07 Ono Pollen

This mix started life as a live recording from this event in leeds in 2007

the mix was created with me on the turntables and mooken using ableton live to trigger his bank of sounds. Mooken did an edit of this SND – (Live) and we played it in the mix we added a lot of extra bits into the mix and some of the sounds in the mix are not accounted for in the tracklist i'm pretty sure i played a bit of rhythm & noise contents under notice in the mix and there was definitely some bits of yoko ono sampled in the layers of this set. we sent this out to a lot of places as a promo version; wire magazine, vice magazine etc... the ben frost track on the mix is from a test pressing of his awesome album "theory of machines" we got the tests at baked that morning so i just had to play that track. Idris Muhammad - Piece Of Mind was sampled by shake on a downbeat frictional track so we played the original of that as it fitted with the drama jazz stuff mooken was into at the time the quincy jones track was also one of mooken's faves. we actually played something in the middle of this mix that mooken cut out when he was editing it "Rape" from Peter Wyngarde's When Sex Rears Its Inquisitive Head LP. really great that track but it didnt really fit in. Mooken is responsible for all the post production tweaking and editing out my mistakes ! thanks for making me look pretty respectable .

here's the press sheet

Label: ono
Title: achew!
Cat no: ONO Achew
Release Date: 01.11.07

Ono Achew! is a recording of the collaborative efforts of Mooken and Keswicklemon taken from the “Pollen” night at Brudenell Social club in Leeds on June 21st 2007. When invited to play at the long running Pollen night, the two Manchester DJ’s began drawing on the experiences gained from building the ono “She Knows” compilation. It was decided that these ideas should be adapted for improvised live performance using the combined efforts of laptops and analogue vinyl. The end result is an edgy mix that juxtaposes moments of high tension with lush serenity, and aims to give the listener the sense of drama apparent on the night.


Tracklist

Rjoji Ikeda – Data.matrix (Raster-Noton)
Terry Riley – Happy Ending (Warner Bros. Records)
Burning Star Core – Mes Sodats Stupides (Hospital Productions)
Quincy Jones – Candy Man (Reprise Records)
David Shrigley - When I Was A Little Girl (Azuli)
Ben Frost - We Love You Michael Gira (Bedroom Community)
Chris Corsano – How Do Know Where To Throw The Ball (Hot Cars Warp Cdr)
John Hegre – Don’t (Dekorder)
Idris Muhammad - Piece Of Mind (Legacy Recordings)
Raymond Scott - IBM MT/St : The Paperwork Explosion (Basta)
SND – (Live) (Live Recording)
Thomas Hamilton – Untitled (Creel Pone)
Maurizio – M-6 (Maurizio)
Wasteland – July (Transparent)
Metabolist – Tizhoznam (Drömm Records)
Matt Wand – Medical Milestones (Hot Air)
The Human League – Introducing (Virgin Records)
Deerhoof – Scream Team (ATP Recordings)

its in a similar vein to She Knows, we got a really nice review in vice magazine for this mix here it is

this mix was done post pelikanneck shutting down so i got a load of old pelicanneck stickers and put them all over the artwork as an element to the composition. sort of to show my thanks over the years for shlom,daz quale,rob hall,mike,conor and david R's help to me finding great tunes over the many years pelicanneck was open first on the top floor of aflecks palace and then in oklahoma. good times had by all i was very sad to see it go as i had many hours of good times in there, i even fell in love in that shop thats how special it was to me. Conor was like my councilor, he gave me a lot of encouragement and we shared quite a few curries at "this and that".

here is the full colour artwork