It seems to have hardly merited a mention on most of the end of the year album lists I have bothered to look at, which is a shame as I think it is one of the best hard/psychedelic rock albums I’ve heard in the last few years. Hailing from Vancouver, Canada, you may be unsurprised to learn that it is a very bong-friendly album, with the epic Bright Lights clocking in at over 16 minutes, but don’t go thinking it is all self-indulgent stoner noodling. Only some of it is, and even then it is pretty damn good noodling. Lead singer/guitarist Stephen McBean has chops to match his beard, and manages to coax classic riff after classic riff from his ‘axe’ (man)… ok, I admit it, I’m testing out amazon’s associate widget so this is not really a PROPER review right now, but it will be just as soon as I don’t have a nine-month-old crawling all over me. Still, feel free to go buy it now if you want to make me rich beyond my wildest dreams. If amazon sold bongs as well I’d be laughing…

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Hope you like the mix, it’s electrotastic.

Genki DJ Set

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[00:00] 1) Scuba – Tell Her
[00:41] 2) Maga Bo ft. Max Normal – Homeboys
[04:06] 3) Maga Bo ft. K-Libre – Analyse D’Amour
[07:49] 4) Ekstrak – Mass Dampers
[11:03] 5) Clouds – WaDaDa [Elders refix]
[13:30] 6) MLZ – NewAnalogueCentury
[15:15] 7) Vladislav Delay – Recovery Idea [Andy Stott Remix]
[17:59] Appleblim & Peverlist – Over Here [Brandon Moeller remix]
[20:41] 9) Skream – Moving Snares
[21:35] 10) Surgeon – Floorshow Part 2 Untitled (track b1)
[24:00] 11) Basic Channel – Phylyps Trak II Untitled (track 2)
[26:32] 12) Cotti ft. Doctor – Calm Down [Witty Boy Remix]
[30:32] 13) Plastician ft. Skepta – Intensive Snare
[32:16] 14) Headhunter – Paradigm Shift
[35:00] 15) Bong Ra – Sissy Spacek
[39:13] 16) Hellfish – Big Bald Fuck
[41:13] 17) Hellfish – U Don’t Quit

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Massively passé though it is these days, I’m going to try to blog again semi-regularly, I might even try to make it useful by doing ‘screencasts’ of geeky stuff or mac stuff now and again. One cannot live by tweets alone.

Without further ado, some music!!!

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TRACKLIST!

1. Michael Mayer – Love Food (Kompakt)
2. M.A.N.D.Y vs. Booka Shade feat. Laurie Anderson – Oh Superman (Get Physical)
3. Rekorder – 9.1 (Rekorder)
4. Teflon – The Wombat (Rebelone)
5. Lutzenkirchen – Kobalt (Craftmusic)
6. Jurgen Paape + Boy Schaufler/Gesang – We Love (Kompakt)
7. Trentemoller – Moan *Radio Slave remix for k/instrumental (Poker Flat)
8. Audion – Fire (Cocoon)
   …it starts to get quite fucked up around here…
9. Supermayer – Two Of Us (Kompakt)
   …pass the bong, dude…
10. Simon Baker – Plastik (Playhouse)
11. Tiefschwarz – Original *Carl Craig remix (Souvenir)
12. Adam Beyer – AWC Pt.1 (Plus8 )
13. Danilo Vigorito – Temperance (Intelligence)
14. Kabale und Liebe & Daniel Sanchez – Mumbling Yeah (Area Remote)
15. Kaliber – 13.1 (Kaliber)
16. Cobblestone Jazz – W (Cocoon/K7/Wagon Repair – go nuts)
17. Craig Torrance & Philip Hochstrate – Shrinkage *Samim remix (4twenty)
18. Gui Boratto – Beautiful Life (Kompakt)

There, isn’t that awesome-sounding? (Option-W, remember…) If you enjoyed this mix why not subscribe to my podcast in ‘like iTunes and shit’ by simply clicking the iTunes feed at top of my left column, right here? Then you will LITERALLY receive a hot injection of ”fresh’ new ‘beats’ approximately every week, delivered straight to your iTunes, without you having to lift so much as a finger, literally. Isn’t technology awesome?

So, enjoy Louis’ mix, he is a wicked DJ.

Coming up next, a mix by the mysterious entity known only as ‘Genki‘…

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This weekend Ole Martin is playing a few DJ sets at the Insomnia Festival in Tromsø, Norway, which looks totally amazing – wish I could be there! Hm…I wonder if EasyJet flies to Norway…

Track List!

1. Jason Emsley – P.H.I.A.P.O.S.
2. Reggy Van Oers – Metza
3. Misc. – Staroulette
4. Shane Berry – Fillertet (Gabriel Ananda rmx)
5. Raudive – Non
6. Error Error – End Of The Day
7. Schaeben & Voss feat. Schad Privat – Blaze
8. Ame – Balandine
9. Steve Rachmad – I Am A Machine
10. Redshape – 2084
11. Kevin Saunderson – Till We Meet Again (Carl Craig rmx)
12. Agoria – Les Plastiques Ivres

If you have enjoyed any or all of these mixes why not add Ole Martin to you facebook friends, and, like, give him a gnome for his virtual garden, or something…

Skrææææææ æ æ æ æææ ævsylte!

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[by the way, this DJ Omar is not to be confused with the ' Top Czech paty DJ' (sic) of the same name on last.fm, who is probably a bit shit.]

Track List:

1. Soul Capsule – Waiting 4 Away
2. Pan/Tone – Whodunit
3. Cybotron – Clear (Troy Pierce rmx)
4. Guy Gerber – Planetarium – Cocoon
5. Steadycam – In The Moog For Love
6. Simon Baker – Plastik
7. Kalabrese – Not The Same Shoes
8. Guy Gerber – Are U Naked
9. Paul Kalkbrenner – Ick Muss….
10. I:Cube – Chicago Sur Seine
11. Canavas – The Cat
12. Sascha Dive – Down Edit (Argy rmx)

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First up is DJ Omar – aka Ole Martin Vilberg from Oslo, Norway, who has recently done not one, nor even two, but THREE marvellous, acid tinged hour long excursions to a happy techno place. I met Ole Martin and his equally lovely partner Tonje in the T Bar in London’s fashionable/skanky Shoreditch – we hit it off and spent a fantastic night dancing exuberantly, shrieking “SKRAEVSYLTE” (google it…) at the top of our lungs and generally being quite silly.

Anyway, turns out he an ace DJ. And to prove it, I’m going to start this whole podcast series with his three recent mixes. I spoil you, I really do. First up is ‘The Sirup Mix‘ ‘I Lick Your Spine’.

[Update - Ole Martin mislabelled the mixes but now we got it straight, and we also have track listings! If you want to rename your MP3s - assuming you downloaded them, The Sirup Mix is actually I Lick Your Spine, and what WAS I Lick Your Spine is Actually 'In The Moog For Love'. Glad we cleared that up...]

Tracklisting:

1. Luciano – Fourges Et Sabres
2. Let’s Go Outside – I’ll Lick Your Spine (Repeat Repeat rmx)
3. Ben Westbeech – Hang Around (Karizma rmx)
4. Rework – Love Love Love Yeah (Chloè rmx)
5. Wouldbenice – One Cell
6. Jurgen Paape – Nord
7. Larsson – Off Voices
8. Shonky – Olympia
9. Dusty Kid – Kore
10. Shane Berry – Fillertet 2 (Gabriel Ananda rmx)

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Boratto’s Chromophobia is my techno album of 2007 (so far) and I never tire of listening to it. it’s just so goddam beautiful! Word on the grapevine (ok, the intarwebs) is that Boratto is AMAZING live, so I’m almost literally spazziing out with anticipation. (Video clips after the ‘jump’…)

I haven’t been to Plastic People for absolutely ages so will be nice to return to an old haunt for such a special occassion. (PP also hosts the underground – albeit increasingly famous – dubstep night fwd, which I MUST check out one day, cos I love dubstep, innit…)

Although not particularly representative of the rest of the album, the standout track on Chromophobia for most people is the delightful, summery, happy, indie-shoegazetronica-meets-techno swirl of Beautiful Life…check out the lovely video:

(Thank you Anarchy Media Player for allowing me to embed Youtube videos without WordPress layout breaking horribly!) Now that I CAN embed videos with ease, here is Gui performing Beautiful Life live at Warung, which is this club in a big wooden Indonesian long-house on the beach somewhere in Brazil. Yeah, it sounds great, but my Brazilian source Louis Atkins (an ace techno DJ/Producer in his own right) reliably informs me it is full of undesirable types…ANYWAY, Gui at Warung:

Oh and why not, one more clip. This time he is playing ‘Terminal’ (an AWESOME track) at Industria:

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Ideally of course, you’ll want to hear it on the “dancefloor”,  so why not get along to  Audio Bass at Rhythm Factory on 10 August, where Rico will be ‘spinning’ along with other luminaries of the East London underground minimal/techno/electro/whathaveyou scene.

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