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The UM Archive for August, 2012

AND IF IT WAS IT CAN’T BE IS

Uh, this has practically started:

SPACE-TIME is an annual festival of art and music exploring alternate realities and possibilities, happening at Wysing Arts Centre near Cambridge, UK.
SPACE-TIME presents AND IF IT WAS IT CAN’T BE IS; three stages of live music, spoken word performances, film screenings, artists’ stalls and activities for families.
Damo Suzuki Network / Alexander [...]

“Secret Thirteen Mix 024”

Oh yeah, caught up in the self-love of the post the other day about getting the big-ups from Ekolad I neglected to add an additional straw on the camel with this mix he’s done, featuring Mortal Song from Can’t Get Started in some illustrious company innit…

Love that pic of Nick.
And he’s a such a Discogs [...]

Sacrificial Totem/ Exile outta jail!

Got this email the other day, cos I’d bought the Hurqalya CD way back when. I wondered what happened to matey.
Greetings.
You had inquired with Katabatik about Sacrificial Totem cds at one point. You might be interested in the following:
We are pleased to make known the availibility of a very limited number of Sacrificial Totem cds [...]

Eko chamber

Ha, today I’m standing outside the pharmacy in Fulbourn with the dude I’m working with, watching the rain piss down and waiting for it to stop doing so, and against support-worker protocol I have a sneaky look at Twitter, and even though it isn’t @peteum the first thing I clock is this:

Now, aforementioned supported-chap has [...]

A relational outburst of Groupe L’etranger.

My man in Brussels has been good enough to include some of my spuzz in his outburst here:

L’etranger, Radio Panik 105.4FM, Brussels
Every possible Tuesday 21h00- 22h00 (CET).
Quixotic: adjective : exceedingly idealistic ; unrealistic and impractical : a vast and perhaps quixotic project.
A relational outburst of Groupe L’etranger.
Show #258, 31st July 2012
The elements scrambled: JD Zazie [...]

LASER SOUND MACHINE

Bought this thing off eBay the other day:

Green Dungeon Alchemist Laboratories
LASER SOUND MACHINE
This device is a real junk synth, made from recycled plywood and a quality street tin with assorted other bits of old devices. It was once used in an exhibition at the Liverpool World Museum.
It’s a simple [...]

Justin Bieber and his Beliebers

Film-maker Adam Clitheroe has used an old piece of my music for this bit of pubescent heretical detournement. In fact it’s so old that the track appears to have no ambtions beyond trying to sound a bit like a Panasonic-for-your-pocket or whatever. Does lend a certain something for the footage though, so big thanks to [...]

MV&EE/The Doozer/DJs

DJ Rarebit, does that say?

Powered by paper lol

Ha ha, genius. Kid Shirt’s done an analogue blog
And there’s me spending ages feeling foolish as I try and work out if you can cut text from it
As I’ve said before when I first met Miss Hawaii he said “my character…is shame”, which me and Bobby always use, because we always have use [...]

Even Spacemen Hate Mondays

More great music and drawings/animations from Rob Kemp!

Talking of spacemen and the cold-water shock of the week’s unpopular first seventh, Our Phil is playing with pals from The Doozer as Rock With Electronics tonight at Bad Timing tonight. I don’t think I can make it, so you’d better.