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Ayo, popped into Ed Devane‘s studio recently to see what he’s up to. Sitting on his arse he was not. In typical Ed style, he’s been busy mastering woodwork, metalwork and electronics to create more of his electro-acoustic instruments. There was a range of finished pieces to see (I call them ‘pieces’ cos the finish on them is practically sculptural, dig?), ranging from feedback machines to stringed devices designed to be bowed with knife sharpeners to thumb-piano style percussion instruments. Here’s some photos:

So these lads arrived in the post the other day, man I love Discogs…

And then it turns out Mr Edan is playin on Friday, the man brings the feckin triathlon when it comes to hip hop skilllllllls, so go chek it yeah? Friday 11th May, 8pm, the Sugar Club. Also on the bill: Mr Lif, Paten Locke, Willy Evans Jnr…

Ayo, was up in Belfast a few weeks back for a long-overdue visit. Got to catch up with my fellow Spoomers and paint in the T13 skatepark (a giant warehouse down in the docks).

Big ups to the following: LIVING LEGEND Adam Turkington and Seedhead Arts for getting us all together, the weather controllers for aiming that sunshine in at us, big ups MarcaMix for the chats there and back (let’s do a piece sooooon man!), big ups the mighty Gerry and Friz for the hospitalities, KVLR for keeping GLOVE MAN at bay, Dave McClelland and Dogboy for holding it down and Andy McHugh for being Andy (check his new night, Hungry Ear, here – big tings a gwan!).

Here’s the photos of the shiz we diz:

Redmonk

KVLR

Friz

Dogboy

Dave McClelland

Marca Mix

The Lads

!Kaboogie Stat!K is a new series of gigs run by !kaboogie. In a revolutionary era in music and the visual practice, it will focus on new experimental music and related work in audio visual performance. The aim of these gigs is to explore the intersection of noise, sound art and experimental composition with beats and club music.

Stat!K will also focus on presenting and developing the new wave of musically integrated visuals. These include; the new aesthetic, audio reactive and generative software process, visual programming languages,   projection mapping, video synthesis, data visualisation, processed dance,  high res open source video etc.

We plan to do this in the context of what we do best, providing fun spaces for open minded audiences to enjoy hard and cutting edge sounds in a club environment.

Another aim is to foster links with international practitioners, scenes, labels and festivals.

For an idea of the artists we will be hosting and working with examine the rosters of; Raster Noton, important , PAN , Blackest ever Black, Digitalis, Hospital Productions.  We will also be taking inspiration from festivals like Unsound(po), Supersonic (uk), Ars Electronica(de) , Transmediale(de), Hunters Moon (ire)etc.

!Kaboogie is continuing a tradition of innovation and originality that has seen them
break grime, dubstep ,breakcore and mash up in Ireland . A list of names that includes Rustie , Alec Empire (Atari Teenage Riot),  Ms Dynamite , King Cannibal, Kingdom, DJ C, Durrty Goodz, Scratcha DVA, Warrior Queen and the Bug, Heatwave, Terror Danjah as well as supporting new Irish music with gigs and  on !Kaboogie records.

The first in this series of gigs will feature NHXyx and Legion of Two and a Screening of METACHAOS by  Alessandro Bavari, winner of many awards including the 2011 Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica for computer animation/film/vfx.

NHKyx – 257

Legion of Two – ‘Handling Noise’ (Live)

We reclaimed a section of Dame St. last weekend. Free street party buzz: tunes, food, dancers, live art, family friendly buzz. Big up everyone who came down and supported. Check here for updates, we’re not finished yet. This is what the day looked like:

Copyright Workers Solidarity Movement

Wilko and myself blasted out a couple of pieces on the day, here they are:

Did this the other night for the Vantastival festival which was on this weekend (better late then never yesh?). Hopefully gonna have a few more mobile pieces on various vehicles in the coming weeks, watch this space…

New EP of ‘nihilistic bunker techno’ from the lads. Grab it digitally here, else head to All City, Earwiggle or Elastic Witch if yr in the Dublin area and grab it pon wax.

Yo, just made a load of these. More on the way. Grab ‘em from The Picture Rooms which is run by ridiculously nice people who are into running a gallery for The Right Reasons. The lads in the picture are called Minimonks and they’re been proven through rigorous laboratory experimentation (I puts in the hours see?) to ward off evil spirits, duppies and even THE FEAR.