Here is a little interview I did a few weeks ago on the excellent Percussion Lab Radio show up here in New York. Conducted by none other than the main man Praveen, with the indoobidable (sp?) Travis Stewart present as well.
Enjoy!
Percussion Lab Interview
March 16th, 2010Merck Real Hiphop Mix 2000 Part 1 & 2
January 27th, 2010Travis recently pointed out to me how much he loved these 2 mixes I did back in 2000 of some of my hiphop vinyl at the time. He featured them on the Percussionlab site recently, and I’m gonna go ahead and throw them up here. Mixing of course isn’t anything of note, but this was themed around a lot of good hiphop from the recent years at that time that I enjoyed, while watching all the good hiphop go commercial, and overall hiphop really go downhill. Thus the title ‘Real’. If you are a fan of Now You Know.. listen carefully… you may just notice some similarities.
Part 1 Download
Part 2 Download
And for once I actually did a tracklist:
Part 1
K-otix - Questions
Vakill - Tis Tha Seizin
Jigmastas - Original
Breez Evahflowin’ - On The Mic
Jigmastas - Last Will & Testimony
Shadow Huntaz - DJ Screams Medic
Rubberoom - Sector Rush Remix (Rebuilt)
Company Flow - Population Control
Mr. Lif - Triangular Warfare
Thawfor - ? (12″ from 1999)
Hurricane G. & Rishi - No More Prisons
Equilibrium - Windows 98
Scienz of Life - Powers Of Nine Ether
Part 2
Lootpack - Likwit Fusion
Scienz of Life - The Anthem
Originoo Gunn Clappaz - Suspect
No I.D. - Jump On It
? - ?
Raw - Comment #3 (Family Of The Continents)
Mr. Lif feat. Akrobatik - Inhuman Capabilities
? - ?
Thawfor - Touch Down
Raw - Distant Traveller
? - ?
Dan The Automator - My Guru
Ronald Jenkees
December 28th, 2009Jimmy Edgar’s long lost autistic cousin:
Universal Techno documentary and Autechre track/clip
December 22nd, 2009Clip of an Autechre live track from Barcelona in 1996 at the beginning of this documentary portion. (Sick track!… wish it was released)
Clip Here (watch it HQ if you can)
Check the whole rest of the film for a decent Techno documentary… though it doesn’t come close to High Tech Soul (which you can see here).
ps. I wish there were more recordings of Ae live stuff from the 90’s.
Calculus needed?
December 11th, 2009Can someone explain the math behind this?
http://www.last.fm/music/Proem/Socially+Inept
2000 edition CD, of which there are about 100 left
+
less than 500 digital album sales… (though it is #2 best selling digital album for Merck)
=
50,000+ unique listeners??
hmmmm?
Cachexia, Long Version
December 8th, 2009Some more Syndrone fun facts: The opening track on Salmataxia, Cachexia, was originally twice as long. The story behind the track is that Travis actually wrote it shortly after waking up from losing consciousness from inhaling excessive paint fumes while helping someone paint the inside of their place. I always feel listening to the track, that it sounds so much like the dark, paranoid, frightening world of losing consciousness uncontrollably. He captured it so well.
So he originally wrote this 9 minute version, and was insistent that we use that one on the final cut of the album. As much as I love that track, I thought it would be a complete mind-fuck to open the album with 9 minutes of one of the most intense tracks he has ever made. Eventually he relented (and later thanked me for insisting on it), and we ended up with the 4:35 version on the final album. But for your listening enjoyment, I am providing here the original 9 minute version.
Syndrone - Cachexia (Long Version).mp3
Actually listening back on it now, I quite enjoy the 2 minute slow building opening… and the last 30 second outro.
The second Syndrone album that never was
December 3rd, 2009So in 2002 Travis had completed a slew of new Syndrone tracks, Now You Know had been doing quite well, and the Half the Battle 12″ soon after was doing even better. Travis was really cranking out the music at that point in time, which included the majority of a new Syndrone album. He sent me a demo CD of the new tracks in the summer of 2002, around the same time as we were starting to finalize work on the Half the Battle and Urban Biology CD’s (they were released at the same time in September 2002). Though the material was strong in some places, through a combination of distractions with the Machine Drum stuff, and some doubts about the quality of some of the material by both of us, the whole album kinda got put on the back burner. It was about 13 tracks total, quite varied in development level, and a lot of it really felt like a drastic revisioning of Cichlisuite and Chiastic Slide, so it kinda just faded and never ended up coming out. Some of the tracks from it were eventually reworked later and made it onto Salmataxia, those being Cinco, Pan_Ic, and Sloky. Listening back on it now, most of the rest of it sounds rather underdeveloped and probably for the best it never saw the light of day, but there is one track I liked to use for DJing live that I’ve always enjoyed, that I’ll provide for download here. I don’t know if this track ever had a name, but I’m going to call it Shredd3r, in honor of a friend.
Last chance Merck stock
November 23rd, 2009Been forever, but I’m preparing a move out of Miami finally. So things beyond running my mouth on the internet have consumed my time. Nonetheless, I’m in need of money for the move and I have a few copies left of the first few Merck releases that are now out of print (not available from our Mailorder or distros) that I wanted to offer up for the blog followers. Only $15.00 each plus shipping (see below). Preferred method of payment will be Paypal. Offer valid while supplies last.
Discs available are:
Syndrone - Triskaideka (Merck 001)
Md - Appelsap (Merck 003)
Various - Aurora (Merck 004)
Machine Drum - Now You Know (Merck 005)
Proem - Negativ (Merck 006)
Various - Dosage (Merck 020)
Shipping
U.S. - $2.00 for the first cd, $1.00 for each additional.
International - $5.00 for the first cd, $3.00 for each additional.
hit me up at merck at merckrecords dot com to arrange things
PS. I have a couple copies left of Squadron (1), Serial Human, and Unomia (some of these are sans shrinkwrap) that I’d be willing to part with for $30 each.
Just when you thought turntablism was dead…
September 3rd, 2009Sorry for the lack of posts… here’s a clip in the meantime:
Headphone Commute Interview
July 3rd, 2009My interview over at Headphone Commute has been posted. Check it out here
(side note: playing this week on shuffle: video game rock from the likes of The Advantage/Generic, Minibosses, Alias Jack, and Cursor)