Midweek Techno Tonic
Thursday evenings were not traditionally a time of the week I would have looked forward to with any great zeal. With a New Year comes new things (thankfully!) and one of my favourite new finds of 2007 has been Ronan Fitzgerald's show Lonarch on Radio Na Life every Thursday evening from 9p.m. - 10:30p.m.
In his slot, Ronan showcases his distillate knowledge of everything musical that is fresh, electronic and German (as Gaeilge, ar ndóigh!). Much of the music is very hot off the press. There are always some tracks each week captivating enough that they'll compel you to follow up on and thus throw open invigorating niches of musical exploration. What really makes this show even more smashing is that it's available, usually the next day, as a good quality mp3 from Ronan's blog, complete with tracklisting. The shows are archived here.
Last week's show was without doubt the best yet of 2007 with a second half in particular which simmered boisterously with bewitching sounds, culminating in Zander Vt's Dig Your Own Rave, a track which makes you wonder what kind of ruination it could wreak on a dancefloor considering it sounds this good on a radio show.
By the by, congrats are due to Ronan on his deserved nomination for the Best Music Blog Category in The Irish Blog awards. Just make sure along with the DJing around Dublin and journalism for The Guardian and Pitchforkmedia you don't forget about my Thursday evenings!
Some T. Raumschmiere Video from this set in Lisbon last year is here
In broadly related news, one of the gems of 2007 club events so far takes place this Thursday, 22nd Feb when Electric City present T. Raumschmiere at Wax. Myself and most of the In Fact, Ah crew managed to catch this doyen of the Berlin punk rock and techno scene performing a DJ set last June on his label Shitkatapult's home turf of Maria am Ostbahnhof in Berlin. His DJ set sounded like a mechanised banshee in abject distress punctuated by beats funky enough to make any dancefloor swoon.
Wax will provide a perfect no-frills space to be ground down and submitted to his "Stay Anti" musical credo. Not for the faint hearted lounge crowd and definitely not to be missed.
**Errr, Ed, where are all these writers coming from around here these days!? I could barely find a spot for the In Fact, Ah-mobile in the company car park this morning!
tags: music, techno
Published by Paul.
In his slot, Ronan showcases his distillate knowledge of everything musical that is fresh, electronic and German (as Gaeilge, ar ndóigh!). Much of the music is very hot off the press. There are always some tracks each week captivating enough that they'll compel you to follow up on and thus throw open invigorating niches of musical exploration. What really makes this show even more smashing is that it's available, usually the next day, as a good quality mp3 from Ronan's blog, complete with tracklisting. The shows are archived here.
Last week's show was without doubt the best yet of 2007 with a second half in particular which simmered boisterously with bewitching sounds, culminating in Zander Vt's Dig Your Own Rave, a track which makes you wonder what kind of ruination it could wreak on a dancefloor considering it sounds this good on a radio show.
By the by, congrats are due to Ronan on his deserved nomination for the Best Music Blog Category in The Irish Blog awards. Just make sure along with the DJing around Dublin and journalism for The Guardian and Pitchforkmedia you don't forget about my Thursday evenings!
Some T. Raumschmiere Video from this set in Lisbon last year is here
In broadly related news, one of the gems of 2007 club events so far takes place this Thursday, 22nd Feb when Electric City present T. Raumschmiere at Wax. Myself and most of the In Fact, Ah crew managed to catch this doyen of the Berlin punk rock and techno scene performing a DJ set last June on his label Shitkatapult's home turf of Maria am Ostbahnhof in Berlin. His DJ set sounded like a mechanised banshee in abject distress punctuated by beats funky enough to make any dancefloor swoon.
Wax will provide a perfect no-frills space to be ground down and submitted to his "Stay Anti" musical credo. Not for the faint hearted lounge crowd and definitely not to be missed.
**Errr, Ed, where are all these writers coming from around here these days!? I could barely find a spot for the In Fact, Ah-mobile in the company car park this morning!
tags: music, techno
Published by Paul.
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