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A new mix for Fluid Radio is now online.
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00:00 Milinal – Swallows Fly Low
Honey Meridian (Audiobulb)
03:50 Seasons (pre-din) – We Are The Night
Split with Black Eagle Child (2 x 3″ CDr)
13:54 Stephen Vitiello & Molly Berg – Claire Song Sung
Au Claire De La Lune (Infrequency)
20:46 Glissen – Ramblings
(forthcoming)
27:12 Soccer Committee & Machinefabriek – Cristopher (For Suzanne)
Drawn (Morc)
29:27 Werken – Port Elizabeth
Sum (Zymogen)
36:30 Papercutz – A Secret Search (Autistici Remix)
Do Outro Lado Do Espelho (Lylac Ambient Reworks) (forthcoming on Audiobulb)
44:00 Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry – Shpwrck2
Shpwrck (Experimedia)
48:40 Karlshorst
49:54 I:Cube – Silence
Picnic Attack (Versatile)
Mixed for Fluid Radio | January 2010.
© With artists and labels. All tracks used with permission.
Some DIY FX pedals.
From top:
E.S.V. 2 Knob Tonebender MkII fuzz with external bias, boost and Beavis‘ ‘Big Phatty’ mod, from BYOC. Great range of fuzz tones can be got from this, love its sound.
D-Verb digital reverb from GGG. Lovely old-skool reverb sound.
Way Huge ‘Red Llama’ overdrive, also from GGG. Great sound and lots of welly.
Bronx Cheer envelope waveshape filter with hi-lo switch.
LPB-1 booster with clean/dirty switch and treble boost switch.
I hope to be incorporating these and more into some live sets, so I’ve swapped the stomp switches for toggles for desktop use (and I don’t play guitar anyway). The enclosures were hand-sanded with 3 grades of sandpaper and then polished. I haven’t got into decals and spray painting yet as there’s only so many hours in the day and I quite like the clean look anyway.
Above is an FX looper with adjustable feedback loop, made using an old sweets tin. Yeah, the LED is in kitty’s eye (cos kitty never sleeps). It sends the input through a send/return loop with a switch that sends the output back out the send again, the feedback amount being adjustable with the knob. The wiring diagram is again from the indomitable Beavis, whose website is well worth checking out.
PCB from a nearly finished digital delay and the next batch. This stuff can take over your life if you’re not careful, but a great way to get acquainted with analogue electronics.
I’m delighted to be a guest on Donal Dineen’s radio show on Today FM as part of his Fresh Air Festival running throughout November.
The show was aired on Thursday 26th November, 12 - 2am.
Jimmy Behan interview with Donal Dineen | Today FM by jimmy_behan
“Fresh Air is a free music festival that will be transmitted directly into your ears via The Small Hours on Today FM. Donal Dineen has chosen his pick of the best new Irish sound makers to take part in a month-long celebration of great new music, live on your radio.
For the month of November, Donal will have a invited guest act live on air for The Small Hours to play live, chat to Donal and play a selection of their own favourite tunes, effectively curating the show for the night.
The Small Hours is on Today FM from midnight – 2am and the shows are archived for a week right here. We’ve plans to do something special and longer lasting with the archive of the Fresh Air shows, but stay tuned for more on that.” (from freshairfestival.wordpress.com)
http://freshairfestival.wordpress.com
http://twitter.com/fresh_air_fest
Donal’s Small Hours show on Today FM.
The Relay: A Dialogue Between Sound Artists collaborative netaudio project will feature as an installation at this year’s D.E.A.F.
“Relay has existed online since early 2008 and will have its first physical existence for DEAF09 as an installation at FilmBase. There are 8 Relay works so far, from Chequerboard, Jimmy Behan, Loscil, Hulk, Polly Fibre, Pierre Bastien, Bibio and Sunken Foal. Each piece will have it’s own listening station so the listener can move from one response to the next, following the threads of the conversation.”
Duration: Oct 22nd – 31st, 11am – 8pm daily
Venue: Filmbase, Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Admission: Free
Launch night: Thursday Oct 29th : 6pm – 9pm
Live performances from Polly Fibre & Hulk. Admission 5 euro
The folks at the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival have put together a double CD compilation of Irish artists to help promote the festival which runs from Thursday 22nd to Saturday 31st October and hosts an excellent line-up of international and Irish acts. The compilation features the track Through The Trees from The Echo Garden album. Each or all tracks can be streamed or downloaded for free here.
“Dublin’s more experimental club nights have undoubtedly struggled somewhat in recent years, there’s been a notable increase in the quality of the productions emerging from the studios of Irish producers. Thus for 2009, in association with Culture Ireland we’ve put together another 40-track double CD intended to showcase the best in new electronic music from Irish artists. We had over 400 submissions again this year from artists all over the country, the final selection includes new music from :
Sunken Foal, Seán Óg, Enda Bates, Legion Of Two, Rainfear, Ed Devane, Channel One, Teshi-1, Rachel O’Dwyer, Peter Maybury, Roger Doyle, Herv, David Baxter, Concerned Parasites ubh Korka Gweena, Liam O’Callaghan, Melodica Deathship, Harry Moore, Quiet Music Ensemble, Orestis Karamanlis, Jay riordan, Monica, Frózi, General Practice, Locus Solus, The Natural History Museum, Jimmy Behan, Kim V Porcelli, HMS Reliant, Spoon Theory, Spectac, Toymonger, Somadrone, Chip Shop Music, Acera, Chequerboard, The Last Sound, Cárthach Ó Nuanáin, Zelloloid, St. Catherine’s Home for Lazy Infants and Toby Kaar.
The CD will be distributed free at the press launch for the festival in September 2009, it will also be handed out free of charge at select D.E.A.F. events over the course of this years festival.
We’ll also be promoting it to the Irish and international press as part of our marketing campaign for this year’s festival. The CD will also be used by Culture Ireland to promote Irish Electronic music overseas.” (from deafireland.com)
Download (192mp3 / 79Mb)
00:00 Street
00:21 Isnaj Dui – Mushroom Picking
Unstable Equilibrium (Home Normal)
04:30 Bibio – Hedged In
from Relay: A Dialogue Between Sound Artists net-project
13:45 Gallery
15:06 Sylvie Walder & Entia Non – Des Espaces Sans Nom
Bewilderment (Resting Bell)
20:35 Pantaleimon – The Sun Came Out (Dawn Porous) Colin Potter Remix
Heart Of The Sun (Durtro)
25:04 Segue – Blue Wind II
Into The Fall (Slow Flow Rec)
31:17 Mariska Baars, Robert Deters & Rutger Zuydervelt – Gris Gris 2
Gris Gris (Low Point)
40:35 Black Eagle Child – Invented Lives
Seeds That Sprout In Summer (Stunned Records)
45:13 Stephen Spera – Troubled Dreams Of Beauty
4{H2O} (Parvoart Recordings)
50:55 Michael Santos – Alphaville
forthcoming on Home Normal
Mixed by Jimmy Behan for Fluid Radio | October 2009.
© With artists and labels. All tracks used with permission.
A free compilation featuring some artists who will be appearing at the Netaudio Festival in Berlin from the 8th-11th October 2009.
Download/stream the compilation here.
Planet-Mu artist Sunken Foal (aka Dunk Murphy ) has been added to the Relay: A Dialogue Between Sound Artists net-audio project.
Read and listen to his entry here.
Download Beard of Mercury Switches by Sunken Foal (16Mb zip).
Thanks to the folks at Fluid Radio for making The Echo Garden their album of the week last week.
Download (192mp3 / 82Mb)
00:00 Mark Harris – Last Days
Birmingham Sound Matter (Audiobulb)
04:24 Billy Gomberg – With
Comme (mOAR)
07:52 Offthesky & Darren McClure – Once, When We Used To
Suspended (Symbolic Interaction)
12:17 Molly Berg & Stephen Vitiello – E-VA
The Gorilla Variations (12k)
17:21 Felicia Atkinson & Sylvain Chauveau – Aberdeen
Roman Anglais (O Rosa)
20:35 Hulk – Photographs
Silver Thread Of Ghosts (Osaka)
23:31 Machinefabriek – Autoharp, Vinyl
Shuffle (Self release)
26:43 Jasper Leyland – Taken
Wake - Carbon Series Vol. 5 (12×50)
31:18 Christopher Hipgrave – Grass
Day (Home Normal)
35:40 Michael Santos – Bamboo Scaffolding
The Happy Error (Baskaru)
36:46 Nicola Ratti – ésope
ésope (Zymogen)
42:42 Autistici – Resonating Wire
Complex Tone Test (Keshhhhhh)
47:42 Jasper TX - (Remix by steinbrüchel)
forthcoming on Under The Spire
52:39 Wouter Van Veldhoven – Stoffig Stuk
Ruststukken EP (Slaapwel)
57:09 His Name Is Alive – This World Is Not My Home
Raindrops Rainbow EP (Silver Mountain Media Group)
Mixed by Jimmy Behan for Fluid Radio | September 2009.
© With artists and labels. All tracks used with permission.
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