Bad weather

O K here I've put this off for long enuff.
Well the last C A T club (2ndDec) was a very small turn out.(how can we compete with the inernationals?) Brian May played some very different, interesting rythmic tunes. I'm pretty sure most the ppl there liked what he was playing. There was more ppl on the dance floor then sitting down @ the bar and that's always a good sign.
Electric BBQ was a 3 piece this time with Damo on the decks, me on the Korgmicro and G4 and Miles on the MC-909. It was an hour and a half journey from 100bpm hip hoppy type beats to 140 bpm trance like sounds with some electro sounding stuff in the middle around 128bpm. The dance floor looked great from where I was standing. There were ppl break dancin' groovin',shuffling, stompin'. " Different headz dancing together." I like watching that and being part of that.
There was alot happening on that night. Juno Reactor / Perry Farrel the launch of Live music week at Federation Square. It was a horrible night weather wise. The rain was pissing down and the wind was crazy. So if you did make down THANK YOU.
Last Saturday night (10thDec) I DJed @ Deep Tribal Lore @ The Ace Morning Bar. They have a bit of a new sound system in the front room where I was playing and it was a very warm type of sound because of the new Sub woofer. It fills the room with BASS but not to over the top. NICE. Again the numbers where down a little but fun had by all. I didn't hang around to much out the back in the crystal cave but when I did have a peek it was going off. The DJ @ the time was Phil Divine. The door shut @ 5 an hour earlier then usual.

meow

C A T club 2nd December

The next C A T club is on Friday 2nd of December.
My next special guest is BRIAN MAY. He hasn't been in Australia for about 4 years and has just got back. He was living in OSAKA and BERLIN and hanging out with the likes of THE BOARDOMS and playing @ parties like FLOWER OF LIFE and last year played @ the VOOV festival in Germany. This guy is both Selector and Muso.
He started a radio program on that fantastic community radio station PBS in 1990. It was called INTO THE GROOVY and it went for about 11 years. In my opinion he was one of the spear heads for the Melbourne Dub phenomena and was one of the original members of the band HIGH PASS FILTER. He was the guy doing all the electronic noodling.
Brian will be D Jing a 3 hour set. I'm sure it will be a very diverse and danceable set and defiantly BASS HEAVEY.
Also on the night a live set by ELECTRIC BAR B Q and of coarse I,ll D J for a couple of hours.
So come on down to THE ACE MORNING BAR 791 Sydney rd. 10 to when?

Going North

WOW this is so cool.
I just got a phone call asking me if I want to play @ the next Exodus festival. Check out the link.
I said SHIT YEAH! I've played @ a few party's these Jokers have been invovled in over the past 10 or so years and seriously everyone of 'em was truly something to remember.
Party's like this. I'm so excited. I just can't hide it. I'm about to lose control and I think I like it.
There is always such a great vibe @ outdoor festivals don't cha reckon?

last week went like that..

Oh No.Last Saturday night was a Deep Tribal Lore night and I forgot to put up a blag on my blog. Oh well , it was wicked. There was some very nice new trance played out the back in the Crystal cave and some very freaky fractured beats out the front.
The sound system in the front room has sounded better. I hear management are already onto it. It wrapped up @ 6am.
Also thank you John Carew for presenting another fine morning of freaky electronic music between 2-6am Sunday morning on C A T radio show P B S 106.7.

The first C A T club

Last Friday night was great. I started D Jing @ 10pm and went threw to about 1am.
10-11 was slower tempo Glitch/ breaky stuff . Then (11-12) a little old trance(?) The kind of stuff I use to play in the mornings @ Earthcore (93-95) and then I moved into some of that N Y punk disco stuff to lead up to the live set from Electric Bar B Q.
Electric Bar B Q played for about an hour. The sound was amazing and the Bar B was Smokin!

Then guest D J Miles finished off the night with a little new trance, some breaks and then the last half an hour or so was Old school hip hop (wicked).
We closed @ 5am. If you came along to this gig? THANK YOU.
I,m already putting together the next C A T club.
Watch this space and the sky.

THE CAT CLUB

Here we go Here we go!
My first ever club night. It's happening @ the ACE MORNING BAR and it's called THE CAT CLUB.
After 11 years of presenting my radio show Creative Alternative Techno on a friday nights between 10-12 THE FORCES THAT BE have moved me back to where I started 14 years ago an insomnia shift on Sunday mornings 2-6am. I,m now free to do something different on a friday night and that's this CAT CLUB . I,m going to try and do this on the first friday of every month at THE ACE MORNING BAR (791 Sydney rd). One room one sound system and @ the most 3 D J's for the whole night 10pm to 6am.
The music policy I know will be alot like the radio show. Mixing it up and not staying with one style for too long.
This friday is the first CAT CLUB and my very special guest is Miles Jackson the man behind THE ELECTRIC BAR B-Q. Miles will be doing a D J set and a live set.
Hope to see you there.

oh the 80's

Angus (D J Bribe)+ Andrew (D J Katch Resin Dogs) + Miles (Electric Bar-B-Q)
This was taken @ the 88 Q L D heats of the DMC.
Just found this pic and just had to put it up. :)

it's on again

Gee it's been a while. So what's been happening?
Well my partner in my electronic outfit (LUMUKANDA) Dan has been back in Australia.
He lives in Helsinki were our label is. He only comes back to Australia once a year so we tried to jam as much as possible.
We didn't really get any tunes finished. We just tinkered with new software drank a lot of tea and talked a lot of shit.
Something we did get sorted was our FTP stuff so we don't have to be in the same room any more to write music.
I,m rapped that we got this FTP stuff sorted out. We tried to write music like this before but it never quite worked properly.
Now everything is going extremely well and we are now slowly working on a new Album. We've managed to get an Album out every 3 to 4 years since 93 so it's well and truly time another one was out there.
On the DJing tip I haven't played out since my last update (in a club that is). I did DJ @ my friend Yumi's birthday party. It was a very nice little swaray. (Thanks Yumi)
I've picked up a few new Audio treats since I last played out @ Deep Tribal Lore and I can't wait for this weekend because I get to unleash them.
Yep it's on again this weekend.
The last DEEP TRIBAL LORE was very wacky and I had a lot of fun both D Jing and hanging with a great bunch of loons.
I got to thank the Ladies that were dancing on top of the bar. The Bar man loved it :) and it really got the room happening.
If you got nothing on this weekend get your funky ass down to this one.

the last couple of weeks

Deep Trbal Lore @ the Ace morning bar was pretty cool. Thank you Underground Pulse Revolution and the 13th MOON Crew for letting me be a part of it. It's also good to here that there will be events like that happening again there.
Last weekend I did my first gigs with Miles Jackson's live outfit called ELECTRIC BAR B Q. I was scratching and making freaky noises on my laptop. It was great fun. We played @ a pub on Sydney Rd called,, Ummm, The Retreat , I think. It was a MESSY CREW party. All in all a chill kind of beer garden affair. Nice. Then later that night but more like the next morning we played @ FLIRT. We sorted out all our techy type problems @ the gig we did earlier so we had no hick ups and pulled off a banging set. Even if I do say so myself :) I had a fantastic time working on this ELECTRIC BAR B Q project with Miles and we are currently working on a new show. I don't know when we will be playing next but we will be ready.
Now on the radio tip. Thanks a lot John Carew and Hamilton for filling in for me. Last week and a couple of weeks before that I,m sure they presented quality C A T programming.

tribal lore

Hello again...
First of all let me thank the ppl that pledged there subscription to my radio station P B S during the radio festival. I didn't get as many as I use to get on my old time slot but hey what do you expect. I,m only new at this time slot and ppl are still just discovering me. Tell ya friends about C A T on P B S. In Northern Europe I,m on around 6pm on a Saturday evening I think? (should really check that out) Anyway it's on between 2 and 6 am Sunday mornings here in Aussie land. So check it out if you get into the streaming radio thing. There's a link to the station just over there on the right hand side of the page.
This weekend should be a good one. If you live around Melbourne come along to this party (check out the flyer scroll down a bit). It will be something a little different I think. 2 rooms. Funky down beat hip hop /breaks/ live percussion in the front room as you walk in. Then as you find your way to the back of the venue it gets weirder and faster. I,m playing last I think maybe second last. I have to get someone to fill in for me for the last couple of hours on my radio show. It's gunna be a big night but I,m up for it.

Deep

HARD SELL

Now Radio........I started @ PBS around the end of 92 sharing a insomnia shift on Tuesday mornings. The show was called S T A C K. I did this with a fella called Dave Nissani. After a couple of years doing that time-slot I moved to Friday nights 10-12 and the show was renamed to Creative Alternative Techno (C A T). That is were it stayed for 11 years. It is the longest running electronic music program in Australia. Now Creative Alternative Techno has been moved and once again I,m doing an insomnia shift. Sunday mornings 2-6am.
It's so sad. I was moved because I wasn't bringing enuff money into the station and I don't play any music recorded before 1990 by a four piece band from America. PBS is a community radio station and relies on subscribers and sponsorship. PBS gets no money from the government. It is COMMUNITY. Although these days it's the community with money that gets what they want when they want it. You poor kids better start liking the music the rich kids like. Is that community? All or should I say most of the announcers including myself are not paid any money to do there shows. They do it because they are passionate. To put it simply if you do not subscribe to electronic or hip hop programs on PBS they will slowly disappear. So if you are into hip hop or electronic music please give us some money. Subscribe to my show NOW ! Pretty please with sugar on top. Click that link over there. You can use your credit card.

Me

gotta start somewhere

O K here we go. I don't know how long I,ll keep this up . I normaly lose interest in this kind of thing after a while but "hey" who know's I might really get into it?
So do you like electronic experimental dance music? I love it. I,m in a band called Lumukanda. Me and my mate Dan have released 3 C D under this name. Go see if you can find some of our music on the web. For sure some little bastard will be givin it away.
I have been D Jing since 1985. My First ever payed gig was @ my local roller skating rink (Skate-way Mt Gavatt). It was the only unlicensed venue in Brisbane @ that time with 1200's and I knew @ an early stage of my d jing "career" that I should get to know them well. Then in 1989 it was confirmed that I knew the 1200's well enough to win the Queensland Heat of the Australian D M C (wikeewikeewik). By the time I was 20 I had played in every nightclub in Brisbane and was a member of a 10 piece Funk/Rock outfit called US and the BEAT.
US and the Beat released one single on the 1990 FM104 Homegrown compilation. I loved this band so much. It was my first step over to the other side, rock and or roll. I played Samples on a Roland S-10 and scratched with 2 turntables and had lots of little percussion toys to play with when I wasn't sampling or scratching. Unfortunately sampling and scratching in a 10 piece funk band @ that time in Brisbane was totally unexceptable (by the masses). No one from overseas had done it yet so.......I,m so glad it's accepted now it took along time but Turntables can be and are excepted as instruments.
I was suffering in Brisbane From Big fish small pond syndrome so I took off to London. I lived there '90 to mid '91 in Tottenham (go spurs).
I worked @ TOWER RECORDS Piccadilly store and was the hip hop and dance 12-inch buyer there. Was it fun? You bet! It was a good time to be in London. To be truthfull I only D Jed a few times while I lived there. The Hard Club, The Brain, The Torture Garden and a couple of no name Squatter type parties. Hey what would Skippy know about dance music?
From London I moved to Arizona. On the way I made a small detour so I could play a couple of sets on the Canary Islands. Lovely.
Nothing much was happening in Arizona. I hung there for a few months then gave up trying to get gigs and just enjoyed the sights. The AZ Desert is beautiful. I loved Sedona. Finally I ran out of money and had to return to Australia.
Now I had a dilemma. After traveling and living in London I did not want to go back to Brisbane. I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with that place. I grew up in a southern suburb called Acacia Ridge and went to school in The Valley. Most of my mob are up there scattered between Lismore and Brisso. It's my stompin' ground, my home land, rainbow country and I know I'll end up back up there one day but for now MELBOURNE is the place to be for me.
When I got to Melbourne (end of 91) . I met Daniel Wittenberg and Arthur Arkin. We worked on a project called The Tomorrow People. One four track E P for the then starting Label Viscious Vynal. This music is quite possably the most commercial thing I have ever been involved in. Train-spotters beware it's pretty cheesy. It was a dash for cash. After that little project Arthur went back to Denmark and Daniel and myself started the now legendary LUMUKANDA.
The first Lumukanda Album is called Argalin and was the 3rd release on the now well established PSY-HARMONICS label. Araglin was also picked up by Belgian label Nova Zembla an off shoot to KK record. We then toured Europe. 20 dates, 10 countries in 2 months. That was mid 94. We were the first Aussie techno artist (for lack of a better word) to tour Europe. Yes it was fun and a great learning experience.
After that we came home and started writing our second Album BANTEER. Banteer was only released in Australia on PSY-HARMONICS.
We didn't have a European Label any more because we discovered Nova Zembla were ripping us off so we relied totally on export. Our 3rd Album, THAT WAS ZEN THIS TAO is released on Finnish Label Karelia records. I spent a little time in Helsinki promoting this album. Helsinki in Summer time. The place blew me away and I picked up a severe Sauna habit. Daniel liked it so much he married a Lovely Finnish Lass, bought an apartment and now lives there permanently. On average LUMUKANDA release a new Album every 3 or 4 years so it must be about time for another one? By the way if you're going to check out Finnish electronic music try Exogenic and Surreal Audio as well as Karelia.
D Jing in Melbourne and the bush. I could really carry on here but I,m not. Although I do want you to know this. I played @ every EARTHCORE from the time they began until '97. EVERY EARTHCORE.
Wow full on ,,,,,I,m really startting to carry on a bit aren't I.
O K I,ll give it a rest. The next installment will have to be about my radio station I work for.