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Matryomin - how bloody cool is that ?

2008-11-03T16:24:00.003Z

Damn man - just as I about to post again how friggin ace the Gakken Analog Synthesizer Kit SX-150 is - and how in 3 days or so I will be assembling this babe and blowing holes in my sub-woofer with sub-harmonic wobbles - I stumble upon yet another damn fine piece of electronic koolio-aid - i quote you now from advertising advert ::

'Matryomin' is an original electronic musical instrument of the mandarin electron which is Japanese Theremin maker. The function of Theremin is put in Russian famous handicraft Matryoshka. It has an amplifier and a loudspeaker built-in for the body.

Why ? What ? When and who ... are undoubtedly questions streaming through your head as you read this - but after the following demonstration of the power of Matryomin - you will fear no more !!

and if that does not completly convince of the power of Matryomin - then be prepared my reader(s) - be very prepared ::

Still not with me on this one - well goddam it - you asked for it - maaaannn !!!

Air Geee-ttt-aaar ..

2008-10-31T16:13:00.003Z

This was going to be a post on the Gakken Sx-150 synth kit - that I have just ordered from Japan .... but that post will have to follow this one .. as in researching the synth-beast, as usually happens - I got side-tracked on other kick-ass Japanese stuff - and so it ends up being a video post on Air Guitars ..

So without further ado - Lets fackin rock-n-friggin-roll- muvvers ...

For readers who simply prefer a good old female-rock-out .. shame to leave without this ..

Rob a Bank..

2008-10-11T08:14:00.001+01:00

Classic, unseen and perhaps an answer to the current financial rot ...

10cc Top Trumps ...

2008-09-06T07:40:00.012+01:00

Kicked into gear by Mr. Shirt and because here at the Glitch Barn - we have a super overwhelming soft spot for 10cc here is our Top 10 Pop Picks :

Gizmo / Gizmatron
Top of the list in straight in at number one - is the device released initially by Godley and Creme upon departing 10cc for solo careers sometime around 1975 - THE GIZMO.... check out the demo disk from 1975 here.

Basically this consited of 6 motorised wheels - mounted on a guitar bridge - that when pressed eihter one at a time or in combinations against the strings produced whacked out effects - sort of pre-guitar synth type of thing ... best heard to fine effect on the Godley and Creme (concept - yikes !!!) LP - Consequences ... nice ...

More info here ...

One Night in Paris
First track from what is for me the best LP the guys stuck out - too be honest I was tempted to simply list every darn track from it - at least 3 or 4 separate songs super-glued together here - fine stuff indeed !!

Cry - Godley and Creme
How can any list not include this babe - worth it for the video alone - was going to stick on the History Mix LP - but upon revisiting realisd it sounds supa-dated probaly due to lame 80s production from Trevor Horn - this however sounds just fine and dandy..

I'm Mandy - Fly Me
Don't get me started on this one - but takes me back to early teenage lust with a certain Mandy I used to fumble around with (if you know what I mean) - best not go there !

Dreadlock Holiday
White boys try and play pop-light reggae ? Or simply a damn fine pop record - you decide - me I love it !!!

Donna
Got to admit - another girl is involved in selection of this one - god - was my early teen hormones shaped by early 10cc pop songs - crikes??

I'm Not in Love - Edwina Rigby (1979) / Petula Clark (1978)
The smoocher rooner from the stable - remixed into a glitzy late 70s disco glitter ball - lovely stuff (even the Petula Clark one ain't all bad)...

Rubber Bullets
Imposible not to include this slamming hit ...

Wall Street Shuffle
Yet another slamming 7 incher ...

10cc - Blackmail (from Original Sound Track)

Been listening to this LP all weekend - and could have chosen any of them for inclusion as previousl said - this one kicks with a guitar solo straight out of mid-period Floyd - unexpectedly psychedelic .

Now back to spraying "I luv 10cc" on the back of my school pencil case !!

One minute in the life of Ivan Denisovitch

2008-08-06T12:00:00.003+01:00

For ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN - RIP ...

One Minute in the life of Ivan Denisovitch

Phew

2008-05-26T09:08:00.003+01:00

This morning in the freezing drizzling summers morning - we are seriously getting down to stuff like this - and you should consider doing so too ...

From " Finale / Urahara "
Phew and Ryuichi Sakamoto

Which leads us nicely onto Aunt Sally .... very fine indeed !!

Normal service will be resumed (when I can get off me ass and do it -- maaan!)..

2008-05-22T17:35:00.002+01:00

In the mean-time - 2 very good reasons to be alive and with eyes and ears ....

and for some nice glimpses of - gulp Weymouth .....

Egg ....

2008-03-20T16:03:00.000Z

Korg DS-10 (yes oh yes)..

2008-03-18T08:18:00.002Z

Well - seeing how the farm has now acquired a Nintendo DS thanks to junior-ultra-glitch-boy-O - seems somewhat silly not to grab this damn fine bit of retro-rehash and steel the thing of him ... nice and tasty in a way that Cooking Mama will never be !!

RIP - Mikey Dread (1/1/1954 - 16/3/2008)

2008-03-17T17:26:00.004Z

Damn - very very sad .....

Mikey got me seriously into the toasting sound of dub - World War 3 is always on repeated play in this house to this day ..

Some cool cool Mikey Dread, Peel show session tracks from 1982 for you to savour...

1. Rub A Dub

2. Problems

3. Parrot Jungle/Heavy Weight

Gwoemul (The Host)

2008-02-23T18:13:00.002Z

Finally got around to catching this on DVD - a mere 6 quid - bit of a bargain - subtitled Korean (thank god) - the dubbed version I have seen clips of should be avoided at all costs !!

If you like your monster movies wet, slimy and good at acrobatics - with an occasional dollop of stupidity - go check now .. excellent stuff to me anyhows ...!

A-one and a-two and a-chicka booma chick!

2008-02-22T13:51:00.001Z

You want blocks - then come get blocks - and don'y ya FXXX with me !!

2008-02-22T13:33:00.003Z

All bound for Mu Mu land ...

2008-02-21T21:33:00.003Z

Needs no introduction - a nice 'making of' video just (re)-surfaced on the making of a KLF video - Tammy in her trailor - giant pyramid - loads of water - boats - and a somewhat funky beat ... watch and enjoy ....

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

If that has some sort of interest blip for you - you can find more over on klfcommunicationsnet

Grass is fast - but .... Acid's like lightening, you know ...!!

2008-02-18T13:11:00.002Z

And on a related note ...

Apache ...

But just remember you goddam grass-head, acid-freaks ... the damn drugs DO NOT WORK .. but alas unexplored sexual delights - JUST MIGHT...

Maybe ,,,,,,

2008-02-11T22:40:00.001Z

Maybe one day the best songs - are better before the lead singer staggers into it .... !

Smashed-face...

2008-02-10T21:11:00.000Z

Been experimenting with that social-network malarkey FB - hooked up with long-lost folks - spent an age customizing the shit out of the page - uploaded stuff - typed shit - read shit - remembered shit and somehow forgot it again ... - thank god someone else was there to remember it happened - my notes don't exit - my photos are incomplete - and my record collection does not support it as a chunk was nicked by an EX (god bless the woman - if only she knew what she took at least she might sell it !! ... man ..... "It's a lot of wind..." ...

Records bought because the sleeve told me to (Part 2 of an occasional series)...

2008-02-04T14:35:00.000Z

In 1994, I found myself living in Mong Kok, Hong Kong. This CD is a Japanese export - I picked up in Tower Records (Windsor House - Causeway Bay - long defeated by the HMV empire!) - Kyoto Jazz Massive are/were a collective of Japanese funksters - the music some 14 years later or so sounds very much a safe-coffee-table-style of jazzy grooves - this has a very early collaboration from DJ Krush on it ... \

The sleeve some 14 years later remains pretty much as I first glanced eyes on it !

Records bought because the sleeve told me to (Part 1 of an occasional series)...

2008-02-04T07:24:00.000Z

1969 - original pressing - 50pence last year from a car boot sale - now lets face it - can you blame me ?

TEN RECORDS HIDING AT THE BACK OF YOUR COLLECTION THAT NO GROWN MAN SHOULD OWN

2008-02-03T09:58:00.000Z

Having been passed the baton by Mr. Shirt - and being forced to delve into those boxes of unseen 7 inchers to remind myself of what utter classic embarrassing crud I have bought in my time - I somehow have managed to get it all down to 10 - to be honest this could have run to 100s !!

So here goes ..

"Dum-de-dum, dum-de-dum, Mouldy Old Dough" - utter classic - without this punk/hip-hop and death metal would never have happened ....

"nice on Cyril, Nice on son, Nice one Cyril - lets 'ave another one" - deep stuff or what .....

No idea how the heck this thing got to be in my collection - I would love to say I got it from a pile plastic my sister once gave me - but - that is my hand-writing - so I got to admit - IT's MINE (god been meaning to get that of my chest for 3 decades - phew)..

I was young - on a camping holiday to France with the scouts - hung out with some french girl-guides in some provincial town - and ended up buying this - memories hey - the other disk I got that day was Status Quo - Rain, but nothing embarrassing about that - this however is totally unforgivable !

Used to play in a band at school with Mark Wilson and Graham Fallows, this was one of the tracks we played back then - first gig being in Stoke-sub-Hamdon Working Mens Club (1975 or 1976) - how rock-n-roll is that - Mark and Graham went onto somewhat more serious stuff via The Mob - but at the early routes of the Anarcho-Punk movement lurks a dreamy lament on the joys of Sunday Morning (up with the lark - no less) ....

Elkie Brooks - Pearls a Singer - Fucking magic - there - said it - not going to take it back - so there ....

Everything punk was meant to burn and destroy - but lets face it - this one simply rocks ... how uncool is that ...

I have more than one bit of plastic from mr.pedo-pop - but this must be the most hideous of them all .... say no more squire ..

Cat Scratch Fever - Apart from this killer guitar riff - is there anything even slightly cool about Ted ? Now where did I put that bloody rifle ?

1967 - when the rest of the world were getting it on with chemical-altering-mind-explorations - us down here in ZUMMERZET were wrecking our physical-well being with glasses full of the golden-stuff. This must be the Sergent Peppers for the Cider generation - Forget all that Grateful Dead/Merry Pranksters kool-aid-acid-pap, simply pour your self a mug of body-numbing-messed-aound-with-apple-stuff - crank the volume to 10, - drop the needle onto "The Chew Magna Cha Cha" - and float right out there man - trust me - by the time you get the nerve to stick on the classic - "Drink up thy Cider" - you'll be tripping so damn hard - it'll be weeks before you can face looking at a farmer again - without getting the FEAR ... CLASSIC ...

Those cheap bastard British Airways snobs ...uuuhhh

2008-01-24T22:34:00.000Z

Some incorrect things ... cheap magazines ...... recruited some gremlins ..... stuffing from my wings ---- day by day - moon gains on me ..... for 145 years ... US civil war - Irish patronage... moon gains on me .....

HIT A TIME LOCK ...shot dead a stupid sergeant - hit a time lock ... no longer exists ... under the bridge ...... lucky hit ...

HIT A TIME LOCK ...

2008

The Fall - Wings (Athens 2008)....

and for good measure

The Fall - NO XMAS FOR John Queys (2007) ...

WTF - you look back bores !!

SOISONG

2008-01-23T22:32:00.000Z

Enjoying the output from Sleazy in his new Soi band - hailing these days form Bangkok - a mayor-hectic town of lights/smells/and-whatever-you-fancy - Peter has decampted there since the untimely demise of Coil and this is very much welcomed to these ears ..

I have spent many a screwed up period over the past 20 years in this town - always love the idea of going - can't wait to leave after a couple of days - bit like amsterdam - but with a lime-twist-and-a-shot-tom-yum-kung.... always felt like an escape portal to the southern Islands of Koh Samui and Koh Pann Ghan ... I am totally guilty of wasting almost a year doing nada in these parts in one take - and exhausted/deflated/defeated - upon returning to blighty - took a further year to sort it all out man .... - but heck - I was young(er) and ya got to do that shit right ?

Anyhows - a peek preview - SOISONG

Press release via Brainwasher here ...

Guitar - Solo

2008-01-21T23:31:00.000Z

One day - BY LAW - all guitar solos will sound like this ... lets face it - I have played numerous gigs - and with my trusty lap-top - never got euphoric reaction like this - fuck knows why ??

Jesus of Cool

2008-01-21T22:29:00.000Z

Totally loved this when it came out - played the baby to death - 12 inch glory of a disk sitting on the shelf over there - about to be spun up NOW - Breaking Glass - lets face it - is there a better pop song out here ? probably - but who here is counting - Nick Lowe rocks - re-issue of Jesus of Cool is surely a very good thing??

Related (Nick is playing the Bass) - here is some 3 minute joy - Rockpile - lovvly ...

nice for sure - lets admit it - no guilt please for liking POP - I do - and so should you ...

Live and loose - just how we like it ....

and well I know this is sort of a music type of post - important to categorize that sort of stuff man!!! - but you know - stepping out of the safety zone man ....

Cassini-Huygens - Descent on Titan

2008-01-20T14:19:00.000Z

One day all music will by ORDER OF LAW be made this way !!

"Sounds from a left speaker trace Huygens' motion, with tones changing with rotational speed and the tilt of the parachute. There also are clicks that clock the rotational counter, as well as sounds for the probe's heat shield hitting Titan's atmosphere, parachute deployments, heat shield release, jettison of the camera cover and touchdown."

"Sounds from a right speaker go with the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer activity. There's a continuous tone that represents the strength of Huygens' signal to Cassini. Then there are 13 different chimes - one for each of instrument's 13 different science parts - that keep time with flashing-white-dot exposure counters. During its descent, the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer took 3,500 exposures."

An alchemic bath of swirling Dionysian liquidity - DAMN IT !!!!

2008-01-09T15:54:00.000Z

Phew - that was 2 or more months that was - and now back - with a homemade Hindi classic by my poetic-angled mate Ralph..

'appy new-year' to yah ..

Torturing Nurse.

2007-10-23T11:33:00.000+01:00

The China noise scene seriously getting its act together these days - always had a soft spot for Torturing Nurse - lets face it any time you combine nurses uniforms and head-crunching slabs of sound - you can't fail to please... seems with the latest slab of videos from recent perfomance in Beijing - they have somewhat upped-the-old-ante... dispensing with any traditional family values that might have littered earlier performances - and allowing afore-mentioned nurse to dispense somewhat unorthodox treatment to what can only be described as a tied and willing patient - it makes for interesting viewing - and somewhat raucous listening ...

If this sort of thing makes you feel like more - then best get your prescriptions directly from the source... or the ever excellent Noise Shanghai site...

For those of you who find the whole dripping wax on face type of behavior a tad harrowing - here is a more family-friendly TN performance from way back in 2004 - for you younger and more sheltered readers out there - because I care ....!!

the idiocy of idears

2007-10-17T17:25:00.000+01:00

Been meaning to post this one for ages - probably all copies have already been grabbed - but for those of you in the Yeovil area - hop on down to Waterstones and see if you can find a copy in the Poetry, Art, or Philosophy sections - stick it under your jacket - and if stopped and searched - tell them the Farmer sent you !

FREE BOOK, NO ISBN, NO BARCODE, NO AUTHOR

the idiocy of idears

“a skool boys tail being the unremarkable adventures of gustov claudius, skool boy and dyslexic. Including his own essays, observations, and judgements. Also including an account of his travels among the islands of homer and the greeks. ritten by himself-“

Apparently written by the backward schoolboy Gustav Claudius. ‘The Idiocy of Idears’ is a book of pathos, sarcasm and great charm. Continually confounding the reader with its mainstream of childish glee and occasional lapses into precocious sophistication.

It is a brilliant expose of an education system that has now all but disappeared. A system geared towards corporal punishment and churning out illiterate fodder for the declining dockyards and factories of the industrial age.

The first impression of this book will be a Limited Edition of 300 hand stamped books distributed around the UK by being planted in unsuspecting bookshops.

If stocks no longer last - pop over to the Aquarium and see if any piles are still lying around ...

Mushed...

2007-10-08T18:38:00.000+01:00

"Moshpit Donkey exist in the static created by too many incorrectly constructed Reaktor patches, linked through hacked sequencing mechanisms to erroneous Audio Mulch contraptions....."

They most certainly seem to have no real concept of compositional structure, adherence to basic musical tunings and appear to dig a somewhat uneven use of basic control of the volume/pan/effect sliders.......

The first offering from this somewhat easy-to-ignore bunch of musical no-names comes in the form of the ever-unfolding remix project - first unleashed upon the world courtesy of tha man called Kid Shirt .......

Apparantly it uses the entire track as produced by "LORD DEPTH MIXED BY THE COWARD MIXED BY FARMER GLITCH MIXED BY CyRUS DA VyRUS MIXED BY GUTTERBREAKZ MIXED BY DOPPELGANGER" - mangled into a fucked-up-electro riff - then layered with "LORD DEPTH MIXED BY THE COWARD" along with mutated output from a previous recording session spent in the delightful Queen Mary hospital, Pok Fulam, Hong Kong- whilst recovering from snake bites... oh yeah - demon sax player Andew Pask somehow gets a blow .... don't ask me man - I'm only relaying needless sleeve notes! The whole pointless exercise (apparently) was to get the mutated DNA of the original remix back in line from the numerous splintered/bastard strands that now exist - this it is fair to say it most likely fails miserably at achieving!!

Anyway - enough of this baloney - grab a download if you feel that way inclined ...

Moshpit Donkey - Mushed

Hana No Kage - Shadow of a Flower ...... comin at ya Bristol ..!

2007-09-03T14:39:00.000+01:00

Reasons for the blogging slow-down - one of them being I am hitting the gigging trail again ....

Gig this Thursday - Arnolfini Bristol - a multi-media/epic-poem tredding in the footsteps of Matsuo Basho (as trodden by my mate Ralph Hoyte during 2005)..... I will be manning the sounds/lights and video whilst on the stage Ralph and Haruka will be reciting his tales of mis-adventure and rebirth !

Be cool to see those of you for which Zen Haiku texts and flashing lights and clanging/crashing noise excites (come on - I know there must be the odd odd-ball out there for which this is too good a gig to pass up - surely ?) ... The press release looks a little like this .....

More details of the Poetry Can - Bristol Poetry Festival can be found here.

Skate-a-Pat

2007-08-08T08:07:00.000+01:00

Ultra-Uber-O-Glitch-Man ..... all 9 years of him - has been on an animation workshop at a local arts center type of place - as you send them off to do during the long drawn-out school hols - he came home proudly displaying his clay models and yesterday the finished DVD pops through the post - a deep study of rural life as seen through his eyes - enjoy - well cool it is too ...

HANATARASH

2007-08-03T12:38:00.000+01:00

In the Farmers yard today - we are mostly listening to all things pre-Boredoms .... and you should too :

For those of you who found that all a bit frightening (light-weights) - why not pop a couple of black-bombers - and enjoy 'The Mad Hippy' trying to remember Stonehenge Festival 1984 .... "fuck-me I'm out of my head - everyone else is straight and they are LOOKING AT ME" - no what ya mean mate !!

Alive - Just - Swimming through a lake of stale Cider...

2007-08-02T10:06:00.000+01:00

Title says it all - waist deep a of month-long cider bender ... anyone out there have a suitable non-narcotic-based withdrawal cure please pass it on ... meanwhile - howz this for nostalgia ?

Remixed Shirts ....

2007-05-23T15:30:00.000+01:00

Well in reply to the previous post from our good man Mr. Shirt over here .... where we were presented with the Coward remix along with some archive classics - I took two dang tracks ... none other than Lord Depth and Death of Rave - stuck them in the wash on program 5 (natch) - colours sort of ran a tad - could do with a bloody good iron I suspect - and I am sure no thrift shop would touch it with a barge-pole - but anyhows - here ya go ... a brand new shirt .....

Kid Shirt - Lord Death Rave(FG Bulb Mix)

Busy ..

2007-05-11T16:43:00.000+01:00

Been a tad busy for blogging - so to continue the theme of the previous post and to establish life still exists here - take this new vid from yet again the mighty Fall - this time they all seem to have all dropped a couple Es, hired upstairs of a pub - digi cam and produced a corker of a video ... someday all pop promos will be made this way ....

Freakin Shit... MES in underpants ...

2007-04-11T16:04:00.001+01:00

To state that Mark E Smith is currently on blistering form would be a total understatement ..... mid-way through writing a post covering the past 12 months re-for-mation of the mighty FALL - listening to the gig from last week at the Oxford Zodiac as we speak with perhaps the most mind-slashing version of Blindness yet put to task - and whats this - yes-oh-yes - they even drag out a version of Big Prinz - what next a garage version of Rowche Rumble would not ine the least suprise ... anyhows ... that post is on-hold to make way for this babe instead ... to qoute the press-release ..

"Von Sudenfed are Mark E. Smith and Mouse on Mars, and this is the First single to be taken from album 'Tromatic Reflexxions', out May / June 2007."

and very nice it all sounds too ...

Yeovil City Rollers .....

2007-04-05T09:57:00.000+01:00

Well bugger me - 600 mid-aged-gals/grannies storm top Yeovil night-spot to see - Bay City Rollers - nope - not a headline from 1973 - but just to prove we have not lost the capability down here in the South West to lead the way in modern-gig-promotion - we have roller-mania hitting Yeovil again - in 2007 - friggin eck - anyone would think Punk never happened !

Whilst the rest of you lot out here think rollers - refer to those bubbling dnb bass-lines and fret about the mainstreaming of dubstep - us down here in the sticks have more important things to worry about - like what is better - My Shangalang or how to keep the tartan flares nice and gleaming ... or as Nick Lowe would put it .... "Derick, Alan and Eric we love you .... Lez and Woodie do you feel the same way too - BAY CITY ROLLER WE LOVE YOU..." - fuck man - got me rockin now - SHANGALANG SHANGALANG SHANGALANG .... YEAHHHH

God - takes me right back baby - way down memory lane - woosh - here we are Johnson Hall (as twas) - April 2nd, 1975 - the fog clears - to reveal me - knee hight to a grass hopper - a hopp-bopp-a-loo-poop a-lang-alanga - down the front - head-down no-noncense-boogy to none other than MUD - my first ever gig - and man - did they rock (Tell me - did they - I actually have no idea) - but I do still have the program - and here it is ....

Crist the junk people keep hey - apparantly they were supported by some lot called 'Together' - who again - apparantly won New Faces - and were once praised by ... Mickie Most - howz that for name dropping ... anyhows - Mud most likely sounded something like this - the absolute slamming .... TIGER FEET - thats right - thats right - thats right ... !!

The Hawk Lords - we salute you ..

2007-03-31T15:31:00.000+01:00

Bleedin heck - what a cool hour or so of BBC4 excellence last night - makes me almost rush out and buy a license ... let me just say it hear and now for all to witness - I BLEEDIN WELL LOVE HAWKWIND !!!! phew - got that off me chest - loved the vintage clips of the Stonehenge gigs - sort of took me right back there - apart from the fact I was so out of me-bleedin-gord during the festivala - I am not really sure if that is a good idea ..

Anyhows - hot on the tails of that supa-hippy-bio-drama - comes news of another bunch of long-hairs on the gig-trail - yep none other than ... HERE AND NOW ...

The first gig with new drummer MERV, of Eat Static & Ozric Tentacles fame, who joins forces with JOIE HINTON (also Eat Static/Ozric Tentacles), STEFFE SHARPSTRINGS and KEITH "LE MISSILE" BASS, to complete the line-up. With DJ sets from STEFFE and MERV. Advance tickets available from Glastonbury Assembly Rooms - book early to avoid disappointment!

Fri 20 Apr - UK, Glastonbury, Assembly Rooms - HERE & NOW

You up for this Mr. Shirt ?

Too much time ..

2007-03-24T10:18:00.000Z

Damn - it had to happen - so here I am Saturday morning in the DubStep room - Secondlife stylee - man I need to gt out more !! Come down and join me sometime ...

About bloody time I say ...

2007-03-23T19:03:00.000Z

If like me you are sick to the gills with yet another exhibition of navel-gazing pseudo-intellectual-tosh - full of the same-old-same-old pre-show faces - attending under the pretext of networking - but more likely than not to snag the free booze and cheesey-pineapple-stick treats ... poor old art-sorts - never enough money to buy a round - or run a hot bath - if only the ACE would cough up more etc etc etc - ad nauseum ... well here ya go - a show for you all to exhibit at ... no funding needed - almost nothing rejected - and you even get a hefty percentage if the stuff sells ... all sounds good to me ....

More info as always here ..

Vibration Institutue - Volume 1

2007-03-21T18:05:00.001Z

Shameless self-promotion - if you happen to be in Miami then pop on down and check John von spinning a well spaced out set of ambient drones and assorted broken and fucked up artifacts, I would of course be there myself - but I am too busy milking cows, chewing grass and talking crap ! ....

more on the release and label details here - Vibration Institute

Degeneration Punk...

2007-03-14T14:55:00.000Z

Kindly uploaded to Youtube - thanks Negrau .... a rather cool retro look at all things now terned punk - with a nice selection of all the usual suspects - jolly good to see and hear Mark Perry back in the day - and a nice load of vintage New York types - including some classic Richard Hell and the Voidoids - esp for St. Anthony ..

Enjoy ...

Parts 1 and 2

Parts 3 and 4

Parts 5 and 6

Parts 7 and 8

Call for Elephant or Maker of an Elephant

2007-02-28T21:08:00.000Z

This just in from the always classic Arts Jobs list-server ... well being someone who works with sound - anyone got anything out there that sounds like a 'specific turquise colored elephant ?' - wonder if the Das Boat from the new Fall platter might suffice ?

Anyhows - call out .....

"This is a very urgent call out. we are looking for a very big carnival type elephant, we are going to be comissioning an artist to make one unless anyone out there already has one. The elephant needs to be operated by 2 people and will only be used once so won't need to last for years and years! it needs to be in a fairly cartoonish style and
will need to be coloured in a specific turquoise coulour (we are happy to do this, however it needs to be done). Please if you are interested get in touch by the end of Wednesday 28th."

Singapore Babe Cyber Enemies ...

2007-02-13T17:23:00.000Z

Having spent a significant time in the land of 'Ok Lah..' - the place still never ceases to surprise me - at times totally infuriating - others a complete gem of a place - and as anyone will tell ya - the food and night life certainly are pretty damn hard to beat throughout the rest of South East Asia ..... once the laughing stock of the planet though nanny-government banning-tactics - it now is a pretty damn funky town ..

So funky in fact that they have manage to throw up a bundle of cyber-babe-bloggers - all out for the prime - numero-uno-singa-blogger-party-crown - only one will manage to grab the title - any one bothered ??

If so - I give ya ......:

in the Hello Kitty' corner - all in pink with fake lashes - and oh-so-bitchy-bitch-lah - XueXue
in the moral high-ground corner Mia Tan
and finally - in the leather, venus-n-furs - bondage and whips and perhaps much much more corner - Ms Izzy (aka Singapore Party Girl)

As they say in 'We Love Katamari' - FIGHT FIGHT ...

Let the cider-guzzling freak-out resume ..

2007-02-08T10:42:00.000Z

That time of the year again - where we all descend to some beer-sodden dive and face the barrage of disjointed riddims and barked grunts all mixed with total abandon into a totally pleasing always somewhat unexpected throbbing mesh ... yes THE MIGHTY FALL yet again roll into town - this time Exeter Phoenix on the 27th March - sure to see the rest of ya west-country saddos in the mosh-pit !

So on that note I have here beside me a very recent recording of said band - thrashing out material from the long-awaited new slab-of-vinyl - live from 'Malaga AndalucÌa Spain 21.01.2007'

- and boy - are they a well-greased set of psych-out-well-oiled-coggs - so much so that it could almost be early 70's and here we are down the front listening to Space-Ritual era Hawkwind

man - there is stuff this band is doing that once upon-a-time would have seen them all fined/sacked and no doubt verbally and physically abused, giving reason to proceed with legal retribution against he that is MES....

It's all in there - squealing fuzzed out guitar-solos, white-noise acid-induced synth-lines - god - even key-changes ... now don't get me wrong - this is all damn bleedin fine in this household - ya see I am an old saddo who used to wade through muddy fields - stand in puring rain - at festivals tripping me gord out to the Hawk-fellows and associated mushroom-eaters ... Still have a massive soft-spot for Nik Turners Inner City Unit - a lovely merging of psychedelic-punk-rockabilly mashing ---- so here ya go - the new Fall sound - as usual - completely different - but somehow exactly the same - lovely stuff or what !!

The Fall - Fall Sound (live 21/01/2007 Malaga Spain)

So there I was grooving out to the above - when it leads to a sudden urge to hear - the real-stuff - ya know the 1970s tripped-out-flying-teapot-gnome-out-experience ... so I dig deep into me box of mouldy-old-bootlegs for some GONG ... now there were a bunch who knew how to trip out - yes for sure - and what better place to go than a 1974 performance from Rotterdam - featuring the drumming talents of none-other than Bill Bruford - man that should satisfy my need to seriously wiggout - shake me locks - and basically LET-IT-ALL-OUT .. so I slap the tape into the player - fast-forward to the track that is Flying Teapot and hit PLAY - but man-oh-man - what the fuck is this - another quantum-leap - for Gong seem to have somehow been lifted into outerspace on the Mothership and via Bootsy Collins and the boyz - have morphed into somekind of pre-Studio 54 disco-sluts - OK it has been years since I listened to this stuff - but frig - did they always have the funk ? now I know I have on the shelf here a vinyl original of 'Camembert Electruque' and last time I checked it was all elfish-folk-acid-doodlings - so what gives ... makes me damned scared to grab some old Funkadelic album should they suddenly have morphed into the Bay City Rollers ! Anyhows - judge the funk-nuggets for your self - and geddon-down to a blistering knee-trembling blast ::

Gong - Flying Teapot (Rotterdam 1974)

Some free DCL from CHAW CHAW..

2007-02-06T09:48:00.000Z

Not too sure how she has managed it - but from Manila - Philippines all the way to you via blog land - Ms. Chaw Chaw provides instant downloads to a bunch of our music from a few years back - now this stuff has never been stuck out on a commercial release before (most of it having only appeared via some licensing etc ... - so hats off for managing to find all this stuff - shame half the tracks have the wrong names - but whatever ..!!

Feel free to click on the picture below of Villa Escudero (where Philippine culture and history comes to life) - for some free Digital Cutup Lounge tunez ....

Or for more immediate streaming of the whole playlist via iTunez or some-other device - simply click on the photo of the 'SHARP ES-6515TS 6.5 Kg. Babad Magic' washing machine - complete with 1 Box free of Ariel powder soap and Iron (Micromatic) that she recently bought -

NICE .....

Sound of a 1200 year old Tang Dynasty guqin.

2007-02-05T20:31:00.000Z

Damn man - very very nice indeed ! The one instrument I wish I had started learning 10 years agao when I had the chance and teacher - stupidly I stuck with the bloody guitar and computer tech ....

click the pic for a jolly nice performance ...

godda get my candi free....

2007-01-31T22:41:00.000Z

"sugar me my baby .. sugar me ...."

and why not we all say here in the glitch outback ..

Artist - get a bleedin job will yah - and stop yer goddam moaning ...

2007-01-20T07:30:00.000Z

Patti Smith tells it exactly as it is in yesterdays Guardian ...

"You get people who say, 'The government won't give me a grant and I can't do my art.' I say, 'Fuck you, it's your own fault, you expect the government to give you a hand? The government is corrupt. Do what it takes. You do babysitting jobs, you work in the factory, you work in the bookstore or become a pickpocket, y'know? But whatever. Get a job.' Work is really good for an artist."

Now I know it might sound like asking you starving/needy artists to walk on a bed of nails or stick your head though a plate-glass window, but please - stop winging about the lack of funding from the Arts Council - stop all that intellectualizing twaddle - put down your pens - stop sitting around moaning about how hard the application forms are - and either get a job, rob a band - or STOP-NOW - thanks !

phew - glad I got that off me chest this morning - now where did I put the remote control and that bag of weed ?

Only After Dark ...

2007-01-05T07:55:00.000Z

All this Spizz Oil talk over at the Kids found me this recommendation from none other than Spizz himself - man - Japanese Mick Ronson tribute band - what the hell more can you ask for this freezing Friday morning - and Only After Dark to boot - so a return video offering for yah Kek - enjoy:

Minehead Butlins - Stumbling Drunk Underpants and Noise.

2006-12-22T11:34:00.000Z

Full review on a blow by blow basis in the pipeline - but for a taster of what at ATP 2006 at Butlins Minehead pipped my cotton socks clean-off ... one of the certain highlights for sure ... here ya go : Mats Gustaffson & EYE Yamataka - making a damn fine glorious racket - love this stuff !!

If only the Haters had managed the same !

$500 bottle of wine....

2006-12-02T15:39:00.000Z

A $500 dollar bottle of wine
That's all I get man most of the time.

We been through the desert
Went through their last shirts
And all the lightning and crime
A half-filled bottle of wine.

They're all fat gits and they get on our tits
They're all fat gits and they get on our tits

That's all you get most of the time
For all the life in crime
The 500 bottle of wine

What is the man on about now - look mate don't ask me - I'm just the messenger - and today I bring you news of a real bargain-basement piece of 12-inch plastic - currently up for bids on that global car-boot of a place - which for brevity shall we simply call ebay ? OK ... Yes - it would seem that this bargain basement disk has finally made it to the sale-room ...

Bought for 70 cents in a Chelsea New York boot-sale only to find it being the long-lost forgotten, somewhat moth-eaten, sounding exactly how the

Andy Warhol Wig-Out-Exlploding Cod-Piece

apparently meant it to sound (yeah right) - somewhat scratched - very hissy - yep - the very first Velvet Underground LP - but with different recordings and mixes of all songs - on 40 year-old Acetate vinyl (which basically means - you play the thing - the thing will fall to bits) ... woop - yep get ready to place those bids .. this morning when I found it for sale it was still reasonably cheap at a mere 25,000 bucks - but man - with 6 days still to go and the price now already at 36,000 bucks - I suggest a reserve upper bid closer to the 100K mark to secure it ...

For those of you not quite sitting there with those sort of readies - then as it is nearly crimbo time - here ya go - 3 of the tracks from the Farmer - from the acetate - straight down the supa-higwhay-infobahn to YOU ... your welcome ... for the rest of you with a neat-100K to blow - go and bid here.

Velvet Underground - Heroin (1966 acetate)
Completely different take than released version. Guitar line is different. Vocal inflections different, and a few different lyrics. Drumming is more primitive & off kilter. There is a tambourine dragging throughout the song.

Velvet Underground - Waiting for the man (acetate)
Different take than released version. Guitar line is completely different. Vocal inflections different, and a few different lyrics. No drums, just tambourine. Bluesy guitar solo.

Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs (acetate)
Different take than released version. Vocal inflections completely different. Instrumentation more based around Cales' violin than the guitar as in the released version.

1969 OK .....

2006-11-30T18:25:00.000Z

Well as me Tha Kid, Flinty and Bren are in preparation state for the All Tomorrows Parties 3 day bender in Butlins Minehead (would you believe it) - and as the closing act for the thang will be a stonking Iggy and the Stooges set - why not remember that glorious year of 1969 ... me, ma-n-pop and Debs Glitch were living in sunny Georgia US of A (bless them all I tell yah) - and we drove around in a bright shiny red (with jet-black roof brand-new and certainly spanking 1969 Dodge Charger - bought for a cool 3500 bucks according to the extremly crisp memory-cells of Pa-Glitch .. the following photo is a scan from the actual user-manual - damn shame he never kept the vehicle....

Man were we a cool sun in our hair cruising the highway bunch of expats - I actually have a pic of me posing in US Scouts uniform standing by the tail-fender (god look at me talking all 'merican maaan) - but I am just to damn shy to post it ..

This post is linked directly to recent talks of all things 4-wheel-drive and gaz-guzzling as presented by Niowulf whilst cyber-squatting Doms blog ...

Glitched on the slow train to Plymouth ..

2006-11-29T14:06:00.000Z

Have Mac - will knock out Ultraman Glitch (great grand-son of Dyna and godfather of Tiga) to while away the 1.20 minutes (before the battery on these crap Powerbooks give up ..

Next - Godzilla vs Hammy Hamster in the Great Death Match under the River Parrot ...

Happy B-day ..

2006-11-09T21:41:00.000Z

.... to you J-glitch - one today and supa-cute with it ... from the Farmer and Ultra-O_and_Z-glitch ...

Moshpit Donkey ..

2006-11-09T20:31:00.000Z

Band looking for :::: ????

Tell us what you have - and you are in ....

Gigs / studio / groupies / international jet-set / bags of nose-candy ... in the bag ..

Musical styles - minimalglitchneofolkpschsteppedupdubshit..... the only beat that matters is the one that is missing !

please - no 4-on-da-floor abusers need apply ..

I WEAR A Zoot (and quite like a toot) !!

2006-10-31T17:10:00.000Z

The Hong Kong muzak scene has been in decline for years (DISCUSS) - nah - no need to do that for it is saved - now we all know that accountants have always dictated what labels released and promoted - but they are no longer content with simply controlling the cash - now they too want the rewards that being the STAR gives yah (you know the stuff - unlimited piles of coke - disturbing amounts of bizarre sexual activities - well at least thats what the esteemed members of DCL get up to!) - so here ya go - Hong Kong Accountants - they dance, they rap - they be tha boyz !! Now did I ever post anything on that other HK Rap lot - Lazy Mutha Fuckas - maybe next time ..

Square Head John

2006-10-10T09:50:00.000+01:00

This is my friend John - in homage to his dub-bass-vibes here is Java Browser Crasher number 2 - Square Head John .. again move-ya-kursa around inside the thang - click and see what appens to his mr.cubic....

Another in a continuing series of "Farmer Glith - watch as he learns more tricks and licks in the murky world of interactive Java (or FG a sad and sorry pasty-faced-programming-oik - YOU DECIDE..."

Java applets - hell yeah ..

2006-10-06T16:03:00.000+01:00

Experiments in crashing your browser ... part 1

Now archived to make room for Experiments with Johns Square Head (see above) ..

So click on the image below to open-a-pop-up ... and then ................

Click around or move-ya-cursor inside the thang - now ain't that the shit - or what ??

Farmer Glitch - available for java-coding - crashing browserss my speciality ...

Fuzzed Out and Czech ....

2006-10-01T14:31:00.000+01:00

Remote Sunday DJing for Kid Shirt ..

nicely mixed into this one .... nothing like some scanty-clad boogie in this house !!

yum ...

2006-09-28T06:34:00.000+01:00

"They cant play baseball
They don't wear sweaters
They are not good dancers
They don't play drums ...."

Chatting with Bren on the phone this evening - trying to persuade him to join me Kid Shirt and Flinty for the Stooges/Sonic Youth/Wolf eyes/Gang of four etc etc (ok kek I know I should also bigggupp Sunburned Hand of the Man) extravaganza down at Butlins Minehead this xmas - and as happens the conversation drifted onto the urgent need for me to digitize the rather large stack of assorted goodies currently held on my aging Betamax Video collection ...

I am the rather dubious (nah make that proud or indeed as some around these parts have indicated - proudly dubious!) owner of this ....

What a stack of tech-porn or what - yep they separate - can be swung over your shoulder - and hooked up to the optional huge battery pack - become a mobile recording unit - eat yer hearts out all you namby pamby newbie DV Cam users - ya ain't;t lived till you tried taking this babe on a 6 month over-land docu-trip across India - trust me !

Anyhows - talk drifted to the more family-tilted material sitting on my slowly decaying tapes - and we were transported back to the heady days of 1979 and the Old grey Whistle test - and of course the most vital rock video to ever have been committed to tape (after Knowing Me Knowing You - by those alt-rockers A.B.B.A) - which is Fish Head Fish Heads - by Barnes and Barnes - a true classic of neo-romanticism prose addressing that long sufferred feeling of longing for severed rotting heads (when not thinking what a damn good soup they might make that is !) ...

Anyhows - as is the case these days with the worlds slackers - out slacking even me - some fine sould have obviously already done the dirty digi-deeds - so come on boys - n - gals - "Eat them up --- YUM ..."

Bomb them ALL ...

2006-09-12T11:12:00.000+01:00

"THIS IS A SCARY STAMP.... This is a stamp of our times, a terror stamp for the 21st Century, a climate of fear stamp, a stamp that pisses on all other stamps, a stamp that will appeal to all, one stamp to rule them all... except there are 2."

More such suchness over at Scorpion Thunderbolt Deliverance Incorporated .....

Tranquility Base ..

2006-09-11T11:52:00.000+01:00

Well back from a rather enjoyable 2 days in Leicester - Thursday early evening found me at the opening of the show in the New Walk Museum - laying down noise surrounded by Francis Bacon paintings and with an audiance made up of Chinese officials and the Lord Mayor - then on to a late night session at OK Kareoke - a quite different breed of punter and surroundings - based above a take-away in a somewhat dodgy down-town location - with a vibe reminsicent of seedy triad bars in Wan Chai/Tsim Sha Tsoi - the crowd more intersted in belting out somewhat less than tuneful Maddonna/Prince covers whilst playing that shakey-shakey Hong Kong dice-game they all know and love ... I ended up playing an hour of banging beats (what else is one to do) whilst slouched on a couch - slurping £2.50 boittles of beer ...

After that there was nothing more to do than enroll as an astranaut and begin immediate training prio to my impending launch into outer-space - needless to say being a fully qualified tractor driver - I passed with meddles and a well needed Masala Dosa ..

The sound of Rice ..

2006-09-05T13:22:00.000+01:00

Just put the finishing touches to a sound piece for an exhibition currently on at: Leicester New Walk Museum, 53 New Walk, Leicester LE1 7EA. Working with visual artist Suki Chan for stage 3 of her Story of Rice shows ..

A taster of the sound for ya here.

BBC Leicester page of the show and various links here.

If you are in the area on Thursday night (7th Spetember) - pop on over for the opening - I shall be spinning assorted sounds in at the reception - and then later pumping up the glitch-dub-funk-drones at the aptly named OK Kareoke Club ....

Pain in tha paris ..

2006-09-05T13:16:00.000+01:00

Wing Ding....

2006-08-30T07:55:00.000+01:00

Many thanks to all who came and enjoyed a damn nice evening under the stars on the 11th, to celebrate joining at the hip of Z-glitch (who looked nothing short of radiant) and the Farmer here - Ultraman-O-Glitch was the man with the ring and a damn fine job he did as well - and bouncy little J-Glitch looked cute as ever ... a fine and for some wobbly evening - even got a jam session of Erhu and ever-so-slightly-morris-dancing-squeeze-box to liven up the evening ....

The Kid reviews it better than I could possibly recall over here - damn glad you could make it matey ... and yep magic ciggies with the inlaws - way to go hey !!

Ignore all previous instructions .. Life Stinks ..

2006-08-03T07:44:00.000+01:00

Well that post on the best 12 inch record of the 1970's was a complete and total load of bollocks I say - sure Beyond Good and evil is good in that quirky Bristol-boys play da jerky-funk stylee - but then I got to thinking - does it really stand up against the monolith that is DATAPANIK IN THE YEAR ZERO ?

Got this record in Kings Road back in 1978 - remember strolling into some dive of a shop and falling out the door a while later with a copy of the above pink 12 incher along with a copy of the first album proper 'The Modern Dance' - on Blank Records (Serial number 001) - how bloody good a day of record buying is that !! The Modern Dance LP to this day stands out as one of the most listened pieces of plastic on the shelves here - and despite what could indeed be thousands of spins still remains in A1 condition - I love this stuff man !

So how fackin cool is this then - from a mere 4 days ago - Rocket From The Tombs playing live in Cambridge, MA - present a slammin version of 30 Seconds over Tokyo - what more could anyone ask for on a drizzly Thursday morning huh ?

China Robots..

2006-08-01T15:42:00.000+01:00

Tactooloo (est le robot-tactile) !

Mouse

Waiter ..

Babe Magnet ..

Cop ...

Rickshaw ..

Dalek ..

The best 12" of the 70's...

2006-07-30T16:02:00.000+01:00

Fuckit I say - caution to the wind - be damned ... with all these old photos and posters from the 70's being trawled through over here right now - nice to stumble upon the following video - to accompany the best slab of sounds on a 12 inch slab of plastic from the closing wheezes of the decade ...

Produced by Dennis Bovell - released on Radar - damn fine sleeve art - and a b-side to die for ... argue with all of that if ya dare ::::

T.R.I.P.....

2006-07-30T10:44:00.000+01:00

Haslebury Plucknett - Final resting place of Saint Wulfric...

2006-07-28T06:56:00.000+01:00

1979 - the somewhat tinny noise machine that was never named - but for now will be immortalised as the Smiffy/Vaughny/Ivesy/Daffy-guitar/bass-n-drums thang rolled into the other mecca of alternative Somerset culture Haselbury Plucknett village hall.

My memory is to put it midly rather confused about this gig - I seem to recall falling out with the Smiff/Vaughny contigent of the band for sitting in the back of some rusting old transit with Curtis and Fallows of the Mob - smoking super-sized spliffs (a big no-no as the rest of our noise-collective were indeed total anti-weeders) - so I guess there was some sort of Mob contingent involved - I know for a fact that the front-of-house sound was indeed manned by them - no idea if they played however...

The pic below - featuring in the fore-ground 2 members of the audiance - no others than Christine Cole and Jeff Morse - both either getting on down to the slamming sounds eminating from the cabs - or perhaps simply pushing in front of the camera - both were playing with the Bikini Mutants (or perhaps some associated off-shoot) - who I am sort of sure also played on the bill that night... but again - perhaps not ?

The following pic - shows us seriously getting into the stride of things ..

Man oh MAN - were we a cool entity back then - OR WHAT ?

Of course - things were bound to change - for Smiffy - optics offerred a more secure future - Vaughny - pursued higher things via the oft-mentioned - bareyl ever seen and gigged once 'Box Combo' before setting up Pale Red Competitor - and finally having the mis-guided idea of banging out derirvitives for that whipper-snapper PJ Harvey ... Daffy - well where he ended up - it would be good to know ...

Hinton St George - 15th March 1980

2006-07-26T14:13:00.000+01:00

Directly linked to this post and related discussions thanks to Lurch for stirring up the memories - and Kek and Dom for confusing history (best way to view it really)... that resulted in all those present at the time proving just how fucked our brain cells actually are these days - by not even remembering if any of us were there let alone played the damn gig - I present to ye all - scanned proof that yes - Spare Cells / The Box Combo - and this one even suprised the pants off of me - Fractured Entertainment (yes oh yes I hear you shriek) - all played at that mecca of Somerset punk/post-punk and other assorted genres too few and embarrasing to recall (and please lets not start on the hair-cuts) - HINTON VILLAGE HALL - trust me - if you missed out on this stuff back in the day - ha - bleedin ha !!

THE POSTER ....

Fresh Sausage

2006-07-25T08:15:00.000+01:00

Give me some hamburger - lady ...

rssjockey .

2006-07-23T09:26:00.000+01:00

Always on the outlook for nice ways of re-presenting mashed up web content - nice to stumble upon this auto-remix site this wet sunday morning .....

http://www.rssjockey.com - load the babe up and see if it grabs your fancy ... found it cuz they seem to have pulled in the old Syd Barrett demos I posted this week - which get nicely swallowed in the mix - or stand out nice on their own here...

Nice stuff peeps ...

Stonehenge Festival - the early 80's ...

2006-07-21T10:00:00.000+01:00

I actually stumbled upon a load of my old photos from Stonehenge Festivals of the early 80's and just starting to scan them when I stumble upon this blast ...- being the last 1984 proper festival and indeed the last one I attempted to go to - nice shots of the main stage line-up (Hawkwind / The Enid) - yikes does anyone actually remember the Enid ? All I remember is a jar-full of cotton-wool soaked in Amyl, an emergency drive back to get Lydia to Sussex Uni in time for a lecture - and days and days of stoned wanderings ... just the way festivals were meant to be I say ...

And just a reminder how completly fucked up both English Heritedge and the goverment of the day were - here is the next years 1985 shameful occurance ..

But to remain in a 'everything is fine man' hippy ending - hurry on sundown - for an hour long Stonehenge pot(ted) history ... tis really strange - you see my memories are at best frazzled these days - but that main-drag of the festival - clearly on view at 3 mins in remains engraved in my mind as if it were yesterday - perhaps I am stuck in a permanent Henge-Flashback ... suppose things could actually be much much worst !! Enjoy - we all did !!

A Night for Nikki Sudden

2006-07-21T09:42:00.000+01:00

This just in from the Mute:

An evening celebrating the life of the late Nikki Sudden, co-founder of
Swell Maps, will take place at the Dirty Water Club, Tufnell Park, London on
Friday 21 July.

For more information visit www.dirtywaterclub.co.uk

www.nikkisudden.com

Swell Maps - Lets Build a Car

Swell Maps - Midget Submarine

Towers Open Fire

2006-07-19T18:02:00.000+01:00

Cutup - original remix stylee...

Before the pipe dreams ...

2006-07-19T16:37:00.003+01:00

"Hey farmer - whadya get up to before the days of lying around with a big fat bowl-pipe ... and a 5 tokes before breakfast opium problem ?"

"What ya talkin about whipper-snapper - when I was a kid - I used to do nothin more wiv me time than play in spaced-out improv-jazz quartets ..."

Sunset Concert 2001

香港演藝學院每年均舉辦Sunset Concert，為學生提供製作流行音樂會的實踐機會。適逢今年是國際特赦組織四十周年，演藝學院聯同國際特赦組織合辦Sunset Concert 2001，請來一眾本地獨立樂勢力參與演出，以音樂論盡人權。組Band Inti特別剪輯演唱會精彩片段，與你一同重溫。

Sunset Concert 2001演出單位包括：劉以達＋Joey＋葉世榮、Primary Shapes、後花園、Digital Cutup Lounge及Windmill等。

Live Improvisation 1 - by Digital Cutup Launge

Harvest Festival

2006-07-19T14:07:00.000+01:00

Oh the joys of harvesting this years crops - the sun shining - the juices flowing - and the endless days of lying back and smoking ....

Mashing up the remixed mash-ups ....

2006-07-14T10:31:00.000+01:00

Just stumbled upon a mash up of an old Aphex Twin remix I did back in the day of Drukqs - which in actuall fact contains rather a lot of non AFX stuff (as every good remix should indeed ignore as much of the original as poss !)...

Anyway - it now includes a big chunk of Justin Timberlake - and why not - I say - I suppose - whatever ... click here if this sounds your sort of bag...

For the original - you will need to look over here...

Thanks for that Juxtaposeur.......

The church has spoken ...

2006-07-13T18:06:00.000+01:00

and man-o-man - for the sake of those lickle cuddly kittens - GODDAAM PAY ATTENTION !!

Life - cows, fields n Persocoms .. Chi Awakens

2006-07-13T09:36:00.000+01:00

Sitting back - swiggin cider, tokin on spliff and watching old episodes of Chobits .. somethings gotta give !!!

Syd Barrett - RIP

2006-07-12T11:52:00.000+01:00

Shine on man !

King Bee (unreleased studio sessions 10/65)
Well, I'm a King Bee
Buzzing around your hive
Yes, I'm a King Bee, child
Buzzing around your hive

I can make good honey
Let me come inside
I'm young and able
To buzz all night long
You know I'm young and able
To buzz all night long

When you hear me buzz, little girl
You know some stinging's going on
Well, buzz some I'll sting, yeah

Well, I'm a King Bee
Can buzz all night long
Yes I'm a King Bee
Can buzz all night long

Well, I buzz better baby
When your man is gone

Interstellar Overdrive (from the film "San Francisco" October 31, 1966)

Sunshine (unreleased backing track 6/9/67 - from the Piper sessions )

Hey - lets all go to church ..

2006-06-13T09:45:00.000+01:00

Back with a post after a well needed 2-3 month blogging break - for no other reason apart from in yer-face self-promotion --- so here goes - enuf said - come on down and help punk-up-some-pews !!

746b ..

2006-03-23T01:36:00.000Z

from Germany ...

an old bed-ridden-produced number - in the press ...

"I knew naturally my nose from the previous collective did not raushalten and again as curiously, as this lady became. There I discover nevertheless DJ Group from Hong Kong, which turns around "John of" this laptop, who is among other things with Tepsichoregroup thereby. Around gehts actually not, but around steven Ives, which this very beautiful mix from own works in live-manier in August 2002 in the studio 746B in Hong Kong put down. For a long time I did not feel no more a purity, as this Ambient of masterpieces puts it to day. To produce likewise a depth, which is more organic, than one is able to think. Here situations are expenditure-cost, as one can experience them only with all its senses, are it with fear, isolation, curiosity, dreamingness, melancholy, mourning or simply only, in order to give to its soul new inspirations. Unknown worlds enters, who goes on the way of the uncertainty... Immediately of a wisdom of Dalai Lama, which announces there, reminds me: "spend each day some time alone. Open for the change your arms, but do not lose sight of thereby your values not.""

no idea what that is all about - the original says something like this ....

Ich konnte natürlich meine Nase aus dem vorherigen Kollektiv nicht raushalten und bin wieder so neugierig, wie diese Dame geworden.

Da stoße ich doch auf diese Laptop DJ Group aus Hong Kong, die sich um "John von" dreht, der unter anderem bei Tepsichoregroup dabei ist.

Um den gehts eigentlich garnicht, sondern um Steven Ives, der diesen sehr schönen Mix aus eigenen Werken in Live-Manier im August 2002 im Studio 746B in Hong Kong hinlegte.

Lange habe ich nicht mehr eine Reinheit verspürt, wie es diese Ambient Meisterwerke zu Tage legen. Ebenso eine Tiefe zu erzeugen, die organischer ist, als man zu denken vermag.

Hier werden Situationen ausgekostet, wie man sie nur selbst mit all seinen Sinnen erleben kann, sei es bei Angst, Einsamkeit, Neugier, Verträumtheit, Melancholie, Trauer oder einfach nur, um seiner Seele neue Inspirationen zukommen zu lassen.

Unbekannte Welten betritt, wer sich auf dem Weg der Ungewissheit begibt...

Das erinnert mich sofort an eine Weisheit von Dalai Lama, der da verkündet:

"Verbringe jeden Tag einige Zeit allein. Öffne der Veränderung deine Arme, aber verliere dabei deine Werte nicht aus den Augen."

So there ya have it ... me - as expected - am none the wiser ...

Go billy boy - GO

2006-03-10T19:30:00.000Z

About time I suppose that someone kicked Jacks bleedin-ead-in ....

Being far more intelligent than Mr White, and having had a lot of practice at this sort of thing after spats with his ex, wonky faced art loon Tracey Emin, Childish replied rather better in an open letter: "Though I have undoubtedly angered Jack White, I think it's a bit nasty of him to accuse me of plagiarism merely because his former admiration of my work was not reciprocated," he wrote with a twinkle in his eye.

Childish then went on to continue, rather magnificently: "It all smacks of jealousy to me. I have a bigger collection of hats, a better moustache, a more blistering guitar sound and a fully developed sense of humour. The only thing I can't understand is why I'm not rich. Yours sincerely, Billy Childish."

More upto date fight details over at the Aquarium ...

This is how I roll ...

2006-02-23T19:36:00.000Z

Thank you - thank you - thank you - mum-n-dad glitch, for the birthday money which allowed me the joys of discovering the mighty "We Love Katamari" - I have stopped eating - and now survive on a diet of skunk, beer and rolling a virtual ball around collecting debis, paper-clips, dogs, cats, pritz-sticks, tennis rackets, pizza, kids, bikes, people, cars, street-lamps, buildings, planets, stars .... yes my life has been transformed - no more need for outside communication (unless it involves leaving the Katamari-Damarci-Crash-Pad to visit da-man for another knickle bag of weed) ..... life is sweet now I have me PS2 and a decent game to play on it --- happy birthday (last week) - 2ME... for those who remain living in a cave and have yet to stumble upon this babe - click here to play a lofi flash version

How to be a groupie in 10 lessons

2006-02-23T13:48:00.000Z

Many thanks to Lissie for sorting these useful hints out (more words-of-wizzderm here).

1.Choose a band you like much with hot people in it

2.Dye your hair in blonde

3.Wear tons of mascara and red lipstick

4.Wear short skirts,sexy tops,no undies,and sexy shoes

5.Buy tons of condoms,dope and alcoohol

6.And buy tons of presents for the band members

7.Wait 'til they're on tour

8.Go to their concert

9.Stay with 'em

10.Sleep with one or all band members

Well done,you're a groupie!!

Sort of just about sumz up any usual weekend for me here in sleepy Somerset - as I jet around the country side hunting out fraggled old Wurzel members - wiv me flaggon of cider and pockets filled with last-years mushrooms ... phew ... hey - did I ever tell you about that time wiv Adge Cutler behind the hay bales - popped me socks clean off that one - trouble is though - I think he had been dead for 15 years at the time - still whos counting hey ??

KLF - how to make a number 1 pop-twit (OK sorry that should have said TWAT!) .....

2006-02-17T16:29:00.000Z

The following is lifted as is from various sources floating around the web - now only if we could get Bill and Jimmy to load up some guns and go after those twats coldplay life would be well and truly sweet as ......

For those of you not into reading that much - here is a pic of Ms. Moss - for no other reason apart from - "hey man - tis Kate - and who needs a reason !!" ....

The Samaritans have today recruited 600 extra staff to deal with an expected surge in calls as troubled fans come to terms with today's revelations about rocker and teen icon Pete Doherty. In a surprise press conference today, the men behind Doherty's career reveled themselves - and admitted that the Libertines, Babyshambles, the tales of drug use, the armed robberies and the affair with supermodel Kate Moss have all been part of one of the largest hoaxes in British history.

The men behind the scandal - Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, who were themselves infamous popstars under the name The KLF - admitted how they plucked a young Buddy Holly impersonator Doherty from obscurity and made him a media darling. "It was a meant to be a quick stunt to show the frailties of our celbrity-obsessed culture," said Cauty, adding, "there are too many people who are famous despite their lack of talent, usefulness and basic intelligence. We wanted to do something that held a mirror up to that." Mr Drummond called Britain's pop-culture "sick" and said that although he regretted the hurt caused to Doherty's many fans, he hoped "this incident taught us all some important things".

In a prepared statement, the two men - famous for many other pop pranks, including the famous burning of GBP1million on a remote Scottish island - detailed how they manipulated the British Press into making Doherty an icon. Doherty - whose real name has now been revealed to be Trevor McDermott - was making a living as a part-time Buddy Holly impersonator in the Cornwall holiday circuit. He began a short-lived affair with the singer of a well known 80's rock band, and was introduced to Drummond and Cauty at a backstage party in London's West End. The men described how a drunken McDermott amused them with his slurred singing and frenetic dance movements, and how they then realised that this would be the perfect "dupe" for a plan they had been hatching for some time.

"The plan involved proving three theories we have about current British society," reads the statement. "The first is that in the so-called "alternative" scene, everybody is too scared of missing The Next Big Thing to worry about anything else." To prove this, some session musicians were provided to compose the rest of the "band", The Libertines, and rumours of exposive gigs were leaked to the media. "The gigs in question never actually took place, but we didn't have to worry about that. Soon the buzz around The Libertines was so frenetic, journalists were falling over themselves to claim to have been at the front of every single fictional gig." Within weeks, The Libertines were appearing on magazines and receiving record offers. Gigs sold out in minutes, while their first album "Up The Bracket" flew off shelves.

Feeling that their first point had been proved, Drummond and Cauty moved to their second theory: "We feel that our culture has become an enormous soap opera. We don't care what a person thinks, or creates, or contributes. We just care about what they do in their normal lives. Especially when it's something they shouldn't be doing."

To demonstrate this, the men co-ordinated a number of scandals. First was a robbery staged in the house of one of the band members. When this took place, McDermott (aka Doherty) was unknown outside of the alternative music scene. An incident of this calibre was sufficient, however, to catapult McDermott onto the front page of every major national tabloid. "One day we has just another singer, the next day he was 'Disgraced Celebrity Rocker', and he hasn't been out of the papers since". Further revelations about drug abuse and violence kept McDermott and The Libertines on the front pages for months.

One thing that took even Drummond and Cauty by surprise was the affair with model Kate Moss. "That was not something that we planned or had any involvement. Whether she knew about the hoax is something we are not party to. We have never had any contact with Miss Moss." However, this was the boost their project needed - where the drugs and crime had made McDermott a media sensation, the relationship with one of fashion's most famous women catapulted him into the world of true celebrity. "While we had not planned this, it certainly proved our point. There are many superior artists in the country today, but they never appear in Heat or The Sun, because they don't have the words 'boyfriend of Kate Moss' after their name."

Despite this boost, the project began running into a major setback for Drummond and Cauty. Just as they were preparing to enter the final phase of their scheme, Doherty decided that he wanted to part company with them, the fake band, and begin seriously recording music. He stopped all contact with the men, and threatened legal actions if any details were leaked to the press. "We were upset at the apparent failure of our grand project, and also at the monster we had created in Pete Doherty. Our third theorem - that 'If enough people say that a piece of s*** is a bar of gold, we'll believe it's a bar of gold' - seemed to have been beyond salvation. Fortunately, at that point Pete released the first Babyshambles album."

In the time since then, Drummond and Cauty have been locked in a vicious legal battle, which was eventually settled out of court by the discovery of a videotape showing McDermott singing "Peggy Sue" at a Butlin's in Devon. Publicly, McDermott still strongly denies all charges. How this affects the future career of Pete Doherty remains to be seen.

Search engine optimization.

2006-02-14T11:12:00.000Z

The interesting thing about monitoring stats for websites - lay in what the heck you the reader is searching for that allows you to stumble upon this here bottomless pit of intellect wit and general lap-sap ...

sooo... let it be known - I too am nothing short of a slave to the share-holders of this site - yes - them upstairs who all consideration must be made - just like Google - buckling under pressure from the PRC - offering a watered down search-engine for theChinese masses - simply so they can get the foot into that market - I too must consider what the people want ...

soo - for all you (and you know exactly who you all are) - those of you who for some reason or the other stumble upon this site - whilst drooling and shaking as you type in KARAN - MOK - NAKED - LEGS - FLESH - LEGS - MOK - CANTO - CHICK - POP - MANDO - NEKKID - NUDE - LEGS - MOK - SOKS

HERE YA GO .....

from now on though - please save yourself the bother and when looking for MS.MOK-N-HER-LEGS - and simply go here.

Bear witness laddies - The FALL - Brownies 1998 - uuhh

2006-02-02T11:25:00.000Z

Old old old - but just found audio from the mighty FALL ... this being a document of the final straw for the old-guard (Hanley et. al.) - and the on-stage antics of a somewhat pissed Mark E Smith vs the-rest-of-the-band .... sort of funny in a sad-sort-of-way - although without this falling out we probably would not have the full-throttle-power-machine that modern-day Head-Rolling MES-n-co are ...

anyhows - click here to listen ...

and for those around Bristol in March - see ya at the Acadamy !

MES: "And these three are gonna beat me up like the big men they are." (start of Masquerade)..

Crooks : "Anybody got a spare fucking guitar in the audience, I've broken me fucking strings...")

MES: "What we got here is a Scottish man, a fucking animal on drums, and a fucking idiot."

Burns: "yeah, no singer, man. Where's the fucking singer ? You cock"

MES: "I've been assaulted in public here by two people, or three people, you've been witness to this. Bear witness laddies. They're very big....I tell you what, these three...I got a taxi and some fucker pulled a gun out on me, from fucking Pakistan or someone."

(Hanley mimes a violin and adds appropriate woe is me noises)

MES: "Look, the very thing...these three were cowering in the fucking dressing room....as...usual......"

MES: (throws mic onto stage) (band goes into tune-up racket) (picks mic up) "They don't work for (the team ?)... They're very hard....all together." (MES) (walks off) (all end of Free Range)

Kung Hai Fat Choi

2006-02-01T15:04:00.000Z

Seemed sort of fitting for the new year to start with something from Nam June Paik 白南准 (1932 - 2006) - sadly passed away a couple of days back - if ya like the above - then ya sure are bound to dig this.

Gone shopping ...

2006-01-25T07:43:00.000Z

back real soon ..

Geek Gallery

2005-12-19T10:40:00.000Z

Instead of searching for those elusive cracks/phreaks/serialz/warez/porn-pop-ups ... why not go look at the uber-pervy new section over at astalavista.com - oggle at the in-depth under-cover shots of geeks and the kit they lurve ....

Here - how about I show you mine - if you show me yours ..... just a lickle peek won't hurt us now will it ....

soo - here goes - a recent one from my home studio - note the trusty array of DEC PDP-11s being put to use during recording of the current glitch-miniamal-dub-step-rocka rumbling the subs at studio-glitch .. beat that gear-slutz !

System for Multiple Compositions on a Theme

2005-12-14T11:09:00.000Z

This just through from the [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] listserver - and reprinted as is ... cool stuff to these ears and eyes !!

http://www.asquare.org/project/composition_system/

System for Multiple Compositions on a Theme is a series of videos shot and edited on analog equipment in 1995 for the sole purpose of experimenting with editing video to create audio compositions. Rather than the norm of composing a video, the image, into a sequence, here the audio was composed and the accompanying image became incidental, secondary.

The re-presentation of the video experiments on the internet not alone document and expose them to a wider audience than the original analog cassettes but also serves as a means to progress the early video experiments as a website experiment.

The network provides a means to reconfigure the way the work is viewed by changing the artist's (sole author of the art work) relationship with his audience. The artist, rather than defining a narrative, defines a framework for the art to work within. Experimentation with methods of sending, retrieving and presenting information on the internet, such as the use of html forms and server side scripting allows him to this time construct a system for controlling / viewing the art work rather than an art work that is simply to be viewed. The spectacle of cinema and its audience is replaced by individual user's, separated and distributed across many spaces / places, each as co-author's / contributor's with the artist to their viewing and interpretation of his work.

The composition creation interface on the website, allows users to actively participate in the composition of the experiments and experience an approximation of the act of originally editing these experiments by the artist. It consists of a grid of nine positions, three across and three down, where any position on the grid can be occupied by any of the nine videos any number of times. This gives a possible 2318107019760 combinations, where...

18 + 182 + 183 + 184 + 185 + 186 + 187 + 188 = 2318107019760

Videos can be given a parameter to loop, loop back and forth (palindrome) or not loop. Lag, download speed on the internet, as well as video duration is used as a means to offset how the videos will sound / display within the website creating an overlap that is never quite the same.

a+
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http://www.asquare.org/

Careful with that cider Eugene

2005-12-07T14:11:00.000Z

goddam - another wonky day in zummerzit ...

Ultimate DJ Kit

2005-12-06T09:28:00.000Z

"HAVE YOU EVER BEEN BEHIND THE DECKS JUMPING UP & DOWN ENCOURAGING YOUR FOCUSED AUDIENCE, TO DANCE LIKE THERE GOING TO DIE TOMORROW ?

AND BEEN ABSOLUTELY DYING FOR A PEE?

YOU KNOW THAT LEAVING THE DECKS IT'LL BE AGES BEFORE YOU GET BACK - WITH EVERY ADMIRING FAN WANTING AN AUTOGRAPH & TO SHAKE YOUR HAND!

Well forget those posey record-bags with the latest rave-day-glo nogo-logo .. what you need - DJ-MAN (yes the new supa-hero waitin ta bish-bosh-tosh ya with a slab of wikid tunez) is this piss down-ya-leg - and leave no stains DJ-pee-bag ideal xmas gift - I have 2 on the go as we type - saves me ever having to move again ..... not only that - but leaves you feeling nice and warm in winter !! lovely-jobbly ...

The Cheesy Quavers fight back ..

2005-12-02T19:48:00.000Z

thank god for rational debate .. this just in from a concerned trancer ..

From: anonymous-comment@blogger.com
Subject: [farmer-glitch] 12/02/2005 07:15:30 PM
Date: 2 December 2005 19:15:31 GMT
To: farmer-glitch@gmail.com

the comic maker can SHOVE THAT RAVE UP HIS ASS DJ ROOL SO DOES TRANCE MUSCIC

FUCK YOU ASSHOLE