is not the name of this asteroid-belt-deep DJ set:
1: Exoplanet – My Circuits Are Fading [Proton]
2: Exoplanet – Afterlife [Proton]
3: Exoplanet – Clouds [Proton]
4: John Debo & Steve Porter – Deported [Bedrock]
5: Marc Mitchell – Souls On Board [Proton]
6: Sasha – Three Little Piggies [emFire]
7: Luke Chable – Melburn (Amb Bee En Tea Mix) [Bedrock]
I bought some music! Let me tell you all about it:
Johnny Cash – I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow (Apparat Remix) [Shitkatapult]
Empire Of The Sun – Walking On A Dream (Limbo Remix) []
Tycho – Coastalbrake [Spectral]
Janet Jackson – Scream (Neon Tetra Remix) []
Lifelike – Sequencer [K7]
Yousef – Come Home [Cocoon]
Nicolas Valle – Acid Punch [Dusty]
Secret Cinema – Reaktivate [Dmom]
Hrvsion – Oh, It’s Mastered [Living]
SebastiAN – Head / Off [Ed Banger]
Closer Musik – Maria [Kompakt]
Damabiah – Snow and Fog [Further]
Steve Bug – Trust In Me feat Virginia (John Daly Remix) [Poker Flat]
Quivver – Sludge [Boz Boz]
Royal Sapien – Clouded (Stefan Anion Remix) [Olaris]
Soliquid – Taipei Pocok Salata (Quivver Remix) [Baroque]
Somfay – Lying In A Bed Of Mist [Global Underground]
Mathew Jonson – The Alchemist
Hrdvsion – Peap Svm I Hsim [Living]
I’ve also been thinking about the value of promotion vs. hermitage, but more on that later. And I want to remix Schubert. And record a DJ set about the 7 deadly sins. I may need to get out more. Some quick things:
I can’t say enough good things about Bryan Talbot’s ALICE IN SUNDERLAND. Every city needs a book about it that is this clever and this full of love. Contrawise, Salman Rushdie’s latest, THE ENCHANTRESS OF FLORENCE, fell just a bit flat. It’s filled with light and wonder, but trails off a bit.
On more internet-centric things, someone has built the dating wheel from Logan’s Run, and HP are trying to build Dan Simmons’ Allnet. May you live in interesting times.
I am closing down SMARTBOMB, at Sunset, on Saturday Feburary 20th. If you’re still vertical at 0400, I’ll make you dance.
I also got a pleasingly crunk little set recorded:
Download here.
1: Missy Elliot – Pass That Dutch (Petter Remix) []
2: Jackson – Rock On [Warp]
3: Janet Jackson – Scream (Neon Tetra Remix) []
4: Flying Lotus – GNG BNG [Warp]
5: Bibio – Sugarette [Warp]
6: MIA – 20 Dollar [XL]
News!
– I’m DJing at SMARTBOMB, at Sunset Room, on February 20th. Unsure of the timeslot, but probably opening. Will keep you posted.
– My piano suite, FRAGILE THINGS, will be performed at the UVic Composition Concert on February 6th, at 8 PM.
– Went to the West Coast Student Composer’s Symposium on Friday, at SFU. Heard a really good sample-based thing, all from a wine glass & Csound processing. Other highlights included (all of UVic’s program) a thing for “prepared recorder”, and a charming flute sonata
– Also saw Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 on Saturday night. Woosh. Helluva a piece – a friend called it “Beethoven 18”, and he’s not far off. 300 people in the choir, 115 people in the orchestra, 8 soloists. Huge is not the word.
– Got my sax quartet read by the brave and noble Quasar quartet. They played a very fast thing very well, and I’m in their debt.
Wasn’t half as funky as this:
It’s slinky, scratchy vox. It’s warm, rolling basslines. It’s an opium haze of drums and fx. It’s Lotta Lenya, ninety years later, and doesn’t she look groovy. Download here.
1: Subfractal – You [Proton Particles]
2: Phil Kieran – Don’t Look Far Away [Cocoon]
3: Elkin ‘Billie’ Longton – My Man [Tide Pool]
4: Hrdvsion – The Mohana [Wagon Repair]
5: Paul Ritch – Evil Laugh [Wagon Repair]
6: Marshall Jefferson – Mushrooms (Justin Martin Remix) [Airtight]
This is the best idea for a clubnight in the history of mankind. I present it to you free, for the world.
TOP 40: 1960 to 2010
Start on January second. The night happens once a week. Every week, the Billboard Top 40 is played, in order, for a year, starting at 1960, and ending with the year just past, on December 31st. Period dress is not required, but is encouraged. In the event that the Top 40 for a year does not last the requisite amount of time, it may be replayed.
Other options include period drinks, playing current dance remixes of Top 40 hits, and so on.
UPDATE: This idea was conceived with help from Rob Cross, who knows all about all things funky.
The sunlight is coming. Download here.
1: Zoe Keating – Sun Will Set [zoekeating.com]
2: Tycho – Coastal Brake [Ghostly]
3: Bibio – All The Flowers [Warp]
4: Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue [Warp]
5: Gold Panda – Quitters Raga [Make Mine]
6: Hudson Mohawke – Polkadot Blues [Warp]
7: Three Trapped Tigers – Six [Blood and Biscuits]
(Image from the Library Of Congress Photochrom set on the Flickr Commons)
More for my benefit than for yours:
– Finish the Bartok remix
– Finish the DA_CE chiptune tracks
– Record leads for, and finish SCULPT, tracks one through four
– Finish the 3 DJ sets I’m working on
– Polish & present FRAGILE THINGS, a collection of 15 piano miniatures
– Finish code, research, and writing for PREY, for full orchestra.
– Record and write parts HEATSINK, a tape & snaredrum piece.
– Start GHOST IN THE SHELL, a project about the internet, privacy, and memory.
Oh, and:
– Pass my other four classes.
A hi-fi psy-fi tribute to Nathan and my friend Liam. Download here.
0: Nathan Fake – The Curfew [Border Community]
1: Limbo – Gazing At My Shoesteps [Tide Pool]
2: Nathan Fake – Fentiger [Border Community]
3: Nathan Fake – Narrier [Border Community]
4: Rcid – 002 [Elefant]
5: Nathan Fake – Basic Mountain [Border Community]
6: Rcid – 003 [Elefant]
7: Nathan Fake – Castle Rising [Border Community]
8: Limbo – Distant From Sealong [Tide Pool]
Also, I am posting things for free, as in beer, on my Soundcloud, in glorious FLAC format. There are selections from my Tide Pool and Pacific Front output, along with most of my bootlegs. Get ’em while they’re hot.
Welcome to the future, again. Some quick thoughts:
– One must be able to write code that creates forms: rondos, sonatas, symphonies, minuets, etc, based on a given theme or seed. I’m sure I’ve mentioned this before. Maybe I’ll do it this term.
– Educationally, it must ALSO be possible to write a procedural question generator for, say, a math class. This would be all kinds of useful for people like me who learn by grinding through question after question after question.
– I had a lot of professors this past term who had….intriguing marking systems, and interesting concepts of what “on time” meant. This got me thinking about bonus marks for early submission, and then to the idea of utterly strict deadlines, but with marks given out for fixing mistakes in the assignment. I don’t think that’s possible in a university environment because of the time that marking takes, but it’s a neat thought.
– I’ve been thinking about a project called HEARTBEATS, which is a top-secret classical / contemporary music thing that I’ll do next year, if at all. But, it got me thinking about the timeless idea of DJ software that responds to the dancefloor, and then about the actual data of a dancing crowd: heartrate, EEG, blood alcohol content, ambient temperature. How do these and other points change over the course of a night? How fast do they respond to the music that’s playing? Inquiring minds (that is to say, me) want to know!