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MANTIS 040
ACROPLANE RECORDINGS on the SHOWCASE. Presented by DVNT.
Broadcast 20th June 2009 at 18:00 GMT on http://www.brap.fm

DVNT
Intro
Nosaj Thing – Coat of Arms [BriEfcAse Rockers]
F.O.T.N. – Tesseract [Noxgenus Recordings]
SENSO & Wolfgang Strausdat – Lilli Van Thornson (Dub) [Derelikt]
KiloWatts – Kynanite [KiloWatts Music]
Urb – MAU [Enough Records]
Modeselektor – Ziq Zaq [BPitch Control]
Senor Frio – Gatter Foot [Digital Distortions]
Si Begg – Jetlag and Tinnitus Part 1 (Crystal Distortion Remix) [Noodles]
dead sound – Bad Thoughts [Data Trace]
Hellfire Machina – Something in the Dub [dub] MANTIS exclusive
B1tCrunch3r feat. Adapt – Foresight (Mouch Remix) [Gamma Audio]
Platinum Mules – Fresh Start (Mesmer Remix) [Re:Connect]
Stryke and Santos – Exiled (Mark Broom Remix) [Tronic]
P.E.A.R.L. – Innocent Soul [Return Records]
P.E.A.R.L. – Innocent Soul (charlton Remix) [Return Records]
Ion Driver – bbRobot (teutonic kaboom Remix) [dub]
GYU – Marilyn [dub]
Dave Clarke – A Tale of Two Cities [Deconstruction]
OG – TIme Slips Away [midnightminustwo]
Synaecide – The World is High [IDMF Netlabel]
Si Begg – The Bleeps (Si Begg 08 Edit) [Mutate Records]
Deadman DJ – Thist [dub]
Subotic – Relentless (CONCRETE DJZ Remix) [Armatura Records]
Subotic – Relentless [Armatura Records]
John Roya – Rice [mONOmENTAL]

ACROPLANE RECORDINGS on the SHOWCASE
Blake Market – Gently Stalk [dub]
Filaria – Aucid Flux [Acroplane]
wAgAwAgA – Eerieish [Acroplane]
Red Box Recorder – CCC [Acroplane]
VERTICAL67 – Motion [dub]
Vertical67 – Daylight (Red Box Recorder’s Donk On It Remix) [Acroplane]
Somatic Responses – Shinjuku Walk [Acroplane]
WaGawAgA – Technodub [dub]
Space Dimension Controller – Galactic Effector [Acroplane]
Somatic Responses – Dub Flash (Re-Edit) [dub]
Somatic Responses – Erratic [Acroplane]
CLOSE

After 2 years of broadcasting with Brap FM, the time has come to move on. For our 40th and final show with Brap we've got Acroplane Recordings stepping up to the showcase.

SHOWCASE
Paul Acroplane aka DJ Acroplane Recordings has been knocking about Ireland djing at clubs, festivals and free parties
for about 10 years, having played alongside artists as diverse as Autechre, Scorn, Si Begg, Clark, Boxcutter, Luke Vibert, DJ/rupture, Surgeon, King Cannibal, Kevin Saunderson, Ebola, Yee-King, Remarc, Aaron Spectre and Bong-Ra, to name but a few. He was the main man behind Belfast's now legendary Diston events, and now heads up the city's Acroplane Movement shows in venues of all shapes and sizes.

Not content with that Paul started up Acroplane Recordings, a free netlabel hosting music from the likes of Boxcutter, Somatic Responses, Chevron, Mothboy, Mad EP, Ebola, Igorrr, Space Dimension Controller, Lackluster, wAgAwAgA, Red Box Recorder and Vertical67, among dozens of others. Acroplane Recordings has a diverse selection of sound on offer on the label, providing consistently high quality releases to rival any of what the big boy electronic labels can offer. For free. You cannot argue with that.

REST OF DA SHOW
Well, it's the last show on Brap FM, and a massive shouts to the Brap FM crew, in particular station owner Moif, who let me unleash the MANTIS show back in early 2007. I've greatly enjoyed my time abusing the airwaves of Brap. MANTIS is moving stations (and days) and will be broadcasting biweekly Friday evenings (same time, 6PM GMT) on SWU.

LINKS
Acroplane Recordings / Acroplane on Myspace / Acroplane on Soundcloud

MANTIS
MANTIS / myspace / last.fm / facebook / twitter / makemassair / brap.fm

DOWNLOAD/LISTEN AGAIN
Archive, podcast and tracklistings available for all the previous shows can be found here. Alternatively you can subscribe to the podcast, using either iTUNES or the RSS feed.

This weeks Featured Artist on Belgian Electronics:





Hey just for your info, Belectronics is the Belgian-Electronics-guise for me (Doorchaser) as Belambient is for the Belgian Ambient group. These users make it more easier to run both groups and I can use their library for the radio.
this group was never intended to become a promotion tool for my music. I have my own ways for that. But for selecting the featured artists I use an algorhytm just to be sure every artist that is connected gets featured and the algorhytm just stumbled on one of my aliases. And I just figured why not give it an equal shot! And it gives me the chance to update that Bio!!

Bio from last.fm

Gert De Meester, also known as user Doorchaser, the bass-player of The Seven Laws of Woo, and knob twiddler of Distant Fires Burning, lives in Mechelen, Belgium.

It all started with a Commodore 64. Gert (born May 17, 1977) was taking care of the C64 for a friend who needed a place to put it while renovating his house. Gert soon discovered he could use the C64 to create electronic music. Though mostly experimental, at age sixteen he had created much of his own music, and was greatly influenced by Future Sound of London's lifeforms album. Other 90's electronica influences included Aphex Twin, The Black Dog, Autechre, Global Communication, Biosphere and The Orb.

In 2000 he got to know his girlfriend, who now became his lifetime partner and who he likes to call Mus. She owned a very powerful computer and Gert explored that machine in function of music making and that's the moment he bought Cubase.

Gert finally adopted the moniker The Mental Attack and completed his first song, Doorchaser in 2003, which evolved into the five-track Structures EP. As you see it's his user name. It stands for his job. He's a Social Worker and provides councelling at home for people who can't seem to find their way in this society. Often he stands for closed doors...

Shortly after he was asked to make the soundtrack for a space-comedy-play called “Ark” he made them a Funktronic CD and named himself “Reverend Basstorius' Intergalactic Funk Experience” shortly referred to as “R.B.I.F.E

Soon Gert started to collect a Laptop, a midi-controller, a USB Bass guitar connection, Cubase studio 4, 5 etc... and Three years later (2006) Gert released his first full-length album, Iluvatar.

In 2007 Gert started to experiment more with ambient music and started to produce music as Distant Fires Burning.

Allthough this moniker is in the fridge it might be possible that it comes out again in te future. Who knows...

Recommended Listening

Iluvatar.

Links

http://www.doorchaser.tk
http://www.myspace.com/doorchasermusic
http://www.electrobel.be/labels.php?group_id=2302&;

limiting it to one album per artist, just to keep things more interesting.

1. Burial - Untrue (2007)


2. The Mars Volta - Amputechture (2006)


3. Animal Collective - Feels (2005)


4. Sigur Rós - ( ) (2002)


5. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000)


6. Battles - Mirrored


7. Converge - Jane Doe (2001)


8. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place (2003)


9. Orchid - Orchid


10. Circle Takes the Square - As the Roots Undo (2004)


11. Why? - Elephant Eyelash (2005)


12. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles (2008)


13. Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase (2005)


14. The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes (2006)


15. Vetiver - Vetiver (2004)


16. The Fall of Troy - Manipulator (2007)


17. M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us (2005)


18. Isis - Oceanic (2002)


19. Autechre - Incunabula (1993)


20. Thursday - War All the Time (2003)


21. MF DOOM - Operation Doomsday (1999)


22. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna (2008)


23. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command (2000)


24. mewithoutYou - Catch for Us the Foxes (2004)


25. Fear Before the March of Flames - The Always Open Mouth (2006)


26. Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album (2006)


27. of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic (2004)


28. Eluvium - Copia (2007)


29. Jurassic 5 - Power in Numbers (2002)


30. Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner (2003)


31. No Age - Nouns (2008)


32. Panda Bear - Person Pitch (2007)


33. Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust (2005)


34. 65daysofstatic - One Time for All Time (2005)


35. The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995)


36. Braid - Frame & Canvas (1998)


37. Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher (2003)


38. Brand New - Deja Entendu (2003)


39. Saetia - A Retrospective (2003)


40. Hieroglyphics - Full Circle (2003)

I tried to make a chart of who my favorite composers/bands were at different ages.

The format is:
Age - most favorite artist at the time (some others that I liked)

I'm 21 now.

10 - Green Day
11 - Metallica (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
12 - Metallica (Nirvana)
13 - Radiohead (Pixies, Weezer)
14 - Yes (Miles Davis, Pixies, Radiohead)
15 - Godspeed You Black Emperor! (Sigur Ros, Genesis, Radiohead, Yes, Miles Davis)
16 - King Crimson (Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Genesis, Miles Davis, Radiohead, Yes)
17 - Ludwig van Beethoven (Dmitri Shostakovich, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mogwai, Opeth, King Crimson)
18 - Ludwig van Beethoven (Mono, Sonic Youth, John Coltrane, Can, Béla Bartók, Anton Bruckner)
19 - Mono (Charles Mingus, Enslaved, Scott Walker, Sonic Youth, Ludwig van Beethoven, John Coltrane, Can)
20 - Merzbow (Keiji Haino, Talk Talk, Steve Reich, Evan Parker, The Velvet Underground, John Wiese, Mono, Can, Scott Walker, John Coltrane)
21 - Morton Feldman (John Cage, Arvo Pärt, La Monte Young, Luigi Nono, Giacinto Scelsi, Iancu Dumitrescu, Gérard Grisey, Tony Conrad, Charlemagne Palestine, Autechre, Merzbow, Keiji Haino)

Listening to Radiohead's Kid A when I was 13 was what got me interested in music in a serious way. My listening stagnated or regressed around the time that I was 19, but then I took some big steps during the last two years. I've said before that Merzbow introduced me to real music, and that's true in a sense.

Aeon Spoke – Above the Buried Cry – ok
Anton Fier – Blind Light – ok
Asia Minor - Crossing the Line - not ok
Autechre - Amber - ok
Burial - Untrue - ok
Curl Up and Die - The One Above All, The End Of - not ok
David Simons - Prismatic Hearing - ok
Indricothere - Indricothere - not ok
Jet Black Crayon - In The Interim - ok
Lumukanda - Araglin - ok
Pochakaite Malko - Pochakaite Malko - not ok
Showbread - Age Of Reptiles - not ok
Tuxedomoon - Holy Wars - not ok

Autechre's Garbagemx36 is the best.

1. How did you get into 29?
Everyone liked The Prodigy back in the day

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb I think. Could of been Money either

3. How many albums by 13 do you own?
The Tuss - Just the one and its their/his/her only release. Absolutely brilliant though

4. What is your favorite song by 5?
Aphex Twin? Jesus I don't know. I guess 4 has always been endearing. Or Z Twig. Or Mt St Micheals Mix. Or anything really!

5. What is your favorite song by 15?
Venetian Snares - Pwntendo (or anything from that Rossz album)

6. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
Squarepusher - Hello Meow, Iambic 9 Poetry and Beep Street :)

7. What is your favorite song by 10?
Jimi Hendrix - The Wind Cries Mary

8. What is a good memory you have involving 30?
Jefferson Airplane - Tripping in a mates house and thinking that it wasn't clichéd at all!

9. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
Jurassic 5 - probably I don't know the names of the tracks

10. How many times have you seen 26 live?
Mike & Rich - Never, don't think they ever played live together.

11. What is the first song you heard by 23?
Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow

12. What is your favorite album by 11?
múm - Finally We Are No One

13. Who is your favorite member of 1?
Global Communication - I don't know who's in them. I don't really like specific people in bands anyway, its more about the collaborative effort.

14. Have you ever seen 14 live?
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Hopefully at E.P. (well sans Bob unfortunately)

15. What is a good memory involving 27?
Digitalism - Electiric Picnic 2008

16. What is your favorite song by 16?
1200 Micrograms (probably my current faves!) - Tough one but might say Salvia Divinitor or Acid for Nothing

17. What is your favorite album by 18?
Autechre - Amber


18. What is your favorite song by 21?
The Gift Of The Gab - Just Because

19. What is the first song you heard by 25?
Pendulum - Slam

20. What is your favorite album by 2?
Orbital - Orbital 2 but I'm partial to the Middle of Nowhere and the Blue Album too

21. What is your favorite song by 3?
Shpongle - Once Upon The Sea Of A Blissful Awareness

22. What is your favorite song by 8?
Sonic Youth - impossible to pick. so I'll just pick first few I think of: Bull in the Heather, The Empty Page, Candle, Drunken Butterfly, Pattern Recognition, Scizophernia, Dirty Boots...shit, most songs I do love and the new album's added even more!!!

23. How many times have you seen 17 live?
The Bloody Beetroots - Almost once

24. What is the worst song by 12?
Air - Probably something from 10000Hz or whatever its called. Their other albums are amazing but thats a sore point

25. What was the first song you heard by 28?
The Doors - The End

26. What is your favorite album by 7?
Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase

27. What is your favorite song by 24?
The Velvet Underground - Heroin

28. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy?
The Higher Intelligence Agency - Most of them do but I'll say Speedlearn (Empathy Mix) cos its great!

29. What is your favorite album by 4?
Zero 7 - Simple Things

30. How many albums do you own by 20?
My Bloody Valentine - All of them as far as I know. But Loveless totally outshines the rest.

Top 15 bands - first heard, fell in love with, favourites

"Post your top fifteen bands/artists, the first song you heard of theirs, the song that made you fall in love, your favorite album and your current favorite song."

Well, here we go:

1. Aphex Twin
First heard: Windowlicker
Fell in love with: Xtal
Favorite album: Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Current favorite song: Fenix Funk 5

2. Tool
First heard: The Pot
Fell in love with: Forty Six & 2
Favorite album: Lateralus
Current favorite song: Third Eye (live)

3. Metallica
First heard: Master of Puppets
Fell in love with: Ride the Lightning
Favorite album: Ride the Lightning
Current favorite song: Metal Militia

4. Pantera
First heard: Cowboys From Hell
Fell in love with: Cemetary Gates
Favorite album: Far Beyond Driven
Current favorite song: Shedding Skin

5. Lamb of God
First heard: Redneck
Fell in love with: Ruin
Favorite album: As the Palaces Burn
Current favorite song: Vigil

6. The Smiths
First heard: Panic
Fell in love with: I Want the One I Can't Have
Favorite album: Meat Is Murder
Current favorite song: Handsome Devil

7. Autechre
First heard: Dael
Fell in love with: Clipper
Favorite album: Tri Repetae
Current favorite song: Eggshell

8. Radiohead
First heard: Karma Police
Fell in love with: Climbing Up the Walls
Favorite album: OK Computer
Current favorite song: Sit Down, Stand Up

9. Slayer
First heard: Angel of Death
Fell in love with: Angel of Death
Favorite album: Reign in Blood
Current favorite song: Seasons in the Abyss

10. System of a Down
First heard: Chop Suey
Fell in love with: Prison Song
Favorite album: Toxicity
Current favorite song: Chic 'n' Stu

11. Down
First heard: Three Suns And One Star
Fell in love with: Stone the Crow
Favorite album: NOLA
Current favorite song: Ghosts Along the Mississippi

12. AFX
First heard: Steppingfilter 101
Fell in love with: Lisbon Acid
Favorite album: Analord 08
Current favorite song: W32.Deadcode.A

13. Rage Against the Machine
First heard: Wake Up
Fell in love with: Testify
Favorite album: Rage Against the Machine
Current favorite song: War Within a Breath

14. DevilDriver
First heard: Hold Back the Day
Fell in love with: End of the Line
Favorite album: Fury of the Makers Hand
Current favorite song: The Axe Shall Fall

15. Sepultura
First heard: Refuse/Resist
Fell in love with: Refuse/Resist
Favorite album: Chaos Ad
Current favorite song: Beneath the Remains