Video gambling addicts, academic researchers, and industry professionals alike describe the trancelike state into which problem gamblers suspend themselves with remarkable consistency: they unanimously call it the machine “zone”, a kind of inner experience during which the rhythmic flow of human-machine collusion borders on mysticism. Time is abolished in the act of contemporary video gambling―simulated slot reels roll, virtual poker decks deal, and all worldly concerns are lost―leaving only the aura of total zone immersion in its wake. Sometimes characterized as the crack cocaine of gambling, the intensity of the machine zone is a symptom of casino ergonomics: oxygen-saturated pleasure air, subtly controlling walkways, mesmerizing lights, and, as captured here, meticulously engineered sonic environments all play a role in evoking the timeless void of the zone.
          Although I was not yet aware of the extent to which casinos tailor their environments for maximum comfort (and, correspondingly, profit), I did know as I crossed the threshold of my first casino floor earlier this year that it would not be my last visit. Hit by a cornucopia of slot machine tones, triggering aleatorically and coalescing into shimmering masses, I was struck by the need to return and record the sounds that so entranced me. It wouldn't prove to be easy―casino security is intense (you can hear me get warned of the consequences of taking photos at the beginning of the disc's second track)―and due to the clandestine nature of the operation, my recording techniques were by no means sophisticated. Equipped with nothing but an Olympus LS-11 recorder's internal microphone stashed in a sweaty coat pocket, I allowed the lure of the zone to guide me through a series of ambling recording sessions over a period of four months, the best of which are included here. 
          I learned a lot about casino sonics in the process: game designers, for example, tune their machines to the key of C in order to optimize harmonic cohesion; one team of designers, the story goes, even spent a month perfecting a single 'ding' sound on one machine. In the interest of preserving the true ambient sounds of the casino these recordings are completely untreated, but lost in the sea of chance I did exert some affirmative control by means of meandering intent and my actual playing of the machines. And by participating in the games myself I got a taste of the financially debilitating consequences that accompany the enchantment of video gambling. The disc in your hands represents my endeavor to bring you the zone experience without the harsh comedown of its unfortunate reality.

Adrian Rew: 3/31/2013 - Horseshoe Casino, Cleveland, OH

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Mix of the Week #495: DJML - A Rainy Summer Day

This is a mix of music that I have acquired outside of the usual channels… you won’t find these tracks on discogs…they come from CDRs and SD cards given to me, over the years, at shows I’ve played or workshops I’ve given, by hopeful producers, often with no contact information or artist names or song titles… other tracks were emailed to me at one time or another in the last decade, most of which have subsequently lost their metadata on the many migrations, back and forth, between hard drives and clouds and broken laptops with broken screens…in some cases I just had to make up the titles, come up with a name which I thought sounded like the music…if I’ve credited anything wrongly I apologise, please get in touch and I’ll get it changed…

The mix is constructed in the form of a triptych…like a three panelled painting by Bosch perhaps…in this case the three panels are formed by the three distinct bpms the mix moves through: 123, 132 and 140.

Remember though: BPM, and indeed Genre, are obsolete terms invented by, or springing from the western classical music tradition, i.e. the colonialist patriarchy. They are flawed and narrow-minded ways of talking about or describing music, and should be used only with disdain, an acceptance of their limitations, and a defiance of their assumptions.

TRACKLIST:

00:00		unknown – FUK U N UR KRU
02:35		Prim & Proper – triqqy disqo
04:16		Laszlo Diablo – it's just another end beginning
07:48		Magia Radulfa – las cajas están tomando el control y me gusta
11:03		        U & Y – you and why
14:48		Blames Jake – speak yr heart
17:54		N10 – I set all your chakras on fire
22:09		The RLF – last replacement bus service to transcentral
25:18		Hubble Trouble – we are all spiralling slowly into a black hole
26:59		Brokenelka – so don't give away my love
29:34		unknown – clap clap clap and clap
33:24		unknown – ramblas riddim
34:51		Hackney Youth Choir – christmas in hell
38:03		Iramarama – tanggung 2 dados
40:48		unknown – What I Learned
43:22		unknown – drinking dragon stout at 3rd bass
46:34		Vajra 3000 – elide into nothingness
49:32		16-bit Barry – theme from unmade computer game
53:45		Yerba M8 – it’s yerba time
57:24		Da Inkwizitorz – thou shall confess



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SND/NHK - Split 12" (PAN 26)
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SND '10/16' excerpt (PAN 26)

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"If I had to express it in bathwater temperatures, it'd be about 42 degrees—just right," says Foodman, real name Takahide Higuchi. In this film, Foodman peels back the curtain on his home city, showing us the performance spaces, like Club Mago and Spazio Rita, where his unique approach to music was formed. We discover a tight-knit community bound by a genre-hopping and multidisciplinary approach to the arts. We also take a detour to nearby Okazaki, where Foodman visits a shop operating at the intersection of music and fashion.

Tracklist:
01. 名古屋の別天地     (*Foodman edited a local cm song.)
02. Foodman  - mizuburo
03. Free Babyronia - Massive Gravity 
04. woopheadclrms - I will not do I will not do I do it
05. Fri珍 - KAIZEN
06. Contagious Orgasm - Point Of Puzzle
07. Baptisma - Hash#1
08. Methodd - Isewan
09. OBRIGARRD - xavier
10. RAMZA - SHILOH
11. ikoan-abustam - クロール

Foodman's Nayoga mix

00:00 Bass Clef – Switched-on Monastic Trio
03:11 Bass Clef – Walworth Road 5-Me0-DMT Re-skull
07:35 P&P – Jack Your Ripper
11:59 Bass Clef – Electricity Comes From Other Planets (Oort Cloud edit)
16:07 Bass Clef – Hackney-Detroit-Pluto
21:34 Ruby Regnbue – 0h 2 B In Love Again
25:24 ECHT? – Dromen Stromen Onder De Maas
27:51 Limehouse Crew – Hawksmoor U Know The Score
32:39 Alcázar – (Going To Give You) Magic
36:52 Happamat Ystäville – Ilman Sinua Kauan Kova Talvi
40:44 Bass Clef – Fluorescent City, Shining City
44:51 László Diablo – Cumbia Para Un Corazón Roto

Dummy Mix 138 // Bass Clef

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