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So Festival number 2 is now done (in a series of 6) and what a weekend it was! This one was The Secret Garden Party in Cambridgeshire and I could not believe the transformation. I last went to SGP about 6 years ago when it was a rather rough, simple affair with 3 entertainment areas, about (rather posh) 1200 punters and an awful lot of rubbish – not my ideal weekend, it had to be said. Over the last few years friends have been increasingly speaking highly of the event, much to my skepticism so, riding on the coat tails of Echaskech (another day time gig so I happily took the role of roadie for the weekend again) I went with low expectations. At least this way, I figured I wouldn’t be disappointed. Though to be honest, I would have had some pretty princessy expectations to come away from this feeling let down. The site has expanded to accomodate at least ten times the audience I’d seen previously, and comfortably at that, The weather turned out in spectacular fashion, as did the beautiful festival people who attended the weekend. The site crams in so much entertainment, blending stalls and stages next to each other interwoven with many pieces of site specific art. It’s so difficult to describe the vibe of the place, but if you took Bestival and dragged it through the Green fields of Glastonbury you’d get close to what it’s like there. A lot of organically grown fun. The musical line up might not jump off the page on first glance, but with so much going on round the site at any one time, it was pretty easy to find something of interest. Anyway, it comes highly recommended. Big thanks to CJ, Toby, Dave and Dave, Erin, Penny, Chris, Chris, Ginny, Sarah, Vera, Saul, Alex, Liz, Chloe, Jools, Roger, Rupert, Nick, Hugo (hope I got everyone) for helping make the weekend very special and special thanks to Dom and Andy for being the best techtronica band on the planet and playing an absolute blinder on Sunday. Anyway – as mentioned on the show below – it’s Big Chill next weekend so, no show next week, but in the meantime here’s this week’s…

Tracklisting

Stornoway – Watching Birds
Radiohead – 15 Step
Animal Collective – No More Running
Underdog (save me) – Turin Brakes
Beak – How a Hot Air Ballon Works
Tunng – it’s because… we’ve got hair
The Long Lost – Amiss (Tunng rmx)
Shugo Tokumaru – Mushina
Cornelius – Watadori
The XX – Islands
LCD Soundsystem – One Touch
Hot Chip – Hand Me Down Your Love
Datassette – Humans
Jonsi – Animal Arithmatic
Dntel – In which our hero is decapitated by the evil king
Datassette – The Aviatrix
Sarah Jaffe – Under
The Village Orchestra – Love Theme from “Two Man Rumble”
Freescha – The Sun Is Still… Still
The Field – I have the moon… you have the internet

BTM20100728 by machv

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No, you did read that right and it’s not an April Fool – a well spent £5 will get you not just Echaskech, but Jon Hopkins and Hexstatic all LIVE  and not only that, but Paddy Freeform, Matt Masters, Peepshow Paddy and The Ableton Alstars on DJ duty whilst VGem, Myogenic and myself will keep your eyes entertained. Phew! I can’t think of a better way to start  a four day holiday. See you down there.

Ok so this one’s already sold out but for those lucky few who are coming you’re in for a very special night in a fantastic location – visually this one is going to make you freak. For those who didn’t manage to get a ticket, well you’ll have to wait 5 days (see the next post)

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)

isolatedmix 07 – Mach V (Echaskech) by  astrangelyisolatedplace

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

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Ok, ok, – fair does. The astute amongst you will realised that this blog posting is being made while I should havin’ it large to Jeff Mills at The Roundhouse but, hmmm, after a pizza and sitting on a sofa (and well, it was raining) I decided to lunch it. In my defence I did go and see School of Seven Bells yesterday (see pic) and tomorrow night (after a busy stag do for my good friend Dr Em.) I’ll down at Concrete on the South Bank, next to the Hayward Gallery for our monthly “Echaskech Presents…” do, featuring Live performances from Yimino and Infinite Scale. And apologies to those using the Soundcloud streaming features, I’ve exceeeded my monthly upload file limit this month so can’t upload this show – hopefully I’ll be be allowed back on next week. Anyway, here’s Friday’s

track listing

Halogen – Length & Brecht (Synaecide Remix)
Iambic – Terra Firma
Thomas Fehlmann – The road (df tram heat on the road mix)
Art of Noise – Moments in Love (Casper Remix)
Animal Collective – Lion in a Coma
Tinariwen & Tunng – War Djent Tiboudar
School of Seven Bells – For Kalaja Mari
Halogen – Not The Remix
Home Video – That You Might
Dallas Guild – Burn (Echaskech Remix)
Dan Deacon – Jack & Jill
Trentemoller – The Forest
Fever Ray – Nows The Only Time I Know
Aphex Twin – Delphinium
Aphex Twin – Mt Saint Michel mix +St Michaels Mount
Hadouken! – Mister Misforture
Animal Hospital – A Safe Place

And here’s the link (Mp3, 192Kbps, 119Mb, 87mins)

We’re back behind the best decks in London. On Thursday, Dom, Andy and I will be playing the best tunes we know at The Big Chill Bar, Dray Walk, Brick Lane to try an convince you that working on a Friday is a bad idea.

Echaskech AV set at Fortified Recordings Night from mach v on Vimeo.

Dom & I were asked to play a DJ/VJ set at the wonderful Fortified Recordings night and this is the first 30 minutes of it. Dom use ableton to mix the tracks and I used Motion Dive Tokyo Console to blend the video. The whole thing was recorded on my Archos AV500 and then shortened in Quick Time.