PAROXYSMAL DISCHARGE » trance http://ukiro.com Poorly filtered brain leakage Fri, 28 May 2010 19:23:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 DJ report: Belgium round III http://ukiro.com/2009/09/08/dj-report-belgium-round-iii/ http://ukiro.com/2009/09/08/dj-report-belgium-round-iii/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:52:43 +0000 Ola http://ukiro.com/?p=69 I played a DJ set in Belgium this weekend, where Psykovsky and Cosmosis played live. So it was kind of big, but my morning set (I got on at 8am) got a slightly smaller crowd than last year. Nevertheless, the Belgians know how to stir up a dancefloor riot, and here’s a short glimpse of when I played my favourite track off of Filteria’s “Heliopolis” album:

I arrived just 40 minutes before I started playing, since I had to get up at 6am on Saturday to catch the flight to Brussels and hence needed to get some sleep before playing. Then I also had to jump into a cab to go straight to the airport after my gig, so I didn’t get to socialize much. Thanks however go out to Arne for booking me, Joske and Sammy for their neverending hospitality and friendliness, Philip for the record (nice to finally meet!), Matthias for buying some vinyl from me and Billy (Cosmosis) for the nice handover and for being such a nice bloke.

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The trees will eat the sky this weekend.

]]> http://ukiro.com/2009/07/02/schedule-change/feed/ 0 The yearly Swedish forest gig http://ukiro.com/2009/07/01/the-yearly-swedish-forest-gig/ http://ukiro.com/2009/07/01/the-yearly-swedish-forest-gig/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:12:00 +0000 Ola http://ukiro.com/2009/07/01/the-yearly-swedish-forest-gig/ full sunlight. The music will go from dusk hypnoticism to orgasmic sun worship (as if Filteria doesn’t provide enough [...]]]> My first and possibly only outdoor gig for the year is going to be this upcoming weekend. The flyer:

Pretty damn sweet lineup if you ask me! I’m playing 03:30 – 06:00, which means early dawn -> full sunlight. The music will go from dusk hypnoticism to orgasmic sun worship (as if Filteria doesn’t provide enough sun worship =).

I will also play in the chillout, from 22:00-00:00 if all goes well. I will be playing Steve Roach music exclusively, hopefully getting him some new fans. Come early and enjoy 2 hours of initiation ritual to the most mesmerising ambient on the planet.

Anyone in the Stockholm area who’d like to come, let me know in the comments and I can hook you up with the info.

]]> http://ukiro.com/2009/07/01/the-yearly-swedish-forest-gig/feed/ 0 I’m a big boy now http://ukiro.com/2009/04/21/im-a-big-boy-now/ http://ukiro.com/2009/04/21/im-a-big-boy-now/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:04:00 +0000 Ola http://ukiro.com/2009/04/21/im-a-big-boy-now/ So I finally have an artist entry on Discogs thanks to poking Jannis in the kidneys while he’s making music. Some short comments on the two tracks from his latest album that had me involved:

Filtertraces – this was a complete track that was pretty nice, but we sat down one day and completely rearranged it, added layers and tweaked pretty much everything. It was me shouting commands and Jannis sweating over the mixing desk and synths. I’m not sure how it happened, but that day was pure magic in the studio, and everything just fell into place flawlessly. I love this track.

Infinite Regression – We wanted a really powerful track for the album, in line with the bigger beasts off of Heliopolis. It ended up a collage of bits and pieces from half-finished, discarded tracks and stuff we made up in the studio. We were really struggling to get it finished and neither of us really got into the same flow we had for Filtertraces. But even though it’s not the coherent whole we envisioned and it doesn’t flow as well as Filtertraces, I honestly think it’s a relly good track now. It would be fun to revisit this and make a live mix to see if we can find that magic flow again.

Some samples:

]]> http://ukiro.com/2009/04/21/im-a-big-boy-now/feed/ 0 I’m on myspace now http://ukiro.com/2009/04/06/im-on-myspace-now/ http://ukiro.com/2009/04/06/im-on-myspace-now/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:43:00 +0000 Ola http://ukiro.com/2009/04/06/im-on-myspace-now/ …and yeah, I’m a bit ashamed about it. Not enough to avoid posting this, but still. I have actually had the account for some time but never did anything with it. So over the weekend I made some half-hearted (at best) attempts att designing the thing, and put up some partial tracks I had lying around. I never finish anything and they’re not really the second coming of Simon Posford, but whatever. OK, enough buildup:

http://www.myspace.com/ukiro

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