International Soundcloud Meet-Up pt. 2

Soundcloud Meetup - Glasgow 2011 [FULL VERSION] from GlasgowMeetup on Vimeo.

Apparently, it's been available for a good wee while now, but due to the impossible-to-locate Voltergeist, I've not yet seen the full thing. So, here's the 20 minute edit of the Glasgow Soundcloud meet-up event, including lots of panel chat from Paul Reset, Muslim Alim and Texture.

Booya.

"The Noughties: WTF Just Happened?" on Weaponizer

So, the first part of my ongoing monthly series looking back at the music of the last decade has gone up on Weaponizer. As you may have guessed, the first year to be covered is 2000, when speed garage was coming to an end, disco-pop dominated the charts, and someone called PEaches dropped her first album.

There are going to be guest contributions to this series too along the way, with the first guest spot going to Weaponizer's own Bram Gleiben, who is weighing in with a two part look back at hip-hop from 2000-2010. He should have that ready for next Monday. In the meantime, you can start reading it here.

Metatron interview on Weaponizer

Weaponizer have just published an interview with the Niallist (as Metatron) in which he talks about making music, religion, Little Rock, and the differences between Manchester and Glasgow. Read it here. You can download the two Metatron EPs from Black Lantern Music here and here, but if you'd like to listen first, here's a wee playlist:

Teh Weapons

I mentioned this a while back, via Iamus' own blog, but it's finally gone up as Weaponizer's front page, as well as guarantee from Texture that there will be one new fiction piece per weekday uploaded from now on.I'm also really enjoying Peter Morrison's Parlimentary Candidate #1, also from Weaponizer - a speculative / satirical fiction with unsurprising relevance these days

PROSPECTIVE PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE NO. 1 by PETER MORRISON

When the Prime Minister himself phoned me to tell me I’d been selected as Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for [CENSORED] I was thrilled – the Prime Minister himself, phoning me! On reflection I should have been suspicious; it should have been the first alarm bell that something was wrong. The fact that my mother burst into tears should have been the second alarm bell – I mean real distraught sobs, not tears of happiness. But I was keen, I was eager, I was naive.... (Read More)