SubVersion Stop 90: Muttley - Unconscious Fears And Fantasies (May 2010)

01. 00:00 - 03:46 Spheruleus - Moss (from Frozen Quarters, 2010)
02. 00:00 - 05:23 Relmic Statute - 1ehet Ednalnge (from Sitting Under The Lantern's Glow, 2009)
03. 00:00 - 09:21 Enuui - Slow Moving Thoughts (from Mindstate Disposition, 2010)
04. 01:34 - 05:52 Concern - Young Birth (from Truth And Distance, 2009)
05. 02:10 - 07:29 The Sight Below - New Dawn Fades (from It All Falls Apart, 2010)
06. 06:05 - 11:44 Greg Haines - Marc's Descent (from Until The Point Of Hushed Support, 2010)
07. 07:22 - 15:01 That Black - And The Spring Comes (from Timelessness, 2010)
08. 11:24 - 15:58 Simon James French - Shame (from Anthem, 2009)
09. 12:12 - 16:20 Haruki - A Century Of Losses (from The Land That Lies Behind Us, 2010)
10. 15:20 - 19:55 Olive - You're Not Alone (from Extra Virgin, 1997)

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“Unconscious Fears And Fantasies” is a 20 minute concept mix inspired by seeing a hypnotherapist who is teaching me positive affirmations, and having a friend trek to the UK and predicting the best possible outcome. For the former, I am advised to tap into my unconscious mind because as I'm told it believes everything you tell it. Reading literature such as “You Can Heal Your Life” by Louise L. Hay, tells me bodily areas correlate to feelings, and pressure points. Rebalancing your brain is available from EFT, relaxing monopolies of lucky chances spilling from one brain state to the other. Now an ingrained segment of the therapist's voice appears when things are overcast. “Unconscious Fears And Fantasies” also transposes darkness with elation – the high pitched seriousness of Greg Haines' “Marc's Descent” to Olive's rapturously reassuring “You're Not Alone”.

SubVersion Stop 89: TDD Chapter 3: Now available!

The Dastardly Diaries Chapter 3 is a non-profit collection of varied informations from the period of July 2007-2010. The editor, Muttley, specialises in ambient, modern classical and leftfield drum & bass. You can choose either "DE likes" or "DE loves" as download packages. "DE Likes" is 5 documents to read, giving you a brief insight into my mind, whereas "DE Loves" is a 75 exclusively cut clip collage, all documents, and a special 20 minute concept mix.

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Feedback

The DE agency has always operated on word of mouth and this chapter is no different. What some downloaders had to say about the last issue:

Originally posted by cycom

I downloaded the Endo Edition this morning and boy it's just :shock: :shock: :shock: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper:

SO MUCH FANTASTIC MUSIC!! AAAARGH!!

Brilliant work, Muttley. :applause:

It'll take ages to go through all the texts, bits of information, tunes & mixes, but it's gonna be sooo sweet :love: :love:

Fantastic selection, I'm loving almost ALL of the 140+ tunes (and that's something I'd never expected):shock:

:eek: :eek: :eek: :P :hyper:

Originally posted by droid @ weareie.com

Honestly Muttley, I have lot of respect for your enthusiam and vitality... And it's fine to be a bit arrogant. If you believe in what you're doing it's only natural to defend it.

Originally posted by MetaLX

Ok! Read Muttley's TDD right now! It's brilliant. I actually appreciate your alternate perspective on things Muttley, reading this is like taking a journey into a parallel universe Star trek Stylee. Your writing is pretty cool actually, enigmatic at times, and definitely a flip of the script!

Future and contact

DE is inherently looking for high quality music and sources to promote - in these magazines, on the MySpace, via the SubVersion blog, or through physical means. If you think that your ideas are suitable, email muttley_subversion@hotmail.co.uk with your proverbial itinerary.

Promotional threads for TDD 3

www.dogsonacid.com
www.subvertcentral.com
www.forum.breakbeat.co.uk

As if this wasn't enough, Muttley will be creatively bumping the promo threads with outtakes from the 'zine, and audio analysis.

If you've read this, many thanks, and I hope you like what's showcased this time.

Muttley (Dastardly Exposure / SubVersion)

SubVersion Stop 88: Muttley - In Heaven, Everything Is Fine (April 2010)

"In Heaven, Everything Is Fine" is dedicated to a family friend, who when he rings, always asks how everyone is. This mixtapes' agenda is based on the outro by Helios, where Keith Keniff sings "In heaven, everything is fine / You've got your good thing, and I've got mine". There is a sinister undertone from the instrumentation, a riposte of the fuzzy ambience that precedes it.

TRACKLISTING

01. Lexithimie - Scale 3 (from No Matter How Many Time, Repeat, 2009)
02. Altus - Welcoming The Dead Days (from Black Trees Among Amber Skies, 2010)
03. Spheruleus - A Significant Circle (from The Disguised Familiar, 2009)
04. Bing Satellites - Late Summer Meadows (from Twilight Sessions Vol.1, 2010)
05. Helios - In Heaven (from Ayres, 2007)

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SubVersion Stop 87: Muttley - Alone In The Cosmos (March 2010)

Photo: Greg Haines' piano usage in Grunewald Church, Berlin

"Alone In The Cosmos" cites Fluid Radio's selectors as spiritual influence. Staking out ground is a target. An incense stick that will burn a pleasant aroma when revisited, Greg Haines and Alexander Thomas are blended to spark eye on the forthcoming SubVersion concert, while electro-rockers Glint were purveyors of the thematic lineage. "Dear brothers and sisters, dear enemies and friends: why are we all so alone here? All we need is a little more hope, all we need is a little more joy, all we need is a little more light, a little less weight, a little more freedom".

TRACKLISTING

00:00 - 23:20 Paul Bradley - All That Was (Pt. 1) (from All That Was)
05:30 - 24:30 Greg Haines - Until The Point Of Least Resistance (from Until The Point Of Hushed Support)
08:15 - 12:10 Tom White -Top Floor (from A Well Known Phrase)
09:37 - 16:05 Alexander Thomas - Buffalo Lives (from Helium)
18:27 - 23:00 Glint - Alone In The Cosmos (from Sound In Silence)
22:28 - 27:00 A Silver Mount Zion - Built Then Burnt (Hurrah! Hurrah!) (from Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upward)
27:00 - 31:28 Max Richter - On The Nature Of Daylight (from Blue Notebooks)
30:56 - 35:07 Bat For Lashes - Pearl's Dream (from Two Suns)
31:25 - 33:55 Gaston Arevalo - Maritim (from Marea)
34:18 - 35:05 Hilmar O Hilmarrson & Sigur Ros - The Black Dog And The Scottish Play (from Angels Of The Universe OST)

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SubVersion Stop 86: Takeshi Nakamura's contribution to "Sonic Collage" (Pinecone Moonshine 009, also featuring Eschaton, Formication, dgoHn)

Horizons to some are desolate plains, peppered with upsetting prospects that cause us to retreat into our shell. Reversed, its an inimitably rich hotbed for discussion, where extroversion guarantees speakers a voice. Depending on surroundings, it can be squashed, set sail for failure, or bloom so segregation rules political quagmire. Much is survival of the fittest, a test of one's limits and preoccupations. Bewilderment can be irritating, and that's where strength of statement is penultimate.

"Drumfunk", think what you will, encircles these sentiments and hands down double-handed solutions. In drum & bass it was originally used by JMJ & Richie, but post-2000 breakbeat sampler Paradox propogated it to promote his funk influenced take on the genre. It's debatable whether drumfunk's stylists have broken ground from Paradox's coining, and subsquent diatribes, and if they wish to be part of it is another matter. It's either bludgeoning or elevating of credibility, but what is certain is it's spawning of a split on Subvert Central, a website tarred with the terminology brush, but actually containing more talk of outsider repertoire and subject.

Pinecone Moonshine owner Nic TVG is one individual seeing the benefits of adopting drumfunk as not a buzzword, but a term to loosely define product and its outcomes. In that sense, it consequently combats the sugar-rush of mainstream circus d&b constabulary, and pungent rudeboy attitude, something which replaced jungle's sexiness and left it to rot in the cold. Indeed, it has been said by underground heads that drumfunk is more like an extension of their beloved genre, before it commercialised and lost its exponential experimentation. Takeshi Nakamura, the latest artist on this independent entity, opposes pounding rhythmic orienteering over flippant fidget funk, hyperactive arpeggio chirping, atmospheric intrusions and subtle overlaying of miscellaneous fragments.

If the name doesn't ring a bell, it's likely that Nakamura's appearances on ambient netlabel Zymogen will have passed inspection too. Numbered rather that expressing narrative themes, only ordered by digits, the tracks merge into a coherent whole, with "1" supplanting an elastic swingbeat and tinny snares, enacting timbral gravity games with a bass groove that slithers like a wet discloth against stainless steel. "2" juts amen shards out from its underbelly, "3" warbles like a drunken rambler who's had his bottle taken, and "4" weaves melodies a la sunflower oil in stir fry, lubricating the tectonic activity and avoiding slapdash Squarepusher imitation. "Sonic Collage", surmised, finely advances a label that forages presentation and practicality lavishly on every level.

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SubVersion Stop 85: Baby steps?

Psychologists at the University of York have reported in the March 15th edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they have performed studies that are suggesting that babies may be born with a hard-wired predisposition to move rhythmically in response to music.

Dr Marcel Zentner says that children between five months and two years respond to the beat rather than the melody of a song. Another interesting finding is that the better the children were able to synchronise their movements with the beat, the more they smiled. There are currently no universally-accepted theories as to why humans adore music, and it is a major unresolved issue in biology.

The main theory is that human ancestral individuals who could respond empathically to rhythmic beats, for example the heartbeat, would be more likely to select mates, and would be drive natural selection to trigger a happy response to rhythmic beats at a similar tempo to the heart (approximately 60 bpm). An opposing theory is that an emotional response to music evolved as a response to some other stimulus, but it also happens to be relevant for music processsing.

The infants in the study listened to a variety of music from around the world, including classical music, dance music and speech. Their spontaneous movements were recorded by 3D motion-capture, with software to analyse the extent to which the babies matched their movement to the music. It is well-known that humans also involuntarily adjust their heart rate to match a beat which is around 60 bpm, suggesting even more strongly that there is an evolutionary advantage to be aware of how fast your heart is beating.

SubVersion Stop 84: SubVersion Recommends: Nils Frahm - Dance

"Music is a wonderful thing. I collected a few tracks which remind me why I like music so much.

01. Vassilis Tsabropoulos "The Other"

A magical piano composition. I think it is a very good opener for a mellow set. He also works together with cellist Anja Lechner. I highly recommend his work.

02. David Darlin "Dawn"

I don't think that anyone could resist this piece of music. I had it on my headphones and rode my bike through the snow and it stopped me freezing.

03. François Couturier "L´Eternel Retour"

Maybe my biggest contemporary piano influence these days. This piece is pretty harmonic, but I can tell you that he can teach you a lesson in atonal improvisation. It is simply mindblowing.

04. Alexei Lubimov - Alexander Trstiansky - Kyrill Rybakov "Spiegel Im Spiegel" by Arvo Pärt

Maybe Pärt's most famous composition in a wonderful clarinet version.

5. Dictaphone "Nacht EP"

One of the reasons why I wanted to move to Berlin. I listened to their music and couldn't believe how good their sound is. The founder Oliver Döring is also part of Swod. When you haven't heard Swod yet, then please don´t miss it!

06. Colleen "Babies"

One of my favorite Leaf releases.

07. Archivist "You Are Made Of Stardust"

Archivist is better known under the moniker Remote Viewer who was a member of Hood, before he focused more on his haunting organic electronica. He also released on the wonderful label CCO (City Centre Offices).

08. Erik Levander "Månen Viskar"

He is a wonderful clarinet player and composer. Solid gold.

09. World Standard & Wechsel Garland "Donde Lion Wine"

Isn't it nice how this piece picks up the compilation? That is also the reason why I put it in there.

10. Nick Drake "River Man"

Hmmm, I'll let the song speak for itself.

11. Serge Gainsbourg "Ballade De Melody Nelson"

Aha, now I know where Beck gets inspired. A huge album. I never get tired of it.

12. John Lurie "Bella By Barlight"

Stranger Than Paradise is a great movie and I think the music plays the main role. The perfect soundtrack for a rainy night in your car.

13. Bill Evans "Bella By Barlight"

A wonderful man who is probably one of the most respected piano players in the world. When I listen to the it makes me want to stop playing.

14. Valentin Silvestrov "Bagatellen 2"

The Ukrainian composer released a solo piano album on ECM which changed my playing quite a bit. When I am allowed to say that: this is the best sounding piano record I have ever heard. Beside that, the music is just brilliant, so subtle and calm.

I hope you'll have a good time listening to "Dance".
Nils Frahm"

www.myspace.com/nilsfrahm

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