The SLAM tent 2010: T in The Park full line-up details!

SLAM TENT SPINS INTO A NEW DECADE OF DANCE:

With the first T in the Park of the decade drawing near, the complete Slam Tent line-up can now be revealed for 2010 with an outstanding bill of names from techno titans to hip-hop heroes. This tent has it all under one famous big blue roof. With the T in the Park line-up already hailed as ‘flawless’, the Slam Tent (an institution in its own right) has been scrupulously curated to provide the essential festival dance music experience with Carl Cox and Richie Hawtin presents Plastikman headlining this year.



Dance veteran Carl Cox returns still reigning supreme at the top of his game after a 10 year hiatus from the Scottish fields of Balado. After bringing the first Slam Tent of the millennium to a close, 10 years on he’s back to entertain the masses. A musical maestro since he was a tot, a DJ since he was a mere 15, Carl Cox emits a love of his work that is dangerously infectious. You name it, Carl's been there and done it covering every inch of techno turf possible showing no sign of slowing down pace with the release of his much-anticipated artist album, ‘All Roads Lead To The Dancefloor,’ out later this year. It seems only right that he should play the first Slam Tent of the decade as the headliner on Saturday 10th July.

The alter ego of one of the world’s most revered electronic DJs and producers Richie Hawtin presents Plastikman (Live) at T in the Park as part of the first ever global Plastikman tour. Dedicated Plastikfans will be blown away in 2010 as Hawtin's musical history and technological experimentations come together to allow Plastikman to once again reconfigure the futuristic musical landscape. His latest experiment, SYNK is a free app moving social networking and crowd sourcing on to a whole new level. Developed as part of the Plastikman project it allows fans to control elements of what happens on stage during a show. The roles can switch at any given time adding an electrifying element of surprise to him and the crowd. Plastikman (Live) will bring Sunday night to a spinning close.





The nimble flows and stunning beats of the final names to be announced for this year’s Slam Tent are Andrew Weatherall & Ivan Smagghe, Pan-Pot, Harvey McKay (Live) and Gary Beck.

The complete Slam Tent lineup of 2010...


SATURDAY

CARL COX
FAKE BLOOD
EROL ALKAN
ADAM BEYER
PAUL RITCH (LIVE)
D12 (live)
FOUR TET (live)
DJ YODA
HILLTOP HOODS (live)
GREG WILSON


SUNDAY

PLASTIKMAN (LIVE)
SLAM
SVEN VATH
DUBFIRE
CROOKERS
TRICKY (live)
ANDREW WEATHERALL & IVAN SMAGGHE
PAN-POT
HARVEY McKAY (live)
GARY BECK

Here is a short video from The Black Dog's live audio/visual show.

Music For Real Airports - Launch Event - Millennium Gallery, Sheffield from The Black Dog on Vimeo.

Here is a short taster of what to expect from The Black Dog's live audio visual show for their new album: "Music For Real Airports". This video consists of 3 minutes of visuals, photos, video and audio from the show. Enjoy!

The Black Dog - Ambient set for download part II "Sometimes"

The Black Dog - Ambient Dj Set "Sometimes" for free download here!

Another beautifully deep ambient dj mix from tBd to wash away your mid week stress, don't forget Music For Real Airports is out right now on Soma Records


01. Intrusion Ð Under The Ocean Ð Echospace [detroit]
02. Intrusion Ð Static Waves Ð Echospace [detroit]
03. Louderbach Ð Autumn Ð Minus
04. Terry Riley Ð Poppy No Good Ð Rough Trade
05. Robin Rimbaud Ð Sans Soleil Ð Bine
06. Peter Broderick - Music for Falling from Trees, Pt. 3_ Pill Induced Slumber Ð Erased Tapes
07. Peter Broderick - Music for Falling from Trees, Pt. 6_ Electroconvulsive Shock Ð Erased Tapes
08. Stars Of The Lid - Hiberner Toujours Ð Kranky
09. Robin Rimbaud Ð Anna Livia Plurabelle Ð Bine
10. Peter Broderick - A Glacier Ð Erased Tapes
11. White Rainbow Ð April 25th 11.14PM Ð Kranky
12. The Black Dog Ð Plinth (Tones) Ð Soma
13. The Black Dog Ð Plinth (Beatless) Ð Soma

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Check outan interview with The Black Dog at FACT magazine right here

.......So what inspired Music For Real Airports?

“In ’79, when I first heard Music For Airports by Brian Eno, I remember reading a great article about it and it sounded so fantastic conceptually.

“I remember listening to it and being incredibly disappointed. Because of my punk background spent living and working up north I don’t think there were much realism in there. I understood that he were pitching it at a utopian vision, but for us it just seemed so out of place, like something from a sci-fi film.”

read more right here

Slam :: Monopod 008 up for free download

Download the Dj mix here on soundcloud


Slam's monthly residency, Return To Mono at the world-famous Sub Club in Glasgow, has become a staple of the ever-advancing music scene in the West of Scotland. Guests like Ivan Smagghe, Adam Beyer, Alex Under, Claude VonStroke, Dusty Kid, Paul Ritch & Marc Houle have brought some delights to the club - but the one thing that has cemented Return To Mono in Glasgow's clubbing history has been the quality and consistency of Slam's warm-up sets. Orde & Stuart have been perfecting their trade for many moons, and this is evident when you catch a Return To Mono set.

SLAM - Monopod 008 [Recorded April9th2010 @ Sub Club, Glasgow] by soma

Our Monopod series is recorded Live from these special nights in Glasgow's Sub Club and is usually the first hour of music in the club. So expect a mellow journey from dub and lo-fi through to deep, grooving house music.

This set in particular was Slam's warm-up to Nick Curly, who really rocked the Sub Club that night.

1 – Deadbeat – Vampire Dub – [Echocord]
2 – Fluxion – Horizons – [Echocord]
3 – Kaito – And That Was The Way It Was (Echospace Mix) – [Kompakt]
4 – Soultek – Dreaming Under A Starlit Sky - [Echospace]
5 – Echospace - Spatialdimension- - [Echospace]
6 – CV 313 – Sailing Stars – [Echocord]
7 – CV 313 – Subtraktiv (Intrusion Dub) – [Echospace]
8 – Schwanbeck – Radio – [Echocord]
9 - Tylutki – Abhouse – [Team Records]
10- The Martinez Brothers - A Broke in the BX 1 – [Objektivity]
11- Unkown
12- Andre Lodemann - Dark Edge – (Dairmount & Berardi Mix) – [Room With A View]
13- D Julz – Ideas are Fish – [Circus Company]

The Black Dog - Music For Real Airports out now!

Airports have some of the glossiest surfaces in modern culture, but the fear underneath remains. Hence this record is not a utilitarian accompaniment to airports, in the sense of reinforcing the false utopia and fake idealism of air travel. Unlike Eno's Music for Airports, this is not a record to be used by airport authorities to lull their customers.



The album is a bittersweet, enveloping and enormously engaging listen. It is ambient, but focused. This is not sonic mush, nor adolescent noise. Nor is it a dance album. Much of the raw material of the album was made in airports over the last three years. While on tour, the Black Dog made 200 hours of field recordings, much of which was processed and combined with new music in the airport itself, waiting for the next flight. This vast amount of content has been slowly distilled into a set of particularly evocative pieces of music.



Composed in large degree of drones there is little in the way of beats until half way through - but rhythm is plentiful within the buzzing synthetic warmth. This record is not necessarily a comfortable listen. But it captures the spectrum of emotions stirred by airports. There is tension and disappointment. But there is also romance and excitement. All this on this record.



We at Soma are proud to present this modern day musical journey, this is one of those albums that you really need to listen to from start to finish in order to "get it", which is something thats increasingly rare in modern music. We hope you enjoy this as much as we do.

It's available here

Click here to stream or download


Bonus Mix: The Black Dog – Drifting Ambient Mix May 2010

"It’s not often we get asked to play or make ambient sets (Soma asked), in all the clubs we visited over the last 3 years we haven’t seen a single chill out room! It’s a shame they’ve dissapeared because there’s some great music out there that’s not getting the audience it deserves. This mix is to support Music For Real Airports and to show just how wide the spectrum of techno is, we make techno, it’s the only name we need. Enjoy."

Tracklisting:
01. Hands Swollen With Grace – Dakota Suite
02. Music for Falling from Trees, Pt. 4 – The Dream – Peter Broderick
03. Business Car Park 5 – The Black Dog
04. Flutful – Cluster
05. Unprepared Piano – Coil
06. Palimpsest I – Tim Hecker
07. Piano Aquieu – Stars Of The Lid
08. FallingStars – Variant
09. Glass Ceiling – Fennesz
10. Maalstroom – Matthew Florianz
11. Untitled – Aphex Twin
12. The Kindness In Letting Go – Rameses III
13. Subconscious Worlds – Pete Namlook
14. Pattern 4 – Moritz Von Oswald Trio
15. Lounge – The Black Dog
16. Half Speed Love – Nathan Larson