Name: NOISE LEVEL - Soaked in Dub by Noise Level
Duration: 3 min 21 s
Description: The title track from Noise Level's 2013 release. "Soaked in Dub."

atmospheric dub - just the way I like it - welcome to the team!!

We probably don't need to tell you who Deadbeat is. (He even did a previous RA Podcast for us, all the way back in 2007.) But if you need a refresher, he's one of the most important and revered artists in dub techno. The Canadian artist came up in the Montreal scene alongside other trailblazers like Akufen and other Canadians (think Cobblestone Jazz, Mathew Jonson, Wagon Repair, etc). His early records for ~scape are some of the most classic and influential minimal there ever was, but dub is always at the heart of his work, and runs in the veins of BLKRTZ, the prolific label he runs himself.

Sa Pa, on the other hand, sits somewhere in the ambient zone. Originally from Adelaide, he's found a powerful creative sparring partner in Deadbeat. The two released their first album together, The Mountain, earlier this year. It's the 50th release on BLKRTZ and maybe one of the most monumental records in either artist's catalogue, a triple-LP that harks back to the hypnotic, plink-plonk days of yore with the strong cross-genre underpinning that marks Deadbeat's work these days, and plenty of lovely atmospheric wiggles.

The duo's lengthy RA Podcast, taken from two different recordings at their Absurd Dub Lustre party in Berlin, mirrors the LP's sound, weaving through tracks new and old. It's full of warm, dubby vibrations and smooth transitions.

Read more: http://ra.co/podcast/836

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RA.836 Deadbeat & Sa Pa

Whilst recently digitising my tape archive I came across this one from Geff/John Balance of Coil, with whom I frequently exchanged music. It features this one solitary track which I believe he gave me to play out at my Electronic Lounge club that I ran at the Institute of Contemporary Arts London in 1994.

The other side features remixes of the band Stabbing Westward tune 'Lies' but don't believe this has anything to do with Coil. I just think Geff was recycling a tape that was lying around in the studio. This seems to be an alternative mix of ELpH - Static Electrician, longer than the released version.

I share it with you out of respect to the memory of great people no longer with us, and ask that you don't try to profit by making money out of this. Gift culture can make others happy :-)

Coil - For Robin

A set of moody, minimal and ambient selections, international in scope. We also placed a track from our forthcoming album somewhere in the mix. Enjoy! 

Fall 2015 Mix

This piece is an attempt to find the grounded,  the earthy connections between us and the planet, something that's disappearing all too quickly. I've always like the idea of shamanism from the perspective of it being someone who wants to go beyond the normal experiences of living and into uncharted territory. I'm aware of the irony of using a totally electronic base from which to do so,  but I find these tools give me far greater access to the sounds I hear in my imaginings, so in a way, they are grounded. I really wanted the percussion to drive this work, so loaded a number of ethnic type drums into Redrum and Kong in Reason to make all my drum tracks.  All synths, but one, are Zebra and Synthmaster, my 2 favourites the last few months. I feel so lucky to live in a time when these types of tools are available to me and that we have sites like this to expose our music to others.

The Spectral Shaman

 an improvisational live performance by Kim Cascone, Richard Chartier, and Taylor Deupree recorded at micro_mutek 2, Montreal, 04/2001. (surprisingly, i was actually the rhythmic unit on part of this)

Cascone + Chartier + Deupree / LIVE Micro Mutek 2001

Tower B

01 HEIMVEGEN

This is the second episode of the Disquietude podcast of ambient electronic music. (There’s an odd little glitch at the opening, but otherwise it seems to sound good.) 

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/disquietude/id1217642132

Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/marc-weidenbaum/disquietude-ambient-podcast

RSS: http://disquietude.libsyn.com/rss

All seven tracks of music are featured with the permission of the individual artists or their record labels. More information at disquiet.com/podcast0002. Below is the structure of the episode with time codes for the tracks:

00:00 theme and intro

01:42 Naoyuki Sasanami's "Winter"

05:12 Geneva Skeen's "Ambivalence"

10:42 Jeenan Dara and Jherek Bischoff's "Jherek"

17:46 R. Beny's "Basin"

23:21 Bana Haffar's "Memoriam"

30:27 Scanner's "Captiva 7"

35:44 Yann Novak's "Surroundings (Excerpt)"

44:22 track notes

49:18 essay on room tone

51:50 outro

53:19 end

Thanks for listening.

Produced and hosted by Marc Weidenbaum. Disquietude theme music by Jimmy Kipple, with vocal by Paula Daunt. Logo by Boon Design.

Disquietude 0002

Disquietude Ambient Podcast 0002

Khaliphonic’s eighth release is an absolutely unique seven track full length LP of beautifully focused outer dubwise excursions by some of our favorite artists.  “Sounds From The Well: Collection 1” hauls in a net of captivating left-of-center sound system music rooted in or in some way influenced by the music of the Mediterranean or the Maghreb, the Near East or North Africa.  An immersive journey from start to finish, this is one for the headphones as well as the sound system.   

Gulls & XJ mangle gasbah flute-heavy rai vibes for a journey into trance-inducing Algerian funk. 

Dubmonger & LXC build a sparkling, crunching, head-nodding beast that marries boom bap and Arabesque keyboard meanderings.  

Sonza’s abstract chamber jazz builds from ambient abstraction to a mesmerizing, plaintive, percussion heavy masterwork of Anatolian dub vibes.

Alter Echo & E3 indulge their love of psychedelic dubwise with a riddim indebted to the reggada of Morocco,   that sounds like nothing if not a night journey through a desert by moonlight.

The increasingly elusive El Mahdy Jr graces us with a gorgeous track of rhythmic complexity and emotional weight. 

The album is bookended by two early, unreleased string quartet & percussion recordings by the legendary Badawi, lush and ominous, recently transferred from their 20th Century tape masters.

Available worldwide mid-August.  Limited to 500 copies, vinyl LP only, no digital, no repress.  Art & design by Polygon Press.  Mastered by Lewis at Stardelta.

A1 - Badawi: No Prisoners
A2 - Gulls & XJ: Medjool 
A3 - Dubmonger & LXC: 101 Delaytionz
A4 - Sonza: Untitled

B1 - Alter Echo & E3 - Rif Mountains Dub
B2 - El Mahdy Jr - Love At Last Sight
B3 - Badawi: Kanun

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