Hey there faithful Ranchers. Here's a short track I made for my friend Stephy B's radio show on KAOS. It's meant as an intro to be talked over for a minute or so before her regularly scheduled programming. Not sure she's using it every week, but I think it's a dope beat so I thought I'd share it.
Stephy B Theme
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Stephy B Theme
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Bill Simmons:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/100407&sportCat=nba
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Sunday, March 14, 2010
ESCAPES SCHEDULE (pretty final)
EEEE sSSSs cCCC AA PPPp EEEE sSSSssss
EEE sssss c aaaa Pppp EEE sssssssssssss
EEEE SSSss cCCC a a P EEEE sSSSsssssss
Also...there is an RSVP list...email Escapesbooking@gmail.com if you want to be on it. It doesnt help or prevent you get in the shows, its just for if we need to send out an email last minute. Everything is first come first serve until we are full....Thursday and Saturday are the only ones where you should maybe worry about this...Thursday is capacity 450 and Saturday capacity 125, but you can probably see and hear from the street in both cases
Free coffee and grilled c h e e s e
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Tuesday, March 16th @ CLUB 1808, 12th and Chicon
ESCAPES III
5 PM - 2 AM
free
(5 PM) Traffique (mems. Peter and the Wolf)
Spiked Punch
Jennifer Ellen Cook
(6 PM) Archibald Adams and his shimmering war choir
Sunset
Florene
(7 PM) Sleep Good
Zorch
Soft Healer
(8 PM) Spells (formerly known as Moth Fight)
Wizzard Sleeve
Female Demand
(9 PM) Pataphysics
Geoff Reacher
A Faulty Chromosome
(10 PM) Follow that Bird
Grandchildren
No Mas Bodas
(11 PM) Bodytronix
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
Magic Jewels
(12 AM) Lord Scrummage
Reverse X Rays
DD/MM/YYYYY
(1 AM)Quiet hooves
Daniel Francis Doyle
Computer Jesus Refrigerator
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Wednesday, March 17th @ Club 1808, 12th and Chicon
ESCAPES IV
noon - 10 PM
free
noon - Boys Who Say No
1230 - Geoff Reacher
1 - hermit thrushes
130 - Wild Yaks
2 - spiked punch
230 - Many Mansions
3 - Reading Rainbow
330 - The Beets
4 - How I Quit Crack / Caves Caverns (sftp presents)
430 Metal Bunnies
500 Nice Nice
530 Terror Pigeon
6 Male Bonding
630 Peter and the Wolf
7 Reverse X Rays
730 Popo
8 Prince Rama
830 Quiet Hooves
9 Light Pollution
930 Still Flyin'
plus Phantom Bands playing Acoustic until ????
look fer / Bubbly Mommy Gun, You and Me....many many more
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Thursday, March 18th @ Big Parking Lot, 306 E 3rd Street (3rd and Trinity)
ESCAPES V
11 AM - 8 PM
free
11am ---- YAHOWHA13
(look this stuff up extensively on youtube, here are some hilites--- health food funded psych music cult decades in the making, hang-gliding death, annie hall, half-baked psychedelic groove, genuine weirdness before death)
okay i'm vaguely pumped about this but ooo the mythology of it
12 Videohippos
1230 Zs
1 When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth
130 So Cow
2 Rainbow Arabia
230 Lord Jeff
3 Lord Scrummage
330 Spiked Punch
4 Soft Healer
430 Prince Rama of Ayodhya
5 Reverse X Rays
530 Quiet Hooves
6 Tobacco (main guy from Black Moth Super Rainbow)
630 These Are Powers
7 Acid Mothers Temple (until 8)
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Friday, March 19th @ Downtown Burgers, 310 E 3rd Street (3rd and Trinity)
ESCAPES VI
11 AM - 8 PM
free
11 Boys Who Say No
1130 John Bellows
12 The Splinters
1230 Spiked Punch
1 Computer Jesus Refrigerator
130 Truman Peyote
2 Grandchildren
230 Attic Ted
3 Turbo Fruits / PC Worship
330 Hermit Thrushes
4 Brazos
430 Liturgy
5 Videohippos
530 Reverse X Rays
6 ** Very secret guests email us and we'll tell you all of them*
630 Lord Scrummage
7 Quiet Hooves
730 Beach Fossils
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Saturday, March 20th @ Sneak Attack, 2nd and Guadaloupe in the back of city hall
ESCAPES VII
noon - 8 PM
free
noon DD/MM/YYYY
1 Lord Scrummage
2 Total Slacker
3 Sonny and the Sunsets
4 The Weird Weeds
5 Follow That Bird!
6 Reverse X Rays / Spiked Punch
7 Quiet Hooves
8 Beach Fossils
w/ special guests LITURGY, Bubbly Mommy Gun
Monday, March 8, 2010
Scowering Showlist, non Escapes PIXXX
So Im going to be basically unable to go to this shit but
Thursday
Robert Wyatt (4:30pm) at Mellow Mushroom
whoa!!!!
Thursday night this will be fun, although you are gonna have to find it
Real Estate, Woods, Eternal Tapestry, Pocahaunted, Beach Fossils, Silent Land Time Machine at a house off of 30th and Red River (near Austin vet hospital) [7:30pm]
also good shows at beerland and trailor space, and the pitchfork show looks good this year to me
Josh Duke // Martin Crane // T-Minus???
Hey yall. Had a great night at a bar last week. The bar was Club Deville, the day of the week was Wednesday, the cover was $3, and the occasion was a double solo show featuring Josh Duke and Martin Crane. Josh aka Al Tiburon (i believe thats how you spell it) has been working up some mad euro-revival tracks down the block at Baby Blue for the past x number of months. Most of it is done in MIDI and then he lays some unaffected vocals down on top. This was his first show since a technical fiasco of a debut a few months ago at Baby Blue. It was a first show where things went right (aka a second show). The friends showed up, the PA sounded great and the songs keep developing. Lots of nice things to say, but I'm sure there will be future shows and refinements in the future.
Martin has freaking been beamed to another planet. I dont know if this world is ready for him, but somehow he is writing shit better than his old shit. Once the material is with the full band it is going to be undeniable, I can't wait. Breakthru artist 20.
In other news, you may have noticed a little thing called SXSW is coming up. We are booking something like 100 bands. I am going to blog about it here at nightly (hopefully), because that will be the only way to have a record of most the things that happened, and I will have a better festival if i am processing information as we go and not all at once. This shit is gonna be nuts. Still so much work to do, but there are so many good bands coming in and playing Escapes III, IV, V, VI, and VII, that is is really going to be a moment in time and space to remember. Pray to the sunshine gods for me... (Oh, and its T minus 8 days now)
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Switched On // No Mas Bodas Gets Married // Special Shit
hey yall
Its warming up out there, nightly temperatures now dipping down only as far as "bearable" and daytime conditions more along the lines of "perfect". And with that, we find our beloved fellow Austin scenesters out in full force this weekend for some very special events. The one last night was the opening party for Switched On, the new synth specialty store of Texas, located precariously near my house at 11th and Waller. I say precariously because I'm not sure the owners are ready for the level of annoyance they may experience when I go in there and play on every. single. one. of. their. synthesizers.
But the place looks incredible. There is a giant custom built video screen with their awesome logo in the front, a TV grid hooked up to a video synthesizer and oscilloscope (open for the public to dick around with last night), all your band needs such as drum heads and drum sticks, a ton of vintage keyboards, a specialty repair shop, and a well curated set of all types of synths. Its nothing short of fabulous. The opening was so well done too....bands first at the store and then later across the street at Victory Grill. It was my first time to get to see SURVIVE since their very first show, the dreadfully fated Pyramid in the back of Matt Schwaush's House Show, which we don't have to talk about here. They sounded great. Pataphysics played really well too, a ton of punk energy on Policeman especially sticks out in my mind.
Also earlier this weekend it was a great honor for Reverse X-Rays to get to be a part of the No Mas Bodas CD Release show at Cheer Up Charlie's (the old ms beas). Our set was perhaps not our best, but No Mas Bodas sounded good to me, and the wedding was fantastic. The 4 way knot was tied, shoes were thrown, gongs rang, aye-yay-yays enunciated like a room full of mad Poncho Villa's, and there was an overall quality dance party as well, not to mention What's Tappenin? a tap group that did a rather basketball halftime show performance at the end. 2 great evenings
Also, in the last couple months worth noting is the passing of The Pillow Queens, one of Austin's finest bands. They rocked extremely hard and their last show at Trailer Space was an emotional affair which I could have told you about in greater detail had I blogged about it at the time. No more misses like that, faithful readers, I pledge to thee!
Friday, February 26, 2010
Haddaway - What Is Love (Music Box remix)
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I can't say thanks enough to my sister, The Abster, for the best christmas present ever, a DIY music box.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Strafe - Set It Off (remix)
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As heard in Aphex Twin's Coachella set from 2008, and Autechre's recent mix for Fact Magzine.
Pretty legit electro right here like they just don't make anymore. For what it's worth, Autechre are some of the sickest DJs around right now... if you haven't heard their 12 hour mix from a couple years ago, well, drive across coast or put the extended Lord of the Rings trilogy on mute and turn your speakers up and get schooled. Mixing amplitudes and frequencies is all good and well, but you haven't heard modern creative DJing until you've heard Minnie Ripperton vocoded with a rasta rise up and rebel speech for the entirety of the track.
Props to you Mr. Spratt for turning me on to this.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
I want to thank u 4 steppin' into my life...
Sup Ranchos and Ranchettes, it's been awhile. I've been posting a reggae video a day on the facebook event for Spiked Punch, and I'll probably post them here at some point for reference. But as for now, enjoy this silky smooth video of Dam-Funk unplugged at the piano.
Monday, January 25, 2010
If you dont know....
me by now. Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes on Soul Train, 1972.
also...check out these Afro-Americans, The Sylvers, from the same year on the same program
Thursday, January 21, 2010
X-Ray Saturday
....bummer there is a cool Bearclaw show the same night...
But come check out yer Reverse X-Rays @ Club 1808 , doors at 9
w / no mas bodas, the weird weeds, E*2, DJ Trailmix, DJ Dan the Man
should be good
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
2009 Wrap-up II
Hey yall! A years worth of love!
What was my 2009 like?
Jan-March - I believe I was unemployed, but at this point I still had savings I could just eat up while I found a job. RXR was going strong thru SXSW. In Feb I got a job that wouldnt start for another 6 weeks (it was supposed to start like 3 weeks earlier than it did) working at Texas Legislative Services. We would cover what was going on in the Texas Leg. Lots of drawing time and reading time which was cool, and also it was fun being in the capitol building feeling like basically an imposter. But hey, those people work for US. We the PEOPLE. This was the legislature when the "tea-party" shit lead by Gen. of the Texas Army, King Seceed his-own-damn-self Rick Perry. That man loves being the Governor of the State of Texas. Seriously, he is following his passion, which happens to be $1000 boots with the state seal of Texas on it. Walk Hard, Rick. It was an interesting session, I learned how sausage (aka "legislation") gets made, got a free Obama T-shirt from the labor unions, alot of free BBQ lunches, a fair amount of sanctioned drinking margaritas on the job, had an awesome boss who was a bigtime baseball guy, started reading political blogs, and what else, oh yeah, started working real weird hours. I also made some new friends, and really enjoyed working the night shift with Katy my now temporary roommate, and Katy, the awesome chick who was a barista at Little City. I saw her on New Years and slapped her with a Jimmy Johns Sandwitch at Midnight. It was meant to be a gesture of the most loving kind, but I think she didn't really know how to take it at first. She did dance with me some afterwards so It must have at the very least been "apology accepted."
April I was still working the same job, but my whole life was backwards. Chris had left RXR (he is in Europe now, gaining valuable and varied world traveler life experience) and we were sort of in a tailspin. I started playing a lot of music with Red, which eventually (about 100 bottles of wine later) "didn't work out." We both learned lessons the hard way, but I'm happy to say we can now once again enjoy being in the same room together. One thing I heard from a politician back at my job was an old Italian saying which is "after the game all the pieces go back in the same box" which I think means some Mafia dude is going to end everyones life, but maybe means you gotta love the one your with.
I was still in semi tailspin mode coming out of that, it was the low point of my year for sure, I was all messed in the head like after a bad breakup. But I was planning a tour and knew once it came it would bail me out. Summer in Austin got insanely hot insanely early and that was sort of a story there in itself. Everyone I knew was like "WTF is going on???" Then it was time for "Tuffin' Up 2k9" with the motley crew of Me, Dann, and Eddy. We killed that shit and returned to the land of good vibes.
After tour was over for the 3 of us (in Boston Mass) I had a little solo adventure over to Toronto (gorgeous city, first time out of States in like 3 years maybe?) and thru Ohio, culminating in a (semi-) memorable 3 day drunk in Athens, OH with Brian of the band Spooktober. It was ridiculous. His friends are all biker gang guys with guns from 100 years ago, and also random art school kids and hillbillies. Pretty sweet, although I was worried about random hooligans putting a brick thru my windshield for no reason (I heard about 3 windows smashed for no reason while I was chilling on his porch). It was a great time, followed by a 11ish hour drive thru 6 states down to Athens GA where I would spend the next 5 weeks playing guitar, reading, and helping on home improvement projects all damn day. That town is amazing and it will truly go down as an amazing time in my life. I got to go to the Blue Ridge Mountains and have a weekend up there with friends at an awesome vacation house, saw a dickload of free shows, and had my first experience being a door guy (at The Go Bar, a charming place. There is an Of Montreal song that takes place there and can be found for free performed in their daytrotter session.) Number one thing you notice is really nice people. Everyone is super nice, and also super into music. The whole town thinks they are 22, and its just music music music. Its great. Great friends, I cant wait to see them again, and go back to Athens again. It was such a perfect time to be there, the end of summer in Athens. I wonder if i can take a train there, and not put the miles on my car...
So then I got back from Athens Sept 15thish, just in time for the High Holidays and leaving myself just enough financial cushion not to have to immediately move into my parents house and beg for any job that would come up. The next period was marked most clearly in my mind by where I was living with and with whom. Living with Willard was so nice, he mentored me so good into being a man. Seriously. He is my guru. I learned a lot about space from him, and concentrating and shit like that. I made biscotti for my grandma's birthday, and me Willard and Dan Krinslock had some really good times watching Melrose Place. Those chicks are so catty!!! But great show, seriously. Willard really was the one who got me into home improvement building stuff. That house had great vibes. Next, I moved in with Mike a couple blocks from Rancho, and that was truly a Spiked Punch golden age as we wrote the first reggae set and were practicing and playing music pretty constantly for 4-6 weeks, something like that. I managed to make my move to a more pleasant couch situation at Rancho. Me and those ladies and the other 2 punker dudes living there had a pretty nice constant party going, which was another novel environment for me in a way. That was a Rancho Golden Age...they were going scorched earth with it bigtime and in a way it came back to bite them in the ass (neighbor problems) but in a way, it all worked out. Had a great trip to Houston with a couple of those ladies, originally to see Thee Oh Sees (who cancelled that and their Austin show!!! illness...)
November we finally found a place, me Mike and Julian, with a special guest live-in situation from Abe for the first month. There was a bit of static with that, but it was my best living situation in 4 months, so I wasn't really the one getting bent out of shape about it, and everything ended up working out. Thanks to Abe for hooking us up with a gorgeous small home, great location, and loooow rent. More good vibes, and Spiked Punch team unity, but in December Mike moved out, only to be replaced by our good friend Katy. Happy to report levels of House Unity to start 2010 are at an all-time high. I really enjoy all the roommate activities we are getting in, and I think everyone is pretty serious about enjoying the time we have together. So that is my year! I don't think I released any music (outside a tour-only odds and ends compilation "take it out of our deposit" which proved an all too prophetic title) but i did get much better at making it, and in a way get 2 bands off the ground, so that is cool. Here's to 2010 being a more productive year in regards to releases, I think it will be. Keep your eyes peeled for some extremely limited vinyl runs.
Late in the year I also got a sweet* (*it actually sucks, but the flexible hours are nice) data entry job and started doing shows at Club 1808. The shows have been going well and in case you were wondering I'm just trying to approach it one night at a time, making sure each night is awesome, because things that are awesome in this particular way in my experience, you never know how long they are going to last. The only way to make them last is to have them always be awesome and appreciate them while they are going on, so cheers to that, I have already seen a very high hit rate of awesome shows there.
Also, doing this blog has been alot of fun, I know its dropped off a bit lately, as bloggers pursue real life interests, but I think its a fun record for us all, and now that things are settling down a bit, I can see myself getting more into it.
mucho gusto, 2009 was some bad and mostly good for me. It was the people who made it good, and maybe the fact that none of my friends can get jobs in this economy really is a blessing in disguise because it means I get to hang out with them more.
xoxoxoxx Ervin Berlin
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