Archive for July, 2007
artist: gun’n'bombs genre: electro-house
i hate sub-genres because i enjoy stumbling all over town trying to find something i may like, but usually don’t. because good music is good music, right?
nope
it is not
let me demonstrate. i am fairly confident that my neighbors will HATE me if go over to their house and pop in any tape of Throbbing Gristle or Decapitated. hey music is music. i think this stuff is great, as in super great. conversely if they come over to my house and put anything with fergie in it, knives out. the problem is that my neighbors and i have completely different relative views of what good music is. that is ok, we can all get along. the beautiful thing about music is that it is so diverse nowadays. so why not differentiate it with language so that people like you and me don’t have to listen to music we really don’t like.
let me reiterate, the reason sub-genres are great is so that you don’t waste 6 bucks parking, an hour or so getting to a place only to discover that it is something completely undance-able (or conversely if you’re into more experimental beats, completely trite, boring). wouldn’t it be nice if someone could explain to you in a more precise way what was happening across town. most musicians / djs simply delegate their sets as “hard to describe” and/or “really fun, dance party!”. the reality is that everyone is just going to say their shit is non-stinky. maybe it is the german in me but i like having at least a little bit of info of whats going on in the field before i dive in. the major reason i say this is because there is so much to do in this town (if you are open minded) besides just going to a bar or house party and listening to loud music you don’t like.
just to be clear, there are going to be people out there that will say: “man, i only listen to breaks/drumnbass, if it ain’t got breaks i’m just not into it”. ok these people were close minded to begin with, the ain’t gonna like what you got anyway (unless it has breaks). these people also in my opinion give sub-genres a bad name. BTW, i like breaks and good DnB in digestible quantities.
anyways, i welcome anything that can help prevent me from stumbling into yet another 80s dance party in a bedroom with 6 people (5 dudes, 1 girl) jumping around to someones crappy home stereo being relegated as the PA. especially if i could be out somewhere else watching a great band, dj or live pa act. see, accurate sub-genres can be good.
| Fri, July 27, 2007 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Music will be going on inside and outside. Plan to dance. I’ll be holding down the great outdoors with kusser and friends (Lovebones, Daetron Vargas) . Jenn will be gone so it will be me armed with an octopad and vocoder.
Kusser has been posting those mixes online everyweek. If you like what you hear he will be going on at 11.
WWW.TARADELONG.COM
there are a couple of tracks for download on her site…check them out!!!
B I O G R A P H Y TARA De LONG Tara De Long is a rapper and musician that represents rap’s new generation of independent hip-hop defined by faster beats and rebellious lyrics. Tara moved to NY from Illioni directly after highschool and immeditely became a force in the downtown music and art scences. She teamed up with DJ Snax (Paul Bonomo) together they formed New York city‘s original lo-fi hip hop group Bedroom Productions. The duo was known for their legendary infectious live sets that pushed the boundries of music performance and politics. Tara organized an influential weekly party and musical showcase named Rotten Teeth which pulled together an international array of like minded acts such as Alec Empire,Khan, psuedo german girl group Geschwindigkeit . Introducing these acts to NY helped shape New York’s late 90’s downtown music scene. Rotten Teeth evolved and Tara took the event to a larger audience creating and curating the PS1 Institute for Contemporary Art Warm- Up series. A hugely popular summer weekend series held in the musumes large outdoor court yard. Tara’s final performance at this series was created in response to police brutality in New York City was censored and shut down by the New York City Police department. Rollingstone referred to it as one of the top moments of censorship in the 1990s. European techno legand Can Oral aka Khan was ann early supporter of Bedroom Productions and released two LP‘s on his obscure independent label El Turco Loco. Bedroom Productions, selftitled debut 1998 and Fast Cars Fast Women 2000. These CD featured the underground classic such as : Socialism New York City . Money Star Hustle, and “ Mariposita and No Es Ese Tipo de Fiesta. Other releases include: This is How We Roll these days: Hotel Lotte Cologne, Black Sabbath Riot Remix :El Turco Loco, Blood on The Passport Matador On various compilations. These CD’s created an international fan base and lead to many european tours head linging in Cologne, Berlin, Paris, Zurich and Barcelona. In the summer of 2002 Tara moved to Mexico City and started collaborating with arist Daniela Rossell on the highly contrversial photo/ video project Ricas y Famosas.“ which documented the amazing excese of richest families in Mexico. While in Mexico she released Soy Machina a groundbreaking feminit cumbia on Epic records and recorded her solo conceptual dancefloor drop You Do the Math was released in 2004 on Hanin Elias of Atari Teenage Riots‘s Fatal Recordings. A conceptual storybook look at the evils of consumerism and capitalism,platic surgery and the pharmaceutical drugging of a nation Tara Currently resides in NYC where she is working on her follow up album Natural Causes.
artist: the clouds genre: west coast style house
fuck it, i like this ohm record style stuff. on top of that I have no idea who this group is, i got this off a fat jon comp. they had a couple tracks on there, all good.
artist: Morgan Geist & Jeremy Greenspan (junior boys) Genre: synth pop
junior boys singer makes this cut a great synth pop endeavor. early eighties new wave synth pop lovers should enjoy. i listen to it over and over and over.
that brings up another topic, why is it that when rock/metal critics talk about electronic music they frequently write it off in a derogatory sense as being “80s”. YET, most hard rock, heavy metal and punk music has been digging up its shallow grave from the 70s with little to NO change. one could argue further back, i digress. the one exception would be the mastering quality is a much better, the material more plentiful and thoroughly explored. ahhh, the advantage of cheap audio recording equipment.
so why do rock critics write off electronic music with derogatory statements when the music they listen to, IMHO, is just as guilty if not more so. maybe they are ignorant? i’ll just roll with that because it is nicer than saying anything else.
it should be noted i’m also a black/doom/death metal fan in doses. Isis and Decapitated get rotation in winamp.
the music industry is not known for its creativity and most of the things people praise as being creative really are not or are just forgettable (history is the ultimate judge). on that note i’m going to plugin my vocoder and make eighties music.
| Sat, July 21, 2007 | ||
| 9:00 pm |
HEY I DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THIS SHOW, BUT IT’S LITERALLY BEEN BROUGHT UP TO ME LIKE 10 TIMES BY 10 DIFFERENT PEOPLE SO THIS SEEMS TO BE THE HOT SHIT SHOW FOR TONIGHT. CYA THERE!!!! -JG
artist: printed circuit genre: vocoder magic
claire does all her own music and stuff. so check it. she seems to be making documentary about the local DIY music scene too.
THIS IS THE TRACK THAT’s GOING TO BE IN MY CRATES FOR A BIT…CHECK IT OUT!!!!
SOME PRESS QUOTES:
” More essential than vitamin C”
- NME
“Personally, I’m quite prepared to be slightly alarmed in the name of such a good cause… ”
- Drowned in Sound
“The boundless energy of Axl Rose with the compelling singularity of Kate Bush”
- i-D
“I’ve not once seen a performance where they didn’t put the other bands on the bill to shame”
- NME
“It’s music like this that makes me wish i knew how to dance like Napoleon Dynamite.”
- Artrocker
“Doing to the humble pop stage what hurricane Katrina did to New Orleans”.
- Less Common
“Modern scream crossbreeds of colourised fifties rock’n'roll and tribalized dance beats”
- Plan B
“Blending music and performance art into one beautiful listening experience.”
- Discorder
“Music to dance to, or to see in a blurry sunrise after trashing your friend’s new flat”
- One Week to Live
“many have tried but few can rock a synth this hard…hype this up to all your friends. I beg you.”
- BigStereo
| Wed, July 25, 2007 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
dubnautica doing a live electronic set with digeridoo from 9-10.30
plus visuals all night…
artist: modeselektor genre: eurocrunk
this is a long way from their pseudo minimal idm beginnings.
along with justice : the party, this seems like perfect house party music. but i don’t dj any longer so i guess i’ll need to wait 5 years to hear it. of course this ain’t directed at anyone that reads this blog because you actually seek out new stuff. oh, well i kinda hate lame stand around looking bored eighties house parties anyway. “so what line of work are you in?” although once i did meet a dude with an accordion that could play master of puppets and round and round at a lame house party. that was righteous. fuck that, we are on the downward slide to an iceage. what? madagascar titties. yeah!
artist: holLand genre: indie synthpop
that shirt is that shirt. bit more on the light indie tip. once again digging this song up let me see he has some new stuff out. i guess i need to post more stuff like this.
| Fri, July 27, 2007 | ||
| 9:00 pm |
What:
Austin MPC Club and Collective 1st Meeting
When:
Friday July 27th
Where:
Music Lab (Oltorf) Room #15 from 9pm-midnight-ish
Who:
Free of cost. Open to the public.
This event is intended as a meeting place for local and visiting MPC users and enthusiasts. It is encouraged that you bring your MPC as there will be a large mixing board of everyone to plug into. Other samplers are welcome, but the focus is on Akai MPC models. Please bring samples and blank storage devices (external scsi drive, zip, flash card, floppy, etc) for sample sharing and swapping.
Updates available at www.myspace.com/austinmpc
artist: gene hunt genre: detuned house
this is off the old release, i’ll snag the new stuff next month. I like the way everything on this album slides, wavers and is slightly detuned.
check the new digitalism bbc essential mix - great stuff.
http://www.newmixes.com/digitalism_-_essential_mix-sat-07-15-2007.html
I’m listening to right now, it quite fun.
| Thu, August 2, 2007 | ||
| 10:00 pm |
anywho, the guy from hipnautica is pretty cool.
NO Cover, free, show starts at 10pm and features:
Carbon
Rage Ranger
Hipnautica
| Fri, July 20, 2007 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
It will be a great time as always! Presale tickets available at www.myspace.com/mashupatx
Presale: $30
At the boat: $35
Don’t be a scrooge! It costs cash to have a blast! And see some of the dopest DJs in town!!
artist: new young pony club genre: electro-clash
electro-clash is not really electro, and vice-versa. oh well. another musical description is absconded away with. don’t feel bad it happened to countless others (punk, industrial, country).
here is the van she rmx
| Sun, July 15, 2007 | ||
| 11:00 pm |
so there will be some great stuff happening this sunday night.
at plush, gomi and kangeroo are doing electro-clash / electro-house and whatever.
same style you heard at the bridge party last weekend.
three doors south at beauty bar lazaro casanova will be doing similar stuff, ian orth opening with others. once again there has been no widespread promotion of this stuff. weird.
either way fans of what ruled WMC last spring should check it out. I’ll stay in tonight and save it for tomorrow.
artists: susumu yokota genre: space disco
yeah weird stuff, overdriven everything. has this hard feel to it, disco usually has more swing. strange. he has a LOT of other stuff and monikers. here is just one older selection i happen to like. man those japanese really can kick ass.
well, except this one.
so the proposed new rates that internet radio stations will kill everything that I listen too (dirtyradio, somafm, kexp…). Most likely if you have constant acces to high speed internet, then you will be affected.
I’ve already contacted my state rep, everyone else should too. This feels like a thing that will affect normal people a lot more than people like me (i’ve always thrived on finding stuff via an underground conduit). It just means I’ll go back to more subversive ways of finding new music. I guess I live at one end of the bell curve, which end? Like I was saying: NORMAL people should be the ones freaking out, unless you happen of the ripe old age of 5 (people under five can really relate to broadcast radio, read target audience). People who don’t make it their hobby to devote a big chuck of their life just to find new music should really think about talking to their rep. Spending hours on saturday night digging thru the virtual bins doesn’t appeal to most. Maybe they have more important things on their plate like a wife, child or a life. Wouldn’t it be nice to just go somewhere on the web and find music I like, oh yeah you can LastFM and Pandora. Once again these sites don’t do much for me because I dig for fun. As the french would say during WWI concerning the massive german troop invasion through Belgium: “so much the better for us! (crate diggers)”. Unless you consider 4 years of trench warfare and entire generation through the meat blender good, yeah it will be better.
Goddamn I hate words.
Just to piss em off here is some Metallica,
ok I would except all my Metallica is on cassette tape from the eighties where they will should stay.
and this blog is called electronic austin.
| Sun, July 15, 2007 | ||
| 10:00 pm |
artist: legowelt genre: electro-clash
this is an oldie. it sure made its way onto many a mix track. maybe next week i’ll post vitalic.
artist: cursor minor genre: electro
I have no idea what these guys are thinking. Fans of electro should at least check out their stuff, it is fun. Good to listen to while coding too.
usually I don’t post more than one track but I had to put the van halen cover up.
Since it was a Holiday week, I took all the posted tracks from the last 2 weeks for this mix.
yo here’s some of what i have from last night need more please. i know merrick has some, & so dp a few others. please send them to us so we may post them. last night WAS OFF THE FUCKING HOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!
THANKS
Here’s a Live Test mix for the show at the Copa on July 27th with DJ Irdbisa, Kusser and others.
Fleshing out ideas.
Some repetition, test mash-ups, downtempo, hip-hop, etc
My Radio - close myspace, it sucks the life out of me. no really.
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