PCPRadio Bassline Bits

Here’s ya go, some Bassline bits for you , check particularly Resistance it’s monster.

And dubs- Ghislain Poirier tonight.

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1. Rustie - Response
2. Dexplicit - Resistance
3. T Camp - Bad Breed
4. Dexplicit - Lollipop bass
5. Mr B - Game over
6. Dj Panther-Bully Boys
7. Dexplicit - Juicy Fruit
8. Dexplicit - White(the one with the kung fu sample)

9. Trc Feat Teresa - Burgastyle
10. Bass Boy - Fried Macrul
11. Adotr Vs Dopestalla - Run U
12. Ds1 ft Mint - u like it don’t ya ?
13. Dre - Now wasup?
14. Hey-o-Hansen- Fly away
15. Various Productions - Where I belong
16. Crystal Distortion - ??
17. Neil Landstrumm - Assasin Master
18. DZ- Strong on ya
19. Neil Landstrumm - Give them Fire
20. Santogold - Creator
21. Various Production - Monster
22. ?????
23. Dre - Motherfucker Dance
24. Kode 9 -
25. Burial -

Call it…

Some more wonky related info. Sasha Frere-Jones writing in the New Yorker about producers in Ghislain Poirier’s circle, joins the lets name game, coming up with lazer bass. Dj C runs a poll as to what it should be called with Starkey/Dev 79’s choice seeming to come out on top. All grist to the mill anyway, come along to the Electronic Resistance gig tonight and I’ll play ya some.

ps. No show upload so far this week as my f&(*%$£”! connection or software or something is acting up - will try to post one up from a caff. later.

Some Wonky gigs

Get your secretary to update your diary.

Some wonky gigs over the next while. Next week, playing with the Electronic resistance crew -the continuous beats wing of Seomra Spraoi, the only crew in Dublin who make a concerted effort to create autonomous zones in the city; a thankless and difficult task.

The bankholidy weekend after that - Starkey! A gig close to my heart as I was pleased to manage to book him for little ol’ McGrudders, on a tour where he’s playing fabric on the Friday night. And just when I needed some hype for the gig, this comes along - www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/on wonky n’all

An article about a(n attempted) new genre called wonky, conveniently the genre is pretty much the type of sounds I play; Starkey, Rustie, Quarta330, Zomby, grime like Trim and MC Beezy, bassline etc and general messed up bass heavy stuff with bleepy distorted midrange business - DIE PACMAN!.

Handily enough, I won’t have to jump so much as step daintily on to this one.

Anyway, some links to good recent Starkey sets from his show, seclusiasis radio on Subfm and an older show of mine featuring a clutch of his tunes.

April Subfm Set Playlist

May Subfm set Playlist

1st Subfm set Playlist

Starkey special -featuring a lot of his tunes.

And from his bio ‘Starkey is the mayor of Starkville, which is entirely inhabited by Starkbots, the robots he created. Starkbots are fueled by street bass gritty beats with melodic tendencies.

Performing as Starkey for only three years, Starkey is co-owner of Slit Jockey Records, a member of Philadelphia’s Seclusiasis and NYC’s Trouble & Bass crews. In 2005, Starkey won both the North American and Mid-Atlantic Laptop Battles, in Seattle and Washington D.C. respectively. He was also awarded the Choice Award for “Best UK Grime DJ in Philly” along with Dev79. Starkey has had a string of vinyl, cd and digital releases on labels such as Peace-Off/Ruff (France), Nonclassical (UK), Dead Homies (US), Starksound/Rag&Bone (UK) and LoDubs (US), and many others.

And the week before that (forgive the wonky chronology)

Playing with Ghislain Poirier on the 23rd. He’s a kind of bass Odysseus, blown on the winds of global ghetto tech hip hop and dancehall projects. Hate to think what his wife will say when he gets home.

Here’s a good set of his from a few months ago - Bastard Bass
Tracklist

Dj Halfdutch is playing also. Great party Dj who can get as nasty as she wants. Check out her podcast for new Irish indie mag State. Some lovely blends, check the first couple from Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan into Pharoahe Monch into Pablo.

Also, thanks to everybody who braved the sewer gasses of fibbers last week and made playing bagpipes drones as 303’s such fun.

Folkcore poster

Here’s  the poster for the Folkcore gig, that firewall prevented me from posting yesterday. Should veer amusingly between the sublime and the ridiculous and I imagine the craic shall be 90.

Folkcore

  Homoludo playing at this gig on Sunday evening. Promises to be interesting, with folk and psychedelic folk band upstairs: Dj’s and electronic artists downstairs, giving their interpretations. Homoguitar and I are bringing bagpipe drones, a big sitar and a distortion peddle.

PCPRadio Richie K

This weeks guest is Richie Kaboogie, in for a couple of scoops and an aul mix.

The set starts of with Cork’s Stump and their tribute the recently deceased libertarian hero Charlton Heston. Going from there into a breaky, somewhat psychedelic mix(I will fix up the track list later, am in an airport).The second section is me and Richie Mixing up some dubs

1. Stump - Lights, Camera, Action!
2. Booka shade City nights (Neon Dub)
3. Cardo pusher
4. Mouse on mars
5. thingy
6. mouse on mars
7. pete

Me and Richie
8. Oris jay - megatection
9. Distance - v
10. Emalkay - reaggae one
11. Dubchild - heavy artillery
12. orien
13. heavy Artillery Flip
14. Dz - Slum dub
15. Drop the lime-Mandeer hunted
16. Dexorcist- Propulsion151
17. Rum dog - roddell
18. Taz buckfaster - Bumba
19. Phokus ft. Tinchy & Dirty Danger - Dem all shot
20. Scottie B - Midnight request line refix
21. Zomby - spliff dub (rustie remix)
22. Emalkay - Crunk inspace
23. jackyl and hyde this is the underground
24. Skream - Tek a pill
25. Hot cakes
26. Warrior queen - Almighty father
27. Benga and walsh - Addicts
28. Flamin’ hotz -Juggernaut
29. Kromestart feat leebra - Curuption
30. Skream - Ringo

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PCPRadio Brightside

Hi, this weeks show(actually from a couple of weeks ago:a new system in the station and my own time traveling— causing some delays). Split into three parts.

Part one starting off with an old Tenor Fly track to put some spring in your step, followd by a paen to sex and solvent abuse in Limerick from the Rubberbandits.

Part two is a few tracks from Japenese band - The Polysics who sound like the Ramones making cartoon theme tunes - with added 8bits. Makes perfect sense. And the videos are great too.

Part three starts with some pressure from Prince Kong (recently getting play from the BBC’s Mary Anne Hobbs and MTV 2) feat Jah Balance. Two new excellent new dubs, the second of which ‘Stamina’ gets under your skin like lice(coming out on twelve soon). Next in this section a dub from Bombaman followed by the A side of the new double A ten inch from Solen, the epic ‘Lord’ , coming out on Dublin’s Alphabet set label. The cover image (above) is one of the best pictures I’ve seen of Ballymun, the place where I learnt my nasty Dublin Irish .

Part one
1. Tenor Fly - The Brightside of life
2. The Rubberbandits - Bags of Glue
3. The South rawkus crew - Hotter den them
4. Tenor Fly - Invincible
5. Daleduro - Bombon Asesino
6. Sabres of paradise - Haunted Dance hall(red snapper remix)
7. Santo Gold - Creator
8. Young mc - Know how - Gutter remix

Part two
9. The Polysics - Get Back to 8bit
10. The Polysics - Electric surfin’ go go
11. The Polysics - You you you

Part three
12. Prince Kong - (dub)
13. Prince Kong - Stamina(dub)
14. Bombaman - speculum - nympho _mowgli remix (dub)
15. Solen - Lord (dub)
16. ???
17. MIA - Paper planes- Holy Fuck remix
18. Starkey/Sizzla/mathead -Let your system go (homoludo deck mash)
19. Kerb - B1(white)
20. Various Pruductions - Pintman( massive)
21. Rusko - Betamax
22. Quatra 330 - Sunset dub
23. Trim - Thief - Radioclit mix
24. One self- Bluebird
part one

part two

part three

Mash of the Week #1

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A mix of two Irish tunes -
Captain Moonlight - Dutty C**nts and Naphta- Soundclash I

Tonight - Kyber punk.

Some background on the tonight’s bass science.

My understanding is that Mr 9 went to college with K-punk. Where they were in a krew called Ccru (Cybernetic Culture Research Unit). Based in Birmingham and founded by Sadie Plant and abetted by Nick Land(”professor of delirial engineering” ).

Here’s an excerpt from a ten year old interview about them re-uped by K-punk.

Still nominally affiliated to the famously poststructuralist Philosophy Department of Warwick University, England, the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit is a rogue unit. It’s the academic equivalent of Kurtz: the general in Apocalypse Now who used unorthodox methods to achieve superior results compared with the tradition-bound US military. Blurring the borders between traditional scholarship, cyberpunk sci-fi and music journalism, the CRRU are striving to achieve a kind of nomadic thought that to use the Deleuze & Guattari term—“deterritorializes” itself every which way: theory melded with fiction, philosophy cross-contaminated by natural sciences (neurology, bacteriology, thermodynamics, metallurgy, chaos and complexity theory, connectionism), academic writing that aspires to the future-shock intensity of jungle and other forms of post-rave music.

They used of K’s as in kyber punk as opposed to cyber punk, Kode in place of code. This usage of K was to distinguish themselves from the US version of Cyber, tainted by the suspicion that it’s all just a cover for building an infinite world in which to play with an infinitely real Barbie playmate . Tainted also by the psychedelic light movement, Necropronte, Wired etc. They were into numerology and a practice called hyperstition(hyperdub?).

Kode 9 is long rumored to be writing a book on sound as weapon, though no doubt distracted by his success at the moment. The track that contains the most hints as to this is ‘Backwards’, available in one of my back shows. This vid is also worth checking out.

This is scribbled while cooking dinner and getting ready to go the the gig - the rice is roiling so see you later ….

Happy birthday hardcore Jungle!

Dj C noticed this recently.
Had been feelin’ the stuff recently (see earlier) so thought I’d do a show and a post. All the tracks below are from 93 which makes this year its 15th birthday. A good chunk of them are from Hardleaders III on Kickin’.

This style kind of suits cheesy compilations and to my knowledge this is the best one. It’s at the point where hardcore and rave are becoming jungle proper, so I’m mixing up the whole album for y’all.Followed by more tunes from the period.
It’s my favourite time in the music, it’s lost the frivolousness of rave, but the rules and patterns that eventually became so predictable and boring have yet to set. Anything goes - four fours, bagpipes, processed euphoric vocals reaching to other skies - as long as it’s in the service of a serious dance. It still feels futuristic, a potential future I’m nostalgic for.

From the back sleeve - The sound of Urban Jungle of the 90’s is now firmly set in a complex mixture of breakbeats, atmospheric keyboards and ethnic/tribal samples. UK ‘rave’ music has reached a level of sophistication that puts it on a par with the most advanced sounds. Every drumbeat is designed to fire the pleasure transmitters of the brain, providing the disillusioned youth of today with relief from the drudgery of everyday life in the urban wasteland.

1. Bay-b-kane - Hello Darkness(rmx)
2. Andy c - Something new pt 2
3. Rhythm for reasons - Music in search of light
4. Dj distroi & boykz - Darkside
5. Tango - Timebomb
6. Dj solo - Darkage
7. Dj Hype - Weird energy (hells bells mix)
8. Q bass -hype the funk (dj hype rmx)
9. Tango and ratty - Final conflict
10. Bay-b-kane - Bagpipes in effect
11. Acen - Window in the Sky
12. Omni Trio - Mainline (techno mix)
13. 4Hero - The element(highnoon)
14. Skanna - The greatest thing
15. 4Hero - The power
16. The FBD project- The core
17. 4Hero - In the shadow(sunrise remix)
18. Rude Boyz - Paragone (rmx)
19. The Undergraduates- into the future
20. Omni tiro - Renegade snares
21. Bash street kids - Fuzzy felt
22. N.r.g - He never lost his hardcore
23. Bash street kids - power of darkness
24. Subsonic legacy - revolution (bring the noise)
25. Midas - Imperial march (stars wars mix)

26. J-sweet - Kerb
27. 2562 -Circulate

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Dispatch from the hardcore continuum(link)

It’s kind of the birthday of my dj’ing also.
This was around the time rave went over ground in Ireland (outside Sides and the Assylum). Multi media was a new buzz word (the Ormond multi media centre anybody?). Everybody who hadn’t already, was discovering being ‘on one’. Cyber lit. and systems ideas were currency, and their associated images were common.
example;I had a bee in my bonnet at time about the word ‘buzz’, swarm theory and hive behaviour; dance as communication etc.

The previous year I was playing a mid week night downstairs in Fibber McGees called RadioCrush(in aid of radioactive with Crudden, Krossie and others), it was impossible not to notice that when I departed from the hip hop, punk, industrial and indie and dropped house and rave tunes the place went mental. Within a few weeks the set was all dance(all my dole and club wages going on dance wax). The crowd was full of dole punks and refugees from the weekend clubs looking to keep the buzz going. Open minded,they would go for a set starting with hip hop into Italian trance into house then techno up-to jungle, finishing with fast proto tekno. That was my first taste of ‘baleric’, as in playing anything to keep the energy going. The punk nature of it appealed to me- diy music in small runs by anonymous producers with an a communal, euphoric and anti system ethos. This felt completely new and some how right on the beat to somebody immersed in William Gibson, K. Dick etc. This experience made me decide that dj’ing was for me. As did the night when, shy kid that I was, I mistook the whoops, cheers and pointing of the crowd; I looked behind me, thinking ‘where’s the fire?’, turning back around and thinking ‘oh’ was a good feeling.
The night became two nights, but this open mindedness did not last and within a couple years playing a set like that was impossible as people chose styles to match their trainers and developed firm opinions about what music they liked. The splits were pronounced, even techno had sub genres where the crowds were mostly exclusive: Detroit, acid,idm, techhouse etc etc. I spent the next few years often getting into trouble playing the wrong music. It was serious business - house heads didn’t want any techno(’cept flash) ruining their buzz and the same went for every crew. It was hard to resist the temptation to drop something other- for me the fun and challenge was always in the creative, even incongruous mix. But fair enough, most people had spent a lot of money and effort on their buzz and didn’t want it messed with, no matter how creatively(and it must be admitted my skills didn’t always match my ambition and that kind of thing must be done right). Also, half the time, I did it just to f**k things up a bit;) [This was why Dj’s like Irish dj Rowen and Rupture were such a breath. They kind of legitamised that style, while raising it a couple of levels. The decrease in the popularity of dance a few years ago was good, in that in allowed a return to shitty clubs and open minds as exemplified by !Kaboogie in dublin and crews around the country].

Anyway the euphoria died off, dj’s became superstars and history ended with the Third way as the disappointing permanent future(this is why I’m building a time machine out of broken 78 records).

What I took from it all is that dj’ing and the music is a process. Something you do for the moment, the feeling and the dance. Notions of success in the culture industry miss the point . Not that I’ve anything against playing the game, but the real game is just to keep getting better and to keep doing it. Fire. Mos Def.