Splore 2010

w0w Splore 2010 is shaping up to be one hell of a festival. I have never gone before but looking at the line-up so far, I think its time to hunt out my old tent from under the house and get my ass down to Tapapakanga Regional Park.

It's a three day/ two night event and so far the line up looks like this::

Basement Jaxx - DJ Set (UK)
Lupe Fiasco (USA)

Jamie Lidell (UK)
Nickodemus (USA)

Mystro (UK)
d Bridge & Instra:mental present Club Automatic (UK)

The Gaslamp Killer (USA)
Spektrum (UK)

Kid Carpet (UK)
Daniel Haaksman (GER)

10 Sui (UK)
Dub FX (AUS)

Spikey Tee (UK/AUS)
Mikki Dee (IRE)

Sola Rosa
Tahuna Breaks

Minuit
Electric Wire Hustle

Pitch Black
King Kapisi

Nathan Haines
Clap Clap Riot

Zoh Zoh
Olmecha Supreme

Nick D
Philippa

Dubhead
Murray Cammick

 Bobbito Brazuka and Jennifer Zea

Six 60
Easy

The Nukes
Doc Westie

Kidz in Space
North Shore Pony Club

head to the Splore website for more info mofo

tUnE SeleKti0n 27/11/09

hi i play music on radio, 95bFM is the frequency.

this is the selection of musical compositions i chose to play:::

phoenix - love like a sunset (animal collective remix)

david bowie - rebel rebel (soulwax re-edit)

andrew weatherall - let's do the 7 again

zomby - helter skelter

big boi - shine blockas

hot chip - take it in

mike snow - black & blue (caspa remix)

the xx - crystalised

das pop - fool for love (sebAstian remix)

yeah yeah yeahs - heads will roll (a track remix)

peter bjorn & john - it don't move me (mike snow)

nevernudes - grade f meat

islands - vapours

the white stripes - jimmy the exploder

jumbling towers - gilberta

major laser - baby riddim (switch remix)

vampire weekend - cousins

no age - you're a target

atlas sound - shelia

samantha fu - theme from discoteque (mixhell remix)

your twenties - billionaires

radioclit - Secousse (Riva Starr Remix)

basement jaxx - saga

diplo & buraka som sistema - inna de ghetto

busy p - to protect and entertain feat. murs (crookers remix)

SALEM: We Make it Good Mix Series v. 11

i really like the gloomy beats and dark atmospheric sounds of Salem and they've just released a new mixx for Fader. their Water EP is totally wickid and i oftern play When U Sleep and Skull Crush from that release on my radio show. Salem's music sounds best in your bedroom, alone, with dim lighting and a light drizzle outside.. but in a good way if you know what i mean..

Paul Dervo from Mad Decent found a slightly darker place from their sound::

"Pink socks, a dirty mattress, wallpaper peeling off the walls, empty cough syrup bottles, and soiled wall to wall carpeting all come to mind after repeated listens to this new Salem mix".

tracklisting, download link to the mixx and some extra Salem treats through the link::

Sasha's Exploding Rubik’s Cube

Sasha talking to ITM about his up and coming Big Day Out shows:::

“What I’m gonna do at Big Day Out is a real production. I’m working with the design company from Montreal who do the LED light installations for Cirque du Solei, really cutting edge stuff. I’ve worked with them before on a tour in America last year with John Digweed, and we did that on a really tight shoestring. And I went back to them and basically said, if I was to give you an unlimited budget, what could you come up with? And they presented me with this stage production which is just gonna blow people’s heads off, it really is. And the first time anyone is gonna get to see it is in Australia [and New Zealand!!!].”

“It’s constructed out of lots of tiny screens, and the visual content, I’ve seen some of the treatments for it and it already looks stunning. They’re custom building this whole stage in Montreal and then shipping it over. I’ve wanted to do something like this for a while, but it’s just been a matter finding the budget to do it. But Big Day Out came to me with a budget, so I could invest that money back into the show, rather than just turning up and DJing.”

“I’ve always wanted to do something more, and do something different. I’m not the DJ who plays all the big anthem tunes …. What I want to do is have something that is separate from my club shows. So this festival set is gonna be an hour and a half long, the music is going to be linked to the visuals and it’s going to be a whole different experience.”

“You’ve gotta play a big sound if you’re playing to 30,000 people, you’ve gotta come in with a crash-bang-wallop right from the get go.”

FUCK?

around the world

Daft Punk rumoured world tour dates:

07.30 Paris: Le Zénith,

08.01 Amsterdam: Heineken Music Hall

08.03 Munich: Allianz Arena

08.05 Dublin: O2

08.07 Nice: Parc De Sports

08.15 New York: Yankee Stadium

08.22 Sydney: Football Stadium

08.24 Auckland: Vector Arena

08.28 Melbourne: Olympic Park Stadium

09.03 London: Wembley Arena
09.06 Manchester: MEN Arena

you should know that Daft Punk are onboard with the film Tron Legacy and if this sounds good to you, you might wana check these samples/previews from the material they have written:::
Daft Punk - Tron Legacy Theme
Daft Punk - Fragile
Daft Punk - Tron Legacy Theme [Cryda Luv Extended Edit]

S1nD1n intervieW

The Vine is a sweet Australian website which i guess is essentually a commentry on pop culture (good pop culture tho...). they tend to score alot of decent interviews and this is their latest, a disscussion with Sinden - one of my fave dj / producers, who also does an awesome weekley radio show on Kiss FM.

check the full interview through the link::

T()P B()Y

OK OK BANG GANG

to celebrate the release of the Bang Gang 12"s Compilation, Doom and Gus Da Hoodrat are playing at Cassette Number Nine on satnight.

support from:::

Daniel Farley, Cam Roberrtson, Cyril Orson && Meltron

PIG OUT TONIGHT!!!

y00 ! tonight! Pig! OuT!

To get you all super excited about there new single TOP BOY, Pig Out will be playing at Be Club tonight with support from Dick Johnson, Jason Howson ++ more

its only $5 on the door, so no excuses!!

pigOUT

PIGout

T0PB0Y

pIgOuT

PiGoUt

FuCk

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dumb!!

i just read that the Groove Armada Big Day Out side shows in Australia will feature Simian Mobile Disco!! the Auckland Groove Armada side show features Nick D... no disrespect to Mr Dwyer but I've see him DJ and I've seen SMD and there is a bit of a difference between the two in terms if stage presence, material played and genral awesomeness ..

damn! Aussie get to have all the fun

a bit on the side

do you like Groove Armada so much that you'd see them two nights in a row? hate the Big Day Out so much you'd even miss Groove Armada? Can't afford tickets to Big Day Out to see Groove Armada?...

wana see Groove Armada play a full live set in Eden Terrace on 14th January? 

well that is good because they are playing a Big Day Out sideshow at The Powerstation with support from Nick D..

Tickets on sale 30th November from Ticketmaster.

do you like Peaches so much that you'd see her two nights in a row? hate the Big Day Out so much you'd even miss Peaches? Can't afford tickets to Big Day Out to see Peaches?...

wana see Peaches play live in the CBD on 14th January?

well that is good because she is playing a Big Day Out sideshow at The Transmission Room.  

Tickets on sale 13th November from Undertherader.co.nz

Busy P and DJ Mehdi :: BBC Essential Mixxx

sweet, Busy P & DJ Mehdi have just done a mixx for BBC's Radio 1 so you should download it.

the mixx was recorded at the Chibuku party at Warehouse Project in Manchester on November 7th.

we have only got Mehdi's tracklist and you can check that through the link.

i saw them play b2b at Rhythm & Vines last year and it was fuckn' wickid, so im assuming this mixx will be good.

download here

also if your've got some spear cash could you please get Busy P & Mehdi back to NZ?

thanks

these two pics are from R&V 2008/2009.

check more at NeonSleep

S.O.M@Z.E.N

I last saw State Of Mind play at Coherent a couple months ago and it was an epic night of wall to wall drum'n bass. From what I remember, their approach to mixing that night was to cut out the atmospheric breakdowns and just hit it with w2w dnb. Maybe I don’t remember correctly, maybe I was a bit drunk... Either way it was a massive night.

Soo i'm rather excited about this gig on Friday night (20th November) where State Of Mind will be playing live with MC Woody and supported by Sambora and P.Diggs from Shapeshifter, DJ Format and Lophonix.

This will be one of the biggest nights in Auckland for the tail-end of 2009, with State Of Mind flying high off the back of the success of their second album Faster Than Light. To add further catalyst to the night, Shapeshifter released their new album The System Is A Vampire a couple days ago so P.Diggs and Sambora will be hanging to lay down some of their new material. Their new album is really good by the way.

Ok so it’s at Zen on Friday, presales are $20 from Beat Merchants, Real Groovy and Cosmic Corner

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erol alkan

"There's only 100 of these (rare vintage synth) in the world, I bought two and gave the other one to Soulwax”

"When Mixmag named me Best DJ in the World, I was chuffed! But what do you do? You don't go and produce a Mystery Jets album after that, you get a manager and you set up a massive tour around the world for the next 18 months... I went and made a Mystery Jets album"

Tiga

"The highlight (of Parklife Festival in Australia) was living life like a 14 year old stoner at summer camp: me, Erol Alkan, Joakim, Busy P andAeroplane, sitting on park benches, having cop 'lookouts'"
"I am going to India for a few months to chill out and prepare mentally for the storm of activity that will be 2010: start new album, new ZZT project single and album, remixes for Boys Noize, The XX and others, Turbo Tower construction and new studio (no joke), developing the podcasts, a massive Turbo Tour for summer 2010, and my first real mix CD in years"
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interviews are cool and if you read them before your friends, you can act as the guy that knows heaps of interesting shit about sweet electronic artists.
if this sounds like something you would like to be you should read these interviews, cause Erol & Tiga are indeed pretty sweet electronic artists.
oh yeah, click on Erol or Tiga for a link to each interview, oh yeah

WTF? (What The Fuck?)

I don’t understand what’s going down. They (media, press releases etc.) say that the third announcement in October was the final line up for Rhythm and Vines 2009, which makes it a total of 72 artists..

2008's full line up had 115 artists... were is the money for the missing 43 artists going???

Surely there is going to be a 4th announcement. There was last year...

The forth and final announcement for the 2008 festival was on 13th November 2008 (a year ago yesterday) and included big names such as Public Enemy and Ladyhawke, but the supposably third and final announcement for this year was a month ago.

The second Big Day Out announcement for Januarys 2010 festival was on Wednesday this week, so maybe the Rhythm and Vines promoters didn’t want the final line up to be in the same week as a BDO announcement. But still, it has been widely reported that last months announcement was the final..

so yeah, back to the start… what’s going down? Surely if Rhythm and Vines were cutting back by 42 artists for the 2009 festival, they would say so and make our tickets cheaper. Or have they got some massive artists up their sleeve, kinda like how they announced Public Enemy in the final announcement for 2008.

I hope they are sitting on some big names and my pick is that a fourth and final line up will be announced within the next fortnight.

Otherwise I’m gonna be slightly pissed.

Compare the 2008 and 2009 line up after the jump

 

tunE $election 12/11/09

incase you were wondering, these are the tracks i played lastnight on 95bFM

my next show is on nov 27th 7-9pm.

hudson mohawke - velvet peel
washed out - new theory

javis cocker - further complications

the death set - listen to this collision (gloves remix)

vampire weekend - horchata

nevernudes - grade f meat

grinderman - no pussy blues

die! die! die! - auckland is burning

jamie liddel - a little bit more

passion pit - little secrites (hey champ remix)

moderate - rusty nails
joe goddard - sour grapes

girls - summertime

darkstar - andy is a computer

boris dlugosch - bangkok

wu tang clan - sound the horns

the big pink - crystal visions

florence and the machine - you got the love (the xx remix)

roots manuva - awfully deep

the toxic avenger - The Fall (Switch Remix)

state of mind - deadzone (dose remix)

crystal antlers - andrew

Big Day Out 2nd Announcement

Passion Pit, Simian Mobile Disco (DJ), Sasha, Jet, Midnight Youth, Head Like A Hole, Beenie Man, Devendra Banhart, The Veils, Deja Voodoo, Kidz In Space, Cairo Knife Fight, Mountaineater, True Lovers, Tim Phin, Bandicoot, Lord of Tigers, The Silent Disco.

n0t s00 wi1d

Juan MacLean Drummer Jerry Fuchs Has Tragically Died

Jerry Fuchs has tragically died over the weekend in Brooklyn. Fuchs was a renowned drummer, plying this trade to DFA bands !!! and Juan MacLean. On Saturday night he became stuck in an elevator and attempted to climb out. unfortunately his clothing got caught and he fell five stories down the elevator shaft. he was announced dead in the early hours of sunday morning at Bellevue Hospital Center.

XLR8R Top 25 MP3s for October

XLR8R has announced their top MP3's from october aaand they are free. nice aye? XLR8R is one of my fave websites, its essentually a site for their magazine (xlr8r mag) but they do heaps of interviews and have free podcasts and mp3's avalible for us! and even better, the let you download their magazine for free as a PDF file.

click here for the page of mp3free goodness xx

i made this for you..

Ingredients:

Hot chips

Red Chillis

Roses

Lava

Fire

Daft Mauls Eyes
Tomato
& a Strawsberry

R.A Podcast .179

last week it was Fever Ray mixing it up for Resident Advisor, now it's Joe's turn.

his solo album entitled Harvest Festival is about to drop and this mix must be a shot at building some excitment for that.

for me - it's working. i got a copy of his track Sour Grapes off the album and its realy good so i think i might go download this podcast after posting this.

head over to Resident Advisor for an interview with Goddard and a link to the podcast (you need to be logged in to download)

aN0thER D1mENt10n

i thinks it's saying "come here"

dePth MeTal

this starts tomorow at High Seas in the CBD, featuring werks from Daif King. it wont be your typical exhibiting with pretentious snobs holding their chins while staring at 'aRt'. check these pics and you'll know what i mean. head to Daif's blog for more of an insight::

nice!

2bux$ h0tchiPS

some people like to eat their left over hot chip the next day. i think thats gross! they go all soggy in the microwave! I like my hot chip fresh and thats why im totally psssyched to see this on Hot Chip's website::

Hello!

As you may already have heard, we can now reveal some diverting facts.... as events relentlessly continue to unfold inside the confines of Camp Hot Chip, we can reveal some diverting facts and interesting details of our plans for next year. There will be a new album, set for release in February, to warm the cockles of your soul right in the middle of the bleak mid-winter [or keep us rollin' thru the hot hot summer]. We're just completing the finishing touches right now, and we're also gearing up for a return, possibly triumphant, to the live arena, as a UK tour is also in the offing for February [and then auckland??].

If any of that information floats your boat, then you can sign up to pre-order the album, get tickets for the tour and receive a new track here...

All our kindest regards and fond wishes to our fans,

More news on the album, U.S. and European tour dates to follow soon...

tracklisting for 29/10/09

chase & status - pieces feat. plan b
king tutt & scottie b - african chant

raekwon - flying daggers

grizzly bear - while you wait for the others

julian casablancas - 11th dimension

yeah yeah yeahs - Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix)

bad lieutenant - sink or swim

here we go magic - fangela

Florence & The Machine - You Got The Love (The xx Remix)

midnight juggernauts - This New Technology (The Juan Maclean Remix)

andrew weatherall - lets do the 7 again

pictureplane - gothstar

ivansxtc - yesterday

aquasky - Have A Good Time (Sinden & the Count Of Monte Cristal Remix)

hudson mohawke - zoooom

peaches - i feel cream (proxy remix)

black noise - Jackin My Fresh Feat. Lex One

lazer sword - Koopa Boss Mode

The Brown Acid - Try Humanity (Zomby's Vitamin E Remix)

dj mujava - township funk (scream remix)

mike snow - black & blue (tiga remix)

my next show is on 12/11/09 on 95bFM 7pm-9pm