the ambient paradise stage was excellent..great job Moreno and Paulo…thanks again.

I had the honor to be the “filler” dj between Dr.Nojoke and Murcof…and I did enjoy my djset a lot.

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At last weekend’s L.E.D. festival in London, Aphex Twin projected a mutated video of the crowd and used advanced face mapping technology to randomly substitute in his own evil grin.

after nearly 2 years I am back in europe…so many ppl !

an important date for me

after 6 months of paranoia…today finally I got my sentence…a good behavior bond…and I am a free man again (under supervision tho)

you can read the full story here :
http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2010/04/the-forbidden-flowers/

funny enough there was already a mauxuam…so I registered as salamaundra.

http://twitter.com/salamaundra

wicked idea from Sonic Charge (a very clever audio software indie by Magnus)

a web based random drum pattern generator that works with the sound engine of their Microtonic drum machine.

u can copy and save the patterns…and use them with Microtonic…a good reason to buy this plug…(apart of its amazing sound).

go for it : patternarium page

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this is the other remix…or version…or whatever….that i started during the mpc spacemix session.

the source loop is from the track Scramble 2001 on master margherita’s mpc

2 very long takes…recorded live at 5am circa in the yurt…improvising on ableton remoted by a launchpad and a remotezero…extensive use of audiodamage dubstation and bigseq

nessun dorma / nobody shall sleep
Dilegua, o notte! Tramontate, stelle! Tramontate, stelle! All’alba vincerò! Vincerò! Vincerò!”
(“Vanish, o night! Set, stars! Set, stars! At dawn, I will win! I will win! I will win! “)

3 clouds by merohedra (greg hunter’s new project) – 1 by expect resistance (rhythymic alias of maux) – 2 by lingua lustra – 1 by ennui – 1 by dionysiac and 2 by maux.

IP (Identity Problem)

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I just finished to read a great revolutionary book : expect resistance

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They called us bourgeois for urging people to abandon bourgeois culture.
They called us anti-worker for refusing complicity in exploitation.
They dismissed our advocacy of plagiarism as unoriginal.
They mocked us for producing paper bullets,
Then cried foul play when those projectiles hit their targets.
When we subsisted on crusts of bread, they insisted it was the upper crusts;
When we discovered cornucopias of abundance, they preferred their sour grapes.
We’ve been branded militants and dilettantes, black bloc and bête noire, primus inter pariahs.

We reply, as Marie Antoinette might have, that they can have their words and eat them too—like Samuel Clemens, we don’t care what our detractors say about us, so long as they don’t tell the truth.

Long ago, we embarked on the greatest adventure of our lives: the total rejection of hierarchy, submission, and tedium, of status and status quo. Seceding from an entirely colonized world, we cast ourselves as crash-test dummies in a life-or-death mission to smash through the walls of capitalism.

Contrary to all expectations, we’ve survived. To our surprise, we are now able to present Expect Resistance, a coded account of our adventures hitting those walls and a full report on our findings beyond them.

Printed in stunning black and red and bound in the skin of corporate executives, Expect Resistance is the perfect coffee table book for anyone who lives out of a backpack. Our writers have spent years experimenting with every possible extremity of existence; our editors have spent months hammering out imperfections and adding sickles to the periods to turn them into question marks; our designers, as everyone knows, are the best in the business, not to mention the best against it. A thousand sleeper cells across the planet prepare to swing into action as this announcement is typed.

Concerned citizens may object that some of the raw materials from which this book has been assembled have yet to enter the public domain; we ask them to think of Expect Resistance as a book ahead of its time.

To enjoy your very own copy of Expect Resistance, simply commit to a project as ambitious and absurd as our own, blunder obstinately forward for several years, then send a few dollars to CrimethInc. Far East to defray printing and shipping expenses. Better yet, save your money and request a copy at your local library.

Still in love with all of you and the amazing things we have yet to do–

–your faithful ex-workers

They will say we refused everything to make a beautiful but utopian negation—as if it were just a work of art we were out to create. They will say that, like generations of nihilists before us, we uttered our grandiose denial and then were driven by it into the wilds of oblivion. They will praise the product—product being their specialty—and deny the evidence. They will imply that we could not have lived—but we do live, we live!—and so we give you these fragments, this poorly charted record, to spit in their faces… or whisper in their ears as they sleep.

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Genova 2001 : nine years later

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this is the first one.

I used as sources 4 tracks from it ( Session #99 / 4drums /scramble 2001 / fishing…you can ck them in the soundcloud player of the album)…and added drums and FM synths. (loving Operator more and more).
this is a first take…recorded live (no timeline) in Ableton using the launchpad and many knobs.

mauxuam and master margherita : fishing (nightly build 1)

heavily dubbed, vocoded and phased…a live take plus some edits…in Ableton.

master margherita : mpc [spacemix by mauxuam]

download (mp3@320)

have a listen

master margherita : mpc

bakshish music presents a new adventure in sound :

mauxuam : wiggly bytes (download)

A collection of alternative mixes and previously unreleased tracks (apart of “after b4″ previously included in the comp “Future Memories” by Interchill Records), recorded and mixed between 2005 and 2007 and just remastered.
Guests on this release are Shiranami, Housemaker, Craig Organismic and Greg Hunter.

Wiggly music out of the grid of the usual tags…slow funky heavy beats layered with intense dark atmospheres and dubtronic echoes…a free range electronica without boundaries that explores soundscapes out of the map.
Uncertain futures, infinite possibilities, a multifaced raw reality escaping scientific glossy reason, there is no right choice and sometime the wrong way brings you to the right place in time….just before the announced apocalypse.

mauxuam is an experienced space navigator who lost his way home, a global gipsy and an unpredictable manouvrer.
He has been turning knobs and tweaking sounds for the past 25 years on many diverse and obscure projects.
He released the “controversial” album Viceversa in 2008 for Interchill Records (one of the best albums of that year for Mix Master Morris), and he is currently working on the online project Cloudcycle in collaboration with Greg Hunter and Master Margherita. Together with them he founded the collective Bakshish Music.

tracklist :

1 . wiggly bits – 6.39
navigated and mixed by maux @ sandokan in marina/it in 2k7

2. what was i doing ? – 9.19
by mauxuam and housemaker
guitar, bass, objects and percussions played by boris – navigated and mixed by maux @ metatron in london/uk in 2k7

3. after b4 – 6.15
electric piano played by greg hunter – navigated and mixed by maux @ sandokan in brighton/uk in 2k7

4. extended body (tabberdabber mix) – 7.43
by mauxuam and shiranami
bowed guitar and rhythms by shiranami – navigated and mixed by maux @ sandokan in bologna/it in 2k6

5. wiggly things ( the glitch mix) – 7.53
navigated and mixed by maux @ sandokan in brixton/uk in 2k6

6. jahnesh (tower mix) – 7.47
flute played by craig organismic – navigated and mixed by maux @ sandokan in bologna/it in 2k6

7. what was i looking 4 ? – 7.47 (available only for the subscribers and donators)
by mauxuam and housemaker
guitar, bass, objects and percussions played by boris – navigated and mixed by maux in amsterdam/nl in 2k5

all tracks by mauxuam apart : track 2 and 7 by mauxuam and housemaker, track 4 by mauxuam and shiranami.

mastered by mauxuam @ sandokan studio in 2kX – cover by maux.

included in the packs for the subscribers and the donators an extra track and hi resolution jpgs of extra artwork.

the israeli army attacked a turkish humanitarian ship bringing aids to the Gaza strip…and killed more than a dozen people.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10195997.stm

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it has been a looong ride…we did a lot of music.

http://cloudcycle.net/log/one-year-of-cloudcycling/

mauxuam + housemaker : what was i doing ?

mauxuam – wiggly bits

mauxuam + shiranami – extended body / tabberdabber mix

Master Margherita – Sul filo

but then I ended up with something very different…even if all the sounds in it are coming from the source (the mix above)
I layered it on few channels with different strips, mainly vocoders,resonators and reaktor (travellizer fx)…
I played live with it…did some edits…and last night (with the help of a little mushroom I found here in the field) I did this mix.
(maybe need some polishing…maybe not…)

mauxuam & master margherita – sul filo (in bilico rmx) {nightly build 3}

last night I was playing with feedbacks…4 send channels with different fx strips assigned to some knobs and feeding eachother….I ended up with this stuff, recorded live directly into audio…I might use it for a more evolved tune at one point.

fuori dal tempo rmx (original by Blue Vertigo) – released in 1998

slow (a rmx of the death metal band Kichiguy) – released in 1997

aka E.Olenikov aka Alltag, Tehran, Iran

http://soundcloud.com/sohrab

this was a great surprise…a “producer” from Iran…good tekno…and even better ambient !

sorry but I cannot embed the soundcloud players of his music since he doesn’t allow it…go and check it out directly on soundcloud…really…go.

very very fresh and alive techno.

i’m against the every-day-a-new-plug-in-mentality of todays music makers.
turning knobs, twisting sounds, jamming and getting deep into single sounds –
this is what i’m all about.

stay techno!

http://soundcloud.com/the-marx-trukker

http://forum.isratrance.com/mauzone/

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you can buy it from bandcamp (flac, mp3, etc)
or you can donate 6.66 euros here and get the complete wavpack

or if you are skint or just greedy….you can just subscribe with your email and get the mp3@320 for free

subscribe

mauxuam : anti-singles

tracklist :

after b4 – 6′14″ – 2008 (from Future Memories on Interchill)
bleeding 4 africa – 7′34″ – 2008 (from Tranchillizer on Peak Records)
a lot of sound – 10′36″ 2006 – (from Polymorphic Convolutions on Electronic Soundscapes)
ulezak – 8′37″ – 2005 (from Dissolving Clouds on Interchill)
jahnesh – 5′06″ – 2007 (from Sub Signals in Interchill)
sounds a lot – 8′00″ – 2006 (from Vajra on Indica)

IMO this is good music…that brings you nowhere :

samuel hall band : the big nowhere

The Black Dog – http://soundcloud.com/the-black-dog

http://www.theblackdogma.com/tbd/

no need  to intruduce this one…if you don’t know them just google it.
on their soundcloud some tunes and many great mixes and livesets…from ambient to techno passing by kraturock.

Sometimes – Ambient DJ Set Mix

Krautrock Return To The Source – DJ Set Mix

D.O.G Power – DJ Mix

The Black Dog Live at Syntek Lab, Moscow

and I want to post some of my favourites here.

some excellent ambient music to start with :

Mark Harris – http://soundcloud.com/mark-harris

http://www.phasestudies.co.uk
http://www.modulate.org.uk

I am an artist / musician / programer working in the west midlands, and member of the Modulate AV collective

I have an interest in using generative systems for the creations of art / music, and with creating pieces which gradually develop and change over time, I’ve recently developed a number of software applications allowing myself to work with these processes within a live performance environment. Recent projects include: “Birmingham Sound Matter” a project Instigated by Spanish Sound Artist Francisco Lopez working with six other sound artist working in the west midlands Culminating in a concert and CD release. live improvised AV performance with Modulate at the Center of Contemporary Arts, Torun, Poland, writing code for reactive audio visual compositions, audio compositions for sound and light installations and ‘Modulate 5.1’ – a DVD release in surround sound – collaborative audio visual compositions.

finally this amazing album is out there (bravo Darren…a step forward!)

produced by Darren Evans and Greg Hunter in 2007…and never finalized…it was hiding in remote hard disks for too long.

timeless organic space music…radiant…impulsive…immersive…no adjectives in my vocabulary can really describe it…

a MUST download…a MUST buy…

it will take you to amazing places…let it resonate.

http://sangitasounds.com/producers/spectralite/

The inimitible Greg Hunter (Dubsahara, Alien Soap Opera) set sail with Darren Sangita (Noodreem, Ashirvad) for a tryptamine fuelled sojourn thru the astral galaxies of musical magic.  Upon their discovery of new sound worlds, sparkly  universal resonances made manifest in unity of spectral hues.  With their aural kaleidoscopic views on life itself they were blessed with the Grace of the Gods and invested with the sonic alchemical mirrors of holographic delight.

Taking electroacoustic music to a new level of sophistication, this ethereal delight is already something of a connoisseurs classic on the Global ambient electronica scene, having been toured around Europe in previous seasons.  This is the Omega.v1 version of the album which may yet see another incarnation as the hyperspational mapping capabilities of this production team could yet be upgraded once we enter the Photon Belt.  Each piece on this modern hyperspace-age recording tells an epic tale. There are no set-to-repeat digital diamporhisms here, this is pure geometric isomorphism incontrovertibly elucidating on the nature of existence.

The Crest of the Digital Wave

The ocean of creation metasynthesised into the hyperreal aesthetica that we share and breathe. Surfing the light of crystalline consciousness and dancing in molecular recreation. Exploring the dimensions of metaprogramming and superconsiousness.
Rationalising the unrationalisable.

let’s see how this one works out

I started my bancamp ad)venture…buy or (I) die

http://mauxuam.bandcamp.com/

v.a.l.i.s. – amniotica

nature sound creation – evanS

Lost Legion Alien Collective was an entity that existed until 1997…we were 4 ppl…myself (under the name of Kyò)..YorgDK…Federico Bologna and Gianfranco Degli Esposti.
we released on Silent records (seminal ambient label from SF), on WigWam (german label of the old days) and on Alchemax,  plus tracks on many compilations of that time.
analog gear…meters of cables…midi…an Atari computer.

http://www.silentrecords.net/html/sr9470.html

here I am again…after a long silence…
…for the meantime…free….who knows till when.

I have been in jail…in sydney….(what a shithole).
2 months ago I got busted by the australian police growing my sweet marijuana plants…(not many)
I did 3 weeks in it…it was a very nasty experience…worst than in the movies.
they chuck me in a lockroom for 5 days…no telephone calls…no time out…not even cigarettes…not even a book…no nada…
i have been treated like shit…they abused of my basic (prisoner) human rights…
and then they sent me to a maximum security jail (after 14h trip in truck) in company with murderers and such.
now I am out on bail…my life is disrupted and totally scattered…crumbling…and not sure about the next future…waiting for a sentence.
just another episode of the ridiculous, painful and retrograde oppressive persecusion against a plant and the ppl who love to smoke it like me…
i imagine that the ppl who read this blog are enough evolved and i don’t need to explain and convince you about how stupid all this story is…but I am in it…sucked in…waiting to know my destiny.
only when you face the “justice” machine you realize how twisted it is…and how useless…just another corrupted biz…run by those idiots.

Cannabis

BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION
Family :
Cannabaceae
Genus :
Cannabis
Species :
sativa; indica; ruderalis
COMMON NAMES
Marijuana; Marihuana; Pot; Weed; Grass; Mary Jane; …
EFFECTS CLASSIFICATION
Intoxicant; Stimulant; Psychedelic; Depressant
DESCRIPTION
Cannabis, a fast-growing bushy annual with dense sticky flowers, produces the psychoactive THC. It is the most widely used illegal psychoactive and has a long history of medicinal, recreational, and industrial use. The fibrous stalks of the plant are used to produce clothing and rope.

http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_effects.shtml

http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_health.shtml

bakshish music presents another brave sonic journey :
shish003 – lingua lustra : ijatevuvun (download)

Some say language is a virus, some say it’s telepathy or maybe it is the exchange of pure bliss!
Bakshish’s dedicated crew now offers you, dedicated listeners, a sonic glimpse of psychic communication.
Sounds grow out of silence without breaking it, delicate atmospheres unfold, sometimes tense, sometimes soothing,
a story without words, a movie with eyes closed.
So here it is, a new jewel rolling out of the universal horn of plenty, a nightly, quiet, atmospheric one,
no need to drop acid here, the music will do it for you !

Lingua Lustra hails from Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Based in Holland and spending two years in England, Al Borkent’s musical activities span over the last 20 years. Being inspired by the likes of Tangerine Dream and Arvo Part among others, Al’s first group was Tookay as a singer and keyboardist of this four piece band, performing their own original material. Tookay shared considerable success in the Dutch midlands. Numerous bands followed, with Albert doing lead vocals, synths, or both.
After attending and dropping artschool mid-way, Albert was playing the keys in a new wave group called Voix Du Coeur which draw a lot of attention in the lowlands capital.
After an long period of creative activities in all kinds of experimental bands (among other projects there was a 7 piece band called Tingalumi and a squat group called MOV) up to the 90’s, Albert started an ambient-project called QAT, releasing mostly cassettes.
This period of ambient experimentation and experience, gave direction to the release of two ambient albums, under the Lingua Lustra moniker, on the Dutch label Practising Nature.

In 2009 Extramunda appears on Databloem, this is a collection of further evolved L.L. tracks. And in 2010 Desert Island appears on his own label Spherical Records ; a psychedelic mind-movie exploring new territory.
Albert is also recording as Sol for the new Athens based label Electronic Soundscapes.

this take is recorded live while playing with dummy clips…the launchpad and more knobs assigned to different fx…
the only sound not coming from the original edit is the new (wicked) Tattoo drum machine by AudioDamage

a great post on I Downloader about the Death of Music :

Music is not dying. Music is thriving.

- There are more people playing more kinds of music now than there have ever been in the history of the planet.

- More new musical instruments have been created in the last 50 years than in the last 5 centuries.

-  More money is being spent on music – on concert tickets, ring tones, music lessons, instruments, performing rights, MP3 players, soundtracks, recordings, band merchandise, etc – than ever before.

- More people are listening to more music more often than ever before- in their cars, on their MP3 players, on their computers, in the supermarket, restaurants, gyms, on elevators and in hotel lobbies as well as live
performances, CDs and yes, even vinyl.

- There are more ways to make money from music now than ever before, and more possibilities for unprecedented access to existing and potential audiences.

read the full post here : http://i-downloader.blogspot.com/2009/10/death-of-death-of-music.html

web 2.0 suicide machine…kill all your social networks with just one click…ooohhh…

http://suicidemachine.org/

i don’t do videogames…unless I am very depressed (not very often)
but few months ago I actually bought Osmos (10$) because I was curious…and finally during this holydays i had time to play with it…and i really enjoyed it (even if i wasn’t depressed).
i think it is wicked, and more than anything else the idea behind it is really clever.
the soundtrack of the game is a beautiful (but a bit too classic sometime) ambient album including Biosphere and Gas between the others,
every level has different tracks
Osmos by Hemisphere Games got very good reviews all around and won few prizes…and i reckon are all well deserved…

i wish to work on a similar project in the future

software to dig more :
Ableton Live is a great tool, and Max4Live is very sexy…spanky….but expensive…(and the marketing of it starts to be a bit annoying).

instead I am very intrigued by a couple of softwares that are very cheap…real bargains considered the quality…I can buy both of them
and still I am saving some dosh to go out on NYE (instead of buying the spanky max4live).

Renoise
a mod tracker…works like the old digital sequencers of 25 years ago…no timeline, no clips, NUMBERS.
great for obscure techno…but actually you can do anything with it… only 49 euros !
watch what you can do with Renoise and a Launchpad

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Reaper
a “normal” DAW (like Cubase, Logic)…but slimmer and smarter than those bloated whales…I love the GUI and more than anything I love their anti marketing campaign..

you can read on the website:

Honest Business Model
We offer a good product at a fair price.
We don’t spend money and effort on marketing, complicated piracy protection, or other things that do not directly improve REAPER and the user experience.
We think the good will generated by playing fair and being responsive to users is more valuable to our business than short-term profits.

No Intrusive Copy Protection
We believe that technological enforcement of copy protection is not in the best interest of our customers.

a full license cost 225$….BUT…if you are just playing with it and not macking any money…or even if your income from music is less than 20.000$ a year
(and I def make less than 20 grand a year from music), you can get the discounted license for 60$ !
(and anyway if you are a pirate you don’t need to crack it…but only deal with your karma).

on the top of that it works really well, has many plug ins included, and does internet streaming with Ninjam…and aldo distribute the cpu over your network…guck yeah
…it was about time… I am sold…actually…I am buying it.

he is one of the minds behind Ableton…and he does many workshops around the planet sharing his knowledge….and many other good things can be said about him…he is humble !

I met him at the Sonica festival 3 years ago where I had the honor to share the same stage (Deadbeat, Rhythm and Sound and Greg Hunter were there too)..that time he played in front of 30 ppl (maybe less)…while thousands where lobotomized on the main stage by some rubbish trance…but he delivered an amazing set…and he didn’t behave like a rockstar…even if many of the bloated rockstars (who were playing on the lobotomy (trance) stage) were actually using a software that he created…period again.

he just released Silence, a new album…(dunno where he finds the time to do music)…

I haven’t got it yet…and I am very curious.
I am very pleased to read that he also joined the movement to stop the Loudness War…and he didn’t use any compressors for this album…and no limiters during the mastering.
This is a link to a very interesting conversation about mastering between Robert and Rashad Becker, the guy who mastered it:
http://www.monolake.de/interviews/mastering.html
and it confirms what I wrote in the post “Mastering is killing music” more than 3 months ago…cheers.

the ambient mini album by Moreno is out…you can download it, buy it, donate for it…@ Bakshish Music website :

http://bakshish.me/wp/download/ambient-manifold

I mastered it and produced the first track “moded”…I think is good.

today I finish my 44th round around the sun…it hasn’t been boring so far.

Master Margherita : Prova Sonido

sometime all is crumbling…and the only thing left to do is to cry for help.
my life in the bush of ghosts has been the seminal album that probably  inspired me the most.
I did this remix a couple of years ago…using the stems on their website (thanks Brian, thanks David)….but I never uploaded it to them since is too long…(one day I will do a shorter edit)
Brian Eno and David Byrne : Help me somebody (mauxuam remix)

http://www.wordle.net

http://tagul.com/

Dubfix sent me this one last week

started to test the beta of Max for Live…
few crashes…but…wow…this is just the beginning…and maybe the end.

this is an unofficial alternative site full of good infos : http://max4live.info/

(still…I like Plogue Bidule more than Max…and Pure Data is probably the real thing)

Sacred Dub : Transmission 039

tracklist

it is absolutely hilarious to see the reactions of this buba buba bloated rotten psy(cotic)superstars in front of the tzunami that is flooding….
and anyway…piracy or not piracy (this is soo boring)…soon legal free music will be beating the copyrighted one for numbers of releases and even quality…oh yes…wait and see…

where the soul is alive.

music is again free from any constrictions and physical ownership…we can only let it flow…enjoy the ride…sing this song. (in the toilet)

the tonematrix

this is a long story…to cut it short…in Australia there are ridicolous download limits on your internet connection..and sometime they count your uploads too…

and I wasn’t aware of that at the beginning….so during the Cloudcycle production process I ended up with this bill (while I was house sitting for Ziv) : 22.333 $ (150$ for any extra giga over 60….can you believe it ???)

after some understandable panic…and many worries…finally yesterday the company cancel it

(thank for having mercy of us…telstra)…..pfffffff

this is why today I took off all my music from last.fm
(at least the one I could access…because some of the music on my name is managed by somebody elses…interchill maybe ?)

and I think that all of us microscopic music makers should do the same…and leave them with only rotten mainstream.

cheers

so….blah blah blah…you can read about who and what is HoeHLE here :
http://bakshish.me/wp/music/hoehle
you can download the music here :
http://bakshish.me/wp/download/hoehle-download

and you can taste it here :

I hope that you will like it.

this are the albums I am enjoying more in the last months…really loving it…

Badun : Last night sleep
released by my friends of Mindwaves.

I will not go long here telling you who are they and all the rest of the blah blah….just go on thier cute website and dig it by yourself:

http://badun.dk/

the other album is not so recent but I actually found it recently:

Fontanelle: Style Drift
released by Kranky in 2002

absolutely lovely…and alive…shame they didn’t release anything after that.

for those who like shopping, you can now buy our music in exclusive from only 2 specialized shops :

cloudcycle on addictech

cloudcycle on digital tunes

Cloudcycle is a bizarre experiment conceived by Greg Hunter (Dubsahara, Subsurfing, Alien Soap Opera, who also worked on some seminal albums of electronic music, amongst others with Orb, Killing Joke, Steve Levine, Matrix movie soundtrack) and mauxuam (unpredictable manouvrer who last year released his album Viceversa and has been turning knobs and tweaking sounds for over twenty years on many diverse and obscure projects).
two experienced space navigators who lost their way home, met eachother along the digital pipeline and forgot where they were heading to…and why. Master Margherita met them along the way and while trying to help them find a direction, got himself lost too…

Cloudcycle started one mad night 3 years ago and it is still morphing into new shapes…greg and maux have been shifting and drifting…working online at huge distance of time and space (greg in uk and egypt, maux in oz)…connected by the magic of wand skype….with no timeline, no deadline and no end.
Without knowing what to do and simply bored with the old music biz paradigma, they started to release this music as an audioblog on the net uploading the tracks as soon they finished them….including alternative mixes and demos and the samples to do your own remix.

Deep and heavy beats and out of nowhere melodies, slow techno and endless ambient drones….familiar with every genre without belonging to any trend, cloudcycle is a bunch of trip-a-delic dub-minimal-glitch-world-oddness, a spicy and scented delight for the senses…disappearing before you get hold of it…dissolving without trace…fractalized in micromacro syncronicities.
Richness to resonance, truth to tonality, esoteric emotions and subtle harmonies… a spontaneous outpouring from our side to the world, a musical invitation to experience and join for the pure reason of sharing.

Cloudcycle doesn’t sound loud as fuck…it’s not in your face…we praise the dynamic range…music is the silence between the sounds….pleasure relished in the unsquashed transients…we don’t fight in the loudness war.

in the moment we become so involved in the experience, we lose track of ourself, lose track of time, lose track of our identity…we become clouds.

WP-Cumulus – a cloud of tags with an amazing flash animation spinning the words around
(you see it on the right in this page)

WP pic-lens – cooliris for wordpress galleries…the wall of images..

WPtouch iPhone Theme – automatically select a slimmer theme for those browsing the blog on the iPhone

Viper’s Video Quicktags – easy way to embedd videos from youtube, vimeo and all of the others (pretty much).

Sociable – to be network friendly

SoundCloud Shortcode – off course…to easy embedd sets and tracks from soundcloud

Blubrry PowerPress – plug in to podcast…very good !

Audio player – yep…the audio player I use in this blog.

hyperwords : a must have…to search the web behind and after google…translate, convert currency and any sort of measure just clicking on a word….a great tool to crawl around.

cooliris : the coolest…no words

lastpass : finally stop to remember all the log in passwords to different websites and shops and registration forms…so useful.

down them all : download manager…no need to explain I guess.

speed dial : the famous multi panel page with the favourites

snipi : great to prepare galleries (for Word Press) with pictures found on the web

xmarks : syncronize your bookmarks with all your computers from the web

all in one side bar : the famous sidebar

I don’t need to write the link for adblock, do I ?

Click here to view the embedded video.

http://soundcloud.com/mauxuam

cloudcycle crashed
and since the php database is lost…also all the posts are lost…(apart of the media files…included the audio)./.

after 24h of php pain cloudcycle is back online (tnx 2 moreno for the help)

there is an hilarious thread on the ableton forum about the akai APC40….the dream controller…

http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=116396

(you need to login to see the amazing pictures)

it was also my first wireless set
i finally got a wii (just the controller) yesterday for 68 australian dollars
and using the magic osculator i hooked it to ableton…and had lots of fun with it
(tnx to kriss for raving about this)
i even gave it to some friends between the audience to play with…and they also had lots of fun
weeekeeed stuff
soon i will post a simple tutorial about using the wii and the iphone as remote controllers for ableton (or tracktor, or whatever midi).

nebula is up…

cloudcycle.net

we couldn’t decide what is it…an album…or a band…
so..for now it’s a website…a simple audioblog….

cloudcycle.net

the first 3 tracks  are already available for free download

mr David Abravanel recently wrote a very intellectual review of my album “viceversa” on the respected milkfactory blog/magazine…

i didn’t like it…neither kris and greg…so we did a review of the review…and they didn’t like it…

the milfactory on viceversa

off course me and greg failed to meet all the deadlines (if there were any)…
…..and it’s taking longer than expected….
this are the working titles:

cloudcycle
cloudcycle.cumulus (mix by mauxuam)
cludcycle.cirrus (mix by greg hunter)
cloudcycle.nimbus (mix by mauxuam)
cloudcycle.stratus (mix by mauxuam)
cloudcycle.nebulosus (mix by greg hunter)
cloudcycle.morning glory (mix by mauxuam)
plus more….

Tank-fx

“Tank-FX is a non-virtual effect device. The reverb is generated by
a huge [11m] tank made of ferroconcrete. We put some mics and
speakers in it and connected them to a unix box, so everybody can
use it now from the internet. To try it out, just upload some
audio material. It will be processed in real-time”

it has been a while I wanted to do this…

so…here it is…free download of my album viceversa in mp3 @ 320 kpbs
(no need to waste time searching for the torrent)

the zip file contains also the artwork

download viceversa.zip

to download register here with your email address.

the lastest weapon from audio damage
amazing multi modulation filter gate..I am really having lots of fun with it
a must buy
(…yes…buy….49$ !!!)

bigseq2 product page

today has been released an amazing album…blissful music….
one of my favourites since many years….
music that really touched my soul…and got me out of dark places.
I consider myself really lucky…having his music with me all this time before it got finally released.
now is out…you can download it…and donate for it.
bless u greg

greg hunter / dubsahara – metasurfing

DONATE !

the other night me and greg tried all what we could find.
we had much frustration with plug ins like virtual glass and dmn (digital musicians net)…nice gui…video chat but….no sound and no sync.
(btw at that time me and greg were the only 2 users online on this planet..?.)
so…I managed to route ableton output into the skype input and viceversa using jack….but sound quality was crap…
finally kris come on skype…and decided to help us….we went on reaper…and ninjam…

kris setup the ninjam server on his machine in london…greg was in brighton….me at 11h fuse difference in the bush in australia….
and well…it did work !…amazingly also in sync (sometime)….ogg vorbis audio files….session save…oh yes…the outcome wasn’t any masterpiece….but…we were all very exited and happy…kris and greg ended up going to sleep at 7am…we will try again….

bottom line…ninjam is open source…reaper basic license is 50 USD…

“…unless you are 100 percent happy with your current MIDI + Audio sequencer, you’d be a fool not to give REAPER a try. ”

reaper
ninjam – novel intervallic network jamming architecture for music

Sunday, December 14, 2008 4:13 PM
Albums of the Year – 2008
IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER here are some of the potential albums of the year

MGMT Oracular Spectacular Columbia JAN
Erykah Badu New Amerykah Pt 1 : 4th World War Motown FEB
Alio Die Aura Seminalis Hic Sunt Leones MAR
Quiet Village Silent Movie k7! APR
IG Culture Zen Badism Freedom School JP APR
Gel Sol Iz Upstairs/Psychonavigation APR
Kettel Myam James Sending Orbs APR
Ciaran Byrne Nine Lives Causeway Psychonavigation MAY
Mauxuam Viceversa Interchill MAY
2000 Black A New Set A Rockers Third Ear JP JUN
Sigur Ros Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust XL Records JUN
Various Here Comes Treble Treble O JUL
Animat Earplay Big Chill AUG
Lindstrom Where You Go I Go There Too Smalltown Supersound AUG
Carlos Nino Whats The Science? Elevation Instrumentals Kindred Spirits AUG
Digitonal Save Your Light for Darker Days Just Music SEP
Recloose – Perfect Timing Sonar Kollektiv SEP
Jazzanova Of All The Things Verve OCT
Helios Caesura Type Recordings NOV
Black Dog Radio Scarecrow Dust Science NOV

on myspace

what was I doing ?
blood of gaza

dark, slow and very heavy
available in mp3(320)-FLAC-WAV
creative commons license attribution-noncommercial-sharealike
so your are very welcome to copy, distribute and play with it.

buon ascolto

it’s really sad and frustrating
what is happening in gaza is pure horror
there is not much that can be done….they even ignore UN
israeli army as usual is strong only against people without any defense
we seriously need to start to boycott israel and all the businness related to it…
from jaffa fruits to waves plug ins…and isratrance too.
viva for the victims in gaza

so…a 2k8 (full of speed bumps) arrived to the end…

here we go into the next cycle

today israeli army entered gaza strip

can we do something about it ?

or we just sit and watch the show ?

btw….happy new year

“This is not the warm, fuzzy, uplifting Interchill you think you know. THIS release is all about the DOWNlift.
This is music to accompany the rush of adrenaline as you wait around a dark corner, about to beat someone’s ass.
Music to have in the background while you tell extravagant lies.
Music that doesn’t encourage a pleasant trip while under the influence of psychedelics.
Definitely NOT music to spin up for a sunrise party, unless you’re spinning in a dungeon with vampires.
This is music to kill robots to.”

more @ discogs

back online after long time on the road
summer at festivals and autumn in africa…till the desert.

I did few updates and “restyling” @ mauxuam.net and the setup of the cast page.

I like this, so does my dog…

different versions from the ones included in the album for free download

internet is shit

facebook…with friends like this…(from The Guardian)

“So by his own admission, Thiel is trying to destroy the real world, which he also calls “nature”, and install a virtual world in its place, and it is in this context that we must view the rise of Facebook. Facebook is a deliberate experiment in global manipulation, and Thiel is a bright young thing in the neoconservative pantheon, with a penchant for far-out techno-utopian fantasies. Not someone I want to help get any richer.” Tom Hodgkinson on The Guardian

and new drawings in the neetz gallery by anita gabrielli:
neetz gallery

viceversa digital cover

Dreamcreation – summer issue 2008

Mauxuam – Viceversa [Interchill]
Mauxuam, Maurizio or Mau, whatever you call him will not change the effect his music has on you. His granular modulated music is dipped in wild apple juice and left to oscillate in the wind. Each time you look at these vibrating soundscapes they become more involved and the textures transform continually. Mauxuam’s album is an ever evolving teapot, refilling itself with fresh herbs on every track whilst still retaining the tangy flavours of the previous ones. Kick back, enjoy and be curious.

Pieman

Does your name mean anything ?

mauxuam is a palindrome – a word from the language spoken on the planet Ummo where I lived for a few years.
Everybody is telepathic so they speak using words very difficult to pronounce and without meaning to make jokes and laugh at the sound of it.

tell us about your musical history.

I started to do music a long time ago. In 1989 I founded the Lost Legion Alien Collective which had many different releases throughout the 90s in europe and america. One of our creatures was Ohmega Tribe, an ambient trance project that released an album in 1995 for Silent records – a seminal ambient label from SF – as well as many tracks on compilations. Our live band was Technogod, kind of a industrial hiphop crossover. We did 3 albums and a few european tours as the supporting act for Meat Beat Manifesto, Young Gods and Consolidated. We split in 1997 and I continued for a few years as a producer in the italian music industry doing remixes, productions and soundtracks for adverts. I got so disgusted by that commercial filth that I dropped out, sold all my equipment and I went traveling without a fixed base for many years. I only started to write some music again 4 years ago as an hobby – this time as a professional amateur.

Your music has a really spacey and psychedelic flavour to it, what’s influenced its creation ?

do you think so ? I guess that my experiences with psychoactive substances has something to do with it…but also the reality show, the apocalypse approaching, the human ordeals, the weather, nature, the universal spirit, my demons, my lovers.
Music is out there, I grab it, channel it, mix it…usually at late night.
Very often the tunes are taking control and they start to evolve by themselves, they have their own life.

When it came to writing an entire album, how did you decide to approach it ?

I decided to re open, remix and deconstrukt my tunes with the intention to output a sound, fresh and coherent in time – in the now. My goal was to break through the parameters of the psychilldub scene, to explore new territories, take some risks, to surprise myself and to be curious again. I locked myself in somewhere desolate, most of the time without even internet and did a disciplined baba life for a few months. I let myself go mad with it.

Please tell us about a couple of your favourite tracks and why they are your favourite

my favourite tracks ever ?
Future days by Can (1972) – a seminal tune that has elements of much of the music nowadays.
Can’s music was truly psychedelic and experimental, endless tunes that you can drift away on.

Shakara by Fela Kuti – trances me out everytime, I can’t stay still, fu#*ing hell, I HAVE TO DANCE.

You also are a visual artist, do you work as a painter or only with moving electronic visuals, how long have you been doing this and what do your images try and convey ?

I am honestly very bad at painting and drawing.
I only play with software and I don’t really see myself as an artist but more as a navigator. I started to play with visuals during my 7 year break from music, it was refreshing to work on animations and graphics. my images are not trying to convey anything really, they are mainly abstract canvas where you can actually see and project many things.

occupation 101

we did this video togheter in 2002 in the himalaya mountains in india.

Gordon did the holographic video…I did the editing/cutting/fx on the computer.

the soundtrack is mine, Wiggly Things (the glitchmix).

the voice sample is taken from a speech of Alan Watts and it is used by kind permission of Mike Watts

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