Im happy to share an excellent guest mix from bec paton. I’ve been bumping this all week on the way to work and love it. This set was recorded as a support for none other than DJ Krush in May. She is a huge fan and managed to surprise mr Krush. ill let her explain….

I play a bit of electronica tinged hip hop and speak a bit of Japanese so it was pretty appropriate to get to support my hero, DJ Krush! At my wedding in February, we walked down the aisle to Dj Krush’s “Final Home” (the piano mix) too so it made it pretty poetic, sorta, too.

Poor Krush was a bit stunned because his support rocked up, was a girl, spoke Japanese and told him enthusiastically about getting hitched to one of his songs, (in Japanese). He was bewildered but stoked. When one of the turntables buggered out, he was cool enough to let me use one of his for the remainder of the set too. After my set, he said my tunes were great, high-fived me and clapped me in front of the crowd. I still feel a little glowy…

He then pulled out an awesome set and was such a generous performer and truly the master.

playlist
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1. Bassnectar | Kyrian Bee Bop
2. Sixtoo | Boxcutter Emporium
3. I L.O.V.E You 2002 | DJ DSL
4. Jellybass | Socks
5. Unknown Artist | Untitled
6. Kaman Leung | Desolate
7. Monk Fly (Suburban Dark Rmx) | An English Walk
8. Danny Breaks | Outro
9. Luke Vibert | Slowfast
10. Kaman Leung | Uncomfort
11. Alien Digit | Midnight
12. Jimmy Edgar | No Guest List
13. Luke Vibert | Intro - Welcome
14. Harmonic 313 | Problem 5
15. Wax Tailor | Damn That Music Made My Day
16. DJ Shadow | Roy’s Theme
17. Danny Breaks | Another Dimension
18. DJ Kentaro | Grateful to You
19. Vibesquad | Memberz Only
20. Sound Tribe Sector 9 (Bassnectar Rmx) | Somesing
21. Tip Hop2 | Tipper
22. Chris de Luca and Peabird | I Gonna Give it to You
23. Funkstorung (Funckarma Rmx) | Fat Camp Feva w/ Nongenetic
24. DJ Spooky | Takemitsu
25. DJ Logic (DJ Spooky Rmx) | Spooky Logic
26. Daedelus (Prefuse 73 Rmx) | Busy Signal
27. Amon Tobin (Clark Rmx) | Kitchen Sink
28. Tom Burbank | Fragile
29. Edan feat. Percee P | Torture Chamber
30. Flying Lotus | Spicy Sammich
31. Hermitude | Gusto’s Theme
32. Le Peuple de L’Herbe feat. JC001 | Boxin’ Da Beat
33. DJ DSL | Havana Club
34. Aesop Rock | Aesop Nike Run
35. Afra & Incredible Beatbox Band feat. Takku Ishino (Maurice Fulton Rmx) | Mouth Music
36. Sheath | His Sheath
37. Subtle | Sinking Pinks
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Be sure to check out more music from Bec at her site and on the patent pending radio show.

After a break we are back on the regular bi weekly transmissions. This episode expands on the dubbed out tip but including a smattering of electro flavour.

Playlist
1 Eclipse - Kit Clayton
2 Floorida (Dynamix II’s Non-Stop Electro Remix) - Rabbit In The Moon
3 808 Beats - The Unknown DJ
4 Professor Saga - Profesor X
5 Tender Taming (Cruel Shoes) - Perspects
6 You can’t see us - D.I.E.
7 D2 - The Old School Street
8 The Glades - Anthiliawaters
9 Fading Memories - Duplex
10 Computer Madness - Steve Poindexter
11 A1 - The Old School Street
12 Domina (marizio mix)
13 To all believers…. - Heiko Laux

An excellent guest mix by flippo including some of his own productions keeping it deep and dubby….

Rhythm & Sound w/ Jah Batta — Music Hit You — [Burial Mix]
Flippo — Flood — [dub]
Pole — Rondell Zweii — [Kiff]
Pole — Silberfish — [Kiff]
Deep Chord Presents: Echospace — Aequionoxiuim — [Modern Love]
Deep Chord Presents: Echospace — Aberaxas — [Modern Love]
Gus Gus — Sleepytime — [4AD]
Thom Yorke — Cymbal Rush (The Field Late Night EssenUnd Trinken remix) — [XL]
Rhythm & Sound w/ Shalom — We Been Troddin — [Burial Mix]
Maurizio — MØ6A — [M]
MLZ — M-brane — [Modern Love]
Rhythm & Sound — See Mi Yah (Hallucinator remix) — [Basic]
Deep Chord Presents: Echospace — Empryean — [Modern Love]
Rhythm & Sound — See Mi Yah (Basic Reshape) — [Basic]
Burial — Distant Lights — [Hyperdub]
Pinch — Lazaus — [Tectonic]
Shackleton — Blood on my Hands (Ricardo Villalobos Apocolypse Now Mix) — [Skull Disco]
Lusine — Weaver — [Ghostly International]
Spherix and Flippo — .001 — [dub]
Ruckspin feat. Ras Spear — Ceasless — [Ranking Records]
Quark and Ruckspin — Tablage — [Ranking Records]
AC23 — Love Her (Flippo’s Winter Dub remix) — [forthcomming Formant Recordings]
Lusine — Haze — [Ghostly International]
Flippo — Sleep — [dub]

In August 2007 Elektron CEO and co-founder Daniel Hansson passed away in an unfortunate auto accident. It is in large part his creative vision and eye for detail that have made Elektron’s products what they are today. The 45 Tribute pays homage to his creative genius and his philanthropic spirit. Artists from the Elektron community have taken their time and energy to contribute to this project freely in his honor.

I think its a great cause to support and some damn fine tunes to be had for a mere $5. http://www.45tribute.com/

we also now have a facebook group that you can join here

Classic - DJ Premier remix featuring Kanye West, Rakim, Nas, and KRS-ONE in tribute to the AF1.

Weather reporters go on strike

Some interesting things ive dug online of late….

Im really excited about this documentry about Teo Macero.

info from Play that Teo

Teo Macero is the legendary producer of some of the greatest albums ever recorded. From the Miles Davis masterpiece, Kind of Blue — ranked #12 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time — to Dave Brubeck’s Time Out, Simon & Garfunkel’s The Graduate soundtrack, and the Original Cast Album of A Chorus Line, Teo has made history with his uncompromising attitude and groundbreaking recording innovations.

With a career spanning over 50 years, including 30 years at Columbia Records, 3000 albums, 99 recordings with Miles Davis, and 25 Gold and Platinum albums, Teo’s discography ranges from Jazz to Classical to Broadway to Rock, and includes Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Leonard Bernstein, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, The Who, and DJ Logic, among others.

Featuring artist interviews, personal photos, archival footage, never-before-seen recording sessions, and a behind-the-scenes look at the person behind the persona, PLAY THAT, TEO is a revealing portrait of this prolific, irascible, iconoclastic genius.

ive also really been enjoying the reviews and excellent podcasts from the guys over at bleep 43 some quality electronica right there!

Stay tuned for some new sounds to hit the airwaves shortly … and thanks for all the emails about the show. im chuffed to hear that people are bumping the ‘cast from as far as Turkey, Hong Kong, France and Germany!

peace

drox

mix by drox

playlist
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1 808 intro
2 Hip hop Be Bop - Man Parrish
3 Sann Sann - Clatterbox
4 C.O.D. in the Bottle - Man Parrish
5 Al-Naafiysh (the soul) - Hashim
6 Lesson 4 - Dj Shadow
7 Funk 003 (route) - raiders of the lost arp
8 ?? - airlocktronics imperative
9 Interplanetary Discorhythms - Alec Empire (in electro mode!!)
10 Hi Score:26 - Le Car
11 Time Space Transmat - Model 500
12 No UFO’s - Model 500
13 Hey Mami - Fannypack
14 hold up! wait a minute - DJ Smurf with MC Shy D
15 The Making Of Ultraman - Japanese Telecom
16 Funky Soul Makossa (inst) - Nairobi and the awesome foursome
17 We are back - LFO
18 Luvgun - Artist Unknown
19 Echo Location (bat trance edit) - Suburban Night
20 The Warning - Suburban Night
21 Skydiver (demo version) - Age
22 Bubble Metropolis - Drexciya
23 Cinematic Automatic - Le Car
24 Radiometer - Dopplereffekt

One of the most fascinating audio documents from the last decade was no doubt The Conet Project: Recordings from Shortwave Numbers Stations, a four CD set of recordings from mysterious radio transmissions of unknown provenance believed to be secret government communications.

They generally consist of male or female voices in varying languages reading streams of numbers, letters, or even morse code. (Wilco’s popular album, ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’ takes its name from a sample of the set.) ‘Shift Coordinate Points,’ by Dutch composer Esther Venrooy takes these transmissions as its material and inspiration. It will air November 21st, as one of four projects that make up Disturbance, ‘a series of internet radio broadcasts’ curated by Washington DC-based Niels Van Tomme.

Every Wednesday in November a different composition is being broadcast around a sonic or psychological disturbance that affected the artist. All nightly transmissions are being transmitted from art@radio, an o! nline radio station based in Baltimore, Maryland focusing on experimental sonic culture.

Although Venrooy’s is the only one to reference Numbers Stations, all of the projects function as personalized appropriations of this rigidly hermetic system.

art radio.net

In this episode we go deep and dubby, sit back in the easy chair and relax and enjoy the gentle massage on your cortex….

playlist
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Sunset - Echospace
Aequinoxium - Echospace
Falling Leaves - Mark Furstenbe
rg Reverberate - Substance & Vainqueur
Aerial - Rhythm & Sound
Music A Fe Rule - Rhythm & Sound w/ Paul St Hilaire
Na Fe Throw It - Round Five w/ Paul St Hilaire
Fluxion - Oblique
Starlight - Model 500 (Echospace Remix)
Orderly Chaos - Don Williams
Empyrean - Echospace
Space - CV313
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Southern Outpost
Sydney - San Francisco - Berlin
http://www.southernoutpost.com
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images sampled from the excellent urban photographer JR.

painting pictures on silence - mixed by drox

Another request for a reupload. New mix up in the next couple of days.. peace!

In this episode we travel through some minimal dubbed out goodness from berlin via detroit and england for some lush electronic bliss. The captain has been given strict instructions for us to return back to base in the fourth quadrant. After a bumpy takeoff we are crusing with hyper drive on full throttle into the depths.

Some of these tracks are taken from some favorite netlabel releases such as the excellent Graceland EP by Norman Fairbanks and the Minor Fading Zero compilation out of Russia on the Leibniz netlabel.

playlist
1 10.16 - heiko laux pres - the old school street - i2020
2 Funk 004 (rinse) electric city funk - raiders of the lost arp - plasmek
3 Domina- Marizio’s mix
4 Amuck - Low Res - Thorn Ep
5 Rontgen - O - sahko
6 Hymn Bream - Metamatics - MindMushingGit
7 Phylyps Trak ii - Basic Channel
8 19′50′’ - Ester Brinkmann - 20′ To 2000: July
9 The Visitors - Kirk Degorgio’s Off World - Two Worlds
10 Dream 4 - The Nova Dream Sequence - Interpretations
11 Liquid Gel - Metamatics - MindMushingGit
12 Resonation - Claro intelecto - NEUROFIBRO
13 Graceland - Norman Fairbanks - Graceland EP
14 Let Me Be Me - The Other People Place - Lifestyles of the Laptop Cafe
15 Sun After Rain (Rainy Day) - Sk1e - Minor Fading Zero [LNZ01]
16 Sheherezdae - tons of tones - presented by steve rachmond
17 Signs of inertia - titonton - metamorphic
18 Ellipse - kit clayton - parallel
19 Deep substance - steve stoll - Damn Analog Technology

Another great guest mix by J. Ben Leonard from flood watch music. His dissection of many a hip hop, funk and jazz record and general music blogging in the last little while (or at least since I found his blog anyway) has compelled me to invite him to compile this guest mix. Armed only with the theme beautiful technology this is his contribution…

At times I long for the absence of any traces of technology in music, a stark sound-world of unamplified acoustic guitars, pianos, wind instruments, drums.

Then I recall the incredible variety of textures that electronic sounds can produce, and when combined with natural, acoustic sounds, the sonic palette expands to infinity. This mix contains elements of my favorite flavors of technology, from the cumbersome the to the streamlined: awkwardly triggered samples, disembodied voices, analog synths, dense harmonic colors, the capturing of an intimate performance, an electric piano leading a crack jazz band. Hope you enjoy.

Playlist
Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares - Tangerine Dream
Musicians in Insadong - D. Riposo
Aguirre - Popol Vuh
Ancient Phat Farm Coat - Underworld
Everyone in the World Is Doing Something Without Me - FSOL
String Quartet No. 1: Andante molto - Sergei Prokofiev
How Can We Be Sure - AMP
Languidity - Sun Ra
Prue Lawarne - Aix em Klemm
Apollo 1 - Great Barringtron
Armenia - Einsturzende Neubauten
Red Lift - Glifted
Descriptions automatiques: Sur un vaisseau - Erik Satie
WR - Labradford
The Sky Suspended - 7% Solution

Im told there will be some breakers and a big video screen projecting the action.

peace

This is an excellent guest mix from Matt Levinson (dj calico) who edits Cyclic Defrost magazine and hosts Join The Dots, Thursday nights, on FBI 94.5 from (Sydney).

“One of my friends got permanent residency on Friday. It shouldn’t be something to celebrate. He was recognised as a refugee from Afganistan three years ago. It’s six years since he saw his family last. It took masses of red tape. But he got it. So it’s a major celebration. Major! Everything else this weekend dropped, replaced by an after dusk feast Auburn-style. And a celebration needs a soundtrack. Musically it’s pretty diverse, but there’s something that connects the entire mix: tone’s dark and gritty; vibe’s optimistic.”

Kinski - Silent Biker Type (Sub Pop) Horsepower Productions - Marseilles Connection (Tempa) Chiapet - Tick Tock (Two Lone Swordsmen R.G.C. Remix) (Phonography) Ides - Limer (Acid Fuckers Unite) Second Protocol - Bass Lick (East West) Jammin - Kinda Funky (Wookie Remix) (Bingo) Pressure feat. Warrior Queen - Money Honey (Remix) (Hyperdub) Rhythm & Sound - Let We Go (Villalobos Remix) Kim Hiorthøy - Hej, Vart Blev Det Av Dat En, Kim? (Alog’s Album Remix) (Smalltown Supersound) Boxcutter - Rikta (Planet Mu) Sun - Reach For The Sky (Pluramon Remix) (Staubgold)

After a couple of requests Ive uploaded this mix again. It was recorded as a prelude to summer in 2005 and was the first mix that christened this podcast. So I guess a few of you may have missed it.

It really just mellows me out defiantly a great prelude to summer and the impending daylight savings, barbies and lazy weekends at the beach. If you cant make it to the east coast of Australia you can always check the vibe on this mix. It definantly reminds me of my friends new and old from up north who I miss chilling with.

Includes tracks by Artifacts, PUTS, Sadat X, Pete Rock and CL smooth, Afu Ra, J Live and Rodney Rude among others.

This remedy helps me zone out and let my mind relax as much as I can while still being awake. This mix is something to keep the mind active in the twilight hours, or to rejuvinate the headspace to feel fresh and ready for whatever the day or night ahead might surprise you with.

Ive included some recordings that blur the lines between scored classical music for film and an excerpt of a excellent beatless composition by dj olive entitled sleep with more information available from the room 40 webstore or buy it from the bleep.com which I highly recommend.

Tracklist

Opus 3 - Kirk Degiorgio’s Off World Shinsen - Susumu Yokota Gekkoh - Susumu Yokota Sleep - Dj Olive Chao De Estrelas - Baden Powell The Sound of Mu(sic) - The KLF Ralome - Plaid

There is a bit of healthy rivalry between Sydney and Melbourne about which city is better, more cultured, has better nightlife and tourist attractions etc. So on my arrival and after meeting new people, many asked the inevitable question – which is better? I cant answer that question right now I need to digest Melbourne some more, but I suspect my answer will be neither they both have very different qualities that stand on their own.

I had the opportunity to visit Sydney as a tourist for the first time recently to play live at the launch of a compilation of Sydney electronica called – midi in the city. It’s a mixtape compiled by the Sculpter and mixed by Simon Mann.

There is a diverse array of tracks by artists honing their craft in bedroom studios all over town. The party was a success with a solid turnout and a great vibe. I’ve heard that another party and releases are already in the pipeline. Im quite chuffed that they even included one of my tracks!

tracklist _______________________ SomeFreak - Lagos Legs Eleven - Lakeside Recyclotron - Film Music Legs Eleven - Control Alt Fist The Sculpter - Inside The Sculpter - Tube Riding The Sculpter - The Mad Aunty Stalker - Unknowned The Sculpter - Memo Boomstix - Motion Boomstix - Back in the City Swboy - Lick It Remix (Electroid Styles) Swboy - Crazy (Busta Rhymes Dub Remix) Swboy - Subtle Rebuilt Remix Illbot - Shut Me Down Drox- Imperial Eclectic Stalker - Landscapes We’d - Orbit Over Sunrise _____________________________

When I first understood the power a virtual snapshot could trigger a memory of another time, which is the essence of what advertisement and marketing people try to express in the visual media. I understood straightaway the feelings this memory recall can create. A forgotten song plays on the radio that digs up feelings that you the listener associate with driving on a Sunday with your family on holidays from school. It at least triggers the neurons in your brain and invokes a good or bad feeling about that time.

In hindsight I think this is one reason that I gravitated towards the sound collage style of music utilising any and all reference points. I was always about the beats first and then after a few listens the mc’s message would seep through. The late 80’s through to the late 90’s for me produced some timeless classics.

Food for thought.

Ive also added a bit of reading material which can be wordy at times but an interesting read nonetheless titled – Making beats- The art of Sample based hip hop. by Joseph Glenn Schloss

Let me know if your enjoying the reading material, blog posts or music. Feedback always welcomed.

PLAYLIST

boom bap 1 check the rime - a tribe called quest 2 sound of the police - krs one 3 the main ingredient - pete rock and cl smooth 4 In Meh Dreams - Bush Babies 5 Obstruction. A Freestyle (Moonrock Featuring Ivo) - Moonrock feat. Ivo 6 vapours - biz markie 7 stakes is high - de la soul 8 runnin - pharcyde 9 AIN’T NO HALF STEPPIN’ - big daddy kane 10 girl trouble - STEZO 11 Marley Marl Scratch - Marley Marl featuring MC Shan 12 Step Up Front - Positive K 13 Fat Pockets - Showbiz & AG 14 Holy Calamity (Bear Witness II) feat. DJ Shadow & DJ Quest - Handsome Boy Modeling School 15 Mr. Hood Gets A Haircut - KMD 16 Soul Power - Wu Tang feat Flava Flav 17 South Bronx - Krs One

 Chick Corea at the Melbourne Jazz Festival

The great people over at melodytrip.com have asked me to review the Melbourne jazz fest for them. So over on spaceport26 we have spent the last 2 weeks in immersed in the jazz venues around Melbourne. Highlights for me so far have been Chick Corea and the Yamandu Costa Trio. You can read the reviews here.

For this episode I thought Id dig out some of my jazz favourites to share with you. Included is some Alice Coltrane Featuring Pharoah Sanders (who I will be seeing perform tonight), some Herbie Hancock including the full version of chameleon and the Mighty Art Blakey and the Jazz messengers track “On the Ginza” from one of my all time favourite jazz albums Ugetsu. Enjoy!

playlist 1 Bettina - Bola Sete 2 Journey into Satchidananda - Alice Coltrane feat. Pharoah Sanders -Journey in Satchidananda 3 On the Ginza - Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Ugetsu 4 Jazz-New Age - Herbie Hancock ?? (I don’t know if this is right my I have some nasty ipod gremlins at the moment. If you know the correct track name let me know.) 5 Chameleon - Herbie Hancock - Headhunters

Mid last year a good friend of mine emailed me and asked, “what is IDM?” I became quite animated and started telling him about artists that I have been into since the mid 90’s. Releases like the Artificial Intelligence series from Warp and many of their artists including Aphex twin, Autechre’s early work, Mouse on mars, Squarepusher and Boards of Canada among others.

He was intrigued by this music as he had only read about it at uni.I promised him a mix of some of my favorite IDM tunes, which I totally neglected to produce. Damn slacker! He did give me some of his reading material for the class, which I will share with you. It is a pdf written by Simon Reynolds titled - Funk Dance Lets Art.

I like Simons writing style, but with no reference point it can be confusing as so many artists are name checked. Some that is still actively producing work today and others that have disappeared into the ether.

Simons book Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture is a great starting point if you are interested in reliving some of those moments of hedonism or if you are just interested in dance music history in general. Its been a while since I read It and I have a feeling that this may be an excerpt.

The DJ history website also has some more recommendations for music and culture reading.

You can check out more of Simons writing at his blog blissout. He has also been published in many esteemed publications such as Melody Maker and New Musical Express (NME) among others.

The mix included is sprinkled with some new Idm, funk, Hip-hop, and Jazz. I think Ill dust off some of my favourites and create that IDM mix soon enough after all.

Good for a sunday afternoon with the paper or pre golf psych up.

enjoy

playlist 1 Sofisticada - Luiz Bonfá - Bonfa Burrows Brazil 2 Little Children - David Axelrod 3 Crystallized - The Detroit Escalator Co. 4 This Complete Feeling of Loss - Colin Everingham - Skies of Error 5 Moments In Love - The Art Of Noise - (Who’s Afraid Of) The Art Of Noise? 6 Persian Teardrop (Massive Attack Mix) - Cocteau Twins 7 One Day or so - Depth Affect 8 Nuno - Prefuse 73 - vocal studies & uprock narratives 9 Make Me Love You - Pivot 10 Check out My Gold Tooth - Jimmy Edgar 11 Kind of Laid Back - Birdy Nam Nam

Welcome to another transmission. The EAT METAL ZONE party went well, it was great to see some familiar faces, along with some new ones. Im a big fan of re/discovering the roots and or history of things. As the saying goes “Its not where you’ve been but where your at” Well i like to see how we got here… anyway i guess via hip hop Ive gained an appreciation for the funk, latin and all that jazz. Blending the old with the new….

enjoy

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playlist

1 Farandole (L’Arlesinne Suite#2) - Bob James 2 Cosas Remix- Los Hermanos Latinos 3 Itch and Scratch - Rufus Thomas 4 Hot pants.. im comin, im comin - Bobby Byrd 5 Put On Train - Gene Harris & The Three Sounds 6 Hercules - Aaron Neville 7 Express Yourself - Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhtyhm Band 8 Express Yourself - NWA 9 More Bounce to the Ounce - Zapp and Roger 10 Quit Jivin’ - Pearly Queen 11 Funky Beeper - Afrika Bambaataa 12 Beat Me Till I´m Blue - Alan Hawkshaw 13 Magnificent Sanctuary Band - Donny Hathaway 14 Right On - Clarence Wheeler & The Enforcers 15 Dust Yourself Off - Pleasure 16 Clap Your Hands - Reginald Milton & The Soul Jets 17 Cookies - Brother Of Soul 18 Mt. Airy Groove (Inst.) - Pieces of a Dream 19 Rock Creek Park - The Blackbyrds

As i Mentioned in the first installment of “ode to the 808″ the little beatbox has been name checked in many releases over a number of genres. Track 1 is some of the soundbites of tracks i could think of that mention it…. This will be the final in this series.

If you are enjoying the beats and are in Sydney, come down to EAT METAL ZONE

on the 31st March at The Sly Fox

playlist 1 808 intro 2 Hip hop Be Bop - Man Parrish 3 Sann Sann - Clatterbox 4 C.O.D. in the Bottle - Man Parrish 5 Al-Naafiysh (the soul) - Hashim 6 Lesson 4 - Dj Shadow 7 Funk 003 (route) - raiders of the lost arp 8 ?? - airlocktronics imperative 9 Interplanetary Discorhythms - Alec Empire (in electro mode!!) 10 Hi Score:26 - Le Car 11 Time Space Transmat - Model 500 12 No UFO’s - Model 500 13 Hey Mami - Fannypack 14 hold up! wait a minute - NWA? 15 The Making Of Ultraman - Japanese Telecom 16 Funky Soul Makossa (inst) - Nairobi and the awesome foursome 17 We are back - LFO 18 Luvgun - Artist Unknown 19 Echo Location (bat trance edit) - Suburban Night 20 The Warning - Suburban Night 21 Skydiver (demo version) - Age 22 Bubble Metropolis - Drexciya 23 Cinematic Automatic - Le Car 24 Radiometer - Dopplereffekt

1 Egypt egypt - Egyption lover 2 Its just begun - Rocksteady crew 3 Basstronic - Unknown DJ 4 Expo 2000 - Kraftwerk 5 Arabian dreams - Dynamik bass system 6 Back to the old school (scratch mix) - Mike dread 7 Confutation - Redagain P and Keen K 8 windowlicker - Aphex twin 9 point ‘98 mix - Mike dread 10 city lights - The advent 11 scorpio - Grandmaster flash and the furious 5 12 space invaders smoking grass - i-f 13 lardosson funk - Drexciya 14 audio file 4 - Le Car 15 Wet N Wild (DJ Laz Booty Bounce Mix) - 95 South 16 Disco Obsession - Kitbuilders 17 Shake it 2002 - DJ Deeon 18 Nite Life - Adult 20 Let Me C U Pop - DJ Snowflake

Not too long ago I was considering selling my beloved TR808. A relic from the 80’s that just keeps on doing its thing. It has such a distinct sound and I guess a few genres of music would not have happened without it. I can safely assume that everyone has heard the sound at least once.

It has been mentioned in many songs (but possibly not as much as the mpc and sp1200).

I’ve been thinking about doing a retrospective for a while. So the next few episodes will be loosely based around this theme. Feel free to suggest tracks that you think should be included or even come up with your own mix.

Not specifically playing one style I will be including a bit of Miami bass, Techno bass, 80’s Electro, booty bass / ghetto tech, Detroit, along with some other random stuff….actually fuck it…you get the picture… just lots of dope records!

Especially a couple of my favourites electro. Such a misused term can cause confusion. Some people use the term to refer to all electronic music or to the new “electro house” or “new rave”. No we aren’t referring to that definition of electro. I’m talking about performers in the 80’s that rapped about space and mars over a fast jerky futuristic beat and some of the music that followed that was directly influenced by that period. Some of it cheezy, some dark and speculative all fun!

So if your into the new “electro” take a little time to soak in something different.

Suffice to say the trusty drum machine is still in the family.

playlist 1 january febuary march - Nite blues steel band 2 problems (instrumental) - As one 3 nothing time - Susumu yokota 4 decades of silicon?? - Urban tribe - mowax 5 Stop the Mechanism - John Tejada - Daydreams in Cold Weather 6 Enrico - Isolée - Wearemonster 7 electro boogie - Mfenducci - mediocre solo efforts 8 Japanese Elecktronics - Elecktroids - Elektroworld 9 Supersonic - JJ FAD 10 Siberian Nights (ultimix) - Egyptian Lover (f.Electric Kingdom) 11 123456 bass - Beat dominator 12 Twilight 22- Electric Kingdom 13 Thrown Down - Scratch-D (Dynamix II) feat. Brazen 14 Cigarette Lighter - Japanese Telecom 15 Lookout Weekend - Debbie Deb 16 My Beats - Jimmy Edgar 17 Clear (Ultimix) - Cybotron 18 I need a freak - Egyption Lover 19 Wireframe images - Arpanet 20 Dick By The Pound - DJ Assault 21Booty Bar Anthem - Disco D & DJ profit 22 I need another drink - Disco D 23 I need to freak - Aux 88 24 Mirage - Perception 25 Dry input - Perspects 26 Whip it - Devo 27 All stood still - Ultravox

In this episode we travel through some minimal dubbed out goodness from berlin via detroit and england for some lush electronic bliss. The captain has been given strict instructions for us to return back to base in the fourth quadrant. After a bumpy takeoff we are crusing with hyper drive on full throttle into the depths.

Some of these tracks are taken from some favorite netlabel releases such as the excellent Graceland EP by Norman Fairbanks and the Minor Fading Zero compilation out of Russia on the Leibniz netlabel. Folow the links to download.

playlist 1 10.16 - heiko laux pres - the old school street - i2020 2 Funk 004 (rinse) electric city funk - raiders of the lost arp - plasmek 3 Domina- Marizio’s mix 4 Amuck - Low Res - Thorn Ep 5 Rontgen - O - sahko 6 Hymn Bream - Metamatics - MindMushingGit 7 Phylyps Trak ii - Basic Channel 8 19′50′’ - Ester Brinkmann - 20′ To 2000: July 9 The Visitors - Kirk Degorgio’s Off World - Two Worlds 10 Dream 4 - The Nova Dream Sequence - Interpretations 11 Liquid Gel - Metamatics - MindMushingGit 12 Resonation - Claro intelecto - NEUROFIBRO 13 Graceland - Norman Fairbanks - Graceland EP 14 Let Me Be Me - The Other People Place - Lifestyles of the Laptop Cafe 15 Sun After Rain (Rainy Day) - Sk1e - Minor Fading Zero [LNZ01] 16 Sheherezdae - tons of tones - presented by steve rachmond 17 Signs of inertia - titonton - metamorphic 18 Ellipse - kit clayton - parallel 19 Deep substance - steve stoll - Damn Analog Technology

1 Farandole - Bob James 2 Baria Cumbia remix - Los Hermanos Latinos 3 Music to Interrogate by - Jan Jelinek 4 Beijo - Brazilian Rhyme - Earth Wind & Fire (Kenny Dope Remix) 5 The secret - Tons of Tones presented by Steve Rachmond 6 Give It Up, Turn It Loose (Latin Reconstruction) - James Brown 7 Midnight Express - The Walter Murphy Band 8 Walk - Norken 9 Muurame - Mr Velcro Fastener 10 Plastic Dreams (Original Mix) - Jaydee 11 Its only Music - Fuck Pony 12 Sao Pedro - Azymuth (Roc Hunter mix) 13 Dream 10 - The Nova Dream Sequence 14 Falling Up - Theo Parrish (Carl Craig Remix) 15 Devout - Steve Tang 16 Resonation - Claro Intelecto 17 Pt Dreams - Ricardo Dias 18 All night long Girlfriend - Basis By Gary Martin 19 Sultans Dream - Basis By Gary Martin 20 Trespassers - New World Aquarium

Flight boarding in 0100 hours. Spacesuit - check, fuel topped up - check, boarding pass - check. Ready to go? 0 liftoff 1 Riot in lagos edit (Ryuichi Sakamoto cover)- Swag - Ubiquity 2 Rylo 7 - Nubian Minds - ? 3 Numbers - Kraftwerk - EMI 4 Planet rock jazz (Bambatta cover) - Breakout - Breakout Music 5 Computer world - Kraftwerk - EMI 6 No quarter (Led Zeppelin cover) - Nuspirit Helsinki - Ubiquity 7 Jingo - Candido - Soul Jazz Records 8 Modern Scene - John Tejada, Arian Leviste - Fairfax Sake 9 Poor People Must Work (Carl Craig Remix) w/ Bobbo Shanti - Rhythm & Sound 10 Monster Park (Robert Babicz Remix)- Jimi Polar - Nightlife -Future Classic 11 Kunuaka feat. Subrinah - Makossa & Megablast - Gstoned 12 The Problem With Rules - John Tejada, Arian Leviste - Fairfax Sake 13 Dj Puzzle Chi-Town - Dj Puzzle - Promo CDR 14 Rain in Shibuya - John Beltran - In Full Color 15 Tente Imaginar - Larry Heard - Trip Do Brasil 2.5 16 Where We At Version 3 (Original Mix) - Henrik Schwarz, Ame, Dixon - Where We At EP 17 Dark side of the Spoon (Bangkok Impact Remix) - Alexander Robotnick - Creme Organization 18 Yellow Asteroids (Original) - Smash TV - Yellow Asteroids 12″ 19 Full Clip - Martin Buttrich - Planet E 20 Polarity Feat Divine Styler - John Tejada - Palette 21 arrive at the moon..

This man had such a vast output of amazing music and was such a charismatic entertainer. He was rumored to have been very hard on the players in his many lineups, but managed to get the best out of them.

The music has indirectly influenced much of modern music today - disco, rock and of course hip hop. Being the most sampled man in history is no mean feat.

Im going to post a couple of the mans hits and a funky rendition by two australian jazz legends of an familiar christmas tune, from a release that is popular with the digging crowd for the drum break at the start, but nevertheless a great rendition in its own right.

James Brown rocks out during a concert in Shanghai, China, early this year.

Im glad that I had the opportunity to see the man live last year. Rest in peace James Brown.

papas got a brand new bag

away in a manger - don burrows quintet

So much great music at the moment, I’m super impressed with the planet rock cover (I know it sounds bad) on breakout-music, seriously dope…. I was going to hunt down the 7” but now they’ve its been released on a 12” with an additional jazz mix. I think the jazz mix is my pick. Patiently waiting for my copy to arrive.

Check out sound snippets on their myspace page breakout music and the label site here. Apparently Mr. Confuse, Info & Kova had their musician mates play the cover and they meticulously resampled the tiny fragments into this stormer.

Dopeness, as is all the other releases on this label, lots of covers of funk classics and other oddities. This is defiantly one of my favorite labels at the moment.

I’m in Melbourne for a little holiday and am djing at a great little Sunday afternoon shindig called Off Beat at Workshop..

On Sunday December 3rd Workshop again will play host to an afternoon and evening of the finest in downtempo, IDM, ambient, 3/4 and world music sounds. In this sophomore iteration we introduce a couple of new styles to the mix - minimal and instrumental hip-hop.

Workshop is at 413 Elizabeth Street in downtown Melbourne, with access through the A’Beckett side entrance.

more info at u magazine

its at the workshop

thanks to easysleeper for the gig hookups!

This is a guest mix by a great young turntablist from sydney named cbay.

watch out for this kid……

New school hip hop.

if you dig this mix contact cbay here and show him some love.

tracklist —————————————————————————– intro organic thoughts - get it right little brother - for you exile ft. slum village - time has come zion i ft. planet asia - critical diverse - certified triple threat - two minute warning dilated peoples - marathon dj nu-mark & chali 2na - chali 2na comin thru a.skillz & krafty kutz - simple things ozomatli - cut chemist suite soulive - s.o.u.l.i.v.e remix josh one ft. blu - step to this scratch break dj krush ft. the roots - meiso looptroop - ambush in the night jurassic 5 - freedom the perceptionists ft. phonte - 5 o’clock ghostface ft. tribe - milk em (strange fruit project remix) —————————————————————————–

Ive been itching my to post the first podcast for weeks, patiently waiting for one of my turntable to be fixed.

Its heating up here in Sydney, everyone seems to be spending more time outside, days are longer and weekends are lazier. This mix really just mellows me out defiantly a great prelude to summer and the impending daylight savings, barbies and lazy weekends at the beach. If you cant make it to the east coast of Australia you can always check the vibe on this mix.

Includes tracks by Artifacts, PUTS, Sadat X, Pete Rock and CL smooth, Afu Ra, J Live and Rodney Rude among others.

In hindsight there were some cool things that came out of the 70’s,

some great industrial design

psychadelic art

and the funk

Cookies

Slippin into darkness

Wait up

enjoy.

… The good news is, there are a handful of artistically minded inkers at work out there, and if you’re gonna spend anywhere from a few hundred to a few grand on something that will be inked into your flesh until you die, well, don’t you want it to be atypical and dynamic and ingenious? Don’t you want something you can look at every day and go, whoa, what the hell is that, and is that really a part of my skin, and isn’t that just the most fascinating thing?

Don’t you want, in other words, a piece by someone like this French guy named Yann? Sure you do. The newish tattoo blog Needled.com pointed me to this guy’s deliriously cool work, which you won’t find in any of the aggro-trashy American tatt mags. He is, apparently, quite the sensation among tattoo cognescenti in France and Europe. Yann’s work is amazing and odd and childish and beautiful and strange, Egon Schiele meets Edward Gorey meets Picasso in a deep closet of folksy childhood whimsy. You gotta check out his gallery here

It is, of course, not a style for everyone. And you’d have to fly all the way to France to get a piece by him. But it could certainly encourage anyone considering the acquisition of serious ink to maybe think beyond your average dolphin-in-a-rainbow. Please. …

Also check out the needled.com blog for all things tattoo

What are your thoughts on the future of electronic music? Do you agree/disagree with the ideas put forth in this article?

While we are on about electronic music lets look back to the past and check out a radio event that has been uploaded on the archive.org website

from the site

“Broadcasted live from the Mills College Electronic Tape Music Center via a remote portable transmitter, Tom Zahuranec’s “Bucket-Ful Mercury Walk” invited listeners at home to drive to Mills and assist in creating sounds using various electronic equipment including Moog and Buchla synthesizers. Guests discovered and experimented with their manipulated voices while others helped turn nobs on the instruments. Charles Amirkhanian reports live from the event where over two hundred people attended, as well as Don Buchla who brought in one of his new model synthesizers of the time. The program features over 45 minutes of analog sounds for listeners to bathe themselves in. From a series of audience participation radio programs in which artists were given air time to create situations that physically involved the listening audience.”

the mp3 is located here

Also pop by disquiet.com for all things ambient. They have a nice selection of daily mp3’s to download, music reviews and other stuff.

Im really loving the production of one torah vinter from sweden. download her demo from her myspace page.

ive just been listening to a mix from 1985 by cosmic dj beppe loda there is an interview here and the mix can be downloaded from sonic sunset here

Today is the the anniversary of John Peel’s last live broadcast, and you can put on your own tibute gig on 12 October.

If you cant do that. Check out the archives at Radio one here

For my first entry I wanted to highlight an artist that I have really dug over the years Mr Kirk Degiorgio.

Ive really been revisiting his back catalogue some of which is had to find and thought id share some tunes.

If your not familiar with Kirk he’s been producing music since the early 90’s and who is probably best known for his As One album on Mowax and his short-lived A.R.T. label.

Im a sucker for the feel of his earlier productions. This is from the compilation album objets d’art under the as one guise. Isatai - As One Kirk has produced many different genres and through the years has a healthy love of analog modulars, jazzy broken beats and soul but you can feel the sense of refinement within his later work and use of more organic sounds. although I have a soft spot for the Detroit tech lushness. His later releases have a big jazz/ neo soul influence influence, depending which alias you lean towards and are great to just chill to.

here is a taster of his more jazzy productions. ups and downs - Kirk Degiorgio

His most recent release is the collaboration with Vocalist Jinadu which was recorded at the legendary abbey road studios. His singing and Kirks soulful music sit together so well. With a guest arrangement from the legendary deodato among others. Its out now on peacefrog, you can purchase from bleep or from the peacefrog website direct.

Look forward to the release of the new as one album “AS ONE: Planetary Folklore 2 - October 16th 2006″ on Italy’s Archive label. I know I am.

you can find out more about the beauty room and kirk at these links

The beauty room

more music at his myspace