Etbonz and Ecstasy

A major inspiration for me in the last year has been my friendship with sci-fi house technician Elliott Thomas aka Etbonz . In these days of over-done, trendy, and distracted music culture, it's great to meet someone who loves to listen in his music, restrain, and slowly build. I've been trying to get some unreleased original stuff from the man lately for the blog, but instead (for the time being he assures me) he dropped this mix in my inbox, and I couldn't be happier. A proper mix in the dance-floor realm from a guy who could have taken us anywhere. You can hear the space, emotion, jack, and future on this journey, all hallmarks of our local electronic taste-master alchemist Etbonz. If you like the good stuff I'm sure you will dig! Also check out his 7" track on this BIS mix. -Avalon

Download here. Link will be up for a week or so. I'll try to keep it up for a longer. Get it while you can!

trackslist:

1. Echo 106 - Flute

2. Suspect - Bleeding for you (Tevo Howard Remix)

3. Model Man - Forever Strangers

4. 2AM/FM - Give this World

5. Steven Tang - Optimal Signals

6. The Field - Leave it

7. Grackle - Disco (Musiccargo Remix)

8. Larry Heard - Distant Planet (Star Trek Remix)

9. Orbital - Choice

10. Argy - Wish you we're here (Vocal Mix)

11. Tevo Howard - Single (LP edit)

12. Virgo Four - I Love you

13. UBQ Project - When I fell in love

14. $tinkworx - salvia (Putsch 79 Remix)

15. Mark Du Morch - Summer Breeze

16. Maximillian Skiba - The Fog

17. A Reminiscent Drive - Life is beautiful

Enter Polonaise

Two polyrhythmic tracks from the newly minted Polonaise team of Ecstasy's own Avalon K. and Scott G. Check this "digital-double-A-side" preview of 3-on-the-floor Roland boxes and some serious Reichian modes!

UPDATE: We've removed the tracks, but for a rad reason. Watch here for updates on the Polonaise debut 12"!!! Make-up goodies soon, guys, we swear.

Thema by Polonaise
Untitled #2 by Polonaise

Good Vibrations

We have been out on the road quite a bit this summer and haven't had the time to do much posting so here is a lil catch up... We just got back from the Sunset Campout where we played alongside our friend Steve Summers and hero Larry Heard ! and we are now back in NYC for a couple shows. If you are around Miracles Club will be playing Glasslands tonight and the Public assembly tomorrow night with Midnight Magic!

Here's a remix we did for the NY's Sheen Bros.
Download via XLR8R

And a DJ mix for Opening Ceremony. Enjoy!


Tracklist:
Ron Trent Feat. Chez Damier - Sometimes I feel like
Jus Ed- Im Comin (Levon Vincent Remix)
Robert Owens - One Body (Nicholas Interpretation)
Azari & III - Lost In Time
Peach Melba - Can't Let Go
Steffi - Arms (Lone Remix)
4th Measure Men - 4 You (Maya Jane Cole Remix)
Harkin & Raney - Workin' & steamin'
Kenny Dixon Jr - Shades of Jae
Romanthony - The Wanderer (Rob Mello's No Ears Remix)
Runaway - Chapter 3 feat. SAMN!
Dpac - I wouldn't
Levon Vincent - No Regret
Innergaze - Shadow Disco
The Dirtbombs - Sharevari (Omar S Remix)
Morgan Geist - Outronic

Do You Wanna Get Funky EDIT

Fun-ky hype material from Avalon K. Listen and download 320 kbs mp3 below:

Do You Wanna Get Funky EDIT by Avalon K

Experimental Half Hour

Alexis Blair Penney 'Lonely Sea (Ecstasy Mix Live)'


Operative 'Biopic and Aliasing'

Check out the latest videos by our homies the Experimental Half Hour. Eva and Brock have been steadily documenting some of Portland's finest underground, weirdo art and music movement as of late. These two videos happen to feature some of the Ecstasy peeps Operative, Alexis, Finesse and Miracles Club.

Alexis Blair Penney's debut single 'Lonely Sea' is available as a 7" via HNYTRX and includes a remix by Honey Soundsystem. Also available as a digital ep with additional remixes by Ecstasy crew and Emotion II Emotion via Itunes
Check it.

Alexis Blair Penney 'Lonely Sea (Emotion II Emotion Remix)'

This Friday in Ecstasy: Time, Space, Transmat

Operative DJs curate Ecstasy at Valentine's this Friday. We're getting proto-, ur-, and meta- with a blend of the classic Ecstasy house-pulse flavored with techno and EBM.

Clock with us.

Dreyblatt on Vimeo

Arnold Dreyblatt Ensemble, Excerpts from NBK Video, Berlin 2009 from Arnold Dreyblatt on Vimeo.

Arnold Dreyblatt: The Orchestra of Excited Strings, New York, 1991 from Arnold Dreyblatt on Vimeo.

Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra of Excited Strings, Petöfi Csarnok, Budapest, October, 1985 from Arnold Dreyblatt on Vimeo.

Arnold Dreyblatt, the America-born, Germany-based Minimalist composer has got himself a Vimeo account. Dreyblatt's 80s and 90s works with the Orchestra of Excited Strings and his various other ensembles are notable for puting just-intonation tunings into some pretty novel rhythmic frameworks. When I first got turned on to this stuff I was rocking Otha Turner's drum and fife music pretty deep as well as Tony Conrad's Early Minimalism, so stumbling on to Dreyblatt via Matt Carlson was pretty serendipitous.

The vids' feature some of Dreyblatt's innovative instruments and playing methods including what appears to be a JI clavier you play with lil' mallets, lots of contrabass harmonics, a fucked looking high-hat, and a tympani-as-floor-tom deal for the drummer in the Bang on a Can performance. Not a lot of JI music you can get down to, even if it's more hoedown than house.