Convextion live in Manchester

Oh yes. I think its important to convey my excitement here. It doesnt get much better than convextion. Its 1.30am and i was passing out due to certain indulgances (a massive beefburger since you ask) but this shit just woke me right up. So thanks to jeff for putting me onto it - good werk fella.

I wasnt sure if i wanted to put other peoples sets up here, but then a convextion set came out, so thats that really. I went to see him at fabric with the wifey the same weekend this manchester gig was recorded. He completely blew our faces off. Deep lush space bizness. And more electro than last time which pleased her.

This brings me to a general point. What the fuck happened to the big dj's? Isnt this what they used to sound like? Deep, underground, spacey, emotional, dancey etc? I remember when live acts were complete bollocks. There wasnt a single good one. Now there's no decent big dj's. Fuck 'em, its their own fault.

Maybe I just got older? But jesus, so did they, and what self-respecting 40-year old plays music like that?

Anyway, Convextion, please go out and buy some of his stuff. The guy is amazing and deserves to make enough money that he decides to sack off doing anything else with his time. The CD of his recent album is out in a few days. Go get it. I'd also recommend:

1. E.R.P. - Alsoran [Frantic Flowers] -buy-
2. E.R.P. - Event Related Potential [Down Low Music] -buy-
3. E.R.P. - Vox Automaton Frustrated Funk] -buy-

ERP is supposedly the electro alias, so maybe I prefer that stuff as well. Check it out, there's samples all over t'net. Buy the vinyl though. You can get them in nifty colours and they look ace.

Beware, highly addictive.

Thats all for today. Don't be expecting this kind of frenzied activity regularly, these kind of sets don't come along every week.

Radio Shite - Vol. 0

OK, so i botched something together. A few fuck-ups (pressing the filter at the wrong moment - check, double-check; getting too much cat hair on the needle and skidding it across the record - check; forgetting to take the record off before the next tune starts - check) but thats techno innit?

Download Me

1. Allez Allez - African Queen (Quiet Village Dub) [Eskimo Recordings] -Buy-
2. Kozo Inada - c[0] [Selektion] -Buy-
3. Burial Chamber Trio - Untitled [Southern Lord] -Buy-
4. Kozo Inada - c[2] [Selektion]
5. Black Jazz Consortium - More Love Please pt.2 [Soul People Music] -Buy-
6. Franck Sarrio - Skyscraper [Bunker Records] -Buy-
7. Black Jazz Consortium - RE:Birth Groove [Soul People Music]
8. Franck Sarrio - Paradis [Bunker Records]
9. Time Light Curve - Multipole Vector [AW-Recordings] -Buy-

I got most of the ambient/drone stuff from KFW @ Miramoglu Music (sp??), the deep house bits are mostly from Dope Jams, the Sarrio record is from Corporate Dan who's selling his teenage dreams to make room for a wine cellar, and the last one is another convextion alias on Arne Weinbergs label - nice artwork so get the CD and the vinyl: extra tracks on the Cd; and bigger artwork on the vinyl + its vinyl.

Any comments, thoughts, criticisms, random coincidences noted, suspicions, protestations of innocence, or offers of marriage are well appreciated. Please leave them below. Also anyone who knows how to make pictures work - please get in touch.

Hold on. Whats this?

Radio Shite

Hello people.

Ive always wanted to do more mixes and show people music n shit, so this is a way to, possibly, motivate myself to do just that. Maybe.

I'll be playing all sorts. Probably. And you can forget mixing - takes too damn long. I'm not sure whether to talk yet. It'd be cool to have it as a proper radio show like that but in the end i hate the sound of my own recorded voice. (as opposed to my real voice - in my head).

So I'm off to cook up an hours-worth of music.

Laters.