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Mash of the week 22# Oh Superman it is so Simply Plastic Star Sora

Posted by homoludo on Aug 28 2009 Posted by homoludo on August 28th, 2009 filed in !Kaboogie, free music, mash of the week, music
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Back on the mash band wagon for the new year(still think in school terms)

This weeks mash comes from Solen who had my favourite Irish record of last year-Block/Lord.  It’s classy stuff and you can tell they’ve been in Berlin over the summer.

Solen-Oh Superman it is so Simply Plastic Star Sora


It’s a mash of Laurie Anderson’s Superman(one of my fav tunes to mash) and Donnacha Costello/Byetone/AlvaNoto

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Here’s the cover of their last single an amazing image of the Dublin’s Ballymun flats.

!Kaboogie in Bristol and Vadge

Posted by homoludo on Jun 18 2009 Posted by homoludo on June 18th, 2009 filed in !Kaboogie, art, gigs, live sets, music
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From the Wrong vs !Kaboogie last weekend -here’s an all irish show from wrong radio show from last monday night with Ebola, Noid the droid,  and judith priest presenting.

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Also if you like vadges and or cunst( a lot of which will be for sale) this is for you.

2bit- Can’t please everyone mix

Posted by homoludo on Jun 17 2009 Posted by homoludo on June 17th, 2009 filed in free music, mixtapes, music
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2bit has a nice bouncey  mix up over at his site- it includes one of my fav tunes from the last couple of months -Bruce stallion’s 150 bpm monster -1992- which weirdly for such a fast tune reminds me of strings of life- come to think of it, maybe that’s the point. In fact the end of 2bit’s mix has that early nineties feel.

Bruce stallion -1992

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PCPRaidio 150-160bpm n’all

Posted by homoludo on Jun 16 2009 Posted by homoludo on June 16th, 2009 filed in music, radio shows
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/zombie-baby

Last Satuday’s Raidio show.  Follow links for free tunes.

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1.    Maddest Kings alive -Measels
2.    Robot Koch vs Cerebral Vortex-Soundboy
3.    Major lazer -Hold The Line
4.    Prince kong feat Lady grew -Sub dentata
5.    Megasoid 77Three Six Mafia-Who Run It
6.    KifeHand Chop -Dirty New York
7.    ROBOT_KOCH vs CEREBRAL VORTEX- Aftershock

8.    Randy Barracuda and Mesak -Black Vaseline
9.    Blackmass Plastics-Speak in Hell
10.    KZA- All Your Bass
11.    Fissure Price-In Love With A Drawing
12.    Zombie Disco Squad -Eurovision (Mowgli Remix)
13.    16bit-In The Death Car
14.    Joker - Do It
15.    Starkey-Miracles(Jamie Vexd remix)
16.    Joker&Ginz- Re-Up
17.    Giggs -Saw
18.    Clouds- Mighty Eyeball rays
19.    Shuttte- Tunnel
20.    Jamie Vex’d - Radiant Industry
21.    Backdraft-Headcharge (Eskmo remix)
22.    Horsepower-kingstep
23.    Ld- Woodblock
24.    Kode 9&LD- 2bad
25.    Pinch-Giant Spiders
26.    Quatra 330 -remixing cardo pusher -Homeless

Mash of the week 21# Still Fame

Posted by homoludo on Jun 13 2009 Posted by homoludo on June 13th, 2009 filed in !Kaboogie, mash of the week, mashes, music
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Being Pastamasta’s mash/re edit of David Bowie ‘Fame’ and James Brown’s ‘Hot (I Need To Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved)
with vox from Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg ‘Still Dre’

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Zed Bias Neighbourhood 09

Posted by homoludo on Jun 11 2009 Posted by homoludo on June 11th, 2009 filed in music, video
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Tune

Prince Kong Rising

Posted by homoludo on May 29 2009 Posted by homoludo on May 29th, 2009 filed in !Kaboogie, Hardcore continuum, Irish bands, Irish producers, live sets, music, news, prince kong, writing
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Lady Grew (all pictures by Aoife from the !Kaboogie records 01 Squidge ep launch  last friday)

A big couple of weeks in Irish Bass/dance music. Two releases from Irish artists on Irish labels, on vinyl. One on Alphabet set the other the first release on !Kaboogie, lauched two weeks ago and last week.

Prince Kong blazing on both. Here’s how Boomkat put it (who have sold out of their first order all ready)-
Good Lord! What the hell is this?!?…-Prince Kong and T-woc have just shocked our afternoon to the core with a blinding pair of future Dub cuts seemingly beamed from another planet. Prince Kong’s ‘Crossroads’ sounds like The Bug inna deep war with Babylon, sending hordes of dreadlocked bass disciples armed with industrial kickdrums and razor-edged rave signals to bring down any System that tries it, only better.
For me Prince Kong is a totally original Irish producer with a transnational sound. Bringing on MC driven bass and barbed wire riddims to scarify while avoiding the usual traps of imitating Detroit, London, Aphex bloody twin or whatever.

Mc Rodrigo

He’s had a power and originality from the first time I heard him in Eustace St a few years ago(first dublin gig I think) This has come to the fore at a series of gigs over the last two years. The sound getting weightier and skankier with every gig. Dancing to it you’re caught between the bass rooting you to the floor and the high end jerking you up.The show is now a Tour de force with MCs chatting and chanting over shuddering sounds.

Working with MCs like Warrior Queen and Jah balance and legends like Eccleton Jarrett and more recently focusing on local talent like Lady grew and MC Rodrigo. Occaisionally I’ve been asked by local bass younglings to recount the history of Irish beats but that story is of depressing failure so I’ve avoided writing about it. Refreshingly, this feels like success. And with Alphabet set and the launch of !Kaboogie records hopefully more to follow.

Here are a couple of exclusives. The first a 4×4 stomper with a bass hovering like a UFO over bouncy loops. The second unashamed breakcore with soul.

Prince Kong feat Lady Grew  - Whatcha

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Prince kong feat Jah Balance and Eccleton jarrett
- Bloodwar

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The live set sounds amazing, sounding vinyl mastered which is something for a live set. A good sound track to the Irish Babylon crisis.

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Prince Kong and Lady Grew

There are upcoming releases on !Kaboogie and Middlemanagement . With !Kaboogie 002 a full Prince Kong ep.

Lady Grew

Also more on T woc soon.

Mash of the Week 20# Fighter Finess - The Prodigy vs Lord Finess (Teishi-1)

Posted by homoludo on May 24 2009 Posted by homoludo on May 24th, 2009 filed in !Kaboogie, mash of the week, mashes, music
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Being Teishi-1’s mash of the Prodigy’s Fighter Beat from their lost beats ep with Lord Finess’ vocal from the old school classic Check The Method.

Fighter Finess -The Prodigy vs Lord Finess (Teishi-1)

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Irish fact or science fiction?- WALLETS FULL OF BLOOD: ZOMBIE BANKER BLUES

Posted by homoludo on May 08 2009 Posted by homoludo on May 8th, 2009 filed in mixtapes, music, recession, science fiction, the future, video, zombies
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More zombie banker madness.

This time- The  auditor tells the tale. He’s hiding out in one of the few sanctuaries which remain, he spills the beans on the inhuman practices which led to the collapse, how- Scientists, troops and more auditors arrive from abroad to investigate the total collapse of a small Republic.

They’re looking for ‘Fingers’. His actions had hastened the spiral of the country into a bottomless liquidity trap. They want to interrogate him.
Large screen here.

Alone in the bunker the Auditor dances a zombie jig -

Zombie Sex Fiend mix


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Mash of the Week 19# Ted’s Bibiolon Boy

Posted by homoludo on May 08 2009 Posted by homoludo on May 8th, 2009 filed in !Kaboogie, mash of the week, mashes, music
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babylon art

Being Lakker’s mash of  Clark’s -Ted Vs. Baby Cham’s-Babylon Bwoy Vs. Clark’s-Ted (Bibio Remix)

Like an icecream cone with sand in it -a gritty mix of the rough, the smooth and the sweet from Lakker who has a track on the upcoming !Kaboogie ep.

Lakker - Ted’s Bibiolon Boy

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Mash of the Week 18# Gutterspliff

Posted by homoludo on May 01 2009 Posted by homoludo on May 1st, 2009 filed in !Kaboogie, mash of the week, mashes, mixtapes, music
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GutterSpliff - being The Bankers mash of

Gutter Music - Starkey
Spliff Dub - Zomby (Rustie Rmx)
Shit Daddy - Neil Landstrumm ft. Carlton Killawatt
If Ya Cant Beat Em - Reso

The Banker -GutterSpliff

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The Banker is also a tasty producer. Here’s a mix of his own dubstep productions.

No Introducion mix

1. Bun Dat - The Banker
2. Screwz - The Banker
3. Early Dub - The Banker
4. Voices - The Banker
5. Nightmare - The Banker
6. Capital - The Banker
7. Skint - The Banker
8. The Fat Goose - The Banker
9. Ghosts - The Banker
10.Goldfish - The Banker
11.Wump - The Banker
12.Python - The Banker
13.Dinky - The Banker
14.Ripper - The Banker

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Mash of the Week 17# Daft Diana

Posted by homoludo on Apr 17 2009 Posted by homoludo on April 17th, 2009 filed in !Kaboogie, free music, mash of the week, mashes, music
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Robot Diana ross

Just heard Chic are playing the Electric picnic this year, oh yeah!

And in cheesy link fashion, here’s 2Bit’s mash of the Dianna Ross’s Upside down(written and produced by Chic’s original blingers Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards) and Daft punk’s Da Funk.

2BiT-Daft Diana - Double D Mash

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Keep it for the birds and bees

Posted by homoludo on Apr 14 2009 Posted by homoludo on April 14th, 2009 filed in Twitter, free music, music
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Is anybody else noticing that a lot of the best music is free at the moment?

Here’s an example from today by Ricorb via Kanji Kinetic

AC Slater - Hello- ricorb befriends kim jong-il remix.

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There’s a rich seam over at scenexscience’s blog and all over the place if you dig.

It’s  a big deal.  It relates to this.

New Orleans Bounce

Posted by homoludo on Mar 11 2009 Posted by homoludo on March 11th, 2009 filed in mixtapes, music, twoc
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 Twoc sent me this amazing Bounce mix

Makes me want to elevate my arms and wave them about uncaringly.

Triggerman dragrap label

Rico Uno and Mr. 604 Presents….
Bring Dat Beat Back!
Old School NOLA Bounce Vol. 1

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1. Bounce To Tha Trigga Man Intro
2. Da Sha Ra – Bootin Up
3. 2 Blakk – Second Line Jump
4. Lil Elt & DJ Tee – Get The Gat
5. PxMxWx – Blame It On Tha ‘Bounce’
6. Ruthless Juveniles – Run Dat Shit
7. Ricky B – Shake Fa Ya Hood
8. Warren Mayes – Get It Girl
9. Willie Pucket – Hit Her Wit Dat Work
10. Magnolia Shorty – Monkey On Tha Dick
11. KC Red – Shake On That Stick
12. DJ Jubilee – Back That Ass Up
13. Partners N Crime – We Don’t Love Them Hoes
14. Cheeky Blakk – Twerk Something
15. DJ Jubilee – Get It Ready
16. DJ Jubilee – Jubilee All (Stop Pause)
17. DJ Jimi Feat. Juvenile – Bounce (For The Juvenile)
18. Juvenile – Powder Bag
19. Partners N Crime – Heroin (Baby)
20. Dog House Posse – Victim of the Dope Game
21. Mobo Click Feat. Final Approach – Dime Bag
22. Partners N Crime – Thank You Miss Lilly
23. Lady Red – Smokin’ Dat Weed
24. Partners N Crime – N.O. Block Party
25. Pimp Daddy – Got To Be Real
26. Big Daddie & Bossman – Ya Heard Me II
27. Lil’ Slim – Ho’s I Used 2 Sweat II
28. Willie Pucket – Hot Boy Kreeper
29. Kilo – Who Dat Call The Police
30. Joe Blakk – It Ain’t Where U From
31. DJ Jimi – Where They At?
32. Magnolia Slim – You Got It
33. Josephine Johnny – Oooh Sh*t Girl
34. Hot Boy Ronald – Walk Like Ronald
35. Ninja Crew – We Destroy
36. Willie Pucket – Tear It Down
37. Magnolia Slim – Kick It For Dem Hoes
38. Partners N Crime – Bitch Get Off Me
39. Mia X – Da Payback
40. Ms. Tee – Creepin
41. Cheeky Blakk – Fuck Bein’ Faithful

Da Sha Ra – Bootin Up - at the start of the mix samples ‘”I Feel Like Funkin’ It Up” by my fav New Orleans brass band. Had one of the best dances in my life at one of thier gigs in Tipitina’s. I’ll stick up the original when I get home.

Philip Frazier of the rebirth brassband

Mash of the Week 14# Shake it to the ground_screwed(Alien aphrodisiac)

Posted by homoludo on Mar 06 2009 Posted by homoludo on March 6th, 2009 filed in !Kaboogie, mash of the week, mashes, music
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Alien love

Being a straight up turntable mash of Shake it to the Ground by Blaqstar feat Rye Rye(Claude Vonstroke remix) and M.I.A’s What I got- ruff ruff version(best tune not on the last album). The Blaqstar remix is screwed ie a 45rpm record played at 33.1/3 rpm. The original is here.

Shake it to the ground_screwed(Alien aphrodisiac)

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Durrty old town - Goodz in Dublin

Posted by homoludo on Mar 01 2009 Posted by homoludo on March 1st, 2009 filed in Uncategorized, grime, mixtapes, music
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Durrty good ultrasound album cover

Durrty Goodz joining us in Dublin on the 20th of this month in Twisted pepper. Pleased to say, also on the bill is Taz Buckfaster Gaybriel heatwave. Here’s Durrty on a Taz Buckfaster(who hopefully will be joining us at a later date)  tune from his new Ultrasound album,which is a taster for the album proper(check out more 2 da floor from it for a hilarious piss take of electro grime, while being a really good electro grime track!)

Durty goods - Destruction

And just for extreme nastiness, here’s one off Giggs’ Walk in the park mixtape(I hope he’s ok with me putting it up- listen to see why I’m bothered)

Giggs -Saw

Mash of the Week 13# MARIJUANANA feat Ritchie Spice.mp3

Posted by homoludo on Feb 28 2009 Posted by homoludo on February 28th, 2009 filed in !Kaboogie, mash of the week, music
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 Mash of the week 13

Bluefood with a nice weighty mash  of Ritchie Spice’s Marijuana. I’ll include more details when I have them.

MARIJUANANA

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Speaking of triffids- this attacked me in my back garden last summer.

More Ravestep

Posted by homoludo on Feb 26 2009 Posted by homoludo on February 26th, 2009 filed in music, ravestep
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This is sick.

Bird Peterson - Zutopong (Bird Peterson myspace)

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Link farmed from scenexscience, good blog for ravestepnessness.

donkism #2

Posted by homoludo on Feb 22 2009 Posted by homoludo on February 22nd, 2009 filed in donk, music, video
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Mmm, lovely steroids. The rest is here

Should one post when drunk?

Posted by homoludo on Feb 21 2009 Posted by homoludo on February 21st, 2009 filed in music, video
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Got from Birdseed .

PCPRadio Twisted

Posted by homoludo on Feb 13 2009 Posted by homoludo on February 13th, 2009 filed in music, radio shows
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 Some modern twisted hip hop (anybody else noticing this golden age?) to start then lots of faster paced fresh beats -  nice grainy bass being the main unifying factor and a kind of slower funky ish/rough house section at the end -Check the Fall house tune Also, some of the tunes appearing in two versions, there’s a lot of that at the mo - tunes coming out in hip hop, house ,dubstep etc versions.  Recorded a month ago(still catching up with my back cases).

button head

1. Eryka badu - The Healer
2. Kotchy - Sing what you want
3. Daedelus -Touchstone - chipski remix
4. Rustie – Crooked
5. Work that- Heralds of change
6. Scuba -twitch - Jamie vex’d remix
7. Kotchy - One for the show- Starkey remix
8. kode 9 vs LD – Bad
9. Dabrye - Air Feat. Doom (Kode 9 Remix)
10. Untold – Bones
11. Gang gang dance –feat tychy strider
12. Cardopusher - homeless - quarta 330 remix
13. Zomby - strange fruit
14. Coti and Benga- Night - Geenus remix
15. Hard house banton – Sirens
16. Neil Landstrumm- Rockers ‘the underground king
17. The Other people place - Let me be
18. Leonard Cohen - First we take Manhattan
19. Drop the lime - Like thunder
20. The Fall - Taurig
21. Kode 9 v LD - Bad 2
22. Daedelus - One for the money(album version)
23. Veil - Park mist on Systems drills  Eat the world
24. The Fall - Lost in music

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Mash of the week 12# Always Nude

Posted by homoludo on Feb 13 2009 Posted by homoludo on February 13th, 2009 filed in !Kaboogie, mash of the week, mashes, music
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Being a mash of Erasure - Always Nude(Daddy long leg refix) and Beans - Nude Paper by Richie !Kaboogie, Sweet.

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The Hype Machine

Also the mashes and music on this site are now searchable on hypemachine.

!Kaboogie Sampler megamix

Posted by homoludo on Feb 10 2009 Posted by homoludo on February 10th, 2009 filed in !Kaboogie, Irish producers, mashes, mixtapes, music
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k9 dog robot

Here’s a mix of some of the tunes from the recent rough !Kaboogie Sampler of Irish beats. I did it a few weeks ago for the radio, but the cd deck kept messing up so it kept getting held over. I thought I’d better post it before it’s old news. There are some gratuitous tracks  -  Kid Cudi, the amazing farmers anthem from Collie Buddz and some Irish tracks that aren’t on the sampler, but you get the idea.

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  1. Gash_Up -The Banker- Masher/Editor/Arranger
  2. Lazy Squan  - Kachanski
  3. Leiden Ex - Cignol
  4. Loom - Solen
  5. Beer, Vermouth & Gin (Big Instrument) Piero Umiliani
  6. Skuff D Boxcutter
  7. Stringaling 2-Bit  Mash/w
  8.  The Prayer KiD CuDi
  9. Herb Tree -Collie Buddz
  10. Embrace The Martian- KiD CuDi  mash/w DJ scotch egg
  11. Dek Rudder - Bluefood mash/w
  12. Load it - Prince Kong (thug)

Raffertie - The Scarlot Harlots - Backlash(Raffertie’s Bigger Bass Remake Feat. Shifty Moova)

Posted by homoludo on Feb 09 2009 Posted by homoludo on February 9th, 2009 filed in Raffertie, music, ravestep
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Here’s some yummy fur - a giveaway(320kbs) from Raffertie and the Scarlot harlots.

ed the happy clown

The Scarlot Harlots - Backlash(Raffertie’s Bigger Bass Remake Feat. Shifty Moova)

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Mash of the week 11# Demolition Dre

Posted by homoludo on Feb 07 2009 Posted by homoludo on February 7th, 2009 filed in !Kaboogie, mash of the week, mashes, music
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Dj Halfdutch this week with a straight up turntable mash of Dr dre  ’Whats the
difference’ and dj Vadim ft. Demolition man ‘boom sumting’

Demolition Dre

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In other mashup news -

GENERATION>>
The RomaeuropaFAKEFactory competition originates from the “Freedom for Remix” initiative, promoted by [A]rt is [O]pen [S]ource (Salvatore Iaconesi/xDxD and Oriana Persico/penelope.di.pixel] and Marco Scialdone, with the support of DegradArte, ComputerLaw 2.0, NeRVi and Valeria Bochicchio.

PROCESSING>>
RomaeuropaFAKEFactory draws on the Romaeuropa Web Factory competition to embrace a series of reflexions and practices focused on the issues of digital rights and information ownership.

DISTORSION>>
RomaeuropaFakeFactory is an international competition allowing its participants to do everything that is forbidden by the rules of the Romaeuropa Web Factory competition, subverting its logics.

CUT, COPY, PASTE>>
According to the rules of the Romaeuropa Web Factory competition , produced by the Romaeuropa Foundation and by Telecom Italia SpA, participation is not allowed to those artists creating their works using remix, mash-up and manipulative techniques on pre-existing content. Furthermore, to participate, the artists have to sign a legal disclaimer making them give up all the rights on their artworks: indefinitely, exclusively, for free, and also allowing the contest producers to freely edit, remix, mash-up, commercialize.

The Romaeuropa Foundation and Telecom SpA can remix. Artists can not.

CUT-UP>>
The overcoming of originality as space for production and its circumbscription in terms of multinational property - more than the real protection of the author’s rights - is used in this context as a critique to a conservative practice of cultural promotion that is not able to grasp the possibilities offered by the intersections of the technological, cultural, social and economical-political planes, enabled by contemporary technologies.

MORPHING>>
This competition is addressed to all forms of creative profiles and to the experts of legislative disciplines with a specific predilection for intellectual property related subjects, inviting them to submit their artworks on the theme “Freedom to Remix”.

>>HOW-TO<<
The four categories in the competition:

- 100Cuts: videoart [ http://www.romaeuropa.org/videoart.html ]
- 100Samples: electronic music [ http://www.romaeuropa.org/music.html ]
- 100Quotes: literature [ http://www.romaeuropa.org/words.html ]
- LawArt [ http://www.romaeuropa.org/law.html ] , a brand new creative discipline dedicated to law experts and jurisprudence amateurs, whose works will be constituted by remix and production of legal texts regulating intellectual property

The works will be the object of a research, of public debate and will be collected in a catalogue together with the critical and legal texts. Furthermore, they will be supported by RomaEuropaFAKEFactory’s communicational apparatus. A public voting system will also be set up on ArtsBlog.it [ http://www.artsblog.it ] so that the general audience will be able to vote its favourite work in the 4 sections, thus declaring an audience-proclaimed winner.

RomaEuropaFAKEFactory will be finalized into a public happening during which the exhibition of all the generated content will take place.

RomaeuropaFAKEFactory is an initiative conceived by

[A]rt is [O]pen [S]ource

with the promotion and the support of

Torino Share Festival - DegradArte - Istituto per le Politiche dell’Innovazione - BeatPick, ComputerLaw 2.0 - LPM, Flyer Communication - PerformngMedia - FLxER.net - ShockArt.net - NeRVi - Digicult - Associazione Partito Pirata - Nephogram.net - Les Liens Invisible - A.H.A. - Francesco “Warbear” Macarone Palmieri - Superfluo - Deliriouniversale - My Jemma Temp - ArtsBlog.it - CodiceBinario …

Toxic Ravestep - Raffertie & The Squires of Gothos

Posted by homoludo on Feb 02 2009 Posted by homoludo on February 2nd, 2009 filed in gigs, music
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 Listening to music from each of these guys made my weekend. And the computer in the radio studio crashed before I could save my mix, which was mostly built from their tunes. So, untill I can get back in, here’s  some of what I’m avin’-

The Rogue Element - Hive (Raffertie’s S.W.A.R.M. Remix):

The Squires of Gothos - Triple Drop ft. MC Condom(wait for the third drop!)

squires of gothos ep artwork

Raffertie is joining us in early April and I’ve been in contact with the Squires and hope to get them over also.

Mash of the week 10# Convolutions # 1

Posted by homoludo on Jan 30 2009 Posted by homoludo on January 30th, 2009 filed in !Kaboogie, mash of the week, mashes, music
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Twisting things up this week Ed Devane,  with releases on Touchin’ Bass and appearances on Andrea Parker’s new mix cd and the !Kaboogie records sampler amongst others.

And check out the borán loop boyo!.

Convolutions # 1

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Sources:

Squarpusher: Metteng Excuske V1.2 (

Mash of the week 9# Gash up. Yes, but is it art?

Posted by homoludo on Jan 23 2009 Posted by homoludo on January 23rd, 2009 filed in !Kaboogie, mash of the week, mashes, mixtapes, music, theory, writing
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 Here’s the Banker getting on board the train to mashville with- ‘Gash Up’, an extraodinary  mash/edit/arrangement of -   M.I.A. - Galang Acapella, Aphex Twin - Jynweythek Ylow, Shackleton - Tin Foil Sky, The Banker and Beethoven - Adagio Sostenuto. Check the way he uses the piano from Beethoven’s Adagio against M.I.A’s voice then segues into the Aphex twin piano…gosh.

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Girl Talk in Dublin

Speaking of mashes here’s a great, interesting and thought provoking piece by Nick Sylvester and W. David Marx on Girl Talk. For those who don’t know, Girl Talk does fairly dense  mashup albums.(He’s playing Dublin in March, I think I may even be supporting him)

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…the extent to which the music he’s working with is so portable, so building-block ready, makes it seem like he’s not making art so much as merely following industry directions: Step by step, like he’s putting together a Lego spaceship. There is no violence in this process, in other words; he’s hardly repurposing much of anything. Instead it’s like a video game in which Gillis has found the warp level — yet keep in mind, somebody somewhere had to program that warp level precisely so that it would be discovered.

On a boat on the Shannon last summer listening to the Girl Talk album with my friend the film maker, Eamonn, I got him excited by suggesting that a program could be easily written to mix and mash tunes by their key and Bpm. I’ve since came across Mixmeister which pretty much does this and it’s a matter of months before it or something similar is used as a plug in for media players.

The piece makes some interesting points and is a good read, though quoting Adorno to the effect that pop isn’t art muddies the waters. The pop he was talking about was Jazz and tin pan alley etc. It’s also a bit unclear what their problem with Girl Talk is - that he claims to be an artist? That he’s ‘only’ a technician?

The problem here is the usual one that the word art doesn’t actually mean anything.

From the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy

Generally, art is a human activity, made with the intention of stimulating thoughts and emotions. Beyond this description, there is no general agreed-upon definition of art.

-So every thing apart from work then.

Art used to glorify God, now it glorifies the market. Either everything is art or nothing is. I’d go with nothing. Good stuff, bad stuff, stuff I like, stuff that suits my agenda, but don’t go putting wings or halos on any of it.

It’s important to bear in mind the contexts of mashes and the processes that produce them and with that the fact that they create their own contexts. I remember in the days of Boomselection  thinking mashes were done, but they keep going, to the point they are now a model for new technologies. Saying they are soulless is a bit of a so what?- That isn’t nescessariliy a bad thing. We’ve just had over twenty years of dancing to a drum machine and searching for the smallest atom of funk…which has been good fun.

To what extent is Coltrane’s  ‘Favourite things’ a mash? Anyway read the piece, it’ll get you thinking. More mash theory here.

In other news here’s a link to the front page on Indymedia about a mash(projecting images on a building) I took part in on Monday. Organised by the above mentioned Eamonn, It took place outside the Israeli embassy.

PCPRaidio_Pixie house

Posted by homoludo on Jan 18 2009 Posted by homoludo on January 18th, 2009 filed in music, paranoia, radio shows, theory
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Okey dokey, did this show before crimbo but radio closed over the yule and  just got it up. Starts with some cheesy Baltimore/diplo/dress to sweat etc. house , check Diplo’s Pixies cover- effective. Second section is tuffer, starting with a very cool one from the amazing Daedalus into couple of big tunes from Raffertie, who’ll be joining us in April despite the closure of McGruders(the one that got away), some of the chat about which is here.(Edit- this page wasn’t displaying properly, it should be ok now.)

1. Rod Lee - Let Me See What You Working With
2. Diplo - Blow your head
3. Rod Lee - Let Me See What You Working With -Rustie remix
4. Diplo - Devil between us
5. mia??
6. Pixie boots (gauge away remix/bootleg)
7. Daedelus- Fair weathered friends - the death set refix.
8. The Debonair One - The bmore 20220

9. Daedelus ‘Hours Minutes Seconds (Beat Invitational Version)
10. Food for animals - Mutumbo Raffertie’s Bigger bass remake (unreleased)
11. Raffertie -  Stomping grounds (rafferties VIP Remix)(unreleased)
12. Peter Gunn and Small change- Pacman’s on some syrup
13. Mr V - Mother Fuckers
14. ???looking
15. Moves- All skate
16. Starkey- No Struggle
17. Dj Funk - Booty clap
18. Kid Cudi feat Collie Buddz- Day and night
19. Cotti feat. Doctor -  Calm Down
20. War 7 - Polizia mix
21. Untold -  Bones
22. Mordant Music -24 Million Or Sell Neverland
23. Sillicon Scally - Request - Wee dj’s mix

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Also living in the future as we do, we need good advice and who you gonna ask but a good futurist? Who’s a good futurist? - Bruce Sterling, check his state of the world 2009 here

You need to know.

To avoid this.

Woman pulling plough in Russia

Woman sunbathing amongst rubbish

Mash of the Week 8

Posted by homoludo on Jan 16 2009 Posted by homoludo on January 16th, 2009 filed in !Kaboogie, mash of the week, mashes, music
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Here’s  another Six foot Apprentice mash using T Woc’s - Time has come (from the ‘Taken without consent’ limited cd) and Dizzee Rascal - Sirens (acappella). Here’s

Sirens Have Come

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Mash of the Week 7

Posted by homoludo on Jan 11 2009 Posted by homoludo on January 11th, 2009 filed in !Kaboogie, mash of the week, mashes, music
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Here’s Dawn Cauldron, a nice skanky blipy one from Mr Redmonk.

A Mash of Dawn Penn’s ‘No No No’ and Ghost Cauldron’s ‘Whole World’ featuring Apani B Fly.

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I’ll stick up the 320 tomorrow.

Also, if you’re into mashes, think they’er great or think they’re shit, check this piece of writing about Girl Talk, it will get you thinking.I’ll be posting my thoughts on it later in the week.

Also hot news from the practice room,Homoludo have expanded to three. Evil Easter Egg Man called in, rocked up and freaked the the fuck out!Brang on the drang Scotch Egg!

Ireland’s Own

Posted by homoludo on Jan 08 2009 Posted by homoludo on January 8th, 2009 filed in Irish producers, funky, mixtapes, music, video
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Ireland's own

Here are some quality Irish tunes from 2Bit and Automatic Tasty. 2Bit’s ‘Ifer’ is available  for free download here.

Automatic Tasty has an album out on Acroplane here. The tune below ‘Little blue car’ is driving me mad ’cause its melody reminds me of a tv theme tune(a book voucher for anybody who indentifies it, I gave up after a couple of hours, not spectrum enough I suppose).

Automatic -Tasty Little Blue Car

In other Irish news,  from the Clare People - “Lisdoonvarna double act Drugzilla are Clare People Interactive’s Clare Artist’s of the year…(they)bring underground to a whole new level and have won a massive international following for their experimental hardcore songs about drinking cider and Buckfast.” Hope to have them at our new run of gigs(more on these soon) in McGruders in April.

Drugzilla - On a Mission from a Hippie in a Van

Also a good mix of funky (newish UK house/bass variant) below from Colz. What I like about the mix is that is forefronts the riddim-ness(in the dancehall sense) of funky. It also includes by far my fav funky tune so far, Hard house Banton’s “sirens”.

Dj Colz New year funky mix

Tracklist

1 Bakongo - Uncle Bakongo
2 Sirens - Hard House Banton
3 Gabryelle Refix - D Malice
4 I Wish - X5 featuring Teresa
5 Makonde - Uncle Bakongo
6 Feeline - Roska
7 The Print - Fingerprint
8 Dub Boy - Funky Underground
9 Turbulence - Jalla
10 Inflation - Crazy Cousinz
11 Quicktime - DJ Naughty
12 Changes - DJ Mystery
13 Green Light - Footsteps
14 Baga - Uncle Bakongo
15 Big Life - Colz

While I’m posting UK vids, here’s the low slung and menacing ‘Da Hardest’ from Giggs. Who made some of the best grime of last year.

Late Banjo

Posted by homoludo on Jan 04 2009 Posted by homoludo on January 4th, 2009 filed in banjo, music
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As I mentioned the server was down, but I suppose the year is still new, so - happy new fear kids and here’s some late banjo - Bill Keith’s Auld lang syne.

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Mash of the Week 6 - Major Dreams

Posted by homoludo on Jan 03 2009 Posted by homoludo on January 3rd, 2009 filed in !Kaboogie, mash of the week, music
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 A bit late due to the Nazarene, lot of pies and my not paying the server man on time…

Here’s a tasty mash from Dj Halfdutch of top Irish dubstepper Major Grave’s ‘Healing of the nation’  and Landslide ‘dreams and visions’ (compound one remix)

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bah!

Posted by homoludo on Dec 26 2008 Posted by homoludo on December 26th, 2008 filed in bah, music
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This tune is ok.

Day N Nite

Posted by homoludo on Dec 21 2008 Posted by homoludo on December 21st, 2008 filed in music
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Big tune - Kid Cudi -Day N Nite remix ft. Collie Buddz

The mixtape (linked above) ain’t bad either.

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Mash of the Week 5 - Welcome to Jamrock

Posted by homoludo on Dec 19 2008 Posted by homoludo on December 19th, 2008 filed in !Kaboogie, mash of the week, mashes, music
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 Here’s one from from A-Force called Dubrock. It’s as much a reversioning as a mash.

Dubrock (320)

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Built from -
Welcome to jamrock (damien marley / world jam riddim) vs troca-aplica (dj sany pitbull)

Interestingly he tagged the mp3 as

name: Dubrock
artist: mash
album: !kaboogie
genre: bass

Note he’s called the artist Mash, he’s concious of sampling ethics and is going to post about they’re relationship to mashes on his blog soon. I’m looking fwd to that post, though, if you ask me it’s elastic honour among thieves and nickin’ things is great. A Force lent me this great book on the subject-

Making beats -sample based hip hop

Rustie -Dublin

Posted by homoludo on Dec 12 2008 Posted by homoludo on December 12th, 2008 filed in !Kaboogie, flyers, gigs, mixtapes, music
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rustie

Hurrah! managed to book Rustie for Dublin on the Saturday the 27th of December in McGrudders. Perfect night for some freaky Sub Aqua action -  everybody itching to get out of the house etc. He’s playing in the !Kaboogie room at a Mantua fundraiser there. More later…

Here’s a set of his from a couple of years ago.
Rustie - gutterish
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1. Mark One - Slang (Tectonic)
2. DJ Marsta - Gridlock 4×4 (A.R.M.Y Bullet)
3. DJ Mentat - What’s Happ’nin’ instrumental (?)
4. Otto Von Schirach - Trick Snitch (Touchin’ Bass)
5. Rick Ross - Hustlin’ Remix instrumental (Def Jam)
6. Loefah - Mud (DMZ)
7. Wiley - Flat Derik (Dump Valve)
8. ??? - B2 (D&G)
9. Matty G - For The Smokers (Argon)
10. DJ Nessbeth - Respect (4 Player)
11. Mrk 1 - Empire (Tyke)
12. Newflesh - Wherever We Go Space Engine Mix Instrumental (?)
13. Juelz Santana - Oh Yes (Def Jam)
14. Es-pee-dee & DJ Distro - A2 (B.P.S.I Records)
15. Ripper Man - Rubble (White)
16. Stacs Of Stamina - Roll Wonder Refix (Werk)
17. Wonder - What Geeneus Rmx (Dump Valve)
18. Mondie - Straight feat. All In One (White)
19. Spac Hand Luke - Sidthug (Rephlex)
20. The Dexorcist - Connect One (Control Tower)
21. Slew Dem - Da Firing Range (Slew Dem)
22. B.I.G - Spit Your Game Remix (Bad Boy)
23. Dj Urban - Bang That Shit Up (Kne’ Deep)
24. Nephets - Bounce Lady (Pro-Jex)
25. Dizzee Rascal - Give U More Feat. D Double E (Xl)
26. Feadz - Go On Beef (Bpitch)

Mash of the Week 4 - Blimey - Notoriously gorgeous

Posted by homoludo on Dec 12 2008 Posted by homoludo on December 12th, 2008 filed in !Kaboogie, mash of the week, music
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Mash of the week going well so far- here’s a lovely one from Notoriously gorgeous. It’s of Beirut -Nantes, Appleblim - Vansan  and Anthoy rother -Don’t stop the beat. Weirdly christmassey…

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Mash of the Week 3 - Lil Head 330

Posted by homoludo on Dec 05 2008 Posted by homoludo on December 5th, 2008 filed in !Kaboogie, mash of the week, mashes, music
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Here’s some Turbo Crunk from the man Six Foot Apprentice

six foot apprentice

Built from  Lil Jon - ‘What You Gon Do?’ vs Math Head - ‘Parasites’ vs Quarta 330 - ‘Sunset Dub’

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