Hammock District - For Marcel

Pyjama pop for babies.
A new collection of tracks from the Hammock District.

Cecil's Flea Circus 4-Track Demo

Here's a link to a noisy mp3 of Cecil's Flea Circus playing with a 4-track tape recorder and some effects.

//DOWNLOAD//

BEW Promo Cassette Tape 2010

Here's two mp3s you might like

I made 'em for a 90minute long cassette tape,
side A has a collection of noise jams and demos from 2009/10
side B has a selection of remixes from my archives (some well known names and some lesser-known ones too - some nearly 10years old)

DOWNLOAD:
side a
http://www.sendspace.com/file/i2o06g

side b
http://www.sendspace.com/file/oqnmr7

BEW - Promo Casette Tape 2010

Side A - Demos: Various 2009/10
Side A - Demos Various 2009 10 by bew

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Mutton Cubes
Farfisa Fuzz
Woodblock and Harpsichord
Rudi Thumb Dub
Baby Bleep (dub-1)
Chip 140
Nasty Mono Dub 4
Skipitty Blip
Nes core 180
Clonard 180 mix 3


Side B - Remixes Archive Mixed 1
Side B - Remixes Archive Mixed 1 by bew

Robyn G Shiels - Robot Spaceships (bew warp mix)
Faroh - this is not hiphop (bee's instrumental dub)
Feline Dream - Lull bew remix)
M Sodom - Sex With Celebrities (bew remix)
Escape Act - Everyone Got Shot (BEW Snoid remix)
Milanese - Vanilla Monkey (BEW broken mix)
Jamie Lidell - Feel Good (bew remix)
Shameless Hussies - Driven (BEW 140 remix)
Ex-Magician - Plan Retrieval (BEW dub)
Jamie A - Cafes and Cathedrals (bew gay cream mix)
Dry County - Glodfish (bew remix)
Kidd Dynamo - different frights of stairs (bew - boo)

Dodgy Stereo - Animation

Here's a little black and white animation I made. I used Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere for motion graphics, the sound was made using a Korg x5, Audacity and Premiere.

Listen... 090210

Listen…
Pavilion Bar, Belfast
Tuesday 9th February
£3 door tax
9pm - 1am

Dodgy Stereo presents the return of the "Listen…" club in the Pavilion bar.  Giving you the opportunity to listen to 101 flavours in a night, the club is all about playing fine tunes that aren't being aired elsewhere along with seldom seen videos from the vaults.

This menu will feature adventures in bass of various tempos, and merry melodies of various vintages.

dj connors23 (Reggae, Dub, Hip Hop - Rennes, Fr) 
Lisa Flavelle (Jazzfunk, Nusoul, Deephouse - Belfast)
Messyfuture (Dubstep - Belfast)
BEW (Bleepcore, Noise - Belfast) 
Reggie Chamberlain-King (Musiphilosphistry - Belfast)

Neanderthal Electronics with Derek Holzer

Neanderthal Electronics was the title of the week long workshops I recently attended at Digital Arts Studios. Our tutor was Derek Holzer an American artist/musician based in berlin who is touring his tutorial showing people like me (IE: mathematics and physics failures) how to make analogue synths from scratch using simple, cheap and easy to source electronic components.

The end result is a cigar box with knobs and switches and an 'acoustic laptop', both of which shall be used in the upcoming show with Mi Ami and Glissando along with some other bonus material that hasn't been heard before.

Cashier No. 9 - When Jackie Shone

From the Cashier No.9 myspace:

"Join Cashier No.9 as they launch their 2nd single 'When Jackie Shone' on Only Gone Records with two live sets. First up will be an acoustic set at Backbeat Records in The Haymarket arcade off Royal Avenue with support from 68 Zeros at 2pm

This will be followed by an full electric set in The Menagerie with support from Barrys Electric Workshop and New Left Bank DJs.

this saturday 25th april"

The BEW set I hav planned will include a smattering of popular song, a large amount of electric reggae, plus the usual shards of noise.

BEW - Menagerie 160109

I got a call from the Menagerie last night asking if I could spin records on Friday night. I said yes. Come listen if you want.

It's a Friday night, FREE ENTRY.
No door tax!
The setlist from a previous show with Escape Act and Panda Kopanda.
2nd January 2009 Menagerie

Mermaids - Popsicles, Icicles
Ex Magician - Plan Retrieval
Bad Seeds - All Tomorrows Parties
David Holmes - Holy Pictures
Broadcast - Michael
Sun Ra - Advice to Medics
The 6ths - Oahu
Troggs - Wild Thing
Notwist - Chemicals
Evens - On the Face of It
dEUS - Ideal Crash
Desert Hearts - Florida Keys
Les Scenes - Deluxe Aquarius
Corrigan - Medicine Stick
Cashier No. 9 - Jump the Queue
Love - Alone Again
The Bittersweets- Hurtin' Kind
Capitol K - Heat
Nimoys - Flim
Skibunny - Walk, Don't Walk
Clone Quartet - Rake the Processors
Tunic - (let's go) Wipeout
Uterus Women - City Super WOmen
Lemonheads - Amazing Grace
Metronomy - A Thing for You
Soundgarden - I Can't Give You Anything
Indian Jewellery- Empty Handed
Drat - Pedal
Genders - Apes
David Holmes - I Heard Wonders

Billy Taylor - I Wish I Knew
Warlords of Pez - Side 1
Bo Diddley - Bo's Bounce
The Meters - Handclapping Song
Bo D9iddley - Hey Bo Diddley
The Gaters - Gator Bait

Dawn Penn - No, No, No
ESG - UFO
!!! - Me and Guilliani Down the Schoolyard (a true story)
Ol'Dirty Bastard- Pop Shots
Bis - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Clone Quartet - Carousel
Q-Feel - Dancing In Heaven
Kraftwerk - Numbers
Stereolab - French Disco
Toots and the Maytals - Funky Kingston
Jupiter ACe - Daft Ice
Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come
Jon Spencer - Flavour
The Specials - Much Too Youong
Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger +
The Trinity - Indian Ropeman
The Bobby Fuller Four
- Magic Touch
Blues Explosion - Attack
Minotaur Shock - Shanty (cola loves)

After this I stoped taking notes, but continued playing soul, rock, dub, electro, and noise...

Weakling & King - Sawteeth

Post number 200

First post of 2009

Have a free record by the most prolific Dodgy Stereo artist ever.

Weakling & King - Sawteeth

More quality synth pop from Phil Porter. How does he find the time and energy to make so much music and release it for free on such a regular basis, whilst also holding down a full-time job and attending to his duty as a member of (currently under intense re-imagining) Dry County? The answer? Maybe he's not human. Whatever the case, let's be thankful that he uses his energy in such a positive manner.

Enjoy.

Fresh Tunes

I forgot to post 'bout a remix I finished for the Shameless Hussies. They're a duo of music makers (drums and programming, I think?) who use a lot of samples of retro recordings and blend them with more modern noises of their own design. It's party music, suitable for swigging cocktails and gyrating to.

They have released three albums for you to enjoy over at Last.fm. I advise going over there and listening/downloading - I don't think you'll be disapointed.

My remix is not as party-tastic as their original, but I'm happy with it's groggy stomp. You can listen to it over at their myspace or BEW's.

I'm still carving away at remixes for Escape Act and Not Squares.

November do far...

I've been busy making.
A small smoker building to slowly cook meat and fish.

Audio recording using some old equipment I hadn't taken out of storage for quite a long time.


Video edits of clips I hadn't previously had the time to view properly.

Live performances of my new material using my laptop recordings plus some of my old noisey hardware.

Watching and listening to other pieces of fierce music.




Hanging out with charming people.

Goodtimes.

Acroplane Movement #1

Acroplane Movement #1
Oscillations Music & Arts Festival
Lavery's Bar, Belfast sat. 4th Oct '08

Music
T-Polar presents Sidney Crawford - One For the Chili Earls
ISO9 - Thanatar Diode
Kinnego Flux - Satsuma
Herv - Chipcore9
Ebola - Bruxism

BEW - Volar Beat and Body Parts (dodgy stereo 2008)

BEW - Volar Beat and Body Parts (dodgy stereo 2008)
Audio visual demo reel.

Cecil's Flea Circus - Swap Shop

And now for a little blast from the past. I wondered if there were any traces of Cecil's Flea Circus online, and I found some.

With quotes like, "I've made a fat suit out of sponge" you know it's not clever. It was fun though.

The band was quite busy for a while, playing shows in and around Belfast far too often for their own good. The most important thing was no-one was hurt and plenty of friends were made.

Weakling & King - ARGH!!! Ctrl-Alt-Del

Weakling & King - ARGH!!! Ctrl-Alt-Del
Go.
Download.
It.
Now.

Go.

BEW and friends

Cashier No. 9 - I Kid You Not + Subtitles + stuff

A short while ago I made a little video for Cashier No. 9's song, 'I Kid You Not'. As an experiment I decided it would be fun to try to add subtitles (maybe as a kind of karaoke version). Above is the result of my first try. The audio has deteriorated quite a bit (dodgy stereo? actually it's monophonic), so I'm going to try some different tools to improve audio fidelity for future versions.

Ingredients:
Clips from the Prelinger archive.
Window's Movie Maker.
Virtualdub.
Aegisub.
DivX codec.
FLAC codec.

In other news, I have a string of VJing gigs lined up. I'll be in Prague on Thursday 13th March at Roxy. It's an early show for Bullerbyne and MIDI LIDI, the Machine Funck djs will also be there.

Next month I'll be back in Fleda on April 5th to vj for Dieselboy and again on the 16th May for Roni Size, thanks to the Level B productions crew who run the Break 4 Beats parties.

February Update - dodgy stereo music + gig stuff...

Last week I had some time off from the day job. I spent my time working on video clips taken from the prelinger archives. Great material.



I also managed to get out of the house and went on a few inspiring day trips. It's good to have the time and freedom to be able to go on a nice long walk and get away from the same surroundings once in a while.



I also got plenty of work done on several projects that have needed loose ends tied up. The Audiobulb project isn't finished yet, but working on it produced a new track for the Dubs EP, which is ready to go as soon as I decide which picture to use for the cover (Sophie Cocault has given me eleven to choose from).

I also managed to finish a piece for Microsound's 'Microspace ' project. The final audioworks are published here. A new project has opened; this year's invitation to submit a piece for Pi day.



I made a little video for Cashier No. 9's tune "I Kid You Not".



I saw a few musicians and djs over my break too. I went to Fleda for the Itch My HaHaHa party last weekend. Good times were had in god company. I hadn't taken any time to research the acts on the flyer as I usually would, instead trusting to luck that there would be some quality action. I was dancing to the Greatest Hits Collective's usual diverse pro-party dj set.



The band in the 'big room' was nothing special (pub-rock meets hiphop?). The last dj on there played some rather groovy blobby synth and beat material that I couldn't dance to but it did make me want to go interupt to ask who it was by...I didn't though...



Last night I caught a solo ambient/improv guitar artist called jiří kučerovský at cafe 3 Trojka. A quiet affair bringing to mind all sorts of post-rock memories. Pure bell like guitar tones and soft drones and wisps of sound layered with echo.

Break 4 Beats

This Friday: another Break 4 Beats party at Fleda.

The line-up is as follows:

Main stage DJs:
Friction (Shogun Audio / UK) + SP:MC (Emcee Recordings / UK)
Syncopix (Hospital Records / DE)
Kyanid (Dvoika Troika)
Sayko (Dvoika Troika)
Blulajta (Redrum)
Thiew (Breakart)

Breakmatch bar stage DJs:
Mystique (Redrum)
Kotlyk (Pohon crew)
Marcco (Breakbrno)
Yak (Breakbrno)

VJing:
Dodgystereo

Doors open at 9pm
Tax: 190-230Kc

Here's a little clip showing some of my visuals and some of the quality rythmns and synths you might expect at one of these shin-digs.
Mr. Bailey

Radial Nerve - 'Rain'

Colin Campbell has been writing sonds and playing guitar for years in many different guises, sometimes on his own and often with groups of talented musicians.

(Past ensembles have included: the PCBs, Kidd Dynamo, The See Thru 3)

He is currently working with a group called Radial Nerve. They're recording an LP for Retone Records and a video of one of their songs can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROiy65zFPIk



MP3's can be downloaded from the Label site, here:
http://retonerecords.com/

Other tunes can be streamed, here:
http://www.myspace.com/radialnerve

Colin is one of the original members of the Dodgy Stereo collective.