Aphex Twin face mapping

Aphex Twin used live facial recognition to map the audience and overlay images of his trademark fucked up face  at the London Electronic Festival (LED) this weekend. So cool man. And the tunes sound pretty special too. . . .




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Voodoo Beach Party on the Planet of the Cannibal She-Wolf

Here is a mix of garage, surf, trash, exotica, freakbeat, soul and whatever else, with a kitschy b movie vibe running through it . . .It’s the kind of music you can hear at my favourite club here in Perth, Deville’s pad, which is not only kitted out in the coolest possible manner with go go dancers and regular good surf bands, but it has my favourite rule of any club so far – It’s over 25s only. Therefore it’s not full of the wank off students who would love it probably even more than I do. It’s apparently owned by the same people who run the famous ‘Las Vegas Grind’ night in Vegas, and the even more famous series of compilation records of the same name. I might be having my wedding reception there . . .

Anyway, here is the mix, I’ve called it ‘Voodoo beach party on the planet of the cannibal she-wolf’ in keeping with the Devilles pad aesthetic, hope you enjoy . . .

 Download - Voodoo Beach Party on the Planet of the Cannibal She-Wolf

Tracklist

'Dare The Devil' Movie Trailer

Cannibal Love - B.D Kay and the Rollercoaster

Voodoo Doll - Glen and Glenda

I am the Wolfman - The Staggers

It's a Mummy ! - The Chimps

Satan's Holiday - The Lancasters

St Tropez - Brigit Bardot

Gammera - The Moons

Jack The Ripper - Link Wray and his Wray- Men

Let it out (Let it all hang out) - The Hombres

The Whip - The Originals

Tequila - The Champs

Rusty Nail - The Tiki Tones

Revenge - The Ray McVay Sound

Slave of Desire - TheNew Dawn

Vampiro - Satan's Pilgrims

Little Demon - Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Go Go Gorilla - The Ideals

'The Crawling Thing' Movie Trailer

Don't Monkey with Tarzan - Laika & the Cosmonauts

Crossfire - Johnny and the Hurricanes

Knock on Wood - The Rivieres

Telstar - Laika & the Cosmonauts

'Bummer' Movie Trailer

Vinyl Solution

Jason Leach of Subhead has started a company that will press your ashes into a vinyl record once you die.

You can get up to 30 discs, about 12 minutes each side for 2 grand.500 quid deposit, the rest on delivery so you have to sign something that gives them the money when you die.

 If you really want to be buried, you can just get a particular body part cremated and they'll use that.

fuckin amazin. check it out

http://www.andvinyly.com/

What would you have on it? Sid Vicious' 'My Way'?, Thriller?, Roy Chubby Brown? maybe a derek and clive sketch. Or a locked groove of me farting or saying 'shiteshiteshite' or something daft. Or maybe a touching recorded message to my daughter. Nah, farts it is.

Warm and banging

Currently listening to an absolute stinker of a mix by the ever-excellent Mark Broom from the Bodytonic site. It's got that mid-evening pure humping main room sound to it, like you're inside a very funky factory going at peak production. There's also a good interview with him - get it here.

This follows on from another rather tasty acid mix of his I got earlier in the week. It is available here.

He's doing a fair amount of promo at the minute cos he's got a new album coming out soon, his first in 15 years or something. More details on his MySpace, including a link to preview the album.

Good to see the old school techno heads coming back up out of the woodwork, now that the mnml fashionistas have moved on to whatever the new cool thing is. Charles Siegling was talking some good sense along those lines in his recent Bodytonic interview, with accompanying mix too. Wasn't as interested in the mix as what he was saying to be honest, but there ye are.

Velvet Underground Bootlegs

Just absolutely wet masel after discovering this blog which has over 150 Velvet Underground bootleg recordings in full lossless audio. Collecting all of these looks like a life long labour of love for this gentleman and all I can say is thank you for putting it out there.

get stuck into it here

check it out, Velvet Underground Ludo

Lost Jazz Treasures salvaged

I love this story from the New York Times, about a huge collection of old live Jazz recordings which have been gathering dust for 70 years but might now be heard once again. Back in the day, 78 rpm records were all that people could bring out and consequently all the classic old Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong and Cab Calloway tracks are three to four minutes long cos that's all you could get on one side of a 78. Of course, live jazz is the best jazz and all of those artists played far more creative and intense music when they played live, which at the time could only be heard either actually live, or on the radio.

Fortunately for the world, an eccentric audio engineer called William Savory, one of the few people at the time with access to aluminium and acetate record making equipment, made tons of recordings of live jazz from the radio, and then jealously guarded them till his death. Now a museum has bought and lovingly restored them so we are going to get to hear them.

Apparently you can hear the great musicians experimenting with new sounds and forms well before anyone could convince a studio to take a chance on new sounding records,

One notable example is a stunning six-minute Coleman Hawkins performance of “Body and Soul” from the spring of 1940; in it this saxophonist plays a five-chorus solo even more adventurous than the renowned two-chorus foray on his original version of the song, recorded in the fall of 1939. By the last chorus, he has drifted into uncharted territory, playing in a modal style that would become popular only when Miles Davis recorded “Kind of Blue” in 1959.

Amazing. Canny wait to hear that shit.

Los Tentakills

Nice wee mix site

Came across this little belter the other day (big ups to Mr 'Avant Radge' Tomlinson for that one). Funny I had a few fullbozman mixes already but had never been on the actual site. It's a right little treasure trove I tell thee.

http://www.fullbozman.com

if you system is whack then you should hear

An Invitation to Love

Check out what a gwan this weekend in Leeds:  firewalkwithme.co.uk

That Thomas Truax guy that Tulley posted about a while back is playing.

Andy Blake

Been listening to this mix repeatedly of late, really groovy infectious wee acidic housey techno number. To quote the man himself...

"playing and experimenting with a range of percussive, rhythmic styles and notions of minimalism, and creating a raw, tribal vibe without resorting to the clichéd musical definitions of ‘minimal’ or ‘tribal’. For me, both minimalism and tribalism are hugely important in terms of club music and the dancefloor and are far far bigger than any narrow musical style or definition of a genre.”

Quite.

Get it here: factmag.com/2010/07/09/fact-mix-165-andy-blake

Knights of the New Crusade

Something a bot different on punk legend Jello Biafra's 'alternative tentacles' label, these dudes dress up as crusaders and sing kicking garage rock songs about being christian fundamentalists. I really like them.

William Orca- Hyetal

I know nothing about this character and im only posting it because its great.

Hyetal - Phoenix - 002 by william orca

I will write more words next time because to be honest im sick of the english language just now.