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PCPRadio Brightside

Posted by homoludo on Apr 18 2008 Posted by homoludo on April 18th, 2008 filed in music, radio shows
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Hi, this weeks show(actually from a couple of weeks ago:a new system in the station and my own time traveling— causing some delays). Split into three parts.

Part one starting off with an old Tenor Fly track to put some spring in your step, followd by a paen to sex and solvent abuse in Limerick from the Rubberbandits.

Part two is a few tracks from Japenese band – The Polysics who sound like the Ramones making cartoon theme tunes – with added 8bits. Makes perfect sense. And the videos are great too.

Part three starts with some pressure from Prince Kong (recently getting play from the BBC’s Mary Anne Hobbs and MTV 2) feat Jah Balance. Two new excellent new dubs, the second of which ‘Stamina’ gets under your skin like lice(coming out on twelve soon). Next in this section a dub from Bombaman followed by the A side of the new double A ten inch from Solen, the epic ‘Lord’ , coming out on Dublin’s Alphabet set label. The cover image (above) is one of the best pictures I’ve seen of Ballymun, the place where I learnt my nasty Dublin Irish .

Part one
1. Tenor Fly – The Brightside of life
2. The Rubberbandits – Bags of Glue
3. The South rawkus crew – Hotter den them
4. Tenor Fly – Invincible
5. Daleduro – Bombon Asesino
6. Sabres of paradise – Haunted Dance hall(red snapper remix)
7. Santo Gold – Creator
8. Young mc – Know how – Gutter remix

Part two
9. The Polysics – Get Back to 8bit
10. The Polysics – Electric surfin’ go go
11. The Polysics – You you you

Part three
12. Prince Kong – (dub)
13. Prince Kong – Stamina(dub)
14. Bombaman – speculum – nympho _mowgli remix (dub)
15. Solen – Lord (dub)
16. ???
17. MIA – Paper planes- Holy Fuck remix
18. Starkey/Sizzla/mathead -Let your system go (homoludo deck mash)
19. Kerb – B1(white)
20. Various Pruductions – Pintman( massive)
21. Rusko – Betamax
22. Quatra 330 – Sunset dub
23. Trim – Thief – Radioclit mix
24. One self- Bluebird
part one

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part two

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part three

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Mash of the Week #1

Posted by homoludo on Apr 08 2008 Posted by homoludo on April 8th, 2008 filed in mashes, music
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A mix of two Irish tunes –
Captain Moonlight – Dutty C**nts and Naphta- Soundclash I

Zizek, Cumbia. Some surplus enjoyment.

Posted by homoludo on Mar 21 2008 Posted by homoludo on March 21st, 2008 filed in music, theory
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Here’s a couple of tracks. They feel second gen cumbia( given that gens come now in six monthly installs, everybody ADHD now), all digi-ed up and sheeny.

They’re both from people in the Zizek crew, who a while back, I was delighted to see existed just for the name alone(see earlier post on Dj’s with degrees). It’s a pleasure to realise they’re music is so good.

This is a re-up from word the cat

Daleduro – Bombon Asesino

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The ep is on vinyl and can be got with streams of the other tunes on it here.

For those of you who don’t know Zizek; he’s the bad boy fun guy who explicates lacanian theory with classic sf, movies and both Marxes. He’s got surplus, He’s like the real ting. ref:#329 backlash immanent.

The second tune I heard on Rupture’s show(genius steals). He’s interviewing Ghislain Poirier, who I’m playing with in May. I was checking it in between listening to Prince Kongs new tune(!) and making uilleann pipe tracks (be afraid). Rupture finished with this-

Cumbia Bichera by El Remolon

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It’s nice as you can hear and even more nice is that the ep it’s on is available free in Hi-fi  on this cool creative commons site.
The Label hosting the ep – Pueblo Nuevo are worth checking also.

Later – The Bad boy Badiou beats crew Vs. The Cuture industry.

Slavin’ Away

Posted by homoludo on Feb 29 2008 Posted by homoludo on February 29th, 2008 filed in difference, dubstep, music
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Very feeling this, so I thought I’d put it up for those of you stuck in offices, only hours away from dumping homofaber.

Fiery furnaces – SlavinAway(BassClefRemix)

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Also check this, those of you stuck for knitted walking sticks.

www.missability.com

C4035//

Posted by homoludo on Feb 08 2008 Posted by homoludo on February 8th, 2008 filed in garage rock, music, video
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WoW Prince Kong

WoW Kavi

He never lost his hardcore! He never lost his thar barr!

Posted by homoludo on Jan 18 2008 Posted by homoludo on January 18th, 2008 filed in blogging, hardcore, history, music, theory, writing
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Or how many history boys can fit on a moped?

I have to post on this ’cause it’s so funny and interesting. There’s a blogging bitch fight(Edit: Debate/commentary might be better. I have since realised there’s something called pings and my post links back to those I refer to. Fools rush in etc.) about to begin/has begun about the nature of the Hardcore Continuum. The whatcore in the whennuum? I hear you ask. It’s a blogging/journalistic conceit/box for rave/hardcore/jungle and their many bastards. Originally coined by Simon Reynolds
(link to a collection of posts about the ‘nuum as he calls it) . K-punk and others have run with it since and are using it currently to talk about bassline and funky.

Where it gets funny and interesting is that Word the Cat, Dj Rupture and others(dead on) have gotten sick of the slightly smug way it is being used to lend authority (authoritaaay) to their opinions about new uk music.

nicked from uncarved

What’s really interesting about all this is what it shows about the nature of blogging. There is no NME or fanzines any more in the sense of common reference points for music. Music is propagated by the net and the blogs are the signposts – ways of finding, reading about and hearing new music. Dubstep grew so quickly ’cause of them. Cumbia is growing via the same via.

People like when music has meaning – be it punk and the situationist international/socialism, Rave and communal future fever or reggae and ideas of Africa/home, Babylon and righteousness. Thing is theories aren’t real, models aren’t buildings- they’re much smaller and made of balsa.

One of the striking things about Rupture is his super elegance; in his music and writing – the tone is always very carefully judged, knee jerk negativity avoided; the poise in everything about gold teeth thief still strikes me as amazing – from the selections to the mixing to the distribution to the implicit politics along the way- breathtaking. But he lets his claws show when he writes:

note: I’ve read all the post-structuralists in K-Punk’s toolkit, and it strikes me as bizarrely inappropriate that he invokes Luce Irigaray in a “nuum” article reinforcing simplistic MALE vs FEMALE readings/classifications of club music. Écriture féminineFact piece is not. Even if the mistake presents itself as homage to another writer’s refried ideas.

That’s a lot of reading and the criticism could be leveled that global ghetto tech is not that dissimilar as a category and the power relations defense of homophobia etc in the article is only part of the story. ( the society of the speculum anybody?). The point he makes though is valid , while I really love K-punk, particularly the early stuff, before the riffs got repetitive- a bit like jungle) he can shoe horn the theory sometimes. In his defense there is not a lot of politically/theory focused blogging and as far as I’m concerned the more the better.

note: The percentage of the population with graduate degrees in Europe is on the way to forty percent. Thus a lot of people read the theory toolkits, even if most go on to use them for better marketing/administration and ‘more bigger snacks now’.

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JME – 96 bars of JME (Jammer with a tune about grime and education)

This also leads to many DJ, artist and producers explicitly or implicitly refering to theory in their music. In this the dance music ‘nuum is getting like the art world – where theory and commerce tango with commerce leading.

Sister Nancy said it best in the eighties – though now every Dj has a college degree!

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Sister Nancy – Only woman dj with a college degree

I’m libran and while I don’t believe a word of astrology(though it’s still true sometimes), I see this as bit like my bum- when I crane my neck there are two sides.

I look forward to K-punk’s Lacan quoting explicating of the ‘real’ in this matter. And hope it generally flames up ’cause the structure in this case is a lot more interesting then the content.

and lets finish with a song from 92-, for me this one kind of sums up a lot of what they mean by the ‘nuum.

Acen- Window in the sky

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Anyway I’m off to college so I’ll leave you with this-

Like a super hero Richie Kaboogie and the Kaboogie super friends came along two years ago to rescue Dublin dance music. With attitude and an indifference to fucking sneaker styles , Kaboogie started putting on gigs. Starting in shitty pub the icebar with Aaron Spectre when he was red hot, the first Kaboogie night was a heaving moshpit that was closer to a Fugazi gig then a dance gig. That night was classic and I was well pleased to be on the bill supporting as Aaron’s sets were the freshest around at the time. In the two years since Kaboogie has been the most musically innovative night seen in dublin since the blah blah blah of early rave. The second birthday bashment is on next Friday, the 25th of January.

Warlock is headlining what looks like a high energy night, Here’s an excellent set from him, the second half in particular hums lovely. I’ll post more on Kaboogie later.

!Kaboogie 2nd Birthday and Label Fundraiser with

Warlock (rag&bone)
Sunil Sharpe (mantrap/spindizzy)
Thatboytim (takeover)
Major Grave (!kaboogie)

Edit:In response to Craigho’s comment – here’s the mutant mix he recommends.

PCPRadio Chart Your Cycle – Tunes of 07

Posted by homoludo on Jan 13 2008 Posted by homoludo on January 13th, 2008 filed in music, radio shows
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I asked everybody I played or worked with over the last year to chose a tune they liked from 07. Part two next week with selections from Vex’d , Aaron Spectre, Six foot Apprentice, T-woc, Clouds and more.

But for now here’s part one –

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Maker——- —-Tune ————-Selector

1 Hot 8 Brass Band – Sexual Healing – Dj halfdutch

2 Lil Wayne – Dying – My Hip Hop selection

3 Party Weirdo (excellent Dublin band) – Chart your cycle – Dj Krossphader

4 Dirty projectors – No more – Dj Rupture

5 LCD soundsystem 33/ 45 – Gerry Bigbrother

6 Prince kong – skylines(a sick remix of Super extra bonus party, which should carry a health warning, class) – My Irish Tune of 07 selection

7. Watch my feet – Dude N’Nem – Dj C

8 Durty Goodz – Switching songs Pt2- My Tune of the year without a shadow
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9. Blearg – Aint no other man(Oral fist fuck mix) Kid Kameleon

10 CSS – alala – Charlie Stross – Best new Sf writer in a while, I’ll post about him soon.

11 RSD – Kingfisher – A-Force

12 Rougestate feat Daddy Freddy – Very dangerous – Colz

13 Bug and Warrior queen- Poison Dart – Warrior Queen selects her own tune and you can’t argue with royalty

14 Bug feat Flow dan and killa p – Skeng – Richie Kaboogie

15 Emalkay – Rouge – Starkey

16 Starkey – let you go (Mathhead remix) – From the NC-17 ep – My ep of the year.

17 Quatra 330- Sunset Dub – My Dubstep tune of the year

18 The Tuss – Rushup ibank – Dj Rodders selection

PCPRadio Nollaig

Posted by homoludo on Dec 23 2007 Posted by homoludo on December 23rd, 2007 filed in music, radio shows
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This weeks show starts off with some electro hip hop classics. Three hot toddys from Toddy Tee and Mixmaster Spade. Note particularly the excellent ‘do you wanna go to the liquor store?’

I’ll fix up the tracklist later…must ..drink.. must shop…

Partially fixed up. The show then goes into dubstep with a couple of old Scotish techno rollers from Dave Tarrida mixed in.
I have a soft spot for him because one of the first big gigs I ever played was supporting him at gig in the Ormond multi media centre circa 94/95.
A lot of the best techno was the north of England/Scottish stuff. Labels like Sativa, Predicaments and Scandinavia and Dj’s / producers like Dave Tarrida, Tobias Schmidt, Neil Lanstrumm, Christian Vogel( who runs the once[still?]excellent nofuture forum ) and Tube Jerk – influenced by Sheffield bleep and industrial music, with a dark rolling sense of space and an skittery insectoid funkiness their music tip-toes spideryly along a razorblade, between seduction and alienation. They draw you in without the co-option of the comfort zone that can ruin dance music. Their music will start to infect once again in 08 methinks. I feel a mix coming on…

And finishes with a couple of old deck mash ups – From stone into One night in hackney into Teenage kicks from Nouveau Vague(works, honest) and finishing with Breakin’ the Law one of the first mashes I ever did, which I’m still quite chuffed with so I’ve separated it out for you.

Breakin’ the Law
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PCPRadio 22 29 Dec 07
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Tracklist

1. Borat breaks
2. Toddy tee and mixmaster spade- This beat is smooth
3. Toddy tee and mixmaster spade – Gangster boogie
4. Toddy tee and mixmaster spade – Do you wanna go to the liquour store?
5. dj slice – it’s about time
6. Nwa – Gimie something to dance to
7. Mia – Ten dollah
8. Soul sonic force – Planet rock( the one that started it all! )
9. 2 live crew – Revelation

10. white ten
11. Matt green- tru lies
12. Janner and snoman – Jah wednesday
13. Dave Tarrida – Zombie Driver ep
14. subtract
15. Dave Tarrida – Zombie Driver ep
16. Underground resistance -Protectiing my hive (intro)
17. White – funk dubstep tune
18. coki – Sponge bob
19. Rusko – Cockney thug
20. Rusko – lions paw
21. skepta – reagge
22. sarantis – outlaw dub
23. Shackeltol – Hypno angel
24. base currupt
25. subtract – rum dog
26. Coti feat king pin – let go me shirt
27. life of brian- I’m not
28. Sly Stone – have a glass of butter milk
29. Dynamo City – one night in hackney
30. Nouvue Vague – Teenage kicks
31. breakin’ the law – An old Mash up I did of Judas priest and an old ragga jungle tune

PCPRadio 15Dec07-Space-age Bachelor Dubs

Posted by homoludo on Dec 19 2007 Posted by homoludo on December 19th, 2007 filed in music, radio shows, Space age bachelor pad music
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This weeks show starting off with some Space-age Bachelor pad musics I’ve been diggin’ this week. Rockin’ n’ Boppin’ X-mas tunes, electric organ solos, steelbands workouts, and film musics. I have a gig over Christmas in a (trying to be) fancy bar and went looking for some ‘cool’ cocktail musics. It’s an unusual challange – playing unobtrusively but not anonymously

The rest of the show is new and old steppah’s for ya, and I’ ve split it ’cause they’re quite different listening experiences.

part one

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part two

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1. Little Eva and Big Dee Irwin – I wish you a merry Christmas
2. Bob Gonzales – Be Bop Santa Claus
3. Dick Hyman – Alfred the king of disco
4. Piero Umiliano – Cow Boy (really ‘Whiskey in the Jar’ what he nicked)
5. Bernard Herrman – Main theme from Twisted_Nerve_and_Les_Bicyclettes_De_Belsize
6. Harry Loolofshy – Overseas operator
7. Serge Gainsbourg – Burnt Island
8. Esso Trinidad Steel Band – I Want You Back
9. The Anita Kerr Quartet – The Bell that couldn’t Jingle
10. Serge Gainsbourg – Arabysance
11. Perry and the Harmonics – Do the Monkey with James.

12. Ben intellect and Ragg G – Oh Jungle
13. Jay Z and Lil Wayne -Hello Brooklyn
14. Digital – Sound Killa
15. Nasty habits – Here come the drums
16. Tango and Ratty -Final conflict
17. Caspa – Cockney thug
18. G-SQUAD – Assumptions Skream Remix
19. conquest – Forever
20. G-SQUAD – Assumptions Skream Remix (more)
21. Geoim – Auxology
22. L.D -Clock Wathching
23. Dz – Strong on ya
24. Vexe’d – Pop pop
25. Dz -Slums Dub
26. Slaughter mob – Tinji 2
27. Pressure and Warrior Queen – money honey remix
28. Unknown – I don’t give a dub

Clouds

Posted by homoludo on Dec 08 2007 Posted by homoludo on December 8th, 2007 filed in gigs, mashes, music
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I’m supporting Clouds next Friday the 14th Dec at Wobble in Traffic. He’s getting a lot of attention at the moment partially because of his Dubstep remix/mash of Joanna Newsom’s ‘The book of right on’. He’s also a good producer apart that. Here it is –

Shallow
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(taken from a blog mix, not a great a copy I’ll try and update it with a better one)

Coincedently, I did a mash of the Newsom track ‘Peach, Plum, Pear’ a while ago, more of a sketch really, using an Aaron Spectre riddim. Won’t get a better reason to post it. So here ya go –

rice-and-plums
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give a minute it kicks in.

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