Just after I got set up for recording 4 guys arrive with a trailer full of rubble and they begin to unload it like there's no tomorrow. Recorded with a Neumann RSM191 into a SD MixPre6 and a LOM Geofon added for extra bass. Processed and mastered to make it sound a little bigger. Just because I felt like it :)

Rubble Unload

Recording of the clockwork of Eise Eisinga's Planetarium in Franeker, Friesland, The Netherlands. A legendary marvel of self built mechanics showing the movement of the planets. More info here: https://www.planetarium-friesland.nl/en/

Thanks to the lovely staff at the planetarium for letting me record there. Heavily processed with RX to get rid of the airconditioning....

Eise Eisinga's Planetarium Clockwork

Chris Clark's music is hard to describe, but if you wanted to explain it to an electronic music fan, you might use the dreaded term "IDM" to encompass the many strange and alluring records, some frantic, some chill, the UK producer has put out through Warp over the years. We can be a bit more specific: he uses field recordings, out-there drum patterns and all kinds of hardware (seriously, there's a lot) to make make meticulously processed music, some of which you can dance to. Lately, though, he's turned his attention to classical music, scoring films and televisions shows and culminating in last year's Playground In A Lake for vaunted label Deutsche Grammophon, which featured guests like AFRODEUTSCHE and Oliver Coates and a member of Grizzly bear on a moving, string and horns-led suite about climate change.

You hear all these ideas at once on Clark's stirring RA Podcast, which features music, as he explains, from 1922 all the way to 2022. Classical rubs elbows with Burial and Ricardo Villalobos, as once familiar tracks melt into new (mis)shapes. It also features plenty of Clark originals—maybe some glimpsse of the new album? The best part isn't even the formidable selections, but the way he puts it altogether. Far from a seamless DJ mix, this one is full of peaks and valleys and clever transitions that'll make you check the tracklist and wonder what you just heard. It's the kind of all-over-the-place mix that captures the brilliance of Clark's in a DJ format. Maybe he should do this more often.

Read more: https://ra.co/podcast/823

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RA.823 Clark

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luizga electric microbigband - live in lisbon

Luiz Gabriel Lopes - Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar and Vocals
Bárbara Rodrix - Backing Vocals
Beatriz Nande - Backing Vocals
Femme Falafel - Keyboards, Piano and Backing Vocals
Theo Nasci - Percussion
Afrogame - Percussion
Jori Collignon - Synthesizers, Bass and Beats

Recorded live at BOTA (Lisbon) on November 15th 2022 by Rui Galveias
Produced by LuizGa and Jori Collignon
Mixed & Mastered by Jori Collignon at Estudio Le Garage (Palmela)

Artwork and design by Hugo Henriques

Video edited by Guilherme Becker
Cameras: Fil Pedroso, Arthuro Alves, Joana Mirra, Agnes Meng
Special thanks to: Luisa Mello, Kopal Joshy

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