Vera Project / HER DIY Holiday Fair

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I'll be spinning jams and hosting a table with Flowers of Lesotho. 

Come support local artists and music efforts 12/8/12 from 11-5!

Silent Congas

Click image to download. You will be surprised and impressed.

TJ MAX World Premier at MOTOR IV

MOTOR IV at Lofi December 1, 2012

Please advise

Thanks to frequent Meltdown contributor Tarwater for the image.

Motor Collective Sampler Mix

Motor Collective

Tracklist:

Patternmaster - DM3

Mood Organ - 10 Hearts A

Airport - Sweat

HOM - Cult of Sleep

Black Hat - #000000

Crystal Hell Pool - Visionaire

TJ Max - Quintesson

UWE 60D - Strung Out on Zen

Panabrite - Atoll

Megabats - Ill Eagle

Goodwin - Surface (edit)

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"It's a vigorous, stimulating blend of mainframe-busting techno, cosmic disco, heavenly ambience, and razor-edged IDM." - Dave Segal, The Stranger

Motor Collective: Airport

Airport at Motor I

Motor is a bi-monthly psych/dance night presented by Debacle Records. Check out the Motor Collective on Tumblr, as well as video/images from Motor I here. Don't miss out on Motor IV, coming up December 1st at Lofi.

Faust live during Presidential Debate - 10/16/12 at The Comet

Props to Translinguistic Other for making 2 nights of Faust in Seattle happen!

Cement mixer + processed video of presidential debate = Faustian politics!

Video streaming by Ustream

Video streaming by Ustream

Photos from Silver Grapes Music Festival

Check out photos from the incredible night of psychedelic electronic music at the Facebook Page. 

Silver Grapes Music Festival | 23 Sept 2012 | Château Carignan | Bordeaux, FR

Silver Apples

Turzi Électronique Expérience

Kill for Total Peace

Judah Warsky

NightBirds

Monade Ach

Pillow Talk

Props to DJ P for hipping me to these smooth, smooth sounds.

Motor II - 8/18/12 - Lofi

MOTOR is a bi-monthly psych/dance night presented by Debacle Records. 

We retain a core group of MOTOR-head artists who rotate along with guest DJ's and performers.

MOTOR 2 at the Lofi

http://thelofi.net/

Airport - Jayson Kochan of Midday Veil and TJ MAX

http://soundcloud.com/aiport

Mood Organ - Timm Mason of Midday Veil and TJ MAX

http://soundcloud.com/mood-organ

Patternmaster - Jonathan James Carr of Brain Fruit and Particle Being Trio 

http://soundcloud.com/patternmaster

HOM - Pær Svn of Paintings for Animals

http://soundcloud.com/theesource/hom-mix-two

Inter-artist sets by DJ Slow

www.facebook.com/djsloww

Facebook Event
www.facebook.com/events/253878288062916/

Snoop Lion

Love Joys - One Draw

Love Joys on Wackies

Choose Your Own Adventure - Damo Suzuki

Re-posted from Everyday Music, Seattle.

"I am Damo Suzuki" by The Fall:

Tarwater Meltdown on HER

The music collector and critic known simply as Tarwater graced the Meltdown headquarters in Seattle, WA for a short but sweet 48 hours while on a west coast visit from his enclave in Brooklyn. As one would expect, if not demand, records were purchased, beers were drunk, and playlists were made.

Herewith I present the podcast for the 7/7/12 Tarwater edition of Slow Music Meltdown on Hollow Earth Radio. Tracks selected by Tarwater and curated by dj slow.

Tarwater?

Endless Happiness (Eye Remix) 7:43 Black Dice

Great Day 2:54 Madvillain

Icarus 2:56 Action

Danse Des Mouches Noires Gardes Du Roi 3:20 Jean Claude Vannier

New Clothes for the New World 2:01 Disco Inferno

Wie Der Wind Am Ende Einer Strasse 5:47 Amon Düül II

Eisbär 4:13 Grauzone

brotherman 4:36 The Final Solution

Breath Of Life 6:47 The Khan Jamal Creative Arts Ensemble

Doin' The Best That I Can (Walter Gibbons 12" Mix) 11:02 Bettye LaVette  

If You Want Me You Can Find Me 2:41 Lawson & Four More

Black Satin 5:20 Miles Davis

It's My Thing (Pt. 1) 2:53 Marva Whitney

Noude Ma Gnin Tche De Me 5:14 Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou

Tessassategn eko 4:06 Bahta Gebre-Heywet

Kunta Kinte Version One 4:25 The Revolutionaries 

Dream Baby Dream 3:57 Black Tambourine

WIXIW 6:13 Liars WIXIW

Baby 4:11 Donnie & Joe Emerson

Like A Ship 4:39 Pastor T.L. Barrett

Come Clean 4:57 Jeru The Damaja

Home 3:18 Gil Scott-Heron And Jamie XX

Lezelalem nuri 2:30 Lemma Demissew

FFunny FFrends 4:17 Unknown Mortal Orchestra

She Is Beyond Good and Evil 3:23 The Pop Group

Last Train To Satansville 6:45 Swervedriver

PROG! Night Video Archive

Thanks so much to Dave, Valerie, Frank and Andy for having me - their sets were awesome and mind-expanding! Check out PROG! every first and third Thursday at the Living Room.

DJ Slow steps up at the 1:09:40 mark with some Catharsis (France):



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Video streaming by Ustream

Guest DJ'ing at Prog! TONIGHT

Tonight at the Living Room in Capitol Hill, Seattle
Facebook Event | Watch/listen live on Ustream

Recent Broadcast:




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Imaad Wasif - Paris September 2012

Imaad Wasif on European tour Fall 2010. Photo by ATL

  LA WOMAN by imaadwasif

Can - The Lost Tapes

Motor recap

Black Hat

Megabats

Airport

Patternmaster

Check out this review by Dave Segal in the Stranger, as well as a write up from Redefine. Mad props to Sam of Debacle Records for hosting - it was a great night and I was stoked to be playing jams in between these rad musicians!

             Here's some video of Airport's dance workout I shot. Body movin.

MOTOR

Debacle Records presents a night of psychedelic beats, analog treats, and syrupy tone float.

MOTOR: 6/13/2012 at 9pm - Comet Tavern

Patternmaster (Jon Carr from Brain Fruit)


Airport (Jayson Kochan from Midday Veil)

Megabats 

Black Hat

DJ Slow spinning tunes in-between sets. 

Bring yr dancin' shoes!

Charlatan - Triangles

Rest in Peace MCA

The Beastie Boys were a major influence during dj slow's formative years. Adam Yauch's passing is such a huge loss to the music world and creative community overall. Wishing his family and friends all the best in coping. He will be remembered.

"My man MCA's got a beard like a billygoat"

Panabrite - Soft Terminal

Catch Panabrite this Friday at Black Lodge during Debacle Fest.

Guinea Syliphone Meltdown on HER 4/28/12

Podcast for the Syliphone Meltdown on Hollow Earth Radio last Saturday available here.

Sweet mix of Syliphone tracks at Voodoo Funk.

More music of Guinea to be discovered at Global Groove & Dusty Psychic Hut.

Eivind Opsvik: New Album & Short Film

Gorgeous, disturbing, dream-like short film by Iris Piers / New Romantics for a track off the latest Eivind Opsvik record Overseas IV, out now on Loyal Label.

Photography by Michelle Arcila

Housse de Racket Finale - Chop Suey

Housse de Racket played a super tight and energetic show at Chop Suey a couple weeks ago. It was a fun night and cool to catch up with Victor who I had met a while back when he still played for Chicros.

Sorry about the crap sound - was standing right next to the speakers and recorded using the built in mic.

HER 4/14 - African Meltdown

Click here for the podcast of African jams from today's broadcast on HER. 

If you enjoyed the broadcast, you might also like Afrimix. 

The Project Club - El Mar Y La Luna (Lovefingers Remix)

Thanks to Night Plane for hipping me to this track via his podcast for Kreativa Records.

Housse de Racket Tonite!!!

   Housse De Racket - Chateau by Housse De Racket

 

Housse de Racket play Chop Suey tonight

3/31 HER Podcast

3/31 Podcast on Hollow Earth Radio now available.

Raios

 Tzars

Wizards

 

Demons

Click on image below for track list.

starcircleanatomy

starcircleanatomy

Debacle Fest is May 4th-6th!

Mohave Triangles

Dope Space Jams

   

Sun Araw play Rendezvous Wed 3/28*

Amazing Births / Mark McGuire

*Props to E.P. / Translinguistic Other for hipping me to Sun Araw

Shocks of Mighty - Meltdown on HER

DJ Slow on Hollow Earth Radio today from 12-2pm PST.

Click here to download the podcast, and click on the image below for a tracklist from the show.

Raincoats!

Ricardo Donoso

Ricardo Donoso | Digitalis Recordings

Meltdown on HER 3/10/12

Tune in to HER tomorrow for some deep country blues and a few contemporary folk numbers on Slow Music Meltdown from 12-2 pm PST.

by R. Crumb

Click here to download the podcast.

Coincidentally, while I was putting together the blues playlist for the show my wife came across this video of Obama singin' the blues:

Magma Fest!

Hollow Earth Radio's annual Magma Fest starts tonight!

The Meltdown on Hollow Earth Radio starting 3/3

Maisie Jo rockin to Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers

Please tune in to Hollow Earth Radio tomorrow for the first airing of my new weekly show Saturdays from 12-2pm PST. Originally scheduled to air on 2/18, this turned out to be the birthday of my daughter Maise Josephine, and the first Meltdown on HER playlist was selected with her in mind. 

Midday Veil - Moon Temple

Midday Veil on tour and at SXSW 3/1-3/18

Krafterk at MOMA - A ticket debacle

I was lamenting the fact that I no longer live in NYC when I read about the string of performances by Kraftwerk at MOMA, but after hearing all of the tales of woe regarding waiting in the queue for tickets, it sounds like I would have missed out one way or another.

As my friend Gianni Bocce put it, "I had some Computer Love before queuing Endless Endless."

HER Broadcast in honor of Maisie Josephine

Maisie Josephine - born 2/18/12

As fate would have it, my little girl decided to make her debut on the same day my first broadcast - selected in her honor - was to air on Hollow Earth Radio. Needless to say I was a bit preoccupied when the show aired so I missed it. No worries if you did too, as I made a playlist you can download below. I hope you enjoy, and please be sure to tune in to HER every Saturday from 12-2pm PST for Slow Music Meltdown.

Download Maisie Josephine's Mellow Cosmic Welcome Mix*

Heartbeat - DJMJ
Baby Where You Are - Ted Lucas
77777 - Boredoms

Zum Wohl - Cluster

Beach House - Secret Colors

Take Care - Beach House

Gullfjellet - Bjørn Torske

The Happy Whistler - Raymond Scott

Wind on Water - Fripp & Eno

Evening Star - Fripp & Eno

420 Millionaires - Free Time

Fly Like a Horse - Sylvain Chauveau

Icke's Struggle - Blanck Mass

Happy Astronaut - Brother Raven

Kekse - Harmonia

Riversong - Tonto's Expanding Head Band

Sea Bed Meditation - Jürgen Müller

Goes By - Emeralds

Besoin de Mer - Trinité

Purus River - Uakti

Letzte Tage - Letzte Nachte -Popol Vuh

*For optimum listening pleasure, check Crossfade Songs and set to 12 seconds in iTunes preferences or your preferred music application.

Slow Music Meltdown on Hollow Earth Radio

Starting this weekend tune in from 12-2pm Pacific time every Saturday for Slow Music Meltdown on Hollow Earth Radio!

This weekend's show is dedicated to the baby my wife and I are expecting any minute. Tender songs of love and affection, with a healthy sampling of cosmic lullaby tracks to sooth the infant in all of us....

*A note to listeners: For the meantime my show is pre-programmed using a service called Airtime and is not actually live, so unfortunately I can't take any calls or requests during the show. If you have any thoughts or requests for the weeks to come, feel free to let me know....

Jonathan Fitoussi - PLURALIS

WTF, FBI!

I learned last night of the death of Megaupload, a popular site for file sharing. Some may see this as a victory for anti-piracy; I would have to disagree and side with several professorial music bloggers whose archives of rare, out-of-print music is now gone from the interweb, perhaps forever.

This is a travesty as the intentions of these sites was not to take money from the pockets of Lady Gaga and the like, but to educate their legions of fans on the aural treasures to be found in far reaches of the world that may have never surfaced or be heard otherwise.

I'm not sure of any effort to combat this issue, but let's hope vaults will be re-opened someday soon.

Read more about the blogs affected at Bodega Pop.

WXBC - Bard Radio

 

Once upon a time in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, while working towards my BA in photography, I hosted a radio program on WXBC, Bard College radio. It was called, as you might have guessed, Music Meltdown.

WXBC DJ Booth

Organizing boxes of things from times gone by, I came across old cassettes of mixtapes from before I went digital, as well as the tapes from my first 3 shows on WXBC. I'd been meaning to transfer them for ages, and finally got around to it.

Here is show # 1, with episodes 2 and 3 coming soon - collections of random, on-the-fly musical tastes from my early-middle twenties (circa 2004) that went over both the internet and AM* airwaves. Check back for more of DJ Slow's WXBC Music Meltdown with shout-outs to friends lost and kept along the way, and also watch out for the Meltdown on Hollow Earth Radio every Saturday from 12-2pm PST starting February 18th.

Download WXBC1

Photo by ATL

*(At that time WXBC was on 540am in addition to being online - not sure if that broadcast still lives or not.)