Punk Meets Breakcore Mashup

Great looking gig: The Junction, Stokes Croft, Bristol, Cost: £2/3 - starts at 9pm. Parasite, Officer Down, War Against Sleep and more!!!

Bristol Smash bring you our third party at The Junction, with live punk, dub, hip hop and more. This time we're raising funds for anti-fascist organisations and charities. So come along to Smash fascism, and stick your middle finger up at the BNP. Or just come along for a good party, and listen to some of the best musi...c on offer from Bristol and beyond.

Original event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=340593934377&ref=ts

Save the Black Swan Radio Special!

Big thanks to Parasite and Anakissed to stepped in with special guest Svengali from Mongrel to talk about the closure of the Black Swan club and music venue in Easton, Bristol and played music from nights/artists who've performed there. I have to say the music in this show is AMAZING - some of the music that has gone down at the Swan over the years is just sublime. Woo! Woo!

The Black Swan – Bristol’s 1 and only underground music venue has been closed due to new licencing laws and we’re here to oppose it! Joining Anakissed and Parasite in the studio is special guest Svengali from Mongrel who is part of the campaign to stop the Swan from closing it’s doors for good. We drop a selection of live sets from artists who played at Toxic Dancehall to give you all a taster of the variety of music you’d be likely to hear at the Swan. We also tell you how you can do your bit to save the now legendary venue.

Tracklisting:

1. Shitmat – Live @ Toxic Dancehall 3 (24/01/03)
2. End.user – Fear (Hymen)
3. The Bug – Live @ Toxic Dancehall 3 (24/01/03)
4. Bong-Ra – Gideon War (Hydrophonic)
5. Grinderman – Go Tell The Women (Anti-)
6. Himuro Yoshiteru – Hopeless Monsters (Tangram Disc)
7. Broken Note – Crux (Ad Noiseam)
8. Aaron Spectre – Live @ Toxic Dancehall 9 (11/06/05)
9. Krumble – Time To Burn (Death$ucker)

Download/stream the show from here. Also see the links about how you can help the campaign on the same page.
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Music, Sweet Music

Sometimes I get so busy ranting and stuff about the sad state of the world and the all too many waka-loons and twats who inhabit it, that I get a bit down.

Well Bristol's own Parasite has posted an amazing breakcore mashup that is totally rocking my world today.

Thanks, Parasite!!!
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Goatlab Radio Show March '09

This month’s Goatlab Radio Show is brought to you by Parasite, Dan Gusset, Anakissed and very special guest Sam Atki2 (one half of Monkey Steak)! Sam is here to celebrate the release of Monkey Steak’s latest EP on Sleazetone (that’s Chris Murderbot’s funky bad-ass disco label!) and the upcoming MONSTER BASS 2 party that is happening on Saturday 4th April 2009 @ the Black Swan in Bristol. The show also features some exclusive Death$ucker dubplate action and Savage Moon Remixes!!!

Download the show here: Goatlab Radio March 2009

Tracklisting:

1. Logosamphia - antiJacketRainFromPersia - Gussets Jungle Fury Mix
2. Monkey Steak - Veuve Edouard (Sleazetone) EXCLUSIVE!!!
3. The DSC - WooHaa (Death$ucker) EXCLUSIVE!!!
4. Leafcutter John - Big Black Eyes (Bluermutt remix)
5. Actress - Crushed (Werk)
6. Himuro Yoshiteru - Level 1-4 Remix (Savage Moon Remixes)
7. Bruce Stallion - Screw You (Proboscus)
8. Octa Push - Ai Nadia (dubplate)
9. Monster Zoku Onsomb! - Children of the Atom (Death$ucker)
10. Ec8oR - Gimme Nyquil All Night Long (Digital Hardcore)
11. Dinga Dinga Dee - Israeli Rafael’s Indian Promo


More links...

GoatLab Radio Feb '09

Is now up here; link MP3.

With Anakissed, Anarchist606 and American Paul.

Download: Goatlab Radio February 2009

Tracklistings:

1. Pretty Much Fucked - Mindless Faith
2. Vienna - Ultravox
3. Inside - Adult.
4. Destroy 2000 Years of Culture - Atari Teenage Riot
5. Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue
6. Bruce Springsteen - Ghost of Tom Joad (Live)
7. Baby Please Don’t Go - Bukka White
8. 6th May - Cranes
9. The Rip - Radiohead (cover of Portishead song)
10. Dis Flower - Harry Belafonte (from Carmen Jones)
11. Wallflower - Switchblade Symphony

http://www.thegoatlab.com/



Plus Parasite is on A New Band A Day!

Woo!

Woo! Go Drumcrops!

Featured on my new favourite website; A New Band A Day....is Drumcorps!

Today's New Band, Drumcorps (geddit!?), are an unabashedly end-of-the-week act. Not for Aaron Spectre (for it is he) is the delicacy and subtlety of a novelty instrument like the Stylophone.

His philosophy is, "If it don't clank, don't record it," and so his songs are inevitably noisy, disturbing affairs that are what hell would look and sound like if the devil designed it on a Commodore 64 in breaks between jamming with Atari Teenage Riot. Down is a spastic, grunting shove in the back from a sinister stranger, thrashing and screaming fear like a cornered animal. Thin Retro God batters your ears into weeping submission with guitars that sound like awful machines, vocals that sound like a voicemail from Thor and drums that sound like your heartbeat after being directly injected with adrenalin.

Drumcorps make music that turns most of us into genre tourists - you'd like to go and have a listen now and again, but you wouldn't want to get stuck in a room with dedicated fans, for fear of losing teeth or limbs in an inevitable mosh. But the music is a wild eye-opener and considerable relief from the safe, bland indie that unfortunately blights our lives.

Rawk!
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Goatlab Radio Show January 2009

It's out and it's back! Amazing line up of music, interviews and much more....

Full listing info is here.
MP3 is here.
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New GoatLab Show!

Check it out...

Download the show here: Goatlab Radio with Anakissed, Parasite & Dan Breakwhore - December 2008

Tracklisting:

1. B.I.N.T. is P.L.U.R.
2. Wet Dog - Fuk you you fucking cunt bastard fuker 2 with stepverb
3. Schlachthofbronx ft. Jah Dan & 77Klash - Brooklyn Anthem (Parasite Mashup)
4. Breakwhore - Get Your Log Out
5. Plain Jane - I Love You Like I Love Myself
6. Shitmat - Sniffer Dogs
7. General Disarray - Intergablactic
8. Mahalia Jackson - I’m Gonna Live The Life I Sing About in My song
9. Miriam Makeba - Pata Pata
10. Microphyst - Idiot Sound Dat
11. Raxyor - Unknown
12. Dorothy Dandridge (from Carmen Jones) - Dere’s A Cafe On De Corner
13. Twice19 - Here I Wait
14. Gizmode - Techsik Duncehall

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New Radio Show

Parasite has done a new site for TheGoatlab, which looks cool and myself and Dan Gusset have just posted a new radio show!

Enjoy!

Post-Lab

Great night, fun party. Thanks to all who made it happen!



Next GoatLab - St.Pauls Carnival Afterparty, free at the Black Swan!

Emma's top photo's here.

Glastonbury Picks

I am going to be at Glasto this year (if all goes to plan) rocking-out so I thought I would share my picks from the events there. Music-wise, the No.1 venue has GOT to be the House Of Doll Tent Glastonbury 08, Trash City, its an amazing line-up, turned to 11;

THURSDAY:
DJ'S MR HYDE & JNKY (DJ SET)
DJ TENDRAW (DJ SET)
MULLY (LIVE)
LE COUTEAU JAUNE (LIVE)
DJ BUMPANDGRINDMAN SAGE (LIVE)
SHITMAT (LIVE)
DJ STIVS (DJ SET)
CLOSE

VISUALS: WEIRDCORE

FRIDAY:
DJ'S
DJ TENDRAW (DJ SET)
HORACIO POLLARD (LIVE)
DJ NASTY MCQAID (DJ SET)
K-TRON (LIVE)
TEAM PLASTIQUE (LIVE)
ED COX (LIVE)
DJ BUMPANDDRINDMAN SAGE (DJ SET)
MR HYDE (DJ SET)

VISUALS: WEIRDCORE

SATURDAY:
GABBA AROBICS
EXPO HOURS
WRONG MUSIC
MC GAFFY (TBC)
ROMVELOPE (LIVE)
DJ TENDRAW (LIVE)
DEMON CABBAGE
SHITMAT (LIVE)
PARASITE (LIVE)
DONNA SUMMER (LIVE)
DJ NASTY MCQUAID (DJ SET)

VISUALS: WEIRDCORE

SUNDAY:
FILM SRCEENINGS
HORACIO POLLARD (LIVE)
DJ'S MR HYDE & JNKY (DJ SET)
K-TRON (LIVE)
TEAM PLASTIQUE (LIVE)
LE COUTEAU JAUNE (LIVE)
ED COX & DJ STIVS (LIVE)
DJ'S TENDRAW VS SAGE, NASTY & HYDE (DJ SET)
CLOSE

And of that must-see's are Stivs, Shitmat, Donna Summer and Ed Cox (clowncore!) and Bristol's own PARASITE!

Other music I am hoping to see is Seth Lakeman (Sat, Acoustic) Manu Chao (Sat on Pyramid Stage & Sunday Jazz world), Seasick Steve (Acoustic Friday and Sat on Pyramid Stage), Joan Baez (Sunday, Acoustic), Billy Bragg (Sunday, Left Field), Kate Nash (Friday on Pryamid Stage & Friday on Left Field and also Friday on Queens Head - she's busy!), Cassette Boy & DJ Rubbish (Glade on Sat).

Oh and DJ Donna Summer (aka Jason Forrest) is also on the Glade Stage. Check it out.

Plus non-music type things we have my picks of John Hegley (Friday & Sunday, Poetry & Words Tent), Attila the Stockbroker (Sat & Sun, Poetry & Words Tent), Miscarriages of Justice UK Campaign (Left Field, Friday) plus all the campaigns in the Green Fields and stuff!

Have a good one!

GoatLab Radio June 08

Parasite has done a great show!

Goatlab Radio with Parasite & Bong-Ra Interview - June 2008

Tracklist:

1. Himuro Yoshiteru - Wet You
2. Amph - My Girl (ft. Cauto) (Mutant Sniper)
3. DJ Donna Summer - Wonder Years (Cock Rock Disco)
4. Filaria - Bruce Lee Perry
5. Gromov - Coma Gain (Allergy)
6. Hudson Mo - Ooops! (Wireblock)
7. Kamerat Tord - Loona (unreleased!)
8. Michael Montano - Madder Dan Dat (Ghislain Poirier Remix)
9. South Rakkas Crew - Mad Again
10. Venetian Snares - Eurocore MVP (Planet Mu)
11. Vex'd - Crusher Dub (Planet Mu)
12. Venetian Snares - Miss Balaton

Hear it at: http://dswat.streamlinetrial.co.uk/thegoatlab/?Radio

See you at the 'lab tonight....
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GoatLab Rocking It



The last goatlab was a wicked night out, really good fun and some amazing music so a big thanks to all for putting it on. Metro ran an interesting interview with the headliner, Symtheme;



And Parasite's daughter, Rhapsody, drew a Dalek with a guitar to commemorate the night!



Translation of Rhapsody's text here, more photo's here.

See you at the next one on 20th June!
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Solstice GoatLab Aftermath...The last GoatLab was great! Big up to all the artists and performers and the goatravers - 'twas a wicked night. Here is a sample photo by Gusset, more here and some great photos by Emma. Cheers, y'all!

And the next one....oh yes....

The GoatLab Party! Parasite's 30th Birthday Bash! Friday 15th February, The Croft, Bristol starts 10pm.

Come and join Death$ucker records head-honcho and acclaimed breakcore producer Parasite with friends to celebrate his 30th Birthday with a massive line-up of mash-up talent. Coming along to help the festivities are The Doubtful Guest (who has a new album out on Planet Mu!), Pisstank, Exillon (a Bristol debut!), Bristol punk legends Spanner, Anakissed on VJ as well as crowd-pleaser's Gusset, Jay Nom, Ironside, atki2, Dub Boy and Nim Chimpsky. FFI see TheGoatLab.com

GoatLab Radio - Oct '07

GoatLab Radio is back!!! this month with Parasite and special guest DJ/Rupture (Soot / Shockout)

Tracklisting:

1. Modeselektor - 2000007 ft. TCC (BPitch Control)
2. Cauto - Untitled (Dutty Artz - duttyartz.com)
3. Electromeca - 202 (Death$ucker)
4. DJ/Rupture & Andy Moor - live in France
5. Milanese - Mr Bad News [Clark remix] (Planet Mu)
6. DJ/Rupture & Shadetek - Reef w/ Anakissed reading the Rubaiyyat
7. Dexplicit - Good For Me
8. Maga Bo -Nqayi ft. Teba (Soot)
9. Glowstyx - Heels of steel (Cock Rock Disco)
10. Patric C (The VIP) - Let There Be House (Death$ucker / Cock Rock Disco)
11. The Bug - Skeng ft. Killa P & Flow Dan (Hyperdub)
12. Influx - Still (Sapho)

Download the show!!!
http://dswat.streamlinetrial.co.uk/thegoatlab/?Radio

Howl! Howl! Howwwwl! The GoatLab 3 line up is out and it looks amazing. It's going to be amazing! You've got ex-Digital Hardcore & breakcore legend Patric C, the top Mad EP, fresh talent from Glasgow - Acrnym (just signed to Sublight Records). The local side is represented by the excellent Hunting Lodge plus the soild support of Parasite, Ironside, Dub Boy, Atki2 & Nim Chimpsky. Plus! You might notice DJ Ruk, that Parasite's little bro - following in the family tradition!

GoatLab #3 Friday 2nd March 2007 @ Timbuk 2, Small Street, Bristol UK

Here's the line-up (so far):

* Patric Catani aka Candie Hank (EC8OR / Puppetmastaz / A*Class )
* Mad EP (Ad Noiseam / Hymen / Mirex)
* Acrnym (Sublight)
* Hunting Lodge (Farm Girl)
* DJ Ruk
* Gusset (Death$ucker)
* Anakissed (Visuals)
* Parasite (Death$ucker / Peace Off)
* Ironside (P.R.A.N.K / Dissident)
* Dub Boy b2b Atki2 (Ruffnek Diskotek / Shadetek)
* Jay Nom (Death$ucker)
* Nim Chimpski (Bad Planet / Finga Munkie)

Friday 2 March 2007 @ Timbuk 2, Small Street, Bristol BS1. 10pm - 4am.
3 Rooms of Music!!!
£5 in fancy goat wear. £6 b4 11pm, £7 after. Decor by JohnEpainter.com. Room 3 hosted by Descend. Tickets are available from http://DSWAT.net and DMT Records (Stokes Croft).

Goatlab II, Drumcorps plus the Beginning and End of My Disastrous Career as a DJ

Goatlab II has come and gone and well...wow. I think it was a top night with the bar for performances set skyscraper high. Drumcorps set was amazing. I think it has to be one of the best sets I have ever seen. If you don't know, Drumcorps is the metal-mash project of breakcore producer Aaron Spectre. Live, the project consists of him, 2 midi keyboards, a mixer-type thing, laptop – and for the final mosh effect – a guitar. He was late in setting up and this helped to build the hype for his set. So, by the time he was ready, the room was packed and ready. The wait was worth it. A burst of noise from the midi, and wave of sounds that ran down the length of the room. The crowd jumped to his call for metal action. The crowd loved it, they went c-r-a-z-y and rightly so. It was a-m-a-z-i-n-g. R-o-c-k-i-n-g. All that. If you missed it – pah! If you saw it, then welcome to the throng of the blessed. It looks a bit like this:



(Not from Goatlab, sadly, but from Wasted 2.

Now in contrast, Goatlab II was where I had my first chance to DJ. There was a graveyard slot going in the back room and I decided to go for it. To my shame, I did not do my homework so was not on-top of the kit when I started, but was sure I could do something (I mean it's just playing records – how hard can it be?) I started with some classical (The Thieving Magpie) and then mixed it into an ATR old-skool techno track and it all sounded, well, ok. People seemed interested. I played a couple more tracks and after a while the crowed thinned to nothing. (Gone to see Parasite play, I bet...) A bit demoralizing, but I thought I could recover. Then, more people arrived. OK, I thought, time to grab them. So I go back to the Thieving Magpie and they seem interested, then I panicked and mixed (well, sloshed) it into a Napalm Death track. The crowd walked out. Thus was Goatlab II the beginning and end of my disastrous career as a DJ. I'll stick to what I know.

Here's some pictures from Goatlab taken by resident DJ Nim Chimpsky...(Nice one Nim!):

http://www.thebigpicturelibrary.com/Goatlab

A Personal History of Breakcore Part 1

Inspired by a fellow blogger Love and Rage's list of all time favorite punk tracks, I wanted to take a trawl through the Breakcore scene looking some of my favorite tracks and in the process compile my tale on a 'must have' list of breakcore.

Delete Yourself! - Atari Teenage Riot (1995)

I don't really listed to Atari Teenage Riot (ATR) much these days, but back in the day – they were rarely of the stereo. I tended to listed to more bootlegs of band member Alec Empire's DJ sets that their studio albums, but their first album, Delete Yourself! Is great. The opening track 'Start the Riot!' with its totally OTT super-fast drum sample was a clear announcement that this sound was going to take no prisoners. The album was a tour-de-force for it's time, and while it sounds a little tame by todays standards, it set a benchmark of mashup that would, for me, open the story of breakcore. It was not just the sound I identified with, I was also taken with their strident anti-Nazi stance and the mixture of punk/metal/techno sounds. It was punk with electronics and I liked it and wanted more. When I finally got the see them play live (in the Bristol Bierkeller supported by Lolita Storm) it was amazing. The band gave it their all and the gig was not only loud and proud, but was as full on as I had imagined. My ears were ringing for days afterwards. I now have tinatus – thanks ATR!

Bomb20 – Field Manual (1998)

This is a definitive album in the evolution of the breakcore sound. Keeping with the punk vibe, its young, angry and rough around the edges. More that rough around the edges, its rough through and through. At the time of creation, Bomb20 was 19, angry and it shows in his sound. A lurching mishmash of samples, beats, breaks and turns - great stuff! I feel it began to define the breakcore sound by establishing the broken beat structure, the frenetic jumping from one break to another that is at the center of true breakcore. Its a great album and an essential part of any breakcore collection.

Parasite – Baby 9mm (2001)

Ok, so the guy is a mate of mine, but that does not diminish the impact of his sound. I pick this on it's quality and nothing else. Period. This was Parasite's first 'proper' album (as in not a CDR) and was released by Peace Off. Until now, the breakcore sound was quite a blunt instrument - it was a big sound that came at you pretty fast. What Baby 9mm shows is that it can be subtle, yet distorted. It can sound almost laidback while still being broken. Parasite brought a lot of hip-hop and jungle influences into the mix while aided the evolution of the sound.

Venetian Snares – Higgins Ultra Low Track Glue Funk Hits 1972-2006 (2002)

So I was listening to breakcore and pretty much exclusively listening to DHR to get my fix. But after a while it stopped giving me the same buzz. It was as if the sound, while dynamic and exciting had stopped moving forward. Then I heard Snares – and boy, was it a revelation. Track one of Higgins Ultra Low Funk... begins with an opera singer effusing, "Junglist!" while the breaks crash and smash around her. This sound was a revelation. It took breakcore to a new level. Set it fully apart from other forms of dance music. It also meant that the sound was still alive and had plenty of places left to go.

Various Artists – Ballroom Blitz (2003)

Not the work of one artist, but a compilation of many. There is a tendency to look down on compilation albums as a lesser work than the original setting. Not so here. The whole was definably greater that the sum of the parts. Death$ucker (Parasite's label) gather together some amazing performers – some know and some unknown, and crammed them together. Its got lots of different styles, the anthemic sound of Parasite's own 'Strong Like a Lion' to the irreverent and wonderfully OTT 'Bohemian Crapsody' by Sickboy. I think it set a strong standard for the scene that, as a result, forced to to rise higher in response. Plus it's great to masup to!

PS - Parasite has set up his own blog, that covers him and his projects - http://dswat.blogspot.com/ - plus he's also setup the Bristol Breakcore blog for the local scene - http://bristolbreakcore.blogspot.com/ - check 'em out!

BreakLinks

Here's a couple - Parasite pointed me to ACRNYM, who sounds great!!!! And a Drum Crops interview...http://meertv.nl/archief/showmovie.asp?Id=1236

Keep rocking ///\\\!!!

PS. The next GoatLab is going to have DrumCrops live!!!! 1st Dec people.

Post GoatLab Goating

I went to the hospital yesterday to see a consultant to be told that I have got pulsatile tinnitus – where I can hear and kind whooshing of blood in my ear. Sometimes is can be quite loud and irritating. A friend told me that one form of treatment to to have sound at a set frequency to drown out the tinnitus. I guess this is like fighting fire with fire.

Well last night my tinnitus got the crap kicked out of it. No whooshing, all rocking full on sounds instead! I was supposed to wear ear plugs last night to take the edge of the speakers, but I forgot to put them in and instead my ears were treated by a musical barrage of the finest nature for which I am glad to risk impending damage.

Big Joan's set was amazing – the sound resonating across the space. It was an intimate space for such a full sound and it was a joy. Gusset's set was a top mix of tunes that got the crowd bouncing. Jay Nom stormed it. MAIOF rocked out in his own inimitable style. Floorclearer was in top form climbing on the DJ desk to extort the crowd to higher states of metal consciousness with chant's of "Slayer! Slayer! Slayer!" Sickboy and Bong-Ra's Servants of the Apocalypitc Goat Rave was a top piece of gabba-jungle-mash performance. A stunning UK debut for the project. ...and Parasite's set at the end of the night was wikid, wikid!! All in all a good crowd up for it. Special mention to the two guys in goatwear – you guys rock!!!

Forward, fellow goathearders, to the goat future on 1st December!

From the night...
Photos
Gusset's Set