Sunday Post

The next track to dock over on 'Wou-Wou Open Collab' is my intergalactic bit-nugget, 'Spaceship'. A track originally set to accompany many videogame-esque instrumentals on a short album that never came to be, 'Spaceship', and the project to which it was attached, once again fall victim to dwindling enthusiasm and lack of direction.

That isn't to say the track hasn't potential to grow in the hands of a talented soul or two. As long as slightly stylised 16-bit sci-fi disco pop is your thing, you'll have plenty to pick and pinch from it.

'Spaceship' and it's semi-isolated stems will be freely available from SoundCloud, tomorrow.

Next week I hope to get a little more involved with toys old and new, as I attempt to finish off a number of longstanding projects before the year's end. These include several tracks based around other artists open collab tracks (most notably Andreas Bruning's '100loops' side venture), an ambient EP due out later this year, along with a few remixes and new collaborations. 

I'm hoping to dive into other aspects of art making too, as the humble pencil is growing a little tedious. Clay, colour and printing are all calling out to me, but with nothing started or particularly planned I'm not sure where I'll end up. Whatever happens (or doesn't) will be documented and shared in the usual places. 

I'll also be returning back to selling my original drawings on social media, due to it being the cheapest and easiest way to do it. So if you'd like to own one of my odd doodles you'll once again have chance to in the coming weeks. 

Happy thoughts, 

- The Wormling

Sunday Post

To tell you the truth, I wasn't planning to put a new, 'Wou-Wou Open Collab', track out 'till next month, but it seems silly to sit on something when it's ready to go. Plus, this particular side-project is a year old... or at least the idea behind it is - 'Faux Fur' didn't come out 'till early October 2015. 

Anyway, it's pointless to get tangled in such silly things (it only feeds my more anal traits anyhow). Basically, a second wave of tracks are ready and waiting, so now seemed like a good time to wrap-up the old to bring the new. And to honour the said "old", I have compiled a playlist of everything released during that first year(ish) in 'Wou-Wou Open Collab - Vol. I': 

So what of the new? Well, 'Here/There', is one track that I've slowly lost enthusiasm for. Not because I think it's bad, it just never felt finished. This of course makes it the perfect candidate for open collaboration. And, there'll be plenty to go at, with grouped beat, string and bass/guitar stems available for torment. 

'Here/There', will released and freely downloadable from SoundCloud tomorrow.

As mentioned in last week's 'Sunday Post', my society6 and Big Cartel pages are now up and running. This is so I can shift selling my wares (and stop looking like a big stinky sellout) on social media to somewhere more specialist, permanent with ultimately more options. This'll also help claim my Facebook, Instagram and Twitter back for sharing artwork that isn't necessarily intended for sale.

Updates on new products and artwork will come weekly, starting this coming Saturday. 

Happy thoughts, 

- The Wormling

Sunday Post

Even though I'm only halfway through my so-called "summer hiatus", I thought I'd quickly share the vast array of things that I have in store for my return. 

WIP Artwork

MUSIC BY CHANCE

This is something that I have been working on since I first started 'Wou' two and a bit years ago. A collection of tracks that use a number of homemade chance methods during the writing process. These include tried and test methods like 'The Furry Gamble' (Make It Pretty) and 'Buskers' Bamboozle' (MUSIC BY CHANCE: EP 01 & 02), among new ones, using playing cards and the general public to make music... confused? All will be explained in good time. 

One of the most exciting parts of this project for me is the various artists now involved in it. Finished tracks feature the sounds and talents of Horse Enthusiast, Jonathan Beckenstein, {AN} Eel, Weighty Tree, Spicy Invalid, Ronny The Rocket, Falloon and Janine Levinson (of Janine and the Problem), to name but a handful. 

'MUSIC BY CHANCE: Vol.1' will be released in the new year.

THE AUDIO BIN

I'm pleased to say that a new 'Audio Bin' LP is in the works, and, I'm calling out for new donations. So if you fancy being on the next LP and you've got a few unused recordings kicking around, please send them my way: wouwouandthewormling@gmail.com... anything you've got will be greatly appreciated. 

Here's a playlist of everyone involved with the project so far:

WOU-WOU OPEN COLLAB

The 'Wou-Wou Open Collab' project will be a year old in September, and to celebrate I will be compiling a playlist (surprise, surprise) for every track under this umbrella. The next new 'collab' track will be out in October. 

DEDICATION TO THE HYPOCRITES

I started working on this song with Couch King last September, but I'm happy to say it's sounding pretty finished now! Official release dates are not my forte, but it'll probably be the next thing released with my name attached to it, and I can't wait! It puts the "fun" in "funky" (apologies)... it also features pretzels malone and Jam York. 

ARTWORK FOR SALE

I've reached a point where I am running out of room for all my drawings. So, I've decided everything must go! The usual things apply... first come first served, and so-on. It all begins tomorrow on instagram, twitter and facebook, where I'll be sharing a doodle daily along with a pricetag and the full T&C's... heck, I'll even be throwing out a few freebies too. 

Lastly, prints of my favourite 21 will be made available some time next month. Dates and details to come. 

But for now, happy thoughts, 

- The Wormling

Sunday Post

Inspired in part by Manitoba's, 'Start Breaking My Heart', tomorrow's 'Wou-Wou Open Collab' track, 'The Phoney Lab', is a short slice of MIDI heavy electronica. Orderly, sterile, but hopefully not without heart. And with it being an open collaboration project the master will be available alongside isolated stems for remixing and reshaping.

'The Phoney Lab', is out tomorrow via SoundCloud. Visit previous OC tracks here.

In other news, this May marks the second year of 'Wou-Wou & The Wormling', and, in the same vein as last year I'll be assembling a 52 track playlist of my favourite reposts during 2015/2016. It's just one of a number of things that I have in mind to reflect on my short time under this alias. Including special remixes and artwork... more details to come next week. 

Lastly, towards the end of May I'll be taking a bit of time off. This three month (or so) hiatus is so I can focus on my graphic novel as well as the 'MUSIC BY CHANCE' album, both due towards the end of the year. 

However, I won't be disappearing entirely, as there's a number of collaborative projects that'll be surfacing throughout the summer, with repost playlists and other social media updates to follow suit. 

Happy thoughts, 

- The Wormling

Sunday Post

I'm a big fan of cover tracks that deviate from the original source material. Things like Devo's take on, 'Satisfaction', and more recently on SoundCloud, Trixie Delight's version of, 'My Heart Will Go On', are perfect examples of how to do it right. And so, I hope to follow on the tradition of kooky rip-offs with tomorrow's release, an unintentional cover of Bill Withers, 'Lean On Me'. 

Unintentional? Well, it started life as a simple collaboration with Little Lone Waltz. Someone whom I've wanted to work with ever since I first came across her on Soundcloud. I provided a beat, she provided the keys. The pieces all fit beautifully together, but it still felt like it was missing something. 

So, I called on someone else who has been dying to collaborate with, Sarah Shamash. In just a few hours of sending her the rough instrumental demo, she had sent me her ideas. It was an unusual, but never-the-less stunning vocal, with the lyrics to 'Lean On Me' anchoring each note. I don't know whether she was planning to rewrite the lyrics or not, I never asked, I loved what she did and so we all decided to run with it. 

Anyway, 'Lean (feat. Sarah Shamash & Little Lone Waltz)', will be available to stream from SoundCloud, tomorrow. 

It's become apparent to me that I have featured on many tracks that I have failed to post on social media. These are either things that I have worked on with other artists, or 'Wou-Wou Open Collab' tracks. Now, I know it's not a big deal, but people go to a lot of time and effort to make this music, it's only right that I do my best to promote their hard work, right. So starting Thursday I'm going to post one of these tracks every week. I'll pick them out at random, and if I run out, I guess I'll just start from the beginning again.

Also, I know I'm jumping the gun a little, but come October they'll be a special 'Wou-Wou Open Collab' playlist to mark the first year of the project. Course, if you're interested to hear some of this stuff now, click (here).

Lastly, work on my long term 'MUSIC BY CHANCE' project has finally started up again. Due to the massive quantity of music to produce for it (over 40 tracks), I've shifted once again to a collaborative approach. It's unlikely that much of anything will surface until the backend of the year, but there are a few things already in the bag from Ronny The Rocket, Sensfuck and Jonathan Beckenstein... in fact, Jonathan has shared his contribution to the project on SoundCloud for all to hear. It's certainly an exquisite piece, and serves as an excellent teaser of things to come.

Happy thoughts, 

- The Wormling

Sunday Post

Space, subtly and softness seem to be common themes in my music uploads lately, and tomorrow's 'Wou-Wou Open Collab' track follows a similar route. 

Recorded around the same time as 'Sassafras', 'Open Plan Love Story' is one of my first loop pedal doodles. It's a demo that I've being adding to since that first session, but like most of these open collab tracks, it's something that I never planned to be released from my hard-drive until now.

Anyway, 'Open Plan Love Story', will be uploaded complete with grouped beat, guitar and keyboard stems, all of which will be available to download for free from SoundCloud tomorrow.

On a separate note, I'll hopefully get round to a spot of doodling and/or painting this week. It's been a while, so I'm hungry for it.

Work and pleasure don't always see eye-to-eye, but now the clocks have changed, the sun is out and I've shook off the illnesses that plagued March, I'm feeling positive that another creative spurt is just around the corner. 

Step lively,

- The Wormling

Sunday Post

If messy and clichéd guitar solos are your thing, you'll probably enjoy tomorrow's 'Wou-Wou Open Collab' track, 'The Bum Note Blues'. A short instrumental mess around that was never meant to be anything more... it was certainly never intended to be released.

The whole track was built up from a MidiPunk beat that I looped and effected. All the other elements are me in half-cocked bluely mode, with each track being a one-take improv, warts-and-all affair. So needless to say, there's bum notes galore.

Nevertheless, the track and it's stems will be made available from SoundCloud from tomorrow... do with it as you will.

Happy thoughts,


- The Wormling

Sunday Post

For February's 'Wou-Wou Open Collab' release I will be offering up, 'Maroon', an odd little demo made from hip-hop style drum patterns and a wayward mellotron progression. Much like 'Out///In', I had huge plans for it when I first started the project, but I soon ran out of ideas and enthusiasm. Meaning, it's ripe for someone else to rejig. 

If you feel up to it, 'Maroon', and all of its stems will be available to download from the 'Wou-Wou Open Collab' SoundCloud page from tomorrow. 

Now then, after months and months of teasing a zine, I've finally pulled my finger out and made one! And the best thing is, it's totally free for you to download and make up yourself. Course, if you're feeling a little lazy to that idea, I will be posting it page by page throughout next week on social media, so you can enjoy it that way too.

Anyway, what with Valentine's Day around the corner and it being my first official 'Wou-Wou' zine, I thought it'd be apt to have it revolve around the theme of first dates, especially blind dates. A concept that seems utterly terrifying to me - a shy, hermit-like creature... never-the-less, I hope you find it amusing.

To get your downloadable PDF copy of 'Blind Date', click here. Details on how to assemble it can be found all over the web, but feel free to get in touch if you're unsure. 

Happy thoughts, 

- The Wormling

Sunday Post

What was originally intended to be a larger atmospheric piece, the next 'Wou-Wou Open Collab' release, 'Cyborg Lung', is certainly a shift in mood when compared to the other tracks occupying the page. Eerie, strung out, and with a death march rhythm to boot... I hope they'll be plenty in it to pillage and enjoy.

'Cyborg Lung', along with all of its stems, will be free to download from SoundCloud tomorrow.

Something that won't be as free (but will still be very cheap), are my new postcard portraits. 

Each little original will cost the grand total of £2.50 - P&P included. All being well, I'll be trialling it out from tomorrow, and depending on how they are received I will continue to do it most days throughout the year. 

Of course, being a big fan of free stuff (who isn't), I have also decided that every last Wednesday of the month I will give-away one of these doodles to whoever wants it, a-la 'The Wou-Wou & The Wormling Wednesday Give-Away'. 

Lastly, I released my album 'Origin of Memory' (full 21 track version here) and '2015' playlist last week. Seems only right to post them while I'm here, so here they are... enjoy: 

Happy thoughts, 

- The Wormling

Sunday Post

I'm very pleased to announce that 'Little One' (the third track to be released under my 'Wou-Wou Open Collab' offshoot) will be uploaded tomorrow, complete with stems for all you remixers and audio rejiggers out there.

The track itself has more in common with my 'Make It Pretty' track from 2014 than anything that I've done recently. A short and simple guitar ditty which never really got past the demo stage.

All being well, "Little One" won't the only track that I put out before the year is though. With an experimental album done and ready for release, the sixth 'Audio Bin' track nearly in the bag, and a remix of New Biboujin's 'Son of Alexie' also on the cards, it seems that December will be a little more musical than I'm used to lately. 

More doodles and paintings on their way too. I know that I kinda neglect my arty things on here, but I'm planning to change that in the new year. But for now...

Happy thoughts,

- The Wormling

Sunday Post

I know, I've been pretty quiet recently. But unlike my last mini hiatus, it's mainly due to the influx of collaborative projects that I'm juggling. Everything from remixes to animations... it's all go! I'm also working hard to get my zines off of the ground. So simply put, things will be a little sparse 'till more things are ticked off my to-list.

That said, I am aiming to put-out my fifth 'Audio Bin' track later this month, as-well-as my second 'Wou-Wou Open Collab' track, 'Out///In', which I'll be releasing tomorrow. 

I hope to be back properly in the new year, but 'till then I will be keeping my hand in a few things, including my weekly playlist and my 'Open Collab' sideline.

Happy thoughts, 

- The Wormling

Sunday Post

It's been a busy few weeks here at Wou HQ, with offers and requests coming in left, right and centre. I'm not complaining though, far from it, I love to be busy. Especially when that busyness involves working with such wonderfully talented people. People like Ang Kerfoot...

I've wanted to work with Ang on something from the get go. Her cool, soulful voice and fearless, genre-blurring music is an inspiration. Needless to say, when I approached Ang with the demo of 'Strung', I had no idea what would come from it. All I knew was her voice was in my head when I listened to it so I just had to ask.

Of course, Ang is a total pro, and from my rough demo crafted a song way above my exceptions.

'Strung' will be released in it's entirety tomorrow. But, if you want to sample a taste, Ang released this beta version over the weekend... so dig in!

But that's not all, as the first two tracks to come from my new 'Open Collab' page were released this week...



... along with this gorgeous remix New Biboujin did of my track with, Anne_Lee.

Please be sure to check out all the aforementioned if you're not already aquatinted with them. And while you're at it, check out my 'Open Collab' page and 'Sound Collage' project if you haven't. Only a few weeks left to join in with the latter... just saying.

Happy thoughts,


- The Wormling

Faux Fur

My new open collab track, 'Faux Fur,' is out now... twist, tear and torment however you may wish!

- The Wormling

Sunday Post

Last week I teased my new 'Wou-Wou Open Collab' project, and tomorrow it arrives in full force with 'Faux Fur', a short 'n' funky patchwork of phone recorded samples and loops. 

Why is it up for open collaboration? It's unfinished, and honestly, I couldn't do much else with it (Lord knows I tried), but hopefully you can. Meaning, it'll be uploaded along with its stems for you to tinker with to your heart content. The only catch: you credit me on what you use... but that's a given, surely. 

I'll respectfully repost and share anything created using 'Faux Fur' or any of my future 'Open Collab' tracks. I also plan to put out a variety of different stuff over there, so if this month's doesn't suit, maybe next month's will. 

As always, new doodles, alt. lit and paintings will arise throughout next week. And if you haven't already, don't forget to submit your 'Sound Collage' answers to me... the deadline is looming! 

Happy thoughts,


- The Wormling