Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20110126

And here's this week's Back To Mine, which, like last weeks show is predominantly fuelled by Bleep's Top 100 of 2010 and - for me on a personal level - really works well almost as a proper set in it's own right and covers most of my current musical bases. To the regular listeners of TBH I think this is "business as usual": start out ambient, move into electronica, slide into techno, garage and dubstep, fall back again into some left field dance and then somehow end up with some guys with guitars, then there's me, (despite my best efforts) getting the tracklisting wrong and a odd track which doesn't fit with the rest of the set at the end as some sort of "bonus", but this for me epitomises that "model"; and long may it continue. ;) Right, lets recorrect that...

Tracklisting

Richard Skelton - Threads Across the River 
Oneohtrix Point Never - Stress Waves 
Emeralds - Double Helix 
Len Faki - Kraft Und Licht 
Sei A - White Rainbow (original Mix) 
Luke Abbott - Whitebox 
Martin Buttrich - You Must be this high 
Pariah - Railroad 
Kidkanenvil - The Floating World (Eliphino remix) 
Jon Hopkins - Vessel (Four Tet remix) 
Girl Unit - Wut 
NDV - LogarRiddmic 
Seiji - Yesman 
Daniel Maloso - Ritmo Especial 
Model 500 - OFI 
Daft Punk - Derezzed 
Holy Fuck - Red Lights 
Deerhunter - Desire Lines 
Avus- Reality Itself

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Mach V presents "The Bearding Hour" 20110123

So here it is, the first of The Bearding Hour for 2011 and I'm very glad to say that the wonderful and charming Souum Cortes (aka Bruno Gravato) will be joining me on the the nights of The Beading Hour, at Back to Mine in Second Life and you can here his set which followed mine here http://www.mixcloud.com/souum/souumbtm-2011-01-23/. Oh the picture that accompanies this post is my new guitar and I love it. :) Anyway as I've got two podcasts to upload and blog about today, I think it's time for less whaffle and more

Tracklisting

Pink Floyd - Fearless 
Neil Young - Old Man 
Peter Broderick - Below It 
The Books - There is no There 
The Tallest Man on Earth - King of Spain 
Canned Heat - Up The Country 
Megafaun - Where You Belong 
Jack Rose - Blues for Percy Danforth 
Dan Arborise - I Cannot Find 
Laura Veirs - I Can See Your Tracks 
Horse Feathers - Albina 
Genesis - Harlequin 
Bibio - Dopplerton 
Tunng - The Wind Up Bird 
Anais Mitchell/Rachel Reis - When you fall 
James Taylor - Going to Carolina (live 2010)

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Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20110119

This weeks podcast (and a few to follow, I'm sure) is mostly a subset of an awesome christmas present my lovely wife Miko got me - the Bleep top 100 tracks of 2010 and I'm still not listening to all the tracks yet! :) The rest come from Jon Hopkins'  awesome Original Soundtrack from the Vertigo Films produced movie "Monsters", Daft Punk's superb and supportive OST for "Tron Legacy" and one track from the up and coming Tel Aviv based future garage label Botanika that you'll be hearing more of from me, I'm sure.  Anyway I'll let you get on as I'll be giving you two podcasts this week as Sunday 23rd Jan is time for the first of The Bearding Hour shows of 2011. Excited? You Betcha! :) Here's this week's

Tracklisting

Jon Hopkins - Monsters Theme

Daft Punk - Finale

Cyclobe - How Acla Disappeared from Earth

Shed - 44a (Hard Wax Forever!)

Oriol - Night and Day

James Blake - CYMK

Velour - Booty Slammer

Julio Bashmore - Footsteppin'

Bunny on Acid - Oxygen (NDV remix)

Model 500 - OFI

Health - Before Tigers (Gold Panda rmx)

SCB - Hard Boiled VIP

Darling Farah - Berline (Funkineven Remix)

oOoOO _ Burnout Eyes

Rustie - Hyperthrust

Lorn - Cherry Moon

Sepalcure - The Warning

Mathew Jonson - Love in the Future

Om Unit - Lavender

Seams - Platz

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Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20110112

Welcome to 2011, Music Miners! Sorry that's taken a while to get the wheels rolling back on the wagon that is Back To Mine, in Second Life, but... well... you know how it is... ;) Anyway we're back on track. I hope you all had a wonderful and restful break and are now all gee'd up for a new year. While I was off I was delighted to find out that I got a special mention in the magical A Strangely Isolated Place blog's 2010 round up under the letter V, as part of the continued sight & sonic enslaught that is Echaskech, which was a wonderful way to round off 2010. I can only once again urge you to subscribe to ASIP as it is an essential musical feast; let's put it this way: if you like these shows you'll love ASIP. On the Echaskech tip, I met up with Dom last night at Echaskech Presents... Concrete for a back to back DJ set and lots of new nebulous Echaskech tracks were given their first light of day, and I have to say the crowd feedback was most encouraging. Many exciting things are being planned and acted upon in the Echaskech sphere: keep 'em peeled and pinned back, peeps cos we've some treats in the pipeline. Thanks to all who came down and made a great night a whole load better. We had a blast. :) Oh and a BIG THANK YOU to whoever added my last blog to StumbleUpon; my web analytics were way up over the festive season and it was all thanks to you. :) Anyway, here's this weeks...

Tracklisting

Casino vs Japan - Hello You

Strategy - Cathedral Spark

8Bitch - Orpheus

Actress - Supreme Cunnilingus

Camille - Le Juene Fille aux Cheveux Blancs

Laura Viers - July Flame

Midlake - Roscoe

Hallo Gallo 2010 - Blinkgurtel

Rocketnumbernine - Matthew & Toby

Anthony Shakir - Arise

Gold Panda - Vanilla Minus

Sepalcure - Every Day of my life

James Blake - CMYK

CRST - Roulette

Tokimonsta - Glaring Lights

Anthony Shakir - Detroit State of Mind

Isan - The Race To Be First Home

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Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20101214 - The Best of 2010

So here it is, the Mach V musical montage of the year, an audio annual for 2010 and what a great year it's been for music, and one I've been glad to say has shown me new paths and alley ways of music to carry on persuing and sharing with you all. But as this show is well over 2 hours long I'll let the music do the talking and, with no further ado here are...

Top Ten LPs (In no particular order)

• Jonsi & Alex - Riceboy sleeps
• Verulf - Territorial
• Jonsi - Go
• LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
• Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
• Pantha de Prince - Bohemian Forest
• Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner
• Bonobo - Black Sands
• aKido - Gamechanger
• Mount Kimbie - Crooks and Lovers

But that's not the end of it because without the eps, singles & free tracks that have made it on to my hard drive it would've been a very different year. After a couple of years almost just buying LPs I'm back buying singles and back into dance music, but not Drum and Bass, but Garage... or is it Dubstep? Or Croydon techno? Or Crackhouse? Or even Funky? Or is it Bassline? Who really knows and personally I don't really care - all I really care is that good music is still being made and that makes me exceptionally happy. I must thank a few people for being great friends, with amazing knowledge, patience and everyone of you for listening in occasionally. Without you guys life would be dull and empty so, to name some names: Much love to Miko, Souum, Jacomo, Lanne Wise, Stricky, eskigirl, Johnny Clash, Marky de Sade, Remote, Barry Dark, Tentonatom, Jose, Paul Noble, Seb White, Kirsty the svelte one, Digger, Nettie, Dom, Andy, Helle, Vera, Sarah, Antony, Annie, Nik, Sparky, Elliot, Princess Cranky, Henry, Samson, Aidan, Amukidi, Shi-i----i-i-i-i---iva, Saul, Jon Input Junkie, Penny, Jon & Serena (Just Music), Jon Hopkins, Andy Digitonal, Joshu I love acid, Jo (silent eclipse), Dr Mo, Adam Ombudsman, Daddy Love, Zbornak!!, Jubert, Transient, Ryan at A Strangely Isolated Place blog, everyone involved in Festinho, Mal, Charity and Cato, VGemm, Alex Nimmo, Pete Lawrence, Quey, Reg Minke, Tom Branston, Mikey Baby, Andrea, Graham Petch, Duck, Bruce Bickerton, Paddy, Aidan, Gary Delboy, Kai, Deirdre, Ravis, 2nd Thoughts, Dierdre, Rose, Dave n Dave. Here's the

Tracklisting (Top Ten Albums)

Jonsi & Alex: Happiness
Verulf: Shot with Gold
Jonsi:Tornado
LCD Soundsystem: Dance Yrself Clean
Gorillaz: Stylo
aKido: Radium Girls
Gold Panda: You
Pantha de Prince: Lay in a Shimmer
Bonobo: 1009
Mount Kimbie: Carbonated

(the rest)

Joy Orbison: Shrew who would have cushioned the blow
Dark Sky: Something to Lose
Magnetic Man: I Need Air
Katy B: On a Mission
Zinc & Dynamite: Wile Out
Caribou: Sun
Booka Shade: Teenage Spaceman
School of Seven Bells: Half Asleep (Lusine remix)
Max Cooper: Chaotisch Serie (Echaskech remix)
Yoshinori Sunahara: Subliminal
Horizon Fire: Passed out in a Datsun
Sounds From The Ground: The Land
Glasser: Mirrorage
Vital Substance: Beyond Belief

See you in 2011!

BTM20101214 by machv

Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20101208 & DJing at Big Chill Bar, Brick Lane 17/12/10

Ok, this is probably the last "proper" Back to Mine of the year as next week, two things will happen - firstly my Back to Mine show will be on Tuesday 14th December, instead of Wednesday as I'll be making a fool of myself at the office christmas party and, instead of my usual relatively random musical ramblings, I'll be dedicating the whole of next weeks show to rounding up the top 10 best LPs of 2010 (in my most humble and learned opinion, of course) and, if we have some time left over, some other musical highlights from the last 12 months, too. I realise that there are a couple more Wednesdays left in December but this time of year it's tricky to make plans so it might be the last time I get a chance to play from home before 2011 jumps up  and wiggles it's fancy new date in our faces. As for what's on the top 10, I still have no idea; there's a definite 5 or 6 so far, but I'm leaving the final list to the very last moment... one thing is for sure, it's going to be a great list as 2010 has been an awesome year for new music. Oh, also if any of you are around I'm djing at The Big Chill Bar on Friday 17th December alongside Paul Noble and Roy Shay from 8pm till 1am so if you're around, do pop in. Anyway, enough of my jibber jabber, let's have the links to the freebies and the...

Tracklisting

Booka Shade - Mr. Torrance

Boards of Canada - Nlogax

Stevie Wonder - Do I Do (U-Tern Disco Edit) (**FREE TRACK** http://soundcloud.com/u-tern/stevie-wonder-do-i-do-u-tern-disco-edit)

Little Dragon - Thunder Love

Scuba - Three Sided Shape

Sepalcure - Love Pressure

Ramadanman & Appleblim - Justify

Jose James - Blackmagic (Joy Orbison's Recreation)

CRST - Good Love

Martino B - Let It Go (CJ REign Jumpin vox dub)

Mega - The Count & Sinden

DJ Madd - Bass Comedown

Lusine - Twilight (Elliptical Mix)

DJ Cosmo - Acoma (ORIGINAL MIX)

Jack Sparrow - Loveless

Jonsi - New Piano Song (live) (** FREE TRACK** http://pitchfork.com/news/40843-hear-live-pieces-from-sigur-ros-members/)

I am robot and Proud - The Electricity in your house wants to sing

Mara Carlyle - Pianni (**FREE TRACK**: http://accidentalrecords.bandcamp.com/track/pianni )

Scuba - Before (After)

BTM20101208 by machv

Mach V presents "The Bearding Hour", 20101128

So no "Back To Mine" this week as it's time once again for another dip into to the hirsute waters of "The Bearding Hour", my bimonthly hour long podcast of the folkier side of my record collection (and a great excuse to buy new bearded skin in Second Life). Annoyingly, Torq was playing up again and was stretching and warping the tracks, the worst effected was Bon Iver's "Re: Stacks" which I couldn't let lie, so I've reedited it Audacity to pluck the offending track out and replace it with a far cleaner version (yes I get that probably this only matters to me). Oh and the first one's for Bill, the last is for Bruno. Here's the...

Tracklisting

Hawkwind - Hurry on Sundown Origamibiro - Bloodpulse of the Hungry Fingertip Beak - Cup James Yuill - You Always Bibio - Great are the Piths Peter Broderick - And It's Alright Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly City and Colour - Confessions Snowblink - Human Nature Bon Iver - Re: Stacks Jason Steel - Baby Bay Sam Amidon - Relief Sarah Jaffe - Black Hoax Lie Rachel Ries - You Only Mountain Man - How'm I Doin First Aid Kit - Ghost Town Tunng - Code Breaker

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Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20101124

This weeks podcast finds me much rejuvenated after a very relaxing weekend away in the French countryside in a delightful french farmhouse, alongside some excellent friends. What the doctor ordered; or, more accurately, what doctors should order for people to cure their ailments: "Take two days in the Normandy countryside. Take close friends, eat well, drink Beaujolais nouveau, sit by a fire and complete jigsaw puzzles. You'll be right as rain." It's set me right up for the forthcoming winter, I feel. Many thanks to Miko, Simon, Kirsty and Jane for their high levels of awesomeness and to Lady V who is just great. :) A special shout out to Lanne for making the recording of this weeks set so jam packed full of people, it's great to see Back to Mine packed to the rafters with an awesome audience. Here's this weeks

Tracklisting

Gold Panda - Snow and taxis (Glitterbug Pink Snow) Lee Jones - It Is, Isn't it Roland Appel - Cold Blooded Four Tet - Love Cry (Joy Orbison remix) Rocketnumbernine - Matthew & Toby Mount Kimbie - Fifty Mile View Glasser - T Ultravox - Vienna Nosaj Thing - Quest (low limit rmx) Lorn - Grandfather WTF & DEAD PREZ - It's Bigger than Hip Hop Benga - Night Joy Orbison - So Derobe MJ Cole - Sincere (Nero rmx) Nosaj Thing - US (Jon Hopkins Remix) Gold Panda - India Today

BTM20101124 by machv

Mach V @ Back To Mine 20101110 and Restaurant Review

Sorry for the lateness of the update - I've been very busy! Here's just one of the things I've been up to: L'Autre Pied, Blandford Street, Marylebone, London.

Miko and I went off to L'Autre Pied for Lunch to celebrate her birthday and our 13th Wedding Anniversary.

We arrived at 1pm and after perusing the menu we plumped for the "tasting menu" which was a 7 course affair, at £55 per head. Miko asked for a vegetarian version.

After a delightfully light "amuse bouche", the first course arrived

Jerusalem Artichoke Velouté, Wild Mushrooms, Hazelnut Oil What a way to start a meal! The jerusalem soup initially tasted far too salty but once we'd picked up the courage to dig deeper in to the plate, a fantastic layer of pasta and some beautiful beans (not too sure what type) underneath balanced the salty flavour and heaven was had in the mouth. A stunning and remarkable starter.

Second starter Line Caught Cornish Mackerel, Organic Ginger Carrots, Shaved Fennel Salad, Coriander Cress An awesome dish. Though I'm no fan of fennel, it perfectly complimented the mackerel and carrot.

Fish Pan Fried Cod, Roscoff Onions, Ragout of Sweetcorn, Chanterelle Mushrooms, Lightly Smoked Sabayon

A beautifully cooked piece of cod which was supported and complimented with the corn and enriched with the very lightly smoked sabayon. noms.

Main

Roasted Breast of Gressingham Duck, Shallot Fondant, Fondant Potatoes, Roasted Fig, Pistachio Jus This was a weird balance; my pallatte was confused by the duck, the fig and the pistaccio being on the same plate together. It wasn't bad, just confusing. My wife had a pumpkin taggiatelli that was outstanding. I note that on the menu now, the fig has gone and is replaced with a pear which might make all the difference.

Cheese course (unphotographed) we were presented with a selection of 6 or 7 cheeses including a goats cheese, some hard smooth english cheese, a stilton style and a couple of french camenbert style cheeses, we chose three of them but none really amazed us.

First Dessert

Vanilla Panacotta, Raspberry Purée and Pear Ok. A slight mishap here as I'd finished the dessert before photographing it, but the photo does speak for itself. This was delicious. Smooth and slightly sweet with the sharpness of the raspberries cutting through the panacotta and then smoothed and sweetened by the pear. Absolute genius.

Second Dessert Caramel Parfait, Chocolate Streusel, Black Treacle Ice Cream This is the second and last desert. Though we both enjoyed it, my wife and I disagreed on this course - she found the parfait too cold and I didn't. We both loved the treacle ice cream, though. However, the panacotta was the star of the desserts.

Petit fours (not photographed) were freshly baked micro cookies served very warm on a warm slate. Utterly beautiful.

The whole meal took just under 3 hours to be served. The service was warming, welcoming, informed, funny, friendly and well timed. The total bill including a glass of wine, an apple juice spritzer and water for the two of us was just under £150 (service included) and was worth every penny.

Highly recommended.

Any, here's this podcast's

Tracklisting

Grey Light - Lawrence

Lee Jones - Theme for Frank

Appleblim & ramadanman - Souz le Sable

The XX - VCR (Four Tet Rmix

Matthew & Toby - Rocketnumbernine (Four Tet Rmix)

My My - Butterfly's and Zebra's

Sideshow - Polar Bear (dub)

Dark Sky - Drowned City

Phaeleh/HXDB/Psychonaught - invisible Touch

Nosaj Thing - Voices (Dorian Concept Rmx)

Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo

Gold Panda - I'm with you But I'm Lonely

Glasser - Apply

Au Revoir Simone - The Lucky One (Slow Club rmx)

Gold Panda - You

Mount Kimboe - Ruby (live at berghain)

Tripswitch - Circularity

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Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20101103

Not much to say this week so we'll just jump right in to the

Tracklisting

Mount Kimbie - Tunnelvision aKido - Carrousel Tycho - From Home (Mux Mool Remix) Bonobo - Distant Lands of the Heart Yoshinori Sunahara - The Good Timing of The World Of Love Song Yoshinori Sunahara - The First Step Susumu Yokota - Saku Pantha du Prince - Welt Am Draht Proem - Blacker the Berry Grasscut - The Door in the Wall (Bibio rmx) The Beaufort Scale - Ray Tripper (Mixmaster Morris Hayama Edit) Horizon Fire - Piney Hills Blaze Memotone - Walking Flying Squarepusher - Square Window The Books - I am who I am Jonsi - Animal Arithmatic Dan Deacon - Of The Mountains Wisp - On the Rails aKido - In Needles

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Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20101027

First off - my apologies to Joy Orbison and to Richard Snitch for the dreadful tempo slides during their tracks - amateur stuff and I should've been paying better attention. Trust me I'm chastising myself quite hard about this. Bad Toad.... baaaaad toad... A quick plug for the awesome Ghostly International label who love you and show you their love by giving you free music. The Christopher Willis track comes on their "Ghostly Essential rarerities 2" LP which you can download from here for absolutely nothing. Ghostly have on their artist roster Lusine, Gold Panda, Tycho and School of Seven Bells all of which make regular appearances on these podcasts, so if you like Back To Mine, you like Ghostly. :) Also that Apparat track is also a freebie as part of the promotion for his DJ Kicks release on !K7 and you can get that from here. Now, lets tell you the whole

Tracklisting

Max Cooper - The End of Reason Peter Broderick - Human Eyeballs on Toast Christopher Willis - Orange Lit Spaces (electricwest Rmx) Tycho - Sunrise Projector (Nautilus rmx) Apparat - Sayulita Lusine - The Stop aKido - Epoch (Get High) Pantha du Prince - Water Falls Kraftwerk - Electro Kardiogramm Simian Mobile Disco - It's the Beat (Luke Vibert remix) Luke Vibert - Stern Facials Vital Substance - Inside of Me Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo Mount Kimbie - Carbonated Posthuman - The Grey aKido - Paper Chase Snitch - This Condition Zinc - Wile Out (DJ Marky remix)

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Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20101020

A shorter set than normal this week due to some technical issues with Second Life, which also glady covered up the fact that though I was happily DJing for the first 10 minutes I wasn't actually broadcasting. (d'oh). Anyway... enough of my incompetance. :) This week it's mostly a Garage (Future/UK/Speed Garage/UK Funky/Bassline/Dubstep/2step/4x4... whatever! You can argue about specific genres amongst yourselves) selection, fuelled by a trip to Juno the day before and picking up a tasty selection of 135bpm dance music. I have to say the online shopping experience at Juno was really good: the ease of use of their player, their instant recommendations, the length and quality of the samples and the general site navigation was all very, very good indeed - the only thing that was a slightl let down was their download manager, which needed a prod and poke or two to actually download all of the tracks and it was a bit shonky while doing that, but apart from that it all worked well. To be fair to Juno, it's still a Beta product so I'm not that fussed by it. Here's the...

tracklisting

Fourtet - Love Cry (Joy Orbison rmx) Joy Orbison - So Derobe Lee Jones - Aria 501 - Bring the styles back Kraymer - Brothers Zinc - GTAC Katy B - On a Mission Dark Sky - Drowned City Phaelex/Hxdb/Psychonaut - invisible Touch Al Tourettes & Appleblim - Mr Swishy Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo CRST - Dial the Operator SCLIST - Cyanide Zinc - 128 Trek Lorn - Void i & ii

BTM20101020 by machv

There's also a couple of old Drum and Bass mixes up on soundcloud now, that have been dragged up from the archives:

"Life is Beautiful" from 2003

Life Is Beautiful by machv South Circular from 2001

South Circular by machv

Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20101013

First off, sorry about the clipping on the first half an hour or so of the recording, it's not too bad, but it is annoying - I've tried to adjust the levels in audacity for you so it's a more even listening experience for your sensitive but highly tuned lug holes. There's not a lot of news from me, this week. I mention in the show that I'd add the Akido's Gamechanger LP link for the free download so here it is if you like physical media, the cd art work looks ace, too. The other freebie is the Secret Station Records Compilation "Broadcast 3" which you can get from here as well as many other great goodies, but don't be too greedy - remember to buy some stuff too. News of both freebies came to me via the excellent ASIP . Now, with no further ado, lets get on with the...

Tracklisting

Akido - Turnaround Drexon Field - Rainbow Not So Bright Lawrence - In Your Eyes Mount Kimbie - mayor Pantha du Prince - Sach mal Baum Gold Panda - You (Minotaur Shock rmx) Bonobo - Bossa Baja Input Junkie - Seven Bells Mount Kimbie - Carbonated Proem - Splutterfly Lorn - Glass & Silver Yimino - Bintliptick Akido - Radium Girls Fink - Sort of Revolution City and Colour - As Much As I Ever Could Volcano Choir - Still Specta Ciera - Sunflower  Stuff Tycho - Sunrise Projector

BTM20101013 by machv

Mach V @ Back to Mine, 20101009

Here's the latest of the shows which, to my mind at least, definitely is beginning to sound autumnal in it's track selection. Here's a couple of very necessary plugs and links for you, too: Input Junkie's latest LP "Further Studies" is available from bandcamp. Dialog>'s remix of Gel Sol's "Cool Sweet Awesome Yay!" is available from hermetic as a part of a free download and that awesome "Dub be good to Me" (that I picked up from ASIP you can get for free on soundcloud . But before you digest all that ,here's the

Tracklisting

Input Junkie - Headwaltz Yoshinori Sunahara - Life & Space Gel Sol (dialog > rmx) - Cool Sweet Awesome Yay! Beats International - Dub Be Good To Me (Syv2 Un1 rmx) Gold Panda - Suppose I should say 'Thanks' or some shit Wisp - Laff King Midas Sound - Meltdown Mount Kimbie - Field The Field - A Paw in my face Memotone - Come with me The Books - The Story of Hip Hop Danny Breaks - Another Dimension Wagon Christ - Boney L Prefuse 73 - I've said all I have to say about the intro Vital Substance - Beyond Belief Telefon Tel Aviv - What it was will never again Susumu Yokota - King Butterfly Yoshinori Sunahara - Subliminal Dntel - Bluegrass (short) School of Seven Bells - The Wait The Village Orchestra - Many Rooms in my Fathers House

BTM20101006 by machv

Mach V @ Back To Mine 20100929, Late Night Session 20100926 & The Bearding Hour 20100926!

Ok last week I gave you two sets and this week you get three! That's about 4 and a half hours of mixes for you lovely, well dressed and sweet smelling people. Oh, let me state that this is not a trend. The curve will not continue with four sets next week. No. That will not happen. Just so we're clear on that... ;) OK, well let's take them in chronological order...

Back To Mine Late Night Session, 20100926

Last Saturday night I couldn't sleep so I logged on into Second Life looking for a party to hang out and and none really took my fancy so I decided to hold my own little soiree at Back To Mine and here's the (rather housey)...

Tracklisting

Alucidnation - Technically Warm The Rhythm Slaves- The Light you Will see (Trentemøller's Dub mix) Sasha - Park it in the shade (audion ain't got no friends mix) Pantha de Prince - Bohemian Forest Bonobo - We Could Forever Caribou - Odessa Wagon Christ - Chris Chana Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler Yimino - Q Bit Gorillaz - Dare LCD Soundsystem - Losing my edge Subway - Xam Black Meteoric Star - Death Tunnel Kraftwerk - The Robots Hell & Anthony Rother - Electronic Germany Yoshinori Sunahara - Unconscious Fragment Mariel Ito - Lone Romantic (3 Channels Rmx) Dub Logic - Go Lib Club

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TBH20100926

This is (I hope) the first set in a series of folk/americana/acoustic/country/nufolk/folktronica/predominantly guitar based or (to simplify it) generally "Beardy" music sets that I'm going to play in Second Life at The Green Man, Westminster, Second Life, every couple of months. To seperate it from the Back to Mine weekly sets, this will being given the title of "The Bearding Hour".I'm really happy how this one turned out and I'm really looking forward to the next one. Keep strumming and plucking, people. :)

The Tracklisting

Skallander - Forgiven Tunng - Woodcat Sam Amidon - Red Horse Feathers - A Burden Bowerbirds - Oldest Memory Megafaun - Kaufman's Ballard Didier Soyuz - Joe 90's daydream acoustic version Dan Arborise - Take Heart in Your Hope Nick Drake - Things Behind The Sun Gillian Welsh - I Dream A Highway First Aid Kit - In The Morning The Accidental - I Can Hear Your Voice In My Head John Martyn - Over The Hill Crosby, Stills and Nash - Helplessly Hoping Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood Snowblink - Green to Gone

TBH20100926 by machv

BTM20100929

Last but by no means least, here's this weeks "proper" podcast of my musical meanderings through my record collection

Tracklisting

Sellotape Unicorn - Naono Grey Scale - Fennesz Mind Over Midi - Post Lunch Dip part 1 Yimino - Los Cauz Mount Kimbie - Would Know Beak - Sea Pen Meet Anglerfish Vital Substance - Heart in Hand Horizon Fire - Denver River Logging Irresistible Force - Higher State of Mind Tycho - Higher State of Mind (Hatchbacks Cosmic Caviar Dub) School of Seven Bells - Babelonia Broken Social Scene - Sentimental Xs Fujiya and Miyagi - 16 Shades Cocorosie - Sunshine Mount Kimbie - Before I Move Off Lorn - Cherry Moon Dark Sky - Ghost Notes Posthuman - Ottowa (echaskech rmx) Isan - Channel 10 Yoshinori Sunahara - Infomation of TUA BTM20100929 by machv

Mach V @ Back To Mine 20100922 & @ Cafe Wabi Sabi 20100919

Two sets for you this week, the regular Wednesday music meanderings and a bonus 2 and a 1/2 hour techtronic mix that I played at Akira Seymore's Cafe Wabi Sabi, Tekken in Second Life on Sunday. Hope you like 'em.  :)

Cafe Wabi Sabi 20100919

Tracklisting

The Village Orchestra - Lo Pencil (Village Orchestra remix) Memotone - Like Today Hot Chip - I Feel Better (Max Cooper remix) Trentemøller - Chamelion Datassette - Aviatrix School of Seven Bells - Camarilla Cornelius - Clash Dntel - Acid Works for Me if it Works for You (Dr. Rek: Decapitated Evil King's Fort) Luke Vibert - Breakbeat Metal Music LCD Soundsystem - Get Innocuous Dublogic - Two Sugers Paul Keeley - I can't (stop) The MFA - The difference is you (Superpitcher mix) The Field - I have the moon, you have the internet Datassette - Micro Joy Orbison - The Shrew would have cushioned the blow Dark Sky - Something to lose Magnetic Man - I need air Max Cooper - Chaotische Serie Nathan Fake - Fentiger Underworld - Juanita Echaskech - The Calm Echaskech - The Storm Tycho - Coastal Break Mach V @ Cafe Wabi Sabi 20100919 by machv

BTM20190922

Tracklisting

Keramick - Current Black Origamibiro/The Birobox Workshops - Bloodpulse of the Hungry Fingertip/Quad Time Beak - Cadrea444 Gold Panda - Before we talked lum - Glow Fly Vital Substance - A place in time Horizon Fire - Glenfield Sam Amidon - Relief The Books - Cold Freezin' Night Honey Weasel - ?? Planet Boelex - New Beginning Quadron - Unpatience Tycho - Coastal Break (Lusine Remix) Yoshinori Sunahara - Subliminal Rei Harakami - Glimglim The Field - Everybody's got to learn sometime Memotone - Another Field magic number 3 remix - DF Tram Danny Breaks - The Jellyfish/Junkie for Beats I am robot and proud - Something to write home about

BTM20100922 by machv

Mach V at Back To Mine, BTM20100915 - Echaskech get UK Festival award nomination

So, the voting has opened in the UK Festival Awards (run by Virtual Festivals) and we (at Echaskech HQ) are incredibly chuffed to see that our performance at Festinho (photo from miko coffey) has been nominated in the Virtual Festivals Critics' Choice Award which in their words "... is designed to celebrate those special acts who added something a little extra to their festival show. It could be comedy, nostalgia, crowd interaction or just that 'secret ingredient' - basically something that sets them apart from other performers as a real crowd pleaser." It has to be said that we're up against some stiff competition and I don't think we expect to win - the nomination is wonderful recognition enough of our efforts to make this particular performance special - but we do hope that you can find time to register and place a vote for us in this esteemed category. We'll buy you an ice cream if you do. :) Anyway back to this weeks musical melange and here's the...

Tracklisting

Gold Panda - You

Bonobo - Kiara + intro

Beak - amoral mayor earwig

Yoshinori Sunahara - Capacity

Vital Substance - Losing Faith

The Village Orchestra - Jacob/Bad Hand at Cards

Hot Chip - I feel better (Max Cooper rmx)

Max Cooper - Attention Defecit Order

Rei Harakami -300ml (Milk)

The Orb - Perpertual Dawn (Live '93 version)

Horizon Field - Passed Out in a datsun

School of Seven Bells - Crescent Gold

Tycho - Coastal Break

Booker Shade - No difference

Underworld - Scribble

Magnetic Man - I need Air (Digital Soundboy rmx)

Aphrodite vs High Contrast - Racing Spice (Mach V bootleg)

Lusine - make it easy

Memotone - The Day it Rained

BTM20100915 by machv

Mach V @ Back To Mine 20100908 (+ travel blog)

So it's been almost a month since you got a new show and it was really great to get behind the decks once again, fuelled with all the new music that I've picked up from the festivals. So what have I been up to? Well let's start where I left off... Driving back from the Big Chill I noted that the van's brakes were beginning to grind so I got it booked into a ATS Euromaster to get them serviced - they ascertained that it was the callipers that had seized but despite having the van for a few days, they couldn't get the parts to repair it, so we decided to take it to Green Man and see if we could get it fixed between Green Man and Festinho. Most of the journey to Green Man is motorway so I doubted that it would be that problematic, though coming off the M4 towards Abergavenny/Y Fenni it became apparent that the brakes were getting worse and worse...

Still, we arrived on site at 9:30pm, which was a bit annoying as I was supposed to play records on the Radio at 9pm, but we set up in the pouring rain and bedded down for the start of Green Man.

Green Man is rapidly becoming the best source of new (albeit beardy) music for me. Twice I've looked at the line up and wrinkled my nose at it as nothing seems too familiar, but after some excellent dissection of the program (mostly by Miko, she's organised enough to read it) we came away with a plethora of many new artists - more than I've got from festivals before. On the Americana/folk tip I've learnt about Mountain Man, Mega Faun, The Tallest Man Alive and First Aid Kit, in the psyche rock genre I discovered The Besnard Lakes and on the electronic oeuvre I've picked up on Gold Panda and Bear in Heaven. I spent £80 in the Rough Trade pop up shop just getting cds of artists that I heard at the festival. :) I LOVE THIS! MORE NEW MUSIC PLZ!!! The weather was variable between pleasant British dappled sunshine to torrential down pours, but nothing stops this festival and it's punters enjoying the weekend and the artists. Saturday Night we were all thoroughly entertained by The Flaming Lips who's live show is so impressive (even more so in a field in Wales) - i wouldn't call myself a fan following it, but I would go and see them again, they really are a truly awesome live act. I did a bit of compering on Saturday afternoon on the Main Stage and I loved it. Again: MORE OF THIS, PLEASE!!

Monday rolled around and after an extended morning radio show on GM Radio (3 and a half hours, instead of 2) we packed up, arranged for the van to be seen a LDV specialist that afternoon in Frome (pronounced "Froom") which was sort of on the way between Wales and Weymouth, our destination. The journey was fraught. The brakes were getting worse and worse. We eventually got to the LDV depot and they immediately took the van on to the rack to check out the brakes. The news wasn't good. On both sides of the front axle the callipers were seized, the pads worn down to bare metal and the discs scorched and scratched like an old 78 (and probably just as fragile). The service manager ordered the parts, guaranteeing their delivery the next day at 9am and they rearranged their work schedule to fit us in as a priority job, to get us back on the road to enjoy the rest of our holiday.

In the meantime we needed to find somewhere else to stay - the LDV guys offered their car park, but I had spied a rather plush looking spa hotel between Bath and Frome on the drive down so I convinced Miko that this was the sensible option as the Travel Lodges and the like would be all booked up with company reps (and after ringing around, they were) and luckily for us the Spa Hotel had a room (£159 for two of us including breakfast and access to the spa) so we booked ourselves into the Homewood Park Hotel. We asked the LDV staff for a cab number, but they didn't seem to like that idea so one of their staff gave us a lift to the hotel instead. How nice is that?? :)

We weren't really packed for staying in such a posh palace, but after a bath and wrapping ourselves up in lush dressing gowns, swim suits and slippers we extensively hydrated ourselves in the jacuzzi (oh sorry "hydrotherapy pool") and in the heated swimming pool, and in the sauna, and in the steam room. All of these were included in the cost of the room. Awesome stuff. In the evening we decided to stay in and order room service however the quality of the food that was delivered to our very comfortable room was good good it surpassed what you'd expect from room service - placing most hotel restaurants to shame. One thing I did notice was that I still had the keys to the van, so I was all prepared to take a cab to take the keys back to the LDV place and sit in their rather sparse waiting room while they worked on the van.

In the morning, we rang the depot and told them about the keys, and they sent a parts van up to the hotel to pick them up, saving me another taxi journey. In the meantime we checked out and asked the reception to look after out luggage while we swanned about the very stately homely reception rooms waiting for the work to finish. At about midday we got a call with some bad news - one of the calliper bolts had seized and they would need to order another, but that meant we'd need to stay another night in the hotel. Oh Dear! What a calamity. :) So we booked ourselves back in to the luxury we were rapidly becoming accustomed to, this time booking ourselves into the restaurant for dinner.

Aaaanyway to cut a long story short (and yes I could go on and on about this, but I realise it's only Tuesday and we've still got two more festivals to cover!) we picked up the van on Wednesday morning, paid the bill (that was less than quoted) and set off on the road again. We'd cancelled the Weymouth Caravan park as one night wasn't really enough to justify the trip and booked ourselves in to a caravan park just outside of Woodstock in the lovely and familiar county of Oxfordshire.

We set up at Bladon Chains (pouring rain) and I set about grabbing my laptop so I could work on the video for the two Echaskech gigs at the weekend... only to find that I'd left the power supply at green man. I wasn't too happy. In fact I was in tears. The pressure of the van repair, the amount of money we'd just spent in two days (well over £1000 - the holiday was only supposed to cost us £60!) , the state of my very red bank balance were all weighing down on me, the dreadful weather and the cramped state of the van (i can't stand up in it - it's very frustrating) and to be let down by my own stupidity (even when I'd made a concerted effort to remember it, only not to) broke me and I wasn't a happy chappy. I wasn't in the best state.

Thursday was a new day with sunshine (mostly) so we packed up and drove to Milton Keynes to visit the Apple Store to pick up a new power supply (I'd tracked my old one down - it was experiencing a week in Edinburgh) and a new leisure battery from Halfords for the van as that had died on us, too. Then onto Festinho! I was already trying to ingratiate myself to somewhere (ANYWHERE!!) that could offer me a power socket so I could work on the set for Festinho but it wasn't going down to well - things were quite fraught with the production team - an appalling lack of volunteers and stewards had really piled on the pressure so the last thing they needed was little ol' me wanting to get in the way of it all. But with a huge amount of thanks to Simon, a corner of the desk was found on Friday afternoon and I set about preparing video for the evening's performance. Which went rather well. :)

Festinho is awesome - I could wax lyrical about how incredibly special, initimate, friendly, well organised, loving (and a million other superlatives) Festinho is, but seriously the only way is to experience it first hand. It's hard to find a more warm, smiling group of both punters and staff. Here's miko's photos of the weekend if you need some encouragement. :) I haven't felt this way about a festival experience since  going to The Big Chill's Enchanted Garden Festivals. Yes, it's that magical. :)

Saturday afternoon I met up with Dom and Andy and we packed Dom's dad's car and drove to Silloth in Cumbria where Solfest was - we got there at about 8:30pm and bimbled about, catching a bit of The Wailers and Eat Static. I slept for about an hour and then we got about playing our set in the fantastic Dogs In Space tent, finishing at about 5am - Huge thanks to Michael Dog (yes, he of Planet Dog and MegaDog Fame)  at which point we packed the car back up and drove immediately back to Festinho. We really didn't want to miss anymore of it, because Festinho was all full of friends and love and fun and good times and in agreeing to do this Solfest gig we were missing the best part of it - Saturday night! We got back at 10:30am, and I got into the swing of things and had a wonderful Sunday, managing to stay awake until the end of AGT Rave crew awesome set and then slept for 11hours. :) Home on Monday, back at work on Wednesday.

there.

that's about it - (amazingly) there's quite a lot of detail I've left out, but you'd never know. ;)

Anyway I hope you like this weeks offering, here's the

Tracklisting

Verulf - United in Two Variations Origamibiro - Quad Time/Bloodpulse of the Hungry Fingertip Beak - He Descended into his Memory First Aid Kit - Ghost Town Sam Amidon - Way Go Lilly Moon in the Gutter - Jack Rose Gillian Welch - Everything is Free Sarah Jaffe - Even Born Again Quadron - Far Cry Bonobo (ft Andreya Triana) - Eyes Down The XX - Night Time The Arcade Fire - Modern Man The Besnard Lakes - Chicago Train Lost Idol - Wish I was there School of Seven Bells - Dust Devil Yoshinori Sunahara - The First Step Lusine - Auto Pilot Echaskech - Shatterproof Portishead - Roads (Max Cooper rmx) Future Sound of London - Max

BTM20100908 by machv

news: old music is back!

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. :) Music for sleeping Robots by @alijamieson

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.

Bring The Schnauss (Mach V Edit) by machv

Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20080812

Ok, so festival No.3 - Big Chill Festival at Eastnor Castle - is now out of the way, and I'm half way through the festival line up for the year. Playing at the Big Chill has always been a highlight and without their support I doubt I would've continued DJing for so long, or had the career that I've had. The majority of my friends have all come about because of The Big Chill, so the emotional ties are stronger with The Big Chill than any other organisation. No other organisation has had such a profound effect on me, and that effect will last for many years to come. Earlier this year Chillfest, the company behind The Big Chill, went into liquidation and it was looking decidedly dodgy for their future. In stepped Festival Republic (the organisation behind, Leeds, V, Reading, Latitude, The Electric Picnic and Glastonbury to name but a few) and they bought the brand, keeping on creative director Katrina Larkin. With such a corporate company stepping in to save it from dying two things were obvious:

1) The Big Chill wouldn't die, it would be around for a long while yet 2) It would be radically different from previous incarnations.

So it was with a curious and skeptical eye and ear that I attended this year. Sadly, my role as a Compere had vanished so I'd ingratiated myself into the Big Chill Radio crew, but I was also booked as a DJ in one of the cocktail bars - The Monkey Shoulder Treehouse (see pic. thanks to Debbie Keen). The following text is what I posted on the Big Chill Forum as part of the feedback about peoples experiences ( http://forum.bigchill.net/index.php?/topic/698769-big-chill-2010/page__view__findpost__p__2290334 ) :

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On the whole: Not bad. I had a good time.

It's certainly gone through a radical transformation in both the front and back stage areas and often it felt that some one had pretended to put on a big chill, building the site up from photographs from previous years.

Goodings

The site seemed to work quite well, in moving people about from one end to the other and it looked lovely, with many little touches like the ziggurat and the globe lights. The Enchanted Garden certainly had a lovely vibe about it and I'd wished I had more time and energy to explore it in greater detail than I did. I loved the lampshades on the festoon lighting

The loos (and this only applies to in arena public ones) were on the whole, fine. Mostly well stocked, and with wash basins out side and lots of that instant handwash. They were well lit and I rarely had to queue.

The Bars seemed busy but service was quick and the staff seemed happier too.

Crumpets. NOM!

Explosions in the sky, Thom Yorke, Massive Attack on Friday was just fantastic line up. I was so happy.

Toddler T at the Starburst stage. AWE + SOME.

Tracklisting TSO's ambient set. Double Plus Great.

I had one of the best DJ experiences in my life up at the Monkey Shoulder Bar on Saturday night. It was the first time playing out with Torq and it went really well (in so much there were a couple of technical issues, but I fixed them and it worked fine from there on in). The view from the bar was beautiful, overlooking the whole site and there were plenty of smiling, gurning, gyrating punters at the bar, dancing in the sunset and occasional showers. Nice drinks too.

Camping in Production was such a great escape from the festival and it meant I could get decent spates of sleep as and when required between my radio shifts.

Working on the Radio was awesome. Made new friends, worked hard, listened to awesome music and have a million and one stories to tell. For instance, I tracklisted Sir Norm's set on Sunday so managed to watch him in action, move from a quietly unhappy and hurt man, to a smiling, ebullient and chilled musical genius. A genuine rare and unique opportunity and I was proud to be part of the crew that turned his experience of the weekend around. And it was a top set too.

A lack of gas & balloons.

It was great to catch up with so many good friends, many of them I only get to see in a field these days.

Lots of very nice people saying how much they missed me talking between acts on the main stage (you made me cry)

It was great to see so many young people on site. You're the future of festivals and it's great to see you coming along.

Disco Shed - one big throbbing love for you guys.

Katrina resplendent in Blue (clothed).

My van.

Baddings

It seemed that the programming was done by people with no idea of who the actual artists where are where they would work best, and more about how much each artist had been paid.

There seemed to be an incredible lack of respect for artists - Norman Jay being soundchecked over, the late night DJs on the main stage playing a half an hour after the last live band, and then the stage crews working with work lights striking the stage down for the night while they played - Joe Goddard played to an empty, rubbish filled field; Bonobo (a 12 piece band) playing on the smallest stage you have ever seen. Chillfest always made you feel special and welcome at any of their events, it appears that Festival Republic couldn't give a sh1t about them.

The Clash Stage was so small it was beyond a joke. It looked like some teen with a rich daddy and no class had knocked it up. Burn it. Seriously.

A lack of love/joy/care from the top of the chain that just filtered down to all the staff. I didn't meet many working people (both paid and voluntary) would wanted to be there, nor who felt that they were wanted.

No flexibility from event staff.

Being forced into buying a live in vehicle ticket that I didn't actually need. :/

'There is no "Last Year"'.

Watching a head honcho ball out menial staff in full view of everyone over trivial, minor matters. Get a grip.

"Alan" but yea, ok I was young once too and damn I was a precocious brat at that age.

My showing of First Light (360 degree edit) was (on a personal level) incredibly disappointing.

Sailor Jerry's "brand new" shanty town bar, with security. This was the new Rizla stage and I didn't want to be part of it.

Sky TV adverts.

No screens or cameras on the main stage. The sound system on that stage had been ramped up too, and I have no idea why.

A distinct lack of visuals.

But on the whole I did have a good time at the Festival, I just didn't really think it was a "Big Chill" festival. Faux Chill, more like. ==== Anyway, that's enough Big Chill navel gazing. Next week is Green Man and then the weekend after that is Festinho and Solfest, so expect a little radio silence until September. Until then, here's this weeks

Tracklisting:

The Orb - Live '93 - A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld (Loving U) Echaskech - The Calm Wagon Christ - Receiver Magnetic Man - I Need Air Dark Sky - Something to Lose MJ Cole - Sincere (Nero remix) Joy Orbison - The Shrew that could've cushioned the blow Todd Edwards - I might be (MJ Cole remix) The Books - Chain of Missing Links School of Seven Bells - I L U Vital Substance - Roswell Lusine - Everything under the Sun Zero 7 - Sleepr The Books - A Wonderful phrase by Gandhi BTM20100812 by machv