Banco de Gaia

Banco de Gaia

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Banco de Gaia episodes

  • Banco De Gaia - My Little Country (Rob Bong's Roughs Tower Dub)(preview)
    When I was a kid in the 70’s I remember seeing a TV programme about a guy who declared that an old naval platform somewhere off the coast of England was his own country.
    Many years later I was asked to contribute to the Outlaw Oceans project and thought this was a perfect subject for a track. As I don’t really do 70’s retro, apart from the odd prog rock cover, I decided to work the 70’s-style narrator’s voice into a retro 90’s sounding track. Sadly the initiative ran into complications and the release was pulled.
    As I found it an amusing project to work on, I never gave up on the track, and my friend soundcloud.com/simonpowermusic, who was also knocking out dance tracks in the early 90’s as Marine Boy, fancied having a go at a remix and went suitably retro on it. Then, sticking with the 90’s theme, I asked soundcloud.com/robhenry from soundcloud.com/childrenofthebong, who toured with me a few times in that era, to have a go and he came up with a lovely deep dub of the track.
    I hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane as much as we have, or at least find the ridiculousness of it all entertaining!
    3 min
  • Banco De Gaia - My Little Country (Marine Boy Remix)(preview)
    When I was a kid in the 70’s I remember seeing a TV programme about a guy who declared that an old naval platform somewhere off the coast of England was his own country.
    Many years later I was asked to contribute to the Outlaw Oceans project and thought this was a perfect subject for a track. As I don’t really do 70’s retro, apart from the odd prog rock cover, I decided to work the 70’s-style narrator’s voice into a retro 90’s sounding track. Sadly the initiative ran into complications and the release was pulled.
    As I found it an amusing project to work on, I never gave up on the track, and my friend soundcloud.com/simonpowermusic, who was also knocking out dance tracks in the early 90’s as Marine Boy, fancied having a go at a remix and went suitably retro on it. Then, sticking with the 90’s theme, I asked soundcloud.com/robhenry from soundcloud.com/childrenofthebong, who toured with me a few times in that era, to have a go and he came up with a lovely deep dub of the track.
    I hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane as much as we have, or at least find the ridiculousness of it all entertaining!
    3 min
  • Banco De Gaia - My Little Country (preview)
    When I was a kid in the 70’s I remember seeing a TV programme about a guy who declared that an old naval platform somewhere off the coast of England was his own country.
    Many years later I was asked to contribute to the Outlaw Oceans project and thought this was a perfect subject for a track. As I don’t really do 70’s retro, apart from the odd prog rock cover, I decided to work the 70’s-style narrator’s voice into a retro 90’s sounding track. Sadly the initiative ran into complications and the release was pulled.
    As I found it an amusing project to work on, I never gave up on the track, and my friend soundcloud.com/simonpowermusic, who was also knocking out dance tracks in the early 90’s as Marine Boy, fancied having a go at a remix and went suitably retro on it. Then, sticking with the 90’s theme, I asked soundcloud.com/robhenry from soundcloud.com/childrenofthebong, who toured with me a few times in that era, to have a go and he came up with a lovely deep dub of the track.
    I hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane as much as we have, or at least find the ridiculousness of it all entertaining!
    3 min
  • BANCO DE GAIA - My Little Country
    When I was a kid in the 70’s I remember seeing a TV programme about a guy who declared that an old naval platform somewhere off the coast of England was his own country.
    Many years later I was asked to contribute to the Outlaw Oceans project and thought this was a perfect subject for a track. As I don’t really do 70’s retro, apart from the odd prog rock cover, I decided to work the 70’s-style narrator’s voice into a retro 90’s sounding track. Sadly the initiative ran into complications and the release was pulled.
    As I found it an amusing project to work on, I never gave up on the track, and re-visited it earlier this year to give it a final tweak.
    I hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane as much as we have, or at least find the ridiculousness of it all entertaining!
    5 min
  • Banco De Gaia - Heliopolis (Framewerk Rewerk)(preview)
    The fifth installment of the Rewritten Histories series focuses on remixes and alternative mixes of Banco tunes recorded between 2017 and 2022.
    It features remixes created for the 20th anniversary editions of "Big Men Cry", "The Magical Sounds of" and "Igizeh", the stunning re-works by soundcloud.com/framewerk and their Capital Heaven crew, plus two brand new remixes by long-time collaborator soundcloud.com/100thmonkeymusic, AKA Andy Guthrie.
    3 min
  • Banco De Gaia - Fake It Till You Make It (100th Monkey's ZNA Remix)(preview)
    The fifth installment of the Rewritten Histories series focuses on remixes and alternative mixes of Banco tunes recorded between 2017 and 2022.
    It features remixes created for the 20th anniversary editions of "Big Men Cry", "The Magical Sounds of" and "Igizeh", the stunning re-works by soundcloud.com/framewerk and their Capital Heaven crew, plus two brand new remixes by long-time collaborator soundcloud.com/100thmonkeymusic, AKA Andy Guthrie.
    3 min
  • Banco De Gaia - Obsidian (Framewerk Reprise)(preview)
    The fifth installment of the Rewritten Histories series focuses on remixes and alternative mixes of Banco tunes recorded between 2017 and 2022.
    It features remixes created for the 20th anniversary editions of "Big Men Cry", "The Magical Sounds of" and "Igizeh", the stunning re-works by soundcloud.com/framewerk and their Capital Heaven crew, plus two brand new remixes by long-time collaborator soundcloud.com/100thmonkeymusic, AKA Andy Guthrie.
    3 min
  • Banco De Gaia - Sixty Sixteen (Andrew Heath Remix)(preview)
    The fifth installment of the Rewritten Histories series focuses on remixes and alternative mixes of Banco tunes recorded between 2017 and 2022.
    It features remixes created for the 20th anniversary editions of "Big Men Cry", "The Magical Sounds of" and "Igizeh", the stunning re-works by soundcloud.com/framewerk and their Capital Heaven crew, plus two brand new remixes by long-time collaborator soundcloud.com/100thmonkeymusic, AKA Andy Guthrie.
    3 min
  • Banco De Gaia - Gates Virtually Does The Windows (Digidub Reconstruction)(preview)
    The fifth installment of the Rewritten Histories series focuses on remixes and alternative mixes of Banco tunes recorded between 2017 and 2022.
    It features remixes created for the 20th anniversary editions of "Big Men Cry", "The Magical Sounds of" and "Igizeh", the stunning re-works by soundcloud.com/framewerk and their Capital Heaven crew, plus two brand new remixes by long-time collaborator soundcloud.com/100thmonkeymusic, AKA Andy Guthrie.
    1 min
  • Wally Brill - A Loop In Time (Banco De Gaia Remix)(preview)
    Altered Realities collates most of Banco de Gaia’s remixes since 1990 into one authoritative collection. The very first remix was a baggy version of Beautiful Happiness’s Something Sonic, while the latest is a cosmic re-version of Youth & Gaudi’s Empress of the Tarot. A sonic Banco thread connects them all.
    Some of the tracks are previously unreleased, while others, which predate the internet, are unavailable digitally, making this a must-have release for both serious Banco fans and for all lovers of alternative electronica.
    The collection came about by serendipity, as Toby Marks aka Banco de Gaia explains:
    “Putting this together was never my intention for 2023, as I’m supposed to be working on new music! However, someone on Twitter pointed out that 2023 marked 30 years since my first remix, and that milestone seemed worth commemorating. Only later did I remember that I made my first remix in 1990, not 1993, and so I had missed the anniversary entirely, but by then the project was well under way.”
    With remixes of work by electronic pioneers Zion Train, L.S.G. (AKA Oliver Lieb) and Mr. C alongside tracks from next generation cosmonauts like Youth & Gaudi, Desert Dwellers and Kaya Project, as well as those of troubadour Mazlyn Jones, Zero 7’s Sophie Barker, 90s pop-rock-techno group HED, percussionists Ensemble Bash, pioneer producer Wally Brill (now a Senior AI Conversation Designer at Google!), Franco-Iraqis AIWA, the wonderfully named Russian duo Sex Of Insects and Dr. Who sound designer Simon Power, Altered Realties is an eclectic musical journey through three decades of creativity, inspiration and evolution.
    3 min

About Banco de Gaia

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Banco De Gaia has been performing and releasing for over 25 years now, along the way becoming one of the music industry’s most maverick innovators. His legacy is as glittering as it is diverse, ranging from Hollywood film sound credits to the critically acclaimed ‘Last Train to Lhasa’, first released in 1995 to a rapturous reception. His live act still packs out venues and festivals all over the world, with audio-visual performances renowned for their explosive, cutting edge quality: from sampling wizardry fused with haunting vocals and poignant acoustics to genre-hopping musical instrumentals, all accompanied by socially engaged visuals.