East coast tour, Fall 2011
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Wednesday, August 24
San Francisco, CA
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Sunday, August 28
San Francisco, CA
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Friday, September 2
Vancouver, BC
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Saturday, September 16
Denver, CO
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“Rites” forthcoming on Frite Nite’s “Surreal Estate” comp
Unmixed version tracklist:
Sepalcure – Deep City Insects
Comma – Vacancy
XI – Whiteout
Kuru & UFO! – Aoki
DJG – Rites
Distal – Mamanimal
Starkey & Epcot – Surreal Estate
Eprom – Twerkul8
B. Bravo & Teeko – Drop It!
Quitter – Street Codes
NastyNasty – Suffocating
Cosmic Revenge – Frostbite
Ghosts on Tape – Video Void
Salva – Policy
S0n!ka – Down Time
Danny Corn – Curiophilia
Wheez-ie – As I Watch It Unravel
Surreal Estate is out October 4, 2011. More details on the Frite Nite blog.
European Tour Diary, Part Two
Berlin
- listening to Gas on the train through the sunny German countryside: yes.- the sun and the storm
- greeted by my (birthday-hangover having and soon to be totally sick with a cold) agent Paul Fowler on the train platform at Berlin Hauptbahnhof
- a walk around Friedrichshain, found a rave going on on a bridge at 8 in the evening on a Monday. why not.
- I could so live here. shit.
- amazing amazing weather
- intense intense hayfever
- kebab of the gods
- met the guy who runs Little Big
- Susan! and her parents! and a tour around Berlin on the s-bahn.
- thoroughly enjoying a few days without stepping foot inside a club
- Paul playing me amazing/bizarre African music
Belgium
- I want waffles NOW- the Brussels airport is mental, possibly the biggest airport I’ve ever seen, took me 20 minutes just to get out of the gating area
- no allergies yesss
- met by the promoter and driver, Martijn and Joren - super nice dudes.
- the name of the town i’m djing in tonight is “As”. they pronounce it “Ahs” but keep saying “Ass”.
- cannot tell the difference between the sidewalk and the street
- I wonder how much advil you can take in a day?
- beautiful warm night
- straight-edge vegan rave promoter
- gig is fun, afterparty with the belgians is funner
- oh gosh hello hangover
- next day we drive to Brussells to play on BunZero’s legendary FOB radio show - here’s the archive if you’d like to have a listen: http://bunzer0.blogspot.com/2011/06/sub-fm-bunzer0-and-djg-02-06-11.html
- national holiday in belgium
- wander aimlessly around Antwerp
- I was the corny tourist who had to eat a Belgian waffle…
- belasteringsnevermindering - that is a real word
- seeing Bun and playing on the radio show was so fun, despite my sleep-deprived state. i had a great time, here’s the archive:
- the long drive back to As, just in time for a nice bbq and some sleep before I fly to Sweden tomorrow.
Gothenburg
- picked up by Carl Johan and Andre, immediately ask them about Fever Ray and Jose Gonzales.- Carl is a graphic designer and runs his own design agency with his friend, super inspiring to me
- Gothenburg looks beautiful, super warm and sunny, shorts weather the whole time.
- the sun preeeeetty much never goes down. crazy
- this hotel is so nice but it has no soap
- the name of the party tonight is “Dubstep Bastards”
- “we’re all bastards”
- gig is in this rad venue down by the water under a bridge, beautiful light from the sun still in the sky at 12am
- posters with my dumb face all over them!
- show goes really well, starting to loosen up after the last few gigs of feeling a little tense when djing, had a lot of fun
- next day there is this huge street festival in downtown Gothenburg, Carl takes me around to show me the city
- finally shave off my tour-beard!
- not buying a ticket for the train - lol honor system
- Gothenburg is like the spiritual home of the european hipster. they are everywhere and they look identical!!!! and i was living in Brooklyn before this!!!
- Jose Goznales is djing on the sidewalk! wut????
- a totally beautiful day, a really delicious dinner, a relaxing night of rest before i head back to England
Bristol
- saw Kyle Hall and Joy Orbison in LHR. man why don’t i have personal drivers like those dudes.- back in Bristol, Tony picks me up at the bus station
- my 30th birthday begins in Bristol
- in the morning me and tony drive to a seaside town on the west coast of england called Aston By The Sea
- i spent my 30th birthday basically acting like it was my 10th birthday: we ate cotton candy (which they call “candy floss” over there!?), played video games and went go-kart racing and then ate more candy. it was amazing.
- went on a long drive then headed back to bristol to meet up with Pinch and Peverelist for an amazing curry dinner down the road from Pinch’s place
- end the night playing darts and drinking scotch with some of my favorite producers and people in Bristol, feeling blessed
- a visit to the Multiverse offices and studio, super inspiring
- met Julio Bashmore on the street, is not what i thought he’d look like
- Dubloaded with the Daega Boys and Ramadanman!!! goes well, loads of fun, so good to see all the boys, ran into Joker and RSD and Guido and a few other Bristol pals
- another night to chill then off to Amsterdam with the Wheel&Deal guys
Amsterdam
- beers in Gatwick with N-Type, Crazy D, The Others, Walsh, P Money and Benton- rainy and kinda cold in Amsterdam
- super dope hotel
- a long walk around the red light district with Walsh, giggling the whole time
- Youngsta!
- mad dash to the gig, walk in, immediately start djing
- room is massive, i play early but it fills up quickly
- these kids are literally violently moshing to sort of minimal dustup that youngsta and type are playing!? amazing
- huge night, definitely the biggest crowd of my tour
- so good to see all the London boys, they always make me feel really at home even if I am just some weirdo from San Francisco!
- nearly miss my plane to Kiev the next day!
Kiev
- back in the USSR! err wait, no, Ukraine!!!- i arrive late in the day, not a lot of time before the gig
- quick shower and then off dinner with Polina
- wild dogs in the streets, everywhere
- asshole cab drivers
- so good to see Valta again and catch up
- feeling exhausted, this 5 Hour Energy bottle Miro gave me in London about to come in handy
- it does because I dj for 3 hours and it goes OFFFFF
- seriously my favorite gig of the tour, it was just so much fun and everyone i met was so lovely
- played almost an hour of oldschool hip hop - who am I????
- come outside after the show and the sun is up, beers in the park!
- get to the airport after about 45 minutes of sleep and still really drunk, this should be a fun 11 hour flight home!!!
European Tour Diary 01.06.11
Kiev
- 10 hour flight on this extremely old plane, still has ash trays!! smells like bananas and burnt stuff
- call my mom to say hi/bye like i always do
- sat next to this real chauvinist cab driver who married a girl from Moldova and wouldn’t shut up about it
- meet Valta and Polina, lovely people
- beautiful and warm weather in Kiev
- chestnut trees blooming
- hella naps
- georgian food for dinner with Kseniya, a nice evening
- pass out so hard
- $1 cigarettes
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London
- Even more beautiful amazing weather in London (!!!)
- Tiny the reggae singer picks me up, amazing guy from South London, he went to school with Jumping Jack Frost and Clayton Hardware. Doesn’t really know much about dubstep but heard Anti War Dub on the radio and loves it. His accent reminds me so much of Pokes and Mala. Really cool guy.
- cool little hotel in south london near elephant&castle
- more hella naps
- meet up with Sander Eprom yay! off to soundcheck
- Tony Addison Groove is there and is buzzing off having had no food or sleep yikes
- meet Mark Ernestus from Rhythm & Sound - i’m too nervous and awe-struck to say anything to him other than hello and it’s really nice to meet you. he’s exactly how i thought he would be.
- indian for dinner, really good meal. run into Rob Pinch and Lizzy
- my set goes fairly well, i wasn’t that thrilled with it but others seemed to like it
- played at the same time as mark ernestus so i didn’t get to catch his set
- saw some of Shackleton and he was amazing
- Pinch playing house, surreal, really good
- Tony killed it, was the first time i got to see his live set
- Eprom killed it with a laptop and an iPad and nothing else - cyber!
- Skrillex was at the club - wutttt
- late night drinking and spliff sessions with Pinch, Tony, Eprom, Miro
- we found a painting of Bassnectar in our hotel - wutttt
- Andrew and his wife Charlotte’s house for the night, lovely people, lovely hospitality
- drinks with Tom McCarthy and Alex for some laughs, industry chit chat and gossip
- kebabz
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Manchester
- sat next to what sounds like some rather famous manc boxer on the train, try not to let them notice i was listening to him tell his friend all kinds of funny stories about famous people he’d met
- manchester is a beautiful city, feels so different from south england
- the promoter Rich Reason, lovely chap
- my hotel room was like an apartment with a kitchen
- still haven’t adjusted to the time difference, exhausted, more damn naps
- gig was cool, very lively crowd for a monday night, uni kids just finished their finals, raved harder than any monday night ravers i’d ever seen
- wil prophecy, mc chunkie, all cool guys
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Bristol
- back in bristol, feels so good
- last time i was here it was november and horrible weather, feels like a very different town in the warm sunlight
- major chill-out/do-nothing time with my pal tony
- went and saw some really cool parts of the city i’d never seen before
- out to Batman the cat and Rozz
- i love bristol, can’t wait to come back here in a few weeks for my birthday and Dubloaded
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Poznan
- i’ve determined you don’t know anything about air travel until you’ve flown on Ryanair - that said, it wasn’t nearly as bad as i’d always heard… though there was some crazy pressure change and some dude fell over and passed out. that was weird.
- first time to Poland. very unique feel to the city of Poznan
- picked up by the greatest guy in the world Filip aka Feelaz
- felt really good in Poznan, feeling happy
- exploring the city, Old Town
- recording the sound of the intersection lights changing
- pirogies are delicious
- lots of good conversations with Filip, speaks very fluent english with a London accent
- prazinky chips as recommended by star eyes, delish
- felt really inspired in Poznan for some reason, made lots of lists for new ideas, lots of deep and good thinking
- went out for beers at the club on Thursday night, sat outside all night long, got drunk with the lads, ate a kebab
- Friday had a nice bbq with Aleks, Ali, Maggie and the crew
- had the worst allergies the night of the gig, thankfully Ali saved the day with some magical mystery Polish pills (which turned out to be Zyrtec). Pretty much felt like a nerd though.
- gig went well, had a nice time. hard to see the crowd cos it was so smokey. cool venue
- got drunk on cherry flavored vodka. oops!
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Gdansk
- by saturday i was starting to talk to myself in my head in broken english and a polish accent
- me and aleks head to Gdansk on the train, 5 hours, but at least we got a train car to ourselves and got some sleep
- Polish countryside is beautiful and green
- met by Jakob aka Rezza in Gdansk, super cool guy!
- gdansk has so much visual history it’s crazy, it’s where WWII started and basically where communism started to end
- more pirogies! and then watched barcelona take the piss out of manchester united (sorry Rich!)
- my hotel is a former soviet style hospital, super haunted feeling, watched some polish pop music videos
- get to the venue out in this former ship yard, really cool place, old buildings with bullet holes from the war still
- played my favorite set of the tour so far, felt really good about it, despite not being able to hear much out of the monitors - it’s funny how sometimes nothing gets in the way and sometimes everything gets in the way
- meet Hatti Vatti! what a cool guy. great producer, great dude
- club started to wind down around 5am so we put on some mixes from my laptop, first a dj Pete wax treatment mix, then Comma’s last mixtape
- club owner started feeding us shot after shot of vodka; got completely shit-faced
- hatti vatti found the wifi password for the club and we decided to get on a youtube soundclash!!
- me, hatti vatti, the club owner and just random people youtube soundclashed in the club until 8am
- hatti vatti playing air guitar on top of the speaker stack over sweet child o mine - epic
- completely cross-eyed walk back to the hotel in the morning with the sun out and people going to work
- blackout
- some hours later waking up, headed for breakfast and a very slow walk around town
- me and alex back on the train, only this time it’s fucking packed, no space for naps
- dinner with filip in the evening back in poznan, chilled out evening in his flat near city center
- a beautiful sunny monday. off to Berlin today. Bye Poland! I hope to come back.
more soon.
European Tour, Summer 2011
I think likely the main reason my music is built on repetitive passages is that my mind is built on them. I think just like my music sounds; one thought loops over and over, becomes more and more intense, and layers of more thoughts build on top of it, until it often becomes so consuming I sometimes literally forget everything around me.
in lieu of a proper update
Fabric London, this Friday 19 November.
updates coming soon.
Voids
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Hello my friends—
Today I’m releasing “Voids”, One & Two. It’s a collection of songs I want you to have. There’s so much I could say about it all, but I’d rather you just go and listen.
Head over to music.djgsound.com and download both volumes. You can download them for free, or if you choose you can donate whatever you deem appropriate.
I hope you enjoy.
Blessings,
Dean (DJG)
(via modernmath)
Loops, Patterns, Modulation
Obviously, all these things, you look at what’s going on and you look at the state of affairs today, you see that some sounds and some producers are now playing on different platforms, maybe to bigger platforms, maybe to smaller platforms - everything’s always changing. And if you are somebody who focuses on what other people do too much, inevitably that might be your downfall.
‘Hydrate’ out today
In a climate that’s driving so many D’n’B producers towards dubstep, there’s a small but noticeable trend of producers looking to higher tempos (Scuba, Ramadanman, SYNKRO) to expand their sound. DJG joins their ranks on ‘Hydrate’, backed with a Consequence remix for moral support. His title cut should slip neatly alongside the Autonomic posse’s minimalist sound with its swollen Reese bass and quicksilver syncopations, while the dub drops right down to sound like Scuba mixed with Andreas Tilliander on a dubtech tip. Meanwhile Consequence offers one of his most esoteric tracks to date with raga-esque drones and tricky scuttling steppers patterns.
- Boomkat
http://boomkat.com/vinyl/321845-dj-g-hydrate-ep
http://boomkat.com/downloads/313399-djg-hydrate-ep
https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/release/detail/263189/hydrate_ep
http://www.chemical-records.co.uk/sc/servlet/Info?Track=WARM016
