The Hydrogen Project

I will be subbing for Susanna on Rare Frequency tonight at 7PM on WZBC 90.3.

Time / Artist / Song / Disk / Disk Released / Label / Label Country
09:56PM / Cobblestone Jazz / B2 / Itiswhatitis / 0000 / Itiswhatitis /
10:03PM / Mikkel Metal / Vainqueur Remix / rmx ep part 4 / 0000 / Echocord /
10:11PM / Monolake / North / Polygon_Cities / 2005 / Monolake / Germany
10:18PM / Sleeparchive / Shut Up and Dance / Shut Up and Dance / 2007 / Ostgut / Germany
10:24PM / Lucien-n-luciano / Future Senses / Blind Behavior / 2004 / Peacefrog / chile
10:28PM / Domina / Domina (Maurizio Mix) / Tresor Three / 0000 / Tresor /
10:42PM / Underworld / Surfboy / Dubnobasswithmyheadman / 1994 / JBO /
10:49PM / Underworld / Spoonman / Dubnobasswithmyheadman / 1994 / JBO /
10:58PM / Brian Kage / Children of the Puppet Parade / Passage EP / 2004 / Lumina /
11:04PM / Rei Loci / Designer User / Profit and Loss / 2005 / Iridite / UK
11:08PM / Aril Brikha / To Begin / Akire / 2007 / Pokerflat /
11:17PM / Rhythim Is Rhythim / Nude Photo / Nude Photo / 1987 / transmat /
11:23PM / Rei Harakami / Double Flat (Max404 Mix) / November EP / 1998 / Sublime /
11:29PM / Kiki / Cowboy Mix / Trust Me / 2006 / BPitch Control / Germany
11:38PM / Deadbeat / Where Has My Love Gone? / Journeyman's Annual / 2007 / Scape / Germany
11:44PM / Jpls / Green01 (Skoozbot Remix) / Nothing Much / 2007 / MINUS / Canada
11:50PM / Lusine Icl / Weaver / Emerald / 2006 / Ghostly / US
11:55PM / Miskate / People Began Sequences / Afterblaster EP / 2007 / Microcosm /
12:02AM / Monolake / Substance Remix I / Alaska Remixes / 2006 / Imbalance Computer Music / Germany
12:08AM / Lucas Rodenbush / Activated / City Lights / 2005 / Immigrant /
12:16AM / Laurent Garnier / Greed (Dave Clarke Remix) / Remixes and Rarities / 2007 / News /
12:21AM / Ken Ishii / Overlap (Mark Broom Mix) / Extra / 1997 / The Medicine Label /
12:28AM / Lemon 8 / Model 8 / Model 8 / 2006 / Plus 8 /
12:36AM / Millsart / Capricorn / Every Dog Has Its Day Vol 2 / 2000 / Axis / USA
12:41AM / Dan Curtin / Glow / We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For / 2006 / Headspace /
12:47AM / Nortec Collective / No Liaza Jaz / The Tijuana Sessions V 1 / 2001 / Palm Pictures / Mexico
12:52AM / Tang / Ominous / Detroit 2002 / 2002 / Generator /
12:57AM / Tomas Jirku / Podhaka / Clicks and Cuts 2 / 2001 / Mille Plateaux / Germany

Today is the world's best holiday, and it's too bad that we don't celebrate it here. The Fête de la Musique (Feast of Music) was conceived by the French government in 1981 and first held in 1982. To the outsider, it may appear to be a government-organized music festival. After all, local governments post schedules of officially-sanctioned events featuring music of all kinds. Performances are by no means limited to official ones. The government simply publishes a list of suggestions for organizing your own event. Noise ordinances are not enforced. Open container laws appear to be ignored as well. Public transportation gets packed beyond capacity and the roads are nearly entirely blocked by pedestrians.

When I lived in Grenoble 5 (!) years ago, I remember going to one of three separate techno parties in Parc Paul Mistral. I had roamed the city for a few hours before with a nice big 3€ bottle of Leffe. I saw a noise-punk trio using a telephone handset for a microphone, a cheap duct-taped keyboard and a busted guitar. A house party with a DJ had the windows open and speakers facing the street. Every kebab and tea shop had a traditional band playing. Salsa and merengue bands took over a different park in the city.

Maybe it's not as hectic when it's not on a Friday as it was last year, but I still think we in the US should adopt this celebration.

It is reported that a group of around 30 masked individuals, armed with CS-gas, iron bars and baseball bats stormed the stadium at around 11.20pm as The Beastie Boys were performing.

Good luck Rick, get well soon.

From Test Pattern:
Time / Artist / Song / Disk / Disk Released / Label / Label Country
06:01PM / Peter Gabriel / Inst Part 1 Intro / Games... Without Words / 0000 / /
06:06PM / Peter Gabriel / Bashi-Bazouk / Digging in the Dirt / 1992 / REALWORLD /
06:11PM / Peter Gabriel / Curtains / Big Time / 0000 / /
06:14PM / Manu Katche / Warm Doorway / Warm Doorway / 0000 / /
06:17PM / Peter Gabriel / Don't Break This Rhythm / Sledgehammer / 0000 / /
06:21PM / Peter Gabriel / Walk Through the Fire / Against All Odds Soundtrack / 0000 / /
06:25PM / Artists United Against Apartheid / No More Apartheid / Biko / 1985 / Geffen /
06:34PM / Peter Gabriel / Games without Frontiers (Massive Attack/DB Mix) / Pure Moods 3 / 0000 / /
06:38PM / Peter Gabriel and Deep Forest / While the Earth Sleeps / Strange Days / 1995 / Sony / USA
06:45PM / Peter Gabriel / Liquid Selves / Liquid Selves / 1992 / /
06:48PM / Peter Gabriel / I Don't Remember / Games... Without Words / 0000 / /
06:49PM / Peter Gabriel / Me and My Teddy Bear / DIY / 0000 / /
06:51PM / Peter Gabriel / Bully For You / I Have The Touch / 0000 / /
06:56PM / Peter Gabriel / Biko / Live to be Loved / 0000 / /


and from the Hydrogen Economy:
Time / Artist / Song / Disk / Disk Released / Label / Label Country
09:58PM / Someone else / Peaches and Steam / Pen Caps and Colored Pencils / 2007 / FoundSound /
10:04PM / LUCIANO / Drunken Ballet / Shut up and Dance! / 2007 / Berghain /
10:13PM / Lawrence / Further / Lowlights from the Past and Future / 2007 / Kompakt / Germany
10:19PM / Apparat / Arcadia / Walls / 2007 / Sh*tkatapult /
10:26PM / Isolee / The Jacko Theme / Famous When Dead 5 / 2007 / Playhouse / Germany
10:34PM / Mikkel Metal / Roddan / Brone and Wait / 2007 / Echochord /
10:40PM / The Field / Good Things End / From Here We Go Sublime / 2007 / Kompakt / Germany
10:46PM / Tim Hecker / Song of the Highwire Shrimper / Radio Amor / 2007 / Alien 8 / Canada
10:53PM / Paul Kalkbrenner / Der Senat / Der Senat / 2007 / BPitch Control / Germany
11:01PM / Model 500 / The Flow (Underworld Remix mk2) / The Flow (Underworld Remix mk2) / 0000 / R&S /
11:07PM / Max Planck / Proton Donor / Can't Stop Won't Stop / 2007 / Iridite / UK
11:11PM / Feadz / Mr Oizo Beef Mix / Maxi Beef EP / 0000 / BPitch Control / Germany
11:15PM / Ricardo Villalobos / Mormax / For Disco Only 2 / 2005 / For Disco Only /
11:27PM / UTU / N428 / N428 / 1993 / Plus 8 /
11:35PM / The Mole / In My Song / In My Song / 2006 / Wagon Repair /
11:42PM / VARIOS / Multipliremezclas (Lusine Remix) / Multipliremezclas 1 / 2006 / Apnea /
11:49PM / Jonas Bering / Behind This Silence / Behind This Silence / 2006 / Kompakt / Germany
11:55PM / Digitaline / Aphrodisiaque / Anticlockwise / 2007 / Cadenza /
12:02AM / J. Hunsberger / Move On / Movement / 2005 / Mutek_Rec / Canada
12:10AM / [a]pendics.shuffle & Mikael Stavosstrand / Looking For Me (Mossa Remix) / Looking For Me / 2006 / Adjunct /
12:14AM / Quenum / Keep Trippin' / Keep Trippin' / 2006 / Plak /
12:21AM / Carl Craig / Science Fiction A Break For You / Science Fiction / 1995 / Blanco Y Negro / Germany (Band is Yugoslav)
12:28AM / Soultek / Analogue Heart (Beatport Mix) / DEMF Promo / 2007 / /
12:35AM / Kevin Saunderson / World of Deep (Carl Craig Mix) / DEMF Promo / 2007 / /
12:40AM / John Shananigans Feat. Moral Undulations / Old Blue Spiritual / Jimmy's Lunch / 0000 / Cynosure /
12:46AM / Donnacha Costello / 6.3 / 6x4 / 2006 / Minimise /
12:55AM / Theodor Zox / Dawn in Blue / Pastels 1-4 / 2004 / Thinner /

This morning I dropped my wife off at work at 6:30 AM. She's headed to DC with her school until Saturday morning. To top it off, we only got four hours of sleep last night since we decided to go see the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie and got back after midnight. You can imagine my annoyance when I see my neighbor from across the street standing in my driveway!

I see this guy a lot. He is typically either sitting on his front steps or pacing back and forth on the sidewalk in front of his house. Sometimes he laughs maniacally. He gets picked up by the MBTA RIDE so I figure I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and drive around the block. Maybe he'll be gone when I get back. Otherwise I call the cops.

I take my car past the high school, which usually isn't open this time of the morning. Oddly, there are a lot of people hanging around on the soccer field. Soccer practice in the morning? Unlikely, it's raining, and most of them aren't high school age. Plus, they're just walking around aimlessly.

Maybe I'm just sleeping.

I pull around back to my driveway. My neighbor is gone, but his RIDE pickup is sitting on the street. Empty, with the headlights on and the driver's door open. What's going on? I'm going inside. I unlock the door, but before I lock up, I unlock the bikes and take them inside too. Something isn't right, and if there's some messed up gasoline crisis riot, I will need transportation that's faster than walking. I'm too tired to process right now. It's naptime.

I wake up, not to my alarm, but the noise of my cats hissing and growling at the door. They've been fighting more than usual lately, so I head over to break it up, only to find that they're not hissing at each other. There's an ARM reaching through my mail slot! A bloody arm! What is going on? I start to call the cops as I head back upstairs. (someone getting murdered on the front stairs freaks one out) The other end picks up and I start to tell him what is going on. Immediately my mind goes back to the empty RIDE van, so I run to the front porch and take a better look. There's now a bloody trail leading from the empty van to my front steps, and the arm belongs to someone in a T uniform! I can see my neighbor walking towards the high school soccer field. His hands are bloody, and then he stops. He turns, slowly, and I can see that is mouth is bloody, too! Did he BITE the RIDE guy to death?

Evidently not, because the body is moving.

As I continue relaying this information to the police, I start hearing screams and gunshots over the phone. The line goes dead. Below, I can hear the moaning of the RIDE driver and I realize the situation.

Fuck.

Zombies.

I curse my delay in buying firearms, but wait a minute. Flames are better against zombies anyway! Mental catalog of flammable items in the house: Old newspapers, gasoline, paint, drain opener, nail polish, bug spray, rubbing alcohol. Carpeted cat tree. I have a lot of knives, too. Those can kill a zombie with a head shot, right? If not, my landlord has a garage full of landscaping equipment.

OK, first things first. Get the RIDE zombie off my porch. I can safely cut his arm off without risk of a bite. I grab a cleaver, open the inner door, and take it off it one shot. Zombie bones are brittle. The thing reaches its other arm through, and that one gets chopped also. Hopefully that will stall them, as I don't trust the deadbolt. Our foyer has a big, heavy shelf unit. I bar the door with that.

I have enough food stocks for a couple days for myself and the animals. If the power goes out, I just might need to cook on a fire of zombie flesh. First plan, destroy the two zombies in the front yard, then siphon the gas out of the cars while the coast is still clear. My landlord is a cop. I'm sure he's well armed. His wife and kids are not at home, and he may not have made it out of the police station alive. Next step, armor the bicycles, grab everything flammable, and start looking up plans for flamethrowers. I am not going down easy.

Source

From the Tech house list:

So a local environmental group was throwing an open air concert over the
weekend, "Heather Nova and Friends."

One of the friends of Heather Nova was a German DJ named ATB - I guess he's
huge in the Europe / Eurotrance scene (You can hear a sample of his music
and info on the environmental group here:
http://www.greenrock.org/nova/index.php?page=atb but be warned this is
SERIOUSLY bad music.)

Anyhow, he cancelled last minute and so they booked me. The concert was a
great success, more of a family event.

The best part is that even though I was last to play, there were still lots
of kids there, and by coincidence I packed my "Sesame Street Disco" record,
so I got to play Robin Gibbs' version of "C is for Cookie" and the kids went
nuts! The rest of the set went really well too.

The worst part: Everybody thought/thinks I'm ATB. I had people cheering
"ATB" after the set and asking me when I got in from Germany. I had a girl
come into the booth and tell me how she saw me play in Ibiza. Even the
paper says I'm ATB.

Arrrgh!

Time	Artist	Song	Disk	Label	Label Country
10:01PM	Substance and Vainqueur	Immersion	Surface	Scion Versions
10:09PM	Tang	Space Dance	Machine Oriented	Emphasis
10:15PM	Sleeparchive	Diagnosis	Hospital Tracks	Sleeparchive	Germany
10:21PM	Dan Curtin	Buzz 101	Album Sampler	Headspace
10:27PM	Stephen Beaupre	My Old Lady	Dirty Lipreading	Musique Risquee
10:32PM	Luci	Weeners ISO 9001	Rapatapaton	Mutek_Rec	Canada
10:39PM	M. Rahn	Automale	1138	SIXONESIX
10:46PM	Radio Boy	Manufactured Music	The Mechanics of Destruction
10:48PM	Madlib	Song for my Father	Shades of Blue	Blue Note
10:54PM	Monolake	Alaska (Surgeon Remix)	Alaska Remixes	Imbalance Computer Music	Germany
11:01PM	DJ T-1000	Track 1	Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Now Invisible	Pure Sonik
11:09PM	Miskate	Afterblaster	Afterblaster EP	Microcosm
11:15PM	Nulleins	Sunset	Freeway EP	Thinner
11:22PM	Tha Poke	Uncommon Sense	Electron Music EP	Iridite	UK
11:27PM	Touane	Wisdom Tooth	Prosa EP	Persona
11:35PM	The Black E	Y-O-Y Jack	Found on the Floor of the Foundry EP	Sleep Debt
11:40PM	Terry Lee Brown, Jr.	Here We Go	Chocolate Chords	UCMG
11:47PM	Madlib	Please Set Me At Ease	Shades of Blue	Blue Note
11:50PM	Dexter	D-Funked	D-Funked	Clone Records
11:54PM	Galaxy 2 Galaxy	Hi Tech Jazz (the science)	UR025	Underground Resistance
12:03AM	Mathew Jonson	Gemini	Gemini	Itiswhatitis
12:14AM	Shu Okuyama	Sietlicher Wodka Des Betts	Waldspaziergang EP	Milnormodern
12:22AM	Ernesto Ferreyra	Border Light	Memoria Colectiva	Mutek_Rec	Canada
12:33AM	Deadbeat and Monolake	NE-555 Mix	Random Brown	Cynosure
12:39AM	Miss Fitz	Plak du Jour (Mossa Remix)	Komisarin Kauz Sounds Good	Archipel
12:45AM	Aril Brikha	Akire	Akire	Pokerflat
12:53AM	Jennifer Cardini & Shonky	Lies	August in Paris	Mobilee

Mutek was quite a ride. This year's festival was a much better experience for me than last year. The weather did not involve heavy rains; there was no transportation anxiety; there was no personal drama; there was no 1-Speed Bike. Montreal smells better than it did last year, and as you can see from the photo, there was no Piknic cancellation.



Anyways,



RHYTHM AND SOUND



Fabulous, much better than seeing them while getting soaked in NYC last September. TikimanPaul St Hilaire was not quite as cool as I had hoped. Of course, the last time I saw him was on stage with Kruder and Dorfmeister with like five other MCs at sunset in Rome. I love Montreal, but Rome is a little more picturesque.



CAFE ELECTRONIKA



The morning after Rhythm and Sound, we headed over to the Hotel Godin to pick up my pass. I bought some records as well, and we hung out and listened to the Cafe Electronika live podcast/remote PA for a little bit. We were hungry, and knowing that we could catch all this via download, left to score some food. (Poutine at FRITES ALORS, une friterie belge quoi!)



NOCTURNE 3



I must admit that Kalabrese and Matthew Dear's Big Hands were both a little bit disappointing, but the rest of the acts more than made up for it. Detalles is worth checking into again, and Cobblestone Jazz was simply amazing. The first half hour sounded about like a typical Mathew Jonson set. It gradually became more and more frantic until I was a big sweaty mess on the floor. I didn't leave until they got kicked off the stage long after closing time.



PIKNIC 1



Claude Von Stroke was boring. Chic Miniature was pretty good, and My My was also. I was not amazed by Audion, but that may have been the sunburn talking. I decided to rest up for the night party, which was apparently open until 6AM!



NOCTURNE 4



Way too crowded! Ack! I managed to sneak outside to the courtyard where there was some space. Unfortunately all the smokers were also there, because the 6AM closing time required a complete patdown of all patrons. I was able to hear all the music of Gui Boratto (awesome) and Jichael Mackson (meh) and Pantha du Prince (good). The crowd was surly for Michael Mayer's set, so I headed upstairs to finish the night with Someone Else. I had caught Miskate's and Pheek's sets earlier, and, although it was jammed, the mood was a lot more comfortable in this small room.



I guess I should have taken some more pictures. Oh well. What I've got is here.


One more thing, Beatport has a free Mutek promo compilation available. If you poke around that area, you can also find a DEMF promo and Minus tour promo.

In addition to the regularly scheduled Hydrogen Economy broadcast next Friday, I will be doing an hour-long showcase of Peter Gabriel rarities as part of Test Pattern on WZBC 90.3 FM at 6 PM. (and I will go home and return at 10PM for the Hydrogen Economy)