Showing posts with label electronic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label electronic. Show all posts

Friday, January 30, 2015

This Wondercast celebrates the death of the geocentric model, our departure from anthropocentrism. It celebrates all forms of life, humility, and respect. It rejects of nationalism and borders, and discourages misunderstanding of others. It celebrates our ability to travel around, and meet different folks. Last but not least, it is celebration of the freedom we have to listen to music from nearly every corner of the inhabitable Earth, and to feel it it as if it was coming from a neighbor’s window. We are all neighbors, and brothers and sisters, and this mix celebrates that wonderful fact.
Ikue and Olive sprinkled with mbira gives way to some fruits of Laswell down in Cuba, bolstered with a trojan guitar skank loop. Every click matters. Defragmentation, /Rupture’ed., Jelinektronic forest funk, stopped by Billy, Ikue, and Olive. Brown Bag, Lunchbox! A minimal techno sandwich from Perth, Córdoba, and Zurich. Mutate, Mutek…then right back to Brooklyn. ‘Back to Cuba?’ Dave Aju asks. It’s A Story With A Touch, for sure. Midnight poppies lead to more Defragmentation. Arto’s Complicity, remixed, and plopped on Skull Disco mixed with John Lurie’s haunting horn. Back for a World Trance. Across the pond again to Switzerland via Storlon, and Germany via Berk. Where Do You Run To? Sub Dub! Nico Dubliners, Thoughts Like Rain. NY, Zorn.

Friday, April 29, 2011

nontronic?

Hi, and happy spring (if you are on this side of the earth). I recently did a radio show at Brown, on The Fieldhouse, but it was a bit off the beaten path, at least until the last 20 minutes or so....but, I figured I'd at least share it here, as there is a wide variety of sounds that would appeal to the person bored of 4/4 time in techno music.

Wednesday, April 06, 2011

the heavies of dubstep

quick set I did for my current radio show at Brown, which has some flavors appropriate for this blog.

Clearly I love Shackleton and Badawi.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Eleveneleven podcast

For some time I've been a fan of the eleveneleven podcast series, now part of Alias Frequencies. I'm super excited to report that I'm this month's guest programmer!

You can stream and download here. Right click to download of course.

Hope it's as fun to listen to as it was to create!

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Inès LP / PART I, from Clown and Sunset

Here's a clip of Inès LP / PART I, from Clown and Sunset. Released on Nicolas Jaar's record label just yesterday, it comes on a neat little USB pack, and is filled with amazing soundscapes, originality, and use of a variety of textures and found sounds.
Inès LP / PART I by Clown and Sunset

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Summer Mix

I felt a little rusty working on this mix. First one on this blog in a year! Hopefully there's some stuff that interests you.

The mix I posted in Sept 09 qualified as a "fall" mix.... so it looks like we've just snuck in a summer mix.







John Lurie - The Invention of Animals

Ben Frost - Theory of Machines
Fred Frith - Nowhere to Run
Zeena Parkins - Inyoufrom
Mapstation - Ensemble of Four
Marc Ribot - New Sad
John Lurie - Men with Sticks (noble version)
Mapstation - After all this Freedom
Billy Martin - Stridulations - Monkey
Lucky Dragons - Don't Lie (bonus)
Strategy - Summer Tour Bird Windows
ROVA & The Nels Cline Singers - Cesar Chavez
Morton Feldman - Projection 5
Taylor Dupree - Rusted Oak
Lucky Dragons - Face Down (bonus)

Friday, April 09, 2010

Anticipate Mix 2


Here's a great mix (the 2nd one) of tracks from the Anticipate Recordings label.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Fistpumps!

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Saturday, February 27, 2010

radio show tonight! 11pm-midnight

Tonight i'll be filling in for another show, on air at 11pm-midnight, streaming live on bsrlive, and also on 88.1 WELH providence.

More fun/quirky/funky tech-house-y stuff for your rump----spread the word!

2/28: archive downloadable here.

Monday, February 08, 2010

Super Boots

Click on the pic for last night's super bowl radio show. Sorry for the lack of new blog content, but hopefully you'll hear some interesting combinations of music on the radio show.
kids love boots

Saturday, December 05, 2009

ELEVENELEVEN :: 22 ONCE11

From down under, Jennifer Tao at ELEVENELEVEN yet again has posted some music that is just what I'd hope to find. I try fairly hard to keep my posts original,and not operate as a filter blog. But, when something like this comes up, I feel it's a really good thing to share. The album 'Smile Hunter' by Once11, on The Agriculture label, is certainly one of my favorite dubby albums of all time, and this mix contains discarded snippets and outtakes, mistakes, and "woulda-coulda-shouldas" from that album, as well as the general time period from 1999-2009.

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The text from ELEVENELEVEN:
Guest Programmer
Once11 (Brugges/ Montevideo/ LA)
theagriculture.com/once11

Podcast: All Together Wrong

About the podcast: “What is on this podcast? Trials, plan B’s, errors and rehearsals, leftovers and whoulda-coulda-shouldas, the stuff remaining under the wet hood: the little fellas that didn’t make it. Sketches, leftovers and drafts: an amalgam of wrongs.

This 11 tracks date from 1999 til 2009, since “bounced” they are no longer editable (a couple are mis-mixes from “Smile Hunter”). They are the elaborate trials of my inner professional artistoid, working the “crashing patching and doodling of doing”, on some very nice afternoons (obviously with the intention of making of all the right mistakes) next to the roaches and fliers and the hope filled tool bags of the sleepwalking artisan.” ~ Once11

Once11 (aka Ignacio Platas) born in Montevideo has never stood still for a second. He was an active member of the infamous Brooklyn Williamsburg scene (’90-’93). In 91, after building environments at Keep refrigerated, legendary illegal underground Williamsburg club, he co-founded Lalalandia Entertainment Research Corporation, whose large scale fountains, omnisensorial environments and pneumatic installations have been written about in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Lalalandia made many of the most memorable Brooklyn warehouse after- hours environments of that period.

In 1994, he started up Multipolyomni and We™. We™’s ‘97 release “as is” is considered a classic. We™ opened for the Orb that spring. Their third release, “decentertainment” landed them at Barcelona’s Sonar ‘99. Multipolyomni’s ‘97 New York production of the Solar Drama from their opera Quark Soup, projected a massive live view of the sun perpetually rising for 24 hours, broadcast LIVE from 127 consecutive locations as the world turned around once. It hosted 77 live performers and artists on two floors. The Early Aquatic Episode, ‘96 at the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, also from Quark Soup, was hailed by the New York Times art critic Roberta Smith as “the only work in scale with the Anchorage”.

In 99 he moved to Barcelona and formed a team to find solutions for marrying video game navigation, 3D music interface, audio visualization, hybrid environments, digital architecture, 3D sound, audio localization, and analogue input controllers. He developed the demo sutoolz 1.0 alpha. A 3D software interface for music performance. By navigating through a 3D virtual architecture the musician uses a set of 3D tools to interact with the virtual environment: gameplay zones, speaker volumes, speaker volume membranes, speaker navigation volumes and 3D multi-band FFT visualization systems.

In 2000 he released his first solo cd, Once11 Versus the Pyramid, followed by Smile Hunter in 2006, both on the Agriculture label.

Always moving forward Once11 started Meta Flora in 2002 and led a team to Costa Rica for 3 years building synergetic renewable bamboo structures. In 2004 he founded the Bamboo Institute. The Bamboo Institute seeks to develop innovative ways to utilize bamboo’s incredible potential to help solve a wide range of the problems facing the planet. Why not work on improving and promoting bamboo architecture and design, primarily focused on furthering the development and utilization of bamboo as a building material the strongest and fastest growing plant on the planet.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Lucky Dragons

Lucky Dragons are a duo, originally from the great city of Providence. Their music is best described (by me at least) as a wide tapestry of digitally manipulated sound, with a heavy component of social and musical experimentation. There's hard science behind the processes involved in making the final sound, which you can learn about in the video (and other videos online, if you choose to search them out), but if you want this layman's simple synopsis, it's great music made by people conducting electricity through touching one another. Instruments, digital/audio converters, and skin are used to create otherworldly sonic textures. Their music is very appealing to me, not only because of the raw sounds created (which may be very beautiful), but because of the process used to make the music. It's been some time since I've seen the crossroad of man and computer represented as well as with Lucky Dragons.

Friday, June 19, 2009

An(other) Unmix!


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Yea, back so soon with another unfoundsound mix! Enjoy these rippin, funky ditties made with some sounds from our small world.

  • Roberto Clementi -Valencia
  • Alex Medina - 2 Bailes Con Martini Sisters
  • Kriss - Jazz Club
  • Roberto Clementi - 1939
  • Alex Medina - Dinner in Jakarta
  • Ben Parris - Chris Needs a Nickname (seph mix)
  • Mike Uzzi and Ben Recht - A Fitness Counterrevolution (Ben Parris rmx)
  • David Last - Where it Falls (suz rip up the rug rmx)
  • Miskate - Strange String

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Happy Birthday Brandy!

Happy Birthday to the woman that I love, who ages like fine...Brandy. Here's a collection of mostly old schoolers for you, hope you like! All my love and birthday wishes to the best woman this side of the Milky Way. 

    * DJ Vadim - Getting Friendly
    * Breakestra -  Easy to be Hard
    * Bjork - Human Behavior
    * Andy Vaz feat. N. Gratin - We're Not Going to Diss You Right Now
    * Herbalizer - Sensual Woman
    * Bootsy Collins - Ahh... The Name is Bootsy, Baby
    * Charlie Feathers - Tear it Up
    * Roy Burrowes, Clifford Jordan, Charles Davis - Reggae au Go Jazz
    * DJ Vadim - Dig Yourself Baby!
    * De La Soul - Saturday
    * Femi Kuti - Eh Oh
    * Frivolous - Can't Stop the One Two
    * Mermen - Heart Beatitude
    * Leonard Bernstein - Dance at the Gym (West Side Story)
    * DJ Olive - Funky Cortado
    * Fantomas - 04-25-05 Monday
    * John Zorn - Arsenal Dance Mix
    * DJ Logic - Something Distant
    * Frivolous - Every Day of My Life
    * Nicola Ratti - Above
    * Ruben Gonzalez - Como Siento Yo
    * Joe Jackson - Stepping Out

Saturday, November 22, 2008

the quelformat? Fall mix


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Not much of a theme to this mix, just a sampling of mostly great songs I have noted over the last several months. I suppose a tip of the hat to WFMU. Watch out now! It has some teeth, but also lots of beautiful moments. Let me know if you like!


~Down the Line from Harvey - Dave Miller
~Latino Interactive - Ikue Mori
~Me Susurra Un Secreto - Trevor Dunn
~Shore Leave - Tom Waits
~Foot in Hole - Skeleton Crew
~ track #7? - DJ/rupture + Andy Moor
~Density 21.5 - Riccardo Chailly - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Plays Varese
~For Ezekiel Honig and Young (pan) Americans - Klimek
~Frontside Boardside shovit out - Agata
~Dead Season - Tin Hat
~Poison Ivy - Mephista
~Geek Love - Ikue Mori
~Black Thursday - Tin Hat
~Along the Line - DJ Olive Vs. JP Dessy
~Dance for Burgess - Riccardo Chailly - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Plays Varese
~Locus Solus - David Shea
~Process Part 093 (Spiritual Airport) - Kate Simko

painting by John Lurie "Some Animals Noah Only Had One Of, The Ones That Came By Two Put On A Musical, Which Like Most Musicals Was Bad". Special thanks to John Lurie.

Friday, August 08, 2008

Frivolous

Frivolous! I first heard his music a few years ago on Andy Vaz's Background Records label. He's a former math teacher (I think) from Canada who left that vocation for a career in homegrown electronic music, aka DIY electronic music. He's special, as he is one of the handful of artists that both my wife and I love.

Given the extremely homemade instruments he uses (for images check out his cool site ) , his music is extremely polished, funky, and fun. He’s released a lot of music over the years…. You can check some of it out at:
Background Records
Minibar Music

This post brought to you by the letter F, an electromagnetic knife, and Canada.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Anticipate Recordings Summer Tour Remix Volume 1


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One artist I have been listening to a lot lately is Ezekiel Honig, who has a record label named Anticipate Recordings. This label combines elements of ambient, electro-acoustics, slow motion techno, and found house. Over the last several months I have been listening to quite a bit of music from that label, and wanted to throw the most recent web release up here for all a listen.

From www.anticipaterecordings.com:
We're pleased to bring you an exclusive digital release: Summer Tour Remix Volume 1, which, as the title suggests, is a collection of remixes of Sawako's Summer Tour field recordings. 11 tracks from label friends and associates that are all based on the original field recordings, with plenty of instrumental straying from the source…

The concept is simple. Take the sounds from Sawako's Summer Tour field recordings, and make new material with them. That's all the artists were asked to do. The result is a collection that displays the range of artists and the range of approaches. Some use only the original source sounds. Some use them sparingly in the context of a new song. Some add new instrumentation to an otherwise field recording-heavy piece. The common thread is that we love them all. A big thank you to the artists who took the time to participate and bring us such excellent work. Enjoy.

Saturday, January 12, 2008

The Commute, Part 2: The Ride Home


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Continuing on the theme of electronic music made with field recordings and found sounds, here are some more upbeat, funky ditties for the fun ride home.

The Suffragettes: "Rikson", Gunsi EP. Goosehound
Nicholas Sauser and Ditch: "Very Vrey Whales", Minlove 06
Socks & Sandals: "Spaced", Rishi Saturn EP, Microcosm Music
Someone Else: "Happiness for Our Time", Happiness for Our Time. Microcosm Music
Pocket Pet: "Noctiluca Falls", Minlove 06

The Commute, Part 1: To Work


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Compiled with the pre-sunrise, groggy commuter in mind. In sequence, this podcast includes:
Ezekiel Honig "Going Sailing Refrain 1" from Scattered Practices, Microcosm Records
Ezekiel Honig "Oceans and Living Rooms" from Scattered Practices, Microcosm Records

Antiguo Automata Mexicano "Extirpe" from Kraut Slut, Static Disco

DB "December 75" from Background Records [mnlv07]

Dave Miller "Down the Line From Harvey" from Mitchells Raccolta, Background Records

Ezekiel Honig, "The Breeze of Hibernation" from It's Getting Cold Outside, Unfoundsound

Morgan Packard "Dappled" from Airships Fill the Sky, Anticipate Records