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Marble Hill-Basket Range-Uraidla-Norton Summit

Started with the familiar climb up Montacute Rd but then headed down Lobethal Rd on the picturesque descent to Basket Range, wasn’t quite sure if I’d have the energy to make it back up (but I’ll have to give it a go another time, perhaps after doing the easier ascent up Norton Summit Rd rather than Montecute which seems to just keep climbing forever). This time we returned to Norton Summit via Uraidla and Summertown which wasn’t too difficult, just one long climb on Basket Range Rd. The road where we turned right off Greenhill goes up and down like a roller coaster, quite a ride, with a very steep finish, it’s too short to show up on the elevation map for the whole ride, but if you just map that road it measures it as something like 14% at the steepest point. Thanks to Beetroot for coming along (and setting a tough pace up to Montacute Heights).

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SEPTEMBER

  • 19th – I play an all Ninja Tune DJ set at the Metro to celebrate Ninja Tune’s 20th birthday.
  • 24th – Absolute Boys, Batrider, Fake Tan, Cooperation at the Exeter.
  • 25th – Hit The Jackpot, The Ancients, Fake Tan at the Metro.
  • 28th – Peter Hook & Friends at  Her Majesty’s Theatre.

OCTOBER

  • 1st Zeni Geva at the Rhino Room.
  • 1st Smudge at the Metro.
  • 1st Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!, Fake Tan at the Ed Castle.
  • 2nd God God Dammit Dammit at Enigma.
  • 8th Sun Araw, Hit the Jackpot, Terrible Truths, Bitch Prefect, Bad Habit at Format.
  • 15th Steering By Stars, Box Elder, Our Husband at the Ed Castle.
  • 16th Ninetynine at the Metro
  • 17th Dead Meadow at Fowlers.
  • 21st Mulatu Astatke with the Black Jesus Experience at the Festival Centre Piano Bar.
  • 22nd Sea Bellies, Fire! Santa Rosa Fire!, Steering By Stars at the Ed Castle.
  • 22nd Bodies and Friends at the Metro.
  • 23rd The Holy Sea at the Wheatsheaf.

NOVEMBER

  • 3rd Brian Wilson at the Entertainment Centre.
  • 5th Matt Banham at the Jade Monkey.
  • 14th New Pornographers at Fowlers.
  • 18th Batrider, The Postures at the Metro.
  • 19th Hoodoo Gurus at the Gov.
  • 25th Kaki King at Jive.

DECEMBER

  • 4th Stereosonic Festival lineup includes Wiley, Ricardo Villalobos, Jeff Mills, Caspa.
  • 16th The Church at the Gov.

On the Stereo

  • Funkjazztical Tricknology cd (Ninja Tune)
  • Flexistentialism 2cd (Ninja Tune)
  • Funkungfusion 2cd (Ninja Tune)
  • Xen Cuts 3cd (Ninja Tune)
  • You Don’t Know Ninja Cuts 3cd (Ninja Tune)
  • You Don’t Know (DJ Food’s 1000 Masks Mix) cd (Ninja Tune)
  • ColdKrushCuts 2cd (Ninja Tune)
  • DJ Food – Now, Listen! cd (Ninja Tune)
  • DJ Food – Now, Listen Again! cd (Ninja Tune)
  • DJ Kentaro – On the Wheels of Solid Steel cd (Ninja Tune)

Ninja Tune Videos

The Ninja Tune 20th birthday is only a couple of days away, and on Sunday afternoon I’ll be doing a big Ninja Tune DJ set at the Metro. Here are some of my favourite Ninja Tune Videos.

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SEPTEMBER

  • 15th & 16th Klondike’s North 40 (feat. Chris Masuak) at the Grace Emily.
  • 17th – Taught By Animals, Like Leaves, Friends at the Ed Castle.
  • 19th – I play an all Ninja Tune DJ set at the Metro to celebrate Ninja Tune’s 20th birthday.
  • 24th – Absolute Boys, Batrider, Fake Tan, Cooperation at the Exeter.
  • 25th – Hit The Jackpot, The Ancients, Fake Tan at the Metro.
  • 28th – Peter Hook & Friends at  Her Majesty’s Theatre.

OCTOBER

  • 1st Zeni Geva at the Rhino Room.
  • 1st Smudge at the Metro.
  • 1st Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! at the Ed Castle.
  • 2nd God God Dammit Dammit at Enigma.
  • 8th Sun Araw, Hit the Jackpot, Terrible Truths, Bitch Prefect, Bad Habit at Format.
  • 15th Steering By Stars, Box Elder, Our Husband at the Ed Castle.
  • 16th Ninetynine at the Metro
  • 17th Dead Meadow at Fowlers.
  • 22nd Sea Bellies, Fire! Santa Rosa Fire!, Steering By Stars at the Ed Castle.
  • 23rd The Holy Sea at the Wheatsheaf.

NOVEMBER

  • 14th New Pornographers at Fowlers.
  • 18th Batrider, The Postures at the Metro.
  • 19th Hoodoo Gurus at the Gov.

DECEMBER

  • 4th Stereosonic Festival lineup includes Wiley, Ricardo Villalobos, Jeff Mills, Caspa.
  • 16th The Church at the Gov.

On the Stereo

  • Ed Kuepper – Studio Demos 1988 and 2007 (Prince Melon Bootleg Series Volume 12) cd (Prince Melon)
  • Ascension Academy – s/t (Prince Melon Bootleg Series Volume 13) cd (Prince Melon)
  • Ed Kuepper – Ed Kuepper Live (Prince Melon Bootleg Series Volume 11) cd (Prince Melon)
  • The Aints – The Aints Live (Prince Melon Bootleg Series Volume 10) cd (Prince Melon)
  • Dream Wake Dream – s/t EP (Abandoned Vinyl)
  • Fabulous Diamonds – II cd (Chapter)
  • Hall Ranaldo Hooker – Oasis of Whispers cd (alien8)
  • Kid Koala – Solid Steel Mix DL
  • DJ Food – Blech 20 DL
  • Peverelist – Jarvik Mindstate cd (Punch Drunk)
  • Winston Edwards and Blackbeard – Dub Conference at 10 Downing Street LP (Studio 16)

Torrens Gorge Ride

Did the following ride today

It’s a spectacular ride, for about 20km from Athelstone to Chain of Ponds you follow the Torrens River, after all the rain last week it’s really flowing. Mostly Gorge Rd isn’t a difficult ride, but the climb up to the top of the dam is hard.

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That’s the only really steep bit though. It’s a fairly narrow road, but has a good surface and once you get past the dam there is not much traffic at all. The ride down through Cudlee Creek is really beautiful.
Gorge Rd meets the Adelaide-Mannum road between Chain of Ponds and Gumaracha. This is a much busier road, though for the most part is wider. There are a few narrow bits though. Also there’s some reasonable climbs, there’s one particularly nasty one into a cutting where I was really starting to suffer as I tried to ride as fast as possible to get past the narrow section (I think my legs still hadn’t recovered from a ride up the Crafers bikeway yesterday as well).

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I got a bit lost and came back down the wrong way, I meant to come down Lower North East Rd but missed the turnoff so ended up coming down North East Rd instead – not a particularly nice descent. It’s never very steep, but there’s lots of traffic and the road surface isn’t great, I suspect the Lower NE rd one would be a better option. I didn’t realise I’d gone the wrong way until I came down and couldn’t work out where Grand Junction Rd had gone!

Australian Tour Dates for The Fall and Broadcast

For anyone waiting for news on the Meredith-related tours, nothing for Adelaide.

The following are from Liveguide.

The Fall:

(Billboards better stock up on Coopers, sounds like there’s going to be a lot of Adelaide people there)

Broadcast:

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lots more videos below

Blech 20

In 1995 Warp records put out a promo cassette featuring a mix of material from their back catalogue by DJ Food (then Strictly Kev and PC) called Blech. The following year they put out a cd version, featuring a completely different tracklisting called Blechsdöttir. This recording is legendary amongst fans of the Warp label, featuring many of the highlights of their early catalogue including Autechre, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, LFO, Nightmares on Wax, Plaid and lots more. The mixing is amazing. For over 10 years I’ve gradually gone from knowing pretty much none of the music outside the context of this mix to being familiar with most of it and along the way realising just how well mixed it is – discovering the way in which certain bits are actually made up of two or three tracks.  First hearing Autechre’s Lost without it going straight into Disjecta’s Kracht was a real shock. I still can’t work out how the hell they mixed the complex rhythms of Plaid’s Abla Eedio with anything at all. AFX’s Laughable Butane Bob never sounds right without the extra vocal samples they contribute. I can’t help copying their slow down Squarepusher’s of Problem Child whenever I play it in a set. It’s pretty much perfect from start to finish, absolutely one of my favourite albums of all time and one that I never get sick of listening to.

More recently I heard the original cassette, it’s interesting (and has some great tracks like a couple from Autechre’s Anvil Vapre, B12’s Scriptures and Seefeel’s Spangle), but clearly they took it to a whole new level with the sequel.

When Warp celebrated their 20th anniversary last year I bought their fantastic box set, but was a little disappointed there wasn’t a new Blech – now I’ve just discovered that there was, it just wasn’t in the box set! Strictly Kev did two one hour mixes for Warp’s 20th birthday, revisiting many of the classics from the original Blechs as well as updating with lots of more recent stuff like Boards of Canada, Battles, Broadcast, Clark and Flying Lotus. It’s available for download from Strictly Kev’s site and it’s fantastic.