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Slayers-Club-ft-Ripley-at-Terenga-11.12.09  by  ripley

thanks Slayers club!!

Comrades, fellow travelers and committed members of the party, I present to you:

The aftereffects of a sustained indoctrination of my breakcore roots
with four-on-the-floor and 125-140 beats. Infiltrators of my
brokenbeat, amen-pure mental state included: Donna Summer, Com.a,
Passions, DJ Family, David Last, Curses!, Starkey, Bird Peterson, Dj
Deeon, Switch and the 2step/UK Garage pirate radio broadcasts that
reached me in a weakened state as I returned from squat parties in
1999.

Yes, I confess to you all, I was sucked kicking and screaming back
into house music. The inevitability of history (guilty late nights in
1994 at the Paradise gay bar basement in Boston, hopping to Cajmere),
and my continuing admiration and uncontrolled body manipulation by the
aforementioned characters sent me in that direction: falling backwards
from the po-faced dubstep and the skrewface/drooling breakcore,
wiggling up from the 2step sounds.. here it is in all its glory. A
party manifesto.

It wasn't easy. The melodic charms so much more prevalent in this
style, the square beats that encourage smooth tweaking rather than the
rough cutting I favor, all of these were obstacles. My tone-arms
weakened by 12 years of hard use in the interest of the Party,
occasionally sent Serato wonky and resistant. But I soldiered on! The
last hurdle: my preference for swung time/triplets mixed with backbeat
2step - a shuddery-juddery boogie that can't be made too clean.
Hopefully you all will agree.

Onward the party!

MIX LINK: http://www.mashit.com/2008/05/27/ripley-to-the-party-members/

A radio show for The Perennial Philosophy:
http://media.podcastingmanager.com/47397-1626/Media//RadioPerfilo_DJRIPLEY_Feb18th.mp3

semi-permanent host for the insensible mix:http://dqproductions.com/Insensible%201.mp3

and check out my new weekly (re)starting April 5 - rocksteady and ska at the Guerrilla Cafe!

So there are two mixes available for your listening pleasre

the first is the insensible mix, made for the artofbeatz radios show in Vancouver: http://www.yousendit.com/download/T1VuS3hZYXlwM2w1VEE9PQ

the other (more breakcore reggaeton mentalism) is up at the new site spannered.org, you can stream it or look on the top right of the page for a link to download: http://www.spannered.org/radio/1153/

http://riddimmethod.net/riddimabroad.html is the page for summer European tour info (with Kid K and a bit of DJ C)

http://djripley.blogspot.com has links to four mixes - the latest mix is a 6-dj team mix - riddim method represent! you can download that directly from here:

http://www.lemon-red.org/mix/2006/04-06-riddimmethod.html

further blogging updated more often here:
http://djripley.blogspot.com

There's not as much up now as I would like. The mix i did for Havocsound is up at the Mashit Tour site: www.mashittour.com at the end of my bio. There will be a new mix from my Txgiving set on the QE2 Radio Show posted soon. Death$ucker is releasing a mix this year. Music blog: http://djripley.blogspot.com

so.. yeah kid k and I packed up our stuff. took a 1-month european tour (BO - www.mashittour.com), drove around the east coast from NC to Boston (wild ponies and Truro beaches included), and then took 2 weeks to take the not at all direct route across the country (Toledo/Maumee, Chicago, Muscatine, Iowa City, Lawrence, Kansas City, Denver, Salt Lake, Buhl Idaho, Boise, Portland Oregon, Astoria Oregon, SF. woooooosh. and we signed a lease on an apartment in North Oakland Saturday. Hooking up musically is going great - Havocsound, 5lowershop, Spaz, ffflood, all kinds of people have been welcoming, we have met some new folks as well... and now I'm about to disa-fucking-pear... I have homeworkf for my Torts class, to do before classes start. And did I mention that the Torts book costs exactly half of what I have in the bank until my first check comes? woo. so, come seek me out and say hi, so I don't drown in academia and brokeness. I am loving it out here, nevertheless..

yes indeed. I'll be moving to Berkeley in August. Scary! leaving the east coast.. my yankee ass surrounded by people who are friendly for no reason, and a chance to start caring about the weather. I'll be looking for music contacts - the glitch/breakcore/ragga/dub/jungle thing especially. Me and the boy will be looking for a place together in the commute-to-berkeley area. Oakland/temescal/north of there sounds good - biking distance. Or even SF in the Mission near the BART (my dream, cuz the Mission feels more like Brooklyn) - give a headsup if you have any hints for housing. Also my first time living with my partner.. any partner.. but we don't fight and spend nearly every day together as it is. I'll be sad to leave all my best girlfriends - the rockinest smartest most creative posse of activist/fashion designer/flame artist/video editor/herbalist/dominatrixes ever. I'll need more ladies in SF and berkeley, they have some there, right?