28th April 2007: Sagan Technology has updated Metro to v6.3.8.6. Fixed in this version: Groove quantize was not working for factory grooves on Mac Intel machines. In some cases the continuous data display was inc...

After smashing reviews of Summer In Ibiza 1 by Electo House heads alike. My wife and I still had a few gems left over from our trip in Ibiza to make a part 2. Tracks are selected and mixed battle style by Lively and Jesse. All comments good or bad are welcomed. Why do we like house music so much? "Because it's attitude-free." ~The Dirty Duo~ CLICK ON LINK AND IT WILL TAKE YOU TO SEE THE TRACK LIST. - Source Site:http://www.mixdepot.net/TheDirtyDuo/SummerInIbiza2featonfriskyradiocom

This is an hour-long set I did last month for friskyRadio's Cloud 9 Mix Sessions, other sets came from Derek Howell, Stel, some other peoples. I have another guest spot coming up around the end of the month alongside Nick Warren, Marco v, Jody Wisternoff, Perry O'Neill, David West, and a bunch of other progg-ish djs. This one came out pretty well and theres really a little bit of something for everyone here- tech-house, techno, more up-front electro, even the odd minimal track (and did I mention Depeche Mode?). As always comments and feedback (see myspace link below) are very much appreciated. - Source Site:http://www.myspace.com/djnickpoling

A few weeks ago I came across the SHORTWAVEMUSIC blog. Run by Myke Weiskopf, the blog is dedicated to music and/or musical noise intercepted via shortwave radio. These musical recordings feature a bit of noise, hum, drift & interference. But that's exactly what makes them so haunting. SoI decided to use shortwave recordings as the basis for this new mix. I used quite a few clips from the SHORTWAVEMUSIC blog in this new mix. The rest of the music is just some stuff I came across that I thought would work well with the shortwave feel. Artists include William Basinski, Alva Noto, Electric Birds, The Bulgarian Women's Choir, O Yuki Conjugate, Bexar Bexar and more. Go to http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/ for the full tracklist. - Source Site:http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/

Berlin-based producer and skilled laptoper Sasha Ring (aka Apparat) is set to release his new artist album through his own imprint Shitkatapult in May.

Titled Walls the album is Ring's first solo LP since 2003's Duplex. It comes as a sequel to his most recent studio collaboration with Ellen Allien on the critically acclaimed Orchestra Of Bubbles.

According to Ring, Walls is the result of dozens of unfinished tracks he had begun working on over the past few years. "I was just collecting some of the best ideas out of a folder with around 70 unfinished tracks, and finished them," he says. "It's more of a 'last-two-years of Apparat compilation.' That's why there's so much different stuff on it, a lot of different influences."

The album includes four tracks with vocals by Raz Ohara (who also appeared on Apparat’s Sizilium EP) and three songs with vocals by Ring himself - the first time he has sung on a record.

The first single, "Hold On," is out May 7 with remixes from Chris de Luca & Phon.o and Modeselektor.

Format: CD
Label: Shitkatapult
Release date: May 15, 2007

Tracklist:

01. Not a Number
02. Hailin From the Edge (Feat. Raz Ohara)
03. Useless Information
04. Limelight
05. Holdon (Feat. Raz Ohara)
06. Fractales Pt.1
07. Fractales Pt.2
08. Birds
09. Arcadia
10. You Don’t Know Me
11. Headup (Feat. Raz Ohara)
12. Over and Over (Feat. Raz Ohara)
13. Like Porcelain

Download: Ellen Allien & Apparat - Summer 2006 Live Set [via DivShare]

Here's John Cage performing Water Walk in January, 1960 on the popular TV show I've Got A Secret.

At the time, Cage was teaching Experimental Composition at New York City's New School. Eight years beyond 4:33, he was (as our smoking MC informs us) the most controversial figure in the musical world at that time. His first performance on national television was originally scored to include five radios, but a union dispute on the CBS set prevented any of the radios from being plugged in to the wall. Cage gleefully smacks and tosses the radios instead of turning them on and off.

While treating Cage as something of a freak, the show also treats him fairly reverentially, cancelling the regular game show format to allow Cage the chance to perform his entire piece.

File this one away with Frank Zappa playing his bicycle on The Steve Allen Show (which happened three years after this): part one   |   part two

Download the mpeg video of this clip here (57 megs)

Thanks to Charlie for chucking this VHS tape into my "to rip" pile.

MP3:
1. Maintenance (2:45)
2. Bloodshot Eyes (2:44)
3. Jamaica Fashion (2:31)

I found this album at a flea market in Grand Bend, Ontario a few years back. I didn't have particularly high hopes for it (a hotel band?), but as it turns out, one of the Montego Beach Hotel Calypsonians (the singer) was a fellow by the stage name of Lord Lebby. Lebby was one of the pioneers of Mento, a rural Jamaican folk music that both preceded and helped to inspire reggae and ska. Performed on guitar, banjo, bamboo flute, maracas, bongos and a crude portable piano called a rumba box (the second guy from the left on the back cover photo is holding one), the music on this album is charmingly ramshackle, the Jamaican country music of its day.

A lot of the material on this album, aside from being pretty good, is also quite risqué for stuff that was, presumably, performed for the benefit of well-to-do tourists. "Maintenance" is the heartwarming tale of a guy who would rather be locked up in jail than help pay to support any children he might father.

Fortunately for him, the girl ("related closely to ink") who claimed he was the father of her baby gave birth to a child "whiter than snow". Her mother said this was because she was drinking Milk of Magnesia every day, but the singer, unconvinced, concludes "For me to mind a child, well you got to know/That scamp had to be born singing Calypso". And "Bloodshot Eyes" is downright ghastly, a kiss-off song addressed to an ex-girlfriend who got beaten up by the guy she left the singer for. It's kind of disturbing to imagine tourists happily sipping their daiquiris and tapping their feet to lyrics like "For your eyes look like two cherries/In a glass of buttermilk" and "Now you better shut your peepers/Before you bleed to death". On the other hand, "Jamaica Fashion" - a lighthearted tune singing the praises of a few pretty girls scattered throughout the Caribbean - has a great flute solo and absolutely no objectional content.

- Contributed by: Beau Levitt

Images: Front Cover, Back Cover, Label

Media: LP
Album: Souvenir Album
Label: Montego Beach Hotel Gift Shop
Catalog: LOML.502
Credits: Maintenance (Composed: Joseph Clemendor; Copyright owned by Stanley Motta Ltd.), Bloodshot Eyes (Composer: Mann-Glover; Copyright owned by Vogue Record Co.), Jamaica Fashion (Composer: Member of Montego Beach Hotel Band)
Date: 1950's

The first in the DEEP QUEEP CUTZ series of albums. The criteria is simple, deep thoughtful clever numbers, designed to take you away to another place, whilst staying away from the generic deep funky house sound. 12 tracks made the final cut, expect shades of progressive & tech-house mixed with other deep goodness. Tracks included come from current artists like MAN IN A ROOM, AFRODROPS, MELCHYOR A, ATOM and MR FUZZ PRESENTS TWISTY FUZZ, alongside new label signings CRISTIAN PADURARU, FILTERED BOOGIE and DJAMEL. - Source Site:http://www.queeporganicmusic.com

The Queep Organic House labels biggest tunes of 2006, a mixture of funky house, progressive and a touch of electro in there too. Mixed by Ministry Of Sound HOUSESEXY resident Shane Kehoe aka MYSOUL. - Source Site:http://www.queeporganicmusic.com

Last night’s gig was a typical one. I bash the shit out of the drums while watching the people in the audience. I check out the strange people, the hot chicks, the drunk assholes…

Last night there was a guy and a girl having a fight. It was very funny. She was a bit drunk and not talking to the guy. He kept trying to talk to her and she was hitting him and pushing him away. This happened all freaking night. If I was the guy I would have just left the dumb drunk chick there and gone home…

Thanks for the bass amp

Our female bass player had some friends who loaned her a bass amp for this gig. The stupid thing wouldn’t even turn on…. Thanks for the favor.