Year end 10

Seeing Light Asylum play while they were here in portland was definitely in my top things to do in 2010. Below is a modest list of just a few songs out of many that touched me over the year. I just want to give thanks and praise to the artists who give so much beauty to the world. You make the soundtrack to my life. Thank you!

In no particular order, Honey's list:

Neurotic Drum Band 'Robotic Hypnotic Adventure' (Harkin and Raney Mix)
Erykah Badu 'Window Seat' MP3
Light Asylum 'A Certain Person' MP3
White Rainbow 'Night Tracer' Bandcamp
Realness 'Shade (dub)' Youtube
The Slaves 'Seventeen' iTunes
Alexis 'Lonely Sea' MP3
Wav Dawgs 'Oh Hi' MP3
Marcos Cabral 'Lonely' Mix (originally by Lil' Louis) MP3
DJ Frank 'Afro Disco Aug 2010 Mix' get down
In alphabetical order, Rafael's list:
(Songs I have played out a lot or really enjoyed this year)

Alexis - Lonely Sea MP3
Brian Ferry - Shameless (Still Going Remix) Beat Noire Soundcloud
Andrew Butler & Jason Kendig - And I'm (So In Love With You) Mr.Intl MP3
COS/MES - Gozmez Land (TBD Remix) ESP Institute Youtube
Dj Kaos - Horny Morning Loop (TVS & Aera's Monday Morning Acid Dub) Jolly Jams Youtube
Neurotic Drum Band - Robotic Hypnotic Adventure (Runaway Remix) Wurst MP3
Nicholas - Feels Like No More Hits Soundcloud
Shit Robot - I Got a Feeling (feat. Saheer Umar) Dfa MP3
Storm Queen - Look Right Through Environ Youtube RAR
Virgo - In A Vision (reissue) Rush Hour MP3

Scott Goodwin - "A Year of Ecstasy Top Whatevs"

Gaspar Noe's Enter the Void - Opening Credits Youtube

Golden Retriever - 2 MP3

Keith Fullerton Whitman - Generator Soundcloud

Yellow Swans - Going Places Soundcloud

Oregon Painting Society - Hexenhaus Link

Nitzer Ebb - Murderous Youtube

Seth Nehil - Knives Soundcloud

Experimental 1/2 Hour Vimeo

sean mccann 'everafter'

everafter from sean mccann on Vimeo.

sean mccann is a bay area musician who recently moved to los angeles.

probably listened to his stuff more than any non-kranky ambient artist this year.

if you like that vid, check out his releases on his label or else where.

the rain here this week is making me all nostalgic for pdx winter.

PDC

Fashion & music tonight in Portland FREE!

Baywatch

Trippy lofi jacking track from mysterious San Francisco figure Xosar.
XOSAR - XOSARDONYX

Oooh check out this nu SF dance party show too.
BEAT ELECTRIC @MEZZANINE

PS
Miracles Club is gonna be in SF playing the O.K. Hole-iday Party @Amnesia on the 18th with our friends Jonas Reinhardt.
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TONIGHT: Rick "The Godson" Wilhite in PDX!

Last minute post here...Detroit house legend Rick Wilhite (member of 3 Chairs w/Moodymann and Theo Parrish) at Someday Lounge...goes til 4am!! Don't miss this!!!

more info here:
http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/rickwilhite
http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?213019
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MN16f00v9A

The Miracles Club "A New Love (12" Mix)" by E C S T A S Y

okay so will the REAL 'a new love' please stand up! earlier this year, we gave out a demo of this song but then when our computer was stolen out of our car on tour, we lost the files and couldn't finish the actual recording.. so we ended up recording two new versions as part of a 12" EP for mexican summer. this is the 12" mix and the other version is 'summer of love' our homage to the tom tom club and early acid house :)

vinyl

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Astral Social Club

I remember hearing reports about the Neil Campbell's (who was also a member of trippy-free-music UK group Vibracathedral Orchestra) Astral Social Club CDRs by friends who were performing psychedelic noise-improv over in Britain in the mid-00's but didn't get my hands on any ASC stuff until a friend passed along a high-bitrate archive of ASC CDRs a few years back. If you remember the very crowded "psych/drone" field of play at the time, then you probably know that Campbell was doing some serious genre mashing. ASC tends to swing from Chain Reaction-style resonance-flared dub to Harmonia/Cluster territory to heavy guitar grunge-dirge in a single release. What really appeals to me though, is the mono-mania of how ASC tracks are structured on the Volume 1-7 (really) CDRs. Upon hitting "play", you're immediately thrown into an all-enveloping sound as maximum timbre cycles in and out, gradually, while always maintaining a pastural focus on the main "riff". If you could set-up some sick studio monitors in your car and hit the Autobahn (or maybe just 280-S from SF, CA or the 5 south of Salem, OR) this would be just about the best music ever.

Check out "Track 1" from the Volume 1 CDR for the more hypno-Italo edge of the ASC spectrum. For five picks from the Basic Channel/Chain Reaction-end of the ASC milieu, peep the download.

Five ASC Cuts (d/l)

ASC Discogs

ASC at Boomkat

(P.S. Neil, if you're listening shoot us a link where folks can buy your music direct!)

The New New Dance Show

This Track is taken off the new a new love record available @Mexican Summer Stay tuned for more new new dance shows with special guests! Coming soon!

Think Globally, Jack Locally

New tracks from a new addition to the Pacific Housing Authority crew, WAV DWGS. If you're in SF check out their show next week. Ecstasy is proud to share one of their new tracks in mp3 format with you:

Oh Hi

PLUS, check out a deep track from this year's PHA comp from Body Body (one part C.L.A.W.S., who btw is remixing an upcoming Finesse track).

soundcloud:

So Quick to Get Sick

Word on the street is another PHA comp is in the making too...

Right Here

Check out Right Here by Adam N Jay!
Look out for a proper release in the near future with remix from local house heads Emotion 2 Emotion.
RIGHT HERE feat. JGreen (ORIGINAL digital 12" mix) by producedbyadam

E2E LIVE

Happy

Libery City - If You Really Love Someone

Romanathony - Testify

Crystal Waters - Making Happy

Mental Instrum - Love Changes

Sounds of House – Rheji Burrell and Nu Groove

Check out this doc footage of Nu Groove and the Burrell twins.





Check out this interview in text format. Burrell's music philosophy is real and down to earth.


This is my first post after being invited. Glad to be here in ecstatic company!

BeMusic Part One: Quango Quango - "Love Tempo (Dub Mix)"

Brilliant proto-house produced by Bernard Sumner (under the BeMusic alias, which various New Order members used for outside productions) in 1983, featuring Simon Topping from A Certain Ratio and The Hacienda's Mike Pickering. The a-side is classic (albeit overplayed) but this more minimal/dubby flipside sounds even more crisp today, striping off the new wave vocalizations in favor of vibrant conga and 808 interplay and a borderline absurd number of build ups and breakdowns. Big one at the Paradise Garage...Chicago dudes like Vince Lawrence jammed it as well. Enjoy!



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More BeMusic jams to come this week...

leech 'baby, understand'

this sputterboogie/echodisco cut got a lil burnt on reentry,

it shouldn't get your other digital white labels too dirty tho.

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TONIGHT: Ron Trent in PDX!

Tonight in Portland! Chicago Techno/House legend Ron Trent live at the Someday Lounge, DJing til 4am! Do not miss this!



Full info here: http://nwtekno.org/showthread.php?t=150065

Shooz

This is the stuff I grew up on.
Still sounds so good today.

Time Will Tell (The Deeper Then deep Mix)
Remix by Frankie Knuckles
Drums by David Morales

MODULE

Module Track 01


While getting into my autumnal nesting vibrations, i ran across this old scratched up cdr from 2002 that my friend David Farrell gave me. He made it using only(and strictly) modules. Things that i have no idea what they are actually because they probably involve linux or sysex dumping or funky things that personally terrify me(Unicorns and unstable platforms are just not synonymous in my fluffy kitten world) anyhow, i saw him play at this after hours club and it was amazing.. tranced out acid, altered realms type stuff.

Locate/Module/dormant

Arthur Russell white-label

Seldom-heard b-side to the white-label-only 12” of Russell’s single greatest piece of music, “In the Light of the Miracle”. While the a-side was reissued on Soul Jazz’s comp of Russell material, this mysterious house-infused flipside remains tragically unreleased. Features the whole Singing Tractors crew (Elodie Lauten, Mustafa Ahmed, and Peter Zummo) as well as Allen Ginsberg (!) and a rare appearance by Julius Eastman.



link


BONUS: Yet another unreleased version of "In the Light of the Miracle", a fragile solo voice/cello/delay live recording complete with an entirely different opening stanza:



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(Extracted from this radio podcast.)

A rare opportunity to peer into the deep with DJ COLDYRON aka Jed B from Operative, Eternal Tapestry, Flaengegod, etc. Expect him to cue up some Belgian New Beat, EBM, minimal synth, inverted house, coldness, inverted trance, and straight-up malaise.

Saturday 9/18 8PM:
ASSS, Warm Hands, Bestial Mouths (LA)
@ Gallery Salome with DJ COLDYRON
NW 6th between Everett and Flanders // Portland, OR
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Tonight at TBA's The Works..

Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner will be performing their piece 'SHE IS OURSELVES' a 30 person dance performance with music by Adam Forkner (White Rainbow) and The Slaves (Barbara Kinzle and Birch Cooper of Oregon Painting Society).

Nicholas Bindeman (Tunnels) will doing something with a pile of televisions and a dancer.

The Miracles Club will be performing a special set that ranges from "phasing" piano house to traditional chicago acid with human jack in the boxes! choreographed by Ryan Boyle. Accompanying us tonight will be friends Scott Goodwin (Operative) sequencing, Mark Burden (Dangerous Boys Club) on piano, Avalon K (Finesse) on percussion, and Jonathan Sielaff (Golden Retriever) on bass clarinet.

Everyone has been working hard on making each performance special for tonight so don't miss this special occasion.

THE WORKS at Washington High School
531 SE 14th Ave.
Portland OR 97214
$8 Members
$10 General
All Ages
10:30pm

Sweet High by The Slaves from their record Ocean on Ocean


Light Asylum at The Works' Art Party

Clinton Street Records

Went to Jared's (aka dj MAXX BASS) new record store the other day. WOW! amazing selection of vinyl (strictly) and audio equipment. It's not technically open yet but you should probably stroll on by and dip your paw into the sweet stuff now cuz ooh weee it's nice.
what did we get? weeelllll just some azari and iii remixes, keri chandler, levon vincent and snuff crew's snuff trax. I should've known something was up when rafael handed me september's bill money before we walked into the store.

Come hang out all day for the GRAND OPENING PARTY october 1, 2010 1pm. Dj's, bands, cookies etc

until then, enjoy this track from Elec Pt. 1
jakk u up

leech 'openness'

43 minute mix of mostly contemporary slo vocal house

to gently wake the blahg from it's nap.

12345 -henry jacobs

i did it just the same -eurythmics

whobadu -cottam

dig deep -nicholas

chicago -jozif

ludium -elektro guzzi

you got that look in your eyes -mike simonetti

over you -moodyman

took my love -hunee

getting down in my car -the zohar

u talkin but u ain't walkin -lump

nobody else -mark e

tattoo's island -juju & jordash

tomorrow night -session victim

shade [dub] -the realness

make me free -marcello napoletano

nervous disid -the mole

sounds like thunder -bernice reagon

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PACIFIC HOUSING AUTHORITY

Pacific Housing Authority is a group of men and women who focus
on the performance of live, hardware-based house music.
I had the opportunity to see them play at a warehouse party
in Portland last night/this morning and they were amazing.
We will be joining them for a few of their parties this week in The Bay.
There is also a compilation that you can purchase on CD or stream here

PACIFIC HOUSING AUTHORITY @ SIDETRAX 081410

GLOBAL WARNING


FINESSE


Check it out.

Tuesday, August 17th: Cinespace Hollywood, CA: The Miracles Club with The Swiss
Wednesday, August 18th: 222 Hyde San Francisco, CA: The Miracles Club
Thursday, August 19th: Li Po Lounge San Francisco, CA: C.L.A.W.S., The Miracles Club (dj), Finesse, Global Warning, Prints
Friday, August 20th: THE ZOO 751 3rd St. Oakland, CA: C.L.A.W.S., Finesse, Global Warning, Joey Casio, Prints, the Miracles Club
Saturday, August 21st: Show Cave Los Angeles, CA: C.L.A.W.S., Finesse, Global Warning, Cumberbun, Bobby Browser

More info here.

Night Tra(n)cer

oh no he did(n't)! granular dan(cough) just remixed white rainbow's night tracer just like that. sweeeeeet.

download night tra(n)cer

Night Tracer

been love love loving this deep trippers treat from adam forkner aka white rainbow. occasionally play the ocean if you need to come up for air.

new feelings

we've been finishing up our next ep and recording avalon k's new project 'finesse' omg it's so dope! majorly jeals and excited at the same time. thank you jah for the 303 love in the mail.

CELEBRATE TONIGHT !

'downtown' by miracles club


'elevate' by finesse

SIX

A six Channel, six speaker, sound performance (obviously mixed down to stereo for mp3) drum machine orchestra by David Chandler (Aka Solenoid) performed at Holocene as part of the "Sixes" event June 24, 2010.
MP3 here

Featuring:
Sean Byrne (Bugskull) - Roland R8 - one channel
Eric Mast (E*Rock) - Machinedrum - one channel
Rafael Fauria (Miracles Club) - Roland TR909 - one channel for bass drum and a 2nd channel for everything else
Carlo Pearson (Senor Frio) - Monomachine - one channel
Jesse Johnson (Gulls) - Roland TR606 - one channel
Paul Dickow (Strategy)- Roland TR727 (the 'latin' drum machine) - one channel

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Golden Retriever + Granular Dan

Just was sent this remix of Golden Retriever's epic second CD-R release (somebody do some vinyl for this band already) by Portland's Granular Dan, whom I met recently in a Gravity's Rainbow reading group recently. Somehow Dan's taken GR's harmonic syrup and layered it back upon itself atop some 4/4 UR-style drumz, I think I even hear additional delay.

Download Here!

Buy Golden Retriever "2" at Matt Carlson's blog!

ON-U love

like if the happy mondays and crass made a song.

and party

if i didn't have a zillion things to do the next morning, i would have totally done the line of ketamine that was offered to me as i walked into friday night's relaxed, mini-rave in someone's kitchen. ian, avalon, a 909, an evolver, a pro one, a fog machine, free drugs, crucial sweatpants.. life here is beautiful what can i say?

first half is ian hixx, second half avalon k.

-honey

Thanks to Abe Ray and Paul Dickow for recording the Atole, Operative, Astrology show on 6/12! Here's a little taste of what Operative's been working on lately, a track called "Homeworld". Hat tip to ST:TNG!

Operative - Homeworld (Live @ /):

Leech live at Superfresh last night

great set last night b! i got to dance with some cute ravers for a second too. rad!

Shows

Lots of good shows this week!
We Like Cats is playing their first show/record release party TONIGHT!
at holocene with Rob Walmart and Selector Dub Narcotic!
I will be playing in a 6 channel drum machine circle on Thursday with Solenoid and Strategy also at Holocene.
On Friday Brian Foote will be be doing his first live performance as Leech with Nice Nice at Rotture and Saturday night is Cosmos with all of my favorite local DJs.
more info here and here

leech '#6'

another ecstasy blog exxcclluussivve. get set!

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leech 'i can't kick this feeling when it hits'

here's a cover i did of one of my favorite moodymann songs. got the idea for it when i came across a reggae cover of 'i want your love' by chic [which is what moody's song is built from] and used it as the basis for this version.