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The UM Archive for August, 2011

PAST PRESENT FUTURE SPACE-TIME

Press Release
July 2011
Wysing Arts Centre explores the legacy of psychedelia in this year’s annual
music event, PAST PRESENT FUTURE SPACE-TIME
10 September 12noon – 12midnight
Taking its title from Albert Einstein’s theories of the fourth dimension, Wysing’s 2011
annual music event explores the legacy of psychedelia; from the emergence of the
term, through 1960s counter culture movements to contemporary art [...]

Stagger

“Don’t miss @peteum on tonights @staggerindie show. Tune in from 10-11 @Cambridge105 fm or listen live from the 105 website.”

Mousefest

I’m playing and DJing at this event tonight in Brixton.

Radio On

When El Duz played this for me first I got very excited about it. Please endorse my excitability & share this about!

You can also buy a cassette!

Doozer Walker Tribute

Nice tribute to Bernard Walker, one of the original Cast Of Mill Road Characters (Professor Wrongangles) on this website. I wrote about him a bit here when I found a load of his cassettes and other merz outside his house earlier this year. Here’s him singing a song, which I feel a bit silly for [...]

Hacker Farm in The Vortex

I’m conscious that I might say something that is unintentionally insulting in some way but what I like about this, and it’s also something I find present in Ekoplekz’s stuff, is its unpretentiousness. There’s a kind of heritage to it, but it’s not something that’s just copped or aped. It’s a felt thing, part of [...]

This could be Vast.

Saw this round Pilar’s. This guy did some very good surreal heckling at an Um gig once.

Thu 4th August, The Portland, Cambridge R STEVIE MOORE + TROPICAL OOZE + PETE UM

Short details:
Thu 4th August, The Portland, Cambridge
R STEVIE MOORE + TROPICAL OOZE + PETE UM
8:30-11pm, Entry: 6.00 adv/7.00 door
http://www.last.fm/event/1953793+R.+Stevie+Moore+-+Tropical+Ooze
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/126828
Longer details:
R STEVIE MOORE
After producing over 400 brilliant albums and hundreds of music videos from
his own bedroom and being a massive influence on underground musicians such as Ariel Pink, R. Stevie Moore will be going on his [...]

Self-Assembly footage found (feat. Rob Kemp).

Uploaded by the mysterious BadTimingNights

NOCHEXXX press: the square dance is abstract. It is so damn serious about rock-solid bass. Slightly psychedelic prevaricate Nochexxx.

nochexxx:
Loose Synths
The press release for the new Nochexxx 12” mentions that he has apparently ditched his computer in favour of an MPC and an old 8 track tape recorder, a bold move seems to have paid off, as the tunes are majorly fresh.
‘Charro’ is an unsettling mix of lo-fi computer game melodies and analogue basslines [...]