Showing posts with label dj set. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dj set. Show all posts
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
PREVIEW: Alchemy @ Palihouse, Hollywood (Tonight!!!)
Here's a last minute preview for all my Californian readers. Alchemy is a multimedia night of occult ghost drone drag and witch house related performance put on by my good friend and able master of ceremonies Clint Catalyst. This is the second event he has put on, the first getting the dance club pick of the week in LA Weekly, and all for free too - Cosmotropia creating visual carnage, Robert Disaro doing his thing and Zoetica Ebb telling fetishitic stories of her life over the top. Sounds like an interesting event, as out of the ordinary as you should expect from a genre of music as multifarious as the wytch hauze.
Friday, 14 May 2010
NFR DJ set at Oneohtrix Point Never!!
We have another special DJ set coming up at The Penthouse for the night that Oneohtrix Point Never and Tomutonttu play - we have been invited to do this because he is playing which we're pretty psyched about - thanks Freebutt guys! We'll be playing some suitable accompaniment to the tone of the night – although regular readers of our blog will know how far we like to stretch our interpretation of ‘suitable’!
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
NFR/SwännS))) DJ Set @ Oneohtrix Point Never
I've been confirmed as DJ for the Penthouse, above the Freebutt for the night that Oneohtrix Point Never plays. Will be me and Chris, so it will effectively be a SwännS))) DJ set. Since we consider this an awesomely special event, we'll probably be recording some special SwännS))) track for the night to play upstairs and will be doing a bit of live action jiggery fuck-aboutery in a psychedelic decks 'n'n fx style. Sort of. It will be a pretty special event, but we promise it will be totally listenable.
Thursday 27th May
Oneohtrix Point Never with Tomottontu
Penthouse DJs - Me(atbreak) & Chris
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
NFR DJ Sets @ NWFA This Weekend
These flyers say we're djing after bands, but we're on from 8 til midnight. Change of plans! Because the best laid ones.....
Super stunning Fringe Festival weekender with Meatbreak and Fokka Wolfe!! - plus:
THE NICE WEATHER FOR AIRSTRIKES FESTIVAL
Brighton Fringe 22 -24 May Bank Holiday 2009
FREE ENTRY!!!
“A weekend of PostRock, Shoegaze, PostPunk, AntiPop, and loopladen soundscapes from Brighton’s Nice Weather For Airstrikes Records.”
* BANDS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT
* ALL DAY SUNDAY ACOUSTIC AND LOOPS
* NOT FOR RESALE DJS FROM 8 - MIDNIGHT
* AT THE DRUIDS ARMS, Ditchling Road, Brighton
Super stunning Fringe Festival weekender with Meatbreak and Fokka Wolfe!! - plus:
“A weekend of PostRock, Shoegaze, PostPunk, AntiPop, and loopladen soundscapes from Brighton’s Nice Weather For Airstrikes Records.”
* BANDS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT
* ALL DAY SUNDAY ACOUSTIC AND LOOPS
* NOT FOR RESALE DJS FROM 8 - MIDNIGHT
* AT THE DRUIDS ARMS, Ditchling Road, Brighton
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
NFR Setlist: 07th May 2009
here's our playlist from the other night's djs et at the Penthosue. After last month's cancellation we had a few too may tracks to be playing in one night and intimidated ourselves with sheer choice alone! So we started off with a bit of an apocaplyptic hour and brightened up after Crystal Fighters.
Meatbreak's cuts >>>
Black Math Horseman – Bird Of All Faiths And None - Bell From Madrone (Wyllt, Tee Pee-Undergroove)
Enigmatic, allusionary name – super convoluted heavy-metal-prog-core
Bong – Exhalation (Bong / Quttinirpaaq Split 12”, Blackest Rainbow)
Sitar and choral chanting accompanied heady doom drone
Quttinirpaaq - Tonight We Will Pretend We Are Human Beings (Bong / Quttinirpaaq Split 12”, Blackest Rainbow)
Foggy blown out clouds of bass with electronics flickering somewhere deep within the midst
Lamp – 1 Means 2 (Demo)
Fleshed out electric incarnation of Brighton’s acoustic duo –A+M amp up their heaviest track into towards a more Slint-like sounds coming out at an almost black metal sounding menace.
Night Control – Those Girls (Death Control, Kill Shaman)
Ariel Pink style 60’s nostalgia crossed with even more tape decay and lens flare
Knyfe Hyts - Screming Lov (7”, Dick Move)
10 vital minutes of churning head-down propulsion and occasional reverb/delay blurred vocals
Caina – To Pick The Night Up By It’s Skin (Caina Ep, Bubonic/Universal Tongue)
Sussex based one man black metal visionary combining atmosphere, melody, rhythm and irony
Old Mayor – Bag Of Cats (Old Mayor Ep, Paradigms)
Long-awaited debut label release for Brighton’s doom duo Old Mayor. Seriously potent swinging heaviness – full review coming soon!
Crystal Fighters – Xtatic Truth (Demo)
Arrestingly addictive Spanish accented sweaty electro future hit that’s about to crossover from under London’s arches into everyone’s lives.
Danananaykroyd - The Greater Than Symbol & The Hash (Hey Everyone!, Best Before)
<#. ??? Whole lotta fun screamo-indie-pop that’s going to soundtrack lots of people’s summers this year.
The Horrors – Sea Within A Sea (Primary Colours, XL)
This is another record that will be sound-tracking lots of summer. Lead track from an album that perfectly reproduces it’s influences in elegantly finished fashion. This one is a beautifully immersive rendition of Krautrock.
Turbowolf – Read & Write (7”, X-Taster)
We’ll be playing Turbowolf ‘til we die.
Thee Oh Shees – Ruby Go Home (Help, In The Red)
More 60’s nostalgia, this time in the form of floor shaking, foot-stomping garage rock from the hands of John Dwyer - the man that brought you Coachwhips, Pink & Brown, OCS and more!
A Mountain Of One – Ahead Of The Curve (Institute Of Joy, Mountain)
Balearic prog trance. I tried to think of a better way to describe this, but it’s the best I can do - you just have to hear it to believe it.
Wormsblood – Sig Bind (Mastery Of Creation, Barbarian)
Two-piece lo-fi Black Metal blow-out. And when we say BM is lo-fi you know that means trouble!
Crystal Dragon – ‘Untitled’ (Demo)
From one member of Wormsblood, a buoyant passage of ambient drone to sooth the paranoia and terror of his other outfit.
Future Of The Left – You Need Satan More Than He Needs You (Travels With Myself And Another, 4AD)
I didn’t realise how much this sounded like Rage
Against The Machine until I played it here. In a good way though. "It doesn’t smell like a man! It doesn't fuck like a man"
Team Teamwork – MF Doom – Vomit (Horse Race At Lon Lon Ranch)
TT redo Hip-Hop tracks by setting them against music from Legend OF Zelda. Inspired.
Durrty Goodz – Grime Killers (Ultrasound, Awkward Music)
It’s not the teachers its…Killers! Durrty’s whip-sting-sharp on this huge elastic dancefloor filling grime track.
Spacenoid - Copter (Demo)
Lo-Fi electronics glitch-bliss navigate a sea of guitar textures.
Pangea – Bear Witness (12”, Hotflush)
Velvet-cushioned class with an eerie backdrop of huge bass to keep it dark
Burial & Four Tet – Wolf Cub (Wolf 12”, Text)
The first of upcoming collabs. For Burial, this is a trippy crawl through a sprawling ambient space, equal parts ecstasy and claustrophobia.
Elks – German Lessons (Oh No!, Toy Soldier/Holy Smokes)
Brighton based left-field hard edged Americana band keep it short, sharp and directed at all your essential organs.
Hind Ear – Coconut (Demo)
Demo of the month? If we did this would probably do. Reinvigorated Revenge of Shinobi bring out their best Black Dice and roll double sixes.
Action Beat – Bianca (The Noise Band From Bletchley, Southern)
Bianca Bibiloni adds a rare dose of words to the dense rhythms and landslide guitars of AB.
Bombay Bicycle Club – Ghost (How We Are 7”, Mmmm…)
These have been bubbling under as ‘ones to watch’ or some industry variant of ‘should be massive soon’. Listened to the forthcoming comp of their shimmery heat-wave indie about 10 times and I’m still not sure. So, compelling if nothing else
Night Control – Two Hard (Death Control, Kill Shaman)
Ultra pretty exploding-heart inducing psych-pop blurred out for the overly sensitive.
Grasscut – Muppet (Demo)
Brighton two-piece playing with laptops, synths and samples. Classic sensibilities meet the un-sensible non-sensical.
Baikonour – Ye Ama Piooo (Your Ear Knows Future, Melodic)
Another sublimely detailed Krautrock homage that layers on the head-nodding impulses until it flies right off.
Cobalt – Two Thumbed Fist (Gin, Profound Lore)
IN. YOUR. FACE! For 9 minutes. When even the Polish bouncers say ‘Fuck…ing…hell’ afterwards, you know it’s been intense.
Until next month, we’ve been NFR. Over and out.
MxBx
Meatbreak's cuts >>>
Black Math Horseman – Bird Of All Faiths And None - Bell From Madrone (Wyllt, Tee Pee-Undergroove)
Enigmatic, allusionary name – super convoluted heavy-metal-prog-core
Bong – Exhalation (Bong / Quttinirpaaq Split 12”, Blackest Rainbow)
Sitar and choral chanting accompanied heady doom drone
Quttinirpaaq - Tonight We Will Pretend We Are Human Beings (Bong / Quttinirpaaq Split 12”, Blackest Rainbow)
Foggy blown out clouds of bass with electronics flickering somewhere deep within the midst
Lamp – 1 Means 2 (Demo)
Fleshed out electric incarnation of Brighton’s acoustic duo –A+M amp up their heaviest track into towards a more Slint-like sounds coming out at an almost black metal sounding menace.
Night Control – Those Girls (Death Control, Kill Shaman)
Ariel Pink style 60’s nostalgia crossed with even more tape decay and lens flare
Knyfe Hyts - Screming Lov (7”, Dick Move)
10 vital minutes of churning head-down propulsion and occasional reverb/delay blurred vocals
Caina – To Pick The Night Up By It’s Skin (Caina Ep, Bubonic/Universal Tongue)
Sussex based one man black metal visionary combining atmosphere, melody, rhythm and irony
Old Mayor – Bag Of Cats (Old Mayor Ep, Paradigms)
Long-awaited debut label release for Brighton’s doom duo Old Mayor. Seriously potent swinging heaviness – full review coming soon!
Crystal Fighters – Xtatic Truth (Demo)
Arrestingly addictive Spanish accented sweaty electro future hit that’s about to crossover from under London’s arches into everyone’s lives.
Danananaykroyd - The Greater Than Symbol & The Hash (Hey Everyone!, Best Before)
<#. ??? Whole lotta fun screamo-indie-pop that’s going to soundtrack lots of people’s summers this year.
The Horrors – Sea Within A Sea (Primary Colours, XL)
This is another record that will be sound-tracking lots of summer. Lead track from an album that perfectly reproduces it’s influences in elegantly finished fashion. This one is a beautifully immersive rendition of Krautrock.
Turbowolf – Read & Write (7”, X-Taster)
We’ll be playing Turbowolf ‘til we die.
Thee Oh Shees – Ruby Go Home (Help, In The Red)
More 60’s nostalgia, this time in the form of floor shaking, foot-stomping garage rock from the hands of John Dwyer - the man that brought you Coachwhips, Pink & Brown, OCS and more!
A Mountain Of One – Ahead Of The Curve (Institute Of Joy, Mountain)
Balearic prog trance. I tried to think of a better way to describe this, but it’s the best I can do - you just have to hear it to believe it.
Wormsblood – Sig Bind (Mastery Of Creation, Barbarian)
Two-piece lo-fi Black Metal blow-out. And when we say BM is lo-fi you know that means trouble!
Crystal Dragon – ‘Untitled’ (Demo)
From one member of Wormsblood, a buoyant passage of ambient drone to sooth the paranoia and terror of his other outfit.
Future Of The Left – You Need Satan More Than He Needs You (Travels With Myself And Another, 4AD)
I didn’t realise how much this sounded like Rage
Against The Machine until I played it here. In a good way though. "It doesn’t smell like a man! It doesn't fuck like a man"
Team Teamwork – MF Doom – Vomit (Horse Race At Lon Lon Ranch)
TT redo Hip-Hop tracks by setting them against music from Legend OF Zelda. Inspired.
Durrty Goodz – Grime Killers (Ultrasound, Awkward Music)
It’s not the teachers its…Killers! Durrty’s whip-sting-sharp on this huge elastic dancefloor filling grime track.
Spacenoid - Copter (Demo)
Lo-Fi electronics glitch-bliss navigate a sea of guitar textures.
Pangea – Bear Witness (12”, Hotflush)
Velvet-cushioned class with an eerie backdrop of huge bass to keep it dark
Burial & Four Tet – Wolf Cub (Wolf 12”, Text)
The first of upcoming collabs. For Burial, this is a trippy crawl through a sprawling ambient space, equal parts ecstasy and claustrophobia.
Elks – German Lessons (Oh No!, Toy Soldier/Holy Smokes)
Brighton based left-field hard edged Americana band keep it short, sharp and directed at all your essential organs.
Hind Ear – Coconut (Demo)
Demo of the month? If we did this would probably do. Reinvigorated Revenge of Shinobi bring out their best Black Dice and roll double sixes.
Action Beat – Bianca (The Noise Band From Bletchley, Southern)
Bianca Bibiloni adds a rare dose of words to the dense rhythms and landslide guitars of AB.
Bombay Bicycle Club – Ghost (How We Are 7”, Mmmm…)
These have been bubbling under as ‘ones to watch’ or some industry variant of ‘should be massive soon’. Listened to the forthcoming comp of their shimmery heat-wave indie about 10 times and I’m still not sure. So, compelling if nothing else
Night Control – Two Hard (Death Control, Kill Shaman)
Ultra pretty exploding-heart inducing psych-pop blurred out for the overly sensitive.
Grasscut – Muppet (Demo)
Brighton two-piece playing with laptops, synths and samples. Classic sensibilities meet the un-sensible non-sensical.
Baikonour – Ye Ama Piooo (Your Ear Knows Future, Melodic)
Another sublimely detailed Krautrock homage that layers on the head-nodding impulses until it flies right off.
Cobalt – Two Thumbed Fist (Gin, Profound Lore)
IN. YOUR. FACE! For 9 minutes. When even the Polish bouncers say ‘Fuck…ing…hell’ afterwards, you know it’s been intense.
Until next month, we’ve been NFR. Over and out.
MxBx
Monday, 16 March 2009
ETTA Gig Redux
"Can you hear me through the speakers? Then it's fucking working"
P For Persia tear the room a new psychedelic doom hole to pour the audience's brains through. Their set veers (and I think that's the right word) from wild treble-heavy electronic splattered rocking out, right down to a sludgy slow motion metal dirge (which is a good word). 'Teetering on the brink of collapse' is an overused descriptor but here it almost holds true - although with PFP it seems more like they are tearing themselves apart. Good again.
Second on were Who Owns Death TV who we did not enjoy at all. Although that might be a bit unfair - they are pretty competent at recreating that bass heavy bounce of 'Dirty' Sonic Youth but they do it unnecessarily loudly within an ill-deployed range of frequencies which fucked our hearing for the rest of the gig which would take the edge of the other bands (and mean me squinting my ears to get my DJing levels, though no chance anyone else noticed!) Maybe we should wear earplugs, or maybe they shouldn't.
"This is our last song...ever"
Elks have an experimental low-slung blues sound that owes as much to Fugazi as it does to the four-bar, tying wide-open melodies to dynamic highway rhythms with a healthy dose of screaming dissonance. They also have a loose casual swing to their stride combined with an engaging presence that does well to win us over.
Given that we are well into bands like Crippled Black Phoenix and US Christmas at the moment, Elks are driving a road that leads straight to our hearts.
"I think there's rohypnol in my drink"
Everyone To The Anderson hit it hard and noisy, their new tracks even leaner and more tightly focussed than their previous Doodlebug stuff with a couple sporting some seriously savage jumps into distorted blow outs. Their Dischord hardened post-punk-rock is out there on it's own as one of the keenest sounds in town, stripped of anything extraneous every second is a compelling rush with an ever present sense of danger and intensity, this is deadly serious music delivered with a sense of fun, or vice versa. Both ends simultaneously possible when it comes to ETTA.
In between all this, I played all these:
A Death Cinematic - The Grasses Will Grow Tall Over Our Cities (intensely effected electric guitar)
Pocahaunted – Salt (dense Eagle Rock CA style dub)
Mi Ami - Echonoecho (afro beats + noise + screeching)
Hind Ear – Coconut (debut track from the new incarnation of Revenge of Shinobi)
Clockcleaner – Skinhead Lady (gutter punk bellow)
Women – Lawncare (Velvets styled indie noise drone)
Gay Witch Abortion – Action Cop (hard edged noise rock)
Kontakte – Flightpaths (hissing post-rock white-out)
Fever Ray – Coconut (beatific and bleak Swedish beats)
Nissenenmondai – Destination Tokyo (Japanese krautrock incidental musique)
Nullifier – If Days Corrode (the perfect pop song in seven stages)
Action Beat – Le Chap ()
Blank Dogs – The Other Way (mumbling tumbling fade out odd-pop)
US Christmas – The Scalphunters (space-rock kicked into hyperdrive)
Turbowolf – Seven Severed Heads (minute and a half of disco metal)
Hotel Wrecking City Traders – Cup Weekend Murders (stoner speed riffs)
Mayors – Airplanes (like a plane crashing to a beat)
Quttinirpaaq – Down By The River (electronics hued rainbow spectrum doom)
Alva Noto - Xerrox Phaser Acat 1 (bassy textural fuzz)
Cobalt – A Clean, Well Lighted Place (merciless modern metal)
Goth Trad – Far East Assassin (Distance Remix) (Japan dubstep meets London grimbass)
Tussle – Night Of The Hunter (Prins Thomas Remix) (day-glo electro-kraut remix)
Thanks again to Ben for inviting us to DJ his night, we had a blast.
MxBx
P For Persia tear the room a new psychedelic doom hole to pour the audience's brains through. Their set veers (and I think that's the right word) from wild treble-heavy electronic splattered rocking out, right down to a sludgy slow motion metal dirge (which is a good word). 'Teetering on the brink of collapse' is an overused descriptor but here it almost holds true - although with PFP it seems more like they are tearing themselves apart. Good again.
Second on were Who Owns Death TV who we did not enjoy at all. Although that might be a bit unfair - they are pretty competent at recreating that bass heavy bounce of 'Dirty' Sonic Youth but they do it unnecessarily loudly within an ill-deployed range of frequencies which fucked our hearing for the rest of the gig which would take the edge of the other bands (and mean me squinting my ears to get my DJing levels, though no chance anyone else noticed!) Maybe we should wear earplugs, or maybe they shouldn't.
"This is our last song...ever"
Elks have an experimental low-slung blues sound that owes as much to Fugazi as it does to the four-bar, tying wide-open melodies to dynamic highway rhythms with a healthy dose of screaming dissonance. They also have a loose casual swing to their stride combined with an engaging presence that does well to win us over.
Given that we are well into bands like Crippled Black Phoenix and US Christmas at the moment, Elks are driving a road that leads straight to our hearts."I think there's rohypnol in my drink"
Everyone To The Anderson hit it hard and noisy, their new tracks even leaner and more tightly focussed than their previous Doodlebug stuff with a couple sporting some seriously savage jumps into distorted blow outs. Their Dischord hardened post-punk-rock is out there on it's own as one of the keenest sounds in town, stripped of anything extraneous every second is a compelling rush with an ever present sense of danger and intensity, this is deadly serious music delivered with a sense of fun, or vice versa. Both ends simultaneously possible when it comes to ETTA.
In between all this, I played all these:
A Death Cinematic - The Grasses Will Grow Tall Over Our Cities (intensely effected electric guitar)
Pocahaunted – Salt (dense Eagle Rock CA style dub)
Mi Ami - Echonoecho (afro beats + noise + screeching)
Hind Ear – Coconut (debut track from the new incarnation of Revenge of Shinobi)
Clockcleaner – Skinhead Lady (gutter punk bellow)
Women – Lawncare (Velvets styled indie noise drone)
Gay Witch Abortion – Action Cop (hard edged noise rock)
Kontakte – Flightpaths (hissing post-rock white-out)
Fever Ray – Coconut (beatific and bleak Swedish beats)
Nissenenmondai – Destination Tokyo (Japanese krautrock incidental musique)
Nullifier – If Days Corrode (the perfect pop song in seven stages)
Action Beat – Le Chap ()
Blank Dogs – The Other Way (mumbling tumbling fade out odd-pop)
US Christmas – The Scalphunters (space-rock kicked into hyperdrive)
Turbowolf – Seven Severed Heads (minute and a half of disco metal)
Hotel Wrecking City Traders – Cup Weekend Murders (stoner speed riffs)
Mayors – Airplanes (like a plane crashing to a beat)
Quttinirpaaq – Down By The River (electronics hued rainbow spectrum doom)
Alva Noto - Xerrox Phaser Acat 1 (bassy textural fuzz)
Cobalt – A Clean, Well Lighted Place (merciless modern metal)
Goth Trad – Far East Assassin (Distance Remix) (Japan dubstep meets London grimbass)
Tussle – Night Of The Hunter (Prins Thomas Remix) (day-glo electro-kraut remix)
Thanks again to Ben for inviting us to DJ his night, we had a blast.
MxBx
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