Lee Ashcroft – ‘After The Screaming Stops’
Cease Silence, 2024, not on label
Digital release
Dark ambient piece, recorded at the behest of folk trio Dead Rat Orchestra, for a compilation to benefit Medecins Sans Frontieres and Palestinian Red Crescent in their work on the ground in Gaza. May be reworked in the future.
Faustian Pact – ‘This Is Our Place’
2323: What The Fuuk Is Going On?, 2023, Butterfly Effect
Edition of 69 lathe-cut records with hand-made artwork
Old-school rave-inspired track recorded with samples created by Pope Guy XXIII and associates during a residency with German kosmiche rock group fAUST. Vinyl only available at The Peoples Day Of Death 2023 in the Wirral; audio might appear online later.
Lee Ashcroft with C. Nye – ‘Untitled’
How The End Always Is – A Cure Tribute, 2020, Hypostatic Union
Limited edition double cassette tape
Electronic cover of the final track from the album ‘Disintegration’ by The Cure, closing an unofficial compilation of covers to benefit Cats Protection.
Cock E.S.P. featuring Za Ginipiggu – ‘Night Of The Coke Noses’
Historia de la Musica Cock, 2011, Little Mafia Records / E.F. Tapes
Edition of 1000 CDs and 100 cassette tapes
Emil Hagstrom and co. remix a synth line that later became ‘Bedford Downs’ on the album ‘Cathode Rave’ by The Nearly, as part of their tribute to the history of experimental music. Originally named ‘The Sound Of Jonestown’, renamed by Cock E.S.P. as ‘Night Of The Coke Noses’, and appears in the digital release during track 8 – ‘A Crazy Kind of Different’ – at 0:55-1:21.
Lee Ashcroft and The Fist Band – ‘One Fist To Rule Them All’
Double The Fist series 2 episode 8, 2008, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Channeling Howard Shore’s score for Lord Of The Rings, music written alongside Fist Band leader Pete Condello for the climactic scene of the final episode of the ABC action-comedy series ‘Double The Fist’, directed by Bryan Moses and written with Craig Anderson, Doug Bayne and Tony Walters. DVDs are hard to come by now, but the whole series can be found on YouTube.