modemgirl

modemgirl – dark fiber

psychedelic darkcore dub
february 2010

a collection of songs mixed with the intention of providing the soundtrack for battling psychic alien demons in space.

one! night! only! on december 19th a couple of crazies from the gorf beat soundsytem took over the airwaves at sleizure radio to explore their love/hate for 24 hour wal-mart by attempting to find peace between PC and MAC users. the result was a three hour onslaught of breakcore, freetekno, house, hiphop, gang signs, hat spins, baconators, OS debates, error messages, IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and a complete lack of xmassive carols.

gorf beat xmassive special – live on sleizure radio!

i’m going to mutek this year! wow, i’m quite excited at this completely spontaneous decision! i noticed an old, dear friend of mine was going and the next thing i know, thanks to the lovely folks at westjet and their “hey we know you’re all broke so we’ll tantalize you with cheap flights so you’ll spend money you still don’t have” sale, i booked a flight to montreal in time for this year’s installation!

for the past 10 years, mutek has taken place every summer in montreal (with parallel events in mexico, argentina, and chile). the primary focus is on exploration of innovative electronic music and expression / dissemination of new forms of digital art and media, not unlike vancouver’s own new forms festival. featured artists are a diverse representation of renowned international artists such as pheek, alex smoke, deadbeat, sutekh, stephen beaupre, thomas fehlmann, alva nota, apparat, modeselektor, adam marshall, the mole and of course one of my all time favorite producers AKUFEN, to name a few!

mmmmm….. minimal. so much minimal.

bonus: thanks to the rapidfire viral enthusiasm of the internet, mutek 2010 has quickly morphed into what i anticipate will be an awesome reunion as well as a complete and total shitshow. at least 10, but likely closer to 20, of my now grown up old school raver friends will be there! wonderful peeps all the way from vancouver, edmonton, winnipeg and ottawa will be making the journey from our respective lives to reunite for a weekend of dancing,  techno, art, parties, exploring and adventures yet to be conceived!! i can’t wait.

and now for your enjoyment, akufen live from mutek 2001

apparently i’m not as professional as i’d like to think i am, as my attempts to keep this blog “professional” has equaled “free of regular updates” thus  far, so i think i’ll make my posting policy a little less restrictive and allow at least SOME content to get through…

i found these on geekytattoos.com which is a mecca of win/fail by itself, but… wow. well played nerds, well played.

the second, for those of you who aren’t into networking, is a cisco logo which i think actually looks pretty cool inked. much more than say…. this one. i mean, i love my blackberry and windows office 2007 is pretty rad for what it is, but that’s a commitment i’m just not ready to make.

so…. anyone else out there (i’m lookin at you,  russian spammers) have a badass (or lameass) geek tattoo they wanna share? post it!

october 2009
clubby peak hour flailtunes
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this mix is essentially a 15 year dance anthem retrospective, from my POV.  all my favorite TECHNO HOUSE DANCE RAVE MUSIC songs (i spared you from the eurodance this time though i promise) all squished together into an epic-ly cheesetastic hour of happy flail music.

some songs are new, some super old, some remixes of old songs, and others mashups. every song reminds me of someone…. either a friend, roomate, best friends from middle school, first favorite dj, cheerleading, ex boyfriend or my parents (yelling at me to turn it down).

also… just wanted to prove i CAN play music appropriate for consumption by the general population. if you ever ask me to play your wedding, this is pretty much the set you’ll get from me. so you probably should, cuz it would be awesome.

i seriously debated including ’satisfaction’ by benni benassi and then i remembered i still can’t stand that song. and i’m also sad i didn’t include spaceman by bif naked, anything by la bouche or love inc, or a better remix of ‘the music sounds better with you’. although i think the mashedup version i used worked pretty well in the mix.

modemgirl has a new toy! last week i had an incredibly synchronistic run-in with a couple of old friends from cities far away, that ended up with me being in possession of a roland MC-307.

i’ve played around with digital sound production a little bit, using software + midi (using things like reason) but…. ugh. i work at a computer professionally, so the appeal of sitting in front of one when i get home is… minimal. (but not the good kind, like you want. ) that, combined with all the midi mapping and sound card latency and the hey hey hey let’s spend all our time trying to make things play nice, i’ve never really gotten anywhere working on music digitally.

last spring i purchased a “new” set of tech 12s which have been keeping me occupied for the last few months (sold my old ones in 2005 to go to burningman :p) – but what i really want to do is to write my own music.  so i decided once i paid off some debt i would  make my first timid steps into the land of analog (or well, at least physically tactile, we’re not quite generating sine waves from scratch over here…) gear.

and now, here i am – will be completely debt free in a month (hurray!) and little roland pretty much falls into my lap. awesome!! and it even comes with a nice boy who wants friends to jam with – he’s a professional sound guy / producer / dj / old old old friend that has just recently moved super close to me and has a studio full of blinky shit!) so…. pretty much the best thing ever.

i think it’s time to make the floor burn!

the 307 is awesome… i mean, it’s by no means the fanciest or the best, but it’s hilarious. it is made to make RAVE MUSIC. so cheesy. which i love. some people say the interface is weird or hard to use, but i really have no basis for comparison so it seems manageable for me. i’m having a lot of fun learning to use it (BLINKY SHIT)!!

august 2009
bear bouncin booty house
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a live set from bear bounce, an annual party thrown by a good friend of mine (bcbud) – all in the the name of big furry fun on the vancouver pride weekend! 2009 was the second year i played the show and every time it’s a total blast.  it’s a bunch of filth mixed in with the most epic-ly bad club trance we all secretly love. if i can’t bust out anthony rother’s ‘i am not ashamed’ on pride weekend, where can i?????

live @ spirited nrg

october 2006
minimal acid tekno hardcore
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a live set from the last party by the now defunct defkidsonacid. a tribute to winnipeg : one great city! now will someone please abduct me and get me the hell out of here?

minimal paranoia

may 2006
micro house / minimal techno
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how can you trust someone who thinks you’re crazy?

the monsters in her closet

january 2005
hard nrg
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pixil was known for stormin dance floors with hard nrg and hoovers, and this mix was originally recorded at the peak of those times. unfortunately my ghetto equipment resulted in a completely distorted recording that was never unleased into the public. four years later i found the original tracklist and finally re-recorded one of my favorite hard nrg mixes for your enjoyment!

ive been told this one is a favorite for the gym and for babysitting your six year old niece.