October 2011
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WatchI just uploaded “We are elements No. 4” to www.mixcloud.com - listen now!
May 2011
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Next Party.
: BEGIN TRANSMISSION :
Having ripped apart the sound system in the Cellar with TOTALLY ENORMOUS EXTINCT DINOSAURS back in April, we’re pleased to announce our next event on June 17th.Just a little something to say thank you for making the parties we’ve had over the year with TEED, Greg Wilson, Floating Points and Alexander Nut. All...
March 2011
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Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs DJ SET
TOTALLY ENORMOUS EXTINCT DINOSAURS (DJ Set) Limited 5 quid tickets….HERE With a teary eye and a hand on heart - Its a pleasure to be able to finally invite our extremely good friend TEED along to WAE. We’ve told him to leave the laptop and sampler at home - and pack a record box for a...
December 2010
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Visions of the Earth
Let’s start with something we’re all vaguely familiar with. Earth from the surface of the moon. “Earthrise is the name given to a photograph of Earth taken by astronaut Willaim Anders in 1968 during the Apollo 8 mission. In Life’s 100 Photographs that Changed the World, wilderness photographer Galen Rowell called it “the most influential environmental photograph ever...
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New Years Eve Jam.
We are elements presents New Years eve. After two rocking parties with Floating Points and bone-fide legend Greg Wilson, we return with friends and family to keep the New years party rocking till 5. Expect Soul, Disco, Reggae, HipHop, Funky and electronic wobbly bits. Disco/Funky/Soul Tickets here > WE GOT TICKETS Man of Science A one man musical encycolpedia, Euan’s been...
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NASA to announce life found on Titan?!
“NASA has called a 2 p.m. news conference for Thursday “to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.” The group includes Pamela Conrad, author of a paper on geology and life on Mars; and James Elser, an Arizona State University professor involved in a NASA-funded program that emphasizes looking at the chemistry of...
November 2010
6 posts
Astronews
Couple of interesting stories relating to the gas giants reported by the BBC in the last couple of days.
JUPITER’S STRIPE IS RETURNING, SAY SCIENTISTS
SATURN’S MOON HAS THIN ATMOSPHERE
Greg Wilson Tickets are still available by the way…..
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/99099
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Warning: art that will blow your mind
I am writing this in a state of immense wellbeing. If I was asked to take a happiness survey right now, the results would make Britons look like the most blissful nation on earth. Outside, the London sunshine is cool and the trees finally look wintry, but in here, in my head, it is California. And I did not have to drop acid in the Mojave desert to break on through to this other...
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Carl Sagan's Cosmos
Carl Sagan was just about the perfect scientist. A truly beautiful mind it seems his life quest was to convey the beauty of space to the rest of the world. He certainly did that much, having touched me when I read his Pulitzer prize winning ‘Cosmos’ The book was turned into a TV series for PBS in the states in the early mid 80’s and remains to this day a wonderful insight into...
Competition time
The lovely people at WE GOT TICKETS are running a competition on our behalf. We’re giving you the chance to win 2 x tickets to Greg Wilson at We Are Elements on the 17th December.
All you have to do is sign up to their mailing list and there’s a question in their email mailout coming up in the next few days.
Greg. Wilson.
We’ve gone and done something very, very special indeed. We are absolutely priveleged, no wait - HONOURED host a true legend in December @ WeAreElements - GREG WILSON. Incredibly it’ll be the first time in Oxford for Greg - and frankly, We’re a little bit weepy in the eye at the prospect of having him grace us with his presence. All too often the word ‘Legend’ gets...
LHC really getting going....
The Large Hadron Collider has successfully created a “mini-Big Bang” by smashing together lead ions instead of protons.
The scientists working at the enormous machine on Franco-Swiss border achieved the unique conditions on 7 November.
The experiment created temperatures a million times hotter than the centre of the Sun.
The LHC is housed in a 27km-long circular tunnel...
October 2010
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WatchI just uploaded “Bare Garage Promo” to www.mixcloud.com - listen now!
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Floating Points vs Abdul Forsyth
We had the pleasure of Floating Points’ company just last week. Looks like I’ll be back in his company again plastic people in a couple of weeks. Looks like the EMT’s will be getting dragged out…..Dope record collections too - what’s not to like?!
From here to infinity.....
This is what started it all off for me. One of the most impossible, incredible, insane documentaries I’ve ever seen. You will NEVER see maths in the same light again. You will NEVER feel so small. I cant’ recommend this enough.
DISCLAIMER : Contains scenes from a chap called MAX TEGMARK. He MIGHT fry your tiny little mind.
ENJOY.
Streaming-Madness.net – Watch Top...
WatchI just uploaded “WAE Podcast #2” to www.mixcloud.com - listen now!
WatchI just uploaded “WAE Podcast #3” to www.mixcloud.com - listen now!
September 2010
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Dubstep Warz - Rambunctious
Wooaaaaaah. Who remembers this shit?
3 hour show here »> MARY ANNE HOBBS EXPERIMENTAL 2006
Rambunctious indeed.
Mala (Digital Mystikz) Digital Mystikz — 10 Dread Commandments VIP Digital Mystikz — Haunted Digital Mystikz — Left Leg Out Skream — ‘Request Line’ Mala remix Digital Mystikz — All Of A Sudden Digital Mystikz — Anti-War Dub
Skream Skream — Midnight Request Line [Tempa] Skream...
Timelapse
Timelapse Montage from Mike Flores on Vimeo.
August 2010
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Floating Points to play We Are Elements
You heard it here first.
Check the facebook event here to get tickets from WEGOTTICKETS
The lost Apollo project
The lost Apollo project…….
Taken from the website “TopTenz” - Top 10 lost technologies
Not all lost technology dates back to antiquity—sometimes it’s just become so obsolete that it’s no longer compatible. The Apollo and Gemini space programs of the 50s, 60s, and 70s were responsible for NASA’s biggest successes, including some of the first manned space flights and the...
Man of Science podcast # 2
To celebrate the launch of We are elements - We’ve already had one podcast. So here’s another. This time from our second resident Man of Science, Man of Faith.
Expect to hear tracks from Martyn, Silkie, Pearson Sound, Seiji, Joy Orbison, Addison Groove & more.
Click play to stream or click on the link to download from our soundcloud page.
We are elements podcast...
Wacky NASA space colonies
In the 1970s, NASA’s Ames Research Center gathered artists and tasked them with designing space colonies able to accomodate 10,000 people. High resolution versions are available at NASA’a Space Settlements page.
Cool huh?!
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July 2010
12 posts
Fat C
Me and the Fat C spent one sunday afternoon making this….
Biggi Vs Dam FunK (Fat C Back to Dam Mash Up) by The Fat Controller
But he’s also responsible for this absolute gem of an edit…..
Fat C feat. Green T - SMO by The Fat Controller
And it fits rather nicely in with the theme of our blog. And it’s banger.
Check his Soundcloud for other assorted ishnizz
Dark matter hunt eyes deeper home
Scientists are looking to relocate an underground experiment searching for dark matter to an even deeper site.
Cosmic rays striking the Earth could completely mask the rare dark matter events sought by the experiment.
Team members want to cut out as much of this cosmic ray interference as possible, even if it means moving the experiment 2km below ground.
This could help them...
Notes on a disco.....
If you want the excitement of performing for an audience, taking a show on the road, yet you do not play a musical instrument and can’t sing a note – you can still be a performer, by running your own mobile disco. You can buy all the equipment you need from a specialist shop or, if you understand electronics, build it yourself. This usually works out cheaper, you can build exactly what...
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Azonica BTG Mix
Taken from the BTG blog
“Here’s a little exclusive mix recorded for the blog by Oxford-based DJ and We Are Elements co-promoter, Azonica. Around 30 minutes of House, UK Funky and Dubstep.”
Egyptrixx – The only way up (Ikonika Remix) Fuzzy Logic – In the morning Doomwork – Macacos Nu Birth – Anytime Joy Orbison – The shrew would of cushioned the blow Kode 9 – You don’t wash...
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A universe not made for us
The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by Voyager 1 from a record distance, showing it against the vastness of space. By request of Carl Sagan, NASA commanded the Voyager 1 spacecraft, having completed its primary mission and now leaving the Solar System, to turn its camera around and to take a photograph of Earth across a great expanse of space.
Seen from 6.1...
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In pod we trust....
“Are podcasts the new rave? We talk to bloggers, editors, promoters and DJs and track the rapid changes created by online mixes”
No, they’re not - but its a very nice article from the Guardian today on the rise of user subscribed DJ Mixes.
ALL CREDIT GOES TO MICHAELANGELO MATOS OF THE GUARDIAN > http://bit.ly/aAqyx9
The future is always uncertain, especially when...
Black hole blows huge gas bubble
Taken from BBC Science & Technology website
A small black hole has been observed blowing a vast bubble of hot gas 1,000 light-years across.
The gas is expanding because it is being heated by powerful particle “jets” being released by the black hole.
The observations were made by the Very Large Telescope in Chile and Nasa’s Chandra space observatory.
Astronomers have...
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Young Montana? mix
Freinds of ours, Ballast have a top line line up on Friday night @ Plan B - Featuring Young Montana? - A kid to watch in the next few months - to celebrate, Mr Montana has provided a mix for them - and here it is - ENJOY.
BALLAST PRESENTS - YOUNG MONTANA GUESTMIX by Young Montana?
BULLION - You Still Beleive in Dee Young Montana? - Midnight Snacks CLARK - Ted MOUNT KIMBIE - Maybes NABO -...
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Cowley road carnival
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Eglo
A wonderful insight into one of our favourite labels at the moment, EGLO.
ARP101 is going to be a large feature of posts in the fure - I can feel it.
If you like this, make sure you make it down to this
EGLO RECORDS CAMP BASEMENT
Tracklist
Fatima - Higher - Eglo Fatima - Soul Glo - Eglo Fatima - Warm Eyes - Eglo Floating Points - Vacuum Boogie - Eglo Floating Points - For...
Planck telescope reveals ancient cosmic light
“This is the extraordinary place where we all live - the Universe.
The picture is the first full-sky image from Europe’s Planck telescope which was sent into space last year to survey the “oldest light” in the cosmos.
It took the 600m-euro observatory just over six months to assemble the map.
It shows what is visible beyond the Earth to instruments that are...
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Floating Points
He’s just been recording in Abbey road studios for his ensemble project but here’s a taster of what he’s feeling at the moment (well, 6 months ago!) But it’s worth it just the same.
Floating Points BBC 1Xtra Deviation Mix by floatingpoints
Floating Points Ensemble /// Post Suite /// BBC Teena Marie /// Revolution /// Gordy Polyrhythm Addicts /// Zonin’ Out ///...
June 2010
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Far out.
Addicted
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Black President
Massive re-edit from xxxy here. Cheeky and pretty repetitive, but a lot of fun and done really nicely. And its free too! Download and shake bassbins yah?!
Xxxy - Fela!! by xxxy
Eddie Kendricks was the lead singer of THE...
Four Tet
Everyones favourite space cake Kieran Hebden aka Four Tet appears on the new compilation due later in the year from Soul Jazz entitled ‘Future Bass’
The promotional 12” features a track from Kieran - “Nothing to see” backed with a cut from Digital Mystikz’ Mala called “Don’t let me go”
The album promises more extra special pieces.
Four...
QUARK
Another excellent installment from the {Work:Ethic} people
Astral travelling a highlight.
‘Live To Listen’ Podcast 002 by {Work:Ethic}
Cosmo Vitelli - Delayer (Quiet Village Remix) [Cliché] Jeru The Damaja - You Can’t Stop The Prophet [Payday] Koushik - One In A Day [Stones Throw] George Duke - North Beach [MPS] Actress - Hazyville [Prime Numbers] Umod - On The Down Low...
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What time is it?
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Azonica - We Are Elements promo mix
The wonderful Will aka Azonica aka Handsome B Wonderful has very kindly knocked up a little half an hour promo mix for Download. It’s a little of what to expect from the first (and all) of the Elements nights.
Here’s Will in his own words -
“Get your ears around this. Gonna put it online, this is the one that I thought could be put up as a promo mix for the night with a bit...
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12" x 10
Some of my favourite colourful record sleeves.
Afrika Hitek - Bien
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
Bass Clef - May the bridges I burn light the way
Koushik - Beep Tape
Eric L - The Soularp Suite
Ikonika - LP
Kelpe - Cambio Wechsel
Red Rack Em - Underground
And finally, something to tie in with space……
Kohn - We need more space in the cosmos
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Work : Ethic
Just wanted to make you all aware of the fantastic blog produced by friends of mine Ricky Ecko & Red Menace. An excellent feature blog, with some in depth interviews from the likes of Bill Brewster, Illum sphere, Bonobo Kidkanevil to name a few.
http://www.work-ethic.net/
They also have a great podcast series, that although in it’s infancy - already show huge insight and potential.
...
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Red Rack Em
Me and Sloth started work on a remix of this about a year ago. Probably no point now as this is the definitive. Props to rack’em.
Joubert Singers - ‘Stand On The Word [Hot Coins Remix]’ by Red Rack’em
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Cottam - Causes of colour
Really nice mix here from producer / edit king Cottam - Available to D/L too - check his soundcloud for his edits. Nice.
Cottam - Causes of Colour Mix by warmhq
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Nay - stay beat
The Godfather, rejigged, reworked...