Calypso Steel

Posted by homoludo on June 6th, 2008 filed in calypso, music, old school
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Here’s an old one to enjoy in the sun (which keeps on giving this summer in Ol’Éire).

I’ve been playing this a various gigs over the last few weeks and am really feeling it again.

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Photos from Starkey Sunday night.

Posted by homoludo on June 4th, 2008 filed in gigs, Photography, starkey
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Here’s some pictures from the Starkey gig on Sunday night. Which as you can see was topically tropical and savage. Thanks to Gon(pictured below) for the great photography. A link to the full slide show is at the bottom of this post.

Starkey Conducts

Starkey

Lazer Bass Wings

More Starkey

Steppas

More Steppas

Me and A-Force

Peas

Richie !Kaboogie

More Lazers

Kavi(projections) and Gon

Major Grave

Lion Step

Link to Gon’s full slide show

Tropical Heatwave

Posted by homoludo on May 29th, 2008 filed in flyers, gigs
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Friday night in Dublin, Traffic Abbey St. Come celebrate the sunner with some party vibes. All profits go toward purchasing new turntables for Raidió Na Life. And in a sustainable fasion the old ones are going to the youths, I teach mixing to , in the YMCA Aungier St.

Loud, saturated garb welcome!

PCPRadio Bassline Bits

Posted by homoludo on May 23rd, 2008 filed in Bassline, music, radio shows
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Here’s ya go, some Bassline bits for you , check particularly Resistance it’s monster.

And dubs- Ghislain Poirier tonight.

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1. Rustie – Response
2. Dexplicit – Resistance
3. T Camp – Bad Breed
4. Dexplicit – Lollipop bass
5. Mr B – Game over
6. Dj Panther-Bully Boys
7. Dexplicit – Juicy Fruit
8. Dexplicit – White(the one with the kung fu sample)

9. Trc Feat Teresa – Burgastyle
10. Bass Boy – Fried Macrul
11. Adotr Vs Dopestalla – Run U
12. Ds1 ft Mint – u like it don’t ya ?
13. Dre – Now wasup?
14. Hey-o-Hansen- Fly away
15. Various Productions – Where I belong
16. Crystal Distortion – ??
17. Neil Landstrumm – Assasin Master
18. DZ- Strong on ya
19. Neil Landstrumm – Give them Fire
20. Santogold – Creator
21. Various Production – Monster
22. ?????
23. Dre – Motherfucker Dance
24. Kode 9 –
25. Burial –

Call it…

Posted by homoludo on May 16th, 2008 filed in gigs, writing
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Some more wonky related info. Sasha Frere-Jones writing in the New Yorker about producers in Ghislain Poirier’s circle, joins the lets name game, coming up with lazer bass. Dj C runs a poll as to what it should be called with Starkey/Dev 79’s choice seeming to come out on top. All grist to the mill anyway, come along to the Electronic Resistance gig tonight and I’ll play ya some.

ps. No show upload so far this week as my f&(*%$£”! connection or software or something is acting up – will try to post one up from a caff. later.

Some Wonky gigs

Posted by homoludo on May 11th, 2008 filed in flyers, gigs, starkey
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Get your secretary to update your diary.

Some wonky gigs over the next while. Next week, playing with the Electronic resistance crew -the continuous beats wing of Seomra Spraoi, the only crew in Dublin who make a concerted effort to create autonomous zones in the city; a thankless and difficult task.

The bankholidy weekend after that – Starkey! A gig close to my heart as I was pleased to manage to book him for little ol’ McGrudders, on a tour where he’s playing fabric on the Friday night. And just when I needed some hype for the gig, this comes along – www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/on wonky n’all

An article about a(n attempted) new genre called wonky, conveniently the genre is pretty much the type of sounds I play; Starkey, Rustie, Quarta330, Zomby, grime like Trim and MC Beezy, bassline etc and general messed up bass heavy stuff with bleepy distorted midrange business – DIE PACMAN!.

Handily enough, I won’t have to jump so much as step daintily on to this one.

Anyway, some links to good recent Starkey sets from his show, seclusiasis radio on Subfm and an older show of mine featuring a clutch of his tunes.

April Subfm Set Playlist

May Subfm set Playlist

1st Subfm set Playlist

Starkey special -featuring a lot of his tunes.

And from his bio ‘Starkey is the mayor of Starkville, which is entirely inhabited by Starkbots, the robots he created. Starkbots are fueled by street bass gritty beats with melodic tendencies.

Performing as Starkey for only three years, Starkey is co-owner of Slit Jockey Records, a member of Philadelphia’s Seclusiasis and NYC’s Trouble & Bass crews. In 2005, Starkey won both the North American and Mid-Atlantic Laptop Battles, in Seattle and Washington D.C. respectively. He was also awarded the Choice Award for “Best UK Grime DJ in Philly” along with Dev79. Starkey has had a string of vinyl, cd and digital releases on labels such as Peace-Off/Ruff (France), Nonclassical (UK), Dead Homies (US), Starksound/Rag&Bone (UK) and LoDubs (US), and many others.

And the week before that (forgive the wonky chronology)

Playing with Ghislain Poirier on the 23rd. He’s a kind of bass Odysseus, blown on the winds of global ghetto tech hip hop and dancehall projects. Hate to think what his wife will say when he gets home.

Here’s a good set of his from a few months ago – Bastard Bass
Tracklist

Dj Halfdutch is playing also. Great party Dj who can get as nasty as she wants. Check out her podcast for new Irish indie mag State. Some lovely blends, check the first couple from Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan into Pharoahe Monch into Pablo.

Also, thanks to everybody who braved the sewer gasses of fibbers last week and made playing bagpipes drones as 303’s such fun.

Folkcore poster

Posted by homoludo on May 2nd, 2008 filed in flyers, gigs
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Here’s  the poster for the Folkcore gig, that firewall prevented me from posting yesterday. Should veer amusingly between the sublime and the ridiculous and I imagine the craic shall be 90.

Folkcore

Posted by homoludo on May 1st, 2008 filed in gigs, Irish bands, music
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  Homoludo playing at this gig on Sunday evening. Promises to be interesting, with folk and psychedelic folk band upstairs: Dj’s and electronic artists downstairs, giving their interpretations. Homoguitar and I are bringing bagpipe drones, a big sitar and a distortion peddle.

PCPRadio Richie K

Posted by homoludo on May 1st, 2008 filed in music, radio shows
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This weeks guest is Richie Kaboogie, in for a couple of scoops and an aul mix.

The set starts of with Cork’s Stump and their tribute the recently deceased libertarian hero Charlton Heston. Going from there into a breaky, somewhat psychedelic mix(I will fix up the track list later, am in an airport).The second section is me and Richie Mixing up some dubs

1. Stump – Lights, Camera, Action!
2. Booka shade City nights (Neon Dub)
3. Cardo pusher
4. Mouse on mars
5. thingy
6. mouse on mars
7. pete

Me and Richie
8. Oris jay – megatection
9. Distance – v
10. Emalkay – reaggae one
11. Dubchild – heavy artillery
12. orien
13. heavy Artillery Flip
14. Dz – Slum dub
15. Drop the lime-Mandeer hunted
16. Dexorcist- Propulsion151
17. Rum dog – roddell
18. Taz buckfaster – Bumba
19. Phokus ft. Tinchy & Dirty Danger – Dem all shot
20. Scottie B – Midnight request line refix
21. Zomby – spliff dub (rustie remix)
22. Emalkay – Crunk inspace
23. jackyl and hyde this is the underground
24. Skream – Tek a pill
25. Hot cakes
26. Warrior queen – Almighty father
27. Benga and walsh – Addicts
28. Flamin’ hotz -Juggernaut
29. Kromestart feat leebra – Curuption
30. Skream – Ringo

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PCPRadio Brightside

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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