Hey, just wanted to say that the Ritchie and Magda show last night here
in DC went really well. We don't get to see either of these two around
here very often (I think the last time Ritchie played here was like 3
years ago), so this was a real treat for us. You detroiters get spoiled
with the
For the Chicago list membersThere's a free screening of High Tech
Soul downtown on Wednesday, followed by a panel discussion on Thursday
followed by a good night of music at Smartbar. Sounds like fun! If
you missed the movie, it's a great chance to check it out, and the
panel should be
As previously mentioned:
Herbert - Let's all make mistakes
no comments necessary, pure gold.
Last few years:
Adam X - On the One and Two (instinct records)
Mix cd, always enjoyed it. Runs a nice spectrum from Saunderson to
Chicks on Speed to Front 242. Lots of fun.
If anyone is feeling like a good samaritan, I'm looking for a few
track IDs off of two recorded Clark Warner sets from the Paxahau real
audio archives. (www.paxahau.com/node (archives) )
50 techno cool points and my thanks to anyone who can ID a few of
these for me :)
-Clark Warner 09-03-06 @
Kind of a random question:
I'm wondering if anyone happens to know who was hired to do the visuals
around the Heart Plaza bowl for some of the early DEMF's? Memory is a bit
hazy as to the specific year but I'd be looking for the production crews
that did any of the festivals between 2001-2004.
underground event on
Sunday (let's hope so, those have been quite memorable in 2001,2002,
ect).
I hear rumors of a Kenny Dixon Rollerskating party, and Theo Parrish
and Larry Hurt playing together somewhere. Sounds interesting. What
have you all been hearing?
-Arturo Lopez
Hello,
If anyone is bored and wants to help me out, I'm trying to identify a
few tracks off of the paxahau set archives. (www.paxahau.com/node)
1. Jimmy Edgar's set dated 8-9-03, roughly 13:00 min into the set.
2. Drew Maddox, 10-30-03, roughly from 5:00 min to 10:00 min into the set.
That,
http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF284632-01-01-01.mp3
Is Houle being serious here? It's like being meta-jaded, I can't
possibly wrap my head around this kind of thing. It's like making fun
of yourself for making fun of yourself, and then laughing at everyone
else for listening to you do it. Or making a
this for us?
Obviously the focus should always be on the ends (good music) and not
the means (how much $$ am I getting for it), but this seems like an
interesting topic to me
-Arturo Lopez-
and
make some more!
-Arturo Lopez
It's always mixed emotions when the lineups are announced; you have to
balance the excitement of the sprinkled musical gems with the what
were they thinking?, just like most other years. I think we just
have to accept we aren't going to have the sort of festival the first
few years were anymore,
I agree with Mike and Tom.
Perhaps someone could tell me: How does the festival in it's current
incarnation reflect/celebrate the city and culture it is/was supposed
to represent?
If the current idea is just to fill up the place, then these bookings
make plenty of sense. If they are actually
sounds to me like Detroiter's in 1992 were supportive of Moby... the
crowd was shakin it too... lol...
True, but I think that was before Moby started his I'm a Rock Star
thing and started singing in front of a band with Gwen Stefani. :)
Still, I can honestly say I hope he brings it come May.
Hats off to Detroit. It was kind of a bust here in Chicago; there were
just too many tall buildings fully lit up for it to amount to much.
Although on my side of the Sear's Tower, there was just -one- light on
half way up the building, probably some poor bastard still stuck at
the office at 9pm.
I guess instead of some drunk fool accidentally bumping the tables and
skipping the record now we'll get some drunk fool knocking the blocks
over : )
Would be very interesting if the blocks were each custom and could be
write-only to a certain set of sounds or a particular instrument.
Would make
Boogybytes Vol 4.
I found a couple tracks interesting but the majority was pretty
boring. Didn't really -go- anywhere, just the standard berlin
plodding along until the mix runs out. Seemed like a lot of missed
opportunities in there to take it up a notch, but perhaps that's
hoping for too much
With all the arguably justifiable Moby hating going on, was curious if
anyone had actually listened to his new album and had any thoughts.
Just gave it a quick run through, sounds par for the course to me.
It's pitch-perfect for a 1994 Moby album, ie: it's terrible. Lots of
piano rolls and
I think I'll give it another listen and see if I feel differently.
All that echo-y german at the beginning just sounded entirely too much
like one of Miss Kitten's solo albums I didn't like (I Com) and it
probably started me off on the wrong foot.
As this seems to have transformed into the
From DufDuf:
ie. minimal is a technique like dub is a technique
Disagree. Dub is a genre, Minimal is a genre. Rhythm Sound does not
sound like Magda. Yes these things exist along a continuum of sound,
but are certainly at fairly distinct ends, with rather pronounced
sound differences,
To balance out some of my recent negativity, I'll link to some of my
favorite all-time music, ever.
http://www.sonicsunset.com/
For those of you who aren't familiar, Sonic Sunset was a long-running
radio show here in Chicago that featured some amazing music for many
years.
Expect deep new
Good points, Kw.
I guess I was focusing more on the classification stuff. You are
certainly right about those words being used to describe an approach
to production. I guess I'm also drawing my own imaginary line between
the sort of disciplined minimal approach t o production you describe
versus
It's hit or miss, but like Matt said, other people remixing his music
is usually quite good. Check out the Alaska remixes by Surgeon and
Substance, good stuff. That Surgeon remix is such a mean tune.
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=24374
Linear Atomium Reminiscence (try saying that three
Two things:
I'm not familiar with Shawn Michaels, anyone got the skinny on him?
Although for a hilarious bit of comedy put that into discogs and you
get this: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Shawn+Michaels
Looks like we're getting the Pro-Wrestler! Maybe he'll wrestle a
Magda/Moby tag team in a
Dr. Jekyl Comment: That's terrible! I think we'd all be pretty damn
upset if we lost a crate of our favorite records.
Mr. Hyde Comment: Now that his digital stuff is gone does that mean
we have to suffer through more of his shitty live band?
-Arturo
Tristan, wasn't that at one of Ilya's house parties like 8 years ago
back in Maryland? I think I was at that one, but then again that house
seemed to attract fools like flies to honey, so it could have been any
kickdrum party..
-Arturo
I was DJing at a house party when a totally wrecked raver
Damnit! Going to be out of town this weekend, but that sounds like a
hell of a good time for us in Chicago. He was here last year,
SmartBar I think, and it turned out to be a lot of fun.
Hats off to anyone going, enjoy it! Try and send a review if any of
you make it, por favor.
-Arturo
Well that's techno strikes 2 and 3 for me in one weekend,
damnmissing all kinds of stuff... The Music Fates certainly do
have a cruel sense of humor sometimes.
-Arturo
Speaking of which, Dan Bell will be at SmartBar (Chicago) Friday, and
Akufen will be at the SPRUNG party on Saturday.
So, we all know most of the good stuff goes on -after- the Plaza empties out.
What's on the radar for afterparties this year? Anyone hear of
anything interesting yet? I know there is usually a comprehensive list
that is compiled, just curious if there are any standouts people have
heard about so
the sweeping and cleaning is the best part of the festival?
dear oh dear
;-)
MEK
Arturo Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/25/2008 08:42:37 AM:
So, we all know most of the good stuff goes on -after- the Plaza empties
out.
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What do you people think about Hawtin's approach to music? I'm calling
it hypersampling. So we're on the same page, I'm talking about taking
snippets and loops from a wide library of pre-existing music, and then
inserting those little snippets into a dj set via the current software
of choice. I
I'll throw out a few venues for music-related interests. I'm not cool
enough to know what's going on anymore but I used to spend time at the
following places. Each of the venues can run a wide spectrum from
really good techno on one hand to James Zabiela on the other, so you
should check to see
Thanks for the heads up!
Was on the crew for a party that booked him in...2001 I think. Very good music.
A perfect example of someone doing exceptional live work that is more
based on his own productions, and not a lot of borrowed samples. This
would probably be the other end of the spectrum
I think it only took only 3 pages on that website before they tried to
sell you something. BUY NOW!!! The exclusive membership card or
whatever. I really think they should just cut to the chase and start
doing infomercials.
And if you call in the next 30 minutes, we'll throw in your very own
Sorry for the spam if you are not living in the area. This should be
some serious jack-house/acid stuff so I expect a good time!
-Arturo
Fri.09.MAY.2008 - CHICAGO
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Agree with Kent on this. Reminds me of the 2000 electroclash
invasion, which I was (and am) still a complete sucker for. Can be
lots of fun in finite doses.
What I'm wondering isdoes the music sound that way because she
looks like she's a member of ladytron? Or does she look that way
Are those guys doing a party this year? I remember one they did way
back in the middle of nowhere being a really good timeJust trying
to get my afterparty schedule all figured out... ;)
-Arturo
There we go! Looks like I've got somewhere I need to be after I get my
skate on for a few hours :)
They get bonus points if they actually do play any Adonis during the
party...I slipped it in for a house party a few weeks ago and people
still love it!
-Arturo
i do not think one is
The original two members of Kraftwerk, Florian Schneider-Esleben and
Ralf Hütter split the last one. Juan and Kevin and Derrick might have
had had some difficulty without the Germans.
-Arturo
1. It's a stupid argument, I was just giving a little shout-out to ze
germans, wasn't trying to kick over a bee hive.
2. Since I originated this argument (on this latest occasion), my 2 cents:
It's easy to come up with a lot of techno heavyweights who were
influenced by Kraftwerk, we can all
Please take full advantage of our terrible (but good for you Brits)
current exchange rates. :)
-Arturo
It will be nice to put some faces to some names if anyone wants to say
hi during the weekend. Say hi, or get drunk and listen to techno.
I'll be the white kid with nerd-glass and the black DEMF jacket if
anyone wants to say hi. On second thought, that probably describes a
lot of people on this
New Sonic Sunset Mix on their website, apparently they will be putting
out several in the next few weeks to make up for all the lag time, in
addition a new web site as well.
http://www.sonicsunset.com/
I've been having problems with the DL, but perhaps that's just me.
Sweet remix of Midas Touch
So... is the show back on the air?
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Arturo Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
New Sonic Sunset Mix on their website, apparently they will be putting
out several in the next few weeks to make up for all the lag time, in
addition a new web site as well.
http
Afterparty Notes:
Saturday:
Soul Skate - Skating is hard after a whole day of dancing, I spent
most of the time just trying not to fall on my butt. Fun atmosphere,
seemed like the crowd was mostly locals, which we all liked. Only
downside was the sheer distance from the festival, and the
Overall I put this on par with the last few years. Some moments of
exceptional music but I wasn't really blown away by very much at the
festival over three whole days.
a few thoughts:
-Newcleus was a -hell- of a good time
-Cobblestone Jazz was great
-I like Kill Memory Crash better without the
I think most of their stuff is up on Beatport now as well, although I
don't know how I feel about giving beatport my money...I'd prefer the
vinyl. But anyway, must owns for everyone!
-Arturo
RS has reissued loads of 90's stuff. Most people have probably got most
of this material but if you
Hey everyone,
Been a while since I've posted...but there's a new sonic sunset mix
out, and they just re-did the whole website. Check it out here:
http://sonicsunset.com/
-Arturo
Has Ghostly/Spectral Sound put out anything interesting lately?
They've dropped off my radar over the last few years, I was curious if
anyone on here is still picking up their releases. The first few years
of the label I thought the quality of music was quite good, I wonder
if it has been
Thanks for the suggestions!
2AM/FM: I picked up the first release and was very impressed.
Everything that Mullinix puts out under various names has been just
great. Dabrye/Cotton/etc. I love putting some of those records on
when I'm playing at a house party, although I usually find the more
It's a tough discussion, and I'm still wrestling with my opinions.
On one hand, I respect anyone trying to make a living making music.
It's a tough road (especially for electronic music), and having your
property stolen (downloaded for free) when you need it to pay bills is
a bitter pill to deal
Hell ya! As a big fan of sonic sunset I'm excited to hear music from
Siska. I'll probably be drinking next door at the Gingerman before the
show (one of the few bars worth your time in that neighborhood). I
live a few blocks from Smartbar so hopefully I'll check it out. Maybe
I'll throw on my
I think this was back when MTV had a sliver of interesting programming
on for a few hours in the middle of the night. Aeon Flux, Liquid
Television, Amp, etc. If I remember right, the show focused primarily
on UK acts though, as this was part of the electronica british
invasion in the late 90's.
Yep, it had some good UK stuff on there. I remeber Aphex Twin and Orbital on
there quite a bit. What really blew me away was when I caught DHS's House of
God.
You mean this one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVRPEDOVJzk
There's a version out there with the Bill Clinton samples It's
I've got a nice digital copy of the 2003 bootleg Esper Edtion which
puts together a rather complete version of all the music, a good 33
tracks in all. I don't share my stuff on any of the file-sharing
networks, but if anyone wants this let me know, maybe I can put this
up on one of those public
I can't get past the overused vocoder. I'm really sick of every
rapper nowadays using them, all the time. I never really liked top 40
rap, but the last few years seem especially atrocious as far as
mainstream stuff goes. I think there must have been a fire sale at
the vocoder shop this year,
Cheese from Metro Area? Perish the thought :)
I thought that's what everyone liked about them, it's cheese you can
enjoy and not feel bad about.
-Arturo
I like the Metro Area Fabric mix. It has some cheesy talking from Morgan
Darshan at he beginning of the mix which is unnecessary, but the
I certainly think he's a talented lyricist at least, maybe that's why
I expect more. I actually -really- dug the aesthetics of the last
tour, I thought it looked quite badass
http://www.vh1.com/shared/promoimages/news/g/grammys_2008/show/kanye_west/281x211.jpg
In what ways do you think hip hop producers have pushed technology
forward lately? I don't think they've pushed that much on anything
for the last twenty years or so. I think a majority of popular hip
hop over the last few decades have just been a series of funk and soul
samples cut up for pop
New Sonic Sunset mix, if you are a fan of the type of sounds they put together.
The 1st half didn't quite grab me like most of their stuff does, but I
found the 2nd half to be great. There was some talk of cheese on here
earlier with regards to Metro Area, so you'll be happy to see some
Morgan
That's simplifying things. My comments were said that sampling and
adding some rhymes didn't constitute pushing things in new directions.
I enjoy a lot of that stuff quite a bit, but it's popcorn. There's
nothing -wrong- with popcorn, and I like a lot of music that has no
aims except to
no worries JT, it's always hard to tell tone on email :)
at the end of the day, we can argue about semantics. and just argue
and get nowhea
Isn't that kinda what we do here? hehe.
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:51 PM, JT Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...but in general, yes, most sampling does
I agree, that's why I dig on Junior Boys, Morgan G, Kelley Polar, etc.
Everything in moderation, however
Beneath every jaded techno-snot is a cheese aficionado just looking
for an excuse to break it out
-Arturo.
PS Cheese and Metro Area. Cheesy music is just emotionally effective
music
FYI, Mr. Mills will be playing at Smart Bar this Friday. Should be good times.
-Arturo
JEFF MILLS (axis)
KARL P. MEIER (subsystence, img, remnant)
TYREL WILLIAMS (gramaphone)
$15 before midnight
I'll def check out Karl, I've heard good things but am not familiar
with his music.
On a side note, any of you other Chicago locals know of any good
weekly/monthly nights going on lately? I don't mean anything too
clubby, but a local bar that has a good recurring music night would be
nice. One
be something in the Off-Site section of The Loop on dluv:
http://www.detroitluv.com/index.php?board=25.0
speaking of chicago, the giannelli (the kooky scientist) is playing NYE in
chicago:
http://www.detroitluv.com/index.php?topic=50214.0
- Original Message - From: Arturo Lopez
Mills starting off early with some Rob Hood minus, seemed like a good start ;)
I likes my techno with a little bit of melody so Meier's set wasn't
quite for me; seemed most of his material was of that stripped down
drum-as-melody variety. Every once and a while I'd catch something I
was really
Small world, eh?
-Art
I've been way out of the loop. I barely bought anything new, stuck to
old stuff for the most part. Links to short audio samples provided, if
anyone is bored and wants to listen. Isn't the internet great?
2008 Releases:
1. James T Cotton - Like No One http://ghostly.com/releases/like-no-one
(Been
That's good stuff today, with all the snow floating around. Thanks.
-Arturo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eTjRLPvHTM;
Did anyone in Chicago catch the free screening of Friday? I completely
spaced out (hah) and forgot when it was, also missed Los Hermanos.
Anyone here attend one or both and have comments?
Also has anyone else seen X-102? Techno and Astronomy in short film
format sounds like a winning formula to
As a Luddite vinyl-only player, I have a software question. Here's the
situation:
I'm putting together a mix that I plan on recording to my computer
from my turntables, but I've got a few digital songs I'd like to
include in the mix. What are some good options for splicing a digital
track into a
Thanks for all the suggestions, it looks like I've got plenty of
options. I'll make sure to post a link eventually and you can check
out the hack-job : )
-Arturo
.awesome!
Time to go buy some wet-suits for all my lady friends and get ahead of
the fashion trend :)
-Arturo
There's something about that old video aesthetic that I always love
though. Something about the grainy video quality that I always really
like, no matter what the subject is. I
Remember how awesome that project was?
I Just came across this today:
http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/341037-01.htm
I don't think anything from that album really needed a remix
-Arturo
Nice new mix from Mr. Maqueen. If you are a fan of the series, he's
the host that leans more towards old soul and funk, broad spectrum
sorts of sounds.
-Arturo
--
Sonic Sunset
March 2009: Night Shift
Download at http://sonicsunset.com
Matt takes a 2+ hour journey from chilled post-punk,
Great stuff Tristan. I'm still going through and putting some of the
ID's with the music, will definitely be picking a couple of these
tracks up.
-Arturo
I did a new mix today. It's a one-off, clocking in at just under two
and a half hours. Probably 50% house, 50% other. I've only listened to
Always a fan of that sound, and nice to hear a classics mix that
steers clear of most of the standard go-to tracks. One of the nice
things about a lot of things from that genre is that they get
re-pressed pretty frequently, I just picked up a nice 'best of mr.
fingers' last year with a couple of
Tonight at Smart Bar! $15
http://www.metrochicago.com/shows/index.html#juniorboys
2006's So This is Goodbye is one of my favorite albums, this should be great.
-Arturo
Looks like some promising stuff on there. I hate on Minus stuff a
lot but Clark Warner does some really choice ambient/downtempo sets,
(at least the ones I've heard on the old paxahau archives) would have
liked to check that out. I'm pretty upset that I can't make it this
year (I'm moving a few
This is not a snarky question, I'm just curious what that actually
means in these modern times of ableton live? Looking at the Demf
lineup I saw plenty of (live) next to some names, and I'm wondering if
that really has much meaning anymore? As more and more people are
switching to laptops with
I'm out this year. I've only missed a couple of festivals so this is
not my first choice. Looks like a decent lineup (with the usual
nonsense of course).
Got laid off recently so money is tight. Not a lot of room for
architects in Chicago at the moment what with the housing market
completely
So what's the verdict this year? Should I be kicking myself for
missing an incredible few days or did I dodge a mediocre festival
bullet? Def in for next year though.
-Art
Adam X - On the One and Two : Covers a lot of years and a pretty good
range. It is pretty dark, though, so lots of grit and industrial
sounds and some NY techno. I can't take too much of that stuff anymore
but every once and a while it really hits the spot. Some good wonky
stuff out of left field
Was wondering if anyone out there had any experience running any music
applications on a netbook? Seems like it might be a nice/cheap
solution for running ableton/serato/whatever and quite a bit more
portable than a larger laptop. Concerned a bit weather a $250 netbook
has a beefy enough
Thanks for all the suggestions! Looks like some of you have been
bogged down by slower machines, good to know. It does seem like a
'regular' laptop is probably a better choice, at least for HD space
and processing power, and not much additional cost. I'm a PC guy
(won't get into the mac debate
Eventually I'm going to netcast live mixes to some of my friends; I'm
looking for the best (and hopefully cheapest) ways to do this.
Hosting a pre-recorded music file is no problem, I've got web space
and can link someone to that easily, as I see a lot of you do for your
sets. It's the live
Here it is. The first suggestion was part 1 of the show, the track
you are looking for starts out part 2 (n.y.c. peech boys – dance
sister [biofeedback] (island) 1983
http://sonicsunset.org/ci_20070708_dave.mp3
-Art
I will be purchasing either Serato Scratch or Traktor Scratch in a few
months along with a Windows 7 laptop. I'm going to be getting some
hands-on time with both over the next few weeks, but wanted to see if
anyone has some strong opinions, or things I should look for in
particular. I've heard
Mark Alor Powell takes the cake for showing actual, breathing people
living their lives, and not just ruined buildings like we so often
see. Beautiful exhibit, beautiful body of work. Looking at the photos
as a whole, though, you do get some of the synthesis you were talking
about... unfortunately
Thanks everyone for all the great opinions, very helpful.
David, please let me know how windows 7 keeps up with Serato. I'm
guessing this is the final release candidate, right?
-Art
Not techno, but for fans of early dance music sounds, these two will
be playing in Chi on Saturday. I've never seen them live, so I'm not
sure if they are sticking to the old stuff or not but this might
be interesting. Here's hoping we get some sweet WBMX action.
-Art
Yea, interesting point of view. Sounds like he's burnt out I suppose.
I don't blame him. There's always that difference between people
putting all their chips in trying to make a living doing this (and
scraping by) and people doing it on the side.
PS Picked up his Mood Organ a while back on
Yea, now I look and act like a trance DJ; I just stare blankly at the
bpm's in Serato, cue them all up, and then go make a sandwich between
mixes. hehe.
Sarcasm aside, I could see how the system could be a huge crutch if
this is what someone learns to mix on. There is already a huge
temptation to
This looks quite good. Definitely a buy, although 45 BP for the 4LP is
a painful conversion for U.S. $ folks.
-Art
Interesting. Reminds me of this one time I went fishing and caught a
fish ths big.
-Art
Hoo boy!
http://www.bleep43.com/bleep43/2009/10/4/juan-atkins-interview-part-one.html
Comments from Todd Johnson of Direct Drive, Delano Smith, Theresa
Hill, Al Ester, and Mike Clark.
Apparently
http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n8/htdocs/something-something-something-detroit-994.php?page=1
Very funny article about Detroit ruin porn and all the cleverly
cropped photos to make everything look depressing when outside
journalists come to the city.
I loved the line about a bunch of “Billyburg
every year, to me anyway ..
-Original Message-
From: Robert Taylor [mailto:rdtay...@channel4.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 4:13 PM
To: kent williams; Arturo Lopez
Cc: Three-One-Three
Subject: RE: (313) OT: Nice article about the current state of journalism
about the D
For those not on that mailing list. New mix out from Sonic Sunset.
Pretty good so far, staying at the deep end of the pool for the most
part.
http://sonicsunset.com/
-Art
Been getting some bounce-backs last few items I tried to post
For you gmail users, google docs is rolling out the ability to send
files up to 250 mb which is, frankly, awesome. I know there's a lot of
other services (u-sendit), that do similar, but for people trying to
move long dj sets around, etc, this will be a great feature.
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