Hydrogen Economy with MKB - WZBC College Radio

A complete version of the film Metropolis has been found in Argentina. Apparently the versions available today are missing 90 minutes of material.

More here.

Does this have anything to do with the music usually covered on this blog? You betcherass. Jeff Mills and Giorgio Moroder both created soundtracks for the silent film, the former going so far as to perform his soundtrack alongside a showing of the film (along with performances by Super Collider and Herbert!)

On a totally different note, I will be playing two sets at River Gods tomorrow night (July 3) as part of the monthly WZBC Countdown that was postponed from last month. Also appearing will be Matt Crook and John Straub. Unfortunately, the bar won’t be open until 2AM, even though it’s the day before a holiday, but there are other area events that will be open afterwards (If I am not totally cracked out I might head over to Elements for the last bit of KLUTE)

Tomorrow night (Thursday June 5th), Matt Crook and I will be playing some records at River Gods along with the WZBC Countdown for June. Full info here.

Friday night (June 6th) is my Basic Channel Test Pattern! I recorded the mixed portion of this last night and my head damn near fell off so I think you’ll like it too. That starts at 6PM Eastern time on WZBC.

(official copy)
May 30 - Jim - Wierd Records
June 6 - Matt - Basic Channel*
June 13 - Andrew - Kevin Martin
June 20 - Jessica - Easy Tempo
June 27 - Rob - Nocturnal Emissions
July 4 - Carrigan and David Day - The Field
July 11 - Patrick - Gary Mcfarland
July 18 - Matt - Underworld*
July 25 - Andrew - Adaadat Records
August 1 - Carrigan and David Day - The Knife
August 8 - JFK - Ed Keupper

* me!

Test Pattern airs every Friday at 6PM for 1 hour.

November 21-23 at the Regent Theatre in Arlington, MA.

Meat Beat Manifesto, Matmos, A Place to Bury Strangers, His Name is Alive, more including a special for Kranky’s 15th anniversary.

Official site!

Read it on their site.

Hooraaaaaaay! I hope I can go, even for just the weekend! Unfortunately, UR is playing on WEDNESDAY?!? FOOEY!

ARTIFICIEL & MARTIN TÉTREAULT
BAREM
BEN FROST
BEN SHEMIE
CARL CRAIG
CHIC MINIATURE
CHLOÉ
CHRISTIAN FENNESZ
CRISTIAN VOGEL
DAFLUKE
DAVE AJU
DEADBEAT
DJ OLIVE
ERNESTO FERREYRA
THE FIELD live band
FLYING LOTUS
FREIDA ABTAN
HALF HAWAII (SAMMY DEE & BRUNO PRONSATO)
JEREMY P. CAULFIELD
KID KOALA
KNIFEHANDCHOP
KODE 9 & SPACE APE
KOMODO
MARTIN MESSIER & JACQUES POULIN-DENIS
MARTYN
MATHIAS KADEN
MEGASOID
METRIKA
MILLIMETRIK
MODESELEKTOR vs PFADFINDEREI
MORGAN PACKARD vs JOSHUE OTT
MOSSA
MURCOF
NICOLAS BERNIER
NOAH PRED
NOKAMI & SANS SOLEIL
NÔZE
ONUR ÖZER
QUIET VILLAGE
RADIO SLAVE
RECHENZENTRUM
SLEEPARCHIVE
TIM HECKER
UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE presents INTERSTELLAR FUGITIVES

As of today iTunes has added WZBC to their list of radio streams. We can be found under their new category “College Radio.”
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As many of you may know, every Friday night, WZBC does a one hour focus on a single artist or label or scene or category or maybe some other constraint that hasn’t yet been imagined. One poor DJ gets stuck in the studio for an hour racking his or her brain for the best or rarest of what-have-you.

On April 11 at 6PM, Test Pattern presents the ever-pugnacious innovator; head of the Metroplex subsidiary Transmat Records; two-time organizer of Movement: Detroit Electronic Music Festival; resident DJ at The Music Institute in Detroit; and former radio host: the one and only Derrick May!*

God, I can barely fit the marketing hype into an hour!

Anyway, there will be music from across Mr. May’s long career from 1987 on up to the present (well the past year anyway); including both classics and rarities; co-productions, originals, and remixes. If anyone has footage of Mr. May at Movement 2004, riding around on a golf cart, asking for donations through his megaphone, feel free to send that to me and I’ll play that too :)

So anyway, listen Friday at 6PM to 90.3 FM or wzbc.org, or don’t! I’ll record it and spam again later.

* There may be other people named Derrick May.

Archipel has released a new sample kit: Assignment 3, as a new level in their mission and a celebration of their third anniversary. Archipel was originally created to see what different artists could make from the same set of sounds. Assignment 3 has expanded this sample set to include entire drum tracks and ambient noodling to be used as tools in one big DJ mix. Expect one from me. I’m going through the sample sets now.

I’m back! New Zero G Sounds within. And news, as well! I will be doing the April 11th Test Pattern on Derrick May. That will be at 6PM until 7. I’m going record hunting very soon for this event, and I will be recording it.

10:03PM Somfay “Fricative White” from “Serendip” on Archipel
10:33PM Ian O’Brien “Veksel” from “A History of Things to Come” on Peacefrog
10:39PM Prosumer and Murat Tepeli “Go Silla” from “Serenity”
10:45PM Rei Loci “The Future is our Time” from “The Future is our Time” on Headspace
10:50PM The Kooky Scientologist “Demonetics” from “Stuff” on Zero G Sounds
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Chicago house and the “democratization” of Music Production by Hans T. Zeiner-Henriksen, via Martin Dust.

Ron Murphy and Jeff Mills as told to Kent Williams.