Tansformation of the mind

I’m currently writing an album with Ola Schmidt. Previews can be found on my Soundcloud page!

http://soundcloud.com/minimaljames/tracks

Stenchival

A few weeks ago we put on a mini Stench Festival, with 2 nights of electronic music at The Great Central Gallery, Leicester. The first night was curated by Bathysphere with peformances from Asmo, Neil Unreal, Sam Dodson and myself. The second night was hosted by PVC, with performances from BJ Cole VS Myoptik, Phaelah, Samual and the Dragons, Glatze and Wassim. With sound system prived by the Biscuit Tin Sound System. The gig was broadcast live on Ustream and the video above is from the first night, filmed by Jaqueline Cheval.

I’ve recently bought a Korg Zero4 DJ mixer and I’m using it with Ableton and Traktor Scratch Pro. I’ve been spending a lot of time composing and I use this gear and DJ techniques to realise my music in performance. This gig was my first opportunity to try it out in performance. Thanks to all the event organisers for a great weekend of gigs!

Pure Phase gigs in July

We’ve got a few live gigs coming up this month bass heavy Dubstep loaded with laptop glitches and turntable scratches.

July 3rd Rubberdub @ Blue Print, Nottingham. W/ Ray Keith

16th July CDR @ Sophbeck, Leicester.

18th July Scrawling Metropolis @ The Fish Market, Northampton w/ Jon 1st

23rd July Braiile vs DROP @ Bacchus, Kington w/ Button Basher, 2tall and Seldom Seen Smith

CDR Leicester 16th July

The video above features Leicester artists talking about what the CDR nights mean to them. The next Leicester night is on the 16th July at Sophbeck, which is an open session for producers to bring their tracks along to hear on a club system. With a live set from Pure Phase and guest DJ’s Psykhomantus, Dushume and Jimi Oh.

Stench 4

I had a great time at Stench on Friday, the night featured 3 AV performances from Modulate, Mick Grierson, a collaboration by myself and Cuttlefish and a DJ set by Burntprogress.

Stench IV @ The Phoenix 5th June

I’m performing a new piece with Sean Clark at the next Stench event. The line up includes Modulate, Mick Grierson and Burntprogress.

Sound.Son Project

I’ve been working on an international sound exchange project called Soundson this week. I worked with students from The Lancaster School in Leicester, where we recorded environmental and voice sounds. Students composed with these sounds by chopping them up, looping, pitch shifting and time stretching. We then took part in a live exchange with Collège de la Petite Camargue in France. Exchanging sounds over the web to create a new composition. It was a fun project.

BBC Radio Leicester came along to do a feature on the project.

The sounds and compositions are on the Sound.Son website

CDR + Pure Phase on Soundcloud (FREE 320’s)

I had a great night at CDR Leicester last night, we managed to squeeze ten tracks in, which have all been written since the last Leicester CDR in March. It was great to hear them out.

I just uploaded a few more tracks to the Pure Phase page on soundcloud. There’s new tracks and some FREE 320’s.

CDR Leicester 21st May

We’re back at Sophbeck this Thursday. Bring along your tracks!

Featuring guest DJs:
Psykhomantus
Pure Phase (me and Spencer)
Dushume
Jimi Oh
Cardiac

Asmo collaboration

I’ve been back in the studio with Asmo this week, working on the finishing touches to the track “The devils in the detail”. Its a duet of scratching meets circuit bent noise.