Shock World Service

Shock World Service 092: A Reflective Drift (The Drifter)

2/4/2020 Dublin, Ireland

1. Peaking Lights - Sea Of Sand

Expansive piano and voice opener

2. Rikaar - Reflecting Spacetime

From a stellar EP on Apollo

3. Joram Fetisma - Old Feelings

Nils Frahm type vibe on Bigamo

4. Merrin Karras - Passage

Sweet new sounds from Chymera under his ambient moniker

4. Young Marco - Looking Back

Looking back, moving forward

5. Calibre - Planet Hearth

What a beauty. So so good

6. Com Truise - Gaussian

Piano wash over

7. Donnacha Costello - The Sea Between Us

Melody moving things along. From a recent LP, great to have him back

8. Jonathan Fitoussi - Cercles Polaires

Circles and more circles

9. Pariah - Linnaea

Splendid Splendour

10. Phil Kieran - After Life

Very proud to have released this on our label Maeve

11. Calibre - Five Minute Flame

Flame still flickering

12.Sebo K - Pink Moon

Not to be confused with the Nick Drake song

13. Pye Corner Audio - Imprisoned Splendour

Sci-Fi Movie goodness

14. Zopelar - Beludi’s Lament

Acid Lament

15. Nathan Jonson - In The End

Eno esque beauty from my friend in Victoria, BC.

In The End indeed.

Shock World Service 091:

World Synth Experiments by Frankie Grimes

9/2/2020 Dublin, Ireland

1. Juan Amenábar - Los Peces (1957 - Chile)

The first tape piece from South American composer Juan Amenábar Ruiz. It’s an electroacoustic work based on Fibonacci sequence tape manipulations of recorded piano sounds. From Santiago, Chile, he was an engineer and composer and pioneer of electroacoustic music in South America. Studyied composition at the National Conservatory of Music in Santiago, later travelling to Bonn, Germany, where he studied with Stockhausen’s teacher Wener Meyer-Eppler.

2. Iannis Xenakis - Concret PH (1958 - Greece)

Iannis Xenakis once approached Messiaen in Paris for composition lessons, but Messiaen turned him down, saying “I think one should study harmony and counterpoint. But this was a man so much out of the ordinary that I said… 'No, you are almost 30, you have the good fortune of being Greek, of being an architect and having studied special mathematics. Take advantage of these things. Do them in your music'."

Concert PH (paraboloïdes hyperboliques), was written to be heard as audiences entered and excited the Phillips Pavillion at the ’58 World Fair in Brussels, Xenakis was also involved in building the structure, and Varese’s Poeme electronique was played while people were inside the building.

3. Jorge Antunes - Auto-Retrato Sobre Paisaje Porteno (1969 - Brazil)

Known as the originator of electronic music in Brazil, Jorge Antunes studied music and physics in Rio de Janeiro. Os Mutantes were building DIY guitar pedals, but Jorge Antunes was building himself oscillators, filters and modulators. He has been a professor at the University of Brasilia since 1973.

4. Delia Derbyshire - Falling (1964 - USA)

Delia Derbyshire was a true electronic music pioneer. Working with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, she created the famous Doctor Who theme.

The Dreams was a collaboration with Barry Bermange, of voice recordings of people describing their dreams, set to an entirely electronic soundtrack by Derbyshire.

5. Otto Sidharta - Lorong (1984 - Indonesia)

After post-graduate study in Amsterdam, Otto Sidharta returned to Indonesia to gain his doctoral degree and compose electronic music based around nature and soundscapes. Reissued by Sub Rosa in 2017.

6. Mammane Sani - Tunan (1979 - Niger)

Mammane Sani was a pioneer of West African electronic music, and creator of much of the incidental music used for radio in Niger. This, his first and only album, electronic interpretations of traditional Wodaabe and Tuareg music, was recorded in two takes at the National Radio of Niger, and released on a limited casette by the Ministry of Culture . Reissued by Sahel Sounds in 2013.

7. Yishak Banjaw - Libey Ma’aduley (1986 - Ethiopia)

Originally from Addis Ababa, Yishak Banjaw created this album at his house in Eritrea, on a Casio PT rented from a friend. He recorded the whole album live, directly to his tape recorder. Reissued by Teranga Beat in 2016

8. Gökçen Kaynatan - Lost Island (1973 - Turkey)

A pioneer of electronic music in Turkey. While there was much experimentation in Turkey at the time, Gökçen pioneered the use of electronics. Reissued by Finders Keepers in 2017.

9. The Upsetters - Chim Cherie (1973 - Jamaica)

Reggae and Dub had a huge influence on the development of electronic music, and none more that Lee Scratch Perry. It’s hard to pick one, but this early dub from Pressure Sounds’ 2010 compilation shows just how far ahead they were.

10. Codek - Closer (1981 - France)

Originally release on Ivorian Coast label West African Music, this is the a-side from the well known ‘Tam Tam’ single, recorded in France by Jean-Marie Salau.

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Frank Grimes with a remarkable electronic music history lesson, travelling

the world & back in time as far as 1953. Full track notes at

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Shock World Service 090:

The Spatial Relationship by Jon Averill

28/12/19 Dublin, Ireland

1. Mark Isham - Winter

It is winter at the time of recording. I'm always on the ball.

2. Gabriel Yared ‎– 37°2 Le Matin

I know very little about this track, it's French. It means '37.2°C in the morning'. Le Google will you more.

3. Lifted - Now More Than Ever

Actually probably the newest track on this podcast. Very much a mash-up of styles in all senses. Beats & samples drop in never to be heard again. There's a threat of a structure but that seems to never quite manifest.

4. 7 Hurtz - 3 Sisters.

One of the very last compact discs I own & a great one at that. From the album Electroleum on Trevor Jackson's Output recordings. The term 'funky electro' sounds awful but this track does not.

5. Rare Silk - Storm

I thought this was a much newer record before researching, mixing doo-wop style vocals with modern chord progressions & primal rhythms.

6. Peder Mannerfelt – Building of the Mountain

Hypnotic & tense rave stabbing

7. Bing & Ruth - The How of it Sped

From David Moore's Brooklyn collective Bing & Ruth, this track taken from their release 'No Home of the Mind 'on 4AD.

8. Girl Unit - Back

From 2018's Song Feel EP, very much embracing the glistening DX-7 driven 1980s aesthetic.

9. Steve Hauschildt - Saccade

A saccade is the measurement of eye movements, more accurately a rapid movement of the eye between fixation points.

10. Tuxedomoon - Do it for Van Gogh

From the Blue Velvet Revisited soundtrack. A 2016 documentary about the making of David Lynch's Blue Velvet

11. Luke Slater - Weave Your Web

Been a massive fan of Luke Slater since his 1997 album Freek Funk but never really found a place for his music on the podcasts. Wrong righted.

12. RX-101 - Pulse Shaper

Taken from this year's (2019) Dopamine album which is an unashamed soundalike for Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92.

13. Cylob - Skylight

Another Aphex associated track in that Cylob put out a lot of his early work on Rephlex Records

14. Henry Mancini - We've Loved Before

And so here we are again, the end of our journey. Guided here by Henry Mancini who's music I for some reason call 'log collecting music'.

See ya.

Shock World Service 089:

Back2Bray by EMA

23/10/19 Dublin, Ireland

1. Jorge Reyes & Antonio Zepeda - La Izquierda Del Colibri

Emotional Rescue is a reissue label for lost or forgotten tracks. Jorge Reyes and Antonio Zepeda are Mexico’s most important experimental artists. This abstract unsettling track starts off the journey nicely.

2. Orson - Garzweiler

A beatless drone-scape from an otherwise dubstep-centric powerhouse, Version.

3. Matias Aguayo - Between The Risings

Spooky soundscapes.

4. Suba - Wayang 10

Psychedelic, slowed-goa sounds reissued on Vlad Ickovic's Offen Music label

5. Basses Terres feat. Mika Oki- Yōru No Satori

Magical track that pulls at the heart strings. To be honest it makes me cry.

6. Great Ghost - Alien Hotel Del Mar

The seaside chimes in and I'm home...bliss. Great Ghost is a producer & DJ making ambient and techno for years in the Brooklyn underground.

7. Ondo Fudd - Blue Dot

Call Super's The Trilogy Tapes alias. Gorgeously sensual.

8. Lury Lech - Barreras

A reissue from CockTail d'Amore Music off the album Música para el fin de los cantos/1990. Lury Lech, a Spanish electronic and digital audio-visual pioneer, makes you float away in this new-age meditative track.

9. Prins Thomas - Bobletekno (DJ Sotofett’s New Age Mix)

Full Pupp records hands over to Prins Thomas who has the Sottofett bug like us all. Sottofett produces a beautiful ambient rework which really brings you to someplace special.

10. DJ Sports - Passing

Melancholic skittering half-step off Yield Records >> "To give in, surrender. To give forth, produce" An adventurous EP from Arhus-boy DJ Sports.

11. Rare Silk - Storm (Arp Duppy Chip Mix)

Another Emotional Rescue. Arp's rework of Rare Silks' 1985 (album American Eyes) cult classic strips back the vocals, keeps in the Jazz fire and creates this beautiful moody dub.

12. Mårble - Coco Dub feat. Slavic Ipatov

Klammklang - Criminal Russia presents a melting pot of swampy dubstep lurk with some splashy marbled jazz.

14. Lo Kindre - Torment of One

Optimo Music release presenting dub sounds from Glasgow based, Luxembourg-born and raised Irishman Daniel Magee. Freaky no-wave electronics.

15. Unknown Mobile - Medicine Man

Pacific Rhythm showcases the best of the best for the most part in Canada. This one is from Montréal house artist Unknown Mobile. The superb album titled Daucile Moon is an 8 tracker where Unknown Mobile created a “digital-analog hybrid that sounds as pleasantly worn as a dog-eared novel”.

16. Abby Echiverri - Inquilinism

Echiverri is an audio engineer classically trained in violin, flute and piano. This lush EP shows off her talents, and it is only her first!

Inquilinism is an ambient electro workout off her Ab Initio EP on The Bunker New York. If you haven't checked out this record you should.

17. Cromby - Retribution (Shanti Celeste Mix)

Suprisingly, this is found on the generally straight up Feel my Bicep imprint. This remix traditionally sits at 125bpm. I slowed it right down for the mix to about 96bpm, and it sounds just as good.

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1. Jorge Reyes & Antonio Zepeda - La Izquierda Del Colibri

Emotional Rescue is a reissue label for lost or forgotten tracks. Jorge Reyes and Antonio Zepeda are Mexico’s most important experimental artists. This abstract unsettling track starts off the journey nicely.

2. Orson - Garzweiler

A beatless drone-scape from an otherwise dubstep-centric powerhouse, Version.

3. Matias Aguayo - Between The Risings

Spooky soundscapes.

4. Suba - Wayang 10

Psychedelic, slowed-goa sounds reissued on Vlad Ickovic's Offen Music label

5. Basses Terres feat. Mika Oki- Yōru No Satori

Magical track that pulls at the heart strings. To be honest it makes me cry.

6. Great Ghost - Alien Hotel Del Mar

The seaside chimes in and I'm home...bliss. Great Ghost is a producer & DJ making ambient and techno for years in the Brooklyn underground.

7. Ondo Fudd - Blue Dot

Call Super's The Trilogy Tapes alias. Gorgeously sensual.

8. Lury Lech - Barreras

A reissue from CockTail d'Amore Music off the album Música para el fin de los cantos/1990. Lury Lech, a Spanish electronic and digital audio-visual pioneer, makes you float away in this new-age meditative track.

9. Prins Thomas - Bobletekno (DJ Sotofett’s New Age Mix)

Full Pupp records hands over to Prins Thomas who has the Sottofett bug like us all. Sottofett produces a beautiful ambient rework which really brings you to someplace special.

10. DJ Sports - Passing

Melancholic skittering half-step off Yield Records >> "To give in, surrender. To give forth, produce" An adventurous EP from Arhus-boy DJ Sports.

11. Rare Silk - Storm (Arp Duppy Chip Mix)

Another Emotional Rescue. Arp's rework of Rare Silks' 1985 (album American Eyes) cult classic strips back the vocals, keeps in the Jazz fire and creates this beautiful moody dub.

12. Mårble - Coco Dub feat. Slavic Ipatov

Klammklang - Criminal Russia presents a melting pot of swampy dubstep lurk with some splashy marbled jazz.

14. Lo Kindre - Torment of One

Optimo Music release presenting dub sounds from Glasgow based, Luxembourg-born and raised Irishman Daniel Magee. Freaky no-wave electronics.

15. Unknown Mobile - Medicine Man

Pacific Rhythm showcases the best of the best for the most part in Canada. This one is from Montréal house artist Unknown Mobile. The superb album titled Daucile Moon is an 8 tracker where Unknown Mobile created a “digital-analog hybrid that sounds as pleasantly worn as a dog-eared novel”.

16. Abby Echiverri - Inquilinism

Echiverri is an audio engineer classically trained in violin, flute and piano. This lush EP shows off her talents, and it is only her first! Inquilinism is an ambient electro workout off her Ab Initio EP on The Bunker New York. If you haven't checked out this record you should.

17. Cromby - Retribution (Shanti Celeste Mix)

Surprisingly, this is found on the generally straight up Feel my Bicep imprint. This remix traditionally sits at 125bpm. I slowed it right down for the mix to about 96bpm, and it sounds just as good.

Shock World Service 088:

Dreamscapes by New Members

16/9/19 Berlin, Germany

Every now & then we like to focus on new artists & rather than do a mix, dedicate the podcast to their own productions (such as R. Kitt's amazing Cycles Podcast).

This month we turn the spotlight on Dublin based producer New Members who's episode 'Dreamscapes' melds hypnotic chord sequences with raw oldschool breakbeats.

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Shock World Service 087:

The Funnel Generation: Irish electronic music 1994 to 2009

By Kate Butler & the Golden Maverick

23/7/2019 Dublin, Ireland

The Funnel, a 300 capacity venue in Dublin, was open for the blink of an eye: 1997-99. The magically desegregating effect of rave – where everyone and anyone was welcome on the dance floor – had come and gone. The Funnel arrived at a time when rave had been fully co-opted by commercial interests.

Rave music had become delineated with hardline positions taken on genres. Your music alignment gave a lot away about where you saw yourself in this world: techno uptown, trance downtown, house for the beautiful people, jungle for the fringe.

But there were lots of us floating around, looking for a community. Alan O’Boyle and Dennis McNulty of Decal, along with their manager/promoter Paul Timoney of Ultramack, found the place: the Funnel, 24 City Quay, Dublin 2. A long room on the first floor, with low ceilings and no frills. After a while, a bar was built downstairs with a fancy picture window looking out onto the Liffey.

Ultramack started the Phunk City nights there, bringing over people like Autechre, Alex Patterson, and Mike Paradinas, but also promoting Irish acts like Ambulance and Deep Burial.

With some limited exceptions, this became the pattern at the Funnel: Irish promoters with Irish labels, club nights with homegrown collectives of DJs and producers. The Fear collective, purveyors of freaky beats, started a Thursday night event, while Eamonn Doyle of the D1 Recordings techno label moved in with his Model One club, as did jungle/dnb crew Bassbin, which started its label while the Funnel was open.

The Funnel Generation: Irish electronic music 1994 :The Funnel, a 300 capacity venue in Dublin, was open for the blink of an eye: 1997-99. The magically desegregating effect of rave – where everyone and anyone was welcome on the dance floor – had come and gone. The Funnel arrived at a time when rave had been fully co-opted by commercial interests.

Rave music had become delineated with hardline positions taken on genres. Your music alignment gave a lot away about where you saw yourself in this world: techno uptown, trance downtown, house for the beautiful people, jungle for the fringe.

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Shock World Service 086:

Budget Mattress Superstore By Datassette

21/6/19 London, United Kingdom

1. Pierlo Umiliani - Lavoro Nero (1975)Crunchy percussive plodder from the prolific library composer also known as Moggi. Also responsible for the 1968 super-kitsch easy listening novelty smash 'Mah nà mah nà' which would be made infamous ten years after its recording by The Muppet Show.

2. Peter Thomas & Sten Clift - Galaxy Fall-Out (1973)One of those incongruous weirdo tracks that leaps out from an otherwise unremarkable library music album of sub-par Tijuana Brass style lifestyle themes and cheesy interludes. From that elusive 16mm-camera-on-a-yellow-background Movie Makers Music series.

3. Andres Lewin-Richter - Pulsations (1977)From an album of wonderful electro-acoustic weirdness - one of those collections where it's almost impossible to tell how each sound was made. Very few synths on this despite it being called Electronic Mystery, this track sounds like it's probably an oboe or contrabassoon going through a filter and a couple of delay lines. Vast!

4. Robert Painter & Terence Jenkins - Moleculum (1983)Not quite suitable for a horror film, not quite suitable for the disco, this is the best sort of library music - odd, uncategorisable and only in existence because two people were paid to sit in a room and make something that sounded like Industry and Tension and didn't know what else to do.

5. Pierlo Umiliani - Jingle No.1 (1975)Another Moggi classic. An unstable synth gnaws at you like a rabid dog while a percussion party kicks off in the background, wild!

6. Teddy Lasry - Metallopolis (1975)Action! Lasers!

7. Roger Roger & Nino Nardini - Super Flash 7 (1982)Sounds like a drunken James Stinson outtake, sprawling synths fall about the place like an injured moth while a steady 808 kick n' rim pattern clicks away.

8. Chris Swansen - Snow (1972)Chris Swansen was appointed 'composer in residence' at Moog in 1968, and after several years of intense twiddling came up with the album 'Pulaski Skyway'. Every part on the album is hand-played and painstakingly multitracked, even the white-noise drum bursts. Wholesome stuff (not strictly library music though).

9. Mort Garson - Ode To An African Violet (1976)Not library music either, but an absolutely sublime piece of moog work with enough of a weirdo vibe to sit in the library category in my head. Sentimental, wistful and creamy. Recently reissued, this album is supposed to be played to houseplants to help them grow!

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