Former member of the punk band The Clash, Mick Jones clearly hasn’t relaxed for the past two decades, since leaving that famous band. Since 2002, he and ex-Generation X and Sigue Sigue Spunik guitarist Tony James have been recording and touring as a Carbon Silicon quartet, along with ex-Reef drummer Dominic Greensmith and Leo ‘Eezykill’ Williams, who played with Jones in the band Big Audio. Dynamite during the 1980s.

Carbon Silicon has been posting the fruits of its daily five-hour study sessions on the Internet. Recorded and uploaded from their studio in an industrial park in West London, Carbon Silicon have been releasing their work for free to the public as it’s made. The first two albums were a collection of mostly already released tracks along with new material. Both albums were released in late 2006 and were free to download from the band’s website until spring 2007. The albums, ATOM and The Western Front serve as a statement of what the band thought was best. from your previous studio work. as both albums included songs from his four previous studio collections, Homecoming, The Grand Delusion, Sample This, Peace, and Dope Factory Boogie. Carbon Silicon then decided to alter their internet-only release template, with the release last year of their latest album The Last Post and Carbon Casino, which again included tracks from all of their previous collections but remixed by Bill Price at Metropolis Studios in London. London. Their website features the band’s latest work, including The Crack-up Suite, a self-styled mini studio album featuring six songs available for free download.

Beginning with the upbeat TF Madness and ending with the Falun Gong Love Song through the rage-filled The System, Crack-up Suite is a Mick Jones classic. The site now also includes two new collaborations, written with the help of Gary Kemp, formally of Spandau Ballet. The Inconvenience of Truth and Maybe That’s the Meaning of Life have the voices of Kemp and Jones shaking up the Carbon Silicon sound as they use a more electro tinge to their sound. The band has always wanted to stay fresh, and The Inconvenience of Truth’s funk definitely does that. All downloadable tracks come with their own high resolution cover art. If you missed the band’s free releases of their albums, ATOM and The Western Front, then their Myspace.com page is home to four excellent tracks from these. Finally, the 2008 edition of The News is quickly becoming a hit on YouTube. Featuring a new animated video for ATOM’s No.1 track, The News is excellent material.