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Here's what Stuart and I played last night on Deep . A semi ad hoc Malty Media adventure.

Still can't get over Brian Eno calling Radio Active his favourite online radio station!

Taylor Deupree - Live@Tonic, NYC 11.26.02 (Audiosphere) USA
HAT - Uptown Pulldown (Daisyworld) Japan / Germany
Aquaboogie - [Unreleased track] NZ
Harmonia - Dino (Brain) Germany
Antiguo Automata Mexicano - Rother, Dinger, You And Me (Static Discos) Mexico
Gramm - Type Zwei (Source) Germany
Dettinger - [Intershop track #5] (Kompakt) Germany
Aquaboogie - Factory (Angry Rabbit) NZ
Skylab - A (L’Attitude) Japan / USA
Electric Birds - Strata (U-Cover) USA
Tone Language - Field Piano Form (Korm Plastics) Japan / UK
Minit - VII (Sigma Editions) Australia
Mapstation - Tapes (self-released) Germany (Free download )
Pan American - Settled (Kranky) USA
Aquaboogie - [Unreleased track] NZ
Jet Jaguar - Disasters In Reverse (Monotonik) NZ (Free download )
Christopher Cross - Sailing (Jet Jaguar's Role Reversal Mutation) USA
Aquaboogie - [Unreleased track] NZ
Datacide - Sixties Out Of Tune (Asphodel) Japan / Germany

Labels: playlists, radio shows

My first solo release in about 5 years is available now, thanks to ridiculously long-standing net label Monotonik . 5 tracks, all free. Hope you enjoy it.

Jet Jaguar - Biddy Bids

Here's a little blurb about each track:

Red

Was working on it for a dub net label that's yet to see the light of day, so it's obviously got a bit of a skank going on. To add some grit beyond what software would do for me I actually used an FM transmitter to send bits of the track from my computer to my MP3 player and record them off-station, walking around the house and so on. Well, plus some recordings of Tokyo radio.

Basashi Aisu

Japanese for "raw horse meat icecream". Search if you like, but, believe me, it exists. It's not popular at all, at least from people I spoke to in Tokyo, but it is available. More Japanese radio samples, some strings from a Dvorak recording at the end.

Enjoy Mask Aesthetic

Name is a t-shirt slogan I saw on a young woman in Tokyo. The drums in this are all sounds of walking in snow through Hokkaido, processed and built into beats, recorded again, played at wrong pitches, re-rhythmed, re-sequenced, re-sampled... So basically it could've been anything, but I think a bit of the chilliness remains. Really happy with the stupidly grubby bassline, the sub bass wobbles, and the mangled melody.

Disasters In Reverse

Another t-shirt slogan title. I recorded the entirety of a subway ride to see one of my private students when I was teaching English in Tokyo, and you can hear big chunks of that in here. The ambient number, I suppose. Maybe, that describes all of these tracks.

Kent's Windchime Recording

A guy called Kent made these recordings of his neighbour's windchimes. This track is made entirely from those recordings - beats, bass, chords, and melodies. Figured the prosaic name was suitable - not often my track titles actually connect much to the sounds!

Labels: downloads, jet jaguar, releases

So Stuart (Aquaboogie ) is going to join me on Deep , which will broadcast on Radio Active this coming Tuesday, the 26th, from 11-1pm. This makes it an oh so official Malty Media event. Hooray!

Not in NZ? You can check out when the show will be streaming in your time zone .

Labels: malty media, radio shows

Here's the flier for the latest Malty Media gig, happening at Katipo Cafe, Wednesday 20th February.

Labels: gigs, jet jaguar, malty media