Podcast, Oddcast, & Podcast again! And surreal explanations for both!

Feb 7, 09:32 PM

Hey! People of the World!

Yes, three hours plus of music in one upload? Thats crazy, no? Well, welcome to Crazyville in that case. For your listening pleasure, I have uploaded 3 sets for you. The first and most important is Podcast 16, which is a simply yummy mix of hardcore and other musics. It also features the one and only Mr Dave Skywalker! I’m not sure how well known he is to many of the people that read this blog. Most will know him from the old KF website days. Anywhat, Dave has been playing out quite a bit, most notable at BangFace where he has become the closest thing to a resident. And his mixing is easily as mad as mine, if not madder. In fact, his 30 minutes on the new podcast is like an alternate me. Or I am an alternate him? Anyway, you lot get on the d/l and see for yourself. Its a great podcast, even if it is missing Luna-B (Otherwise known as Bexxie). She will be on Podcast 17 and future podcasts, so the saga of the fat robot dance will continue…just…not yet. In the meantime, Dave will make your ears fall off and I am sure you will enjoy that. Its the sewing back on that hurts.

Also uploaded is the Oddcast. This one features…eerrr…Dave Skywalker. Ehem. The thing is, you see, both Dave and I are very into a lot of other musics. And we both enjoy peculiar samples and obscure artists. So one day, while I was walking around my house wearing only a sock on my left foot and playing my kazoo, I thought “What if I did a podcast that wasn’t about hardcore, but was just a mix of different music and sounds?”. This idea came partly from mixing on Serato, where, for a laugh, I threw in all my metal and folk music and was pratting about mixing it into hardcore. And also partly because thats the sort of idea you will have when walking around wearing only a sock on your left foot and playing a kazoo. Anyway, who better to do such a thing with than Mr Dave? I called him up and suggested he tried playing a kazoo while only wearing a single sock, and he wasn’t that keen, to be honest. But when I suggested we worked on the Oddcast together, he leapt at the chance, promptly hitting his head because he lives under a very small bridge in Paraguay. When he came to, we worked out that we could do this by taking turns mixing a few tunes each, then sewing it all together to make a truly insane mix….and Viola! Here it is! Oddcast 1! Perhaps the only mix released this week to contain Nick Cave, samples from Battlestar Galactica, a Baby crying, Tool, Public Enemy and Aphex Twin. And Lisa Gerrard. And that Shaddap Ya Face song. I hesitate to call it classic, but it certainly is weird. So go have a listen. Its okay if you dont like it. Just dont tell us because we will both cry and cry and cry. And even if you hate it we will probably make more of them. If we feel like it, you know.

Some of you might be thinking “Luna-C must be drunk or stoned or something, this blog post is really peculiar” but you would be wrong. I am just bored of writing “this week I made a tune, here is the tune I made” and all that crap. Do you like my photo by the way? I went to see Avatar. I liked it, and now wear the glasses everywhere I go. Apples are nice. Not sure about the I-pad, mind. I miss that really nice bread you can get in the UK. Also, the smell of vinyl. Thats a great smell isn’t it? Holding a record in your hand….sigh….do do do, dooo do-do do-do. Where was I?

Oh yes. You see, the thing is, they get separated and then they don’t match. Thats why I was only wearing one. The other mix thats now available is in the “Mixes” Section, and is Podcast 4, at 320 quality, and without me talking on it. Yeah! Awesome! Wet myself!

I finally finished a track this week. Its been a real struggle, but I have a new Supaset 10 dubplate finished. So I am hoping SS10 will be ready in the next few months and plan to make it available in May, along with a all the tracks that I play to make Supaset 10, if you see what I mean. Should be a laugh. Wait, whats that? I think I hear a piece of celery calling me, telling me its time for my daily breakdancing practice – tonight, poppin’ & lockin! Whoop! The other night it was just doing the stationary caterpillar. For 7 hours. Sleep, thats another name for it. Bye then :o)

Podcast 15, Oddcast, Podcast 3, Supaset 8 Reup and blah!

Jan 12, 03:09 PM

Hey Everyone,

Happy New Year and all that blah! I have been very busy and…errr…okay, in truth, I have been doing precious little lol. The studio is great, but we are having issues with sound – first the bass was gone, then we put up a bunch of foam panels to keep the bass in the room, and it has…only it has thrown it to the back and corners of the room, which is no good. So we are now waiting the delivery of some diffusion panels which should help control it. I am telling you all this boring stuff to explain / excuse the lack of new music from me. Its very hard to make a tune when you cant work out if the bass is far too much or not enough. Hopefully, the panels will arrive and that will be the end of the problems and I will be able to get on with some music.

In the meantime, I have uploaded the new podcast, and am also addeding Podcast 3 in the mixes section as a 320mp3 without the Hixxy interview or me speaking on it – so its just a mix! Here is the link for that:-

Meanwhile, Podcast 15 features a guest mix from Bexxie, and she also co-hosts with me. Its a combination of new slightly odd sounding studio, alcohol, and two people on one mic. So its a little different to the usual podcasts, and I wonder if you people will like it better or worse than the usual ones? Have a listen and let me know. I think its nice that its co-hosted because its more relaxed and fun, but it also means there is a little more chatter than you are used to from previous podcasts. Anyway, let me know your thoughts in the comments below. If you like it, perhaps I can entice Bexxie to co-host more often!

I am also collaborating with a friend to release irregular “Oddcasts” which will start next month. Thats all I have to say about that, but the open minded will love it. The rest will be confused lol.

What else? Hmmm….well, we had a good Xmas with the usual water problems that I suffer from every year. Dec 25th was the day it decided to rain like a bastard, and also the day our roof decided to leak. Then over the weekend (sunday of course) the heating broke down. Water related disaster gets me every year at this time, so it wasn’t entirely unexpected, but it does get a little tedious. And why does it always have to be a Sunday or a public holiday when these things happen? Tsk. Oh well. Heating is back on, and I spent a pleasant afternoon walking about on the roof and fixing the leak. It hasnt really rained since, mind, so who knows if its fixed lol?

In a completely unrelated subject, people have been complaining because the 320 version of Supaset 8 is not downloading properly. Some also had trouble with the Bangface mix. We looked into it and could find no reason for this – I uploaded those mixes in exactly the same way that I uploaded all the other audio files on the site. I have re-uploaded Supaset 8 and would ask that those who tried and failed to download it to try again and let me know if it works this time? We really need to get to the bottom of the problem, but this is the best we can do right now.

Bexxie has also fixed the way the site downloads files – remember how before, when you downloaded a zip, it wouldn’t say how long it would take etc etc? Well, thats fixed. That might also help other download issues – but the Supaset 8 issue has persisted. Here is the new link for that by the way:-

http://www.kniteforcerevolution.com/Supaset8.mp3

Did you know that My Angel has had over 25000 vies on Youtube? Weird. And a Ninja Tune artist put my remix of Udachi’s “Smokerings” in his years top 10, so thats cool too.


I am sure I had more stuff to tell you…errr…I am now on Soundcloud? Its a good way to send me stuff, and it has the Bangface mix uploaded and available for download for those that want it! And I have been keeping my New Year resolution to do 2 Tweets a day on Twitter. Follow me there if you like :o) Oh, and I ran across this site yesterday and have been lauging my ass off ever since. Check it out if you haven’t already:-

http://improveverywhere.com/


Particularly fun are the Best Buy, Look Up More, And Bob! ones…Okay, thats all I have. More soon. Ish lol. Outtahere…Luna-C

Happy Holidays! Here is a pressie for you!

Dec 24, 05:16 PM

Happy X-Mas everyone!

I have some stuff to tell you, but I will wait until after the 25th. In the meantime, feast your eyes on this disturbing picture…

…and feast your ears on three special Xmas tracks from me as a pressie….OH NO! Too late, the link is gone :o( Never mind, next year you will get here in time, eh?

A big thankyou to everyone for all the support, donations, subscribers, posts and everything over the last 365 days!

Here we are then!

Dec 17, 05:30 PM

Hey Everyone,

I am exhausted as I write this, so forgive the lame post. In fact, lets just skip to photo’s of the new studio set up!

What else? Oh yeah…Podcast 14 is up! Go get ‘em. And, as with last month, I have now posted Podcast 2 up as a mix, without me talking all over it, at 320 quality. I will add the Bangface track list as soon as I have compiled it, and as I always do, I have added Podcast 13s tracklist to the Podcast Tracklist section, on the About page!
So thats fun.

The new house is brilliant, and I am loving the new studio, but I am very tired from unpacking and setting up. And so, I am going to leave this post here, and add more once I have a better head for it! Nice one, Happy Xmas and all that blah :o)

Massive Musical Update. With Pics! Eek!

Nov 23, 01:54 PM

Hey Peeps!

Lets start with some photos. Firstly, this is Panacea playing at Bangface:




This picture demonstrates a few very important things. First is, I am crap at photography. The second is that it was so hot the camera steamed up within a second of me wiping the lens. The third is, errr…okay I have nothing else to say about it. Bangface was completely brilliant though. Panacea’s set was amazing, really excellent. Friction played too – his set was good, but I don’t think his MC was “getting” the BangFace crowd. He seemed to be getting annoyed when an inflatable penguin bounced into his head, not realizing that an inflatable object to the head is the highest compliment you are going to get at Bangface lol. Actually, its one of the things I love about the place – the Dj is important, but there is none of that worship the dj crap you get at other parties. The Dj is expected to join in the chaos. Yes, its distracting when the moshing crowd bashes into the turntables, and yes, its hard to concentrate on the mixing and you might make some mistakes. But heres the thing – no one cares lol. Awesomeness.

Anyway, when I played the Bangface weekender a while back, I wasn’t happy with my set. So this time I decided to make a set geared specifically for the Bangface crowd. Which is to say, I decided to play as many different styled tracks from as many different eras as possible, and tried to keep it so each following track was different to the last. The result was a set I am extremely proud of, even though its not all new material by any means. So here it is in all its glory…I hope you enjoy :o):-

Bangface09.mp3


I will add a track list eventually. Speaking of which, I have added the track lists for the podcasts up to Podcast 12. Go to the about page for that. Now, onto the next photo’s, which are Kev Energy at Go Bonkers in L.A, and the amazing crowd who made the night fantastic. You can tell which is which, I think lol…







This party was brilliant too. In fact, the last few weeks I played in Dresden, Germany at “Seance De Danse” with Mighty Melody and Eddy Grenade, and that was superb. A full on Jungle and old skool party, really good and I was really well looked after. Then I played Bangface – nuff said on that. Then Epidemik a week later, where despite mixer troubles, I had a great time. Particularly because I went with Dj Poosie and Spennie Trip, and it was kinda like old times. Old skool music, old friends…all good. Plus the Epidemik crowd were having it big time. Then I flew back to the USA, and then I flew to L.A for this party, before finally getting home last night. My neck is aching from rocking out all night, dancing to Kev Energy’s brilliant set, and then my own, and then Kev was playing another slower set, which was good because if he had played another fast one, I would have died. I am getting old, after all, lol. But it was great – big up to all the ravers in L.A that were so welcoming – I got so much love from the crowd that I didn’t know what to do with it – thanks guys. And special thanks to Winter and Grace – you guys rule and I cant wait for the next one (and to go shopping and hang out in L.A lol). So thats my relentless djing over with for a bit, and without exception, all the parties were fantastic!

Okay, on to the free music stuff, which is the only reason you waded through my boring party reviews and crappy pictures, ha ha :o)

I have now uploaded Supaset 8 in all its 320 glory:-

The Supaset 8 (Luna-C FM 3).mp3


From now on, each time I add a new podcast, I will be adding the corresponding podcast from the year before to the “Mixes” section. So you can now get Podcast 13 which I have uploaded with this blog post, and also Podcast 1 (which was Supaset 8), but without me speaking all over it. Next month, when I upload Podcast 14, you will then be able to get Podcast 2 in 320 quality from the mixes page, and so on. I didn’t do much speaking on Podcast 1 anyway, but the higher quality will be appreciated by all you audiophiles, I am sure. The benefit will really be seen once we get on to the other podcasts. I expect Podcast 14 will be late. I will try to get it done for December, but as I may have mentioned, Bexxie and I finally bought a new home in North Carolina, and are moving to live there next week. Which means, after doing this post, I am going to be dismantling the studio and packing. IF I get the studio and everything set up in time, I will get Podcast 14 ready for December. If not, then it will be January, and I will do 14 and 15 pretty close together so that the monthly balance keeps going. I will try to update blog posts to keep you posted on progress lol. Yeah, we have all heard that before lol, so we will see how that goes!

Now then. Despite my best efforts, I have been unable to get the forthcoming Final Vinyl Kniteforce Box Set together (KF061). I expect it will be in the new year, maybe March. I have also not got KFA47 ready for vinyl. That being so, and me being terribly generous, I have decided to make KFA47 the new KFD10 release. You can now download the 4 tracks from the Kniteforce Digital link. Here’s the artwork:-




You will find 4 tracks in 4 styles, so something for everyone. As a side note, the Drumspeed track is something of an experiment. The other 3 are finished and mastered, that one is finished but unmastered, and I wasn’t 100% happy with it. It is very likely it will be remixed and messed about with and rereleased at some point. It has potential and I dont feel like it reached it. But it will, and its pretty solid as it is, so I thought you might like it :o)

Sigh. I am so tired – too much flying and my neck hurts. And I am repeating myself. What else? Oh, I am finally organizing the Kniteforce T Shirts. As soon as I have more details, I will let you know. I expect them to be ready a little bit before Christmas, but it may be in January. I am going for a simple KF logo on the back, small logo on the front design, and maybe another design with the 3D logo. As soon as I have confirmed price and date of arrival, you guys will be the first to know!

This post feels more like an essay. Thats what I get for slacking with the blog posts I guess. And now I have forgotten the next thing I have to tell you…grrrr…ummm….errrr…right. Well, I will go and encode the MP3s of KFD10 and hope that it comes back to me while I am doing that! brb.

Oh yes, I remember now. Before I played in Germany recently, I did an interview with Dj K. I thought you might like to take a listen. I sound like an idiot, but thats nothing new. Anyway, if you have 15 minutes or so to spare, have a listen :o):-

Luna-C_interview_by_DJ_K.mp3

Okay, I think thats all I have to say right now. So I am off to start packing. Hope everyone enjoys the update – please leave comments, and also if you have the ability, leave comments on the itunes page about the podcasts. I would really love that. Oh, in a few months, all the catalogue including KFA should be available on itunes, Beatport and all those sites. Whew. Outtahere….