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Mach V @ Back To Mine, 7th July 2010

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

BTM20100707 by machv

Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20100616

Sorry for the lack of update and podcasts lately, life's been super hectic and with the festival season about to kick off I will admit that these shows might become a little irratic (tell us something we don't know!) over the next few months and for that I appologise. Let's hope I can make some amends to you with the Tracklisting:

Eluvium - Amreik Daisy - Erin Lange The XX - VCR Fever Ray - Coconut Transient - forest zone Bonobo - Prelude & Kiara Computer Saw - Elektrocentric Jonsi - Lilikoi Boy Dan Deacon - Surprise Stefani FUR - Friends (Drexon Field rmx) Caribou - Odessa Panthu du Prince - Bohemian Forest Bonobo - 1009 Underworld - Luetin Ace of Clubs - Classid 1 LCD Soundsystem - Dance yourself clean Kelpe - Eye Candy Bath

BTM20100616 by machv

Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20100526

There's definitely something up with my track recording set up - at present I manually update the track titles in Nicecast and that gets picked up by a console log file but it's not picking up each one and it seems to be getting worse... hmm. something more to sort out... anyway lucky for you, dear podcast listener that you get the full and proper (but probably misspellled)... Tracklisting

Snowblink: Don't stop till you get enough Massive Attack: Psyche Lost Idol: Lightwerk Alucidnation: Technically Warm Helios: Halving the Compass Lusine: The Thick of It Prince: 17 Days (Professor LaCrois remix) Justice: New Jack Prodigy: Wake Up Call (ft Kool Keith) The Gossip: Spare me from the Mould Yacht: We have everything we wanted School of Seven Bells: White Elephant Coat Red Snapper: Lagos Creepers LCD Soundsystem: 45:33 (Prins Thomas diskomix) Kraftwerk: Music Non Stop (LIve version) Flight of the Conchords: Inner City Pressure Telefon Tel Aviv: Introductory Nomenclature Booka Shade: Havana Sex Dwarf

BTM20100526 by machv

Mach V @ Back To Mine, 15th May 2010

Not much to say today as I'm horrendously hung over, so here's the Tracklisting Jonsi - Tornado Dead Can Dance - The Host of Sepharim Snowblink - PYT Goldfrapp - Voicething Cocteau Twins - Bluebeard Ochre - Raido Bonobo - Eyes Down Burial - Distant Lights Mint - System Cost (Echaskech Remix) Working for a Nuclear Free City - Innocence Q-Tip - We Fight/The Love The Durutti Column - Brother The Lost Idol - We can find love Drexon Field - My Little Snowflake - Dandelion Councils God Made The Wind and The Snow Mix Verülf - Nocturn in Noise School of Seven Bells - Half Asleep (Alternate Version)

BTM20100513 by machv

Mach V @ Back To Mine, 5th May 2010

With me borking the recording last week I intended to just play through the tracklisting from last Wednesday as, apart from it being distorted, it wasn't too bad a set, and with my back playing up I wanted an easy ride for this show. However that idea lasted about four tracks in when I got distracted (SQUIRREL!) and confused and couldn't find the next planned track in Torq so I wandered off the path... and in a most delightful way :). Here's the...
Tracklisting
Verulf - Reprise
Dead Can Dance - mesmerism
Animal Hospital - Nostalgia
Transient - Kingdom of Fluff
Wisp - Daffodil
Drexon Field - August
Sigur Ros - Flugelfrelsarinn
Peter Broderick - Broken Patterns
Lunar Testing Lab - Black Sands
FUR - Friends (Drexon Field remix)
Boc Scadet - Lumen
The Durutti Column - Nina
Tunng - Sweet William
Ruxpin - Her Body Smells like Cinnamon
Isan - Cinnabar
Working For a Nuclear Free City - Over
Working For a Nuclear Free City - Dead Fingers Walking
Animal Collective - What Would I Want? Sky.
Slowdive - Rutti
Dan Arborise - Under Your Spell

BTM20100505 by machv

Mach V at Back To Mine 20100421 - Secret Station Session

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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

All available from here for absolutely nothing BTM20100421 - Secret Station Session by machv

Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20100414

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)
LCD Soundsystem - us and them

BTM20100414 by machv

Mach V at Back to Mine, 20100406 - Torq & BeaTunes.

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

BTM20100407 by machv

Mach V @ Back to Mine, 20100317

With two gig announcements this week, that's enough for you to digest from me, apart from a hour of wonderous music to listen to.  Here's the Tracklisting:

Audioglider - Coming Up For Air Sounds From The Ground - Corran Lost Idol - Beesmouth Gorillaz - Welcome to the Plastic Beach Animal Collective - What do I want? Sky Snowblink - Thriller Dan Arborise - Cries Double Muffles Dolphin - Floor above me, The Lusine - Two dots Yimino - Kelpy Massive Attack - Babel

*edit* while soundcloud seems to be in a tizz about this track, here's a direct download :

http://machv.co.uk/audio/BTM20100317.mp3

BTM20100317 by  machv

Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20100310

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
...
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)
Trentemoller - Take me into your skin
Fever Ray - Now's the only time I know
Landau - Iamiago
SFTG - Tale Before Time BTM20100310 by  machv

Birthday Boy at Back To Mine: 20100217

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Well today's my 43rd birthday and I'm celebrating it in style by wearing pyjamas and mooching around the house nursing a happy hangover from many drinks from last night. This set (recorded 2 days ago) was a funny one - I came off the decks not feeling to great about it, I really didn't think it had gone down well, and I thought about not uploading it at all, but I then listened to it on the way to work and I couldn't have been more wrong - I loved listening to it. :) Granted the end is a bit weak and sort of tumbles down in tempo, but still, they're all top tunes. Talking of which, here's the:

Tracklisting

Animal Collective - I Think I can
Thomas Feldmann - Next to the Field
Sounds From The Ground - Crystal Beam (out on March 8th
Dub Tractor - Sorry
Monolake - Null Pointer
Echaskech - Deserted
Snowblink - Green to Gone
Bibio - Great are the piths
Klimek - Ruined in a Day(Buenos Aires)
Fuck Buttons - Space Mountain
Underworld - Dinosaur
Nathan Fake - Fertinger
Luke Vibert - Arrogance
Holgen - Ohmu
Grizzle Bear - Merge (DNTL  remix)
Kelpe - The Blankout Aggrement
Trentemoeller - Always something better

BTM20100217 by machv

Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20100210

Mach, Morgan & Trans. Photo by Morgan Kincess

(SL photo by Morgan Kincess)
Life feels like a slow trudge through the sludge of a constant Winter at the moment;  though I note that, in my northern hemispherical home, it's getting lighter each time I cycle from work and that does bring me joy; along with the promise of spring only being a month away (ish), life ain't too bad. :D I hope that you enjoy this week's selection - it certainly put a smile on my face. Oh - I'm now also advertising these events on Virtual Advisor - I suggest you SL dudes and dudettes get  on that, sharpish.  Here's this weeks...
Tracklisting
Animal Collective - Graze
The Books ft Jose Gonzalez - The Cello Song
Snowblink - Ambergris
Jonsi & Alex - Indian Summer
Klimek - Exploding Unbearable Desire
Yimino - Migraino
Luke Vibert - Belief File
Echaskech - Shatterproof
Fuck Buttons - Olympians
Moderat - Rusty Nails
Telefon Tel Aviv - Mostly Translucent
The Durutti Column - Requiem
Justin Vernon - Big Red Machine
Volcano Choir - Islands, Is
Little Dragon - Fortune
Dub Tractor - A lot of work is done
Sufjan Stevens - You are the blood
e2a: I've just noticed that I forgot to make this one downloadable, but now you can. :)

BTM20100210 by  machv

Mach V @ Back To Mine: Wed, 3rd Feb 2010... Wait! Is that right?

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

Nicecast Archived Audio 20100203 1833 by  machv

Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20091127

Here's last Friday's show for you. :) 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

BTM20091127 by machv

Mach V @ Back To Mine - 20091120

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

BTM20091120 by machv

Mach V @ Back To Mine - 20091106

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

BTM20091106 by machv

BTM20091016: The Return

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(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

BTM20091016 by machv

DJ Set Uploaded: Drain Club, 20091011

Recorded in the Second Life Club space "Drain" on Sunday 11/10/2009. Towards the end of the set the region was getting rather full and it started to crash which will explain my slight interruption over the later Jon Hopkins track. Apart from that it was a great night and it's wonderful to be back DJing in Second Life. :) Big thanks to Tallim, Coggy & Lanne and thanks to everyone for coming down. :) Tracklisting:

School of Seven Bells: Iamundernodisguise Jon Hopkins: Insides Bola: Halyloola Yimino: Squeeze Me Echaskech: Future Sex Spenza: Gob Bombay Monkey: Can you transform? Yimino: Horizon Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip: Rappers Battle Fever Ray: Triangle Walks LCD Soundsystem: Young American Scum (Onanistic Dub) Simian Mobile Disco: Sleep Deprivation Subway: Xam Hell & Anthony Rother: Electronic Germany Black Meteoric Star: World Eater School of Seven Bells: Sempiturnal/Amaranth Ladytron: Ghosts Jon Hopkins: Light through the veins (Ewan Pearson's Downtown lights remix) James Yuill: This Sweet Love (Prins Thomas sneaky edit) Djuma Soundsystem: Les Dijinns (Trentmøller remix) Orbital: Are we here?

Drain Club 20091011 by machv

Mach V: Back to Mine, 20090828

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me at my desk in Second Life (napping).So just a one off show for you, as I'm still running around at weekend on the festival trail (next is Festinho, then The Thames Festival) and after that the missus and I are off to America for a 3 week road trip across the South West of USA. Normal service should resume on my return. Until then...

Tracklisting

Dan Arborise - Feet in the Sea, Head in the Stars Fink - Q & A Bibio - Fire Ant Yimino - Squeeze Me Echaskech - Future Sex Bombay Monkey - Are the Stars Florence & The Machine - Between Two Lungs School of 7 Bells - White Elephant Coat Echaskech - Reduction Hell - Electronic Germany Lindstrom - Where you Go I go too (part 1) Subway - Xam Echaskech - She Likes Colour TrenteMoeller - Moan Echaskech - The Calm//The Storm

Back To Mine with Mach V 20090829 by machv

Mach V at Back To Mine, 20090522

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Firstly: due to "planned maintenance" I won't be able to do my show next week (and maybe for the next two weeks after that, but we'll take them as they come). It's all good - we're replacing the floor in our studio/office  - but it does mean that the everything will need to be taken down and packed away while this happens. Secondly, some free music: this weeks show features music by Halogen and Iambic and you can get these EP/LPs for free just by visiting this link to the Maternity Ward Website. And if you want some more (and you will) you can download some more Halogen tracks from here. Dig in. :) Massive thanks to the wonderfully sparkling Mixmaster Morris for those tips and links. Thirdly, I've been booked to VJ at the Big Chill Festival this year! Yay! :) Anyway here's this weeks...

Track listing:

Fridge - Drum Machines and Glockenspiels Iambic - Transitions Yimino - Squeeze Me Halogen - Not The Remix Groove Armada - My Friend Fink - Blueberry Pancakes Florence and the machine - Kiss with a fist The Bird and the Bee - Polite Dance Song D'Nell - This Thing Benga & Coki - Night Fever Ray - Coconut Sounds From The Ground - Elemental Jon Hopkins - Insides Infinite Scale - Liquid Scope Yimino - Ze Ka Fridge - Cutup Piano and Xylophone Fink - Little Blue Mailbox

Download the show from this link (128Mb, 192Kbps, 92mins)

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