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The Beijing of our Career - debut album The Beijing of our Career - MakeMineMusic records (2006) CDR Album



Portal - Prehistory compilation CDR Portal - Prehistory - MakeMineMusic records (2006) CDR Album
Schengen track - Find The Voice a remix of the Portal track Lost.
A mailorder only, limited edition compilation (sold-out) of Portal 4-track recordings made between 1996-1998 and including this one Schengen remix.


Supercilious - remix project Supercilious - Viva El Protocole, My Friends! - Monopsone (2005) mp3 download
Supercilious asked a number of artists to remix there tracks. The main release was a double 3" cdr, with the remaining tracks (including ours) made available as mp3 downloads.


Flow compilation cd on make mine music records Flow - MakeMineMusic records (2004) 16-track compilation ltd. edition cd
Schengen tracks: City | Just Lately

"This was never going to be anything but an excellent compilation... Fans of labels from Morr Music thru Rocket Girl should pull their fingers out of their asses and buy this at once." Smallfish Records


ep cover 'ep' - MakeMineMusic records (Feb 2003)

The 5 track 'ep' is the second MMM release.
Tracks: Capitol | B'Leaf | Seti | Grace | Seti on Safari.
Capitol & B'Leaf were written and recorded live, together with Portal. Seti and Seti on Safari are remixes of the original Schengen track Seti by Innerise and Weyland respectively, and Grace is a new Schengen track.



Decode magazine cover   Decode Magazine
The May 2002 issue featured a cover CD of music / film / animation / spoken word pieces, to which Schengen contributed the track MacDaFun. The theme of that issue was bored at work - MacDaFun was our response.
Portal remixes Lp Portal Remixes CD on Roisin Records. September 2001
Schengen remix After Tomorrow. Listen to it on the Portal website

The CD also features: Portraits of Diego | Innerise | Yellow6 | Toverdroom | July Skies | Some of the Quiet | V/VM | Epic 45


Kelham cover picture Split 7" on Awkward Silence with LowFish. April 2001
Schengen Kelham / Lowfish The Superuser

The title Kelham is a reference to Kelham Island in Sheffield, the site for - Test One - a day of experimental sounds which featured Autechre and Squarepusher amongst others... We were only watching unfortunately, but it was inspiring...  
An Afternoon of Awkward Silence, held as part of the Rough Trade RoTa club (Sat. June 2nd 2001 - Notting Hill Arts Centre, London), included a DJ set from us and live sets from Epic45, Yellow6 and Person. There are some pictures from the day on the Awkward Silence website (look under events).
Click for a larger picture Substracks - Split 10" on Monopsone records with A.K.A (Abstrackt Keal Agram) November 2000

Schengen: What Could Make Me Feel This Way ? / No Time / Home For The Anxious
A.K.A: Le volume A.K.A / Pas d'accoutumace / DOTT / L'elemet Federateur

The track What Could... was named after a sculpture by Richard Deacon.
Our thanks to Gruf for additional help with production.


Portal Falling e.p. cover Portal Falling7" e.p. November 2000
This 3 track 7" on Roisin Records features remixes of Portal tracks by Portal, Schengen and Wavewalkers

Schengen remix Lost re-titled: Sometimes, I'm Lost
Portal remix their own track Falling
Wavewalkers remix Tundra
Click for a larger picture Nyplex - 12" on Roisin Records
Our first vinyl release. 100 copies came in hand-made, multi-coloured (9 colours in all), individually numbered 'Nyplex' sleeves (the material used to make bouncy castles!).
The Nyplex logo was designed by Helen Crockford. The standard cover (shown here), was designed by Stu at Roisin. Copies are still available - contact us for details
Tracks: I Think I've Found It / Envy / Classica / Piano One




Aluminaut compilation cassette cover Aluminaut: Youth kids may be the ruin of us Compilation cassette (uavtape02) released with Aluminaut fanzine (uavhengig 4).

Our track Sometimes, I'm Lost, is a remix of the Portal song Lost, which appeared on the double A-sided Lost / July single, on Roisin records. This remix was created using only samples taken from the original song.

Also featured on Youth Kids...
Gnac : Cabinet : Electroscope : Portal : Oedipus : Fontaine : Bingo : Elgobric : Joseph : Yellow 6

Our thanks to Abi & James at Aluminaut
mannequin photo by helen crockford Daft Drum | I Think I've Found It
Excerpts from both tracks were used on the BBC video release for series 2 of the This Life television programme.

I Think I've Found It Featured on the CD with issue 53 of Future Music magazine, under our original name Insect Nation.
Future Music No.53 also featured: Fatboy Slim : Marco Zafferano : Bushflange : Saints of Eden : Sentience : Aspire

Cushion Tracks cover Cushion Tracks Ep
Cassette only release. Our first studio demo, recorded at BRP Studios Newbury, Berkshire.
Tracks: Envy : Can't find my way back home : I Think I've Found It... : Summation
Listen to: Envy | I Think I've Found It...
the cover for This Music Is Ours This Music Is Ours...
Self-produced compilation cassette of our early analogue / sampler experiments, recorded as Insect Nation.

Tracks:
June Excell : Awesome Tea : Filler : Scourer : Mellow Birds : Sketch#2 : Ballad 1 cone : Out of control : Leaving : Today (Tomorrow, Always) : I will miss...
Elegant Kiosk cover Elegant Kiosk
Ian's solo project, recorded as Schengen before it was adopted as the band name.

Tracks:
Helium : Stencil : CRD (who will listen?) : Scatter