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Various Vegetables Radio #67 | A Psychedelic Paraiso

Posted on September 19, 2018 by Octobird • 0 Comments

Summer is almost gone. Time for one last mindbending trip to towards sun, space and back to sandy grounds. As our tour guide for the first half of the trip we‘ve choosen a wonderful company called El Paraiso Records who has been releasing a far amount of wonderful Vinyl Releases reaching from Instrumental Psychedelic Rock to Fusion Jazz to Analog Synthkraut. This leads us straight to the musical influences of the latest 4-Track EP of our Vegkrew boy Octobird that has also been released on the day of the show on Pr0gramma Music where he‘s building a path from classic Psychedelic Recordings to modern Techno and Electronica.

TRACKLISZT:

Kalacakra – Nearby Shiras
Jakob Skøtt – Age Of Isotopes [El Paraiso Records]
Futuropaco – La Torre Cade [El Paraiso Records]
Al Doum & The Faryds – Light Up [Black Sweat Records]
Circle – Hiiret = Delfte [Metamorphos]
Psicomagia – El memoriso [El Paraiso Records]
Brian Ellis & Brian Grainger – Cabin Slide [El Paraiso Records]
Astral TV – Sun Flares [El Paraiso Records]
Jonas Munk – Orca [El Paraiso Records]
James Holden and The Animal Spirits – Pass Through The Fire [Border Community]
Holden – Renata [Border Community]
Octobird – The Gate [Pr0gramma]
Andrew Pekler – Vertical Gardens [Kranky]
Dialect – Fissures [Dense Truth]
Stéphane Laporte – Ossature [Antinote]
Mouse On Mars – Daylight [Thrill Jockey]
Sula Bassana – Moonbase Alpha Alpha [Sulatron-records]
Oren Ambarchi, Konrad Sprenger, Phillip Sollmann – Suez (Version) [A-TON]
Tihomir Zdjelarević – Hopefully we will see

You can also download the show here!

Tihomir Zdjelarević | Mikrowelt

Posted on September 12, 2018 by Octobird • 0 Comments

"Tihomir Zdjelarević is a Berlin based musician. He works with modular synthesizer, string synthesizer, guitar, Four track and hardware effects to create a large soundscape with a kosmic vibe"

Tihomir pretty obviously follows the paths of classic ambient music from the golden age of the analogue synthesizer. But he does so with a lot of passion and sensitivity. He put's the Warp Speed Engine straight on 1 Lightmeter per hour and follows the routes of Cosmic Music, Krautrock and Psychedelia slowly and carefully. Therefore this music is by all means meditative, as it takes you to a place you've already been before - somewhere save - and lets your mind wander and expand.

So we highly recommend to just take these 40 Minutes off. Put away your smartphones turn off your computer, shield yourself from the surrounding Wifi and find a way to listen to MP3s in this rather uncommon setup.

Damn, what a stressful world.

Various Vegetables Radio #65 | Digital Natures

Posted on August 2, 2018 by Octobird • 0 Comments

The golden era of New Age Music is long gone and there for New New Age is the new New Age. Let good ol‘ grumpy Mr Octobird be your spiritual leader on this journey through the cosmos of digital psychedelic, droney soundcsapes and let him read your future from a plastic crystal ball.

TRACKLIST

1 Joanna Brouk – Playing In The Water [Numero Group]
2 Iasos – Formentera Sunset Clouds [EM Records]
3 Gigi Masin – Music For Chameleons [Music From Memory]
4 Bill Nelson – Glass Fish (For The Final Aquarium) [Cocteau Discs]
5 Michal Turtle – Rainwater Fijt [Music From Memory]
6 Cinema – Sem Teto [Music From Memory]
7 Andréa Daltro – Kiuá [Music From Memory]
8 E Ruscha V – Endless Sunday [Beats In Space Records]
9 Simon Hold – Maqam Bruxelloise [Vlek]
10 Pep Llopis – Jardins Aquatics [Freedom To Spend]
11 Gianni Gebbia / Tiziano Popoli / Massimo Simonini – Insufflatio [I Dischi Di Angelica]
12 Kara-Lis Coverdale – Ad_Renaline [Sacred Phrases]
13 Michele Mercure – Dream Clock [Freedom To Spend]
14 Palta – Tabt Optagelse [Melody As Truth]
15 Visible Cloaks – Mask [Rvng Intl.]
16 Tim Hecker – Music Of The Air [4AD]
17 Jon Hassell – Dreaming [Ndeya]
18 Robert Lippok – All Objects Are Moving [Raster]
19 Lowcommittee – Salon [Vlek]
20 Grand River – Secondaria [Spazio Disponibile]
21 Potter Natalizia Zen – Articulated [Ecstatic]
22 Oneohtrix Point Never – Sleep Dealer
23 Gifted and Blessed – Presence [Leaving Records]
24 Michael C Sharp – Blublocker [HoloDeck]
25 Global Communication – 14 31 [Dedicated]

Bham Bahm #3

Posted on May 14, 2018 by Octobird • 0 Comments

DJ KEN MUTANT
Ken started his musical journey in 1981. Since 1991 he has been in Berlin, making music, collages, silk screen prints and also organinsing art and music events. Since 2012 he has been engaged with the Wide Scope Collective, where he lends his vocal talents to to several Wide Scope projects.

GIFT!
"Born from the ashes of the former St.Genet, GIFT!, is a one man noise project based on guitar, pedals, and loops. GIFT! is part of the A++ BerlinMusiCooperation."

ETALON ZERO

RUDOLF

HUNLLEF
(welsh for nightmare) are currently making sounds with analogue modular machines. The project was born in a Berlin basement and originally consisted of 4 members, all of which are associated with Valley Sound Records.

DJ OCTOBIRD

Musik der Sterne Vol 1 | Tape Compilation

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Octobird • 0 Comments

"We are part of the universe and music is the code..."

This quote from Vangelis adorns the inlay of the tape compilation from Berlin-based tape label Per Musica Ad Astra. After a couple of vinyl releases and regular broadcasts on Intergalactic.FM they took the opportunity on their first compilation to run free on their obvious fondness for so-called Kosmische Musik . Restrained driving beats nestle in soaring pad sounds on their journey trough space to maintain a very homogeneous travel speed over the course to all eight representative planets (or artists as some may say).

Well done Captain!

And not to forget, our man Vlight Attendend Vertical67 was also part of the crew.

Premium Bananen from Zanderhythm

Posted on January 31, 2018 by Octobird • 0 Comments

Patrick Vian | Bruits Et Temps Analogues

Posted on January 17, 2018 by Octobird • 0 Comments

When I first became aware of Patrick Vian's album
Bruits Et Temps Analogues by it's release on Staubgold Records, I was not aware that this was a 1976 reissue because Vian's expeditions to the soundscapes of jazz, fusion, electronica are so timeless and cross-genre.

In each of his titles, he builds up picturesque arrangements with the help of analog synthesizers, field recordings, percussion and all sorts of exotic instruments which never quite engage in classical song or instrumental structures, but always wavering towards an unique idea. Here and there it gets quite funky and you wait for the drums to go on the one, but Vian refuses the easy way, creating unique timeless sound paintings.

So, if you haven't been travelling in a while, that's the perfect Album to do so.

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