On the fringe of nothing in particular

Jahas, jälleen toipumista vaativa viikonloppu takana. Mites tää nyt menikään?

Perjantaina soittelin levyjä Pacificon Need A Freakissa. Tiedä sitten, johtuuko omasta vireystilasta, mutta meno vaikutti olevan aavistuksen vähemmän kreisi kuin ekalla kerralla.  Jos olisin Tohkan pöksyissä, olisin jättänyt Night Visions-kytkökset vähemmälle - varsinkin alkuillan leffamusavisa yrityksenä saada jengiä paikalle jo ennen yhdeksää floppasi aika pahasti. Kavereiden synapimpelipom-duo The Good Band ei myöskään ollut ihan parhaassa vireessä, minkä lisäksi jäin kaipailemaan etukäteen suunniteltua Juicide-tempausta, jossa eräs männävuosien rock-kukko olisi esittänyt Good Bandin säestämänä Suicide-henkisiä kovereita Juicen kappaleista (tai ainakin 15. yöstä). Kolmantena harmituksen aiheuttajana oli se, että päivä meni osaltani turhan kiireiseksi häsellykseksi, minkä johdosta soittohommat eteni jokseenkin suunnittelemattomasti. Kuten usein deejiin asemassa käy, ilta meni ohi nopsaan, mutta kivaa oli noista narinan aiheista huolimatta. Hyvin viitteellisesti totuudenmukaiset soittolistat:

Cristina: La Poupée qui Fait Non
Prince: Housequake
Kongas: Anikana-O
Climax Blues Band: Couldn't Get It Right
Japan: The Unconventional
Easy Going: Fear
Meat Beat Manifesto: Mars Needs Women
Grace Jones: Warm Leatherette
Notorious B.I.G.: Nasty Boy (DJ Spinbad's Final Mixdown)
Bar-Kays: Cozy
Cerrone: Rocket In The Pocket
 
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Andrea Parker feat. DJ Assault & DJ Godfather: Freaky Bitches (Michna Remix)
L'Trimm: Cars With the Boom
KCD: Simo Goes Poing (Marginaalisesti pitempi ylikierrosversio)
The JAMs: It's Grim Up North
Kompleksi:I Ain't No Lovechild (tai Porno Tampere?)
Smart E's: Sesame's Treet
Flipper: Sex Bomb Baby
Devo: Working In a Coalmine
Peter Jacques Band: Fire Night Dance

Pahoittelut Sannalle Organin Kolmen prinsessan, ja itselleni lähes kaiken etukäteen suunnitellun soitettavan unohtumisesta.


Lauantaina oli Aikun ja kumppaneiden Satamassa järjestämän Peijakas-klubin tukitilaisuuden vuoro. Oikeastaan kyse oli queer-toimintapäivä Oudelman iltaklubista, jonka fb-eventissä todetaan seuraavaa:

Tarkoituksenani oli DJ-listailuja verukkeena käyttäen kirjoittaa juhlava comeback-kirjoitus, mutta en mä taidakaan nyt olla ihan oikeassa avautumisvalmiudessa. Ei hätää, kyllä se tästä vielä itkuksi muuttuu!

EDIT: vähän linkkiä mukaan..

Reminds you of an ex-lover/boyfriend/girlfriend: Marissa Nadler - Famous Blue Raincoat

Makes you cry: New Model Army - Nothing Touches

Makes you laugh: The Clovers - Rotten Cocksucker's Ball

Makes you want to dance: viimeksi Amanda Lear - Follow Me

What song was "written for you": Tim Buckley - Strange Feelin'

You never want to hear again: Marjatta Pokelan tuotanto

Sums up your teenage years: Gentle Giant - Funny Ways

You want to get married to: Slowdive - When The Sun Hits

You like to wake up to: Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day

You love that you wouldn't know about if it wasn't for a friend: John Maus - Through The Skies For You

Reminds you of your first crush: Portishead - Undenied

Reminds you of your now crush/love: Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing

Makes you think of sex: Khia - My Neck, My Back (Lick It)

Makes you think of being alone: John Martyn - Make No Mistake

You love to sing: Tim Buckley - Buzzin' Fly

Favorite driving music: J Geils Band - Hard Drivin' Man

Are embarrassed that you like: Nypykät - Lastenlaulu

Will be played at your funeral: Peggy Lee - Is That All There Is?

Tää oli vaan pakko lainaa darraisen maanantain ratoksi:

1. Pick 10 of your favourite movies.
2. Go to the IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. No Googling/using IMDb search functions.


EDIT: eiköhän tää ollu tässä. Sikäli kun ketään kiinnostaa (as if), tässä vielä loput, kuvien etsinnän ilosta.

 

 

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...kuulemma aika yllättävä kokoonpano messissä.....

(EDIT: laitoin tän nyt julkiseksi, kun halusin esitellä parille kaverilistan ulkopuoliselle. Jos joku uppo-outo  tämän seurauksena nödettää itsensä voittoon, varaan itselleni oikeuden päättää tosta kaljatarjoilusta. Mut niin kauan kun naamavärkki on jollain tavalla tuttu, tai edes tutun tuttu, tarjous pitää! :D PS: salapoliisityöskentely, googlettaminen yms on sallittua)

Intouduin tosta musavisahipasta vääntämään samoilla säännöillä omani - eli:

1. Open a music player.
2. Go to 'all music'/'library'.
3. Hit shuffle/repeat/randomise.
4. Find photos of the first 25 artists/bands that come up (no repeats and no cheating).
5. Have people guess who the artists/bands are.
6. Tag 5 people so you can have fun guessing too. Tagging everyone who feels the need to kill some time

Koneelleni on päätynyt aika omituinen valikoima musiikkia, joten jätin välistä pari obskuuria juttua. Niistä ei olis löytynyt kuvaa, eikä joku kuva-arvoitus-ratkaisukaan olis oikein toiminut. Kuva 19 on alla olevista ainoa, jossa on vähän muutakin kun haettu artisti.

Jos saat kertalaakilla yli puolet oikein (tai edes sinnepäin), tarjoan tuopin sunny sundayssa tai jossain. Tän takia kommentit toistaiseksi piilossa (jos nyt osasin tehdä hommat oikein : / ).
Eikun arvailemaan:

Venetian Snares is coming to Ilosaarirock, which is great.

Sabbat is also coming for a gig, which is greater still.
...but does it really have to take place on a monday after Ilosaari?!

First a bit of this



and then a bit of that

 

...although due to technical difficulties, at a later date (click image for a larger version):


No one showed up! What's the matter with these people?

Trivial ramblings about Fruit of Paradise and/or Mystics In Bali are to follow shortly (Divine Emanuelle didn't fit the schedule at this time).

Avant Garde speaker design!

Ferguson-Hill



Duevel



Avantgarde Acoustic



German Physiks



Gepetto's Air1 electrostatic speakers (this is what I want as soon as I realise my lifelong ambition to be a trophy wife for some rich bitch)



G1 Giya


Bowers & Wilkins' Nautilus



Acapella Audio Art's Campanile



Some more big motherfuckers from Acapella


Shamelessly lifted from If It's Hip, It's Here blog - take a look, there's lots of groovy design stuff there among the routine fashionista fare. Nail rings, anyone?

The fact that I should be sifting through 4 books of quantitative methodology while hearing all kinds of bad news from all over (and while my neighbour has been crying her heart out for hours) makes for a harsh fucking detox after a couple of weeks of partying. Bleak days demand bleak music, let's see what we have here..

What I've been really into lately is this guy called Robert Logan, a 19-year old kid whose gathered a lot of hype lately from the London dubstep cognoscenti. For a reason too, although his best stuff has a lot more in common with Amber-era Autechre, and maybe a bit of an old school industrial vibe to it too. Can't wait to hear the upcoming Grinder EP, also eagerly waiting for Grace Jones' comeback album for which Logan has done some production work. Here's the two performing "Nightclubbing" on Logan's recent gig - apparently Jones just happened to show up, well damn, wouldn't have minded being there...:

The funny thing is that I can't seem to concentrate on reading without listening to music that's as abstract as possible. That's fine though, because there's a lot of "difficult" stuff I've kind of dismissed too easily upon purchase that's been blowing my mind lately. For starters, it was about time for me to realise Vladislav Delay's "Demo(n) Tracks" (Huumerecordings 2004) is easily one of his best works. Totally abstract, alternately cold and warm dub soundscapes with hardly any "rhytmically sound" structure but with a lot of rhythms and noises, it sounds absolutely gorgeous from start to finish. Like Anima (Mille Plateaux 2001), it's a collague-like work of found sounds and glitches, but with a lot more tension (and release). As per usual, I'm a year late when it comes to new stuff. A quick listen to last year's more laid back "Whistleblower" album didn't really convince me, but the 4-on-the-floor "Karhunainen" (under the Uusitalo moniker; both on Huume label) sounds wicked good. Coming from this guy it hardly surprises, although I must say I'm relieved: like dubstep, minimal techno as a genre has been a bit too popular for it's own good for some years now, and fresh developments are getting few and far between.

Mr. Ripatti has always gathered his share of publicity and respect, but I doubt that could be said of Low Res, whose Approximate Love Boat (Plug Research 1998) has been another lifesaver for me today. Another piece of sporadic, warped and randomly colliding beats, melodies and noises, it's best described on the album itself as "mistaken alien interpretations of Earth music". At times the record manages to be almost too beautiful to bear - in fact right from the outset, with delirious and hypnotic "Love Boat" leading into equally sublime "Evanesce" - yet it never sinks into safe and fuzzy atmospheres of cuddliest IDM. It takes most of the record before any resemblance of a steady beat emerges, and by the time "Wag" evolves into a wacky ~150 bpm techno track, it's clear this isn't going to get any less disorienting. Danny Zelonky, the name behind Low Res and several other pseudonyms, has later on proven to be truly one of his kind. His next record as Low Res, Blue Ramen (Plug Research 2002) was a lot more structured, jazz-and samba-tinged affair, not as literally otherworldly as the debut, but still bizarre by any standard. And once again I notice there's a new one I've missed totally. With only short samples as a guideline, Suite Crude (Cosmo Elliptic 2007) seems like another completely different, completely zonked out affair, closer to Sun-Ra than anything else... Wow.

I wouldn't exactly call neither Demo(n) Tracks nor Approximate Love Boat ambient, yet when I think about it, for all the unstable and abrupt elements I find them ultimately soothing instead of bleak. Anyway I'm going to call it a night.. but since I doubt tomorrow (or the rest of the week) will be any less dark and miserable, and something harsh is what I'm really craving, please feel free to recommend me some noisy fucked up shit! Most of my darker stuff is IDM/breakcore (Snares, Slepcy, Phthalocyanine, Xanopticon, Xinlisupreme etc) but anything goes I guess. No vocals though, or I can't read at the same time! Especially interested in _good_ contemporary industrial/rhythmic noise (I'm trying to get over my prejudices).