Domino Festival #15 last edition :(

It saddens me deeply to hear this year will see the last edition of the incredible Domino Festival at Brussels's Ancienne Belgique. This festival has been a beacon for amazing, diverse and unique artists to play in this city ranging from the legendary Einstürzende Neubauten (including a stop on their 25th anniversary tour in 2005), Sunn O)))'s monumental Moog Ceremony with Julian Cope on the mic (2006), a Raster-Noton label night featuring the mind-swirling A/V of Frank Brettshneider (2007), the psychotropic vibes of Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit (the latter being the late Can's drumman) in 2008 and so many more... I want to give a wholehearted thanks to the organisers for bringing such wonderful musicians to the capital and giving me and so many others the pleasure of witnessing such unforgettable performances.



My first encounter with the festival was also my first with Sunn O))). They happened to be in town the same week a friend had told me about them. He showed me an interview in Terrorizer magazine with Attila Csihar (Mayhem et al.), who was collaborating with them at the time on the White albums, so I couldn't resist the chance. Needless to say it was my last concert ever not wearing earplugs... I maintain that gig was the primary cause of my tinnitus.

This year's highlights for me will be Touch Records's 30th anniversary featuring Pan(a)sonic half Mika Vaino, rock ballast Battles sharing the bill with kosmische reviver Oneohtrix Point Never, Neubauten frontman Blixa Bargeld's latest venture with Raster-Noton co-founder Alva Noto, as ANBB, and perhaps the most thrilling of all, the god of noise himself, Merzbow! A fair end to a monumentous festival which has left it's mark on many individuals here and which no one will easily forget.

Check the rest of the Domino #15 line-up and enjoy yourself :)



April 6th - 12th, 2011
DOMINO FESTIVAL #15
Ancienne Belgique
Brussels

110313 ep. 20 jamming with Fshstk

If you listen to this for any reason, may it be for a unique rendering of 99 Red Balloons at 33 1/3 instead of 45 RPM. The B-side is a genius discotropic dub excursion. Drench in reverb for extra haze. Sweep in flange for extra swirl. Jamming with Fabian at the end once more. The good bit got cut out of the replay but you can find it on Soundcloud (see below for the link)
After 7:47...

DEMDIKE STARE Janissary
SHACKLETON Man On a String pt. 1
VLADISLAV DELAY Anima
JOYRIDE Kekse
JOYRIDE L.A. Pink
PRINZ PI Laura (TUA Remix)
KASSEM MOSSE Workshop 12 B1
1000NAMES Cup of Joy
PIXELORD Hypnofrog
ALVEOL Glitter Path (KASSEM MOSSE remix)
BATTLES SZ2
NENA 99 Red Ballons (33 1/3 dub)
NENA Ich Bleib' Im Bett (33 1/3 dub)
THE DURIAN BROTHERS Mille Yeux
THE DURIAN BROTHERS Overexposed Scream Contest
AUTECHRE See On See (PIXELORD remix)
DATA The Fall of Phaeton
MORPHOSIS Silent Screamer
LO. BATT. + FSHSTK On Air + Off Air



Czech out this awesome EP by Joyride on the brand new Millions of Brilliant Idiots imprint. Put the needle on the record!

High light: PEAKING LIGHTS "936"

Peaking Lights (Aaron Coyes & Indra Dunis) have already made some of the most beautiful music I've laid ears to. Just listen to "Silver Tongues Soft Whispers" from their Imaginary Falcons LP and you'll hear what I mean. When they played Barden's Boudoir some time last winter, a small basement in North London, to a small gathering of people, I was utterly in rapture with their huggy grooves and psychotropic leads. It's the sort of music you'll close your eyes to and dance around to in your room. Like lying down on a cloud and waiting for the stars to move.

To make things better, Aaron had a suitcase full of homemade electronics (pictured below). Bent circuits, rainbow wires, bits & pieces from dead appliances. I'm studying this stuff at uni so I just had to ask. "Trial & error & loads of solder burns." Soldering irons burn at 300ºC by the way.


I just heard some cuts from their freshest offering "936" and it has absolutely made my morning! Bouncing drums, liquid strings and the voice of sun light. I could make all sorts of metaphors to grass, the tropics and fuzzy currents but you really should hear it for yourself. Peaking Lights will brighten your life.


Peaking Lights - All The Sun That Shines from Not Not Fun on Vimeo.

110213 ep. 19 Algo Ritmico & Fshstk

"A journey into the mind."
Return.

ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER Stress Waves
ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER Returnal
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Assyrian Blood
ONI AYHUN OAR004-A
OREN AMBARCHI Lost like a star
BRION GYSIN I Am
KASSEM MOSSE Demo Drums Ripping Demos
EFDEMIN Cowbell
PAVEL DOVGAL Solar Midnight
CAPELLA My Way
TOKIMONSTA Lucid Walking
AL QUETZ aka QUETZAL Kalakuta (Interlude)
THE DURIAN BROTHERS Haisai
MADLIB Jungle Soundz (Part One)
FLYING LOTUS Unexpected Delight ft. LAURA DARLINGTON
AL GREEN Light My Fire (GROOVE ARMADA)
POLE Green is not green-yellow
REDINHO Pitter Patter
MORGAN PACKARD Insist
BOARDS OF CANADA Growing Hand
BENGE Faun 6
KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN Generator
···
ALGO RITMICO + FSHSTK jam

High light : AL QUETZ aka QUETZAL "Drums Come From Africa"

Wonderful sound committed to wax and numbers. This is absolutely making my day (night actually) right now and it will make yours too. A subtle shake between high life vibes and hip hops. Guaranteed to have your eyes closed and your butt grooving in under a minute.



Buy it for less than £4 from Al Quetz aka Quetzal @ Bandcamp and have a nice time :]

RCM concert: Xenakis, Stockhausen, et al. Friday 11th Feb.

I just received an email from the Royal College of Music's KeyNote emailing list, announcing what's probably going to be the creamiest crop of the season. The concert features a couple percussive pieces from Iannis Xenakis, Greek engineer by education, architect by profession, turned composer after a period working in the workshop of French architect supreme Le Corbusier. His compositions merge stochastic processes and architectural forms into complex amalgamations of sound events to challenge even the most open minded listener.


Friday 11 February | 7.30pm | Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

Freiburg Percussion Ensemble
RCM Percussion Faculty

IANNIS XENAKIS Claviers from Pleiades
DIETER MACK Jonico
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN Zyklus
MARK APPLEBAUM Straitjacket
IANNIS XENAKIS Oeaux from Pleiades
NICOLAUS A HUBER Herbstfestival


Tickets are £5/£10 and can be purchased from https://www.boxoffice.rcm.ac.uk/

In case you don't get out much, the RCM is just behind Imperial College, between the student Union and the Royal Albert Hall.

110109 ep. 18 w/ AQUA DENTATA live

A very warm return from the holidays, bringing the first live session on the show, from the musical entity of artist/photographer Eddie Nuttall, Aqua Dentata. As I said after the show, like a sitar playing at the end of a tunnel in the dead of space, while you stand 100 metres away from its opening... In the words of one Freek de Ruiter, "no drugs needed". A broadening of your ear lobes, persuaded by the hums and jitters of electron movements, interferences from other worlds. Joined for a second set by myself on 5 string, retuned guitar.
Forgot to press On Air*... skip to 28:42

MUSLIMGAUZE Rhodesia
TANGERINE DREAM Rubycon Pt. One
MARCUS SCHMICKLER Wabi Sabi 4
BJØRN TORSKE Gullfjellet
APHEX TWIN Bbydhyonchord
MUSLIMGAUZE Mumbai Vibe Garden
SHACKELTON Man on a String, Pt. One
MARK ERNESTUS vs KONONO Nº1 Masikulu Dub
1000NAMES Private Hero
1000NAMES Pocket Calculators
INSTRA:MENTAL End Credits
···
AQUA DENTATA live ... @ 1:31:34
AQUA DENTATA + LO. BATT. jam ... @ 1:57:27
···
KASSEM MOSSE Workshop 08 A1
BENGE Adam-Age Loneliness
KIT CLAYTON Humbaba
SHACKLETON Man on a String, Pt. Two





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