Back to the Lab #3: 24/11/2010

http://www.mixcloud.com/dboon147/bttl-3-24-11-2010/

Strong Arm Steady - 'Two Pistols' ft. Mitchy Slick (from In Search of Stoney Jackson (Stones Throw))

Lindstrom & Christabelle - 'Let It Happen' (from Real Life is No Cool (Smalltown Supersound))

Salem - 'Redlights' (from Salem (Iamsound))

Mordant Music - 'The Hauntological Song' (from Picking O'er the Bones (Mordant Music))

So Percussion & Matmos - 'Cross' (from Treasure State (Cantaloupe Music))

Wyatt/Atzmon/Stephen - 'Laura' (from For the Ghosts Within (Domino))

Evan Caminti - 'Night of the Archon' (from West Winds (Three-Lobed Recordings))

Sun Ra - 'There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of)' (from Lanquidity (Saturn))

"The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the 'state of emergency' in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that accords with this insight. Then we will clearly see that it is our task to bring about a real state of emergency, and this will improve our position in the struggle against fascism [neo-liberalism]. One reason fascism has a chance is that, in the name of progress, its opponents treat it as a historical norm."

--Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History.

Back to the Lab #2: 17/11/2010

http://www.mediafire.com/?mvwr5sewysj3x0h

Swans - 'No Words/No Thoughts' (from My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky (Young God))

Troupe Majidi - 'Khoudrini' (from Ecstatic Music of the Jemaa El-Fna (Sublime Frequencies))

John Cage/Maelstrom Percussion Ensemble - 'Imaginary Landscape No. 4' (from Imaginary Landscapes (HatArt))

Broadcast & the Focus Group - 'Inside Out' (from 'Familiar Shapes and Noises' 7") (Ghost Box))

Philip Jeck - 'The All of Water' (from An Ark For the Listener (Touch))

Autechre - 'd-sho qub' (from Oversteps (Warp))

Jailbreak - 'Sugar Blues' (from The Rocker (Family Vineyard))

Back to the Lab #1: 3/11/2010

http://www.mediafire.com/?xyyivjdl4mzupl4

Oneohtrix Point Never - 'Pelham Island Road' (from Returnal (Editions Mego))

Autre Ne Veut - 'Tell Me' (from Autre Ne Veut (Olde English Spelling Bee))

Matthew Dear - 'Shortwave' (from Black City (Ghostly International))

Matrix Metals - 'Tanning Salon' (from Flamingo Breeze (Olde English Spelling Bee))

The Ex - 'White Liberals' (from 30 (Ex Records))

Chris Abrahams - 'Leiden' (from Play Scar (Room40))

Pan Sonic - 'Radio Qurghonteppa' (from Gravitoni (Blast First))

Dillinger Escape Plan - 'Farewell, Mona Lisa' (from Option Paralysis (Party Smasher/Season of Mist)

Black Breath - 'Wewhocannotbenamed' (from Heavy Breathing (Southern Lord))

Oneohtrix Point Never/Antony - 'Returnal (Fennesz remix)' (from 'Returnal' 7" (Editions Mego))

...a public sphere

An accurate portrait of the author.

Apologies for the blogging interruption - going back to university is unkind on one's time-richness. On which note, this post is also inform the public that I now have a weekly show on the student radio station - called Back to the Lab (ho ho ho) it covers 'experimental' music (whatever that's supposed to mean). It's broadcast on Wednesday mornings, 8-9am, on RaW 1251AM (on Warwick campus) and streaming at the station's website: http://www.radio.warwick.ac.uk/listen/. Playlists will be posted here every week, and, once I've figured out how, there will be a downloadable version posted along with them. So, um, listen please!