Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20110112

Welcome to 2011, Music Miners! Sorry that's taken a while to get the wheels rolling back on the wagon that is Back To Mine, in Second Life, but... well... you know how it is... ;) Anyway we're back on track. I hope you all had a wonderful and restful break and are now all gee'd up for a new year. While I was off I was delighted to find out that I got a special mention in the magical A Strangely Isolated Place blog's 2010 round up under the letter V, as part of the continued sight & sonic enslaught that is Echaskech, which was a wonderful way to round off 2010. I can only once again urge you to subscribe to ASIP as it is an essential musical feast; let's put it this way: if you like these shows you'll love ASIP. On the Echaskech tip, I met up with Dom last night at Echaskech Presents... Concrete for a back to back DJ set and lots of new nebulous Echaskech tracks were given their first light of day, and I have to say the crowd feedback was most encouraging. Many exciting things are being planned and acted upon in the Echaskech sphere: keep 'em peeled and pinned back, peeps cos we've some treats in the pipeline. Thanks to all who came down and made a great night a whole load better. We had a blast. :) Oh and a BIG THANK YOU to whoever added my last blog to StumbleUpon; my web analytics were way up over the festive season and it was all thanks to you. :) Anyway, here's this weeks...

Tracklisting

Casino vs Japan - Hello You

Strategy - Cathedral Spark

8Bitch - Orpheus

Actress - Supreme Cunnilingus

Camille - Le Juene Fille aux Cheveux Blancs

Laura Viers - July Flame

Midlake - Roscoe

Hallo Gallo 2010 - Blinkgurtel

Rocketnumbernine - Matthew & Toby

Anthony Shakir - Arise

Gold Panda - Vanilla Minus

Sepalcure - Every Day of my life

James Blake - CMYK

CRST - Roulette

Tokimonsta - Glaring Lights

Anthony Shakir - Detroit State of Mind

Isan - The Race To Be First Home

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Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20101214 - The Best of 2010

So here it is, the Mach V musical montage of the year, an audio annual for 2010 and what a great year it's been for music, and one I've been glad to say has shown me new paths and alley ways of music to carry on persuing and sharing with you all. But as this show is well over 2 hours long I'll let the music do the talking and, with no further ado here are...

Top Ten LPs (In no particular order)

• Jonsi & Alex - Riceboy sleeps
• Verulf - Territorial
• Jonsi - Go
• LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
• Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
• Pantha de Prince - Bohemian Forest
• Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner
• Bonobo - Black Sands
• aKido - Gamechanger
• Mount Kimbie - Crooks and Lovers

But that's not the end of it because without the eps, singles & free tracks that have made it on to my hard drive it would've been a very different year. After a couple of years almost just buying LPs I'm back buying singles and back into dance music, but not Drum and Bass, but Garage... or is it Dubstep? Or Croydon techno? Or Crackhouse? Or even Funky? Or is it Bassline? Who really knows and personally I don't really care - all I really care is that good music is still being made and that makes me exceptionally happy. I must thank a few people for being great friends, with amazing knowledge, patience and everyone of you for listening in occasionally. Without you guys life would be dull and empty so, to name some names: Much love to Miko, Souum, Jacomo, Lanne Wise, Stricky, eskigirl, Johnny Clash, Marky de Sade, Remote, Barry Dark, Tentonatom, Jose, Paul Noble, Seb White, Kirsty the svelte one, Digger, Nettie, Dom, Andy, Helle, Vera, Sarah, Antony, Annie, Nik, Sparky, Elliot, Princess Cranky, Henry, Samson, Aidan, Amukidi, Shi-i----i-i-i-i---iva, Saul, Jon Input Junkie, Penny, Jon & Serena (Just Music), Jon Hopkins, Andy Digitonal, Joshu I love acid, Jo (silent eclipse), Dr Mo, Adam Ombudsman, Daddy Love, Zbornak!!, Jubert, Transient, Ryan at A Strangely Isolated Place blog, everyone involved in Festinho, Mal, Charity and Cato, VGemm, Alex Nimmo, Pete Lawrence, Quey, Reg Minke, Tom Branston, Mikey Baby, Andrea, Graham Petch, Duck, Bruce Bickerton, Paddy, Aidan, Gary Delboy, Kai, Deirdre, Ravis, 2nd Thoughts, Dierdre, Rose, Dave n Dave. Here's the

Tracklisting (Top Ten Albums)

Jonsi & Alex: Happiness
Verulf: Shot with Gold
Jonsi:Tornado
LCD Soundsystem: Dance Yrself Clean
Gorillaz: Stylo
aKido: Radium Girls
Gold Panda: You
Pantha de Prince: Lay in a Shimmer
Bonobo: 1009
Mount Kimbie: Carbonated

(the rest)

Joy Orbison: Shrew who would have cushioned the blow
Dark Sky: Something to Lose
Magnetic Man: I Need Air
Katy B: On a Mission
Zinc & Dynamite: Wile Out
Caribou: Sun
Booka Shade: Teenage Spaceman
School of Seven Bells: Half Asleep (Lusine remix)
Max Cooper: Chaotisch Serie (Echaskech remix)
Yoshinori Sunahara: Subliminal
Horizon Fire: Passed out in a Datsun
Sounds From The Ground: The Land
Glasser: Mirrorage
Vital Substance: Beyond Belief

See you in 2011!

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Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20101208 & DJing at Big Chill Bar, Brick Lane 17/12/10

Ok, this is probably the last "proper" Back to Mine of the year as next week, two things will happen - firstly my Back to Mine show will be on Tuesday 14th December, instead of Wednesday as I'll be making a fool of myself at the office christmas party and, instead of my usual relatively random musical ramblings, I'll be dedicating the whole of next weeks show to rounding up the top 10 best LPs of 2010 (in my most humble and learned opinion, of course) and, if we have some time left over, some other musical highlights from the last 12 months, too. I realise that there are a couple more Wednesdays left in December but this time of year it's tricky to make plans so it might be the last time I get a chance to play from home before 2011 jumps up  and wiggles it's fancy new date in our faces. As for what's on the top 10, I still have no idea; there's a definite 5 or 6 so far, but I'm leaving the final list to the very last moment... one thing is for sure, it's going to be a great list as 2010 has been an awesome year for new music. Oh, also if any of you are around I'm djing at The Big Chill Bar on Friday 17th December alongside Paul Noble and Roy Shay from 8pm till 1am so if you're around, do pop in. Anyway, enough of my jibber jabber, let's have the links to the freebies and the...

Tracklisting

Booka Shade - Mr. Torrance

Boards of Canada - Nlogax

Stevie Wonder - Do I Do (U-Tern Disco Edit) (**FREE TRACK** http://soundcloud.com/u-tern/stevie-wonder-do-i-do-u-tern-disco-edit)

Little Dragon - Thunder Love

Scuba - Three Sided Shape

Sepalcure - Love Pressure

Ramadanman & Appleblim - Justify

Jose James - Blackmagic (Joy Orbison's Recreation)

CRST - Good Love

Martino B - Let It Go (CJ REign Jumpin vox dub)

Mega - The Count & Sinden

DJ Madd - Bass Comedown

Lusine - Twilight (Elliptical Mix)

DJ Cosmo - Acoma (ORIGINAL MIX)

Jack Sparrow - Loveless

Jonsi - New Piano Song (live) (** FREE TRACK** http://pitchfork.com/news/40843-hear-live-pieces-from-sigur-ros-members/)

I am robot and Proud - The Electricity in your house wants to sing

Mara Carlyle - Pianni (**FREE TRACK**: http://accidentalrecords.bandcamp.com/track/pianni )

Scuba - Before (After)

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Mach V presents "The Bearding Hour", 20101128

So no "Back To Mine" this week as it's time once again for another dip into to the hirsute waters of "The Bearding Hour", my bimonthly hour long podcast of the folkier side of my record collection (and a great excuse to buy new bearded skin in Second Life). Annoyingly, Torq was playing up again and was stretching and warping the tracks, the worst effected was Bon Iver's "Re: Stacks" which I couldn't let lie, so I've reedited it Audacity to pluck the offending track out and replace it with a far cleaner version (yes I get that probably this only matters to me). Oh and the first one's for Bill, the last is for Bruno. Here's the...

Tracklisting

Hawkwind - Hurry on Sundown Origamibiro - Bloodpulse of the Hungry Fingertip Beak - Cup James Yuill - You Always Bibio - Great are the Piths Peter Broderick - And It's Alright Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly City and Colour - Confessions Snowblink - Human Nature Bon Iver - Re: Stacks Jason Steel - Baby Bay Sam Amidon - Relief Sarah Jaffe - Black Hoax Lie Rachel Ries - You Only Mountain Man - How'm I Doin First Aid Kit - Ghost Town Tunng - Code Breaker

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Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20101124

This weeks podcast finds me much rejuvenated after a very relaxing weekend away in the French countryside in a delightful french farmhouse, alongside some excellent friends. What the doctor ordered; or, more accurately, what doctors should order for people to cure their ailments: "Take two days in the Normandy countryside. Take close friends, eat well, drink Beaujolais nouveau, sit by a fire and complete jigsaw puzzles. You'll be right as rain." It's set me right up for the forthcoming winter, I feel. Many thanks to Miko, Simon, Kirsty and Jane for their high levels of awesomeness and to Lady V who is just great. :) A special shout out to Lanne for making the recording of this weeks set so jam packed full of people, it's great to see Back to Mine packed to the rafters with an awesome audience. Here's this weeks

Tracklisting

Gold Panda - Snow and taxis (Glitterbug Pink Snow) Lee Jones - It Is, Isn't it Roland Appel - Cold Blooded Four Tet - Love Cry (Joy Orbison remix) Rocketnumbernine - Matthew & Toby Mount Kimbie - Fifty Mile View Glasser - T Ultravox - Vienna Nosaj Thing - Quest (low limit rmx) Lorn - Grandfather WTF & DEAD PREZ - It's Bigger than Hip Hop Benga - Night Joy Orbison - So Derobe MJ Cole - Sincere (Nero rmx) Nosaj Thing - US (Jon Hopkins Remix) Gold Panda - India Today

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Mach V @ Back To Mine 20101110 and Restaurant Review

Sorry for the lateness of the update - I've been very busy! Here's just one of the things I've been up to: L'Autre Pied, Blandford Street, Marylebone, London.

Miko and I went off to L'Autre Pied for Lunch to celebrate her birthday and our 13th Wedding Anniversary.

We arrived at 1pm and after perusing the menu we plumped for the "tasting menu" which was a 7 course affair, at £55 per head. Miko asked for a vegetarian version.

After a delightfully light "amuse bouche", the first course arrived

Jerusalem Artichoke Velouté, Wild Mushrooms, Hazelnut Oil What a way to start a meal! The jerusalem soup initially tasted far too salty but once we'd picked up the courage to dig deeper in to the plate, a fantastic layer of pasta and some beautiful beans (not too sure what type) underneath balanced the salty flavour and heaven was had in the mouth. A stunning and remarkable starter.

Second starter Line Caught Cornish Mackerel, Organic Ginger Carrots, Shaved Fennel Salad, Coriander Cress An awesome dish. Though I'm no fan of fennel, it perfectly complimented the mackerel and carrot.

Fish Pan Fried Cod, Roscoff Onions, Ragout of Sweetcorn, Chanterelle Mushrooms, Lightly Smoked Sabayon

A beautifully cooked piece of cod which was supported and complimented with the corn and enriched with the very lightly smoked sabayon. noms.

Main

Roasted Breast of Gressingham Duck, Shallot Fondant, Fondant Potatoes, Roasted Fig, Pistachio Jus This was a weird balance; my pallatte was confused by the duck, the fig and the pistaccio being on the same plate together. It wasn't bad, just confusing. My wife had a pumpkin taggiatelli that was outstanding. I note that on the menu now, the fig has gone and is replaced with a pear which might make all the difference.

Cheese course (unphotographed) we were presented with a selection of 6 or 7 cheeses including a goats cheese, some hard smooth english cheese, a stilton style and a couple of french camenbert style cheeses, we chose three of them but none really amazed us.

First Dessert

Vanilla Panacotta, Raspberry Purée and Pear Ok. A slight mishap here as I'd finished the dessert before photographing it, but the photo does speak for itself. This was delicious. Smooth and slightly sweet with the sharpness of the raspberries cutting through the panacotta and then smoothed and sweetened by the pear. Absolute genius.

Second Dessert Caramel Parfait, Chocolate Streusel, Black Treacle Ice Cream This is the second and last desert. Though we both enjoyed it, my wife and I disagreed on this course - she found the parfait too cold and I didn't. We both loved the treacle ice cream, though. However, the panacotta was the star of the desserts.

Petit fours (not photographed) were freshly baked micro cookies served very warm on a warm slate. Utterly beautiful.

The whole meal took just under 3 hours to be served. The service was warming, welcoming, informed, funny, friendly and well timed. The total bill including a glass of wine, an apple juice spritzer and water for the two of us was just under £150 (service included) and was worth every penny.

Highly recommended.

Any, here's this podcast's

Tracklisting

Grey Light - Lawrence

Lee Jones - Theme for Frank

Appleblim & ramadanman - Souz le Sable

The XX - VCR (Four Tet Rmix

Matthew & Toby - Rocketnumbernine (Four Tet Rmix)

My My - Butterfly's and Zebra's

Sideshow - Polar Bear (dub)

Dark Sky - Drowned City

Phaeleh/HXDB/Psychonaught - invisible Touch

Nosaj Thing - Voices (Dorian Concept Rmx)

Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo

Gold Panda - I'm with you But I'm Lonely

Glasser - Apply

Au Revoir Simone - The Lucky One (Slow Club rmx)

Gold Panda - You

Mount Kimboe - Ruby (live at berghain)

Tripswitch - Circularity

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Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20101027

First off - my apologies to Joy Orbison and to Richard Snitch for the dreadful tempo slides during their tracks - amateur stuff and I should've been paying better attention. Trust me I'm chastising myself quite hard about this. Bad Toad.... baaaaad toad... A quick plug for the awesome Ghostly International label who love you and show you their love by giving you free music. The Christopher Willis track comes on their "Ghostly Essential rarerities 2" LP which you can download from here for absolutely nothing. Ghostly have on their artist roster Lusine, Gold Panda, Tycho and School of Seven Bells all of which make regular appearances on these podcasts, so if you like Back To Mine, you like Ghostly. :) Also that Apparat track is also a freebie as part of the promotion for his DJ Kicks release on !K7 and you can get that from here. Now, lets tell you the whole

Tracklisting

Max Cooper - The End of Reason Peter Broderick - Human Eyeballs on Toast Christopher Willis - Orange Lit Spaces (electricwest Rmx) Tycho - Sunrise Projector (Nautilus rmx) Apparat - Sayulita Lusine - The Stop aKido - Epoch (Get High) Pantha du Prince - Water Falls Kraftwerk - Electro Kardiogramm Simian Mobile Disco - It's the Beat (Luke Vibert remix) Luke Vibert - Stern Facials Vital Substance - Inside of Me Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo Mount Kimbie - Carbonated Posthuman - The Grey aKido - Paper Chase Snitch - This Condition Zinc - Wile Out (DJ Marky remix)

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Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20101020

A shorter set than normal this week due to some technical issues with Second Life, which also glady covered up the fact that though I was happily DJing for the first 10 minutes I wasn't actually broadcasting. (d'oh). Anyway... enough of my incompetance. :) This week it's mostly a Garage (Future/UK/Speed Garage/UK Funky/Bassline/Dubstep/2step/4x4... whatever! You can argue about specific genres amongst yourselves) selection, fuelled by a trip to Juno the day before and picking up a tasty selection of 135bpm dance music. I have to say the online shopping experience at Juno was really good: the ease of use of their player, their instant recommendations, the length and quality of the samples and the general site navigation was all very, very good indeed - the only thing that was a slightl let down was their download manager, which needed a prod and poke or two to actually download all of the tracks and it was a bit shonky while doing that, but apart from that it all worked well. To be fair to Juno, it's still a Beta product so I'm not that fussed by it. Here's the...

tracklisting

Fourtet - Love Cry (Joy Orbison rmx) Joy Orbison - So Derobe Lee Jones - Aria 501 - Bring the styles back Kraymer - Brothers Zinc - GTAC Katy B - On a Mission Dark Sky - Drowned City Phaelex/Hxdb/Psychonaut - invisible Touch Al Tourettes & Appleblim - Mr Swishy Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo CRST - Dial the Operator SCLIST - Cyanide Zinc - 128 Trek Lorn - Void i & ii

BTM20101020 by machv

There's also a couple of old Drum and Bass mixes up on soundcloud now, that have been dragged up from the archives:

"Life is Beautiful" from 2003

Life Is Beautiful by machv South Circular from 2001

South Circular by machv

Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20101013

First off, sorry about the clipping on the first half an hour or so of the recording, it's not too bad, but it is annoying - I've tried to adjust the levels in audacity for you so it's a more even listening experience for your sensitive but highly tuned lug holes. There's not a lot of news from me, this week. I mention in the show that I'd add the Akido's Gamechanger LP link for the free download so here it is if you like physical media, the cd art work looks ace, too. The other freebie is the Secret Station Records Compilation "Broadcast 3" which you can get from here as well as many other great goodies, but don't be too greedy - remember to buy some stuff too. News of both freebies came to me via the excellent ASIP . Now, with no further ado, lets get on with the...

Tracklisting

Akido - Turnaround Drexon Field - Rainbow Not So Bright Lawrence - In Your Eyes Mount Kimbie - mayor Pantha du Prince - Sach mal Baum Gold Panda - You (Minotaur Shock rmx) Bonobo - Bossa Baja Input Junkie - Seven Bells Mount Kimbie - Carbonated Proem - Splutterfly Lorn - Glass & Silver Yimino - Bintliptick Akido - Radium Girls Fink - Sort of Revolution City and Colour - As Much As I Ever Could Volcano Choir - Still Specta Ciera - Sunflower  Stuff Tycho - Sunrise Projector

BTM20101013 by machv

Mach V @ Back To Mine 20100929, Late Night Session 20100926 & The Bearding Hour 20100926!

Ok last week I gave you two sets and this week you get three! That's about 4 and a half hours of mixes for you lovely, well dressed and sweet smelling people. Oh, let me state that this is not a trend. The curve will not continue with four sets next week. No. That will not happen. Just so we're clear on that... ;) OK, well let's take them in chronological order...

Back To Mine Late Night Session, 20100926

Last Saturday night I couldn't sleep so I logged on into Second Life looking for a party to hang out and and none really took my fancy so I decided to hold my own little soiree at Back To Mine and here's the (rather housey)...

Tracklisting

Alucidnation - Technically Warm The Rhythm Slaves- The Light you Will see (Trentemøller's Dub mix) Sasha - Park it in the shade (audion ain't got no friends mix) Pantha de Prince - Bohemian Forest Bonobo - We Could Forever Caribou - Odessa Wagon Christ - Chris Chana Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler Yimino - Q Bit Gorillaz - Dare LCD Soundsystem - Losing my edge Subway - Xam Black Meteoric Star - Death Tunnel Kraftwerk - The Robots Hell & Anthony Rother - Electronic Germany Yoshinori Sunahara - Unconscious Fragment Mariel Ito - Lone Romantic (3 Channels Rmx) Dub Logic - Go Lib Club

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TBH20100926

This is (I hope) the first set in a series of folk/americana/acoustic/country/nufolk/folktronica/predominantly guitar based or (to simplify it) generally "Beardy" music sets that I'm going to play in Second Life at The Green Man, Westminster, Second Life, every couple of months. To seperate it from the Back to Mine weekly sets, this will being given the title of "The Bearding Hour".I'm really happy how this one turned out and I'm really looking forward to the next one. Keep strumming and plucking, people. :)

The Tracklisting

Skallander - Forgiven Tunng - Woodcat Sam Amidon - Red Horse Feathers - A Burden Bowerbirds - Oldest Memory Megafaun - Kaufman's Ballard Didier Soyuz - Joe 90's daydream acoustic version Dan Arborise - Take Heart in Your Hope Nick Drake - Things Behind The Sun Gillian Welsh - I Dream A Highway First Aid Kit - In The Morning The Accidental - I Can Hear Your Voice In My Head John Martyn - Over The Hill Crosby, Stills and Nash - Helplessly Hoping Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood Snowblink - Green to Gone

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BTM20100929

Last but by no means least, here's this weeks "proper" podcast of my musical meanderings through my record collection

Tracklisting

Sellotape Unicorn - Naono Grey Scale - Fennesz Mind Over Midi - Post Lunch Dip part 1 Yimino - Los Cauz Mount Kimbie - Would Know Beak - Sea Pen Meet Anglerfish Vital Substance - Heart in Hand Horizon Fire - Denver River Logging Irresistible Force - Higher State of Mind Tycho - Higher State of Mind (Hatchbacks Cosmic Caviar Dub) School of Seven Bells - Babelonia Broken Social Scene - Sentimental Xs Fujiya and Miyagi - 16 Shades Cocorosie - Sunshine Mount Kimbie - Before I Move Off Lorn - Cherry Moon Dark Sky - Ghost Notes Posthuman - Ottowa (echaskech rmx) Isan - Channel 10 Yoshinori Sunahara - Infomation of TUA BTM20100929 by machv

Mach V @ Back To Mine 20100922 & @ Cafe Wabi Sabi 20100919

Two sets for you this week, the regular Wednesday music meanderings and a bonus 2 and a 1/2 hour techtronic mix that I played at Akira Seymore's Cafe Wabi Sabi, Tekken in Second Life on Sunday. Hope you like 'em.  :)

Cafe Wabi Sabi 20100919

Tracklisting

The Village Orchestra - Lo Pencil (Village Orchestra remix) Memotone - Like Today Hot Chip - I Feel Better (Max Cooper remix) Trentemøller - Chamelion Datassette - Aviatrix School of Seven Bells - Camarilla Cornelius - Clash Dntel - Acid Works for Me if it Works for You (Dr. Rek: Decapitated Evil King's Fort) Luke Vibert - Breakbeat Metal Music LCD Soundsystem - Get Innocuous Dublogic - Two Sugers Paul Keeley - I can't (stop) The MFA - The difference is you (Superpitcher mix) The Field - I have the moon, you have the internet Datassette - Micro Joy Orbison - The Shrew would have cushioned the blow Dark Sky - Something to lose Magnetic Man - I need air Max Cooper - Chaotische Serie Nathan Fake - Fentiger Underworld - Juanita Echaskech - The Calm Echaskech - The Storm Tycho - Coastal Break Mach V @ Cafe Wabi Sabi 20100919 by machv

BTM20190922

Tracklisting

Keramick - Current Black Origamibiro/The Birobox Workshops - Bloodpulse of the Hungry Fingertip/Quad Time Beak - Cadrea444 Gold Panda - Before we talked lum - Glow Fly Vital Substance - A place in time Horizon Fire - Glenfield Sam Amidon - Relief The Books - Cold Freezin' Night Honey Weasel - ?? Planet Boelex - New Beginning Quadron - Unpatience Tycho - Coastal Break (Lusine Remix) Yoshinori Sunahara - Subliminal Rei Harakami - Glimglim The Field - Everybody's got to learn sometime Memotone - Another Field magic number 3 remix - DF Tram Danny Breaks - The Jellyfish/Junkie for Beats I am robot and proud - Something to write home about

BTM20100922 by machv

Mach V at Back To Mine, BTM20100915 - Echaskech get UK Festival award nomination

So, the voting has opened in the UK Festival Awards (run by Virtual Festivals) and we (at Echaskech HQ) are incredibly chuffed to see that our performance at Festinho (photo from miko coffey) has been nominated in the Virtual Festivals Critics' Choice Award which in their words "... is designed to celebrate those special acts who added something a little extra to their festival show. It could be comedy, nostalgia, crowd interaction or just that 'secret ingredient' - basically something that sets them apart from other performers as a real crowd pleaser." It has to be said that we're up against some stiff competition and I don't think we expect to win - the nomination is wonderful recognition enough of our efforts to make this particular performance special - but we do hope that you can find time to register and place a vote for us in this esteemed category. We'll buy you an ice cream if you do. :) Anyway back to this weeks musical melange and here's the...

Tracklisting

Gold Panda - You

Bonobo - Kiara + intro

Beak - amoral mayor earwig

Yoshinori Sunahara - Capacity

Vital Substance - Losing Faith

The Village Orchestra - Jacob/Bad Hand at Cards

Hot Chip - I feel better (Max Cooper rmx)

Max Cooper - Attention Defecit Order

Rei Harakami -300ml (Milk)

The Orb - Perpertual Dawn (Live '93 version)

Horizon Field - Passed Out in a datsun

School of Seven Bells - Crescent Gold

Tycho - Coastal Break

Booker Shade - No difference

Underworld - Scribble

Magnetic Man - I need Air (Digital Soundboy rmx)

Aphrodite vs High Contrast - Racing Spice (Mach V bootleg)

Lusine - make it easy

Memotone - The Day it Rained

BTM20100915 by machv

news: old music is back!

We've just got back from a week of festivals (more on that later) only to find that the lovely ali jamieson has encoded an old ambient drum and bass mix I did about 10 years ago (maybe more) from it's original cassette format into mp3s (in two parts, so you can enjoy that "turn over the tape" moment again) for you to stream, download and listen to. Hope you appreciate it in all it's glorious mid rich TDK AD90 Dolby quality. :) Music for sleeping Robots by @alijamieson

In other news, after a small prod from the lovely Penny Jones I've just uploaded an old bootleg of mine on to soundcloud - The remarkably silly "Bring the Schnauss" is now available free of charge to you, dear reader.

Bring The Schnauss (Mach V Edit) by machv

Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20100714

No time to chat, just enough time to tell you the..

Tracklisting

Fennesz - Black Sea Dntel - In which our hero begins his long and ardous quest The Village Orchestra - Jacob/Bad Hand at Cards Datassette - The Aviatrix LCD Soundsystem - You wanted a hit Booka Shade - Teenage Spaceman Posthuman - Ottowa (echaskech remix) Datassette - Micro MJ Cole (Nero remix) - Sincere Dntel (Thaddeus Valk rmx) - Casuals Aphex Twin - Delphium School of Seven Bells - Half Asleep (Lusine remix) The Field - Yesterday and Today Unai - Oh You and I (trentemoeller rmix) School of Seven Bells - Babelonia Stornoway - I saw you blink

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Mach V @ Back To Mine, 7th July 2010

Festival Season kicked off last weekend with a journey into the country to visit Blissfields, who were celebrating their 10th year of festivalling - a worthy birthday to celebrate, especially in this "current climate" which has seen so many well loved festivals die a horrible death. Blissfields have kept going by staying small and true to it's roots and more power to it. Sadly Echaskech were booked to play during the daylight hours so not much for me to do this time, but I did make up for it by djing on The Bubblebus again, which was a lot of huge fun - thanks to Caro, Jasper and Tom for their hospitality and generosity. :) Anyway... Here's this weeks Tracklisting

Lusine - Ask You LCD Soundsystem - Dance yourself clean Gorillaz - Empire Ants Little Dragon - Never Never Murcof - Memoria Bonobo - Eyes Down Pantha du Prince - Lay in a shimmer The Village Orchestra - Lo Pencil Beaufort Scale - Dreaming in Perivale (echaskech remix) School of Seven Bells - Windstorm Beak - Limozeen Drexon Field - Limoncello Liquor is wonderful Stornoway - The End of the Movie Apparat - Over and Over Echaskech - Every Touch Digitonal - Emberkreiss The Orb - Star 6 & 7 8 9

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Mach V at Back To Mine 20100421 - Secret Station Session

This week, thanks to the A Strangely Isolated Place blog , all the bands featured in the show are signed artists to Secret Station Records who, in an act of supreme generosity, allow you to take a healthy slice of their roster, completely free of charge, and what a roster it is. Here's the

Tracklisting

Lunar Testing Station - Sounds of Today (Rising From Earth) FUR - Black Castles Verulf - Reprise Specta Ciera - All around the trees United Club Wear - ill capitano Our Valley - Caladium Drexon Field - Limoncello Liquor is Wonderful FUR - Friends (Drexon Field remix) United Club Wear - You are a Pro Paneye - Bay of Withered Gardens Verulf - Sunday Lunar Testing Lab - MK Naomi Drexon Field - My Little Snowflake Spectra Ciera - It's Barely There (Benjamin Dauer remix) Straywel - Mathematics FUR - UB3131 Drexon Field - Message Invays - M1 Motorway Kontyx - Notion

All available from here for absolutely nothing BTM20100421 - Secret Station Session by machv

Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20100414

The ongoing familiarisation with Torq and BeaTunes continues...  This week the new set up felt more comfortable and even an Mac OS freeze 2 minutes I was supposed to start was annoying, but not devastating and didn't put a damperner on procedings. One thing I'm noticing about Torq is that it's pitch shifting and locking isn't very good and it can warble the sound of audio files; most disconcerting. It's something I need to concentrate on more as I use it. Oh, excuse the grand opening this week, I'm just ecstatic to get a copy of Dead Can Dance's remastered "Spleen and Ideal" LP from 1985 from emusic.com (loads more where that came from:) ) Anyway, here's the...

Tracklisting:

Dead Can Dance - De Profundis

Snowblink - PYT

Landau - Six ways to Sunday

Lusine - Gravity

Fever Ray - Seven

James Yuill - Breathing In

Cornelius - The Fit Song

King Rock - The Beginning

Miss Jynx - Time Missed

Q-Tip ft Amanda Diva - Manwomanboogie

dan le sac vs scoobius pip - Snob

Pantha du Prince - Satellite Snyper

Dublogic - loid

Trentmoeller - Killer Kat

Orbital - Fahrenheit 303

Echaskech - How to Fly

Simian Mobile Disco - It's The Beat (Luke Vibert Rmx)

LCD Soundsystem - us and them

BTM20100414 by machv

Mach V at Back to Mine, 20100406 - Torq & BeaTunes.

This set is my first "laptop dj" set as I'm now a proud owner of Torq (http://www.torq-dj.com/). Proud but still a little bit confused... For those who are interested, I'm running it on a Mac Book Pro G5 Power Book and (at present) i'm using one control Vinyl and one control CD. I was hoping to be running two control cds but I'm finding the control vinyl to be far more responsive and easier to get on with, but due to the way my decks are set up, using two control vinyls is going to take some DIY to build something for the laptop to sit on as, right now, my laptop can only sit on one of the turntables. On the Mac, I'm running spaces, with Torq running in one, with Second Life, Nicecast, Textedit and Console in another, and in a third, I'm running Beatunes (http://www.beatunes.com/). One thing I'm guilty of, in doing these weekly shows, is concentrating on the newer music of my library so, to help me "dig deeper" I'm using Beatunes matchlists to suggest tracks that it thinks are like a track I'm playing. Beatunes analyses your itunes library in a unique way: it works out bpm values, the tonal key of the track and also "colour codes" it it listens to the track and gives it a colour to represent what it thinks the track sounds like, the colours creating a unique palate or view of your itunes library. Then you can build "match lists" based on a single track (or more) and specify how much you'd like the resulting tracks to be like the ones you chose. It's like Genius playlisting, but a lot more configurable; you can specify how similar or unsimilar you'd like the matched tracks to be, all this and keeps a tight but exceedingly helpful reign on all your mp3 tags and iTunes catagories whilst it analyses your tracks. This, it's worth pointing out, can take a reaaaaallly looooooong time, especially the first time you do it; if you have a library like mine (over 3000 tracks) expect your mac to be running for most of a weekend. So it's a bit of a shift in focus for me - new software and a new way of chosing the tracks I play - and I reckon it's going to take me a while to get used to the new way. But anyway - listen to me going on! Here's this weeks

Tracklisting

Peter Broderick - Games & Games Again Tunng - October Fleet Foxes - Sun it Rises The Durutti Column - Neil Glen Hansard & Marketa Iglova - Drown Out Dub Tractor - Higher Hopes Wisp - Turquois Tinged Pennies Luke Vibert - Radio Savalas Grand National - Peanut Dreams Lusine - Baffle Working for a Nuclear Free City - Troubled Son Gorillaz (ft Little Dragon) - Empire Ants Ty - Sophisticated & Coarse Hint (ft Laura Vane) - One woman army Psapp - Parker Massive Attack - Splitting the Atom Bibio - Great are the piths Lusine - Operation Costs Dan Arborise - Another Side of the Sky

BTM20100407 by machv

Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20100310

A shorter show this week as I scrambled around burning cds to dj with from the tracks I'd bought the night before, so excuse the rather rough nature of the beginning. However... maybe a hour is a better length for you podcast listeners? I dunno, leave a comment and let me know your thoughts. It makes me happy to start this week the same way as I ended last week with a classic Zorg tune from their stunning 2003 CD "La vie privee du Zorg". A marvellous LP still worth tracking down -  thanks to the wonderous Miko. :). Here's the full

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Tracklisting

Zorg - Nocturnal

Skewiff (Krack & Smack rmx) - Man of Constant Sorrow

Black Meteoric Star - Dawn

Massive Attack - Splitting the atom

Gorillaz - Stylo

Little Dragon - Never Never

Hell - I prefer women to men, awyay

Max Cooper - The End

Beaufort Scale - Dreaming in Binary (echaskech rmx)

Trentemoller - Take me into your skin

Fever Ray - Now's the only time I know

Landau - Iamiago

SFTG - Tale Before Time BTM20100310 by  machv

Isolated Mix No7: Mach V/Echaskech

It's about time you lovely people got a new "proper" mix from me, one with planning and no talking and I'm extremely chuffed that it's for the fantastic A Strangely Isolated Place Blog which is one of the best electronica resources on the planet, an aggregator for quality mixes and artist news - definitely one to book mark, if you haven't already.

Tracklisting

00:00 Animal Collective – Graze 03:20 Snowblink – Ambergris 08:10 Klimek – Exploding Unbearable Desires 11:30 Jonsi & Alex – Indian Summer 20:04 Halogen – Baked 22:06 Sounds From The Ground – Crystal Beam 25:43 Echaskech – Redeploy 29:04 Dub Tractor – This Is Order 31:50 Zero 7 – Ghost sYMbOL 36:19 Yimino – Migranova 40:07 Landau – Good Morning Gravity 44:24 The Village Orchestra – Lo Pencil (The Village Orchestra remix) 52:14 Beaufort Scale – Dreaming in Binary (Echaskech mix)

isolatedmix 07 - Mach V (Echaskech) by  astrangelyisolatedplace