Our new album ‘Love is the Devil’ is now available for preorder from our store.

As a thank-you for buying directly from our store all vinyl orders will include a CD copy of the album, all 18 tracks as 320k mp3s and prints & stickers of the album artwork.

This offer is only available when you get the album from blumarten.com/shop and is only available for the limited number of vinyl copies we have in stock.

Click here to preorder yours now. Orders will ship on 28th October.

Full release is 31st October.

Album preview:
Blu Mar Ten – Love is the Devil (album preview) by Blu Mar Ten

All you need to do is leave any old comment on our Facebook page here and I’ll randomly pick a winner on Sunday (25th Sept 2011)

Click here to leave your comment.

You can also pre-order the single over at www.blumarten.com/shop

To celebrate the eternally crap British summertime, and also the imminent release of our next single with InsideInfo, ‘Five Summers’ / ‘Still the One’ (out July 4th), we’ve got a testpress of the vinyl, a one-off ‘Five Summers’ Tshirt and prints of the vinyl artwork by ithinkitsnice to give away.

All you need to do is click here and leave whatever comment you like.

On Friday July 1st we’ll randomly pick a winner and send you the package.

If you’d rather get the full artwork 12″ you can pick it up from www.blumarten.com/shop. All vinyl orders will get the mp3s free of charge and the first 20 vinyl orders will also get prints of the artwork.

So go on, click here to leave your comment.

On November 29th we’ll be releasing a digital-only, augmented version of our 2009 LP ‘Natural History’, adding a brand new set of remixes including fresh talent from the winners of our recent remix competition.

The album is titled Natural History: Revision and will feature reworkings from Seba, Klute, Stray, Bop, Badmammal, Kastle, newcomers Nomad, Hot Mess, 5-Foot Nothing & Anarchy Rise, as well as three previously unheard remixes from us.

Blu Mar Ten Remix Competition Winners by Blu Mar Ten

Natural History: Revision will have 27 tracks on it and will be available at a recession-conscious price of £4.99*.
The iTunes version features a booklet of hand-painted artwork from ithinkitsnice.

The full tracklist is:

1] Starting Over [2009 remix]
2] Above Words
3] God’s Lonely Man
4] By the Time My Light Reaches You I’ll Be Gone
5] Grey Area
6] Believe Me
7] Close [VIP]
8] Clipjoint
9] If I Could Tell You
10] Nobody Here
11] Last Dance
12] Overwhelm
13] Bedroom Eyes
14] Made of Air
15] Eight Rounds Rapid
16] Overwhelm [Seba remix]
17] Believe Me [Bop remix]
18] Above Words [Badmammal remix]
19] If I Could Tell You [Stray remix]
20] By the Time My Light Reaches You I’ll Be Gone [Klute remix]
21] Nobody Here [Kastle remix]
22] Above Words [Blu Mar Ten Tech remix]
23] Above Words [Blu Mar Ten Bounce remix]
24] Believe Me [Nomad remix]
25] Believe Me [5-Foot Nothing & Anarchy Rise remix]
26] Believe Me [Hot Mess remix]
27] Believe Me [Blu Mar Ten Handbag & Heels remix]

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* Price may vary from store to store

Part 2 of the Natural History Remixes is in all good stores right now on vinyl and mp3, featuring reworkings from Klute, Stray and Kastle.

Vinyl is very very limited and Part 1 sold out in around ten days, so if you want a copy grab one quick.

The artwork features hand-painted imagery from ithinkitsnice.

Natural History Remixes: Part 2 by Blu Mar Ten

The tracklist for part 2 is:

By the Time My Light Reaches You I’ll Be Gone (Klute remix) – Vinyl & digital
If I Could Tell You (Stray remix) – Vinyl & digital
Nobody Here (Kastle remix) – digital only

Klute’s turned in a bongo-frenzy version of ‘By The Time My Light Reaches You I’ll Be Gone’ while Stray has transformed ‘If I Could Tell You’ into one of the best grooves we’ve heard in ages. Meanwhile, dubstep wonder kid Kastle has done what he does best and dragged ‘Nobody Here’ into some lo-slung gangster boogie territory.

Buy it on vinyl in all good stores including:
Redeye
Juno
Chemical

Buy mp3s in all good stores including:
Beatport
iTunes
Digital Tunes
Drum & Bass Arena
Juno

We’re giving away a copy of both parts 1 & 2 together with the original dubplate of ‘Believe Me’ & ‘Made of Air’ and a bunch of other stuff in our Facebook Photo Competition, so if you want to be in with a chance of getting freebies you can enter your photo now, or vote for your favourite. The competition closes this Thursday, August 26th 2010.

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The artwork for both Parts 1 and 2 is, as usual, provided by our resident designer ithinkitsnice, and for this part of the project he’s produced two beautifully hand-painted covers.

Release date for Part 1 is 26th July and it will be available on vinyl and mp3. As usual, vinyl will be extremely limited, but that’s still not going to stop some of you emailing me 6 months from now moaning that you can’t pick up a copy, is it. Plus ça change.

You can see ithinkitsnice‘s videos for the Part 1 remixes here

Click below to see more artwork shots

Part 1 of the Natural History Remixes set will be hitting all good vinyl & digital shops around July 26th.

The tracklist for part 1 is:

Overwhelm (Seba remix) - Vinyl & digital
Believe Me (Bop remix) - Vinyl & digital
Above Words (Badmammal remix) - digital only

The artwork features hand-painted imagery from ithinkitsnice and vinyl will only be available in very limited numbers, as usual.

Info on Part 2 of the Natural History Remixes, (featuring reworkings from Klute, Stray & Kastle), will be coming soon.

If you’d like to be notified when these releases hit the shops, stick your email address in the ‘Subscribe to this Blog’ box up there on the right, or join us on Facebook at facebook.com/blumarten

All videos below created by ithinkitsnice

OVERWHELM (SEBA REMIX) - Vinyl & digital

BELIEVE ME (BOP REMIX) - Vinyl & digital

ABOVE WORDS (BADMAMMAL REMIX) - Digital only

OVERWHELM (SEBA REMIX) - Vinyl & digital
Seba assaults the calm of the original ‘Overwhelm’ with a battery of old skool breaks and signature cosmic sweeps that recall the highlights of the Good Looking Records era. Lifting the tune away from the bedroom and up towards the dancefloor Seba’s remix has immediately become a favourite of some of the biggest names in d&b, effortlessly demonstrating why he’s remained at the top of the game for more than 15 years.
Seba’s remix of ‘Overwhelm’ is featured on DJ Friction’s new mix CD for Ministry of Sound

BELIEVE ME (BOP REMIX) - Vinyl & digital
Bop takes the opposite route with his interpretation of ‘Believe Me’, opening up a bottomless well of reverb and throwing the components of the original into it, piece by piece. The result is a beautiful inversion of the original, showcasing the near-beatless melancholy the young Russian has become famous for.

ABOVE WORDS (BADMAMMAL REMIX) - Digital only
‘Above Words’ is completely transformed by San Francisco’s master of quirky folktronica, Badmammal, who rewrites the tune’s Autonomic-via-Detroit stylings into a gorgeous montage of dusty acoustic Americana. A hypnotising, waltz-time guitar rendition of the original loop builds up into crashing waves of chiming bells and choral vocals, taking the listener on a breathtaking and emotional journey.

There’s only 50 available and they come in small, medium & large.

You can pick them up in our shop right now.

We’ve only had 200 made so it’s going to be first-come-first-served. We kept it really simple, with one black and one white design, but we ploughed a lot of money into in the quality of the shirts and worked with a proper manufacturer, rather than choosing one of the cheapo online make-it-as-you-go sites.

The shirts feature specially made images from our designer ithinkitsnice.

We ship worldwide and only accept payment via PayPal.

For more info on shipping costs and delivery etc… read the shop FAQ

Get your Tshirt now

If you have any issues with your order or with purchasing, please read the FAQ or email shop@blumarten.com.

We’ll be selling the shirts from this site only and you’ll need a paypal account to get hold of one. Watch this space for more news coming shortly…

Remember that we’re only selling a limited number of physical copies of the album.

The album vinyl double-pack features his hand-drawn artwork on thick matte card, with full illustration innersleeves and an A1 poster. This will be limited to 500 copies globally.

The CD version of the album features a matte CD cover, six-page booklet of extended illustrations and a limited edition artwork postcard.

Release date: Monday 2nd November 2009

The album vinyl double-pack features his hand-drawn artwork on thick matte card, with full illustration innersleeves and an A1 poster.
This will be limited to 500 copies globally, so don’t blame us if you miss it.

The CD version of the album features a matte CD cover, six-page booklet of extended illustrations and a limited edition artwork postcard.

All art and videowork by www.ithinkitsnice.com

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The album vinyl double-pack features his hand-drawn artwork on thick matte card, with full illustration innersleeves and an A1 poster. This will be limited to 500 copies globally, so don’t expect it to be easy to get hold of, and expect to pay a lot for it on ebay if you miss it on launch day.

The CD version of the album features a matte CD cover, six-page booklet of extended illustrations and a limited edition artwork postcard.

This one is definitely for the collectors, so don’t miss out.
Release date is expected to be November 2nd 2009.

Visit his site for more graphical niceness, including his artwork for the new Bop album on Hospital subsidiary Medschool. Also watch out for his work on our forthcoming album.

“in and of itself I am quite religious,” said Happiness Formula, grabbed hold of a pine branch with two fingers, pulled the branch off, stuck it between his lips and looked down at Life Story with a smug look.

Life Story lay on her side in front of him in the soft grass and when Happiness Formula leaned his back against the trunk of the pine tree and stretched a little she saw a bright lilac strip of sky above the sea beyond, a bluish pier and the burning-red noddles of a couple of sea-buoys.

“I’m quite religious,” he repeated, “but that doesn’t mean that my behaviour is always seemly. I must admit that I’m actually a great ninny.”

Life Story gave a start. “I’d like to know why you invited me here today.”

Happiness Formula laughed. He looked at Life Story and said slowly, “I suppose to have a bit of fun with you.” He grabbed hold of Life Story’s slender ankle, lifted the sole of her foot to his mouth and tickled it with the pine branch.

Life Story pulled her foot away. “Aren’t you straightforward. But so be it. Doesn’t particularly interest me.” Life Story turned her back to him and continued to admire the lilac strip of sky, the pier and the fire-red sea buoys. Something rustled at the top of the tree. A strange chattering and grinding could be heard.

Happiness Formula fell silent and looked covetously at Life Story’s graceful back.

“You entice everyone. Everyone.” said Life Story. “Life stories bend according to you, turn and twist. You spoil them a little and then leave them behind. And we end our stories – disappointed, confused, unhappy and without a single formula. Without a single blasted formula!”

She felt Happiness Formula’s hot breath on the nape of her neck. It intoxicated her. Happiness Formula put his hand on Life Story’s neck. “A gnat’s bitten you.” He poked Life Story’s cheek with the pine branch. “And it’s still biting you…” he whispered.

Life Story turned around and looked angrily into Happiness Formula’s wantonly flashing eyes. “I’m not a woman. And you’re not a man. And even if we were, you know very well how dangerous it is to expect happiness from someone else. You can’t even expect happiness from yourself. A life story has to concentrate on something else, certainly not on happiness and certainly not on a formula. Then maybe… But don’t come enticing me with scented envelopes, thermal socks, favourite ice cream and your There’s-A-Remedy-For-Every-Pain philosophy.

“There’s a lot more to me than favourite ice cream and thermal socks,” Happiness formula said.

“Right. But I’m happier without you.”

And Life Story went away. And down from the pine tree onto her shoulder jumped her Brain’s Monkey. And from somewhere up high her Love’s Red Pheasant landed on her other shoulder. And she went to look after the garden where her Monkey and Pheasant liked to be. And one evening, when her Monkey was already sleeping, Happiness Formula came like a spring rain. They met unexpectedly on the bluish pier and, by the lustre of the Red Pheasant’s feathers and the red sea-buoys, Life Story peeled the formula from Happiness and Happiness carefully released Life from her Story. They remained as Happiness and Life, who became part of one another on that darkening pier. Not a single word, or gnat, or pine branch.

Kristiina Ehin

Hot on the heels of his work for Bop’s ‘Song About My Dog’ single and creation of the Bop microsite, the ‘Clear Your Mind’ album features the trademark ithinkitsnice hand finished quality which is perfectly in tune with Bop’s delicate music.

Take a look at the ithinkitsnice site to see more of his work, and visit the Bop site to find out more about the album which is due for release on July 27th.