I’ll be bringing the drum’n'noise furor to Goodbye Blue Monday this coming weekend for the ExperiMENTAL Fest. It’ll be the Sunday afternoon, Noise BBQ portion of the fest, so that rules. I think I’ll even be playing outside. There’s a lot of other cool acts on the bill as well, including long-time home-girl, Joy Through Noise. New beats and bonks, some sunshine and intense volume. Sounds like a plan, right?
Note: Venue has been changed to SILENT BARN instead of Party Expo.
Holy hell am I excited about this show. Realicide and DJ Tacopunch are bringing the crazed electronic hardness from out of town, and of course we’ve got local industrial noise genius, Insect Deli, lighting the place up as well. That would be enough to make this show worth attending, but Digit216 and I are doing a BATTLE SET of breaks, noise, and general clusterfuckery to top it all off.
Digit216 and Speak Onion have shared a lot of bills before, and we’ve always enjoyed and respected each other’s music, so we decided to step it up a notch and play together/against each other. Who will be victorious? Everyone who’s there to see NYC’s 2 most devestating breakcore artists collide, that’s who. Don’t sleep on this.
Immigrant Breast Nest presents:
Realicide
DJ Tacopunch
Speak Onion vs. Digit216 (special battle set!)
Insect Deli
Sunday, August 15, 2010, 8:30 PM
Silent Barn, 915 Wyckoff Avenue, Ridgewood
L to Halsey
$5
Tonight at 11PM Pacific time, will be Solipsistic Nation’s interview with me re: making music on iphone. Check it out on 1550 AM or at http://www.kyouradio.com.
Also, to just confirm, the Traverse City show on Tuesday is canceled and I’m not able to make the Lansing show on Wednesday. Sorry. 
I’ll be back to midwest soon!
Tonight, I’m in Chicago!
Hey, last minute announcement! Speak Onion along with David B. Applegate are bringing the ruckus to the basement of The Charleston in Williamsburg on Wednesday! We’re also welcoming NO Shoulders and Coin Star who are on tour from North Carolina to town! It’s going to be a truly hot summer party throwdown, so don’t miss out. Plus, as always at the Charleston, FREE PIZZA with drinks. So come pizza party with us!
Since I’ll be doing my Midwest mini-tour this weekend and next week, this will be a sweet preview show for my hometown people. NYC is my place, so even if I go elsewhere, there’s still love for my home. You know I’ll be filling the room with hometown love on Wednesday. See yous there!
Last night was way beyond awesome. From The Gut are geniuses of space transformation and wild sounds and rad parties. The view from the rooftop party space was amazing as expected!
Cry of the Peacocks was really awesome holding down the squelch for like 90 minutes (made me feel like a bitch for only doing half an hour, ha!), and then I came on to do my thing. I had worked up a new and more abstract and not completely over-the-top set like I usually do for this event, and I think it went well.
And then this little guy showed up to check it out:
Anyway, thanks a million to From The Gut for inviting me to be a part of this transformed space event and thanks to everyone who came to see it!
If you missed it, you can check out the recording: Speak Onion at Eton Trading 6-18-10
Yep. I’ll be playing an extra special and intimate (wink, wink) set on the rooftop of Eton Trading in Greenpoint on Friday, and it’s 100% FREE! It’s part of From The Gut’s Saturation NYC event, a night of transformed space, art, sculpture, and sound. There’s more info at the Saturation facebook event listing, and the details are below.
Friday, June 18, 2010; I’ll play at probaly 10PM or so.
Eton Trading
238 Franklin Street (at Freeman), Greenpoint, NY
This is going to be an extra awesome show. I’m fixing to play a bit of a different set than I usually do given the more artsy/experimental nature of the event. I’m going to focus on abstract weirdness rather than sheer fucking power. I mean, there will be plenty of bL00r, don’t worry about that, I’ve not gone totally soft, but there will probably be less beats kicking you in the face and more synthesizers melting down. Plus the whole outdoor rooftop thing is way cool. I’ve included a picture of the view from a roof in Greenpoint at night. This is purely a (p)re-enactment, I make no guarantees of scenic-ness.
OK, see you there!
Show Report! Things that ruled on Sunday:
Everyone’s sets were killer. Maruosa whipped up so much energy I thought I was going to die in that basement, and I was ok with it. Digit216 and David B. Applegate also were really at the top of their respective games. It was like, “this is exactly the type of show I would want to see if I wasn’t putting it together myself.” Amazing.
Oh yeah, about the Nord, uh, I know I said I wasn’t going to use it, but then at the last minute I got a bigger box and reorganized and rewired and repatched everything. Heh. I was a little shaky on a completley new setup with only 1 day’s practice, but it was all good. Pretty glad with how everything is going with that. I’ll probably expound on it later. . .
So, thanks a million to everyone who showed up and thanks a b-b-b-billion to Maruosa and Miyagi for coming all that way, and thanks to the Charleston for the wet basement and the free pizza. Best.
Oh, and check out all the pics here. I dont’ have any of Digit216 or Maruosa yet, because I fucked up with the camera, but I’ll be some.
I’m 100% extremely stoked to announce this show coming up next month with the mighty Maruosa from Japan, plus local friends, David B. Applegate and Digit216. It’s going to be a real banger, I assure you. See you there!
Saturday night at Coco66 was amazing. What an awesome show. Everyone really nailed it, and dang that Coco66 PA is no joke. Thanks to everyone who came out. My first show on the new set-up went really great. I was nervous without my familiar Numark DJ mixer and Echo Park delay, but the Nord G2 really killed it. My favorite quote form the night was when some girl came up to David B. Applegate during my set asking, “WTF is that stuff he’s playing it looks like he’s got nothing up there!!!” That’s right. Just an IKEA Gorm shelf packed with synth-y goodness.
Anyway, here’s videos. The first one is based on “Many Fewer Branches” from Metabolor, and the second one is from an as-yet unreleased remix. More about that soon. Don’t miss my awesome post-set dance moves in part 2. I hope the sound is halfway decent on these, but the PA was sooooo loud and soooo bassy, and my darling WIFE, while videotaping, was sitting on one of the sub-woofers, so the camera’s microphone really couldn’t hang. It sounded awesome in the room. Trust me.
I’m returning to my favorite venue in NYC, Coco66, next month for my first show of 2010. And it’s 100% free so you might as well come accept the gift of loud music from me and everyone at Immigrant Breast Nest. I’m really excited about playing with some of NYC’s finest electronic music scientists, Joy Through Noise, Insect Deli, and Naetron. This will be a really epic night of music. I mean, you were going to be out drinking that night anyway, so you might as well do it at this FREE show. I’ll bring the beats, you bring the party.