So Festival number 2 is now done (in a series of 6) and what a weekend it was! This one was The Secret Garden Party in Cambridgeshire and I could not believe the transformation. I last went to SGP about 6 years ago when it was a rather rough, simple affair with 3 entertainment areas, about (rather posh) 1200 punters and an awful lot of rubbish – not my ideal weekend, it had to be said. Over the last few years friends have been increasingly speaking highly of the event, much to my skepticism so, riding on the coat tails of Echaskech (another day time gig so I happily took the role of roadie for the weekend again) I went with low expectations. At least this way, I figured I wouldn’t be disappointed. Though to be honest, I would have had some pretty princessy expectations to come away from this feeling let down. The site has expanded to accomodate at least ten times the audience I’d seen previously, and comfortably at that, The weather turned out in spectacular fashion, as did the beautiful festival people who attended the weekend. The site crams in so much entertainment, blending stalls and stages next to each other interwoven with many pieces of site specific art. It’s so difficult to describe the vibe of the place, but if you took Bestival and dragged it through the Green fields of Glastonbury you’d get close to what it’s like there. A lot of organically grown fun. The musical line up might not jump off the page on first glance, but with so much going on round the site at any one time, it was pretty easy to find something of interest. Anyway, it comes highly recommended. Big thanks to CJ, Toby, Dave and Dave, Erin, Penny, Chris, Chris, Ginny, Sarah, Vera, Saul, Alex, Liz, Chloe, Jools, Roger, Rupert, Nick, Hugo (hope I got everyone) for helping make the weekend very special and special thanks to Dom and Andy for being the best techtronica band on the planet and playing an absolute blinder on Sunday. Anyway – as mentioned on the show below – it’s Big Chill next weekend so, no show next week, but in the meantime here’s this week’s…
Tracklisting
Stornoway – Watching Birds
Radiohead – 15 Step
Animal Collective – No More Running
Underdog (save me) – Turin Brakes
Beak – How a Hot Air Ballon Works
Tunng – it’s because… we’ve got hair
The Long Lost – Amiss (Tunng rmx)
Shugo Tokumaru – Mushina
Cornelius – Watadori
The XX – Islands
LCD Soundsystem – One Touch
Hot Chip – Hand Me Down Your Love
Datassette – Humans
Jonsi – Animal Arithmatic
Dntel – In which our hero is decapitated by the evil king
Datassette – The Aviatrix
Sarah Jaffe – Under
The Village Orchestra – Love Theme from “Two Man Rumble”
Freescha – The Sun Is Still… Still
The Field – I have the moon… you have the internet
No time to chat, just enough time to tell you the..
Tracklisting
Fennesz – Black Sea
Dntel – In which our hero begins his long and ardous quest
The Village Orchestra – Jacob/Bad Hand at Cards
Datassette – The Aviatrix
LCD Soundsystem – You wanted a hit
Booka Shade – Teenage Spaceman
Posthuman – Ottowa (echaskech remix)
Datassette – Micro
MJ Cole (Nero remix) – Sincere
Dntel (Thaddeus Valk rmx) – Casuals
Aphex Twin – Delphium
School of Seven Bells – Half Asleep (Lusine remix)
The Field – Yesterday and Today
Unai – Oh You and I (trentemoeller rmix)
School of Seven Bells – Babelonia
Stornoway – I saw you blink
Festival Season kicked off last weekend with a journey into the country to visit Blissfields, who were celebrating their 10th year of festivalling – a worthy birthday to celebrate, especially in this “current climate” which has seen so many well loved festivals die a horrible death. Blissfields have kept going by staying small and true to it’s roots and more power to it. Sadly Echaskech were booked to play during the daylight hours so not much for me to do this time, but I did make up for it by djing on The Bubblebus again, which was a lot of huge fun – thanks to Caro, Jasper and Tom for their hospitality and generosity. Anyway… Here’s this weeks
Tracklisting
Lusine – Ask You
LCD Soundsystem – Dance yourself clean
Gorillaz – Empire Ants
Little Dragon – Never Never
Murcof – Memoria
Bonobo – Eyes Down
Pantha du Prince – Lay in a shimmer
The Village Orchestra – Lo Pencil
Beaufort Scale – Dreaming in Perivale (echaskech remix)
School of Seven Bells – Windstorm
Beak – Limozeen
Drexon Field – Limoncello Liquor is wonderful
Stornoway – The End of the Movie
Apparat – Over and Over
Echaskech – Every Touch
Digitonal – Emberkreiss
The Orb – Star 6 & 7 8 9
We really have gone to The Dogs in this part 2 Hex show. It contains a massive error. It has offensive and unnecessary Brian Blessed bum talk. And lest you think that Tom Baker’s anus goes unimagined then no, there it is. All that and Gordon Brown’s fun-string, Sarah Brown’s secret garden and a horrific chainsaw accident. DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS. EVER.
Here I am showing a few instruments, or modes, overlayed. Most instruments are designed to simply make sound when I interact, but others are self generative (like the bouncing balls) so that aspect of them persists between modes. I haven't really payed much attention to musical key or the 'edges' of the sounds, so its a bit of a cacophony I'm afraid, but I wanted to play with it again and thought i may as well blog it. Each time I do this I go away and make improvements, so perhaps itll be better next time! I really must work out how to switch of auto focus on my camera tho!
Who, tell me, who? Just who, would sand a monkey for fun. And I don't mean throw sand in the monkeys face, though that would be bad enough. No. Who would take some sandpaper, starting with a course grain, and set about a blameless simian with the intention of giving it him lovely smooth finish? Who? Only someone extremely bored, that's who. Don't let it be you. Listen to this megabig-double-size show forthwith. WARNING: Actual show may appear shorter due to time flying when you're having fun. Not a guaranteed cure for monkey sanding syndrome. Contains nuts. People with bladder weakness should probably be ashamed of themselves.
Like the man with the world record for having the highest sperm count, this show is creaking at the seams and begging to be released. Its dog content is higher than any previous Hex, a stunning 80 percent. The Robert Mugabe count is off the scale, and if you like tedious towel-folding robots, then boy is this the podcast for you.
Anyway – as mentioned on the show below – it’s Big Chill next weekend so, no show next week, but in the meantime here’s this week’s…
