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These C-10 Cassettes hold two previously unreleased Circuit Breaker tracks. Evolve/repeat and Scapes. Both recorded around the same time for an E.P that never materialised, they use repetitive drums and disjointed electronics with vocals floating above to create a powerful haunting sound. Only 10 have been made with the Lino print made by Edward Simpson as the sleeve.

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Another Solo Edd Incarnation of Circuit Breaker- This time using a homebuilt guitar, with a contact mic built into the body, (the guitar body has an arm of springs and metal poles), saxophone and 'no-input' mixing! C-10 tape, hand drawn pencil cover

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C-10 tape
The broken records which had their sleeves used for collages on CG012 are now used here! Our new found love affair with our Reel-to-Reel recorder continues with some fully kitted out Circuit Breaker improvisations captured onto it!

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An old lady in Milton Keynes gave us her Reel-to-Reel recorder and these tapes document the frankly bizzare stuff we found on there. Fragments of family sing alongs, private moments of oral experimentation and eroded, un-identifiable sounds occupy one side of the tape and, (somewhat symbolically), the flip side is the improvisation we recorded to wipe over the other stuff!

The art work is collaged from the sleeves of some old broken records we where given!

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Circuit Breaker live in Luton Cd-r
Playing at a VSTM records night, sometime in 2009, this was a short period where we where performing a set made of almost entirely composed songs - most of the tracks from GC006 and GC 004 feature here in their raw and sloppy live state!

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Re-issue of GC-002 , An Edd solo incarnation of Circuit Breaker. Still in 3inch cd, but with a unique(ly) crappy collage on each case. Approx 20 made

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Lucky dip C-10 Tapes
Each side features a track from our monstrous archive of old bedroom jams from 2006. We chose the tracks at random, so each one is different, and has a hand drawn wobbly frank-stella front cover too! 15 made - possibly more to come!

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Golden Cranes is a family Buissness - 3inch CD-r , in a case hand knitted by Circuit Breaker's Mum!!! Henry Walker and Edd Simpson provide looped-out feedback drones, abstract yet rocking, unapologetically guitar-centric noise! Possibly only about 5 of these made

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One of the first ever Circuit Breaker Gigs! Playing at a Fortissimo records night at Kiln Farm Social Club, in Milton Keynes. After years of playing in rock bands this was our first guitar-less venture onto a stage, choosing instead to arm ourselves with tapes, oscillators and homebuilt tone generators. 12 minutes of thick, slowly evolving drone, pierced only by occasional trombone outbursts! 3inch cd - packed in a neat and minimal cardboard sleeve

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Again, this has since been re-issued under the appropriate heading of Circuit Breaker. This was the 2008 document of 4 songs, 3 of which where featuring in the, (by then), 50/50 live sets - split between improvisation and song structure. Features the crowd favourite, ten minute epic, 'one-note song'!

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New Zealand Improviser and general all round poly-math Rick Jensen's collaborative project ' The Radioactive Ensemble'. Tracks feature Rick and Dave O'Connor on various horns, aswell as Brazilian improviser Rodrigo Montoya on Japanese Shamisen. All tracks are culled from live recordings.... a particular highlight being the group freaking out the audience at a power-electronics night!

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5 Songs by Circuit Breaker. Drawn Together from live gigs, bedroom recordings and even a visit to a 'proper' studio which all took place between Late 2006 to about midway through 2007. The first proper document of a move away from an exclusively improvised approach to song structures. Photo is from brief flirtation with the name 'Simpson Brothers', since been re-issued with the appropriate labelling.

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3inch CD-r - About 15 made (?) - 7 small scale improvisations, each one focusing on a different 'instrument' - violin/cassettes/ oscillators /voice/ roland juno synth and a hideously antiquated boss drum machine all featured - similar in approach to GC 002, but with focus on duo playing rather than collage!

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A solo Piece by Edd Simpson of circuit Breaker, these recordings are an experiment in setting and investigating boundaries. Each song is constructed in a similar way using a different instrument, for example one track is a collage of samples taken from two broken cassette players and another a similar collage made exclusively from voice samples. The results are a dark and surreal sound-scape with an underling subtle but hypnotic repetition. 25 were released in these blue and vivid pink on the inside 3" CDR's... SOLD OUT... Re-released, see Golden Cranes 010

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This is the first of many Circuit Breaker CDR's, the result of hours of low bass frequency experiments with harsh electronics gliding and occasionally jarring over the top. Recorded during early 2006, in a bedroom just as circuit breaker had formed. The end product is this untitled piece. A collection of 14 improvised jams, cut out and interspersed with the odd composed song. Only 10 were ever made... SOLD OUT