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19th August 2008: The 6 Week Cycle

Things are pretty busy here at the moment as I work to finish off the latest EP's for the Body Rhythm & Body Rhythm Black labels. Since nearly all of the releases on the labels are written by myself I don't tend to have a big release schedule planned out months in advance.

My general aim is to have a release on each label out every 6 weeks (This gives time for the 4 week promo period on Beatport and a further 2 weeks for the release to hit the rest of the stores before the next release comes along and the cycle starts again) and so far I've managed to keep to that. I usually send out my promos to the tastemaker DJ's about 2 weeks ahead of it going up for sale on Beatport so that I can gather some solid feedback to help promote the release when it comes out. Things can get a bit hectic as the next release date looms and tracks are still waiting to be finished! Often times I'll finish an EP and then it's off to the DJ's within 24hrs to keep to the schedule.

Of course if I didn't think the tracks were ready I'd just delay the schedule a week or two. So far I've been lucky though. Since I started the Body Rhythm label last year I've been quite prolific so coming up with new tracks hasn't been too much of a struggle. There's been times in previous years where I've went weeks without finding inspiration in the studio but I think a lot of that was trying too hard to second guess what record labels would want from me rather than going with my own instincts. Having my own labels now allows me to just do what I want too and that's helped me a lot.

Anyway, the forthcoming EP's are both going to be bumper editions, with my new Body Rhythm EP being a versatile 4 tracker including a minimal deep tech track, an emotive deep houser and a jackin' jazzy number. Meanwhile the new System Check release on Body Rhythm Black will feature 3 tracks aimed at the melodic deep tech sound. Both releases should surface around the early part of September, check back on the site for more details nearer the time.

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PS. I've updated the 'Press' section of the site with a selection of DJ reactions for releases spanning back to 2006.

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12th August 2008: August Beatport Chart

My August chart for Beatport is now up on the site featuring some great tracks from the likes of Shur-I-Kan, The Youngsters, Solee and a couple from myself from the new EP on Body Rhythm. Be sure to check out the 'Charts' section of the site for all my recent charts on some of the major digital sites.

I've also updated the discography part of the site, including tracking down images for a lot of the Mix CD's I've appeared on over the years (you'll have to scroll down to the bottom of the page to see that).

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11th August 2008: Update Part 3

Along with writing tracks for my Body Rhythm labels I've also worked on a few remixes for other artists lately. Da Funk - Sativa (Ross Couch Remix) came out today on Acryl Music so keep an eye out for that on Beatport where It's just started it's 4 week promo period. Lots of good DJ reactions of that one so I'll add those to the 'Press' section of the site when I get round to updating it in the near future (I'm starting to update other sections of the site now so bear with me whilst I dust away a few of the cobwebs!).

Also out recently was Emil Lanne - Beat Street (Ross Couch Remix) on Onethirty. I noticed that Jay-J charted this one on Traxsource last month calling it a "Funky, groovin, dance floor dubby track" so that pretty much sums it up! This one is available now from all good download stores.

Coming out soon is my remix of J.P.Phillipe's 'Providence Of The Cosmos' on the Disclosure Project label. The original track has some great instrumentation, including some great orchestral style strings so it was fun to work on that one. Also in the pipeline is my mix of Andrew Phelan & Origami's "Gimme A Beat" on Prismatic tracks.

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10th August 2008: Update part 2

There's been a few compilation CD licenses in the works recently that I haven't got round to mentioning on the myspace page so here's all the info. Firstly, Illusive ft keely - 'Summer In September' (Illusive is another alias of mine) appears on 'KM5 Ibiza Volumen 8' which is out now. Also available now is the Kirby Remix of Ross Couch - Playin' Jazz on a re-issue of 'Purobeach Volument Tres'. The track is only available on the re-issued version though, not the orginal version that came out in 2007.

The downtempo 'Summer In September' track is proving popular as i'm also in the process of licensing this to a Japanese compilation, more details on that when I get it. Meanwhile two tracks: Ross Couch - 'Bon Voyage' and Illusive - 'Soul child' have been licensed to a Mix CD for a Yacht management company called YCO. A little bit different from the norm, this CD will be available exclusively at Yacht shows in the UK & France. last week I also licensed the Kirby Rmx of 'Playin' Jazz' to German label H&G for a compilation called 'Die Wellenreiter'. This will be available on CD and to buy as a bundle, distributed through intergroove Germany.

Finally a couple of other licenses to mention are my track 'The Sunday Matinee' appearing on veteran Dutch DJ b-ART's digital only compilation 'DJD bArt Vol.1' which is available exclusively at www.djdomain.com and also 'Rhythm Is our Business (Original Mix) which is out on another digital only comp called 'Baldeelox - The Tour 2008 pt.1'. Both of these are available now.

Keep an eye out for the next update when I'll be giving details on my recent remix work.

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9th August 2008: Update Part 1

Back online at last! After over a year of being unable to update the site (due to losing the password when I changed computers) I've finally found time to move the site to another server and get it back up and running. A lot of the site content is well out of date now so I'll need to do a bit of tidying up over the next week or so to get it back up to speed.

For those of you who didn't know, since the website has been in limbo i've got myself a myspace page: www.myspace.com/rosscouch which i've been updating with news and track previews so it's a good way to keep in the loop.

If you haven't been aware of what i've been up to, here's a quick update on a couple of the main things. In my last entry on this site back in the early part of '07 I was mentioning that I was planning to start my own digital label. Well, shortly afterwards I did just that. I now run a label called Body Rhythm Records (www.myspace.com/bodyrhythmrecords) which is where I have been releasing my music for the past year or so. It's been going well and has definitely been keeping me busy, with 11 EP's released to date!

 

The label has just had it's biggest success to date with it's 10th release - the 'Body Rhythm Remixed Vol.1' EP which saw several remixers doing their interpretation on tracks from the back catalogue. The Kirby remix of 'Playin' Jazz' has been a huge success on th world's leading dance music download site Beatport, reaching No.1 on the Deep House Sales Chart and has stayed on that chart for 6 weeks now in total (still at No.9 as I write this!). My own remix of another successful track on the label 'Rhythm Is Our Business' was also named Stompy.com 'Track Of The Week' and is currently climbing up their competitive Top 100 Sales Chart (currently at No.88). This week I've released a New EP on the label on promo at Beatport which you can get at this link: Ross Couch - 'Flightpath EP'.

With the original label doing well I've also recently launched a sister label Body Rhythm Black (www.myspace.com/bodyrhythmblack) where I'm writing more tracks under an older alias of mine 'System Check'. If your interested you can get your hands on the second release on the label at Beatport at this link: System Check - Epicenter / After The Drought.

 

I've got to go now, but I'll update with more of what's been happening recently tomorrow.

 

 

 

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