Recently discovered Blue Sky Black Death... It's not my usual fare, a bit more to the ambient side of triphop - but just incredibly beautiful stuff, especially to fall asleep to after a long day.

The Post-Apocamix

Top ten evil & apocalypse-themed for the Judgement Day parties (links below):

(ok, so there's some LOOSE interpretations here... it's metaphoric, deal.)

10. Onyx ft. Biohazard - Judgement Night [horrorcore]
9. Dr. Dre / Ice Cube - Natural Born Killaz [horrorcore]
8. Gravediggaz - Diary of a Madman [horrorcore]
7. Lupe Fiasco - Streets are on Fire [Hiphop]
6. Distortionz - Terrorise Your City [Nuskool]
5. Concord Dawn - Raining Blood [drumnbass]
4. Pendulum - The Other Side [drumnbass]
3. Statemachine - Music from the End of the World [ebm]
2. Blotnik Brothers - Robot Kingdom [electro]

And of course -
1. Altern-8 - Armageddon [oldschool] (LIKE YOU HAD DOUBTS)



(ok, honorable mention: Gary Numan, Down in the Park)

Listen:

1. Altern-8 - Armageddon


2. Blotnik Brothers - Robot Kingdom


3. Statemachine - Music for the End of the World
EBM-Statemachine-Music from th by THERAPY

4. Pendulum - The Other Side (sorry, no embedding...)
http://youtu.be/zENtEumtyBI

5. Concord Dawn - Raining Blood


6. Distortionz - Terrorise Your City


7. Lupe Fiasco - Streets are on Fire


8. Gravediggaz - Diary of a Madman


9. Dr. Dre / Ice Cube - Natural Born Killaz


10. Onyx ft. Biohazard - Judgement Night



xxx: Gary Numan - Down in the Park

Don't be cruel, because I would never be that cruel to you...

This is so sick... so minimal and so perfect. Spine tingly goodness.



Try not to listen to it for the next five hours straight.

Caught Shpongle last night.

Simon Postford's work has always been among my favorites; his album "The Lone Deranger" as Hallucinogen is an absurdly brilliant and essential psytrance album. His immense, deep breadth of influences and unbelievably complete knowledge of music theory and world music experiences oozes all over this album, as he deftly merges psychedelic and trance elements with musical influences including latin, african, asian, european, native american... definitely a treat for someone like me who appreciates musicians who push the envelopes and transcend genre. As Hallucinogen, he also explores intricate, gradual time changes (listen to the beat changes in Jiggle of the Sphinx from about 4:10-5:30...) which have this incredible psychedelic effect on even a sober mind - it's really quite cool.

As Shpongle, his tracks definitely lean more towards the world music influences than perhaps the hard psytrance elements that I adore in the Hallucinogen project - much to my dismay, actually. I respect, but don't necessarily always love his Shpongle output. I've caught his dj sets as Shpongle or simply Simon Postford before, and was impressed... but this show was just far more intense, and leaned much more towards the hard, dark, pulsing edges of psytrance that I truly love to experience. Essentially, this was more to the Hallucinogen tilt than Shpongle, which was exactly what I was hoping for. The crowd danced, rapt as he guided us on a real, tangible journey; some certainly less enhanced than others in the crowd, but everyone along for the ride.

And, well, he had the new "Shpongletron" video setup seen here -

...this was much cooler in real life; this beast is Zebbler's (of Boston's Aqua Teen Hunger Force bomb scare fame) creation, and it was quite the centerpiece.

All in all, quite the show.

It's time to perpetrate, to perpetuate, to penetrate

I've been holding out on you. Mostly because I've been considering throwin' my hat in the ring, spinning in the swing scene (like it ain't no ting)... but it's time I'm realistic about that; there's several technical details about doing so that doesn't jive well with my continuous flow (and dope but not always swing-friendly attraction to tracks).

So, it's time to start making this blog out to what it was meant to be; a real showcase for the awesome tracks that I might spin at a gig; even if that potentially burns some tracks out for me if some of my more-DJ-inclined readers happen to pick up and share what they find here; but as I firmly believe music is to be shared and not hoarded... maybe it's time I start sharing a bit more of the A-game and admit that I'm probably not going to actively attempt a coup of the local swing DJ scene.

Here's one of my pocket aces; I bring you... Chinese Man. Enjoy... they're absolutely madness, I tell you... MADNESS.

10 artichaut by zallegorie


05 washington square by Wam