Matt Shadetek just wrote up an article for Dubspot where he explains my theory of Speed Dating. This is where you make lots of quick sketches and then only finish the best ones. This way you don't get stuck trying to "solve" some problem with a track when the truth is the track's whole energy and fate was determined in the first few minutes.
He explains it quite well and talks about how he and Rupture write together.
one ! thx for the shoutout. another benefit of this is that you can take more risks and try something outside of your comfort zone, because you know its only 20-60 mins effort, and you don't have to marry her. and its a pleasure to have hundreds of strange little sketches in your pocket.
downside is that you can get addicted to the rush of initial creation and you avoid finishing them.
if you're cool keith then you just sell them to some gullible label and they have to edit the things together to try to get their money back.
if you're
Another benefit of this is that you can take more risks and try something outside of your comfort zone, because you know its only a 20-60 mins effort, and you don't have to commit. Humans cannot be at play if they are worried about longer term consequences. Also its a pleasure to have hundreds of strange little sketches in your pocket.
The downside is that you can get addicted to the rush of initial creation and you avoid finishing anything. Wow do I have a lot of cool unfinished tracks and unreleased material. Its depressing when I think about it that way, really.
I should release a sketch album, but iTunes would charge 99c per track. Only an album would make sense.
If you're Kool Keith then you just sell them to some gullible label and they have to edit the things together (and replace the beats) to try to get their money back.
if you're J Dilla then you call them Donuts, each one very short and containing a world of genius. Then you pass into the afterlife, somebody else does a bit of editing and we all sit back and dwell on the innate perfection of the ephemeral.
Luv ‘n Liv - Dub Gabriel featuring U-Roy (DAC 009)
Straight outta Kingston Jamaica via San Francisco and beyond, Luv ‘n Liv is the first single to drop from Dub Gabriel’s upcoming 4th studio album, The Cut Up. Featuring the mighty Dread in a Babylon, U-Roy (The Originator), Luv ‘n Liv lays testament to all that can be when you put a reggae legend in the same room as one of America’s leading producers of nu-dub.
With the original hook-up coming through none other than Scientist himself, U-Roy & Dub Gabriel went deep in Mark Pistel’s (Hercules & The Love Affair/Meat Beat Manifesto) Room 5 studio and emerged with Luv ‘n Liv. To round things out, DG enlisted David J of Bauhaus and Love & Rockets to hold down the bass, and Ysanne Spevack on strings who was fresh from her recent work with the Smashing Pumpkins. The outcome is pretty epic if we say so ourselves.
Bridging the living roots of dub to the future-present world of dubstep, DG also brought in some of the hottest producers in the game to remix the track, including Ming (Ming & FS), Subatomic Sound System (following up on his highly successful remix for Lee “Scratch” Perry), Lloop (The Agriculture Records) and Timeblind (Tigerbeat 6). Finally, for all those who crave a good dosage of roots, Dub Gabriel brings things back down to earth with a soulful version of Luv ‘n Liv backed by none other than Yellowman’s original Sagittarius Band. Respect!
Achtung Taxifahrers ! Radio - that thing that you hear when you are in the taxi. I'll be playing on it on the newly set up Herbstradio UKW-Frequenz 99,1 MHz this Friday night in Berlin.
On Thursday, no wait ... right now ! 1 AM Thurs Sept 17 : they are playing Rupture's excellent Mudd Up! show (originally broadcast on WFMU), DJ Zhao at 3 am, Awesome Tapes from Africa at 4, Hakim Bay & Bill Laswell
as you perceive "time" in your village:
Beijing Sat 5:00 AM Detroit * Fri 5:00 PM Kathmandu Sat 2:45 AM (its true) Kingston Fri 4:00 PM London * Fri 10:00 PM (they have to be difficult) Los Angeles * Fri 2:00 PM Mexico City * Fri 4:00 PM Minneapolis * Fri 4:00 PM Montreal * Fri 5:00 PM Moscow * Sat 1:00 AM Mumbai Sat 2:30 AM New York * Fri 5:00 PM New Delhi Sat 2:30 AM (sure why not?) Rio de Janeiro Fri 6:00 PM Toronto * Fri 5:00 PM
I'm working on a remix right now of a track by Maga Bo called Ransom. He recorded this Masinqo player while he was traveling in Ethiopia and wrote a track around it.
Now I'm doing a remix for a digital release. The other mix is going to be by Pacheko (Venezuela, whose been sending me some nice dubstep tracks recently that I've been playing out).
So today I'm wanting to study up, conceptualize the relationship of the elements and energies.
I google "Masinqo in Ethiopia" and check out this YouTube video. Hmmm, Ethiopians always have such healthy skin, such an attractive country. There was that one girl in my German class... Wait up... this is a Maga Bo video, that's my guy !
Wikkid. Whenever I do a remix with a vocalist or musician I feel like I'm hanging out with them anyway, the two of us sitting around the speakers. Pleased to meet you Eritbu ! I really like how Maga Bo has done these collaborations.
ok, back to work
update: Actually its not the same guy. Endres Hassen is the Masinqo player for Ransom. Maga Bo also did other recordings of Eritbu aka Solomon.
My mix is done ! Gabiel Cyr aka Teleseen has also done a mix and there is a possibility of a UK vinyl release. Digitial for sure, stay tuned.
My very good friend Christian "Society Suckers" and myself are headed out tomorrow to his hometown Chemnitz, originally known as Karl Marx Stadt. Frank Brentschneider is also from out there (actually the whole Raster-Noton label). Its one of those East German towns that I've always wanted to go check out.
I'm quite looking forward to it. The occasion is a club event put on my Geroyche for his birthday. Geräusch means "noise" in German. As usual it took me a while to notice that it probably wasn't his real name. I also didn't notice Errorsmith ("Aerosmith") and the other day while talking with "DJ Wattsriot":http://earconditioning.wordpress.com/ (a splendid gentlemen, let me assure you) I mentioned L-Vis 1990 and suddenly it dawned on him ... "Elvis". Yep, its hiding right under your nose. That's what you get for reading blogs and not hanging out with real people.
I took the picture in Peru on the very touristy street in Lima.
Sweden last week was splendid. Highlights for me were Group Doueh (psych rock from Western Sahara), Omar Souleyman (Syria), Konono No 1 (Congo), El Hijo de la Cumbia (Argentina), the aforementioned DJ Wattsriot (Tenerife) and of course Kode 9 who ended Friday night with a jungle rinse out. I played a lot of UK Funky, Funk Carioca, Kuduro, Dubstep, but mostly bits of this and that on the edges.
I'm going to assume Chemnitz don't want no UK Funky.
I've been posting on twitter and all over the place really, but not blogging. I figured blogging was for writing something with substance. You know, the kind nobody reads because they are too busy. Twitter is good to force me to be exact and quick. Plus, its just the punchline and I always love the punchline.
OK, I'll get back into this, post about all my upcomings.
To start things off: I won't be in Mulhouse tonight. Amadou from CIAfrica had booked me and Rupture, but only Rupture will play due to reduced budget. I'll be there in Sept or something, or possibly doing something in Basel.
Gotheburg, Sweden next week and Chemnitz the week after that.
Stay tuned. Oh, and I'll try to be funny again. I know you like that.
There was a really good track — Martyn's Natural Selection — that was out on vinyl only, no MP3 release at the time. I really wanted to play it so I just ripped 20 seconds from boomkat's online preview and looped it. There was an occasional quiet beep over the top of it but it sounded kind of cool.
so now it seems that boomkat has increased the volume of the beep.
I did some track around the period of Bloatware using Cycling 74's Pluggo. they had these beeps every 30 seconds. I used so many plugins that the beeps all came at different times and through different layers of processing. It sounded wonderful. Josh was going to put it out. The irony being that Josh ran the record label Orthlorng Musork and also worked for the company (Cycling 74) whose software I stubbornly refused to pay for.
I'm not sure if this is spam or art. Its doing a replacement word by word of a single randomly picked blog post. In this case I can tell that its matt shadek's post about a mix he released. Its smart because it picks up lots of related high interest words and so ended up in my blogsearch net.
It may be research for spam/hack related stuff, but more likely its burroughs type art. It seems to be doing little hops using a thesaurus.
Drop the Lime -> Droop the Lemon ! Team Shadetek -> Troupe Shadetek, Crowd Shadetek Form of Government Riddim Jon E Cash -> Jon E Defrayment Black Ops -> Malignant Ops New York -> More York Gully Slime -> Creek Smudge
What's cool about this is that its only understandable and funny if you know the codes that are being distorted here. In my case this is myself and many of my friends being distorted. (Luca is now going to be known as Droop the Lemon from here on in)
a Gully is the water run off channels that go throughout Kingston. the poor areas are on the Gullies, and its equivalent to Ghetto. Gully Slime is like 'hood rat and there's a really weird sounding riddim from a few years back called Gully Slime (with some nasty digital feedback on it. Ding Dong - Sashi Cool was my fave version). That becomes Creek Smudge which is just so ... Minnesota.
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word. I claim dibs on all of these titles. all of them.
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Tracklist (there are deciding vote ice rink gamble, I’s shaping hone for mp3 thread):
Replace’t Live- Tanya Stephens (Matt Shadetek Remix) [Unreleased) 02. Untitled - Matt Shadetek (Unreleased) 03. Bumbaclat Badman - Chronik move. Skepta, Wiley & Esco (Considerable Dem Records) 04. Skynet Riddim - Matt Shadetek (Grand-Besmirch) 05. Traipse Alterum Adrift Remix- DJ Unk coup. Andre 3000 & Jim Jones (Koch Records) 06. Satisfy Themselves- Jon E Defrayment(Malignant Ops) 07. Pass along Untroubled- Timeblind (Unreleased) 08. Unreasonable Stripe- Doff The Trawl(Unreleased) 09. Vans - The Cast(Fun) 10. Form of government Riddim- Matt Shadetek (Impart-Tar) 11. Bear reign- Crowd Shadetek exploit. Skepta (Poll-Style) 12. Gave Ethical self Totality My Blow- Matt Shadetek triumph. Jahdan (Unreleased) 13. Separating - Tribe Shadetek move. Jammer (Creek-Smudge) 14. Cassava Riddim - Matt Shadetek (Unreleased) 15. Better self Told Alterum- Advantageous Buffet thing. 77Klash 16. Untitled - Timeblind (Unreleased) 17. Japan - Plastician (Terrorhythm) 18. Edulcorate Harder- Downslide The Purse seine(Broklyn Beats) 19. Public report- Troupe Shadetek(Bagpipe-Quill)
The unmixed ingredients from Rupture and Shadetek’s Solar Life Raft. Including two tracks by me: Coltan and Cassiterite and Space Cadet (which came out on last year’s 12” on Version)
I’ve been waiting/yearning for Coltan and Cassiterite to come out for much of last year. I was about to release it myself just to relieve my own tension waiting for it. Anyway, its on a good home: The Agriculture and the reviews have been great so far.
The title refers to two of the minerals that are mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo and are components in portable electronics like cel phones. Its one of the unfortunate driving forces behind continuing warfare among the militias in the Rwanda/DRC border area.
Avail at boomkat: http://➯.ws/⚥ SLR in 320kMP3 and Flac
more zim$ weirdness: they don't have coins so they use the SA Rand at 10:1, so 1 rand is 10 cents. but bank rate is 7:1 4 months ago
made it to harare. its almost exhausting how friendly people are. not complaining tho. 4 months ago
@romyilano many countries use USD on a large scale: vietnam, peru. ATMs in peru can dispense euros, soles or USD. ATMs in zim give USD 4 months, 1 week ago
chaos when zim switched to USD: monthly electricity bills converted using "official" not real street exchange rate = $700 USD per month 4 months, 1 week ago
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Matt Shadetek just wrote up an article for Dubspot where he explains my theory of Speed Dating. This is where ...
Achtung Taxifahrers ! Radio - that thing that you hear when you are in the taxi. I'll be playing on ...