Resident Advisor Interview

I did an interview for Resident Advisor [LINK]. It's studio focused, so mostly it's for the hardcore music tech geeks and synth nerds among us, but even if you're not an über geek there's some wonderful pictures to look at.

Slutty Fringe Mix

I've done a mix and a little interview for Slutty Fringe. I think it's my favorite mix I've done yet, although I've only one 3 ever (the other ones are here and here), so I'm still not going about to call my self a DJ. Anyway, doing the mix I took the excuse to dig out some of my only sound-fx and library record, so expect the occasional engine noise and clock strike. Next time I'm going to try and use that scream that's in all films somewhere.

Slutty Fringe Mix Series # 14 Luke Abbott by Slutty Fringe on Mixcloud

Mix on Vessel

I probably should have blogged this sooner, in fact i may have done so already and forgotten, but either way... I did a mix for Vessel Music, you can find it here. It's got some lovely tracks in it I think, but I would say that coz I chose them. The high point is the R Stevie Moore track 'Skin Mags', which is quite possibly my favorite recording ever. Anyway, listen to it loud and please excuse all the vinyl crackle.

Guernsey style...

our new friend Ex Pylon (aka Nichol) has been lurking on myspace for a while, you can check out his page HERE... his tunes are like tubes of kick-arse being thrown at your face... anyway, he's done a remix of my track 'melody120'... you can listen to it on MY MYSPACE PAGE!! woooh.

The Incredible Mechanical Music Museum

Hidden away in a large shed in Cotton in the depths of Suffolk is the Mechanical Music Museum. In a rather obtuse move to keep people away, they only open it on Sunday afternoons for 4 months of the year, but if you're feeling adventurous on a Sunday some time before the end of August then it's definitely worth a trip.

They've got all kinds of amazing things including a Cinema Wurlitzer which is an organ that's connected to a whole room of things that make noise that can disappear into the floor at the touch of a button... awesome. They've got loads of music boxes and pianos that play them selves that they demonstrate for you on their tour, and lots of those huge things that you used to see at the fair ground in Victorian times that are really really loud...
They also have a lot of strange and wonderful things cluttering up the place, the best of which is a monkey with a tail erection.

night train

bank holiday weekend was spent mostly in the garden, i listened to night train almost all weekend with the occasional rest to listen to time further out.