Mk-Ultra Review at Losing Today

Solipsism ‘MK Ultra’ (promo). Been a fair old while since Mr Murphy featured in these pages, the workaholic visual / sound artist seems unable to stray past a home recording studio without being possessed of the need to nail a track or three in either of his Shoosh, ch.pm and Solipsism guises - while finding his remaining time taken in heading up Herb recordings imprint. Anyway an email received in our inbox invited us to tune into a taster cut from his currently worked techno based set soon put paid to our embarrassed silence in reporting his ever evolving and cross weaving genre bending cache of aural adventures. ‘MK Ultra’ is a fat n’ spongy slab of hyper driven mind weaving oblivion, the regimental like pulsing and precision honed pushing and shunting trip hop / technoid beats underpin a quietly hypnotic widescreen sounds cape of whirring drone swathes, cosmic swirls and an all round sense of spectral wooziness. Embraced of elements of a classic era Detroit techno scene albeit as though relocated to some distant space hub opining ominous SOS transmissions into the far reaches of the cosmic wilderness - this cerebral cutie mushrooms with a stealth like grandeur to literally bathe your listening space in something that you’d be forgiven for assuming was crafted by the collaborative hand of a secret rendezvous between 808 State and Apollo 440. That said what truly puts the icing on the cake is its busy employment of sonic sub texts running barely out of earshot in the background - like for instance the brief and subtle tropicalia flurries at approx. 4.34 in.
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The Chillage Idiots - Dublin XFM

Big thanks to Mick and Paul Chillage for featuring a track from my Alien Genome Project album and also for featuring a track from Engine7's fantastic Me, But Perfect album out now on Herb Recordings.

You can download the full show which features some great electronica below.

The Chillage idiots XFM Dublin

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http://www.xfmdublin.com/blog/wp-content/the-chillage-15-07-08.mp3


Tracklisting: 15/07/2008

The Future Sound of London: "I've Become What You Were" (Insider Mix) [The Pulse Eps]
Jumpin' And Pumpin'

Thomas P. Heckmann: "Genocide" [The Lost Tales Vol. II] Fax

Spooky: "No Return" (Dorset Echo) [Open] Spooky

808 State: "In Yolk" [Quadrastate] Rephlex

Fanu And Bill Laswell: "Fourth Voice" [Lodge] Ohm Resistance

Esbjörn Svensson Trio: "Years Of Yearning" [Strange Place For Snow] Act Music

Engine7: "Me, But Perfect" [Me, But Perfect] Herb

Gate Zero: "Counter Balance" [Green Planet] http://www. stadtgruenlabel. net

Ciaran Byrne: "Moving Sungold" [Nine Lives Causeway] Psychonavigation

Reln: "Never To Return" [unreleased] http://www. myspace. com/reln

Phasen: "That Rainy Feeling I Get" [The Crisis Is Over] Distant Noise Records

Jay Riordan: "Signs" [unreleased] http://www. myspace. com/jayriordan

Sen: "Voyager" [unreleased] http://www. myspace. com/1138thx

Jack Dangers: "Burbidge Chain" [Music For Planetarium] Brianwashed

ch.pm: "Mystic Structure" [The Alien Genome Project]
http://www. myspace. com/solipsism

Christopher Bissonnette: "Comfortable Expectations" [Periphery] Kranky

B12: "Metropolis" [Electro-Soma] Warp
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