9.13 [pdx] the perfect cyns's birthday party - Glasgow Vs USA Techno Battle

[corbettfields]

To Celebrate the perfect the prefect cyn's birthday we're having a very special night at the very special Holocene

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Guests will include

Alex Smoke [vakant,SOMA] Live PA, west coast debut
www.somarecords.com

the perfect cyn, DJ

Naughty F*ckin Panda (stino,senior frio,heath!) , Live PA

Bryan Zentz [disruptor] DJ

Lets Go Outside (pnuma) Live PA

Special Super Happy Happy Hour!!!!

Featuring Drink+Food specials PLUS

Mr Mumu
S-uppoz
DJ Storm Mermaid & MC Froga!!!

Holocene
1001 SE Morrison
6pm - 2.00am
$5
21+

more info to come

[doodlinggirl]

HAPPY HAPPY BDAY IN ADVANCE!!!!!!!!!!!


*muwah*

[Tronic]

Looking forward to it already!!!

;)

- tronic

[suppoz]

oh jesus...

oh jesus!!!

[EOC]

Seems like only yesterday that we were celebrating! ;) ;) I'm not saying happy birthday quite yet! It is only July!:D

[theperfectcyn]

looks like a fun party :)

[ladycubana]

I smell trouble.

[fortune kiki]

happy early birthday cyn...

[hulud]

this is the one :D

[Nomad DJ]

Originally posted by theperfectcyn
looks like a fun party :)

yeah, i heard the birthday girl rocks...

some scottish dude told me.

[corbettfields]

Originally posted by Alice
Gosh! Thanks for telling me that gossip. I will remember it. Some may scottish dude told you, but not all.

watch out, cyn is from IU, home of CRCC

[theperfectcyn]

Originally posted by Alice
I am watching.

alice you're creeping me out.

[MAX]

BOINK!

My heart went BOINK!

I gotta pee

BOINK!

There did you hear that?

It did it again

BOINK!

Jesus I am kinda freakin' out now

BOINK!

[corbettfields]

dont start boinking too soon!

[MAX]

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[MAX]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0836218787.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[theperfectcyn]

whoah! all this boinkin' action.

CAN U HANDLE IT??!?!??!

[sappho]

Woah there!

[Nomad DJ]

Originally posted by Alice
Gosh! Thanks for telling me that gossip. I will remember it. Some may scottish dude told you, but not all.

You're welcome!

[corbettfields]

here we'll go again ;)

[hulud]

i'm ntz'ing in anticipation. derek me old mucker, will smokey be dj'ing or doing a liveset? just curious :D

[MAX]

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[corbettfields]

live ;)

[hulud]

good god.

[theperfectcyn]

alice!!! you are freaking me out!

[dsquared]

http://www.puffins.com/images/Bestever/be05825.jpg

[corbettfields]

Originally posted by hulud
good god.

i know!!!

[corbettfields]

bump page 1!

[theperfectcyn]

Originally posted by dsquared
http://www.puffins.com/images/Bestever/be05825.jpg

what the hell?? :)

[dsquared]

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[corbettfields]

techno

[michaelsharp]

I know where I'll be
I wish there were Scots at my birthdays, they would have been a lot more fun . . .

[MAX]

Originally posted by dsquared
http://www.puffins.com/images/Bestever/be05825.jpg

Jesus! I'm seeing pink elephants already!

[corbettfields]

Originally posted by michaelsharp
I know where I'll be
I wish there were Scots at my birthdays, they would have been a lot more fun . . .


thats what these guys thought........

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[dsquared]

http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/10_04/images/pink-elephants-3.jpg

[corbettfields]

zooop!

[michaelsharp]

MY DIXIE WRECKED
boy did I get excited ...

[corbettfields]

Paradolia is defined as the human ability to creatively perceive coherent images in randomness. This is an unusual word by anyone's standard but then Alex Menzies (aka Mr Smoke) is an artist very far from the usual. A Rorschach test this is not, more a sonic experiment that explores the parameters of Alex Smoke�fs potent psyche.

Alex remarks on its significance "I guess the album is the pattern and the tracks the randomness as I didn't have a plan to tie everything together. I also think it describes really well the appeal of music that at first sounds random but makes sense as a whole."

It is almost twelve months since Soma unleashed �eIncommunicado�f, Smoke�fs masterful debut. Lauded by critics upon its release in March 2005 it portrayed his instinctive maturity in constructing emotional, deep grooves with intricate production techniques. �eIncommunicado�f enveloped a myriad of influences including dub, electro, grime and minimal techno. One of the album highlights, �eDon�ft See The Point�f demonstrated his desire to incorporate his own vocals in innovative ways, while voicing his frustrations at the current political climate. This pivotal release augmented the fact that his music was not confined to the dancefloor and could not be pigeonholed by genre.

With 'Paradolia' he has taken this blueprint and pushed the boundaries for a composition that is swollen with ingenuity and experimentation. The development of his unique sound is clear to hear, crafting a beguiling symmetry of melancholy and melody. The result is an a listening experience that is more cohesive and inspirational than his debut outing.

Like its predecessor, Alex has once again interpreted styles of music that make an impact on him. With 'Paradolia' he has gone a step further, welding disparate genre's into mindbending opus�fs. 2005 has been the year which has witnessed this young producer's rapid ascent through the ranks of the techno elite. Since the release of 'Incommunicado' he has been booked to play the clubs and festivals of the UK, Europe and beyond.

His coveted releases on Berlin label Vakant have cemented his club credentials and found their way into boxes and laptops of innovative DJ's everywhere. Not content with a slew of killer twelves, Alex Smoke remixes have constantly been in demand, recently renovating Mylo, Alex Under and Vector Lovers. 2006 is already shaping up to be another monumental one for Alex Smoke with the release of 'Paradolia' and subsequent UK and European live tour.

Alex Smoke will be debuting his live set in Japan at Unit, Tokyo on the 5 May 2006.

www.somarecords.com

[corbettfields]

:D

[Mykee]

Wow, what a wicked b-day party!!! -- Happy day to you Cyn.

[M.Quiet]

HWWWWAAAAAAAT!!!!!!!

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Kero, Derek Michael, M_ron, 31avas, M.quiet - Fri. 8/4/06 Dunes 10pm

[michaelsharp]

Make my Day, well . . . makes my day everytime

[corbettfields]

UK-based minimal techno / house producer Alex Smoke (real name Alex Menzies) unleashed one of last year’s minimal techno delights with his debut ‘Incommunicado’ album on Soma, which received widespread acclaim and was held by many to be one of the strongest British techno records in recent years. Combining a highly emotive approach with intricate production in manner similar to labelmate Vector Lovers’ sweeping constructions, ‘Incommunicado’ showed Menzies fusing together an extremely wide range of influences spanning from John Carpenter / Eno-esque ambient electronics right through Matthew Johnson-style minimal techno rhythms, and focussing on creating a coherent listening experience, rather than worrying about genre conventions. A scant year on from ‘Incommunicado’s release, this follow-up ‘Paradolia’ (a title which refers to the human brain’s creative ability to perceive coherent images in random patterns such as clouds) arrives swiftly on the heels of a string of 12” releases for Berlin’s Vakant label, and shows Menzies taking his lush fusion of emotional immediacy and meticulous production to an arguably even more potent level.

After an opening ‘Paradolia Intro’ that certainly sets up epic atmosphere, with brooding cello orchestration and the sampled rush of what sounds like flowing water slowly building beneath cycling synth drones, ‘Persona’ snaps things straight down into shimmering minimal techno rhythms, the delicate sound of looped chiming tones nicely counterpointed by sharp-focus beat programming, electro-influenced synth bass patterns and slightly distorted snares, calling to mind some of Matthew ‘Audion’ Dear’s recent work for the Ghostly International label. ‘Never Want To See You Again’ represents a particular highlight moment, with Menzies layering his own processed vocals over a smooth, undulating backdrop of brooding synth orchestration, minimal clicking rhythms and soft bleeping tones in a track that particularly calls to mind some of Swayzak’s more icily melancholic explorations, before album centrepiece ‘Prima Materia’ shows the classically-trained producer combining swelling cinematic cello orchestration and brooding bass drones with a clicking pulse of minimal house rhythms, resulting in one of this record’s most enveloping, widescreen moments.

After this voyage out into contemplative atmospherics, ‘Snider’ kicks things straight back towards stripped-down Detroit techno rhythms, zapping laser-gun style stabs, rolling xylophone-esque tones spinning delicately back and forth as subtle electro basslines power their way beneath and the beats gradually pick up a sharp-focus jacking kick to them that offsets the other dreamier textures, while ‘We Like It Insipid’ takes things into moodily atmospheric downbeat electro, skeletal cracking beats tracing a jagged path beneath fuzzed-out overdriven analogue synths, fluttering electronic noises and what almost sounds like digitally-processed guitar feedback, in one of this album’s most emotionally poignant moments. ‘Anima’ reintroduces Menzies’ heavily-processed vocals over a sinister backdrop of distorted electro rhythms, eerie delayed-out piano notes and dark, lurking sub-bass tones, his delayed-out delivery suggesting Peter Gabriel at points as dramatic cello orchestration rises up in the mix, before ‘Left Drift’ takes things to a close, fluttering knife-sharp minimal techno rhythms pushing against what sounds like sampled flamenco guitar strokes and rich string pads, as digitally-treated harmonic tones trace their way back and forth.

An excellent second album from Alex Smoke that shows this hotly-tipped young UK producer taking the spell-binding fusion of orchestral melancholy and meticulous minimal techno programming he fashioned on ‘Incommunicado’ to arguably even more potent levels. Fans of intricate techno with a deeply emotive pulse will be pleased indeed – fans of the likes of Matthew Dear and Vector Lovers’ glacial elegance should most definitely give ‘Paradolia’ serious investigation.

Check out http://www.somarecords.com.

[theperfectcyn]

menzies like john menzies? it's bloody shite bein' sco-ish! :)

[theperfectcyn]

Originally posted by corbettfields
To Celebrate the perfect the prefect cyn's birthday we're having a very special night at the very special Holocene

Guests will include

Alex Smoke [vakant,SOMA] Live PA, west coast debut
www.somarecords.com

the perfect cyn, DJ

Naughty F*ckin Panda (stino,senior frio,heath!) , Live PA

Bryan Zentz [disruptor] DJ

Lets Go Outside (pnuma) Live PA

Special Super Happy Happy Hour!!!!

Featuring Drink+Food specials PLUS

Mr Mumu
S-uppoz
DJ Storm Mermaid & MC Froga!!!

Holocene
1001 SE Morrison
6pm - 2.00am
$5
21+

more info to come

surely derek fisher is playing too! tagging with me!

[corbettfields]

Originally posted by theperfectcyn
menzies like john menzies? it's bloody shite bein' sco-ish! :)

yes indeed

but, wait for it.. its pronouced

ming-us

(sometimes)

:eek:

[corbettfields]

if this party is half as good as last fridays it will ROCK!!!

[corbettfields]

umpage!

[theperfectcyn]

hey it's a double bday bash as bz's bday is 9/11! yay for virgos :)

[corbettfields]

Originally posted by theperfectcyn
hey it's a double bday bash as bz's bday is 9/11! yay for virgos :)

yayayayay!!

[corbettfields]

rockage!

[theperfectcyn]

whoah! my whole september is centered around this night.
oh, to work on thursday ...

[corbettfields]

thursday will be suck :)

but in a good way!

[corbettfields]

http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic/13733fUfRI/932451.jpg

[theperfectcyn]

^^^^ DUDE!!! omg. i am so totally giddy! ^^^^

[VMaxxed]

nice

[corbettfields]

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[corbettfields]

casio in effect!

[corbettfields]

from somarecords.com

After a Soma party at Fabric last weekend Alex Smoke is playing their live this Saturday (August 19th) before he gets over to Space in Ibiza on Sunday. Alex also plays the TDK Cross party on Aug 26th in London.

[corbettfields]

here we'll go again!!!

[corbettfields]

ok, rested and and ready to rawwwwwwk!!!

[hulud]

handing in the time off request for the early hours of 9/14 this morn :cool:

[EOC]

Okay, now that it is September...Happy birthday to my favortie Virgo! I only like sharing the birthday month with certain people!;)

[suppoz]

omg, ALEX FRICKIN SMOKE!!!

yeah, I'm ready for this. ready to be renewed!

Cyn, I've got a special birthday happy hour set planned for you...can't wait for you to hear it!

ta,
--s-tephen

[dsquared]

heck yeah

[sass.bot]

i'm leaving town the next day, but not unil later in the afternoon. thus, i have the day after off work and will come out for the lady's birthday. party on dudes

[Skippopot2mus]

Happy birthday in advance! This is going to be fun. :)

[Mi'ka]

YaY to birthdays...especially to this kick ass lady's b-day!

[corbettfields]

much spankin' ;)

[senorfrio]

Happy Birthday Cyn in advance! We will make special music 4 U! We're going all hardware! No computers for Porno Panda!

[slipstream]

^^^^that's one of the best nicknames ever!^^^

happy birthday sugar. i will make a point of stopping for at least one drink for me and two shots for you.

[bLENDed]

This is gonna be such a rad time! such an awesome showcase of techno electro madness! thanks guys:D

and props to Bryan on the flyer design...

[MAX]

Originally posted by dsquared
http://www.puffins.com/images/Bestever/be05825.jpg

When this is over we shall all be seeing pink elephants

BOINK!

[theperfectcyn]

holy shit. yes. it just dawned on me that between this party (which lasts 9 bloody hours alone!! take yr vitamins!) ... and decibel thursday through freaking SUNDAY (greenfuckingvelvetalready. i have been saying this for 5 years!) ... the other half of my liver that i didn't destroy in scotland last week? will happily be rendered useless effective Monday September 18, 2006 :) thank whoever i have that day off!!!

LET THE GAMES BEGIN! let's show alex how portland does it you guys!

[corbettfields]

boink indeed!!!!

[EOC]

Originally posted by corbettfields
boink indeed!!!!

Cyn, you are my favorite boinker ever!! Happy birthday!!! I shall see the two of you this weekend!!???

[suppoz]

yeah, btw, fuckin' Alex Smoke!

[theperfectcyn]

Originally posted by EOC
Cyn, you are my favorite boinker ever!! Happy birthday!!! I shall see the two of you this weekend!!???

yes!! we get in on friday. not sure when yet. yay!!! :)

[corbettfields]

:D

[corbettfields]

n 1954, some Canadians believed to have seen the Devil in the Queen’s hair on a piece of their currency. In 1996, an image of the Virgin Mary appeared in the window of an office building in Clearwater, Florida. The Rorschach Test, the face on Mars, or the faces and shapes one can sometimes see in the clouds … they’re all examples of paradolia: the tendency to recognize familiar images where there are none. In conjunction with his previous album, Incommunicado, the name given to Alex Smoke’s current effort seems to make sense. At least in title, both are dealing with absence and the perception of that absence. And from there, it’s not much of a jump to begin considering things like spectrality and spatial dynamics, which makes even more sense when considering the approach taken by Smoke on his full lengths versus his more dance friendly 12”s—even more so than Incommunicado, this album seems at times to flirt with the idea of completely leaving the disco, but stays to destroy it.

Although it generally seems like a good idea to avoid reifying the opposition between full lengths and other kinds of releases, in the same sense that one might hesitate to privilege the novel over a poem, artists like Smoke make it difficult to avoid such comparisons. With shorter releases that seem ready for any DJ willing to take things in the direction of a pessimistic Superpitcher, like late last year’s Vakant 12”s “Schwingnut” and “Schminimal,” Smoke seems to be giving credibility to terms like micro-goth. However, an album like Paradolia seems to place an even greater value on mood over movement and finds a way to reappropriate, in both a less obviously playful and more melancholy approach, the often twee glitchmatics of an artist like Keiran Hebden.

“Meany” is the first single, and a smart one. A timely plip-plop buzzes and fizzles in all the right places, it eventually breaks into a jumpy melody that would translate into a series of staccato hammer-ons had it been played on a guitar, but instead this synth line flirts with a slightly overdriven bass that pulses along at a late night pace before the two inevitably converge. The most obvious pick would be “Snider.” As a track that could be considered a follow-up to Smoke’s “Titti,” it deserves the closest comparison to Hebden, albeit from the opposite end of the emotional spectrum; both chimes and moody post-rave synths top a schaffel beat. Destined to garner comparisons to “Don’t See the Point,” “Never Want to See You Again” is the closest thing to a concession on this album. However, while presenting Smoke’s distinct vocals, the piece completely avoids recreating any previous tricks. If anything, it proves that talent extends even beyond a mastery of moody dance and ethereal melancholic pieces into a realm that is as close as minimal will ever get to pop music.

While it should probably be no shock that Alex Smoke has a background in classical music, tracks on this album like “Prima Materia,” “We Like it Insipid,” and “Left Drift” make it almost obvious. From the epic strings and dub of “Prima Materia,” to half-speed polyphonic melody juggling on “We Like it Insipid,” Smoke clearly demonstrates his ability to create truly beautiful arrangements. “Left Drift,” on the other hand, trades in post-apocalyptic imagery as Smoke picks up where Throbbing Gristle and Front 242 have left off. From disorientation to hope, this track seems to be the aftermath that rebuilds itself. First slowly, and then more rapidly, it takes pieces of what is left and begins to reassemble. What is reproduced is something beautiful toward which groups like Eluvium or M83 can only aspire.

The fact that those artists can’t jump as easily as Smoke does between mood and movement, or combine the two just as effortlessly, are part of what place him above so many others. But, then again, with music, there is always the chance that we are seeing something when there is nothing, lost in sound.

[~MiSs ViXeN~]

hey - this is soon! like whoa!

[sass.bot]

yeah, like two days away! *shakes ass*

[corbettfields]

tomorrow indeed!!!

[Bonecrusher]

would come out if I could afford it

[theperfectcyn]

*ahem* $6 is chuEEEP

[hulud]

its a deal, its a steal, its the sale of the fucking century :cool:

[suppoz]

btw, again, FUCKIN' ALEX SMOKE!

The melodies this man writes are utterly destroying. Great friggin' line up for the night too.

ta,
--s-tephen

[corbettfields]

Originally posted by hulud
its a deal, its a steal, its the sale of the fucking century :cool:

If you hold back anything, I'll kill ya.

If you bend the truth or I think your bending the truth, I'll kill ya. If you forget anything I'll kill ya.

In fact, you're gonna have to work very hard to stay alive, Nick.

Now do you understand everything I've said?

Because if you don't, I'll kill ya.

[dsquared]

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[dsquared]

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[dsquared]

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[theperfectcyn]

the eagle has landed.

sans-snakes.

[James Capricorn]

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[VMaxxed]

today!

that's a fact

[hulud]

good god im looking forward to this!

!

!

...

[corbettfields]

Alex is super stoked for his US debut!

bash on!!

[sappho]

I had no idea this was his debut...awesome!

[hulud]

im clockwatching at work... and ive only been here 3 hours :eek:

[kris moon]

happy birthday Cyn!

[corbettfields]

Originally posted by sappho
I had no idea this was his debut...awesome!

indeed!!!

[theperfectcyn]

thanks kris!! see you this weekend :)

whoah this is tonight, right? who am i ? what's going on?

[corbettfields]

Originally posted by theperfectcyn
thanks kris!! see you this weekend :)

whoah this is tonight, right? who am i ? what's going on?

love ya babe! have a great night!!

[James Capricorn]

Originally posted by corbettfields
love ya babe! have a great night!!

Ditto!

[b0t23]

looks like ill be checkin this out tonight, be nice to get out and have a drink

mayeb trichome comin too

happy birthday

[theperfectcyn]

oh my god looks like we'll be funbaggin' it tonight, missus!