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Impending Stupor – New Chilled Mix Album

Squatter — Tue, 31 May 2011 11:18:22 +0000

Click the link to download:

http://www.squattershouse.co.uk/mixes/squatter-impending_stupor.mp3

I’ve finally put together the chilled mix album i’ve been planning for… ages!

It’s a mixture of my favourite chilled tracks from previous mix albums, some unearthed tracks, some work from contemporary dance collaborations, and some completely new stuff as well.

Playlist:

Squatter – ‘Glacial Course’

Squatter – ‘Rent a Whole’

Nacho Sensei (formerly Iced Doughnut Collision Matrix) – ‘Icarus Falling’ (Squatter ARC Refrain)

The Report To Sorsha – ‘Mr Taylor’ (Squatter ARC Remix)

Spacebaby – ‘Morning After’ (Squatter ARC Remix)

Squatter – ‘O dd d’

Squatter & The Smoke Thief – ‘Stripped’

Squatter – ‘Ah, a Friendly Guitar’

Squatter – ‘Is it Thursday?’

Metachemical – ‘Orange’ (Squatter ARC Remix)

Squatter – ‘Reminisce’

Squatter – ‘Before Mlle Y’

Bella – ‘Southbank’ (Squatter ARC Demix)

Squatter – ‘Darby Dream’

Click the link to download:

http://www.squattershouse.co.uk/mixes/squatter-impending_stupor.mp3

Ah yes..

Squatter — Fri, 27 May 2011 17:52:02 +0000

As well as the Golden Ninja Warrior refresh, I quickly glossed over this one productionally and rounded out the end to a full track. This was one of the first breaky tracks i ever made, with some help from the mighty Jim Shimmer. A snippet of it was the soundtrack to the old squattershouse website intro screen, and i still loves its stomp.

Update!!!

Squatter — Fri, 27 May 2011 17:47:53 +0000

So, things what has been done going down hmm?

There’s this…

An unofficial remix of a lovely Sade track, and is pretty much my first proper stab at dubstep.

And this…

The Story of the Golden Ninja Warrior track felt like it could do with a bit of upstomping, so i set about it with my breaksy brush and thickened it up a little

Most of all, there’s this:

This just had lots and lots of people making noise and writing parts, which left me with massive amounts of fodder to chop about and play with.

I’m sure there’s more as well, have to have a think…

Circus induced time-slip…

Squatter — Fri, 27 May 2011 16:43:11 +0000

… the title says it all really. Must get back up to date!

Please say hello to Dirty Biscuit, the general collective name for the mish-mash of my singular and collaborative outpourings.

CLICK THE BISCUIT!!! (to go to the newish soundcloud page)

The Stapler EP, out NOW! on Control Breaks

Squatter — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:03:57 +0000

Here’s the press release:

“Lord of the twisted beats, Squatter, returns to Control Breaks with the long awaited Stapler EP. It contains two original tracks from his dark and malevolent mind, first up is the mercurial magic of ‘Roll It Up’. A true gem this track utilises the vocal talents of MC Regimental to give it that extra special punch.

‘Roll it Up’ arrives accompanied with a remix from Control Breaks top man, Section. He turns the track in a more 4/4 direction with some oh so very contemporary, heavy bass added.

Finally we reach the second piece of Squatter mayhem – ‘Married to a Stapler’ is a moving and deeply emotional tale of one man’s struggle to find happiness in a world that thinks him a perverted freak. Thankfully this sad tale is told not through poetry or lengthy monologues but jackin’ beats, thumping basslines and menacing synths.

All in all a truly startling package from a soon to be superstar producer!

Be sure to check out www.controlbreaks.com or www.myspace.com/controlbreaks for more details and a little sample from each of the classic tunes.”

And here are a few sites where you can get hold of the tracks:

https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/release/detail/178588/the_stapler_ep

http://www.breakbeatonline.com/search.php?searchString=squatter&criteria=0&format=3&submit.x=0&submit.y=0

http://www.trackitdown.net/artist/145515/squatter.html

http://www.djdownload.com/artist/Squatter/754523

Everyone should get RSI

Squatter — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:54:11 +0000

If you missed the RSI radio show last night on Leith FM, the full download and playlist is here.

If you want some more squatter mixes, have a lookie here.

Mlle Y – Contemporary Dance Performance

Squatter — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:14:39 +0000

A contemporary dance piece what i did do most of the sound for, catch a performance of it if you’re around brighton.

This has been an epic piece, and has been toyed with over the course of a whole year. Most of the sound was recorded from the performer and her interactions with the microphone in the development of the piece. This was then heavily manipulated and other complementary sounds were introduced. There are also healthy doses of silence, which i don’t think i’m allowed to take credit for.

Press release below:

Mlle Y

A noisy dance

A Playful and painful leap beyond language

featuring

A microphone speaking for itself

and

A mouth attacking its speaker

Mlle Y

An amplified under-statement,

A Stuttering dance through a fountain of words

come;

Listen to the body in motion

Break the silence with a game

NEW VENTURE THEATRE

Bedford Place, Brighton BN1 2PT

PERFORMANCES: Wed 8th – Sat 11th July 7.45 pm

Matinee Sat 11th July 2.30pm

£7 (£6 Friends) Final Fri/Sat £8.50 (£7.50 Friends)

BOX OFFICE: 01273 746118 (24 HRS) ONLINE: www.newventure.org.uk/tickets

Mlle Y at the New Venture Theatre

is the joint venture of dancer and choreographer Tamar Daly and NVT artistic director Mike Stubbs. Closing this year’s season at the theatre on the 8-11 of July, this evening explores the tensions within Strindberg’s play The Stronger.

Opening with Strindberg’s one act play, directed by Stubbs, and continuing with Mademoiselle Y, Daly’s dance/media performance, the program concludes with a vocal interpretation of the play by singer Nicolette Corcoran.

Described by Mike as “a jewel of theatrical drama with timeless appeal”, The Stronger consists of a single conversation between two women, Madame X and Miss Y. An impromptu meeting in a bar leads to an unusual dialogue in which Madame X accuses Miss Y of having an affair with her husband. Like many of Strindberg’s plays, The Stronger is a psychological trial of strength in which two characters are brought together in an immediate moment of opposition.

Drawing on the tensions in the play, Daly playfully explores Mlle Y’s ‘voice’ in her unique performance style. She combines movement, video projections and electronic sound to create a dynamic theatrical landscape where unsaid thoughts and feelings continuously emerge and disappear.

Leith Radiyo

Squatter — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:10:47 +0000

I’ve got me a guest mix slot on the mighty RSI Radio show on Leith FM. It’s this Friday evening, 26th June 2009 at 23:00 (I’m on at midnight).

TUNE IN AT http://www.leithfm.co.uk through your browser or download to a player of your choice. In the Edinburgh area at 98.8FM on your wireless transistor radios.

Kicking off this week’s show is Mike McGarrity from Edinburgh’s Pins and Needles club night followed by Kenny Redstar for a wee while playing some new material he’s picked up recently.

And a little heads up…

Next release is out 29th June on Control Breaks – ‘Married to a Stapler’ / ‘Roll It Up feat. MC Regimental’ (plus Section Remix) – a brooding, automated assault of an EP which will hopefully reearn IDJ Magazine’s recognition for ‘oddest track title of the month’

Collabs

Squatter — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:08:15 +0000

I’ve just stuck up a list of links of people i’ve worked on tracks and things with and remixes etc. If i’ve missed you out then just badger me about it

collaborations

There are lots of new tracks a-brewing at the moment, but none have actually got to a finished point yet, hence no posts recently!

Incase anyone’s looked out of the window recently you’ll also notice that it’s summer, which may have something to do with it as well..

‘I dislocated the floor today’

Squatter — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:42:45 +0000

Yes indeedy! Well, truth be told i didn’t, Rhian did. I was just asked to work with her to create some ‘upside-down dubstep’ for her contemporary dance film piece. One of the more interesting briefs i’ve had

The music for the piece has been called ‘vs gravity’, purely for my own amusement so that in a tracklisting it will appear as ‘squatter vs gravity’ which suits the amount of trampolining i’ve been doing recently. yeah!

Blurby:

A piece by Rhian Farnworth.
Dancers: Cornelia Turner-Klier and Robert Keates
Music – ‘vs gravity’ devised specially for the piece by Squatter.

‘a screendance inspired by theories on the inverted world by Maurice Merleau-Ponty the oddness of an upside down world translated into a screendance of bodies supported by the wrong surfaces, gravity pulling from all directions and layers of dislocated legs.’

Head to the videos section to watch some other vids…