Hydrogen Economy with MKB - WZBC College Radio

This Wednesday, August 6, I will be playing at the Phoenix Landing in Cambridge, opening up for Pat Fontes. 19+ please (why 19, anyway?). This is my first time playing at the Phoenix and I am rather excited. The address is: 512 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA. Nearest public transit is Central Square on the Red Line or numerous busses. (Hint: even though a lot of 4xx busses go to ‘Central Square,’ that’s in Lynn, not Cambridge)

As a preview for Wednesday, I packed all the records I expect to play and let them all out last night. I am still holding onto some surprises, so don’t think that listening to this gets you off the hook for showing up Wednesday! There was also a pretty big pile of new stuff that came in over the past two weeks and thus the recording is a little longer than usual Playlist after the break. Enjoy!

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 Hydrogen Economy 2008.08.01 [127:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (12)

Voila! An hour of Underworld! Unfortunately, there is always more music than can fit in a Test Pattern.

06:03PM Underworld “Most ‘Ospitable” from “Dark and Long” on Junior Boy’s Own
06:09PM Underworld “The God Song” from “Underneath the Rader” on Sire
06:15PM Underworld “The Hump (Groove without a Doubt)” from “Mother Earth/The Hump” on tomato
06:25PM Underworld “Spikee” from “Spikee” on Junior Boy’s Own
06:36PM Leftfield “Song of Life (Steppin Razor Mix)” from “Song of Life (Underworld Mixes)” on Hard Hands
06:45PM Underworld “Cherry Pie” from “Pearl’s Girl” on Junior Boy’s Own
06:52PM Underworld “born slippy nuxx” from “live glasgow tramway 1994″
06:59PM Underworld “Why Why Why” from “Rez” on Collect Boy’s Own

After the cut is the playlist from later that night. Next Hydrogen Economy is August 1.

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Test Pattern airs every Friday from 6 to 7pm on WZBC, 90.3FM. Each week, a different WZBC DJ hosts a one hour show featuring the music of a particular artist, band, label, or scene of his or her choice.

This week I am presenting the music of UNDERWORLD across several decades, including remixes, weird early works, favorite B-sides. Unfortunately the show’s only an hour long, so in order to play more than 5 tracks I’ll have to play everything on +8 on the turntables or plus 50% on the CD players. Just kidding! No alterations.

A complete version of the film Metropolis has been found in Argentina. Apparently the versions available today are missing 90 minutes of material.

More here.

Does this have anything to do with the music usually covered on this blog? You betcherass. Jeff Mills and Giorgio Moroder both created soundtracks for the silent film, the former going so far as to perform his soundtrack alongside a showing of the film (along with performances by Super Collider and Herbert!)

On a totally different note, I will be playing two sets at River Gods tomorrow night (July 3) as part of the monthly WZBC Countdown that was postponed from last month. Also appearing will be Matt Crook and John Straub. Unfortunately, the bar won’t be open until 2AM, even though it’s the day before a holiday, but there are other area events that will be open afterwards (If I am not totally cracked out I might head over to Elements for the last bit of KLUTE)

Excellent Interview with Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson of Throbbing Gristle and Coil
Pipecock vs. Mnml Ssgs, in three parts. Part 2, Part 3, Bonus

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Apologies for the lack of recording. I had troubles with the turntable which screwed everything.

Jack Dangers “Polarissima Borealis” from “Music for Planetarium” on Brainwashed Handmade
The Black Dog “Digital Poacher” from “Radio Scarecrow” on Dust Science
Joi “Asian Vibes” from “Joi” on Real World
Myroslaw Bytz “Amfuem” from “Amfuem” on Chi Recordings
Kirk Degiorgio “I Do Not Exist (B12 Remix)” from “I Do Not Exist” on B12
John Foxx “Kurfurstendamm” from “Tiny Colour Movies” on Metamatic
Sebbo “Watamu Beach (Mortiz von Oswald Rework)” from “Watamu Beach” on Desolat
Autechre “Paralel Suns” from “Quaristice” on Warp
Steve Reich “My name is Daniel Pearl (I’m a Jewish American from Encino California)” from “Daniel. Variations” on Nonesuch
Audio Gourmet “Procrastinations” from “Rusted Dreams EP” on Webbed Hand
Tang “Horizons” from “Machine Oriented” on Emphasis
Swayzak “Ikea” from “Make Up Your Mind” on !K7
MRI “Autopilot” from “Dauerlaufer” on Force Tracks
Model 500 “Infoworld” from “Ocean to Ocean” on transmat
Tortured Soul “Special Lady” from “In Transit Advance EP”
Klein & M.B.O. “Dirty” from “Full 12″ Mixes & Re-Edits Volume 5″ on Music Box
Paul Kalkbrenner “Press On (Joris Voorn Remix)” from “Reworks Vol 1″ on BPitch Control
James Priestley & Dan Berkson “Chariots” from “Chariots” on Simple
Annette “Dream 17 (Mayday Mix)” from “Remixes 01″ on Not on Label
Quadrant “Hyperprism” from “Infinition” on Basic Channel
Thomas Dolby “One of our Submarines” from “she blinded me with science” on Venice In Peril
Ian O’Brien “Theme from Apollo” from “A History of Things to Come” on Peacefrog
Deadbeat “Random Brown” from “Random Brown” on Cynosure
Lansley & Brocksieper “Popa Wheelie” from “Cunning Stunts EP” on Sub Static
Alexkid “King Britt’s Scuba Mix” from “Strawberry Lane Remixes” on F Communication
Dan Curtin “Shining in Dub” from “Shining” on Dust Science

Here’s the playlist to the Basic Channel Test Pattern. I was pleased instead of embarrassed with a recorded mix for once. Playlist below!

06:16PM Quadrant “Infinition” from “Infinition” (2004) on Basic Channel
06:24PM Substance and Vainqueur “Immersion” from “Surface” (2006) on Scion Versions
06:30PM Phylyps “Trak II” from “Trak II” (1994) on Basic Channel
06:37PM Phylyps “Trak” from “Trak” (1993) on Basic Channel
06:42PM Vainqueur “Lyot (Maurizio Mix)” from “Lyot” (1992) on Maurizio
06:51PM Basic Channel “Octagon” from “Octagon/Octaedre” (1994) on Basic Channel

And even farther below, the playlist for the Hydrogen Economy:
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After discussion with the venue, the WZBC Countdown will NOT be occurring as planned tonight. From John S., the host:

Hey folks:

Tomorrow night is the first Thursday of the month, which is when WZBC
usually hosts a monthly countdown + 2 featured DJs at River Gods. But
tomorrow also happens to be game 1 of the NBA finals between the
Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers. River Gods doesn’t usually
have a TV on in the bar, but they do make an exception when Boston
teams make it into championship games. So River Gods will be showing
the game an a big screen.

River Gods might mute the TV audio, in which case I will spin during
the game, and play WZBC’s countdown as usual between 10 and 11 p.m. I
will also spin after the game.
River Gods might turn up the TV audio, in which case I will just play
a few songs - including the countdown songs - during the commercial
breaks. Either way, I will spin after the game is over.

Go Celtics!

Tomorrow night (Thursday June 5th), Matt Crook and I will be playing some records at River Gods along with the WZBC Countdown for June. Full info here.

Friday night (June 6th) is my Basic Channel Test Pattern! I recorded the mixed portion of this last night and my head damn near fell off so I think you’ll like it too. That starts at 6PM Eastern time on WZBC.

First off, Matt Crook (also from WZBC) and I will be accompanying next month’s WZBC countdown at River Gods, June 5 at 8:30 PM. Each of us will be playing two sets. It’s free, but 21+.

125 River St, Cambridge, MA is the place. Parking’s a bitch, btw.

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