audio: Progress is Measured by How Much We Lose
For all the old school peeps, esp. Teamlounge and the old Victoria crew.
Inspired seems to be, maybe not the right word... but, Vancouver's had a rough month, what with loosing techno promoter TJ Hooker and nearly loosing Taal Mala to a bus...
Note, if you know him, or of his contributions to the music scene, they're taking donations to help him through this... go here for more info:
http://taalmala.org/helpkeenan/
It put me on a bit of a tangent, maybe thinking of past adventures a bit too much, but then, a little reflection now and then is a good thing, so long as you don't overdo it. ;)
So yeah, some tracks from a rich ambient past... I don't think any of them are newer than 1995... And guaranteed none of them used ableton
Biosphere - Startoucher - Patashnik
The Orb - O.O.B.E. - U.F.Orb
F.U.S.E. - Siac - Dimension Intrusion
Solar Quest - Liquid Sky - Orgship vol. 1
Skylab - Seashell - #1
The Irresistible Force - Symphony in E - Flying High
Speedy J - R2D2 - Ginger
Manna - ...From Heaven - Manna
U-ziq - Sick Porter - Bluff Limbo
Higher Intelligence Agency - Speedlearn (Empathy Mix) - Relearn
Higher Intelligence Agency - Speedlearn (Reformed by the Irresistible Force) - Relearn
Ritchie Hawtin & Pete Namlook - Homeward Bound - From Within
Meatbeat Manifesto - Circles - Satyricon
Dtune - Opaque - Disabuse Ep
Beaumont Hannant - sYm-phon5 - Basic Data Manipulation
Robert Leiner - Dream or Reality (Into the Dream Mix) - Dream or Reality Ep
Aphex Twin - Ageispolis - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
MLO - Wimborne (Daniel Pemberton Mix) - Wimborne Ep
note: "Progress is measured by how much we lose" was originally the name of the radio show the Peter "the homeless guy" would do after our Lounge World show at 6am Sunday mornings on CFUV FM102 (UVic)... It was truely a show like no other... I wish I had tapes of it. Stream of consciousness ramblings and old 78's played off of a portable record player that he mic'd... liked to use his own gear. Anyways... Peter had a way of blowing minds, and probably had a greater effect on those he encountered than he realized. At least to those who'd listen to him. Wisdom in an insane world is a great burden, I think.
also, the orb + fuse mix is a binhex original...Always loved that mix
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tags: ambient, dj set, classics
audio: See the Light Tour 93
November 14, 1993 -
Was insanely fortunate to see Nasa's See the Light Tour with Aphex Twin, Orbital, Vapourspave, Young American Primative, Moby, Djs Jonah (spacetime continuum), Dj Tim (Utah Saints, Jeno and Dj Alex...
November 14, 1993, San Francisco.
audio: dans la maison
March 2011 - broadcasting from new spatial co-ordinates deep within hipster heaven, mile-end montreal, 3 months into my first montreal winter... 4 walls closing in... ready for adventure time
audio: sm1crc1 probe - nebulatron 5
Feb.1 2011 - Returning signals from the sm1crc1 probe, nebulon5, indicates anomalous behaviour in space time matrix near quadrant 10.50.1.112. Initial reports were within known limitations, however, redshift filters were calibrated for Minkowski space , and should have been set to FLRW. Look... we gotta get this shit right people. We're not dealing with some bullshit diffeomorphistic system here. Get the Euclidean equations right, or people will die. Report due in 48 hrs...
gallery: more gig posters
96-03 - Here's more gig posters and flyers I created for teamlounge and hq communications events.
gallery: gig posters
97-01 - Here's a small collection of gig posters and flyers I created for teamlounge and hq communications events.
experiment: dragable mosaic
October 1, 2009 - This experiment plays with scriptaculous and its drag/sort functionality. All pixels are dragable and any changes to their order are automatically saved through ajax calls to php.
Future developments will include the ability to choose the color of each pixel, adding/removing pixels, saving designs for inclusion into a pixel gallery, and anything else I can think of.
website: iswid - digital assets management
January 2008 - present - A digital assets management tool created to allow VFX Supervisors to track shots in a video through all the stages they go through until completion. As there can be hundreds of shots in a project, each having to go through ten or so different stages, and sometimes with crews as large as thirty, this is an indispensable tool. Built with php, mysql and ajax technologies.
audio: breathe... faster...
July 2009 - man it's hot... keep calm... it'll pass. relax. enjoy while it lasts... goddamn mid-life crisis.
website: give peace a chance
April 2009 - This year marks the 40th anniversary of John and Yoko's Bed-In for Peace in Montreal. This seminal moment of 60's peace activism was captured by photographer Gerry Deiter. To mark this anniversary, Joan Athey of Victoria B.C. released a book of her friend Gerry's mostly unpublished photographs. This website was made to promote the book and celebrate Gerry's work.
The site was created using php and mysql, utilizing a custom cms system (qms) developed by myself for smallcircles.net. It makes use of ajax technologies as well as flash and video plugins.
video: skype me would ya?
March 13, 2009 - it's a long way to santa fe... the start of some random country song lyrics I came up with during a bout with LDPsychosis (LD meaning long-distance) while channeling the ghost of some long dead trucker... a long way indeed...
video: longwalkshortdock: i will kill you with techno
January 2009 - longwalkshortdock (aka. Dave King) performs I Will Kill You With Techno at Mahone Hall, in Ganges, on Saltsprince Island, B.C. during the Essence fundraising event for The Seed & Plant Sanctuary for Canada. Video shot and edited by yours truely.
website: stories first productions
June 2008 - stories first is the production company of Leena Minifie, a First Nations video producer, journalist and artist.
website: break north
July 2008 - Vancouver and British Columbia has a rich Hip Hop History dating back to the early 1980’s. Many of those who paved the way for the New School are now in their mid to late thirties, and we run the risk of losing their knowledge and experience if we do not learn from them first handed the triumphs and tribulations of their experiences...
website: bike to work week
October - December 2008 - Bike to Work Week is the Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition's signature event, encouraging thousands of lower mainland commuters to trade their cars in for bicycles. For this event they had built a system for cyclists to login, join teams, record their routes and track their mileage throughout Bike to Work Week.
website: the edzerza gallery
May-July 2008 - The Edzerza Gallery is Vancouver's only First Nations owned Aboriginal Art gallery. I built them a easy to update gallery site with a custom cms using php, mysql, ajax and the highslide framework. The project was designed to be adaptable with an eye towards future e-commerce development.
website: left coast events
December 2008 - Leftcoastevents.org is a Vancouver Island based listserv whose intent is to provide a forum for sharing information about upcoming events which are committed to uncovering the various dimensions of social and enviromental justice.
gallery: poster fun...
June 2008 - Here are some random posters I decided late one night to make while thinking of things like the granville bar hell strip, crass consumerism, old bands I liked and the upcoming olympics. wasn't really a moment where I felt optimistic for humanity, but instead of drowning my angst in the search for more of the same old conspiracy-porn, I did this.
website: useful + agreeable
May - November, 2006 - "u+a is a link between the near future and a recent and vibrant past. it assumes a world which is good and smart and better than today and cheerfully takes you there." - Douglas Coupland
audio: expression sessions
August 2002 - hasselhoff, crankenstein and deezus nice on 5 decks at mars expression sessions
audio: teamlounge v 2.01
October 1995 - Dug way back into the storage locker for this one… ripped off of cassette tape (remember those?) this is the second in a series of ambient mix-tapes me and binhex made during the reign of Victoria’s Temple of Sound Records… good stuff, most of which still passes the test of time and doesn’t come off as 70’s Vangellis new age flakyiness…
audio: live at oode v
May 2001 - Ah playing for the breakfast club! What a nice way to be introduced to the cloudfactory family… 6am on a Sunday morning, basking in the first rays of light on the ballfield, all the schrapnel comfortably ensconced in sleeping bags in a giant puppy pile… what better tableau for an ambient set could there be?
audio: tropic of cancer
January 2008 - Damn that Tim and his hard livin’ ways… or really, damn Tim’s thyroid! Anyways, he’s all clear now and with a bitchin’ throat scar for his troubles… So what to do when a friend comes down with the something nasty lie that? Throw a party of course! This set was pre-recorded for the Art of Beatz radio show here in Vancouver, and features only music created by those that were playing the benefit, which included Phil Western, Longwalkshortdock and of course Tim too…
audio: smallcircles
December 2006 - Ambient/downtempo mix done to test my new (then) macbook’s audio capabilities… done in record time in order to ftp it over to a friend’s house in San Fran who was having an ambient house party that night. Ties in tracks from my UVic days in the early 90’s to stuff from Morr, Anti-con, BoC and more… bringing everything full-circle.
audio: slow boil
April 2008 - Somewhat reminiscent of the Cliff Hangers game on the Price is Right, minus the yodeling… starts off low and slowly builds till wham! It get’s all crazy! It’s basically what I’d really like to dance to if I wasn’t busy dj’ing….
audio: live at oode xi
May 2007 - Opening set to the 11th edition of oode, admittedly not my best set… it was a long drive (excuses!), but fun none-the-less… anyways, the tracks are all good…
ambient dj set classics music techno aphex twin orbital vapourspace dj set house montreal spaceship graveyard photography design art hq teamlounge ajax experiment pixels php portfolio website dames cms idm electro Gerry Deiter John Lennon Yoko Ono Bed-in video timelapse santa fe google maps longwalkshortdock first nations hip-hop VACC cycling art gallery leftcoastevents social activism posters black flag devo olympics u+a travel dj battle mixtapes oode cloud factory downtempo techo tim hill rim phil western