deeptime

Videos, now! Teaser for Ekoplekz Volume 2, slated for September.  Might need a CD+DVD doublepack, if you ask me.  Start the rumour.

I like abstracty sounds because I come from drum n bass. I like to do different sounds – I don’t like the same sounds. I don’t like nothing straight. If it sounds like someone else’s I’m not in it. I’ve got to be different, I have to be different. [...]

1BBi (2010) Back to the yards…

If you look up at these slides here on my last videotape, after I’m dead,
it will say one thing on my grave tomb:
As a Ghettovett, I only know serious business.
As the interrogator of Ikonoklast Panzerism,
I don’t give nobody no business.

I tell you what is full military information and function
for [...]

Mr.Bump live at Komodo Dubs, Montreal (Feb 2010)
1 hour session from February, opening for Shackleton and Reza Rekta (Anti Social) alongside the Montreal gang: Komodo, Hosta and Bus.  Straightforward Ableton set here: Spooky garridge, bassline pressure, 8-bar and early, instrumental grime.  Some minor edits. Channeling Slimzee in the last half – lots of favourites on [...]

Ekoplekz is Nick from Gutterbreakz blog, and this limited-run, paint spattered CD-R (designed by Woofah contributor 2nd Fade) was the best thing to land in my mailbox this spring.  Regretfully, when it arrived, I was in the final weeks of my first term of teaching and I simply didn’t have time to give it the [...]

Genealogy
Grrrden! zine (2001) begat Autonomicforthepeople blog (2002-3), which begat Autonomicforthepeople blog (2004-2006), which begat paul autonomic (DSF 2004-; deeptime.net 2006-), who begat Riddim.ca (2005-), Autonomic Computing dustep/grime mixes (2005-), Dark Disco (2008-) and Mr. Bump (2006-).
Someone else is doing a bunch of dubstep stuff now under the name Autonomic, which is weird [...]

You might remember Mr. Bump from early on in the Blogariddims series – bottom-heavy, a bit rowdy.  He dredged up those old swung beats with the rude basslines and sugary vocals – dance tunes – back when everyone was half steppin. Next came a very brief but thrilling career as a pioneer of the UK [...]

Very promising looking new magazine in the works. The Queitus – “[catering to] the intelligent music fan between the age of 21 and 73″ – is set to launch a print version in the next couple of months. For now, they’ve got an already impressive blog where Melissa Bradshaw’s unleashed this gem on Sonic Warfare.

Funkineven is good.  ‘Kleer’ – woozy moog funk, dash of wonk, hazey vox, namechecking Plastic People. ‘Mad Swing,’ same deal. ‘You’ is drunk-paced vocal science – Todd Edwards at -8.

Stand up bit of archival work over at Uncarved. I love this kind of thing – unearthing and scanning in old fragments from before the www info deluge.  John really nails that feeling you’d get when an unexpected bit of print could open you up to a whole new realm of music and ideas.  There [...]

3×12″ Vinyl
Perlon (PERL76)
October 2009

‘Not an album’ from Sam Shackleton but a coincidental set of ‘EPs’ packaged together by German techno label Perlon.  The following is not a review.
A1  (No More) Negative Thoughts
B1  Let Go
B2  It’s Time for Love

In some other version of now, it was Mala’s ‘Conference’ not Coki’s ‘Haunted’ that proliferated like rhythmachinic spam [...]

“After the initial call for contributions some ten months ago, I am now delighted to announce the launch of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture. The first edition of Dancecult, a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal for the study of electronic dance music culture (EDMC), is now live, with downloadable PDFs accessible at http://dj.dancecult.net. Alongside Managing [...]

Erkki Kurenniemi
Computer Music
19??

Erkki Kurenniemi
Electronics in the World of Tomorrow
1968

These days I’m more solder and flux than diamonds and wax, if you know what I mean. This one’s for Gutta because I think he’ll like it.  Last winter I was supposed to release some of my early electronics-and-tape experiments on his netlabel Bleepfiend. But, regretfully, I [...]

Illuminated Man
For those who didn’t catch it, ‘Deeptime’ is a nod to JG Ballard’s first neuronic odyssey, The Drowned World. And the last ten minutes of my 2007 Blogariddims mix was also a partial tribute to the book, meant to work as a soundtrack to its closing lines.  Ballard died of prostate cancer in April [...]

After lurking around the edges of Funky (see last year’s enticing vocal number ‘How Very Dare You’), UKG / Grime don Sticky lobs this grenade onto the dancefloor. Fierce as all get out – easily an 11 on the ‘African Warrior’ Scale .  You wouldn’t want it all to be like this but it’s perfect [...]

So today is the end of Blogariddims. Eleven of us have contributed ~6-minute mini mixes to mark the occasion and it all kicks off right here. Thanks again to Droid for asking me to be a part of this amazing series. I know it’s taken a lot of work on his part [...]

I’m behind on a lot of things right now thanks to a bad case of RSI, but I’ve been meaning to post about this.  Dusk and Blackdown’s album Margins Music has finally been released and, along with it, a stunningly produced video.  It’s not a music video in the usual sense – it cuts [...]

So many people doing cool things right now…

Gutta’s Bleepfiend label kicks off with 10 attic recordings, circa 1993-95, from No. 1 Astronaut, aka, Bob Bharma, “slightly better known today as one half of ’space loop’ composers Data 70.”  Artwork by Woofah contributor Doppleganger and it’s completely free.  »»  Paul ‘Grievous Angel/777/Shards and Fragments’ [...]

Clever. Eden tricks me into posting again by naming me in a blog meme. I haven’t quit, I just haven’t had anything to say.
From Transpontine:
‘List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be [...]