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Black Lantern Music Minterview / We Are One

Top Edinburgh download label Black Lantern Music is one year old this month, so to mark the occassion (and to plug their birthday party-cum-gig on Sunday) we sent founder Bram Gleiben, aka Texture, ten very special questions to get his gob around.



What?

The first birthday party for Black Lantern Music (www.blacklanternmusic.com), Edinburgh's premier netlabel and home of underground hip-hop, dubstep, electronica and experimental music.

Who?

Fresh from destroying T-in-the-Park and supporting Sage Francis, special guests Stanley Odd (Circular Records) join the Black Lantern family for a riotous evening of homegrown hip-hop, bass music and electronica. We've got Morphamish, delivering a body-shaking set of live dubstep. We've got Eaters, one of Edinburgh's longest running and best-loved hip-hop bands, performing material from the acclaimed album 'Shouting At The Wind'. There's head-nodding, fat-as-fuck electro from Krowne, plus the explosive live debut of Asthmatic Astronaut and Harlequinade's new hip-hop / electro project, Church Of When The Shit Hits The Fan. The event is hosted by Chemical Poets spoken-word-burglars Tickle and Texture.

When?

Sunday 3rd October Two Thousand and Ten. We kick off at 7pm, and finish at 1am.

Where?

Henry's Cellar Bar, Morrison Street, Edinburgh. Which, incidentally, is the ancestral seat of Edinburgh hip-hop - the legendary basement bar where Penpushers, The Pesky Varmints, Scotland Yard Emcees, Finely Quaye and a whole host of classic Scottish hip-hop acts used to gig, back in the day... Yep, we're going back to the roots of this shit!

Why?

Well for a start, it's free before 11pm! I mean, you'd have to be a pretty boring bastard to turn down a free gig with six bands on a Sunday night, right? Also, it's our birthday! We're celebrating twelve months of Black Lantern Music, and 24 top-quality albums / EPs unleashed for you, the beautiful downloading public, absolutely free of charge!

How?

To quote George, "Free your mind, and your ass will follow."

Which?

Which band? Which style? Which beat? That's the beauty of it - you don't have to pick one! With so many top quality acts playing live, there will literally be something for everyone.

Could?

Could... you bring some friends? Absolutely! The more the merrier.

Would?

Yes, Black Lantern Music: We Are One will most definitely give you wood.

Should?

Without a doubt, son.

P.E.A.C.E.



"We Are One"
Myspace event page: http://events.myspace.com/Event/7511852/Black-Lantern-Music--We-Are-One
Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124084957642038&index=1


Supasub (Morphamish+Paranoise)& Tactus - Big Picture by morphamish

Miaouxmix 8

Contributor to FUCKNO Miaoux Miaoux has a new mix online at mixcloud. It's niiiiice, a blend of experimental electronica with some jazzy techno and some rock.

Here's what he has to say about it:
"I've wanted to do a mix entirely in 12/8 for a while, but could never find enough tracks to do so. So I decided to make a tune specially ("Infinite Staircase"), which filled things out, and because I'm nice like that. Anyway this mix was made to promote my monthly DJ residency at Words Per Minute in Glasgow - if you like this, come down!"

MIAOUXMIX 8

Atlas Sound - Washington Shcool
Syclops - Nakoa's F
Four Tet - Circling
Fairmont - Flight of the Albatross
Miaoux Miaoux - Infinite Staircase
Applescal - I Can't Stand
Wesley Matsell - Bernwerk
The Doors - Roadhouse Blues

XMRV

For the Edinburgh peeps, one of Glasgow's finest metal / punk / spastic acts XMRV are playing across at Bannermans on Sunday night (that's May 16th). Doors are at 8, and entry's free. For the uninformed, think a more melodic version of Dillinger Escape Plan, or Delta 5 if they'd grown up listening to Black Metal and you're not really very close. Live, they're a frenetic explosion of bass / guitar collision, math-rock drumming and vocals that veer between delicate lilt and throat-shredding scream. We likey.

They've kindly given Shallowrave an exclusive free download of Suicide Slide, from their first self-released EP (available at gigs only). Get it here.

They're currently working on an album, and have gigs in Bloc next month, as well as playing Distorted Picnic this summer. They've toured Europe and played a number of festivals, and we expect big things from them in the near future. Be there.

Download XMRV - Suicide Slide

Jazz Vigilante!

Police decided to investigate after an angry jazz buff complained that the Larry Ochs Sax and Drumming Core group was on the wrong side of a line dividing jazz from contemporary music.

from The Guardian

YOU WILL GIVE ME JAZZ, OR I WILL TELL THE MAN ON YOU

Sunday in Wendel, Tuesday in Glasgow

Wendel is a cool wee cafe at 42 Schlesische Strasse in Kreuzberg. They do a mean hot chocolate and a nice cup of Kräuter Tee. Add a kick ass jazz band, and you have the perfect way to unwind after a hectic weekend of intense musical exercise.

The band was Tré from Zurich, and I bought their album;




I'm back in Glasgow now, and I'm barely afloat, swimming in new music. I have records, CDs and about a million things on various other digital formats to wade through. I've been at it for hours, and I haven't even touched the live recordings we made at the festival, or the stuff I was writing while away. I feel like Scrooge McDuck in a vault of sound.

Feels good, man.

More later, for sure.
For now, I think I'm going to get into my Netaudio panel-mate Andrew Dubber's book, The 20 Things You Must Know About Music Online.

See you on the other side.