Eating lists

Posted by homoludo on January 9th, 2009 filed in theory, time travel, writing
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I’m kind of eating end of year lists at the moment, the ultimate guilty pleasure. I didn’t do my round up this year(which is really more of a survey of mates and peers). Wasn’t feeling doing it for some reason, was more feeling this perineal –

A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such a violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress. – Walter Benjamin

Thelonius Monk’s advice

Posted by homoludo on January 9th, 2009 filed in history, theory
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Transcribed by Steve Lacy

Ireland’s Own

Posted by homoludo on January 8th, 2009 filed in funky, Irish producers, mixtapes, music, video
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Here are some quality Irish tunes from 2Bit and Automatic Tasty. 2Bit’s ‘Ifer’ is available  for free download here.

Automatic Tasty has an album out on Acroplane here. The tune below ‘Little blue car’ is driving me mad ’cause its melody reminds me of a tv theme tune(a book voucher for anybody who indentifies it, I gave up after a couple of hours, not spectrum enough I suppose).

Automatic -Tasty Little Blue Car
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In other Irish news,  from the Clare People – “Lisdoonvarna double act Drugzilla are Clare People Interactive’s Clare Artist’s of the year…(they)bring underground to a whole new level and have won a massive international following for their experimental hardcore songs about drinking cider and Buckfast.” Hope to have them at our new run of gigs(more on these soon) in McGruders in April.

Drugzilla – On a Mission from a Hippie in a Van
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Also a good mix of funky (newish UK house/bass variant) below from Colz. What I like about the mix is that is forefronts the riddim-ness(in the dancehall sense) of funky. It also includes by far my fav funky tune so far, Hard house Banton’s “sirens”.

Dj Colz New year funky mix
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Tracklist

1 Bakongo – Uncle Bakongo
2 Sirens – Hard House Banton
3 Gabryelle Refix – D Malice
4 I Wish – X5 featuring Teresa
5 Makonde – Uncle Bakongo
6 Feeline – Roska
7 The Print – Fingerprint
8 Dub Boy – Funky Underground
9 Turbulence – Jalla
10 Inflation – Crazy Cousinz
11 Quicktime – DJ Naughty
12 Changes – DJ Mystery
13 Green Light – Footsteps
14 Baga – Uncle Bakongo
15 Big Life – Colz

While I’m posting UK vids, here’s the low slung and menacing ‘Da Hardest’ from Giggs. Who made some of the best grime of last year.

Late Banjo

Posted by homoludo on January 4th, 2009 filed in banjo, music
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As I mentioned the server was down, but I suppose the year is still new, so – happy new fear kids and here’s some late banjo – Bill Keith’s Auld lang syne.

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Mash of the Week 6 – Major Dreams

Posted by homoludo on January 3rd, 2009 filed in !Kaboogie, mash of the week, music
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 A bit late due to the Nazarene, lot of pies and my not paying the server man on time…

Here’s a tasty mash from Dj Halfdutch of top Irish dubstepper Major Grave’s ‘Healing of the nation’  and Landslide ‘dreams and visions’ (compound one remix)

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Mantua fundraiser –

Posted by homoludo on December 26th, 2008 filed in !Kaboogie, flyers, gigs, mantua
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This will be a good party. Theres’ a Rustie set a few posts below and more from him in various playlists/shows over the last year.

bah!

Posted by homoludo on December 26th, 2008 filed in bah, music
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This tune is ok.

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Day N Nite

Posted by homoludo on December 21st, 2008 filed in music
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Big tune – Kid Cudi -Day N Nite remix ft. Collie Buddz

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The mixtape (linked above) ain’t bad either.

Mash of the Week 5 – Welcome to Jamrock

Posted by homoludo on December 19th, 2008 filed in !Kaboogie, mash of the week, mashes, music
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 Here’s one from from A-Force called Dubrock. It’s as much a reversioning as a mash.

Dubrock (320)
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Built from –
Welcome to jamrock (damien marley / world jam riddim) vs troca-aplica (dj sany pitbull)

Interestingly he tagged the mp3 as

name: Dubrock
artist: mash
album: !kaboogie
genre: bass

Note he’s called the artist Mash, he’s concious of sampling ethics and is going to post about they’re relationship to mashes on his blog soon. I’m looking fwd to that post, though, if you ask me it’s elastic honour among thieves and nickin’ things is great. A Force lent me this great book on the subject-

NCAD Christmas ball – Gramophone disco.

Posted by homoludo on December 17th, 2008 filed in gigs, gramomania, gramophone disco
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 Doing a Gramophone Disco room at the National College of Art and Design tomorrow night(17th Dec). Often one the best parties in Dublin.

Tickets from the union there. (I’ll expand this post later)