Showing posts with label world. Show all posts
Showing posts with label world. 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.

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!

Thursday, January 06, 2011

J. Foley's Bag of Sometime Surprises

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.

Monday, May 25, 2009

It's Spring Again!


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The winter chill is gone for good, with (it better be) our last frost behind us. This springtime mix is just like a New England spring----lots of variability. With that in mind, here are some songs that have about as much in common as snow and baseball.

  • John Zorn - Opening Credits/Hawaiian Postcard
  • Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years
  • Pamelia Kurstin - Copingheaven
  • Frivolous - The Long Way
  • Tito Puente - Tito on Timbale
  • Miskate - Hear the Ahhh
  • So Inagawa - Batai
  • Los Mirios - La Danza de Los Mirios
  • Secret Chiefs 3 - Sheburiel
  • Nettle - Duende (version 2)
  • Sabu Martinez and Sahib Shihab - Nus
  • Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou - Se We Non Nan
  • Santos Resiak - Timba
  • HAR-YOU Percussion Group - Barrett's Bag

Monday, March 16, 2009

Nettle live @ Brandeis

A heads-up to the heads in the Boston/Providence area-----this Saturday, March 21st, Brandeis University and MusicUnitesUS will be hosting the US premiere of Nettle. I have not been this excited for a show in a long time! I can't say enough great things about the music of Nettle, and DJ/ Rupture, so rather than me ramble on, I'd like to point you to a few true words that others have said---definitely offer more substance than I can provide...one of them being Wayne Marshall, who is currently the Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Ethnomusicology at Brandeis, and the author of a blog that I check out.


http://wayneandwax.com/?p=1261

http://www.musicunitesus.info/nettle.html

Here's a vid of a live performance of Nettle.


Both of their albums are on the Agriculture, and can be purchased through shops linked at their website.

Tickets to the show at Brandeis can be purchased here.

Sunday, June 01, 2008

Mudd Up! with DJ/Rupture

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I am a big fan of the music of DJ/Rupture , and maybe even a bigger fan of his mixes/radio shows. He's a heavy hitter in both ballparks, and if you aren't familiar, click here .

You can expect: 'new bass and beats plus live guests (musicians, DJs, poets) and an ear for the global south. Cumbia. Dubstep. Gangsta synthetics. Sound-art. Maghrebi. International exclusives. A shantytown unfolds in radiophonic space'.

Friday, February 08, 2008

Reilly is here!


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The MA crew is very excited about the arrival of Reilly, and here's a children's mix to celebrate his arrival. I have included songs that are fun, happy, and light---a challenging task, given my collection of disturbing music. All of the tunes are made by adults for adults-- but I think you'll find them all made with lots of children's soul. You'll hear some cartoon music, Cosby funk, movie soundtrack music, doggy blues, extra-terrestrial batman blues, Cuban music, music made from old cut-up 45's and PSA's, a rap from a lil tyke, electronic music, and even some trippy circus music! Best of all, I've included a short snack break in the middle of the mix. Have fun with the lil one!