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
presenting DJ Du$k from my DJ classes at Twynham school, working with Soundstorm an agency in Bournemouth the match tutors with schools who then teach dj skills as part of their Music GCSE performance module ( Crazy ! you can now do a dj set for your GCSE ) its been a pleasure working with the students from Twynham and also it saves the students a lot of money as private tuition costs a packet
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
In this crazy time Ive found its best to go over old emails and videos and memories and reconnect with people, I found a great one of Nic Nell at The Lock Tavern, his electronic hyperactive nature and sense of melody and fun where what made me want to put him on the tiny sticky floor of that great disco pub, sadly writing disco Pub just feels sad and the thought of going to a pub now feels like a distant memory …. another was Campari Safari Lock Tavern memory was of the shambolic Wreckless Iraqi who were terrible but lovely people, this is in the last days of Myspace and finding gems in the filth and crap was a full time job! Sadly Wreckless Iraqi are untraceable but I know I just know somewhere in a box of glowsticks and purple hoodies from am app ( dodgy owner sex pest ) their spirit Lives on
back to Nic Nell …
Now he is sharing music on his own label Algebra and its wildly different to his beginnings but with the same attention to detail , novel sounds and wild changes that made his tunes stand out recording as Casually Here
I listened to the Daniel Lopatin- esque in more melodic mode tracks
and was reminded of Gemtree – an artist I was lucky enough to get to know through my work as a Teacher online – Gemtree from Moscow, his productions are crammed with different and abbrasive sounds , some parralels with ARCA as well
go and check out the label, very blissful, like this track here a remix of Sunplus / Rob Shields. This really is a masterwork and broadens the mind, I listened to this cycling along the prom to work in the faded late Corona light past the Chiringuitos and the Palm trees hardly anyone on the prom apart from the crazy cross fit people and other walkers, I saw the father and son I always see at Carihuela and the track seemed to click perfectly, we are all together just trying to keep to routines and living slow life at the moment. rocks r slow life
and here on PELT
and up to date with this colaborative album with lawrence heart on Hotflush, its not really my cup of tea but on slower ambient tracks he shines
and sounds from around the world, dreaming of spaces and places we would all like to visit … “music is reflected in the EP through the use of spatial recording techniques, binaural panning and the simulation of reflected sound. This forms a virtual sense of depth which subtly expands, contracts and morphs around the listener, creating a spatial narrative from beginning to end.”
it will take you to another space if not another plateu
this is full of good stuff go spend and spend some time with it – boards of canada levels of introspection and wonder will await or whatever youre doing to pass the days
and Everything you do is a baloon, like Nic told me on an email on the subject of finishing tracks , let it go and dont be precious about making something perfect, let it go or release it , once its mastered its done ! Write record release
heres some tracks I made with Markus Sentics with his crunchy guitar lines under the Chessil Beach theme, Im missing the Juraissic coast alot, I watched Broadchurch recently, Dorset people ‘aint like that, Markus is a great musician I hope he puts out some tapes soon ! I miss all my friends and family I cant wait for the new year like everyone elese so I can visit people and places, peace and love if you made it this far through ramblings xxx
As I sit and write this in Malaga spain in the middle of a second wave of the Pandemic thinking about an era of clubbing seems so other worldly, the concept of attending a club or a concert or both seems so far away like a distant memory and so alien, to join with other people wand dance and to make physical movements in time with the music. That fact, this depressing fact that we have to maintain our distance is sometimes overwhelming, so with looking backward and remebering all the good times ,its with a mind set on the fact that new good times, times of group BLACK CELEBRATION, shall happen again.
My friend Manuel Dolp ( find his cosmic mixes on bordello a parigi ) took a break from partying in ilegal covid rave dens in galleries and lofts and came to stay in Malaga and escape the cold of Vienna, whilst on the beach he told me about something I never knew about Spain,we all know the Balearic story, the ibiza fou,r the same history of how the UK gave the world the gift of the RAve or the culture of staying up all night dancing to repitive beats …. this is a sketchy narative …as we know that like in Italy with Cosmic ( Baldelli / Loda) there was a huge messianic club scene that spawned its own sound and its own customs and generations of rave babies (more on the generation who are inspired by this era of experimentation in tomorows post on Valencia based FILL Lex Records) ..to focus on the early years and not the Makina sound and the degradation of the quality of the music ) , writers ( Carlos Aimeur “Destroy. El corazón del hombre es un abismo”) , DJs , muscians , promoters whose only purpose in life was the eternal dance, La Ruta , the CV-500, the road that connects many clubs and with the E15 and A7 that stretches all along the coast of Spain was the focus for the youth to seek the discos of Valencia and Barcelona much like in the UK had the M25 Orbital road system and the network of warehouses and roads spreding into the commuter belt and farm land with convoys of cars ferrying out to all night raves
Spain’s coastal road network saw ravers driving and partying for the entiriety of the weekend thereby leading to the name la Ruta Destroy , with over ten different clubs condensed into one area the road became synomous with excess and thrills but thanks to Media exposure and the sensationalism (that which fuelled but also damaged the scene ) and police control (Corcuera Law that allowed express searches caused many to flee and many prison terms )
This era like all eras and scenes eventually died..but for over ten years from the early 80s these huge clubs and concert venues like Spook , Puzzle, Barraca , Chocolate N.O.D brought people together from disparate groups to dance to the gothic sounds in the early 80s to new Belgium beats, Kraftwerk , Grauzone, Severed heads , the NEU DEuTsche welle ,
all of these import records gained the nickname fresh cod the new fresh tasty beautiful wax hence the name BACAlAO to describe new fresh music ( Lets imagine you’re under a dictatorship one day and the next a new democracy ,morals are changing , society is opening up and there are these new rhythmic sounds and northern european cold electronics are coming to visit you spelling a future , all powered by a new party drug that made you feel warm and open to new emotions and kept you dancing all night Meskalina or mesk , MDA and caffeine were the actual ingredients MDA precursor to MDMA well why what else is there in life ? DJs Like Fran Lenaers and Rafa Pastor took these joy discs and were some of the first djs to beat mix and create the non stop beat doing away with flamenco and rumba and ushering in the electronic , EBM , Industrial , NDw if it was rhythmic it was on the deck and you can hypnotize and create pure ecstacy, this attitude similar to Baldellis and other italian djs in Rimini, this attitude and DJ culture that was way ahead of most discos in the UK …
La fiesta y nada mas …for many groups this late night all night life was a shock to them, concerts by groups like Killing Joke started at 2 am with a second session at 7am ! or later with people off their heads on meskaline “”Groups like Killing Joke or Play Dead played in halls with a thousand people up to their eyebrows in mescaline, who sang their songs as if they were anthems” the essential book on all of the characters and protangists can be found here apparently and I cant wait to devour it ….Luis Costa’s Book Bacalao! details the whole story as much as can be recoreded from shady memories, including the myth of Bez coming to Valencia after hearing about the mysterious green capsules of Mescaline…more on the legacy left by this time period manana…
Bandcamp are waiving their ( small fee) so that us shut in musicians can make some Paper in these dark times …. So who should you choose to give your quarantine saved monies to ?
So its Bandcamp day ! 
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