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ELEVENELEVEN :: 22 ONCE11

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. B) — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:16:45 PST

From down under, Carolyn 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.

Happy Thanksgiving

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. B) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:18:22 PST

Lucky Dragons

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. B) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:04:47 PST

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.

the quelformat? Fall Mix Partie Deux

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. B) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:38:29 PDT

Art: John Lurie: The Skeleton in my Closet Has Moved out to the Garden
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Just realized the last mix of avantgard-y of songs I threw together (not under the guise of a "spring mix"), named the Quelformat? mix, happened in the fall. So, with the leaves already changing here in the northeast, I figured I'd make this mix a partie deux.

The beginning starts with a beautiful accordion solo rendition of a Phillip Glass piece, followed by a dive (through a bit more accordion) into some Alvin Curran (representing Providence!), followed by some percussion, improvised structures..oh just see below. And as always, an eternal indebtedness to John Lurie, not only for the use of his artwork, but also for all of the great music he created over the years.

What Capitalism Was - Facades
The Beat Circus - Hypnogogia
The Beat Circus - The Good Witch
Alvin Curran - Music is not Music
Ben Frost - Leo Needs a New Pair of Shoes
Billy Martin - Killing the Drought
Ches Smith - The Contra Alto Clarinet in E Flat
Fred Frith - Screen
Fred Frith - Bricks for Six
Vincent Courtois, Sylvie Courvoisier & Ellery Eskelin - Extended
DJ Spooky - Claude DeBussy (excerpt from Rhythm Science)
Morgan Packard - A Place Worth Keeping Part 2
DJ Spooky - Disjecta (excerpt from Rhythm Science)
Hal Willner - We Travel the Subways
David Shea - Canto I-Xx
Raz Mesinai - The Blind Owl
The Susie Ibarra Trio - Trance No. 1
Kim Gordon/DJ Olive/Ikue Mori (SYR 5) - Olive's Horn
Marc Ribot - The End

Un(done) Unfoundsound Unmix

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. B) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:28:32 PDT

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My first Unfoundsound mix was pretty JV. Here's the longer, stronger varsity version, with a few new tracks. Enjoy!

Ditch - Yack
David Last - Halitosis Rockers
Kriss - Undersun
Mike Uzzi and Ben Recht - Slack Talk Space Dub
So Inagawa - Kada
Ben Parris - Desktop Willage
Theilaxu - Highlite (Marc Ashken remix)
Roberto Clementi - Real Fun
Ben Parris - Breakfast with Thorialanus (Seth Troxler rmx)
Alex Medina - Too Much Botox
Roberto Clementi - Exigent

Music for the desert

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. B) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:20:42 PDT

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Continuing on the loose theme of podcasts for specific times or locations, here is music for the desert. This one is best cued up upon departure from the last town in civilization. While its duration probably wont last through the entire desert trip, the structure of the mix is designed to emulate three segments of a trip into the desert; departure from civilization, penetration into and through the desert, and (hopefully) exodus from the desert.

This mix is for Wootie and Birdie, and our trip out to Black Rock Desert for Burningman. Just like the scenes in our drive from Reno to the playa, this mix will start off with a touch of western, heading into an uneasy period (caused by dehydration and that nasty left turn around the mountain, no doubt), followed by some straight out craziness. The last part we'll get on the way back, as it returns to more serene, civilized sounds----exodus deserves such.

Unfields02 - Field Recordings 
Tin Hat Trio - Bill 
Bill Frisell - Wildwood flower
 Ikue Mori with Robert Quine and Mark Ribot - Cheyenne 
Badawi - Arrival Shackleton - The Rope Tightens (Badawi remix) 
Nettle - Duende 
Fred Frith And Marc Ribot -  Second Nature 
John Zorn - Koryojang (end credits) 
John Zorn - Once Apon a Time In the West (Morricone) 
David Shea - Prisoner (part #1) 
Sub Dub - 19.5 
DJ Spooky - Giancinto Scelsi "Suite number 11" / Bill Laswell with Trilok Gurtu "Nothing" 
Marina Rosenfeld vs. Badawi- Badawileaf 
Unfields03 - Allumette 
Ikue Mori with Robert Quine and Mark Ribot - Medicine Man 
Klimek - for Michael Gira & Vladimir Ivanovich 
Wayne Horvitz & Zony Mash - 9 to 4 
Tim Hecker - Blue Ember Breeze

ELEVENELEVEN :: 19 BUTTRESS O’KNEEL

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. B) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:10:37 PDT

Some of you may have visted the Plumindustries link I have on my blog--their most recent post is from a woman after my musical heart, and her name is Butress O'Kneel.

From the original Plumindustries post:

Buttress O’Kneel is a sound artist from Melbourne, who has to date released 12 plunderphonic audio-documentaries (on topics such as globalisation, Harry Potter, war, oil, racism, humyn rights, 9/11, exorcisms, “Australian values”, and the Bilderberg Group), 13 albums of culture-jammed post-pop noncore metabreaks, and several other Special Projects, including live manipulations of mainstream CDs through a series of destructive guitar pedals, collaborations with various other folks (including a fully sick deconstruction of Led Zeppelin IV with Blue Mountains misanthrope, Lucas Darklord), and commissioned art-pieces for the ABC.

She has dedicated her life to fighting the reptilian mind-control agenda, whether or not it actually exists.

This Eleven Eleven Special is a surreal journey through time and space, where the listener can meet some of her friends, influences, idols, total strangers whose work she thinks totally rocks, and of course her good self. CONTAINS NO BREAKCORE.

Buttress O’Kneel will be performing in Sydney for the first time for Liquid Architecture 10 more details…

Some of Buttress O’Kneel’s work can be found at:
http://www.aliasfrequencies.org
http://www.interwebmegalink.net
http://www.nightterrorrecordings.com

PLAYLIST
1. Christopher Penrose – American Jingo (excerpt 1) [American Jingo / Illegal Art]
2. Zappa And The Mothers – What’s the Ugliest Part of Your Body [We’re Only In It For the Money (1984 mix) / Barking Pumpkin Records]
3. Naked City – Speedfreaks [Grand Guignol / Avant]
4. Dead Ants Rainbow – The Long Skins [Dead Ants Rainbow (live) / Rough Coffee Records]
5. Otomo Yoshihide / Christian Marclay – Deep Down Under [Moving Parts / Asphodel]
6. Aux Assembly – Sideways [Even Cowgirls Get Dementia / Sabbatical]
7. Buttress O’Kneel – Our Good Fortune Is Largely The Climate [Soldier EP / IWML]
8. Peril – Kiken [Peril / Dr Jim’s Records]
9. Christopher Penrose – American Jingo (excerpt 2) [American Jingo / Illegal Art]
10. Merzbow – Short Piece For Bondage CD ROM 2 [Music For Bondage Performance 2 / Extreme]
11. Otomo Yoshihide / Christian Marclay – Blood Eddy [Moving Parts / Asphodel]
12. Extracted from Negativland’s “Time Zones” (Escape From Noise, SST)
13. Christopher Penrose – American Jingo (excerpt 3) [American Jingo / Illegal Art]
14. Buttress O’Kneel – In Some Cases [Soldier EP / IWML]
15. Christopher Penrose – American Jingo (excerpt 4) [American Jingo / Illegal Art]
16. Buttress O’Kneel – Watchtower [LIVE 18 11 06 / unreleased]
17. Bogdan Raczynski – untitled track 3 [Boku Mo Wakaran / Rephlex]
18. Merge Into Stripes – L1 [To Mesmerise its Prey before Striking / IWML]
19. Negativland - The Bottom Line [Free / Seeland]
20. Zappa And The Mothers – What’s the Ugliest Part of Your Body (reprise) [We’re Only In It For the Money (1984 mix) / Barking Pumpkin Records]
21. Peril – Left Of Centre [Peril / Dr Jim’s Records]
22. Christopher Penrose – American Jingo (excerpt 5) [American Jingo / Illegal Art]
23. Naked City – Gob of Spit [Grand Guignol / Avant]

ELEVENELEVEN :: 19 BUTTRESS O’KNEEL

An(other) Unmix!

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. B) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:53:08 PDT

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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

It's Spring Again!

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. B) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:56:08 PDT

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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

Ruth is Be-Bop

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. B) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:50:39 PDT

I don't expect you to watch a 9 minute video, but check out the first minute, and the amazing Ruth Underwood at 4:20-5:30

Beat Circus on WERS

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. B) — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:46:30 PDT

A bit late notice, buttomorrow one of my favorite bands in the world, Beat Circus, are going to play a live set on Emerson College radio, WERS. Sad to say, I found myself never tuning in once the station went to their new programming a few years ago, but I am happy to say I'll be tuning in at 1pm tomorrow (4/1/09) for a live set from Beat Circus!

So, please, have a listen at 1pm on Wednesday, 4/1/09! On the FM dial, it's frequency 88.9. To stream go here and look in the top left for your favorite method. And if you like, go see them at TT the Bear's on the 29th of April.

From www.beatcircus.net
Beat Circus was formed in 2002 in Boston, Massachusetts by singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Brian Carpenter, who has been its only constant member since its inception. In 2005 Carpenter began a radical shift in direction resulting in the recording of Dreamland, the first part of Carpenter's Weird American Gothic trilogy, with legendary NY producer Martin Bisi. Filled with dark narrative songs and loosely based on historical events associated with turn-of-the-century New York, Dreamland was the culmination of a two-year effort by Beat Circus. In Summer 2007 Brian Carpenter debuted the third incarnation of Beat Circus with a new concept and sound to develop the second part of the trilogy, Boy From Black Mountain, personal songs about family and fatherhood in the tradition of Southern Gospel songwriters and Southern Gothic literature.

Nettled

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. B) — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:34:45 PDT

Last Saturday’s Nettle show at Brandeis was a night that will be difficult to forget. After a listening to an interesting pre-concert talk, we had an opportunity take a look at the art in the Rose Museum. Impressive! There was a Hans Hofmann installation, as well as an installation of paintings named "Masters of Reality"---so good.

For the show, we were fortunate enough to be sitting right in the middle, in the front row-- which put us on the same level as the musicians, basically 10 or 15 feet away. The concert was held in a recital hall with approximately a 250 seat capacity, and great acoustics. The musicians played together beautifully, merging a vast combination of sounds, textures, and feelings. Besides supplying beats and other electronic effects, DJ/ Rupture also provided some real-time manipulation of some of his colleagues’ sounds, which was an exciting element. There were also some amazing moments of video complimenting audio, adjustments and directions given in real time to compliment the music. You can read a longer review here.

The Performers:
DJ/ Rupture – electronics
Abdelhak Rahal – Violin and Banjo
Khalid Bennaji – guembri, vocals
Brent Arnold – Cello
Grey Filastine - Percussion
Daniel Perlin - Video

The concert was captured on video by a guy to the right of us, and hopefully that will become available for the public to watch at some point. Thanks to the folks that went through the many efforts to make this amazing concert happen. It was definitely one of a kind!

Unfoundsound: An Unmix

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. B) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:28:57 PDT

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Somewhat vaguely similar to my appreciation of art welded from junk, I am fascinated by the capture, tweaking, and collaging of raw sounds in order to make music. Beauty can come from lots of things- even discarded metal, or random noise waves propogating through the air.

That's why I've got lots of love for Unfoundsound! A netlabel out of Philly, they release quirky, dj friendly dance music that is made with (among other things) found sounds and field recordings from natural or unnatural environments. Besides releasing great music under creative commons licensing, they also have a series of field recordings which make for great fun in making your own music.

From their site:

through monthly releases, unfoundsound offers worldwide exposure to promising new artists as well as established artists from around the globe. in addition, unfoundsound provides a series of free downloadable field recordings (the unfields) available to everyone for creative sampling, musical composition and whatever your fuzzy, little heart desires. enjoy!

Damn Skippy! Thanks to Unfoundsound for their really solid, interesting releases. I hope everyone enjoys this little collection of songs which I put together rather roughly. Also check out their sister label Foundsound for more great music.

* Ditch - Yack
* David Last - Halitosis Rockers
* Kriss - Undersun
* Mike Uzzi and Ben Recht - Slack Talk Space Dub
* So Inagawa - Kada
* Ben Parris - Desktop Willage
* Theilaxu - Highlite (Marc Ashken remix)
* Roberto Clementi - Real Fun
*Ben Parris - Breakfast with Thorialanus (Seth Troxler rmx)
*Alex Medina - Too Much Botox
*Roberto Clementi - Exigent

Nettle live @ Brandeis

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. B) — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:43:48 PDT

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.

Klimek mix on Mnml Ssgs

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. B) — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:16:28 PST

Mnml Ssgs recently featured a great mix by Klimek, which you can download by clicking here.

Their following post contains the set list, as well as a great interview.

If you aren't familiar with the Mnml Ssgs blog, or Klimek's own music, I strongly suggest checking them out. Thanks to both for a great mix and interview.

Happy Birthday Brandy!

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. B) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:15:28 PST

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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

The Commute, Part 2: To Work

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. B) — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:23:28 PST

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In the third installment of The Commute Series, here are some more tunes deemed appropriate for the pre-dawn commute to work. Keep your eyes out for soft purple skys coming, as well an occasional morning star. But, most importantly, when you finally get to work, don't sweat the smalls.

Sawako - Purple Sky Coming
Klimek - For Jim Hall & Kurt Kirkwood
Andrew Thomas - A Dream of a Spider
Bill Frisell - Outlaw
Ekekiel Honig & Morgan Packard - Balm
Bobby Previte - Morning Star
Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet - A Remembrance...An Afterthought...
Ezekiel Honig - Material Instrument 2
Mint - Hindemith
Marc Ribot - Noise #2
John Zorn - Yellow
Ches Smith - Don't Sweat the Smalls

Dubby Vermont

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. B) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:34:48 PDT

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There are many fine things in the great state of Vermont; maple syrup, Shawn White, Jay Peak, the Burton factory, Phish, and cows, to name a few. There are also lots and lots of reggae fans. Big reggae fans-- ones that would establish an annual international reggae festival. It's practically the official state music. During a recent trip up for some snowboarding, I was reminded of just how much reggae you can hear coming out of cars, bars, gondolas, and ski shops, and houses. Here's a collection of some good ol' reggae---just like what comes out of the green mountain state, heavy on the early dub, with a few Trojan classics, and a few modern dubs.

Lee Perry - Bathroom Skank
Boy Friday - Virgin Girl
Augustus Pablo - Kid Ralph
Twilight Circus Dub Sound System - Achou
King Tubby and Friends - Chapter of Money
Tapper Zukie - Man A Warrior
Susan Cadogan - Fever
Once11 - Bottled Paycheck
U Roy - Your Ace from Outer Space
Mafia Allstars and King Tubby - Don't Think about Me (I'm alright)
Scientist - One Man Dub
Ladyman - Sexy Beast
Lee Perry - One Armed Boxer

In Vermont you can do what you want!

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. B) — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:10:41 PST

Bobby Previte and the Coalition of the Willing: Airstrip One

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. B) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:25:24 PST

I find beauty in odd pairings that end up working well together, and I certainly think that Ben Franzen allows the boy bike rider and accompanying music to fall into that category. Noteworthy video editing and music throughout (especially from 2:34 onward).

the quelformat? Fall mix

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. B) — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:18:43 PDT

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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.

Dang In Dub 2: The Curse of the Black Ark

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. B) — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:54:07 PST

This Upsetters dub mix was created a few years ago my Mr. Trick, for Rhythm Incursions ...still love it today. I've been playing it while working lately so I figured I would pass it on..Dang in Dub 2!

From the original post:
This is my personal selection of the finest Upsetter dubs from Lee Perry’s legendary time in his Black Ark studio. As a mix, this one is straight-up: 100% live off my 45s (replete with skips, crackles and more!), armed only with a reverb unit and a space echo to aid blends in true dancehall style. These tracks speak for themselves: heavy heavy dubs that can be enjoyed on your walkman, on the stereo or preferably loud as hell in your backyard via some homespun yard system comprising guitar amps, 12″ bass cones and god knows what else.

Holden Into Ryley EP

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. B) — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:27:48 PDT

Many people have a lot of fun distorting sounds from acoustic instruments through electronics, myself included. In a realm riddled with mediocrity, Mark Templeton rises to the top like the cream of the crop. Check out the completely free LP he just released on Anticipate by clicking here. You'll find lots of great sounds manipulated into a completely new artistic vision. Check out the other releases as well--all very good stuff coming from that label.

Zony Mash

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. B) — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:18:37 PDT

A lover of the Hammond b-3, Wurlitzer, I was instantly hooked when I first heard the middle of 'Meet the Zony Mash'. I was already a Wayne Horvitz fan from his playing in Naked City, and hearing him play this completely different (and often funky) music was a thrill. Just like all of his other projects, Zony Mash was a super versatile band, and could cover lots of ground--all of it with a ton of soul and edge. You can find that in any projects that Wayne Horvitz has lead.

A few burners up front, with some softer tunes at back, with an acoustic tune to end.

Frivolous

noreply@blogger.com (Mr. B) — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:53:26 PDT

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.