A Source Direct interview from 1996 is a fascinating piece of drum & bass history. It’s also kind of totally ridiculous. These guys produced some incredible tracks just the same.
Taku Unami was working with very tiny sounds at that time and it was honestly hard to pick out anything distinct from the players. He was on MacBook surround by some wind instruments and a percussionist all of extended techniques.
This feels far too composed to be improvised but it’s an excellent collaboration none the less. There are many jostling sound-worlds present here. It’s made for repeated exploration and very, very worthy of that. I saw Unami once in a group soundtracking a film. No clue of his contributions then.
This album is captivating me thus far about six tracks in. There are 42 tracks here and Toshiya Tsunoda/Taku Unami work similar yet distinctly different sound worlds. I’m not sure of their process here. Improvised? listen now, save questions for later.
ihatemusic message board is a place that I used to frequent and even post on. I didn’t realize that it still existed until tonight but it looks mighty dead. There were many great discussions there about improvisation and the art of.
https://youtu.be/LuB29bL2kyI?si=4-ejVtMdjGAh5ty4 Cailbre is one Dominik Martian out of Belfast. He creates fantastic drum & bass music that I’ve heard quite a bit of recorded. I’ve never heard him do a live mix and I’m in a drum and bass mood. Boiler Room has it all, such a wonderful place to browse.
Contributions from 16 community radios and guest curators provide a rich and diverse program of live music, performance, DJ sets, installations, radiophonic works, talks, screenings and workshops all exploring various facets of community radio art, aesthetics and practice.
📣 Cashmere Radio proudly announce the Signals2Noise programme!
S2N gathers some of the most interesting artists, performers and speakers working with community radios from across Eastern, Central and Northern Europe. Curated and hosted by Cashmere Radio and Easterndaze, S2N has emerged from several years of discursive and creative online collaboration with community radios from across Europe.
Featuring guest contributions from artistic researchers Tentative Transmits, GDR and Eastern European underground expert Alexander Pehlemann, musician, poet and sound sculptress AGF, musician and LOM label runner Jonáš Gruska and radiophonic artist and activist Niki Matita, as well as cultural and media networks Reset and the Independent Community Radio Network.
https://youtu.be/GYSCic9F5D8?si=Q0hqkvbKp7lhabrq This Dose One interview is super informative. He was in some pretty influential early aughts hip hop in the form of the group cLOUDEAD. They loom large in my imagination of that period. He was also in the group Subtle and various other collaborations. Recently he’s been creating music for video games among all the other endeavors. This gets into his early years in Philly, NJ, etc and he also talks about battling Eminem at the Scribble Jam finals among other things.
cLOUDDEAD’s first full length being released on vinyl again if you care about such things. Amazing record that I think about multiple times yearly. It’s more special if you’ve never heard.. When you do imagine Dose One & Eminem in the finals at Scribble Jam.
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