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, 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.
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)
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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.
Ok… to make up for the dreadfully poor show by me on Friday and not managing to do my show from Back To Mine (trust me – it was better I didn’t: after a very very good night with Dom and Dave G, firstly at The Big Chill’s 15th birthday and then on to Fabric for the annual Breakspoll awards) here’s a release from the mix archive. It was originally released in December 2005 and was a collaboration between myself and the marvellously talented and scrumptious Herby Vor and was lovingly constructed in Cakewalk. Normal service will be resumed next Friday. Photo taken by Miko Coffey at Big Chill Naxos, 2002: The most fun a human can actually have.
Track Listing:
1. Beatles – Because (Apple)
2. Your Revolution – DJ Vadim ft Sarah Jones (Killer Kela mix) (Nijatune)
3. Unforscene ft Alice Russell – Don’t You Worry (Wah Wah 45s)
4. Verna Francis – Never Too Late (ChilliFunk)
5. A Tribe Called Quest – Can I Kick It? (Jive US)
6. Hardkandy – Summer of ’95 (Catskills)
7. The P.T.A. – Frontin’ (Throw Away Records)
8. Jackson 5 – I Want you Back (Z Trip remix) (Motown Remixed)
9. The P.T.A. – Breakin’ (Throw Away Records) / Lyrics Born – Do That There acapella (Quanum Projects)
10. DJ Nu Mark & Pomo – Blendcrafters : Melody Remix ft MF Doom (Genuine)
11. Jon Kennedy – Tell Me How You Feel (Tru Thoughts)
12. Backini – Where R U (Lumenessence)
13. Talc – Modern Sleepover (Wah Wah 45s)
14. Red Astaire – Whatcha Do (G.A.M.M)
15. Seven Samurai – Marvin (G.A.M.M)
16. Faith Evans – Mesmerized (Capitol)
17. Jimmy Screech – Let’s Get Moving (Banana Klan)
18. Fat Freddy’s Drop – Roady – The Nextmen Walnut Mix (Kartel)
19. Lord Finesse vs. Percee P – Rematch (BBP)
20. Mach Vor – Autumn Rematch (White Label)
21. Coldcut – Autumn Leaves (Ninja tune)
It’s with great excitement that we bring Roger O’Donnell and Erin Lang to Concrete!
Roger co-wrote and performed on 4 albums with The Cure as well as playing with Psychedelic Furs and The Thomson Twins.
He now tinkers with synths galore and makes splendid sounds that will be
showcased tonight. He has also composed a piece especially for the show!
Joining
Roger will be the wonderful Erin Lang – bringing her electromantic
style to South Bank combining ethereal pop with ambient
electronic…and a trumpet!
This promises to be a great evening of music and it will cost you NOWT to attend and enjoy.
“The Echaskech remix is fantastic… what can only be described as liquid sonic ecstasy! when you hear the bassline kick in you will know what I’m talking about.”
- Vainzine
If you can’t wait until next year for a new Echaskech album, then please download this little baby. We were delighted to be asked to remix Digitonal, whats more we were given free choice of which of the album tracks we wanted to tackle…we were spoilt for choice! We chose ‘Nothing Left to Say’ and we are particularly proud of it.
You have got to hear the whole release in fact, it is blessed with stirring and powerful a 65 Days of Static version of ‘Ana Kata’.
A veritable hamper of aural delights to whet your appetite for the Digitonal album, ‘Save Your Light for Darker Days’ which deserves all to the media acclaim it is receiving also out now.
Digitonal are on the same label as us: the mighty Just Music.
A fantastic portrait by Lanne Wise (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lannewise/) who’s SL photography work just goes from strength to strength.
I didn’t even know she was taking it.
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