Swoon 180 - March 26, 2007 Tim Hecker - Song of the Highwire Shrimper (Alien 8)
Herrmann and Kleine - Shuttle (Morr)
Mor - Hungry Like the Wolf (2112)
Bola - Star (Skam)
Motiivi Tuntematon - I Don't Feel Good When You're Not Around (Kompakt)
Scratch Massive - Shining In My Vein (Spirit Catcher mix)
Joystick Experience - Malice rmx (Flicker Rhythm)
Tiga - Good As Gold (Turbo)
Tiga - Who's That (Turbo)
Eddie Zarook and Casio Casino - ANS082 (Lofi stereo)
Margot - Torch (Extrawelt remix)
Lawrence - Along the Wire (Superpitcher mix) (Ladomat 2000)
The Field - The Little Heart (Kompakt)
Riton - Hammer of Thor (Systematic)
Repeat Repeat - Homestop Welcome (Andrew Weatherall mix) (Soma)
Robin Judge - Air (Noise Factory)
The Electrobe - Instant Zazen (Electrobe)
Mah Rah - Spell Breaker
Goose - British Mode (Redink)
Shout Out Out Out Out - Dude You Feel Electrical (Normals Welcome)
Do Make Say Think - Herstory of Glory (Constellation)
Laurent Garnier - Man With the Red Face (Live) (Mute)
Plaid - Coat (Warp)

Labels: dance, dj, Music, Tracklist

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  March 2007 promo mix up I have a new promo mix available for download. You can download it here. I would describe it as melodic techno at the beginning and end, with some weirder stuff in the middle. It's about 96 MB and 71 minutes long. It's also much better than a typical Swoon show.

Tracklist:

Pantha Du Prince - Saturn Strobe (Dial)
Anja Schneider and Sebo K - Rancho Relaxo (Pan-Pot mix) (Mobilee)
My My - Serpentine (Playhouse)
Radioslave - My Bleep (Roman Fluegel mix) (Rekid)
Lee van Dowski and Quenum - The Torque Machine (Defrag)
Maximilian Skiba - Randez-Vous�
(Zimmermann's Raumsabotage Mix) (Boxer)
Minilogue - Elephant's Parade (Wagon Repair)
Robag Wruhme - Papp-Tonikk (Musik Krause)
[a]pendics.shuffle and Mikael Stavostrand - Looking For Me (Adjunct)
Florian Meindl - Chase The Robot (Trapez)
Mario Xm - Xcrossing (Defrag)
Scary Grant vs. Dada Bleep - Crash (remix) (Lofi Stereo)
Klein and Zenker - Delusion (My Best Friend)
Extrawelt - 8000 (Traum)
Audiojack - Whitenoise (20:20 Vision)
Sasha vs. Charlie May - Seal Clubbing (James Zabiela's Seal Squeal remix) (Renaissance)
Solieb - Isotropy (Lazy Fat People's Space Invaders mix) (Maschine)
Artificial Latvamaki - It Is Not Now Either (Mezzo-tinto)
Aril Brikha - Winter (Kompakt)
Lazy Fat People - Farra (Connaisseur)
Chymera - Murmur (Mezzo-tinto)
Partial Arts - Trauermusik (Kompakt)

Labels: dance, dj, Music, Tech-house, Techno

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  Postnatal disease testing The state of Wisconsin tests all newborns for 27 genetic diseases, at a cost of $69.50. Many of these are quite rare, but dangerous.

Nearly all are incredible mouthfuls. There are ones I'd expect there, like phenylketonuria (see any can of diet pop), cystic fibrosis, and a few I've never heard of, like Dienoyl-CoA Reductase Deficiency, Medium/Short Chain Hydroxyacyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency, Argininosuccinic Acidemia, and Maple Syrup Urine Disease, which may sound cool, but you wouldn't want it.

Labels: biology, genetics, medicine

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  Swoon 179 - March 19, 2007 The Black Dog - Virtual (Soma)
Dom and Kole - Monster Eats the Pilot
Claude von Stroke - The Whistler (Audiofly mix) (Go Deeva)
Will Saul and Tam Cooper - Sequential Circuits (Konrad Black mix) (Simple)
Plastikman - Psyk (Plus8)
Alex Smoke - Prima Materia (Abort mix) (Soma)
Metope - Breep (Areal)
Ripperton -10a (Liebe)
Patrice Baumel - Fantomas (Trapez)
Scary Grant vs. Dada Bleep - Crash remix (Lofi stereo)
Adultnapper - Kaitlin (Superfreq)
Mark Henning - Ring of Fire (Trapez)
Dominik Eulberg - Heimische Gefilde (Traum)
Mike Shannon - Ghost Writer Blues (Cynosure)
The Black Dog - Virtual (Soma)
Dom and Kole - Monster Eats the Pilot
Claude von Stroke - The Whistler (Audiofly mix) (Go Deeva)
Will Saul and Tam Cooper - Sequential Circuits (Konrad Black mix) (Simple)
Plastikman - Psyk (Plus8)
Intercom - Continental Beatbox (Le Son 666)
Tim Hecker - Spectral Dialectics (Alien8)
Robin Judge - Magnetic (Noise Factory)
Minisystem - Where Where You? (Noise Factory)

download it here

Labels: Music, Swoon, Tracklist

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  The Black Dog - Book of Dogma Soma Records is re-issuing all of the early Black Dog eps. Yay! I already bought it from bleep. 22 tracks for $9.99. Pretty hard to go wrong. There are many great tracks, especially Ambience With Teeth, Vanttool, Virtual, and more. Anybody who listens to my show regularly has heard these and more. I think I will just quote part of the Bleep mailout, since it says what I'd want to say:

Terms like seminal and legendary get bandied around in the music industry so much that they've lost their meaning. The Black Dog though are one of the few electronica acts of the past twenty years who genuinely deserve those epithets. Emerging from the wreckage of rave in the late eighties, their unique take on the breakbeat sound was initally a little too different for the ever cautious music industry, with no outlet for their music the band released their first 3 EPs on their own label. Of course the world soon came round to their way of thinking and by the time Warp released Bytes as part of the Artificial Intelligence series they were already being hailed as the nascent genre's leading lights.










The Black
Dog - Book Of Dogma (Soma)




If you hear a loud wailing and gnashing today it's probably just the sound of people who have recently blown 3 figure sums on EBay for these early Black Dog productions realising they could have waited for this fully re-mastered package. Bringing together for the first time the 3 EPs released on their own Black Dog Productions label ('Virtual', 'Age of Slack' and 'Techno Playtime') and the 'Parallel' compilation that later came out on GPR, the tracks contained within showcase a post-hardcore sound as the band looked beyond the then prevailing rave scene and it's self imposed limitations. Mixing elements of detroit techno, UK breakbeat and rave, dub and electro The Black Dog created their own unique sound and whilst some of these early tunes may sound a little rough around the edges they have an energy and vitality that still shines through today.

Labels: dance, Music, Techno

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  Flow 93.5 is staffed by chickens I was listening to Flow 93.5 in my car this morning, and they were playing a grandiose advertisement for "Sex and Steak" day, March 14th. However, it's actually "Steak and Blowjob" day, you chickens.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised, most of the songs they play are so edited for swearing that many of them don't even make sense.

Labels: radio

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  The Field - From Here We Go Sublime

The next track, "A Paw In My Face", also comes from the same ep. It's good, and a bit smoother and less aggressive than the opener. It has a cheery guitar melody.

An original track to this album, "God Things End", is certainly the deepest on the album. It's fast and bass-heavy. "The Little Heart Beats So Fast" with a bassline that is downright funky.

"Everday" is another techno track, although it's fast, it's simple and has a more laid-back feel than some of the earlier tracks, with some cheery female vocal (cut-up, of course).

For the rest of the album (four more tracks), you can pretty much get the picture. It's Field-style techno, just like everything that's come before, except for the ambient ending.

And as a Field album, it's good. So if you like his previous releases, you will like this. If you've had a mild interest in his previous releases, you should give this a try, because there is enough diversity that you can probably find something you will like. If you don't like The Field, you won't like this album.

It will be released March 26 on Kompakt.

Labels: dance, Music, Techno

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  Swoon 178 - March 12, 2007 Pub - Optimistic in Wonderland (Ampoule)
Icebreaker and Manual - The Inner Rings (Morr)
Fairmont - Gazelle (Border Community)
Chymera - Murmur (Mezzotinto)
Partial Arts - Trauermusik (Kompakt)
Scary Grant vs. Dada Bleep - Crash (Lofi Stereo)
Alex Neri and Luca Banchetti - La Fotografia (Tenax)
Mike Shannon - 8 bit rojo (Cynosure)
Metope - Braga (Areal)
Jeremy P Caulfield - Licorice Pipe (Dumb Unit)
Dominik Eulberg - Klangteppichverleger Wolle (Traum)
Martin Eyerer and Toni Rios - Liberacion (Boxer)
The Field - The Deal (Kompakt)
Ellen Allien and Apparat - Jet (Ben Klock remix) (Bpitchcontrol)
Neon Tetras - On The Way There (Noise Factory)
Aphex Twin - Hangable Auto Bulb (Warp)
Tiga - Louder Than a Bomb (Last Gang)
Ellen Allien and Apparat - Metric (Bpitchcontrol)
Delerium - Intoxication (Nettwerk)
Wax Poetic - Beauty (Nublu)

Labels: Music, Swoon, Techno, Tracklist

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  Indexed's book deal

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  Swoon 177 - March 5, 2007 Jeremy Caulfield - Lace Wing Puff (Dumb Unit)
From Karaoke to Stardom - Stompin Nation (Rrygular)
Ryan Crosson - Gotham Road (Magda mix) (Trapez)
Wechsel Garland - Mutes (DJ Koze mix) (Kalk)
Jega - Norton Midgate (Silent)
Bola - Effanajor (Skam)
Orb - Abstractions (Island)
Patrick Baumel - Just Electricity (Trapez)
Aril Brikkha - Berghain (Kompakt)
Solieb - Isotropy (Lazy Fat People mix) (Maschine)
Thomas Schumacher - Red Purple (Spielzug)
San Diego - Rogoredo (Trapez)
Adultnapper - Kaitlin (Superfreq)
Stephan Bodzin - Tron
Motiivi Tuntematon - Mankind Failed (Kompakt)
Amute - Disco Flags Are All Around You (Intr.version)
Bitrate - R2d2's got the blues (Db)
Avia Gardner - Fearsome and Terrible (Intr.version)
Mike Monday - Bhalobashi (Sideshow dub) (Simple)
Trentemoller - Evil Dub (Poker Flat)
The Black Dog - Mental Ward Sleep Machine (Soma)
Mike Shannon - Quetschkomode (Cynosure)

download here

Labels: Music, Swoon, Techno, Tracklist

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