aus-mosis

- End of Aus

2007-02-05T08:09:00.000-08:00

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

2006-12-28T06:56:00.000-08:00

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/

2006-10-30T05:13:00.000-08:00

)))))))))))) 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

2006-10-07T12:59:00.000-07:00

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

2006-07-25T02:48:00.000-07:00

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

- Surf Sup

2006-07-14T05:58:00.000-07:00

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

2006-07-10T00:46:00.000-07:00

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!

- Japanese movie posters

2006-07-08T04:53:00.000-07:00

http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=2806

I just think these are the funniest things ever on so many levels!!!

- A.L.X. 1138

2006-06-25T22:50:00.000-07:00

- Grande mochafrappacino and a fudge brownie, mate

2006-06-17T21:59:00.000-07:00

- Look!.. Vibert!!!!!!!

2006-06-11T16:10:00.000-07:00

Woah what an amazing night!!!! Just zactly what the doctor ordered. A night of pure quality electronica from one of the masters - mr Luke Vibert.

12 min, 25M Video montage..

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=CB2B37F64BA8BD4E

The gals had a bloody blast too and we boogied all night long - me donning my home-made pusher t-shirt!! Sabrina and Caro were the best company ever.. viva France!!

The venue was as good a place as you could ask for for a night like this - just the right size and capacity - Newtowns RSL club at the 10th anniversary Frigid rave. For some bizarre reason we had to become temp members for the night an dthey required ID off us with our home addresses on it. Yeh right... i pleeded "just offf the plane" syndrom and the real nice lady bouncer gave me a motherly pat on the face saying "now we won;t forget next time will we?". She was well cool.

All was happening upstairs and we found ourselves in a smoke-free tripped out club with a more than decent laser system and massive visual screens sort of weirdly overlapping in th emain room. The bar was never too crowded and the small secondary room had a killer bass system that suited the jungle/reggae-techno being played there. We hung around there till LV came on at 1145pm then got soem more Vodkas' and Orange and went to see the acid maistro do his thing.

Vibert played enough Squarepusher, Aphex, Ceephax and his own stuff to keep me going for ages. It's what he did with those tunes that was incrdeible too... here comes the nerdy bit: Early on he played here Aphex's "Alberta balsam" which was amazing to hear at a club. This slow groove part was peppered with plenty of lush vibert tracks and when "i love acid" was brought in the crowd was well and truly settled into the night. In his faster mode, about half way through, he played some Squarepusher "Selection 16" cuts - he ALWAYS does actually... every time i've seen him play. Then came soem Analogue Bubblebath tracks and a good few Wagonchrist ones too. I was hoping for soem of his jungle choons but i guess they wouldn';t have really fit in tom his set

The best was yet to come though when he slipped the last half hour into what i can only describe as full on acid-gabba. Yes, you heard me - acid gabba!!!!! It was't hard at all but light and fluffy and very spine-tingling but god-damn fast and relentless. The golden moment was when he mixed Ceephax's Rough Acid version of Prelude in 303 Major.mp3 available http://www.ceephax.co.uk/Music.htm with a cut-up version of Aphex's unreleased "complicated mathimatical equation" song that features in those circa '97 livesets. This was the freshest and lushest music i have heard in ages - a new sound from London - again!

The Frigid DJ's guys then came played a blinding closing set of gescom-type electro/techno and we partied some more. Luke walked by us and of course i shook the mans hand off him and regretted not having a minidisc of my own stuff (comin soon!) to wedge into his pocket!

The night was topped off by our taxi ride home with The Nicest Cab Driver Ever, a chap from Bali with a huge afro, and irish wife - he's been to the old sod 6 times, and photos of the cutest afro/irish kids you ever saw.

Pure fecking mexico.

- Eric's blog

2006-06-09T15:46:00.000-07:00

Very funny blog from Seattle resident and aero-engineer to the stars, Eric....

http://blogmeansblog.blogspot.com/

feck the world cup.... Roller Derbys where it's at!

Nice one... i had to do some washing after i read it.

- Boards of Australia

2006-06-09T00:13:00.000-07:00

To mark the release of the new Boards of Canada EP "Trans Canadian Highway" i'm doing this thing right here.....it also happens to show my temporary workplace in Sydney but who cares about that.

Excellent BoC info here http://fredd-e.narfum.org/boc/info/

(oh and i'n not "bored" with ozland at all in case you're wondering. Just being punny)

Ya see what i did there?!

- Berowra

2006-05-30T01:48:00.000-07:00

If you hop on a train to Newcastle but hop off 30 min into your jorney at Berowra station you'll fnd yourself surrounded by lush New South Wales national parkland.

Anna came along too and we walked along the lake for a few hours. There was an amazing view from the shore and a crab-infested sandbank, a rustbuck3et that hid a lot of spiders and a neverending lake-side path.

- Kairingai

2006-05-28T20:37:00.000-07:00

- Stumped

2006-05-28T20:24:00.000-07:00

- My remix for Quentin

2006-05-26T03:45:00.000-07:00

Save filed

History: Quentin put this message up on a forum so i had a bash... literally.

"Allrighty then.

I had an idea earlier tonight, and cobbled something together really quick for this purpose.

Seeing as I can't Photoshop for shite, I thought we should have some sort of Audio fun along the lines of Photoshop competitions going on elsewhere on this site.

Idea's just as simple, I'm going to offer an audio track for re-mixing/mashing/whatever you like here, and you can post your results here too and give us a feel for what your chops are like.

I've put together a groove with a couple of different parts, in sections, so you should be able to isolate drums, bass, etc. Your challenge, should you choose to play, is to take this and mash it whatever way you see fit, and let us hear the results.

Arrangement info for those who care is as follows, key/pitch Eminor (9th) and tempo set at 130bpm. File to download is aiff which may confuse some PC heads but go figure. 1 bar silence intro. Drag and drop!

You can find the tune here:
http://www.army-of-id.com/downloads/CImix.aiff
Play Safe."

- Spazzed sounds

2006-05-26T01:42:00.000-07:00

From the "Now and Then" improv session some sydney sunday

and

From Hotel Koka Kinabla trying out new camera and Niall producing some mean tunage. Check the strange video-syncing totally by accidentally.

- Music city

2006-05-25T20:26:00.001-07:00

Here's a couple of ads that i spotted in The Sydney Morning Herald. I better get onto my agent about the first one and as regards the second one, i guess it's not a "shit business" after all!!!!!!
(League of Gentlemen reference there, folks)

Luke Viberts acid electronic madness is coming up in a few weeks for Sydney's acclaimed Frigid venue's last ever gig. At last i can get my gig fix. It's on in Newtown, which is tres funky, and where i got a dubious massage off someone i though was just being plain charming a few eeks ago. It was 7pm in a busy bar and a cute chick came up to me was all chatty and proceeded to work her fingers into my shoulder. Cost a 5er! At least in Japan they hang around train stations and look like they're going to try and fleece you. That night we looked for some decent electronic music but Syndey seems to be a few years behind on that front so we settled for some Fibbers type heavyness with the local goths/rockers. Twas a nice nostalgic buzz all the samed and we got failry blasted on absynthe.

http://www.snarl.org/frigid/
.... oh and Mark Pritchard plays free on sunday.......and they're giving away matmos stuff too. (eric - go figure!)

Niall keeps wearing his "Trojan Records" t-shirt out which more than one folks has taken for the condom brand. Nice!

For the train-spotters out there "Boards of Canada" are releasing new EP "Trans Canada Highway" and so I dedicate these few shots of a banal sydney train station to them as the colour schemes exactly the same. It also sort of turned into a butterfly effect which i think is rather nice too. See here.

A few Sundays ago i went to my second Sydney avante garde/weirdo night a-la Dublin's Lazybird gigs at International Bar. This one was in an artists studio space which was a slight improvement on the first gig i met Aphex fan, Ryan, at on our first evening as sydney central residents. That place was a factor 10 squat but a 100% enjoyable gig with about 4 acts, electronics, droney guitars, disassembling drum kits and plenty of noise. Of course we met Ryan there who has since driven us up to the blue mountains and generally been an alround nice Adelaidian who knows his music. This time I had my camera and took plenty of snaps and alittle movie of some out-there guitar improv from a Tazzy involving all sorts of toys... childrens and adults and some darkly comic radio crackle involving the at -the-time stranded miners of the Beaconsfield distaster which was headlining all week. My kind of sick puppy.

Nialls been to a few more gigs than me and saw some The Necks action last week with Rob and by all accounts it was triffic. The Necks are a Jazzy/Droney 3-peice who appeared on SBS's experimental music documentary a few weeks ago and were damn bloody good. They reminded me of Steve Reich only less orchestral - live ambient music created on Bass, drums and piano.

In my rivetting new job i get the chance to listen to the radio all day practically as i work and after searching through the nightmare christian rock channels....which have the added horror of being Australian christian rock channels, i found "triple J" which has excellent music, no ads and intelligent presenters. They play indie,lo-fi and elecronica in the mornings and breaks and drum and bass in the afternoon but sadly haven't progressed onto the heavier side of electronica. Still they've been showcasing Robert Moog stuff all week as it is his brithday despite being dead so it's great to hear.

There was aslo the Surry Hills festival last weekend. It had plenty of music on offer - drum and bass dj'd, that awful australian house music and some live acts ranging from reggae to experimental. The weather was a bit off so i didn't really stay too long to be honest - met some nice hungarian and austrian folks, freinds of Anna-Maria, from the dojo, who is keen on some dancing at some point - and i am so game for that!

What else music wise? I'm working on Quentins remix project and should have something for him soon and will find some suitable images to lash it into video format for the aul blog.

- Travelogue pt 1

2006-05-14T23:55:00.000-07:00

When I leave Yurong St, I climb the slopey hill passed the Christian Youth church opposite the recently burned out 2-storey. I'm soon facing Hyde park which see's flocks of gothkids every weekend and other dark fauna at nighttime - fruitbats and possums and the odd giant rat. If I take a right turn I pass by the Natural History Museum which has the largest privately owned precious gem collection in the world. One of my housemates, Brian has the smallest - he did a tour of an opal mine last summer and found a glittery spec. They let him keep it but it remains unpolished lest it dissolves.

Passing by the skate board plaza, which sits on top of a below-ground swimming pool, you soon reach the Sydney hospital which looks nicely colonial and is parked in front of the Domain - a large park stretching from Kings- Cross to the Opera house. I cut through the hospital into the domain to reach the National Gallery and it's free Wednesday films. Today it's Gus Van Sant's "Last Days" - film loosely based on Kurt Cobains last few days. It's pretty damn weird alright but nowhere near as lingering as "Gerry" which i saw on DVD a while ago. In both films there's lots of walking through closed in landscapes, which is fairly familiar to me now.

The gallery has been my destination a few times while in Sydney because it has this free cinema and 4 floors of contempory and not-so art so there's plenty to take in. It's also near the botanic gardens and it's giant spiders, lazy bats and greedy cockotoos. On a nice afternoon folks are either jogging or wearing suits on their work lunch break. Also nearby is the Crime and punishment museum, well worth a visit if only just to see the 3 sildeshow's depicting life in the early 20th century. The voiceover has a dark emotiveness to it that matches the early Sydney cityscape. One set of slides showed past convicts and gangsters, pimps and prostututes, all posing amazingly proud for the police camera, having probabbly never had their picture taken before.

Walking along the outer rim of the gardens and through the end of the domain brings you to the opera house which Clive James said looked like an old typewriter stuffed with oysters, which it sort of does. Behind that then is the harbour bridge which connect North and South Sydney. I wanted to walk across it so i went through Circular Quay and it's tourist throngs and negotiated my way through the hilly The Rocks area with its cafes and resteraunts. After a few flat-whites - delcious antipidion creamy coffee i set off across the bridge. The seaward side is form predestrians and the bay side is for bicycles and rollerbladers, all with trains and cars in between of course. It's a nice walk but a better cycle - being about a mile long it felt. I seemed to have timed my excursion with the passing underneath of the biggest container vessel which decided to annouce that it was leaving the bay with a equally massive foghorn roar that lifted everyone that was on the bridge about a foot. It was facinating then to see the ship glide by the opera house and dwarf it and to watch all the yaughts and ferrries avoid it's gargantuan wake.
If you wanted you could end your walk over harbour bridge with a trip down to the colourfull Lunar Park amusement strip but it really isn't worth the screaming local kiddies. Instead i cycled back over the bridge with dodgey breaks, beside a silver train depositing it's batch of salary workers southward and went for another flat-white before heading through the city back to Darlinghurst.

- Squareing up

2006-05-10T18:59:00.000-07:00

- Harbour postcard

2006-05-05T00:18:00.000-07:00

- 62 Yurong St

2006-05-04T21:47:00.000-07:00

brian n mayumi
laura, anna and mayumi
give it up...ned kelly
fridge magnetism

sabrina n jo
ray vaughn

george

silence of the lambs
slopey

nial and katrine

- Sydney on the move

2006-05-04T21:09:00.000-07:00

- Blue Mountains

2006-05-04T07:05:00.001-07:00

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