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“As she came up the stairs she noticed the smell. Intoxicating. Like the rotting flesh of a unicorn. The midgets ran at her, playing their tiny instruments with fury as they circled her on the landing. Fall she did. Down, down, down she went. He cried aloud when he discovered the body and swore vengeance. But vengeance on whom? He kissed she on her now cold forehead, washed and dried the dishes and sipped a cup of tea.”

[click here to download Deviant & Naive Ted - Shatter A Shame EP]

We have been waiting an awfully long time for an album by the cryptically original dynamite duo of Doctor Blam and Professor Plato, but following a bolt all doors weekend of intense scratching and philosophy, we are well on our way to hearing it.

The Norwegian natives brought their unique flavours to London to record the album alongside NozL Recordings pair, Maroon and Lone Wolf. There were some sizzling cuts laid down and we just cannot wait until it finally hits the vinyl cutting room!!!

Lone Wolf buzzed about very conspicuously recording footage of the long weekend and has pieced it together to form a mini documentary for your enjoyment for the now and as a mouth watering taster of what will be powering it’s way into record shops in mid 2010!

One word… AWESOME

Vimeo and You Tube… search for NozL

Enjoy

P.S. The you tube links are up!

Pt 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk_7f5tnbV0
Pt 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK25lV-syJw
Pt 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdMDZZ5ZIz8

Help us try and push the video by pasting the embedded links on your forums and sites and telling your chums and aunty Ethel to watch it so they can understand why we all like skratching so much!

We don’t think we’ve heard many more sincere ways to describe the way in which we like scratching than these two incredible guys have shown in the film.

Long live Blam and Plato.

Community Skratch Games 2010

April 1st – 4th, Galway, Eire.

The fourth annual Community Skratch Games, a festival celebrating the art of DJing, sampling and vinyl manipulation, returns to Galway for another bonanza of concerts, workshops and showcases.

CONCERTS

The festival kicks off Thursday, April 1st, with an evening entitled “Experiments in Turntable Manipulation”, showcasing the myriad applications of modern turntable composition and improvisation with live sets from Jimmy Penguin, Ventolyn & Becotyde and Fyodor plus special guests, venue and time TBC.

Good Friday gets promoted to flippin’ excellent Friday with the live WFMU broadcast at 8pm from Bell, Book & Candle, featuring the cream of Galway musicians and a special Community Skratch showcase featuring many of Europe’s finest turntable technicians and DJs.

The Games themselves begin at 3pm Saturday afternoon on Henry St. in the Bierhaus with an all day barrage of showcases and the revamped Community Skratch Battle Royale, where the mightiest skratchers from Eire and beyond try to wrest the crown of Freestyle Champion from reigning champion Blam One from Norway. Live and DJ sets from Moschops and Djackulate, Maroon, Itchi, TuPhat Paddys aka Tweek & Mikey Fingers, Jimmy Penguin, Rumbus Merrylegs, Fidel Cutstro, Disscuss, MyNameIsJohn, Deviant & Naive Ted, Invincible Armour and many more plus the annual funk bonanza that is Stroller and Jeremy Murphy after dark!

Sunday brings us back to Bierhaus for a night of producer showcases and DJ sets, from T-Woc, Manus Goan, Rubble Digits, Chiwawa Studios and Noid the Droid, Teknique & Donal Conway on the ones and twos.

WORKSHOPS

Community Skratch continue their efforts in educating the public (in association with Youth Work Ireland, Galway) to the possibilities of turntable manipulation with a one day workshop in basic and advanced DJ techniques. The 5 hour open day of workshops will be facilitated by longtime workshop leaders Deviant & Jimmy Penguin with guests Mikey Fingers, Tweek, Maroon and Fidel Cutstro plus producer workshop with Barry McNamara.

Those denizens of dementia are back., this time with a mix for the lovely folk at Monday Jazz, in preparation for the forthcoming “Shatter A Shame” EP on Alkalinear Recordings….

Deviant & Naive Ted – Puroresu – A Monday Jazz Mix – Click To Download

Tracklist for those that care about such things…..

01/ Ikebe Shakedown – The Prisoner
02/ Man – Prelude
03/ Yes – South Side Of The Sky
04/ Zygote – N/A
05/ Linton Kwesi Johnson – New Craas Massakah
06/ Pharoah Sanders – Japan
07/ Brian Eno – Over Fire Island
08/ Dimlite – Quiz Tears
09/ Moondog – Oboe Round
10/ Laurie Anderson – Sharkey’s Night
11/ Egil “Bop” Johansen – Palevise
12/ Zappa/Beefheart – Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top
13/ Deviant & Naive Ted – Beauty
14/ Telegraph Avenue – Sungaligali
15/ Bert Jansch – Fresh As A Sweet Sunday Morning (Excerpt)
16/ Vince Mack Mahon – The Amazing World Of Tweek, Ted & Keith

This is the first compilation from the Galway based Alkalinear Recordings Netlabel, featuring a wide range of electronic styles.

Click the cover for instant download or go to the archive page to stream it.

[alk006] archive page

enjoy.

Because we are incredible nerds and because we are now starting to get quite a few people checking our humble blog, I hope to do some live broadcasts of the recording process and archive them until Monday.

Catch exclusive action from Blam, Plato, Lone Wolf, and Maroon right here throughout the weekend. If this works out, I hope to do the same at the Skratch Games in April..

Don’t forget to leave a comment or get us on twitter (@richnozl)

RusZUD just released another Jimmy Penguin album and its available for free download via the open source Internet archive.
Get ‘Its Not Dub-Step’ over at the RusZUD website or click the links below for direct download.

>>> Click to Download the free release:
http://www.archive.org/download/rz156/rz156_vbr_mp3.zip
>>> Or go to the archive page:
http://www.archive.org/details/rz156