Our first full-length album Earplay was released on CD and download on Big Chill Recordings in August 2008, following on from the EPs Sunshine or Rain, Arctic and Heart Shaped Balloons - click on cover images for more information.
Our latest EP A Promise of Snow is available on CD and download from 1st February 2010.

Click here for a full Animat discography

Reviews of Earplay :
'An enchanting listen and a beautifully fresh sounding album' - Pathaan (BBC Asian Network)
'A slice of downtempo, digital soul. Vocals from Sanchita Farruque and Lisa Palmer sparkle across moody, ethereal backgrounds and beats' - The Big Issue

Soundtracking

Animat have developed a unique approach to live performance which involves creating new soundtracks to some of our favourite films, using a mixture of original material and tracks from our eclectic DJ archive.


Sundaze Synerma (2002-2005)
As members of the Sundaze collective we worked together with vocalist Anne Garner and DJ Unity Dub to create live soundtracks to Luc Besson’s Subway and Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which we performed at festivals throughout the UK and Europe.


Belleville Rendezvous (2006-2007)
Aka Les Triplettes de Belleville, Sylvian Chomet’s extraordinary animation was nominated for two academy awards and won the BBC 4 World Cinema Award in 2004 as well as many other prizes and accolades. In collaboration with Ed Carter – Winter North Atlantic – we produced a live soundtrack which we performed at the Big Chill, Leeds Film Festival and Elefest (London), followed by a sellout tour of UK cinemas in spring 2007.


The Straight Story (2007-2008)
The ultimate chilled road movie, the Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated The Straight Story tells the tale of one man and his lawnmower and their epic journey across America’s mid-west.

With the express approval of dircetor David Lynch, Animat’s new soundtrack to the film is performed live using a mixture of our own original brand of dubby downtempo and an eclectic selection of tracks from our DJ archive.

Following the success of the Belleville Rendezvous tour, we worked with the Picturehouses chain to promote a series of screenings with music in cinemas across the UK in May and June 2008.

Press for the Straight Story
Sheffield Telegraph article
Metro article

Tuvalu (2008-2009)

Set in a dilapidated swimming baths and fuelled by dreams of escape to a tropical paradise, German director Veit Helmer’s award-winning dark comedy Tuvalu (1999) is an inspired, quirky and stylish tale which sits somewhere in the tradition of Marc Caro’s ‘Delicatessen’ and Kusturica’s ‘Black Cat, White Cat’.

Despite winning numerous awards in Europe and the USA, the film has not been previously released in the UK and following a successful test run at the Big Chill and Moor Music festivals in 2008, we played a series of cinema and other screenings across the country in 2009, including perormances at Beatherder, Greenbelt and Festinho festivals .

We are currently developing a new film project for 2010 - watch this space for further information...