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Slide Pheromone have adopted an innovative method of recording their music. Rather than paying to use a small analogue recording studio, they opted to record the music themselves using digital audio software. Each part of a song is recorded separately onto hard disk recording systems, and the resulting files are shared between the band members via the Internet. Each member can download the audio and add to it, and then upload the new files again. At the end of the recording process, the disparate elements are brought together and mixed using professional audio software. This collaborative method of recording allows the band complete creative control over the process. In addition, the process is not time-dependent, unlike working in a recording studio which charges by the hour – an advantage for a band whose recorded work can take anything from a week to several months to complete! |
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Appearances are everything. Slide Pheromone are regularly gigging in the London area and occasionally beyond. They’re slowly working their way round all those venues that all bands have to play. (Presently, this is going rather slowly because they keep getting asked back to places they’ve already played.) Aside from getting out in front of a crowd, the band's principle means of contact with the outside world is the Magnasoma-designed www.slidepheromone.com - they use this site to advertise gigs, post news and photos, sign up people to the already huge email list and run our own little community in the forum. The main purpose of the website is to get the music out there. At any given time visitors will find a regularly updated selection of both new and old tracks in MP3 format, all free to download. This approach is generating more than 500 downloads every month and requires a lot less effort and cash than getting a CD out. Although they’ll probably do that too. One day. |
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Slide Pheromone, in its current incarnation, started life in 2001 when the stable line up of Sarah Rogers [vocals], Neil Sharkey [guitar], Martin Spain [drums], Des Griffiths [synths] and Tristan Quaife [bass] started writing and rehearsing new material to gig with. By September that the band started to perform around London. Since then, Slide Pheromone has been constantly impressing audiences and promoters alike with their unique and highly stylised brand of music. That's the key: no one can ever quite put a finger on what they've just heard after a Slide Pheromone gig. Whilst many bands aspire to belong to a given genre Slide just write tunes as they come. The band has gigged extensively in London and beyond, including gigs in support of the ambitious Armadillo Records project. Armadillo Records included the Slide track "Close Your Eyes" on their first compilation CD ("Claws Out") after having been so impressed with the song that they decided to use it despite having already found the intended number of tracks for that CD. |
| "I don't say this very often, but perfect." - about the website. Blue Comet Music |
| "Okay. This is doing our heads in. We've been trying to figure out exactly who Slide Pheromone sound like and, well, we've got no idea! Not that we're complaining as Slide Pheromone produce songs which grow and grow on you. Great songs. We like. A lot." Bulaka |
| "Overall, the album [is] a display of good and interesting female vocals against the backdrop of fantastic music. I felt the album struck comparisons to The Brand New Heavies, Goldfrapp or the sort of soulful inflections you'd find at any funky cocktail bar worth its Long Island Iced Teas..." St. Albans Satellite |
| "Moeker state in their biography that "they have gathered together a wide variety of musical influences (including jazz, funk, indie and rock) and thrown them in the bin in favour of pointless-but-danceable electro pop." I have to disagree. 'Transmission' was far from pointless. Some of the music could be lifted right out of a film soundtrack for its power to set a mood." St. Albans Satellite |
| "If you ask me, I think Tim Jarvis has created a beautiful landscape for this band. This is an unusual band-site in the sense that it feels like it adds to the band, and their music. An excellent idea and flawless execution." StyleBoost |
