very pretty

like a cleaned-up (dare i say IDM-ed up?) take on things Ruff Sqwad did about five years ago, "UR Love Feels" and such

wiley tweet-stream


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The Stranglers / Vangelis connection

this video totally suits the music!

odd little 90s moment when rock, hip hop, and house got blurry

this is a bit like dubstep's "windows in the sky" - epic trancekore - the logical destination of the quasi-anthemic-but-still-leashed "midnight request line"



with a bit of Boards of Canada "Beautiful Place in the Country" in the vocals

the kids in the vid look like they're raving, but they're not really letting loose are they?

the end of an era?

^^^^^^^^^

pull quote from the piece:

Geneeus insists that radio kept him on the straight and narrow.

"Everyone I knew at school is in prison," he says. "I do feel a responsibility to show young people that there is an alternative. That there are other ways of doing what you want in life."

some people in the past have accused me of romanticizing the whole ruffneck/"street knowledge"/ghetto culture that spawned jungle and grime

on the contrary, what i romanticize is the attempt to find another path through all that negativity, a way out... those who manage to do something constructive and aesthetically potent, in circumstances where the economic and social odds are stacked against them... i find that inspiring and compelling... and i will continue to believe that this "rise above" spirit brings an extra dimension to the music.... an impetus, an edge, a hunger that is palpable... and that is absent in other musics which, whatever their virtues, do not come from the same kind of place. the evidence that this is so is overwhelming.

Electronic Dance Music

Alwin Nikolais - Noumenon (1953) from Thomas Patteson on Vimeo.

Found an LP of this modernist choreographer Alwin Nikolais's electronic music at the annual yard sale of the apartment block over the road from us in New York several years ago. Going for $1! Amazing sleeve.

You can see one of his pieces recreated for the opening credit sequence of The Company, that disappointing very late period (last one before he croaked? Robert Altman movie on ballet.



There is a thread running through avant-classical electronic/concrete music that involves the partnership of composers with radical ballet choreographers -- Pierre Henry et le chorégraphe Maurice Béjart, Warner Jepson and the San Francisco ballet company, some others I'm blanking on...

for this (recently reactivated) piece

i made this dubble-ceedee

BLEEP 20 plus
DISC ONE
1/ UNIQUE 3 "The Theme" (Chill/Ten, 1989)
2/ UNIQUE 3 "7-AM" (flipside above)
3/ FORGEMASTERS "Track With No Name" (Warp, 1989)
4/ SWEET EXORCIST "Testone" (Warp, 1989)
5/ ITAL ROCKERS "Ital's Anthem (Trebledown Bassup Mix)"
(Bassic, 1990)
6/ NEXUS 21 "Self Hypnosis (The Whippy Remix)"
from Progressive Logic EP (Network, 1990)
7/ LFO "LFO" (Warp, 1990)
8/ RHYTHMATIC "Take Me Back (Rob Gordon Edit--'With Extra Bass') "
(Network, 1990)
9/ UNIQUE 3 "Weight For the Bass (Original Soundyard Dubplate Mix)"
(Ten Records, 1990)
10/ NIGHTMARES ON WAX "Aftermath" (Warp, 1990)
11/ TRICKY DISCO "Tricky Disco" (Warp, 1990)
12/ TUFF LITTLE UNIT "Join the Future" (Warp, 1991)
13/ UBIK "Bass Generation" off Non Stop Techno EP (Zoom, 1990)

DISC TWO

1/ ABILITY II "Pressure Dub" (Outer Rhythm, 1991)
2/ FORGEMASTERS "Stress" off The Black Steel EP (Network, 1991)
3/ ORIGINAL CLIQUE "Now Hear Me Now"
off North of Watford EP (Chill, 1990)
4/ XON "Dissonance" off The Mood Set EP (Network, 1991)
5/ SWEET EXORCIST "Clonk's Coming" off C.C.C.D (Warp, 1991)
6/ LFO "What Is House" off What Is House EP (Warp, 1992)
7/ COCO STEEL AND LOVEBOMB "Feel It" (Warp, 1992)
8/ NIGHTMARES ON WAX "I'm For Real" (Warp, 1990)
9/ NIGHTMARES ON WAX "Dextrous" (Warp, 1989)
10/ UNIQUE 3 "Phase 3" off Jus Unique LP (Ten Records, 1990)
11/ TURNTABLE OVERLOAD "T.T.O. (O.T.T. Mad Bastard Mix)"
(R&S, 1990)
12/ SWEET EXORCIST "Clonk (Freebass)" (Warp, 1991)
13/ F-X-U "The Scheme" (Made On Earth, 1990)


Question: if i was to make a third disc, what should be on it?

vintage 1995 interview with the Mover from Alien Underground zine!

curiously

the original sounds

if not more futuristic

then at least as futuristic

as the Darkstar cover does

even though almost thirty years separate them

Darkstar: Gold (Hyperdub 2010) from Hyperdub on Vimeo.

curious, that