As a little reminder of Boom, here is a special mix that I found that helps take me back to a couple of weeks ago. Been warned it takes me back to the night of Terror Trance - night 3 I believe. It is ridiculously journeyful trance but definitely on the dark side. Unfortunately it isnt taken from Boom, as it is proving difficult to find any recordings from the experience. I hope you like this one. Thanks to Zero Blade!
It's debatable if this is better than the original, but all the same it's nice to have a funkin remix of great tune. Even nicer when Chemical Brothers are giving it away for free. Click on the download below for the experience.
Played at Space Ibiza. Loving this tune the moment. Full of cheekyness, just what I like out of tech house hese days. Look out for more from Walley me thinks...
Feast your eyes on the world’s first touch-screen decks. Apple had the idea (see related article below) but this guy got there first.
No, these aren’t the product of a major corporation like Vestax or Technics, they are in fact the brainchild of a design student in Dundee, Scotland. Most students have the same idea at the same points in their lives: “I’ll do something for my final year that I can use to get me a job”. Not Scott Hobbs. Hobbs’ touch screen creations are supposed to be used in a traditional turntable configuration, with two of them connected to a mixer via a line-out. A laptop harbours the MP3 or audio tracks that are then manipulated via the touch screen decks.
Hobbs even wrote the damn software: “I have plans to develop it to work with other DJ software,” he exclaimed.
“The TT would make an amazing Midi controller, as well as just a standalone unit, so DJs can use them as they wish.” Not only could this be the future of Djing but it could revolutionise the AV displays as well.
Check out this cat’s creations at www.scotthobbs.co.uk and BeatPortal for full article.
Psychadelic, Free Spirits, Beautiful People, Incredible Sound System, Journeyful Music, these are just a few things that Boom is and most definitely was this time round.
Having been to a few Booms in the past I knew that getting there early was a good idea in order to beat the que. However, I have now decided that this is an impossible task no matter how early you get there. We arrived on the Saturday before he opening Monday and went to "unwind" at the antiBoom on the otherside of the Idanha a Nova lake for one night. After a night of stomping and various stumblings we made our way to the Boom gate, with a pit stop at the supermarket to get some supplies, and when we arrived we entered into the PreBoom car park which entitled us to first entry into the festival the following day. The PreBoom carpark was fun, a couple rigs were set up as usual, noticable a fine one from Ibiza that was playing some delightful Deep Tech House before moving onto Goa. Eventually by 6pm on Monday we got into Boom. And as always it was worth the wait. The theme for this years Boom was Earth, and on arrival the theme was evident. There wasnt the large Balinese Bamboo structures that were the Dance Floor and the Ambient Forest of the last Boom. There was however various lushous patches of greeny areas, and sculpture made from the elements. It looked amazing as always, with the noticable addition of lots of shaded areas along the lake side. There was also the addition of the Groovy Beach, which for mean was a real treat. Playing funk and reggae from 5 -9, Dub Step from 9-12, Breaks from 12 -2 and then Dub House, Minimal and Tech House till Mid day. I personally discovered loads of amazing new artists and genre from area and was a breath of fresh air after a night and morning on the main Dance Floor where your mind tends to travel. Noticable artists that stood out from the Groovy Beach were Far Too Loud and Patrick Zigon.
The Ambient Forest was amazing as usual. The best area to chillout and always playing deep soulful ambient beats. It is a great place to gets some kip if you can't find it elsewhere and get yourself some Chai and vegetarian munch from places outside of the main eating area. The beach area behind the Ambient Forest is also the best place to watch the sunrise, and get yourself and very generous Capriosca while relaxing on a float.
On the opposite side of the wee footbridge from the Ambient Forest is the Sacred Fire. This gorgeous part of the festival is full of loads of fresh greenary and patches of lanscaped garden and of course the live stage. Again a great area to get away from the Boom of the main Dance Floor. Eating here is also a good idea, as the vegan restaurant was amazing and you could rest your belly on a nice patch greenery afterwards.
A little bit further around from the Sacred Fire was the Healing Area. At the previous Booms this was much more central, but its new location suited it purpose much better. Here you join hourly meditation and yoga classy or get various treatments. Ranging from Reiki, Massages, Osteopathy, all for a minimum donation of 20 euro. This was also a place were one can reflect on the Boom experience and really wind down and have a cat nap under a specially planted bit of shrub. Now for the music on the Dance Floor. The opening of the rig was fantastic. As always it started with an ambient build up and built up into a stomping paradise. The atmosphere at this point was impossible to beat. Truly electric, and to be fair, this vibe carried on for the rest of the week. Notable acts from the week for me had to be from Artifakt, Burn In Noise, Cosmo, Fearsome Engine (the Tristan, Laughing Buddha combo), Shadow FX, Gocoo and Wild Marmalade. There was one night, perhaps the 3rd, when the music can only be described as Terror Trance, and o my days did it strike a cord. Could have been circumstances, but it sent me on a truly terrorfying journey. I love it!I cannot wait till the next one. Hopefully it will keep the mild weather that we got this year, because it can get VERY hot.
See more of my photos here and from others at the flickr group here
MastikSoul started his career in 92, in a time where his life was split between Portugal and France, and from where he watched the raise of a new musical culture, that in association with his strong African roots designed his talent in a unique form.Being connected to techno music for a while, where he released his first twelve-inch and developed his dj and producer skills, came in the late 90´s with the desire of embracing other styles. House music became his main inspiration.
This is one the best minimal mixes I've heard recently, full of deep qurky beats. Listen to it all the way through with good speakers to get hear the true potential.
MP3: Adele - Hometown Glory ( High Contrast Remix)
I first heard the orginal of this track while on the bus, and really fell for it. Adele is a serious talent. BUT when I heard Hometown Glory after High Contrast had got hold of it, I realised what this tune could be. This for me is the tune of the summer. Cheesy in its own special way, but this one definitely strikes a cord. I'm thinking these two should work together more often. What do you think?
Listen to a teaser of the track here. But support the artist BUY the tune.
Montreal and New York based electro funk/new skool disco duo Chromeo are are coming to London on the 21st August as part of their European Tour. Where they will also be playing at:
The duo is made up of P-Thugg (Patrick Gemayel), on keyboards, synthesizers, and talk box, and Dave 1 ( David Macklovitch) on guitar and lead vocals. The two have been best friends since childhood and they describe themselves as the only successful Arab/Jewish collaboration since he beginning of time.
Their debut album She's in Control came out in 2004 and included the single "Needy Girl". In 2005, they released a Mix CD of funky dance tracks on Eskimo Belgium records entitled Un Joli Mix Pour Toi (A Pretty Mix For You). During early 2007 Chromeo supported indie rock group Bloc Party on their British tour. They also released the single "Fancy Footwork" as well as their second album of the same name. The band has also been named MTV's Artist of the Week for October 1st 2007.
Catch Chromeo at The End, London on the 21st August as part of the 4th Chapter of the Hidden Depths Series. Register at http://www.sanmiguel.co.uk/ , to stand a chance of winning free tickets. There will also be other VERY special guests on the night including a certain 'club godess' famous for her 'mash-up' nights.
In the mean time, you can listen to some Exclusive Chromeo tracks, courtesy of San Miguel Hidden Depths.
What do you get when you cross Barcelona's coolest Gallery with Germany's most controversial Urban artist?
German grafitti- and street-artist boris hoppek ischallenging every surface: taking his strong charactersnot only onto walls, but also on various materials from allkinds of backdrops (furniture, papers, blinds, advertisingposters ...) to huge sculptures he builds from used cardboard boxes. All running along some very radical themes:violence, sexual abuse, racism, oppression, misogyny.
The variety of his work is unlimited; hoppek draws quicklywith a reduced line, using selected colors only,thus creating his own character universe and using avery specific, often drastic visual language.
The pictures below are from his exhibition at the Igua Pop gallery in Barcelona, home of teh majority of new skool urban artists:
While much of today's dubstep has all the charm of a troll living under a motorway bridge, Belfast's multi-talented Bary Lynn brings us a sort of elated psychedelia, lacing his sub-bass with tricksy drums, soulful flutes, and splashes of live electric guitar. 2006's Oneiric was acclaimed as a new direction for the genre, but his new LP Glyphic is even better.
Interview by Dazed Digital
Dazed Digital: What's changed for you since Oneiric? Boxcutter: I'm making stuff a bit quicker lately and watching that I don't overwork things, just so I can keep it sounding spontaneous. I'm using more hardware stuff too, which suits me because I like playing on instruments. DD: How much of this album is played live? B: Some of it: the guitars and synths. It sounds like a load of jams to me, listening back now. Some of the tracks are edited down from longer sessions. DD: Do you have any interest in producing for the dancefloor? B: Yeah I love dancefloor music, if that's not coming across it's probably my ropey production. I like trying to make people dance without resorting to really obvious ideas though. DD: Have you become more confident about your music? B: I'm never that confident about my stuff to be honest, I like it but it's weird exposing it by releasing it, that's something I'm still sort of getting used to. I'm usually most into the stuff I've just made that no one's heard yet, I like just walking round somewhere quiet playing it on headphones DD: Which Irish artists can you recommend that Dazed readers might not have heard of? B: My mate Filaria. DD: You're influenced by "cosmic" jazz. What are your favourite cosmic jazz albums? B: The first three that come to mind are Kulu Se Mama by John Coltrane, The Elements by Joe Henderson & Alice Coltrane, and Village Of The Pharoahs by Pharoah Sanders.
German-British photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten portrays the art of capturing time and light in her “In Between” collection. Her photos show another side of the world that surrounds us, and shifts our perspective in a dramatic and mystical ways.
6 days to go till the best week of my life ... again. Every year it gets better and better, and truth be told the Boom team have promised even more this year. There are a few notable developments that I think you should know. Firstly, the car park has moved! Thankfully last Boom I was not part of the 20 hour long cue to get into the festival. We were staying on the otherside of the lake and so got to the gates fairly early and only cued for a minor 4 hours or so. Anymore and it would have been a little tedious. This year though, they have a different set up, which means Boomers can park further away from the festival, around the lake, and then get a ferry over to the festival. This will hopefully prevent the vicious cues that occured last Boom. The next development, that I'm looking forward to a lot, is the official opening up of Groovy Beach. It was introduced last Boom, but this year, it has expanded and has an official line-up and everything. Boomers should look forward to a selection of Breaks, Playful House, and Dub Step. The Line - Up has got a couple of big game dubstep players in the form of Scuba and Boxcutter, that are sure to bless the beach. I imagine they would never had been to Boom before, so I welcome them... I'm sure it will make an impression. Other developments. The loos are all going to be compost based, and 200 of them, cleaned regularly. Ones for unrine and ones for solids. One thing that always amazes me about Boom is the state of the loos. They are always clean. A breath of fresh air really, literally, compared to the pains of Glastonbury (apparently someone fell in this year).
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In the last 7 years or so, we have seen the switch in DJs tools of choice. Like any industry , this is inevitable, but in an industry as huge and bitchy as the music industry, these changes have provoked certain arguements. All DJs, if they have any style or quality will admit that vinyl is the best way to listen to music, but unless you are a "superstar DJ" and get given tracks by artists and record labels, then DJ vinyl is a costly activity. So came along CD decks. Which incorporated "beat matching" technology and therefore provoked arguments of technicality and cheating. Almost all computers nowadays have a CD writers and almost everyone has there music stored digitally and can burn it CD. The former making DJing a lot easier and the latter a lot easier.
3 x DMC champion DJ Craze then teamed up with a certain technology company and produced Final Scatch. A digital deck that links to your computer, pressing a digital file to a vinyl almost instantly. While Final Scratch dominated the industry for a long while and with a very high premium attached, others have followed suit and it is now readily accessable to bedroom DJs and the rest.
Apple are now set to get involved in this DJing evolution, with the introduction of virtual decks and mixer. On July 10th, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a major Apple patent application pertaining to a system and method of managing, manipulating and editing media objects on a touch sensitive advice. According to a blog post on the Macintosh News Network, the patent "illustrates an embodiment of the invention for manipulating the replay and recording of audio or musical files", and will enable DJs to display and mix a pair of virtual records (graphical representations of digital music files) on a pair of virtual turntables:
"Like a pair of physical turntables, the [styli] can be graphical icon indications of a playback queue, the position of which can be varied by touching the queue on a touch sensitive display screen and dragging the icon to the desired position on the graphical record. The moving of the stylus would cause a jump in the playback point of the corresponding song, as on a physical turntable.
"Also like a pair of physical turn tables start/stop buttons can be touched by one or more fingers to toggle the start or stop/pause of the song reprotuction. Speed variants bars can be linearly adjusted to control the playback speed of the songs. Windows can graphically reproduce the frequency representation of the reproduced songs, while window can display the frequency representation of the actual output of the music application, which can be simply one of the songs being reproduced, or a mixed /combination of the songs. Mixing/pan bar can be manipulated to modulate or demodulate the two songs being reproduced.
"During song reproduction, the records can be manipulated similar to a physical record. For instance, rapid back and forth movement of a record can cause the sound effect of a record "scratching", as disc jockeys often do on physical turntables.
You either appreciate it or you don't, but graffiti comes in many forms. You get your talented stuff, encompassing murals, grand designs, huge epic pieces. Then you get the Banksy style, stencils, with various messages attached, and always found in quirky areas of our cities. Then there's taggin, which is poor, mindless, talentless, turf related bollocks. Now though there seems to be a couple of alternatives to the above, in the form of 'clean graffiti' and Cuprocking, both of which I find intriguing. Cuprocking was created by Andy Uprock, and in his mind, it is “a graffiti revolution”. The Sydney, Australia-based artist was inspired as a child while playing football with his mates on concrete playgrounds. The kids would stick their garbage into wire fencing and he would then creatively add more junk to form patterns and words.
Later on, Uprock came up with the idea to use cups which fit nicely into diamond shaped wire fencing. The coloured plastic cups have become “floating walk-by galleries” showcasing his artwork. He typically uses 2,500 cups for each project which are then recycled.
Uprock is so innovative, he has also come up with Braille poetry on the cups which some say is the first graffiti artform for the blind. His work has been exhibited around the world – in galleries both indoors and outdoors. Even though Uprock does recycle his cups after each piece of Cuprocking, you can't help but think that Uprocks carbon footprint isnt the best. With over 2,500 cups on average being used to create each piece, it does seem like a bit of a waste. Which is why, clean graffiti gets my vote in this new skool of graf.
Paul Curtis aka Moose, as far as I'm aware, started the clean graffiti thing in Leeds. Moose creates graffiti by cleaning dirt from sidewalks and tunnels -- sometimes for money when the images are used as advertising. But some authorities call it vandalism.
Mooses antics have not gone un-notcied by those in the advertising world and clean graffiti is being used as a form of very cheap, guirilla marketing.
Last night was the 3rd Chapter in the San Miguel Hidden Depths series, and quite a chapter it was. Bass, sweat, countless eye candy, free beer, and some truly spectacular tune selection. It was definitely a night for the dancing shoes (and the sweat band), and a morning for the lie in and the Barrocca. Unfortunatley the latter was not possible, but the former was definitely out there.
We arrived just after 9 and were greeted by some very friendly Hidden Depths girls, who welcomed us with some big smiles. Unusual welcome really, concidering the door people at T-Bar at notoriously pretty rowdy. Sure enough, while we were cueing, the normal bouncers were laying into a local "business" man, who they had kicked out the week before. The tattoo on his face and the thick I-Tie accent was probably the give away. Anyways, on the way in we walked past Ashely Beedle getting interviewed on the stairs, and then we were given a nice envelope with some free drinks to start the evening (£100 later). T Bar was already completely packed out and fuking boiling. One thing that I also noticed upon first glance, apart from the shweltering heat, was the abundance of incredibly attractive women.... They were everywhere! Nice
Giles Smith and James Priestley were on the decks when we came in, playing some nice oldskool disco and playful house. After having some fun playing with the projection screen, and finishing off my free San Miguel, a special treat hit the decks in the form of Ashlee Beedle. “The Original Rude Boy” has worked with EVERYONE! And remixed EVERYTHING! And when I say everyone I mean everyone – from the newest kids on the musical block to the oldest swinger himself, Sir Mick of Jagger. And I actually managed to enjoy this set because I was united with my new best friend for the night... the big coooling fan by the DJ booth.
Then came the piece de resistance, the legendary Theo Parrish. This guy, single handely made it a night to remember without a shadow of a doubt, no offence to his predassors. Playing a mixture of really dirty deep house, detroit and some wicked funkin disco mixes. This was when the dancing shoes really came into their own. Unfortunately, this guy does not play in the city too much, so it was pretty special... and it was all for free...
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The theme for this years Boom was Earth, and on arrival the theme was evident. There wasnt the large Balinese Bamboo structures that were the Dance Floor and the Ambient Forest of the last Boom. There was however various lushous patches of greeny areas, and sculpture made from the elements. It looked amazing as always, with the noticable addition of lots of shaded areas along the lake side. There was also the addition of the Groovy Beach, which for mean was a real treat. Playing funk and reggae from 5 -9, Dub Step from 9-12, Breaks from 12 -2 and then Dub House, Minimal and Tech House till Mid day. I personally discovered loads of amazing new artists and genre from area and was a breath of fresh air after a night and morning on the main Dance Floor where your mind tends to travel. Noticable artists that stood out from the Groovy Beach were 
Now for the music on the Dance Floor. The opening of the rig was fantastic. As always it started with an ambient build up and built up into a stomping paradise. The atmosphere at this point was impossible to beat. Truly electric, and to be fair, this vibe carried on for the rest of the week. Notable acts from the week for me had to be from Artifakt, Burn In Noise, Cosmo, Fearsome Engine (the Tristan, Laughing Buddha combo), Shadow FX, Gocoo and Wild Marmalade. There was one night, perhaps the 3rd, when the music can only be described as Terror Trance, and o my days did it strike a cord. Could have been circumstances, but it sent me on a truly terrorfying journey. I love it!
I cannot wait till the next one. Hopefully it will keep the mild weather that we got this year, because it can get VERY hot.
Boris Hoppek can be found here 
