his first live set in the UK for years and he was worried that the first track in his set was too slow so he asked my advice (of all people! ). I laughed and told him not to worry. I bumped into him and Ott on the street after the party and he gave me a big hug. I still haven't washed that jumper... although I did have to wash my pants after I creamed them.

And your point is...?