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Ben Phillips chooses Cyclone

ben.jpgRecord producer Ben Phillips chose Cyclone for mastering 5-piece rock act November Coming Fire debut album ‘Dungeness’ … 

NOVEMBER COMING FIRE PROJECT City Of Dis Studios – Kent – England.

Record producer Ben Phillips chose Cyclone for 5-piece rock act November Coming Fire and their debut album ‘Dungeness’ out in February 2006 on Reflections Records.

After the success of their MCD/7” ‘Black Ballads’ on Speedowax Records November Coming Fire were picked up earlier this year by the well respected label Reflection Records based in The Netherlands.

For the last 6 months of 2005 the band were in and out of the studio recording and mixing twelve tracks. In an attempt to break away from the tried and tested ‘hardcore’ sound we’ve taken an experimental approach to the recording of this album using a lot of ambient sounds, vintage guitar amps and distant stereo microphone configurations. As a result the record could perhaps be best described as sounding like post rock band ‘Hotsnakes’ playing huge and sometimes epic hardcore songs.

All tracks mastered at Cyclone – Dec 2005

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We have used Cyclone many times over the last couple of years and have always been extremely pleased with their level of service and quality of product.

Most of our work involves tight deadlines for delivery and of course any problems would have a direct reflection on us from our clients. Cyclone are flexible and accommodating to the varying nature of our work and we look forward to many years of fruitful business.

Adrian Rogers - Director Crow Design

I first worked with Cyclone for the mastering/duplication of Mercury Rain's debut album - 'Dark Waters'(2000). We returned to Cyclone for our second album 'St. Mathieu' (2004) which included a DVD bonus disc, and full 16 page boklet and have a full release in the UK and France. I was tempted away once on price alone for a short run of DVD-Rs to distribute a promotional video, but the finished product was vastly inferior and did not put the band in a very positive light. When we do our next album, it will be straight back to Cyclone! You invest a lot of time, effort and money when going the DIY route of producing your own music, and it is so important that the final stages of the product are handled professionally - the mastering, the duplication, the printing, everything has always been right first time with Cyclone.

This is why, when I started to promote the ProgPower festival in the UK, and we wanted a company to manufacture the free CD/DVD sampler we hand out on the door of the festival, I didn't bother approaching anyone else. I went straight to Cyclone and asked them to be involved as a sponser and produce the samper for us. This sampler has to be completed by the deadline well before the festival, and be right first time as well. Bands and labels pay to be on the sampler, and it is a key source of revenue and promotion for us as well. Also, being a compilation, the mastering is key to having a professional product, and Cyclone handled this perfectly for us.

Cyclone have always given us good advice and an honest opinion, which has both given us confidence in them, and helped us to make a better end product.

Jon Hoare Mercury Rain & promoter of ProgPower UK