– I think this is actually week 50 or so, but so it goes. School has been schooling at me of late.
– I saw the McGill Digital Composition Studio concert last night, featuring a saxophone and glitch-noise free jazz apocalypse by my friend Teagan Schultz. Keep a weather eye out for him.
– There’s this thing called Bronze, which is a format for generative compositions. Relevant to my interests.
– This is the Super Mario Spacetime Organ. What more do I need to say?
week 46
the fourteen consistency mix
Download here. Neo-soul meets old ‘trap’ meets older post-dubstep, with lots of flashing lights all ’round.
1: Jamie Lidell – What A Shame [Warp]
2: Hudson Mohawke – Thunder Bay [Warp]
3: Baauer – Buble Rap [LuckyMe]
4: Jamie Lidell – Why_ya_why [Warp]
5: Tessela – Hackney Parrot [Poly Kicks]
6: DJ Yolo Bear – Make You Touch My [LuckyMe]
7: Samoyed – Sloe Eyes [Vase]
8: Mount Kimbie – Sketch on Glass [Hotflush]
9: Jam City – How We Relate To The Body [Night Slugs]
the thirteenth consistency mix
Download here. Starts sinister, gets sparse.
1: Tim Hecker – Utropics [Kranky]
2: El Perro Del Mar – Hold Off the Dawn (Vessel Remix) []
3: Andy Stott – Sleepless [Love]
4: Andy Stott – Luxury Problems [Love]
5: Herbert – It’s Only (Dj Koze Remix) [Pampa]
6: Seams – The Glow [Full Time Hobby]
7: C79 – 16 Bit Lullaby []
8: Dntel – Soft Alarm [Sub Pop]
the twelfth consistency mix
Download here. I thought I had made this pun and recorded a set like this years ago.
1: Alban Berg – Lyric Suite – I [Deustche Grammophon]
2: Anton von Webern – 6 Bagatelles [Deustche Grammophon]
3: Thor Kell – String Quartet No. 3 [Quatuor Bozzini]
4: Zoe Keating – Frozen Angels [Zoe Keating]
5: Julia Kent – Kingdom [Leaf]
6: Norah Lorway – Fiddle Music [Earthrid]
7: Julia Kent – Nina & Oscar [Leaf]
8: Richard Wagner – Lohengrin – I [Deustche Grammophon]
week 45
– Bleep are now selling Traktor remix parts. Someone is going to solve the how-can-we-sell-parts problem soon, and it will make them rich.
– It’s grad recital season at the University of Victoria…and I have to congratulate the current crop of composers for their black-magic works. Alanna Ho, Stefan Maier, Jamie Hook, Lynne Penhale, Sara Page, Bob Hansler, and Ivana Jokic are the future of music.
– On the subject of composing, my friend Alex Jang sent me a gorgeous, shimmering new piece of his, which he spoke of as a slowing-down of his usually hyperdense music. So I did the same thing to a Brian Ferneyghouh string quartet.
the eleventh consistency mix
Download here. Secret bonus old progressive house track is secret!
1: Gold Panda – Burnt Out Car in a Forest [Ghostly]
2: Pantha Du Prince – Welt am Draht [Rough Trade]
3: Minotaur – Saundersfoot (Gold Panda Remix) [Melodic]
4: Hauschka – Radar (Michael Mayer Remix) [Fat Cat]
5: Pantha Du Prince – A Nomad’s Retreat [Rough Trade]
6: Powerplant – Blame (Luke Chable Remix) [Release]
week 44
– I saw the opening night of Les Gestes on Wednesday – my most serious congratulations go out to Ian, Joe, Marlon, and the rest of the IDMIL / CIRMMT tech crew for making things work and work smoothly. If you’ve not gone, go tomorrow – it is a spectacle worth experiencing.
– I also saw Irvine Arditti play on Thursday night. The gentleman can shred. I’ve never seen dynamic control like that, nor heard heavy pieces be thrown off like they were nothing. I would have liked a little more variation on the program, rather than all ultra-complex works…but that’s what the man does, and he does it very well.
the tenth consistency mix
Download here. Let’s a talk about colonialism in music, and about how much fun it is to dance to.
1: Cos Ber – Zam Ne Noya (Daphni Remix) [Jiaolong]
2: KH – That Track… [Text]
3: Kevin McPhee – Do [WNCL]
4: Elkin ‘Billie’ Longton – My Woman [Tide Pool]
5: Armand Van Helden – Witch Doktor (L-Vis 1990 Edit) []
6: Afrika HiTech – Out In The Streets [Warp]
week 43
Saw Rustie, Oneman, and Jackmaster last night, at Le Belmont. A delightful experience.
Jackmaster was on opening duties, and did a great job: starting with house and garage-ish things, and moving to breaks, dubstep, and etc: I’d very much like to see him in a non-opening context. Oneman followed with much more post/dubstep, trap, hip-hop, and a ridiculous Doves Cry blend.
Then Rustie, who, musically, I had really mixed feelings about: the really vocal stuff was not for me, even though everyone ate it up. But the video-game tracks and the dubbier stuff, ahhhh. Ahhhh! Just insane. I’ve not raved as hard as I did to Hover Traps in a long while.
On the subject of rave, I need to say two words about the crowd. Maybe this was just Le Belmont on a Friday, but the crowd was a treat: a posse of EDM bros, some EDM kids who were high as kites at 11:45, a man dressed as Freddie Mercury, a coven of ultra-classy, ultra-goth lesbians, two gay dudes who spent all night staring at each other and thrusting their hips slowly and meaningfully, a trio of hip-hop nerds with their caps down doing something like Gangam Style vs. the Harlem Shake, and so on. I don’t know if that diversity is an ‘EDM’ thing or a post-dubstep thing or what, but I sure think it is great.
the ninth consistency mix
Download here. For all the lovely picture and highdesertsoundsystem-ness of the title, this is a pretty urban and Detroit / London sort of take on house.
1: Py – Lungs [PyMusic]
2: Maya Jane Coles – Easier To Hide [I Am Me]
3: MoveD – Got2b [Electric Minds]
4: Tuff City Kids – Begger [Underton]
5: Discreet Unit – Twilight [Prime Numbers]
6: George FitzGerald – Every Inch (Deetron Remix) [Hypercolor]
7: Galaxy 2 Galaxy – Hi Tech Jazz (L-Vis 1990 4 da Floor Edit) [UR / Night Slugs]
8: Four Tet – Pinnacles [Text]