Global Bass Music

So I was dubbed “dj chill littéraire” by the proprietor of au Chat Noir – not to be in any way faux-chic, you understand – just in explaining to someone what it is that I do.If Paris is anything, it is a place that looks you square in the eye and tells you plainly what it is that you do.

‘DJ chill littéraire’ warming up Brussels

September 21, 2012

MIDI East is a library of East-Euro/West Asian music – 9,000 midi files discovered “floating around” the internet by Aus/Berlin electronic musician, producer Brian May (DJ Delay / Beam Up / Sonical), and offered up to electronic musicians and producers with a challenge – to…

Beats Artistry ~ MIDI East

June 8, 2012

“A quilombo was an autonomous, fugitive settlement founded by ex-slaves and others in colonial brazil. The Quilombo do Futuro is more than a possible physical space. It is a potential world-wide agglomeration of cultural resistance. After centuries of wealth generated by an economy built on slavery (and the…

Beats Artistry ~ Maga Bo ‘Quilombo do Futuro’

June 5, 2012

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I’m late for a date with my blog! Someone flicked the winter switch while I wasn’t watching, and meanwhile March and April slipped the selections by. Better late than never … There are albums to talk about, as well as strolls through Soundcloud. I’m wandering…

March, April selection ~ in May! Ghosts of the near future

May 10, 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

There was no January selection from Lapkat as I was busy on the beach and in the bush, toe-gazing I guess … so in February, it’s harvest time. A rich haul of multilingual spoken word and music tracks and videos, sound collage, cultural and activist…

February selection

February 11, 2012

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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

December, Melbourne, the end of a crazy year. Fairly typical yo-yo weather, with the added bonus of more intense tropical-style lightning storms (do we give thanks yet to climate change?) Total eclipse of the Gemini moon, so it’s not only me going crazy with the urge to…

December Selection

December 13, 2011

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Just dropping in to share our latest Dialectic show to hit the interwebs. Following on from exploring trad. cumbia with Canalh, Brendan (555) and I threw ourselves into two hours of nu cumbia: Dialectic Radio 183 Features the gorgeous Cuando-yo-bailo-tiembla-la-tierra mix by Lagartijeando from Argentina…

Dialectic 183: Lagartijeando (Arg), Nu Cumbia Experience (Phoenix), Ion din Anina (Seville)

November 22, 2011

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What’s new on the Lapkat playlist … discoveries and rediscoveries from the online audio world, collaborations taking place around the globe that I’m inspired to share. November, Melbourne. Finally! Warm, tempestuous and wet spring weather, bright blue skies and teasing storms, perfect for the adolescent…

November selection

November 12, 2011

Campecho - a Colombian project - photo by Roberto Ochoa, design by Lauragrafica, Colombia.. (Canalh)

A chat with Toulouse musician, dj, producer Canalh about his cumbia mix for a recent episode of Dialectic, took me on an unexpected tangent this month! Canalh spoke about his adventures searching for original cumbia vinyl in Colombia, as well as the inspiration behind the “Campecho” mix, being the…

Dialectic Radio 182: An interview about cumbia leads me to a journey in occitania

November 11, 2011

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A couple of months ago I had a chat with San Francisco producer Kush Arora for Dialectic #173. Rambling around many topics Kush touched on that question that was keeping me awake in my last post … – funding our lives. Why don’t we go and…

Fresh on my playlist ~ Gunshot Riddims (the other 9 to 5!)

October 20, 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

'his camels voice' from http://dubsahara.com

This week on Dialectic, a dreamy and melodious two hours in the hands of two dexterous music manipulators. In the first hour 555 brings us a fantastical Asian mix from “trans-continental groove maniac” (and Burning Man regular) GlobalRuckus - who is about to hit our shores at the…

Dialectic Radio 177: GlobalRuckus (Portland) + Dubsahara (UK)

September 21, 2011

Between 2005 and 2011 Australia’s global bass and post planetary beats party massive Uber Lingua has been throwing some fine brouhahas, big and small. Uber Lingua’s heartbeat (and my Dialectic Radio accomplice) Brendan Palmer (555) recently put together a fun video covering the history of Uber Lingua…

Uber Lingua Sydney parties, a video history + Dialectic 176

September 15, 2011

In the 175th Dialectic radio show, 555 features a mix by Andy O’Phee from the Illawarra, south of Sydney and one of my old stomping grounds, and – via a late winter afternoon of music surfing – I chance upon Sufi Swing - Iyar Semel from Tel Aviv, Israel…

Dialectic Radio 175 Andy O’Phee (Illawarra) + Sufi Swing (Tel Alviv)

September 5, 2011

Dialectic 174 covers some dancefloor miles, prepping us all for the impending Australian spring (very much here now, as I write this..) NiceNoise (Barcelona) playing Moombahton, DJ Badre from Dortmund Deutschland (originally from Morocco) brings the Balkan, and Sydney’s Prince Nod gets electronic and UK funky on our swinging…

Dialectic Radio 174: NiceNoise (BCN), DJ Badre (Morroco) & Prince Nod (Syd)

September 5, 2011

For Dialectic Radio this month I had a rambling chat with San Francisco dread bass maestro Kush Arora, thanks to the wonders of Skype. Treated to some sounds from Kush’s recent catalogue – this show features his Tribal War Mixtape (if you want the mix…

Dialectic Radio 173: El Timbe (BCN) & Kush Arora (SF)

August 24, 2011

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Posts tagged ‘Global Bass Music’

‘DJ chill littéraire’ warming up Brussels

Beats Artistry ~ MIDI East

Beats Artistry ~ Maga Bo ‘Quilombo do Futuro’

March, April selection ~ in May! Ghosts of the near future

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

February selection

Eu não fala em português (brasileiro) !)

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

December Selection

Dialectic 183: Lagartijeando (Arg), Nu Cumbia Experience (Phoenix), Ion din Anina (Seville)

November selection

Dialectic Radio 182: An interview about cumbia leads me to a journey in occitania

Fresh on my playlist ~ Gunshot Riddims (the other 9 to 5!)

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

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

Dialectic Radio 177: GlobalRuckus (Portland) + Dubsahara (UK)

Uber Lingua Sydney parties, a video history + Dialectic 176

Dialectic Radio 175 Andy O’Phee (Illawarra) + Sufi Swing (Tel Alviv)

Dialectic Radio 174: NiceNoise (BCN), DJ Badre (Morroco) & Prince Nod (Syd)

Dialectic Radio 173: El Timbe (BCN) & Kush Arora (SF)

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