The Sonic Catering Band

about

After a bout of food poisoning and a consequent dream concerning a telepathic alliance between Tory Health Minister, Stephen Dorrell and a tapeworm sect, The Sonic Catering Band formed, striving to pursue a new working practice in electronic music whilst not having to worry about where their next meal would be coming from. The notion of the band was/is to employ a similar approach to electronic music as to (vegetarian) food; taking the raw sounds recorded from the cooking and preparing of a meal and treating them through processing, cutting, mixing and layering. No source sounds other than those coming from the cooking of the dish are used and as a commitment to artistic integrity, every dish is consumed by all members of the band. The Sonic Catering Band was specifically conceived as a project and not a band as such. The aim of the project being to plough and furrow as meticulously as possible every possibility inherent in the cooking process, both aurally and conceptually, within a shelf-life of around five years. In terms of personnel, The Sonic Catering Band would be an anonymous unit of whoever happened to be around. For the first year, it definitely had the feel of a loose collective with various characters drifting in and out. Most of the year saw the band masterminding their various projects and setting-up their Canteens of Atlantis studio. With a 4-track recorder and some antiquated analogue effects units, the Band set about cooking/recording their first dish - T

top songs

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The Wire - Below The Radar Vol 10

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Automating Volume Seven

Seven Transdanubian Recipes

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Artificial Additives

Flux Gourmet - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Food Science

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A Gourmet’s Slumber

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A Gourmet's Slumber

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imperial metric

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Flux Gourmet Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Live From The Canteens Of Atlantis

Flux Gourmet

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