tonight on MANTIS RADIO: HERD / 20:00GMT

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<h4><strong>MANTIS 088 + HERD</strong>
<a href="http://future-music.co.uk/">BROADCASTING FROM 20:00 GMT ON FUTURE MUSIC</a></h4>
Up this week I've great pleasure in presenting <a title="Herd" href="http://soundcloud.com/herdtangents" target="_blank">Herd</a>. An artist with a supreme ability for the deep sublime soundscape.

<h4>the <strong>SHOWCASE</strong></h4>
Continuing in a similar vein to his <a href="http://darkfloor.co.uk/mix-herd-duck-eye-calm/" target="_blank">Duck Eye Calm</a> mix Herd returns with another 30 minute soundscape containing more of his ongoing Tangents series, which currently sits at close to 50 tracks. This journey began back on <a href="http://themixingbowl.org/torrent/search/?search=herd&amp;results-o1=13.d&amp;results-p=1&amp;results-user=beetles" target="_blank">TheMixingbowl</a> where productions pre Herd were uploaded for the members to offer feedback. This feedback helped develop the Herd sound and releases on netlabels <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/herd_-_tangents_1_-_19" target="_blank">FSOR</a> (USA), <a href="http://www.bumpfoot.net/foot062.html" target="_blank">Bumpfoot</a> (Japan) and <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/ntt058" target="_blank">Entity</a> (Belgium) followed. Radio exposure in the early days included the legendary Mary Anne Hobbs show for Radio One:
<blockquote>'Deeply mysterious – this one’s for all the Murcof fans' - Mary Anne Hobbs</blockquote>
as well as Rob Booth’s Electronic Explorations sixth show. This support waned in the following year leaving Herd time to refine his sound. Fast forward another year and Herd flippantly sends a demo link to The Future Sound of London's Brian Dougans and is pleasantly surprised to receive a very short but positive reply. Nine frustrating months later – not long in FSOL time - and <a href="http://www.yage.co.uk/newtesting/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&amp;cPath=69&amp;products_id=258" target="_blank">Tangents 41 – 47</a> is released on the Future Sound of Londons online label <a href="http://www.futuresoundoflondon.com/" target="_blank">FSOLdigital</a>.
<blockquote>'Nothing more than an amazing (and very welcome) flashback to my favorite world of FSOL' – <a href="http://reviews.headphonecommute.com/2011/07/07/sound-bytes-herd-kattoo-and-haruka-nakamura/" target="_blank">Headphone Commute</a></blockquote>
Prepare for a beautiful journey into the world of Herd.

<h4>previous shows
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