All of these songs were originally recoded on cassette between 1991 and 1995. They were all recently mastered, and only Celestial Temple was edited for content.

Transelectronic Theory – Tape Music by Transelectronic Theory

** TFIB is proud to present the NYC leg of the Schematic’s Dukes of the Stratosfear tour, 2010. **

Heads up! This Saturday’s TFIB event is co-producing with the Schematic crew out of Miami. Oh hell yeah!

The label that introduced you to Richard Devine, Scott Herren (aka Prefuse73),Otto Von Schirach, and many more wild acts is hitting the road again. This time a trio of performers from the label are blazing their way across the East Coast. It is one of those extra special events that we look forward so much here to at The Futu…re Is Beautiful. The last time Romulo (of Phoenecia fame) played in NYC we damn near broke our ankles jumping around like idiots to Freestyle, Miami Bass, Electro and booty house. Joe Lentini (the newest Schematic signing) will be playing his debut live set in NYC, guaranteed to make your feet move or your money back. Rounding out the Schematic roster is Ohio’s Ay (of Ken Rei), performing beaty weirdness that you didn’t know you loved until just now.

Representing Brooklyn we have David Last, recently back from Mutek who will be performing a special one-off live set as David Last. He’s bringing the heat with a melt-your-face-off beats and bass set like nothing you’ve heard from him before. TIFB’s Isomer Transition will be playing a one-off live set of deep dub techno goodness, mixing in tracks from past and future releases, and yes, he will even be bringing the San Pelegrino. Rounding out the Brooklyn posse is Schematic’s own Brooklynite Unjust will be laying down the electro/freestyle grooves.

And all of this on a top-notch soundsystem we are bringing in to the PA Loft just for this event and you’ve got a lineup and event that is not to be missed. Man, are we excited about this one!

Public Assembly Loft
July 24th, 2010
10pm – 4am
$7 !!! (that is like, almost free)

The Lineup for the evening is:

10:00 – Unjust (Schematic, Brooklyn)
11:00 – David Last (Konque, Brooklyn)
11:45 – Isomer Transition (Archipel, Brooklyn)
12:45 – Ay (of Ken Rei)
1: 10 – Joe Lentini (Schematic, Philly)
2:00 – Romulo Del Castillo (Phoenecia, Schematic, Miami)

Special TRANSELECTRONIC.NET Invite Only Deal
send a message to rsvp@thefutureisbeautiful.com for $5 admission!

Romulo Del Castillo (of Phoenecia / Soul Oddity)
“Like Latin Rascals meets Cabaret Voltaire.”- Billy Graham

Joe Lentini
“Really good, funky, clubby electronic stuff with some attitude!” -Unheard Music (LOL!!!)

Ay (of Ken Rei)
“Supersonic swirls, wild beats spinning madly, warped voices and tings, the Top 10 pop tunes run amok…beautiful jagged music” – Foxy Digitalis

FACEBOOK EVENT HERE:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=136838896336519

Schematic Tour Info Here:
http://www.bananaseatgirl.com/schematictourpress.html

It is Saturday night. Kinda late. I just got out of DubWar @ Love. Tired. It’s been a long week, time to go home.

I walk uptown from West 4th, up to the 6th ave and 14th street L train stop. I bolt down the stairs and look around.

The platform is full.

I hear a train coming.

I steal a look at the LED info display.

Train arrivals…
Brooklyn : 12 Minutes
8th Ave: Now

The last thing I want to do at 2am is to stand on the L train platform for 12 minutes waiting for the train.

The train doors open, I get on. Sit down. I take the train to 8^th ave and wait for it to go the other way, back to Brooklyn. It’s much better to wait sitting in some nice AC. Apparently I’m not the only one who thinks so. About a third of the people stay sitting and don’t disembark. A few already on the train when I boarded at 6^th ave. This is how some people do it.

While waiting for the train to head back to Brooklyn I think back to the walk from West 4th up to 14th. Things got digital. For a hot second the people on the street looked like a video game. It was like that game sidewinder I used to play on the Amiga. I planned my path through the maze of people for the whole block ahead, choreographing my moves up the street, mapping out how I would weave though all the people. While thinking back to the walk uptown the train leaves 8^th street.

The train arrives at 6^th and I wonder, “Where I would be getting on if I hadn’t been on when I arrived at the station?”

That was only 12 minutes ago that I got here and decided to take the train to 8th. It seems like an hour.

A few people get on the train. It’s late and this is the only train for the next while.

The late night chatter of the train increases as the doors close. Frat guys talking about beer pong. Other half heard conversations, just out of reach of my hearing, something about muffins and spandex. It is better this way, not being able to hear what they are saying. I am sure of it.

We arrive at 14th street. The car fills up, more than doubles with people. Two young kids with skateboards are standing at the doors of the car, not letting the doors close. They are looking out the doors, checking for their friends in other cars. One leaves just as the door is closing.

1st ave. The car is now almost totally full. A women by the door. Gold shoes with green flowers on them. Gaudy.

The doors close and we are on the long haul.

The space between 1st ave Manhattan and Bedford ave in Brooklyn.

Under the water.

It’s a long trip under the river. I always wonder what would happen if…

We arrive at Bedford and the doors open with a sigh of relief.

The kids with the skateboards, they hold the doors on the car again. It wouldn’t take much to really stop a train and delay everyone for a long time. They let the doors go.

Lorimer. I wonder if they will do it again. Strange noises from the station platform. IS that them? I can’t see… They don’t hold the doors, thankfully.

I take a look around in the car. The FDNY EMT next to me is untying his boots after a long day saving people’s lives. Respect. 100%.

What is with the % signs tonight?

The Montrose stop is next. This is the spot on the ride where I usually take my glasses off, and some times put on my sunglasses. Not tonight for either. I don’t have my glasses on and it is 2:30am…

Lots of people on the train. The train creaks around the turn. The brakes make an annoying high pitch whine.

We creep slowly into the Montrose station. When the doors clunk closed it happens twice. Those kids are delaying the train again.

But perhaps not.

The train is leaving the Montrose stop and begins the long slow crawl around to Morgan. The train screeches on the track, as loud as someone screaming in my ear from 3 inches away… It sounds as if it hasn’t been greased in years. The train crawls in to the Morgan Ave station.

Exit the train and up the stairs.

When I hit the street several people are walking towards me. I blink. Now there is no one.

That was intense.

On June 1st 2010 RJ Valeo will release his follow-up album to his highly acclaimed Type Records release ‘September’, entitled ‘Atman’. Drawing inspiration from his recent study of Buddhism, coupled with his love of modern classical composers, Valeo creates a sonic universe that is meditative, serene, familiar yet entirely new and unique all at the same time.

Scheduled for release digitally on June 1st 2010, followed by the physical release in August, the project is a multi-disciplinary endeavor, encompassing the visual arts as well as video and sonic landscapes.

Valeo, always working with the cutting edge of technology and leveraging it for the advancements of artistic expression and dissemination has linked up with Kickstarter.com to fund the initial round of vinyl production for the release. In addition Kickstarter.com, Valeo is utilizing Bandcamp.com to sell the ‘Limited Edition Digital Version’ of the release, which will have artwork per track, alternate versions of compositions and other ‘exclusive’ material not available anywhere else. More into to come shortly.

Below you will find the initial press release for Valeo’s Atman, followed by some examples of the additional artwork that will be available in the limited edition digital version of the release.

Official Atman Press Release

Atman by RJ Valeo
Release Date: June 1st 2010
Format: CD, LP, Media Card, and Digital download
Imprint: Io Records

With a work such as RJ Valeo’s Atman there are many things we could call to your attention. We could call out the fact that the title, Atman, has two very different meanings depending on if you choose the Hindu or the Buddhist translation. We could talk about how Atman’s compositions have been inspired by modern art movements and minimalist composers such as the Bauhaus movement and Steve Reich, and has been informed by modern electronic artists such as The Orb and SND. We could also note that Valeo creates and maintains his own unique musical voice throughout the entire release drawing ideas from but never copying his influences. We could comment on the lack of obvious musical references to techno on this release. Quite surprising given Valeo’s
releases as Isomer Transition which have made their way on to two separate Fabric mix CDs in 2009.

We could eloquently point out that the compositions on this album have sounds that were sourced from field recordings, hardware synths, software processing, were sampled from old vinyl records, and are from recording sessions with musicians Trevor Sias and Justin Michael Miller. We could proudly tell you that it took over a year and a half to compose and record, and made extensive use of a compositional technique Valeo has developed, a technique he calls ‘live performance capture’. We could say all of these things.

We could put forth the fact that RJ’s label, Io Records, is a one man shop. And without sounding too pompous we could mention that he produced and record the album himself, mastered the album himself, did all the artwork for it himself, hand-made all the packaging for the release himself, and views the entire process and product as art. We could talk about all of these things in great detail and to great length. We could do all of this, but we won’t.

What we will do is ask that you allow yourself the luxury of time to experience Atman as a complete work.

Atman will be released on Io Records on June 1st 2010 physically and digitally in a variety of formats and distribution methods.

We humbly thank you, and are grateful for your attention in these matters.

Available June 1st 2010 on Boomkat.com, Beatport.com, iTunes, Amazon and most other digital retailers.

Track Listing
01 – Chasm
02 – Safe harbor
03 – Through the noise
04 – The whole truth
05 – Richter scale 6
06 – Saturday morning
07 – The world of tomorrow
08 – Late night hours
09 – The other one
10 – When things weren’t so complicated

Physical Formats: CD, Vinyl, and Media Storage Devices

Digital downloads will be available via Bandcamp, Boomkat, Beatport, iTunes, Amazon,
eMusic and other fine digital retailers.

The vinyl will be funded via Kickstarter.com, a DIY crowd-sourced approach for VC for artists and micro-entrepreneurs. All physical goods are limited editions are hand-made in Brooklyn, NY.

For more information about this release, its various formats and associated art products
please visit http://io-records.com/atman after May 31st 2010.

Steven Hawkins says to be wary of aliens

I can’t say that I disagree on this one. If history serves as any indicator as to how newly discovered life forms are treated (think Native Americans, Africans, India’s populus, etc) we really shouldn’t be putting out signs that ‘we are on earth and have not left the planet yet’.

More info here
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/stephen-hawking-aliens/
http://www.tgdaily.com/space-features/49508-beware-alien-invaders-says-stephen-hawking

ABC’s Lost finally coming to a close, May 23rd

Since 2004 fans and non-fans alike have been watching, loathing, loving and hating ABC’s hit series Lost. On May 23rd the epic 6 season show comes to an end. In this riveting piece over at Wired the creators give us a glimpse behind the curtain and explained, perhaps for the last time, what was going on and why we all got so Lost.

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/04/ff_lost?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

4 portable analog synths that won’t make your rent late

The long-time published honored Electronic Musician has done a roundup of analog synths that won’t break the bank. The new Oberheim SEM, Doepfer Dark Energy, and Dave Smith’s MOPHO and TETRA. Too bad Dave still subscribes to the 90’s era naming convention of replacing an F with a PH. Didn’t EMU pwn that one with the Planet Phat?

Hardware reviews can be found here:
http://emusician.com/elecinstruments/analog_synth_modules/

Book Room: David Shields’ Reality Hunger

A book for the twitter generation. 618 short and sweet insights into the creative process. Unorthodox and appropraite for the ADD generation Shields attemps to divulge insight and wisdom in short and cutting witticism using 2010 methodologies in print, rather than online. An example of how the digital world is infecting the physical, and how the physical still reigns king over ‘valuable goods’.

http://the99percent.com/articles/6480/david-shields-dont-be-afraid-of-your-own-mind

Dear Resident Advisor,

I’ve felt this for a while, but since I make dance music (under one of my monikers) it didn’t seem as important an issue to champion when people seemed to thought that I was ’spinning’ (how I loathe that dreaded term) when I was playing live. Today I saw something that pushed me over the edge to do something about it.

Terry Riley has a DJ page? Really? REALLY? A DJ PAGE? The godfather of modern minimalism who used to hook a vacuum cleaner up to a harmonium and play arpeggios for 13 hours in the 60’s in Haite Ashbury has a dj page? Really? Yeah, maybe kinda sorta like a 13 hour dj set, but actuality played for 13 hours for christ’s sake! I don’t think he used the wheels of steel for that one bub.

Honestly, it is disrespectful to have Terry as a dj and not an artist. Not disrespecting djs, but there is a huge difference between a dj and a Terry fucking Reily. Really. How can you say differently? You really just can’t.

Please, please, please see what you can do to draw a distinction between an artist/composer and a DJ, for Terry’s sake if nothing else. I get it that you started as a place to list DJ related things, but you are growing, maturing, expanding beyond simply being related to DJs, as wonderful as they are.

It would do you, and everyone who writes and is associated with you a world of good to draw a distinction between a composer/producer/artist and a DJ. All do wonderful things, but are completely different animals.

I hope this doesn’t fall on deaf ears or get swept under the rug.

Cheers!

‘A Scattering of Seeds’ builds on the dark and atmospheric ideas presented in last year’s ‘The Hardware Excursions Volume One’. Sound design, drones and field recordings are manipulated in real time using granular synthesis, delay, reverb and sample playback parameter modifications to create an other-worldly soundscape reminiscent of music scored for your favorite yet-to-be-released science fiction movie.

Available now on Io Records.

Available for purchase and download from Boomkat HERE.

The Boomkat review is as follows:
“Another winning entry into Richard J Valeo’s more experimental catalogue, this two-part exploration of high-end synthesis and avant-garde digital drone finds the Isomer Transition man shifting into some of his most engrossing material to date. ‘When Darkness Falls’ boasts a dynamic range that stretches between beams of metallic resonance and hushed, spooky sci-fi tones evocative of something you’d expect to hear in an abandoned space station. ‘Beside The Beach’ offers a more textured palette, gathering up yet more artfully constructed drone signals and combining them with coarsely tactile field recordings. This is no easy-going, conveniently harmonious confluence of sound waves though, and there’s an undercurrent of darkness running through the EP that’s highly refreshing.”

Over the next several months I am going to be assembling a series of EPs entitled ‘Behind the shadow of the moon’. Ordinarily the process of grouping and ordering the tracks, coming up with the final names, making and edits to the tracks, and art creation all happens behind closed doors. No one usually hears or sees or anything until the release is finalized. Well, for this EP series I am going to be doing things a little differently.

For this EP series these steps in the process will happen out in the open. The community will be able to see the changes that are being made as they happen. They will also be able to participate in the process by making suggestions and comments for the order of the songs on the different EPs, the final track titles, track edits and so on. All of this will happen online and out in the open.

While it is an open and participatory process it isn’t a free-for-all. Those who would like to participate will need to do a few things. If you want to participate you’ll need a Soundcloud account, and you’ll need to ‘follow’ my account to have access to the songs. Once you have an account you can comments, suggest things to be done.

As each EP is completed on Soundcloud, meaning, the song titles and order are finalized and all edits are done, the EP will be removed from Soundcloud, mastered, and then released on Boomkat, Beatport, iTunes and the other digital retailers.

The EP series will be broken down in to several releases – how many I am not sure yet as there is still a lot of work to be done.

Here is a link to the first group of tracks. To make things easy to participate this group of tracks is not walled up behind the login system so everyone can see and comment on them.

Behind the shadow of the moon by rjvaleo