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Empathy Mix August 2007

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

A 60 minute mix of the latest drum&bass tunes from empathy artists and friends. Mixed by our boys double_negative. The sweetness!

Goes like:

  1. Concord Dawn: Scream to the Stars (Commercial Suicide) 00:00
  2. Cern: Dont Know (Empathy Recordings) 04:23
  3. Vanadis: Enter the Blue (SBK) 05:51
  4. Dose: Words of Wisdom (Revolution Recordings) 08:24
  5. Cern: Sattelites 10:58
  6. Dstruct - Merkaba (Nerve Recordings) 12:59
  7. Subtone & Stalker: Nazca (Citrus Recordings) 16:24
  8. Agent Alvin: Room Full of Bullets (Cyanide Recordings) 18:16
  9. Trei: Tumbleweed 20:28
  10. Dose: Feer Feader (Syndrome Audio) 23:22
  11. Undertow: Down in Flames 25:15
  12. Bulletproof: Alien Screw 26:53
  13. Psidream: Evil Genius (Syndrome Audio) 29:44
  14. Mayhem: Lebanon (Onset Audio) 31:58
  15. Trei: Heartbeat (Empathy Recordings) 35:16
  16. Cern: Lock Stock 36:21
  17. Faction: Don’t Think 39:39
  18. Flirt With Dirt: Zanzibar 41:07
  19. Macro & HSD: Move 43:40
  20. State of Mind - Quantum Leap 47:09
  21. Upbeats & Hive - Nothings Sacred (Violence Recordings) 49:20
  22. Teknik, Trei & Menace: Between the Eyes (Citrus Recordings) 51:53
  23. Subtone: Muchong Rmx (Trotch) 54:27
  24. Nanotek: The Vengefull (Intransigent Recordings) 59:56

Check the Empathy Recordings website

 
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Beat Up Rx05 - Pitch Black

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Talking with Paddy Free from Pitch Black.

Real time mulit-media performers, Mike & Paddy push visuals and sound into new dimensions. With a new album “Rude Mechanicals” in stores _now_ New Zealand’s favourite dub’naughts are gearing up for another globe spanning tour. Committed sonic travellers they are heading back to Europe for their eighth visit.

For me. Pitch Black are like the tonal centre of New Zealand electronica. their music captures a sense of time and space that is reflective of our landscape. Attacking sparse rhythms and haunting melodies with studio dub techniques, the results are completly Aotearoa, yet universal in their appeal.

I have an impromptu chat with Paddy on the eve of their upcoming tour. Paddy talks about previous tours, live playing techniques and exposes some of the Pitch Black inspiration and ethos.

 
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