Step Into My Office; Live Mixing by Cai Murphy(that's me):
My first trip to Japan: June 2001cai murphy reviews
Reviews
The album opens with the gentle tones of Black Water Melon, produced with Spoomusic’s Ariel Gross and Dave Ramen, and the scintillating Nicola with Dutch artist Kettel. Plaid contribute a lush new version of last year’s Lavender Oil, Mickey The Cat dresses Alien Mermaid with a delicate groove and rich soundscapes, and later, former Jah Wobble engineer Cai Murphy wraps a delicate blanket of found sounds around Coppé’s sweet voice on the frugal I Live In A Lava Lamp. Coppé Fi-lamente album review from http://londonmilk.blogspot.com/
I think Deep Space are doing something that has a foot in all camps whilst building their own musical landscape. At this juncture I would like to say the dub mixing and exotic sound manipulation by the engineer was a joy to behold. I know the sound engineer is called Cai,_ I asked him after the gig, and I think people like him should get more recognition. Review for 'The Studio' Hartlepool, Friday November the 19th. 2000
[Passage to Hades by Jah Wobble and Evan Parker is on the sound system.] This music in the background is an example of how complicated things can get. Jah Wobbles engineer, Cai Murphy, is a guy who goes for broke. Jah Wobble uses him on gigs and on recording, which is quite unusual. He is a phenomenal risk taker. Sometimes things can go completely mad, because he drives things so hard. But when it works, I think it is extraordinary. This record sounds to me like somebody spent five months in production. Actually, Cai works so quicklyHe was almost itching to begin the post-production before we had finished playing. He was already playing us back stuff with bits of dub-type interactive engineering while we were supposed to be listening back to what wed done. Let me at it. Let me at it. This thing was worked at very quickly. He is an improvising engineer. He wants to get involved. He takes chances that sometimes produce howling feedback; everything has gone for a moment. But the payback when it works is extraordinary. There is a depth to the mix that is extraordinary for something that is done so quickly, so spontaneously. Evan Parker interview by John Eyles. www.allaboutjazz.com
Love the toons on yer MySpace, but mate, I've got hundreds of CDs like that wot I bought cheap from my man in Chesham. You can have 'em, you don't need to make any more. Johnny Patt by Email.
I'm Cai Murphy, an Engineer/Producer/Percussionist from N. Ireland.
I started to roadie in 1992 for Eric Wrixon of Them and Thin Lizzy fame, when I probably should have been doing my homework. In '94 I got a gig as the house engineer at the legendary Warehouse in Belfast, I then moved to London in '95 where I got into studio work: making tea. In '96 I joined Intimate studios where I immediately started working on sessions for the Stranglers, Transglobal underground and Jah Wobble. In 2002 I came to Tokyo and I'm still here, I think.
I'm currently working on a project for Greek Pyramid Productions with director Scott Larson and am in the process of finishing a Coppe' album
for Mango+Sweetrice.
Other recent projects include writing a track for the
Light Rhythm Visuals DVD "Notations" and producing a track "I Live In a Lava Lamp" on Coppe's current album "Fi-lamente". I've also been engineering live shows for Coppe', MJ Ultra and the Kitchencynic. And most recently; playing drums with Kuchi.
I have recorded and mixed for a variety of artists across many genres from folk to techno.
Credits include; Recording, Mixing, Producing, Programming and Editing.
Artists include; Jah Wobble, Temple of Sound, Fun-Da-Mental, Lunar Drive, Lucinda Sieger, Transglobal Underground and John Wetton. See my discography.
I rarely finish my own tracks and don't take my own music too seriously, so it can get pretty fucked up and often binned. I prefer to work on other peoples music (which does include fucking up Jpop; see Chemicals and Crystal) as I can more easily differentiate between the wood and the trees.
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Yes aye Cai. i'm in belfast helping out papa smurf with some woodwork. good to hear that killing joke rocked tokyo. they rock. Skype on sunday cos i think it's gonna be work on saturday to be honest. there's a lot of stuff to do here and we've been drinking more tea than working. We're working on G.M.T. (gerry murphy time).been snorting a lot of M.D.F. too. Wooden boggies!
hello cai. how is the tokyo state of mind? i am workin' on a release. i probably will release it for free under creative commons. when it is finished, i may ask for your input. anyway, hope all is well on your end. peace!!
Happy birthday bruv. Hope you're well and the new jobs making ye loads a money. as soon as I make loads a money myself, I'll get myself over to see you. Stay well, Love, Joel
Hi Cai, Just a quick message to say hi. They're gonna kick me out of the cafe cos they want to close. Fair enough. Hope you're well bro. Good to hear you on the phone albeit very briefly.Stay well. I'll make an effort to use the internet more. Big Luv, yer bruv
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Recording in a one day live session in Valencia by Pablo Peiró and mastered in California by John Golden. Autorelease by Zener on CD with their own label Discos Buen Pony, and release and distribute in the USA in April 08 by Sun-Rise Records. You can buy it at www. myspace. com/zener or www. myspace. com/sunriserecordsusa.
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Hi,Cai. thank you for adding me.nice to meet you again on here! Btw,Did you eat chocolate =)? Jake spoke about you to me...He said,"We made the studio..maybe.
I'm Cai Murphy, an Engineer/Producer/Percussionist from N. Ireland.
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