'UNDERGROUND/HEAD'S DOWN' - EVERY MONDAY 11pm til late on FM 99.3 (Sydney EST)

killer stuff this week as we highlighted artists involved with FlyLo's inaugural 'Brainfeeder Festival'!

not to mention a return from Diverse (!from where!?), cool runnings from Ayah, Blu musing about his love life, huge massive stuff from Spoonface and the Wah Syndicate, newness from Bullion, Sa-Ra,  Bugz in the Attic, Hubert Daviz and much more....

11PM

Hubert Daviz - 'Sunset Light' - (Beatnicks Tape#1)            

Diverse - 'Escape Earth' - (Worldwide Renewal Program mixtape) - Chocolate Industries/Adult Swim

Ayah - 'Play It Cool' - (Problem Woman mixtape)

Mr Beatnick ft. Ahu - 'I Know All the Bitches (Bullion remix)' - Altered Vibes

Reel People ft. Darien - 'Upside (Bugz Dubside mix)' - Papa Records

Spoonface and the Wah Syndicate - 'Rupunzel' - Faada

'BRAINFEEDER MIX'

Madvillian - 'Shadows of Tomorrow (Flying Lotus remix)'

Flying Lotus - 'Parisian Goldfish'

Flying Lotus - '1983'

Clipse - 'Mr Me Too (Rustie edit)'

Kissey Asplund and Rustie - 'Atomic Light 'n' Sound'

Zomby - 'Spliff Dub (Rustie remix)'

Radio City - 'The Hop (Hudson Mohawke mix)'

Hudson Mohawke - 'Polkadot Blues'

Hudson Mohawke and Samiyam - 'E'

Samiyam - 'Beat 13'

Samiyam - 'Donuts with Sprinkles'

Bullion - 'Get Familiar'

Bullion - 'Rude Effort'

Digital Mystikz  - 'Anti War Dub'

Digital Mystikz - 'Haunted'

Kode 9 and Spaceape - 'The Samurai'

Kode 9 - 'Stung'

Ras G - 'The Free Up (Party People)'

Ras G - Spacebase 2031

Gaslamp Killer - 'Show Stopper'

Gaslamp Killer ft. Gonjasufi - 'Kobwebs'

Take - 'Fall in Love'

J.A.M. ft. Jose James - 'Jazzy Joint'

END MIX 12:30

Blu - 'Classyman' - the innanets

Sa-Ra - 'New York' - Wonderful Noise

I.G. Culture - 'Black' - Freedom School

next week is catch up time - some of the best tracks that haven't yet graced the playlist over the last six months. Fiyah!

'UNDERGROUND/HEAD'S DOWN' - EVERY MONDAY 11pm til late on FM 99.3 (Sydney EST)

Vous l'entendez vous aussi cette espèce de "tic tac tic tac..."?  Et n'essayez pas de le chasser, il reviendrait immédiatement au galop.  Mais soyez sans crainte, ce n'est ni une bombe ni cette vieille horloge dans laquelles se dissimulait un petit oiseau qui venez vous emmerder systématiquement toutes les heures.

Non c'est parce qu'il ne reste que quelques heures avant qu'on se gave les oreilles à un/des concert(s) issus du festival Mutek. Ça débute ce mercredi et ça se termine dimanche.  Un conseil: Ne pas remettre un event x à jamais plus tard en utilisant une excuse bidon. Ça ne ferait que vous foutre la honte et aussi, quelques regrets.

Bon, à partir de là, faut que tu aimes le beat qui est proposé.  Pour ma part, je serai assurément au Métropolis vendredi avec son lineup all-star, Modeselektor en tête.  Et j'irais aux 2 piknik si la température est décente.  Encore une fois, Kode 9 dubstepmasta pour le samedi et une prestation déjantée de Noze pour le dimanche.

Pour le reste, je ne suis pas vraiment au courant.  On me dit le plus grand bien de Christian Vogel et voici un extrait cut/paste du courriel qu'ils ont envoyé :

...la programmation régulière accueillera 82 artistes de 15 nationalités différentes, regroupées au sein 50 performances, dont 15 sont des premières Canadiennes, 8 des premiers Nord américains et 3 des premières mondiaux. Une trentaine d'artistes supplémentaires sont impliqués dans les projets spéciaux de cette 9e édition, avec notamment 24 heures de performances pour casque d'écoute à la SAT (le projet OPEN_LAB_OUVERT), également diffusées en temps réel sur internet grâce à un partenariat avec le festival LE PLACARD...

anyway... allez donc sur le site pour la programmation complète.

Quelques petits liens et autres qui m'apparaissent pertinents :

Short documentaire ( env 8 min) sur qu'est-ce que le dubstep.  Facture très conventionnelle, on interview ceux qui ont qquechose à dire sur le sujet: artistes, label, whoever... (visionnez ici)

Modeselektor ft Thom Yorke - The White Flash (Trentemoeller Remix) (mp3)
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Noze - L'inconnu du Placard
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Le Burial mix de Kode 9 enregistré le 20 octobre dernier sur la BBC qui contient évidemment, les tracks de l'album de Burial (mp3)

Burial Mix - Mixed by Kode9  Tracklist (environ 15 minutes)
Feral Witchchild
Archangel
Endorphin
Etched Headplate
Homeless
Dogshelter
Archeron
Shell of Light
Stairwell
UK
In McDonalds
Near Dark
Afterglow
Sinkheart
Speed Ball2
Cold Planet
Stay

Cliquez ici pour téléchargez le Tank Thong "remix tape" gracieuseté de Megasoid (mp3) (via Weapon House).

MEGASOID ‘TANK THONG’ REMIX TAPE TRACKLIST (environ 60 min):
1. Megasoid f. D-Shade - Tank Thong Intro.
2. Thunderheist - Jerk It [Megasoid Demo Mix]
3. Megasoid f. Zulu - Student Riot [Demo Mix]
4. Bangers and Cash - BOOTAY [Megasoid Rmx]
5. Justin Timberlake - My Love [Megasoid Rmx]
6. Dr. Dre - Still DRE [Megasoid Dre Day Cover]
7. Clipse f. Pharrell - Mr. Me Too [Megasoid Rmx]
8. Master Ace - Jeep Ass Niguh [Megasoid Version]
9. Blahzay Blahzay - Danger [Megasoid Re-Rmx]
10. Busta Rhymes - Touch It [Megasoid Rmx]
11. Slim Thug / BunB - I Ain't Heard Of That [Mgsd Rmx]
12. Clipse - Monopoly [Megasoid Rmx]
13. Missy Elliot - Get Your Freak On [Megasoid Rmx]
14. Nas - Made You Look [Megasoid Rmx]
15. Old Dirty Bastard - I Like it R.A.W. [Megasoid Rmx]
16. Hot Dollar - Streets On Lock [Megasoid Rmx]
17. Bonjay - Gimme Gimme [Megasoid Remix Rddm]
18. Lazer Sword - Gucci Sweatshirt [Megasoid Rmx]
19. Dead Prez - Hell Yeah [Megasoid Rmx]
20. Megasoid f. Isaiah (T.T.T.) - Kick ‘em Outro

Mutek Website

Na czas festiwalu Era Nowe Horyzonty (17-27 lipca 2008 r) zabytkowy wrocławski ARSENAŁ (400 metrów od kina Helios) zamieni się w klub festiwalowy ze specjalną strefą chill-out i codziennymi wieczornymi koncertami zagranicznych zespołów oraz setami dj-ów. Zapowiada się spora uczta muzyczna. Wystąpią m.in.: Coldcut Journeys By VJ oraz wrocławski Skalpel Sound Spectrum; islandzki wokalista, „mistrz gitary akustycznej i laptopa“ - Mugison, indie-popowy, współpracujący z Mike’iem Pattonem norweski zespół Kaada; a także gwiazda dubstepu - Kode 9.

Zapowiadana jest również jeszcze jedna gwiazda oraz niespodzianka na koniec imprezy.

Program Klubu Festiwalowego

17 lipca - Jose Miguel Wisnik Sextet (Brazylia)

18 lipca - Moana and the Tribe (Nowa Zelandia)

19 lipca - Coldcut presents Journeys By VJ (Anglia) + Skalpel Sound Spectrum (Polska)

20 lipca - Mugison (Islandia), Hoppy Kamiyama (Japonia)

21 lipca - Matthew Herbert Big Band (Anglia)

22 lipca - Column One (Niemcy), Pitch Black (Nowa Zelandia)

23 lipca - Kaada (Norwegia)

24 lipca - Food for Animals (USA)

25 lipca - Youngbloodbrass Band (USA)

26 lipca - Kode 9 (Anglia), Digit All Love (Polska)

27 lipca - The Heavy (Anglia)

Sprzedaż karnetów i biletów na pojedyncze koncerty od 15 maja.

There is a huge monument on the Greenwich peninsula in the shape of a giant white female breast. Nobody knows exactly what it is for, but it is believed to have been erected as part of some pagan celebration at a particularly auspicious date in the calendar; perhaps the big tit symbolised the free-flowing wealth that they hoped they would be sucking on in the future. Unsure of its true significance, UK Plc sold the thing off to some Americans who believed they were buying an actual female breast; they also bought a plot of land in Croydon where they expected to begin digging to excavate “her” genitalia. On arrival they soon discovered their folly, and began a major recontextualisation of this once sacred place: from mammary to mammon; from nipple to Nando’s.

They put a neat little venue in there too, the irritatingly-titled the indigo2, and blessed it with a shininess of floor, sparkliness of sound, and swishiness of lights that you don’t see too often in a London venue (it is in London, isn’t it? The south eastern quadrant of the capital always feels far away and strangely disconnected. And that is coming from someone who used to live there). The lovely folks at Eat Your Own Ears booked the place up for a week of gigs featuring some people who could put that spanking sound system through its paces - also coming soon: Junior Boys, a Kompakt night, and The RZA (but mind those tube engineering works if you plan going at the weekend).

First tonight, we had a couple of DJs. Kode 9 wasn’t as dark as I’d expected, not that that was a bad thing. He played some whip cracking beats and some rumbling dub to a thin smattering of people. By the end, when he played Burial’s “Archangel” and his own “Backwards” there were about five brave souls down the front going wuh wuh one step forwards two steps back, vaguely in time to the music. Fairmont was next, and he was a bit more four four, so the number of dancers (pretty much all male) swelled to about four squared

Yeah yeah yeah check check check! The real reason I had hauled myself out across the meridian was to see Sunburned Hand Of The Man (who recently collaborated with Kieran Hebden on the Fire Escape album) for the first time, and they didn’t disappoint. Beginning all clustered around a table like they were trying to complete a particularly fiendish jigsaw against the clock, they shattered the flow of the evening with some rumbling drones. The most bearded member picked up two dummy heads that were lying on the table, and began throwing them around, then swooshing some sort of big pole which had bits of wood falling off in a manner that would not have pleased any Health and Safety officials present. Gradually, one by one they switched to guitars, with John Moloney providing some motorik and gibberish shouting up back. It eventually settled into a tight (well, as tight as this bunch could get) Yoo Doo Right groove, with Hebden nodding on approvingly from the side of the stage. After the show they were pretty much giving away albums and CDRs, I gave them all the money I had in exchange for a handful.

I was less excited about Four Tet, as you pretty much know what you are going to get with him: a crisply delivered rendition of some of his more upbeat moments. Tonight these included a couple off the enjoyable new Ringer EP, as well as “Sun Drums and Soil”, “She Moves She” (with an interminably teased out intro) and “Spirit Fingers”. Difficult to tell how much he was actually doing up there, apart from a couple of sections where he went off-piste mid-track with some more abstract improvisation - a hangover from the Steve Reid collaborations, but an enjoyable one nonetheless, especially when he used the achingly cool Tenori-On. All in all, well worth the trek; breast may indeed be best.

The Fall - 50 Year Old Man
Jay Dee - Stop
The Hot Toddies - HTML
Kode9 and Space Ape - Konfusion (Vox)
Taylor Swift - Picture to Burn
Behold... The Arctopus - Exospacial Psionic Aura
Soda Fountain Rag - Go!
The Exploits of Elaine - Eaten by Spiders
Neon Neon - I Told Her On Alderaan
The Just Joans - Bellshill Station
This Heat - A New Kind of Water
Evangelista - The Blue Room
The Caravelles - The Last One To Know
Jens Lekman - The Cold Swedish Winter
DJ Scotch Egg - Scotch Party
The Geraldine Fibbers - She's A Dog
Naked City - Speedball
The Wave Pictures - Three Songs Called Louise
Naked City - Speed Freaks
Shitmat - Happy Ending

The show is back on URN next Monday, from 9 - 10:30pm.

Here are my latest music purchases through emusic.  As I mentioned in an earlier post, it's an eclectic mix this month.

Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals

China Dub Soundsystem - Made in China

Kode 9 - Memories of the Future

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - Naturally

Pinch - Underwater Dancehall

Studio - West Coast

I'll be adding notes progressively for each of the titles as I listen to them more in depth over the coming week.

I made a few notes listening to this the other day as different elements snagged at me. Here they are.

Glass - five am chill - not a pleasant one - as the dope runs out and sobriety bites. Best thing Tricky’s released in ages
Victims - scary, sci-fi lurch. "Alien virus" snarls the Ape.
Backwards - an unsettling dub march, “One step forward, two step back”
Nine - short fragment structured by fragmented, time-stretched stabs “Nine days…” Lost in space.
Curious - has an almost r’n’b chord sequence, if r’n’b was played on a melodica and underpinned by clanking dub. “Maybe just maybe we can save you/maybe just maybe we can kill you”, rumbles the Space Ape comfortingly. “There’s a word” (worm?)
Portal - Something outside is scratching at the window
Sine - “It’s June/…and a rocket ship explodes yet everybody still wants to fly/some people/a man never happy unless a next man truly dies/sines of the times/maybe make a speech…” An uneasy pulse, distant reverbed bits of percussion, a solitary hihat. So much space…Best Prince cover ever.
Correction - Future Sound of London watery synth trickles cut into a sepulchral whisper about disease and infection. Speaker hiss in the background, Quatermass.
Kingston - dissects the kind of mentality that can kill for an ideology. “As day becomes night, so much of our space evaporates from sight.” Little scratches of guitar and an irregular field of cymbal bells
9 Samurai - a sonorous brass loop processed almost beyond recognition. More dub. The most Gza-like treatment, sounding almost crassly fully-formed after the empty spaces murkily delineated in previous tracks.
“Bodies” and “Lime” - the empty murk descends again, claustrophobic. Quicklime out of Edwin Drood.
Quantum - subsonic bass, the fullest, fastest beat on the whole record - i.e. motoring just beyond a crawl. SpaceApe actually seems to be getting almost a word in every beat or two. Leaves a queasily upbeat sensation.

Utterly brilliant.