Test, Test, Test.
Berlin –> Tallinn
I leave Berlin on Wednesday, September 1st, to spend five days in Tallinn. Then it’s back to Canada.
I made some things this summer!
http://zeitcloud.appspot.com <-- what's hot at SoundCloud today. http://instantmusicvideo.appspot.com <-- add a SoundCloud track to a Vimeo or Youtube video. I'm also working on Secret Project #1, which has taken far too long, but will be worth it. I also need to fix this WordPress install, as it's well broken...but that can wait until I'm on the right side of the Atlantic again.
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The first album / ep of my live project with Oakley ‘Patience Automate’ Low is out. It’s called Hello World, and you can find it here.
For most of our jams, I ran two Nintendo DS; one running the amazing Korg DS-10, one running Electroplankton, Protein, GlitchDS, and CellsDS. Oakley usually rolled with his laptop and FL Studio, often aided by an Electribe. We have no sync of any sort. This is why you’ll hear one of stop for a bar from time to time – we have to stop one sequencer and then press Start again to get ourselves back on track.
Oak generally runs drums and FX, I generally do leads and bass. We work with a one-bar loop that morphs over time, hence the name. We some times get 10,000 kinds of crunk; we sometimes get super-duper ambient. We hope you dig it.
The Seven Deadly Sins
Really happy to get this one out in the wild, with some help from the Suave Assassins crew in Vancity. Download the whole podcast here, download my set here. Tracklist:
1: wAgAwAgA – The Wolf [wAgAwAgA]
2: Andy Page – Twitter and Bisted [Noodles]
3: Vogel, K, & Page – Crowd Noise []
// Radiohead – Myxomatosis [Parlophone]
4: Samual Barber – Hermit Songs VII – Promiscuity (Heather Harker & Karl Hirzer) []
// Thom Yorke – Skip Divided – [XL]
5: Clark – Growls Gardens [Warp]
6: Holden & Thompson – Come To Me (Amatuer Guitar Mix) [Loaded]
7: Carl Orff – Carmina Burana (O Fortuna) [Angel]
8: Mauro Picotto – Verdi [BXR]
9: Hybrid – Theme From Wide Angle (Rolling Thunder Mix) [Distinct’ive]
// Nathan Fake – Outhouse (Fluffy Mix) [Border Community]
10: Portishead – The Rip [Island]
11: Pink Floyd – Money (Eric Idle Hands Remix) [Harvest]
12: Aesop Rock – 39 Thieves [Def Jux]
13: Two Fingers – Jewels & Gems [Big Dada]
14: Two Fingers- Bad Girl [Big Dada]
15: Karlkeinz Stockhausen – Kontakte [Ecstatic Peace!]
16: Jay-Z – Encore (B4AFall Layer) [Roc-A-Fella]
17: Anton Webern – 6 Pieces For Orchestra I, II [Columbia]
18: Brian Eno – Lantern Marsh [EG]
19: X-Press 2 – Lazypella [Skint]
20: Morton Feldman – Rothko Chapel – I, III [New Albion]
21: Bell Clap Dance – [Rekids]
22: Audion – Mouth To Mouth [Spectral]
23: Perc & Fractal – Up (Perc Mix) [Kompakt]
everyone but me
I realized, while ruining my budget yesterday by buying COSMOGRAMMA on vinyl, that interesting things are happening everywhere in electronic music…except for progressive and trance, which are where I have my roots.
I don’t know how I feel about this, really, or what I want to do about it. To say I’ve been feeling musically rootless of late (since September, really) would be an understatement.
summer summer summer time
Berlin is beautiful today.
I’ve been working on some deep techno. I’ve been working on some chiptunes. I’ve been thinking about a secret project. I’ve been working on two compositions for the fall. I’ve been kicking myself for not bringing any music, because watching all these DJs play beautiful, beautiful vinyl gives me the itch something fierce. I’m making plans for a biofeedback-based music system. I’ve been staying out too, too late. I’ve taken on the order of 700 pictures.
I’ve been in Europe for a month.
image of the decade
This speaks to some massive debates I’ve been having with myself as to the value of digitizable art in this strange, strange century of ours. Things like self-publishing, physicality, objectifiability, copyright, promotion, etc. I would write more…but it’s late spring in Berlin, and I’m going for a walk.
reflector is online
Meet my camera, at my flickr page. This will be both a photoblog and a backup for all my photos on my computer; expect a lot of images.
news from the north
So here it is, on the record: I’m leaving for Europe for the summer on April 21st: flying to Amsterdam via London, to stay with my friend Hollas in The Hague for a few days. Then heading to Berlin to intern for SoundCloud. (!!!)
This blog will go pretty dark while I’m there: I am going to look into a Flickr account to act as a picture-backup and photoblog, I will keep working on a few tracks which will be posted here and to my SoundCloud, but there won’t be much text. If you’re in or are going to be in Berlin / Germany, however, drop me a line!
Some amazing links from recently, to get them out of my list:
Earthquakes as music
The Solar System as music
Colorflex: An impossible sequencer
What’s Mine Is Yours: Renatlic – A person to person rental market place
hold back the night
Many thanks to the heroes and villains who were at Hush last night for my set with Matt – I love you all.
I bought some music, for that set. Oddly enough, the Maetrik and the Innervisions were the business.
Maetrik – Paradigm House
Josh Wink – Dolphin Smack (Martin Buttrich Remix)
Crystal Fighters – I Love London (In Flagranti Dub)
Henry Saiz – Hipnos
Weekend Heros – Sidewinder
Royksopp – This Must Be It (Rex The Dog Remix)
Julian Jeweil – Soho
Innervisions – Berlin-Karlsruhe Express (Live)
Innervisions – Chicago (Live)
Etienne Jaumet – For Falling Asleep (Carl Craig Remix)
Mattheis – Wish I Was (Spada Remix)
Luke Abbott – Little Wonderment
Luke Abbott – Musicbox Two
Luke Abbott – Pavilion
Luke Abbott – Quincunx
Luke Abbott – Whitebox Stereo
I also wanted to say word one about the Shakleton show at Element, care of Longshanks and Subdivision: it was rad: groovy and heavy enough to keep those people celebrating the hockey game dancing, and mad enough for the heads. I wasn’t expecting British tribal/loopy techno to collide head-on with dub, broken beat, and minimal…but, obviously it has, and the results are pretty good.