The Near Side

Wow. Came across the below video by video artist Ryan Trecartinon on Ubuweb while reading this piece  by Andy Battalgia about James Ferraro’s Far Side Virtual which just got album of the year in The Wire magazine. Flick through it a bit, gets kinda amazing, and the audio is brilliantly done.

The Re’Search (Re’Search Wait’S) -Ryan Trecartin

Crimbo party tonight

 Tonight

In Crimbo fasion, two nights ago, me getting drunk with officer Lahey out of Trailer Park Boys

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1. Oneohtrix Point Never Replica Replica Software / V2
2. Dam Mantle Not_A_Word We GET ME!
3. Radiohead Separator_Anstam_RMX_II TKOL RMX8 TICKER TAPE
4. Radiohead Morning_Mr_Magpie_Nathan_Fake_Harshdub_RMX TKOL RMX8 TICKER TAPE
5. Pariah Left Unsaid IOTDXI R&S
6. Cloaks Detritus_Version Versions Grain 3BY3
7. Cloaks Against_Devilman_Remix Versions Grain 3BY3
8. Cloaks Against_Legion_Of_Two_Remake Versions Grain 3BY3
9. Cloaks 00148_Dead_Fader_Remix Versions Grain 3BY3
10. Cloaks Rust_On_Metal_JK_Flesh_Remix Versions Grain 3BY3
11. Cloaks Sixmenace_One Versions Grain 3BY3
12. Sewnleather- blazingbabylon Free DL
13. Sewnleather- Smoke_Ov_The_Pvnk_ The big pink / various k7
14. LIGHT ASYLUM Shallow_Tears - The Big pink / various k7
15. John Maus Believer We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves UPSET THE RHYTHM

Occupy march as ceilí

Tomorrow - three flatbeds, 10 k  sound.

on a lighter note- occupy march as ceilí  http://vimeo.com/31081866

Transit

Fennez, David Sylvian -Transit

Transit

I have listened repeatedly
I have listened very well
No one interrupts the harmful
When they�re speaking

To wonder why of Europe
Say your goodbyes to Europe
Swallow the lie of Europe
Our shared history dies with Europe

(follow me, won’t you follow me?)

A future�s hinting at itself
Do you fear what I fear?
All those names of ancestry
Too gentle for the stones they bear

Someone somewhere wants to see you
Someone’s traveling towards us all

To wonder why of Europe
To live, love, and cry in Europe
Say your goodbyes to Europe
Our history dies with Europe

(follow me, won�t you follow me?)

The lights are dimming
The lounge is dark
The best cigarette is saved for last
We drink alone
We drink alone

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Playing tunes at Occupy Dame street.

Good article here about btw

PCPRaidio Biddy and Nan 05/11/2011

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artist    song    Album     label    notes

1.    Death Grips    Guillotine    Extramilatary    Third Worlds    Free DL
2.    Seking    Black Ice     Symeta    Rater Noton
3.    Death Grips    Cut Throat (Instrumental)    Extramilatary    no label dl
4.    Cyclo.    Id#07     Id    Rater Noton
5.    MIA    10 DOLLOR
6.    Franck Vigroux     New York    Recolte    D’Autre Cordes
7.    Planetary Assault System -     Rip The Cut    The Messenger    OSTGUT TON
8.    Alvo Noto    01 - Uni C    Unvrs    Rater Noton
9.    Byetone -     Helix     Symeta    Rater Noton
10.    LAKKER    _SPIDER_SILK        KILLEKILL_005_    Forthcoming
11.    Anstam    Handsome_Talks_The_Talk    Dispel Dances    50 Weapons
12.    Memotone    Bellatrix    Multicolour EP     Team Acre
13.    Franck Vigroux    80808    Recolte    D’Autre Cordes
14.    VARIOUS_PRODUCTION    _-_Monster    EP    VARIOUS_PRODUCTION
15.    DeadFader/Piratio    The fuck You mixtape 2011 - made with distortion only.    no label dl    Free DL
16.    Death Grips    I Want it I need it (Death Heated)    Extramilatary    Third Worlds
17.    Salt and pepa      Push It
18.    Seking     02 Hairline 23C
19.    Coki     I Dont Give A Dub     I Dont Give A Dub ep    white
20.    The Specials    Ghost Town (DJG bootleg)        no label dl    Free DL
21.    NHK     entire_set_2    Unununium    Rater Noton
22.    MAIN ATTRACTIONS     MishkaNYC - Take 1 (feat. A$AP Rocky) -prod. by Clams Casino-    Free DL
23.    Rustie    Surph    Glass Swords    Warp
24.    Suicide Dream Baby Dream (Long Version)

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artist                 song                      label                    album

1.    Aromatic toasty     Beannach mhór                     unreleased                            IRl
2.    Aoki Takamasa     MND-SNG01        Stroboscopic Artefacts    Monad ix
3.    Aoki Takamasa     MND-SNG02        Stroboscopic Artefacts    Monad ix
4.    Pangea                        Fatalist              Hemlock    hex/fatalist ep
5.    Aoki Takamasa     MND-SNG04       Stroboscopic Artefacts    Monad ix
6.    SULLY                    Let You                Keysound Recordings    Carrier
7.    Actress                   C.L.A.W             download             twitter tracks
8.    Regis                      Blinding Horses    Blackest ever Black    In A Syrian Tongue EP
9.    Lando Kal              Run It            Rush Hour Records                Manoeuvre/ Run it
10.    Rustie                    Hover Traps            warp                     Glass Swords
11.    Johnny Oakley & 16 hertz     Live excerpt ( COLONY Corsica studios)    unreleased        IRL
12.    Raffertie             Twitch (It Grows & Grows)    Ninja Tune    Visual Acuity ep
13.    LL COOL J          Going Back to Cali              Def Jam    Walking With A Panther
14.    DISTAL               Coke Bottle                                     Boss of the south ep
15.    DJ Q                   The Last Dance                  Boy Better Know    Tropical 2
16.    Royal T              Cool Down                          Boy Better Know    Tropical 2

SIXFOOT APPRENTICE - Raidió Na Life - 08/10/2011

17.    CATSCARS - Wish I Had (from ‘Construction’ on White Plague Records) IRL
18.    COCO BRYCE - Stuntin (from ‘Royal Bootlegs’ on Myor Records)
19.    VIBESQUAD - Numbskull (from ‘Orphan Alien Pt 1′ on Vibesquad’s bandcamp site)
20.    ZEN DEATH SQUAD - Motherfucker (from Zen Death Squad’s website)
21.    T-WOC - Sams Brake (from ‘Jetstar EP’ on Alphabet Set’s bandcamp site) IRL
22.    NOX & YOLANDI VISSER - Gimme My Fucking Diamonds (KONEKTA Remix) (from Konekta’s soundcloud site)
23.    VIBESQUAD - Shine (from ‘Orphan Alien Pt 1′ on Vibesquad’s bandcamp site)
24.    NOUVEAUNOISE - Believe (from ‘Sequence Consequence’ on Nouveaunoise’s bandcamp site) IRL
25.    ILL GATES - Contact (from ‘The Ill Methodology’ on Muti Music)

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 Read this to understand why I’ve not posted in a while.

This weeks show  featuring  new Irish releases from; Eomac, Twoc,  Lrd Jxn, Lecs Luther, Deviant/Sert one, Jinx Lennon, Hunter Gatherer , a Demo from Captain Moonlight (which I love for the Crass sample) and more. Written like that the quality of current Irish beats and lyrical invention jumps out. Unusually. Lets hope it continues.

Also Rustie’s new album kills like this

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Artist                      song                        album               label

1.    KID KEYBOARD     Blunts In The Night    Video Games And Blunts    No Lable DL
2.    TWOC     Sam’s Brake    Jetstar EP    Alphabet Set(forthcoming) IRL
3.    BEYONCE FEAT JAY Z    Crazy in Love( Dj Finesse mix)    Urban hits 14     Bootleg
4.    TWOC     Work all day     Jetstar EP    Alphabet Set(forthcoming) IRL
5.    CAPTAIN MOONLIGHT    Love divine    Demo    Demo(forthcoming) IRL
6.    EOMAC     Clap Your Hands Pt2     Clap Your Hands EP    Magrait Recordings IRL
7.    CONTAINER     Overflow    LP    Spectrum Spools
8.    NOCHEXXX    Charro    Savage Herald / Charro    Ramp Recording
9.    FRANK VIGROUX FEAT KENJI SIRATORI    blanked out with black marker like an old 12″ ’cause it’s a such a killer and nobody else had it-  Récolte    d’autre cordes records
10.    RUSTIE    Death Mountain    Glass Swords    Warp
11.    TEETH     Shawty    Shawty EP    502 recordings
12.    MAIN ATTRACTIONS     MishkaNYC - Take 1 (feat. A$AP Rocky) -prod. by Clams Casino-    Self released/bandcamp
13.    RUSTIE    Surph    Glass Swords    Warp

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14. HUNTER GATHERER - Risen (from Hunter Gatherer bandcamp site) IRL
15. JONWAYNE - Just A Minute (from Jonwayne website)

16.JINX LENNON - Probably Better Off (from Hungry Bastard Hibernia on Jinx Lennon bandcamp) IRL
17.EPIGON ADM - Escalators (from The Value Of Things on Foot In Mouth website) IRL
18.BLU - Doin Nothin (from NoYork on Warner Records)
19.BENITO - Caffeine (from Benito soundcloud site)
20.DEVIANT - Overheard (SERT ONE Remix) (from Send In The Hounds on Community Skratch Music) IRL
21.GHOSTFUNK - Mighty Agho (from Ghostfunk website)
22.LECS LUTHER - Dia Dhuit (from Lecs Luther soundcloud site) IRL
23.GANGSTARR - The Squeeze (MONTO Remix) (from Monto soundcloud site) IRL
24.LRD JXN - Strobe Light Lovely (from Wuja Wuja Wah EP on !Kaboogie Records) IRL
25. CO.FEE - Firework Spraying Moon (from Co.fee soundcloud site)
26.FANCY MIKE - Hikikimori (from Fancy Mike soundcloud site)

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                                  ARTIST – TRACK-ALBUM -LABEL-

1.    JAMIE XX - Far Nearer - Far Nearer EP- NUMBERS
2.    T WILLIAMS -Heartbeat (Paul Woolford Rewurq)-Heartbeat ep-Local Action
3.    T WILLIAMS - Heartbeat (Instrumental) Heartbeat ep-Local Action
4.    ORIOL – Memories- Night & Day - Planet Mu
5.    GLASSER_-_Tremel_(Astronomer_remix)-Blog release- Get it here - The Fader
6.    ACTRESS Maze_Long_version –Paint,Straw, Bubbles - Honest Jon’s Records
7.    JOHN MAUS  - Believer
7a.   PURSUIT GROOVES -Clueless–Frantically Hopeful- TECTONIC
8.    OM UNIT -The_Timps_Hrdvsion_Remix-The Timps ep- CIVIL MUSIC
9.    SHED –Estrang- Shedding the Past- OSTGUTON
10.    EMPTYSET – Point- Demiurge– Subtext
10a PILAS -Burros-Burros ep- Shaddock
11.    PURSUIT GROOVES -Bedazzled–Frantically Hopeful- TECTONIC
12.    PURSUIT GROOVES –Revolutionaries –Frantically Hopeful- TECTONIC
13.    EMPTYSET – Tangent  -Demiurge - Subtext

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14.    THE IDIOTS - “I Should Go” (from ‘The Idiots’ on Dirt Records). IRE.
15.    DELS - “Capsize (feat. Joe Goddard and Roots Manuva)” (from ‘Gob’ on Big Dada Records).
16.    MARTY PARTY - “Come With Me” (from ‘The Purple Album’ on Marty Party Records).
17.    VIBESQUAD - “As We Are” (from ‘Remix Mashers Vol 1′ on Vibesquad’s bandcamp site).
18.    MANUS GOAN - “Superstition Remix” (unreleased). IRE.
19.    LAZER SWORD - “Dirty Indusrty (feat. Buddy Leezle)” (unreleased).
20.    BOSCO DELREY - “My My Racecar” (from ‘Space Junky’ on Mad Decent Records).
21.    HOT 8 BRASS BAND - “Sexual Healing” (from ‘Rock With The Hot 8′ on Tru Thoughts Records).
22.    ED DEVANE - “Squib (Meljoann Remix)” (from ‘Squib Remixes’ on Takeover Recordings). IRE.
23.    TOADALLY KROSSED OUT - “Toad’s Theme 2012″ (from ‘Toadally Krossed Out EP’ on Mad Decent Records).
24.    HUDSON MOHAWKE - “Thunder Bay” (from ‘Satin Panthers EP’ on Warp Records).
25.    PRGZ - “Hood Celebrity (Diplo Remix)” (from ‘Fear & Loathing In Hunts Vegas’ on Mad Decent Records).
26.    BURUNDI BLACK - “First Part” (from “Burundi Black” on Decca Records).

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 Last weeks show with,  amongst others, top Irish grime from Major Grave, Lil Silva’s weird remix of Tyler the creator, Wicklow boy Batam’s nu-hip hop, Death Grip’s Hardcore fusioin hip hop and civilised sine noise from Alvo Noto and other Raster Norton artists.

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Sixfoot Apprentice - 14/05/2011

DEATH GRIPS - “Beware” (from ‘Exmilitary’ on Third Worlds Records)
NUCENTZ & TERAWRIZT - “Had Enough” (from ‘Sense The Terror 2′ on Class A’z Records) IRE
DZA - “Eskimo - MONTGOMERY CLUNK Remix” (from ‘Five Finger Remixes’ on Error Broadcast Records)
OWENSIE - “Dark Place - BANTUM Remix” (from Owensie’s Soundcloud) IRE
NOSAJ THING - “Fog - cover by AGES” (from Ages Soundcloud)
DEATH GRIPS - “Lord Of The Game feat Mexican Girl” (from ‘Exmilitary’ on Third Worlds Records)
BEASTIE BOYS - “Tadlocks Glasses” (from ‘Hot Sauce Committee Part 2′ on Capitol Records)
BANTUM - “Slide” (from ‘Slide EP’ on Bantum’s Bandcamp) IRE
LORN & ILLUMSPHERE - “Pure Red” (from ‘Self Confidence Volume 2′ - Self-Released)
TEN PAST SEVEN - “Johnsons Cows - TOBY KAAR Remix” (from Toby Kaar’s Soundcloud) IRE
JIMMY EDGAR - “Turn You Inside Out - BACONHEAD Remix” (unreleased)
BEASTIE BOYS - “Don’t Play No Game feat. Santigold” (from ‘Hot Sauce Committee Part 2′ on Capitol Records)
SLEPCY - “With Charles Bukowski On The Ride” (from ‘We Are The Newest Battle Models’ on Cock Rock Disco Records)
FM BELFAST - “I Can Feel Love” (from ‘How To Make Friends’ on World Champion Records)

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Last weeks radio show. Spacey goth tech from from me and top punky bassness from Sixfoot Apprentice.

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1.    MARIA MINERVA    - HAGASUXZZAVOL
2.    NICLAS JAAR    - SPACE_IS_ONLY_NOISE_IF_YOU_CAN_SEE
3.    MARIA MINERVA    -A_LITTLE_LONELY
4.    SALEM        -SICK
5.    BYETONE        -PLASTIC_STAR ALVO NOTO REMIX
6.    SALEM        -TRAXX -
7.    KASSEM_MOSSE    -DEMO_DRUMS_RIPPING
8.    CYCLO.        -ID#07 -
9.    OM UNIT        -THE_TIMPS_HRDVSION_REMIX
10.    SHED        -ESTRANG_
11.    BENOIT & SERGIO -WALK_AND_TALK
12.    SOUL CLAP & CHARLES LEVINE -LONELY_C_
13    MARIA MINERVA    -NOBLE_SAVAGE

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14.    MONO/POLY - “NEEDS DEODORANT” (FROM ‘MANIFESTATIONS EP’ ON BRAINFEEDER RECORDS).
15.    MELODICA DEATHSHIP - “SEA OF ABSU” (FROM ‘SALADE DE CONCOMBRES VOLUME 1′ ON COOLER THAN CUCUMBERS RECORDS) (IRE).
16.    FREE THE ROBOTS - “UNKNOWN” (FROM ‘STUSSY X TURNTABLE LAB BEATS’ ON TURNTABLE LAB RECORDS).
17.    FAUNTS - “FEEL LOVE THINKING OF” (MEXICANS WITH GUNS REMIX)” (FROM ‘REMIXICAN’ ON EXPONENTIAL RECORDS).
18.    SCHLACHTHOFBRONX FEAT 77KLASH & JAH DAN - “BROOKLYN ANTHEM (PARASITE MASHUP)” (UNRELEASED).
19.    DOSHY - “3WS” (FROM ‘MAD HOP VOLUME 1′ ON MAD HOP RECORDS).
20.    MELJOANN - “FIST” (FROM ‘!KABOOGIE 5TH BIRTHDAY SAMPLER’ ON !KABOOGIE RECORDS). (IRE)
21.    DEATH GRIPS - “WHERE IT’S AT” (UNRELEASED).
22.    JASON FORREST - “RAUNCHY” (FROM ‘THE EVERYTHING’ ON STAATSAKT RECORDS).
23.    MEXICANS WITH GUNS - “PROCESSION” (FROM ‘TEXAS’ ON EXPONENTIAL RECORDS).
24.    FANCY MIKE - “RAMACHANDRAN” (FROM ‘MADISON SQUARE GARDNER’ ON KING DELUXE RECORDS).
25.    PRINCE KONG & EXILE EYE - “SCENE CYCLE” (UNRELEASED) (IRE).
26.    PRINCE KONG & JAH BALANCE - “HAIL EM KLIPT” (UNRELEASED) (IRE).
27.    LAURA SHEERAN - “LUST OF PIG” (FROM ‘LUST OF PIG & THE FRESH BLOOD’ ON LAURA SHEERAN BANDCAMP) (IRE)

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A show from a couple of weeks ago. I will write about the first couple of tracks tomorrow, as they’re from the most important Irish beats record ever.

The Deviant ep is the most important Irish electronic/dance record ever. The first reason it is so important is that is very good. The second reason is that it is Irish dance music that sounds Irish. To Irish underground music ears this is usually a bad thing. It’s associated with the usual clichéd high kicking , wooly jumpered folk images and more recent cringers; Cotton eyed Joe, Bewitched , Afro Celtic  sound system, bad trad mash up amongst others.

Great, successful Irish dance records are so conspicuous by their absence (leaving aside the other reasons such as until recently the lack of any diasporic communities or strong counter cultural movements) because of this squirming discomfort with Irish culture.

Most Irish electronic music producers imitate. They imitate every electronic music culture. They will never succeed. Or if they do it will be pastiche and it will be too late.

I will post soon as to why this is the case.

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1.    DEVIANT    - Oh Gravity- On Community Skratch Music(IRE)
2.    DEVIANT-Send in the hounds- On Community Skratch Music(IRE)

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3.    DEVIANT - “Planxty Angsty” (unreleased) (IRE)
4.    GLAND & CONDUIT - “Anal Duct Nodding” (from “Ore” on Second Square To None Records) (IRE)
5.    BLUE VITRIOL - “Casiotone Rock” (from “They Went To Titan” on Jahtari Records)
6.    CATSCARS - “Droid” (from “Construction” on White Plague Records) (IRE)
7.    LAKKER - “Kleure” (from “Kleure” on Lakker bandcamp site) (IRE)
8.    JIMMY PENGUIN - “Dred” (from “Dred” on Jimmy Penguin bandcamp site) (IRE)
9.    ILEX - “Ilk” (from “Old Din” on Ilex bandcamp site) (IRE)
10.    HUNTER-GATHERER - “Serbia” (from “Fingerprint Series” on Hunter-Gatherer bandcamp site) (IRE)

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11.    OLD APARATUS -Side_B_Track_1_2 On Deep Mehdi
12.    NICOLAS JAAR -Too_Many_Kids_Finding_Rain_In_the_Dust    On Circus Company
13.    NICOLAS JAAR -Space_Is_Only_Noise_If_You_Can_See    On Circus Company
14.    KOWTON- Drunk On Sunday    Idle Hands
15.    RAINBOW ARABIA -Without_You- On Kompact
16.    CHASING VOICES    Acidbathoryz On Preserved Instincts
17.    ACTRESS    Machine & Voice    On Non Plus
18.    CUTTY RANKS, GENERAL LEVY-Weh dem watch we  On Party Time
19.    BRANDY METHOD MAN     what about love x5 riddim    on Party Time
20.    BEENIEMAN_REDMAN     What’s love?    On Madchemist vol1
21.    CUTTY RANKS  MR SHOTTY     mr shotty aread codes    On Party Time
22.    DJ XELA     Dance hall queen mashup     On Party Time
23.    LIBERTY KING     Ain’t it funny    On madchemist vol1
24.    MOVADO       No head sound bwoy On sound bwoy
25.    MOVADO     U CAN’T ESCAPE    sound bwoy
26.    KARTEL-    COUNT YOU’RE DUPPYS Onsound bwoy
27.    MOVADO -    Toe to Toe On sound bwoy
28.    OLD APARATUS -    Side_A_Track_1On Deep Mehdi
29.    GATEKEEPER -Chains OnMerok
30.    ALTER EAGLE-Six_Foot_Arms On 100% Silk

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A good piece of music writing from Wire blog the Mire. Like a 90’s Melody Maker/ NME piece, it makes you (me )want to buy the record/s.

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“I don’t know how it comes across when I say this, but I am deeply invested in sex and sexiness,” Amanda Brown tells Simon Reynolds in the May issue of The Wire. Even though it is expressed in that peculiarly American way that makes Amanda sound like she regards the very fact of her being in the world as a business venture to be injected with regular shots of cultural capital, what she is actually talking about is her vision for the kind of artists and music now being issued by Not Not Fun, the label she runs with husband Britt out of their home in Eagle Rock, LA, and in particular its hot little sister imprint, 100% Silk.

As Simon points out, both Amanda’s and Not Not Fun’s roots lie deep in America’s post-Riot Grrrl Noise/lo-fi DIY underground. This is a realm where sex exists purely as metaphor, something to be invoked or mobilised only in order to expose the brutality of power relations, or to subvert the oppression of normative social relations by flaunting its most taboo, transgressive manifestations. In contrast, almost all the music now being issued by NNF and 100% Silk reflects Amanda’s lust for 70s and 90s dance music experiences, her desire to luxuriate in the sensual inclusiveness (or inclusive sensuality) of dub, disco and downtempo beatz, and the way these bass-centred musics work to eroticise the entire body (in contrast to the way Noise targets it as a conflict zone in a Total War, or the way Goth/Emo is convulsed by its base functions and desires, or the way alt.rock puts all the emphasis back on the same old erogenous zones as trad.rawk).

You can track NNFs aesthetic shift from pavement to Penthouse by comparing the messthetix that define the handmade packaging of the label’s early cassette editions with the image on the generic sleeves of the 12″s released by 100% Silk, which looks like it has been lifted from a mid-80s Athena poster, all soft fleshy curves, hard angles and cool surfaces, a pre-Photoshop phantasy of aspirational erotica and glam aesthetix.

When it comes to her own LA Vampires project, Amanda’s investment in sex and sexiness actually feels more cute than carnal, manifesting as a license to indulge in some slyly provocatve fun and games.

The ‘two girls in the shower’ sequence in the vid for the LA Vampires/Matrix Metals collaboration “How Would You Know?” might sound like a cynical media grabbing manoeuvre straight out of a Katy Perry vid, but it feels more like an instance of adolescent juvenilia, a ‘whatever’ Chatroulette provocation, two twentysomething women getting back in touch with their insouciant teenage selves, deadpanning to the lens as they fake their way through a routine of getting ready for a big night out (and if you want to come over all Lacanian about it, flirting with the gaze they know is there, just out of sight, on the other side of the screen).

LA Vampires feat. Matrix Metals – How Would U Know from Not Not Fun on Vimeo.

In the vid for “Make Me Over” Amanda regresses even further, into a pre-pubescent state of innocence eliding into self-consciousness (or self-awareness), rummaging in the dressing up box, pulling out a sequence of exotic costumes, posing, pouting and dancing in front of the camera, which in this case is a substitute for her pre-teen bedroom mirror, the first witness to vouchsafe an emerging sense of her own sexuality.

LA Vampires feat. Matrix Metals – Make Me Over from Not Not Fun on Vimeo.

But judging from an interview recently posted on the 100% Silk blog, the NNF/100% Silk artist who Amanda seems to have most invested in when it comes to making flesh her new aesthetic is Maria Minerva, aka Estonian ‘dream pop songstress’/’disco-not-disco diva’ (and, it should be noted here, former intern at, and current contributor to, The Wire) Maria Juur.

During the interview Maria demurely deflects Amanda’s line of questioning, insisting she feels more awkward and uptight than the potentially hot ‘n’ sexy “Eastern European supermodel goddess” (to quote an earlier 100% Silk blog post) that Amanda seems to want her to be. But a quick sweep through some of the evidence now archived out there on the www would seem to suggest that Maria’s artistic project is about as deeply invested in playing around with notions of sex and sexiness as her label boss could wish for.

Originally taped at the back end of 2010, the vid for “Strange Things Happening In My Room”, a track on Maria’s recent NNF tape Tallinn At Dawn, feels like an ironic take on the Talk Talk idents that topped and tailed the ad breaks in the last series of The X Factor (which was still being broadcast at the time this vid was posted). Made to feel like the genuine article (groups of PJ-clad BFFs on a sleepover, having fun with the webcam, miming along to their current fave pop tunes), the idents were moments of pure media artifice, and Maria’s vid feels like an ultra hip and knowing restaging, so a fabricated mass media event masquerading as a moment of tweenie jouissance becomes the site for an occluded adult drama, a solipsistic domestic episode veiled in mystery but heavily suggestive of auto-erotic experience.

The ‘censored by YouTube’ vid for the “So High” track by contrast makes everything explicit, appropriating scenes from what looks like a particularly sleazy slice of hi-brow Euro porn. Before YouTube censored it, this vid went most of the way.

Intriguingly, in the Info section of this post Maria quotes a couplet from Gang Of Four’s “Natural’s Not In It”, “The problem of leisure/What to do for pleasure?”, sourced not from its original context, the 1979 Entertainment! LP, but from its inspired use on the soundtrack to Sophia Coppola’s sumptuous 2006 soft porn period drama Marie Antionette.

“So High” is taken from Maria’s forthcoming NNF LP Cabaret Cixous, whose title references the French feminist theorist/writer Hélène Cixous, the distaff Derrida, whose 1975 essay The Laugh Of The Medusa upped the ante on existing theories of non-normative sexuality such as polymorphous perversity and jouissance to instruct women thus: “Censor the body and you censor breath and speech… Your body must be heard.” Which sounds like a permissive pre-echo of Maria writing (for France’s Hartzine) about the effect on her teenage body of Roy Davis Jr’s sublime 1997 Deep House track “Gabriel”: “This track got me into House when I was 14. Made me go through changes in my body and I am not talking about puberty! “Gabriel” gave me an idea what a groove could do to you, and oh it felt good.”

Appropriately enough, the ‘teaser’ vid for “Disko Bliss”, which was posted in advance of the release of Maria’s 100% Silk 12″, feels like it arrives as a consequence of the effect of both Cixous’s theories and Davis Jr’s practice, foregrounding the kind of sensual total body experience brought on by dancing to disco and Deep House. Although Maria can’t resist inserting a little ironic touch to undercut the erotic effect: keep watching and the beads of sweat glistening suggestively on the torsos of the male and female dancers are revealed to be fake.

MARIA MINERVA – DISKO BLISS teaser from 100% Silk on Vimeo.

As with most of the images of her circulating on the blogosphere, in the photo on the cover of Tallinn At Dawn Maria returns your fascinated gaze with deadpan inscrutability (is she projecting satisfaction or disdain or just indifference?).

The image’s grainy soft focus monochrome makes it feel like a relic from the mid-70s. But is it a promo shot of a Laurel Canyon songstress, or a still from yet another slice of ‘sophisticated’ Euro porn? Or both? Maria as a double exposure of Laura Nyro and Sylvia Kristel?

In his piece in the May issue, Simon refers to Maria’s 100% Silk 12″ as “delightfully quirky electro-bop”, which feels about right for what is essentially a collection of LCD dance moves (one of Maria’s own tags for these tracks is ‘slutwave’). But his description of Tallinn At Dawn as “marvelously woozy”, while texturally correct, feels too reductive for what is an unusually captivating body of work, one that feels like the product of a genuinely original sensibility.

Some of the arrangements here have a real sense of mystery about them: the way all the parts are shadowed and multiplied by their echo chamber doppelgangers, and the way the individual synth lines, samples and rudimentary drum machine patterns interlock or overlap in unexpected ways gives the songs a complex and seductive polyrhythmic vibe. Rather than the vacuous synth pop of Nite Jewel (the comparison drawn by most Altered Zones type bloggers out there), what it makes me think of most is Nico’s The Marble Index (a judgement which I admit may well be clouded by the fact that I know that one of the first songs Maria learned to karaoke along to as a Tallinn tweenie was Nico’s “Janitor Of Lunacy”: maybe that’s what happens when you grow up with a dad who is the one of your country’s leading music critics, something like the Eesti equivalent of Paul Morley). Anyway, I make the comparison not because of any ‘ice queen’ parallels, or because the songs describe a devastating/devastated emotional and psychological landscape (the lyrics are mostly indecipherable, Maria’s state of mind and being veiled behind diaphanous layers of echo, although the overall mood feels rather lost and lonely, and therefore suffused with desire and a certain melancholy ache), but due to the sense of disconnect between the sighing vocal lines and what is happening elsewhere in the tracks. Legend has it that John Cale recorded his parts on Index blind ie without hearing Nico’s vocal and harmonium parts first. Then the two were slammed together and somehow made to cohere in the mix. This had the effect of suspending Nico in a state of temporal-spatial displacement, and there’s something of that same feeling in some of these tracks too (Maria is currently based in London so maybe it’s all a metaphor for the migrant experience of longing and not quite belonging).

In a famous essay on The Marble Index Lester Bangs quoted an ex-girlfriend (Lester invoked his exes like muses) who told him it sounded like Cale had built a cathedral in sound for a woman in hell. On Tallinn At Dawn it sounds like Maria has built herself a boudoir in sound, but the emotional and psychological state of the singer remains elusive; is she in ecstasy or in limbo, enraptured or indifferent?

The difference between this music and the tracks on that 100% Silk 12″ feels the same as the difference between erotica and porn. The seductive power of the songs on Tallinn At Dawn is in direct proportion to how little of herself and the process Maria reveals. By comparison, the sluttishly explicit dance tracks on that 100% Silk 12″ leave little to the imagination and so fascination is quickly spent, turns morbid, shifts its gaze elsewhere.

A memo to Amanda Brown: in order to maximise the return on this particular investment, keep it under wraps.

Tony Herrington

PCPRaidio _Strings_n’tings

Last weeks show, from Sixfoot and I. I may fix up and annotate later if I get a chance. Or I may not.

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artist                           song                          label

19/03/2011
Old Apparatus     1-Side_A_Track_1    Deep Mehdi
Chasing Voices    Acidbathory
Shakleton            King_Midas_Sounds_Death_Dub_Remix
Shakleton             Deadman
Factory_Floor 3    woodenbox
disrupt     Citadel Station                                Jahtari
Nicolas Jarr    -Colomb
Tyler the Creator-Yonkers                            XL
Maayan Nidam    Better Stop
The Deeep    Mudd (Grand Am Version)

Sixfoot Apprentice -

1. STIG OF THE DUMP - “Rhite Whino” (from “The Homeless Microphonist” on Beer & Rap Records).
2. MATTHEW DAVID - “International” (from “International EP” on Brainfeeder Records).
3. MATTHEW DAVID - “All You’ll Never Know” (from “International EP” on Brainfeeder Records).
4. MELJOANN - “Reptilian” (from “Squick” on Boy Scout Audio). IRE.
5. PROFESSOR NALEPA vs IT’S NOT OVER QUEBEC - “Unrest” (from “Acid Crunk Volume 3″ on Muti Music).
6. LORN - “Toilet” (from “Acid Crunk Volume 3″ on Muti Music).
7. RUBBERBANDITS - “Ba Mhaith Liom Bruíon Le D’athair” (from “I Wanna Fight Your Father EP” on Lovely Men Records). IRE.
8. RíRá - “Bla Bla Blarney” (from “Demo Straights: Unreleased & Underplayed” on Maddaxxe Records). IRE.
9. SERT ONE - “Past, Present, Future” (from “The View From Above EP” on Melted Music). IRE.
10. SERT ONE - “Orbit” (from “The View From Above EP” on Melted Music). IRE.
11. MOTHS - “Blisters” (from Moths Bandcamp site). IRE.

Gigs Diary

 Spring is in the air….. Just had it pointed out to me that I haven’t posted here in over a month. To prove I’ve not been idle or off scamming tech start up grants, here’s what dilettantism I’ve been at the last while, up to and including tomorrow night. This week in the Kclub we’re joined by All City artist and top east coast(U.S.)   hip hop wonk Knxwledge. Also on the bill is Dublin’s Marcus( Ignored Playaz) , who, with his no nonsense approach to quality booking and value, has given Dublin’s UK bass gig scene(trips off the tongue that) the kick in the arse it needed. That Boy Tim returns to make up for his too brief set last time. Full info and sound clips etc here.

I was going to put up the flyers for the gigs I played last week; Music Hall Ragga master General Levy and Jittebug’s Hideout at the Ormand Wine bar, but can only find pesky Facebook thumbnails. I have been noticing this recently, it’s one thing for Dublin council to ban flyers , it’s another for people to self edit via facebook so thoroughly that only illegible 10k thumbnails are available ie.-see Kittler’s Protected Mode for more on this

Off to the Doctor will continue this when I get back.

Other stuff I was up to was a warehouse party with no music made after 1960, ‘cept a class early morning session with punk funk, moody bass and 80’s 12″’s with djackulate scratchin over it.

Started gettin’ ready for top dub n’ circus fest Boomtown which looks like a lot of fun. Check out the line up here

and did a fun , cheesy pr/gig thing for the Electric Picnic. Below pics that ran in most of the Irish rags.

And at the moment music wise, really feeling -

 Old Apparutus

Have to go battle the doleful forces of free money, back later and finish this.

Also a couple of radio show which I’m uploading now.

Community Skratch games at the !K Club

At the K Club this week

*DEVIANT (community skratch / alphabet set / stress debt & chest pains)
*JIMMY PENGUIN (comm skratch / alkalinear)
*!KABOOGIE Residents

Thurs 17 Feb
10pm - 02:30am
@ The Sweeney Mongrel, Dame St., Dublin 2.
FREE

In the run-up to one of Ireland’s best weekend events, the annual Community Skratch Games in Galway, !Kaboogie are delighted to welcome two of its guiding spirits, Irish West Coast hip hop legends, DEVIANT & JIMMY PENGUIN, to the East side(Dublin).

DEVIANT
Deviant has been releasing out some of the most interesting leftfield hiphop of recent times. And that’s not restricted to Ireland. Using sound sources of Irish and English trad music, Prog, and Jazz. Scratched, looped and processed live. A refreshingly bumpy road towards composition and not content to let a computer do all the hard work. Relying on a stack of obscure records, some battered turntables and a good ol’ fashioned warped imagination, Deviants work has intense dedication and individual eccentricity slapped all over it.

DEVIANT LINKS:
http://deviantandnaiveted.bandcamp.com/
http://soundcloud.com/deviantandnaiveted
“Shoes Not Not” video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSVEOgOkDgg

JIMMY PENGUIN
Even just glancing over this chaps output over the last few years makes you realise that words like “prolific” and “dedicated” are almost understatements. Jimmy Penguin is one of Ireland’s hidden electronic diamonds. Hailing from Galway in the blustery west of Ireland, Jimmy makes music that varies between sultry bass heavy electronics, progressive scratch and slow burning ambient tracks richly orchestrated with organic instrumentation. Yep this guy is a jack of all trades. If you like what you hear, then prepare your hard drive for a feck-load of quality free tracks and mixes that are available online.

JIMMY PENGUIN LINKS:
http://jimmypenguin.bandcamp.com/
http://soundcloud.com/jimmy-penguin
http://jimmythehideouspenguin.jamendo.net/
http://freemusicarchive.org/member/jimmy_penguin/blog (THIS INCLUDES DEVIANT ALSO, & MUCH MORE COMMUNITY SKRATCH GOODNESS)
“Bastard Lawyer” on YouTube:

Deviant - Shoes Not Not

www.kaboogie.net
www.myspace.com/kaboogiemusic

Flexi Pop - Rock and roll synth histories

Great essay on Industrial design and synth histoy from the ever readable mute magazine. I’ve annotated it with youtube clips of the music mentione. And added a couple I think apply.

Flexi Pop

By Pil and Galia Kollectiv
The introduction of the synthesizer gave PoMo bands the means to replay the history of rock ‘n’ roll with the authenticity knob turned down low. In this month’s music column, Pil and Galia appreciate the flatlands of the synth cover.

An invisible revolution took the United States by storm in the late 1960s - the Flexible Manufacturing System. Perhaps it even had greater implications for the world today than the better known social transformations of the period: the hippies, psychedelic drugs, protests against Vietnam or the student revolt. And yet it has received scant critical attention over the last 40 years since, until recently, the term had little meaning outside engineering conferences on industrial production methods and efficiency. Before 1965, manufacturers tended to concentrate on streamlining industrial procedures to reduce costs and increase productivity. The Fordist model of the assembly line still dominated the market, and companies were busy constructing support systems to enable repetitive, and regularised manufacturing. This approach was immortalised in Henry Ford’s famous words from 1909: ‘Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black’. The ideal customer and the perfect car were both completely predictable and manageable within a rigid plan. It was the responsibility of manufactures to create efficient and controllable products and only then, via advertising, consumer desire for them.

Image: AlliedSignal’s Flexible Manufacturing System

But the Flexible Manufacturing System, developed by Theodore William in Edinburgh in 1965, changed all that. In essence, FMS conceives of industrial manufacturing as a process that can be changed or adapted rapidly to manufacture different products or components at different volumes of production. This required a large number of machines which could be coordinated by a central computer and which would be flexible enough to handle different tasks and absorb sudden changes to volume, speed or design. The influence of this now obvious idea was dramatic. First of all, the products themselves became fluid and Ford’s inevitably black Model T was soon replaced by the seriality of, say, the eight different colours of the iPod nano. The FMS also gave birth to the limited edition product, from the Christmas flavored Starbucks Gingerbread Lattes of December to the heart-shaped Krispy Kreme donut of Valentine’s Day. But, more importantly, FMS was a Copernican revolution that inverted the causality of manufacturing: instead of a product that pre-exists the consumer, manufacturers began to look for the slightest hint of a consumer trend that could be quickly translated into products with a guaranteed market. Since machines were more adaptable and it was possible to easily and rapidly re-organise assembly lines, consumer demands could determine the product.

The influence of these new industrial ideas on politics from the ’70s onwards is evident and well documented. These could be seen reflected in the move away from ideology to a politics based on constant opinion polls and control groups that came to prominence during the Clinton years. But the links between the changing industrial landscape and art and music have not been given due attention and can offer an interesting angle from which to complicate our thinking on postmodernism. Visual art, perhaps, presents a clearer case. In the early 1960s, pop art was premised on an evaluation or even admiration of mass commodities. Pop art exercised several procedures around these commodities: their relocation, following Duchamp, from the supermarket or mass media to the gallery (Warhol, Lichtenstein) and their subsequent re-contextualisation; their material transformation (Oldenburg); or a blurring of borders between background and foreground, the human subject and the world of commodities (Wesselman). All of these mechanisms addressed the commodity as a unique, fixed object and dealt with it only on the level of consumerism, only after it was released to the market as a signifier of desire.

When Warhol was working with pseudo-industrial repetition, he simply duplicated the exact same object, be it a Brillo box, a Campbell soup tin or a print of Marilyn. But the generation of American artists who inherited pop art revised this relationship with the commodity in the late ’60s and throughout the ’70s. Minimalism is still talked about through Michael Fried’s trite notions of ‘relationality’ and ‘literalism’, but it is better viewed as an artistic response to FMS. These artists created flexible and modular systems that enabled them to think of the commodity at a higher level of abstraction. Unlike the Brillo box, Sol LeWitt’s modular cubical structures could be easily re-arranged to create endless variations. Similarly, Dan Flavin’s use of cheap commodities (neon strips) is not so much about their singular identity as objects of desire but their inherent malleability, the fact that the commodity becomes a flexible building block that could be cut to different sizes and thicknesses, and arranged in a variety of ways. Donald Judd’s concrete structures are perhaps the most obvious illustration of this, since the artist used industrial molding techniques to remove the object from its place in a stable relationship with consumers and other objects on the market and re-think it as an abstract flexible system. These artistic practices were not so much attempts to move away from commodity-fetish, from the image and the aesthetic power of the commodity, as readjustments of aesthetic language to account for newer industrial models and the flexibility they demanded.

Popular music can also be looked at through the same prism, but perhaps because a lot of the critical discourse surrounding music is still loyal to ideas of authenticity, individualism, talent and a unique artistic voice, music is rarely discussed in the context of material and industrial production. Here, through the framework of the cover version, a shift can also be observed in the attitude of artists towards other commodities or, more specifically, given pop songs. The repertoire of the bands of the early ’60s, and particularly the ones associated with the first wave of the British invasion, was almost exclusively drawn from the American tunes of the ’50s. The songs these bands covered were mostly associated with the early rock’n’ roll, electric sound of Chicago and the Memphis blues they listened to as teenagers. These covers paid homage to the double take on freedom latent in those songs: at its core, it was the sound of a southern black culture landing on the industrial North with great force. But for the British bands, these were also the sounds of Americana, products of an affluent, youthful, fast culture, the sonic equivalent of the Cadillac or Coca Cola. Cleansed of (racial) context and aural grit, the Rolling Stones’ covers of Chuck Berry functioned in much the same way as Warhol’s empty Brillo boxes, simulacral ciphers of a hyperreal consumer culture.

In the ’70s, however, these appropriations gave way to a lesser known breed of electronic remakes. Stripped down to a bare minimum of broken chords, the minimal synth cover versions that emerged with the rise of the synthesizer reduced the structures of the consumer landscape in the same way as the artists of minimalism. Much of the supposed shock of the new in the punk sound was in fact indebted to a revisiting of, by now, fairly classic rock ‘n’ roll, rubbed raw into the most primitive elements you could get away with, as evidenced by the Sex Pistols’ cover of Eddie Cochran’s ‘C’mon Everybody’, for example. But it was only with the advent of the synthesizer that bands could really discard the guitar-bass-drums aesthetic that defined rock ‘n’ roll and begin to challenge its structure more rigorously. Perhaps the best known precursors of these experiments are Suicide’s re-imaginings of the ’50s as a hollowed out bank of sounds and gestures. Just as Judd, LeWitt and Flavin replaced the supermarket with its empty shell - grey, cold, neon-lit expanses of industrial wasteland - Alan Vega and Martin Rev used the new capacities of the Korg Mini Pops to distill the ghost of Elvis into a pulsating signal, like a fluorescent tube at the end of its life, flashing on and off in a vacant lot. The early ’60s cover version was devoted to content: who you covered was crucial. But for Suicide, Elvis and Chuck Berry were all the same. The noise of motorcycle gangs and the slow dances of a high school prom were boiled down to a psychotic sugary abstraction.

What expressiveness remained in Suicide’s neo-rock ‘n’ roll was excised by the minimal synth bands that followed. When Daniel Miller recorded his Music for Parties in 1980 under the pseudonym Silicon Teens, he wanted to find out what Chuck Berry would sound like if he’d played a synthesizer instead of a guitar. But he was also interested in the fact that new electronic instruments allowed you to prioritise the idea over the execution: you didn’t have to be a songwriter or musician to make music with them. In this he was demonstrating Phil Oakey of the Human League’s well known comment, that synth music was even better than punk because you didn’t even need to learn three chords to play it, just one finger. But he was also following the logic of much concurrent conceptual and minimal art that sought to displace the artist’s gesture using technical fabrication processes borrowed from post-industrial manufacture. The resultant album, featuring covers of ‘Memphis, Tennessee’ and ‘Judy in Disguise’ has been largely consigned to the novelty bin of history, but its interpretation of the canon of rock ‘n’ roll for the wired generation is exemplary. The combination of dead pan delivery with a beat faster than even Chuck Berry’s nimble fingers somehow manages to both delete the decades of musical cliché that had clogged the genre since the ’50s and overwrite it with the immediacy of proto-rock folk music like creole zydeco.

Of course a better known version of the same idea is Flying Lizards’ Top Ten. Following the success of 1979’s ‘Money’, and in light of the relatively quiet reception of a second album more focused on David Cunningham’s experimental music, Top Ten was comprised mainly of reworkings of rock ‘n’ roll classics like ‘Tutti Frutti’ and ‘Dizzy Miss Lizzie’. Here the icy vocals of Sally Peterson, who followed in Deborah Evans-Stickland footsteps after ‘Money’’s one hit wonder, were as important as the rudimentary instrumentation. Somehow after decades of sweaty rock ‘n’ roll put through the meat grinder of the culture industry and packaged in wave after wave of retro revival, the clinical, one-tone-fits-all approach seemed better suited to address the age. If rebellion had been fully co-opted, perhaps a kind of pre-empting of the evacuation of content and emotion that was part and parcel of the marketing of youth culture was strategically more useful. Flying Lizards video clips show guitars, drums and keyboards in place, but by no means in conventional use, more frequently being thumped than played, as a pre-recorded soundtrack dictates the pace.

Over in France, Doctor Mix and the Remix’s Wall of Noise, represented another whole album’s worth of standards massacred by post-punks Métal Urbain’s Eric Debris. With the aid of a drum machine, cheap reverb and guitar in overdrive, his rendition of ‘Brand New Cadillac’, but also more recent, alternative classics, like the Stooges’ ‘No Fun’, is notable for its slack attitude, kept in check only by the regimented timing of the machine.

This approach was taken to an extreme across the Atlantic by the Better Beatles, whose payback for the British Invasion on the album Mercy Beat was the cruelest of all. As news of John Lennon’s murder took over the airwaves, the Omaha based group considered the fab four to be an oppressive influence. But instead of going back to the origins of the American rhythm and blues sound that Lennon and McCartney were trying to emulate, they came up with a better strategy. Applying a devastating Midwestern drawl to a playlist of sacred cows, and working in ignorance of the Flying Lizards experiments, they didn’t even attempt to capture the signature melodies of tunes like ‘Penny Lane’, ‘Hello Goodbye’ or ‘Paperback Writer’. Instead, they combined random freeform basslines, basic drumming with simple synth refrains, rehearsed them to death to kill off any freshness or spontaneity, and produced music that sounded nothing like the Beatles beyond the unceremoniously recited lyrics. Often compared with the Residents’ Third Reich and Roll album, the Better Beatles were far less ambitious in their re-tooling of the music establishment. Initially playing around with Beatles songs because they had no original material to work with, they even quite liked the Beatles and just thought the idea was funny. But with the tenacity of a one liner taken too far, they succeeded in both mutilating the transitional moment of popular music’s acceptance as a serious medium and rebuilding the ruins into something that could still be meaningful long after the momentum of the ’60s was truly over. With a few looping riffs, the cover version was thus transformed from a medium of reverential deference to a subversive critical tool, externalising the repressed psychosis of the silly pop refrains that the white rock ‘n’ roll groups of the ’60s bleached of innuendo.

‘To make a rock ‘n’ roll record, technology is the least important thing’, said Keith Richards, meaning that music is an essence removed from its particular historical and material context. This is what allowed the Stones to translate those loud sexual and racial insinuations of early rock ‘n’ roll into slick English, boyish hip sounds. Each southern delta blues number they covered has an irreducible quality beyond its means of production. The minimal synth of the ’70s and ’80s, on the other hand, was busy with the project of deconstructing, rather than transcending the American century. What bands like the Flying Lizards or the Better Beatles aimed to achieve was to look at the recent past of pop music as a structure, and to collapse differences between styles, genres or trends, what Adorno called the manufactured difference between cultural product A versus cultural product B. This was a deliberate strategy of de-mythologisation, moving away from a Debordian conception of spectacular time. Spectacular time, wrote Debord, is the presentation of pseudo-events as significant differences: the past accumulated and consumed like any other commodity:

The production process’s constant innovations are not echoed in consumption, which presents nothing but an expanded repetition of the past. Because dead labor continues to dominate living labor, in spectacular time the past continues to dominate the present.

The interpretation of the past in minimal synth - empty of consumerist desire through technological means that rendered it cold and repetitive - seems to go against Debord’s analysis of popular culture’s attachment to the past. In fact, Debord’s critique itself, because of the changes in manufacturing discussed here and their influence on culture, has become a sort of style in its own right. To be cool in post-Fordist times means not to direct your consumerist desire towards a particular product or a particular moment in history, but to be able to view time, place and culture as flexible systems which can be customised at will.

Superficially, there is something incredibly cynical about the cool, sarcastic appropriations of minimal synth, denying rock ‘n’ roll what little authenticity remained in an ossifying form. At the same time that Tin Pan Valley released their ‘double B-side’ of synthed-up covers of ‘Hanky Panky’ and ‘Yakety Yak’, and that Sun Yama recorded their brilliant cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’, Kraftwerk were developing new ideas for a techno-pop that would leave guitar music behind. But rather than present a new narrative of progress through electronic music, these forgotten bands applied retro-garde methodologies to the existing ones, positing alternative timelines that collapsed the history of popular music as it had been with possible histories of futures past, where Chuck Berry did get to play a Korg instead of a Gibson. When we think of the role of the cover version in contemporary pop idol type reality television competitions, where the aim of each contestant is to decant as much subjectivity as possible into a given text, all the while obscuring the mechanisms which produce this subjectivity in front of our faces, perhaps this non-committal inhabiting of dead forms gains political relevance for today.

Pil and Galia Kollectiv are London-based artists, writers and curators working in collaboration. They are also lecturers in Fine Art at the University of Kent. www.kollectiv.co.uk

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PCPRaidio C!ties

PCPRaidio C!ties

This week radio show.

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ARTIST                    SONG                    LABEL                        ALBUM
PCP 2/5/2011
1.    KERRI CHANDLER    “Bar a Thym”    NRK Music    Bar a Thym / Sunshine & Twilight - Single
2.    MOSCA     ”Don Corleone winery/ bar a thym. Mash”Fact    Mosca fact mix
3.    KASSEM_MOSSE  “Demo_Drums_Ripping” Kinda Soul     2d
4.    MOSCA      “Tilt_Shift_Julio_Bashmore_Remix”    Fat City    Producer 3 Part 1
5.    KRYSTAL KLEAR     “Persuaded_Me”    Hoya:hoya     Hoya:hoya 1 - Illum Sphere, Lone & Krystal Klear
6.    HACKMAN        “Made Up My Mind”    Ptn    Made Up My Mind / Bam Bam
7.    M.I.A.”IT Takes a Muscle Pearson Sound Refix”    XL IT_TAKES_A_MUSCLE
8.    A MADE UP SOUND    “Demons (Reprise)    A Made Up Sound    Demons
9.    MARCUS PRICE & CARLI    Var E NÃÃÃken (Girl Unit Remix)  14 tracks  14 tracks: Dance du Jour
10.    REDLIGHT FT. MS DYNAMITE “What_You_Talking_About_Roska_Remix” MTA Records What_You_Talking_About
11.    PLASTIKMAN     ”Spastik”    Novemute    Spastic ep
12.    HYETAL        “Phoenix”   ORCA RECORDINGS    Phoenix / Like Silver ep
13.    EOMAC     “You Don’t Know What This Means To Me”    Hsuan Records    EP One (IRE)
14.    GIGGS    “Saw”            SN1 Records    A Walk in the Park
15.    CLOUDS &NATURAL MARCUS    “Mighty Eyeball Rays”  2nd Drop Music     Mighty Eyeball Rays
16.    ROYAL T    “Damn It! (Mensah n Superisk Remix)”    Boogaloo City    Damn It! EP

Sixfoot Apprentice Raidio Playlist 05-02-2011

ARTIST                    SONG                        ALBUM                                  LABEL
1.    C!TIES - “Satellites Rmx” (from ‘SDCP001′ on Stress Debt Chest Pains Records) IRE
2.    JAZZY JEFF & THE FRESH PRINCE - “Girls Ain’t Nothin’ But Trouble (Dj 0.000001 Remix)” (from Magicalbass Soundcloud)
3.    CHARLES TREES - “Mahjongg” (from ‘The Dream’ on Musique Large Records)
4.    DJ 0.000001 - “We All Fall Down” (from Magicalbass Soundcloud)
5.    AEED - “Elektricity” (from ‘Synesthesia’ on Error Broadcast Records)
6.    T-WOC - “Jarpoon” (unreleased) IRE
7.    TEN PAST SEVEN - “Johnsons Cows (Toby Kaar Remix)” (from Toby Kaar Soundcloud) IRE
8.    LOW LIMIT - “Where You Been 7.0″ (from ‘The Golden Handshake EP’ on Numbers Records)
9.    BOSCO DELREY - “My My Racecar” (from ‘Space Junky / My My Racecar EP’ on Mad Decent Records)
10.    ANGKORWAT - “Big/Little Edie” (from ‘Early EP’ on Angkorwat Bandcamp) IRE
11.    YANNIS KYRIAKIDES & ANDY MOOR - “Vamvakaris” (from ‘Rebetika’ on Unsounds Records)

Shit Blogger

It starting to feel like going to confession when I blog (apart from putting up radio shows) - ‘forgive me father,  it’s been twenty years since my last confession…’ etc. This post is to round up a few gigs that are on at the moment. A lot of good stuff , local and international on this week. And a shout(lovely dj slang) out to everybody in Galway for making Bap to the Future a great night, during the gig and after. Boom shaka laka.

Tonight the Kclub with the Standard crew. It’s a night showing our appreciation of City Discs, a top Dublin record shop which is closing. I feel obscurely guilty about this as I’ve seriously reduced the number of records I buy over the last 18 months ie. since I began using serato. I was a major vinyl loyalist, but no longer  in fact I’ve been heard to gleefully shout ‘fuck vinyl!’. If dj’s stop buying vinyl the games is up.Which is sad but there ya go.

And tomorrow night the launch of  Big Monster Love’s album ‘Game Over’. It’s available here. Support on the night come from Moutpiece and Brian Kelly.

There’s a bunch more (such as Ramadaman and Mosca on Saturday) but put them up later.

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 SixFoot apprentice and I Saturday week ago.

artist    name    album    label
OBJEKT    Tinderbox
ROBERT HOOD    _Museum -    Minamal Nation    -Axis
OBJEKT    The_Goose_that_Got_Away
AALIYAH    R U That Somebody? (Brenmar Windy City Mix)
HACKMAN     Made Up My Mind    Made Up My Mind / Bam Bam
M.I.A           IT_TAKES_A_MUSCLE_PEARSON_SOUND_REFIX
LB_DUB_CORP    Take_It_Down_In_(dub)
JAMES BLAKE    I Mind
CASSIE    Must Be Love (Jacques Greene’s Marriage Proposal mix)    palmsout.com remix sunday
MOUNT  KIMBLE    mount Kimble -Before_I_Move_Off
VHS Head    Trademark_Ribbons_of_Gold

THE BIONIC RATS - “Stand Down Cowen” (from The Bionic Rats bandcamp site) (IRE)
THE ONE AM RADIO - “Take On Me” (from ‘Pop Massacre’ on Friends Of Friends Records)
CAPTAIN MOONLIGHT - “Well Now (Rubberbandits Remix)” (from ‘Well Now EP’ on Captain Moonlight bandcamp site) (IRE)
M.O.P. - “Ante Up (Remix)” from ‘Ten Years And Gunnin’ on Columbia Records)
MANUS GOAN - “Superstition Remix” (unreleased) (IRE)
PRINCE KONG - “Fugue” (from ‘I Make Me Rigid’ on Middle Management Records) (IRE)
MOTHS - “Blisters” (from Moths bandcamp site) (IRE)
THE XX - “Basic Space (Lunice Remix)” (unreleased)
THE PIXIES - “Wave Of Mutilation (Live)” (from ‘Pixies At The BBC’ on 4AD Records)
RICHIE PRICE - “I’m That Guy” (unreleased)
MELJOANN - “Reptillian” (from ‘Squick’ on Boy Scout Audio Records) (IRE)
SRC - “Goomba VIP” (from ‘Quality Street’ on Butterz Records)
PRGz - “Stop’n'Go” (from ‘Rocket Fuel EP’ on Paper Route Gangstaz Records)
THUNDERHEIST - “Jerk It (Megasoid Remix)” (from ‘Jerk It EP’ on Nasty Mix Records)
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Sixfoot Apprentice and I on last weeks show. Think I’m on for about the first 50 mins. Tracklist to follow shortly.

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Headin’ out shortly to our !kbirthday. Free chocalate rice crispy buns to the first 100. info

PCPRaidio Noid the Droid 3.0

As the world travels on down the skull road, Noid the Droid joins me for some darkswing moves.

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Noid the Droid
1.    Downliners Sekt - Negative Green (Disboot)
2.    Lone - Let The Music Play On (Hoya Hoya)
3.    Equalized - EQD 003 A1 (Equalized)
4.    Headhunter - Chasing Dragons (Idle Hands)
5.    Spatial - 100402 (Infrasonics)
6.    Norman Nodge - NN 8.0 (MDR)
7.    Pinch - Croydon House (Swamp81)
8.    Illum Sphere - Sweat The Descent (Hoya Hoya)
9.    Pearson Sound - Blanked (Hessle Audio)

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10.    Pariah - The Slump (R&S)
11.    Kassem Mosse - Untitled_A1 (Workshop)
12.    The Revolting Cocks    Linger Ficken’ Good (Music For Nations
13.    )
14.    Plastikman - spastik (plus8)
15.    Shed -    Another_Wdged_Chicken(Ostgut ton)
16.    Raime -    If Anywhere_was_here_he_would_know_where_we_are(BLACKEST EVER BLACK)
17.    Raime/Regis - This_Foundry_Regis_Version (BLACKEST EVER BLACK)

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18.    A Crash Course In Science - Flying Turns (Stone’s Throw)
19.    Hyetal - Phoenix (Orca)
20.    Mala - Education (DMZ)
21.    Vince Mack Mahon - Why Is It So Damn Relevant? (Community Skratch Music)
22.    Brandy - Full Moon(K Warren Vox) (White)
23.    TNT - Grimey (Left Records)
24.    Bass Clef - 23 Tunnel Chords (Blank Tapes)
25.    Letherette - Cherryade (Ho Tep)
26.    Kassem Mosse - We Speak For those (Nonplus)
27.    Abstract Elements - Abysmal Depths (Exit)
28.    Rockwell - Reverse Engineering (Darkestral)

PCPRaidio Another City

This weeks show, Sixfoot Aprentince and I.  My set starting of with a sample about being Irish at the moment , into dark dub house into house into  swung techno and funky.

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Tracklist here for my bit (for those like me that don’t listen to mixes with no tracklist) at 23.50 mins in , will put up Sixfoot’s and fix up this post a bit shortly.

Sixfoot Apprentice
DEFEKT - ‘Replicants Mind’ (from ‘Stimulus EP’ on Takeover Recordings) IRE
DIGGER - ‘Brookfiled Grime (Scheme Boy Remix)’ (from ‘Brookfiled Grime EP’ on Second Square To None Records) IRE
SARSPARILLA - ‘Dirty Road House Dancing’ (unreleased) IRE
AUTOMATIC TASTY - ‘Through The Ascii House (Alien Hand Remix)’ (from ‘World Wide Web’ on Acroplane Records) IRE
Q-LAZZARUS - ‘Goodbye Horses’ (from ‘Goodbye Horses EP’ on All Nations Records)
2nd bit…>>>

PCP
Sample from Martin Scorsese’s The Departed
Veil - Eat the World - System Drills Vol 1 - Test Conditions
Raime -Retread -Raim ep -Blackest ever Black
These New Puritans - Hologram (Salem Remix)  - Domino
Various Productions- Track 1(house track) Keep her Keen ep (Been playin’  this for a couple of years and only now realise it’s Actress Lost, oops, come to think of it realised a year ago and then forgot, the vinyl has no track list…-Varioius Recordings
Jimmy Edgar - One Twenty Detail v3
Giorgio Moroder - E=Mc2 - E=Mc2 (1979)
Mike Monday and Will Saul- Small_Moments   - Sequence 1 ep -Aus Music
Nochexxx - Ritalin_Love  -Ramp
Mike Monday and Will Saul-Sequence 1  - Sequence 1 ep - Aus Music
Altered Natives -What Life Once Was
Basic_Soul_Unit_-_Jak’d_Freq- A_Made_Up_Sound_-_Acid_bonus remix -Creme Organisation
SEROCEE - Badeng! (MJ Cole remix) Badeng!
Cooly g-Phat_Si

sixfoot A
T-WOC - ‘Good Father’ (from ‘Good Father 7′ on All City Records) IRE
ROLLERSKATERS - ‘Sleep Tight’ (Star Slinger Remix) (from ‘Remixes 2010′ on Star Slinger bandcamp)
ALPINE - ‘Icy Poles’ (Star Slinger Remix) (from ‘Remixes 2010′ on Star Slinger bandcamp)
BOSCO DELREY - ‘Space Junky’ (from ‘Space Junky’ on Mad Decent Records)
MESSIAH J & THE EXPERT - ‘Something Outta Nothing’ (from ‘Now This I Have To Hear’ on Inaudible Records) IRE
NIAMH DE BARRA - ‘His Own Drum’ (from ‘Cusp EP’ on Second Square To None Records) IRE

Also playing at in the Dublin Conservitive Club tonight and at this tomorrow.

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PCPRaidio Intensified Brain Melt

This weeks show starting off with Aul Wan’s grim tale of penury and loneliness which suits what’s going on in Ireland this week. Other Irish tunes in my bits include tropical drum and bass from Welfare, top Irish electro from Negatron , Speed and Acid munching experimental techno anthem Brain Your Melt from Ed Devane amongst others. Sixfoot’s set includes mad Italians Adriano Celentan making up what sounds like English to them, Exillon’s remix of Cat Power doing Moonshiner and J Dilla getting all ‘Now that’s what I call music’ with his versioning of the ‘Safety Dance’.

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1. AUL WAN - Aul Wan’s Grim Rap – Def Record 2009 –
2. GIGGS – The Hardest- Let ‘Em Have It – XL
3. WELFARE - Supa Trupa –unreleased- IRE
4. BIG BOI - The Train Part II [Ft. Sam Chris]- The Son of Chico Dusty – Def Jam
5. TODDLA T- Boom DJ From The Steel City - Skanky Skanky 1965
sixfapp 6. CAPTAIN MOONLIGHT - ‘The Final Curtain’ - ‘Agroculture Part 3 - The Lough’ self-released IRE
7. ADRIANO CELENTANO - ‘Prisencolinensinaincuisol’ - ‘Nostalrock’ - Clan Celentano Records
8. SLEPCY - With Charles Bukowski - The Ride’ - ‘We Are The Newest Battle Models’ - Cock Rock Disco Records
9. FM BELFAST - I Can Feel Love - ‘How To Make Friends’ - World Champion- Records
10. OL’ DIRTY CHANCER - ‘My Own Fault feat. Sebi C’ - ‘Don’t Dwell - It’ - Community Skratch Music IRE
11. J. STAR - ‘Music Time’ - ‘Cut Ups, Bruck Ups, and Muck Ups Volume 1′ - Large Hole Records
pcp 12. DYNAMIX II – Bass Generator -1985 To Present Rephlex
13. NEGATRON- Collider - Unreleased IRE
14. NEGATRON- In Da House - Unreleased IRE
15. ED DEVANE -Brain Your Melt Featuring Scurvy Lass -Molten Membrane -Mantrap IRE
16. ED DEVANE -Doomtime Featuring Scurvy Lass- Molten Membrane - Mantrap IRE
17. T-POLAR - Cooper_track - Unreleased IRE
18. MAJOR GRAVE - Dilettantism - Standard ep 2. Standard IRE
19. FRANKIE BINGO -Cold Without You Original Mix -www.soundcloud.com/frankiebingo IRE
sixfapp 20. HOUSE OF PAIN - ‘Jump Around Jantsen Remix’ unreleased
21. CAT POWER - Moonshiner -Exillon- Remix’ unreleased
22. DJ MEK - ‘Look Out He’s Irish -unreleased IRE
23. J DILLA - ‘Safety Dance’ - ‘Donut Shop’ - Stones Throw Records
24. BOGDAN RACZYNSKI - ‘Untitled 8′ - ‘Alright!’ - Rephlex Records)

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Sixfoot apprentice starts off the show with a great Irish led mash up set including; Manus Goan’s excellent ‘Party and Bullshit’ the pretty ‘Shook’ from Emancipator, which using a Sigur rós sample could be too sweet , but saves itself with a great acapella , a Pixies journey, the nasty and amazing ‘Twisted’ from Scary Eire which I had forgotten about and haven’t heard since in came out about. My set follows and  doesn’t know if it’s mash up or linear beats. It includes a mad disturbing/fun piece from Jennifer Walshe (she’s this months cover artist in the Wire) , Meljoann, warpo backwards Micheal Jackson biznezz from 1l and Don Daneeka’s ‘Like a fool’ exemplifying some uk funky’s turn to classic house basslines . Enjoy.

Also you may have noticed a lot more Irish tunes in these shows. Had begun to try and play 25% Irish tunes and Sixfoot plays lots of Irish so since he’s got onboard we’ll be hitting that easy.

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Sixfoot Apprentice
1.    ONRA - ‘The Anthem’ (from ‘Chinoiseries’ on Favourite Recordings)
2.    MANUS GOAN - ‘Woke Up’ (from ‘!Kaboogie Sampler Volume 3′ on !Kaboogie Records) (IRE)
3.    RUBBERBANDITS - ‘The Greyhound Shuffle’ (unreleased) (IRE)
4.    RI-RA - ‘25 O’Clock In The Morning’ (from ‘Horses Work For Donkeys Wages’ on Maddaxxe Records) (IRE)
5.    PRINCE KONG - ‘Fugue’ (from ‘I Make Me Rigid’ on Middle Management Records) (IRE)
6.    MELODICA DEATHSHIP - ‘Bang Out Cannons’ (from ‘Doom Your Cities Doom Your Towns’ self-released) (IRE)
7.    EMANCIPATOR - ‘Shook’ (unreleased)
8.    WHITE ZOMBIE - ‘More Human Than Human’ (LORN Remix) (unreleased)
9.    SCARY EIRE - ‘Twisted’ (from ‘The Scary Era’ on Scare Raid Records) (IRE)
10.    RAS G - ‘Untitled’ (from ‘Secondhand Sureshots’ on Dublab Records)
11.    MANUS GOAN - ‘Party n’ Bullshit’ (unreleased) (IRE)
12.    SQUIRE OF GOTHOS - ‘Sum’a Dat Gangsta Shit’ (unreleased)
13.    RI-RA - ‘Front Bar’ (from ‘Horses Work For Donkeys Wages’ on Maddaxxe Records) (IRE)
14.    DJ C - ‘Abc Traffic Jam’ (from ‘MasHits’ on Mashit Records)
15.    THE PIXIES - ‘Where Is My Mind?’ (from ‘Surfer Rosa’ on 4AD Records)
16.    PASTA MASTA - ‘Pixie P’ (unreleased) (IRE)
17.    DJ ZEBRA - ‘Get It On My Mind’ (unreleased)
18.    TRICKY - ‘Murder Weapon’ (from ‘Mixed Race’ on Domino Recordings)

PCP in a Shuí
19.    MUNCHI - Shottas_feat_Mr_Lexx_Club_Edit -Murdasound - T&A records
20.    1L-Wanna be startin’ somethin’-Das Nonstop-Programm-Res Freq
21.    RICHIE HAWTIN - Spastik -plastikman
22.    JENNIFER WALSHE- (your name here 4)-Nature Data-Interval Recordings(IRE)
23.    MELJOANNE-So Academic-Squick- Boyscout audio (IRE)
24.    CLOSER MUSIK-Closer Dancer-14 tracks deep inside Matias Aguayo -14tracks
25.    IMAGINATION- Changes-Dimitri_From_Paris_Nightdubbin_Instrumental-Nightdubblin ep - BBE
26.    SARSPIRRILA - The Count (Digital Wav)- Rappid fire buzzer ep - !Kaboogie records 03(Ire)
27.    SALEM- Killer- King Night- I am sound records
28.    GEENUS- Night- Volumes One- Rinse FM
29.    PRINCE -When Doves cry - Purple Rain -Warner Brothers
30.    THE MARTIN BROTHERS-Steal_Drums-The steal drums ep- dirty bird
31.    DOC DANEEKA- Like A Fool- Television EP -Pattern
32.    JULIO BASHMORE- Footsteppin-untitled -Ten thousand yen

PS.

If you’re in Dublin join us in the Kclub tonight with Gifted and Blessed(all city) Frakie Bingo and Defect + residents, more info here

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!Kaboogie kollegue Sixfoot Apprentice joining me on the show this week and from here on out.

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artist                 name            album

pcp 1.Ramadanman-  Pitter Modeselektion Vol. 01 Part 1
2. Sbtrkt - The_Unspoken
3. Nochexxx - Ritalin_Love
4. Nochexxx -  Timepiece
5. Frank Vigroux - hidden cd track-  Camera Police
6. Frank Vigroux-  Matraque-  Camera Police
sixfapp 7. DeadFader - No Theif (IRE)
8. RiRá - Clash In. (IRE)
9. Rubberbandits - Pure Awkward. (IRE)
10. Adultrock - Hermione. (IRE)
11. Manus Goan - Woke Up. (IRE)
12. Melodica Deathship - Bang Out! Cannons!. (IRE)
pcp 13. cavern - DARDA - community skratch music 09
14. Mount Kimble- Before_I_Move_Off - Crooks and Lovers
15. Raime We_Must_Hunt_Under_The_Wreckage_Of_Many_Systems
16. The Slits- I Heard It Through the Grapevine -Cut (Deluxe Edition)
17. 2562 The_Wind-Up
18. Mount Kimble - Carbonated -  Crooks and Lovers
19. Twoc Fez VIP (IRE) Forthcoming
20. Will Saul - Sequence_1
sixfapp 21. Gon - Chaka. (IRE)
22. Frankie Bingo - Cold Without You. (IRE)
23. SRC - Lemsip.
24. Cignol - Leiden Ex. (IRE)
pcp 25. Blasterbra – Sweetheart the Punk(IRE)
sixfapp 26. Monster Zoku Emsemble - Eat Brains

PCPRaidio - Kid Kameleon and Tinker

As part of thier European tour, Kid Kameleon and Tinker stopped off at the K club last Thursday and on Saturday came in to the show with me and dropped this set of excellent and eclectic sonics. I’ll try and catch Tinker and get her selections filled in.

Prince Kong feat Lady Grew - Ghetto Cropee
Debruit -KO Debout

Kid K

1. Om Unit - The Corridor (Shigeto Remix)
2. Mexicans With Guns -  Obsidian
3. Flying Lotus -  Pie Face
4. Downliners - Sekt From Under Spinning Lights
5. Nabo - 4 Minutes
6. Coco Bryce - Dis Cam Belie
7. Shigeto  - And We Gonna (Samiyam Chopsticks Remix)
8. Kirby Ditko -  Headfirst
9. Teebs-  Why Like This
10. Shen-  Lessons
11. Arp 101-  Warriors Galactic
12. Kelpe -  No Film
13. Quarta330 -  Ahirskew
14. Killing Skills -  Van Dijck Brown
15. Om Unit -  The Corridor
16. AEED-  More Time
17. Dam Mantle -  (Magical) Dark Ride, Trip To The Dungeons (feat Prof.I.See)
18. Take-  Begin End Begin (Take’s Retrospective Remix)

Tinker (fill in blanks)
Kid K again.

19. Alix Perez Untitled
20. Spiders Spiders
21. Andy Stott Drippin’
22. Pavel Ambiont Spiral Flow
23. Ramadanman Pitter
24. Dam Mantle Broken Slumber
25. Desto Ice Cold
26. Robot Koch Dough ft. Addiquit (Salva Remix)
27. Eskmo The Melody
28. Teleseen Mandrake

PCPRaidio - Kid Kameleon and Tinker

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TINKER_vs_KID_KAMELEON -!Splat (a promo mix done for their Kclub appearence)

TRACKLIST
Jimmy Edger - One Twenty Detail (!K7)
Bruises - Rush Rush Rush (Unreleased)
Blawan - Iddy (Hessle)
Ghost Mutt - Thoroughbred (Donky Pitch)
Mad EP - Bass Crunchers (!kaboogie)
Ramadanman - Pitter (Modeselektion)
SRC - Goomba VIP (Butterz)
Planet Soap - Camillion [+verb rebubble] (forthcoming Car Crash Set)
Calle13 - Atrevet (Sharps Squiggle Remix) (Saedos)
Nabo - 4 Minutes (Hobby Industries)
The Plain Ensemble - DangerFive (Unreleased)
EPROM - Rubber Sheets (Self Released)
DJ Food - Dark Lady [808 State] (Ninja Tune)
Eskmo - Let Them Sing (Planet Mu)
Slugabed - knsdf (Self Released)

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TINKER LINKS:
http://www.tinkerbeats.com/
http://soundcloud.com/tinker-beats

KID KAMELEON LINKS:
http://kidkameleon.com/
http://soundcloud.com/kidkameleon

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1.    Tropics - Soft Vision(Planet Mu)
2.    Automatic Tasty – We were Robots (Forthcoming D1) [Irl]

**Noid The Droid**
3.    XX – Do You Mind (Young Turks)
4.    Instra:mental - Let’s Talk ([nakedlunch]) [Irl Label]
5.    Bun B feat. The Ying Yang Twins - Git it (Rap-A-Lot 4 Life)
6.    Dorian Concept – Trilingual Dance Sexperience (Affine Records)
7.    Andy Stott - Choke (Modern Love)
8.    Babe Rainbow - Pop Common (Warp)
9.    Kowton - Basic Music Knowledge (Idle Hands)
10.    Kassem. Mosse & M. Mup - We Beat This Thing (Mikrodisko)
11.    Actress - Machine and Voice (Nonplus)
12.    Knxwledge – Bibibamp (All City) (Irl Label)
13.    Factory Floor - A Wooden Box (Blast First)
14.    Maching Drum - Let Me F*ck It (Lucky Me)
15.    Wajeed - The Dragon (Fat City)

**Back 2 Back-me first**
16.    Julio Bashmore – Footsteppin’(Ten Thousand Yen)
17.    Skudge - Convolution (Aardvarck Remix) (Skudge)
18.    Doc Daneeka – Copz(PTN)
19.    Funkineven - Heartpound (Eglo)
20.    Seiji –Weedkiller(Seiji Music)
21.    Nochexxx - Ritalin Love (Ramp)
22.    Marcus Price and Carli – Var E Naaakan (Girl Unit remix)
23.    Kowton - Countryman (Keysound)
24.    Alex Smoke –Make my day (Actress remix)
25.    Mount Kimble – Carbonated(Hotflush Recordings)
26.    Blackout - Blackout (Blackout)
27.    Naphta – Soundclash1 (Ghost relick)(Ruff Revival)[IRL}

T-woc - Meccano

T-woc’s  - Meccano, off Delayed responses 3.  Nuff big tunes coming from T-woc’s direction at the mo, check the Fez in my last mix for an idea or the quality and lots more on the way.

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WARNING:Feeling wordy.

This weeks’ show/the way music feels to me this week.

I should mention here that I rarely play the same tune twice on my radio shows as for me the nature of music/listening has changed/accelerated and my neophilia is such that most new music quickly loses it’s flavour (a bit like when you take a new potato out of the ground, it’s best eaten quickly as the sugars quickly become less sweet, less complex). In  Gibson’s choice observation/aspiration  from his new book Zero History “It’s about atemporality. About opting out of the industrialization of novelty. It’s about deeper code.” . The flip-side of this is being caught in the moment - acutely temporal, a desirous  machine tuned to run on novelty(though we will run on other fuels).

Anyway, starting off with noise/electronics from Elah and Sutekh’s Bach/midi based yummy sounds. Salem’s Cocteau Twins recalling music has been called goth crunk, the sound, poised  between aggression, melancholy and hopefull bliss seems of the type that comes to the fore in a recession. Seefeel’s new tune Fault chimes similarly,  as do tunes from Balem Acab, cavern and Ed Devane. Fresh post drum and bass stylings from D:bridge and new material from Ramadaman and Mount Kimble, Twoc and others bring this rattlebag of wintry discontent onto a cold dancefloor. Linked tunes can be downloaded.

Glitch log - Earth hum on the Elah and cyclic redundancy check error on the cd containing the show leading to an estimate of 10146 days to copy the file to my laptop. Not top and tailed so a little of the previous and following shows at begining end.

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Artist   - Title -   Album
1.    Elah -    Circle two: Coastal Rotation for Dune Loop
2.    Sutekh-   Bitter Tails- On Bach
3.    Salem-    Frost-     King Night
4.    Seefeel-  Faults-    Faults
5.    Balam Acab-Dream Out-See Birds Ep
6.    cavern-   DARDA-     community scratch music 09   (irl?)
7.    Ed Devane-Arcane-    Molten Membrane (irl)
8.    Synkro-   Letting Go (d-Bridge Remix)
9.    Commix-   Belleview (dBridge Belle-Reviewed Remix) -Re:Call To Mind EP Part 1
10.    Ramadanman-Pitter-   Modeselektion Vol. 01 Part 1
11.    Mount Kimble-Blind_Night_Errand- Crooks&Lovers
12.    Twoc-      The Fez  VIP (original forthcoming rudimentary records) (irl)
13.    Mount Kimble -Carbonated-Crooks&Lovers
14.    Turn-      XXXY-     Every Step Forward EP
15.    Fis T -    Deep_Mover
16.    Fis T-     Night_Hunter
17.    White label(irl)
18.    Sarsparilla-The Count-Rapidfirebuzzer ep. (irl)
19.    Killer-Salem-         King Night
20.    Mount Kimble-Before_I_Move_Off-Crooks&Lovers

Da ta da da da da daaaah! -Kaboogie Records 3!

Lots going on. Should have posted this on monday. But here ya go KGB03 is out! Here are kind words from Wayne&Wax and and Harmless noise.

!Kaboogie Record’s third release is out this week (20th) with tracks from Mad EP, Ed Devane, Sarsparilla and the Banker…

And the third installment of T-Woc’s Delayed Responses series is out the week after (27th) UK and Worldwide or available now in Dublin stores (pick up a copy here).

the window Delayed Responses Vol 3 (clip) by t-woc
Dirtdigger - Delayed Responses Vol 3 (Clip) by t-woc

PCPRaidio Monsoon Funky n’ Bass

Last weeks show; Starting off with some hauntology from belbury poly, into some jerky white boy punk funk from the Jellies and then into a mix of tropical uk funky  inspired by last weekend monsoon weather, featuring lots of f”$Ckd up stuff from the excellent Actress, the most dancey Autechre in a while, new Lorn and Dj Nate.

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1.    Belbury Poly -The_Young_People
2.    Jellies -Jive_Baby_On_A_Saturday_Night_Original
3.    Jellies-Jive_Baby_On_A_Saturday_Night_

Tommy_Stupid_Jonny_Trunks_Backward_Mix
4.    Oriol_-_Memories
5.    Oriol_-_LW
6.    Pariah-Railroad
7.    Pariah -The slump
8.    The Martin Brothers - Steal Drums - Julio Bashmore mix
9.    Breach- Fatherles
10.    The Martin Brothers Steal_Drums_Riva_Starr_Dub
11.    Cooly g-Phat_Si
12.    Kode9_-_You_Don’t_Wash_(DJ-Kicks_Actress’s_Negril_mix_dub)
13.    DJ_Naughty_-_Goosebumps_(original_mix)
14.    Actress GIT IT
15.    justin martin -Get Low (Original Mix)
16.
17.    Make My Day (Actress remix)
18.    unknown
19.    Zinc_-_Bounce_Up
20.    Spooky -Murderer
21.    Autechre_-_Y7.
22. Meljoann - Historical Exhibit (Plastic Artefact Mix) (irl)
23. Lorn Never_Enough
24.    DJ_Nate_-_Let_Da_Beat_Build

Night and Day

Today - Giving a Serato Scratch Live workshop at 4pm the Panama Scout hall at this - Phizzfest

Tonight -

Busy busy - proper post coming soon.

PCPRaidio_Dj Bpm

Here’s a show from a couple of weeks ago when I was joined in the Studio by DJ Bpm after her appearence that week at the Kclub.  It’s a classy mix of grime and dubstep. We go back to back about half way in, though I realise only during and after that the tracks I have brought sound kinda like dissin’ tracks , wasn’t,  honest.

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1.    Goblin - Coki
2.    Its War (white label promo)-  Footsie & Tubby
3.    The Devil Within - Spooky
4.    The Next Hype - Tempa T/ Scratcha DVA remix
5.    So What-  Wonder (unknown remix)
6.    Freaks - Virgo
7.    Thunderclapz E.P-  Thunderclapz
8.    Sad Song - Virgo
9.    Thunderclapz E.P - Thunderclapz
10.    Anthem - Virgo
11.    Get The F U p- Ill Bill Bachelor
12.    Filth - Skream

Back to back from here on in with me coming in with -

13.    Kill All A’ Dem (VIP Mix) - Scratcha DVA
14.    The Rattle Snake - War Tech
15.    TERROR_DANJAH_-_Sidechain
16.    Mozart 3000 (Carmina Buranda) - Carl Orff remix by Cotti and Kromestar
17.    Bad Breed    T-Camp
18.    Werewolf - Spooky (Iron Gates remix)
19.    Jammer_-_Better_Than_(Lorn_remix)
20.    Signs V.I.P - Heavyload
21.    Riverside (Breakage Remix)            Sidney Samson
22.    Rebz_-_War_Skank_(feat_Trilla)
23.    Shove It - Deftones (Unknown remix)
24.    Skream_-_Midnight_Request_Line
25.    On and On - Erykah Badu (unknown remix)

Me Hols/ Back from Berlin / Tonights radio/ feeling

Been away for pretty much six weeks , lots of stuff. Berlin which was hot in the first das gaff.

Highlights of which included hanging out with these wacky  atompunk sound artists.

And watching Prince Kong kissing babies.(pics to follow)

Within ten minutes of walking into said second gaff(above) , I found a Cd  of this Seeed Berlin anthem(below) which I’d lost a while ago and been looking for.Which correctly boded well for our stay there. Highlights of this stay included getting into Berghain on this visit (didn’t dig my beard, hat and dark glasses last time, the squares) and watching Richie !Kaboogie convert to HiNRG disco( no pics ’cause they’re banned in Berghain for that very reason) and tile graff artist Dj Tile cutters  exploits, in which he repeatedly failed to get into any clubs(’cept one in the end).

In other news, with me on the radio show at 10.30 tonight and streaming here  is ( ex renowned D&B dj and now renowned Grime Dj)   Dj Bpm, an Irish Dj based in London. She blew up the K club(next -Lorn) on Thursday and did this great mix for us a while ago.

Also expect some of the tunes from this mix which is blowing my mind as I write.

Mike Paradinas Footwork/Juke Mix by Mike Paradinas (A.K.A. Μ-Ziq) on Mixcloud

Also I meant to blog this ages ago(but was on me hols), but if you haven’t heard Dj Gaz le Rock’s punk and garage show on 2xfm you’re missing out on some of the best radio RTE have put out in ages.

2fm Loving Room Floor 19 sept 2010 by Dj Gaz Le Rock Finally here’s the third installment in the ‘Wallets Full of Blood’ - Irish economic crash zombie movie series - ‘Roscommon Death Trip’ ’The injustice of time - rendered obsolete.’Rain falls on the snow. The Contagion has taken hold. Ghosts from the old Dead Republic are emerging everywhere as the day of judgement approaches.On Black Tuesday a guilt ridden political functionary runs from his job burying bodies in the city. He is tortured by voices of reproach as he journeys towards home. He recounts the history of his dealings with Fingers - a boss ‘who made the old boss look like Mother Teresa’.Meanwhile, back in the city, amid the spiraling negativity, Fingers and his acolytes lay the foundations for a new Easter Rising.

PCPRaidio Running Berllin

Last Saturday’s radio-show recorded in the few days between returning to Dublin from doing the underground piano bar (Michael Eavis - “most magical night of my life”- Q magazine, he recommends us a minute into the clip above) in Glastonbury and heading to Berlin with my primate group for a month. Having fun running around here listening to mixes - last one was this classy mix from Jamie xx available here. (smooth dj link)Saw the xx at glasto, good set with the obligatory ‘glasto moment’, where Florence machine came on and sang an imitation of her sampled part on the xx remix of ‘You’ve got the love’.  I will update this post later with some photo’s,  first have to wrestle with apple corp anti usability and bastardness policy to get some pics off one of their machines.

 PCPRaidio Running Berlin

Download

1.    ORIOL -  Coconut Coast
2.    The XX  - Basic Space The XX (Pariah Remix)
3.    Imagination- Changes_Dimitri_From_Paris_Nightdubbin_Instrumental_
4.    FLOATING_POINTS_-_Vacuum_Boogie
5.    Naphta soundclash1 - ghost relick
6.    Martin Kemp  Fix
7.    Lil Silva- No Hooks
8.    Altered Natives-What Life Once Was (Original)
9.    Marcus Price & Carli -  Var E Näääken (Girl Unit Remix)
10.    Jackal Youth - Let Me Be
11.    Dbridge  -Zx81 (Shed Remix)
12.    Todd_Edwards_-_I_Might_Be_(MJ_Cole_remix)
13.    Ramadanman- Glut
14.    Alex Smoke - Make My Day (Actress remix)
15.    timberlee_rmx_mast
16.    Jackal Youth - Let Me Be
17.    Sbtrkt  - Rekorda
18.    Production Unit - With An X
19.    Zander Hardy - Attack
20.    SEROCEE  - Badeng! (MJ Cole remix)
21.    GIRL UNIT- IRL (DVA’s Hi Emotions remix)
22.    Altered Natives   - What Life Once Was (Original)
23.    Sekta_feat_Spoek_Mathambo_-_Peterpan_(Julio_Bashmore_dub)
24.    MJ_Cole_-_Thekla_Riddim
25.    Bok Bok - Dance Report
26.    Africa Hitech- Lash Out
27.    SRC_-_Lemsip
28.    TERROR_DANJAH_-_Sidechain
29.    Africa Hitech -Blen_Instrumental
30.    Marcus Price & Carli Var E Näääken (Girl Unit Remix)

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Digital playtime and Computer love

Two strangely similar but very different gigs this weekend. Brother Ludo and I playing as Homoludo on the bill with Subversus this Friday in support of  Basek (mix to check) at mad chiptune and video game night Gamepak. Also playing elsewhere in the venue  that night are Martyn, who with Kode 9(link to a good review of his dissapointing book, Sonic Warfare) played my fav set at Block this year) and Dj Yoda…which is nice. And on Sat I think I’m playing at some diy media party thing also but will post when I know more.

And (again) on Sunday, Big Monster Love, sings of history in the digital age and love as social networking in Bewley’s Grafton street.

PCPRaidio Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor

Show recorded a couple of weeks ago(note to self -put them up quicker). Starting off with some hip hop tempo neon flavoured electro from Intra:mental, then mainly a big bunch of uk funky featturing lots of Julian Bashmore , who’s mad it on these days. Linked tunes can be downloaded.

Download

1.    Instra mental_-_Let’s_Talk
2.    Kowton_-_Hunger
3.    Basic_Soul_Unit_-_Jak’d_Freq_(A_Made_Up_Sound_-_Acid_bonus)
4.    MJ_Cole_-_Thekla_Riddim
5.    Sekta_feat_Spoek_Mathambo_-_Peterpan_(Julio_Bashmore_dub)
6.    West_Norwood_Cassette_Library_-_What_It_Is_(Brackles_mix)
7.    Malente_&_Dex_-_Habibi_(Julio_Bashmore_Hamilli_remix)
8.    MJ_Cole_-_Volcano_Riddim
9.    Jamtech_Foundation_-_Too_Fast_(Julio_Bashmore_remix)
10.    Seiji 2-Elevator
11.    MJ_Cole_-_Phoenix_Riddim
12.    Debruit_-_Nigeria_What_
13.    Buraka_Som_Sistema_-_Restless_(Julio_Bashmore_remix)
14.    Geeneus - Night
15.    Rudi_Zygadlo_-_Filthy_Logic_(Raffertie_remix)
16.    Seiji Yesman
17.    Martyn_-_Right_Star!
18.    Instra_Mental_-_Futurist
19.    Geazah_-_Timetravel
20.    Ikonika_-_Continue_
21.    Ikonika_-_They_Are_Losing_The_War
22.    Ikonika_-_Look_(Final_Boss_Stage)
23.    Rod Azlan  Jah Live (Starkey Remix)
24.    Bassnectar_-_Boombox_(Bassnectar_remix)

PCPRaidio Secret Wars

Show from two weeks ago - begining with some summer psych from Gold Panda, Robot Koch and Slugabed, ending with some top tunes from Dublin boy done good, Twoc(available from Allcity) and all sorts in between. I Didn’t have time to top and tail the show so short excerpts of the Standard crews and Twoc show before and after.

Download

1.    Gold Panda -You
2.    Robot koch- true short edit
3.    Starkey -Stars (feat Anneka - Slugabed Did A remix)
4.    African hitech - The Sound Of Tomorrow
5.    Instra Mental - Futurist
6.    Hate - Hello Darkness
7.    Aaliya - We need a resolution
8.    Instra Mental - Tramma
9.    Africa hitech -Blen Rmx
10.    Africa Hitech -Blen Instrumental
11.    Africa Hitech - Blen
12.    Bug feat Flow Dan - Skeng - Kode 9 remix
13.    Rudi Zygadlo - Filthy Logic (Raffertie remix)
14.    Seiji -Elevator
15.    Seiji Yesman
16.    Seiji -Elevator
17.    Zed Bias feat MC Rumpus & Nicky Prince - Neighbourhood 09 (Zed Bias club mix)
18.    Florence And The Machine     You’ve Got the Love (The XX Remix) (abandoned)
19.    The Rubberbandits  Too Many Gee
20.    Instra Mental - Thugtronik
21.    Eprom - Bubble
22.    Kelpe Shipwreck Glue (Architeq Version)
23.   Rustie & 215 tfk just for kicks
24.    NoChexxx -Smashing Your System  feat  Sensational  Original Mix
25.    Loops Haunt - Dusk Mechanics (Samoyed mix
26.   T woc - Dub Father
27.  T woc - Good Father
28.  T Woc - White label

Also get a bellyful of playfullness at this tonight. I’m Playing there is June at a Dubstep vs Chiptune night so busily listening to old favs, nintendo midi files and chip metal.

and finally,  tune smith of the year James Blake, after his set in Dublin last week - great tunes , really bad dj’ing, like bad bad. But anyway main thing what amazing tunes! No attack on anything , everything slips in slick and full of presence.- from Dubstepfriday -lots of good mixes. And check out Simon Rynolds take on emo step, funny-

Biggin up the sniffles crew

The Kleenex crew

Wipe it on your sleeve crew

Get mizzy crew

The boo hoo crew

You know the coo

Absolutely rollin

Tears down your face

X-Amount of Snot

Boo hoo selecta! Reeeeeeeegret, weep and come again

James Blake - Is The Future (Mixed By Preacha)

Tracklist
01 - Airhead & James Blake - Lock In The Lion
02 - James Blake - Sparing The Horse
03 - Lil Wayne - A Milli (Harmonimix)
04 - James Blake - Air & Lack Thereof
05 - James Blake - Buzzard & Kestrel
06 - Airhead & James Blake - Pembroke
07 - Mount Kimbie - Maybes (James Blake Remix)
08 - James Blake - Postpone
09 - James Blake - CMYK
10 - James Blake - I’ll Stay
11 - Destiny’s Child - Bills Bills Bills (Harmonimix)
12 - James Blake - Footnotes
13 - James Blake - Give A Man A Rod
14 - James Blake - The Bells Sketch
15 - Untold - Stop What You’re Doing (James Blake Remix)

download @ mediafire

Ikonika mix for xlr8

Go and check this mix Ikonika is very much super killing it right now.

01 Jahcoozi ­ “Read the Books (Ikonika Remix)” (BPitch Control)
02 Martyn ­ “MiniLuv”
03 Braiden ­ “The Alps”
04 Optimum ­ “Storm Riddim”
05 Ikonika ­ “Dckhdbtch”
06 DVA ­ “New World Order” (DVA)
07 Kingdom ­ “Pathfinder” (Scion)
08 Endgames ­ “Ecstasy (Jam City Refix)” (Night Slugs)
09 Lil Silva ­ “A Million” (Night Slugs)
10. Blondes ­ “Spanish Fly (Brenmar Remix)”
11. Ikonika ­ “Aqueous Cream” (Hum&Buzz)
12. Ramadanman ­ “Glut” (Hemlock)
13. Optimum ­ “Chaos”
14. Ikonika ­ “Psoriasis” (Hyperdub)
15. Pony Pony Run Run ­ “Walking On A Line (French Fries Dub)”
16. Caribou ­ “Leave House (Ikonika Remix)” (City Slang)
17. Guido ­ “Mad Sax” (Punch Drunk)
18. Girl Unit ­ “Wut”
19. Addison Groove ­ “Nautilus”
20. J.O.H vs. The-Dream ­ “J.O.H Is A 10″