We’ve just got back from a week of festivals (more on that later) only to find that the lovely ali jamieson has encoded an old ambient drum and bass mix I did about 10 years ago (maybe more) from it’s original cassette format into mp3s (in two parts, so you can enjoy that “turn over the tape” moment again) for you to stream, download and listen to. Hope you appreciate it in all it’s glorious mid rich TDK AD90 Dolby quality.
In other news, after a small prod from the lovely Penny Jones I’ve just uploaded an old bootleg of mine on to soundcloud – The remarkably silly “Bring the Schnauss” is now available free of charge to you, dear reader.
No time to chat, just enough time to tell you the..
Tracklisting
Fennesz – Black Sea
Dntel – In which our hero begins his long and ardous quest
The Village Orchestra – Jacob/Bad Hand at Cards
Datassette – The Aviatrix
LCD Soundsystem – You wanted a hit
Booka Shade – Teenage Spaceman
Posthuman – Ottowa (echaskech remix)
Datassette – Micro
MJ Cole (Nero remix) – Sincere
Dntel (Thaddeus Valk rmx) – Casuals
Aphex Twin – Delphium
School of Seven Bells – Half Asleep (Lusine remix)
The Field – Yesterday and Today
Unai – Oh You and I (trentemoeller rmix)
School of Seven Bells – Babelonia
Stornoway – I saw you blink
Festival Season kicked off last weekend with a journey into the country to visit Blissfields, who were celebrating their 10th year of festivalling – a worthy birthday to celebrate, especially in this “current climate” which has seen so many well loved festivals die a horrible death. Blissfields have kept going by staying small and true to it’s roots and more power to it. Sadly Echaskech were booked to play during the daylight hours so not much for me to do this time, but I did make up for it by djing on The Bubblebus again, which was a lot of huge fun – thanks to Caro, Jasper and Tom for their hospitality and generosity. Anyway… Here’s this weeks
Tracklisting
Lusine – Ask You
LCD Soundsystem – Dance yourself clean
Gorillaz – Empire Ants
Little Dragon – Never Never
Murcof – Memoria
Bonobo – Eyes Down
Pantha du Prince – Lay in a shimmer
The Village Orchestra – Lo Pencil
Beaufort Scale – Dreaming in Perivale (echaskech remix)
School of Seven Bells – Windstorm
Beak – Limozeen
Drexon Field – Limoncello Liquor is wonderful
Stornoway – The End of the Movie
Apparat – Over and Over
Echaskech – Every Touch
Digitonal – Emberkreiss
The Orb – Star 6 & 7 8 9
This week, thanks to the A Strangely Isolated Place blog , all the bands featured in the show are signed artists to Secret Station Records who, in an act of supreme generosity, allow you to take a healthy slice of their roster, completely free of charge, and what a roster it is. Here’s the
Tracklisting
Lunar Testing Station – Sounds of Today (Rising From Earth)
FUR – Black Castles
Verulf – Reprise
Specta Ciera – All around the trees
United Club Wear – ill capitano
Our Valley – Caladium
Drexon Field – Limoncello Liquor is Wonderful
FUR – Friends (Drexon Field remix)
United Club Wear – You are a Pro
Paneye – Bay of Withered Gardens
Verulf – Sunday
Lunar Testing Lab – MK Naomi
Drexon Field – My Little Snowflake
Spectra Ciera – It’s Barely There (Benjamin Dauer remix)
Straywel – Mathematics
FUR – UB3131
Drexon Field – Message
Invays – M1 Motorway
Kontyx – Notion
The ongoing familiarisation with Torq and BeaTunes continues… This week the new set up felt more comfortable and even an Mac OS freeze 2 minutes I was supposed to start was annoying, but not devastating and didn’t put a damperner on procedings. One thing I’m noticing about Torq is that it’s pitch shifting and locking isn’t very good and it can warble the sound of audio files; most disconcerting. It’s something I need to concentrate on more as I use it. Oh, excuse the grand opening this week, I’m just ecstatic to get a copy of Dead Can Dance’s remastered “Spleen and Ideal” LP from 1985 from emusic.com (loads more where that came from:) ) Anyway, here’s the…
Tracklisting:
Dead Can Dance – De Profundis
Snowblink – PYT
Landau – Six ways to Sunday
Lusine – Gravity
Fever Ray – Seven
James Yuill – Breathing In
Cornelius – The Fit Song
King Rock – The Beginning
Miss Jynx – Time Missed
Q-Tip ft Amanda Diva – Manwomanboogie
dan le sac vs scoobius pip – Snob
Pantha du Prince – Satellite Snyper
Dublogic – loid
Trentmoeller – Killer Kat
Orbital – Fahrenheit 303
Echaskech – How to Fly
Simian Mobile Disco – It’s The Beat (Luke Vibert Rmx)
This set is my first “laptop dj” set as I’m now a proud owner of Torq (http://www.torq-dj.com/). Proud but still a little bit confused… For those who are interested, I’m running it on a Mac Book Pro G5 Power Book and (at present) i’m using one control Vinyl and one control CD. I was hoping to be running two control cds but I’m finding the control vinyl to be far more responsive and easier to get on with, but due to the way my decks are set up, using two control vinyls is going to take some DIY to build something for the laptop to sit on as, right now, my laptop can only sit on one of the turntables. On the Mac, I’m running spaces, with Torq running in one, with Second Life, Nicecast, Textedit and Console in another, and in a third, I’m running Beatunes (http://www.beatunes.com/). One thing I’m guilty of, in doing these weekly shows, is concentrating on the newer music of my library so, to help me “dig deeper” I’m using Beatunes matchlists to suggest tracks that it thinks are like a track I’m playing. Beatunes analyses your itunes library in a unique way: it works out bpm values, the tonal key of the track and also “colour codes” it it listens to the track and gives it a colour to represent what it thinks the track sounds like, the colours creating a unique palate or view of your itunes library. Then you can build “match lists” based on a single track (or more) and specify how much you’d like the resulting tracks to be like the ones you chose. It’s like Genius playlisting, but a lot more configurable; you can specify how similar or unsimilar you’d like the matched tracks to be, all this and keeps a tight but exceedingly helpful reign on all your mp3 tags and iTunes catagories whilst it analyses your tracks. This, it’s worth pointing out, can take a reaaaaallly looooooong time, especially the first time you do it; if you have a library like mine (over 3000 tracks) expect your mac to be running for most of a weekend.
So it’s a bit of a shift in focus for me – new software and a new way of chosing the tracks I play – and I reckon it’s going to take me a while to get used to the new way. But anyway – listen to me going on! Here’s this weeks
Tracklisting
Peter Broderick – Games & Games Again
Tunng – October
Fleet Foxes – Sun it Rises
The Durutti Column – Neil
Glen Hansard & Marketa Iglova – Drown Out
Dub Tractor – Higher Hopes
Wisp – Turquois Tinged Pennies
Luke Vibert – Radio Savalas
Grand National – Peanut Dreams
Lusine – Baffle
Working for a Nuclear Free City – Troubled Son
Gorillaz (ft Little Dragon) – Empire Ants
Ty – Sophisticated & Coarse
Hint (ft Laura Vane) – One woman army
Psapp – Parker
Massive Attack – Splitting the Atom
Bibio – Great are the piths
Lusine – Operation Costs
Dan Arborise – Another Side of the Sky
A shorter show this week as I scrambled around burning cds to dj with from the tracks I’d bought the night before, so excuse the rather rough nature of the beginning. However… maybe a hour is a better length for you podcast listeners? I dunno, leave a comment and let me know your thoughts. It makes me happy to start this week the same way as I ended last week with a classic Zorg tune from their stunning 2003 CD “La vie privee du Zorg”. A marvellous LP still worth tracking down – thanks to the wonderous Miko. . Here’s the full
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Tracklisting
Zorg – Nocturnal
Skewiff (Krack & Smack rmx) – Man of Constant Sorrow
Black Meteoric Star – Dawn
Massive Attack – Splitting the atom
Gorillaz – Stylo
Little Dragon – Never Never
Hell – I prefer women to men, awyay
Max Cooper – The End
Beaufort Scale – Dreaming in Binary (echaskech rmx)
It’s about time you lovely people got a new “proper” mix from me, one with planning and no talking and I’m extremely chuffed that it’s for the fantastic A Strangely Isolated Place Blog which is one of the best electronica resources on the planet, an aggregator for quality mixes and artist news – definitely one to book mark, if you haven’t already.
Tracklisting
00:00 Animal Collective – Graze
03:20 Snowblink – Ambergris
08:10 Klimek – Exploding Unbearable Desires
11:30 Jonsi & Alex – Indian Summer
20:04 Halogen – Baked
22:06 Sounds From The Ground – Crystal Beam
25:43 Echaskech – Redeploy
29:04 Dub Tractor – This Is Order
31:50 Zero 7 – Ghost sYMbOL
36:19 Yimino – Migranova
40:07 Landau – Good Morning Gravity
44:24 The Village Orchestra – Lo Pencil (The Village Orchestra remix)
52:14 Beaufort Scale – Dreaming in Binary (Echaskech mix)
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
(now updated with the right track! thanks to Souum for letting me know) Here’s to Fridays and here’s to djing back at Back To Mine, in Second Life. I really missed these sets and it was great to see so many friends turning up to turn up and listening in.
Here’s the tracklisting:
Kirsty Hawkshaw (digitonal rmx) – Orange
Peter Broderick – Games
Thom Yorke – The Hollow Earth
Yimino – Stoek
Underworld – Greatest Mamgu ever
Little Dragon – A New
The XX – Basic Space (Mount Kimbie remix)
Tunng – Codebreaker
Peter Broderick – And it’s alright
Dan Arborise – Cries
Bibio – Sugarette
The XX – Shelter
Little Dragon – Looking Glass
Hell – The Disaster
Subway – Persuasion
Echaskech – The Calm/The Storm
Yimino – No Gamet
