Moonbuilding is a rather lovely 48-page A5 print magazine. Think of us as the house magazine for independent DIY electronic artists and labels. Artists like Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, Kayla Painter, Polypores and Field Lines Cartographer and labels such as Castles In Space, Ghost Box, DiN, Clay Pipe, Woodford Halse and quiet details. Each issue comes with a curated CD packed with the very fine music you can read about on our pages.
Who are you?
Neil Mason has been at the sharp end of music publishing for a long time. He worked as a sub editor on dance music title Muzik before becoming albums editor, then reviews editor, at Melody Maker, features editor on NME.COM and the editor of War Child’s pre-iTunes music download site, warchildmusic.com. He was commissioning editor at Electronic Sound until April 2022.
Colin Morrison set up Castles In Space in 2015 and has released over 150 titles including acclaimed albums by Polypores, Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, Paul Cousins, Field Lines Cartographer, The Twelve Hour Foundation and many more. In November 2021 he held the label’s first two-day Levitation festival in Whitby. It was so good it continues as an annual event.
We had an idea
Moonbuilding is a precious resource, but there is a mountain of releases each week so how about we serve up a regular dose in the shape of Moonbuilding Weekly. It’s more of what we do, but you’ll find it in your inbox rather than through your letterbox.
In each issue they’ll be our Album Of The Week tip with a full-length review plus a round-up of the best of the week’s releases. They’ll be an interview with someone you’ll like, an exclusive Track Of The Week for you to cherish and there’s the pick from our pile of associated ephemera - you know, the latest books and the like.
We can’t do this on our own, all this is reader-supported. We hope you’ll be able to find our modest admission fee. We’ve got plans, plans, plans, but we’d love to see fans of independent DIY electronic music (that’s you) supporting independent DIY music journalism (that’s us). There’s no reason we can’t become a microcosm of self-supporting goodness.
Let’s get on with it shall we.
