http://www.blentwell.combookmarks.php/drox Recent links posted on Blentwell. 60 http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com/2008/07/22/give-the-drummer-some/ In this episode Ive dusted off some oldies from deep in the crates pulling out a super young NAS guest joint with some quality new stuff from Waxfactor, John Phonics and Kero One. Best of all Both the John Phonics and Waxfactor albums are avaliable free from the links (on the radio waves site). A lot of work must have gone into these and its damn fine of these guys to share the love. Playlist 54-46 Was My Number - Toots and the Maytals Long Road Ahead - Quantic One For The Bear - Waxfactor Hardcore (Instrumental) Hip-Hop - DJ Shadow Antemeridian - Count Bass D Chapita - Dick Khoza In The Ends feat. Sir Smurf Lil’ - Jon Phonics In All the Wrong Places 12 inch (New 12″ Version) - Kero One | Buy at eMusic Respect The Architect - Guru Feel the Music - Foreign Legion I Like It ( I Wanna Be Where You Are) - Grand Puba Lady Don’t Tek No - Latyrx This Land Is Our Land - Sharon Jones And The Dap Kings The Traveler - Guru Back To The Grill - Mc Serch featuring NAS Rocksteady - The Marvels Im Real Def - Raw Corp Got To Be Funky - Tuff Crew Atwer Abroba - Ebo Taylor - Source Site:http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:06:46 -0500 http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com/2008/07/01/mountainside-road/ Today we are taking a journey to a place where the air fresh and the scenery cinematic. playlist —————- 1 Waiting Room - Cobblestone Jazz 2 Running Away - Datassette 3 Lime in Da Coconut - Cobblestone Jazz 4 Sunrays - The Other People Place 5 Mind in Rewind - Plastikman 6 Psycosyin - Black Dog 7 Tascel 7 - Arovane 8 444 - Autechre 9 Resonation - Claro Intelecto 10 Damage Report - Datassette 11 Mushroom - Biochip C 12 All of a Sudden - Ultramarine 13 Losing Control - DBX 14 May the force be With - Max 404 15 Eye to Eye - Cosmic Messenger 16 Zombie - Ultramarine 17 Transition - Galaxy 2 Galaxy __________________ - Source Site:http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:04:17 -0500 http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com/2008/06/12/eastern-promises/ I play a bit of electronica tinged hip hop and speak a bit of Japanese so it was pretty appropriate to get to support my hero, DJ Krush! At my wedding in February, we walked down the aisle to Dj Krush’s “Final Home” (the piano mix) too so it made it pretty poetic, sorta, too. Poor Krush was a bit stunned because his support rocked up, was a girl, spoke Japanese and told him enthusiastically about getting hitched to one of his songs, (in Japanese). He was bewildered but stoked. When one of the turntables buggered out, he was cool enough to let me use one of his for the remainder of the set too. After my set, he said my tunes were great, high-fived me and clapped me in front of the crowd. I still feel a little glowy… He then pulled out an awesome set and was such a generous performer and truly the master. playlist ——————————————- 1. Bassnectar | Kyrian Bee Bop 2. Sixtoo | Boxcutter Emporium 3. I L.O.V.E You 2002 | DJ DSL 4. Jellybass | Socks 5. Unknown Artist | Untitled 6. Kaman Leung | Desolate 7. Monk Fly (Suburban Dark Rmx) | An English Walk 8. Danny Breaks | Outro 9. Luke Vibert | Slowfast 10. Kaman Leung | Uncomfort 11. Alien Digit | Midnight 12. Jimmy Edgar | No Guest List 13. Luke Vibert | Intro - Welcome 14. Harmonic 313 | Problem 5 15. Wax Tailor | Damn That Music Made My Day 16. DJ Shadow | Roy’s Theme 17. Danny Breaks | Another Dimension 18. DJ Kentaro | Grateful to You 19. Vibesquad | Memberz Only 20. Sound Tribe Sector 9 (Bassnectar Rmx) | Somesing 21. Tip Hop2 | Tipper 22. Chris de Luca and Peabird | I Gonna Give it to You 23. Funkstorung (Funckarma Rmx) | Fat Camp Feva w/ Nongenetic 24. DJ Spooky | Takemitsu 25. DJ Logic (DJ Spooky Rmx) | Spooky Logic 26. Daedelus (Prefuse 73 Rmx) | Busy Signal 27. Amon Tobin (Clark Rmx) | Kitchen Sink 28. Tom Burbank | Fragile 29. Edan feat. Percee P | Torture Chamber 30. Flying Lotus | Spicy Sammich 31. Hermitude | Gusto’s Theme 32. Le Peuple de L’Herbe feat. JC001 | Boxin’ Da Beat 33. DJ DSL | Havana Club 34. Aesop Rock | Aesop Nike Run 35. Afra & Incredible Beatbox Band feat. Takku Ishino (Maurice Fulton Rmx) | Mouth Music 36. Sheath | His Sheath 37. Subtle | Sinking Pinks - Source Site:http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com/ Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:50:21 -0500 http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com/2008/05/27/intervals/ After a break we are back on the regular bi weekly transmissions. This episode expands on the dubbed out tip but including a smattering of electro flavour. Playlist 1 Eclipse - Kit Clayton 2 Floorida (Dynamix II’s Non-Stop Electro Remix) - Rabbit In The Moon 3 808 Beats - The Unknown DJ 4 Professor Saga - Profesor X 5 Tender Taming (Cruel Shoes) - Perspects 6 You can’t see us - D.I.E. 7 D2 - The Old School Street 8 The Glades - Anthiliawaters 9 Fading Memories - Duplex 10 Computer Madness - Steve Poindexter 11 A1 - The Old School Street 12 Domina (marizio mix) 13 To all believers…. - Heiko Laux - Source Site:http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com Tue, 27 May 2008 07:25:02 -0500 http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com/2008/04/22/blaze-up-aquacultures/ Starts of slow 80bpm eventually works through super-minimal dub techno, a bit less minimal-ish techno, and dubstep and miscelaneous beats. I don't smoke anymore but if I did I'd definatley blaze up before listening to these tunes, particularly the first half :hint: Rhythm & Sound w/ Jah Batta -- Music Hit You -- [Burial Mix] Flippo -- Flood -- [dub] Pole -- Rondell Zweii -- [Kiff] Pole -- Silberfish -- [Kiff] Deep Chord Presents: Echospace -- Aequionoxiuim -- [Modern Love] Deep Chord Presents: Echospace -- Aberaxas -- [Modern Love] Gus Gus -- Sleepytime -- [4AD] Thom Yorke -- Cymbal Rush (The Field Late Night EssenUnd Trinken remix) -- [XL] Rhythm & Sound w/ Shalom -- We Been Troddin -- [Burial Mix] Maurizio -- MØ6A -- [M] MLZ -- M-brane -- [Modern Love] Rhythm & Sound -- See Mi Yah (Hallucinator remix) -- [Basic] Deep Chord Presents: Echospace -- Empryean -- [Modern Love] Rhythm & Sound -- See Mi Yah (Basic Reshape) -- [Basic] Burial -- Distant Lights -- [Hyperdub] Pinch -- Lazaus -- [Tectonic] Shackleton -- Blood on my Hands (Ricardo Villalobos Apocolypse Now Mix) -- [Skull Disco] Lusine -- Weaver -- [Ghostly International] Spherix and Flippo -- .001 -- [dub] Ruckspin feat. Ras Spear -- Ceasless -- [Ranking Records] Quark and Ruckspin -- Tablage -- [Ranking Records] AC23 -- Love Her (Flippo's Winter Dub remix) -- [forthcomming Formant Recordings] Lusine -- Haze -- [Ghostly International] Flippo -- Sleep -- [dub] - Source Site:http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com/ Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:26:07 -0500 http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com/2007/11/03/deep-and-spatial/ In this episode we go deep and dubby, sit back in the easy chair and relax and enjoy the gentle massage on your cortex…. playlist Sunset - Echospace Aequinoxium - Echospace Falling Leaves - Mark Furstenbe rg Reverberate - Substance & Vainqueur Aerial - Rhythm & Sound Music A Fe Rule - Rhythm & Sound w/ Paul St Hilaire Na Fe Throw It - Round Five w/ Paul St Hilaire Fluxion - Oblique Starlight - Model 500 (Echospace Remix) Orderly Chaos - Don Williams Empyrean - Echospace Space - CV313 // Southern Outpost// Sydney - San Francisco - Berlin// http://www.southernoutpost.com - Source Site:http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com/ Sat, 03 Nov 2007 04:22:39 -0500 http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com/2007/10/15/painting-pictures-on-silence/ painting pictures on silence painting pictures on silence - mixed by drox In this episode we travel through some minimal dubbed out goodness from berlin via detroit and england for some lush electronic bliss. The captain has been given strict instructions for us to return back to base in the fourth quadrant. After a bumpy takeoff we are crusing with hyper drive on full throttle into the depths. Some of these tracks are taken from some favorite netlabel releases such as the excellent Graceland EP by Norman Fairbanks and the Minor Fading Zero compilation out of Russia on the Leibniz netlabel. playlist 1 10.16 - heiko laux pres - the old school street - i2020 2 Funk 004 (rinse) electric city funk - raiders of the lost arp - plasmek 3 Domina- Marizio’s mix 4 Amuck - Low Res - Thorn Ep 5 Rontgen - O - sahko 6 Hymn Bream - Metamatics - MindMushingGit 7 Phylyps Trak ii - Basic Channel 8 19′50′’ - Ester Brinkmann - 20′ To 2000: July 9 The Visitors - Kirk Degorgio’s Off World - Two Worlds 10 Dream 4 - The Nova Dream Sequence - Interpretations 11 Liquid Gel - Metamatics - MindMushingGit 12 Resonation - Claro intelecto - NEUROFIBRO 13 Graceland - Norman Fairbanks - Graceland EP 14 Let Me Be Me - The Other People Place - Lifestyles of the Laptop Cafe 15 Sun After Rain (Rainy Day) - Sk1e - Minor Fading Zero [LNZ01] 16 Sheherezdae - tons of tones - presented by steve rachmond 17 Signs of inertia - titonton - metamorphic 18 Ellipse - kit clayton - parallel 19 Deep substance - steve stoll - Damn Analog Technology - Source Site:http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com/ Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:13:24 -0500 http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com/2007/10/04/beautiful-technology/ Another great guest mix by J. Ben Leonard from flood watch music. His dissection of many a hip hop, funk and jazz record and general music blogging in the last little while (or at least since I found his blog anyway) has compelled me to invite him to compile this guest mix. Armed only with the theme beautiful technology this is his contribution… At times I long for the absence of any traces of technology in music, a stark sound-world of unamplified acoustic guitars, pianos, wind instruments, drums. Then I recall the incredible variety of textures that electronic sounds can produce, and when combined with natural, acoustic sounds, the sonic palette expands to infinity. This mix contains elements of my favorite flavors of technology, from the cumbersome the to the streamlined: awkwardly triggered samples, disembodied voices, analog synths, dense harmonic colors, the capturing of an intimate performance, an electric piano leading a crack jazz band. Hope you enjoy. Playlist Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares - Tangerine Dream Musicians in Insadong - D. Riposo Aguirre - Popol Vuh Ancient Phat Farm Coat - Underworld Everyone in the World Is Doing Something Without Me - FSOL String Quartet No. 1: Andante molto - Sergei Prokofiev How Can We Be Sure - AMP Languidity - Sun Ra Prue Lawarne - Aix em Klemm Apollo 1 - Great Barringtron Armenia - Einsturzende Neubauten Red Lift - Glifted Descriptions automatiques: Sur un vaisseau - Erik Satie WR - Labradford The Sky Suspended - 7% Solution - Source Site:http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com/ Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:53:16 -0500 http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com/2007/09/18/overland-from-kabul/ This is an excellent guest mix from Matt Levinson (dj calico) who edits Cyclic Defrost magazine and hosts Join The Dots, Thursday nights, on FBI 94.5 from (Sydney). "One of my friends got permanent residency on Friday. It shouldn’t be something to celebrate. He was recognised as a refugee from Afganistan three years ago. It’s six years since he saw his family last. It took masses of red tape. But he got it. So it’s a major celebration. Major! Everything else this weekend dropped, replaced by an after dusk feast Auburn-style. And a celebration needs a soundtrack. Musically it's pretty diverse, but there's something that connects the entire mix: tone's dark and gritty; vibe's optimistic." Kinski - Silent Biker Type (Sub Pop) Horsepower Productions - Marseilles Connection (Tempa) Chiapet - Tick Tock (Two Lone Swordsmen R.G.C. Remix) (Phonography) Ides - Limer (Acid Fuckers Unite) Second Protocol - Bass Lick (East West) Jammin - Kinda Funky (Wookie Remix) (Bingo) Pressure feat. Warrior Queen - Money Honey (Remix) (Hyperdub) Rhythm & Sound - Let We Go (Villalobos Remix) Kim Hiorthøy - Hej, Vart Blev Det Av Dat En, Kim? (Alog’s Album Remix) (Smalltown Supersound) Boxcutter - Rikta (Planet Mu) Sun - Reach For The Sky (Pluramon Remix) (Staubgold) - Source Site:http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com/ Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:56:32 -0500 http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com/2007/08/19/get-down-with-the-get-down/ After a couple of requests Ive uploaded this mix again. It was recorded as a prelude to summer in 2005 and was the first mix that christened this podcast. So I guess a few of you may have missed it. It really just mellows me out defiantly a great prelude to summer and the impending daylight savings, barbies and lazy weekends at the beach. If you cant make it to the east coast of Australia you can always check the vibe on this mix. It definantly reminds me of my friends new and old from up north who I miss chilling with. Includes tracks by Artifacts, PUTS, Sadat X, Pete Rock and CL smooth, Afu Ra, J Live and Rodney Rude among others. - Source Site:http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com/ Mon, 20 Aug 2007 06:03:12 -0500 http://http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com/2007/08/08/quiet-still/ Sometimes I want to take time out from things for a few moments and my ears become tired from all of the music I feed them and at times they want to be soothed with melodies and fragments of sound rearranged in a pleasing order. This remedy helps me zone out and let my mind relax as much as I can while still being awake. This mix is something to keep the mind active in the twilight hours, or to rejuvinate the headspace to feel fresh and ready for whatever the day or night ahead might surprise you with. Ive included some recordings that blur the lines between scored classical music for film and an excerpt of a excellent beatless composition by dj olive entitled sleep with more information available from the room 40 webstore or buy it from the bleep.com which I highly recommend. Tracklist Opus 3 - Kirk Degiorgio’s Off World Shinsen - Susumu Yokota Gekkoh - Susumu Yokota Sleep - Dj Olive Chao De Estrelas - Baden Powell The Sound of Mu(sic) - The KLF Ralome - Plaid - Source Site:http://http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com/ Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:10:54 -0500 http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com/2007/07/15/midi-in-the-city/ I had the opportunity to visit Sydney as a tourist for the first time recently to play live at the launch of a compilation of Sydney electronica called – midi in the city. It’s a mixtape compiled by the Sculpter and mixed by Simon Mann. There is a diverse array of tracks by artists honing their craft in bedroom studios all over town. The party was a success with a solid turnout and a great vibe. I’ve heard that another party and releases are already in the pipeline. Check it first here and go give the artists props if your buggin to their beats. tracklist _______________________ SomeFreak - Lagos Legs Eleven - Lakeside Recyclotron - Film Music Legs Eleven - Control Alt Fist The Sculpter - Inside The Sculpter - Tube Riding The Sculpter - The Mad Aunty Stalker - Unknowned The Sculpter - Memo Boomstix - Motion Boomstix - Back in the City Swboy - Lick It Remix (Electroid Styles) Swboy - Crazy (Busta Rhymes Dub Remix) Swboy - Subtle Rebuilt Remix Illbot - Shut Me Down Drox- Imperial Eclectic Stalker - Landscapes We’d - Orbit Over Sunrise - Source Site:http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com/ Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:08:27 -0500 http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com/2007/05/23/food-for-thought/ Memories recall, the brain and hip hop. Drum breaks and Horn Loops. In hindsight I think this is one reason that I gravitated towards the sound collage style of music utilising any and all reference points. I was always about the beats first and then after a few listens the mc’s message would seep through. The late 80’s through to the late 90’s for me produced some timeless classics. Food for thought. Let me know if your enjoying the reading material, blog posts or music. Feedback always welcomed. PLAYLIST boom bap 1 check the rime - a tribe called quest 2 sound of the police - krs one 3 the main ingredient - pete rock and cl smooth 4 In Meh Dreams - Bush Babies 5 Obstruction. A Freestyle (Moonrock Featuring Ivo) - Moonrock feat. Ivo 6 vapours - biz markie 7 stakes is high - de la soul 8 runnin - pharcyde 9 AIN’T NO HALF STEPPIN’ - big daddy kane 10 girl trouble - STEZO 11 Marley Marl Scratch - Marley Marl featuring MC Shan 12 Step Up Front - Positive K 13 Fat Pockets - Showbiz & AG 14 Holy Calamity (Bear Witness II) feat. DJ Shadow & DJ Quest - Handsome Boy Modeling School 15 Mr. Hood Gets A Haircut - KMD 16 Soul Power - Wu Tang feat Flava Flav 17 South Bronx - Krs One - Source Site:http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com/ Wed, 23 May 2007 05:57:02 -0500 http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com/2007/05/12/my-favorite-things/ For this episode I thought Id dig out some of my jazz favourites to share with you. Included is some Alice Coltrane Featuring Pharoah Sanders (who I will be seeing perform tonight), some Herbie Hancock including the full version of chameleon and the Mighty Art Blakey and the Jazz messengers track “On the Ginza” from one of my all time favourite jazz albums Ugetsu. Enjoy! playlist 1 Bettina - Bola Sete 2 Journey into Satchidananda - Alice Coltrane feat. Pharoah Sanders -Journey in Satchidananda 3 On the Ginza - Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Ugetsu 4 Jazz-New Age - Herbie Hancock ?? (I don’t know if this is right my I have some nasty ipod gremlins at the moment. If you know the correct track name let me know.) 5 Chameleon - Herbie Hancock - Headhunters - Source Site:http://http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com/2007/05/12/my-favorite-things/ Sat, 12 May 2007 01:45:35 -0500 http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com/2007/04/14/the-war-of-art/ The mix included is sprinkled with some new Idm, funk, Hip-hop, and Jazz. Good for a sunday afternoon with the paper or pre golf psych up. enjoy playlist 1 Sofisticada - Luiz Bonfá - Bonfa Burrows Brazil 2 Little Children - David Axelrod 3 Crystallized - The Detroit Escalator Co. 4 This Complete Feeling of Loss - Colin Everingham - Skies of Error 5 Moments In Love - The Art Of Noise - (Who’s Afraid Of) The Art Of Noise? 6 Persian Teardrop (Massive Attack Mix) - Cocteau Twins 7 One Day or so - Depth Affect 8 Nuno - Prefuse 73 - vocal studies & uprock narratives 9 Make Me Love You - Pivot 10 Check out My Gold Tooth - Jimmy Edgar 11 Kind of Laid Back - Birdy Nam Nam - Source Site:http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com/2007/04/14/the-war-of-art/ Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:20:00 -0500