Jungle Farmer

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2006-02-21T04:28:00.000-08:00

Summer Hundreds - A Trancehall mix~

2006-02-01T17:35:00.000-08:00

~~Link is coming... Shouts to the 56k massive..~~

here it is!

Yes, I finally got it together and recorded a new dancehall mix. A few hours practice and a nervous 40 mins later here it is. Pretty much a collection of most of the riddims I've been feeling all through the summer season with a bit of a twist - all except the lovers at the start are centred around 100bpm. It's a weird tempo, and one which I'm definitely endeavoring to build up a collection of. Stuck between halftime grinding at 90bpm and all out jump up near the 120 bpm range, I find it quite interesting to see the general weirdness and uniqueness the 100-riddims seem to present. I think it's something to do with being out of peoples natural rhythym, so the riddims themselves have to really work, otherwise the dancefloor just falls apart.

VANITY --------------------------- (0:00)
| Half Pint - So many lovers
| Shabba Ranks - When you're up

A little lovers form the Digital B stable to start off the mix and ease the summer mood in. I'm sure there's a million versions on this riddim but these are the only two I have, the Shabba being the stronger of the two. These kind of mid-90s bouncey bassline and stripped down drum tunes are pretty much universally loved, so I thought it would be nice to throw them in!

8 frozen Modules - Low byte riddim (4:30)

Now at the other end of the scale - 8FM is one of those crazy dsp jockeys from the states who is unbelievably prolific (under a large number of aliases and genres), and annoyingly consistent with the quality of his releases. Most of it sounds like clinical blue shards of digital ice sprayed sharply in your face but with this release on the planet mu label he toned it down a bit and had a bit of fun trying to evolve the dancehall genome.... There's a practice in plant biotech called biolistics where small particles of gold are coated with DNA and shot with force at very young plant cells, where it's integrated at random into the plant genome. Thats what this sounds like.

DREAMWEAVER ---------------------- (6:20)
| TOK - Fire
| Chico - Thick and Thin
| Nicky B - The way we roll
| Bounty killer - Hot like fire
| Jagwa - Man a badman

One of the alltime GREAT 100's, this riddim is another testament to producer Lenky's mastery of the tempo. TOK come with their typical anthemic choruses and individual verses, to great effect here, actually using the style to their advantage rather than just doing it because it's what they do. The Chico and Nicky B versions are the stars here though. Who doesn't love sexy R&B crooning about the gangster way of life? Pure gold.

MESSAGE 2 YOU RUDY --------------- (12:05)
| Grant Phabio - Version
| Smoker - Rudie no more
| Silvertones - Only Me
| Echo Minott - Can't stay away

When I first heard this I flipped out. There really really needs to be more of this - wonderfully produced ska with a consistent tempo which is mixable with other stuff. Never fails to get people on the dancefloor. The smoker version for me far is definitely the pick of the bunch, but I also like the motown quartet vibe in the silvertones version and the subtle changes of the Echo minott. Really a must-buy riddim in my opinion. The only problem is the rhythym is so strong it can be a bugger to mix out of. People get so used to that infectious bassline being there to ride, and most stuff at this tempo has such a different beat to it, they have trouble finding their feet for a few bars.

ASSAULT -------------------------- (17:25)
| Nu Kidz - Not the time
| MR. Chicken - it a bun dem
| Mr. Lex & Cherine - You've got me
| Buju Banton - No Chance

Riddim of 2005 for me! Those stolen neptunes stabs and the poka-poka mouth sound lifted from an old sly & robbie tune (I think .. can't find it at the moment.) Heavy.

MIGRANE -------------------------- (22:45)
| Christopher Birch - Version
| Torch - They can't stop me
| Queen Ifrica - Dem crazy
| I, Octane - Stepaseed
| Assassin - Cha la la la
| Hawkeye - Thanks for life

Totally forgot about this riddim for the longest time and recently dug it out of my 'leave home' box to wonder why I'd been leaving it out for so long! Really nice compliment to the Assault riddim and the strings help raise the tension just a little bit more. Queen Ifrica has some serious pipes on her - rough as guts vocal which makes Lady Saw sound like Mariah. Would love to hear her do something with the Bug! Assassin and Hawkeye both bring the heat as well as usual.

Strategy - Dunes Dub ------------- (31:55)

Another thing I wish there was more of - 3rd generation Dub produced by DSP jokeys who KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING! Lovely delays, well placed stutters and subtle effects enhance rather than distract. I wish I had the patience to make this kind of music...

P. Diddy - Diddy ----------------- (33:30)

You know what it is.

Oh, and the trancehall thing? I guess it's a joke on my mixing style in response to a remark by someone that a dancehall DJ's job is to select rather than 'blend like a trance DJ'... Each to their own, and I kind of like the idea of not really being a true dancehall DJ. More room to move . . . Although I did use lots of lasers in the post production of this mix hahaha...

crazy journal font

2006-01-29T05:58:00.000-08:00

Seems someone forgot to turn off the 'fairground' formatting on the font.. Makes E.coli seem all whacky and fun.

Gulpepsh. Doddodo. Toecutter. Live sets.

2006-01-29T05:37:00.000-08:00

Ok, Ok, I know I know... these sets have been sitting on DAT For FAR too long!

Live sets from the Skeleton office party gig from last year:

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toecutter LIVE:	doddodo LIVE:	gulpepsh LIVE:

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Gulpepsh bonus Round: ! (via. U.mean.competitor)

out in the tweets they call it masturbation

2006-01-21T20:09:00.000-08:00

here

tweet vs world jam riddim

[edit] thanks to droid for the title improvement ;)

Window Skanker

2006-01-18T20:32:00.000-08:00

here

Quick 50cent vs bababoom riddim mashup i threw together last night for a last minute dj gig at the exEter again.

In other news, my mobile is dead from having not bought credit for over a year.. haha.

~-[{Q|u|i|c|k|s|h|o|t|s|m|i|x|}]-~

2006-01-16T23:24:00.000-08:00

~~Get it here~~

A mix made mostly by people who frequent the planet mu board.. I basically had the idea because I could never finish the House music track more than it appears here (although lately I've made some progress haha..). The plan was for everyone to make a 1:30 track which continues on from the track before. The result is something akin to fat wreck chords "short music for short people". Completely ADD friendly & all over the place, with some really nice surprises in there. CDR, Gram, Terminal 11, and Benny woo are personal favourites. The track 'lil Caleb made with his dad (better known as Mu-ziq) is also quite nice, reminiscent of early dntel. The image above (click for more detail) comes from some of the participants having at a north korean propaganda poster and adding themselves..

Heres the tracklist:

1. Minikomi - House Music
2. Pidgin - 130
3. Fat Ribs - That Be Swamp Thing
4. Hardoff - U.N.K.L.E.
5. Cdr - 5get
6. Alantitmash - At Least I Still Have My Right Hand And A Box Of Kleenex
7. Gusset - Second To Last Unstoppable Gabba Machine
8. ...ellipsis - Taking A Small Piss
9. Harry The Bastard - That Ellipsis Character Smells Of Gay
10. Xahdrez - Lord Trotman Of Osmotherley
11. Shex - Gwyneth Palttttttttlow
12. Ibn Batuta - Puke Kaneda What
13. Terminal11 - Pollo De Infierno
14. Gram - Bad Mupper fucker
15. Errorror - Deadly Serious
16. Malcontent-Jamal Warner - The Last Remnants Of The Old Republic...
17. Benny Woo - Butterfly Unfold
18. Nico - Muteness Of Pots
19. Meatsock - Quickshotssmokeslowrocks
20. Qrqyt - Fragrance
21. Caleb - Violin Dancers
22. Mr. Proxxxy - Mystery Meat (Quickshot)
23. Paul Jocking - Reffinado
24. When Silence Becomes Art - The Double 19 Solution
25. Dom - How To Boil An Egg
26. Pidgin - Get Up & Stand On A Higher Field
27. Cry For Help (Quickshots Mix)
28. Socket - Quickshotsidequest (find the secret spacecastle and locate the parts to assemble quackbot)
29. Eod - Manure Surgeon
30. Zef Renirhs - Kickin Autechre In The Balls Live
31. Algernon - Mu Meet Mash
32. Minikomi - Staring Contest
33. Bungle Gushcore - Goblin Potatoes

~~Only yousendit for now but hopefully I'll find a more permenant solution. Anyone want to host?~~

Edit: Gram, who did the 14th track whos name somehow got left out of the tracklist kindly has hosted the mix for a while! Thanks and apologies, grammy!
New link

Monkey muffins

2006-01-12T03:23:00.000-08:00

Tracklist
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DJ FLack - Meet Mr Doobie (Mashit)
General Malice - This is the Year (Big Cat)
DJC - Whacko Macko is Backo (Mashit)
Kid 606 - Take the Piss on (Violent Turd)
DJ Dub Rush - Now U Know (???)
DJ Frankus - Listen Choon (Clash Records)
DJ Krumble - Backward Country Boy Explosion (Damage)
Soundmurderer - Dangerous (Rewind)

... aaiiiggghhhhttt, now the ball and chain is gone (flat battery 'n' all) I can start some shit. Now I could go off on a tangent and explain my unified theory of everything according to me ... but then you wouldn't be able to dance like a goon to the slammin ragga-jungle set mini-komi just done round my yard ... and if your into noisy breakbeats then chk my blog for a few trax by the enigmatic Seh'Jep Bates. DeadEnder signing off ...

85 85 85 85 85 85 85 85 85!

2005-12-28T01:17:00.000-08:00

Prof. Dave kelly.

Mark my words.. 2006 will no doubt be the year of the 85/90 bpm digital dancehall grinder revival.

~~Yellowman - orphan (85 riddim)~~ (no longer!) care of http://www.mean-team.com/. Dave Kelly once again proving his place as one of the leaders in defining danchall styles with his plodding wine-ready Eighty Five riddim. B I G.

bashment flickration

2005-12-22T03:59:00.000-08:00

check my flickr for some photos (from later on in the evening)

I had a ball! ..and hope that we can do it again sometime! However, its always weird playing to a sitdown crowd...

I must make special mention though of the new DMZ record... that Bside (not goat stare, the other) is MASSIVE.... And, to paraphrase logan sama, request line DOES sound fucked loud. STORMER of a track.

Beergarden Bashment

2005-12-12T00:02:00.000-08:00

Myslef and Tom doomstep will be playing at the exeter beer garden (out the back!) on Wednesday 21st of Dec.. So listen to street level and then drop by to hear some dancehall/dubstep/grime stuff! Well good.. and cheap coopers too.

eek o'mouse

2005-12-04T04:53:00.000-08:00

Re-emergence is right. 50 years old and doing it in style! eek a mouse vs random irish pup band via bloodandfire.uk forum. Really love how the intensity of the band gradually builds as they get more and more into it! sounds like it was a lot of fun.

bitcrushing my heart

2005-12-03T01:36:00.000-08:00

Really nice j.edgarish track by local team the new pollutants.

i'm all lost in my job.

2005-12-01T00:03:00.000-08:00

drunken reggae thingy

2005-11-29T05:14:00.000-08:00

Click:

The weather here is nice at the moment.
Some 1 kilo-pixel photos soon.

n - joy this likkle thing i put together over some beers tonight at mr chock's house.

ミカンズのテーマ

2005-11-25T23:14:00.000-08:00

it's nice to hav a few days off so i can get my tracking back in order. my skacore ep is coming along nicely, and i also knocked out this:

a little tune i made while thinking about my better half overseas . . saving money, stacking veggies and fruit... almost done with uni. I do a lot of these little tunes here and there so i might make a website and host them.. synth-asobi i guess you could call it haha.. just mucking around with synths.

i bought a small small 100kilopixel camera, so i think my flickr will be getting a workout soon. i like the idea of something which is always with you, low quality or not.

Radio flamewar spectacularly backfires. .

2005-11-19T22:17:00.000-08:00

If anyone listened to the radio show w/ the ove naxx live you might have heard the people from the show after mine expressing their distate towards ove-chan's wonderful disection of korn. In response, to end my last radio show (breakcore-centric radio show that is- i still do the japanese and live local band shows..), I put together this lovely cutup of their past two shows:

The reaction? They went straight to an audioslave track and cleverly commended my efforts... damn!
~~Audio:~~

Thus ends mixtape radio.

I'll try and get some mixes and interviews from the shows up over the next few weeks.. doddodo, knifehandchop, utabi, shex, shitmat, terminal11...

In other news, I'm busy. More on that soon + koala pictures. peace.

An integration of transgene technology with traditional breeding techniques

2005-10-31T01:01:00.000-08:00

Yes.

like i said . . .

2005-10-26T01:40:00.000-07:00

the internet knows no bounds

2005-10-23T21:12:00.000-07:00

best gif ever:

Ove naxx & minikomi live shizzle

2005-10-22T19:39:00.000-07:00

Mixtape radio - sat oct 22 - minikomi / ove naxx live

click

playlist:
New wave highway: ub42
Jason forrest: the harder beat
boredoms: no wave punk

dancehall/dubstep mix -
Ivan riddim
afrodesiac sound system - coolie dance
loefah - twisup VIP

Minikomi live lappy thing (with broken RCA in glorious mono)
Tracklist:

ove naxx live...

BONUS: next show people wondering what the hell they were just listening to
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Ove naxx live set only (higher quality mp3):

Minikomi only:

Rupture Pon Di Mega

2005-10-18T20:46:00.001-07:00

If you are patient enough to wait 45 seconds click here to get a set /rupture did for breezeblock this week! I just cut it out of the bbc's cruddy realaudio stream, but its still a fun fun set. Really digging the afx/wiley intro a lot.

tracklist is forthcoming, but if anyone wants to have a guess please feel free to use the comment box as a notepad !

try here instead (by blentwell)

LETS BREAK VOLs 1 & 2

2005-10-18T18:51:00.000-07:00

almost forgot to mention this as im so snowed under with thesis stuff...

but the new chinese label reconfiguration records has two KILLER breakcore compilations for FREE DOWNLOAD! really really really great stuff from ddd, bong ra, jason forrest, hardoff, saskroch and a bunch of other established and up and comming breakcore dudes...

even some chinese breakcore! (which is a real eyeopener - you can definitely hear a specific style within their tracks.)

click the above images to go to the compilations and get ALL THE TRACKS! haha

warning: their bandwidth aint so hot, so it may be slow downloading . . .

SxOxPx

2005-10-13T22:59:00.003-07:00

More great photos can be found here!

So how was it?

I played my usual ragga/r&b/nintendo mashup and got some nice feedback, but you all know how it goes. . the startup DJ has a hard job! Fun for me to hear all my tunes loud again though. . . especially new stuff.

Toecutter did a great job of getting people "comfortable", interacting with the crowd and playing some excellent live mashup stuff which was half distorted mayhem and half 70s/80s guitar band samples. . highlights? aqua and reel2reel getting mash up ["i like to.. come on barbie / i like to.. come on barbie"] & his "ode to fine asses"

Im going to fucking kill you got people standing up. Mission accomplished.

Ove naxx tore the place apart. Cap gun in hand and arms flailing at his MPC2000, people suddenly found their dancing shoes and started spazzing out to what can only be described as organized chaos. one seccond its burp sounds & dogs barking, the next hard breaks and ragga samples.. great!

Doddodo was simply joyus. 2 samplers, a microphone, and a great sense of humor. check out the live sample in the post below ... casio keyboard country music and gabber kicks morphing into traditional japanese singing with death metal/yoko ono like screams from this koala like little japanese girl!

Gulpepsh was nuts... the recording really doesnt do this guy justice as it needs to be heard LOUD to be understood i feel. Seriously funny and devestating beatboxing/performance art. The band people were saluting him with devil signs after he finished!

Dan and Pat did an great job of the mixing as well. The sound was spot on. And thanks to my mum & dad for being such great hosts...

The crowd was also great. I loved that by the end everyone was dancing and going crazy, and interacting with the performers. Great!

The bad news is, for whatever reason, the turnout was piss poor. Damn sunday nights in adelaide! Whatever. Next party will probably be toecutter and some other system:corrupt peeps on a saturday or friday so keep your eyes peeled!

Bog-who?

2005-10-12T02:20:00.000-07:00

Tracker kids have had their day. The time when IRC channels bustled with rogues out to prove they had what it takes to themselves earn the name of their chosen tool (ft2) in the latest OHC have, sadly, gone the way of pantaloon-clad lute duelists. Perhaps with the scene's million CRTs no longer shining so brightly, BR has become wilted and yellow, like a flower starved of sunlight. Whatever. Point is, the dude made some killer tracks back in the day (and probably still does) yet all we, the people, get are scrappy little morsels like this:

Who Is It? - Shooting Stars & Asteroids Mix 12 inch [REPH174EP] $9.00
(RELEASE DATE: 10-25-05)
Label: Rephlex Notify Me (What is this?)
Super secret Rephlex mystery release! This is a cult remix of a classic song that has pleased crowds the world over for many years and finally the Rephlex officiandos have decided, and have been allowed, to share it with everyone. Emotionally charged and innovatively produced, it's a great tune for any environment. The record is a collaboration between two highly acclaimed artists, a boy and a girl, from different countries - but from the same nation... of Braindance! One is incredibly successful in his field of mathematics, ju jitsu, cookery and polka dancing and the other is a well-known and accomplished vocalist and performer, popular around the world. But the credit for the track lies mutually.

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[i'm still interested to hear it though..]

p.s. if you want to grab all those old bogdan mods, please READ CAREFULLY what the guy wrote on his page... it's an amazing resource, and i'd hate to see it shut down for any reason. especially for rude intarneting.

css was fun

2005-10-11T18:17:00.000-07:00

ok! heres the new layout. a bit more pleasing to the eye. let me know if you have any problems eg. the top image being truncated, borders not appearing...

im about to plunge head first into my plant & pest science thesis ("A combination of transgenic technologies with traditional breeding techniques") but i promise to start adding some more mp3 content.. starting with this absoloutely awesome doddodo live excerpt.

\(^.^)/

oh yeah, and if anyone has any 2tone ska recomendations, please post them in the comments. I've decided to base the start of the aforementioned warm up set at the reggae club on playing ska, then move to actual reggae/dancehall mixing. most of the ska i have is 3rd wave era trad revival stuff, which is great, but i'd love to splash a bit of brittish skankiness (skankingness?) in there too!

bonus beat:

Jason forrest - respect the cock!

Available [perhaps no longer] on White Cock vol. 2 released by CRD!

css is fun

2005-10-10T21:11:00.000-07:00

it must be annoying being a web designer.

with this new layout, the sidebar goes down the bottom if the images are too wide. therefore, i'd like to resize images which are only over a certain width. . unfortuantely internet explorer doesn't recognize the max-width style command. what poo.

hisashiburi

2005-10-10T18:59:00.000-07:00

It's about time this blog had a makeover. . maybe some kind of acid peel which removes all mid-to-late-90s geocities template-ness?

in the meantime

hardoffs remix blog

mix

ovenaxx/gulpepsh/doddodo/toecutter/minikomi/im going to fucking kill you

are up on my flickr

i also obtained a job working in a fruit and veg section of a supermarket... time for a haircut.

Bendy bits part.1 - Eats Tapes

2005-08-20T20:00:00.000-07:00

Inbetween semesters, when I suddenly find myself with not enough to do, one obsession which I keep picking up and putting back down (usually after one too many soldering related blisters) is circuit bending. Unfortunately, most of my kid is currently either refusing to turn on, or in a half finished state. Recent influences, however, have encouraged me to get back on the hobby horse and pull out the solder and wire once again (melting plastic fumes be damned!). I've always had this vision of creating a circuit-bent-gear-driven dub band, but more on that once it starts to take shape. . .

In the meantime, I'd like to share with you one of those influences, who's herky-jerky jack-inducing messes are a true inspiration. In case you haven't yet guessed, I'm talking about the weirdness which is Eats Tapes. Their site holds little information, but the crunches warped tones and squeels all scream (sometimes quite literally) circuit bent gear.

housemice

automata

ptery d

To really appreciate their sound though, a live set (and setup - see below!) is required... turns out theres one available over at transplantsf!

eats tapes live

This flickr image confirms some bendy-ness definitely plays a part in their sound.

Check:

But wait.. hold up... What is circuit bending, you might ask? (or may not, depending on wether or not you've ever been on the internet..)

First method of circuit bending - Forge new connections.

Remember when you were a kid, on a road-trip, and took along a little sound generating black box.. with various bomb, laser & gun effects. You were told to GIVE IT A REST for just a few minutes, a command you ignored, resulting in a retaliation of button mashing as your brother/sister/parent tried to wrench the device off of you. You discover- two buttons at once make a new, trilling, even more annoying sound!

The concepts behind this method have been abused and used many times before

Second method of circuit bending - The power sink

A few mintues of this sound later, the batteries are wearing out. The sound pitches down ... and goes haywire. Squelches burp forth from the little 8ohm speaker. You love it! Unfortunately (or fortunately from your parents point of view), dying batteries soon become dead batteries... . . . . . .

Hmm... Unfortunately, along with the batteries, so perishes the usefulness of wonderfully illustrative pseudo-anecdote..

I'll leave you with some links to dig through! This is only part one, so stay tuned for future posts where I'll provide some more direct examples which I found inspiring and interesting. . .

Tip of the iceberg
Reed Ghazala's anti-theory workshop - The daddy of circuit bending. Check out his amazing speak 'n' whatever mods, and whacky manifestos!
Yahoo benders group - very active and well informed mail newsletter. A word of advice - get the digest if you value your inbox!
Circuit bending for dummies - Not as condescending as it sounds - actually really well written and informative.
Burnkit 2600 links list - A far more comprehensive list to wade through!

Bump your booty to this!

2005-08-19T00:28:00.000-07:00

Ghetto Bang Down(56.3MB)

Amazing mix by DJ FAMILY of Japan!

01:(Intro)
02:Ice-T / Reckless (Instrumental)
03:DJ Zap / I Can Make You
04:Mr. De / Y2K Bug
05:DJ Godfather / One Time On The Mic
06:Starski & Clutch / East To West
07:DJ Funk / Untitled
08:Perspects / We Boys
09:DJ Nasty / Pop Wit It
10:Anthony Rother / Simulationszeitalter
11:Drexciya / Take Your Mind
12:Sir Mix-A-Lot / Rippin'
13:DJ Godfather / Bounce Shorty, Bounce
14:Kraftwerk / Trans Europe Express
15:Sole Tech / Techbeat Comin'
16:DJ Assault / Thong Song
17:Rick Garciya / Muted Horn
18:DJ Funk / Jump
19:DJ Deeon / 8 Min of Funk
20:Body Mechanic / Peace Of Mine
21:Luke / Work It Out (Frank Ski Dirty Mix)
22:EDMX / Plant Control
23:Ectomorph / Wee Papa Foo
24:DJ Slugo / Godzilla (Disco D remix)
25:Kelis / Milkshake (Acappella)
26:Dot Dash / Jitters Delight
27:Erik Travis / Rollin' Through Time
28:DJ Skip / Make Them B_T_H_S
29:DJ Nasty / Ghetto Strikes Back
30:Waxmaster / Bounce It Baby
31:Squarepusher / Vic Acid
32:DJ Valium / Gothic mix
33:DJ Deeon / Ride This M.F.
34:The Puppies / Hokey Pokey (Acappella)
35:Starski & Clutch / Belle Isle Players (Instrumental)
36:Starski & Clutch / Belle Isle Players
37:DJ Nehpets / Get High
38:Chaos / Afrogermanic
39:Aaron Carl / Shutdown
40:DBX / Blip
41:Craig Diamonds / Piano (Dub)
42:UR / Transition (Accapella)
43:DJ Digital / Cyborg Power
44:DJ PJ / Like It Wild
45:DJ Funk / Tear Da Club Up
46:DJ Godfather / Fly Skinnies
47:(Break)
48:The Puppies / Hokey Pokey Show mix
49:DJ Rolando / Jaguar
50:DJ Assault / Funky Bitch
51:A.J.Mcghee / Why You Lookin' at me
52:Mr.De / Krank Dis Mutha
53:Dynamix II / The Plasticmen
54:Laurent Garnier / Crispy Bacon (Aux88 mix)
55:Erotek / Guess Your Weight
56:Bitch Ass Darius / Ride
57:Erik Travis / Tek Dance Music
58:DJ Phats / Bomb Ass Pussy
59:Dopplereffekt / Infophysix
60:I.O.S / Beat Drum

Dove ads (Fuckinwitchoo!)

2005-08-18T18:57:00.000-07:00

Too many haters, not enuff love.

PLAY THE GAME, BOY.

2005-08-05T02:02:00.000-07:00

Uploaded for the dissensus crew

Two Tetris inspired early-90s 'ardcore-lite tunes for you.

The quality is awful - I didnt realise how little capacity I had for doing tape rips. It came off of a portable walkman headphone jack straight into the computer in glorious, hissy mono!

Track 1 - TETRIS
Track 2 - PLAY THE GAMEBOY

A discogs on the party responsible - Dr Spin - reveals the first track is by none other than Nigel Wright, author of such other gems as Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini techno mix, and has also worked with SIR Andrew lloyd webber (as he does here) on the production of that spectacular Madonna single Don't Cry For Me Argentina. The plot thickens. Anyone else heard much of nigel?

The B side is far more interesting. By Robin Sellars, it is a nice little early-90s piano-stab ridden piece of propaganda (the best kind!). Again, it'd be nice if someone could point me towards some more of Robins music!

Remember kids -> yousendit, I hear it.

radio mix

2005-07-30T08:06:00.000-07:00

YES YES YES YES hahahaha

Eric stewart - girls opening music
enduser - the glock dub
AFX - clinolin (whatever its called . . .)
KHC - 2 Days Ago
slim thug - i aint heard of that
minikomi - sneakers and pong
shitmat - ellesse warrior
jojo - its you
minikomi - me killa no 1
sean paul - time after time
knifehandchop - tizzy tixbown
minikomi - tight booty
minikomi - bass power
minikomi - i wish i knew how to eq properly
rotator - dont sleep ghostly (SHIT THIS TRACK IS AWESOMEEEEE)
i:gor - deaths sadistic design
minikomi - poppyseed crunk

awkward silence while the ad computer wasnt working

usher - yeah (minikomis unoriginal 1999 dsp mix)
minikomi - shitty edits and party hats
EOD - tenwa
AFX - pspycode some shitty name
EOD - bluferlexin (or something.. the one everyone loves)
Minikomi - look<3heart

A brief musical history Part 1 - ROCK

2005-07-26T03:26:00.000-07:00

A recent clean-out and pack up (to storage of course) of music which no longer plays a part in my day to day life got me thinking about past musical tastes and endeavours. Within a stack of unlabeled CDRs I uncovered the only existing professional recording I have participated in: Muscle Car.

16 going on 17, and I was already in love with weird music. Lo-Fi Garage (not garridge) to be exact. Wonderful 7"s on the sympathy for the record industry and estrus labels, along with japanese bands like teengenerate, guitar wolf and the jet boys were on high rotation. My walkman was always blasting out tinny cassette tapes jam packed with raw, clipped, feedback ridden recordings; the tape hiss and compression only adding to the signiture sound of these bands. The New Bomb Turks, Devil Dogs, Oblivians, and The Makers eventually led on to hyper-metal like Zeke and REO Speed Dealer .... and led me to join this band. I present to you, my awesome 16 yr old bass riffage! (temporarily on yousendit. . . let me know if you want a slightly more permenant source!)

Alright Tonight
Queen Of Noise
Don't cum in my mouth and tell me you love me too
Talk Dirty To Me (poison cover)

I left the band to go to Japan... They're still together as far as I know!

Oh yeah, the first two came out on 7" as well..

Kick ass.

heres MY card.

2005-07-11T23:28:00.000-07:00

yes! it's out. check out the cover and the writeup

Ones first reaction to Minikomi's release on Here's My Card Records might be, "Is he a little communist?". After you ponder that mysterious engima of mysteriousness, you will most definitely get down to the two nuggets of funk that Minikomi has composed for his release. First off is Tight Booty, chanting out rudebwoys the world over it leads into a dancefloor amen workout bouncing between some crunk beats to tight amen edits. Follows is Poppyseed Crunk, featuring Mr. Hova himself Jay-z going head to head in a friendly duel of the sexes.

groovy. Thanks skeeter & co over at hmcr!

Saturday night. . . . . .

2005-07-05T23:37:00.001-07:00

After reading gutter's awesome Australian roundup post I felt slightly guilty for not making an effort to really seek out some interesting electronic music within my area. Maybe there WERE more electronic peeps holding it down in A-town; I just didn't know it yet*.

While browsing the "whats on" listing for this Saturday (Friday night my pal Pat is getting married!)in the local free dance oriented street press I couldn't help but feel a little downhearted. Here is the list, with nights that actually have their style of music listed. There are more but they typically just have one or two DJ's names; something which i doubt people struggling to promote new style of music would have the foresight to avoid.

Apothecary - Deep house in the wine cellar with Bensun + Bundi

Cargo Club + Bar - Funky house + disco with residents Audio Porn + rotating guests Mo, Minx, GTB, Stevie + Ben James

Chichi (Gouger St) - House with DJs Ezee G + Juddo

Church - Fresh Feelgood Dance: Commercial dance with DJs James E, Justin Carey, Justice + MCs Sam, Mischief & Renard and
special guest DJ Agent Smith; R&B with DJs Spinbad + Capital D

Colonel Light Hotel - D’Funk: R&B with DJ Capital D + DJ Silk

Electric Circus - House with residents Paul Glenn + D Lux

Elysium Lounge - Deep jazzy house + DJs Seamless, Juddo + Lachlan Pender

Heaven - Clubland: Commercial dance with DJs Rmac, Souli + Carosh + MCs Tim, Jules + Dave Eason; R&B with DJs Chris C, Minix,
Krisp plus MC NRG + Mikey B; sexy house with DJs Souli, Carosh + Minix; live band Triplescore + DJ Orbe

Hyatt (Waves) - Essential Saturdays: R&B + funky house with DJ Emmanuel

Isobar - Funky grooves and disco cuts with Jontay + guests + instrumentalists

Kings Head - Smooth house with DJs Digde, Professor X, D-lux + guests

Mansions - Top 40, dance + R&B with DJ Lazy B

Mojo West - Flavour: Funky house, party breaks and happy house with DJs ATB, John Doe, Professor X + Pranksta

Queens Arms Hotel - Top 40 fun with DJ Nathan Harrison

Red Square - Urban: David James, Mark C, Matt Decker, Lazy B + MC Jazz; Flava (3am-9am): R&B recovery with DJs David James

Sol Bar - Fever: Retro dance with DJ Maverick

Stirling Hotel - DJ Dynamic playing top 40, dance + R&B

Tonic - Krush: House with DJs Karma, GTB, Kid Naughty + Maverick on percussion; R&B with DJs Matt G, Ultima, FBI, MC Shyne +
Krush dancers

Wakefield Hotel - House

Waves Nightclub and Bar (Hyatt Regency) - Essential Saturdays: R&B + deep house with DJ Emmanuel

Worldsend - Party DJs playin’ funk, disco + house

Spoilt for choice really.

*this is unlikely. Adelaide is small enough that the usual "6 degrees of seperation" is whittled down to about 3. This is especially evident within "scenes".

M O N O L A K E!

2005-06-27T18:01:00.000-07:00

Damn you and your big red copy protection button!

New mix is 80% done.. I've got some "issues" to sort out first though..

tracklist includes:

James Taylor
Ms Jade
edIT
Missy/Mocha
Soundmurderer
Krumble
Sleepy dog riddim
Scud/I-sound
& some more...
so stay tuned!

im the meantime, while we also wait for other bombs to drop why not melt your mind?

Acid Reign

2005-06-22T22:30:00.000-07:00

With Analord kicking out the jams, there’s little doubt that there will be a veritable torrent of acid washing our way. One 19 year old Norwegian kid who pre-empted the lord's return to fiddly step sequenced dittys, going by the name E.O.D., is currently ruling my playlists and breaking my heart all at once. His warm, weaving, interplaying melodies seem like the perfect soundtrack to a long forgotten children’s book, with acid lines sneaking in and out between washes of pretty chords and drums slowly evolving to highlight the emotions within.

for example, hear how the confident regiment of tenwa breaks away to a slinky cowbell and handclap shuffle as the pads which up until that moment bespoke utter joy turn into something altogether more spooky.

unirater too evokes visions of a spooky wood, branches grabbing at your clothes as you walk the narrow path... then all hell breaks loose as the sky opens up, hail rains down and youre forced to run without direction, deeper into the dark unkown in search of cover. The emergence of the wonderfully linked acid line & ravey stab bass in the end resolve the tune but still help keep the mood tense and dark

buxlerfin is a real taste of bittersweetness, with an enthusiastic acid line evolving in competition with more melancholy chords while disco kicks and open high hats spur the listener on. . . The wonderfully restrained refrain again highlights EOD's talent for wrenching emotion out of his machines

IF you enjoy these few tracks I highly recommend checking out more here: Electronic acid productions

Don't sleep!

In other news, I've probably been reading one too many boomkat reviews lately..

Log on, and let chi chi man be.

2005-06-19T23:54:00.000-07:00

Some current posting going-ons regarding discussion of homophobic dancehall lyrics, and the consequences thereof, caused me to recall Elephant Man's version on the liquid riddim... with added perspective

Despite being ludicrously catchy (having it worm its way into my head at the most unexpected times....) what was "log on" saying exactly? A call to arms for all the 'wired' jamaicans to get online and do what they can to once again quoth chichimanfriend? Not exactly... A quick google sets me straight:

from caribupdate

On the new album, Elephant Man also abstains from the gay-bashing that is a time-honored tradition in dancehall -- and the source of some controversy after his 2001 hit "Log On." That track, which contained the lyrics "Log on and step pon chi chi man," is meaningful only if you know that "log on" is a dance step in which the dancer seems to be squashing a roach with one foot, and "chi chi man" is a derogatory term for a homosexual man.

"Yeah. 'Log On' 'cause a lot of stuff happen . . . a lot of people was offended, but you know, I wasn't doing 'Log On' to hurt nobody," he says now. "I'm just doing the song that everybody can dance, enjoy themself."

"Log On" and lyrics from several other previous Elephant Man tracks have led him, along with Bounty Killer and Beenie Man, to be targeted by a gay rights group in Britain, which has sought to bar them from performing there. And in October, an Elephant Man show at Alfred University in Upstate New York was canceled after objections from student organizations.

One can imagine discussions between Atlantic and VP executives and Elephant Man about leaving homophobic lyrics off "Good 2 Go," but Elephant Man plays down the whole issue. "When I go in the studio, I don't go in the studio to talk about those type of things," he says. "I go into the studio to make hit records for the fans, and for people to buy and for people to love. I don't go in the studio thinking about that guy living his life that way and to curse him out or to pass judgment on nobody. It's your life. Do what you want to do. We all have to answer to God one day, so live your life how you want to live it."

So..how many years will it be before the blog-post is a dance in jamaica? And how long after that until it's used against batty boys?

Viroids

2005-06-19T21:26:00.000-07:00

With this out of the way, I'll get my new mix happening.

In other news, Kelly Osbourne might just be the straw that breaks the heavily pitch corrected 80s throwback pop tune's back. One can only hope. . .

Welcome

2005-06-09T05:17:00.000-07:00

So i decided to get myself a blog, pop up some mp3s now and then, discuss music.. things that have been on my mind! Some of you will probably know me as minikomi (maybe !) others as Adam.. I live in Australia, love dancehall/breakcore and yes, even idm (and other such musical skeletons eg emo ho ho ho....) but i digress.

The first mix...

junglefarmer1.mp3

Ivan Riddim - killer new riddim by the quirky minor 7 flat 5 label. Get your freak on fallout for the new millenium supported by arabic melodies and trumpet blasts which alternate between dubbed out memories and rusted jazz mutes. Look out for Vybz Kartel's absoloutely hillarious lines.. especially the references to certain parts of the male anatomy - although terribly off the mark, for some reason I keep imagining him giggling behind his hand like a schoolgirl after this line.. I know I did! Flavour: Rocky Road.

Al pancho - Ivan
Luton Fyan - Idiot thing
Vybz Kartel - Livin Allright
Beenie Man - Do what you want
Turbulance - Too much Killin'

Aphrodesiac sound system : Coolie dance mash up - Not really feeling the other tracks on this - too hokey - but this one works well. African vocals refresh a tired riddim.. Flavour: Honeycomb

Loefah : Twisup VIP - ek! sorry about the pitch bends in this mix... but it worked out good in the end! Amazing deep dubstep from DMZ camp. Enough bass pressure to turn their dark grimey coal into a glistening diamond. Flavour: Choc-mint

Donnacha Costello - Dry Retch - more from this bloke later on (ooer) but for now he serves as a nice wanky outro for me to cheat with... I have to go to sleep now. Flavour: Pistachio

Goodnight! I hope you enjoy the mix, more to come...