Last night we had a beautiful auroral display. Brilliant reds and greens and even pink and purple. Here's some pictures, courtesy my friend Glen Pidsadnick, which were taken in Niagara-on-the-Lake.   ¶ 10:31 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

  My astronomy club, the RASC Niagara, is having a public star night at Walker's Creek Park, on Saturday, November 1. Come out after sundown for views of Mars, the Moon, galaxies and other things. Weather permitting, of course.   ¶ 3:56 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

 

Swoon 019 - October 27, 2003

Hooj Choons (Huge Tunes, get it?) records went out of business in September 2003. Sad, since they released many great house and trance tracks. Here's my tribute, a combination best-of and typical-of.

Trancesetters - Synergy (Kenneth Graham mix)
Andy Ling - Fixation
Jark Prongo - Movin' Thru Your System
Baby Doc and the Dentist - Tales of the Seraphim
Lulu - The DJ, The Music and Me (John Creamer and Stephane K mix)
Echomen - Thru 2 You (Bushwacka! mix)
Legend of Talking Dog - My Shadow Dances (Red Jerry mix)
Morel - True (The Faggot Is You) (Deep Dish Poof Daddy mix)
Katcha - Touched By Dog (Peace Division mix)
16b - Escape (Driving to Heaven) (Omid's Main mix)
Marmion - Schoenberg
Energy 52 - Cafe del Mar (Three 'n One mix)
Lost Tribe - Angel
Tilt - Seduction of Orpheus (Tilt's Numerology Dub)
Space Manoeuvres - Stage One (Total Separation mix)
Lustral - Everytime (Nalin and Kane mix)
Pete Lazonby - Sacred Cycles
Jas - Hitchhiking (Chicken Lips Dub)
Aphasia - Acapulco (Q6 mix)

And some tracks I wanted to play, but didn't have time for:
Jones & Stephenson - 1st Rebirth
Sourmash - Pilgrimage to Paradise
Trancesetters - Roaches (Peace Division mix)
Trancesetters - Roaches (Slacker mix)
Movin' Melodies - Indica
Felix - Don't You Want Me
JX - You Belong To Me
Space Kittens - Storm
The Light - Expand the Room
Killahurtz - West on 27th
Oscar G. and Stryke - Hypnotized
anything by LSG

There's probably others too. The Hooj Choons website is www.hooj.com. A good discography is here . It also links to discographies for Hooj-associated labels Airtight, Lost Language, Prolekult and Top Banana.   ¶ 10:11 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Despair.com is way too funny. Motivation is my favourite.   ¶ 10:17 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Here are some pictures of today's sunspots. The first is a touch up of an earlier post. The second is a large version of sunspot 484, and the third is a large version of sunspot 486. The later ones were done hastily because of clouds, especially 486. The orientations are different too.   ¶ 4:25 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Here's a picture of the same sunspots I sketched.   ¶ 2:47 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

  I have been looking at sunpots this afternoon. Properly filtered of course. Here's a sketch I made of the two on the face today. They are about the biggest I have ever seen. sunspotsoct242003.jpg Sorry about the sketches that are on the reverse side of the page, and the lines. The original looks better.   ¶ 2:38 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

  I've made an ad for my radio show. You can listen to it here. It's 20 seconds long as an mp3, about 340kb, if you are worried about big downloads.   ¶ 7:35 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

 

Swoon 018 - October 20, 2003

Jello -
Anthony Rother - Hacker (Psi49net)
AFX - Run the Place Red (Men)
Casino vs. Japan - Aquarium (Wobblyhead)
Goldfrapp - Heavy Trees (Mute)
Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds (Island)
Radioactive Man - Goodnight Morton (Rotters Golf Club)
GD Luxxe and Solvent - Quiet Life (Suction)
Black Dog Productions - Flux (Rising High)
Matthew Herbert - Redrum
Michael Mayer - Twin Peaks
Losoul - Lies (Volga)
Radio 4 - Dance To The Underground (DFA mix)
Jas - Hitchhiking (Hooj)
Head Honcho - Medicine (Jukebox in the Sky)
Amani vs Teapot - Calling To My Roots
Yunus - Euphrates
Depeche Mode - Only When I Lose Myself (Lexicon Avenue mix) (Mute)
Avril Lavigne - I'm With You (Leama and Moor remix) (white)
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Swoon 017 - October 13, 2003

Orbital - The Girl With The Sun In Her Head (Internal)
Radioactive Man - Uranium (Rotters Golf Club)
Black Dog - Cost II (GPR)
Blue Man Group - PVC IV (Blue Man Group)
Banco de Gaia - B2 (Rykodisc)
ISAN - Waves (Morr)
Jackmate - Prodigal Son (Resopal Schallware)
Closer Musik - Departures (Kompakt)
Ian Brown - F.E.A.R. (Unkle mix) (Mowax)
Pole Folder and CP - Dust (Bedrock)
Cass - Hootinanny (SAW)
Fred Everything - Revolution (Audio Soul Project mix)
Jay Tripwire - What Kind of Voodoo (Big Chief)
Aphasia - Acapulco (Q6 mix) (Hooj)
Haris and Mazi - Foreign Policy
Luzon - The Baguio Track (Chus and Ceballos Iberican mix) (Yoshitoshi)
X-press2 - Rock 2 House (Richie Hawtin mix) (Junior)
Autechre - Draun Quarter (Warp)

Next week's show will be a tribute to Hooj Choons Records, which went out of business in September. I will be playing music only from that label, and its associated Airtight, Lost Language and Prolekult labels. Except bouncing and banging fun!   ¶ 10:02 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

 

Swoon 016 - October 6, 2003

Moshic - Indian Moon (Pitchblack)
Jas - The Sultry Jigsaw Jam
Soul Mekanik - I'll Call You (thin red man mix)
Powder Productions - Cuban Fire
Aphasia - Acapulco (Acid Island Trip) (Hooj)
Delerium ft Jael - After All (Blue Haze Undermood) (Nettwerk)
Darko - Phased (Blackwatch Spanish Harlem Dub)
Alaska Soul - Wonderful (infusion remix)
Amani vs Teapot - 2 Days In The Desert
The Hush feat. Leah - Think (Hydrogen Rockers unreleased vocal) (Bedrock)
Amorphous Androgynous - Autopimps (Steiger edit)
Bermuda Triangle - tay do 22
Alex and Tommyboy - Haw (Luke Chable Mix)
Unkle - Eye 4 An Eye - [Mode mix] (Mowax)
Funky Green Dogs - Burnin Up (Flatline mix) (Twisted)
Filterheadz - The One Who Got Caught (Intec)
Zoot Woman - It's Automatic (Cosmos vs Zoot Woman Club Mix)
Dirty Bass - Emotional Soundscape
Mike Ink - Paroles (Original)  ¶ 10:09 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

  I've been sorted. Thought I'd be Slytherin, but I'm Gryffindor.



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