[LAU] OT: music listened to with linux :-) -- Mathew Jonson

I don't think linux was used to create this music (*), but I used
Linux to listen to it :-) (Fedora via Amarok on the desktop, Maemo on
Nokia n900 via http://gpodder.org/ in the car) ...

I'm posting because it's an excellent Mix by one of my favorite
producers: Mathew Jonson "in his full majestic flow" ... if talking
about music is like dancing about architecture, i'd say each of Mathew
Jonson's better songs sound like a little zen-rock-garden-of-music,
except there's like little Japanese anime gnomes and Dr. Zeuss
fluff-balls poking up from the crevices now and then.

File:
 http://ra4.residentadvisor.net/audio/RA240_110103_Mathew-Jonson-residentadvisor.net.mp3
around 47' are some remixes of his latest album's songs like the
tip-of-the-hat-to-the-John-Tejada-sound 'Girls Got Rhythm' and the
distinctive elastic-bass (from
http://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/sh101.php ??) of 'Thieves In
Digital Land' ...

Picture:
 http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/features/2010/labyrinth-mj-full.jpg
(from http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1258 )

Podcast:
 http://www.residentadvisor.net/xml/podcast.xml

Equipment: "two SH-101s, a 909 and 808, an Elektron Machinedrum, a
Midas V320, Yamaha and Eventide effects and some MIDI controllers for
the computer. Usually I only have one SH-101 but they had a spare for
me at the festival so it was better than usual! It's also the reason
why you hear so many new synth parts being played like in the
beginning of "Symphony for the Apocalypse." (Hopefully it's not too
busy.)"
(from http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=240 )

Description: "His pool of original material is teaming with prodigious
12-inches, released chiefly via his own Wagon Repair imprint, while
tracks like "Marionette" and "Decompression" are rightly considered as
techno classics. You may recognize much of what Jonson plays during
performances in clubs and festivals around the world, but it will no
doubt have been expertly reconfigured, right there and then on the
fly. This virtuosity at the helm of hardware carries over to
Cobblestone Jazz, the live electronic improv group Jonson formed with
friends Tyger Dhula and Danuel Tate back in 2002. The group has since
released a pair of albums–23 Seconds and The Modern Deep Left
Quartet–while Jonson explored the format solo in 2010 through the
warmly received Agents of Time (
http://www.discogs.com/Mathew-Jonson-Agents-Of-Time/master/255472 ).
... Jonson's podcast for us captures the producer in his full majestic
flow. The set was recorded at Labyrinth festival 2010 in Japan, and
finds Jonson maneuvering among a substantial array of gear for what is
undoubtedly one of his favourite places to play."

Niels
http://nielsmayer.com

PS: (*) I would imagine
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/30/review-the-elektron-machinedrum/
has got linux running somewhere deep inside ...
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Received on Thu Jan 6 04:15:01 2011