soundscape saturday :: ade fenton

Along a month ago, I was listening to the past podcast from Electronic Explorations and heard what seemed to be the newest, fresh mix from a gentleman name Ade Fenton.  The mix held on to my industrial vein the whole journey and carries with me as a reminder that my roots are still as torn and  chaotic as they are smooth and warm.  You can find this mix located on the download Rob Booth with Ade Fenton.  If you enjoy an edge with your beat, this one is a keeper.  

"Ade Fenton has been making music for the last 12 years, establishing himself as a respected record producer and remixer for artists including Gary Numan, Slash, IAMX, Niki Gravino, Parralox and Motor.  He has amassed over 30 EPs and remixes on his own techno labels Advanced and Perverter, as well as releases on some of the worlds leading techno imprints such as Potential, Ground, Impact Mechanics, Gynoid, IF?, Primate and Materials.  In 2006, he coproduced and coengineered Gary Numan’s Jagged album, released to huge critical acclaim and reaching number three in the BBC indie chart.  Fenton released his debut artist album Artificial Perfect on his industrial electronic label Submission in 2007, securing a UK Top 75 chart single with The Leather Sea and regular plays of the spectacular video for his single Healing on MTV2, then in 2008 he once again teamed up with Gary Numan for a new double release Jagged Edge.   The pair are currently in the studio producing two brand new albums Dead Son Rising and Splinter, both set for release in 2011.  Ade is a busy international techno dj with a schedule that has taken him across the globe.  He has regularly appeared on BBC Radio One, recording dj sets for their 'Live At Maida Vale', Mary Anne Hobbs programmes, and has been resident DJ at the United Kingdom's leading techno club Atomic Jam for over 10 years."

soundscape saturday :: gorilla vs. bear

Gorilla vs. Bear
Chris Cantalini
Founder/Editor
David Bartholow
Creative Director

"Gorilla vs. Bear is a Texas based music blog."

"In 2008, Gorilla vs. Bear was recognized by Rolling Stone as one of the web’s “Best Music Blogs” in the publication’s annual Best of Rock issue. GvsB was also voted “Blog of the Year” in URB Magazine’s annual readers poll, beating out such luminaries as Kanye West and the Huffington Post. In 2009, GvsB was named one of the “25 Best Music Websites” by The Independent UK, alongside famous weblogs eMusic, the Hype Machine, Pitchfork, and Kanye West.  In addition, Gorilla vs. Bear hosts an award winning, weekly 2 hour show on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio, and frequently presents live shows in Dallas, Austin, and beyond.  We enjoy documenting our favorite artists via various antiquated photographic media, prompting the Village Voice to proclaim, “Gorilla vs Bear may have the Polaroid mugshot game on Kryptonite lock.”

soundscape saturday :: mary anne hobbs

Mary Anne Hobbs
A DJ and music journalist from Garstang, Lancashire.  In the 1980s, she lived on a bus in a carpark with the hard rock band Heretic before becoming a journalist for Sounds Magazine at age 19.   She later worked for the New Musical Express magazine before going on to help found Loaded Magazine. Hobbs got her break in radio at BBC Greater London Radio, working alongside Mark Lamarr.

She then worked at XFM before BBC Radio 1.   She shot a TV series about global biker culture named Mary Anne's Bikes in Japan, America, Russia, India, and Europe for BBC Choice and BBC World in 2003.  Mary was also was Master of Ceremonies at the Leeds Festival between 1999 and 2003.

A fan of rock, metal, and motorbikes from an early age, she fronted the Radio 1 Rock Show and the experimental/electronic Breezeblock on BBC Radio 1 for fourteen years.  In July 2010, Mary announced she was leaving the BBC and her last show was on September 9, 2010.  She has accepted a new job at University of Sheffield Union of Students.
She is a revolutionary woman and continues to grace our planet with her strength of heart and endurance to bring music to the masses.

soundscape saturday :: planetmu

Planet µ 
"An electronic music record label run by Mike Paradinas (also known as µ-Ziq).  It was based in Worcester until March 2007, then moved to London and has recently relocated to Broadstairs, Kent.  The label started out as a subsidiary of Virgin Records, until in 1998 Mike Paradinas set up the label independent of Virgin and was distributed through Southern Record Distributors.  The genre is IDM, Dubstep, Grime, and Breakcore."

soundscape saturday :: resident advisor

Resident Advisor
Established in 2001, RA publishes news, reviews and features to an audience of more than 750,000 monthly readers.  Thousands of artist and label profiles and even more user generated event and club listings have made RA an invaluable resource to both the clued up music lover and the clubgoer simply looking for a good night out.  With offices in London and Berlin and contributors spanning the globe, RA covers anything and everything that is electronic music related.

soundscape saturday :: bassache

BassAche
Phred
Monthly podcast, interviews, gatherings, and sound from London underground.

soundscape saturday :: red bull academy

The Red Bull Music Academy is a platform for thosewho shape our musical future, a music workshop that has been traveling the world since 1998.  Setting up our EQ HQ for two fortnight long terms in a different musical metropolis each year, we pull together pioneers of days gone by and musical legends of tomorrow from all aspects of rhythm and sound.

For two weeks, 60 selected participants: producers, vocalists, DJs, instrumentalists, and all around musical mavericks from all around the globe come together to check gear, chat on tunes, play in clubs, get a rare glimpse into local musical hybrids in a different country, swap musical visions in the studio, and discover closely guarded secrets of mixing desk magic straight from those who started revolutions in sound.  They're the people we look up to, and they're looking to you for a fresh perspective in turn.

soundscape saturday :: jeekoos

Jeekoos
DubFront Records
"(the English spelling of the Polish word Dzikus,
loosely translated as “a feral woodsman”)
crept into the Chicago music scene playing bass in punk bands
and producing four track hiphop and breakbeat type madness.
Always a seeker of fresh musical experiences, Jeekoos
found himself at a party near the end of the century. It was there
that he encountered jungle music. Soon after, he discovered
Part Time Sucker Radio – a consistent source of jungle, breakbeats and DnB.
Impressed by the show’s selections of styles and sounds,
Jeekoos became a regular listener, then a contributor,
then a freakin’ resident dj. When he ran up on Dubstep,
with its intensity, gnarly basslines and attention to detail,
he naturally incorporated it into his sets and production style.
He crafts tunes and mixes that are nothing short of block rocking.
Jeekoos also props up Chicago’s lowdown sounds with sick event flyers
and web design and is the man behind the MidwestDubstep.com forum.
Respect to tha Wubmaster!"

Vote for Jeekoos in the semi-finals to play Lollapalooza!

soundscape saturday :: electronic explorations

Electronic Explorations, in the company of Rob Booth as we travel 
through electronic music’s hottest property, a deviously crafted 
patchwork of carefully sewn rhythms, sonic contortions and 
delicate melodies.  Dubstep, minimal electronica, techno and 
advanced soundscapes.  Producers who rarely see the light of day, 
too busy in their own homes, making some of the most arresting, 
forward thinking and intelligent music.
If you like your music experimental, uncompromising, hand crafted 
and eerie, mathematical and heavy on the bass then look no further.

soundscape saturday :: MUTEK

MUTEK is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the 
dissemination and development of digital creativity in sound, music, 
and audio visual art. Its mandate is to provide a platform for the 
most original and visionary artists currently working in their fields,
with the intent of providing an outlet of initiation and discovery for the 
audiences we seek to develop.

MUTEK’s principal activity is the annual presentation of its namesake 
festival, which has taken place in Montreal since 2000.  Since its first 
edition, the MUTEK festival has distinguished itself as an international 
rendezvous for original and avantgarde programming. In terms of 
content, the festival’s range strives to be diverse, with interests in both 
the experimental and the playful sides of digital creativity.  MUTEK’s 
programming intends to create a sonic space that can support 
innovation in new electronic music and digital art.  This is a world of 
constant evolution and incessant refinement – the “MU” in MUTEK 
refers consciously to the notion of “mutation”.

soundscape saturday :: juke music

“Is there a difference between Chicago Booty House, Ghetto Tech, 
and Juke Music? The answer is Yes, there is a HUGE difference."
read full article authored by DJV

Ghetto/Booty House, Ghettotech; Juke is Original House Music.
Juke is a type of Chicago House which started being recognized in its 
own right from around 1992 onwards.  It features minimal 808 and 
909 drum machine driven tracks.  Few are using this genre to its full 
potential artistically.  The template of classic Chicago House music
(primarily, Percolator by Cajmere), has usually been made on very 
minimal equipment with little or no effects.  It usually features a 4 to 
the floor kick drum (full sounding, but not too long or distorted) along 
with Roland 808 and 909 synthesized tom tom sounds, minimal use of 
analogue synths, and short, slightly dirty sounding (both sonically and 
lyrically) vocal samples, often repeated in various ways.  Also 
common are 808 and 909 clap sounds, and full verses and choruses.

"Atop lushly warped RandB synths, stuttering, mutated 2-step drum 
patterns and deep subbass that drops in and out without warning,
a pitched down vocal, and measuredly repeats.  The already 
disorienting formula becomes even wilder midway through when the 
vocal is suddenly pitched up and the initial woozy pattern is fed 
amphetamines: words repeat until it starts to sound like a slum ocean.  
Which is not a bad metaphor for the footwork oeuvre, music obsessed 
with changing dynamics, and all the manic tendencies you would expect 
from the children of trap music and ghetto house."
quote from Stephen Kerr on A Love Letter to Chicago Juke

who says songbirds don't show up

soundscape saturday :: limbik frequencies

Limbik Frequencies
electronica, downdtempo, IDM, glitch
Milwaukee, WI
stream of sounds with artists Proem, Tycho, Boards of Canada,
ISAN, Arc Lab, CiM, Landau, The Black Dog, edIT, Monoceros,
Kettel, Ilkae
..and that only whispers at the surface

soundscape saturday :: n5MD

n5MD
Emotional Experiments in Sound
n5MD began as a minidisc label,
the label name meaning - no fives, minidiscs.
When Sony DADC Austria stopped manufacturing
pre recorded minidiscs, and when getting them manufactured
by Sony DADC Japan was too expensive to consider,
n5MD changed over to compact discs,
continuing to release a few 7 inch records.
Much of the back catalog is available for purchase
in MP3 format from the label website.