Audio Arsenal

DJ Aptem, Cassette Deck DJ

• June 14th, 2005

This just in from my musically inclined friend DJ Tony Watson, as posted on this Flickr page. Thru them I found DJ Aptems site, Cassette DJ. DJ Aptem is the Russain DJ who made a DIY Mixing Deck out of hacked together Cassette Decks (He has also made a mixer to go with the setup). I have posted a whole bunch of tracks sourced from this DIY Cassette DJ Deck. This is way cool! On the same tip as Konono NO1 (Congotronics).

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View More Photos of his Cassette Deck Rig and Gear!

via Cassette DJ

Firemusic UK, Megamixes

• May 27th, 2005

Firemusic UK, has some nice long form mixes from a couple of their resident Musician/DJs… plus a nice jazzy funk homage to retro music compilation EP called October Revolution…

Ian LLoyd - Discohop 41MB zip
Jez Proctor - Diabraham 44MB zip
October Revolution EP 25MB zip

via Fire Music UK

DJ Food, Raiding The 20th Century

• April 19th, 2005

Gotta love DJ Food and their constant itch to remix, recut, mashup, tweak, fondle, fiddle, and finesse the existing audio of the world!

“On January 18th 2004, Strictly Kev premiered the original ‘Raiding The 20th Century’ on XFM’s ‘The Remix’ show in London. It was a 40 minute attempt to catalogue the history of cut up music - be it avant garde tape manipulation, turntable megamixes or bastard pop mash ups. It rapidly spread throughout the web and managed to cause a full scale server crash on boomselection.info when they hosted it due to the volume of net traffic.

Shortly afterwards he read Paul Morley’s recently published book ‘Words & Music’ and was amazed that certain chapters mirrored parts of his mix. Apart from the fact that the title, ‘Raiding the 20th Century’ was coined by Morley 20 years before for a future Art of Noise project, he also featured Alvin Lucier who - purely by chance - was sampled on the opening track of the mix.

Kev decided to expand his idea to make the defnitive document on cut up music including many other parts, omitted by the constraints of the original radio session. After months of further research he tracked Morley down and they recorded passages from ‘Words & Music’ specially for this mix in an attempt to marry the two and finish something that neither of them actually started. A year to the day of the original airing, the newly expanded version is ready.”

‘Raiding the 20th Century’ - MP3 File (Original Download Link)
‘Raiding the 20th Century’ - Bit Torrent (Deluxe Edition, encoded at 320kbps)

via DJ Food

Ryukyu Underground, RHKirk remixes

• April 14th, 2005

Today I was browsing through some design portfolio sites, Sanderson Bob (ex tDR* Art Director) to be specific, and a recent piece he did, the Richard H. Kirk (ex Cabaret Voltaire) remixes for Ryukyu Undergound CD design caught my eye. Turns out that Ryukyu Underground are big file sharing pro-ponents! So I posted the RHKirk remix links here… Thanks guys!

Asian melodies and sounds combine with cutting-edge beats and production. Shamisen echoes over subsonic bass - Okinawan singers blend with ambient sounds and cut-up break beats.
This is the sound of contemporary Okinawa.
This blending of an ancient eastern culture and a modern westernized world.
This is Ryukyu Underground.

Ashibi Shongane - Richard Kirk Quiet Storm Mix
Ashibi Shongane - Richard Kirk Scientific Dance Hall dub
Ashibi Shongane - Richard Kirk Heavy Weather Mix 1
Ashibi Shongane - Richard Kirk Heavy Weather Mix 2
All previously unreleased

Sefa Utaki - Lelonek mix (Ryukyu Remixed)
Mo Ashibi - Jason Bentley remix (Ryukyu Remixed)
Hana - Progessive Breaks mix (CD single/12″ Hana)
Koi no Michikusa (Mo Ashibi)
Tinsagu nu hana dub (Ryukyu Underground)

via Ryukyu Underground

Bungalow Records Space Pop

• April 12th, 2005

Bungalow Records (Germany) is a great resources for vintage synth pop and modern acts that sound like the latter. I am especially groovin to the Peter Thomas Sound Orchester(ra)… and of course FPM!

PETER THOMAS SOUND-ORCHESTER - Space-Patrol (Raumpatrouille)
LOS FANCY FREE - Voltage Is OK (Sirius Mo remix)
SILVERIO - Yepa Yepa Yepa
FANTASTIC PLASTIC MACHINE - L’Aventure Fantastique
DAUERFISCH -Ride My Bike (Astrud Remix)
LE HAMMOND INFERNO - An Apple A Day
LE HAMMOND INFERNO - Move Your MP3
MAXWELL IMPLOSION - Follow My Riddim (Jean Jacques Smoothie remix)

via Bungalow Records

LE HAMMOND INFERNO - DJ Mix (~68mb)

via LHI Why

Twilight Circus Dub Soundsystem

• April 8th, 2005

I was in a DUB mood last night and so went digging the eCrates again for some Hardcore Deep Dub cuts. Low and behold, I found the label Twilight Circus Dub Soundsystem has some amazing ones… Too many to post here, so I just grabbed a few of the best ones…. Make sure to check out their site for more artists and release information!

Foundation Rockers (Disciples Dub II) Brother Culture - Foundation Rockers 10
Variation Cybernetique Rmx DJ Spooky - Dubtometry
Dub Cultivation DJ Spooky vs. Twilight Circus - Riddim Clash
Phase Anans DJ Spooky vs. Twilight Circus - Riddim Clash
Storm The Dub Mix Meat Beat Manifesto - Storm The Studio R.M.X.S.
Trinity Dub Plates Volume Two
Freedom Reign feat. Mykal Rose Dub Summit EP

via Twilight Circus Dub Soundsystem

Fischerspooner Emerge Remixes

• April 7th, 2005

The new Fischerspooner CD, Odyssey was just released April 5th, 2005. I have heard a few tracks from it, and am liking it so far. I plan on buying it this weekend. In the meantime, if your interested in checking out some sic remixes of Emerge and some other previous tracks, check out this gals!!! tome of mixes, I have only included a few of my favorites…

Emerge - DFA Remix
Emerge - Mogwai Remix
Emerge - Terranova Remix
Emerge - Hacker Remix
Emerge - Dave Clark Remix

Chemical Brothers Remixed Site

• April 5th, 2005

Recently I downloaded both this mashup/remix compilation and the previous one these guys did for the Prodigy… It seems as though both The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy were cool with these projects… which I think is even more cool. Its very well done and worth downloading, but please donate to one of their relief charities on the way out…

Not content with the unprecedented international success of their last remix project, the team behind “Always Outsiders, Never Outdone”, the unofficial Prodigy Remixed album, have only gone and done it again. This time the Chemical Brothers latest album “Push the Button” gets the remix treatment.

The DJs behind “Flip the Switch” see the remix album as a natural part of the evolution of UK dance music. In a recent interview, Ed was quoted as saying “We used to make cut-ups or DJ mixes for ourselves to play. Bootleg culture isn’t a new thing. It’s something people do - take snatches from other people’s records and make a DJ mix.

Chemical Brothers Remixed - Flip The Switch

Virgin Tears Runway Mixes

• April 4th, 2005

Well, I ‘hear’ its lonely at the top, but I would not expect that from this related duo (they are brothers). Virgin Tears provide the beats for all the high fashion runway shows, and get to party afterwards. I can smell the perfume and champagne just by glancing at their logotype. Check out these electrofied mixes!

Tramps Like US DJ Mix (February 2005)
Dream It Be It DJ Mix (Summer 2004)
Jeremy Scott “Sexhibition” DJ Mix (Summer 2003)

Grime ‘Launch’ Mixes from Rephlex

• April 4th, 2005

My friends at Republish have yet more cross posting to do, Rephlex Records, famous for Aphex Twin and Mike Paradinas, just released the sampler “Grime 2″. You can download two DJ Sets of their Record Release Party for “Grime” (their first one) at London’s “The End” Club.

“Grime. Sublow. Dubstep. It’s Music. Different people call it different things, depending on when they discovered it. In the 80’s, maybe it was House, Techno and Electro. In the 90’s it was UK-G, Drum and Bass, Breaks or whatever. Now there are so many terms for it that the journalists can’t pidgeon-hole it any more. This is a good thing - it’s music.”

Plasticman, Markone & Virus Syndicate (DJ Set 1)
the Slaughter Mob (DJ Set 3)

from the like minded music afficiondao sepukku via Republish.

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