The wedding and birthday equation

Posted by homoludo on September 19th, 2008 filed in gigs, gramomania, parties, writing
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I’m Playing a 30’th birthday tomorrow night for a friend – Mikey

It got me thinking – I sometimes play “weddings” or “birthdays” for friends but don’t do so commercially. Doing so can result in the classic request situations – ‘got any Bob Marley?’ or ‘ got anything good?’,  the former from “lads” and the latter from drunk girls looking for the latest girl pop etc.

You have to be armed with both doing any wedding or like situation but doing it for a living would probably result in musicophobia (having said that the downside of being an “underground Dj” is there are not enough opportunities to play ‘Piece of me’ and the like.

It also got me thinking that I should share the equation for doing these types of gigs in case you are called to the honour of soundtracking somebody’s great moment. Here it is.

 

y – a +11 = v1

y – a +19 = v2

Where y = the year

             a = the age of the somebodies

 Take V1 and V2 adding p to V1 and e to V2

Where p = poppieness

             e= edginess

Then graph  V1*p  to V2*e

The resulting graph will give you a sure fire guide to picking the music your somebodies will be sure to enjoy.

I’ll put up the graph later, as on the advice of my lawyer I’m patenting the system.

Like these guys who have cleverly patented the circle of fifths.

See also this guy’s mixing system

Anyway Mikey’s B’day Bash is on tomorrow night in the Westmoreland or whatever it’s called these days) on Westmoreland St.

Feel free to drop in.

Bring graph paper.

I’ll sue.

I’ll play a boy named Sue.

 

 

 

PCPRadio Brand new retro

Posted by homoludo on September 19th, 2008 filed in music, radio shows
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The Wind up merchant -me getting all Gramophied in the Gramophone disco at the Electric picnic(with 2bit peeking out from behind the gramophone). More gramophone disco photos to follow. Thanks to Atary Flynn for the picture.

Catching up and posting some shows, a couple more in the bag to go up.

This has a classic remix of a tricky track mashed with an excellent 160 bpm breakcore(ish) tune from system drills  into a Mr Scruff tune. Then morphs into a kind of mutant electro/house/mash thing… didn’t  get the second half of the show due to hitting the space bar…

1. Disrupt – Selassie I continuously
2. Tricky – Brand new retro – Alex Resse remix
3. System Drills – Eat the world
4.  Mr Scruff- ???
5. Rusite – Patrick Ewing
6. Kraftwerk Bootleg – Dance with Numbers
7. Juiceboxxx and Dre Skull- Sweat – Dre Skull’s Dusted Bass Mix
8. Jenifer Warnes – Betty Davis Eyes- Diplo Mash
9. Disco Noodles Vol 2-
10. Bird peterson –
11. Zomby – Liquid Dance hall

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Fiddling while Rome Burns

Posted by homoludo on September 16th, 2008 filed in flyers, gigs
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 Hurray! Recessions are great! People stay at home, drink cans and then fall into free night clubs…like this one-

Radioactivity

Posted by homoludo on September 11th, 2008 filed in mashes, radio
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Sixfoot Apprentice and I will be chatting with Aoife McIndie on her radio show The
Indiehour  tonight.

Its a 2-hr special all about remixes and mashups. So we’ll be playing some of our own stuff as well as a few of our favourites in the 1st hour.

Super Extra Bonus Party will be chatting and playing tunes from their upcoming remix album in the 2nd hour.
The Show’s on from 9pm and can be heard on 103.2 fm in Dublin and streaming here.

Here’s Aoife the presenter preparing to juggle five cans at the electric picnic.

Gramomania

Posted by homoludo on August 29th, 2008 filed in 78's, gramomania, gramophone disco, music, writing
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“In 1924 the British magazine Gramophone playfully warned of ‘gramomania’ alerting readers to its ‘insidious approach, its baneful effects, its ability to destroy human delights’. Two years later, on the other side of the Atlantic, the Phonography Monthly Review asked readers to recount their most dire sacrifices in the name of grooved shellac.”

From Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music by Mark Katz, p10.

I’m starting a new section of this blog/site called gramomania, I’ll try to put up a 78 gramophone record every week. It will also be a place for posts about old stuff, the history of the future, time machine schematics, automata etc.

So to start off here’s a US top ten tune from 1950

Hank Penny with String Band- Blood Shot Eyes

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This tune being something of an anthem at a Gramophone disco thing I do with some pals.

Gramophone disco being an all night bar with a 78’s , normal records and a pre sixties music policy. The Gramophone disco has a nice carny feel with various diversions including-

Smash hits gramophone disco.

This is where the crowd listen to a record and vote whether to smash it or whether it’s a hit and a keepy. It’s fun for a various reasons

1. Smashing records(particularly brittle shellac) is very satisfying fun.

2. It has the added bonus of being a kind of anarchist history smashing theatre.

3. When I have a enough smashed 78’s, I’m going to make a time machine out of them.

4. It’s good to crate dig in public and share the pleasure of finding an unknown great record- makes a surprisingly good entertainment.

5. It’s a way of getting people to actually listen and pay attention to old 78’s.

6. It’s a good antidote to the whole po-faced worship of the past, old records etc.

We’re doing the Electric picnic this weekend so drop in if your around and here’s another 78/tune to listen to on the drive there.

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Folkcore 2

Posted by homoludo on August 14th, 2008 filed in flyers, gigs, music, old school
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Postmantuaism

Posted by homoludo on August 7th, 2008 filed in Bassline, calypso, festies, music
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Just back/recovered from Mantua – shouts to everybody- crew and punters who made it good diy vibes from begining to end. The Gramophone disco went well and same props. And cheers to everybody for enjoying my bassline/4×4 set in the low end tent and letting me know. I’ll post some pics etc soon.

Not a million miles from that set – this is everywhere the last week or so and well worth checkin’- nice bit of a work out on the buy out riddim near the end(Notch – Nuttin’ Nuh Go So (RCola Remix), one of my fav riddims.

Immediate sounds vol01

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1. Beenie Man & So Solid Crew – Yagga Yo
2. Ms Dynamite & Menta – Ramp
3. El-B – Shorty (Steppas Remix)
4. Glamour Murphy – What The Woman Want (Acapella)
5. QQ – Screechie
6. Stacy – Let Meh Know
7. Kyla & Paleface – Do You Mind (Crazy Cousins Remix)
8. Geeneus & Zinc – I Try (Instrumental)
9. Vybz Kartel – Stop Gwaan Stush (Acapella)
10. Top Cat & Double 99 – Ripgroove
11. Durrty Goodz – Pum Pum Stealer
12. Tubby – Turbo Shandy
13. Destra & Dizzee Rascal – Flex (Tim Turbo Refix)
14. Plastic Gangsters – Rock To The Rhythm
15. Shabba Ranks – Love Punaany Bad (Baby G Remix)
16. Elephant Man – Nobody Nobody
17. Notch – Nuttin’ Nuh Go So (RCola Remix)
18. Soundclash feat Red Fox & Screechie Dan – Pum Pum Shorts

PCPRadio Where’s Kev?

Posted by homoludo on July 22nd, 2008 filed in balkan, brass, music, radio shows
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Just spent a few days in Berlin after coming from Croatia. Had some great pictures of all the baldy pigeons there but my camera got scrambled.

Appropriately enough recorded this show of balkan/eastern high energy with Keven Culhane before I left. The first record is mine – Nathan Szpiro met his wife after being part of a Jewish regiment that liberated the concentration camp she was in. He’s a Klezmer Vaudevillian -I’ll post the record cover when I get home, it’s hilarious. The rest are Kev’s selections, he’ll be Dj’ing with us at the Gramophone Disco at Mantua next week and the electric picnic at the end of August.

1. Nathan Szpiro- Rumenye, Rumenye
2. A Little Marching Band – Alarm
3. Extra Action Marching Band – ?
4. ?? Unknown Russian Groop?
5. Nayekhovichi – Borsht
6. Volga Volga – Belyar Rosy
7. Golem – Odessa
8. Mahala Rai Banda – Kibori
9. Kal – Dvojka
10. Bregovic – Sex
11. Fanfare Savale – Luteala Caprii
12. Fanfare Ciocarlia – ?
13. Zdravko Colic – Merak Mi Ja
14. ?? Makedonian Superstar?
15. Youngblood Brass Band – Brooklyn
16. Slavic Soul Party – Cocek Nirvana
17. ??Ex-Yugo Lads – Majicki
18. Mojakka – ?
19. Gogol Bordello – East Infection
20. Red Elvises – Cosmaunaut Petrov
21. The Ukrainians – Batyar
22. Leningrad – ?
23. ?? Russian Punk?
24. Russaja – Dobro Abend
25. O’Djila – Bil Bul
26. Fulgerica Mahala Gypsies
27. Korcani Orkestar – Siki Siki Baba
28. Claude Cannes – Mao Mao

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PCPRadio_Dutty stay out

Posted by homoludo on July 13th, 2008 filed in music, radio shows
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Here’s a few A-force and I threw down. Starts of the with the massive ‘This is why I’m hot’ from Junior Reid, into a couple from the unstoppable Lil Wayne and into a selection of bassy hip hop and various styles of steppas.

1. Junior Reid – This is Why I’m Hot

2. Esso Trinidad steel band – I want back

3. Lil Wayne – La la la la

4. lil wayne – lollipop – The kingdom remix

Available free here. The mixtapes very good also

5. Rustie – Spliff dub

6. Rusite- Just for kicks

7. lewi white – sideline

8. jazzsteppa – american b

9. starkey – dementia

10. More fire crew – Oi

11. lewi white and smasher -baxkin the day

12. Luck and Neat – Irie

13. Rustie- Pendulum

14. Stareky – kick push

15. Southern – fully loaded

16. Taz buck faster – Bumba

17. Forsaken – Boat Noodles

18. Optimuz and droid -area

19. super man mash with emalky

20. legalize it -??

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PCPradio – On me hols

Posted by homoludo on July 4th, 2008 filed in music, radio shows
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Excuse the radio silence over the last few weeks. I’ve been traveling/doing some pesky college work etc. Also had some probs getting some of my recent shows off the system in the radio show. But all sorted now and while I’m still away alot over the next few weeks, have a few stored up for you like…

This one, starts out with a few tunes on the amazing buy out riddim, and is generally on a ragga/reggae mash tip. Check T-woc’s/Brother cultures -The warning. To my knowledge the best Eire reggae seven inch ever! (maybe the only one). It’s mixed up a bit with the excellent Jahtari’s Brand new second hand. Other treats include Lexus’ versioning over Billie Jean…

Away from my tunes so will fix up the track list later. The Dj takes no responsibility for any slight skips/distortion and is running gigs to get new decks.

1. Beenie man – Row like a boat

2. Sean paul – Like glue

3. ashanti – Rock with me

4. what’s love?

5. Dj xela/ General levy

6. General levy

7. Brother Culture/twoc -The warning

8. Jahtari – Second Hand man (Ft Mikey Murka)

both of these kind of worked for a bit.

9. Matt shadatek – Girlfriend rmx

10. South rakkas crew-mad again

11. slick rick – Mona lisa

12. kid sister – damn girl

13. lexus – Billie medley

14. The french house one with a euro symbol on it….can’t remember

15. Francois k feat u roy -rootsman

16. dre skull – sweat

17. atrak feat- mia

18. rouge state

19. marley dubstep

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