+ GIG ALERT +

Aqua Dentata (Eddie Nuttall) will be joining me in the studio in January (Sunday 9th) for TBR!'s very first live session, which I'm very excited about! In words...

"Minimal and maximal electronic explorations; density, tension, luminosity, absurdity, pareidolia and comfort, all lovingly rendered through finely-sculpted virtual analog synthesis."


...and a few upcoming gigs you may be interested in checking out...

WOODEN SHJIPS (San Francisco)
HOWLIN' RAIN
MOON DUO (San Francisco)
Tuesday 7th, Dec.
@ The Garage (Highbury & Islington)
Psychedelic garage blow out!



FILAMENT (OTOMO YOSHIHIDE & SACHIKO M.) (Japan)
Thursday 8th, Dec.
@ Cafe Oto (Dalston Kingsland
Guitar / turntable / electronics / sampler with sine waves



Honest Jon's Records presents...
ACTRESS (London)
MARK ERNESTUS (Berlin)
ANTHONY 'SHAKE' SHAKIR (Detroit)
Friday 17th, Dec. (last day of term!)
@ Plastic People (Shoreditch)
Some of the finest techno you'll ever lay ears on.

101205 ep. 17 December w/ Milky & Shayken

Last show of the year before disappearing for hibernation.
Defrost...

DRUM ISLAND Å Dæven
LUKID Just Like Havana
HERBALISER Lord, Lord ft. ROOTS MANUVA
PRINCE FATTY That Very Night in Dub ft. HOLLIE COOK & ALCAPONE
MULATU ASTATKE Yekermo Sew
BOB MARLEY Soul Rebel
BOB MARLEY Duppy Conqueror
BOB MARLEY Screw Face
MUSLIMGAUZE Turkish-Koln
ECHO 106 Jupiter Blues
KASSEM MOSSE Shaqued
REAGENZ ft. FRED P Keep Building
MARSHALL JEFFERSON Floating
ROSS 154 Until My Heart Stops...
WOODEN SHJIPS Auld Lang Syne
WOODEN SHJIPS Space Clothes
JIMMY EDGAR My Balance
LUKID Fela
BULLION Are You the One?

···SHAYKEN···
DE PHAZZ Free Drift
SOULCAST Jazzster
TRI-FUNK Semblance 350
LUNG Iris
CROOKERS ft. ROISIN MURPHY Ho
* PHRIJ Boom Boom Bap
* SHAYKEN Touch Button

SURGEON 9 Hours into the Future
ISOLÉE Beau Mot Plage
MULATU ASTATKE Dèwèl (Bell)


* Both freshly graduated this year, Dave Trevelyan (Phrij) and Ruskin Constant (Shayken) helped to found IC Music Tech Society, a hub for producers and DJs alike at Imperial College. Experienced heads and total n00bs get together to get geeky about music and make some awesome sounds. We meet every Monday evening from 7pm onwards in the West Wing of the Beit Quad (Union building). Come along with a computer or a tuning fork!

101107 ep. 16 November

A chilled session as winter knocks at the basement's door. Dubs by the dozen and low end miracles from foreign lands, interspersed with skewed beats of all shapes and forms, angular and linear. This session we chimed in to the sounds of Australia, Nepal, Congo, the American South and a few vibrations which could either be German or extraterrestrial. Ended with a live jam to the first scenes of George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead - I forgot to take the needle off of Tangerine Dream though so it wasn't just me making a racket.
From 4:40

STALKER Redlamp 8b
BALAM ACAB Dream Out
MAP.ACHE Carnaval
BUDDHIST MONKS OF MAITRI VIHAR MONASTERY Three Monks with Bowls and Cymbals
AARON DILLOWAY Rotting Nepal 7
SMB No Reason ··· Imperial College alumnus!
EQD #1 A1
SCB 20_4 A1
19.454.18.5.25.5.18 Interview
OREN AMBARCHI Corkscrew
MUSLIMGAUZE Kabul
SHACKLETON vs KASAI ALLSTARS Mukuba Special
HOWLIN' WOLF Moanin' at Midnight
HARMONIOUS THELONIOUS On Stages
PEVERELIST & APPLEBLIM Over Here
RHYTHM & SOUND Smile
TANGERINE DREAM Phaedra
Jamming to George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead

On the other hand...

101010 ep. 15 summer diggings w/ Fshstk & Replicant

Turn back your dial
(begins after 08:40)

PIERO PICCIONI Lovers
TRAP DOOR 11 + 12
GASLAMP KILLER I Spit On Your Grave
FREE THE ROBOTS Turkish Voodoo
MADLIB The Payback
DABRYE My Life
FLYING LOTUS Camera Day
FLYING LOTUS Physics for Everyone!
HERALDS OF CHANGE (unknown)
VVV Back to Life
AMON TOBIN Hunt for the Ray Sphere
KASSEM MOSSE Laid
TRENTEMØLLER Sunstroke
VAKULA The Moment Pt. 4 ft. Vasily Filatov
VAMPYROS LESBOS Droge CX9
THE HERBALISER The Turnaround
ITCHY TRIGGER FINGER NIGGAS My Last Request
NAS One Love (NUJABES remix)
SQUAREPUSHER The Swifty
DJ NAUTINTO Zombies
SUBWAVE + STOP THINKING Plastic Heart
ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER Pelham Island Road
TANGERINE DREAM Movements of a Visionary

100620 ep. 14 w/ Grammaticus, Fshstk & Dora

Last transmission of the '09-'10 season. Sad times but we ripped it up for one last time with *three* guests on the show! Namely Fabian Hummel aka Fshstk, Dora Ma and Tom Matcham aka Grammaticus. A splendid assortment of the realest electronic music around... some IDM, bit of hip hop, followed by a barrage of drum'n'bass and future garage. One of the funnest shows I've done all year! Thanks to everyone for tuning in and checking out the old shows this year. 'til October!
Wheel it!

SQUAREPUSHER Theme from Ernest Borgnine
KIT CLAYTON Material Problem
KITES Flag Torn Apart
FLYING LOTUS Shifty
1000NAMES Pocket Calculators
JIMMY EDGAR Beau
FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON Glass
GARGAJ Rude Awakening
PHOTEK Ni Ten Ichi Ryu
KEITH303 Martian Spaceboots
AUTECHRE Cap.IV
BROTHOMSTATES Qtio
···
COMMON Resurrection
CONSEQUENCE Fog
CONSEQUENCE Reflex Reaction ft. INSTRA:MENTAL
DATA Tapeworm
INSTRA:MENTAL Rogue
ROCKWELL Full Circle
INSTRA:MENTAL No Future
ALIX PEREZ Allegiance
BLUE MOTION Only words (TRIAD remix)
SCUBA Eclipse
INSTRA:MENTAL End Credits
PEARSON SOUND Down With You
···
EXTENDED SPIRIT Caprice
SCHWEIZ REC Workshop 10

100612 ep. 13 w/ Grammaticus

The racket creeps back into the speakers after exam limbo! This time joined by Tom Matcham aka Grammaticus on the decks spinning some dopey dubstep from the next century. From my end, hip hop and techno's lovechildren break the plates before descending into hazy waters with the inimitable Kassem Mosse and a spliffing version of Summertime Summertime Summertime Summertime Summertime :)
Transmission ends after the Jinder track. Apologies for those listening back but the rest was dope! Listen again via http://www.icradio.com/replay/226761

OBBA SUPA Chanelist (ft. FLOATNG POINTS)
FLYING LOTUS São Paolo
DUNIAN Where is the Problem?
KASSEM MOSSE No Peace/No Love/No Unity
oOoOO NoSmmr4u
MOUNT KIMBIE Vertical
···
BRODINSKI Arnold Classic (Egyptrixx remix)
EGYPTRIXX The Only Way Up
RAMADANMAN Glut

(unknown track)
SHORT STUFF Tripped Up
MARK PRITCHARD Elephant Dub
HYETAL We Should Light a Fire
BOK BOK Citizen's Dub
GIRL UNIT I.R.L.
D DOUBLE E Street Fighter
JINDER Youth Blood (BOK BOK remix)
DEADBOY If You Want
MOUNT KIMBIE Maybes (JAMES BLAKE remix)
DORIAN CONCEPT Trilingual Dance Sexperience
GUIDO Mad Sax
BONOBO Eyes Down
DEBRUIT Nigeria What
SHORT STUFF Don't Sleep
TOASTY The Knowledge (UNTOLD Remix)
JAMES BLAKE Measurements

100425 ep. 12 Channeling the Spirit of Jazz, vol. 3

Last transmission of the term as exams peak their ugly heads through the calendar. A more chilled out channeling this time with a more mildly tempered look at open styles of jazz from the likes of Eric Dolphy (from 1964's Blue Note release "Out to Lunch!" featurng Freddie Hubbard on the trumpet; this track "Hat & Beard" refers to Thelonious Monk) as well as a legendary live collaboration between Thelonious Monk and Mr. "John Coltraaaane"! Yet another peak at Flying Lotus's new sounds and a Carl Craig affiliated track I've been meaning to play for a long time: Bug in the Bassbin by his Innerzone Orchestra.
Listen again from 13'51'' onwards...

ENOCH LIGHT I'm in the Mood for Love
CHARLES MINGUS Summertime
ERIC DOLPHY Hat & Beard
THELONIOUS MONK with JOHN COLTRANE Monk's Mood (live at Carnegie Hall 1957)
SUN RA Lights of a Satellite
INNERZONE ORCHESTRA Bug in the Bassbin (Jazz version)
FLYING LOTUS Recoiled
MOONDOG The Witch of Endor

100418 ep. 11 w/ Dora

Got back from the holidays with a bucket of new tunes, including Workshop Records's latest offering plus new discovery Gonjasufi, who's debut album "A Sufi and a Killer" was released last month on Warp records, with production credits to The Gaslamp Killer. Speaking of Warp, also included a preview of Flying Lotus's upcoming album "Cosmogramma" set to drop May 3rd.
Dora Ma took over during the second half, blowing us away with a full hour of heart scrambling drum, bass and subliminal cuts from the sweetest ethers of the underground.
Rewind << http://www.icradio.com/replay/226677

MADLIB Outerlimits (Space Ho)
GONJASUFI Candylane
J DILLA Woo Hah
FLYING LOTUS Computer Face / Pure Being
UNTOLD Never Went Away
JOY ORBISON Wet Look
MOUNT KIMBIE Maybes
RHYTHM & SOUND Range
RON DEACON Workshop 10
THE ORB Fluffy Clouds (Cumulonimbus remix)
···
INSTRA:MENTAL Forbidden
SIGHA On the Strip
SULLY Flickers
BREAKAGE Rain
2562 Circulate
PHAELEH Lounge
MOUNT KIMBIE Wlliam
SYNKRO Departure
ABSTRACT ELEMENTS Wrong Way
ELEVEN8 At the Seams
D BRDIGE + INSTRA:MENTAL Detuned
CONSEQUENCE Reflex Reaction ft. INSTRA:MENTAL
SABRE A Wandering Journal (ROCKWELL remix)
ALIX PEREZ Myriads
INSTRA:MENTAL Watching You
ABSTRACT ELEMENTS Basic Substance
CALIBRE Step Toe
D BRIDGE + INSTRA:MENTAL + SKREAM Acacia Avenue
CIRCA Ida
HELIOS First Dream Called Ocean (STRAY remix)

100321 ep. 10 w/ Fabian

Back to back tracks from Fabian and myself, surprising each other as we rolled along. Started off chilled then broke the beats and synthesized inner space. Featuring tunes by Imperial College alumnus Tom Jenkinson aka Squarepusher and current final year student Ruskin Constant aka Shayken, shattering any preconceptions of our student body as dead-end scientists and bankers. Check him out on http://www.myspace.com/shaykenbeats
Rewind << http://www.icradio.com/replay/226633



INCH-TIME Aurora
RESOE Polarized
TRENTEMØLLER Nightwalker
SASHA FUNKE We Are Facing The Sun
BONOBO Pick Up
THE BETA PROPHECY Drilled Temple
HERBALISER Mr. Chombee Has the Flaw
DZIHAN & KAMIEN Stiff Jazz
ELEKTRO GUZZI Hexenschuss
BLLIX Ode to Zzz
DJ SHADOW Six Days
THE FLASHBULB Warm Hands in Cold Fog
ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER Laser to Laser
JOY ORBISON Hyph Mngo
SHAYKEN Shooby
SQUAREPUSHER My Red Hot Car
SOFA SURFERS Life in Malmö
MODESELEKTOR Dancing Box
SQUAREWAY Aliens Zombie Factory
ORBITAL Know Where to Run

100314 ep. 9 rocking this joint in an old school way

For this episode I was joined by Afonso Almeida (also known as Fonzy; not to be confused with The Fonz) who studies violin at Trinity College of Music here in London. We kicked it old school with a fine selection of contemporary classical music from the late 19th and 20th century. Including a movement from Bartók's banned ballet The Miraculous Mandarin and a special edit of Stravinsky's Rites of Spring, culled from 146 cuts from a dozen different recordings of the original piece. A statement in minimalism protesting against the overdose of remixes and 'edits' (dub edit, jungle edit...) flooding current electronic music. Some challenging pieces and some aural manifestations of beauty, all intoxicating.
Listen again on stream via http://www.icradio.com/replay/226623

GEORGE GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue
FRÉDERIC CHOPIN Revolutionary Etude
DMTRI SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony no. 5 in D. min, 1st mov.
SERGEI RACHMANINOV Concerto no. 2
SERGEI PROKOFIEV Dance of the Knights
IGOR STRAVINSKI Le Sacre du Printemps, pt. 1: L'Adoration de la Terre [STEFAN GOLDMANN edit]
BELA BARTÓK The Wooden Prince: Introduction & Dance Of The Princess In The Forest
BELA BARTÓK The Miraculous Mandarin
ANTON WEBERN Passacaglia
NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade, 1st mov. The Sea and Sinbad's Ship
CLAUDE DÉBUSSY Claire de Lune
ERIK SATIE Gnosiennes no. 1
FRÉDERIC CHOPIN Nocture no. 2

Erik Satie.

100307 ep. 8 riding the electron wave

Like ep. 2, ep. 8 takes us on a trip through electron clouds and cerebral currents, letting the sound separate us from the vapid everyday. Playback only recorded the first hour but things kept rolling until after midnight with some serious minimal techno following the sublime Kassem Mosse tune from his last Workshop contribution and somehow followed by Messiaen's "Catalogue d'Oiseaux" and ending in a free-for-all jazz frenzy. Don't ask, it just happened!
Listen again via http://www.icradio.com/replay/226596 (starts at 13:30)

IKONIKA Sahara Michael
STARKEY Spacewalk
BOARDS OF CANADA Whitewater
AUTECHRE ilanders
MODERAT Nr. 22
NATHAN FAKE Charlies House (APPARAT remix)
MINILOGUE The Leopard (EXTRAWELT remix)
MOUNT KIMBIE Taps
KASSEM MOSSE Untitled B2

100228 ep. 7 Channeling the Spirit of Jazz, vol. 2

Second instalment of the Channeling the Spirit of Jazz series with co-host Jérémie Coullon. Starts and ends under futurist inclinations while the rest of the show dusted off a few iconic figures, painting jazz under no rules. Also, a look at a bassist who blew me away at the Cafe Oto recently, Guillaume Viltard (pictured below), who's last album "Running Away" was released by http://unrevenu.free.fr/ last summer. Jérémie's contributions brought us the digital artistry of the Somnambulist Quintet and the fresher than fresh Electro Deluxe.
Retune via http://www.icradio.com/replay/226530

3MB ft. 'MAGIC' JUAN ATKINS Jazz is the Teacher (Magic Juan edit)
ALBERT AYLER Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
ORNETTE COLEMAN Lonely Woman
NEW YORK JAZZ COLLECTIVE New Morning of the Dream
DON CHERRY Terrestrial Beings
DON CHERRY Mysticism of My Sound
ANTHONY BRAXTON Pieces Two & Three (from "Creative Orchestra Music 1976")
GUILLAUME VILTARD Bouconne 1
GUILLAUME VILTARD Locale 1
EVAN PARKER / CHRIS CORSANO / JOHN EDWARDS A Glancing Blow
PHAROAH SANDERS Sun in Aquarius b/w Hum-Allah Hum-Allah Hum-Allah
···
SOMNAMBULIST QUINTET Aon
ELECTRO DELUXE Point G

100214 ep. 6 with George!

It was a lot of fun compiling the tracks for this show as most of the bands on here I came across when I was around 14 (thanks epitonic.com for existing!) and getting more into guitar. In a sort of post punk math rock (very inventive pigeonholes there haha) vein... George (my ex-neighbour in Tizard haha) brought some genuine face melters to finish it off and as usual I stayed in the studio for 'after hours' sessions playing a few things you won't find on the playback ;) but anyway, you can listen to the rest again directly via http://www.icradio.com/replay/226472 (stream)

MOHA! Jolly Two
MOGWAI Punk Rock
THREE MILE PILOT On a Ship to Bangladesh
JUNE OF 44 Cut Your Face
90 DAY MEN The Methodist
LE FACE Isolation
RUTH Mescalito b/w Mon Pote
CRASS Walls (Fun in the Oven)
JOY DIVISION Warsaw
UNWOUND Corpse Pose b/w Everything is Weird
OTOMO YOSHIHIDE Sora
MY BLOODY VALENTINE Loomer
SLINT Glenn
SYLVAN Staple Diet
SHELLAC Copper
OXES I'm from Hell, Open a Windle
...
LITE The End of Abstract
GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES! When the Catholic Girls Go Camping, the Nicotine Vampires Rule Supreme
SECOND MONDAY It's not the End, Just the Start of Something New
ABEDISI SHANK Snakehips
TE It is supposed to be "ordinary" that imagination moves much faster and more freely in the darkness

100207 ep. 5

Shorter affair this time around. Planning on sticking the shows on CDr's to pass around to friends, family, stray cats and extraterrestrialites. Things kept rolling live though but wandering into somewhat dubious territories and playing a few requests. Off the record. Hear the rest again via http://www.icradio.com/replay/226448

NEIL YOUNG Guitar Solo, no. 1 + The Round Stones Beneath the Earth... (Dead Man OST) *
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Assyrian Blood
OM Pilgrimage (Reprise)
APSE Shade of the Moor
POPOL VUH Der Grosse Krieger
GRAILS Acid Rain
SHORA Parhelion
* MATMOS Steam And Sequins For Larry Levan
FLYING LOTUS Tea Leaf Dancers
* CARL CRAIG & MORITZ VON OSWALD recompose MODEST MUSSORGKSY'S "Pictures at an Exhibition" Interlude + Movement V

* Carl Craig, Moritz von Oswald and Matmos will be joining a few others next Friday for the Red Bull Music Academy 2010 flagship concert at the Southbank Centre, "exploring the grey areas of sci-fi electronics, discoball jazz, neo-classical, laptop soul, and 22nd-century techno." http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/ london/event/?id=5 in collaboration with Resident Advisor

100131 ep. 4 Channeling the Spirit of Jazz, vol. 1

First instalment of "Channeling the Spirit of Jazz", a collective experiment bending the envelope of jazz musics of all forms, every last Sunday of the month. Once again joined by Jérémie in the studio, bringing us a couple 'oldies-but-goodies' towards the end. Dabbling into free terrirtory half way through before riding the electron wave to funky town... revisit via http://www.icradio.com/replay/226365 (stream)

SÃO PAULO UNDERGROUND Pombaral
CHICAGO UNDERGROUND DUO Spy on the Floor
CHICK COREA Moon Dance
JOHN COLTRANE & RASHIED ALI Venus *
PETER BRÖTZMANN OCTET Responsible (first take)
HUGH MASEKELA Blues for Huey
oRSo Warm Up
OTOMO YOSHIHIDE & ASSOCIAZIONE TICONZERO (ERSU) Sounds, machines and videotape
PURPLE TRAP Where Shall Released Time Go Next? *
MALA Alicia
BOXCUTTER Mossy
CHÂTEAU FLIGHT Prism
HERBIE HANCOCK Chameleon (long version, starting where last week left off...)
MOONDOG Lament I, Bird's Lament
SQUAREPUSHER Theme
RICARDO VILLALOBOS Waiworinao

* "That pulse is always in my head but I'm not always playing it. I play against it, around it. I mumble jumble it, shake it up." (Rashied Ali)

Peter Brötzmann residency @ Cafe Oto this week!

Free jazz legend Peter Brötzmann will be taking up a 3-day residency @ Cafe Oto (by Dalston Kingsland train station in North London) starting on Thursday this week. Here's the line-up for each night followed by a blurb from the Cafe Oto website...



Day 1, Thursday 28th PETER BROTZMANN / JOHN EDWARDS bass / TONY MARSH drums / ROLAND RAMANAN (?)
Day 2, Friday 29th PETER BROTZMANN / JOHN EDWARDS bass / TONY MARSH drums / PAT THOMAS piano
Day 3, Saturday 30th PETER BROTZMANN / JOHN EDWARDS bass / STEVE NOBLE drums

"Since the sixties Peter Brotzmann has been one of the most important and uncompromising figures in free Jazz working with everyone from Don Cherry to Keiji Haino. Brotzmann first trained as a painter and was associated with Fluxus before teaching himself the saxophone and establishing himself as one of the most powerful and original players around."

Times : 8pm
Tickets : £10 adv / £12 on door / £28 for a 3-day pass
http://cafeoto.co.uk/

PS: Watch out for some PB on the next instalment of TBR!

100124 ep. 3

Chilling with Jérémie in the studio... bit of a strange one this time around. Starts off with some lo-fi new wave, then break out the guitars (melt them, boil them) and some genuinely 'far out' avant garde axeage from legends Derek Bailey and Keiji Haino. Second half of the show shot straight to space and grooved back down to a close :) Listen back via http://www.icradio.com/replay/226303 (stream)

COLD CAVE The Trees Grew Emotions and Died + Our Tears Help the Flowers Grow + Heaven's Gate
KITES Dirt
IGNATZ Echo All Acoustically Correct
MATTA LLAMA Thetan Cruise
WIGET/LENSKI Dancing Disaster
DEREK BAILEY & KEIJI HAINO One + Two + Three (from "Drawing Close, Attuning - The Respective Signs of Order and Chaos")
KEIJI HAINO A Drop of Nerve Falls + Tenshi No Gjinka 1
COMUS Diana
ENTRANCE Lost in the Dark
CLUSTER Zum Wohl
KRAFTWERK Tour de France
STEVE MOORE Fever Dreams
ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER Zones Without People
CHÂTEAU FLIGHT Superflight
AUTECHRE Lowride
LUCIANO Don't Go Away
HERBIE HANCOCK Chameleon (edit)
CORTEX L'Enfant Samba + Troupeau Bleu *

* Tune in next week for a jazz-y but not exactly jazzy session with Elliott Bajema (2nd yr Physics) and Jérémie Couillon (1st yr Maths)

100117 ep. 2.2 w/ Krane

Retransmission of the lost set with some tweeks to fit in Dr. Krane (aka Replicant aka Jammy Dodger) from Imperial's very own Music Tech Soc. Drummy, dubby, dirty. Plenty of boogie on my end as well...

Listen back to this and others through http://www.icradio.com/shows/611/ (music starts 10:46 in to the Jan. 17th stream)

KODE9 & THE SPACEAPE Curious (ft. Ms Haptic)
DARKSTAR Need You b/w Squeeze My Lime
QUARTA 330 Sunset Dub
AUTECHRE Surripere
DOUBLE LEOPARDS Sound Holes + The Fatal Affront
OREN AMBARCHI Girl with the Silver Eyes
EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN Scampi Alla Carlina + Sabrina
TRENTEMØLLER Vamp
UUSITALO Korpikansa
ELLEN ALLIEN Its
AUTECHRE Eutow
CONVERGE Shock Front (live)
KRANE Wingtip2

· Krane breaks the plates...
AUDIO Loudener
SPOR Ignition
CAMO & KROOKED The Reward
METRIK Sunset
COMMIX Satellite
BROKEN NOTE Crux