Written with Acid on a Pentium 2 box I threw together, M-Audio 4x4 soundcard and maybe a couple of sticks of 256 MB RAM. Mixed down to a Sony MD Walkman via a Behringer Eurorack 802A, 5 Dec 2001.

Was probably my final recording, as Ching, before I retired from a decade pretending to be a DJ & then a DJ/Producer. 

This 14 minute sequence was commissioned for a NYE fireworks show in Byron or somewhere NNSW. Not sure that it ended up being played, but I enjoyed a few late nights tinkering on it after working at Gilhooley's.

20's in 90's, an era before video flushed the radio spa.

Jazzy Gregorians

On a balmy summers eve in February of 1997, I first met Terence McKenna over dinner in a dodgy pizzeria on the notorious nightclub strip of the Fortitude Valley. Only hours later I would mix a spontaneous soundscape for Terence as he delivered an improv spiel to an intimate audience at The Zoo in Brisbane. This file is produced from the soundesk DAT recording, mastered by Pip Theobald. It remained dormant for several years and was only recently digitised- as it took so long to find a functioning DAT player. Some noise and clicks arise from the aged tape, other glitches and abberations are less explicable...Machine Elves? I hope to edit, enhance and remaster later this year.

Aside from vinyl and CDs being mixed to create the soundscape, compositions fresh from the studio of The ApeMan (Stuart Burgess) arrived as the event was underway. Several channels were woven as an ambient landscape for Terence to traverse, leading all present on a collective journey. The current raw edit is not for distribution, I hope that it can be remastered and fused with visuals so that the message can be projected to others.

"Looking at present cultural trends and extrapolating them, it's reasonable to suggest that by the end of the Mayan calendar- which is 2012 A.D.- we will be unrecognisable to ourselves, that what we take to be our creations, computers and technology, are actually another level of ourselves." Terence McKenna. The Archaic Revival. 1991.


Terence McKenna with DJ Zippy - Live@The Zoo. Brisbane. 1997.

JustPhantasy

LongEnough

EdgeOfTheDesert

"This medication is also used to help remove earwax."
Written by Zippy with ReBirth software, 1998. Recorded at Soundhive, mastered by Ande Foster, 1999. 
Released on Dragonflight 99 Compilation. (2xCD- Soundhive. 2000) http://www.discogs.com/Various-Dragonflight-99/release/432912

# 46 on 4 ZZZ FM Hot 100, 1999. 
https://web.archive.org/web/20130430054225/https://4zzz.org.au/hot100/1999

Re-released on BNE Project, 2014.
BNE - The Definitive Archive: Brisbane Independent Electronic Music Production 1979-2014.
Transmission Communications (Trans:Com) (COM70) http://projectbne.com

Aurax

Remix of Bump by Spank Rock featuring Amanda Blank. 
Sexxed Up with Schoolly D in memory of Mr House, the Alleged Offender, DJ Hazchem, 2000.

Bump (Gangster)
[verse]
Honey, honey see me
Behind my Game Boy
I got game girl
It goes easy
Let go your shoulders
My popsicle is so sweet, see
Slam back that sparks
Don't hesitate
And you'll believe me
Ya bitch believe me, ya
(Bdeded, bdeded)
Bump…
(Too much rump in the trunk)
Now mingle shake from every angles
Regroup the hood
Gonna start by the spangle
Like Kama Sutra
I hit from every angle
Free to speak but first
'Cause your thoughts untangled
What's the look why your face all menaced
Let me to stand still
But your whole crew's tangles
Cut them off shangle
Dangle
Fuck you
Get me?
It comes straight from the hood
{Chorus}
Critique my music
Call it pop/rap/rock/funk/fusion
It's too confusin'
I do what I like
So the little pop tight
We used to call it Spank Rock
That's right Spank Rock
From the bottom, to the middle, to the middle, to the top
The hottest mother fucker in the whole damn block
Do my thing and the girls watch
[verse]
Bdededed
Bump…
Hell you can date me, take me down to the picture show
Lets rock, yo
And I'd even let you hold my hand so the whole damn world can know
If you have more of my time we can wind
To the grand old rock and roll
Things get better yet
Two-step to the dipset
Let me know when you're ready to go
I just be here with my feet up free
Rollin' this weed up
Me and my martini ain't changin'
We just stayin' the same man
And While you spritzin' and teasin'
I'll just catch up on my readin'
Fresh offa work
Button down shirt
Bad ass mother fuckin' cool jerk

[verse]
Hey yo it's me and Spank Rock
We always poppin' it hot
He gets the ladies in line
I got you ridin' my jock
I keep it dirty, not like Fergie
Ain't the Black Eyed Peas
This shit ain't happy
I'm a trashy, boastful bitch MC
My rhymes are painful and fresh
My pussy's tastin' the best
I'm face scratchin' weave snatchin'
If you're ready to step
'Cause I'm a throw down kinda bitch
I don't play around
See I cut the fuck up
And I knock the fuck down
Pussy power's got my back
They all over the place
You can't get it so you sweat it
We keep that shit laced
Two one five triple eight
We never sleep it on the beat
Can't help it if we roll
We get the players in heat
My get 'em girls
Take it, take it grab your man up like a thief
My get 'em girls
Hate it, hate it grip your bitches on a leash
My get 'em girls
Shake it, shake it break it like a dime piece
My get 'em girls
Fake it, fake it if that dick ain't sweet
See I roll my Dutch thick
I can spit my verse quick
Don't trip for this Philly shit
We keeping' it sick
We got the fly buy
I'm on the hustle and grind
And if you get us at the right time
You get it from behind
In just Chanel pumps
And throw my legs up
And if you ready you can get it anytime you want
I'm the midnight dropper
I'm the body rockin' rocker
Workin' tight all night
An Yo I'm never getting tired
Just a dirty little grin
When you dig it dig it in
Have you switch us like a stripper
When you stickin' it in
Track your system when we kissin'
Flippin' dick in when you dippin'
Lick your lips and I be drippin'
Think my shit is straight addictin'
Or in the bathroom break you off in the bed
Thigh squeezin' pussy teasin' cock
Rockin' you head
See I like my ass sassy
I keep my man happy
'Cause I ride like Kelly Bundy
Yo I keep that shit, nasty. Nasty...
Now mingle shake from every angles
Regroup the hood
Gonna start by the spangle
Like Kama Sutra
I hit from every angle
Free to speak but first
'Cause your thoughts untangled
What's the look why your face all menaced
Let me to stand still
But your whole crew's tangles
Cut them off shangle
Dangle
Fuck you
Get me?
Got it 
It comes straight from the hood
{Chorus}

Bump (TueGrand 4Eva Remix)

I started spinning vinyl in the mid-70's at family BBQ's, mashing rock into disco. I began DJ'ing & audio production at 4-ZZZ FM in 1989, inspired by avant-garde and industrial electronica. I was one of Many Anonymous DJ's before adopting the Zen inspired moniker Zippy (yes, it was the mid-90's.) 

Performed at clubs, warehouses and the great outdoors for several years. Many highlights, peaking at a collaboration with Terence McKenna for his spoken work performance @ The Zoo on the country of Turrbal & Jagera 
people (Brisbane) in '97. Always has been, always will be - Aboriginal land.

I released my first track on 1999 Dragonflight NYE CD compilation - Aurax was created with Reason on a 586, mastered at Soundhive Studios (thanks Ande.) Produced and performed as Ching before making the switch from soundwaves to photons. Many thanks to Trans:Com for inviting me to be a part of BNE project, first released in 2014 to mark their 20th and commemorate 35 years of Brisbane-based independent electronic music performance and production. 

AudioVisual fusion entity VJ Pi_Rate has been incarnated since circa 2000. Video Jamming & AV Mash performance are the ongoing focus, following a decade of visual performance along side many international artists. Honoured to have worked with icons such as Grand Master Flash, DJ Q-Bert and A Guy Called Gerald. 

Peak event production? 
Installation and operation of a 3 screen / 3 feed video creation focused for The Amorphous Androgynous live performance at Earthcore QLD in 2005- working with Gaz Cobain of Stakker Humanoid and Future Sound of London fame, a massive Life goal kicked!

Truth is stranger than fiction. 
Once, Ollie Olsen explained how his Nordic heritage manifests just before he takes stage and how it was exponentially related to the significance of the performance. This was in a mini-van just before he commenced his set at Toonumbar. 
I am unsure as to the extent that the crystal grid beneath the quadraphonic installation as impacted, but I can attest to the presence of mighty Thor! I felt a lightening strike draw through me before striking only metres away... holding a door to the Blue Bus with Raze & the Tsunami Devil.

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