yay hurrah, my good friend Markus has finally uploaded his music as Sentics and its full of nice Peter Hook baselines and ethereal synths, I’ve come back to it to give it a proper listen as it was released back in late Feb
His far away, woozy hypnotic voice has the duality of being somewhat soothing then snarling . Lofi production that is “distant” if you like Young Marble Giants you’re gonna like Sentics. There’s something jarring and slightly robotic and I like that about them. iIs it lazy journalism to say Teutonic ? After all they are from Austria, they are informed by a lot of great post punk but Sentics stand out from the crowd of fey Indie poppers by being somewhat dark in tone – spacey Metronomic rhythms and I can see Markus doing a David Byrne like dance to the music in a vessel floating in space
I’m over the moon! I finally get to talk about rave culture / raving and the social impact it has had on our society. I’m going to be running a short course on djing and rave culture for my own school where I attended and collected many tapes and flyers ( personal Thanks sam blay , Matt Carter, James Hutchins , Theo ,Richy Blitz , Jords, Gareth w, The Hall twins , Lucy , Al Harrison , Morgan egg lord and countless other ravers who all shaped my young raver mind ) and i’ll be able to invite some heroes ( warm agency – Mickey , Andy who was at Castlemorton ) , Jenny Twenty ( death by stereo / mixology ) to talk about what they have experienced… i’m literally agogo and assembling many pieces of essential info to present a brief history of the greatest cultural movement we have still going…
I know its anti outlaw to work with da man ( insert jez from peepshow voice ) but we need the next generation to keep the acid house supported and spreading the spirit, fuck trap, fuck mumble rap I know I sound like rave grandad when I say that but nothing pains me more to hear that sound coming out of a boom box on the beach , where are the pounding beats my lord !! ….but they need less Xanax and more XTC ….and TLC waterfalls is OK 😉 btw anyway sorry this is a rambling blog ill get my verbal diaherea out the way now and try and be more cohesive…
Writing for schools is difficult …. what to leave in what to leave out !! My heads wrecked !
Everybody in the place – Jeremy Deller – an incomplete history of Britain 1984 -1992 – Free Party Folk History & Tales of a Traveller docs
Course Notes
Jeremy Deller is a Turner Prize winning multi media artist that focuses on history and postmodern culture to look at the way Britain has evolved through music and youth culture. He traces the links and social historical background of cultural events and movements, he’s not so much an artist more of a historian that makes visually interesting work.
His film Everybody In The Place very accurately tells the story of how Rave culture made a huge impact to our society, we the British took and re made a sound and culture from many different elements the throbbing hypnotic music of gay chicago clubs like Ron Hardy’s music box where EBM, Belgium New beat and other types of early electronic music and disco music were fused leading to inspired remakes and a completely new type of music was born using the newly available roland music devices such as the 303 drum machine and 808 and 909 drum machines , the beginnings of the Detroit techno sound was growing at the same time in the early 80s and the industrial sound that sprung from the deindulstialized zone of the former motor city was fused with the trance elements of Belgium New Beat and the roots of New York Disco from Clubs like Larry Levan’s Garage (we’ll be looking at these scenes through the course to see the parallels and similarities and learn about them and these societies and what created their specific cultures )
Today there are a multitude of different sounds and scenes that grew from the rave scene in the late 80s and early 90s. outsider Societies mirrored societies and took elements and remade and created incredible mutations of sound and vision, from the collapse of the Berlin Wall leading to the amazing German rave scene we see that Rave and Techno powered amazing social shifts in societies globally.
from a UK perspective With the above mentioned music we took elements and added our own love of hip hop and reggae and created Hardcore and this sound exploded in fields and abandoned warehouses and clubs across the country.
Industrial spaces that had been abandoned since the de industrialisation of the UK in the Thatcher reigning years 1979- 90. Where a steady decline in production as the UK moved to being a service and finance based economy leaving many parts of the UK in ruin and without recompense for the loss of jobs and effects it had on communities…however
We ( the generation that embraced rave culture ) re purposed spaces and sounds from the past that led to the creation of a wholly new sub culture that led to Moral panic and questions being asked in the house of commons about the future of our nations youth, this panic basically amounted to fear of a society out of control and living with its own codes and outside normal Conservative values. Where the travellers and hippies were shunned from the spaces they had seen and quite rightly used as common land they formed alliances and assimilated into ravers who organised free parties all over the country , a great website with accounts of these can be found here , free party people.org culminating in the event that undoubtedly changed society – Castlemorton which led to the Criminal Justice Bill – no gatherings allowed with repetitive beats and police having powers to break up parties and take away sound systems.Painted as folk demons the travellers had been moved away from stone henge and other sites as the police cracked down on the New Age traveller movement that had developed since the late 60s.
It is important that people see that there are alternative ways to live outside of society and especially now that the cost of living has become untenable , looking back over history like this there were moments when it seemed possible to live without intervention from the state, alternative worlds and ways to be are still possible and we can take inspiration from the peak era of raves and free parties, it is also a huge industry ( think of what is termed EDM and techno blandness with Instagram djs and paid for followers and ghost producers …. ) with all the downsides to what we have today but there are also many pluses and links to the travellers and ravers groups like Extinction Rebellion whatever your view on direct action and groups like this have links to these scenes and are necessary for the protection of our planet
Hippy ramblings ? Make of it what you will, films like Aaron Trinder’s doc show us and give voice to many who were intrinsic in this radical movement that arguably means more than Punk ever did and has had many more positive effects on society – DIY culture, autonomous societies and independence is something that needs encouraging, applauding, examining and talking about now more than ever as a the world gets crazier and more unbalanced.
a really touching and essential book that has inspired myself and friends to go back to free parties and make our own was the gift of Dreaming In Yellow by Harry Harrison l by Velocity Press , my true love gave me this Bookman its the greatest present ever to get a book about something I really enjoy and feel passionate about …….DIY is the sound system I respect the most as they simply had the best music, digs and whoosh almost played in alum chine in bournemouth but the party was shut down within twenty minutes … boohoo I was too young to get to their parties so reading about them is a joy , thanks LUCY xx
another great eye witness account of the roots of the rave scene and parallel lives with links to the free festival and traveller circuit can be seen here in this film about Rodger a traveller who ended up djing at Spectrum at Heaven …
Through the magic of record hunting and looking for music on vinyl that other people enjoy I found Yoshies channel OTOTABI with Ogaway DJ Ogaway the channel has these great videos of Tokyo set to music from new interesting artists and also Yoshie reviews new and old music with such enthusiam.
Yoshie, posted a photo on instagram of a really great japanese dub record by Dry and Heavy – Full Contact, this isnt a very well known record and so I reached out to her to talk about the album as think its a modern classic in dub, we started talking about record hunting and I told her the story about how where I found it in Teuchtler Schallplattenhandlung which is located at Windmühlgasse 10, 1060 Vienna. This is the shop in the beautiful movie Before Sunrise, its an essential destination for any music lover, Vienna is a bit like Paris lots of moody moochers mooching about but full of wonderful people and places to see, I lived there for nearly a decade and put on events club nights there and Teuchtler was where I found some great music.
The band Dry and Heavy should be better known, They created their own Japanese dubfest, Echomaniacs. This has featured Adrian Sherwood, Andrew Weatherall, Dennis Bovell and 3 Head, and Dry & Heavy have played in concert with Lee Perry, Horace Andy, Jah Shaka and Mad Professor. The world of japanese dub is a rich and beautiful kingdom and Dry and Heavy made really heavy dusty beautiful dub up there with Mad Professor and King Tubby level echo and depth BAMMMM !
But I digress, Yoshie and I started to message each other about music, record shops we love including Teuchtler Schallplattenhandlung where I bought Dry and Heavy. The shop has been there for over 70 years and has every type of music imaginable and the staff are incredible and also keen supporters of the music scene of Vienna from experimental noise artists to afro groups and classical music of course.
we talked particulary about Boards of Canada and Aphex twin and other music which has that rare quality and comforting melancholy feel, after about a year I finally got round to sending her Haram Tapes first album. She very kindly and expertly interviewed Pete and I about our music and made a brilliant interview which is edited and translated into japanese. It is a real honour to have someone take that time and interest in our music. What I love about her channel is the indepth personal reviews of the music like this one of Autechre 「SIGN」
I wanted to know more about her background as a music fan and “digger” as her channel on youtube is full of great albums and new artists like Metropolitan Project whos Late night demos will be featured in a new mix with other ambient / electronic music artists Cruel DiagonalsIvy Barkakati and Sumatran Black
please watch our interview it was a lot of fun making it and it must have have taken ages to edit down as we talked a lot !!
I asked Yoshie a few questions over email as to her background and the artists she loves and record shopping ,shes so supportive of new underground artists (links below) and I really hope you will subscribe to her channel !
Hi Yoshie ! Please can you write a little background about yourself
>>> I live in Tokyo and I’m from Kyoto, the ancient capital.I work in video production as freelancer, TV director, making videos for companies, for events…I used to work for a music show and I did many interview with artists ; but this was very commercial music which earnt good money ( used for buying Vinyl !!) Or I make documentary videos for TV, so I like to interview people and get to know them. About music I’ve never made music and I’m just doing a little DJing . There were times when I didn’t listen to music at all ! Anyway I’m just a musc fan! I was in France in 2001 for 2 years, so I can imagine Europe a little bit.
Well I hope you get a chance to come back to Europe and would be great to dj together thats one of my favourite things to do is to do a dj set b2b with other djs and play records for like 4- 8 hours, in fact its probably the thing i miss most because of corona so many music fans cant do this and sharing vinyl / djing , the mix is not as important, its the choice and selection !
do you have any dj mixes online we can share ? >>> I don’t have any mixes. Sorry. There are some people whove asked me about my mixies, so one day I will try to make one . I’m not good DJ I just select my favorite music.
I think thats the key thing for DJs selecting their favorite music , thats a DJ someone with passion, with a lot of business techno / instagramer djs these days everything is about image and thats so ugh yuck ! Plus the music a lot of the big DJS and even some underground djs seems to have just become lo grade tech house / buisness techno, anyway i dont want to bang on about this but your channel / attitude and enthusiams is so needed today !
What are your favourite clubs to go to in Tokyo ? and how often do you go record hunting ?>>> Womb, Contact, VisionWomb was a cool club. I liked it before. Many famous techno djs came there from overseas, like Derrick May, Jeff Mils, Carl Craig, Richie Hawtin, Sven Vath, Joris Voorn… but now it’s becoming more EDM than techno –
Oh no ! EDM is the worst I’m sorry to hear that ! What has been your most amazing find in a record shop ? >>> LFO’s vinyls, EP “Tied Up” and Album “Advanced”
I rarely see LFO records Or Kraftwerk’s EP “Tour de France”, red label (I think it’s rare)I’m not a proper collector so I’m not sure which is rare or not. Just I wanted LFO’s vinyl, and when I found it, I was so excited!
Are there any shops you want to give a special mention to ? >>> I don’t have any in Tokyo. but I wanna introduce record shops in Kyoto on my channel. I don’t know very much about them yet but one day! Because I’m from Kyoto. I was Born and raised in Kyoto, its a beautiful city.
Brilliant, I think its great youre making these videos especially sharing the records you find,your enthusiam is something wonderful ! Any artists you want to mention here ? >>> Haram Tapes,( thanks! ) Metropolitan Project, Timo Carlier,ATN soul & NoamleAll of them are the artists who cooperated with the interview on my channel. I like them very much! As a well-known artists I like, Four Tet, Carl Craig, Moritz Von Oswold, Telefon Tel Aviv, The Orb, Isolee… and many warp’s artists like Aphex Twin, Autechre, Two lone Swordsmen, Clark, Plaid, Flying Lotus, GAIKA… Japanese artists; Ken Ishii, Takkyu Ishino, DJ Krush, Boom Boom Satellites, U.F.O. You love Warp artists a lot I noticed, I really like that you have an affection to this classic label , are there any other record labels you want to mention that have the same ethos of outstanding quality ? For me 4Ad is a label similar to Warp in that every release will be something special >>> I don’t know 4AD. I’ll check it out! I like Skam records, Ninja Tune, R&S…Off course Warp Records! Only famous labels, actually.
Thanks for taking the time to answer the questions Yoshie!
Kerrie J Robinson is a multi-instrumentalist based in the remote west Highlands of Scotland. Originally from Dorset, she cut her musical teeth working in record shops and playing in bands, including Red Peal, Betika, and Sancho. Her current solo work fuses field recordings with improvisation, sound design and electronics. https://kerriejrobinson.bandcamp.com/releases
Fact check: there are actually around 30,000 lochs in Scotland. Slightly less than the 100,000 in this video we talk about new music from
https://soundcloud.com/kerrierobinson includes the Red Peal ep and some Sound Design/Noise stuff on there too. kerrie mentioned Jane Rushton, who she’s currently collaborating with. She can be found on the insta handle @jane_rushton_artist the Thalassing LP is out on Clay Pipe records.. pre sale is out but http://www.claypipemusic.co.uk/ links to other shops here I talk a bit about clubs and the two Chrises… Peddley and Mears Bournemouth music and club scene, Weatherall And Sean Johnston and THE ALFOS EBS Ko-fi.com/alfosebs https://www.twitch.tv/alfos2020reconnecting with People and Lock Tavern and Camden memories and the need to put on gigs and club nights and save smaller venues https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/save-our-venues-red-list
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Lost Map, the label is home to The Pictish Trail ( jonny ) as mentioned Rozi Plain and Ed Dowie (he’s from Bournemouth!) ALEXIA AVINA and Clementine March both of whom are highly recommended based on the magick isle of Eigg. The new Visitations series of records include Arthur King (inc Jason Lytle of Grandaddy) Rozi Plain and more…
was part of Brothers in Sound who were label mates on Regal with the Beta band Ed makes strange wonderful music and has a distinctive voice and artisitic vision be sure to dig into his work and look for the novel use of a mechanised tea straner in the video to his current single https://eddowie.bandcamp.com/music
End Of The Road Festival Was Held in the Larmer Tree gardens in Dorset and will be back for the 2nd to 5th september 2021 The Pixies will headline with King Krule and Little Simz and many more
On seeing PJ Harvey at Camp Bestival PJ being from Bridport Dorset and Bridport has recently seen a mini explosion in the arts scene there
Red Acoustic lady land, Kerrie’s band Red Peel supported the group at Mr Kyps
members went on to form Melt Yourself down and The Invisible ( who played one of my nights ! ) They were also part of the FIRE art collective who also included http://ingridlaubrock.com/
Sumatran Black – Aka Pete Reeves and the Bromide Connection ( Romin ) Pete is really the musical brain behind Haram Tapes I met Pete through Romin (mutual friend and booker of Mr kips now working for SoundCrash Ninja Tune and his own Video company and events Freak London) and years later through soundcloud I got to know him again as Sumatran Black as a mysterious producer based in Istanbul little did i know at the time we had known each other in a past life
thanks to the Malgo riddim of soundcloud we were reunited !
Baders voice and story is featured in Haram Tapes and his story continues to influence me and I hope we will be able to be in the same place again and continue our work and friendship along with Peter and Mo The creation of the album began in 2017 as a document of people living in Europe and Istanbul who had escaped their home country or in the case of Mohamed Shawky had moved to Vienna to study and become a lawyer to help people in need. Mo, friend of Haram Tapes and creator of the haram text and poem on our first album Both Bader and Mo were living in difficult circumstances and trying to find their way in a new society…
You can find snub tv on Youtube ,with classic interviews With the Jesus And Marychain, Spacemen 3, 808 state, a Guy called gerald , he Fall, Pixies , Dinosaur Jnr and the tv debut of Manic Street Preachers,My Bloody Valentine, The JAMMS (later KLF) and Björk (in her first TV appearance, with the Sugarcubes).In an interview Mark E smith Professes his love for Hip Hop “rap music is the most literate music I’ve heard in years. They’re saying a lot more than Dire Straits ever did” Snub TV was created by Pete “Pinko” Fowler and Brenda Kelly, who met working at Rough Trade records it ran for three seasons from 1989 until its demise in 1991. read more in guardian article snub-tv-cult-80s-music-show-unearthed-underground and a blog post with a comp of the best clips here from https://calling-the-shots.com/2020/06/09/way-back-when-snub-tv/
Anticon featured likes of Buck 65 Sage Francis and Why? & many more
Bournemouths club scene Was very healthy from mid 80s up to the mid 2000s With a wide range of promoters including Destiny for Hardcore and Drum and Bass, Cocoshebeen at the Opera House and in its early days it saw sets from Laurent Garnier, Carl Cox , Deepdish, mid week specials like AWOL with Kenny Ken Mickey Finn and Nicky Blackmarket packing out the club. Also of note was The Manor and Madisons who had regular appearances from Sasha and Digweed, LTJ Bukem , CJ Bolland, Billy Nasty, Colin Dale and many others… for a slice of peak hardcore mania google fantazia Matchams Bournemouth
Peddler and Mears and Avid Records and Mat Humphrey Chris Mears night was actually called Mobility Chris Peddley brought ,amongst others DJ Spooky, Daddy G and Patrick Forge and gave me my first paid gig ( cheers ears ) and it gave me inspiration for putting on nights with long term friend and Campari Safari creator Mat Humphrey probably most of my records were purchased from the excellent Avid Records where Mearsey worked and where DJ Snowboy would pop in. Paul the owner of Avid was lovely and if youre out there get in touch! Peddley’s night at the Consortium was really open in its music policy and thanks to Nat the owners progressive attitude meant there were always interesting and exciting DJs brought down to little old Bournemouth.
I mention here Sixty Million Postcards for putting on Horse Meat Disco and a young Daniel Avery amongst many others, with it being booked by a group who also organised adventures in the beetroot field / Field day with eat Your Own Ears and many events all over the uk… main booker and spearhead Casper C / Volte face / Bleed and Bloggers delight) along with Filthy Dukes/ ASBO/ Nadia Ksabia and Rory Phillips along with a host of great DJS and Promoters arguably brought the best nights across the country and gave Bournemouth a kick up the arse Thanks to casper and the Lock Tavern and Those early nights at the Drop and Defectors weld I got to put on some really great nights and I want to say thanks and praise be for Casper as a great person and incredible DJ and Producer. Go investigate Volte Face NOW ! The Lock tavern spawned the Disco Pub /small disco see also Horse and Groom and Old Blue Last and the Gun as shining examples of Disco pubs.
Bournemouth hardcore connection Remix was along with Madisons a great club for hardcore,techno and drum and bass The Gander also on holdenhurst road along with Mr Smiths in the Triangle also important gig venues. Remix is now The Bunker and at the Firestation there are occasionally good nights along with The Four Horsemen putting on small club nights.
Edited libellous rumour about a local night club person Who rumour had it was a hamster snaffler
Kerrie is talking about the artist Jane Rushton, they’re currently collaborating . She can be found on the insta handle @jane_rushton_artist and https://www.resipolestudios.co.uk/jane-rushton
Pay To Play Scandals ! Common practice amongst SOME venues Was to demand bands bring a certain number of people and if they didn’t make the numbers they wouldn’t see a red cent !
But right now whats more pressing is the lack of for help venues and musicians and technicians are getting in this crisis and the total abandonement of the creative industries, write to your MP and support venues, it shouldnt have to be fans who bail out but if you can spare a bit of money please buy music from band camp and pay for any online events, The Deaf Institue and Gorrilla in manchester were saved thanks Tim Burgess and SSD and partly thanks to Labour Mp Andy Burnham for raising the issue.
but many more venues are in the Red and didnt make the grade for arts council funding which has been made available at the last minute
ALFOS Sean Johnston Sean has continued A Love From Outer Space his legendary and life affirming club Which he and Andrew Weatherall started at The Drop in stok Neewington ALFOS broacdcasts Can be found on twitch And https://www.facebook.com/groups/ALFOS support the space cadet family be sure to check out his work as Hard Way Bros and tune into the Emergency Broadcasts to beat any blues
Seb Patane In conversation about Dark Wave in Italy, Fog School his music project, His love of Jpeg Mafia, we talk Andrew Weatherall being a regular and phoning him up about his club Nerd and Alexander Mcqueen coming down to dance, I waffle about ALFOS and Sean Johnston ,Mark Leckey, Jeremy Deller , Depeche Mode and UK Lockdown Jitters , the process of writing tracks For Haram Tapes and my better half Peter Reeves aka Sumatran Black Fog School and Scanner !! I missed that and mutual loves and London in early 2000s and where we are now,featuring regular cat interruptions. Big thanks to Severino for introducing us and hope we get to boogie again soon. https://fogschool.bandcamp.com/ http://www.sebpatane.com
if you spend £3 on tracks this week go get Fog school and Scanner
I’m not gonna rant and rave ( well maybe a bit …) but at the risk of sounding like a total loon I’ve had an epiphany / amazing tripple whammy concidence after a big life change
I started working at an amazing company ( warm) it was an amzing experience but also quite stressful for a number of reasons I wont go into the best thing about it was I got to know the amazing and talented Mickey Browne
we worked side by side me as a booking agent and handling multiple tasks/ spinning plates and he running the Re: warm label , getting to work with Mickey and hang out and talk music was / is one of the great pleausres of my life in all honesty.
he gave me loads of great opportunities / laughs and encouragement to ( usually too blue to publish )
I Joke but he is my ROCK and I’m living laughing and loving again xx (eeeee thanks doll face )
Often I would get totally distracted by Mickeys work as he would be playing new / old songs that were going to be included on the various Warm compilations
and the first track was by Held By Trees – and I had heard it before after good pal and friend of Kerry Robinson Chris Mears sent it to me after we had reconnected after many years and got talking about Talk Talk ( boom tish )
BOOOM sonic booom
at the Time of hearing it I was blown away and I had forgotten that Chris had mentioned his involvement, months later I got in touch with mutual pal of Mearsey and Kerry Chris Peddley musician , film maker , face and and bit of a legend as I wanted to get back to DJing and putting on live gigs after a short spurt with Tom Moon at the Poole Hill Brewery nights Desert Shore I mentioned In the Trees and wanting to get involved and maybe put them on and what did he know about them and that they are incredible and I knew a bit about the Talk Talk legacy but not that much but I was ravenous to know more and so is Mickey …
in short
Held By Trees’ debut album brings together eight alumni of the revered Talk Talk albums Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock, and Mark Hollis’ only solo album on new instrumental music. Alongside the likes of Robbie McIntosh (guitar), Martin Ditcham (drums), Simon Edwards (bass) and Phill Brown (mix), the album also features… Tim Renwick (Guitar – Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Eric Clapton) Mike Smith (Saxophone – Blur, Gorillaz, Jamiroquai) Gary Alesbrook (Trumpet – Super Furry Animals, Kasabian, Noel Gallagher) Blues/roots legend Eric Bibb.
Boom – 2 number 2 coincidence / event
he said Im going to see / chat with David at my friends studio and do you want to come along meet and have a look – I immediately thought this is so odd / amazing / spoooky
thats a seperate entity in itself the studio – it is rediculous with its own reverb chamber made from a basement ( dig the cosmic hole ! ) – I’m hoping to send some cosmic messages between musicians I love and send them to this unearthly echo womb ( more on this studio at a later date )
I digress
Booooooom mind blow
So I went over and Met David and flipping out both as a fan and reverb nerd- this is a sepearate story in itself …
at the same time Mickey is having a conversation with David and we ( mickey and I ) were texting going wtf they are from Bournemouth ??!!
and now I’m really hoping to help them out / release their music / book them some shows , whatever I can do to spread the notes – the sparsity and beauty are the direct DNA of Mark – its so eeerie
“Before you play two notes, learn how to play one note, y’know? And don’t play one note unless you’ve got a reason to play it.” ~ Mark Hollis
and his last leaving remark to a jornalist from the Wire “I think im done ” it had this eerie relevance to my life- ( working in an office with all the crap that goes with it ) and knowing when i’m done and needing and appreciating the space and beauty of the landscape around us and feeling restless ( Mickey and I constantly dreaming and talking hippy bollox about plateus of sound and being lost in nature and the strange pagan heritage and legends of dorset – see Gerald Gardner /
Harry Paye and having moving experiences in this landscape – this is what Held By Trees is all about and it turns out David is from our beloved Dorset and this music was born out of a moment when the world stopped ( COV19)
In short I have a a bewildering urge to make this band heard by whatever means necessary.. It feels so odd to meet David but good odd …I wish I had dug deeper into them and reached out to learn a bit more about them.but TIme is just time right …Its opening up a world of Music to me that ive never had time to dive into Swans / Bark Pyschosis for example and David has a lot of plans and exciting projects coming up
to get a bit personal ive been Struggling with mental health and depression and Talk Talk have meant so much to me and I feel really and blessed to have met David and learnt about his mission to continue the legacy – I’m struggling to convey this but In short if you like Mark Hollis / Rustin man / Ambient / Pink Floyd or just in short MUSIC . please devour and buy everything Held By Tress have made .. enough of my waffle !
PS I had to run to a job interview and what Lennon said “Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans”
but I hope David you read this and we work together. Whatever happens, signed Robin Fan for life and I hope Mickey becomes your dear friend and colaborator too xxxx
Been struggling to find time to put these shows mixes together and for good reason as I have just recently started working for https://warmagency.com/. which is a dream come true as they represent some of my fave DJS inc Luke Una – his compilation E Soul Cultura is a must you can get it here through Warms record shop for the fair price & have included some tracks from the comp on this here mix head over to warm and cop some of their amazing compilations including the Folk Funk & Trippy Troubadours Volume One comp
Levon Vincent returns with his fifth studio album, titled Work In Progress, the follow up to 2022’s Silent Cities cassette release.Progress sees the dub techno and NY house auteur throw away any overarching concept, apart from the idea that it must move you.
Work In Progress is a collection of club ready jams that form the latest productions from Levon’s incredibly prolific run of 12”s he’s pressed on his own label Novel Sounds, directly for the next weekend’s sets. His run over the last 20 years of 12” numbers almost 50 releases. Rather than his previous albums presenting a finished story, his fifth presents a diarist’s work in progress, his latest club constructions, many raising the BPM to 140 to reflect the faster pace of his latest DJ sets.
“The previous albums I have made are all meant to be heard from start to finish, where it takes the listener on a voyage” explains Levon. “I modelled the narrative idea after those LPs after greats like Stevie Wonder, who made albums that contained an arc that would unfold from start to finish. You were meant to listen to them from beginning to end.”
“With Work in Progress, I set out to break the pattern of writing albums with an arc. I wanted to make something that more closely reflects my DJing. This is an album for DJs. I thought, ‘why separate my LP and 12” approaches? My only rule for this album was ‘you have to be able to play each track in your own sets’. My DJ sets are varied and go through different styles. I would play every track on this LP at some point in a club night or at a festival. I named it Work In Progress, because I am a work in progress. And I am frequently in a situation where I must improve. So it references self-improvement, the concept and the action of.”
DJs and home listening fans of Levon will find a lot to love in the new collection. From the hi-nrg 80s proto-disco through a gray scale gauze of Regarding Love, with an emotional mood continued through Longing, the skipping NY House drum programming of Strut Beats filtered through a submarine Berliner filter. Even a track which promises such an uncomplicated confection as The Funk is complicated by Levon’s gritty vision, made tougher and more metallic. Sunday Mornings echo’s the most feel good of 90s piano, but with a shifting modal centre, as befits a musician who has taught himself to play with and use nonstandard harmonic intervals. Again, Levon is exploring and composing in real time, pursuing his muse across an industrial grid of his own construction.
making a few beds / trying out some different sounds in Ableton free or name your price, keen to hear any feedback or just send a message and if you have some music you want to share here happy to share it x
The second installment of DS brings The Marbles and More to the Poole Hill Brewery on the 30th of March
Free entry
Live :
The Marbles – High Energy Folk rock from these local young guns
Sophie Avison – multi instrumentalist and constant musical collaborator, capable and innovative in Pretty much everything folk, polka, jazz and surprises
EeeSquire -Deconstructive guitar assault
Viimeinen -Tape loops and well crafted noise, a fluid formation of sharp sound within a rich sonic landscape
It was a pleasure and an honour to come up to London to appear on Padge’s License to Chug show on Loose FM
I’m sorry for south western trains and we need to renationalise the railways I was ten minutes late I hate being late !!
I got to play some tracks from Fiume. on his new release on L I E S records which is lovely to see happening as we became good mates along with Manuel, Stefan Vedran and Nico nightingale at Dimensions festival – lucky to have met so many talented musicians and friends and I’m really keen to see them again and reunite that was one of the best festivals ever with the best crew
Neud Photo – nico
and sasha his studio partner and friend with demos by Neugrau
I can’t wait to dj again and im going to be djing at this new night in Bournemouth after a few gigs at the four horsemen and Makla with Richard Sen for the Hush Club
very excited to be djing here for Dessert Shore with a great headliner Zaardvark, there’s also films and art its going to be a real happening ! Something to get excited about … speaking of which Luke Una is playing Makla on Saturday listen to this lovely account here talking about Electric Elephant which along with Dimensions is my favourite clubbing memory and I’ll never forget seeing him and his crew with Weatherall and Sean and Horse meat disco and meeting Justin Robertson, Francois K , bliss !! Tisno is a magical place , Tisno is for lovers
over the moon to have DJed with Richard Sen at the Hush Club on halloween and then have him play Haram Tapes
and people chat about it on his DO YoU ! show, if you don’t already know Richard Sen is a living legend and has remixed LCD sound system, goes under various guises Bronx dogs / padded cell
compiled historic acid house compilations, been one of the first persons to be imprisoned for graffiti, ( as COMA ) a prolific Graf writer who hit up the underground risking life, liberty and Limbs and has played all over the world playing a huge selection of styles and his do you and balamii radio shows are the best music lessons ever, THANK YOU SEN GOD ! SEnd IT !!
as an example of the otherworldly bangers he plays this was a fave from the amazing sex tags mania
this interview by another legend DENNIS KANE a man intrinsic to New York Nightlife is really interesting on the excellent ban ton ton site
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