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Incredible motion typography with music by Forss
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CUSTOMTONE by Fracture & Neptune feat. Martin Fieber from Astrophonica on Vimeo.
Brand new Fracture & Neptune video for ‘Customtone’ video by resident Astrophonica artists Emilski & Nick Duggins.
My good friend David Vallade did this for our very own local record store – Rat Records in Camberwell. Even though they are a used store they’re celebrating too and I’ll be playing up at the Lock Lounge in Camden Saturday night too.
Out today, Black Mill Tapes Volume 2: Do You Synthesize? More info here – Pye Corner Audio
Out on both 12″ vinyl and digital download via the Cheap Thrills label are 2011 remixes of this classic. Fast forward to the Lone remix which just kills it, a perfect blend of old and new. He manages to retain the soul of the original whilst updating it with modern production touches to make it sound fresh again, the man really does it justice where most remixes like this miss the point.
Love this cover for the new Gnod and White Hills LP
With added Trunk power! You know the drill by now… Ghost Box shop
A couple of weeks ago Ollie Teeba (one half of the mighty Herbaliser) followed myself, DJ Format, Andy Smith and Mr Thing at the Classic Material night in Old St. The year he was helping celebrate was 1991 and, whilst researching records to play for the night, he found he had 17 hours of material!
He ended up playing a 3 hour set and kindly put down over 4 hours for us to enjoy via his new mixcloud page. The next night is on April 16th with Big Ted and the year will be, you’ve guessed it, 1992.
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In June I’ll be mixing the next installment of the 64 Bar Music challenge, first instigated by members of the Ninja Tune forum. A quick crash course in 64 Bar Music: the concept is simple, a tempo is decided upon for each new challenge and you write a piece of music, in any style, no longer than 64 bars. The poll to decide the bpm for 64:6 (there have been five so far) has just been set at 110 bpm.
Anyone can join in and the best of the entries will be turned into a mix by yours truly, debuting in July. If you fancy a bit of that then hop along to 64BarMusic and check out the details, deadline is June 1st. It’s an excellent way to get your production heard in amongst producers both released and unreleased. People like Dr. Rubberfunk, Proof of Concept, Remdog, Tom Central, dtnl, AGT Rave Cru and DJ Moneyshot have already contributed and there are many excellent unknowns who have taken part in the past.
Nicely done collage of images over the making of 10cc’s best known song.
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Taken from the new Wagon Christ album ‘Toomorrow’, out now on CD, LP and download
The ‘Chunkothy’ video is directed and animated by Celyn Brazier at Nexus with Beccy McCray providing invaluable production skills. Bali Engel helped colour and provided the beautiful animated sequences for the insect loop and fishes. Margot Tsakiri-Scanatovits and Manav Dhir also provided colouring skills and contributed to the animation of the insects. Steve Mc Inerney constructed the final edit with perfect timing and imagination.
The animation was created in Photoshop, with most sequences on one layer. It was as simple as that really. No gimmicks, no tweeny motion tricks, no cgi. Celyn created small beat guides for reference, sometimes following the rhythm, for example on the bouncy ball loops, but mostly as many random patterns and as much weird sh*t that she could possibly make in six weeks.
CREDITS
Celyn Brazier – directing, deigning, colouring, animating
Beccy Mccray – producer
Steve Mcinerney – editor
Bali Engel – colouring, animating
Margot Tsakiri-scanatovits – assistant colouring
Manav Dhir – assistant colouring
News filtered out recently that The Beach Boys‘ (or just Brian Wilson if you’re being picky) original ‘Smile’ album sessions are going to get the deluxe box set treatment. If you don’t know what ‘Smile’ was / is then here’s a good place to start: Smile wiki.
A beautiful record that I’ve been fascinated with for over ten years now and never thought I’d hear finished. I was lucky enough to see it performed live by Brian Wilson and his band for the first time in 2004 – absolutely one of the best concert experiences I’ve ever had.
An interesting article with the engineer on the project, Mark Linett, is here which certainly promises the goods later this year. If your interest is not satisfied by the wiki then Dominic Priore‘s ‘Look, Listen, Vibrate, Smile’ book is excellent.
Cafe Kaput is a label run by Jon Brooks aka The Advisory Circle. He has a new release, to accompany the first D. D. Denham one, both available digitally via Bandcamp, iTunes, Amazon or Boomkat. It’s a radiophonic soundtrack composed specially to accompany Ian Hodgson (Moon Wiring Club)’s recital of ‘The Gateway Of The Monster‘ by William Hope Hodgson for Resonance FM‘s Weird Tale For Winter series.
Gutted I can’t go to this as I’m out of the country, lots of my favourite artists on one bill.
Live sets from Moon Wiring Club and Pye Corner Audio, Ghost Box & Outer Church DJs a screening of Julian House‘s short film Winter Sun Wavelength, Public Information Films, lost television and other odd visuals.
Thursday 14th April 7.30pm – 12.00 midnight
Komedia
Brighton
Tickets £7
www.komedia.co.uk
Box Office: 0845 293 8480
Resident Records: 01273 606 312
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From the Dangerous Minds site: Melody, a film based on Histoire de Melody Nelson made for French TV, was directed by Jean Christophe Averty with Gainsbourg and his lover Jane Birkin in the lead roles. Amazing.
The Six Ton Armour site hosts ‘Psychcasts’ – psychedelic podcasts – alongside artwork by Rimrimrim. They’ve recently started putting out mixes on CD too and I got a couple of them in the post last week. Beautiful they are too, with screen printed covers that recall some of the Twisted Nerve / Finders Keepers sleeves or Canada’s now defunct Bully label. The mixes are very good, sprawling across the psych realm and digging deep. Definitely worth keeping and eye and ear on for future releases and mixes. Buy these two CDs here… but you can also download the Black Olsun ‘Spells’ mix for free from here…
Two upcoming events for your diary, both on the same weekend, featuring two friends of mine in similar settings. First up on, Friday March 18th, is The Vinyl Veterans at the Black Dove in Brighton with Jonny Cuba (ex-Dynamic Syncopation / Soundsci).
The day after it’s the turn of Classic Material at C.A.M.P. in Hoxton, London with Ollie Teeba (The Herbaliser / Soundsci).
Both events share a similar theme: a love of Old School Hip Hop, funk and breakbeats and a fondness for vinyl as the preferred medium to DJ with (Vinyl Veterans is Vinyl ONLY!). Readers of this blog with be familiar with Classic Material’s monthly theme of a different year as the basis for each session and this month it’s the turn of 1991.
Also check out their excellent themed mix, shirt and stickers sets in their store, there’s a new one each month featuring a re-rendering of a classic Hip Hop label logo – Classic Material store.
Also, both events are FREE so there’s no excuse about door prices, if you love what Rap used to be about and not what its sadly become, then these nights are for you. There seem to be more and more cropping up too, Rap History in Berlin and the Boom Bap in London, which I played at last night and is a weekly concern!
