coming up later this month…

third time in london in four weeks, ooft.

Thanks to those people who came down to the STATE event last weekend – it was rammed, and technical issues aside i played a pretty frenetic dj set to a lot of very very drunk people. Good to meet some new people and put faces to others ive hitherto only met online.

Anyways…doing it all over again on Friday, back down for Plex at Corsica Studios for a dj/live set alongside a frighteningly good lineup. flyer below.

The site is sslowly recovering from it’s death of a few months ago; however i couldnt recover most of the pages. I still need to redo the dicography section, press section, and pages for all the releases. They’re coming, but not for a bit (maybe i should hurry up though as apparently i have more visitors than ever before – hello to you)

For those in London, I’m playing a dj/live set (basically a dj set augmented with bits of new material performed live on my shiny new NI Maschine) at STATE, at The Russian, Kingsland Rd tonight, alongside Paul White and Ikonika. I’m doing a special AV set accompanied by Jitter visuals courtesy of my erstwhile Marcia colleague Bryan- a taster of the new DVD album we’re working on. Should be special.

There’s masses of stuff on during the night as well so I’m expecting a good one. We’re on at 3am.

state website

Time for a new mix. This one I finished in December last year but had been holding back on it for Plex to use as promo material for their night on 5th Feb (see further down for more details). They’ve started to disseminate it through their own channels now so I’ll link it up from here.

It’s a bit, umm, zeitgeisty for me, more dubstep and that stuff that isn’t dubstep but comes from the same template (Untold, Pearson Sound etc) as well as some techno. Its also really really long, so split in to two parts, and in a way has a lot of my favourite records of last year on there so acts as a sort of best of ‘09 thing to. Theres a couple of exclusives from the new Numbers label on there too, I’ll let you find them out.

Anyway. Please leave a comment with your thoughts, and enjoy the mix.

Liquid Dictation Part 1 Part 2

Tracklist:

pt1
A Made Up Sound – Rework
Scuba – Speak
M500 – Starlight (Echospace Unreleased mix)
Ralphie Rosario – In The Night
Unknown – Idle Hands 001A
Alva Noto – Planet Rock remix
Ragga Twins – Shine Head (Ramadanman remix)
Softballet – No One Lives On Mars (Even Longer mix by Carl Craig)
Pearson Sound – Plsn
Pangaea – Memories
F – Phase One
Wax – 10001B (Panamax remix)
Robert Hood – And Then We Planned Our Escape
2562 – Kontrol
Zomby – Digital Fauna
Scuba – Negative
Isomer Transition – Landing Near The Centre
Cooly G – Weekend Fly
Actress – Ivy May Gilpin
Shackleton – It’s Time For Love

pt2
Shackleton – It’s Time For Love
Shortstuff – Progression
nsi. – Squelch
Pearson Sound – Wad
Redinho – Bare Blips
A Made Up Sound – Disconnect
2562 – Lost
El-B ft. Juiceman – Digital
LFO – Nurture
LFO – Freeze
69 – Rushed
Cooly G – Him Da Biz
Wax – Dub Shed (STP remix)
Untold – I Cant Stop This Feeling
Geiom and Earlybird – Net Weight
Echologist ft Spaceape – Mercy Beat (Mri Nondub remix)
Sleeparchive – Diagnosis
Taz Buckfaster – Robogrime
Erik XVI – Unionens Sista Dagar (Hot City remix)
N/a – Variance IV (Regis remix)
Geiom and Spamchop – Gweile Zwazo
Zed Bias – Neighbourhood (El-B remix)
Hot City – Setting Me Free
Erik XVI – Unionens Sista Dagar (TVO Latitudinal remix)

I mean, I quite like Et In Arcadia Ego, my debut solo album from 2005. Although thinking about it, it hasn’t aged that well in parts (Jacob, Many Rooms, In Arcadia all good, the rest not so sure…)

But one of the best twenty albums of the decade?!?! Seems a bit unlikely. Still: the guys over at The Milk Factory think so, with it keeping company with the likes of Ben Frost, Autechre and Burial…

Fantastic write-up at the always awesome Lend Me Your Ears touching on my activities in the last few months. Well worth checking here

last time round when this blog was working right there was a post entitled “3 Remixes”. It went on about how I never got to do any remixes and then three at once came along (Hot City, .tape. , Posthuman).

Anyway- coming up in the first half of the new year, three more remixes. One on Highpoint Lowlife for Erik XVI, out as a digital release, one (or, actually, two – a remix and a dub) for Uncharted Audio for LJ Kruzer (remix on 12″, the dub as an exclusive for someone…) and, hopefully, a remix on 12″ for Dextro (umm…subject to me finishing it)

My top ten for the year is online at FACT magazine.

However I’ll post it here too:

1. Ike Release vs Hot City EP [Infrasonics]
2. Erstlaub – Broadcasting on Ghost Frequencies [Moving Furniture Records]
3. Everything Robert Hood has released, reissued or remixed this year
4. Silent Servant – Los Perdidos / Una Compilación [Sandwell District]
5. .SND – Atavism [Raster-Noton]
6. Emeralds – What Happened [No Fun Productions]
7. Oren Ambarchi – Intermission 2000-2008 [Touch]
8. Redinho EP [forthcoming Numbers]
9. Untold – Gonna Work Out Fine EP [Hemlock Recordings]
10. STP – The Fall remixes EP [Subsolo]

To tie in with the nice interview mentioned below, Wire magazine have hosted a semi-exclusive TVO track for download. It’s an alternate extended mix of ‘Tober’ from The Dark Is Rising EP from January this year.
It’s also one of my favourite tracks i’ve written and a definite must-get for anyone interested in seeing which direction new TVO material might go.

Get it right here.