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Happy new year (and a dub techno mix)

Happy new year everyone - I wanted to give away a dub techno mix I assembled last week.
Tracklisting (Approximate - doing it from memory!)
Deepchord Presents: Echospace - Abraxas (from The Coldest Season)
Murmur - Gradient (from Section EP)
Deepchord - Vantage Isle [DC Mix III] (from Vantage Isle 2×12″)
MLZ - Dark Days (from Dark Days EP)
Ovatow - […]

Ramp Chicago 2007

It’s done! Over the last 14 months we’ve had well over 20 performers spin and perform live at Sonotheque and it’s been a blast. Last night’s Near the Parenthesis set was no exception, with beautiful crisp IDM/ambient production and a great crowd (despite freezing rain). It was also great to see so many Ramp veterans […]

That Darkroom show…

was a lot of fun. Bounte sums it up nicely on his blog - DJ? Acucrack couldn’t make it but we carried on without them and a good time was had by all.
It was interesting to experiment with using timecode records in a club environment, and problematic thanks to a turntable only outputting the left […]

More updates soon…

Sorry for the lack of updates folks, two weeks on the west coast set me back a bit. I was also very sad to miss the Manual/Syntax/Ulrich Schnauss show here in Chicago, but I did get to see my friend Yard get married in Oregon, cruise down the 101 listening to the new Vector Lovers […]

Show Tonight (free stuff)

I’ll be giving away discs with some new tracks and remixes (from Bovaflux and Caural) tonight at the Chicago Cultural Center show. There should be a pile at the merch booth, or don’t be afraid to come up and ask me for one!

What I’ve been listening to recently

Blamstrain has a new album available for free download on his website. I’ve given it a few listens, some solid tracks on there! It feels a little haphazard at times, not like Disfold, which was an hour of consistently solid ambient.
Another album which has really caught my ear is the new Lusine album, Language Barrier […]

Emulsion on Gearwire.com

My friend Mr. Automatic came over a few weeks ago and interviewed me about my tools and workflow in the studio for gearwire.com. Watch me geek out about my studio, ReFX Vanguard, Native Instruments Kore, Remote SL, and the Focusrite Liquidmix.