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A founding member of Wavestar, whose first appearance at the UK Electronica festival in 1985 was a sensation, John has now formed his own label Soddett Hall and is forging ahead as a solo artist...still hard ‘at play’ creating not only the music he loves to listen to but also the music that he loves to perform.
News archive
10 August 2011 - MusicZeit and general update
The MusicZeit download facility has suffered a recent server problem and there is a requirement to re-upload some of the albums to the site. John says that "This will be done as soon as they give us the ‘word’ that all is now fixed regarding their server system. Apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused but it was out of our hands, of course."
John is continuing to work on some more music ideas in between caring for Jack and informs us, that he hasn’t disappeared!
John adds: "Thank you all once again for the good wishes with regard to Jack; he is about the same at this time. We see his specialist tomorrow (11 August), but quite what they can do, or will suggest, we have to wait and see."
05 May 2011 - Update
“Many
of you have kindly asked 'when there will be some new music from
John?'.
Unfortunately at this time (and especially during the past three months) his partner Jack, who played piano on ‘Darklight’, has been very seriously ill and is not making the progress everyone expected.
John’s music ‘projects’ are therefore on-hold for the time being, as he is caring for Jack constantly.
Please keep checking here for further news. John sends his own, and Jack’s grateful thanks for all the kind wishes being sent to them both. Jack is especially impressed by all the concern being shown to him from all over the world.
12 April 2011 - Digital downloads
ALL the albums are now available to download from MusicZeit. Music samples from the albums are also available on the respective MusicZeit pages:
19 February 2011 - Videos updated
Time Node from Wavestar UKE 85 has been added to the JD Videos page.
04 February 2011 - New Scientist features Wavestar
Please do hop over to New Scientist's YouTube channel to hear the beginning section of Wavestar's track 'Whales' from Moonwind featured on the Zoom into the Orion Nebula video.
19 January 2011 - Store prices slashed
Thought that everything was going up in price in 2011? Then think again...John Dyson's Music Store has just experienced a PRICE CRASH!!!
Not only that - but John is sticking to his original Store offer: there is a 5% discount for 2 to 4 CDs purchased in one order and a 10% discount for 5+ CDs purchased in one order!
Has he gone completely crazy? Erm, don't answer that!
Where physical CDs are no longer available, links are provided to websites that offer music downloads.
- Payment is by PayPal
- CDs signed by John are available
- Physical albums (signed or unsigned) are genuine original CDs, not CD-Rs
- All CD prices include free shipping worldwide
10 January 2011 - Moonwind album info
There seems to have been a slight confusion re the ‘Moonwind’ (Wavestar) album; John would just like to point out that the ‘Moonwind-Definitve Edition’ is for download only from MusicZeit and that this is composed of the original CD tracks (with the slightly longer version of ‘Chase the Evening’), plus the two ‘bonus’ tracks making a total of 9 tracks.
The ‘original’ (7-track) physical CD is the one advertised on the site Store page and is still available.
13 December 2010 - Moonwind Definitive Edition
A message from John:
The ‘Definitive Edition' of Wavestar's classic 'Moonwind' album is now available for download from the MusicZeit website in both FLAC and MP3 formats.
The album has two re-discovered tracks and new artwork by Graham G, also the 'full' version of the song 'Chase the Evening' at some 19+ minutes!
Moonwind - Definitive Edition tracklist
Disc One
- 1. Voyager (12 mins 13 secs)
- 2. Edge Of The Morning (9 mins 18 secs)
- 3. Cabala (8 mins 35 secs)
- 4. Troll Valley (7 mins 32 secs)
- 5. Moonwind (8 mins 19 secs)
- 6. Chase The Evening (19 mins 53 secs)
Disc Two
- 7. For The Whales (13 mins 36 secs)
- 8. Jabula - Bonus Track (9 mins 25 secs)
- 9. Lunar Shadows - Bonus Track (5 mins 02 secs)
The entire back-catalogue of Wavestar and John Dyson albums are now all available for download too from MusicZeit.
Please accept our very best wishes to you all for the coming season and for 2011. Thank you for your support, always appreciated, John D and all at Soddett Hall Music. xxx
19 November 2010 - YouTube channel update
John's YouTube channel receives mega video update!! Featuring lots of footage from 2009's E-Day event.
John says: "The videos were shot by Debs, Rae and Charlie (the ‘KIK’ girls!) on only a ‘home movie’ camera which was in the centre of the audience, but, since quite a few folk have asked and have been asking (!) if there is ‘any’ video of our performance...here we are!
The ‘digital’ recording of the sound didn’t happen as the hard-drive on which it was being recorded by Groove went down and the files were not recoverable, so the sound is only from the camera itself…oh well…such is life.especially if you’re me!!
Hope you find something to enjoy, as we did whilst there - thanks to all at Groove Unlimited NL.
Love JD and Crew xx"
You can see all the new uploads here on the site video page or if you wish to leave a comment for John and have a YouTube account, watch them instead on the John Dyson Music video channel.
10 August 2010 - Darklight download
Now available for download via the Musiczeit site is John's Darklight
album, learn more about the album
and listen to sound samples or go
purchase the download.
24 July 2010 - AD Music
Sorry to inform you guys that AD Music unfortunately had to cancel the proposed concert we were to appear in next year in Derby (UK). Please see the links to AD Music site for details and also to the EM Portal site where you will find comments (as always) from fans etc.
Thank you as always for your support….always appreciated here. We’ll maybe catch you at another festival in the not too distant future, we hope! JD xx
12 May 2010
John Dyson and Friends will be appearing at the AD Music Festival (AD2011) in Derby on Saturday 28 May 2011 at the invitation of David Wright of AD Music.
The full line-up and time due on stage:
- 14:00 Air Sculpture
- 15:15 John Dyson and Friends
- 19:30 Callisto
- 20:15 Code Indigo
This event is now unfortunately cancelled.
30 March 2010
Check out John's YouTube Channel for two new uploads. Darklight, split into two parts (to comply with YouTube's duration upload limit) with stunning graphics by Flixx Walker as used at the E-Day event last year in the Netherlands. You can also see the clips on John's videos page.
28 February 2010
You can now see a couple of shots of John's current studio set-up on the revamped Scrapbook page.
16 February 2010
Sound samples from Wavestar Live at UKE 1985 have now been uploaded, complete with link for download purchase.
09 February 2010
A
large selection of CDs by John and also Wavestar are now available to
purchase online through the website. Payment can be made via PayPal, there
is a discount
facility for multiple CDs in one order and CDs signed by John are available too!
Where physical CDs are no longer available, links are provided to websites that offer music downloads.
Show me the store, I want to go shopping!
29 November 2009
Yes, folks...he's an online entity at last! Welcome to John Dyson's official website. Thanks to everyone who has asked to be notified of launch day, emails should be on their way shortly. There are plenty more things on the site that are still to come, not least the store and listening 'pod' but it feels good just to be able to say "All Some Systems Go!"
Eventually, you will not only be able to hear samples of John’s music and also purchase CDs but see John's career scrapbook unfold online.
The website is an ongoing project, so please be sure to check back from time-to-time as more content is added and of course, you can always sign-up by email for notification of when John’s Latest News page is updated.
31 October 2009
John has been asked to provide a ‘Christmas’ track (or two) for the Stefan Schulze podcast project and also there may be a special track for Koos at the EM Portal site jukebox, as a personal thank you. It will be either an experimental JD track from the past, or a ‘live’ performance from himself or Wavestar….but, as the Star Trek computer used to say, he is…"working"!!!
JD has also been trying to ‘clean up’ his computer system, as they’re getting pretty ancient now so to speak (like me…JD!!) and replacements need to be investigated!!! Buy an album!”
JD is doing an interview via phone on the 31st October on the Hawke Chill Out Sessions show.
28 September 2009
Check out this YouTube clip ESOcast 10: GigaGalaxy Zoom: The Sky, from the Eye to the Telescope featuring John Dyson's Darklight.
14 May 2009 - Live radio interview
John will be doing a live interview with Terry Hawke on the Hawke Chill Out Sessions program on Saturday the 16th about 2200 hrs UK time.
Links to listen in:
04 May 2009 - Leaving the Pod-cast!
The Hubble Space telescope mob (ESO)…received their promo copies of the album and want to use it on their podcasts as they are ‘quote “very excited” by it and the way it turned out!!
26 April 2009 - Pictures from Music Circus
Some fab pix from 11 April that Stephan took at E-Day in Oirschot, the Netherlands. John says "we all had a ball…."
John was back on stage during 2009
John Dyson at E-Day in Oirschot, the Netherlands
Darklight is the latest album by John Dyson