Back in the day when I was enthusiastically given to promoting new bands and stuff two friends of mine, Alan O' Boyle and Dennis McNulty ran away from their respective indie bands and started making dance music. Back in 1993 or thereabouts this was practically a crime. I remember going to their first club might in the Rock Garden where they gave away a free tape containing music form the bands who were performing and some tracks by themselves on it, and free sweets. This built into the most succesful Irish electronica act ever, dEcal, and the legendary U:Mack night in the Funnel where the cream of the world's electronic djs played every Friday night to rapturous and ecstatic (ahem) crowds. There was also various side projects including a drum n bass act with Alan and Rohan which went under the moniker AjaxDiscoSpanner that I got signed to a 4AD offshoot label, only one 12 inch was released but it did very well. But I digress, dEcal is now Alan alone as Dennis has wandered off into high art. And the reason for this post is that Alan has put up some free tracks on his website and fabulous they are. Click here as they say on primitive websites http://www.decal-artifacts.com/audio.html

I recommend the mechanise e.p very highly.

EDIT* actually while that stuff is good skip straight to the new stuff, absolutely amazing .. here... http://decal-artifacts.com/audio/Sketches/Decal_little_sketches.zip