mespace

Posted by homoludo on February 18th, 2008 filed in blogging
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Best myspace/friend request msg I’ve ever got-

i used 2 lisint 2 u wen i was in prisin. me cell mate was a provo who used 2 translate all the gaelge youd be speekin. dedlee musik spesihly on geer.

PCPRadio 9 feb 08-Brass Attacks!

Posted by homoludo on February 15th, 2008 filed in brass, dubstep, radio shows
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Brass attacks #1

This weeks show starts with some of my favourite brass band tunes. Had the best dance I’ve had in years when I saw the Rebirth brass band in Tipitina’s in New Orleans, a couple of months before the planned forced relocation of the population- when I was there people were telling me it was coming anytime now and their requests for water proofing would never be answered.

Got turned on to the brilliance of post-Quincy Jones, post hip-hop brass there, perfectly exemplified by ‘Casanova’ from the Rebirths below. Could feel my hair blowing back in the wind of brass. Dj Halfdutch chose the Hot 8’s version of sexual healing in my end of 07 show(check it – at the start of one the of the January shows). Brass’s rise in people’s minds and use in music from Winehouse to punk to indie is very noticeable these days. The Tuba bass sound has a lot of colour and power and a tuba powered top class brass band have to be heard to be believed.

Later in the show a couple of tunes from Mc Beezy’s new mixtape, who along with Durty Goodz just keeps bringing it. The rest features class irish dubstep taken from the new !Kaboogie cd and the new Twoc Vinyl (see side bar). Other highlights for me are the mix out of Bombaman’s remix in to some old hardcore from 4 Hero( the mutability of dubstep fascinates me at least as much as the music itself) and then back into some crisp work from Bassclef. Also pneumonia from Fog has to be heared.Posted this show late as homoludo and homofaber were having a bit of tussle, which wasn’t resolved till late in the week.

1. The Young blood brass band – Tuba solo
2. The Rebirth brass band – Cassnova
3. The Hot 8 brass band – Fly away
4. The Dirty Dozen brass band – Caravan
5. Tom waits – Hang on St Christopher
6. Fog – Wallpapersinkorswim
7. Fog – Pneumonia – coldcut mix

8. Mc Beezy – Mr Cunstable
9. Mc Beezy – Mr Dingaling
10. Hatcha and kromestar- White noise
11. 2Bit – EXP5
12. Twoc -Old and grey
13. Forsaken – Boat noodles
14. Road kill vs Hijack– Never sleep
15. Solvent – Think like us – Bombaman remix
16. 4 Hero – Journey from the light
17. Bassclef-808
18. A-Force – Kiki
19. Ed devane- Dubcore maximus
20. Bassclef- 1471
21. Symarip – These boots are made for walking

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C4035//

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

WoW Kavi

PCPRadio The Northern Sound! 2 Feb 08

Posted by homoludo on February 5th, 2008 filed in radio shows, techno
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This week show is mostly techno from Scotland and the north of England, from the mid to late nineties. Weird bass, spidery clicking rhythms, lost processed voices. It was for me the most interesting techno of the period. it feels somehow current again. a lot of it could slip unnoticed into a dubstep set at the moment. I’ll write more and fix up the track list later.

1.    The wee Dj’s remixing      REquest by Sillicon Scally
2.    Dave Tarrida – Horrormone
3.    Dave Tarrida – Stop the ride
4.    Dave Tarrida –
5.    Dave Tarrida –
6.    lakker – Kaboogie Grime
7.    Milkey boy = Fucking ass’oles
8.    Neil Lanstrum – pro audio
9.    Neil Lanstrum –
10.    Neil Lanstrum –
11.    Neil Lanstrum –
12.    Neil Lanstrum –
13.    Dj Nowhere versus the Maverick Dj –
14.    Neil Landstrum- Cap n’ arse
15.    homoludo versus Micheal Forshaw – Work

16.    Neil Lanstrum live in Dublin 1998(I recorded on this to dat in Phunk city) minus 30

17.    Dj Nowhere versus the Maverick Dj Beat like this intro

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3Ahd Lil (The Night Horse)

Posted by homoludo on February 2nd, 2008 filed in africa, maroc, video
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Here’s the video for 3Ahd Lil’s (who featured prominently in last weeks Marrocco show) tune mas3oud. Below it are the translated lyrics – Deadpan, hard-hitting, dealing with poverty, rape and terrorism and managing to be funny, very sad while ringing truthfully.

 

In a village around Ifrane, an old man passed on his mule. Attracted by the cries of child, he discovered in the bushes a new-born baby, turned blue by the cold. Its cries frightened the mule, which bucked. With its leg, it crushed the leg of the baby. Thus commences the history of Messaoud the cursed, the man never left alone by misfortune. The days passed, and Messaoud grows up in the hut of the old man and his wife, seldom eating with his hunger. The catastrophes followed one another, until a day of tragedy. Messaoud was only five years old. It was a Monday of festival, and he had awaked very content. Wanting to play with a firecracker, he set fire to the blankets. The two old ones died in the fire!

(Refrain) Why does life go after Messaoud? Why are all the doors closed to him? Why is he marked so much by misfortune? Why him?

Messaoud lands in an orphanage in Meknès. During 5 years, he was hit in the mouth by all those who passed. His face preserved the traces of them. The school? He understood nothing at all there. Until the day when he had enough and ran off. That evening he slept alone in the cold of a waste ground. Ali Boulahya [a bearded man] passed by there. He lured Messaoud behind the dump and hmm… to the hilt!

(Refrain)

Messaoud lived as a tramp until his sixteenth year. The age of the dreams, even if he had a squint and his nose was bent. Complexed with excess, he saw, one day, a fair one hanging laundry on a balcony. She made him a sign and smiled. The poor one lost his means. Each day, he returned to watch for her under the window. One morning, she finally came down. Having an errand to run, she gave him appointment at 9. Messaoud remained to await it, trembling of excitation. At the appointed time, he had hardly time to see her crossing when she was crushed by a bus which passed!

(Refrain)

Messaoud, destroyed, sank in smoking [hashish] and sniffing [glue]. One day, an Islamist saw him, and led him to a rich person’s mosque. He gave him food to eat, taught him to beg/pray and to express himself. Messaoud, proud of his new function, started to direct people. He made the turn of the mosques, rounded up young people and made a little money. Came the day when he was called for the jihad. He took the plane, very glad to meet Bin Laden. Arrived at the camp, someone give him a weapon and another says to him: “Don’t move any more from here, fire on all that moves, your place in paradise is guaranteed.” Messaoud stays on the spot two days. In one moment of carelessness, zdaou! An American gave him a blow on the head. On waking, he was found himself in cell, with a Pakistani, who smiled to him oddly. Messaoud howled of spite: it was another Ali Boulahya!

(Refrain)

Messaoud spent a difficult year, with Ali Boulahya. Misfortune pursued him as the Americans returned him to Morocco. On returning to the country, unemployed and without shelter, he came very close to madness. It was there that he met Mhammed the violonist. With him, he made a match and reaped some denefits. Mhammed entrusted to him that he had a plan “to burn” [herraga, slang for emigrate] to Spain. Messaoud was very glad with the idea to flee this cursed country. Arrived at the border with Ceuta, they slipped into a fish truck. Mhammed drew some [?], Messaoud died refrigerated.
Why Messaoud did he die? Why does misfortune stick to him so much? Why him?

Taken from the arab culture blog Al-Musharaka (d2) المشاركة

There are some more of his excellent tunes at the start of last weeks show. If anybody has any info or more translations let me know. Here’s another tune

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3awd lil gmakkoko

In the same show, there were a couple of tunes from Muslimgauze whose titles range from the beautiful, – ‘A Small Intricate Box, which contains Died Blue Opium Marzipan’

to the bracing -‘Fatah Guerrilla, Return of Black September, Hebron Massacre, Vote Hezbollah, United States of Islam and The Rape of Palestine’

Here’s an article about him worth reading.

PCPRadio Maroc 26 Jan 08

Posted by homoludo on January 28th, 2008 filed in africa, maroc, Photography, radio shows
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I was over in Marrakesh for a few day over New years. I was a bit daunted by the prospect of standing listening to hours of Enya-like local music at one of the stalls selling best of Maroc Cd’s, when what I wanted was beats and Hip hop. Following my nose through the souk, I had the good fortune to hear some beats coming out of a shoe salesman’s shop. I stood listening for a while and when I made it clear that it wasn’t shoes I was interested in, we got down to listening to some tunes – he watching my face to see what I was nodding along to, then we got down to some bartering. This weeks show is based around the cd’s he sold me. Also some Soot records stuff (featuring some of the same rappers on the cd’s I bought) Muslimgauze and bits and pieces. Thank you shoe salesman!

I particularly like 3Awd Lil’s (the black horse) tunes. It turns out his lyrics are amazing also. I’ll post on him during the week- with some translations and add some links and info to this post.

Tracklisting

1. Imams prayer
2. Muslimgauze – Death of Saint Jarnaii Singh Bindranwale
3. 3awd lil – Fine tout fine
4. Mutamusic – Show 2 show(dj rupture remix)
5. 3awd lil – Samia wi laglia
6. Mutamusix – Imagrints on course
7. 3awd lil- Raw daw
8. Magoa Bo feat Bigg – 3Akel Dr das remix
9. Mutamusic- Babomb
10. Le Micro Brise le Silence -Hakmet_aa_chaabi
11. Aaron Spectre – Botan Rice breaks
12. Maga Bo – Nakhil feat K-Libre Nettle remix
13. Tube jerk –
14. Piste 08 (don’t have title for this one, will try and get some info)
15. Muslimgauze – A Small Intricate Box, which contains Died Blue Opium Marzipan
16. EL Handi I-l’aaàchik
17. Fnaire-Reggaerap
18. Fas city clen – (re. info see above)
19. chahid!!s
20. Djalti – Ya moulate khimare
21. Bigg – Aklia (mkawad remix)
22. Piste – (ibid)
23. Khaled – Adieu

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How much is the Fish?

Posted by homoludo on January 23rd, 2008 filed in Irish bands, video
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Red Hot Entertainment – Junior Spesh

I saw the above posted by Prancehall and thought of this ( the link becomes apparent after a minute or so) –

Buffulo – Stump(1988)

The Stump story

Chart your cycle – Part 2

Posted by homoludo on January 20th, 2008 filed in radio shows
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I asked some people I played or worked with over the last year to chose a tune they liked from 07. Thanks to everybody for playing the game and getting back to me

Artist——-Tune————Selector

1. Animosity – Progression through failure- Aaron Spectre

2. Jestoneart esq. – Expendable man – Vex’d

3. Burial -Unite- Craigoh

4. Disrupt – Root matrix – Dj ripley ( she got 2 ‘cause disrupt is so good as is Jahtari the label where they’re available, also check out the digi dub player)

5. Disrupt – Bomb20 – Dj ripley(Marioi and Donkey Kong sharing a spliff, then getting up to have a little skank)

6. Marlow – Scum -Pasta masta

7. Coti – I don’t give a dub- Six foot apprentice(Irish mashatista)

8. Rusko – Cockney Thug – Craigoh(works in the main shop stocking Dubstep, breakcore etc)

9. Forsaken – Boat noodles – Ross Carroll(Reach /Wobble)

10. Movado/kartel – Toe to Toe – My dance hall artist/tune of 07 (Could have been some others, amazing grace was amazing, this have some v dodgy chats, and I ambivalent about playing it, but its murderous power is hard to deny)

11. Dizzy Rascal Chase &Status remix – Sirens – My drum n bass tune of 07

12. Drugzilla – 0n a mission from hippy in a van- Drugzilla (selecting themselves ‘cause they’re Oirish breakcore royalty)

13. Drumcops- Incarnate – My Breakcore tune of 07(where’s the breakcore gone? Expect a return in 08)

14. Fight like apes –Jake Summers- my Irish rock tune of 07

15. Jen Lekman – kanske ar jag kar i dig – Kool Drool

16. koze – Hicc up – Dj Atari Flynn(he actually chose Mr Decy Gui Barrato, but I couldn’t find it and he had left this in me gaff and even though it’s from 05 I was getting sick of the whole 07 thing – it’s like so last year)

17. Body language Ganzer Niggeman remix (just to mix in )

18. Sub version – Soul Jah Boogie – my second Dubstep tune of 07

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Forgot to play any of it last night but my mix of the year was Anger is a Gift – Prancehall

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

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

[Audio:/Acen_Window_in_the_sky.mp3]

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 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