Liam Interviews Bleeding Heart Narrative in an exclusive for DCR, they discuss line up, live show and the mechanics of the band with chosen tracks from the album Tongue Tangled Hair.

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”This mix is an example of some of my favourite tracks from the last couple of years and has no fixed genre, mixing together different styles is the beauty of DJ’ing”

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For those of you who don’t know Zekkas Ten is Liam Turner, he runs a lot of stuff on this station and presents the IF show with Gemma, but when he finds time and isn’t making excuses he does things like this.

Mixing crackly vinyl with CD’s, as they allow more room for creativity, he manages to traverse LA Bass & Beats from the likes of Flying Lotus, Noise from Ben Frost and Fuck Buttons, Hardcore from No Age and some Post-Punk while also finding room for more centralised 4/4 music. Liam loves Techno but appreciates that not everybody else does ” I’ve always loved Techno, Detroit Techno in particular, they’ve been doing it right for so long, but unless it’s a Techno crowd it can be wasted and I understand when people don’t feel it, so with this mix I just wanted to put together some great, great music, no matter of style or tempo and blend it together, you’ve gotta keep others and yourself for that matter, interested”

For a look at the tracklist you can click here, but don’t ruin the surprise.

To contact Liam for Bookings etc:  liam@differentclassradio.co.uk

Flying Lotus – GNG BNG

Darkstar – Need You

Qoso – Jurassic Park

The Fun Years – I Am Speaking Through Barbara

DJ Shadow – Enuff

Ital Tek – Archaic

Evil Nine – Icicles

The Field – The More That I Do (Foals RMX)

No Age – Everybody’s Down

Fuck Buttons – Sweet Love For Planet Earth (Andy Weatherall RMX)

Joy Division – No Love Lost

Zekkas Ten – Gone Into The Land

Future Islands – Little Dreamer (Jones RMX)

The Paris Riots
Bleeding Heart Narrative

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Liam interviews Bleeding Heart Narrative in an exclusive for DCR:

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On the Electronic Tonic I have played tracks from the likes of Redshape, 2562, Modeselektor, Ikonika, Kode9, Trentemoller, FaltyDL, Instra:mental etc not realising that there are free Podcasts available from all of these artists. Amazing.

Many of these guys I haven’t seen live in the flesh, so until I rectify this, the Podcasts provide an excellent way of knowing what their DJ sets would sound like.

Here are the pick of the bunch I have found so far (apologies, they are all electronic but then that’s really no surprise is it?):

Autonomic

Maybe the best of the lot; 12 “layers” that can be downloaded from the above link. Put together by Dbridge and Instra:mental, each layer features an ‘Influences’ section and then a mix. Absolutely brilliant music, these guys are seriously talented producers.

XLR8R

Past mixes have featured Floating Points, Ikonika, Nosaj Thing, Kode9, Cooly G, Modeselektor, Martyn, Trentemoller and as I write they have just put up an excellent ‘cast from FaltyDL, a guy I have bigged-up loads on the Tonic.

Whitenoise (Dave Clarke)

What can I say, two hours of the Baron playing techno every week………

Resident Advisor

Got to be on the ball with these, online for three weeks and then gone; 2562, Carl Craig, Starkey, Thomas Fehlmann, Surgeon, Erol Alkan, Redshape have all done ‘casts.

FACT

Past podcasts from Autechre (!!!), The Black Dog, and current one is Marcel Dettman. Tends to feature more “out-there” artists.

Fabric

London club have offered ‘casts from FourTet, Surgeon, Mad Professor, Andy Weatherall and loads more.

Hotflush

Podcasts from Scuba’s label

I’ve only just scraped the surface, if you know of anymore worth checking out please let me know!

Electronic Steve x
Stephen@differentclassradio.co.uk

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So today is National Record Store Day and what did you do to celebrate?  I awoke at 6am groggy after one too many rum and ginger ales on a sofa in North London. Wiping the sleep from my eyes, I made my way to Rough Trade Records to spend two and a half hours queuing for the Blur record, ‘Fool’s Day’; limited to 1000 copies, in the whole world! On arrival I was 25th in the queue, someone mentioned that the store had 50 – 70 copies; I should be fine.

The queue was a great laugh – let’s face it, people who are mad enough to get to a record store at 7am to buy a 7” are going to be sound – it all adds to the event. It reminded me of when I queued for 6 hours on a freezing January morning as a teenager with my Dad to get tickets to see Blur play at Southend, or the time queuing to get in to the closing night at the End nightclub in London – all little adventures that I will never forget, moments of excitement shared with strangers queuing. We were all concerned though, maybe we’d all have to frantically search around the shop to find the record, and by which time……maybe they had fewer copies, perhaps only 24….

In the end they gave out paper tokens and I got one, pretty easily. I was concerned that perhaps they’d made an error, perhaps giving out too many. By the time the store opened at gone 9am the queue was down the road and around the corner, easy over 200 people. Amazing.

Inside the store it was carnage, for those unaware – there weren’t just Blur records up for grabs. A Flaming Lips record was ridiculously popular, as was a Stones’ record. People were grabbing records left, right and centre. Records fell on the floor, people were getting squashed – madness.  In the end I left with Beatles’, Hendrix, Stones’, Babyshambles’, Gorillaz’s records limited to 1000 copies in the UK, a Factory Records’ release limited to 750 and the golden prize, ‘Fool’s Day’ by Blur. I am one of only 999 other people in the whole world who own it, but not only that (and more importantly) it’s a new Blur track, a band which I have always loved and cherished. People said I was crazy, even sad – but then I’ll never forget this morning and every time I ever play this record I will tell the story. Well worth having a great time in a queue for 2 hours in front of a record store.

Happy National Record Store Day!

Electronic Steve x

stephen@differentclassradio.co.uk

With the day off to prepare it helped with our preparation but not with an early influx of people, Gem and I sat there at 9:15 like school kids in an empty classroom waiting for a telling off, but with a sudden rush  nerves were settled and Victoria & Jacob took the stage, Victoria has a great voice which becomes even more apparent live; bright, powerful and guided superbly by Jacob’s electronic backdrop, a bright future awaits.

Recent years, to me, has seen slim pickings for aggressive guitar bands, with the likes of Paramore and Lost Prophets often being described as punk or hardcore bands it’s always going to be a battle to find decent new ones, welcome Kurtz, they took the stage and from the first moment stated intent, playing through a flurry of drums and baritone guitar these lads from Wakefield play with hurt. No vocals just powerful string play and individualist drumming, the crowd wanted more.

There is a reason you ask people back for more live shows, maybe a few, one being the music, obviously, but what also helps is people that are good to work with, reliable, positive etc. Angrydan personifies this and happens to be pretty decent live, he’s ditched the laptop in place of a sampler and visual edge and it’s added to a great show, a true modern one man band with a big glitchy sound that while staying interesting never strays from a poppable melody.

Drum Eyes were put onto me by Digby as a band that had to be seen, so we put them on, they filled the stage with boxes, gear and people, two drummers driving the sound with a bass so deep I doubt I’ll get that range back in my ears, most people loved them and a few wanted their money back, just the way I like it!

Me and Gem made a big decision this week, we decided to go bi-monthly with the shows, it was always meant to be a part of DCR but it’s taken over, I never wanted to be a music promoter and I still don’t, I just want to see and be involved with good bands, so when I couldn’t find time to do my show something had to give. The next IF show will be mega.

Next show June 11th – Bardens Boudoir – Line up to follow !

Even though it is tiny it has one of the best sound systems in the county and is increadibly important as a home to the kind of forward thinking music we play on Different Class Radio. It has hosted nights such as FWD>>, Bash and CD-R. Producers such as Four Tet (anyone notice a song called Plastic People on his new album), The Bug, Kode9 and Erol Alkan have all played there.

The most up-to-date info about the situation can be read here but it seems that the reasons the police have given to shut it down are very poor.

To find out how you can help the club have a look at this Facebook group or sign this petiton, which will be given to Hackney Council.

Digby

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Feedreader by Jules Hallam – A music-based radio cast sampling new music that’s generating a buzz across blogs, online press and the worldwide web. Expect anything from dubstep and hip hop to soul, jazz, latin, dance, garage and electronica.

Listen to Subscribe: every other Monday from 9pm.

FDR #18

Its all about brand new music on the show this week: Joy Orbison, Martyn and Darkstar to name a few. We also take a look about what’s coming up in London town over the next few weeks and, for all you newcomers, I talk about the idea behind Feedreader.

Track List

01 Redlight – Ghosts On Fire (Cut Copy Mashup)
02 Joy Orbison – So Derobe [Aus Music]
03 Kid Kanevil – Megajoy (Tokimonsta rmx) [Brainfeeder]
04 Blacktee – Gimme Sumffin [unsigned]
05 Martyn – Friedrichstrasse [Elevator Music]
06 Wedge & Aesoteric – Use Only As Directed [Applepips]
07 Illum Sphere – Agent White [Fat City]
08 Pixelord – Quartz Boy [Error Broadcast]
09 Daedelus – Order Of The Golden Dawn [Brainfeeder]
10 Souljazz Orchestra – Lotus Flower [Strut]
11 Darkstar – Automating [Hyperdub]
12 Jose James & Flying Lotus – Code [Brownswood]
13 Four Tet – Plastic People [Domino]

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DCR

The Brighton band Tall Ships will replace Talons on Feb 5th, we did’nt want to replace Talons with any old band just to make up the numbers but we were recommended Tall Ships and we’re happy to welcome them on our night.

http://www.myspace.com/tallshipsfromfalmouth

DONT FORGET TO GO HOME !?

THREE TRAPPED TIGERS

We wish you a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year

But let’s face it, you’re tired of people banging on about the true meaning of Christmas; whether it’s the little baby Jesus, time spent with family and friends, remembering the less fortunate and so on. But just listen to Kellarissa’s The Eve of Christmas Eve, my favourite Christmas song this year, (played today, along with Jane Siberry, Holly Golightly and The Walkabouts) in all its realistic warmth, and when she sings: “I don’t care what we do each Christmas/Just as long as you’re with me”,  can anyone doubt that the true meaning of Christmas dwells in those lines?

Merry Christmas x

Enjoy

So sit back relax, pour yourself a coffee with Baileys and enjoy Christmas on DCR.

But for every song that heigh-hos, there’s another that takes on a
less festive hue. In today’s Christmas podcast, James Brown languidly
lambasts us for neglecting those worse off than ourselves, The
Youngsters warn us of the pitfalls of over-indulging, the lovely El
Perro Del Mar may be sighing ‘Oh, What a Christmas’, but in a voice
that simply cries out ‘Bonjour, tristesse’. And finally, when the
quixotic Mary Margaret O’Hara sings that it’ll be a blue Christmas
without you, one knows, that for her, it truly will be.

So if you are, during this festive period, paper hat on head, feeling
like a character in a Bergman film, while all around you sit sunny
people who long to be in Friends, remember you’re not alone. This too
will pass. So buy yourself a present, unpop a cork, and have Christmas
on your own terms. And if your mood clears and your spirits cheer,
join me on 23 December for the other side of the coin in the plum
pudding, a show made up of songs that celebrate Christmas.

We’re getting truly festive here at DCR and offering you a plethora of daily yuletide shows to keep you busy over the festive season.
Our DJ’s will be airing a new mini-show every day from December 12th right up until Christmas Eve featuring their favourite Alternative seasonal tracks.

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There will be no Pogues, no Slade, no Wham and certainly no Cliff. We’re talking about The Fall, Slow Club, Das Wunderlust, The Ramones, Kellarissa, Radiohead, Mogwai, Bright Eyes and so on and so on.
All our regular DJ’s from Liam and Gem on The IF show to Adrian’s 13 show, Digby’s Debris Slide, Ladies Day, Steve from The Electronic Tonic and Adam’s Words Into Wires will all leave their regular format for this fortnight and get all festive, we’re also welcoming Richard our podcast producer for a special Christmas Eve show with guests. The fresh show will appear in this space just after midnight every day from 12th December to Chrsitmas Eve.
Ahhh, the wonder of an alternative Christmas x

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liam@differentclassradio.co.uk or for the female touch gemma@differentclassradio.co.uk

We do like to hear new demo’s and mp3’s but please only send us stuff that might be suitable for our ears,  for example we’re not overly keen on music you might here on Magic, get in touch with Magic I reckon. Some details about yourself are also helpful.

All our DJ’s can be contacted via their respective pages.

If you like the DCR style and Graphics it’s all thanks to a man called James Newport he can be contacted here: jimgraphix@googlemail.com

Our Podcast Producer is Richard Elms he can be contacted here: richard@turnupandtalk.com

I am pretty disillusioned with a lot of the popular music and journalism around at the moment. I’m getting tired of journalists telling me what I should listen too (ref. recent NME cover title “15 bands to get excited about” (but then I am using the worst music magazine of them all as an example; I mean, the Strokes, album of the decade? Bollocks)). Hype kills the music it’s hyping!

I find a lot of the current crop of bands frankly boring, and just too approachable. The XX for example, yes their album is good, but what’s it going to provide after 10 listens? I’m bored of buying albums and them sitting on my cd shelf gathering dust after the initial hit has worn thin. To me it’s bubblegum music that’s a little bit cooler than the norm, but ultimately not satisfying. Listen to this inoffensive stuff too much and you’ll never want anything else!

Of course there are always exceptions to the rule; Bon Iver’s album for example, I loved immediately and will not tire of; clubs thrive on music that you will likely hear once, by an artist you probably never have heard of but yet at that moment it means everything. Immediacy can be nice, believe me I have pop soft spots (I think Nelly Furtado’s ‘Say it Right’ is a great track, seriously have a listen on Spotify).

Inevitably I must bring the subject to electronic music and what some refer to as IDM. The music of Autechre, one of my very favourite artists, initially sounds like noise, probably the very definition of unapproachable, totally not radio friendly. But now, after many many listens, I find a lot of their music incredibly moving, almost to the point of bringing tears to my eyes. And here is the point of this blog: sharing this music with others is incredibly difficult; the music effectively provides its own barrier between it and the listener and it requires a hell of a lot of listening to get through it. It’s not bubblegum sugar-coated radio friendly music it’s the opposite and it’s all the better for it. How can radio present this? I would like to play more on the Electronic Tonic but then I doubt people would listen. In a way it is frustrating to love something so much but it being so hard to share, and in fact, commonly with IDM, people won’t even give it the time of day – declaring hatred before knowing. Even the term Intelligent Dance Music pisses people off (and rightly so!). I use IDM as my own personal example, heavy metal lovers I don’t doubt feel the same about the music they love.

I would like to add that this opinionated babble is solely mine, and not necessarily that of DCR or indeed anyone else. Nobody’s musical opinion is right or wrong and that’s one thing that makes music so great. It’s passion at the end of the day.

Electronic Steve x

stephen@differentclassradio.co.uk

By the way, if you’re unfamiliar with Autechre try LP5 an incredible piece of work. Also check out Gantz Graf but it must be watched with the video for full effect (and loud)!

DJ Ed P brings Different Class Radio an exclusive mix. A deep, bleepy and bouncy mix from guest DJ Ed P taking in African drums, jazzy Japanese piano, Nordic screams and even an extended marimba workout (yeah!) Think house, broken beat and nu-jazz with twists, turns and trips.

1. Path – Disques Sinthomme (Disques Sinthomme)
2. Tree Bells – Arken (Sonar Kollektiv)
3. Mode Mode: Big Bang Remix – Jaz’presso (Incense)
4. Tablakone – City of Women (Sähkö)
5. Rasmus Faber Plays The Marimba – Tiger Stripes (Nite Grooves)

Love from Electronic Steve

‘Mad’ Mike remains true to Detroit, the city in which Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson and Juan Atkins first invented what many today  perceive as techno, ‘Mad Mike’ was one of the second generation of techno pioneers to hail from Detroit, along with Jeff Mills and Kenny Larkin, he remains to this day in Detroit, with Detroit musicians, shying almost totally from the limelight and focusing on music, you can catch a rare interview with him in the classic documentary Universal Techno.

The Detroit scene always praised Kraftwerk for their musical achievements and it was from Germany and Europe that techno also took hold most notably with Hardfloor, DJ Hell, Sven Vath and Ellen Allien, the latter started the highly influential B-Pitch control label which still releases some of the greatest electronic music in the world today with Modeselektor/Moderat alongside Ben Klock and Paul Kalkbrenner, check out the  classic of epic proportions of Acperience by Hardfloor. From Germany you can move through France with Laurent Garnier, Francois K and early Daft Punk and into Britain, Autechre represent the Techno ethic without being tied to the scene, but it’s people like Slam and their label Soma, Christian Vogel, Carl Cox and the master Dave Clarke who keep the scene free of bullshit, Clarke’s live sets and productions are, in my opinion, second to none, check out The Wolf by DC.

Techno has a DIY ethic, never have true techno producers sought the limelight of the charts, big money deals and commercial radio shows. The base of techno lies in groove and percussion, fundamentally making people dance with rhythm from drums, something that goes back further than anyone knows and it’s for this reason that techno is a very important genre of music, I don’t think that in ten years time we’ll be looking back at the current crop of electro and saying ‘ wow, they really had an impact on music today’ and why? Well I think, feel free to argue, that electro, hard house, commercial house and trance rely way too heavily on sounds and production techniques of the time, without having any foresight or originality and if your not thinking for yourself your copying others, this means you’ll always be behind, always chasing. I have always believed that music is about thinking for yourself, being creative, original and if your not doing that then I think to an extent you’ve missed the point.

Liam

Gemma

Who knows, maybe in a few years we will have a Different Class Radio festival to look forward to…and if we did, who would you like to see on the line up?

Hope to see you on the 30th for 1st Birthday fun.

Enjoy,

Liam

Have a look at the 1st Birthday post for information about our party to celebrate this achievement. In case you’re too lazy to do that the basics are: 30 October, Pangea Project, Stoke Newington, live music and DJs, and it’s all free.

Now for one of my infrequent posts. Following on from my last one this is another recommnedation for things to do and see in London.

Every month at the Mucky Pup pub in Islington Cigarette Burns hold a free film night showing weird, wonderful and sometimes hilariously bad films that you most likely have never heard of. As well as a main feature they show shorts and have a raffle where you can win a year’s membership to the Rio cinema in Dalston.

What drew my attention to the night was their screening of Turkey Shoot and the trailer for it they put up on their blog. It’s a ridiculous and often tasteless Ozploitation flick, you kind of have to see it to believe it. I’ve posted the trailer below for everyone to enjoy.

Check out their night for one of the best movie experiences around in the capital. They dredge through the bottom of the barrel of cinema so you don’t have to.

Digby

As for the rest we had the compulsory launch party, basement techno for the Christmas bash, a trip to Berlin to search the techno clubs and shaky premiere then recently the cracking Introducing at Bardens.

Now THE DCR 1st Birthday !

Pangea Project

Stoke Newington

Friday October 30th

Angrydan + support & DCR DJ’s

ITS FREE !!!!!

” I take myself very fucking seriously ! ”         Tony Wilson

Well what way do you go? I tend to think the late great Wilson is a wonderful barometer. Whats been happening then? Well as regular listeners will know the new website is on the way, I have been barking on about it for sometime, some say too much, but the progress is looking great and it should be with you in the next couple of weeks, he says…….. Any ideas you have for the new site would be well appreciated, as after all its about you and not us, flip me an email: liam@differentclassradio.co.uk.

We’ve welcomed aboard a new DJ and very happy we are too, Adam Mondon is true and wise, his musical background and knowledge are more than welcomed here at DCR, check out his show ‘Words into Wires’.

As part of the aforementioned ‘New Site’ we will be upping the calibre of the featured artist section which has been sitting idle for a little while, fear not we have started DCR sessions and already have one in the bag! Last week we recorded an exclusive session with Manor House Mad Professor Angrydan, it features an interview with the man himself and some class session tracks, watch this space. Also we’ll be re-airing the DJ Biffstruck mix from last year, he’s currently on a massive tour with his wonderful band The XX but we managed to pin him down earlier in the year for an exclusive mix and a fucking smasher it is too.

We are also nearly one year old, funny that, The DCR 1st Birthday will take place fashionably late on Friday October 30th at Pangea Project Stoke Newington, it’ll be free to get in and a musical trifle of taste

Keep listening, onwards and upwards !

They all want me, they can’t have me…………..

LT

Thanks go in a big way to all the guys who supported, Geste rocked up with his crew and seemed to play anything he could get his hands on while never straying from grated beats and his vocalists added an unexpected dimension. I haven’t seen Rival Consoles in over a year and I think he’s come on a great deal, the beats are tight as ever, I always love the position he sits in in terms of electronic music; perfectly seated between the dance-floor and IDM and it suits him well, his new visual rig is too complicated for my brain to fathom but looks wicked and suits the music perfectly. Angrydan sat in main support and whipped the crowd with aplomb, his mix of beats, grooves, nursery rhymes and comedy got everyone in the mood for music, which left 10 Rapid who rocked the floor with his usual weighted presence to the weary warriors !

It was a great night and I’m really thankful to all who came, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

Thanks also to Bardens, H, Jimbo, Digby, T, Gem & Tom

Much Love

Liam DCR x

So I thought I’d try and readdress the balance to the south slightly (can’t do much about the London bit though).

If you have a spare evening up until the end of September head down to Peckham, find the Peckham Cinema and make your way to the top of the 10 floor carpark above it. The lifts feel like they are going to drop at any second and there are no lights on the stairs but believe me it is worth it.

At the top is temporary bar, Frank’s Cafe, open from 11am to 10pm every Thursday to Sunday until 30 September. There are also artworks and large sculptures dotted around. But the most impressive thing is the view of the city spanning the horizon. Once you’re up there you won’t be able take your eyes off it. You can watch the sun set and as night falls the lights in the buildings glow.

Sorry this doesn’t have much to do with music, althought I think they do have a jazz band up there occasionally, but after seeing it for myself I had to share.

Of course if you are still bored and stuck in North London get yourself over to the Introducing show at Barden’s Boudoir on 20 August organised by Different Class Radio. You can get tickets here.

Digby

You can buy advance tickets here: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/54243

We are very pleased to be announcing this line up for Thursday 20th August at Bardens Boudoir.

We have 4 support artists plus a ten piece, YES TEN PIECE, band playing DJ Shadows epic masterpiece Endtroducing !

Introducing

Take the idea of the “world’s first completely sampled album” and turn it around by playing the whole thing live.It’s hard to imagine that it’s now over a decade since DJ Shadow released his classic debut album ‘Endtroducing’ – an album that inspired a generation of musicians. Now, for the first time ever in the U.K – a complete, note for note live band reworking of DJ Shadow’s classic masterpiece, performed Live by Introducing, a 10 Piece London based outfit dedicated to recreating the entire experience.
This is going to be special !

Angrydan

His live shows combine looped vocals, beatboxing, live guitar, synthesizer, sampled beats, and real-time dynamic FX processing. His music flows from bass led vocal pop to Glitch-core Drum & Bass. We’ve had our eye on Angrydan since hearing the gorgeous tones of Deaf, Dumb and Blind, only then to find out he does a complete counterpoint live and fucks it up pusher style.

Rival Consoles

Arguably the flag ship of prominent indie label Erased Tapes, Rival Consoles has just seen the release of his album ‘IO’ to critical acclaim:’West’s Rival Consoles project revives the schism between the commercial house music of suburban hell-holes and the perverted beats of electronica’s golden boys. A massive slice of jagged grandiosity… ‘IO’ is a party record even snobs can enjoy.’ (7/10) – NME (UK) , ‘Thrilling stuff, primed for the more discerning floors…’ Top Download – Bleep (UK)We made RC artist of the month last year and we’re very very pleased to have him on our bill, get ready for some sublime electronica!

10 Rapid

With remixes for the likes of Cagedaby, Koma & Bones and Stone Lion which won him the Marine Parade remix competition, 10 Rapid has had a busy busy year with the likes of Adam Freeland, Plump DJ’s, Groove Armada, Alex Metric & Evil Nine all rocking his tunes worldwide and backing his beat-mastery.He is currently recording his debut album ‘Minor Riot’ from which he will be playing exclusive tracks.

Geste

Signed to Berlin’s Equinox Records Geste’s IDM  electronica compositions may not sound connected to Punk Hardcore, Pop, Jazz, Classical, or any other genre of music. Nonetheless, he’s a  typical musical journey, from the darkest black metal of his early years to the glitchest electronic music he now composes..
His work as Geste was yet another way to explore new soundscapes. His curiosity made him try computer generated music and naturally led to a completely unique sound and approach. What started as an improvised “game” became a strong and powerful mixture of sound layers of many origins.

DCR DJ’s spin into the last day of work

Doors 7pm – 2am

Firstly I want to state the obvious for those who were there, I’m incredibly sorry about the sound issues we had last night. We had the DVD professionally mixed, ran tests previous to the night and although we had some problems it was all sorted well in advance only for things to go gremlin state again, it was very frustrating.  That said, we don’t blame Pangea either we were just unlucky, they are great people at Pangea and we hope to work with them again.

BUT you will be able to watch the whole thing on our site very soon !!! keep an eye open.

I do feel it was a positive night and we’re already thinking about the next doc. we have learnt  a lot.

Thanks very much to all  who came, see you at Introducing x

and spare a thought for the legend that was Bobby Robson, a true gentlemen and master of the game.

Liam

The Glade Festival in full swing

The Glade Stage

Beautiful “lava lamp” built with mathmatics and helium balloons

Lava Lamp at night

The Glade Stage 2

Arcadia!

Aracadia – Alex Metric

Arcadia and tulips

Booka Shade

Moderat

Mutant Clan

Underworld

Your host

With love, The Electronic Tonic x

Photographs care of Bastiani Incorporated.

LT

we’ll be adding to the bill with some fine support very soon. BUY TICKETS BELOW:

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It’s all about Blur at the moment and that’s just fine by me. This is a little late as the gig happened on the 13th of June  but what with Glasto ( blog on the way) and the de-evolution of my brain it’s been delayed, but there was no way I was going to miss out on the chance to recollect this balmy evening.

So The Chappel and Wakes Colne Railway Station and Museum is but a mile from my mums house, the house where I bought my first Genesis tape, progressed through Oasis until I dumped the lot for the album Blur. For these said reasons there was no way I was gonna miss my favourite band in one of my favourite places, it really is one of my favourite places, the annual cider festival here is stuff of hangover legend and getting kicked out my ex-girlfriends house at 5am with no clothes on was one of the best.

So the weather was gorgeous and I went up at 6pm to scout the scene, jumped a barbed wire fence to hear Blur warming up with She’s So High. This made me step back somewhat as I was still without a ticket and I’d been told Blur had got ‘The Heavies’ in, lets think about this………………..

So picked up by a convoy of Mondeo and motorbike we parked by the back entrance and jumped the fence, the group started cautious but I thought fuck it let go bold as brass, I walked past their tour bus pulled out the mobile and began barking down it like a startled dog, my idea was to come across to security as someone of importance, this worked well with the first three security but not the last or biggest, ‘Wheres your wristband ?’ I looked at my wrist expecting it to be there, ‘Shit, I must have lost it !’, ‘OUT ! !’. Before I knew it I had five of ‘The Heavies’ round me ( ‘Heavies’ meaning local community volunteers and eager railway devotees) but I could see Blur, they were two records in and at the height of bass twang Girls and Boys so I figured I’d just talk for as long as I could in a polite manner as I was where I wanted to be, I could see the band, promptly the doors were shut and I was marched away, but to my surprise I was quickly down to just 1 heavy and he had a fisherman’s hat and teeth like a dusty cowboy’s dog so I fancied my chances, I shimmied, I ran, I dodged, this prompted him to bring out his torch and threaten ” I’ve got a mag-light and I’m not afraid to use it ! ” so I was out, this was a low, assurances we could listen from the platform meant nothing to me, I was so close.

So I tucked into my Ale on the platforms edge in perfect range of the gig and beginning to enjoy it, when a gorgeous, young, ringleted siren ran out declaring ‘ I’ve got more wristbands ! ‘. I was in, £15 pound donated to the appeal to fix the roof of the museum – best money ever spent – I ran round, flashed my band to the former enemy and rushed in to a moment of surrealism, I actually enjoyed ‘Coffee and TV’. For the next two hours I was privy to the most impressive gig I have been lucky to be at, the band looked in their element, it’s hard to believe they’ve been out for nearly a decade, highlights were: Popscene, For Tomorrow, Song 2, Trimm Trabb, Out of Time ( with Grahams new guitar lick ) oh and Essex Dogs ! It’s  no secret Essex Dogs is my favourite Blur track, but I never thought they would play it, so when Graham, three songs from the end said to the crowd ‘do you want Essex Dogs or Sing ? ‘ I looked at him square in the eyes and Screamed with both fists clenched ESSEX DOGS ! ! He looked right back and said ‘ alright Essex Dogs it is.’

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story, this time it didn’t, 150 people can testify.

You can watch some here : http://www.youtube.com/user/jeffcarlton

also

http://www.earm.co.uk/

LT

So listeners to our show ‘IF’ will know the obsession with Berlin, so I’m happy to announce that finally our documentary on Berlin’s underground music scene will air:

Thursday July 30th 2009

Pangea Project

Stoke Newington, London

9pm showing

Free Entry

DCR DJ’s till you go !

The Documentary features much footage from the modern city alongside interviews with: Fidelity Kastrow, Thomas Morr, Marie Tippex, JohnJon & Chopstick and others + exclusive filming inside the infamous Club Tresor and Christian Vogel’s DJ set.

for details contact me liam@differentclassradio.co.uk

For those interested the photo above is Club Tresor, the clubs in Berlin are the most amazing places, I mean how many disused power stations can you have in one city ? it’s as if they knew

Podcast 9 is here and features wonderful music from Quiet Village, Cobalt Cranes, Scum and more!

http://dcrunsigned.libsyn.com/ or dcr in itunes !

Our guests this time were Digby from DCR alongside Alex Pe win a DJ technician and part of the Voices Collective DJ ensemble & Francoise – Charles a producer with bands 2cond Class Citizen and Geste; alongside myself and Producer Rich Holding the Fort.

Please subscribe and comment on itunes.

There’s few people I know in this life that are more passionate about music than Mr Stephen Nichols, so we’re lucky enough to have him taking us through an hour of forward thinking electronica every fortnight, along with his thoughts and feelings on the darkest of sounds. A big part of the show is listener participation so email him :

stephen@differentclassradio.co.uk

lf your into the finest in techy sounds let Steve know about your music, your project or night; but most of all your opinion on the scene and future of the  music.

BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }The Electronic Tonic – Show 2

Jackson And His Computer Band – Rock On (WARP RECORDS)

Burial and Four Tet – Moth (TEXT RECORDS)

Josh Wink – What Used To Be Called Used To Be (OVUM RECORDINGS)

Eero Johannes – Mobile 363 (PLANET MU RECORDINGS)

2562 – Techno Dread (TECTONIC)

in the background: Plaid – Seph (WARP RECORDS)

Orbital – Lush 2-3 (INTERNAL)

Nosaj Thing – Coat Of Arms (ALPHA PUP RECORDS)

Shadow Dancer – Loader (BOYSNOIZE RECORDS)

Mutant Clan – Inside Out (SCI + TEC DIGITAL AUDIO)

Moderat – Les Grandes Marches (BPITCH CONTROL)

Dj Hell – Electronic Germany (INTERNATIONAL DEEJAY GIGOLO

http://www.ilikemusic.com/dance/10_Rapid_Minor_Riot-6930/2

be sure to catch him this summer……………….

Banjo or Freakout

Despite this they created a grasping atmosphere, and when both players are drumming its a wonderful site. What wasn’t as pleasing, in fact puke inducing was the posters of Bono and U2 left Right and centre in the venue. Of all the venues – Crisps – featuring in TGE, The Pavilion Theatre had in my opinion the best line up, later on in the day was Three Trapped Tigers and School of Seven Bells, all these bands have an experimental original edge, therefore people going to see them, to me, would have nothing in common with the Irish Toss-pot, a waste of paper I say, even more so when they got pulled down from the walls and stuffed in the urinals, well maybe not such a waste.

So, so many bands playing, but the inevitable likelihood is that you’ll only end up seeing five maybe six……………….. or three, as I did, but with all the carbs – sushi - to be eaten, Im not gonna miss good food time for any old band, so I saw fit to see the entire set from a couple of bands, one down Banjo or Freakout, great to see progression.

S.C.U.M

The other band I had my eye on was S.C.U.M, the high trouser androgynytes, the gig took place in Horatios bar at the end of the pier – noodles - whoever came up with this idea had a masterstroke in ying-yang gig going, the bar had a sign outside instructing patrons they could not enter the premises shirtless, any venue that has to tell it’s punters they need to wear clothes to drink inside has got to be something special. So despite the truly mixed clientele and the loss of all my mates throughout the gig, I thought S.C.U.M were remarkable, they’re very much a scene band and the risk of their reverb heavy recorded sound being flawed live was a possibility, but they were better than expected, the drummer is superb, playing high tempo beats that counterpoint the bands slow marauding fuzz, the boys with boxes eeking out squeals and pops aplenty but with a restraint that suited the band well, they even used the projector for something other than Sky Sports News. A recommendation for anyone into the likes of; The Horrors, HTRK and My Bloody Valentine.

So the idea was to hole ourselves up in Concorde 2 for the onslaught of Evil Nine and Freeland, unfortunately this meant watching Juliette Lewis and the (new band), don’t get me wrong I’m not into slating bands because they have a Hollywood singer, but with the exception of the classic ‘You’re Speaking my language’ they’re a band destined for the Dogstar.

But the night had come to a strange crossroads, as the train muppets, I say muppets with the utmost slang like disrespect, had given us the option of a train at 11:36 or bus replacement service at 4am, now I really wanted to see Freeland and felt o.k considering, despite my self promises, we began drinking at 1:30 and I’d eaten my way through Brighton’s culinary underbelly – crisps – but I’m afraid we bolted – chicken kebab – the train was welcoming, but they need to sort this out for next year; 11:30 or 4am BS, it’s like choosing between S.C.U.M and Banjo, so although I hadn’t seen as many bands as I’d wished, I had seen two that were great, so not so bad after all, Glasto anyone ?………………………………should have stayed for Freeland, a plague upon our houses.

Liam Tuner

This fortnight features Edwin from the band In the Annexe, Gemma from the IF show on DCR and T from Ladies Day on DCR, alongside my self and producer Rich. Bands Include: The Charly Parkers, Three Trapped Tigers, The XX and Tear Down The Lies.

You can listen to it here:

http://dcrunsigned.libsyn.com/

or search DCR in the i-tunes store, it’ll pop right up.

LT

Adrian and 10 rapid from DCR join myself and Kit Godfrey from Stricken City.

Tracks include music from Fenech-Soler, Gold Panda, Fanshaw and Cubbie Bear.

buckle up : http://dcrunsigned.libsyn.com/

All the info about the other shows played on the Urban 75 station, tracklistings, how to submit a show for them to play and how to play the station can be found here.

If you want to dive straight in and give it a listen click here.

At the moment there are only a couple of my old DCR shows on there but they’ll probably be a bit more of our stuff on it next month. Be sure to have a listen to some of the other shows and mixes as there is some really quality in there.

Digby

or go http://dcrunsigned.libsyn.com/

We were lucky enough to speak to Marie Tippex, Thomas Morr; head honcho of Morr Music and Fidelity, John John and Chopstick all resident djs at the finest club in Berlin, TRESOR ! This along with plenty of filming inside the club, some amazing graffiti and my attempt at being Zane Lowe makes for a pretty interesting film, doc and visual exercise,

so we won’t give away too much, just say that the trailer will be up on the main page very soon !

Liam Turner

This episode features tracks from Tessellators, Hallo I Love You, Chyfrifiadur and Angry Dan.

Episode 3 features myself , Rachel & Digby from DCR as well as Christopher Alcock from drowned in sound.

To subscribe just go to your i-tunes store and search dcr, it’s that easy. Subscribe and you need not even do that easy peasy.

Alternatively just go to http://dcrunsigned.libsyn.com/ and download it from there.

Thanks,

Liam Turner

”costs too much money, that’s why they make reality TV, they  just turn up, film idiots and put it out, pretty simple really”’

Yeah well I’m not a fan of simple or idiots.

This was a discussion I had with my friend after I’d watched the latest Red Riding episode on Channel 4. I wish they had more money…………..

Any program that can have that bloke from the Post Office ad in it and still be credible is walking a proud line of success. It focuses on the people surrounding the Moors murders of the 70’s, the protagonist of the film is cocksure, young journalist Eddie Dunford ( the brilliant Andrew Garfield ), who comes back from the black lands of ‘the south’ to the macabre wastes of 70’s Yorkshire and straight on the goose chase of the missing girls, he traces the mother of the first missing girl, Paula Garland ( Rebecca Hall ) and visits her with differing outcomes. What follows is a nihilistic view of the twists and turns of a young reporters ambition to do something right, with gripping consequences.

It’s assembled a cast of truly wonderful British talent, those faces you know, but not where from. Never have I seen Yorkshire displayed in such a way,  film Noir should pay more visits to The North. The score is well researched and pushes the narrative in a subtle way, all too often does TV and even film use obvious cliched music, that subtracts from the quality of the picture. There is no such likeness with this piece, it’s inherenty British and coiled in a dark and twisted atmosphere.

Adapted from David Peace’s novel’s, this film sits so far above anything around it on television it needs to be shouted from the rooftops. I’m not a big fan of telling too much about the story, I think it has to be watched and interpreted by everyone individually, that’s what you should do, if;  ‘your sure you got the stomach for this scoop?’‘

There are three films with three different directors, but all have a similar atmosphere as everyone in the making of red riding worked together, asone unit. The next film is on Thursday at 9pm on Channel 4, I suggest you set some time aside for it, it stars Paddy Considine ‘The DeNiro of the North’.

http://redriding.channel4.com/

LT

and this funnier!

Due to unforeseen licencing circumstances completely out of DCR’s hands, this feature has been cancelled,

sorry for any inconvenience, we’re as disappointed as you are. I suggest you check out Oh Yeah ! on the main page and the ‘Toenail Shocker’, it will keep you just as entertained.

Normal Schedule resumes next Month !

It never fails to amaze me how record labels get a production team to produce some average electro/hip pop beats, hire someone to sing over the top, give them a cool image and then introduce this ‘artist’ as new young ‘talent’.  I can’t say I blame them because the general public fall for the same trick time after time.

Gaga’s PR team are doing a fine job touting her as this cool new alternative girl whilst she is anything but.  A friend compared her to Katy Perry but at least Perry doesn’t make out to be something she’s not.  Actually, Perry has better tunes too – I Kissed a Girl certainly was catchy, which is more than I can say for most of Gaga’s utterly forgetable songs.

It interested me to find out that Lets Dance was co-written with none other than slick RnB popster ‘Akon’.  Sorry love but when you’ve got Akon writing your tunes you need to have a serious word with yourself (and perhaps your label?).  Most of Gaga’s tracks have been written by Pop production whizz ‘Red One’ – nothing wrong with that except Gaga’s myspace is claiming ‘words and music by Lady Gaga’.  The scamps.

I’m not going to go on and on about it but her video just came on tv and she inspired me to get writing.  I’ll leave you with some of Lady G’s most poetic lyrics.  Something to ponder over during your day and unlock the depths of your soul…

Boys Boys Boys, we like boys in cars, Boys Boys Boys, we love them.

Lets have some fun, this beat is sick.

Cause I’m bluffin with my muffin.

With some retro sneakers, lets go see the Killers

Cherry Cherry boom boom.

Much love.  Seb x

The DCR Unsigned Podcast

As of today our podcast will be available to download and stream from this site as well as www.turnupandtalk.com and i-tunes et. al.

Our guests this time include myself and Digby from DCR, a music promoter of the name Tom Rogerson and a writer and promoter of the name Lee Puddefoot, we cover tracks from Banjo or Freakout to Motion Picture Soundtrack, Conscripts & Dead Mellotron, the interesting bit is what we make of them….

To subscribe just go to your i-tunes and search for different class radio and your away!

Alternatively just go to http://dcrunsigned.libsyn.com/ and download it from there.

]]> http://www.differentclassradio.co.uk/?feed=rss2&p=352 0 http://www.differentclassradio.co.uk/?p=345 http://www.differentclassradio.co.uk/?p=345#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:37:01 +0000 admin http://www.differentclassradio.co.uk/?p=345 On Thursday February 19 Bardens Boudoir & Broken Yolk come together for a live spectacular all to be recorded exclusively for DCR.

The bands on the night are:

Acoustic Ladyland

This band combine dark grooves and jazz tinged backing with multi styled vocals, to dance or not to dance, well maybe just stand at the back and nod your head like a pleb, CHECKIT: http://www.myspace.com/acousticladylandmusic

Plugs

A deep understanding of electronica stands alongside the ability not to let go of pop sensibilities and melody, Plugs are a band snapping at the undercurrent of any scene those little pricks fancy today, a worthy worthy support:http://www.myspace.com/plugsmusic

Ground Dust

“GROUND DUST” are a five piece North London based band comprising of highly accomplished songwriter/musicians Nick Stephenson, Mark Stephenson, Richard Groves (and driving it all their fantastic rhythm section) Si Hadwin and Joe Brooks.
With local St. Albans fame came big heads and pretentious ideas, coke, death, general nudity and then finally some excellent tunes that got people dancing and using their brains as well. A few years on the band have an incredible fusion of sounds and unmissable live energy: http://www.myspace.com/grounddust

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With this years BAFTA’s still very fresh in the mind I thought lets hope the winners are repeated for The Oscars, but they don’t mean everything, how Ben Kingsley never won for Don Logan is beyond me, well beyond. But it does bring back memories of this film, I watched it about ten times in quick succession, which either means it’s very good or I’m a dick.

The best time I’ve seen it was at Glastonbury last year, on my own, 4 a.m in a field. Then with such a colossal sound system you can really appreciate the tension, the lack of music allows the sound design to ebb and flow between silence and intense gun fights, but the sound is nothing without an array of actors at their top of their game. If you like the film read the book, the film is incredible, Cormac McCarty’s book is better.

As for the ending, it’s how the book ends, you can’t argue with McCarthy and why should all questions be answered ? Doesn’t that make it better next time ?

Stop sleeping on the tube, take that book, you won’t look back…………

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It runs to the music of Parisian electro duo Zombie-Zombie’s track ‘Driving this road until death‘, it was ‘twittered’ to me by the wonderful Graham Linehan.

Turn the lights down, light up a cigar and savour what you have……….

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Here’s how he should be remembered

Live at Napa State Mental Hospital in 1978

Human Fly

So as a new venture we’re embarking on some discussion based broadcasting, the premise is that guests from the DCR team and the music industry combined all bring an unsigned track to the table, then the guests contribute their opinions and let the discussion develop, sounds pretty simple. Unsigned acts represent the non-egotistical future of our music and we need to give it as much exposure as possible, plus it’s always good to hear people that think they know a lot about music bang heads.

The podcast is in conjunction with www.turnupandtalk.com run by Richard Elms.

First discussion features:

Myself & Digby from DCR

Tom Rogerson a London based music promoter & some other very special guests.

The podcast will be available on i-tunes and other download sites which benefit the industry far better in February.

LT

Not one, not two, but thrice shops visited and not a sausage.  Or not a Stilton.  Stilton is, as we know, one of the few key ingredients of Stilton & Broccoli soup.  The fine grocers of my part of London offer an array of quality goods, including a fine selection of cheeses such as Ricotta, Parmezan, Cheddar, Wensleydale, Halloumi, Feta, Dairylea….the list goes on.  Yet the best that M Hazzar & Co 24 hour Grocery & Alcohol Stores could offer was a Danish Blue – that long lost cousin of the stilton that went wandering to Europe many moons ago, soured somewhat and never came back.  You see the Danish blue is un-creamy in taste, much sharper than the native Stilton we know and love – and is therefore rendered useless for soups.

I see bands coming in and out of the venue every night of the week and although I’m lucky to do a job I’m passionate about, sometimes it really is a case of going in and getting the job done.  This show reminded me of the good side of music, where its not all about the money, egos or who has the coolest hair but just watching a good rock n roll show with your friends and other fans.  Thank you to the band for doing the show – hope you enjoyed it as much as I did – and to those that came down to drink, have fun and listen to some music.  It put a big smile on my face.  Lovely.

There will never be peace on this planet and mankind will eventually destroy itself and our environment.  We can’t uninvent the gun, nor nuclear missiles and at some point these missiles will be used.  It will probably happen in our lifetime.   The sooner we deal with this prospect the better.  We’ve been killing each other for thousands of years and it ain’t gonna stop now.

Obama will not be able to solve the the problems of the US or indeed the world.  A cause for hope he is, the messiah he is not.

If you have someone to hold, don’t fuck it up, its a beautiful thing.  If you continually push someone, eventually they’ll snap and there may be no way back.  I repeat – don’t fuck it up.

Simple pleasures are the best.  Sunset, fresh-cut grass, string instruments, new sheets, someone to wake up with.

Simple pleasures are the best but sex, drugs and rock n roll beats everything.

You will never find a more perfect example of a light show than on the dvd of Pink Floyd’s ‘Pulse’ concert.

If you want hard and fast rules by which to live your life, listen to Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip ‘Thou Shalt Always Kill’ – he explains it far better than I ever could.

Shopping should be conducted in independant shops where possible. Shopping should not be conducted in Tesco unless absolutely necessary.  Steer clear of Starbucks too.

A shop is not a ’store’ and a back garden is not a ‘yard’.

There are no ghettos in London – I refer you to ‘No Ghetto’ by La Rebla Fam.

Mainline train services should be bunked whenever possible.

Graffiti is art.

You fall, my pride, call me closer, your sex is on fire.

You should not buy a second hand PA for 100 quid, put it in the corner of your pub, and call yourself a ‘venue’.

There is no excuse for body odour unless you work in a physical job, ie, builder, soldier, prostitute.

The Ting Tings are an absolute crock of shit.  Never have I witnessed such unnecessary hype, bandwagon jumping and general blaaaah as over this terrible band.

‘My Immortal’ by Evanescence is a beautiful song and I will never tire of it.  I am prepared to be shot down.

Kate Nash and the Arctic Monkeys were not signed because they had a massive myspace following.  This was a gimmick and a further blog will follow on this subject shortly.

‘Battle Of The Bands’ competitions are nothing more than a front for pay to play promoters to make an easy few quid and ensure that their venues are busy.  If I can give one piece of advice to bands, it is that you do not enter these competitions – you will be charged an ‘entry’ fee and the winner is decided by the band that bought the most people into the venue.  They have nothing to do with musical ability or songwriting.  A further blog will cover this in more depth and I will take great pleasure in naming and shaming the ‘promoters’ that are doing it.  I will name one right now – Emergenza.  Stay away people.

Alright, I admit, its a rant.

Much Love and happy New Year!

Seb  x

They are in no particular order:

Introducing play DJ Shadow’s album Endtroducing in full note for note, enough said:

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HTRK, dirgeglitch shoe-gaze, if you talk like a twat:

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Drums of Death, been following him since seeing his charred face play a warehouse party 18 months ago:

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Cubbiebear, The anti- HipHop turncoat:

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We Have Band, the shit, just wait for WHB demo release!

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LT

But what a new year does hold is potential, the time off at Crimbi allows plenty of time for foresight and clarity but talk is undoubtedly cheap, everyone has dreams but few see it through to tangible effect, but nothing is a given, so set yourself a target and do it, don’t get ahead of yourself but do it.

My ambition this year is two fold, 1: we’re going to go to Berlin and make a special show and mini documentary, listeners to my show will know this as I repeat it often, Berlin is a Cultural Show Stud unloading buckets of creamy talent and we want to know why, we’ll be engrossed thoroughly in the city for a week and at the end we’ll record ‘The Berlin Show’, don’t worry you won’t forget that. 2: Advance and expand DCR the station, we’ve had plenty of ideas about future projects but firstly I want to expand the website and radio station it’s our hub and tantamount to a successful future, making it more accessible and interactive for you the listeners as it’s you who matter, we’ll be taking on more presenters when they raise their colourful heads, this I mean, I’m looking for quality not quantity, standard. Any ideas I’m all ears people.

So have a prosperous, inventive and colourful 2009 people, give a bit, take a bit.

LT

“Revelers begin to gather in the late afternoon on New Year’s Eve, December 31st. The best advice we can give is to get there as early as possible. We cannot predict how quickly the viewing areas will fill up. Prime viewing areas may fill up early in the afternoon.

At approximately 6:00 p.m. EST the Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball will be raised to the top of the 77-foot flagpole at One Times Square (Broadway at 43rd Street) and lit. At exactly 11:59 p.m. EST, the Ball will make its 60-second descent down the flagpole to signal the start of the New Year.

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Will there be portable public restrooms available?

No.

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Is alcohol or champagne allowed?

No. Public drinking is illegal in New York City. Police will confiscate alcohol.

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Will there be food and drink vendors in the square?

No. There will be no licensed food and beverage vendors in Times Square. However, there are hundreds of restaurants in and around Times Square (see below).

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So let me get this straight, you have to arrive early and stand outside, in December, all -fuck shitting- night without food or booze or toilets in order to witness the spectacle that is… wait for it… a glowing “ball” slowly sliding down a stupid fucking flagpole?!?! May I be the first to say ‘fuck that for a game of tit bollocking bum-soldiers’, sounds about as much fun as spending a whole day in a dentists waiting room but considerably colder. Bah frigging humbug!

It’s got to be seen, it’s on at Dalston RIO at the moment.

A clear crisp voice in a world squawks and moans………………………..

Welcome one and all!

Apparently you can make good money masquerading as Santa Claus, you have to fit specific requirements though like height, eye colour and hair colour, so if like me you tried and failed we have an alternative:

OUR CHRISTMAS PARTY PEOPLE!
It’s gonna be just DCR dj’s, no bands to confuse matters, just our family of dj’s spinning as ever the tunes we want, i would expect a strong dance vein with exerts from the halls of music we often find our selves in.

Different Class Radio Christmas Party
Friday 19th December 2008
Gold Bar, Stoke Newington, Church Street:

10 Rapid Live
Zekkas Ten
Sons of Sailors
Digby Bodenham
Rachel Wrathell

Come on down it’s gonna be open till 2 and unlike other Christmas parties it’s actually very near Christmas so everyone can be jolly and stuff. Gold Bar is a really plush little venue with a decent basement where business will happen! It’ll be £3 to get in, this covers costs and anything else gets ploughed directly back into the radio station.

8pm – 2am

See you there people!!!!!!!

”A high wire without a safety net.”

I first saw The Bays in the basement of The Ocean Rooms in Brighton with twenty people, three years later I was lucky enough to see them in a packed Brighton Dome with over 1500 people, but one thing hadn’t changed, the music .

The music hadn’t changed because it never was and never will be, it is in it’s entirety just that moment.

A gifted group of musicians that meet together in an improvised, multi generalized art form, they possess an inimitable style and rely purely on musicianship and jazz influenced improvisation. For some years they have been working as a four piece and performing awe inspiring sets, then in true forward thinking style they chose to work with The Heritage Orchestra in the ultimate free-form super jamski, check out the video for just an influential taster.

The Bays are not to be listened to, they need to be witnessed in person, there is no other way.

www.thebays.com

LT

Watching another super edition of ‘Hollyoaks Later’ (strictly for research purposes) I found it amusing that an advert for High School Musical 3 and Hannah Montana DVDs was sandwiched between an advert for Durex Play sex toys and a Bacardi advert.  At first, cynically, I had thought that the advertisers were marketting sex toys and booze at the High School Musical generation.  Until I realised that actually Hannah & co were being aimed at adults shopping for vibrating ring pieces.  Either way…

Seb x

Someone released a list of BNP members online!  Oops! I had thought that it was simply a list of members names, which would be information enough, but on closer inspection, it turns out we’ve got full access to members e-mail addresses, phone numbers, postal addresses, the lot.  I’d thought about posting a link to the list but actually, we’re not here to harrass anyone, we live in a country in which we’re entitled to free speech and thought and this should be respected.  However…..we can have a damn good laugh at their expense….I got this from a website of a well known lifestyle magazine…I’m not going to pass it off as my own but it made me laugh….I present to you……THE BNP AWARDS 2008…

BEST EMAIL ADDRESS:
Mr Tim Rudge. scrotaljakhammer666@*******.co.uk

BEST EMAIL ADDRESS (Runner up):
Mr Doug Thwaites. douggyfresh@*******.co.uk

USEFUL SKILLS AWARD (1):
Mr Vernon Atkinson. Activist – Makes kites with BNP logos.

USEFUL SKILLS AWARD (2):
Mr Ronald Anthony Frankland. Activist – Qualified firefighter, farrier, equine dentist. Semi-retired.

BEST ALL ALL ROUNDER AWARD: Mr Rod Chapman. Window cleaner. Former pig farmer. Pagan prison chaplain. Hobbies: growing mistletoe, rune making (wood).

THEY’LL LET ANYONE IN THESE DAYS AWARD: Paul Shaddick. Report from Mike Howson 2/8/07: member describes himself as a witch: potential embarrassment if active.

THE ARISTOCRACY IS ALIVE & WELL AWARD: Lord Adam Murray. angloantiquities@msn.com Activist – Business owner (antiquities). Pubic speaker. Has two suits of medieval 14th & 15th century armour and can joust for rallies.

Can Joust for rallies!?  Brilliant!  Of course, we should make it clear for legality’s sake that the BNP is a legitimate political organisation and not in anyway affiliated with the National Front.  Just like Sinn Fien is a legitimate political organisation and not simply the IRA with a different badge…hmm…

Anyway, moving on before I get myself shot (anonymity, yay!), its nice to welcome Rachel to the DCR team this week.  Its good to have a female perspective on things, the 5×5 basement that Liam keeps the DCR team locked in was getting a bit too cock-tastic even for the most open minded amongst us.

Maybe next week I’ll have another crack at the whole revolution essay I was due to bore people with tonight…maybe I’ll just take the piss out of the BNP some more…its decidedly easier.

Much love.  Seb. x

So Hip-Hop’s dead right? It’s not what it used to be, there’s no Public Enemy, no Grandmaster Flash, no Afrika Bambaataa and there’s definitely no Sugar Hill Gang, so with the ageing of those pioneers the down-tempo, melodic, ego boosting genre died…………………………….no…………………it…………….didn’t.

Just take a little time out to look up: El-P, Dan le Sac & Scroobius Pip, Roots Manuva, Metaform, Sage Francis and definitely Cubbiebear to name but a few.

Cubbie A.K.A Joshua Bailey contacted me last week after a shared interest in Sage Francis, so I listened to his work and was knocked for six by a truly original artist. Cubbiebear sets himself apart from the HH main-set, not fussed whether he’s in the club or not, he’s doing his thing, his way, his style. A mix of guitars and dark beats with scathing vocal samples and of course the lyrical dexterity of bear. His debut album ‘The Rape’ sets itself up for the high profile position it deserves, a rapper with something to say, well I never, the album title refers to the disintegration of Hip-Hop, the money involved with big artists and subsequent financial starvation of fresh blood.

He’s a rapper that hates rap and that single mindedness cannot be ignored, expect big things because they’re here.

Listen to two tracks from Cubbiebear in Liam’s show:

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LT

First up was High Places, if you’ve read my previous review I’m sure you don’t want to hear anymore of my praise for them, but once again they were fantastic.

Then it was the effeminate ethereal indie of Parenthetical Girls. The skeletal lead singer stalked the stage, and into the crowd, miming the movement of a string puppet, which genuinely made it look like he had just been sown together and brought to life.

I enjoyed their set but all the impassive and aloof posturing left me slightly confused. I’m still not sure if it was middle-class pretensions of art or pure emotion crafted into lovely pop songs.

There can be no mistaking the emotion in Phil Elverum’s live set, playing here on his own as Mount Eerie.

Armed with just an electric guitar, soft distortion and a true voice he invaded territory held by Neil Young and Daniel Johnston.

He unleashed a breathless cascade of meditations on love, loss and nature, sometimes dragging heavy sounds out of his instrument and sometimes plucking softly at the strings.

By the end of his set I’m glad the friend I had gone with had already left and no one else I had invited turned up so they couldn’t witness obvious lump in my throat.

If you missed the gig I feel for you, it was Elverum’s only UK appearance on this tour and he mentioned he might not tour in Europe for a while, citing his guilt at having to travel from the US on carbon spewing planes. However serious you took his musing he certainly won’t be back for another year, so you’ll just have to do with the tracks I’m planning on playing in a couple of show’s time.

I am not a fan of Vice. Anyone who has seen Nathan Barley will understand who their target reader is.

On two separate occasions I was standing next to a group of girls minding my own business when they started pointing and giggling at me. I can only assume it was because I was there to watch a band rather than huddle in a pack wearing ridiculous clothes and talk loudly about my inane life like everyone else was.

But it was a free gig and the wonderful High Places were headlining so I persevered.

The first band on were a grindie outfit. That’s right grindie, the bastard offspring of grime and indie. I will give it no more space in this review.

The second support act were tolerable, kind of like what the Brian Jonestown Massacre would be like if you sucked all the fun and God-like arrogance out of them.

And then it was time for High Places. If you have haven’t heard them they are the sixth track on my current show, so put it on right now and enjoy. Think Animal Collective, Holy Fuck or Black Dice, with a hint of tribal drumming, a splash of 80s pop and soft school girl vocals floating through odds-and-ends percussion.

By this time the portion of my night spent intensely focusing on drinking had kicked in and I was dancing away, as were a good chunk of Vice readers. Good for them, or maybe good for me as they seemed to have accepted me by now.

The two band members looked pretty tired, this was the first stop in England on their current European tour and they had arrived in the country that day, but they kept the drum machine pounding well into the night. Every time they looked up at the crowd they smiled back and despite informing us they had one song left they were cheered on and played another three.

They raised the night out of Shoreditch monotony and took it to a higher place.

Catch them if you can on the last few days of their UK tour or listen to my Debris Slide show as I’ll definitely be playing more of their tracks on upcoming broadcasts.

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I’m watching Renaissance on filmfour it’s pretty good, not as good as Spirited Away or that new one, first time watching Spirited Away is like wow the Japanese know how to harness their imagination, instead of thinking of winning the lottery or having a big Primark voucher, well anyway it’s better than the usual shite films they pump out.

So what’s good this week?…..some fella called Barack did quite well in a recent survey carried out in the United States. Good news indeed but I think quite enough has been mentioned about that in the last seven days without me having my two pence on that topic.

The annual volleys of fireworks that start weeks before 5^th November and generally continue for a good week afterwards are just about coming to the final rounds. You can’t moan about fireworks, the kids seem to have a good time firing them at each other and they’ve certainly been keeping me entertained. Anything that mixes loud sounds and a decent light show is good with me.

Halloween passed us a couple of weeks ago, which I won’t go into in too much detail as it would simply turn into a rant about the ridiculous commercialism/Americanisation of what was actually a Pagan (and then later Christian) festival…….“Where are your decorations!?”…….the punters cried, as they came through the venue doors on October 31^st……I lose track of the amount of times I had to explain we’re running a rock n roll venue, not a cheesy high street bar. But, it gets the girls dressing up and people seem to enjoy making an effort and get in the mood to go out and have a good time so, again, I’m gonna let it go and call it what it is……a damn good party.

What else is making me happy this week? Well I seem to go through fazes musically and at the moment I’m going through a definite electronic phase, so despite the lack of a new show from 10Rapid for the last few weeks (a bit like this blog), I’ve been enjoying listening to the previous 10Rapid B-sides show for probably the 10^th or 11^th time and I’m still not bored of it, which has got to be a good thing. I believe the man himself has just got back to the UK after a sustained absence, hence the delay with the next instalment of …presents B-sides, but I’m sure looking forward to the next one.

Getting the phone number of a nice girl is a good feeling. Not in an egotistical way but who doesn’t feel good when you get some attention from the opposite sex – everyone likes to be complimented – so to the girl who shall remain nameless – thank you.

AND FINALLY! Killing the up-beat nature of this post, today is of course Armistice Day, marking the end of the First World War and giving us all time to reflect on the soldiers who have laid down their lives or have been wounded in conflicts over the years so we can enjoy the freedom we have today. And indeed the men and women to this day who are prepared to give their lives so that you and I can live in peace and prosperity in our Country. Regardless of your view on the various wars and political situations in the world, we owe these people everything, so please give just a moment of your time today, tomorrow, or any time you get a minute, to remember those who never got the chance to grow old and those who continue to serve us today.

Much love. Seb. x

After being handed The Erased Tapes Records Vol. 1 there were two songs that stood out like dancers nipples on a bitter morning, they were by The British Expeditionary Force and Canon Blue, but it was the Re mixer that really stole the limelight, those error prone beats and laser tangent sounds turned the Indie housemates heads.

So i got the E.P and played forth the tunes, most wonderfully The Decadent, available at www.myspace.com/rivalconsoles, stream the tunes and embrace the dark edge coming out of Leicester.

The live sets infuse illegal head twitching and bolshy lights, with hoots, wonder and bemusement from the crowd, totally well worth seeing, the longer he goes on the later he’ll play and that’s good for everyone.

After some time of praising the Independent world of Cinema, isn’t it about time you watched a film there? Yeah me too, just did.

There is something special about visiting these little worlds, maybe it’s the special prices they seem pleased to be charging for pop corn and fizzy water, that’s corn that is made to pop and water mixed with packaged gloop and fizzed up, not even proper coke, but many times the price, the film better be fucking good. That price based rant is a well trodden route, that’s because it’s not humanly right to charge these amounts, not even Zimbabwe knows these mark up figures.

If the cinema is Independent on the other hand, it’s all OK man, please welcome: The Rio Cinema in Dalston, (considerably cheaper) you don’t mind because you can guarantee the people that work within the establishment do it because they truly believe in the magic of cinema (excuse the cliche, but it’s there for a reason). The Cinema reminds me of The Duke of York in Brighton, in the fact that the building has charm, you can buy home made cake and samosas at the counter and the ushers don’t have the demina of a grubby teen with head lice as their best asset.

So visit and enjoy the cinema, Indie cinemas are few and far between, and they maintain the confidence we have in the arts, which is what it’s all about after all, it means that when you go to the cinema it will be an experience as opposed to a good film marred by a soulless shell and sticky floors.  But I’m afraid there isn’t any cup holders in the chairs, so if this is a serious problem for you I’m sure the Odeon still has tickets left for Big Mommas House……………..tosser.

http://www.riocinema.org.uk/

LT

Back in my early teens the nearest little big town was Colchester, yes it’s an army town and yes Mr Albarn slags it off in Indie biopic ‘Live forever’, but it was home to one of the best record shops i have ever embraced, ‘Rapture Records’, a guarantee of geezer fuelled action and UK Garage where the first thing to hit you, but under the surface the customer care was second to none. When your turn came at the counter you could describe the genre of vinyl you wanted to trial and no matter how niche, you would be given a slab of vinyl to sample, and if that wasn’t enough another was quickly sourced.

Since those heady days I’ve found many a record shop but NONE that offer this specialist service, as much as people say they like record shopping, i pretty much hate it, it’s not the vibe or staff, 90% of the time they are tip-top, it’s the time it takes to find a gem, then comes www.junorecords.co.uk.

It took some time to find them, but now i go on line, choose genre and a colossal list appears of different tracks, but what of the sound? Well click the headphones and a neat little box appears and a sample of the music, don’t like it? That’s fine click another and another, and yeah; why not another! This was an absolute God send to me, it saves me time and ear drum damage. This isn’t to say record shops are dead, you will never emulate the vibe and people in a record shop, but it’s an alternative and they deliver to your door, that’s is my fucking droid of a postman lets me know…………….but thats another story ( and not a good one).

Liam

Just listening to a bit of commercial radio.  They played The Wombats – Kill The Director.  What a pile of shite.  Seriously.  If anyone ever asks me why the world needs DCR I shall direct them to this post.  Thats it for now.

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It seems that the financial climate gripping the world and its media has finally filtered down to the live scene in London as the news came through a couple of days ago that the Lark in the Park has closed its doors.  I’m also aware that a couple of big name venues in north London are also pretty much on their knees and now its just a case of guessing who will be next to shut up shop.

However, global finances can only be partly blamed for whats happening.  Most venues are run on the tightest of margins and it only takes a small amount of instability for a business that may be just about breaking even to start running at a loss and begin the downward spiral from which it is hard to recover.  The competition London venues and promoters face from each other is massive.  Last night I counted five premises showing live music within a half mile radius of my house, and I don’t even live in Camden or Shoreditch.  The last 18 months has seen a vast number of pubs jumping on the bandwagon, installing a PA and declaring themselves a ‘music venue’.  The Lark in the Park is one such pub and its not surprising that an establishment of this nature has been one of the first to go.

I don’t blame the landlords and promoters that run these places, if sticking a couple of bands on each night increases attendance and gets more punters drinking at the bar then fair play, but the quality is generally low and I personally think that they detract from the live scene as it makes it tougher for the real venues with a proper set up to prosper and therefore push bands and give them decent exposure.  I disagree that 10 people watching their mate’s band at the Dog & Partridge ‘music venue’ is actually a help to the scene or the artists.  Again, I don’t have a problem with the individuals that are doing this but the collective impact of these establishments is a real problem for the real promoters and venues who will increasingly prefer to invest in established bands that are a safe bet, rather than taking a chance on new blood and helping those artists onto the ladder.

It may look like I’m simply having a go at the competition but that really isn’t the case.  Competition is healthy and most small to mid sized venues couldn’t survive without feeding of one another anyway.  However, it would be a real shame to lose some of London’s best and most loved venues because of the cumulative impact of these pubs parading as music venues.

So the Lark in the Park is gone, admittedly I won’t be shedding too many tears, but watch out because some big names are going to fall.  If you have a favourite venue, or somewhere that is particularly close to your heart, get down there and watch some live music, because nothing lasts forever.

Its been ten whole days since the last post so I feel compelled to get something written.  Firstly, congrats to all those involved in the launch party and thanks for everyone that turned up.  It was a great night, some exceptional music was performed and you know you’ve nailed it when the owner of the club and the bouncers are raving alongside you on the stage at the end of the night.

Glastonbury tickets have gone on sale again this week.  Hats off to Eavis & co for once again experimenting and pushing the boundaries when it comes to ticket sales.  Sure, they’ve got it wrong in the past, but every year they keep coming back with something even more innovative than the previous year and I really think they’ve got it right this time around.  Of course some people will still miss out and it won’t please everybody but, at the end of the day, Eavis is doing his utmost to keep the festival going and cut out the touts who, lets not forget, are utter scumbags.  Kudos to you sir.

Keeping with Glasto, I’m glad that those who criticised the festival last year over the whole Jay-Z thing were shown up to be 100% wrong.  The festival tried something new, it was a brave choice and they knew it would piss people off yet they stuck with it.  Fair play.  No doubt the usual suspects will rear their ugly heads again this year, moaning that its gone all ‘commercial’ and that ‘its lost the old spirit’.  I’m sorry, but Glasto is still the world’s greatest festival and if you really don’t enjoy it any more then you’re past it and you can fuck off, simple as that.  Hope you enjoy keeping the ‘old spirit’ alive watching The Automatic at the Red Stripe Virgin Mobile Weekender.