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tdpl24: Eddie Cointreau – Fish Fingers EP

November 10, 2008 · by · in

The march towards a quarter century continues. Listen here, buy here.

1: Eddie Cointreau – Oncorhynchus
2: Eddie Cointreau – Acipenser
3: Eddie Cointreau – Acipenser (Something Wicked Remix)

“Sometimes, you just want to dance. Sometimes, you want to dance at four in the morning, in a dark room. Sometimes, you want to dance until you cannot dance any more, at four in the morning, in a dark room. If you fit any of the above catagories, Eddie Cointreau’s Oncorhynchus is for you. Of course, if you instead like acidstep freakouts and / or throbbing, sophisticated techno, we’ve got you covered as well. Art comes care of Davie Murphy”

a commitment to sharks

November 8, 2008 · by · in ,

I’m delighted to report that my remix of Rennie Foster’s tune A Commitment To Transit has been released.  You can find it at Juno, Beatport, and other fine estabilishments.

I’m equally delighted to report that Matt and I will be doing our seven turntable / guitar / effects / DS party at Hush Nightclub again, this coming December 20th.  Bring your dancing shoes.

And, finally:  sharks!

win!

November 7, 2008 · by · in , , ,

O.  B.  A.  M.  A.  Thank all the powers of heaven and hell.

Moving on from politics, let me point you to some of the amazing things you can do with Little Big Planet, care of 1up.  This is serious business, right here, and speaks to where mainstream gaming is going, I think.  (See also Halo 3’s Forge, and the tools in Guitar Hero:  World Tour)

Back to techno:  I went to see Richie Hawtin just before I left Vancouver, playing on his new 4 deck, 2 laptop, custom controller thing.  Hawtin obviously revels in the power it gives him, and he’s experienced enough to know not to go crazy with the effects and the edits and so on.  A good show, if a bit clicky at times.

Also on the subject of music, I had a thought that Guitar Hero could become a really useful teaching tool, if the fret buttons were replaced with a programmable touchpad.  This would allow people to start with the very simple 4 / 5 button configuration that the games actually use, and then move on to a system that emulates frets more and more exactly.  If you had a pressure sensitive pad, you’d be golden.

Music again:  There’s a mad scientist who wants to summon up the ghosts of Glen Gould and other dead, gifted performers.   You can watch him talk here.  While I’d love to see the code he’s using to drag MIDI data that is that specific out of audio tracks, I disagree with his thesis that the performance is merely what the performer did to the instrument.  A performance is the sound, the performer, the people around you, the space, and everything else.  A recreation of exactly what the performer did to the instrument, while a clever idea, won’t cut it.

Finally, I got the first trade of DOKTOR SLEEPLESS, by Warren Ellis, and it’s either going to be the best book he’s ever written, or a complete mess.   Very much worth a look though.

attn: america

November 3, 2008 · by · in

Don’t fuck this one up now.  Your election is tomorrow, and I’m calling it at +6 for Obama and 328 to 212 in the Electoral College.  Voting opens in New Hampshire and Maine in nintey minutes.  Prepare yourselves.

media dump

October 19, 2008 · by · in ,

Video games and books.  Games first:

SPORE is a beautiful thing – but I don’t know if it’s a good game or not yet.  Regardless of the game, however, the tools the game provides for creating content are monumental in both their scope and effectiveness…and, hopefully, their influence.  The whole user-created content / mod idea has been trending slooowly towards the mainstream of games.  It will be interesting to see how LittleBigPlanet does, and whether these two games form a trend or merely two outliers.

SPECTROMANCER, as recommended by Greenhouse, is like Magic, only designed to be played on the computer.  Go try the demo now.
Now, books.  I got a MILLION BOOKS for my birthday.  Of the subset that I’ve read so far, I can say that Paul Auster’s TRAVELS IN THE SCRIPTORUM is a good, Brian-Aldiss sort of piece of literature…or of science fiction, depending on how you want to look at it.  The chief difference between the two is that literature doesn’t tell you how things work. Science fiction, on the other hand, does – and the Harlan Ellision edited DANGEROUS VISIONS is an exceptional collection of sci-fi short stories from the 60s.  It dates slightly, and a number of stories suffer from “Gotcha!” syndrome, but it is both a fine collection and an important piece of history.

I also finished with THE ESSENTIAL MCLUHAN, and I can now conclude that Marshall McLuhan was a very intelligent man, with profound insights into our culture…and he was also bit of a nutcase.  The less nutcasey bits are, however, very interesting.  Oliver Sacks is not a nutcase, but his latest book, MUSICOPHELIA, is very good.  It never ceases to amaze me how little we know about our individual brains and our collective culture.

On the comics side, I’ve gone through THE FILTH, by the maddest man in Britain, Grant Morrison…and I must say that, yes, he is STILL MAD.  I’m still iffy on Morrison – he’s working with his usual set of zen cultural conspiracies here, and that’s not really my thing.  But, at the same time, the series has cursing dolphins, floating city-states, and giant, killer sperm.   What’s not to like?

Jon Hickman’s PAX ROMANA, on the other hand, is still lovely.  It would be nice, however, if it came out more than once every six months.  You hear that, Image?

known exits

October 8, 2008 · by · in

I made a set that accidentally is almost all Bedrock.  C’est la vie.

 

Download here.

1: Wesley Matsell – Infinity Sentinel [Border Community]
2: Panoptic – Suface (Quivver Remix) [Baroque]
3: Lamb – Gabriel [White]
4: Guy J – Geko [Bedrock]
5: Yunus – Let Go [Bedrock]
6: Steiger – Postcard From The Edge [Bedrock]

tdpl23: Robsound – Lime

September 29, 2008 · by · in

Tide Pool rides again.   Check out our latest little ditty here.

mirrorworks

September 20, 2008 · by · in ,

I’m playing again this coming weekend, on the 26th, at Sunset with the above Kenzie Clarke, from 0130 to 0330.  It would be delightful to see you there.

In other music news, some of these are good tracks

Chris Carter & Fine Cut Bodies – Fiddlesticks (Habersham Remix) [Chi]
AMB – Pellet (Anomalies Remix) [Chi]
Wesley Matsell – Bernwerk [Border Community]
Ryan Davis – Clouds Passing By (Eelke Klejin Remix) [Proton]
Davis & May – Positon (Caleb Fox Remix) [Proton]
Christian Smith – Flyertalk [Bedrock]
Christian Smith – Friendly Skies [Bedrock]
The Rollings Stones – You Can’t Always Get What You Want (Soulwax Remix)

got it in one

September 14, 2008 · by · in

(Image by Davey B and his mighty Lomo).

Thank you to everyone who came to Hush on Saturday to see me play – you’re all wonderful.

I’m playing with Victoria’s own progressive house / beefcake legend Braeden at Sunset this Friday – it will be a markedly different set, to say the least, but hopefully just as rad.  I hope to see you there!

bring the ruckus

September 2, 2008 · by · in

“One is an exacting techno & progressive house DJ. One is Victoria’s answer to Fatboy Slim. One plays on two turntables and an electric guitar; the other on four decks, an effects unit, and a Nintendo DS. Their show uses two mixers, hordes of samples, layering and scratching, and lots and lots of rocking out. They are Matt What and Fractal. Sometimes, two wrongs do make a right.”

^^ Please excuse the rather over the top copy from VEMF this year, but please do come out on the 13th to hear us play.  Here’s a bit of what we did last time we were at Hush, just in case you’re still on the fence.