grasping...
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...:::...i realize how much at i grasp at things sometimes...reaching out a clenched fist while trying to take hold of something. i forget how to open my fingers, knuckles hinged...locked into a habitual rigor mortis...

and in these times there is the image of a riverbank that persists...of struggling in the current to hold on to a root that grows out loosely there...it is only near exhaustion, when i finally choose to let go, that i realize i should have done this long ago. for suddenly i find myself full of breath and laughter and i am buoyant and still within all this movement and flow. i find a parallel velocity...and instead of a loud rushing, all i hear is a most beautiful sound all around...:::...

download: 070428-modyfier01

pele – childhoods end (kollektiv turmstrasse remix) : apr 2007 on connoisseur superieur
daze maxim – spunaround : apr 2007 on kahlwild
discemi – data sapiens (radio slave remix) : apr 2007 on rekids
hammerschmidt & lentz – knospen im osten (neal white remix) : apr 2007 on religio audio
adam marshall – beso jodid : apr 2007 on thema
pan-pot – what is what : apr 2007 on mobilee records
alex smoke – rotwang : apr 2007 on vakant
jitzu & sire g – answering service (niko schwind busy mix) : apr 2007 on autist records
alexkid – love letters (tim paris version) : apr 2007 on f communications
musex – consolador de trapo : apr 2007 on minuendo
kidscience – the lights : apr 2007 on brique rouge

download: modyfier-part02

dieter krause & deepak sharma – gotham nights : apr 2007 on hidden recordings
sebo k & metro – transit (king britt scuba remix) : apr 2007 on get physical music
marco da mata & robbie lamos – easy watching : apr 2007 on acid milk recordings
juho kahilainen - sleeping with the lizards (mymy remix) : apr 2007 on bpitch control
minilogue – birdsong : apr 2007 on wagon repair
manuel tur – acorado (will saul & tam cooper remix) : apr 2007 on freerange records
sex in dallas & biladoll – hit back bow (isolee remix) : apr 2007 on record makers
tim xavier – sleep agent (tractile remix) : apr 2007 on moodgadget records
kaiser souzai – to the beat (chopstick remix) : apr 2007 on rotor recordings

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FLAVIUS E

¡Modulando levemente!

Modulando levement en la sensación que brinda la hierba maravillada y nocturna compartiendo con amigos en el paraiso del sonido. ¡Caras achinadas, humo, vapor y ocurrencias! Esta pista la hice después de soñar esta situación ideal.

Técnica: ¡Los moduladores del ataque y del decaimiento son las herramienta que utilizo para mis interpretaciones! Para dar plasticidad, intensidad variable y lo uso prinipalmente en los sonidos percusivos y tambien en sonidos largos y combinados en donde un mismo pulso recorrer las diversas formas de un fragmento de audio.

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Modulating Lightly!

Modulating lightly within the sensation that wonderful and nocturnal herb brings while sharing with friends in the paradise of sounds. Half-lidded eyes, smoke, vapors and wits!

I made this track while dreaming of this ideal situation.

Technique: I use for my performance attack and decay tools. They give elasticity and a variable intensity. I use this primarily for percussive sounds and other long sounds in which one pulse can run through the diverse forms of an entire fragment of audio.

flavius e - process part 019 (modulando levemente (urano)) by modyfier

muted modulation...
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...:::...lately, i've been quietly transitioning my day-to-day. as projects move from design into production and documentation, they require very different frames of mind (and so different thoughts tangentially spiral off in the landscape of my head...creating different vistas and orientations, creating new ways of seeing things)...

i find the challenge is to maintain concept, even if it's form or detailing shifts...to hold the essence of an idea through the process of it's shaping (sometimes it wanders off and i have to track it down, following the soft imprint of it's footsteps where it lightly bent the grass)...

and if these tasks of mine were sounds, i think right now their modulations would be muted...not quite certain of the notes they are aiming to reach. and so i try a sound out softly at first...transitioning it around in my throat...turning a closed-lipped hum into an open-mouthed "o" noise. and i am happy with letting it float there right now. suspended, almost paused, it promises the most wonderful possibilities in this quiet place. because, i know that when i figure out, finally, how i should shape it into what it wants to be, that it will project a resonance that will ring and ring and ring with a most beautiful clarity..:::...

download: 070420-modyfier part01

xhin – borg 2 : mar 2007 on meersteif
alert – la crisalida : apr 2007 on oblivion fringe
davidovitch & konpiuta – ouverture (open sessions mix) : mar 2007 on acid milk recordings
antilope – freak-a-della part 2 : apr 2007 on opossum recordings
nikola gala – night walk (microstar mix) : apr 2007 on escada music
chris wood – mellowtron : apr 2007 on level non zero recordings
tam cooper – galactica (exercise one remix) : apr 2007 on simple records
tg – rhythm acupuncture (martin buttrich remix) : mar 2007 on four:twenty recordings
oliver moldan & prowler – debbie does dishes : apr 2007 on audio therapy

download: 070420-modyfier part02

livio & roby – ananda : apr 2007 on viva music
siskid – the architect (julian jeweil remix) : apr 2007 on initial cuts
kane roth – fly away (kabala und liebe remix) : mar 2007 on multi vitamins
trentemoller – moan (radio slave’s remix for k) : mar 2007 on poker flat
ripperton – a skilift upstairs the sleeping city (ripperton vertigo dub) : mar 2007 on systematic
from karaoke to stardom – uppers downers screamers : apr 2007 on rrygular
illinton – valley chick : apr 2007 on namnam records
kalabrese – hide feat guillermo sohrya : apr 2007 on stattmusik
hacienda – cycle beats : apr 2007 on das modular

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download: four color zack's set

1. Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit. I've been looking to set a mix off with Fela Kuti for a while now so it just seemed natural with some of the other tracks that I had lined up. It's so open ended and confident I just can't get enough of it. Its actually like 13 minutes long, all of which are amazing, but had to cut it short for the sake of the mix. Booooo....

2. Eddie Kendricks - Date With The Rain. B-boys will tell you (especially northwest ones) that date with the rain is a classic. We have a great dancer night in seattle called Soul City, run by Circle of Fire and Massive Monkeys (two of Seattle's legendary break dancecrews). this is one track that still gets CONSISTENT play! It's a very meaningful song for those who get as much rain as we do.

3. Eric B. & Rakim - Kick Along. I guess after the first two I kind of got in b-boy mode...had to keep it going for a bit with this one. I miss this kind of hip-hop.

4. Bugz In The Attic - Booty La La. I know it's not their newest single or anything, (don't get me wrong, those new joints are really good too, especially "Move Aside" and "I'm Gonna Letcha"),but this one still has got me. It's such a good transition from funky drums to more dance floor patterns.

5. Claude Vonstroke - The Whistler (Diplo Remix). I don't usually play much fresh-off-the-web heavy stuff (NOT a negative statement, just saying), cause for one I don't really stay as on top of it as I probably should, and also because I dont have any memories associated with most of it. I like a song to develop with age but this joint is ridiculously infectious! The whistles, the simple beat structure, had to include it!

6. Matthew Herbert - The Audience. Whew this song is slick! Conceptual, jazzy, has stages...it's got a lot of positive ingredients. I hadnt played it in a while but wanted to bring it back to move in to some more jazzy house/2step stuff.

7. Ty - Wait a Minute. When this 12" came out I was so happy with where music was going that I bought 4 copies!! the Dwele remix on the b side is good too but man that original... so sweet.

8. The Bamboos - Tighten Up. There's a lot of good versions of "Tighten Up", but I loved the tempo change in this one. Plus there's a break in the track that is SOOOO mean.. its just insane. I actually used its break to blend over since it was a good exit point, but it is more than worthy of playing on its own.

9. Barry White - Theme From Together Brothers. My dude DV One hit me with this one night when we were talking about goodblacksploitation soundtracks. He was all hyped with the sample at the end but come on ride the train??? yes!!!

10. Don Cannon - Cannon Remix ft. Weezy. Ok yeah lets go there anyway... may as well go out on that too since its so unlike the rest of the tracks.

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...:::...i've been wondering if single sounds hold meaning in the same way in which words do...that is, if there were a dictionary of sounds, would each modulation have a list of definitions and related forms? would there be a pronunciation key and accent marks? would there be sonic synonyms and antonyms, nouns, verbs and adverbs to stand with each entry? i think not...

i wonder because, being the monolinguist that i am, i often find myself mis-interpreting what people say because i hold too much meaning in one word...and somehow, because music is more about associations and signifiers maybe (then it is about definitions per se...), it tends to hold itself in a more abstract way that is open to a broader interpretation...?

or maybe (as tomas palermo suggests to me) it is the single notes and tones and utterances that are the structure of language themselves...and that without them, there would be no english or french, armenian or thai, cantonese or tajik or turkmen or uzbek or urdu or swahili...

but maybe the semantics of sound are happily absent (in broken language...cracked over my knee like a stick)...blissfully meaningless in a mono-syllabic form...disassembled. for then sound is just a symbol without a system and can be re-arranged in any number of kaleidoscopic ways...sequenced and stacattoed and strung into a familiar phrasing, but free of context or bearing...:::...

download: 070413-modyfier part01

touane – potato nose : mar 2007 on lan music
axel bartsch – rock n roll : mar 2007 on spiel-zeug schallplatten
ripperton – 10a : mar 2007 liebe detail
daso – louche : apr 2007 on connoisseur recordings
stewart walker – foreshadowing : mar 2007 on persona
jona – evidence : apr 2007 on get physical music
kate wax – beetles and spider (ellen alien & appart remix) : mar 2007 on mental groove
nooncat – aquarobics (max cavalerra remix) : mar 2007 on lichen records
oxia & eric borgo – another man (daniel stefanik remix) : mar 2007 on tsuba
dusty kid – mantrakoma : mar 2007 on kling klang
someone else – lowdown brittle (wink’s profound sound interpretation) : apr 2007 on foundsound records
david durango – creotina : apr 2007 on acid milk recordings
kalabrese – deep : apr 2007 on stattmusik

download: 070413-modyfier part02

joalz – falling together feat olga kouklaki : mar 2007 on ntrop
the black ghosts – anyway you choose to give it (playgroup remix) : apr 2007 on southern fried records
joakim – lonely hearts (dub version) : apr 2007 on k7 records
move-d – your rolling hills : apr 2007 on compost
slam – azure (part 2) : mar 2007 on soma recordings
sertac ugra – fixed line : mar 2007 on ugra
jacek sienkiewicz – good luck : mar 2007 on cocoon recordings
michel de hey & grooveyard – compound (shinedoe remix) : mar 2007 on ec records
trentemoller – african people (jokke iisoe remix) : apr 2007 on namnam records
reynold – in : mar 2007 on curle
schatz & wickinger – virus a : mar 2007 on elektro comfort
volker selzner – lost it (granlab remix) : apr 2007 on broque
vladislav delay – whistleblower : apr 2007 on huume

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CLARKE CASSIDY

I'm recording this mix in my glass house, day time, while a massive storm is pulsating outside. It's like being in a crowded club. Lots of movements in front of me, things to catch my attention, but I'm home alone.

I decide to follow the violence / calm cycle of the elements as a guideline for the mix. Dark and deep clouds in a constant evolution for the mood, palms trees giving me the tempo, and the scream of the wind for the groove. Sometimes a solitary sun ray illuminates the world for a second...then the rain...

I'm a soundtracker. I've always considered music as a soundtrack to my life, even before starting to make my own music. When playing in a club or bar, I love to look around and catch details from the people around, to play the right track, the right soundtrack for the moment...but I'm alone at home and I'm watching the trees dancing outside.

This mix is dedicated to the Memory of Jean Baudrillard (1929 - 2007).

clarke cassidy - process part 017 by modyfier

01 - Ego Express - Aranda (Lawrence remix)
02 - Martin Landsky - FM Safari ( Patrick Chardronnet's Silence Snake Remix)
03 - Herbert - The Audience (Martinez Cosmic Re-Edit)
04 - Swain & Paris - Come As One (Chopstick Remix)
05 - Landberg & Jacobson - Eight Twenty Six
06 - Seth Troxler - Love bezerker (Ryan Crosson Remix)
07 - Clarke Cassidy - Threshold
08 - Andrea Olivia - Sombatiki (PlusMinus Mix)
09 - Alex Attias Presents Mustang - 10000 Leagues Deeper (Trickski Remix)
10 - Tiger stripes - Black Beach
11 - Sylvie Marks & Hal 9000 - I Love This Tent
12 - Stratoliner - Dinky Girlz
13 - Pig & Dan - Cured
14 - Shur I Kan - Future
15 - Jeff Samuel - I Think They Are Trying To Say Something
16 - Alexander Maier - Made in Nebraska
17 - Clarke Cassidy - She Glitch My Mind
18 - nathan Fake - Outhouse (Valentinokanzyani Remix)
19 - Pop No Name - No Doubt

re-constructing...
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...:::...the past few weeks i have been traveling...unaccompanied by the sounds i so often choose to have around me. instead, i have been passively engaging the daily frequencies mexico has to offer...noticing the ways in which things in stillness become amplified in motion...the ways in with they interact...i begin to make a list of their sonic collisions, finding it so much more interesting to describe with verbs the ways in which things come together to release a sound...

...spray, slam, shut, place, drip, scrape, skid, hiss, flutter, bump, shudder, smack, splash, crack...

these are some of the happenings that gave off sounds...that sonically describe the materiality of place (does the sound of heels walking on concrete have a different pitch to it in one city then the next? or perhaps consider the sound of squealing brakes ricocheting between building faces)...i thought a lot about these things...about how the same action with the same materials can create dissimilar sounds in two separate places. why is that? i wondered. and listened. and wondered some more...and i think maybe it is that the materials of a place are culturalized through use...that they take on regional accents...

and i also realized how accustomed i have become to hitting 'play' to shift my moods, to re-construct my daily environment...and i think i'll try to be more aware of how and when i listen...because while i love to create new sequences and patterns and motion by dressing myself up in sounds...i also want to know what makes a place a place...for how can i discern the nuances of the bus wires snapping overhead in san francisco or tires spinning out an a gravel in baja or vermont if i am shut into a neatly constructed audio-box...one that is beautiful but limiting...i think to really listen means taking in equal parts of passive and active selections...:::...

download: 070406-modyfier part01

andres bucci – get down : apr 2007 on kupei musika
audiofly x & paul harris – miscalate : mar 2007 on rekids
hertz – three ways (misjah remix) : mar 2007 on elp
jokke ilsoe – feeling good (trentemoller remix) : apr 2007 on namnam records
michael de hey & grooveyard – compound (peter horrevorts remix) : mar 2007 on ec records
crystal fake – monday after (unai remiks) : mar 2007 on kupei musika
margot meets the melody maker – torch (rainer weichhold remix) : mar 2007 on great stuff
gaiser & heartthrob – nasty girl : mar 2007 on minus
leif – boomerang : mar 2007 on frankie records
dub pistols – rapture feat terry hall (prins thomas diskomiks) : apr 2007 on sunday best recordings
mistress barbara – barcelona (holden bell dub) : mar 2007 on border community

download: 070406-modyfier part02

stephan bodzin – liebe ist… : apr 2007 on herzblut recordings
jacobs-lee – stolen uncut diamonds (holger flinsch remix) : mar 2007 on register
einmusik – pion : apr 2007 on italic
mono – make a difference : mar 2007 on cr2 records
glimpse – it the little things : mar 2007 on glimpse recordings
tom ellis – all screwed up : mar 2007 on frankie records
frankie valentine – zumbi (808 remix) : mar 2007 on sunshine enterprises
ozgur can – not even winds 2006 feat nick beman : mar 2007 on armada music
saul b – glossphobia (original mix) : mar 2007 on acid milk recordings
sorcerer – surfing at midnight (prins thomas mix) : apr 2007 on tirk
trentemoller & dj tom – an evening with bobi bros : mar 2007 on kickin records
luetzenkirchen – a view to the sea : mar 2007 on tabula raza