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Moonbuilding Sprung 2023

by Moonbuilding

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shaun rogan
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shaun rogan This is as good as the officially released WRNTDP titles on CIS. Very pleased to pick it up, where the pieces here are longer than most on the records they benefit from the slow unwinding they are afforded. The 18 minute live set excerpt is particularly immersive. Wouldn't be the worst idea in the world to release this on vinyl as a companion to the inevitable repressing of This Nation's Most Central Location. Great stuff. Oh and you get a cool magazine to read as well. Awesome. Favorite track: 32123.
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potttttage Oooffff some serious synths, love this! Favorite track: The Whispering Knights.
polarvoidx
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polarvoidx Because it’s so evocative of the times I grew up in Favorite track: Woolston New Cut.
Steve Binns
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Steve Binns This accompanying CD to this great fanzine is a must for WRNTDP fans 🤓 Not only do the tracks compliment TNMCL perfectly but the Gordon Chapman-Fox ‘solo’ track is the closest anyone has got to matching the immense sound of FLC (and that is my very highest compliment) 🫠 Favorite track: The Whispering Knights.
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michmccl Can’t believe this is still available! If you haven’t spent 10 quid on it yet do so as soon as! Await delivery of the physical but listened to the stream on repeat today and it defies all expectation as a limited fanzine CD. Beautiful stuff
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  • Moonbuilding Issue Three
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    The necessary third issue of Moonbuilding.
    A colour 48 page A5 magazine with new and exclusive Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan glass-mastered CD.

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Having successfully navigated the difficult second issue, Moonbuilding returns with a dazzling Issue 3. Edited by former Electronic Sound commissioning ed Neil Mason and published by Colin Morrison’s Castles In Space label, the first two issues went down pretty well. No reason to think this new one will be any different…

… especially as the new Spring Has Sprung offering stars the unstoppable Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, who also provide an exclusive CD of previously unreleased tracks.

Best form an orderly queue, this issue ain’t going to be around long.

As well as a truly bumper chat with Warrington-Runcorn big chief Gordon Chapman-Fox, we profile Dan Saville’s SubExotic label, Audrey Golden tells us about her excellent new book, ‘I Thought I Heard You Speak: Women At Factory Records’, and John Foxx answers our There’s A First Time For Everything questions.

There’s reviews of the latest releases from labels such as CiS, Blackford Hill, Tone Science, Werra Foxma, Clay Pipe, Alter, Kiite Records, This Is It Forever, quiet details, Woodford Halse and many more.

There’s also our thoughts on the latest books, including Lucy O’Brien’s ‘Lead Sister - The Story Of Karen Carpenter’, Mark Blake’s ‘Us And Them - The Authorised Story Of Hipgnosis’ and Cathi Unsworth’s ‘Season Of The Witch - The Book Of Goth’.

Once again, the cover illustration is by the magnificent Nick Taylor. He also adds his exceptional skills to the design of the cover feature. People have been asking who our designer is. Well, the rest of the zine is “designed” by Neil Mason who reckons he has Fine Art degree. Next thing he’ll be telling us he studied in Sheffield and lived a few doors up from Phil Oakey.

The whole thing is topped off with a column from The Orb’s Alex Paterson and the wonderful reboot of Steven Appleby’s legendary Captain Star strip, which has previously appeared in NME, The Observer and SFX mag.


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 started to review 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 ES.

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 a scene that was accidentally created on the pages of Electronic Sound, drawing 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. “I was hooked on underground magazines and comix as soon as I encountered them. I used to save up to come to London and do the megastores, the indie record shops and Forbidden Planet on the same day." says Colin. 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.

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released May 5, 2023

ABOUT US
Neil Mason has been at the sharp end of music publishing for over 25 years. He worked as a sub editor on dance music title Muzik before becoming albums editor, then reviews editor, at Melody Maker, features editor on NME.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 100 titles including acclaimed albums by Polypores, Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, Concretism, Field Lines Cartographer, The Twelve Hour Foundation and 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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