It's great to be asked to play some records at the Big Chill Bar. Yes, it's an early start for most, including me, but still: me, you, some decks, booze and food : what a way to have your sunday lunch! I'l be playing some lovely down tempo and folktronic tunes to help you digest your roast and down a few beers. I'll try to remember to record it for those not up or out of town.
Event: Echaskech Presents... Roger O'Donnell & Erin Lang @ Concrete, Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre.
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.
See you there!
Event: VJing at Digital City, with Billy Nasty as our guest
"Bit of techno? Bit of electro? is it? Absolutely crackers, mate."
What: Recital
Host: Digital City
Start Time: 23 October at 19:00
End Time: 24 October at 01:30
Where: T Bar, 56 Shoreditch High Street, London
Free Entry
This is also BarryDark's Birthday celebration, so should be reet ol'd knees up.
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Event: Sinking Cruise Ship Rescue Drama at "Tommy Flynn's", Camden
On Thursday 16th October, us 'cruisers will be getting together to once again sit down and make a noise in public, this time at 'Tommy Flynn's' 55 Camden High Street (map). We'll be sitting down at about 10pm.
Back to Mine: Friday's Second Life show up for download
The latest installment of my regular second life show "Back To Mine" is up for grabs for those who want it. Track listing was this: Bola - Diamortem Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Development Transient - Electronic Data The Books - There Is No There Tunng - King The Accidental - The Killing Floor Future Sound of London - My Kingdom Planet Boelex - Suunta Bad Loop - Kauniit Ihmiset James Yuill - Packt Like Sardines Sigur Ros - Festival Bon Ivor - Re:Stacks Little Dragon - Twice James Yuill - Breathing In Bonobo - Nightlife G Love & Special Sauce - Things I used to do Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Rappers Battle Beak - Cake Transient - No Friends, No Enemies
Apologies for the distortion on some of the tunes - I didn't realise how high my levels were until listening to the recording afterwards. Next week will be much betterer. Promise! :)
Sinking Cruise Ship Rescue Drama err... Rises!
so after a summer of spent skewered on the 'bergs of the polar ice caps reading frankly ludicrous Evening Standard headlines, Sinking Cruise Ship Rescue Drama are back back back, this Thursday, 9 October, to make merry with your mind at the Cross Kings, Kings Cross (here). we've got new, um, "sections" in the show, new pedals and new instruments, so if you think you've heard it all before, well, here's a reinterpretation. so come on down, be dazzled by four frankly stellar bands (well, three plus the Cruise Ship), and enjoy a drink at one of kings cross' nicer boozers. and all for a dosh-wallop busting, cash-bash defying, credit-crunch friendly five english. in brief then:
who: sinking cruise ship rescue drama what: gig when: 9th october 2008 where: cross kings, kings cross, n1 0ax why: because it might be fun how: much? £5
NEW REMIX - Digitonal Vs Echaskech
this is from echaskech.co.uk:
Digitonal - '93 Years On' Single featuring 'Nothing Left to Say' - Echaskech Remix and 'Ana Kata' - 65 Days of Static Remix
Click here to listen or download
"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.
Mix Archive (Sleepy Time): At Home, on Sunday (Spring 2008)
Another set recorded from Second Life. I was itching to play some ambient tunes and I talked my friend Altern8 into letting me to dj at his excellently designed chillout room at the Second Life Club space "Home" and here's the result. It starts off with an amazing piece by Tom Heasley, called "Prologue"; Tom makes these amazing pieces just using a Tuba (worth remembering when you're out searching for antique analogue synths for that illusive pad sounds). There's also 3 tracks from Gel-Sol - whom I'm quite happy to describe as a music genius - 2 off his new Ambient LP "IZ" ("Mourning Wok" and the title track) and his last more beat oriented LP "Unifactor" (both available from Upstairs Recordings) and a track by another music genius, Jon Hopkins off his surperb "Opalescent" LP, on Just Music; oh and, of course, an Echaskech tune "A Slow Day" (you can watch the video to that by cliicking here). Photo taken by Ka Rasmuson.
Me, as Mach Volitant, In Second Life
Originally uploaded by lannewise
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. :)
Mix Archive (Stay in and dance): Zbornak's Birthday Mix (Summer 2008)
One of the great things about Second Life is the people you meet and without a doubt my life is enriched because I know Zbornak. I was asked to play at her birthday party as a surprise guest and this mix is the result - there's a little bit of me chatting at the start, but don't worry I soon shut up and get on with the mixing. ;) It wasn't a planned mix, the tracks came to me as I went along (mostly), and I was exceptionally happy with the set - thank god I recorded it! It's starts out with a few favourites, moves into the party funk then gets all heavy, wanders into the electroclash room for a bit and ends with a couple of classics - definitely one of the most enjoyable sets I've played from home. :)
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Mix Archive (Sleepy Time): Aural Epidural (2007)
In the summer of 2007 I was approached by Bev and Pete (a.k.a MrsPirate and PiratePete) to provide a mix to accompany the birth of their first child, Isla. Initially I was thrown into a panic; having never attended a birth before (apart from my own, of course) I had no idea what they would want to hear during that incredibly emotional time; I knew it had to be long as first births have a reputation for being drawn out affairs and I knew I didn't want to stick to a tempo as, after a while that would just get annoying. They'd given me a free reign on music selection, trusting me implicitly so it was all up to me. So, I decided to put something together that would try and calm, relax, entertain, but also not try dominate the proceedings. I didn't want to have too much vocal stuff in there as I presumed there would be enough chatter/instruction/shouting/swearing going on without my mix adding to it. As fate would have it, due to the frenetic nature of a birth and some technical problems it wasn't used but has gone to keep Isla (and Bev and Pete) music entertained.
Personally I use it, after a very good and heavy night, to drift off to sleep to ;)
Photo of Isla, courtesy of the Pirates.
First of the old mixes for you to download - Life is Beautiful (2002)
I've started to populate the "mix archive" section of the site. First up is "Life is Beautiful" 74 minutes of Liquid Funk (ugh! I still hate that term), encoded at 192kpbs for your mp3 boxes. It was a culmination of many late night SoxaN sets at The Rhythm Factory and was the first mix cd that SoxaN put out. I'm still playing Del Boy's "Easyboomtastic" bootleg to this day... (*makes notes* must buy more records...) ;) Huge shout outs to Johnny Clash (Bam Bam Sound) & fancygirl (Daft Pink) who were my "sound boards" for this. Described by some as my best drum and bass mix - which is very flattering indeed (and listening to it now, even i admit it's frikkin' great) - but I better buck up my ideas up as this was recorded about 6 years ago! ;) Props to DJ Marky, Tony C from Hospital Records and John B.
Hello world! i'm sleepy...
This is my first blog posting under the tutelage of miko coffey. I'll be using this blog to try and keep you updated of what I'm up to in Real Life as well as my Second Life. Huge thanks to Miko, and to Kris Burford for his hosting of this site. Both have a lot of patience. ;)