Same Actor "Sharp Edges" (2006) BiP_HOp BLEEP30 reviewed here and here , and available from Warpmart and the usual electronica stockists

1 Light Years (feat Cancel House) 2 Nothing Yet 3 Dulcimer Scramble Suit 4 Red Yellow Porpoise - Same Actor version 5 Celeriac Season 6 Sharp Edges 7 Tread Carefully 8 Hammer 9 Extreme Pumpkin 10 Squash (feat Jane Bartholomew)* 11 Morph 12 Take a Bow 13 Deforestation "Sharp Edges" uses stringed instruments, microphones and computers to respond to life on a world where the news always seems to revert to death tolls and messed up weather. The plectrum, mizrab and hammer strike taut wires to initiate mournful waveforms, shaped into thirteen separate situations. Cautious optimism can be found in the sitar dialogues of "Nothing Yet" and "Red Yellow Walrus", and the lush voice of Jane Bartholomew is used to try to convey some of nature's serenity on "Squash", but Same Actor generally enjoys making miserable music. "Deforestation" concludes, previous concerns of rhythm and brevity are hacked aside and only a realtime barbed wilderness remains. Same Actor is a name used by Chris Cook for music made predominantly with guitar, sitar and dulcimer, processed into subtle music. The 2003 CDR "Extreme Pumpkin" attracted a fair amount of interest, with tracks scuplted from sampling acoustic instrumentation, some of these tracks reappear in altered forms on this, the debut Same Actor album proper "Sharp Edges" via the BiP_HOp label. For live performance, Cook likes to carry as many instruments as possible to venues to incorporate into soundscapes using the ubiquitous and ever amenable Max MSP, using no prerecorded or presequenced material.

CDRs

Remote - Remote (2001)
Remote - Stay Still (2001)
Remote - Peaks Troughs and Glitches (2002)
Remote - La Cucaracha (2003)
Hot Roddy - Hazelnut Yog (2003)
Hot Roddy - Sympathetic Strings (2003)
V/A - A Lonely Guide To The Solar System (2003)
Same Actor - Extreme Pumpkin (2003)
Same Actor - Urban Myth Remixes EP (2004)
Hot Roddy - A Lively Appreciation of Doom (2004)
Hot Roddy - That's My Weakness Now (2004)
Same Actor - Figs (2005)
Same Actor - Figs 2 (2005)

slightly more official CDRs and CDs

Hot Roddy - Pessimism (Here's My Card Records UK) card shaped 3" CDR (2005)
Same Actor - Sharp Edges (Bip Hop) CD (2005)
Hot Roddy - After A While He Died (Wrong Music Complaints Dept) 3" CDR
Hot Roddy - Crust Mantle Core (2005 rereleased 2006 by Litmus)
Hot Roddy - One Liners (2006) CD forthcoming in Decemeber Wrong Music
Hot Roddy - Your Terms Or Not At All (200?) CD forthcoming Entropy

compilation appearances
remote: gamelan twelve step on spirit of gravity volume 1
remote: minute on spirit of gravity volume 2
remote: spirit of gravity on spirit of gravity volume 3
remote: war on bongos on totally bored volume 1
hot roddy ramshaw: cook roach and churchill square on totally bored present please copy this tape
hot roddy ramshaw: pub rock on ear cleaners (klove records)
hot roddy ramshaw: permanently fucked on now that's what i call wrong music 2
hot roddy ramshaw: i think i know what happens next on now that's what i call wrong music 3
hot roddy: metronome filth (live at po na nas) and same actor: dulcimer scramble suit (live at st georges church) on spirit of gravity volume 4
same actor: seagulls can be noisey fuckers at 5am now that's what i call wrong music 4
hot roddy: december will be magic again on spirit of gravity volume 5
hot roddy: repetoire and rashamon: ador and sleep mighty (hot roddy cheese cabassa remix) on Dizzy Tiger sun in wintertime tape
hot roddy: elsewhere on This Window Only Opens Halfway CD (passive aggressive)
hot roddy: imbalance and same actor dulcimer scramble suit 4 on totally bored 3 kiss kiss bang bang CD
hot roddy: conditioner on board meeting (heres my card records uk) tiny card shaped CD
hot roddy: skeleton emotion on Whatever CD (Wrong Music)
hot roddy: lively appreciation of doom on litmus 1 double CD
same actor: iceberg vastness and hot roddy: a lively appreication of doom on spirit of gravity promotional CD
hot roddy: accapella on Devolution to the Frontline CD (Ordio Enjinn )
same actor: nothing yet on Folk Off! Sunday Best CD
hot roddy: flush and wash hands on board meeting (heres my card records uk) tiny card shaped CD
same actor: feb 11 2006 on Dizzy Tiger anti tape
hot roddy: mulholland drive on spirit of gravity 7 soundtracks comp CD
same actor move your body on forthcoming nature and noise downloadable comp on netlab
hot roddy: white magnum please
hot roddy:multiband depressor on Unsafe Sonic art CD
hot roddy: fest on spirit of gravity comp
same actor: autumn on ligeti tribute website curated by tophee cheesecake
same actor: i know what happens next (remix) on can buy me love 4 comp on digital vomit
hot roddy: magnum please on vestige: a selection from clean 3 and 4 CD on bit phalanx

remixes on CDs/ downloadable

rashamon: ador and sleep mighty (hot roddy flammable step paranoia mix) on rashamon gravity people remix comp passive aggressive
oom - black heart (hot roddy mix) downloadable from their site
pidgin: Blavlsklava (hot roddy dayglodisco sitar version) on Lundy Pollen Crew Oval Eggsperiments (Internation Dub Plate Mafia Records) 3" CD
bela emerson kissing nettles (same actor remix 5) on totally bored 3 kiss kiss bang bang CD
shitmat: figroller (hot roddy mix) on forthcoming Spirit of Gravity 6 CD
rashamon: plane as ya honey (hot roddy remix) on Rashamon "The Power Of Hatred" (Dizzy Tiger ) 3" CDR
elmaes: 5 same actor security remix, same actor security remix edit, same actor kitchen sink rmx
listen with sarah: animal hop same actor more an more finite dissection mix on Listen With Sarah Animal Hop remixes CDR

free music online

hot roddy : "a lively appreciation of doom" album at Pidgin's Bumhong netlabel
live mp3s on the spirit of gravity blog

and last but not least a remix on a 7"

elmaes: 5 same actor security remix edit