Base Camp Beta

Aerin Ercolea aka @mxsilkman from Cleveland’s In Training collective joins Shawn, Chris, Katie, Chris, and Rachelle for a wide-ranging episode covering the Red Brigades, queer raving, capitalist reproduction, and Darude’s 9/11 memorial events. We start at Italian operaismo and leftist theory and end up drinking natural wine and eating fancy cheese like the petit bourgeois we truly are. We also talk Iesope Drift and their influential run of hard, bizarre minimalist techno tracks.

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Iesope Drift - Tuljahn A1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oonpfGzVKRU

Obscurum - Dom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aXkDOnj2Bk

Opening music: Beau Wanzer - Basement Dwellers

Produced, Edited, and Mixed by Rachelle Rahme

Friend of the show Nick Klein joins us for some real pessimist hours - we’re bumming each other out about everything from careerism to higher education to the idea of recorded music in a cool 60 minutes. Nick also shares with us three tracks that mean a lot to him - Robert Hood minimalism, weird 80’s japanese industrial-funk, and classic Chicago house.

Check Nick's soundcloud @nick-klein

and his upcoming release with Wilted Woman on Alien Jams https://alienjams.bandcamp.com/album/caf-kotti

This episode is brought to you by a couple nice bottles of natural wine that Nick brought, a grandma pie, and our very awesome patrons who are helping to make this show possible. Check the patreon out here - www.patreon.com/basecampbeta

Robert Hood - Untitled https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVWjrPmHAzE

EP-4 - Robothood Process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jq54pYgyvY

Ten City - Suspicious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pnv9dCk9WM

Opening music: Beau Wanzer - Basement Dwellers

Produced and Edited by Rachelle Rahme

Mixed by Dave Tatasciore

BCB004 - Electro-Eco-Communism with Ben Allen

Episode four of Base Camp Beta, where CZ, Chris, and Shawn are joined by Knoxville, TN based scientist, promoter, and activist Ben Allen @dialecticsines. We talk about how to throw community-focused parties, how to fold political activism in with those parties, and how to bring people together (spoiler alert: it’s the *brand*). Later, we talk about Der Zyklus’ mega-classic “Formenverwandler”, the beauty of minimalism, and come to terms with Gerald Donald’s uhhh ~problematic~ references.

This one’s for the bees and all the beekeepers out there - keep our guys safe!

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Der Zyklus - Formenverwandler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBKRYBwguqk

Opening music: Beau Wanzer - Basement Dwellers

Produced and Edited by Rachelle Rahme

Mixed by Dave Tatasciore

BCB003 - C O S M I C M A N H A T T A N or: All That Is Solid Melts Into Tech-house feat Saheer Umar and Asya Gorbacheva

Shawn, Katie, and Chris tend bar for episode three of Base Camp Beta and invite our friends Saheer Umar and Asya Gorbacheva over for a wide-ranging chat, jumping our way around topics such as:

*being a DJ with no friends

*faking your death

*The Secret, and how to manifest your dreams

*Daniele Baldelli, and how to trainwreck with style

*situationist karaoke

*Lil Nas X and the culture jamming cowboy emoji

*bread

...and so much more. Like our favorite Baldelli mixes, this one consists of hard left turns and excessive filter use, all with a belly full of gluten.

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Check out Saheer and Asya's INTERNETPOWERLIFTINGFEDERATION https://soundcloud.com/internetpowerliftingfederation

Trumpet fight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha7smLPz2GY

C98 Daniele Baldelli http://cosmicmantova.blogspot.com/2012/05/c98-del-1984.html

Learn 2 BAKE https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/no-knead-bread-56389453

Opening music: Beau Wanzer - Basement Dwellers

Produced, Mixed, and Edited by Rachelle Rahme

Episode 2 of Base Camp Beta, in partnership with ABSOLUT Vodka, Boiler Room, and Saudi Aramco. We’re thrilled to have our very first guest, Cindy Li aka @cl_lit, on to talk about the spread of corporate influence in nominally “underground” music scenes, the need to #synergize with your fellow #brands, and get in touch with our inner Instagram influencer. We also dig in to Dat Oven’s “Jet Set” - a 1998 NY house record recreating all of the worst club conversations you’ve tried to get out of, and finally take down the trash heap that is Boiler Room’s pay-to-play bullshit.

Shawn’s astrology app said “Try not to talk shit today” when we recorded this and I think we mostly kept to it.

Dat Oven - Jet Set (Shunji Moriwaki Dub) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJWviSx-7hg

Steely Dan - “Doctor Wu” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImtdntJQfSs

Opening music: Beau Wanzer - Basement Dwellers

Produced, Mixed, and Edited by Rachelle Rahme

Beta is back, covering last week's hottest news - the closure of RBMA and Red Bull Radio. Old hat, you say? We also cover some even older hats, talking Ron Hardy edits, house music anti-canons, and Scott Walker.

Cameo from Katie Rose talkin' 60s pop.

Opening music: Beau Wanzer - Basement Dwellers

Produced by Rachelle Rahme

Mixed and Edited by David Tatasciore

Episode One... ePisode 1... ep-1... and it's a big one. Chris, Shawn, and the other Chris (CZ) lay out our plans for discourse domination by talking about perceived authority in music criticism (it sucks), the tyranny of curators, and Jeff Mills' sinister gatekeeping.

Speaking of - the records we're discussing today are Jeff Mills - Waveform Transmission Vol. 1 + 3

VNV Nation YouTube dancers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQakGqzKy7E

Underground Resistance - Base Camp Alpha 808 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBRTZPLOk-Q

Opening music: Beau Wanzer - Basement Dwellers

Produced by Rachelle Rahme

Mixed and Edited by David Tatasciore