Name: HyMettus Woods.Sri Violet Rainy Afternoon Plant Composition CCAG Radiophrenia 23 by HyMettus Woods
Duration: 30 min 15 s
Description: Composed by the African Violet that lives in the family kitchen. Using electromagnetic bio feedback converted to MIDI signal, the plant sings. It was a drizzly overcast but warming into spring day that delighted to violet to sing.

This month is a special one, and our first ever tandem interview — joining me for a Freerotation special are the festival’s founders @Steevio and @Suzybee. 

Influenced by the free festival movement around the UK in the 1990s, Steevio and Suzy created Freerotation, an annual gathering of music and arts which now takes place in Baskerville Hall, Wales, and has, since its inception in the mid 2000s, become one of the scene’s best loved festivals. Kept relatively small and amongst friends and friends of friends, Freerotation is known for its thoughtful curation of both DJs, live acts, and VJs, and its intimate, familial setting. 

In this conversation, Steevio, Suzy and I get into the festival’s early days and its direction and curation today, plus their own personal histories in art and music, and their distinctive creative philosophies.

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MUSIC:

Steevio - "Candescent" (2022)
Steevio - "Y Llifogydd" (2022)
Steevio - "Passive Resistance" (2022)

Purchase part one of Steevio's Dod yn ôl at fy nghoed here: https://steevio.bandcamp.com/album/dod-yn-l-at-fy-nghoed-part-1

AIR 046 / Steevio & Suzybee

Autechre - Barbican second show Oct 7 2022.m4a

Composed by the African Violet that lives in the family kitchen. Using electromagnetic bio feedback converted to MIDI signal, the plant sings. It was a drizzly overcast but warming into spring day that delighted to violet to sing.

HyMettus Woods.Sri Violet Rainy Afternoon Plant Composition CCAG Radiophrenia 23

For our 96th podcast, Brussels-based Moroccan DJ OJOO challenges listeners with her wide-eyed amalgamation of dusty dub and noise-inflected dancehall mutations – a mix that is disorienting, yet also entrancing and danceable. OJOO will perform at Unsound 2023 in Kraków this October, as part of our opening party at 89, beneath Hotel Forum.

OJOO is an artist of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union.

Unsound Podcast 96: OJOO

GHOST DUBS
DJ MIX 

Tracklist:

01 Mapstation / Ras Donovan - Gravity
02 Jaki Liebezeit / Burnt Friedmann - Secret Rhythms
03 Jan Jelinek - Dub
04 Tinkah - Thoughts 3
05 Submission - Stars
06 The Acid - feed
07 Ghost Dubs - Second Thoughts
08 Dj Take - Dub
09 Jah Schulz - Five Days in Dub
10 To Rococo Rot - Bariton
11 Levin goes lightly - Nostalgia
12 Mad Professor / Ruts D.C. - Love & Fire

GHOST DUBS

GHOST DUBS - DJ SET

Hi everyone!

This is a song I recorded in Auria in the late summer of 2014. It's 100% recorded and mastered in Auria on an iPad Air 2. (No vox, yet.)

While no recording or mix is perfect, this is pretty exactly damn close to what I was trying to achieve: a big, full wall of sound--while keeping good individual track clarity.

I went DI through my rig for most of the dozen or so guitar tracks. For a couple others (and 3 of the 6 solo tracks) I live mic'ed through the vintage Gibson practice amp.

The drums were a crappy old Alesis SR-16 that I didn't feel like re-programming. A lot of compression and limiting (plus some Drumagog-ing) made the drums sound fantastic. The claps are me--4 tracks. I found they lacked snap alone, and that smacking my leg with a ruler added the needed "thwack"!

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Instruments & Equipment:

Gretsch G5120 semi-hollow body
Ibanez EX-360
Extremely cheap and awesome P-bass clone (!)

Neotek dual-racked channel strips (preamp & EQ)
RNC Really Nice Compressor
Focusrite iTrack Dock
Blue Baby Bottle mic

Early 90'S Alesis SR-16 drum machine (heavily, heavily processed!)

1961 Gibson GS-5 Skylark amp (4W)

Monitoring & Mixing:

Sony MDR-7505 headphones
AKG K240S headphones
Yamaha NS-10M speakers
Yamaha NS-1000M speakers (circa 1978, 70lbs each--flat down to 20Hz)

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Sometime soon I hope to post an in-depth "In the Mix" breakdown of how I recorded it. 

I hope y'all enjoy this, and I'd love to hear your comments!

--Nick/millionVALVE

jANE by millionVALVE

****UPDATE****DOWNLOAD MAX REACHED****

****Big thanks to my brother Tony Rodriguez (Brothers Vibe, LUV4WAX)for the DAT player loan and the surgery on the DAT tape when it SNAPPED when we first tried to play it. You saved a piece of early TECHNO history!****

Thanks for all the comments everyone! If I was wrong on the date, I apologize, I honestly didn't think I was still going to the Limelight after 1993 and thats why I dated it earlier. 

Yes the sound quality isn't the best but like I said I snuck in a Sony portable DAT recorder and recorded it straight from the crowd from the floor level right below the DJ booth. 
While I was outside on line, the security guard frisked me at the door and was like "what the hell is that? You can't bring that in here!" I told him its just a walkman and he let me go in with it. I'm lucky to even have this bad recording to be honest.
While we were waiting for his set, Richard James walked by me and this kid I was with and the kid stopped him and asked "hey my friend snuck in a DAT recorder, can we record right from your mixer??? RDJ just laughed in his face, said NO! and walked away. Haha.

Thanks for the track IDs, that was very helpful!
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Back in the early 1990s when techno was just starting to explode in NYC, I snuck a portable DAT recorder into the Limelight nightclub when Richard James, The Aphex Twin was DJing a very rare live set. I recorded his entire 1hr set from the crowd and then put the DAT away for 25+ years. The other day with the help of my friend Tony Rodriquez (LUV4WAX)and his DAT machine, we finally made a digital copy of the set and finally uploaded it for all to hear. As far as I can remember, RDJ did only 2 live performances (one performance blew out the power to the entire club and left the place pitch black and silent for a few minutes!) and 1 DJ set at the Limelight during that time. I have never heard a live set from RDJ from the Limelight so this might be the only recording of this set (please correct me if I'm wrong, thanks!) The recording is loud and noisy just like 90s techno but I think its clear enough to enjoy. If you can ID any tracks to create a track list, feel free to post it in the comments! 

Enjoy -
Lofidelic Records

LOFIDELIC.COM
LUV4WAX.COM
BELMARSOL.COM

Aphex Twin Live at Limelight NYC MID 1990s LOFIDELIC RECORDS

NE285: Kevin Richard Martin - Retold Mix

INTERVIEW > inverted-audio.com/mix/dont-dj

Ahead of Under The Desert Stars, a unique experimental music event taking place within the alien landscape of the Moroccan desert between 27 – 29 September, @dont-dj-1 serves up over an hour of eerie, mystique-imbued groove eclecticism, ranging from spaced-out techno to sweat-inducing dancehall, through traditional Middle-Eastern rhythms and other downtempo oddities. Lock in and dream away.

Under The Desert Stars features some of the finest acts in underground experimental electronic music today including; Ario (Astral Industries), Don’t DJ, Jane Fitz, Kangding Ray, Neel, Marco Shuttle, The Transcendance Orchestra (Anthony Child aka Surgeon & Daniel Bean) and many more will join forces to soundtrack a celestial journey from sunrise to sunset.

Info → inverted-audio.com/under-the-desert-stars-2019/
Tickets → bit.ly/isotoop19-tickets

IA MIX SERIES

Interview

IA MIX 312 Don't DJ

The SYSTEM mix series from Boiler Room delves deep into the diverse and innovative sounds of the global diaspora. From Dembow to Coupé-Décalé to Mahraganat, we’ll be connecting the dots between global subcultures and highlighting exceptional new talent from every corner of planet earth. 

Who better to set standards than dancehall experimentalists Gavsborg & Time Cow, core members of groundbreaking JA collective Equiknoxx who have taken the electronic music world by storm over the last few years. With a brand new album out that signals their first step into being a fully-fledged vocal outfit, now seems the perfect time to link up with a crew whose DJ mixes are always an occasion to stop and listen. Act accordingly.

SYSTEM site: https://system.boilerroom.tv/

SYSTEM MIX 001: Gavsborg & Time Cow

Ambience and soundtracks for a better world, a dream(e)scape. 
See also Tuff S-T for new HyMettus Woods tech-no trx

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