Ambient cloud

cylob live ambient 08 by cylob

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Mansedanse DJ set MP3 via SoundCloud

Testing testing 1 2 SoundCloud let's see if it works shall we

dj cylob @ mansedanse, tampere oct 08 by cylob

update: yep it looks alright, easy to upload and resulting in a good looking embeddable object with nice functionality.

update2: holy xxxx, I found out that if you want to stick up more than a handful of tracks, it costs quite a lot of money! €60 a year I'd be down with, but €60 a month? I don't think I'll be back. Shame.

Bazfoul Live in Tampere - video

Here is a musical clip from the ambient set, together with a sample of the visuals that were being projected at the same time. They were created with SuperCollider - various presets specifying the shapes and colours were being chosen, mixed up and morphed between in real time. The image compression involved in making and uploading the video has created loads of nasty artifacts not present in the original, just for your information! Although they are sort of cute in themselves. You have to see this projected on a large screen, it looked crisp.

The Rave Cake

It was my birthday in Tampere on Saturday, where I was playing the Mansedanse festival as mentioned previously. To celebrate, two of the crew Hanna and Wilhelmiina baked this crazy rave cake. As can be seen, it was as acid within as on the outside, and a couple of mouthfuls was all it took to experience an intense sugar rush. They also presented me with a pair of limited edition "cylob" labelled mittens, which will come in useful soon enough here in Berlin, where the winters are supposed to be very wintery (today it was 19 degrees and sunny, it didn't stop me trying out the wooly gloves though.)

Shocking Statement

Society will crumble

(thanks to Aleksi for my birthday present new shirt and Sakari Karipuro for the pic, taken at Mansedanse, Tampere last saturday.)

CMS Terminal

I got a hardware update for my music system. More soon.

A Picture Of Berlin

I've hardly taken any, but here's one from a few weeks ago.

Mansedanse, Tampere tomorrow 9th Oct 2008

Word to the Finnish crew, just to remind you that tomorrow I'll be doing this ambient set in Tampere. No, I won't be playing an endless sustained chord, or whale samples... in fact there will be very little use of effects, since it is a bit of a cliche to pile on the delay and reverb under such circumstances, and I wanted to resist this temptation. It will be something between a DJ and a live set: I'll be playing all of my own music, a nice selection of recreated old favourites and new stuff, balancing 8 channels of audio. Last night I programmed the mildly hypnotic visuals. I can't wait to see them projected, it's going to look mental. So come out tomorrow and catch something special... Also don't forget the party on Saturday 11th when I'll be playing the dancefloor set along with DMX Krew and Altern 8, enough said!

More info: Mansedanse 2008

MP3 - A Double Dose of Style Free

Here are the last two DJ sets I played, fresh from a few days ago. Finally I can get through a whole set without crashing! That's the one from Wednesday - the previous Sunday's effort contains a couple of unplanned ambient interludes.

As usual, I was using the Monome, in a similar way to this exciting video! (by the way, I've made it flash in time with the beat again.) All the skipping / instant remix and effects functions have been coming together nicely. I'm happier with these sets than I have been with previous efforts (being my own worst critic.) Anyway you can make your own mind up.

Golden Pudel, Hamburg - Sunday 7 September
Part1 / Part2

Killekill @ Berghain Kantine, Berlin - Wednesday 10 September
Part1 / Part2

Berlin the next week and a half

Wednesday 10 September - I'm playing the Berghain Kantine.
Friday 12 September - Leisure System at Berghain and Luke Vibert at Icon.
Saturday 20 September - EDMX at Dub Club and Dopplereffekt at Club Maria.

If you are around, come out to play!

Moon On My Forehead

There's a new track on MySpace if you want to listen to something new...

Cylob @ Mansedanse, Finland Oct 9 & 11 2008

Here's the festival in Tampere, Finland that I'll be playing twice in October: an ambient set on the 9th and a dancefloor set on the 11th. I don't know how it will be on the 9th, but I perpetually dream of playing a gig where people sit down, shut up and listen instead of SHOUTING so loud that I can't hear what I'm doing despite it coming out of a 50k rig!

The line-up also includes the one man crew of DMX Krew, and if any more members left Altern-8 there would be an eerie silence instead of the inevitable breaks and rave stabs. (P.S. is there any genre of music that doesn't sound better in the presence of green lazers, dry ice and strobe lighting?)

http://mansedanse.com/

Cylob Sets On MP3

Once again, the title is just for the search engines, and not to insult your intelligence.
Here's a recap of some of the sets I've put online in the last few years:

DJ (featuring the same tracks being played in a slightly different order each time)
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Club Maria, Berlin, August 2008: Part 1 Part 2
Braunschweig July 2008 Part 1 Part 2
Deptford, London May 2008 (previously unreleased) Part 1 Part 2
Plex, London March 2008
Bonkers, Seattle Feb 2008
Fribourg, December 2007
Acid On Sea, London 2006
Glade Festival 2005
Britain's Best DJ 2005

LIVE
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London, December 2007
Tokyo, October 2007
Osaka, October 2007
London, December 2006

Plus, some other stuff:

YouTube Account - stop motion animation, monome demonstrations and misc tracks.
Vimeo Account - more monome stuff.
Guide to the Cylob Music System

DJ Cylob @ Berghain Kantine, Berlin 10 Sep 2008

Latest gig to be confirmed: Wednesday / Mittwoch 10 September, Killekill @ Berghain Kantine, Berlin, Deutschland.

Killekill Club
at Berghain Kantine
Access via Wriezener Karree
Start: 22:00
free until 24:00
5€ after 24:00

DJ Cylob / EPY / Litwinenko (Detroit Underground)

DJ Cylob @ Club Maria - MP3

I'm in two minds about this set... for one thing, there were some technical difficulties at the start. (A particularly slack 10 minutes has been edited out of the recording below. I haven't been too Stalinesque though, there are plenty of mistakes later on, don't worry about that.) These are mostly tunes I've played many times before, I don't know why I wasn't being very adventurous with the selection. On the other hand, the new skippy functions and liberal use of effects gives the set plenty of interesting moments. There is no crowd noise on the recording, but the response was really good! The best there's been in a while. Also, the visuals went really well, which was a bonus. OK so judge the recording for yourself.

Part 1 / Part 2

p.s. If you find the last five minutes a little hectic, try following that with something a bit more chilled out.

Back To The Pudel - Hamburg 7 September 2008

I haven't been to this place in 9 years or so, and I'm amazed that it's still going. So here you go - I'll be dj-ing at Hamburg's finest nano-club, the Golden Pudel on Sunday 7 September 2008. I also have 2 gigs lined up for October 9 and 11 as part of a festival, but I'm not supposed to reveal anything until the organisers do.

Berlin 2 Aug - time slot change

Yo, apparently I'm now playing from 1-3 am tomorrow. Once again, it's at:

Club Maria
Maria Am Ostbahnhof, Stralauer Platz 34 / 35, An Der Schillingbrücke, Friendrichshain, Berlin.
1 - 3 DJ Cylob
3 - 5 Rob Hall
5 ... Adam X

I've been doing more to my program, as usual, and I now have a set of functions that skip around in the track to create real-time "edits" and fills. It sounds mental! If you are in or around Berlin, don't miss this gig, especially if you need something different to minimal techno.

DJ Cylob @ Braunschweig 12 July - MP3

You know the score...

PART 1

PART 2


This time, the visuals worked like a charm, along with a few additions. The real-time stats have been improved, and the visual representation of DJ-ing activity now includes when the effects are patched in. See it for yourself in a couple of weeks in Berlin!
Music-wise this was a mostly solid selection with the odd wacky moment... I had a mishap halfway through when the Monome became unplugged, which meant I had to then restart my program, playing a track off iTunes in the meantime. That didn't seem to ruin things too much though.

DJ Cylob, 2 Aug in Berlin, Deutschland

EDITED

Please refer to this later post:

http://cylob.blogspot.com/2008/08/berlin-2-aug-time-slot-change.html

Got Googled

I don't know if this is new or old news, but standing around on a nearby street in Berlin one morning early last week, I was passed by a slow driving black car, complete with roof mounted cameras and a Google sticker on the side. So when the Berlin street view comes out, as it surely will, look out for me staring grumpily at the van with my arms folded, wearing a yellow t-shirt and black jeans. Unless they've perfected their face blurring technology by then, of course.