This Is How We Do It

It's been a busy week up here at Subcity. We're sorting all of our assorted crap into boxes and getting ready to move into our new temporary pad, it's got a garden and everything so you can expect an invite to a barbeque at some point this summer. We've also been busy making a power of new content.

As big Montell Jordan said, this is how we do it:

//John Cavanagh on Beard Radio

John Cavanagh, audio raconteur, has produced avant-folk acts Trembling Bells and Family Elan, written a book about Pink Floyd’s Piper at the Gates of Dawn and creates his own work under the Phosphene Project moniker. He is an expert on the Reithian musicologists dream: the Radiophonic Workshop and was involved in releasing the work of Delia Derbyshire, the female tape pioneer who created a googolplex of majestic work. Listen back for some insightful chat with John, stunning early electronic pieces and some exclusive new tracks.
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//Charmicarmicat - Bitches

A sonic assault with the heaviest and filthiest resonances around. This episode features the second in a series of live sets recorded by Chris White, who's production can be heard on the Ultimate Thrush and Plaaydoh and other WSP releases. It’s a set of scratchy fuzz stinkers from Bitches, a London bass and drum duo that honk some trashy punk-pop with battering dissonant energy.
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//Production Unit on Symbiosis

Production Unit (highpoint lowlife / stuff) of Marcia Blaine fame make an appearence on Symbiosis, providing a mix of forthcoming dubs and the choicest dubstep and electronic weirdness. Production Unit's mix is juxtaposed with filthy neurofunk from resident hosts Yellowbenzene and Calaco Jack.
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//Theez Boyz R Detroithletes

You might assume that thinking you are from space or can communicate with aliens is bat-shit crazy, but what Sun Ra, Jeff Mills , George Clinton, Santanna and Mix Master Mike can dig, Drexcyia can dig better. Theez Boyz delve deeper into Detroit house than Drexciya’s race of underwater dwellers, dishing out some twisted slabs of 808 euphoric industrial house, like Jimmy Edgar, Aux88, Alden Tyrell et al. The show has additional contributions from the Glaswegian record label specializing in experimental electronic music: Pest Control Records.
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//Municipal Waste // Wrong Answer

The self-proclaimed 'punks playing metal' come with a live show famous (read imfamous) that combines the party attitude of two of music's most irrevrent, hard fun-loving genres. But, circle pits (some spanning two floors of King Tuts' venue space??), stagedives and partying aren't the sole concerns of these Richmond face-melter-shredder-thrasher-rippers. Vocalist Tony Foresta takes us through the rest of the important stuff... oh, and the partying as well.
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//Baroness // Woah. Where?

Something is happening in Savannah.

There's a journalistic cliché about 'sonic landscapes' that gets thrown around when... well, whenever. In response, Baroness and fellow Savannah progressive sludge metal outfit Kylesa are busy making some geographically inclined PR stooges feel pretty fucking dumb. If the usual landscape pushed in press releases is an anonymous middle-class suburb on a foggy day, then the environment created by Baroness is more akin to the band's roots in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains or their current hometown's desert namesake.

There's a plurality of meaning and texture in the band's "tracks" (whether live or recorded, listeners aren't really offered the privilege of the arbitrary repose between movements that this title would imply) that does most of Baroness' talking/landscaping for them. The listener is given no on-stage banter, no road-side directions. They are left with nothing other than a carefully orchestrated aural panorama and the feeling of not knowing where the fuck they are or where the fuck they're going.
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//Debate is Free // General Election 2010

We crammed 6 politicians and the Debate is Free host between the blackboards and the lectern of Kelvin LT275. Two hours later they emerged with chalky backs and sweaty palms after enduring a grilling from local school kids and cocky 1st year politics students.
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//Archives // scans

Whilst getting ready for flitting, we uncovered several ring binders worth of old press releases, schedules and junk worth scanning.

Uploaded so far this week:

// A hand written list of the charity shop records given to each contestant in Subcity's Vinyl Sexpitt DJ Battle from 2004.
// A tech's sketches of the stage setups for each artist at the 2005 FM Launch Party at The Arches (5 mixer changeovers in 3 hours... fuck that)
// The FM Schedule from February 2000 (featuring shows from Silicone Soul, Optimo, Soma, Ultimate Dilemma, Fentik, Freak Menoovers, Manga & Turbulance DJs, Blood, Kinky Afro and Rub a Dub).
// Set-times from the 10th Birthday Party in 2004 (featuring Twitch, Itchy & Karim, Scotland Yard MC's, The General + MC Sonny Morphy, Bebado and hunners more)
// A very rough draft of the 2005 Dock Party Renfrew Ferry Poster featuring the classic line "BYO Lifejackets"

For more highlights from our weekly shows check: subcity.org/listen/essential
For more highlights from our interviews & other podacasts check: subcity.org/podcasts
For more Subcity photo and print archives check: flickr.com/subcityradio

lots of love, Subcity x

Posted at 03:49, 20th March 2010