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My session for the SBS Chill digital radio station earlier this April is now downloadable on Soundcloud. A minimal, spacious Franco/Latin electronica mix, woven through with poetics ranging from Français, Español, Québécois, to Iraqi poet Nazik Al-Malaika and US pioneer Laurie Anderson…

SBS Chill Resident Session

April 17, 2013

A set of favourites, focus on Africa, ranging afar … spoken word and poetry in French and English from Africa, France, Nederlands, Canada, Australia. For both the rabbit and the lion – the lion may be fierce but the rabbit has fierce skill!

LAPIN ET LION mix

March 23, 2013

I wasn’t planning to make much of this set here, but events of this week have made me feel it’s important to honour the powerful women in my life.

Tell Our Daughters

September 28, 2012

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Words fall Like feathers on the sand I did not plan the poem I only obeyed its rhythm (from The Dice Player, Mahmoud Darwish) A live set, recorded in a secret cave at Melbourne’s Half Moon Bay, which faces West across Port Phillip Bay…

Half Moon Bay mix – beats & voices from the Middle East

March 21, 2012

Some Melbourne Lapkat news. First, I’m very excited about next month, where I get to let my hair down and play with some of my very favourite things at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Here’s a preview:

Les hommes comédie + Cherchez la femme + Señor BBQ!

March 2, 2012

I do not speak Portuguese. While I’m focusing my learning brain on Spanish, Italian (with some French distraction) it’s going to take a little while to get to that study, although I think it one of the most beautiful of poetic languages. For now, it’s…

Eu não fala em português (brasileiro) !)

January 23, 2012

Semana de Terror y Muerte, En el Museo de Arte Popular de la Ciud" by Esparta Palma from Ciudad de Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Dialectic Radio 184: Sonidos Mexicanos 555 and Lapkat in Mexico … 555 first up with ‘mex y amigos’, a free form practice mix done at Las Palmas studios Costa Central in preparation for playing the opening night of the Hola Mexico Film Festival in Sydney 2011. Then,…

Dialectic Radio 184: Sonidos Mexicanos & Poésia Chicano – the poetry of identity

December 14, 2011

Nellie, Paynesville fishing/pleasure boat, on a night run (by LG)

A Lapkat mix … a stuttering love letter to my Pacific friends. It’s been quiet in here for the past month, life keeping me away from computer. Before I get into some more spoken word and Dialectic features, completing the current set of Lapkat…

Lapkat full speed, no brakes…

November 4, 2011

Insomnia took my patience. Rain washed away my intellect. The Lover made me lose my profession. What good is my work anyway? Catching up with myself (chasing my tail?) A Lapkat mix from autumn … Let’s begin with Rumi:

Insomnia mix: ‘what good is my work anyway?’

October 18, 2011

For our ears only, an exclusive mix for Dialectic by DJ Click (Paris), taking us on a journey following the path of the Roma people, from Delhi to Seville. 555 then brings us back to India, via the Bant Singh Project and Bandish Projekt Dialectic…

Dialectic Radio 178: DJ Click, Bandish Projekt & Bant Singh Project

October 10, 2011

Further to my last post….. I wanted to share this little set from last southern autumn / northern spring. A short live set inspired by the poets of revolution, the poets of freedom.

The EQ of Revolution: poets of revolution, poets of freedom

October 5, 2011

Brion Gysin, 'Calligraffiti of Fire' http://briongysin.com/?category_name=calligraffiti-of-fire

A short bright live set from the Overload Poetry Festival closing night, September 2011 in Melbourne: While this is in part me having some fun with Bruce Springsteen and cumbia from El Güero Único (John Newell, Phoenix – he writes for the Generation Bass Sexxy Saturday Cumbia blog, btw)…

Poesia concreta / Poetry on fire: From Brazil to Tangier, to Paris & Melbourne & back again

September 24, 2011

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Deutsch meets dubstep! Voices gleaned from the early days of recording (Gherasim Luca, Julian Beck, Richard Huelsenbeck, the early sound poet / dada surrealist artist Kurt Schwitters) Germanic and Romantic languages (German, French, northern Italian) seem to lend themselves to sampling, something about the easy…

Vox Freq mix

August 12, 2011

A live mix from Melbourne club Horse Bazaar, a few months back. Indulging myself in the darkly beautiful side of electronic beats. Voices from Haiti (courtesy Beats Antique – this track from last year sent all proceeds to the relief effort in Haiti), old amber prayer…

Free Glitch mix

July 19, 2011

Since getting busy on the live Horse Bazaar residency in Feb/March this year, I’ve been uploading some live sets over at Soundcloud. It’s all at http://soundcloud.com/lapkat, if this embedded player doesn’t work… ….. So this blog is slowly taking shape … when it grows up, it will…

Introducing Lapkat >

April 27, 2011

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