The VCA Sessions Podcast: Recent Episodes
Aural Dynamics
UK based transmission featuring guest producers unleashing their skills & influences to deliver diverse snapshots of melody & rhythm with no restraints on style, form or content. The VCA Sessions will take you somewhere new.
H-Tech returns with a burnt offering of murky sounds to promote the new release from collaborative project Rites Of Fear by Allogenic. Click title link to stream from Mixcloud.
Recorded and mixed between 11/06/2012 and 20/06/2012 and built from recordings of a number of improvised sessions using bowed cymbals, prayer bowls, cello, voice, plastic bottle, bamboo whistle and autoharp. Each session recording was then subjected to digital sound processing to form the final audio piece. This piece formed part of radeq's project: A Month Long Radio Exhibition and was played at 2pm on the 31st August 2012.
After a some absence The VCA sessions welcomes back another re-channelled Prodcast. Including excerpts from Vapour's debut performance at the latest Filigree society event, unreleased material from Ypsmael, cjmann's processed field recordings of the audience at the recent Laibach Tate Modern performance, a new track "Scrapyard" and excerpts from Bansheevas work in progress.
A Short Live set featuring snapshots of fresh and existing material. Recorded by Schmergmeister at CB1 Cafe, Mill Road, Cambridge, December 2012.
Another set from the moon men captures an epic live performance unleashing a wash of psychedelic drones and swirling feedback at the Festival Of Noise event in Cambridge in April 2012.
This set offers audio sketches made by cjmann in a single session on the 18th February 2012. The raw materials include kalimba, harmonica, whistle and voice which have been subjected to heavy duty processing.
This session features a collage of cello, vocal, percussion, piano and field recordings morphing through a number of discreet changes, from chamber ritual through to blissed out drum frenzy...
Base Create promises more noise shrouded delights from cjmann including a remix of Wrong Planets "Punk Espanya", new tracks from tEdor, Cultivater, House Grinder and a previously unreleased 'Blue' track "Prisoner".
Abel Mortis takes listeners on an ecclectic voyage spanning the realms of pop and post punk from decades past. Including iconic classics from Bauhaus, Tubeway Army, Dukes of Stratosphere, Siouxsie and Prince!
Shadows in a Basement Part 5 presents a live set of subtle, atmospheric textures from Ypsmael. Recorded at the first gathering of The Filigree Society in Cambridge, March 2011.
The fourth instalment of recorded performances from The Filigree Society music event. Presenting a brief but memorable live performance of improvised material from cjmann.
Another Prodcast is re-channelled to deliver a wide variety of delights including big band pozitive vibes from Trio Pozitive, the latest signal from Idiot Trench, live music from Wrong Planet and and a lovely track from tEdor.
Featuring poptastic sounds ranging Kelvox1's Stephen via the black is black desolation of mix of Sol-de-muerte's Let Me show you the way, to the ambient pop of cjmann's remix of Wrong Planets Vulnerable, demos from BUTTONMOON, a fried track from cjmann, plus archive acid from House Grinder circa 1994!
The third instalment of recorded performances from The Filigree Society music event. BUTTONMOON entertain the audience with wondrous dronesome melodies from the outer rim.
The second instalment of live recordings from the The Filigree Society features Abel Mortis weaving together a set of pre-recorded material with live electronic percussion and melodic textures.
The first instalment of selected live recordings from the The Filigree Society music event in Cambridge, March 2011 featuring a mindbending debut from Funf Durch Funf.
Halicephalobus Mephisto features new and exclusive tracks from the prods universe. Including new tracks from cjmann, Wild Flower and the soudtrack to Heirs of Confusion.
Communing features a new exclusive tracks from Cultivater, Ypsmael, live tracks from Wrong Planet in acoustic mode and the Schmergmeister in full on feedback cacophony...
New Shoot Growth includes an excerpt from the soundtrack to a forthcoming Sol-de-muerte video, plus tracks from new Prods collaborators Ypsmael and Landscapes, along with a live psychedelic odyssey from Wrong Planet and an archive track by cjmann from 2007.
AcidIronKid of BUTTONMOON enters the studio to offer A polar landscape of downtempo tracks from around the World...
Prods In The Dark 'main Mann' returns featuring material from March and April releases. Ranging from the alien soundscapes of Generic through to the warm words of Cultivater. and an exclusive preview of one of acidironkid's contributions to the ongoing Absolute Zero project.
H-Tech returns to guide the proceedings through a swirling dreamscape of tone and texture seamlessly fading together material from Lawrence English, KLF, Hammock, Loscil, Dick Mills and many others...
CJMann takes the helm again to deliver an eclectic array of 2010 material from Prods In The Dark. Ranging from apocalyptic rock through industrial ambience to dark folk and noise.
Ypsmael rolls out a blurry felt carpet of crackling ambient and drone textures, pierced by deep yellow rays of late afternoon light. Soon joined by the sound of hissing wind in the leaves and the smell of imminent cloudburst in the air under a murky canopy, as we start sliding down a long, steep gradient.
Xurba sits in for his 4th VCA Session delivering a mammoth mix of underground retro styled electronica varying in pitch, pace and tone. Delighful, disturbing and genuinely odd... there's something for everyone here! Featuring tracks from Datasette, Trash 80, Eight Frozen Modules, Keith Le Blanc, Claro Intelecto, Vim!, Cornbeast and more.
Witness the subtle yet relentless techno rhythms of the H.O.T. sound seamlessly mixed together by skilled the hands of H-Tech.
Back in the 1980s, when MP3 was a term for a small collective of English politicians, we used to listen to our music on vinyl discs with a central locating hole in the middle. Sometimes these holes were slightly off-centre, and this caused the pitch of the music to fluctuate slowly, simulating a doppler effect. These defective discs became very popular in certain musical circles, and were affectionately called 'woozyphons'. This mix is dedicated to the slightly off-centred and idiosyncratic music of our current demoscene artists.
Xurba is in the mix again for a drum and bass work out featuring tracks from various artists. Also watch out for the new Xurba LP out now on Kahvi Commercial.
Xurba takes the studio hot seat for a lateral excursion into melodic, beat driven textures from electronic allies far & wide. This mix features a rich selection of quality output from independent artists and netlabels. Full track listing displays artist and label information. Don't miss out!
Abel Mortis presents first in a series of limited edition soundtrack montages compiled exclusively for the VCA Sessions. Using a provocative selection of motifs, samples and atmospherics Mortis aims to immerse the listener in a gothic dreamscape emerging somewhere between the writings of Edgar Allan Poe and the music of Tangerine Dream. The majority of content used was composed, produced and mixed by mortis with contributions from Spectral Cat, H-Tech Oneman and Xurba. 'VCA Limited' mixes will be released at random intervals for a limited period only.
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