Go ahead… admit it. You just want to dance. It’s okay. I know how you feel. Thankfully, Head/Set at Noc Noc tonight is the perfect fix for your craving.



Friday March 27, 2009
mind-blowing immersive…

VISION: A monthly series of events designed as immersive experiences that feature live video and surround sounds where guests can loose themselves in rhythms and visions. Music genres will very with mellow sounds to start the night that build into a climax of trance-state inducing dance experience.

FUTURE NURSES and Tracer Visuals will take you there…

TRACER VISUALS:
Inspired by the work of psychedelic artists in many mediums, Scott Sunn of Tracer Visuals uses video feedback and MAX MSP with Jitter to create an evolving free-form video “painting” that follows the musical experience. Scott and his work have been featured with rock legends Radiohead (Hail to the Thief Tour 2003-2004 in US, UK, Japan and Australia), as well as tours with Keller Williams and String Cheese Incident. He has also been a consistent feature at Seattle’s Decibel Festival.

FEATURING THE MUSIC OF (in order of appearance):

Nelia
DOWN WHOMPY & GLITCH SWITCH
(audiblebicycleday)

Brian Enoch
DEEP PROGGY TECHNO
(Future Nurses, HEAD/SET)

Philly G
PROGRESSIVE & PSYTRANCE
(bagscrap3rs – PORTLAND)

FUTURE NURSES:
Drawing upon experiences with legendary NW event productions including Infinite Connections and the Oracle Gatherings, Osiris Indriya and Brian Parker (aka Amanita) created a new brand to feature a mixture of deep and funky dance music that crosses genres. FUTURE NURSES has grown to include dancers, performance artists and two club nights at Club Noc Noc. FUTURE NURSES is “Nursing the Future Today!”

$5 before 9pm, $10 after

Club Noc Noc
1516 2nd Ave. Seattle
206 223 1333

Pardon me while I gush about a fantastic piece of music. I’ve been meaning to post about this for a bit now, but haven’t found the right words to do it adequate justice.

Sending Orbs, purveyors of the highest quality chilltronica, have released another stunning gem of an album, Yagya’s Rigning. “Rigning” is Icelandic for ”rain”, and as the name suggests, this 10-track masterpiece takes the rain theme and runs with it through its entirety. This album is drenched in rain samples around which all other elements are placed. Keeping close to the formula of dubby minimal techno, but certainly presenting a new vision of it, the basic recipe used here is a subtly mixed 4-on-the-floor kick drum to provide some structure as the heady, dub bass lines add just a touch of groove. Meanwhile, rain samples and beautiful pads provide space and atmosphere as gentle sprinkles of tinkling melodies really take you on a smooth emotional journey. There is nothing heavy handed about this release. Each track is delicate and mellow and yet so easily captures your mind and washes it clean of stress and worry.

I’ve listened to the album daily since I received it. Not many albums in my collection can make that same claim, but there is just something so lovely about Rigning that when it ends, starting it all over again is my instant reaction. You don’t have to just take my word for it, though. There are plenty of others that have had equal praise, and have said it all much more eloquently than I can. Or better yet, be your own judge. Listen to the clips found here and buy the album here to add this instant classic to your collection.

We’re getting the ball rolling on the next Chillography event, Chillography 104 on Friday, May 8, 2009. Check out the Chillography site or the NWTekno event thread for full event info.

Portland-based DJ/producer/artist Phidelity, who I’ve mentioned before, has just released his first album via the super-sweet, indie music store Bandcamp. Phidelity’s mid-tempo beats are full of subtle textures, smooth transitions and slick programming. Just what the doc ordered to help us through these lingering days of winter. More info about the album can be found here.

Preview the entire album with the player below and click through to name your own price to purchase individual tracks or the entire album in your preferred digital format.

One of my favorite psytrance groups, ManMadeMan, have just released their latest album, Children of the Light, as a free download. Their previous album, Free To Listen, is available as a free download as well. For both, you can choose either the mixed or tracked albums in both 320kbps MP3 or uncompressed WAV file.

Children Of The Light is ManMadeMan’s latest album and as before with Free To Listen this album is available as a free download.

Over the years ManMadeMan have built up a huge catalog and have released music across the world on many compilations and Labels whilst gigging around the globe. They took the step to release as much music as the could for free, and have been amazed at the reaction and help they have received in doing this.

Whilst a band is often heads down in the studio it can be forgotten that the ultimate aim of making music is the intended listeners, and in this day and age of internet and music download it seems fitting that we embrace this as a perfect medium to allow everyone to listen to the music.

There is nothing lost for anyone, rather a sharing of two sides, the listener and the creator, both intrinsically linked.

Children of the Light is dedicated to all the listeners, dancers, labels, artists and children that have changed the course of history.

Preview the album with the player below and click over to their website to download it in the format of your preference.

Not sure what to do tonight? I’d suggest going to the Simian Mobile Disco show at Neumos. It should be quite a spectacle.

Here’s some footage from an earlier stop in the current tour:

Yup. HOTwired rules. Here’s the photo evidence:

One of my favorite pieces of music production software, GleetchLab, just got an update to v3. Gleetchlab is best suited for making glitchy, ambient, experimental sound scapes because at its core, it is about taking existing audio loops and running them through a sonic meat grinder. Previous versions of GleetchLab were used heavily in the making of my Regression Session release.

Each full version update has done a lot to make this one fine audio mangling instrument, and the move to v3 is no exception. Significant progress has been made in making the interface more user friendly and intuitive, plus much needed midi implementation, a new batch of signal processors, quadraphonic mixing and recording, and a parameters recall utility, make for a nice step forward. Sadly, some of my favorite pieces from v2, namely the Lightman controller and Strange Attractor Oscillator are missing from this release. I’m crossing my fingers that they reappear in a future update. Check out this page for some video demos of the new features.

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All four dj mixes (Geminitrix, Lara, Coral and Jenna Marshall) from Chillography103 are now available on the chillography.net site for download. Enjoy!

Wow. These Youtube mashups are astounding! Kutiman cuts together videos of people playing solo insturments into full song arrangements. Here are a couple of my favorites, but there are lots more to be seen at the ThruYou site.