- End of Aus

Well Niall's back soon and this blog must fizzle out...meanwhile heres a cute little video of ferrying in Sydney............................

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGIJUVpWc8c

Top Five of 2OO6

Yes indeedy its that time of year again - to encapsulate the feelings, the vibes even, of the year 2006 in 5 tracks. At Antoin and Eileens, a few of us are getting together to reduce our 365 aural days to just a pentuplet of sonic favourites. We'll laugh and we'll cry. Eyebrows will be raised and fingers will insert themselves in ears. By the miracle of soulseek we're able to bring you Col and Nialls remote selection of songs from opposite sides of the global village square. Photo's and listings to be shown below.....


Antoin
When The Evening Sun Goes Down Half Man Half Biscuit
New Age Subhumans
Tommy Gun Angel Bardo Pond
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted Joan Osbourne & The Funk Brothers
Dance Music The Mountain Goats

Colin Coscoran
Not High Times New Viking
Shrinking_Moon_for_You_edit Wooden Shjips
dance, caiforrnia Wooden Shjips
GT Performers Home Blitz
Roadrunner Jonathan Richman

Eileen
Time of Your Life (Good Riddance) Green Day - video
Mr. Brightside The Killers
God’s Gonna Cut You Down Johnny Cash
Fake The Frames
Up Around The Bend Creedence Clearwater Revival

Niall
Salty Dog Cat Power
prelude in 303 major Ceephax
Blue yodel - number 8 Jimmie Rodgers
Mother Africa Marijata
I’m Hurtin Thee Headcoats

Colin Roche
? Alice Donut
Dinosaur Act Low
? Redneck Manifesto
? Kate Rusby
Work, Rest, Play, Die Subhumans - vinyl

Neil
Freight Train Elizabeth Cotton
T.B. Blues Leadbelly
Sail On Little Girl Leadbelly
Nobody’s Dirty Business Mississippi John Hurt
Reelin’ In The Years Steely Dan

Mel
? Calexico
? The Go Team
? ABAM
? Glenn Miller
? Glenn Miller

Alex
track 2 form the BBC’s Electric Proms Squarepusher - video
Orient Orange Squarepusher
uranus orbitron Keyfumbler
twisted jungle clip from John Peel Show DJ Bailey
Welcome to europe Squarepusher

Eric
This Year The Mountain Goats
Horns Version Mapstation
Mr Tough, Yo La Tengo
Night After Sidewalk, Kaki King
Glosoli, Sigur Ros

Niall issued a special tribute to James Brown F.I.P.;; nice one.

And in an unprecedented twist Eric and Antoin both independently had the same number one. Who'd have thunk it! (I forget what it was actually......yikes)

Photos's exist here.http://www.flickr.com/photos/flickrmook/sets/72157594449124339/

)))))))))))) k e y f u m b l e r ((((((((((((---------- --

For the next fortnight I'll me sharing all the little
tracks i've been making the past few years with cheap and
nasty software. 2 a day.


http://www.4shared.com/dir/1128400/c94b21c1/sharing.html

The eleventh day has 4 tracks to annoy you. Ones about 14 minutes long! Noice!

A blow by blow:

James town01: Ah, me and my old flatate collaborated on this one. He did the beats and i did all the noise bits and gave it structure. Struc-ture.

Vere Wynn Jones: The name of a newsreader from the 80,s on RTE, Irelands national broadcaster. I always liked the name. What a guy! The track is sort of "autechre"ish i think but without the lasting impression.

Dats it. Robert Deniro in one of his funniest roles ever in one of his first films, either "greetings" or "hello mom" by Brian de Palma. I think the beats work well but the recording of the sample is shite.

Exsta: Weird little tune with a dark twist and nicely roughened beats. "Now, i'm very angry"

method: This tune has a version somewhere where i used a vocoder program to read the introduction to a book on how to commit suicide that my old flatmate got of the interweb. In the dialogue the voice lists methods of commiting suicide and i got it to repeat one method as a chorus, namely "by crashing airplanes". I finished this track on September 10th 2001. That werided me out in a big way a day later . This version is just the music. If you want to hear the freaky one, ask me.

naming it: I love the pear cussion in this track. Ha, i think i was using strummy guitar sampless before fourtet and board of canada, but i cant prove it and i didnt use them much!

mastro: My first ever dancefloor rave type track. You wanna hear this one in a trackter session - a program for djing mp3's - its mmmmmmmmmwicked.

(kew)mix: the letter that looks like an "O" with a diagonal line through it is broke on this keyboard so i spell "kew" instead as it sounds the same. This track is my homage to John Peel using samples provided by (kew) from the dojo. RIP

more to come!!!!

ceepha-x-mas 2006

Warmup DJ: Dj Leem- stoned as fook, funny as a bastard.... played some mean electro, u2 for laughs, squarepushers "tundra 4" and generally talked shite over lots of records but in an endearing crowd_pleasing way. A right laugh.

Max Tundra- absolutely awesome live set from, the little chappy with the funk/soul groove and masterful keyboard skills with guitar too. Old and new songs, all of them playfull and FUNKY with gorgeous electro-beatmanship throughout. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Ceephax-tore it up with a "hello everything" heavy set that put that albums killer tracks in the rave context they were always meant to be in. In between it was classic acid-breakbeat wizardry from the 'phax with killer tracks like "prelude in 303 minor" (bangface style placards came out for that one) and the "A(cid)-team" theme track whacked out at full blast. The topper was a full acid-techno rendition of the "12 days of christmas" song .... "five gold rings" with phat-turkey synth lines taking over the words. The place went fuckin smental i tells ya. Not so much any_jenkison mc action as his live sets but enough to tickle me fancy. He was playing tapes too so i guess that included his new cassette releases;.... sounded well fucking wogan!

- know this

Squarepushers got a new album out in Oct... "hello everything" so in celebration check out some vintage squarepusher from 1997, Tokyo.

- Surf Sup

No I ain't been yet but here's a video of what could happen with some great music by Todashi who's got a blog now too and a link to it from over there - >.

- Coogee coo

A walk from Coogee beach to Bondi with new housemate Sylvia, the Niallster, old Dublin neighbour Katherine of Melbourne who was in town for the day, Anna of Colombia and Korean Kisen!