August 30th, 2008 Justin
Electric whatever. I’ve just been drunk-dialled from that bloody festival in Laois. I’m sure it’s great, yis bastards.
Thankfully, via State Magazine comes news that Dengue Fever have signed up for a date in the Sugar Club in Dublin on Nov 15th. yay! tix are EUR13.50
However — don’t get your hopes up yet. It’s not showing up in their MySpace list of upcoming gigs, and this has been a sign of makey-uppey “fake” bookings in the past by Ireland’s promoters; let’s hope it’s not the case here…
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August 21st, 2008 Justin
Off to It’ly for my mates Bob and Ais’s wedding! later. First though, this looks good, from the DEAF program:
Sunday, 26th Oct: Maximum Joy present
White Noise performing ‘An Electric Storm’ live (Dave Vorhaus & Mark Jenkins)
Polly Fibre (live)
Broadcast (Warp) DJ Set
Followed by
B-MUSIC SPECIAL featuring
Andy Votel
Dom Thomas
Broadcast + Maximum Joy DJs
Sugar Club, 8 Leeson Street, Dublin 2
7.30pm to 2.30am
€15 (€10 after 11pm)
Now obviously it’ll be sans Delia Derbyshire. But still, quite an experience I hope! and I finally get to check out Turkish psych fan Andy Votel after missing his Spiegeltent gig last year.
Anyone fancy it?
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August 20th, 2008 Justin
Happy birthday Vinny Club! he has generously given us some lovely mixtape cake, including this sweet, sweet chunk of chiptune marzipan:
Lionel Richie - Hello (Vinny Club Mix)
This is possibly the best robotic-stalker/Lionel Richie cover version I’ve ever heard.
Pick the ZIP file up quick, it’s a one-day-only affair….
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August 15th, 2008 Justin
What a shame — CBS.nu has come to an end… here’s what I-F had to say:
Dear fellow Robots & Robettes,
Today is a difficult day. Probably one of the hardest since a long time because it’s the day The CBS will seize to excist.
at exactly 2000 CET i will shut down all systems.
It feels like putting your beloved pet to sleep to stop the suffering.
Because the CBS is suffering for a too long time from a lack of listeners. The amount of people tuned in every day is a joke considering the amount of time, energy and passion put into it the last 5 years by several people.
It’s definitely not the lack of love, respect and enthousiasm from the people out here, there are simply not enough people listening and no growth.
Also this desicion hasn’t been made overnight, I’ve been busy with this for the last few months.
I rather put the System to sleep now than letting it fade away into oblivion, neglected and forgotton.
There is no honor in that.
I didn’t read the forums, but I religiously listened to their top 100 every year for the past few years. Those encyclopedic rankings of techno, disco and italo classics were an amazing main-line into the heart of italo crate-digging, right from the heart of the man who single-handedly revived it with the amazing “Mixed Up In The Hague” mixtape. CBS was a great place to hear tunes for a fan like myself.
So long robots, and thanks!
I-F - I Do Because I Couldn’t Care Less
PS: Thankfully the mixes at robotdj.net appear to be continuing…
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August 13th, 2008 Justin
It’s been a while since the last post — stupid Dreamhost managed to lose underseacommunity.com entirely for over 2 weeks. :( I need to move the blog offa that, I think.
What have I been listening to recently? Well, the Santogold vs Diplo mixtape — I’m still not sure about Santogold, but Diplo, he’s still killing it. Great tunes, strongly recommend downloading this.
I wanted to go listen to the Farmleigh Affair, get some world music and picnics in with a gang of kiddies we were minding for the weekend — but guess what, the fucking organisers failed to deliver our tickets. Improvised Music Company? Improvised fucking Competence Company more like. Why bother (failing to) post out tickets to a free gig anyway? what’s wrong with me just printing the email off on my printer, and use that as the ticket… grr.
Anyway. Right now my killer tunage is on this:
Aeroplane Summer 2008 promo mix (via 2-4-hours)
it starts off with a brilliant Mungolian Jetset remix of the mental ‘Moon Song’ by They Came From The Stars I Saw Them: “oh glorious moon / oh beautiful sister in the sky / remember to value / what it is to be alive” — I’d post an mp3 but it’s not on the interwebs yet. gold disco throughout. Aeroplane are doing great stuff these days… here’s another one from the mix:
The Shortwave Set - Now ’til ‘69 (Aeroplane remix)
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