I am late in posting this, but this week is the third Capoeira Gerais batizado in Boston.
Events are Thursday and Saturday in Marlboro and Friday night in Chinatown. See the poster for all details. You should not miss this. To paraphrase a friend who came to last year’s: “I spent two hours alternately saying HOLY SHIT and WHOA. Those guys were unbelievable”
crossposted from The Hydrogen Project
Tonight’s Test Pattern will focus on Glasgow label Iridite Productions. From their press package:
“It’s all about the music”
Iridite was founded on this principle in the summer of 1999. Dedicated to producing quality electronic dance music, and acting as a platform for both established and new artists whose work was yet to be heard. This music would be unified not strictly by genre but by its quality, the styles ranging from down tempo to Detroit inspired Techno, Dub and House. Initially the aim was to bring together different artists on each release, each track being the strongest possible selection by that artist for the EP at that time, creating a fluid mix of high quality music without trying to hard to be overtly “eclectic”.
From Matt:
I will be playing tracks from Iridite’s entire 10-year history (well, most of it). If time permits, I will also present some unreleased, untitled tracks by unnamed artists coming up on future Iridite releases.
Listen in tonight at 6PM on 90.3 FM or www.wzbc.org
crossposted from The Hydrogen ProjectOn the weekend of April 24th-26th, I will be volunteering at the Megapolis Audio Festival, in and around Harvard Square and the Elks Lodge in Central Square in Cambridge. This event features live performances, audio art installations, and workshops on such topics as circuit-bending, making your own contact mic. Weekend passes are $45 ($30 for students) with some workshops requiring RSVPs and/or materials fees. There are also tours of a mysterious nature (!) and an all-night audio slumber party (!!!)
On Friday May 8th, Contra Mestre Marquinho Coreba of Capoeira Gerais, my capoeira instructor will be performing a demonstration along with Instructor Morcego, Coehlo, and Fantama of Capoeira Luanda as part of a late addition to the program of the Voidstar Productions 2009 Multimedia Circus. (click for flyer).
My amber ale is delicious!
My dad gave me most of a cut-up cherry tree and a pile of red oak! IT’S SMOKING SEASON as soon as I re-season the grates on my smoker.
I will post the final Octave One interview soon. I have been in total information chaos since that weekend and the CD with the final version has been in my desk at work for quite some time.
crossposted from The Hydrogen Project
Tomorrow night I am hosting a one hour program of Octave One, plus an
interview with Lawrence Burden in which he talks about his live
experiences; the history of his label, 430 West; his band’s new album;
and his favorite remix project.
It starts at 6PM Eastern time; you can listen on your radio in the
Boston area on WZBC 90.3 FM or online at www.wzbc.org.
Originally published at Hydrogen Economy. You can comment here or there.
DJ Carl Schmidt will be appearing on the Hydrogen Economy this coming Friday. He’ll be on at 11PM mixing some quality tunes. The demo mix he gave me was quite excellent, displaying a wide range of musical taste and excellent mixing skill.
I just noticed that I haven’t been posting my playlists for about 3 weeks now. So here they are after the jump:
( Read the rest of this entry » )EDIT: more info here!
radioscotvoid plays the first Friday of every month at the Gulu. I emailed him after hearing him play last Friday, and he immediately swarmed over every music type website we used in common, offering me a slot at his night in a comment on one of my playlists for WZBC. The whole night is like 5 hours or something ridiculous; he starts at 8:30. The crowd seems into it and he's got some VJ action too.
I just acquired some new records from Forced Exposure and Dance Records. They are:
Wareika - Impulse (Connaisseur)
Miss Fitz - Drifting On (Contexterrior)
Brett Johnson - The Pop Up (Cynosure)
Kevin Saunderson - History Elevate 4 (remixes by Luciano and Jesse Rose
Kevin Saunderson - History Elevate 3 (rmx by Mathew Jonson and John Tejada)
Mathew Jonson - Symphony for the Apocalypse (Wagon Repair)
Kakaka (Kagami) - Kakaka first (Reel Musiq)
Glimpse - Elephant Skins (rmx by Jay Haze) (Leftroom)
Introvert - Lemon Days (Nightvision)
PLUS, we found a good deal on a Dyson vacuum. Our old vacuum burned its motor out and the handle kept falling off :\
(capoeira below)
IN ADDITION, tonight was a street roda out in Marlboro. It was mostly Marcus's students in Marlboro, plus Tarzan and Morcego and Ze Com Fome and a few of their students. I managed to get a nasty blood blister on the sole of my foot last night in class, so I was not planning to play. I didn't even bring my uniform with me. Of course, after some egging on by Marcus and Tarzan I jumped in and got schooled :)
2.) Have a backup plan
3.) Schedule QA in time that you actually have time to fix problems
Ugh, because Marcus had us doing all manner of crazy arm exercises in capoeira class last week, I put off week 3 of the Hundred Pushups plan until today. It shows; I had a much tougher time today than even the first week, oof.
Some nice fellow is reviewing my eyeCalendar project, and a dev from MIT has joined on the project. Good, I haven't been working on it for a while.
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kungfupolarbear paid us a visit on Saturday to deliver her bread machine that we bought. Walking around downtown led us to discover how early most of Salem closes up. The Old Spot, our preferred drinking place, was closed on vacation, so we ended up at Spirits (which was nicely decorated but expensive and also devoid of anyone except staff and us) and then Fresh Taste of Asia (which is a little upscale for the dance club night they were attempting). The Gulu Gulu Cafe apparently has electronic nights, and the DJ was playing some neat chiptune-type stuff. Beats the heck out of the usual cafe mix. I will be returning for this guy's next night out.Originally published at Hydrogen Economy. You can comment here or there.
A complete version of the film Metropolis has been found in Argentina. Apparently the versions available today are missing 90 minutes of material.
More here.
Does this have anything to do with the music usually covered on this blog? You betcherass. Jeff Mills and Giorgio Moroder both created soundtracks for the silent film, the former going so far as to perform his soundtrack alongside a showing of the film (along with performances by Super Collider and Herbert!)
On a totally different note, I will be playing two sets at River Gods tomorrow night (July 3) as part of the monthly WZBC Countdown that was postponed from last month. Also appearing will be Matt Crook and John Straub. Unfortunately, the bar won’t be open until 2AM, even though it’s the day before a holiday, but there are other area events that will be open afterwards (If I am not totally cracked out I might head over to Elements for the last bit of KLUTE)
Originally published at Hydrogen Economy. You can comment here or there.
Tomorrow night (Thursday June 5th), Matt Crook and I will be playing some records at River Gods along with the WZBC Countdown for June. Full info here.
Friday night (June 6th) is my Basic Channel Test Pattern! I recorded the mixed portion of this last night and my head damn near fell off so I think you’ll like it too. That starts at 6PM Eastern time on WZBC.
(official copy)
May 30 - Jim - Wierd Records
June 6 - Matt - Basic Channel*
June 13 - Andrew - Kevin Martin
June 20 - Jessica - Easy Tempo
June 27 - Rob - Nocturnal Emissions
July 4 - Carrigan and David Day - The Field
July 11 - Patrick - Gary Mcfarland
July 18 - Matt - Underworld*
July 25 - Andrew - Adaadat Records
August 1 - Carrigan and David Day - The Knife
August 8 - JFK - Ed Keupper
* me!
Test Pattern airs every Friday at 6PM for 1 hour.
crossposted from The Hydrogen ProjectI rode in from Central Square after dropping off my ZipCar. Priuses are neat.
I rode home from Cambridge last night after the Signal, etc. show. Unfortunately, I had to leave early in order to sleep sufficiently for today, even though it's a half day. I actually didn't mind being at Middlesex too much this time, surprisingly.
I decided to skip the Apple Store after speaking to a friend and learning of lines that had started at 8AM. I don't need a T-shirt that bad! Instead I went to CBC before the Raster-Noton show with her and some other former coworkers. I love dirt. Apparently they have started handing out retention bonuses based entirely on sales targets and some opaque measurement of that employee's value to the company. One thing Nokia gets really right is basing bonuses based on personal objectives upon which you have direct impact and agreement.
- I am getting a free Iced Coffee from Dunkin Donuts!
- I have decided on the Raster-Noton show as it has free booze and no dorky-ass table reservations!
- I am taking a ZipCar home and into work tomorrow! It's a Prius! At the rental price, it's cheaper than a taxi!
- I need to send my cousin a birthday card today.
- I am out of punctuation
November 21-23 at the Regent Theatre in Arlington, MA.
Meat Beat Manifesto, Matmos, A Place to Bury Strangers, His Name is Alive, more including a special for Kranky’s 15th anniversary.
crossposted from The Hydrogen ProjectHooraaaaaaay! I hope I can go, even for just the weekend! Unfortunately, UR is playing on WEDNESDAY?!? FOOEY!
ARTIFICIEL & MARTIN TÉTREAULT
BAREM
BEN FROST
BEN SHEMIE
CARL CRAIG
CHIC MINIATURE
CHLOÉ
CHRISTIAN FENNESZ
CRISTIAN VOGEL
DAFLUKE
DAVE AJU
DEADBEAT
DJ OLIVE
ERNESTO FERREYRA
THE FIELD live band
FLYING LOTUS
FREIDA ABTAN
HALF HAWAII (SAMMY DEE & BRUNO PRONSATO)
JEREMY P. CAULFIELD
KID KOALA
KNIFEHANDCHOP
KODE 9 & SPACE APE
KOMODO
MARTIN MESSIER & JACQUES POULIN-DENIS
MARTYN
MATHIAS KADEN
MEGASOID
METRIKA
MILLIMETRIK
MODESELEKTOR vs PFADFINDEREI
MORGAN PACKARD vs JOSHUE OTT
MOSSA
MURCOF
NICOLAS BERNIER
NOAH PRED
NOKAMI & SANS SOLEIL
NÔZE
ONUR ÖZER
QUIET VILLAGE
RADIO SLAVE
RECHENZENTRUM
SLEEPARCHIVE
TIM HECKER
UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE presents INTERSTELLAR FUGITIVES
As many of you may know, every Friday night, WZBC does a one hour focus on a single artist or label or scene or category or maybe some other constraint that hasn’t yet been imagined. One poor DJ gets stuck in the studio for an hour racking his or her brain for the best or rarest of what-have-you.
On April 11 at 6PM, Test Pattern presents the ever-pugnacious innovator; head of the Metroplex subsidiary Transmat Records; two-time organizer of Movement: Detroit Electronic Music Festival; resident DJ at The Music Institute in Detroit; and former radio host: the one and only Derrick May!*
God, I can barely fit the marketing hype into an hour!
Anyway, there will be music from across Mr. May’s long career from 1987 on up to the present (well the past year anyway); including both classics and rarities; co-productions, originals, and remixes. If anyone has footage of Mr. May at Movement 2004, riding around on a golf cart, asking for donations through his megaphone, feel free to send that to me and I’ll play that too :)
So anyway, listen Friday at 6PM to 90.3 FM or wzbc.org, or don’t! I’ll record it and spam again later.
* There may be other people named Derrick May.
crossposted from The Hydrogen ProjectI’m back! New Zero G Sounds within. And news, as well! I will be doing the April 11th Test Pattern on Derrick May. That will be at 6PM until 7. I’m going record hunting very soon for this event, and I will be recording it.
10:03PM Somfay “Fricative White” from “Serendip” on Archipel
10:33PM Ian O’Brien “Veksel” from “A History of Things to Come” on Peacefrog
10:39PM Prosumer and Murat Tepeli “Go Silla” from “Serenity”
10:45PM Rei Loci “The Future is our Time” from “The Future is our Time” on Headspace
10:50PM The Kooky Scientologist “Demonetics” from “Stuff” on Zero G Sounds
Reminder: next week is the Ken Ishii Test Pattern at 6PM! I will endeavour to make a recording.
10:00PM Dopplereffekt “Z-Boson” from “Myon-Neutrino” on Gigolo
10:09PM Adam Beyer “Ignition Key (Speedy J Remix)” from “Ignition Key” on Truesoul
10:16PM Underworld and Gabriel Yared “Sad Amira” from “Breaking and Entering” on V2
10:20PM Fumio Miyashita “UFO in Shinjuku” from “Journey to Space” on Relativity
10:23PM Plaid “Ratsback 2 (Drumcomputer Nerd Remix)” from “Tekkin Konkreet - Tekkon Kinkreet Remix” on Aniplex
Normally happens on the 2nd Thursday of the month, but we spent an extra week getting this one ready, so you know it’s going to be extra special!
This Thursday, Nov. 16th WZBC Presents:
Monthly Countdown Plus 2 featured DJs
Countdown runs from 10-11 p.m.
Our favorite tracks from our favorite discs of October
This month’s Featured WZBC DJs:
8:30 - 10: Joe Conran riding the line between rock and electronic, as heard every Monday from 1-3 p.m. on WZBC’s Cheval Noir.
11-1: Matt Kane (host of WZBC’s Hydrogen Economy every Friday from 11 p.m. - 1 a.m.) Matt’s set at River Gods will feature messed-up fuzzy-brained electronics - new and old.
21+, no cover
125 River Street near Central Square
kitchen closes at 10, bar closes at 1
Location:
River Gods
Street:
125 River St
City/Town:
Cambridge, MA
8:30 - 10: Joe of Cheval Noir
10 - 11: The WZBC Top 15 Countdown, presented by John Straub
11 - 1: Matt of The Hydrogen Economy
FREE BUT 21+
I won't be playing dance music because the place has no dance floor. Not that anyone in Boston dances anymore anyway.
The WZBC Countdown has been moved to November 15!
Details, once again:
8:30 - 10: Joe of Cheval Noir
10 - 11: The WZBC Top 15 Countdown, presented by John Straub
11 - 1: Matt (aka Me) of The Hydrogen Economy
FREE BUT 21+
River Gods
125 River St
Cambridge, MA
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