I’ve now converted my side blog of Miko and my road trip to the south west of the USA into a more permanent and readable webpage (you can see it, up there, next to “Mix Archive”) . This has all been made a lot easier thanks to Tim Hodson’s “Blog in Blog” Wordpress plug in which converts a wp catagory into a webpage. Hope you like it.
Well, yes it is. Sadly, after 2 years (maybe more?) of doing Back To Mine, in Second Life on a Friday, it’s getting harder and harder for me to turn up to my own nights so it’s time to change. As from now, I’ll be trying to do my weekly slot on a Wednesday now – same time as before 6:30pm – 8:00pm, same random shizzle but hopefully far more regular! Anyway here’s the…
tracklisting
Klimek – Abyss of anxiety
Jonsi & Alex – Happiness
Input Junkey – When it happens
Animal Collective – what do i want? sky
Dub Tractor – And you are back
Volcano Choir – Islands, Is
Peter Broderick – Not at Home
Yimino – Doe
Bop – I Found You
Monolake – Polaroid
Fracture & Nepture – Ventura
Future Engineers – Life Support
PFM – All of us
Yimino – Kelpy
Ten Ton Atom – Nepture
Nathan Fake – Castle Rising
Little Dragon – A New
Wisp – Shep Shaep Sheep
Kelpe – After Gold/Low Frequency Fumble
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In Autumn 2009 I was extremely privileged to be asked to contribute a visual piece to be included in John Rixon’s (a.k.a Amukidi) “Quiet Voices” show at The Tate Britain on January 8th 2010. The music John gave me to interpret was a new piece called “First Light” from Sounds From The Ground (whom I’ve worked with as their VJ for the last 6 years) and is available as a download only release. The footage itself all comes from various national parks in the South West of USA: We start in the Petrified Forest, move on to Canyon de Chelly and the final scene is from Zion National Park. All the content was shot on a Panasonic HDC HS300 and edited in Final Cut Pro.
Posted in Uncategorized on 12/11/2009 11:23 pm by machv
This Friday finds me full with man flu and all assorted badness blocking my breathing so again not much speaking going on and lots of lovely music instead. Hope you enjoy this germ free pressy from me:
Tracklisting:
Small Metal Gods – David Sylvian
Rut & Nuzzle – Snowblink
Dub Tractor – And you are back
The Leisure Society – Cars
Zero 7 – Mr McGee
Luke Vibert – Belief File
The xx – Heart Skipped a Beat
Yacht – The Afterlife
Subway – Simplex
Luke Vibert – Pretty old acid music
LFO – LFO (Luke Vibert Remix)
Boards of Canada – Telephasic workshop
Fink – Q & A
Dub Tracktor – That won’t heal
The xx – Basic Space Mount Kimbie rmx
Flight of the Conchords – We’re both in love with a sexy lady
Hell – Germania
Echaskech – Deserted
Arovane – The Storm
Echaskech – redeploy
Halogen – String Theory
Higher Intelligence Agency – Conoid Form
Kelpe – After Gold
Luke Vibert – Eleventy One
Planet Boelex – Direction Back
Little Dragon – Feather
Fujiya & Miyagi – Uh
Subway – lowlife
LCD Soundsystem – 45:33 (prins thomas rmx)
Yacht – Psychic City
Fuck Buttons – The Lisbon Maru
Black Meteoric Star – Dawn
At the moment my life is all about video editing, so it was a really pleasant relief to get behind the decks this week and put some tunes together for you all. The first track – Sounds From The Ground’s “First Light” is the piece that I’m working on for the Quiet Voices audio/visual show that Jon “Amukidi” Rixon is curating at The Tate Britain on Jan 8th, 2010. Also, special thanks to Adam Halogen for his new LP “Baked” which is bleedin’ wonderful and you all need to buy a copy. Here’s the full…
Tracklisting:
Sounds From The Ground – First Light
Halogen – Millicent
Luke Vibert – Hot Sick
Max Cooper – Mnemonic
Fuck Buttons – Olympians
Dive Index – Water in my hands (Tiny Mile remix)
Zero 7 – Ghost sYMbOL
Yimino – Dot
Boards of Canada – Telephasic Workshop
The Village Orchestra – Lo Pencil (The Village Orchestra rmx)
Jamie Lidell – Little Brother
Tunng – Codebreaker
Peter Broderick – There and Here
Holly Miranda – Slow Burn Treason
Halogen – Ohmu
Kelpe – Eye Candy Bath
Peter Broderick – Games Again
Dan Arborise – Another Side of the Sky
Because I managed to bork the recording of last Friday’s show, rendering it unlistenable, here’s a little mix to keep you satiated till next week. It’s a mix that originally recorded for Red Bull FM in 2007 and I still love listening to it. Hopefully you will too.
1. Vangelis – Bladerunner, Main Titles
2. Echaskech – Keys
3. Bonzai Republic – Fætter Dub
4. Higher Intelligence Agency – Universal Entity (Ketamine Entity Reformed by A Positive Life)
5. Sounds From The Ground – Viper Style
6. Echaskech – 7th Fall
7. Jon Hopkins – Second Sense
8. One Second Bridge – One Second Bridge
9. Dan Arborise – Let Me Be Give me a hard copy, right there (Red Bull FM mix, 2007) by machv
Posted in Events, VJing on 11/14/2009 10:42 am by machv
8 January, 2010
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10:00 pm
Sadly there’s no show this week as dufus, here managed to record the whole thing at a completely distorted level , rendering it unlistenable, however I do have other news. I’ve been asked to contribute a short film to accompany “First Light” by Sounds From The Ground for a show – called Quiet Voices – at the Tate Britain that’s being curated by John Rixon (a.k.a Amukidi), on Friday 8th January, 2010 between 6pm and 10pm.
I’m completely stoked, excited, humbled, daunted and numerous other confusing emotions by this news as it’s completely beyond what I’d ever hope to acheive as a “VJ”, but I do hope that some of you can make it down to London to see the show, not only for me but for the plethora of talent that my film will be a small part of.
Ok ok ok I like Luke Vibert. What can I say? And when he goes and puts out a great LP like “We Hear You” well I’m going to play a lot off it. Oh watch out for the Zero 7 track – it’s a DOOZY!
Tracklisting
Dan Arborise – I Live
Fleet Foxes – Quiet Houses
Luke Vibert – We Hear You
Bombay Monkey – Cha Cha Chaaa/Soldiers of the Sun
Little Dragon – Looking Glass
Luke Vibert – Batting for England
LCD Soundsystem – 45.33 (Prins Thomas remix)
Fuck Buttons – Surf Solar
Simian Mobile Disco – Babaganoush
Yacht – We have all we’ve ever wanted
Ghost sYMbOl – Zero 7
Luke Vibert – Dive and Lie Wrecked
Si Begg – Are you the Big Boy DJ (Herq rmx)
Kelpe – Eye Candy Bath
LFO – LFO (Luke Vibert rmx)
Müm – If I were a fish
This video, directed by Miko Coffey – mikocoffey.com – is comprised of 5,600 individual still images which were converted into image sequences, then into quick time movies, then put together by me in Final Cut Pro. There’s a tiny bit of video footage in there, too.
The Single “The Storm” is due for release on Just Music – justmusic.co.uk – in Mid November.