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DJ, producer and sound-recordist — and curator of the Sambacana Brazilian music archive here on Spannered — Maga Bo seems to be on a lifelong intercontinental cultural exchange programme.

 

Outras Terras features collaborations with artists from a dizzying array of locations, including Jahdan Blakkamoore (Brooklyn), BNegão (Rio de Janeiro), Ghislain Poirier (Montreal), Filastine (Barcelona), Pacheko (Caracas), Fletcher (Cape Town), Dr. Das (London), Matona (Zanzibar), Abena Koomson (NYC), Teba (Cape Town), Xuman (Dakar) and Speed Freaks (Rio de Janeiro).

 

Cultural building blocks in the mix range from ragga, hip hop, dub and breakcore through to kuduro, cumbia, crunk, coco and samba. Trip over to Bo's blog for detailed descriptions of all the tracks and some cool cover art.

 

Tracklisting

Coco Raízes de Arcoverde - Ê Boi (Maga Bo Remix) (Unreleased)

Sonar Calibrado (Maga Bo and Filastine) - E Daí feat. Speed Freaks (12" Shockout)

Filastine - B'tallah (Maga Bo Remix) (12"  Post World Industries - forthcoming)

Sonar Calibrado (Filastine and Maga Bo) - Alesh feat. Jawad (12"  Shockout)

Maga Bo - Longa Nahawand feat. Mohammed Issa Matona (Soot Records)

Sonar Calibrado (Maga Bo and Filastine) - Se Liga feat. Mario Z (12" Shockout)

Pitcho - Boucan (Maga Bo Remix of Dr. Das Bhajni Ragga Remix) (Unreleased)

X-Pensive Nframa - Aunty Adoley (Maga Bo vs. Sabo Remix) (Akwaaba - forthcoming)

Maga Bo - Maga Traz a Lenha feat. Jahdan Blakkamoore (Unreleased)

Petrona Martinez - El Critica (Maga Bo Remix) (Unreleased)

Maga Bo - Kizomba;  A Festa das Raças feat. BNegão (Unreleased)

Fletcher Meets Maga Bo feat. Neon Don - Alleyways (African Dope Records)

Maga Bo - Ransom (Pacheko Remix) (Senseless Records - forthcoming)

Jahdan Blakkamoore (Produced by Maga Bo) - Earthshaking (Duty Artz/Gold Dust)

Maga Bo - Nqayi feat. Teba (Soot Records/African Dope Records)

Poirier - Wha La La Leng feat. Face-T (Maga Bo Remix) (Ninja Tune - forthcoming)

Maga Bo - La Paix feat. Xuman (Unreleased)

Jahdan Blakkamoore (Produced by Maga Bo) - Rise Again feat. Abena Koomson (Dutty Artz/Gold Dust)

^ Read Spannered's 2007 interview with Bo here.

This live set was recorded in London for Spannered in September 2009. You can read more about Armando's music and the history of Alpha 606 here.

Recent releases include the widely acclaimed Electrónica Afro-Cubano EP for Interdimensional Transmissions and inclusion on the 2009 Touchin' Bass compilation Geometry.

^ The debut Alpha 606 album is out on Interdimensional Transmissions early next year.

ForceFed is Dublin-based DJ/production duo, A-Force and Bluefood. Earlier this year they joined forces as a live dub/electronica act, playing their first gig in a sweaty cavern in Italy. Both have released music separately on AlphabetSet and !Kaboogie.

 

Gotham Tropical is part of a showcase for Spannered of audio from Dublin's !Kaboogie camp. You can grab artwork to accompany the set here.

 

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Dublin resident Ed Devane makes, as he puts it, 'bass-heavy weird dancefloor music, to ambient noise, to more "musical" music with a zither'. He's released on Touchin' Bass, Mantrap Recordings, Spacebar Sentiments, Kontakte, and Belfast's recently resurrected Takeover Records, and is shortly to appear on Dublin's !Kaboogie Records.

 

Mixed up by !Kaboogie resident Redmonk, this selection of new and forthcoming material is part of a showcase pulled together by the Dublin-based crew to mark the launch of their second label release. You can grab artwork to accompany the mix here.

 

Tracklisting:

Dubcore Maximus (!Kaboogie)

Underflux (Mantrap Records)

Predicament (Stasis Records)

Saca (Takeover)

Frozen Backpackers (Fothcoming Mantrap Records)

Doomtime, Baby feat. Scurvy Lass (Fothcoming Mantrap Records)

Brain Your Melt? feat. Scurvy Lass (Fothcoming Mantrap Records)

Playtime (Forthcoming !Kaboogie)

Emptyset was born in 2005 when James 'Ginz' Ginzburg (30Hz, Joker collaborator, and co-founder of Tectonic Recordings) met art curator and DJ Paul Purgas (the man behind last year's excellent We Can Elude Control release) through Bristol's music scene.

 

The duo embarked on a production project to explore their musical commonalities, such as low frequencies, sound design and rhythm. The results — a nervous-sounding strain of minimal techno, fortified by bone-rattling subbass — first surfaced in 2007 with a pair of sought-after EPs for Future Days. A third EP appeared on Julian Smith's Caravan Recordings in 2008, paving the way for the label to release Emptyset's eponymously titled debut album last month.

 

Clocking in at just over 37 minutes, the album is a buzzing opus of lumbering rhythms, creeping distortion, bleeps, hums and warm bass tones. 'We wanted to create situations where the music came alive from its own side by finding the points within signal chains where distortion begins to form before it overpowers', they explain of the album in an interview over at Sonic Router.

 

This mix pulls together some of Emptyset's reference points, from the glitch-ridden electronics of Alva Noto and classic minimalism of Richie Hawtin's Plastikman material to emotive Aphex acid and the advanced techno/dubstep workouts of 2562.

 

Emptyset have a stack of projects lined up for 2010, including a series of live techno recordings made in a haunted house (!) — watch this space...

 

Tracklisting:

Byetone - Plastic Star (Alva Noto remix)

MLZ - New Analogue Century

Hauntologists - Hauntologists 2

Carl Craig & Moritz Von Oswald - Recomposed

Substance - Relish (Shed remix)

2562 - Love in Outer Space

Emptyset - Seclusion

Peverelist - Clunk Click Every Trip

Bogger - Wireblock 002

AFX - Analord 8

Plastikman - Freek

Jeff Mills - Expanded

A Made Up Sound - On & On

Move D - Workshop 002

Craig Smith & The Revenge - Soul Part II

Blake Baxter - Derise Me

October - Homo Sapiens

Jammin Gerald - Black Women

Demdike Stare - Ghostly Hardware

Radioslave - Tantakatan

Seldom Felt - Seldom Felt 5

Santos - Beat the Knuckles

2562 - Circulate

Sleeparchive - Hospital 02

Underground Resistance - X101

Pole - Steingarten (Shackleton remix)

 ^ Emptyset's debut album is out now on Caravan Recordings

Portuguese brothers Leo (Dizzycutter) and Bruno (Mushug) have been working on their respective musical projects for over a decade, but it was only last year when they were asked play a show in their home city of Lisbon for local crew Conspira that they joined forces to form live/production outfit Octo Push. Since then the duo have found themselves increasingly in demand, remixing the likes of Jahcoozi, Buraka Som Sistema and DJ C, gigging from Glade Festival to Fabric, and even catching the ear of Thom Yorke with their highly kinetic blend of garage, techno, IDM, Afrobeat and bashment.

 

Octa Push made their vinyl debut this summer, launching Monkey Steak's Steak House imprint by way of a split EP with fellow Lisbon resident Mr Gasparov. This month sees the release of a white-hot three-tracker for Lisbon/Barcelona-based Iberian Records featuring the vocal talents of Cape Verde's Toni Clean and Panamanian-born MC Zulu, as well as the inclusion of their track Quebu Sabe on Soul Jazz Record's Steppa's Delight 2 compilation. They're also due to feature on Fabric's forthcoming release Elevator Music Vol I.

This live set was recorded on the Overkill stage at Glade 2009 as part of a showcase for Bristol's Ruffnek Diskotek (Octa Push appearing alongside Heatwave, Monkey Steak, Ghislain Poirier and MC Zulu, and Tim Dub Boy). Leo and Bruno tell us that their live act will undergo something of a transformation over the coming months, so track them down if they're playing a gig near you and find out what they've got in store.

 

^ Deixa by Octa Push is out now on Iberian Records

Intro - Hino Nacional (texto: Carlos Drummond de Andrade/voz:Antonio Abujanra)

DJ 440 - Sem esperança

Waltecno - Cyberanda

DJ Dolores - Salvo (the preacher)

DJ Tata Aciolly - Guanabara

Orquestra Contemporânea de Olinda - Tá Falado

Negroove - O Incrível Homem de R$9,14

B Negão e os Seletores de Frequência - Dorobô (Part.Sabotage)

Júlia Says - Hey Man

Curumim - Guerreiro

DJ Farrapo & Yanez - Pirasamba (DJ Lucio K remix)

DJ Lucio K - Ritmo Bom

De Leve - Pra Ser Feliz

This mix includes dense aural fogs and deep soundscapes of clarity from the likes of Mika Vainio, Deathprod, CoH, field recordist Chris Watson, and the majestic Delia Derbyshire. Coldfall is inspired by the now-fragmented ancient woodland of London and its perseverance throughout the centuries. It also owes much to erratic weather patterns deluging London with downpours during the time of its conception.

 

Originally broadcast on Ill FM, August 2009.

 

Tracklisting:

Mark Pritchard - ?

Burial - Untitled

Arovane - Blacksoil

Mercof - Ulysses (Deathprod mix)

Monolake - Layer 02

Aphex Twin - Gwely Mernans

Monolake - Wasteland

Mika Vainio - Unien Holvit

Nine Inch Nails - 2 Ghosts I

Sunn O))) and Boris - N.L.T.

Radian - Vertigo

Whirling Hall of Knives - 2-Bar Heater and Smoke

Thomas Fehlmann - Scheben

Chris Watson - Cima Verde

Deathprod - Cloudchamber

Chris Watson - Soffi di Vento

Coil - The Gimp (Sometimes)

Oren Ambarchi - Gene

Dopplereffekt - Holomorphic N-0 Form

Svarte Greiner - The Black Dress

Asher - Landscape Studies 1

Stars of the Lid - Porch (Version #28)

Ø - Mojave

CoH - Part III - Euphrates (III-II Devoto Maestoso Al Fine)

Vex'd - Destruction

Rory Storm - 3' 06"

Fennesz - Onsra

William Basinski - Melancholia VIII

Aphex Twin - Domino

CoH - Between Heaven and Earth

Aphex Twin - Grey Stripe

Fripp & Eno - Meissa

Delia Derbyshire - Blue Veils and Golden Sands

William Basinski - Melancholia V

Tangerine Dream - Sequent C'

Stars of the Lid - Requiem String Melody

^ Listen to Vale of Heath by Coppice

With hellodoctornamecontinueyesterdaytomorrow, aka Spannered's 10th Oddcast, Datassette takes us through a wild and wonderful set of library music and various treats of the analogue world. Space out 70s style and enjoy a kaleidoscopic array of wibs and wobbles, blips and bloops, clicks and whooshes, and other mysterious sounds of the spheres. If this collection were a van, it would have carpeting all over the inside, swivelling seats, and an 8-track player. Since it's an Oddcast, you're stuck with listening to it. Just be sure you have your seatbelt on.

Datassette, also known as Datashat, has releases on Echoecho, Ai Records, and other labels, and recently remixed Royskopp's Happy Up Here on Wall of Sound. The most excellent Handsette Recordings, which Datassette also has a hand in, has a new release out as well.

Datassette has kindly supplied some truly cosmic artwork to enhance your experience (especially effective if you stare at it intently while listening).

 

Take it away Datassette!

 

Tracklisting:

 

Bruno Spoerri — Glückskugel: Title (197x)

Man — Just For You (Edit) (1973)

Alan Hawkshaw — Transcendental Meditation (1975)

Dave Vorhaus — Interaction (1980)

Doxa Sinistra — Alien (1982)

Mike Vickers — Technopolis (1973)

Isao Tomita — The Two Jews (1975)

Electronic Concept Orchestra — Windmills Of Your Mind (1969)

Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention — Oh No (Edit) (1970)

Dave Vorhaus — The Great Chip Takeover (1980)

Mike Vickers — Retribution (1973)

G Narholz — Join In The Dance (1977)

Doxa Sinistra — The Other Stranger (1982)

Severed Heads — 4.W.D. (1983)

Andy Clark — Feeling The Heat (1983)

Datassette — Tang Arp Rev (2009)

T Fisher — Right After Midnight (Reload Onna Betamax Edit) (1977)

'Burning Man 2008 saw over 49,000 participants revelling in the Black Rock Desert, working together to create the magic metropolis that is Black Rock City. The week was bookended by vicious dust storms, between which Mother Nature graced our encampment with gorgeously placid weather, allowing participants to enjoy the artwork, community and broad expanses of the playa. The Man, standing atop an obelisk bedecked with the flags of all nations, spoke of our American Dream, which is truly a global dream. Saturday's dust storms broke their stranglehold on the city in time to allow the community to gather to watch the Man burn late that night. On Sunday evening, Shrine and Tuktuk's "Basura Sagrada" temple burned before a silently reverent audience, taking with it our community's missives to the great beyond. All told, it was a very successful Burning Man event, however, trying to explain what Burning Man is to someone who has never been is a bit like trying to explain what a particular colour looks like to someone who is blind. For me this is the festival of all festivals. if you get the chance, go!'

Orson Bramley aka Transparent Sound

LA, 2009

 

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Orson Bramley and Martin Brown have been making music under the name Transparent Sound since the mid-nineties and have established themselves as one of the UK's leading electro acts. They have released tracks on their own imprints, Transparent Sound and Orson Records, and labels such as Electrix, Exceptional, Mass Transit and Satamile.