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The first album / ep of my live project with Oakley ‘Patience Automate’ Low is out. It’s called Hello World, and you can find it here.

For most of our jams, I ran two Nintendo DS; one running the amazing Korg DS-10, one running Electroplankton, Protein, GlitchDS, and CellsDS. Oakley usually rolled with his laptop and FL Studio, often aided by an Electribe. We have no sync of any sort. This is why you’ll hear one of stop for a bar from time to time - we have to stop one sequencer and then press Start again to get ourselves back on track.

Oak generally runs drums and FX, I generally do leads and bass. We work with a one-bar loop that morphs over time, hence the name. We some times get 10,000 kinds of crunk; we sometimes get super-duper ambient. We hope you dig it.

Really happy to get this one out in the wild, with some help from the Suave Assassins crew in Vancity. Download the whole podcast here, download my set here. Tracklist:

1: wAgAwAgA - The Wolf [wAgAwAgA]
2: Andy Page - Twitter and Bisted [Noodles]
3: Vogel, K, & Page - Crowd Noise []
// Radiohead - Myxomatosis [Parlophone]
4: Samual Barber - Hermit Songs VII - Promiscuity (Heather Harker & Karl Hirzer) []
// Thom Yorke - Skip Divided - [XL]
5: Clark - Growls Gardens [Warp]
6: Holden & Thompson - Come To Me (Amatuer Guitar Mix) [Loaded]
7: Carl Orff - Carmina Burana (O Fortuna) [Angel]
8: Mauro Picotto - Verdi [BXR]
9: Hybrid - Theme From Wide Angle (Rolling Thunder Mix) [Distinct’ive]
// Nathan Fake - Outhouse (Fluffy Mix) [Border Community]
10: Portishead - The Rip [Island]
11: Pink Floyd - Money (Eric Idle Hands Remix) [Harvest]
12: Aesop Rock - 39 Thieves [Def Jux]
13: Two Fingers - Jewels & Gems [Big Dada]
14: Two Fingers- Bad Girl [Big Dada]
15: Karlkeinz Stockhausen - Kontakte [Ecstatic Peace!]
16: Jay-Z - Encore (B4AFall Layer) [Roc-A-Fella]
17: Anton Webern - 6 Pieces For Orchestra I, II [Columbia]
18: Brian Eno - Lantern Marsh [EG]
19: X-Press 2 - Lazypella [Skint]
20: Morton Feldman - Rothko Chapel - I, III [New Albion]
21: Bell Clap Dance - [Rekids]
22: Audion - Mouth To Mouth [Spectral]
23: Perc & Fractal - Up (Perc Mix) [Kompakt]

I realized, while ruining my budget yesterday by buying COSMOGRAMMA on vinyl, that interesting things are happening everywhere in electronic music…except for progressive and trance, which are where I have my roots.

I don’t know how I feel about this, really, or what I want to do about it. To say I’ve been feeling musically rootless of late (since September, really) would be an understatement.

Berlin is beautiful today.

I’ve been working on some deep techno. I’ve been working on some chiptunes. I’ve been thinking about a secret project. I’ve been working on two compositions for the fall. I’ve been kicking myself for not bringing any music, because watching all these DJs play beautiful, beautiful vinyl gives me the itch something fierce. I’m making plans for a biofeedback-based music system. I’ve been staying out too, too late. I’ve taken on the order of 700 pictures.

I’ve been in Europe for a month.

From Information Is Beautiful

This speaks to some massive debates I’ve been having with myself as to the value of digitizable art in this strange, strange century of ours. Things like self-publishing, physicality, objectifiability, copyright, promotion, etc. I would write more…but it’s late spring in Berlin, and I’m going for a walk.