I’ve got a brand new and exclusive track on this fine comp, brought to you by Placenta Recordings.

‘Placenta Family Tree – Disc 4′ can be had over at http://www.archive.org/details/ThePlacentaFamilyTree-Disc4.

Tracklisting:

If you don’t know Grindthieves, then I feel bad for you. But it’s ok, because if you don’t know, now you know. And also, they know. They know a lot about what is good in film, art, and especially music. I was bummed when they went away for a while, but they’re back, and they’ve got a post up about the Digit216 vs. Speak Onion Battle At Silent Barn.

My favorite quote is this:

“Punishing, okay?”

That about sums it up. So go get yourself some of that good battle set (Download IBN017: Digit216 vs. Speak Onion- Battle At Silent Barn) and go look at all the other great stuff that Grindthieves has to tell you about. You’re welcome.

YES! I’m playing at a rad place with some of my favorite old friends and some awesome new friends. This will be a bonkers night for sure. From the Free Techno of David B. Applegate to the straight weirdness of Bubblegum Octopus and Mysterious House to the true rocking of Xrin Arms, and of course some shattered rhythms from your #1 boss of drum’n'noise, the party will NOT BE STOPPING FOR ANYTHING. You’ve been warned.

Also, look how many Speak Onion shows are happening in the next few weeks. Pretty rad, huh? Between the I.B.N. Presents show at Party Expo where I’ll be doing the battle set, the ExperiMENTAL Fest Noise BBQ, August 26 at Goodbye Blue Monday, and this one, I’m a busy, man. That’s why I’m the boss, I guess. Anyway, I’ll see you out there!

Bubblegum Octopus
David B. Applegate
Mysterious House
Speak Onion

Port d’Or, 841 Sterling Place, Brooklyn, NY
Friday, August 27, 2010, 9PM
$5 donation

EDIT: Xrin Arms, sadly, won’t be able to make it up to NYC due to some rough times out on tour, so the GBM show is cancelled, and there will be only 4 bands at this show at Port d’Or. Still mad freshness guaranteed, though. Pour one out on the curb for XA, though.

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

I talk on the show about my love/not-so-much-love relationship with the app I use on the iphone, Intua’s Beatmaker. In my live setup, I use that app to run beats and loops and anything that comes from my recorded tracks, and then I mix those with synth noises from the Nord G2 and process them with the G2 and with pedals. Beatmaker has a lot of great features, but also some limitations that can drive me up a wall from time to time. I’m eagerly (EAGERLY) awaiting Version 2 of Beatmaker. I am hoping for a lot of new features and capabilities. I know they’ve implemented choke groups on it, and that alone will be really helpful to me. I have no idea when it will be available, though. . .

So go grab the new episode of Solipsistic Nation, and subscribe to their podcast while you’re there, because there’s plenty of new and awesome electronic music coming out of there every week. And stay tuned for future Speak Onion shows and new music. I’m hard at work in the laboratory over here. . .

IBN015- Remixing The Bloodwhore

IBN has released a series of remixes of Decanting The Bloodwhore’s  Enveloped In The Dreaded Anguish Of Ancients, and it is totally amazing. Really inventive and unexpected reworkingss of the tracks. None of the add-a-backbeat-for-the-club type remixes. Anyone who has seen me play out in the last few months has heard me drop snippets of of my remix, and knows that it’s designed to kill. Anyway, grab this release, because it’s equal parts necro grymness and hot fire.

Heathen Harvest has just posted up a review of my 2009 release, Metabolor. Read it here.  Here’s a bit of it. . .

“. . .a raucous form of extreme soundwork that is equal parts hardcore techno, drum’n'bass and noise. This is the sound of the U.S. underground Breakcore scene, a quickly evolving genre, and Speak Onion is one of it’s masters.”

and. . .

“It is that aspect of ‘Metabolor’, the small touches that flux under and through the rhythms, that adds a complexity and makes the listening experience all the richer. The idea, of course, is that this is not really dancefloor music at all, but ‘mind-music’. . .”

Woo! If you’d like to check out Metabolor for yourself, download it from Immigrant Breast Nest. Onward and upward!

• Maruosa
• Nord G2 Engine
• Everyone who came out
• David B. Applegate
• Mast Brothers chocolate with coffee beans in it
• Miyagi
• Puddles on the floor of the venue
• Digit216
• Abundance of pizza
• FUCKING SICK MUSIC

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!