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“Every man does his thing a little way different”
Errol Dunkley

“Don’t get downhearted because of the dementors out there, just slip them the odd nasty Debbie Gibson / Jive Bunny megamix or some Merzbow teeth-pulls every now and then to keep em on their toes…”
Loki

This mix is the first one I ever recorded, back in 1998. I’d got a new job a few years previously and used the extra cash, month by month, to gradually sort myself out with a decent hi-fi and then eventually saved up to buy one deck, a mixer, and then another deck.

The mix was originally conceived when I had one deck, a mixer and an ordinary domestic CD player. So, no beatmixing but some nice looooooong ambient pieces. It was eventually reworked with two records and a CD playing at the same time when I had amassed all the kit. I didn’t really do very much with at the time, partly because I had no way of copying tapes and partly because I was still labouring under the illusion that I’d become some kind of shit hot drum and bass DJ. Quite clearly that was never going to happen, but it was great fun mucking about with records. And still is.

A lot of these tunes represent the last gasp of my serious interest in industrial culture before plunging into dub in a big way. With the exception of one track, it still sounds fantastic to these ears.

In many ways it is a sister mix to Paul Meme’s classic Ambient Industrial selection

Another live mix. 48 minutes long because it was designed to fit on one side of a C90 (remember them?).

Download a zipped archive including the mp3 file, cover art and details of how to get a 4 page pdf of sleevenotes from here. (65megs).

Rules:

1) If I see people linking directly to the file, I will take it down. (Link instead to http://uncarved.org/blog/?p=790)
2) If my bandwidth goes ballistic, I will take the file down.
3) A very limited number of CDs are available for dial-up people who have already been in touch with me (or who I know from internet forums, etc) - email me or leave a comment.

The mix will be up for about a week, all being well.

Nigel Ayers now has a blog covering his visual and sound art, plus Nocturnal Emissions news.

There are some people you don’t hear from for a long long time, but maybe stumble upon their name in an old email or address book. And you think to yourself, “I wonder what they’re up to now?” because you know it’ll be something interesting.

This has happened a lot to me recently because I’ve been trying to transfer everything over to a new computer and I’ve found a load of old emails that I meant to do things with, but (because of my usual uselessness) never managed to.

Keir wrote the piece on Punk and Autonomia which got republished on Uncarved. He’s now rejigged it into When Two Sevens Clash: Punk and Autonomia which appears alongside some other texts on the Free Association site. A lot of stuff about summits like the G8 and counter-summits, etc. Personally I have mixed feelings about the whole “summit hopping” phenomenon, but a good case is made on the site.

The first draft of the autonomia piece has apparently been translated (by persons unknown) into Finnish and Russian.

Patrick Maun was the man behind vienese ambient industrialists Immolation by Scum, who I’ve previously mentioned here. Patrick was one of many interesting people flung my way via Peter Rehberg (now of Mego fame).

Referring to comments at the old blog site (which I have yet to upload here), Patrick writes:

“I saw there was some curiosity as to what I was/am up so thought I’d fill you in. I moved back to Minneapolis in ‘93, then moved to Amsterdam, then moved back to Minneapolis. I am still recording music but have been working under the name maun since about ‘95. While I have been actively recording, music has kind of taken a back seat to the visual art I have been making since the early 90’s. You can check some of it out at http://www.patrickmaun.com. Sound does play a big role in most of my installations and videos.

The music I have been making is pretty similar to what I’ve always done. It’s either quiet and rhythmic, or loud and abrasive. I’ve done a lot of work with various choreographers, so a lot of the music is reflective of that. You can check some of it out here. I also have CD’s of many of my live performances including the show at the Scala and the tour of Czechoslovakia. Let me know if you’d like copies of them. Actually, now that I think of it, I’ll just throw an MP3 of the Scala show online and you can grab it there.

I am sitting on several CD’s that I’d love to release, so if you know anyone interested in distributing them, let me know.

Patrick’s current artistic output “explores the interplay between technology and society, authenticity and power, communications and history”. His site is well worth checking.

Trevor Blake wrote the critique of Whitehouse collaborator Peter Sotos which I reprinted on Uncarved. I was very pleased to see that this was, for some time, the top google hit when you searched for Sotos. The article was culled from OVO Magazine, which was one of those great lost 90s zines which managed to combine regularity with high quality writing on all sorts of subjects (including many “themed” issues).

Lost… until now…

Greetings

Thank you for publishing my review of PURE from OVO 10 Mayhem. That issue and all the rest (500+ pages) have been scanned, entered into the public domain and posted online. Each issue now has a new introduction, a new issue has been published (theme: sperm) and other issues are in the works (theme for the next issue: AntiChrist) [that issue is now out - JE].

Uncarved looks great, going to spend some time checking it out.

Trevor Blake

The site also includes a nice potted biography which is well worth checking.

KID SHIRT with some crucial Industrial archaeology: a great interview with Max on the story behind her and Alex Fergusson’s Dorothy whose “I Confess’ single which came out on Industrial Records.

eBay.co.uk: Death In June mobile - “NERO” my black Fiat Uno

Alistair has scanned in some images and articles from the legendary Kill Your Pet Puppy ‘zine over at Green Galloway. A great slice of early 80s anarcho/situ/occulture history there.

Also some scans of a letter and text from Genesis P-Orridge circa 1979.

The best idea I’ve heard about all day, by quite a long stretch:

Born in July, 2004, the cookbook began as a simple plea on the neubauten.org supporter forum for a few suggestions on what to make for dinner.

It soon became evident that Neubauten fans are also pretty good cooks, because the recipes grew quickly in number, and food discussions seemed to take priority over most other topics in the chatroom.

(and yes, doesn’t the EN logo look a bit like the c*l****l s***d?)

Item location: Torquay

Martin at Beyond the Implode RIP flags up this exercise in Power Electronics pulp fiction, which I’d previously reviewed here.

Quite why someone has stuck it into blogform now is a mystery (inspired the recent Whitehouse gig, or maybe the reviews of it judging by the sidebar?), but it will be good if they include the postscript, which is still one of the best things ever written about the “scene”.

well, not a lot of people know that