Memories recall, the brain and hip hop. Drum breaks and Horn Loops.

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

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It’s been a little while between transmissions. Ive recently relocated from Sydney to Melbourne and don’t have access to turntables at the minute. But im working on that.

 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

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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

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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

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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

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some more electro for the peoples… playlist

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

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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

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painting pictures on silence - mixed by drox

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

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Wow, another week has flown by again. Out here on the outer rim we have been busy repairing the ship for the next voyage. That bloody comet damn near took us out. The captain ported this transmission while we wait for instructions on the next destination. Enjoy.

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

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This episode takes us on a journey into the outer solar systems via some tasty covers of ryuichi sakamoto, Africa Bambatta and led zeppelin then full throttle to the moon with some deeper shades of driving 4/4 goodness with a sprinkling of dub and latin.

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..

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