A 2 hour Halloween mix by myself, The Freelance Hellraiser and Dadahack was broadcast in the early hours of this morning on the Rob Da Bank and Friends show.

If you fancy a listen then go to the BBC iPlayer and search for it or go to this link;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/robdabank/

And if you fancy hearing the same music at a stupid volume then come along to "Straight to Video" on the night of Halloween, the flyer is just below this post.

I did an interview ages ago for a DJ Yoda mixed documentary for Pete Tong's show on Radio one about sampling. I forgot all about it and then it was broadcast a couple of weeks ago. I have since been informed that you can download the show right here;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/radio1doc/

I recieved an email this week from one Nadav Ravid who informs me that the song used in Faulty Choirs is quite well known in his native Israel and even won the Eurovision song contest in 1979. With the information he supplied me with I was able to track down the videos on You Tube and now you can enjoy the same video experience I had about half an hour ago.

So, I've made this new track called Faulty Choirs and it's available for all to see if you go here; http://vimeo.com/1874756.

The video is directed and animated by Rafi Nizam. He did the whole thing on his own in his home studio whilst holding down a full time job so I'm incredibly grateful for the massive amount of work he's put in for gratis.

I did write a detailed blog about the how and the why of it all but on reflection it doesn't make interesting reading. So instead I'll post a couple of images from the sleeve of the record of the children in the song. That'll do more to add value to the track than anything I could write in my humble blog.

Also you may like to download a desktop wallpaper, there's 5 to choose from and you can get them by visiting my site; www.osymyso.com (all artwork by Rafi Nizam)

My latest tune is called Faulty Choirs and you can see it by going here;

http://vimeo.com/1874756

I might post more about it when I'm more awake.

Enjoy.

I'll be DJing this Friday in a trendy Shoreditch venue in an all new event called "Straight to Video" which is a night dedicated to the music made for and used in the movies. I'll be playing a completely non-dance set so don't come along if you want to dance the night away. There will be lots of oddness from the likes of Goblin, John Carpenter, John Barry, Danny Elfman, Ennio Morricone, Vangelis amongst many others. The first night is going to be a fairly random affair with no real theme other than playing just soundtracks, in coming months there are plans to take on specific genres and if I have time I'll be putting together some incredible mixes that will change the shape of the music centers in your brain.

In another room being terribly clever will be my old chum The Freelance Hellraiser and to be honest I have no idea what he's going to get up to but I bet it'll be really special and something you can boast about witnessing to all your friends the following morning.

All the info you'll need below;

Straight To Video @ The Last Days Of Decadence

A night of music from the movies - from the obscure to the obvious... Expect very special guests and cameo appearances from movie-type people and film buffs.


Last Friday of every month
8pm-2.30am // £5
Nearest tube: Old St


www.straighttovideo.co.uk

www.myspace.com/straighttovideoclub

Straight To Video :: You Know The Score

A strange fact for you all to take in here. I just spent a weekend in the company of Simon Bates.

A new website called The Quietus was launched recently and to mark the occasion they asked me to create a 'mash-up' that encapsulated the sort of music that their site will be writing about which covers the last 30 years or so of popular culture. What I gave them was a 50 track mix in a similar style to Intro-Inspection. You can go and listen to it now by following this link;

www.TheQuietus.com/mashup

If you're able to work out all the tracks that feature in the mix you could win an iPod touch. I wouldn't mind an iPod touch myself but I'm not allowed to submit an entry.

I'm quite happy with the way the mix turned out. Had The Quietus not asked me to do it then I wouldn't have ventured down this road again but I'm glad they did now. I doubt I'll be doing another mix in this style or of this magnitude again but then if people like this mix then it might be worth having another go at some point. I'm curious to see if this style of mix is seen as old hat or perhaps done to death, also I think a lot of people are getting better at doing this sort of thing now and as such my mixes won't stand as much as they did say 7 or 8 years ago. Who knows? I'd be keen to hear what everyone makes of it.

Anyway, go and check out The Quietus, it looks like it's shaping up to be a pretty fine site but then I'm no expert on these matters so I'll paste someone elses description into my blog to save me fumbling around for the right words;

The Quietus is a new website that carries the best writing and cutting edge audio visual content on the most noteworthy music and pop culture from the last 30 years. In short we will be an essential read guide to the best in new albums, reissues and related books, comics, graphic novels, TV series, DVDs and the like, concentrating on quality over hype. We will inject a strong mix of opinion, humour, intelligence and passion back into journalism utilizing the best writers for the job. If you don't actually believe that Jack Penate is the best thing since Nirvana but you're still not ready to slump into yet another feature on 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' then we could be the thing you're waiting for.

First and foremost the emphasis will be on quality writing that avoids the all-filler no-killer route that so many magazines have gone down. We're just as sick as everyone else at how cotton-brained the lifestyle publication industry has become – giving more time over to pet psychology, advice on how to wear scarves and how to make free range squid marmalade than anything of interest. If these mags were any more stupid you'd have to milk them.

I finished a little track today and then placed it carefully into a folder along with some other ditties I've been working on recently and it's starting to look like an album is coming together. I was tempted to release what I've got one track at a time on Bleep and iTunes as and when I finished them but now I can see an album developing in front of my very ears. So my plans to release a single next week has been canned in favour of doing an album. I'm more than aware that my previous attempts to get a collection of tunes together like this have failed, apart from in 1999 when the one and only osymsyo album was released. I'm pretty confident I can get this new one together as I'm well past the half way mark now and I'm not as precious as I used to be. I can't put a date on it but it will be this year.