ambient

intentions of 9v

Mika vainio

DMTEEEE

bluest friday

This hybrid DJ / Live Set was recorded in a yurt structure at the Freerotation Festival in Wales. This time my idea for the set was to take us all much further out, much deeper inside than the set from last year. A more disembodied experience. 

As I had done last year, I sat on the floor in front of the speakers to perform instead of behind them as a DJ normally does. This greatly enhanced my feeling of experiencing the set with the audience, dissolving the usual performer / audience divide. 
Below is the list of tracks that I played in addition to live improvisation using a eurorack modular system.

Many thanks to Steevio, the whole Freerotation crew and everyone who experienced it there with me.


Lars Von Trier - Intro from Europa
Henry Wolff & Nancy Hennings - Crossing the Line - Tibetan Bells III
Delia Derbyshire - Running - Inventions For Radio - Dreams
Compound Eye - Hydraulic Regime Vibrates Within - Journey from Anywhere
Coil - Copal - Moon's Milk (In Four Phases)
Cosey Fanni Tutti - Such Is Life - Time To Tell
Coil - Die Wölfe Kommen Zurück - Black Light District
William S. Burroughs - The Cat Inside: Excerpts - The Best Of William Burroughs
Jo Johnson - Words Came After Music - Weaving
Coil - Bism - Worship The Glitch
Delia Derbyshire - Colour - Inventions For Radio - Dreams
Long Distance Poison - Signal I (Drew McDowall Remix) - Gleise Translations
Coil - Caged Birds - Worship The Glitch
Coil - Magnetic North - Winter Solstice
Aphex Twin - Rhubarb - Selected Ambient Works, Volume II
Coil - We Have Always Been Here - Worship The Glitch
Jo Johnson - Long Shadow (Anthony Child remix)
Rapoon - We Danced Like Sticks - The Kirghiz Light
Alessandro Cortini - Resta - Forse 1
Delia Derbyshire - Falling - Inventions For Radio - Dreams
Compound Eye - Open Interval 1 - Journey from Anywhere
Rapoon - Dala - The Kirghiz Light
Coil - Ended - Worship The Glitch

Surgeon (ambient set) at Freerotation 2014

info and track list : http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=469
Dasha Rush is a Russian born artist who sees the genre as a starting place not a destination. She is a respected and well-travelled DJ and live performer, but her work is equally focussed away from the dance floor, and sometimes away from music itself. Her recent album for Raster-Noton, Sleepstep, could be a metaphor for her work: "These 16 pieces are transmissions from that state between sleep and wakefulness," said Tony Naylor, a reflection of the in-between zones her music often inhabits. Dubby but intense, brutal but tender, foggy yet clear—Sleepstep was a wonderful mass of contradictions. Not being one thing or the other is vitally important to Rush, which goes hand-in-hand with her strong independent streak. The majority of the music she's released since starting out in 2005 has come through her own Fullpanda label and, as she told us in 2013, she's resistant to playing the publicity game in the way many in the scene do. That's meant she's remained off the radar for some techno fans, but it's also given her the freedom to explore projects and sounds as she pleases. With all this mind, it was little surprise that our invitation to record a podcast was met with, "Yes, but it won't be a club mix." What we got instead was an absorbing 65 minutes of dense ambient soundscapes that shows Rush at her most reflective. The mix comes ahead of the North American premiere of Antarctic Takt, Rush's A/V show with Stanislav Glazov, at this week's Mutek festival in Montreal. 

More music

RA.469 Dasha Rush - An ambient odyssey.

This is the recording of a live improvisation performed at Freerotation festival in Wales.
I was seated on the floor of the yurt with the audience so as to give us the experience of travelling together.
Thanks to Steevio for making it possible and to everyone who was there experiencing it with me.

The following machines were used-
Buchla Music Easel
Electro Harmonix 45000
Strymon blueSky
Sony PCM-D50 recorder

Freerotation 2015

Anthony Child - Live improvisation at Freerotation, Wales 11th July 2015

Heijastuva

Not quite the live recording (which didn't work out), but a rehearsal recording close to the material performed. 

As with other work from this series, I would recommend listening at a relatively loud volume, in a dark room, with your eyes closed.

Dedicated to all souls lost in the GhostShip.

Surface Tension.20 2016/12/16

Gravitational Systems

Nachtzug - Unspoken

• VTX005, EP, Vinyl black, 12″, 33 rpm 
• Release date: End of June 2017

A1 - Unspoken 1
A2 - Unspoken 2
A3 - Unspoken 3
B1 - Unspoken 4
B2 - Unspoken 5

Laid back electro cuts from the Berlin based duo Nachtzug.

• Mastered by A.P / GS Mastering & Post: http://www.ghostsounds.net/GS_Mastering_and_Post.html
• Painting by Alex Harders: http://www.alexharders.net/
• Distributed by Diana Charité: http://www.dianacharite.com/

Buy here or ask your local record dealer:

Bordello A Parigi: https://bordelloaparigi.com/shop/upcoming/nachtzug-unspoken-12/
Clone: https://clone.nl/item45955.html
Juno: http://www.juno.co.uk/products/nachtzug-unspoken/648056-01/
Decks: https://www.decks.de/t/nachtzug-unspoken/c9v-58
Deejay.de: https://www.deejay.de/Nachtzug_Unspoken_VTX005_Vinyl__269177
Hhv: https://www.hhv.de/shop/de/artikel/nachtzug-unspoken-529742?p=yDJWVz
Redeye: https://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/vinyl/84272-vtx005-nachtzug-unspoken

Digital release on Bandcamp:
https://vortextraks.bandcamp.com/album/unspoken

Artist links:
Website: http://initial-gain.de/

Unspoken

Nachtzug - Unspoken (out now)

Head of Sheffield based Central Processing Unit (@cpurecords), CPSmith aka. Chris Smith, provides a remarkable hour of electro for the 8th Mechatronicast.

Having released over 50 records since its inception in 2012, CPU has been a key contributor to the electronic music scene across a broad variety of styles, and continues to generate refreshing output from established and upcoming producers.

Dive in to the CPU catalogue on http://cpurecords.net and follow @cpurecords for new sounds.

Tracklist:
1. Elecktroids - Future Tone
2. Kraftwerk - Numbers
3. Power Pill - Pac-Man
4. LFO - We Are Back
5. Q-Chip - Brain Surge
6. London Modular Alliance - The Mind is a Terrible Thing	
7. ERP - Tuga
8. Autechre - Second Scepe
9. Morphology - Dark Flow
10. Automatic Tasty - Some Future Spring (Instrumental)
11. CN - Intravenous
12. Plant43 - Tellarium Snow
13. DMX Krew - D75 Theme
14. Scape One - Recombination
15. Microlith - Dance With Me

Archive:
https://soundcloud.com/mechatronicamusic/mechatronicast-7-jensen-interceptor
https://soundcloud.com/mechatronicamusic/mechatronicast-6-naks
https://soundcloud.com/mechatronicamusic/mechatronicast-5-andrew-red-hand
https://soundcloud.com/mechatronicamusic/mechatronicast-4-dvs-nme
https://soundcloud.com/mechatronicamusic/mechatronicast-3-elena-sizova
https://soundcloud.com/mechatronicamusic/mechatronicast-2-photonz
https://soundcloud.com/mechatronicamusic/mechatronicast-1-privacy

Mechatronicast

Mechatronicast #8: CPSmith (CPU Records)

MIKA VAINIO + RYOJI IKEDA + ALVA NOTO - LIVE 2002 [N-043]

In September 2002 Mika Vainio, Ryoji Ikeda and Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai) were invited by the Baltic Centre For Contemporary Art for a residency. As a result of this project three live performances followed this research period.

All the tracks on this record were recorded live on September 23, 2002 at the Baltic Centre For Contemporary Art in Newcastle, UK.

All sounds by Mika Vainio, Ryoji Ikeda, Carsten Nicolai.

LIVE 20O2

MOVEMENT 4

MIKA VAINIO + RYOJI IKEDA + ALVA NOTO - MOVEMENT 4

We’ve been anticipating Marcel Fengler’s next date with us this coming Saturday for some time now. The IMF founder will be presenting the sound of his label in Room Two alongside FJAAK and Thomas Hessler, while Jeff Mills makes a return alongside Craig Richards and JP Enfant in Room One.

It’s a timely date for Fengler, as he also prepares for the release of his IMF10 compilation. Split across three parts, the forthcoming release features remixes and new material from a range of highly-respected producers, aimed at “detailing the past, present and future” of the imprint.

Part 1 of the compilation focusses on the deeper side of Fengler’s artistic vision, opening with experimental artist Alva Noto reworking the modern classic Sphinx. Ahead of the weekend, Fengler sent the track over to us to share as a premiere. 

Marcel Fengler brings IMF to Room Two this Saturday: fabricldn.co/s530r6

Tickets for 31/03

Premiere: Sphinx (Alva Noto Remodel) - Marcel Fengler [IMF]

Floorplan are debuting on @ausmusic next month with a brand new 10-track album called 'Supernatural', featuring the appropriately named 'Fiyaaaa!'. An opening of kicks and chords steadily builds to an incendiary crescendo of anthemic vocal cuts, distorted synths and syncopated rhythms. The Hoods never miss.

'Supernatural' is out November 8, pre-order it here: https://ausmusic.bandcamp.com/album/supernatural