I am proud to announce that one of my compositions from the “Days EP” for the Modyfier blog was selected for inclusion in the October edition of the UK’s venerable “The Wire” magazine. It is currently available at Other Music, Kim’s Video, and other places imported music magazines are sold. It is the one with Richie Hawtin on the cover.

Here is the little blurb they posted about me and my track.

07 Richard J Valeo Monday Night
From Days (IO)
Since 2001, Brooklyn’s Richard J Valeo has worked up his rhythmic fragmentary Techno under a variety of aliases including Transelectronic Theory, Isomer Transition and plain old RJ Valeo. Following his recent September album on Type Records, Days appears on his own imprint IO.

So, I am sure that you know about The Wire. It is the ‘Modern Music’ magazine based out of the UK. They write some of the most in-depth and well informed reviews and articles that you’ll find anywhere, on the web or in print. Really. Where else will you find a magazine that features, ON THE COVER artists such as Ricardo Villalobos, Phil Niblock, Throbbing Gristle, Terry Reily and Vladislav Delay? Absolutely no place. They are pretty much ‘the defacto’ place you turn to when you want to read about the stuff that really matters.

If you didn’t know, on their site they have some really great exclusive content - both mixes and tracks. One of my favorites is a Mira Calix mix from the ‘Faster than Sound’ festival competition page. Some are to download, and some are to stream. Downloading is nice, streaming is problematic if you want to listen to that track on your iPod while riding the subway. You can trick the site into letting you download the files if you take a look at the URL and modify it slightly. I don’t want to get into too much trouble so that is all I will say on that. :)

The other reccent audio treat that has been tickling my ears is the 74 minute uneditted interview with the iconic free jazz trumpeter Bill Dixon.

I can’t help but think that this interview would make for some *amazing* source materail for sampling and sourcing. Stream only? Not really a problem. Take a look at the URL and do a little tweaking and you should be good to go.

Keep on reading and listening to all the wonderful music that is out there!

The UK’s Burial has been making waves and receiving raves (pun intended) with his past 2 release, but has tended to stay a recluse and not expose himself to too much publicity.

In this interview he discusses growing up in the UK in a “post-rave” society, pitched up (and down) vocals, sampling video games for drum sounds and “UK Garage”.

http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/347/