btw - I've announced that I'm giving it up, but I haven't quite stopped yet... I'm playing at Saphir on Thursday (Control to Chaos tag team with tobias c. van Veen) and working on a few farewell dates... I'll probably continue with the radio show ( [ controltochaos.ca ] ) for at least a few months.

there's a lot of things going on right now... for the most part though, it's about priorities... it's about knowing I've taken things about as far as they can go - and that I've always done them my way. Over the last couple of years I've really quit caring about the whole self-promotion grind - especially in light of the fact that sucking up to promoters seems to be a bigger deal now than it ever was before... and I've never seen any point in doing that.

I think I'll always keep some records around - and I'll probably always play them... but priorities change, life calls... and hell... I've been doing this for 15 years - that's a longer haul than most.

I went to the UK, Ireland, Holland and Belgium...

Sucks that I'll have to miss this one. One of four Merzbow dates in North America, but I've got prior plans that involve not being on this continent.

They're archived through [ controltochaos.ca ]

For some reason, however, Sympatico seems to be having DNS issues with that domain... so some people might have better luck with... [ thisistheonlyart.com ] - which takes you to the same place (only it isn't quite so easy to remember)

that's the new shit!

CONTROL TO CHAOS V03
*recorded June 2005, Montreal @ SONICITY
[ [ www.controltochaos.ca ] ]

FISHEAD
Hall & Oates - I Can't Go For That (Bent remix) - Mint Source 007
Gerardo Frisina - Intenso - Schema 367
Selway & Smith - Altera - Tronik 27
Kode IV - Dissolve (Vapourspace remix) - KK 089
Ellen Allien - Magma - Bpitch 105
Terrence Fixmer - Armee des Tenebres - Gigolo 074
Depeche Mode - Photographic (Rex The Dog mix) - Mute L8
Akufen - Quebec Nightclub - Perlon 024
Someone Else & Miskate - Rip It Cookie Muenster (Matthew Dear remix) - FoundSound 01
Otto Von Schirach - G4 Scramblin (Scrambled Hijack) - Addict 026
Stunt Rock - I Don't Think... - Drop Bass Network 064
Severed Heads - Twenty Deadly Diseases - Nettwerk 12-3003

TOBIAS
Radiq - Quadrille - Logistic 048
Ricardo Villalobos - Serpentin (Thé Au Harem D'Archimde LP) - Perlon 043
Bjoern Stolpmann - Abuse of a Poison - Onitor 018
Caro - Can't Tell Why (The Return of Caro LP) - Orac 014
Los Hermanos - Olmec My Bro (On Another Level LP) - Submerge 3009
Sunaj Assassins - Cold Callin' - Logistic 044
Ben Nevile - Shiver (Joseki LP) - Telegraph 018
Dubloner - To J's Head - Skor 08
James Taylor - No Clear Channel - Logistic 043
Andy Vaz - Shrinking Cities - Telegraph 016
The Mole - Date (State of the Union 2 EP) - Spectral Sound 028

chui trop occupé avec mon voyage en Europe pour être là... mais bonne chance quand même... nous avons besoins de moins d'egoïsme - et la scène hardcore doit être unifié.

fuck that... if you kick someone out they'll be running around saying they were too hardcore for HATE.

Idiots are cock-nazis like that.

amateurs.

I've been hating so long that I made your momma cry. She felt so bad she went out and fucked the first dirty, drunk she could find... speaking of which, tell your dad I said hi.

How about I see if Hippocrates wrote anything about the medicinal benefits of twats like you drinking my piss?

Kick ass... I can pretty much guarantee it'll make into one of the Control to Chaos sets - which means it'll be broadcast in Spain...

Who's slotted for the other side of the split?

let me know when you get vinyl, cracker..

CONTROL TO CHAOS V02
*recorded June 2005, Montreal @ SONICITY

TOBIAS
Nurse With Wound - The Perfectly Natural Explanation (borrowed from Fishead)
Nurse With Wound - Soliliquoy for Lilith - Idle Hole
Pilgrims of the Mind - Sandcastle (Northern Circuits) - Interchill 002
Brian Eno - Discreet Music - Obscure 303
Twilight Circus Dub Soundsystem - Thunder Mix (Binshaker Dub) - M 150
Tomita - The Sea Named "Solaris" (Kosmos) - RCA
Biosphere - Botanical Dimensions (Patashnik) - Apollo 3927
Trentem¿ller - Chameleon (Polar Shift) - Poker Flat 056
Mathew Jonson & The Mole - Dirt Road and a Boat from Soundwave - Speicher 026


FISHEAD
Throbbing Gristle - Persuasion (The Motor rmx) - NovaMute 122
DHS - House of God (Jack Dangers rmx) - Tino Corp 2001
Teste - The Wipe - Plus 8 8085
R-Zac 23 - Zero (nuttin in m' ed) - Drop Bass 060
Neotropic - Ultra Freaky Orange (Deep Fried Clams rmx) - N-Tone 029
Metek and Okupe - Learning to Fly - Crime Time 002
Richard Devine - Moving Plexor - Six-Sixty-Six 003
Shitmat - Ellesse Warrior - Planet Mu 118
Daniel Lanois - Todos Santos (Belladonna) - Anti 86767
Venetian Snares - Masodik Galamb - Planet Mu 111 (Fishead Live rmx)

he's also great at dropping ridiculously funky shit at Laika on Saturday nights...

Nice... it'll be good to see Matt and Bobby before I head over to Europe...
senseless self-promotion -
Sept. 16th, '05: P.O.R.N. w/ I:GOR, Matt Green, Bryan Fury, Fishead, Razoredge, Laf-o, Subzero, Akira, Drokz and a whole ridiculous heap of others... I'd give you more info, but it's all in dutch and the party's in Belgium...

I find it really amusing that people are complaining about too much hardcore at a fuckin' hardcore party... or that there were hardcore DJs playing back to back... I mean, shit, throw a party called HARD AS FRICK (BUT ONLY ONCE IN A WHILE... WE'LL HAVE LOTS OF TRANCE AND HAPPY HARDCORE DJS BECAUSE WE KNOW PEOPLE CAN'T HANDLE IT WHEN THERE'S TOO MUCH HARDCORE AT A HARDCORE PARTY - NOW WITH 100% LESS PROFANITY)...

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CONTROL TO CHAOS V01
*recorded June 2005, Montreal @ SONICITY

FISHEAD
Monte Cazzaza - Kill Urself - Telepathic 023
Human League - Last Man on Earth - Black Melody 004
Slide - Flint - Toolbox Tunes 002
Michael Meyer / Reinhardt Voight - Sky Dumont - Kompakt Extra 028
DJ ESP - Kill Your Television - Communique 002
Final Exposure - Vortex - Plus 8 010
RAC - Oscillator - Warp 052
Someone Else + Miskate - Rip it cookie muenster (mathew dear rmx) - foundsound 001
Phoenicia - Odd Job (Otto von Schirach rmx) - Schematic 021
Adam X - Heat Index - Sonic Groove 9501
LFO - Freak - Warp 166
Cristian Vogel - Defunkt - Solid 002

TOBIAS
Kill Memory Crash - Crash V8 - Ghostly International 040
Sweet Light - Abusator - Freak n' Chic 007
Isolee - Beau mot plage (DJ Q rmx) - Classic 086
S-Express - Theme from S-Express (Carl Craig Special rmx) (Volume Two LP) - Carl Craig Recordings 002
Colin the Mole - ? - Mutek [rec] 002
Moodyman - On the Way Home (Silence in the Secret Garden LP) - Peacefrog 036

you mean hypocrite...

I'm getting sick of people who can't tell hypocrites from Hippocrates.

I really fuckin' hate bigots.

Y'know... that wasn't even all that harsh... take it like a man.

I guess you're used to all the coddling that bracelet wearing psy-trance kids give you.

Suck it up, kiddo... techno ain't for wimps.

weren't you playing trancecore or something last night?

I think it's time for you to leave...

I once got picked up by the cops while I was waiting for the bus to go to school. They tossed me in the backseat and said someone had been breaking into houses and wanted to know what was in the bag. I told them it was full of school books. They asked me questions for about 10 minutes before even bothering to open the bag and see that it was, indeed, school books. Then they acted surprised.

I asked them if they'd expected to find a TV inside it... they didn't think that was funny. They also didn't think it was funny when I asked them to give me a ride to school - seeing as they'd caused me to miss my bus and be late....

That's not even the worst one.... one time this guy went apeshit and attacked a friend of mine with a baseball bat (long story). My girlfriend said she'd go with the cops to point out his apartment. I didn't want to let her go alone. There were four squad cars. Once she showed them the place two of the cars left and the remaining officers left us standing outside while they went in to pick him up. Although - no one knew if he was inside or on his way home.

They eventually brought the guy out... and as soon as he saw me he started shouting that he was going to kill me. He was in handcuffs and resisting three officers at the time. I later found out he had an attempted murder prior... he'd shot someone who testified against him in an armed robbery case.

They locked him up for about three days and then he jumped bail and fled. Thankfully I haven't seen him since.

plote de crisse... arrete ces conneries...

avale ma dompe (que sent comme la TETE du penis de tete-de-poisson)...
prends ton calise de retraite...t'as quelle age? 23... les vrais ravers ont, au maximum, 13 ans... donc, t'as 10 ans de trop.

cherche ton esti de fauteuil roulant et tais toi... fucker des culs....

Calice d'enculé. Broute la souer de mon esti de raie... putain de branleur.

Taberplote que t'es un con et un salle batard de sucebite.

Seriously. The way I feel right now... I want to give you a dog... so that you'll have a pet that I can rape right in front of you.

I piss on your little electric fence of a threat.

I was hating before your father's testicles descended.

what's that supposed to mean...

I thought you were mr. Schranz... since when did you have an opinion about techno?

I think you mean Ableton....


...unless rum played an integral part in his performance.

Kompakt Extra 029 12"
Dub Trio - Exploring The Dangers Of... LP
Zu & Spaceways - We Travel The Spaceways/Space Is The Place (from the Radiale cd)
AFX - Analord (entire series)
Otto Von Schirach - Global Speaker Fisting 2x12"
Severed Heads - New Explosions (from Stretcher 12")
Mouse - Klat 12"

waiting on about 40 new records that are supposed to show up Monday/Tuesday...

the new Public Enemy 12" is ok... not exactly shit hot... "You thought the beat slowed down? Uhm... I guess it did."
new T.Raumschmiere is terrible... terrible... terrible....

browse recent additions to the heap: [ www.livejournal.com ]

bunch of rank amateurs, the lot of you...

all hated out... all giving up...

go back to waving fucking daisies in the air and giving each other front room back rubs and back room hand jobs.

y'all can't hang with the real hater.

Does everything include a fat cock planted deep in your mother's ass?

I've got a pretty loose definition of everything... and a few people are loose because of that.

I'd call you on the 'inventing h8' thing... but... there are so many people more deserving of my ire. I'll save you for last. Keep in mind, however, that the whole thing works a bit like Commando. Just 'cause I said it, don't mean I meant it ya turdburglar.

just ask... I got metric asstons of terror... and no one wants to come near it.

Weren't Technotronic a Belgian newbeat act that got commercial spins on this side of the pond when they slapped vocals by Ya Kid K over one of their cuts? The instrumentals might have been interesting... but... can't deal with those vocals. They make my dick go limp about as fast as hearing Neneh Cherry fronting on top of Tim Simenon's beats... Bomb The Bass was the shit... if you've ever heard You See Me In 3-D, then you already know this.

I, personally have no problems with people calling shit techno. Go ahead. Knock yourselves out. I do, however, think it's some wack ass bullshit to hear a bunch of pacifier-suckin', blanket-totin' pillheads mumbling a bunch of nonsense about how 'hardcore' freeform trance is... everyone seems to like sayin' they're hardcore, but most of 'em cry like babies when the real shit comes out...

Bunch of fuckin' pansies, I say.

it's enough to make me buy a shotgun and start a fucking revolution against clowns.... the best part is that, with all that red paint on their faces you can shoot them in the mouth and no one will notice... in fact... if someone says "did you just shoot that clown?" while you're making your get-away.... you simply turn to them and say "THAT'S A FUCKING MIME, DUMB ASS!!"

or...

"EH, CRIS DE MONGOL... C'EST UN'ESTI DE MIME, CALISSE!"

Aphrodite you should be strung up by his anus until he begs forgiveness for the utter formula shit that's been coming out for a full-on decade... I thought jump-up had been left to die in 1997, but apparently the people who get all teary eyed watching IKEA commercials have been keeping it alive.

I've said it before... there have only ever been about five trance tracks made - everything else is a permutation of those formulas. This is especially true for all that epic shit. It's been completely stagnant since 1996. Listen to Flowers Of Intelligence by Zenith or Angel in Descent by Mechanism... those tracks are killer, but trance djs couldn't wrap their drug addled heads around them - so they stuck with playing variations on the following five tracks...

Sven Vath - L'Esperanza
Age Of Love - Age Of Love
Jam & Spoon - Stella
Lunatic Asylum - The Meltdown
AFX - Polynomial-C

short armed motherfuckers can cry foul all they want, but if they actually had any idea of the history of the scene they'd throw in the towel and just walk away. It's all been done - and it's been done better. Electronic music was a forward thinking revolution of sound at one point... now it's a notalgia show for people who weren't there.... wait until 2013 - RAVECLASH will be all the rage and hipster dolts will be running around in rip-offs of Joe Bloggs, wearing 'vintage' smiley shirts and buying used day-glo pacifiers on e-bay.

Charles Noel is killer. I played a couple of shows for Ele_mental back in '97/'98 and they're among the most shit-together collectives I've ever crossed paths with.

if you're having trouble with a bleeding fader, try using some contact cleaner in it. You might also want to work on mixing with the line levels, in conjunction with the crossfade... it will give you a much smoother blend.