BTM20110406 - TBH20110403 (extended) & BTM20110420

Yes, yes... I know. More slacking on the blog posts and set uploads but there are some very good excuses; I'm just not going to tell you what they are. ;) Suffice it to say that I've been VERY BUSY with other things... to be specific it's video like things and you'll get to see what that is somewhat later, when it's all finished. But right now I've got for you a couple of shows, the first chronologically is an extended set of The Bearding Hour after I forgot to record the original broadcast of it on Sunday 3rd April. I decided that, because I really enjoyed the set I played, I'd use my "Back To Mine" slot on Wednesday 6th April to recreate the set with a few bonus tracks thrown in to make it up to 90 minutes instead of the usual 60. So, here it is - Back To Mine, The Bearding Hour or even The Bearding Hour and a Half, if you will. Take a moment to take in the

Tracklisting

Josh T. Pearson - Thou Art Loosed

Boduf Songs - Things not to be Done on the Sabbath

Fink  - Pills In My Pocket

Radiohead - Faust Arp

Beak - The Maker

Bibio - The Palm Of Your Wave

Origamibiro - Vitreous Detachment

José González - Heartbeats

Suzanne Vega - Small Blue Thing

Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

The Thousands - To Save The Truth

Mountain Man - Buffalo

Laura Veirs - Life Is Good Blues

Stornoway - The End Of The Movie

Yes - Wonderous Stories

King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Running On Fumes

Verülf - Sometimes the Light Would Guide Us

Peter Broderick - With A Key

Tunng - Arms

John Martyn - Don't Want To Know

Snowblink - Ambergris

Crystal Bowersox - Holy Toledo

The Tallest Man On Earth - A Lion's Heart

BTM20110406 - TBH20110403 by machv

The next is the Back To Mine from this week making a full 3 hours of music for you to wrap your lugholes round. Here's the

Tracklisting

Hammock - Lonely, Some Quietly Wander in the Hall of Stars 
Leo Abrahams - Scene Memory 
Lawrence - Sunrise 
Shed - 44A (Hard Wax Forever!) 
SCB - 3_5 
My My - Price tag (Appleblim & Komonazmuk remix) 
Sepalcure - The Warning 
FaltyDL - The Groove 
Lee Jones - Aria 
West Norwood Cassette Library - Blonde on Blonde 
Martin Buttrich - Well Done 
Mogwai - George Square Thatcher Death Party 
Wagon Christ - Ain't He Heavy, He's my Brother 
Transient - Ain't no cure for the way you walk 
oOoOO - Burnout Eyes 
Girl Unit - Wut 
Joker - Snake Eater 
Dark Sky - Drowned City 
XXXY - Rain (Jack Sparrow remix)

BTM20110420 by machv

Echaskech Presents: Andy G & Mach V DJ Set

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=199083666791979

Andy and Mach once again take control of the decks at Concrete to supply you with a sublime selection of minimal, techno, house, garage, electronica, dubstep, purple and whatever else they can slip in. It's free entry to one of the best bars on the South Bank, with supberly crafted and blended coctails that will keep you grinning.

3 posts in one - 2 BTMs & one live mix (and a story about cables)

My lovely Macbook Pro  has been acting a bit erratic, recently and one of the concerns I had about was the decreasing amount of space on my hard drive so after reading ExtremeTech's awesome step-by-step guide numerous times and popped down to maplins and bought myself a new 2.5" 320BG sata drive and some torx screwdrivers and set about some minor laptop surgery. The fact that I'm now writing this blog post on said machine is testament  to the good people at ExtremeTech and their awesomely well written guide, but why it's taken so long for me to update my blog is down to the odd behaviour of Maxtor.

I use Time Machine (as all good Mac people do) because it works and is amazingly easy to use - it's even part of Mac Os X's installer package (since 10.5 onwards) so when you're doing what what I was doing it's real easy to restore your Mac to where it was before whatever has caused you to do the restore. I don't use Time Capsule because, well, I'm not made of money and to be honest any external drive will do, so I use a 1TB Maxtor usb external drive for Time Machine.

After I'd installed the new hard drive, I popped in the OsX 10.5  installer and chose "Restore sytem from Time Machine" option from the Utilities menu and it found the Time Machine and my last full back up and set it off running. And waited. 12 hours later it was still stating restoring (with the blue barber shop poll twirling away). "Never mind" I thought, "be patient; this is a system restore on the same machine you're restoring on to , using a CD restore boot - this might take a while. 24 hours later, still nothing. Still whirring away. "Be patient" I mantra'd. 48 hours later and I think my patience was misplaced, so I cancel the restore and think what could be causing the failure of the restore.

Just for shits and giggles I decided to swap out the unmarked cable that Maxtor supplied with drive for a Amazon Basics marked USB 2.0 cable and started again. In a few minutes we'd progressed passed the  barber poll and on to a timed status bar that happily told me 4 hours, and lo! 4 hours later I've got my machine back. I'm in complete bafflement why Maxtor woudl supply an (apparantly) usb 1 cable with a usb2 1Tb drive and if you want a moral to take away from this it's: If in doubt - check your cables. :)

So here's what you've been missing: 3 sets, the first from the welcome return of MondayHatesYou, the one day a week Second Life club/website that's here to make that return to the grindstone a whole lot better for you. I opted for (no suprises here) a future garage set and I'm pretty happy how it turned out:

Tracklisting

Sepalcure - Inside 
Sepalcure - Every Day of my life 
Alcosta Blvd - Deep 
Julio Bashmore - Around 
Kidkanevil - The floating world (Eliphino rmx) 
FaltyDL - To London 
Midland - Bring Joy 
Pearson Sound - Wad 
George Fitzgerald - Painted Jezebel 
Chechen - Syberia 
Addison Groove - Footcrab VIP 
Four Tet - Love Cry (Joy Orbison remix) 
Kasrave vs Joy Orbison 
Kelly Dean - Contagious 
DJ Madd - Arpz 3000 
XXXY - Rain (Jack Sparrow rmx) 
Jack Sparrow - Loveless 
Julio Bashmore - Footsteppin' 
Appleblim & Ramadanman - Sous le Sable

Live at Monday Hates You 20110321 by machv

Then there's Back to Mine, 20110323 (which my mac was beachballing through, making actually djing really hard work hence me upgrading the hard drive). That Tanka EP you can get from here: http://tanka.bandcamp.com/album/patterns-break-ep

Tracklisting

Tanka - Step(s) 
Nicolas Jaar - Spectors of the Future 
Hammock - Stranded Under a Helpless Sky 
Radiohead - Morning Mr Magpie 
The Books - A Cold Freezing Night 
Working for a Nuclear Free City - A black square with four yellow stars 
Asa - Sweeter Things 
Brackles & Shortstuff - Broken Harp 
Alcost Blvd - DMZ Chill 
Apox - Hokaido 
Crucial Cuts - Time 
Redifine - Love N Learn 
Son!ka - Bright Light 
Fujiya & Miyagi - Ventriloquizzing 
Appleblim & Ramadanman - Sous le Sable 
George Fitzgerald - Don't You (SCB remix) 
Noraj Cue - Homesick 
FaltyDL - St Marks (Cosmin TRG remix)

BTM20110323 by machv

And lastly BTM20110330, which I'm proud to say doesn't feature any garage or dubstep at all; it's been a while that I've managed to do that. It probably won't last, but hey - it makes me happy. :)

Tracklisting

Mordant Music - Inn Ohm The Lake 
Hammock - Birds Flying in Sequence 
Yimino - Bintliptick 
Hiatus - Save yourself 
Jam Baxter - BarrelEyeSpookFish 
Wagon Christ - King's Lynn 
Wisp - Library Grey 
Penfold Plum - Cagney Driver 
Working for a Nuclear Free City - B.A.R.R.Y. 
Radiohead - Bloom 
Holy Fuck - Bontempi Latin 
Fujiya & Miyagi - Cat Got Your Tongue 
Chandarit Singh - Raga Bairagi 
8Bitch - Astarte 
Glasser - Tremel 
School of Seven Bells - ILU 
FaltyDL - All in the place 
Daniel Masolo - Ritmo Especial 
Yoshinori Sunahara - Unconscious Fragment 
Gold Panda - Marriage (Baths remix) 
The Field - Sun and Ice

BTM20110330 by machv

Mach V @ Back to Mine, 20100316 - irratically weekly till i die

(picture courtesy of The Venn & Strick infographic team) 
So what's all this about a weekly show?? ;) Ok fair does - my apologies once again for the lack of musical updates, I've either been not well or having a RL take over, which has prevented me getting behind the decks for you, but I'm back now and next week sees me playing three times in in SL. Monday it's the return of "Monday Hates You" and features djs from four countries - UK, Italy, USA and Netherlands - all set in bringing joy to your Monday as much as they can - at 7:00pm GMT/12:00 SLT/PDT I'll be kicking proceedings off with some garage and melodic techno, at 8:30/1:30 the stream will switch over to Italy and the super sexy nudisco & electroclash stylings of Bibdui will be taking over the dance floor; at 10:00/3:00 we hit state side with Yuzien Born, who brings his awesome Breakbeat and Indie Dance tracks out to play. At 11:30/4:30 we travel to the realms of the magical, with a live performance from ^v Split Phase, a exciting house and techno act featuring the genius of Transient Zeluco, who's DJ sets at Suffugium on a Saturday night we unmissable for me. Lastly, but by no means least, at 1:00/6:00 The maestro of tech and tech house, Noraj Cue finishes off the evening, with warm smiles all round. Then on Wednesday will be Back to Mine (if I'm recovered enough by then!) and on Sunday 27th, 9:00pm it's time for the next delve into the world of acoustic and folk music, with another selection for The Bearding Hour.

But that's all for next week, you've still got digest this weeks podcast (oh that skream LP is from here ), so without further adieu, here's the

Tracklisting

Lost Idol - Organswell 
Lost Idol - Full of Dust & Guitars 
Nicolas Jaar - Space is the Only Noise If You Can See 
Fujiya & Miyagi - OK 
Radiohead - Codex 
Yimino - Firen (reading edit) 
Eskmo - Color Dropping 
Gold Panda - Marriage (star slinger remix) 
Echaskech - Redeploy 
Jacques Green - Tell Me (kingdom edit) 
George Fitzgerald - Painted Jezebel 
Kavsrave vs Joy Orbison - Untightled 
Pearson Sound - Wad 
Cosmin TRG - See Other People (FaltyDl rmx) 
Addison Groove - Footcrab VIP 
Maddslinky - Ruled by YOur emotions 
Trentemoller - Moan (noraj cue edit in my mind) 
Skream - Intro 
Skream - Commercial Sellout 
Working for a nuclear free city - Autoblue 
Nate Dogg (RIP) & Warren G - Regulate

New Video: The London Eye in 2 Minutes/Sepalcure - "Inside"

It's been a while since I uploaded any video of merit. I suppose I felt that after the Quiet Voices show in January 2010 I couldn't top that, so (apart from some minor live footage) I didn't really done any filming in 2010. Well thats changing in 2011 - plans are already rolling for some major video works, this year so "Keep 'em  peeled"  as Shaw Taylor used to say (and if you don't know who Shaw Taylor is well... jfgi. ;) First up on the video front was an unexpected one - a week before my birthday I learnt that I'd won some tickets to The London Eye, courtesy of The Thames Festival on the condition that they were used by Feb 24th. Not wanting to miss this opportunity to do something cinematic with it , my wife and I wanted to either catch a Sunset or a night time ride so I could film it and Miko could take some pictures. However the weather wasn't being our friend. Each day rolled by and the blanket of dull, grey skies (OH HAI nimbostratus!) seemed like it would never break. What we wanted was the pressure to drop (opening up the skies to more exciting cloud formation) and a warm front start to move in from the west, preferably around tea time. It looked like it wasn't to be until the very last day of our ticket, so on 24th April, I managed to take an hour off work early and I met up with Miko at The Eye at 5pm. just as the sun was rolling over the horizon. We exchanged our tickets and queued... and prayed that we got on the ride before the sunset got any good. I think that we got the perfect view

Youtube version

Vimeo version

The London Eye in two minutes/Inside by Sepalcure from mach v on Vimeo.

I apologise for the reflections; in my haste to set up the camera - after my manfrotto camera arm got confiscated because it was a "security hazzard" (harrumph!) luckily the guerrilla pod (oh the irony) wasn't deemed a risk - I completely forgot to set up a hood to block out the movement the curved pod glass would capture, but I don't think it distracts too much from the piece... well, not if you look at the sky. ;) The music - which is so goddamned perfect for the piece, both emotionally and in length - is by Brooklyn based future garage genius's Sepalcure, who have featured in a number of Back to Mine's recently and will continue to do so, I'm sure.  Please stop by the gift shop on your way out and buy their EP (on the awesome Hotflush recordings).

That's all for now. :)

Mach V @ Back to Mine, 20110216 - The slacker returns

Ok, ok... I'm slacking. Not only is this recording from last week, there's no recording from this week to upload, because... hmmm well I took a break. You might wonder what inspired me to not do a set this week and I'm still wrestling around for a decent enough answer for that and I think it's because it's a combination of things. Firstly, I'm not completely happy with this recording; not just because the strange behaviour Torq displayed during Antony Shakirs' "Stereotype", but... well I don't know... It comes across a bit more melancholic than I was going for at the end... or maybe it just wasn't that coherent and each time I listened to it back, it felt a bit weird. Secondly, I've been so distracted with the new Radiohead LP I haven't really listened to anything else, which made it difficult for me to think about a set (apart from one made up soley of the LP) and thirdly, well it's was my birthday on Saturday (19th) and therefore I don't have to do anything and don't have to come up with a excuse for you all - you're just going to have to live with it. ;) Normal service will be resumed shortly. :) Oh and one last thing - massive congratulations to Jamie (Cato Basevi) and Charity (Sagesse Sautereau) who got married last week - it was a honour to be with you on a very special day for you and for all of us. :) Here's the

Tracklisting

Marconi Union - Interiors

Mathew Jonson - When Love Feels Like Crying

Shed - Ithaw

Antony "Shake" Shakir - Stereotype

Sepalcure - Inside

Sepalcure - Fleur

SCB - 3_5

Will Saul & Mike Monday - Sequence 1

West Norword Cassette Library - Mrs Fingers

James Blake - Tell her Safe

Pariah - C-Beams

S.Carey - Broken

Kidkanevil - The Floating World

Julio Bashmore - Around

Scuba - Tracers

Pariah - Prism

Eliphino - L.F. (I know)

Fujiya & Miyagi - Ventriloquizzing

BTM20110216 by machv

Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20110209

Apologies for the lack of an update this week - I'm currently suffering from a carb coma and my brain is all bread. So lets skip the chit chat and move on swiftly to the

Tracklisting:

Hammock - Stranded Under Endless Sky

Casino vs Japan - Hush Hush

S. Carey - We Fell

Model 500 - Sonic Sunset (Calm Mix)

Shed - Waved Mind/Archive Document (Original Mix)

Kenny Larkin - Androgenous

West Norwood Cassette Library - Blonde on Blonde

SCB - 20_4

Will Saul & Mike Monday - Small Moments

Wagon Christ - Manalyse This!

Pearson Sound - Blanked

Sepalcure - Fleur

George Fitzgerald - Don't You

Eliphino - You'll Know

Joker - Snake Eater

James Blake - Klavierwerke

Pariah - Prism

Sepalcure - No Think

Holy Fuck - Korg Rhythm Afro

BTM20110209 by machv

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

BTM20110126 by machv

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)

TBH20110123 by machv

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

BTM20110119 by machv

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

BTM20110112 by machv

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

TBH20101128 by machv

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

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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

BTM20101110 by machv

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

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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

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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