Category: music

A slightly old interview I missed with Patrick Wacher of Southern Outpost.

Javier Drada – Deep House Session 1.37

1. Rick Wade – Night Station – Music Is
2. DJ Pope – Running Wild – Trackmode (TM049)
3. Audiomontage – The Darkness – Freerange
4. Gate-Ah – The Shelter (Underground Committee Edit) – Shelter
5. Glenn Underground – Silent Cry (Euphoria Moog Mix) – Trackmode (TM042)
6. Abicah Soul – Chukie’s Turn – Jellybean
7. Jaque – Keys of Life (Underground Collective Vocal Mix) – Jellybean
8. Kai Alce and Ron Trent – Sa K’ Pase – Trackmode (TM051)
9. Pascal Rioux feat. Mr. Day – Golden Days (Main Mix) – Rotax

This mix includes a cut from the new Rick Wade EP due out April ’04 on Music Is UK, also included is the upcoming Trackmode release of Kai Alce and Ron Trent (TM051) Due out March ’04.

Also worth checking out is a Trax Records mix over at Acid Mixes with tracks by artists such as Adonis, Phuture, Virgo, and Jungle Wonz.

OK, so its not enough that Patrick is playing at High Jinks, but those crazy Popfrenzy kids (who I’ve heard are really bad spellers, or perhaps speelers 😉 ) are also kicking it on Saturday night for their Valentine’s Recess at the Metro Transit Lounge. DJ’s on the night are Cherry Phosphate, Jinx, Sloane, Enari, Tantric Robot, Smith, Sundance Kid.

A message from Cherry Phosphate:
According to the legend, if a woman saw a robin flying overhead on Valentine’s Day, it meant she would marry a sailor. If she saw a sparrow, she would marry a pauper but live happily ever after. If she saw a goldfinch, she would be-wed a millionaire. Hmm.

Girls, you can stop craning your necks. This year, Popfrenzy has made it sooooooooo easy for you so you won’t NEED to know what a bloody goldfinch looks like. If you attend a very special Valentine’s Recess at the Metro Transit Lounge from 9pm-3am you’ll find yourself with or without your heart on your sleeve, secretly swooning along to the finest tunes played by Popfrenzy’s finest Dj’s. Boys, start shining your cufflinks; you’ll need to see your faces in them. All singles will go home with a mystery Valentine’s day Card either clenched in their fist, throbbing in their back pocket or delicately tucked beneath a bra strap. Of course, couples will receive a complementary (on da house!) champagne cocktail and enter the draw for a weekend whisked away.

The icing on the cake is that it’s free before 10pm! 5 bucks afterwards till 3am. Geez, if that’s not enough to stick more goober in your hair, sappy Valentines Day films will be screened so you can steal your witty one liners and cheese ball charm from there.

Patrick HAF is playing at the Sly Fox in Enmore this Saturday night with the High-Jinks crew for a bit of techno and electro action. He says you should come down and that he is playing from 11.30pm – 1am. Other dj’s on the night are Ume (FBi 94.5), Topher, Some Freak and Se�or Spitch. Also if you get down there early, Patrick HAF will be holding a kissing stall to raise money for a good cause (a few vodka, lemon, limes). $1 or $3 for some tongue action. Young boys preferred 😉 (you’d better watch out Phil!)

It’s true. For some time now, High-Jinks has been admiring you from afar. It’s fair to say that High-Jinks has been harbouring a crush on you. On the most romantic night of the year, the time has come to state the gloriously inevitable:

HIGH-JINKS LOVES YOU!!!

Les gigolos Topher, Spitch et Freak vous aime.

Les m�lomanes Patrick HAF et Ume vous aime.

Tout le monde vous aime!

We guarantee that your stay with us will be soundtracked by the finest, soulfulest, lovingest electronica known to man. The cockatails will flow often and cheaply ($6 between 7 and 9). For people involved in love triangles, our free pool table offers an inexpensive and bloodless way of resolving trysts. After all, High-Jinks loves you.

Tranzfusion has a a rather politically vocal interview with Derrick May.

At some place called Indio in California (excuse the ignorance) there is a festival called the Coachella Valley Music Festival. All I know about it is that it has an absolutely dizzying array of amazing artists. Check this list out for size.

Saturday: Radiohead, The Pixies, Kraftwerk, Wilco, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, The Rapture, Desert Sessions, Laurent Garnier, Hieroglyphics, Kinky, Stereolab, Future Sound of London, And you will know us by The Trail of Dead, Peretz, Death Cab for Cutie, Sparta, LCD Soundsystem, Living Legends, Sander Kleinenberg, The Black Keys, The Sounds, Howie Day, Junior Senior, Mark Farina, Moving Units, Sahara Hotnights, Electric Six, The Stills, Seb Fontaine, 22-20’s, Da Lata, Juana Molina, Phantom Planet, Mindless Self Indulgence, Dios, Jem, Q and not U, stellastarr*, Erase Errata, The Section Quartet, DJ Icon.

Sunday: The Cure, The Flaming Lips, Air, Belle & Sebastian, Basement Jaxx, Paul Van Dyk, Bright Eyes, Atmosphere, Thursday, BRMC, Cursive, Le Tigre, The Crystal Method, Dizzee Rascal, Adam Freeland, Mogwai, Ash, 2many Dj’s, Muse, Sidestepper, Donald Glaude, Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, The Thrills, Broken Social Scene, Richard Fearless, The Sleepy Jackson, Ferry Corsten, Prefuse 73, !!!, The Cooper Temple Clause, Sage Francis, T. Raumschmiere, The Killers, Home Town Hero, The Section Quartet.

I went with Benn, Kellie (thanks heaps for the +1’s guys!) and Rozie down to the Chinese Laundry to check out the Bugz in the Attic again on Saturday night since I enjoyed them so much at the Good Vibration Festival. I really enjoyed their set. A darker, more techier set of broken beats, compared to the jazzier, “greatest hits” of broken beat that they delivered at GVF (not that there’s anything wrong with that, just different). The night was made a bit less enjoyable due to the stinking heat and humidity, the punters chucking up in the corner of the club while I was having a sit and cool down (the toilets were just around the corner), the sweaty gurn apes who got crabby when I didn’t want a festy, sweaty gurner hug, feeling like I was about to fall over from being so tired and the scraggy girls dancing with their shoes off (yeeck, the Laundry it the last place I’d want to be bare foot). *sigh* The things I do for music.

Kraftwerk played at Helsingin J��halli, Helsinki, Finland and the event was sold out (about 4,500 people). Since this is their tour for their new album Tour De France Soundtracks, the show is a bit different from what I saw at the Enmore Theatre and the Big Day Out last year. Nice to see the Robots in action though. (Setlist orginally from the Antenna list via 313)

The setlist of show was:

1. Vocoder intro

H�tter, Schmitz, Hilpert and Schneider were dressed in dark grey suits with red shirts and black ties.

2. The Man-Machine (animated graphics like back sleeve off the album)
3. Expo 2000 (graphics from video)
4. Tour de France 2003 (footage from video)
5. Vitamin (animated vitamin pills)
6. Tour de France (old Tour de France footage)
7. Autobahn (record sleeves, footage of traffic and old car advertisements)
8. The Model (footage from video)
9. Neon Lights (footage of neon lights)
10. Sellafield (text on screen)
11. Radioactivity (radio-activity signs)
12. Trans-Europe Express (old train footage)

curtains close
curtains open, now H�tter, Schmitz, Hilpert and Schneider ties are fitted with LEDs like “The Robots” video.

13. Numbers/Computer world (numbers/lyrics)
14. It’s More Fun to Compute/Homecomputer (old computer graphics)
15. Pocket Calculator (animated pocket calculator, Ralf has mic problems)

curtains close
curtains open

16. The Robots (robots only on stage, screen shows footage of the robots)

curtains close
curtains open, now H�tter, Schmitz, Hilpert and Schneider are wearing the “new” green light-emitting suits

17. Elektro Kardiogramm (oscillator)
18. Aero Dynamik (bicycle graphics)
19. Musique Non Stop (footage from video, band leaves one by one starting with Schneider on the right, Hilpert, Schmitz leaving H�tter on the left to last)

Oh well, guess I’m never going now 🙁

Japan’s world famous nightspot The Liquid Room has closed down after almost a decade of being one of the key venues on the international DJ circuit, DJ Magazine reported this week.

Looks like In The Mix are now selling tickets to the Theo Parrish party for $36. And apparently supporting is Mako and Simon Caldwell.

Over on BBC’s Radio 1, on Giles Peterson’s Worldwide program, there’s currently a great Roy Ayers special to celebrate the release of the ‘Virgin Ubiquity’ album on BBE with the big man himself talking to Giles. And don’t forget, Giles will be in town for the Good Vibrations Festival coming up.

An interview with Jeff Mills over at absorb.org.

Update: Oh yeah, sorry. Its an old interview (that I hadn’t read before). 😀 Judging by the order of the articles on absorb.org, it’s probably from 2001. Bum.

Pump up the jam
Pump it up
While your feet are stompin’
And the jam is pumpin’
Look at here the crowd is jumpin’

Pump it up a little more
Get the party going on the dance floor
Seek us that’s where the party’s at
And you’ll find out if you’re too bad

I don’t want a place to stay
Get your booty on the floor tonight
Make my day
I don’t want a place to stay
Get your booty on the floor tonight
Make my day

Make my day
Make my day
Make my day
Make my day

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Last night I caught Peaches at the Hyde Park Barracks. A great show. Perhaps not a great as last time, but that could have been that last time around, I’d never heard of her and didn’t know what to expect. She was so out of leftfield. So much attitude, that I didn’t know what hit me. I still find it amazing that a girl and a drum machine (mostly) can pull off such an awesome show.

Looks like kitsch 80’s retro-60’s band The B52’s are set to hit the Hordern in Sydney in March. I can’t wait to dance this mess around!!!

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