307 Knox Records is pleased to annouce the launch of The Great Vinyl Project with the Dan Deacon/Future Islands split.

Be the first on your block to get your Dan Deacon/Future Islands 7" Split!

Official Release Date is August 5, 2008.

Now Available!

Notes from Dan:

the collection of songs on this range from 2002 to 2008. i just want to put together a collection of songs that were light hearted and fun, to contrast the more intense pieces i've been working on for my full length. here are some notes on each track:

Mark Brown: this piece was written on the road while on tour with ultimate reality. its a simple dance piece for synth drums and midi clarinet being modulated through a harsh LFO at various speeds. i hadn't written a pizza party type dance song in a while and it felt nice to squeeze this little guy out. it was originally released on the complication inside the wham city box # 1 (limited to 50 copies)

Crank It: this manipulated beatles song was part of a larger sound collage as a score to a dance piece. it was written some time 2003. in the original context you can barely hear it since its a very dense piece but i've always liked it on its own. these notes suck, i'm sorry. on we go!

Shoe Faces: this too is a part of a larger piece. although, different from crank it, this piece is the score, rather then part of the actual sound content of the piece it is from. 'Shoe Faces' is a movement for the piece 'George Washinghands.' in that piece for 5 vocalist, the performers are listening to recording and trying to replicate the sounds they hear exactly as the hear them. anyway, this little part has always made me smile and i thought this would be the perfect way showcase it.

Elf Wire: this piece is from 2002, i think. i had just got into working with electronic and computer music. i named it for this release after the baltimore email list.

Silver Bells: a classic song of timeless beauty. this arrangement was done in december of 2007 in ireland while on tour. it was originally released as a track on baltimas 3 which is a wham city christmas comp that comes out in small numbers each christmas.

ok, well i hope those notes weren't too boring. i wonder if anyone will read them all the way through. if so, thanks for your patience! i hope you enjoy my side of the 7". i had a lot of fun putting it together.

sincerely, dan deacon. baltimore maryland 7/1/2008

Future Islands:

Follow You (Pangea version):
Produced by Chester Endersby Gwazda during the Pangea sessions at the Bonque house in Greenville, NC -- April 2006.

Additional noise and programming by Chester Endersby Gwazda
Mastered by Dan Deacon

Who is Future Islands?

>> J. Gerrit Welmers -- synthesizers
>> Samuel T. Herring -- voices
>> William Cashion -- basses & guitars
>> Erick Murillo -- drums

FUTURE ISLANDS are a post-wave dance band from North Carolina, now residing in Baltimore. Future Islands play a terse yet passionate music wrought from a stripped back palette. Gerrit Welmers' cartwheeling synthesizer melodies tumble across the austere wilderness of William Cashion's post punk bass pulse, driven ever forward by Erick Murillo's ecstatic feel for rhythm.

Samuel, William and Gerrit had been writing songs together since 2003 in the guise of absurdist party project Art Lord & The Self Portraits, however it was with the arrival of Erick Murillo on drums that the band rid themselves of the mythology and masks, taking on a new motive and the name Future Islands. With the change their sound became exponentially faster and surprisingly more powerful. They quickly wrote and recorded an EP entitled 'Little Advances' in time for their first tour late 2006 and haven't looked back since.

"Follow You (Pangea version)" was recorded during the Pangea recording sessions in April 2006, a month after they recorded "Little Advances." These sessions were recorded by Chester Endersby Gwazda as part of his junior-year final project. In January 2007, Allen Cordell shot and directed a music video for the song. This is the long overdue proper release of this classic Future Islands single.

photographs by Samuel T. Herring & layout by William Cashion