Base Camp Beta

Steve Mizek - of Little White Earbuds and Argot Records fame - joins us this week to talk about the heyday of mp3 blogs and the many ways in which the music media landscape has changed since then. We ruminate on the importance of the record label in 2019, worry about mid-2000s blog house returning, and mourn the death of the mix podcast by remembering some of our favorites.

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LWE Podcast 149 Levon Vincent http://www.littlewhiteearbuds.com/podcast/lwe-podcast-149-levon-vincent/#.XUghLZNKhE5

LWE Podcast 29 Black Jazz Consortium http://www.littlewhiteearbuds.com/podcast/lwe-podcast-29-fred-p/#.XUgeypNKhE5

LWE Podcast 5 Tama Sumo

http://www.littlewhiteearbuds.com/podcast/lwe-podcast-05-tama-sumo/#.XUghvpNKhE4

LWE Podcast 14 DJ Sprinkles

http://www.littlewhiteearbuds.com/podcast/lwe-podcast-14-dj-sprinkles/#.XUghcpNKhE4

Opening music: Beau Wanzer - Basement Dwellers

Produced and Edited by Rachelle Rahme

Mixed by David Tatasciore

We’re joined this week by Nihar Bhatt - producer, DJ, party thrower, and label partner of CZ. We talk about San Francisco, the “canary in the coalmine of capitalism”, and reminisce about the constantly changing (read: getting evicted) party scene in the Bay Area. We try to tackle the issues of scarcity in the music scene and try to imagine a future where everyone can throw the cybergoth party that they want to.

We talk about lots of great music, and then we talk about Mike Rutherford’s yacht-funk banger “Couldn’t Get Arrested” - the musical equivalent of 1973’s Burt Reynolds classic White Lightning. Note: this is the Baldelli mix that broke Shawn’s brain, then ours, now hopefully yours https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU6yg5SFV_g

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Autechre Warp Tapes 89-93 https://autechre.wetransfer.com/downloads/3ced4067d9a7754dbdee72ff25191a9820190624140839/05ebe9

The Connection Machine - Primer’s Mite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyylkMHpsNo

Speedy J - Drill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssRJxQxjAd4

Mike Rutherford - Couldn’t Get Arrested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSM6qKVM5PE

Opening music: Beau Wanzer - Basement Dwellers

Produced and Edited by Rachelle Rahme

Mixed by David Tatasciore

A spectre is haunting music - the undying spectre of witch house. Sybil Jason aka Farced joins us for this week’s Base Camp Beta where we for some reason talk about witch house and how it never really went away. We also talk about DIY culture and the lengths one used to have to go to before the internet (say, having to go trackdown bootleg CDs in Jersey City) as opposed to a cultural cosplay now facilitated by the internet. We also talk about our favorite Marc Trauner/Arcadipane tracks (Chris forgot to pick one - it would have been Pitch-Hiker or Atmos-Fear, both of which Shawn brings up anyway). Take your brain pills for this one - it’s an episode where only the strong willed survive - only Sybil and Chris made it to the end.

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Salem at Faderfort https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88zQ_sf6BMg

Sandstorm on eight floppy drives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFmC7hd1hno

Hardcore techno logos https://hardcore-techno-logos-blog.tumblr.com/page/2

Trauner Trax

Cassegrain - Trappist (The Mover Remix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlRPHFLeH9U

Mescalinum United - Into Mekong Center (Mekong Score Mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_d0kBpDyd0

Cypher - Frozen Boom Erection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjJ2QyI4-BQ

Suburban Soul - City Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSj725hvhhg

Pilldriver - Pitch-Hiker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E53IM0jF-s

Rave Creator & The Mover - Atmos-Fear https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=9atKkvkhF_0

Opening music: Beau Wanzer - Basement Dwellers

Produced and Edited by Rachelle Rahme

Mixed by David Tatasciore

Never mind your half eaten hot dog, welcome to BCB, episode 13 in which we talk: Weird Science with Ania Waluk and Maroje Tabakovic, future communes, mountains vs. the beach, the frightening skeleton of Ocean City (NJ), TM, NY vs Chicago hot dogs, saxophone as the hot dog of the music world, how Subway changed my life. We also discuss songs from Tenor Saw, Five or Six, Tuxedomoon, and Hauster. Not included is Rachelle’s revelation on her theory of Tuxedomoon’s “59 to 1”, here reproduced in précis for posterity: “59 to 1 by Tuxedomoon is about temporality under capitalism. Not Andy Warhol’s 15 minutes of fame; we actually have a fraction of that: 1 second. And how do we express ourselves under capitalism in one second? With the ‘I.’ What is most unique about us, our individuality, is reproduced in a uniform gesture, a tick on the clock. It is also a political gesture, the vote via ‘say I,’ - ‘I.’ And in this way, it is what turns us against one another as enemies or towards one another as allies.”

Including music by:

Tenor Saw - Original Pumpkin Belly https://youtu.be/jCLQSJE2-x8

Five or Six - Another Reason https://youtu.be/ZV3eaIRewCY

Tuxedomoon - 59 to 1 https://youtu.be/ZTWgq9R1JPA

Hauster - Ena https://youtu.be/ipYGL3jFXfQ

Opening music: Beau Wanzer - Basement Dwellers

Produced and Edited by Rachelle Rahme

Mixed by Shawn O’Sullivan

Base Camp Basic this week with the original zoo crew - no guests - just pure, uncut base camp. We talk about the Boiler Room, Burning Man, and the Grateful Dead. Like any trip, though, you gotta break on through to the other side where we actually talk about good music like Stephen Mallinder, Duet Emmo, and *ahem* electro-industrial.

Any way, help give us all steampunk makeovers for our big Burning Man trip by signing up for the Patreon www.patreon.com/basecampbeta

seE yOU ~on~ ~p~l~a~y~a~ ♥♥♥

Jean Michel Jarre with all his gear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_E8aGx777Q

Klaus Schulze - Cellestica https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGfcPT5qdS8

Stephen Mallinder - Cool Down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MI62Kvryqs

Snog - Cliche https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fae7qQSiRUA

Duet Emmo - The First Person https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Wl5HqKp_I

Opening music: Beau Wanzer - Basement Dwellers

Produced and Edited by Rachelle Rahme

Mixed by Dave Tatasciore

Tajh Morris aka Turtle Bugg moved to Detroit last year and misses five things about New York - on this week’s episode, we investigate those five things while snacking and drinking (as usual) and recording our first offsite episode at Base Camp Uptown (Chris’ apartment). We get progressively drunk and stoned and start to ramble about Heaven 17, politics in pop music, and learning.

We also talk about the two kings of early 80s funk: Morris Day and Donald Fagen.

The Time - Get It Up www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuniNLHhsfI

Donald Fagen - I.G.Y. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ueivjr3f8xg

Heaven 17 - Temptation www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWkULcx0Ck0

Base Camp Beta is made possible with the support of our generous patrons. Check out our Patreon here: www.patreon.com/basecampbeta

Opening music: Beau Wanzer - Basement Dwellers

Produced and Edited by Rachelle Rahme

Mixed by Dave Tatasciore

It’s guys night on the podcast, so friend of the show Anthony Parasole stops by to talk guy shit: John Carpenter, Thom Yorke’s moany-ass voice, virtual clubbing, and why you may as well toss a suitcase full of cash out of a helicopter instead of press a record. We talk a lot of music, too - focusing on Synewave classics, Damon Wild, Tommy Musto, Dennis Ferrer, Success-N-Effect, and The The. And we take some calls from our loyal listeners who have a lot to say about James Dolan.

Dolan “Sell The Team” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwZ5rEudAps

Norman - Greenroom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEUcNfA8FCc

Frankie Bones’ Discogs comment on Success-N-Effect’s “Roll It Up” https://www.discogs.com/Success-N-Effect-Freeze-Roll-It-Up/master/71491

Morph - Stormwatch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqLYBr8cmlo

Xperiment - Karn Evil #10 Dub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVwLF_B0Aig

The The - Giant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unVf6EUX2GU

Base Camp Beta is recorded at Control - www.ctrl-mod.com - and is made possible with the support of our generous patrons. Check out our Patreon here: www.patreon.com/basecampbeta

Opening music: Beau Wanzer - Basement Dwellers

Produced and Edited by Rachelle Rahme

Mixed by Dave Tatasciore

This week’s Base Camp Beta, our ninth episode, features Moroccan-born, New York-based special guest Selwa Abd, better known by her musical alias Bergsonist, with bonus appearance by Greg Zifcak aka Wav Dwgs and part of Eats Tapes.

We talk the vagaries of sharing and discovering music in the digital era, playing live shows with very little to no prior experience, going out on a Tuesday night to see your friends spin Krautrock records to a crowd of four (yourself included) at bars with names like “Daddy’s,” the encroaching tide of professionalism in underground electronic music, the dearth of actual physical community/social spaces for musicians and music fans, and Pick Up The Flow, a NYC-based attempt to remedy that lack of community, founded by Selwa herself.

Music-wise, we talk a classic Wax Trax cut by Dwayne and cEvin from Skinny Puppy with Bill Leeb on vox; Model 500's “Pick Up The Flow,” the inspiration for the previously mentioned DIY sharing community; and contemporary trap and hip-hop from Morocco. Oh, and we talk about Gong. Yeah, Gong. Way to kill the vibe, Shawn.

Cyberaktif - Nothing Stays https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwgwS0WSg7E

Model 500 - Pick Up The Flow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP53ypyiqyM

ISSAM - Trap Beldi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcpAh78saoo

Gong - Fohat Digs Holes In Space (Nanterre University 26/04/72) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-rN-S1qKjo

Base Camp Beta is brought to you from Control - www.ctrl-mod.com - and is made possible with the support of our generous patrons. Check out our Patreon here: www.patreon.com/basecampbeta

Opening music: Beau Wanzer - Basement Dwellers

Produced and Edited by Rachelle Rahme

Mixed by Dave Tatasciore

Base Camp Beta is down a Chris (Miller) but up a Doug (Lee), who visits to tell us the story of An-I. We muse over compositional techniques, the rise and fall of disco edits, music's cross-cultural effects, and the history of trance. Later, we're joined by surprise guest Jon Santos, who tells us a bit about the mid-90's San Francisco rave scene.

We also cover a lot of music in this episode! As true Base Camp stalwarts of the outer regions, we talk about everything from minimalist rhythmic noise to cosmic jazz fusion to twee breakcore.

Haus Arafna - Für immer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b66AIs0xCvA

Ford Proco / Coil - Expansión Naranja

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tViHXKU-pos

Soft Machine - Over 'N' Above

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKxojs0jqyA

Knifehandchop - Going Back to Scarborough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcOvL9GyLNs

Base Camp Beta is brought to you from Control - www.ctrl-mod.com - and is made possible with the support of our generous patrons. Check out our Patreon here: www.patreon.com/basecampbeta

Opening music: Beau Wanzer - Basement Dwellers

Produced and Edited by Rachelle Rahme

Mixed by Dave Tatasciore

New York City DJ and Producer for three thousand years and counting, L. “Your Friend is My Stranger” Sangre (@lsangre) joins Base Camp Beta to talk about anti-social media, beverages of choice (blood), the wages of fear, brilliance of Chris & Cosey, accrual of meaning, and everyone’s favorite analyst, Dr. Frasier Crane. We’re listening.

Check Lorraine’s soundcloud @lsangre and her show at BASEMENT NY on June 8 - www.eventbrite.com/e/quo-vadis-ver…ets-60913694500

Thanks to Control @ctrlmod for letting us record at the shop.

This episode is brought to you by a couple nice bottles of natural wine that Katie brought, some cheap sunflower seeds from the deli courtesy of Rachelle, Beyond Sausage, and our very awesome patrons who are helping to make this show possible. Check the patreon out here - www.patreon.com/basecampbeta

Chris & Cosey - Re-Education Through Labour - www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDTXpk8-YSQ

Cocteau Twins - Cherry Coloured Funk (Seefeel Remix) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxR-GSKvg2A

Final Cut - I Told You Not To Stop - www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-W2RvpKbP8

Opening music: Beau Wanzer - Basement Dwellers

Produced and Edited by Rachelle Rahme

Mixed by Dave Tatasciore