noisefromthevoid

we go..

…that maybe you didn’t know about..

Released in 1987 under the pseudonym Disco-D, this is the first Larry Heard (aka Mr Fingers) track I ever picked up. Used to drop it at the end of my sets back in my London djing days. And this is one of those rare occasions where the you could casually throw in the term “deep house” without wanting to run for the exit. Deep, moody, introverted and slightly otherwordly. Perfect for my monday afternoon state of mind..

enjoy..

Disco-D - High Noon.mp3

“Hide from the light
neon in my head
electric shadow
full moon in my bed
and I say - she’s the one that I love..”

Join me Tuesday for some wicked and wild pagan idolatry as we celebrate the back end of the waning full moon. Songs of love, desire, magic and madness, plus a small selection of full moon classics. Only in the VOID..

VOID reedit - the wait.mp3

Wealthy the spirit that knows its own flight,
stealthy the hunter who slays his own fright,
blessed the traveler who journeys the night..

Yes it’s Tuesday, so join us as we take musical flight out to the furthest recesses of the eternal VOID..

9pm - 1am Sept 9th @ 90hz.org

“From the dark hill the huddled homes
Shine like sequins and sapphires;
Families each sealed inside
The frail fortress peace of mind requires

A switch is snapped, and the borderline
Between night and day is gone.
Between shifting sea and firm ground,
Between savage and civilisation

Sleep guides unseen
Into new territitory every night;
Abandons us to what we keep
Enslaved within the hours of light.” - The Sound

Join us as we take flight into the musical Void, somewhere between
instinct and surrender, somewhere between love and death..

9pm Tues Sept 2nd @ 90hz.org

I first fell in love when i was 17. She was only 2 years older than me, but in some ways it felt like 2 lifetimes. She loved music, was smart, fun and highly opinionated. She also had a boyfriend. But umm, that didn’t stop us. In between the late night sneaking, marathon sex, radical political discussions, bad jokes and cheap beer we also found time to listen to a sh*tload of records. As a consequence it was she that introduced me to much of the music from those turbulent early 80’s that I still adore today. And topping that illicit list of late night musical mischief would have to be The Sound, whose 1st and most mindblowing album “From The Lion’s Mouth” was in hindsight the perfect soundtrack to our doomed love affair..

The Sound were, like many bands I liked back then, refugees from the London squatting scene. They were also label mates with pop icons Echo and The Bunnymen, though they never managed to escape the Bunnymen’s shadow despite in my opinion being far superior musically. The Sound’s under appreciated musical talents lay mostly in the skills of their singer/guitarplayer Adrian Borland, whose undiagnosed bi-polar condition no doubt fuelled their music’s dark and powerful edge, giving them an almost hypnotic intensity that gripped you in a vice of human frailty and tragedy. A fitting description perhaps, as Mr Borland - like so many talented artists before him - couldn’t take the weight of his overwhelming manic depression and threw himself in front of a train a few years ago. But his sad death set off a chain of events that has led to the Sound’s music being rediscovered, revived from obscurity, and re-issued again on Renascent Records who’ve also been busy reissuing a bunch of music by the Comsat Angels, The Woodentop and Wild Swans amongst others..

Anyways onto the music, and I love The Sound so much I’m gonna share not one, but two favorites trax of their’s. Both of which I’ve played in the VOID many times. So enjoy, and thank f*k for youtube..

my ol’ matey Thomas (of Wicked & Rub’n'Tug) has been releasing some new music recently..

here’s what I consider the best of it. An amazing collaboration with Edward Ruscha who also produced the Dada Munchamonkey track that Garth remixed a few years back and I included on my Emotions Electrique mix CD..

but believe me this takes it to a whole ‘nother level..

so listen & enjoy..

the rose.mp3

I’m feeling wickedly twisted,

so yea, a pox on you!

listen - Silver Apples - a pox on you.mp3

I’m not gonna write much about about New York psychedelic legends Silver Apples, their music and history has been posted all over the internet in the last few years, plus you can go check their website for yourselves after you’ve listened to this dark and demented homage to love gone wrong that they released back in 1968. Yes 1968. Some folks were just waaaaaaay ahead of their time…..

Well it’s 40 years on, and the voodoo is going strong as one of the original members is performing again under the Silver Apples moniker, and in fact here’s a video of him from just a few months ago putting the pox on you..

and see you in the VOID tonight..

join me for more dreamy musical musings on the paradoxical nature of

life, love, loss, gain, the pleasure & the pain..

9pm Tues Aug 19th @ 90hz.org