One Small Thing That Changed Everything
I’m guessing many of you reading this might struggle to imagine a world where no one has an email address, where the internet, (as you understand it), doesn’t exist and where only a…
Remix Competition – Winner Profiles
You may have noticed that we just released Natural History: Revision, an augmented version of our last album with a load of guest remixes on it. As you can see from our DJ…
Winter is Bloody Horrible – Have a Freebie
Yeah, here in London it’s dark, it’s cold and it’s rainy. I’m in a bad mood and so is everyone else. So it’s time for a random act of kindness in a vain…
Blu Mar Ten Remix Competition – The Winners
About five weeks ago we set up a remix competition, where anyone could remix our track Believe Me. The reason we did this is that later this year we’ll be releasing an augmented…
Blu Mar Ten vs London Elektricity Mash Up – Free download
A couple of months ago Hospital Records released an acapella album featuring the vocal parts from a whole load of their back catalogue. During a bored evening we knocked out a few mash-ups…
Handbag & Heels
So we’ve had quite a lot of entries for the Natural History Remix Competition but we’re finding that many of them are just the original samples rearranged a bit. As you might know,…
Close (VIP) – SoundCloud Production Focus
SoundCloud asked us if we’d like to pick a track from our last album and talk through it, commenting on some of the components and methods that went into its creation. Who better…
Interview with Organic Beats
We recently did an interview with music site Organic Beats, and talked about why we use the internet so much, the equipment people use and the recent Natural History remixes. Read the full…
Which Natural History Track Would You Remix?
Let’s say, just hypothetically, that we were to make available the parts for one track from our Natural History album for people to remix. Which track would you like to have a go…
Melodyne DNA vs Coldplay
Tonight we bought Melodyne Direct Note Access. You’ve probably never come across this software, but we’ve been impatiently waiting for it ever since it was first talked about more than two years ago….
Blu Mar Ten 15th Birthday Party
Date: August 21st 2010 Time: 14:00 until whenever Where: Parliament Hill, Hampstead Heath, London, NW3 On August 21st we’re having a little get-together to celebrate 15 years of knocking out incredibly niche electronic…
To Tweet or Not to Tweet
Conversations about whether musicians should use social networks tend to be completely polarised, and usually take no account of the fact that there are about as many different motivations for writing music as…
New BMT Twitter Channel for Music
Been playing around trying to get Last FM to talk to Twitter and finally figured out how to tweet out the tracks that we’re listening to, along with a link so you can…
Make Your Music Do This
This song of mine will wind its music around you, like the fond arms of love. The song of mine will touch your forehead like a kiss of blessing. When you are alone…
Aim High
In years to come people will stagger home down lonely streets singing your song to the strains of regurgitated vindaloo, all memory of who was behind the song lost. It is you, though,…
Interview With Example Magazine
Interview with Ex:Ample Magazine, 21st Dec 2009 EXAMPLE: So guys first off, hows 2009 been for blu mar ten? Chris: Busy and focused. One of our best years yet
Evolution of a Track
Someone emailed us a few days ago and asked… i’m interested in this ‘sketch’ idea…how do you put together the sketches in terms of instrumentation? do you have a stock of samples/patches to…
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Indiscreet Music
We recently started a collaboration with an up & coming producer and I was surprised by how early on in the process he wanted to start arranging the track. (In case you don’t…
Voices of Blu Mar Ten: Part 4
Since Natural History came out we’ve had quite a few questions about the the vocals on some of the tracks. So we thought it might be a good idea to introduce you to…
Blu Mar Ten Elsewhere