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sonem sundays 003 presents: mike servito(ghostly) aarnio(ghostly/moodgadget) & .thejass.(robots)sunday july 27th 2008: 3pmEST-12amEST on the summer rooftop deck of bar13 mike servito (ghostly) http://www.myspace.com/mikeservito aarnio (ghostly/moodgadget) http://www.myspace.com/aarnio http://www.moodgadget.com/ .thejass.(robots) opening chillout set 3pm. http://www.myspace.com/thejass bar13: rooftop of bar13 in union square 35 E 13th St New York, NY 10003 (212) 979-6677 http://www.bar13.com http://autobrennt.com/ http://www.myspace.com/sonem_bookings

Proton Radio: B-Sides with Chloe Harris featuring .thejass. on June 30th 2008 Streaming the best in electronic music live and On Demand. Breaks, Minimal, Progressive, House, Techno, Electro, and more on 200+ exclusive shows! The b-sides episode aired this morning at 9:30amEST and can be heard through prontoradio's "on demand" where you can sign up to listen the entire line up of existing protonradio shows now available on demand-whenever you want. B-Sides Start off your Mondays on a different note and explore the B-Sides of Seattle's own, Chloé Harris. Featuring the best in electronic experimental and ambient music, tune in weekly for a chilled two hour set by one of North America's up and coming DJs. http://www.protonradio.com/show.php?showid=8 Proton Radio: B-Sides with Chloe Harris featuring .thejass. on June 30th 2008 thejass. biography: .thejass. (pronounced 'dot the jass dot') lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn New York and currently helps the Ghostly Intl./Spectral Sound independent music record label. .thejass. was born in Utah, U.S.A and grew up in the ski resort town of Park City (home to The Sundance Independent Film Festival) where during movie after parties, .thejass. was introduced to electronic dance music. Moving to New York in 2003 to pursue a fine art career in painting and drawing, .thejass. became friends with Nick AC, creator of the minimal house, techno and electro electronic dance music party ROBOTS. The infamous ROBOTS parties in New York helped inject life into a floundering U.S. electronic music scene and shape the city's outlook on electronic music. Nick AC asked .thejass. to write an online music column about the underground dance music scene titled ".thejass. re-view" on http://www.wearerobots.net/ and help promote the ROBOTS party when Nick AC moved back to London, U.K. in the summer of 2006. ROBOTS also hosted a online radio show called ROBOT RADIO on http://www.eastvillageradio.com/ where .thejass. filled in time slots when resident dj's Bill Patrick and Dennis Rodgers had gigs out of town. It was at ROBOT RADIO where .thejass. created his first two dj mixes, "comparing complementary contrasts" and "death directing darkness" that defined what a .thejass. dj set was: a musical encyclopedia of styles based on the theme of watching a movie but thru the music. At the end of 2007, the ROBOTS parties took a break after an incredible journey that lasted 3 years and saw over 140 events. At the beginning of 2008, .thejass. was asked by Sam Valenti IV to join the Ghostly record label team to share his thoughts, writings and ideas. During this time, .thejass. completed his third mix, "endlessly elapsing evil" hosted on http://www.wearerobots.net/ which dove deep into the murkiness of sounds, creating a sense of emotional volume-from hope to despair. In the near future, .thejass. will be a host for a variety of parties in new york city, and will begin producing audio works of art that will blend their way into the upcoming .thejass. mixes. MORE INFO: http://www.myspace.com/thejass http://www.wearerobots.net/ http://www.ghostly.com/ http://www.protonradio.com/bio.php?id=4695

.thejass. mix: "endlessly elapsing evil" sounds of experimental electronic music to droning metal, “endlessly elapsing evil†is my third mix on the ROBOTS site. titled to describe its dark theme, the 50 tracks spanning 80 minutes are suggestive of the murky time we live in. grim sounds so wonderful at this moment; it encourages listeners to surrender to the inevitable. the light at the end of the tunnel is actually a train, and when one accepts death, the funeral sounds of deep matte black music that may have once been evil, are now good. .thejass. mix: "endlessly elapsing evil" http://www.wearerobots.net/EndlesslyElapsingEvil.mp3 ("right-click, save target as/save link as") Length: 1:19:53 File Size: 183MB Format: mp3 Quality:320Kbps "Track" Artist 'Album' Label: 01."HZ Waltz" Monoton 'Monotonprodukt 07 20y++' Oral 02."Bathory Erzebet" Sunn O))) 'Black One' Southern Lord 03."Explains All Observable Phenomena" Voyager One 'From the New Nation of Long Shadows' Loveless Records 04."Low Level (Listening, Part III)" Stars of the Lid 'Per Aspera Ad Astra' Kranky 05."Asa Nisa Masa" Twine 'Twine' Ghostly Intl. 06."Constelacion" Murcof 'Bip_Hop Generation Vol. 8' Bip_Hop 07."Colorless" Venetian Snares 'My Downfall(Original Soundtrack)' Planet Mu 08."And She Disappeared into the Snow" The Reflecting Skin 'Expanse at Low Levels' Moodgadget 09."Shadow Journal" Max Richter 'The Blue Notebooks' Fat Cat 10."Seed" Entsounds 'Growth EP' Moodgadget 11."You-Spiritual Invocation" Air 'Air' Fax +49-69/450464 12."(Untitled)" GAS 'Pop' Kompakt 13."The Winding Sun-Arc Edit" Entsounds 'Expanse At Low Levels' Moodgadget 14."Resurgam" Loscil 'Submers' Kranky 15."Zauberberg 5" GAS 'Zauberberg' Kompakt 16."Biokinetics 2" Porter Ricks 'Biokinetics' Chain Reaction 17."Presence-Edit" Cyrus 'Inversion' Basic Channel 18."Converge" Plastikman 'Consumed' M-nus 19."Cuerpo Celeste" Murcof 'Cosmos' Leaf 20."2 Ghosts I" Nine Inch Nails 'Ghosts I-IV' The Null Corporation 21."Votho Eder" Rechenzentrum 'The John Peel Session' Kitty-Yo 22."Disease/George Washington" False '2007' M-nus 23."Cymbalism (Rechenzentrum remix)" Forest Jackson 'Cymbalism' Mosz 24."Second Bad Vilbel" Autechre 'Tri Repetae++' Wax Trax! 25."Le Joujou Du Pauvre–Rechenzentrum" Christian Conrad/Lilevan/Marc Weiser 'Bip_Hop Generation Vol.5' Bip_Hop 26."Psychoprogs Attack" Supermayer 'Supermayer-Save the World' Kompakt 27."Cascading Celestial Giants" Drexciya 'Grava 4' Clone 28."The Golden Age (Val Inc Remix)" Craig Taborn 'The Val Inc Remixes' Thirsty Ear 29."Violets" Twine 'Violets' Ghostly Intl. 30."Gunboats" Windsor for the Derby 'Empathy for People Unknown' Secretly Canadian 31."The Ballad of Soap Und: Die Gema Nimmt Kontakt Auf Mix (Andrew Pekler & Hanno Leichtmann remix)" Jan Jelinek 'Hub Tierbeobachtungen–Live' ~scape 32."Helix 1 Bittonic" Iris Garrelfs 'Bip Hop Generation Vol. 6' Bip Hop 33."Leben In Dchungel" Monoton 'Blau–Monotonproduckt 02 26y++' Oral 34."Time Travel" Michael Andrews 'Donnie Darko(Film Score)' Enjoy Records 35."To Begin" Louderbach 'To Begin-EP' Underline 36."Leonard" Abigail Mead 'Full Metal Jacket(Film Score)' Warner Bros 37."Tree" Aphex Twin 'Selected Ambient Works Vol. II' Sire/London/Rhino 38."Urano" Murcof 'Utopia' Leaf 39."Surfaces" Twine 'Surfaces–EP' Ghostly Intl. 40."The Dead Flag Blues" Godspeed you Black Emperer! 'F# A# (Infinity Symbol)' Kranky 41."Belurol Pusztit" Sunn O))) 'Oracle' Southern Lord 42."Palpatine’s Teachings" John Williams 'Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith(Film Score)' Sony 43."Prostration"Nihil Est Excellence 'Dark Seeds: The Sowing' Dark Seeds 44."Stygian Depths" Nox Arcana 'Blood of the Dragon' Monolith Graphics 45."Theme" KTL '2' Editions Mego 46."Phosphoric" Porter Ricks 'Porter Ricks vs. Techno Animal – ‘Symbiotics’' Force Inc. Music Works 47."Ruins" Abigail Mead 'Full Metal Jacket(Film Score)' Warner Bros 48."Triptych Passage" Mindspawn/Coph Nia 'Erotomechaniks' Punch Productions 49."The End" Coph Nia 'The Dark Illuminati–A tragedy in two acts' Cold Meat Industry 50."Decay2(Nihils’ Maw)" Sunn O))) 'White2' Southern Lord

All of Dear’s previously vinyl-only Spectral Sound singles now available in the form of Beginning Of The End via Beatport. Beginning Of The End: The Spectral Sound Singles Back in 2003, Matthew Dear was a little-known DJ, but a handful of singles on an unkown label changed all that. EP1 and EP2 were some of the first waves of “microhouse†to emerge from American shores and their impact on DJs and producers is truly palpable. One of the true classics of this period, Dog Days was the first single from his Leave Luck To Heaven album and features a killer remix by Perlon’s Pantytec. Spectral Sound presents a compilation of of the singles that started it all. The highly influential Irreparably Dented, Stealing Moves, EP1, EP2, Dog Days and Anger Management/Future Never Again are all accounted for here. In celebration, we have released a limited re-press of these 12â€s but none of these singles have been released digitally before. Beginning Of The End: The Spectral Sound Singles, which will carry all 19 tracks along with 2 never before released tracks from the EP1/EP2 sessions. http://www.ghostly.com/releases/beginning-of-the-end Spectral Sound SPC-55 formats: Digital release date: April 29, 2008 Buy This Release Unreleased Pt. 1 Spectral Sound presents 2 never before released tracks in any format available in the DIGITAL format from the EP1 & 2 sessions. Reflect back on Matthew Dear’s “microhouse†sound before he started making club “hits†with the Audion Moniker. You can hear the raw talent and unique sound from the early years that has since become his own. The transition from his birth name to Audion made complete sense as he started writing more aggressive, gritty, acid-tinged techno. http://www.ghostly.com/releases/unreleased-pt.-1 Spectral Sound SPC-56 formats: Digital release date: April 29, 2008 Buy This Release About Matthew Dear You could throw around generous descriptors and any number of genre-locking terms – electronic pop, minimal house, acid techno – but you’d still fail to get to the center of Matt...check out Matthew Dear's page and other releases

.thejass. re-view: ‘minimoo one’ mixed by memek: ‘minimoo one’ is a refreshing bite out of the big apple’s electronic dance music scene, a forbidden taste of the resurrected new york city loft party, the mix embodies an exiled dance floor for sordid partiers to dance all morning on. mixed by memek-resident dj of minimoo-a new york city based minimal techno party, ‘minimoo one’ transitions between tracks like minimoo changes locations (from residential apartments to empty warehouses) memek consistently keeps a crowd dancing on rooftops and in basements. over the past year and a half, memek has established himself by playing along side internationally acclaimed artists who’ve headlined minimoo, developing a reputation for playing cutting edge tracks with deep minimal beats. ‘minimoo one’ indulge’s the listener in the dark pleasure of venturing outside the realm of mega clubs, and fertilizes your ears to grow into exploring unknown lofts’ with little to no rules. picking the promotional mix ‘minimoo one’ from the underground tree requires an invitation to the party-although minimoo’s events are strictly by email invitation only, you can gain entry by visiting their website. with recent one off minimoo parties in los angeles, miami, ibizia and london, living in the garden of new york city proves minimoo and memek want all banished partiers to be fruitful and multiply. "minimoo one" spring 2008 mixed by memek aktress / qik/ igloo-rec glooms/ seph. igloo-rec condance / antonio lanna / sk recordings fas a kan / red bridges vs. creature / rush recordings italy forgive the lines / matt john / underline banna [seuil rmx] / e-contact / stock5 1 in glass/ tipik autopista al invierno / fase miusic sender / italo business crisis [camea rmx] / sierra_sam / nomar star&sternchen / holgi star / rompechabeza 24items / shoxy / minisketch miss venus / memek noose / elon / clink face control / danton eeprom / fondation records crisis [bloody mary "daily crisis" rmx] / sierra_sam / nomar stomach flip / davide squilace / adagio http://www.minimoo-nyc.com/

time out new york critic's pick: The Flavorpill posse continues its party-at-a-museum ways in the outer-spacey setting of the American Museum of Natural History’s Rose Center. This month’s is yet another big one (they all seem to be now), with Ghostly International's Matthew Dear throwind down teched-up beats on the decks, and the M_nus label's Kevin “Ambivalent†McHugh rocking the meterorites with a laptop set of slippery electronics. For more info, go to flavorpill.net. http://www.timeout.com/newyork/events/clubs/2713/one-step-beyond

One Step Beyond: Matthew Dear and Ambivalent at American Museum Of Natural History: It's no secret that Flavorpill loves Ghostly International's marquee artist Matthew Dear — readers may recall a storming DJ set at another massive museum party we threw a few years back — and he's poised to bring similarly bass-heavy techno to our next One Step Beyond. Dear's recent sets weave melancholic arch-pop accents from his latest full-length, Asa Breed, and warm, punchy house music into a fluid, hard-driving mix. Dear's expansive style should resonate nicely in the Museum's Hall of the Universe, or what NPR recently described as "Guggenheim mashed into the Death Star." Like-minded DJ Ambivalent — off Richie Hawtin's M_NUS label — opens the night, along with visuals by Fuevoz and Planetarium screenings. – Colin Nagy Date / Friday, 25 April 2008 Time / 9:00 PM - 1:00 AM Venue / American Museum Of Natural History/ Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024-5192 USA Cost / $20 http://flavorpill.com/museum-series/one-step-beyond/ http://www.matthewdear.com/ http://www.myspace.com/iamambivalent http://www.amnh.org/

Friend, Please join us to celebrate tomorrow Tuesday 4.15! We are having a FREE event upstairs at APT, celebrating our collaboration with Adult Swim, GHOSTLY SWIM (debuting 4/21) Upstairs (FREE) GHOSTLY SWIM DJs: OSBORNE (Rare NYC appearance, new LP out May 6th on Spectral), MICHNA (new Ghostly signing!) + SV4 Downstairs ($10/$5 RSVP myfavoritethings@gmail.com): My Favorite Things with DAZ-I-KUE, TYLER ASLEW and BIG BANG Tuesday April 15th @ APT 419 W 13th NY Thanks to Rude and Puma http://www.ghostly.com http://www.adultswim.com http://www.aptwebsite.com

If anybody saw the film American Gangster, the East River Bar is on the street where Russell Crowe finds all mob's loot in the back of the vehicle:D The East River bar - directly underneath the Williamsburg Bridge in Brooklyn: 97 south 6th street, easily accessed by car or from the L and the J trains. http://www.eastriverbar.com/

Reduced guestlist and in-adv tickets at http://www.doojee.com/ The East River bar is directly underneath the Williamsburg Bridge - easily accessed by car or from the L or the J trains. http://www.eastriverbar.com/ opening deep/dark/experimental set 10pm-11pm: come early and stay late, as i will have the starting shift and hope to establish the mood of 'deep sound stuctures' for the evening aarnio (ghostly/moodgadget) 11pm-midnight: aarnio (jakub alexander) will be following my steps, everyone in brooklyn should know jakub by now-he moved to nyc last summer from detroit-works a&r for ghostly, and founder of 'moodgadget' record label. jakub will know exactly how to transition from my darkness to four-on-the-floor tracks http://www.discogs.com/artist/Aarnio http://www.moodgadget.com/

time out new york critic's pick: Cheeky Bastard is back for another evening of mashed-up electro, new-wavey material, hip-hop, rock and plenty more, with Alex English, Peter Makebish and others on the decks. This week’s affair fits into that “plenty more†category, with Matthew Dear’s live Big Hands project taking the stage and the Junior Boys electropop duo on the decks. Dear is marking the release of the deluxe Black Edition of his recent (and excellent) Asa Breed on Ghostly International; the Junior Boys boys, meanwhile, are celebrating their stunning new Body Language 6 mix for Get Physical. Go to gbh.tv to get on the reduced-admission list. http://www.timeout.com/newyork/events/clubs/36376/cheeky-bastard flavorpill says spread it: Right now, Matthew Dear is arguably one of electronic music's most versatile artists. He's made stripped-down, fluid constructions as False, rough, acid techno as Audion, and more pop-oriented fare as himself. Dear explores the latter tonight, playing selections from 2007's superb Asa Breed with support from a full band (aka his Big Hands). While the earliest incarnations of this setup were slightly shaky, Big Hands have found their stride, having tightened up with extensive international touring. The resulting show is the antithesis of faceless electronic music, and Dear proves to be quite the charismatic showman, with plenty of swagger and Byrne-esque intonation. [source] – Colin Nagy http://flavorpill.com/newyork/events/2008/3/13/matthew-dear-s-big-hands-w-junior-boys-djs

Cheeky B*stard presents: MATTHEW DEAR'S BIG HANDS - (LIVE BAND) JUNIOR BOYS (DJ SET) Thursday March 13 at Hiro Ballroom $8 Advance Tickets available: http://newyork.**********/bighands Hiro Ballroom: 371 W16th St. at 9th Ave. Doors 10pm. 21+ w/I.D. http://www.gbh.tv/index1.html http://www.matthewdear.com/ http://www.ghostly.com/ www.myspace.com/juniorboys matthew dear--asa breed--black edition: Matthew Dear has been producing and DJing for more than 10 years now but even to those familiar with his music, either produced under his given name or one of his aliases (Audion (Spectral Sound), False (M_nus), Jabberjaw (Perlon), the initial release of Asa Breed was a revelation. Having impressed the critics with his 2003 debut Leave Luck To Heaven, which received a uniquely glowing critical reception for an electronic album, even from pop oriented periodicals like Rolling Stone, Spin and Entertainment Weekly, it was clear, with tracks like Dog Days and the follow-up Backstroke EP, that Dear was pushing his moody, sexy minimal techno albums to new heights of accessibility with the inclusion of vocals and his ever maturing song-writing style. With the release of Asa Breed, Dear went from hinting at his pop-sensibilities to openly celebrating them on what The Guardian called "an extraordinary, impeccable album of avant pop" and what Philip Sherburne called 2007's "most unexpected pop masterpiece". From the pulsating, steadily growing tension of the album's opener "Fleece On Brain" to the infectious, ecstatic single and crowd-favorite "Don and Sherri" with its dance-floor leveling chorus, the album "bristles with energy and ingenuity"[The Wire] but it's the inclusion of Dear's more personal song-writing style utilizing rock instrumentation that made Asa Breed such a "beautiful set of contradictions"[Anthem]— it's not often an album containing bluesy guitar and brooding folk reaches #20 on Billboard's electronic charts. Now, with the release of Asa Breed Black Edition, critics and audiences will be able to re-discover one of 2007's most unique releases re-packaged to include remixes and re-envisionings from Four Tet and Hot Chip, with whom Dear just finished a month long UK tour in February. 1. Fleece on Brain 2. Neighborhoods 3. Deserter 4. Shy 5. Elementary Lover feat. Mobius Band 6. Don and Sherri 7. Will Gravity Win Tonight? 8. Pom Pom 9. Death to Feelers 10. Give Me More 11. Midnight Lovers 12. Good to Be Alive 13. Vine to Vine 14. Deserter (Four Tet Remix) 15. Don and Sherri (Hot Chip Version) 16. You Know What I Would Do (“Deserter†EP Exclusive) 17. Down On You (Digital Version Exclusive) Extra: Don and Sherri (Video)

"death directing darkness" now available for download .thejass. mix: 'death directing darkness': (right click, save as) http://www.wearerobots.net/DeathDirectingDarkness.mp3 "defying" vs. "directing": while selecting the tracks for this mix, i was debating between calling it 'death directing darkness' and 'death defying darkness', our robots mechanic liked 'directing' and posted the link to download "death directing darkness" so that's the title we will go with! "comparing complimentary contrasts" & "death directing darkness": the tracks i have chosen represent sounds you would hear at the opening of robots parties and or songs we would listen to at afterhours. i believe the two sets have heavily intertwined/edited tracks that combine and differentiate songs to create unique sounds within each transition, but do not loose focus on the overall movements for a cohesive set. thanks for listening in the near future: i am currently working on a third mix, so far i would describe the process as combining, 'darker ambient metal drones, haunting chants, evil experimental guitar feedback interwined with a slugs pace of early basic channel techno'. i am hoping the listener pees their pants when listening to it

Machine head Robots’ Nick AC closes up his techno shop. By Bruce Tantum When Nick Ashley-Cooper, better known to New York’s nightlifers as Nick AC, kicked off the Robots party in 2003, techno was still a dirty word to many in the city’s clubbing community, and minimal generally referred to art or wages. Nowadays, thanks to the efforts of Ashley-Cooper and his coresident DJs Bill Patrick and Dennis Rodgers—along with a handful of like-minded souls, like Bryan “DJ Spinoza†Kasenic from the Bunker bash—the town’s gone a bit techno-crazy. Over the past four years, Robots has attracted the stars of the scene, with big-name spinners and performers such as Ellen Allien, Superpitcher and Luciano playing alongside pretty much every local who’s ever dropped an electronic beat. Even though Ashley-Cooper moved to the U.K. last year to pursue an MBA at London Business School, he and the crew kept the party going stronger than ever. But on Thursday 20, the final Robots will take place at Cielo. POWER OUTAGE Nick AC pulls the plug on Robots Why end Robots now, while it still seems to be at the peak of its popularity? It’s geographical, but it just feels like a good time to do this, really. The party means so much to all of us, so making this decision was not easy. But it’s good to do it this way, rather than just have it fizzle out. It feels like you guys, along with a few others, managed to muscle a whole, new electronic-music scene into existence here in NYC. I think that we started doing this at the right time, more than anything else. This whole sound was just gathering momentum, with labels like Kompakt coming out of Germany and the minimal sound really starting to explode. I would love to take the credit for popularizing this stuff, but all we and people like Bryan did was to give it a platform. But it is satisfying to be involved in something that’s grown and developed so much. And it was so exciting to bring these people who were making the records. It does seem like you were able to get everyone who works in the electronic-dance-music realm. Well, we would have loved to have gotten Anthony Rother—he has this amazing live show. And we never got Rich [techno deity Richie Hawtin], which is a shame because he’s such an inspiration for so many people. Oh yeah, there’s Ricardo Villalobos, but I don’t think he’ll play in America. Maybe when Bush leaves office. Are there any Robots parties that stand out in your memory? There’s really too many to go into. But our favorite ones were at Café Deville, where we packed tons of people into this tiny, smoky room. The very last one we did there, with DJ Three, particularly stands out. The subwoofer caught on fire and we blew a Pioneer DJM-500 mixer, and they’re more or less bulletproof. That was a good night. http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/clubs/24933/machine-head check out the last ROBOTS BLOWOUT!: http://www.wearerobots.net/bbs/showthread.php?t=1404

'comparing complementary contrasts' now available at 320kbps: as i was told in another forum, 'lush music like this needs the best possible quality'; therefore our robots mechanic reuploaded this mix to the correct/higher quality bitrate for your listening pleasure 'death defying darkness' .mp3: as soon as the robots evil leader completes his latest mix and uploads it on the robots audio player, my 'death defying darkness' mix will then be moved to the robots music section and will be available on mp3. i'll post the link once this happens