Things i have been doing over the last couple of months.

1) Working on material for some new releases. Announcements will come whenever details get sorted i guess.

2) Getting to know Colz and Konspiracy of the Standard Crew, sound heads with piles of talent who seem happy enough to give me advice and help, which is greatly appreciated.

3) Buying Technics. The bullet was well and truly bitten and i picked up a pair of 1200 MK2′s last night. Had some wee sessions today with Ganjdalf (Tumbleweed) and Welfare (generally fucking bass warrior). Proper back2backage on the way tomorrow with Welfare and then should be meeting up with the aforementioned Konspiracy soon to get absolutely schooled. That dude can mix like a motherfucker.

4) Watching movies and generally being disappointed by them. Despite the Box Office gross, Hollywood was never really a place where you would expect to find a great movie, but they did have a habit of making good ones. For some reason over the last 12 months it all seems to have gone to shit. No idea why. I’ll be sticking with Asian cinema for a while i think. Hollywood, sort your fucking head out.

5) Playing computer games and generally being impressed by them. It seems all the writing talent has jumped ship to computer games.

6) Running Stomp on a every two week/Thursday night Flex. And it’s doing well. So far we’ve had SubOne and CJ Fitz and Welfare and Don Rosco. Up next week SectionFive and Konspiracy and that will be followed up by Eomac and A-force. It’s been fun and it goes out live on Ustream. You can watch it at the following address.  http://www.ustream.tv/channel/stomp-southwilliam

7) Kicking it with AK of the Theoretics. Sound skin? I think so.

That’s about it for now, i’ll try and get into the habit of updating this more often, and being less Aido centric, but I’m thinking about starting a new blog for general Irish electronica bizzle. We’ll see how that works out though.

Get it.

 <span><a href=”http://soundcloud.com/milyoo/what-it-is”>What It Is</a> by <a href=”http://soundcloud.com/milyoo”>milyoo (mēl-yü)</a></span>

Big shout out to the Dirty Radio crew who will be broadcasting a one hour mix i did for them later today(8pm UK time). Fill with my own productions i had a bit of fun with it and maybe mixed in a some tracks i am sometimes guilty of ignoring. A smooth ride, then a bump ride, plenty there for various fans of various styles. Just click here to go and listen to it.

Tonights !K club ( a benchmark night on the Dublin scene when heads from all the crews show up to see who’s gonna drop what and an eager and avid crowd gathers to support the guys on stage ) saw the last Irish gig of Prince Kong before he takes himself off to Berlin. An interesting character to say the least, i’ve been lucky enough to chat to Kong a couple of times and i have to say, i like the guy. Mild mannered and polite, quiet and well spoken…it all falls apart on stage to reveal a true master of, and monster at, vicious electronic music. Crunching kicks and ludicrous bass come at you so hard and so fast it’s like being in a fight…and in a way it is. Your really just trying to keep your head above water, move with the blows and survive to the rare lulls when you recoup, reset your head and get stuck into the next wave of sound that is going to come pouring your way.

I could go on, but i won’t….going on is not something i am capable off right now…all i will say is, if you are lucky enough to see a poster that tells you Prince Kong is doing a gig near you…remember the date and go to it. Polish up your bass face and leave your social sensibilities at the door, plug directly into your hind brain and just cut loose.

The Standard Crew are in a party mood if the new Standard EP (No.3 in what must sure becoming one of the most anticipated montly releases on the Irish scene) is anything to go by. Leading with the impressive “Imperial” by Major Grave and Bob, it’s a fat slice of grime that bounds along and is sure to get dance floors heaving. Opening with a hefty strings melody that soon glitches and twists it’s way into a hard hitting percussion line that leads with an almost omnipresent kick drum your pretty much instantly moving. The groove is tremendous and infectious before breaking down into 8-bit sounds and vicious bassy kicks until eventually the jar is all the way full and the track spills over the edges as all the elements find a sudden unity and you just know in a dark club towards the end of a long night you’d have a lot of hands reaching for a ceiling that was dripping.

The Gon remix seems to grab the heart of the song and submerse it in murky water, the melody and the funk remains but everything has taken on an odd audio murk that hints at a whole lot of fun being had at someone else’s expense.  It’s still the same party but by now it’s been going on for 36 hours and only the hardcore are still dancing. Everything takes a sexy turn with the arrival of a well worked wobble that’s dressed to kill. This is not your typical “slap a wobble on it remix” either, the additional bass elements are mild and complimentary, designed to work within the original sound of the track, not overpower it. Married with the percussion, it’s a match made in heaven.

The Colz remix is one of the most interesting conflagrations of sound i have heard in some time. The track takes any number of side roads and byways on it’s journey, imagine walking down a street with a dozen clubs all pumping different versions of the same track, occasionally overlapping, swelling around each other until you hit that sweet spot right in the center where you can hear them all and it all sounds so good.

Follow the link below to grab the EP.

http://smokelessfuels.blogspot.com/

Subersus on the !K Mix.

After “blowing the roof off” the !K club when we played there, the lads asked us straight away if we were down for a mix for them. Needless to say we were chuffed at the offer. So we went back, ensured a level of happiness with the mixdowns of the Subversus tracks that allowed us to feel we were happy with them and selected some self productions from the Shatterfreak and Welfare vaults. Mixed on the decks via the awesome magic of Serato we came up with the below.

Big ups the !K crew for the continued support.

http://kaboogie.net/audio/item/k-mix19-subversus-break-the-banks/

Got the Urge to Splurge….

…good beats, for free. When Morphamish asked me if i wanted to do something with his Urge Mode imprint i jumped at it. Being a fan of his productions and the sounds he is pushing with this free net label it was the kind of decision that is pretty easy to make. There be a 4 track EP coming soon, and on a personally trip i’d love to do more stuff with them in the future, so stayed tuned.

We built this city…

on the hard work of good promoters it seems, and they have been most welcoming we it comes to me wanting to do my thing live. Having knocked out gigs for !Kaboogie, Reach and my own Stomp night, there will be more coming, just check the below list for list of what goings down when and where.

Upcoming Gigs :
15th May as Subversus @ Clinical Chaos, Space54, Dublin
27th May as Subversus @ Pubstep, the Vineyard, Cork.
11th of June as Subversus @ Gamepak , Twisted Pepper, Dublin
26th June tba
9th July as Subversus tba

Standard EP #2

The good folk at Standard have done it again, releasing four smashing tracks for free download. With an instant flow of questions about when they were going to start CHARGING for these they humbly ignored it, but i am really hoping that the lads manage to parley this project into a paid model, and i hope it does really well for them. The simple truth of the matter is that the majority of mixed artist EP’s, let alone free ones, simple don’t have the production values and general bad ass sounds that are going on here. Get it. Now.

http://smokelessfuels.blogspot.com/2010/05/standard-ep-2.html

Finally, i am gonna leave you with some funky new business i have worked up recently.