LENZMEN



Come check the debut of a new very dubby rhythmic experiment.

LENZMEN – a new excursion into live percussion poly-rhythms, dub treatment artifacts, and Pattern based hypnosis.

Drums, Drummers, Microphones, Signal Path, Pattern Repetition.

DJ Octopus Ringtones will be holding it down all night, only playing the songs u forgot you had never heard, and the ones you have!

Elite Beat will bring the real-time to life with 100% live instrumentation in a true Portland Beat style.

Heres a roughcut on some long form Lenzmen sounds..

Lenzmen – “Bio Surge Dub”

[audio:lenzmen biosurgeDub.mp3]

Come Early, Come Late.

The Durian Brothers.

The Durian Brothers.

the durian brothers are a three piece band (sequencer, 2×2 prepared turntables). their music is a vision of a new and radical club music (strictly 90 bpm). A bassdrum is the boss of the rhythm but multiple dense, rhythmic structures generated from turntables played with rubberbands and found objects; muted guitar sequences lead through a jungle of sounds.

The music of the Durian Brothers burns with the crackle humm of an ancient woven sonic fabric, and transcends the familiar and often rigid confines of loop based / sequencer music. Drawing from a pallete of heavy and textural percussive and melodic tones,  and masterfully combing sequenced and non-sequenced sources. The music created feels very in the moment, a sonic-rhythmic architecture come to life in full 3D.

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Burnt and Jaki

Burnt Friedman (Flanger, Nu Dub Players, ect..) and  Jaki Liebezeit (Can), have a new recording out this April on Friedman’s Nonplace label.

Deep, and Hypnotic Percussive Dub Space.  Some real cats. Players. Some real time ish…

These tunes taken from there 12″ release  “5 / 7 “


Burnt friedman and Jaki Liebezeit – 5 (mixed by mark ernestus) by pfudl
Burnt friedman and Jaki Liebezeit – 7 (Mixed by Burnt Friedman) by pfudl

T’z Picks

PDX radman Travis McAlister, Tuba player for Kesbic Orkestar, and overall global riddem hunter just sent me over a batch of links to some of his current sources of sonic inspiration..

Take it away Travis!…

Something I’ve been banging a lot this week-

dEbruit – Lets Post Funk

débruit – ?i? sürpriz ep (PREVIEW) (CIV020) out april 2011 by dEbruit

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Ethiopian Ortohdox Tewahedo music (I love this stuff) –

Palm leaf instruments from Roti, Indonesea (file under “realness”)-

Hashed-out Egyptian harpists!

Speaking of Egypt… everybody should know of Umm Kulthum..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPGHpBOt5sE