Last Friday (December 3rd) I was lucky to be asked by Digital City to host their regular show on Betterdaysfm and here is the mix! There are two versions from the same set, the one on Mixcloud has my ‘bants’ on it (and is hosted on Betterdays FM’s Mixcloud so give them a follow) on it but if you just want the music I recorded one without that at the same time and that’s on my Hear This At page. Here’s the…
Tracklisting
Bunkr - Terminus 23 (VLSI) Rival Consoles - still here (Erased Tapes Daniel Avery - One More Morning (Phantasy Sound) Pan-Al - Quark (Apollo) Clocolan - Beauty, Beauty, Beauty, Beauty (Castles In Space) The Nevermen - Mr mistake (Boards of Canada remix) (Self Released) Loomis - Neon Drifter (part 1) (Noisy Meditation) Sieren - Lies (Self Released) Little dragon - Rush (Midland Remix) (Ninja Tune) Higher Intelligence Agency - 3P (headphone) xtal/gonno - step on the wind (Self Released) Tipper - Off Kilter (Self Released) Feral - Reve (Aube Rouge) Rival Consoles - Vibrations on a string (Erased Tapes) Wa Wu We- Ever moving in uncertainty (Hypnus) The Field - The more we do (Kompact) Julio Bashmore - The Moth (Fabric) Pantha Du Prince - A Nomads Retreat (Rough Trade) Daniel Avery - Darlinn (Phantasy Sound) Escape Artist - Silicon Valium (Salt Mines) Martyn - Masks (Brainfeeder) Nereid - Undertow (Warped Core) Kraymon -Falling (Stefan Goodchild rmx) (Triple Geek) Prospa - Control the Party (Rave Science) Laurence Kapinga - headrest (3024) Onlyloveisleft - no hero (Triple Geek) Posthuman - Ultrareal (Granthan Part Ex VIP) (Balkan)
Well, 2004 to be almost precise. This set is based on the last set I played at The Rhythm Factory in Whitechapel for SoxaN’s Airways themed party which - i think - was on New Years Eve 2004. What I can remember is it was a tonne of fun and lots and lots of hard work. SoxaN was absolutely brilliant to be involved with but with us all juggling work and Soxan It was impossible to keep it going. It did make money and we paid everybody but it sadly wasn’t sustainable.
I did knock this mix out on CDs (as it was the style at the time) and some of you might still have the CD…. I’m not sure I do (if you do please let me know so I can fill in the gaps)! So, after an afternoon shazamming my own mixes and taking stabs in discogs and youtube, here’s the
Tracklisting
High Contrast Feat. Nolay - Angels & Fly Syncopix - General Hospital Kanye West - Jesus Walks (Dj Zinc remix) Q-Project - Living with Beaker Logistcs - Kaleidoscope High Contrast - Racing Green Danism - Come To You (Nu:Tone remix) Grandmaster Flash & Furious Five vs Aphrodite - The Message (Johnny Clash Mashup ) Unknown - Unknown Fresh & Adam F - When the sun goes down Senor Juan B Ft. Merly B - Una Cerveza! SKC & Safir - Free my soul A Sides Ft. MC. MC - Keep Steppin' B-Man - Satisfaction Beyonce - Naughty Girl (TC Big Bad Bootleg VIP Mix) Roni Size - Strictly Social (Nu:Tone remix) The Goon show...
“Here it is the groove slightly transformed Just a bit of a break from the norm Just a little somethin' to break the monotony Of all that hardcore dance that has gotten to be A little bit out of control it's cool to dance But what about the groove that soothes that moves romance Give me a soft subtle mix...”
Here’s the “studio” cut of a mix I performed at Awamu’s third “Together” festival. It’s pretty much what I played but I added a longer introduction to it (which might help it last longer on SoundCloud) - the opening lines are from Grant Green’s amazing “Slick! Live at Oil Can Harry’s” lp - and there is a “bonus” track at the end that I really wanted to play but I knew time wouldn’t allow it, bcut for you, dear listener, you get to experience the genius of Raj Pannu’s “FSOJ”. The third track is a mashup of Skee Mask’s “Session Amp” and MJ Cole’s UK garage classic “Sincere” with extra beats and production courtesy of the ever patient Andy G from Echaskech.
Hope you like it! Here’s the...
Tracklisting
Louis Cole (feat. Genevieve Artadi) - When You're Ugly Don Froth - A Broad Range Widescreen Mix MJ Cole vs Skee Mask - Sincere Amp (Mach And G’s mix) LCD Soundsystem - Oh Baby Echaskech - Twich Deft - One Eye Open Jim-e stack - Moments Noticed Gnork - U Joe - mph Dolly Parton - Jolene (Todd Terje remix) Maribou State - Turnmills Club Mix LXURY (Feat. The Deptford Goth)- Square 1 (Vox DUB) Nasaya (feat. cehryl)- Orange Telefon Tel Aviv - My Week Beats Your Year Adam Port - Here is Why - Tonight (Adam Port Autobahn Edit) Loidis - A Parade Raj Pannu - FSOJ
Well that went exceedingly well. Restart was very well attended and it was so good to see so many old faces and reminded me the genuine power and depth of Second Life friendships and how incredibly fun clubbing was (probably still is) in Second Life. There simply isn't anything else quite like it... Ok so this mix I wanted to do something with some of the longer tracks in my collection (as I knew that I might be busy chatting and saying hello to so many old friends). The recording... hmmm, there's a slight distortion on some of the bass frequencies which, without recording the whole thing again, I couldn't get rid of in 'post' which is a shame because as a 2 hour listening experience I'm really happy with the flow. I suggest you don't listen to it as closely as I do and you should be fine. ;) I should apologise for including a couple of tracks from the last mix but they are too good to just play once out. Hope you enjoy it.
As for actually returning to Second Life... I can't see me doing it. Don't get me wrong it's an amazing experience and you can spend a LOT of time in there, but technology has moved on (the graphics were never it's strong suit) and socially networked VR experiences will trounce all over this once that takes hold. And honestly I don't have the time to dedicate to it as I did. But the people are amazing and those friendships I hope they last until we leave this place...
Simian Mobile Disco - Sun Dogs Gonno - The Worst Day Ever Weval - You Made It (part 2) Echaskech - Twich Voices From The Lake - S.T. (VFTL rework) Pye Corner Audio - Electronic rhythm number eighteen Arkist/Komon - Brookfield Space Dimension Controller -Journey to the Core of the Unknown Sphere George Fitzgerald - Full Circle (bonobo remix) Jon Hopkins - Sun Harmonics Parra For Cuva - On A Life Nuage - Haunting Antenna Happy - Where Space Is Ghosting Season - Far End Of The Graveyard (Enjoyed remix) Michael Mayer & Joe Goddard - For You (DJ Koze Club mix) Michael and Kolsch - Germination Rival Consoles - Recovery (Vessels remix) Kolsche - Two Birds Portishead - Roads (Max Cooper remix) Holden - Renata (Daphni Remix)
After the Oval Space gig , I got approached by The Commission Webzine - The online arts and culture journal - who were there to interview Max Cooper. They asked me for an exclusive mix and an interview, to which I obliged. It's taken a while to sort it all out and I've been very good at keeping it under wraps but today's the day I get to share it all with you The interview is here
Last Friday, whilst my wife and I were having afternoon tea at Ruben's in Victoria, my phone chirpred it's merry little sms chirp and there was a simple message from my friend Grant at Agency X saying "Would you like to do warmup for (Max Cooper's) Emergence? Has to stay not banging". Naturally I jumped at the chance - this is Max Cooper's new AV one man show in a prime venue in London, under the auspicious gaze of LWE - a superb event promoter making deep impressions in the night club scene with uber hot DJs and dance music acts and as part of their London Electronic Arts Festival . "Sure, I'd love to" I replied. I was already getting excited.
I'd not been really thinking about DJing; I lost my Concrete residency last year and had turned my hand to doing weddings which is a completely different mindset to this - still fun, still rewarding, but you are playing what the couple and the audience want to hear - this would be different: I could play what I wanted within reason, I understood what a Warm Up slot means and there was the helpful remit of "Has to stay not banging".
Has to stay not banging. Not banging. HAS TO STAY.
NOT.
BANGING.
Hmmm. The words echoed around my dusty and cavernous brain, like a Deep House looping vocal hook. Why would Grant say this? He knows that I'm not really that up for the banging tunes, why would he feel he needed to stress this? After a few more texts back and forth it made sense, because Max's set would start ambient and to give it the best opportunity to grow from that point you don't want the act before to be slamming out BIG TUNES building up the audience's expectation to think that whatever follows would be EVEN BIGGER. Fair enough. This was the remit and it was a remit I was happy with. I had two hours to play with and so I set myself to quietly build for an hour and a half and then half an hour to break it down.
So... why am I telling you all of this? Well... here's the thing: This set isn't two hours long; its 2 hours 20 minutes long. That might not mean anything to you but it might go to help you understand why, from 1h 35 the mix descends into an ambient wash out for 20 minutes and then starts to pick up again at 1hr 55... which might correspond to the moment I got told that Max wouldn't be starting at 9:00 but at 9:20.
:D
This isn't a criticism nor a whinge. Far from it. At most it's an explanation of the flow of the set you're about to listen to, and more of a reminder to me (and to anyone else who cares to listen) not to plan too rigidly, not to be too prescriptive and to remind oneself that no matter what you think the plan is, it's not.
Hope you enjoy it
Tracklisting
BvDub - Strength Underworld - M.E. Speedy J - DeOrbit Trentemøller - Always Something Better Pye Corner Audio - Electronic Rhythm Number 3 Deft - One Eye Open Opal Tapes - Coffee Aphex Twin - Xtal Deft - Vapid pt1 Fybe One - Harmonic Curve Luke Hess - Evidence Everywhere Vermont - Dynamik (Prins Thomas Version 1) Eagles for Hands - Glass Hands (Slow it Down Remix) Jamie XX - Far/Nearer The Slow Revolt - Farther Deft - A Little Kiss Shadow Child - Border Town (Synkro rmx) LostLojic/Innex - Last Goodbye Datassette - Cagney XOR Lacey (Pt 2) Echaskech - Form Function (Epic Washout mix) Mountains - Choral Synkro - Memories of Love Synkro - Why Don’t You Taso & Wolfbitch - Tria Seba - Painted Sky (DFRNT remix) Taso - Exi The Village Orchestra - Lo Pencil (The Village Orchestra remix)
E2A:
I forgot to say: thanks to the numerous people who took time out to let me know how much they enjoyed my set - I know you don't have to do that, and it really makes a huge difference to my well being. Thank you, you're lovely, you are.
Also - thanks to the staff at Oval Spaces, LWE and LEAF for all the help (high 5 to Soundman Josh) as well as Hugs eternal for Grant at Agency X and of course Max for letting me do this.
Don't ask my why but every time I set about recording one of these Bearding Hours I am plagued with technical difficulties and this one is no different. It's slightly distorted (because I used Nicecast to record it instead of Traktor's far superior inbuilt recorder) one track jumped (not sure what that was about) I then hit the cue button by accident and it started a track again, I then managed to turn nicecast off without noticing so happily played for about 15 minutes without it being broadcasted nor recorded and then, right at the end of the set I managed to turn archiving off too early. Doomed to failure. But still, after a bit of sticky tape and a magnifying glass (in Audacity) and it's like none of that happened. Well, almost - you can still hear the distortion in a couple of places and the track skip is there, but I really can't be bothered to mend them as it would mean recording again and I don't want to do that as this was recorded on my birthday (45 years old, hence the picture) and there's a few birthday references in there for me and playing it through again would sort of defeat the object of me choosing those tracks. Still, you'd have to be very anal to hear the distortion and the track skip is only very slight annoying - at least it's in time. ;) Anyway of if you were that anal you wouldn't listen to The Bearding Hours sets as they're never an hour long anyway! Ok, alright, enough of my babble - I guess you'll be wanting to know about the
Tracklisting
Takeshi Nishimoto - Coming Home
The Accidental - Birthday
James Murphy - Birthday Song
Beak - Teach Texas Manners
Jonnie Common - Summer is for Going Places
Mike Dumovich - Wasps of Rain
Dave Rawlings Machine - Method Acting/Cortez The Killer
Paul Reddick - Villanelle
Snowblink - When Pushed From A High Branch
First Aid Kit - In The Hearts of Men
Sarah Jaffe - The Way Sound Leaves a Room
Jess Bryant - Wicked Game
Peter Gabriel/Bon Iver - Flume
Josh T Pearson - Drive Her Out
Dosh - Airlift
Vondelpark - Backflip (in the Sauna)
Hammock - Black Metallic
aKido - Kiss of Death
Apparat - Your House Is My World
So I'm back from another summer of UK weekend festivalisation and, from now on, I should be fairly tucked up at home for the foreseeable, until the xmas season kicks in at least. What does this mean to you, dear listener/reader/subscriber? Well it should mean more regular weekly shows from me and maybe, just maybe me sorting out the podcast issues (if anyone does actually manage to listen in to these shows via itunes/feedburner I'd love to hear from you; just send me an email to djmachv at gmail or tweet me at @djmachv because I fear that the podcast side of things is not working properly).
I'm also going to be looking into changing my facebook group - Mach V's Musical Appreciation - into either a page or an updated group and I'd love to hear from you if you have any thoughts and advice on that, too. Oh, for those other musical podcasts/shows I listen to, they are as follows:
So, for this show, I decided to put it in reverse gear and start at the uptempo and take it to the downtempo and I think it was quite a successful selection - I'm sure the live japanese listeners enjoyed a set that sent them off to bed rather than made them get up again. :) Anyway, nuff wibble from me... here's the
Tracklisting
Squarepusher - My Red Hot Car
Arkist - Vallina Imitate
Disclosure - Offline Dexterity
George Fixtgerald - Silhouette
Loden - News The
Loden - Twerk
Synkro - Just Say
Kelpe _ Toy Castle
Dosh - Country Road
Origamibiro - Impressions Of Footfall
Vondelpark - TV
Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy (Odd Nosdam Remix)
Sadly no time to chat on this one - I'm off to Bestival tomorrow so lots to get done - but I didn't want to leave you with nothing, so here's the latest (and late) BTM and its...
Tracklisting
Drawing Curtains - Umber
Panda Bear - Drone
tim exile - Fortress
Bave's Chords - Mount Kimbie
When I Go Out - Little Dragon
Ready Set Loop - SBTRKT
Disclosure - Street Light Chronicle
XXXY - Ordinary Things
Kick It Till It Breaks - Velour
Synkro - Look at Yourself
65daysofstatic - Tiger Girl
Arkist - One Year Later
John Tejada - The Mess & The Magic
Ellen Allien & Apparat - Sleepless
Machine Drum - Lemme F_ck It
Bulb - Default Settings
Kelpe - Margins
Drawing Curtains - UmberPanda Bear - Dronetim exile - FortressBave's Chords - Mount KimbieWhen I Go Out - Little DragonReady Set Loop - SBTRKTDisclosure - Street Light ChronicleXXXY - Ordinary ThingsKick It Till It Breaks - VelourSynkro - Look at Yourself65daysofstatic - Tiger GirlArkist - One Year LaterJohn Tejada - The Mess & The MagicEllen Allien & Apparat - SleeplessMachine Drum - Lemme F_ck ItBulb - Default SettingsKelpe - Margins
If there's any proof that this existence, from the micro to macroscropic, is all but chaos is when the good die not only young but unexpectedly and without reason. Rei Harakami, Japanese electronic composer extraordinaire, sadly now falls into this catagory. According to the (quite wonderful) make believe melodies blog Kyoto born Harakami-san died from a brain hemorrhage on July 27th, 2011. He was 40 years old. Now, I'd admit his music is still mostly unknown to me - I only have his 1999 lp Opa*q which I stumbled upon last year - but I feel it's only fair to share some of his music with you this week, in tribute to him, so this weeks podcast's is top and tailed with two tracks from that LP. Here's the Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Rei Harakami - Poof
Beat Dowsing - 77
Umber - Spark Mountain
Peter Gabriel & Bon Iver - Flume
Bon Iver - Holocene
Future 3 - Look Ahead
Amon Tobin - Journey Man
Kelpe - Margins
SBTRKT - Wlidfire (Ft Little Dragon)
John Tejada - The Honest Man
Sideshow - Sort Of Dubolution
Blue Effect - Heart (Magic Mash)
Breo - Feelin' Good
Dark Sky - The Lick
Ramadanman/Appleblim - Void 23 (Carl Craig re-edit)
Also, last Monday we relocated Monday Hates You to Akira Seymour's awesome Cafe Wabi Sabi and set about the business of fighting off the start of week with our usual aplomb and I think my part turned out rather well, so here it is in all it's fine and dandiness.
Tracklisting
Boom Clap Bachelors - Løb stop stå (Noraj Cue Remix)
Ramadanman & Appleblim - Void 23
ADA - Me & The Three
SCB - Loss
Jon Tejada - The Living Night
Guy Gerber - Timing (Kollektiv Turmstrasse remix)
Julio Bashmore - Battle for Middle You
George Fitzgerald - Silhouette
Dark Sky - Neon
Untold - No-one Likes A Smart-Arse
West Norwood Cassette Library - Blonde on Blonde
Scuba - Feel It
Dubversion - Freedom
DJ Defkline/Red Polo - Remember Dre (dubstep mix)
Ok there's lots to tell you about this week. First off please accept my apologies for no update last weekend - I was with Echaskech at Deershed 2011 as part of Just Music's day up there, (along with lable mates Digitonal and Laki Mera) but more on that later. Last Friday morning Echaskech, along with the vocal talents of Napoleon Complex, released their new track, "Change the Station" as a free download from Soundcloud. My video for it is on the Echaskech youtube page
As well as on my Vimeo page,
both available in glorious 720p. Initially I wanted to visually represent Napoleon's desire to make his point about broadcast news. The first idea was to have Napoleon being the one holding the bill board/placard, gagged. The idea being that the act of protesting would be his message, and even as an individual it could still be done, but sadly Napoleon lives in Naples, Italy (hence the name) so we changed it to just be Dom, representing Echaskech, or the music supporting what Napoleon has to say. Dom holding up the placard with Napoleon on it is a metaphor of Echaskech's music supporting Napoleon's lyrics. Shooting took place over the easter weekend on my trusty Panasonic HDC HS300 (we got Napoleon to film himself and send us the footage) and the editing was done in Final Cut Pro, then round tripped into After Effects to comp Napoleon on to the placard by Dom and then back to mine for a final treatment in FCP. We're all very happy and proud of it.
Deershed must be one of the most child friendly festivals I've even been to. We reckoned that the children out numbered the adults 2 to 1, the average age of the audience must've been about 12 years old. On Saturday night, at 11pm, just as we were ready to go out on the tented town and party, all the entertainment stopped and by 11:20pm the arena was a ghost town... quite an eerie experience for a old festival vet like my self. However as our soundcheck was at 8.30am(!) it was probably for the best.
Though we were playing at 1pm on a blisteringly bright Sunday afternoon, I was relieved to see that Deershed had sourced a properly dark tent for us to perform in, which meant that i hadn't traipsed up with my vj rig in tow for another wasted journey, only to watch the boys play from the sidelines. Much thanks to the lovely people at Deershed and at Just Music for making it a very special day for us all. And then, if that wasn't enough, Just Music announce that one of the Echaskech tracks "The Calm" is to be included on Linn Records "Just Music exclusive" compilations. Yes, that's right: the same Linn records that orginally signed The Blue Nile. How awesome is that?
Anyway, now on to the podcasts, which there are two of, this week. first off is the one I couldn't upload last weekend due to Deershed - BTM20110720 - and secondarily the one from this week, which is BTM20110727. There you go, 3 hours of music for you. :) And here are the
Umber - A Song for Two Seasons
Biosphere - Shika-1
Future 3 - A Sound
65daysofstatic - Debutante
I'm not a Gun - Never Meant to Be
Radiohead - No Surprises
Echaskech & Napoleon Complex - Crusader
Tim Exile - Carouselle
Untold - Don't Know. Don't Care
Scuba - Tense
XXXY - Blue Flashing Lights
Jack Sparrow - Loveless
Sigha - Expansions
Pangaea - Coiled
Chechan - Siberia
Perverelist - Infinity is now
Machine Drum - Mean Mean
Adam F (footwork edit) - Circles
Omni Trio (footwork edit) - Renegade Snares
Bibio - Saint Christopher
So, for those avidly waiting for the latest Torq upgrade adventures, I've reverted back to version 1.5. After a truly horrible experience whilst djing at "Monday Hates You" (mostly down to me being a really quite rubbish DJ) it crashed halfway through a set which is the worst offense it can commit. So Version 2 gets a red card (until there's a upgrade or two) and I'll carry on where I was. This weeks picture is of one of the offices of "End of the Line" the professional graffitti crew who's daubing of walls have been responsible for many of the pictures that accompanies my blog. The boarding up of their offices was a depressing site to see, however after an email from Probs I'm happy to report that they've moved just round the corner and will continue to be an active artistic presence in the area, which should mean more graf pics for you in the blog. Phew. All power to you EOTL, you rock. :) Aaaaaaaaaaanyway without further ado (hi jubs!) here's the...
"And then, all of a sudden... it was gone" (Fusion Anomaly, Eat Static)
Well, indeed. After last week's hair losing technical debacle, this week everything is fine and remarkably dandy. Torq worked better than ever before, a positively pleasurable DJing experience. So all the errors you can here are all mine. ;)
There's a couple of tracks on this podcast from the latest LP from the overly talented Vital Substance, called "Under the Surface" (http://vitalsubstance.bandcamp.com/album/under-the-surface ) and I really recommend that you check not only this release but every thing he's put out. Avaliable on Bandcamp most, if not all his musical output is ready to download for free which is extremely generous of him. One to keep an eye on, for sure.
Oh one thing I should clear up, I got the name of the Rumpistol LP on the broadcast - it's called Mere Rum and it's available on emusic. Here's the rest of the
Tracklisting
Vital Substance - Riding Storms
Hammock - Verse for Forgiveness (Instrumental)
David Sylvian - Snow White In Appalacia
Boards of Canada - Chromakey Dreamcoat
Vital Substance - When It Rains
Rumpistol - Tape Swamp
Gold Panda - Fifth Ave
Bibio - Anything New
Falty DL - Regret
Boxcutter - LOADtime
Scuba - Tense
Untold - Sweat
George Fitzgerald - The Let Down
NDV - Mind Over Matters
Splintz - I Need Your Love
Untold - Gonna Work Out Fine
Si Begg - The Bleeps
Jacques Greene - Another Girl
Boards of Canada - Into the Rainbow Vein
Yes well, hmm. But that's no way to start a blog post following two months of absence - more on the "Yes well, hmm" later
HELLO! How the devil are you? Good I hope? We last spoke just as our major home improvement project was kicking off - moving the wall between our bedroom and bathroom by half a metre, completely rebuilding and installing the bathroom from scratch and installing a new wall of wardrobes in our bedroom to hide all our clutter away and we finished it off last weekend. Phew. It's nice to get everything back in it's place or more accurately into it's new homes and the house is looking great and functioning marvelously. My quite frankly awesome Mother In Law is still with us until next Tuesday when she sadly leaves us to return to her home when the stars at night, are clear and bright, but Miko took her to Paris last week which meant I could get back behind the decks and play out this set for you all.
Which brings me back to the "Yes well, hmm" at the beginning of this post. It wasn't great. I've just upgraded my DJ software to Torq 2.0 and, well the transition hasn't gone smoothly. For some reason one of the decks sounds absolutely awful, like one deck is outputting audio at 320kpbs and the other is outputting audio at 92kbps and trying to fix this problem while djing didn't prove that successful. My work around was to mix on two decks and as soon as the mix was complete, then copy the bad sounding deck over to the good sounding deck. This worked in the most part however remembering to reset the second good sounding deck to the settings on the bad sounding deck wasn't as successful as I'd like so you'll hear a bit of rather funky sounding phase and slidely swipes in the mix and my apologies for that. Have also done a bit of "post" on the recording to try and make it sound better than it did live, namely I've spliced a cleaner version of Pogo Music's "Upular" (ty Helle!) over the version played out as it sounded terrible and I hadn't worked out my solution at that point. Sadly Bibio's "Pretentious" I couldn't fix, but as Bibio's production features quite a bit of fancy lo fi work it didn't suffer too much. Sorry Bibio, if you're listening. Hopefully you'll forgive me, over time. Here's the rest of the...
Tracklisting
Hammock - No Agenda (Instrumental)
Bibio - Pretentious
Dub Tractor - Faster (album version)
Pogo Music - Upular
School of Seven Bells - Babelonia (Sepalcure remix)
Bola - Squib (Nuclear)
Specta Cierra - I'm Totally Not Looking At Her
8Bitch - Me & U
Grizzly J - Rainbow Fire
Hyetal - Neon Speech
George Fitzgerald - We Bilateral
Sepalcure - Taking You Back
Mount Kimbie - Maybes (James Blake remix)
NDV - Night and Day
Joyo - Jels
Battles Feat. Matias Aguayo - Ice Cream
Life continues at pace at Soft Towers... we're having some major building work at our home, walls being ripped out, bathrooms being destroyed and rebuilt, all of which is having a temporary impact on our quality of life. Our Music room/Miko's Office/Spare Bedroom/Womb Room (where Back to Mine is broadcast from ) is currently our temporary storage facility for our bedroom wadrobe meaning that for the next couple of weeks I physically can't get to the decks to play records for you all, and when all this work is finish, my frankly awesome mother-in-law is coming to stay for three weeks so this might be the last BTM for a while or at least the irregularity of this years broadcasts will probably continue for a while longer.
This set was fraught with technical issues so is shorter than usual; the first 30 minutes was full of hardware failures and software crashes, which I'm putting down to a distinct dislike between Torq (my DJ software) and, rather surprisingly, Chrome (my favourite browser). If I use Chrome before or during a DJ set, then Torq really starts to suffer. It beachballs and now even crashes outright, even if I shut down Chrome all together. There something lurking in the background, like an old TSR programme that Torq doesn't like. Anyway, after a reboot and some frustrated wails, it all managed to hang together for the last 60 minutes or so. Here's the...
Tracklisting
Seams - Platz
Mogwai - Monaco Grand Prix
Booka Shade - Regenerate
Actress - Let's Fly
Aphex Twin - XMD 5a
Martin Buttrich - Well Done (Serafin remix)
Posthuman - Lander (Global Good remix)
Noraj Cue - Release Me
Tok Tok vs. Soffy O. - Missy Queen (Mitte Karaoke remix)
9B0 - Sad Cat (Flack.su remix)
My lovely Macbook Pro has been acting a bit erratic, recently and one of the concerns I had about was the decreasing amount of space on my hard drive so after reading ExtremeTech's awesome step-by-step guide numerous times and popped down to maplins and bought myself a new 2.5" 320BG sata drive and some torx screwdrivers and set about some minor laptop surgery. The fact that I'm now writing this blog post on said machine is testament to the good people at ExtremeTech and their awesomely well written guide, but why it's taken so long for me to update my blog is down to the odd behaviour of Maxtor.
I use Time Machine (as all good Mac people do) because it works and is amazingly easy to use - it's even part of Mac Os X's installer package (since 10.5 onwards) so when you're doing what what I was doing it's real easy to restore your Mac to where it was before whatever has caused you to do the restore. I don't use Time Capsule because, well, I'm not made of money and to be honest any external drive will do, so I use a 1TB Maxtor usb external drive for Time Machine.
After I'd installed the new hard drive, I popped in the OsX 10.5 installer and chose "Restore sytem from Time Machine" option from the Utilities menu and it found the Time Machine and my last full back up and set it off running. And waited. 12 hours later it was still stating restoring (with the blue barber shop poll twirling away). "Never mind" I thought, "be patient; this is a system restore on the same machine you're restoring on to , using a CD restore boot - this might take a while. 24 hours later, still nothing. Still whirring away. "Be patient" I mantra'd. 48 hours later and I think my patience was misplaced, so I cancel the restore and think what could be causing the failure of the restore.
Just for shits and giggles I decided to swap out the unmarked cable that Maxtor supplied with drive for a Amazon Basics marked USB 2.0 cable and started again. In a few minutes we'd progressed passed the barber poll and on to a timed status bar that happily told me 4 hours, and lo! 4 hours later I've got my machine back. I'm in complete bafflement why Maxtor woudl supply an (apparantly) usb 1 cable with a usb2 1Tb drive and if you want a moral to take away from this it's: If in doubt - check your cables. :)
So here's what you've been missing: 3 sets, the first from the welcome return of MondayHatesYou, the one day a week Second Life club/website that's here to make that return to the grindstone a whole lot better for you. I opted for (no suprises here) a future garage set and I'm pretty happy how it turned out:
Tracklisting
Sepalcure - Inside
Sepalcure - Every Day of my life
Alcosta Blvd - Deep
Julio Bashmore - Around
Kidkanevil - The floating world (Eliphino rmx)
FaltyDL - To London
Midland - Bring Joy
Pearson Sound - Wad
George Fitzgerald - Painted Jezebel
Chechen - Syberia
Addison Groove - Footcrab VIP
Four Tet - Love Cry (Joy Orbison remix)
Kasrave vs Joy Orbison
Kelly Dean - Contagious
DJ Madd - Arpz 3000
XXXY - Rain (Jack Sparrow rmx)
Jack Sparrow - Loveless
Julio Bashmore - Footsteppin'
Appleblim & Ramadanman - Sous le Sable
Then there's Back to Mine, 20110323 (which my mac was beachballing through, making actually djing really hard work hence me upgrading the hard drive). That Tanka EP you can get from here: http://tanka.bandcamp.com/album/patterns-break-ep
Tracklisting
Tanka - Step(s)
Nicolas Jaar - Spectors of the Future
Hammock - Stranded Under a Helpless Sky
Radiohead - Morning Mr Magpie
The Books - A Cold Freezing Night
Working for a Nuclear Free City - A black square with four yellow stars
Asa - Sweeter Things
Brackles & Shortstuff - Broken Harp
Alcost Blvd - DMZ Chill
Apox - Hokaido
Crucial Cuts - Time
Redifine - Love N Learn
Son!ka - Bright Light
Fujiya & Miyagi - Ventriloquizzing
Appleblim & Ramadanman - Sous le Sable
George Fitzgerald - Don't You (SCB remix)
Noraj Cue - Homesick
FaltyDL - St Marks (Cosmin TRG remix)
And lastly BTM20110330, which I'm proud to say doesn't feature any garage or dubstep at all; it's been a while that I've managed to do that. It probably won't last, but hey - it makes me happy. :)
Tracklisting
Mordant Music - Inn Ohm The Lake
Hammock - Birds Flying in Sequence
Yimino - Bintliptick
Hiatus - Save yourself
Jam Baxter - BarrelEyeSpookFish
Wagon Christ - King's Lynn
Wisp - Library Grey
Penfold Plum - Cagney Driver
Working for a Nuclear Free City - B.A.R.R.Y.
Radiohead - Bloom
Holy Fuck - Bontempi Latin
Fujiya & Miyagi - Cat Got Your Tongue
Chandarit Singh - Raga Bairagi
8Bitch - Astarte
Glasser - Tremel
School of Seven Bells - ILU
FaltyDL - All in the place
Daniel Masolo - Ritmo Especial
Yoshinori Sunahara - Unconscious Fragment
Gold Panda - Marriage (Baths remix)
The Field - Sun and Ice
Ok, ok... I'm slacking. Not only is this recording from last week, there's no recording from this week to upload, because... hmmm well I took a break. You might wonder what inspired me to not do a set this week and I'm still wrestling around for a decent enough answer for that and I think it's because it's a combination of things. Firstly, I'm not completely happy with this recording; not just because the strange behaviour Torq displayed during Antony Shakirs' "Stereotype", but... well I don't know... It comes across a bit more melancholic than I was going for at the end... or maybe it just wasn't that coherent and each time I listened to it back, it felt a bit weird. Secondly, I've been so distracted with the new Radiohead LP I haven't really listened to anything else, which made it difficult for me to think about a set (apart from one made up soley of the LP) and thirdly, well it's was my birthday on Saturday (19th) and therefore I don't have to do anything and don't have to come up with a excuse for you all - you're just going to have to live with it. ;) Normal service will be resumed shortly. :) Oh and one last thing - massive congratulations to Jamie (Cato Basevi) and Charity (Sagesse Sautereau) who got married last week - it was a honour to be with you on a very special day for you and for all of us. :) Here's the
Apologies for the lack of an update this week - I'm currently suffering from a carb coma and my brain is all bread. So lets skip the chit chat and move on swiftly to the
And here's this week's Back To Mine, which, like last weeks show is predominantly fuelled by Bleep's Top 100 of 2010 and - for me on a personal level - really works well almost as a proper set in it's own right and covers most of my current musical bases. To the regular listeners of TBH I think this is "business as usual": start out ambient, move into electronica, slide into techno, garage and dubstep, fall back again into some left field dance and then somehow end up with some guys with guitars, then there's me, (despite my best efforts) getting the tracklisting wrong and a odd track which doesn't fit with the rest of the set at the end as some sort of "bonus", but this for me epitomises that "model"; and long may it continue. ;) Right, lets recorrect that...
Tracklisting
Richard Skelton - Threads Across the River
Oneohtrix Point Never - Stress Waves
Emeralds - Double Helix
Len Faki - Kraft Und Licht
Sei A - White Rainbow (original Mix)
Luke Abbott - Whitebox
Martin Buttrich - You Must be this high
Pariah - Railroad
Kidkanenvil - The Floating World (Eliphino remix)
Jon Hopkins - Vessel (Four Tet remix)
Girl Unit - Wut
NDV - LogarRiddmic
Seiji - Yesman
Daniel Maloso - Ritmo Especial
Model 500 - OFI
Daft Punk - Derezzed
Holy Fuck - Red Lights
Deerhunter - Desire Lines
Avus- Reality Itself
So here it is, the first of The Bearding Hour for 2011 and I'm very glad to say that the wonderful and charming Souum Cortes (aka Bruno Gravato) will be joining me on the the nights of The Beading Hour, at Back to Mine in Second Life and you can here his set which followed mine here http://www.mixcloud.com/souum/souumbtm-2011-01-23/. Oh the picture that accompanies this post is my new guitar and I love it. :) Anyway as I've got two podcasts to upload and blog about today, I think it's time for less whaffle and more
Tracklisting
Pink Floyd - Fearless
Neil Young - Old Man
Peter Broderick - Below It
The Books - There is no There
The Tallest Man on Earth - King of Spain
Canned Heat - Up The Country
Megafaun - Where You Belong
Jack Rose - Blues for Percy Danforth
Dan Arborise - I Cannot Find
Laura Veirs - I Can See Your Tracks
Horse Feathers - Albina
Genesis - Harlequin
Bibio - Dopplerton
Tunng - The Wind Up Bird
Anais Mitchell/Rachel Reis - When you fall
James Taylor - Going to Carolina (live 2010)
