Posts Tagged ‘Comma’

Big Up’n'Comers Mix II: Salva and Epcot

Photo by Peter McBride, taken from Big Up Magazine

Big Up Magazine presents their second installment of the Big Up’n'Comers Mix by Salva and Epcot.  Get it.  Get it now.

Photo by Peter McBride, taken from Big Up Magazine
Big Up Magazine presents their second installment of the Big Up’n’Comers Mix by Salva and Epcot.  Get it.  Get it now.

Soundpieces

This Wednesday I’ll be paying tribute to the life and music of J Dilla and the music he inspired.  Come celebrate with us.

Comma

This Wednesday I’ll be paying tribute to the life and music of J Dilla and the music he inspired.  Come celebrate with us.
Comma

Sweeping The Realms

Comma:  Sweeping The Realms

This year lot of forward thinking producers have developed sounds that none of us can identify anymore.  In 2010 we will all travel further toward the outer realms.  This goes out to everybody who has pushed that and supported it.  Watch out for my Carry The Fire EP on Semisexual Records in February 2010.  Happy New Year!

Stay Lucid Podcast #2 featuring tunes by 2562, Headhunter, Hyetal, Breakage, Martyn, Brackles, Mala, Joy Orbison, Millie & Andrea, Peverelist, Untold, Pinch, Starkey, Scuba, Brackles, Instra:mental, Pangaea, and myself.

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Comma:  Sweeping The Realms
This year lot of forward thinking producers have developed sounds that none of us can identify anymore.  In 2010 we will all travel further toward the outer realms.  This goes out to everybody who has pushed that and supported it.  Watch out for my Carry The Fire EP on Semisexual Records in [...]

Surefire Sound 009 - Vaccine, DJG, Comma

VACCINE (NONPLUS+ – SD)
Vaccine is the production alias of Christine Clements. Having been involved with the promotions end of the industrial rock and IDM music scenes since she was a teenager, and running drum & bass and dubstep record labels with her husband, ASC, writing her own music - after she’d been promoting other people’s for years - was a logical progression. Drawing inspiration from synaesthesia and her melting pot of musical influences, Vaccine’s style has been recognized as being considerably very melodic and not necessarily as dancefloor-orientated as her male cohorts. XLR8R magazine noted her “subtle melodies and echoed vocals”, as well as stating that “(Vaccine’s) constructions aren’t necessarily main floor rave fodder, but rather, comedown music for a 6 a.m. She is also notable for being the first female producer in dubstep, within what was up until then a genre whose producers were almost, if not entirely, male. Her DJ mixes as well have attracted attention for their careful commitment to precise blends, mixing in key, and unexpected multigenre inclusions.

Vaccine is not solely writing dubstep anymore. Never one to be confined by formulas or tempo, as evidenced in her DJ mix selection, Vaccine has recently been slinging her talents further afield writing the melodic, IDM style of drum & bass popularized by Instra:mental and dBridge’s Autonomic Podcasts. She has crafted a live PA and has also been working with a fashion designer called Ernte on music for his runway shows. Recently Renoise (the program she writes music in) is pushing her as the face of their site on their music player. Look for her upcoming releases on Disfigured and Nonplus+. Surefire Sound is delighted to have her join us for her first live PA.

Download Mix: Vaccine for Big Up Mag
http://www.thebigupmagazine.com/podcast/Big_Up_Magazine_Podcast11_Vaccine.mp3

DJG (SUREFIRE – SF)
Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Dean J. Grenier A.K.A DJG landed in the world of Dubstep in 2007 with his first 12″ “Shadow Skanking” b/w “Joyful Sound” on Narco.Hz. Immediate support on Rinse FM and in the clubs from DJ’s like N-Type propelled DJG to the forefront of American dubstep producers early in his career. DJG’s production style is richly melodic, emotive while full of groove and energy. Recognized early on for a more dubwise sound, DJG’s recent productions have revealed an evolution in his music, getting deeper into bass-heavy, tech-drenched, soulful tracks.

DJs ranging from Mary Anne Hobbs, N-Type, Joe Nice, Pinch, Headhunter, Skream, RSD, 2562, Djunya, Random Trio and many more have been supporting DJG’s recent and forthcoming releases. This year he was asked by Mary Anne Hobbs to produce a mix that was featured on her acclaimed Radio 1 Experimental show. When DJG gets behind the decks, his passion for the music he plays is obvious. His enthusiasm for the deeper side of dubstep and his affection for dance floor selections makes each set a spontaneous combination of the highs and lows that the sound has to offer. He has forthcoming releases on LoDubs, Wheel and Deal, Pushing Red, and Surefire Sound.

Download Mix: DJG for Big Up Mag
http://thebigupmagazine.com/blog/2008/12/hello-world/

COMMA (SEMISEXUAL - SF)
Seattle born producer Ryan Gilbert, or Comma, arrived in San Francisco in 1999, where the potent drum and bass scene sparked his obsession with cutting edge sounds. Taught to DJ and produce by Boreta of the Glitch Mob, the two would form the group Slidecamp in 2005. Their debut album, due in 2010 on seminal electronic label n5MD, showcases expansive melodies, complex beats, and an obsessive attention to detail that Comma has become known for in his solo work.

On his debut EP for Mr. Projectile’s Semisexual label, Comma emerges in a remote territory of dubstep influenced by ambient techno, UK garage, and experimental beats. The tracks are looming and haunted, drawing no easy comparison to his diverse influences. Live, Comma crosses boundaries with new material and forward thinking beats that can’t always be categorized.

Download Mix: Comma Podcast
http://www.staylucid.com/2009/09/it-was-a-dark-summer/

VACCINE (NONPLUS+ – SD)
Vaccine is the production alias of Christine Clements. Having been involved with the promotions end of the industrial rock and IDM music scenes since she was a teenager, and running drum & bass and dubstep record labels with her husband, ASC, writing her own music - after she’d been promoting other people’s [...]

It Was A Dark Summer

Here’s a little mix I did to capture how I felt at the end of the summer.  The title is open to interpretation… this summer was filled with inspiration, geeking out on beats with some inspirational producers and music lovers, and challenging ourselves to go higher and harder.

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Comma:  It Was A Dark Summer

Tracklist:

Dak - Gobtween

Comma - Coyote

Thom Yorke - All For The Best

Mount Kimbie - 50 Mile View

Guido - Orchestral Lab

Joker - Untitled_rsn

Eprom - Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Salva - Candy Jars

Joker - Digidesign (Om Unit remix)

Harmonic 313 - Battlestar (Instrumental)

Ras G & The Afrikan Space Program - Time Will Heal

J. Dilla - Dime Piece (Instrumental)

Here’s a little mix I did to capture how I felt at the end of the summer.  The title is open to interpretation… this summer was filled with inspiration, geeking out on beats with some inspirational producers and music lovers, and challenging ourselves to go higher and harder.
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Direct download:  Click here

Comma:  It Was [...]

This Thursday: Ambient set at Academy of Sciences, Comma live at Semisexual Records Night

This Thursday night I’ll be playing an ambient set at the coral reef in the California Academy of Sciences for NASA’s Yuri’s Night 2009! I’m on from 7:45-8:45. Then I’ll be rolling down to Shine at 1337 Mission St. for the quarterly Semisexual Label Night with Mr. Projectile, Pauley Unsaturated, and Stridah. I’m looking forward to playing some new material.


This Thursday night I’ll be playing an ambient set at the coral reef in the California Academy of Sciences for NASA’s Yuri’s Night 2009! I’m on from 7:45-8:45. Then I’ll be rolling down to Shine at 1337 Mission St. for the quarterly Semisexual Label Night with Mr. Projectile, Pauley Unsaturated, and Stridah. [...]

Nalepa Flatlands Remixes featuring Slidecamp!

Available digitally 3/20 at 1320records.com

Me and Boreta did this remix for Nalepa and it has since become one of my favorite projects we have ever worked on. Huge thanks to Steve Nalepa and hats off to Twerk for the mastering!

Includes Monday(Glitch Mob Remix), voted #2 in XLR8R Best Mp3s of 2008, + remixes from Nosaj Thing, Ruxpin, Deru, Slidecamp, [a]pendics.shuffle, David Last, RD, RND, Heyoka, Kero, Rena Jones, Kraddy, Aerostatic and Bluetech!!!

LA-based electronic musician, multimedia artist and mad scientist collector Steve Nalepa combines deep dub bass, glitchy breaks, bioacoustic atmospheres and beautiful sinewave melodies to create his patented brand of ambient glitch dub. Nalepa has produced tracks with such legends as Bill Laswell and Pharoah Sanders, worked with the LA Philharmonic, shared a bill with Amon Tobin and DJ Spooky at Walt Disney Concert Hall, rocked Flavorpill’s Friday’s Off the 405 Series at the Getty Museum and performed on The Do Lab Stage at Coachella 2007. Nalepa is one of the artists featured in Visionaire 53 SOUND which includes 100 original sound pieces by David Byrne, U2, Danger Mouse, Dan The Automator, Yoko Ono and more. Nalepa’s Flatlands project drops March 20th on 1320 Records.
UPDATE: Flatlands and Flatlands:Remixes will be made available as a bundle, with several VIDEO tracks included in this seminal 1320records release.

Available digitally 3/20 at 1320records.com
Me and Boreta did this remix for Nalepa and it has since become one of my favorite projects we have ever worked on. Huge thanks to Steve Nalepa and hats off to Twerk for the mastering!
Includes Monday(Glitch Mob Remix), voted #2 in XLR8R Best Mp3s of 2008, + remixes from [...]

Comma Live at Stimulus Feb 21

Main Room
EPROM (Raindance, Nexus)
Mimosa (Muti)
Tom Burbank (Planet Mu, LA)
Sidecar & Satori
Obi-J (False Profit)
Comma (Stay Lucid, Slidecamp)

Chill Room
Ganucheau (The Extra Credit)
Tinker (False Profit, Ghetto Box SF)
Palindrome (False Profit)
watson (False Profit)

Live Digital Painting by Dangermarc
Anomaly: sculpture-controlled interactive video installation by Mary Franck

Main Room
EPROM (Raindance, Nexus)
Mimosa (Muti)
Tom Burbank (Planet Mu, LA)
Sidecar & Satori
Obi-J (False Profit)
Comma (Stay Lucid, Slidecamp)
Chill Room
Ganucheau (The Extra Credit)
Tinker (False Profit, Ghetto Box SF)
Palindrome (False Profit)
watson (False Profit)
Live Digital Painting by Dangermarc
Anomaly: sculpture-controlled interactive video installation by Mary Franck

Download: Comma - Ghost Yards

The friendly giants at Frite Nite recently featured this track of mine on a compilation for Soundpieces, the official San Francisco landing zone for bass-induced time travelers. Keep your goggles boggled… talk is on the wind of another Soundpieces comp set to self-destruct before the year is through.

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The friendly giants at Frite Nite recently featured this track of mine on a compilation for Soundpieces, the official San Francisco landing zone for bass-induced time travelers. Keep your goggles boggled… talk is on the wind of another Soundpieces comp set to self-destruct before the year is through.
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Semisexual Records Tour: On the Road With Mr. Projectile

Somewhere in Arizona

Santa Fe

Somewhere in Colorado

Mr. Projectile live in Boulder

Somewhere in Wyoming

Mr. Projectile gets back to his roots in Missoula, MT

Somewhere in Arizona

Santa Fe

Somewhere in Colorado

Mr. Projectile live in Boulder

Somewhere in Wyoming

Mr. Projectile gets back to his roots in Missoula, MT