Ok! Ok! I know. I've been ridiculously bad at posting up events on the blog prior to me actually doing them and there's no excuse for that. Well, apart from laziness which as excuses go, is a very good one indeed. Anyway, this month I've been invited to DJ down at the Big Chill Bar with the marvelous Sparky and Edd as part of their regular Work Up night. Come along. Buy drinks. Start dancing. Forget it's a school night. Well, that's my plan... :D
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
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.
New Videos Added from Big Chill Festival 2010
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
Mach V at Back To Mine, Big Chill Radio 20100805 (mixcloud)
Hey y'all just a quick post to let you know that my first radio show from this morning at the Big Chill Festival is now online for you to stream. Once I get a copy of the file I'll put it on Soundcloud so you can Download from there. Tracklisting
Jonsi - Go Do Posthuman - Ottawa Object Echaskech Remix Dark Sky - Something To Lose Joy Orbison - The Shrew Would Have Cushioned the Blow MJ Cole - Sincere (Nero remix) Max Cooper - Chaotische Serie (echaskech remix) - exclusive to BCR Fur - Friends (Drexon Field remix) School of Seven Bells - Half Asleep (Lusine Remix) Yimino - Nes(sidd) Working for a Nuclear Free City - Over LCD Soundsystem - Drunk Girls Penfold Plum - Every Bear
Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20100728
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
Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20100714
No time to chat, just enough time to tell you the..
Tracklisting
Fennesz - Black Sea Dntel - In which our hero begins his long and ardous quest The Village Orchestra - Jacob/Bad Hand at Cards Datassette - The Aviatrix LCD Soundsystem - You wanted a hit Booka Shade - Teenage Spaceman Posthuman - Ottowa (echaskech remix) Datassette - Micro MJ Cole (Nero remix) - Sincere Dntel (Thaddeus Valk rmx) - Casuals Aphex Twin - Delphium School of Seven Bells - Half Asleep (Lusine remix) The Field - Yesterday and Today Unai - Oh You and I (trentemoeller rmix) School of Seven Bells - Babelonia Stornoway - I saw you blink
BTM20100714 by machv
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
Isolated Mix 08 - Lunar Testing Lab
No show from me this week, as I managed to bork the recording. Instead, by way of recompense, get your teeth into the next in the Isolated Mix series, this one coming from the man behind both Lunar Testing Lab and Secret Station Records, Eric Watson.
isolatedmix 08 - Lunar Testing Lab by astrangelyisolatedplace
Mach V at Back To Mine 20100421 - Secret Station Session
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