Notes on “Yoru”: Recorded around the time-frame of the material on my ‘144 Pulsations Of Light’ CD (Kranky 2009), these pieces came about from a different creative process using samples rather than synthesis. The textures on Yoru were produced from recordings of old LPs of classical and choral music, subsequently processed, stretched, reversed and manipulated “in real-time.”

You can listen to streaming MP3s or buy the full EP to download in any format you desire:
http://ethernet333.bandcamp.com/album/yoru

http://www.praradio.org/

There are actually lots of really good DJs involved with PRA, and you can listen all day for FREE! I will be posting mp3 links of my sets on my DJ Tanuki blog!

Lastly, I have been keeping a log of everything I’ve listened to in 2010 on Twitter… its fun! I only list full-length releases that I listen to from start to finish, not just individual tracks/shuffle mode. If I listened to the whole thing, you can assume it is “worth listening to!”

http://twitter.com/ethernet333

Some live Ethernet shows coming up in Portland in the next month or two! TBA!

What an amazing, intense, crazy year! I got a record deal, got into graduate school, visited Amsterdam and Rome, ended a major long-term relationship, bought some gear, went completely broke several times, sold some gear, got really excited about DJing with Ableton Live, played some live Ethernet shows, put out my first full-length CD, got over 30 reviews, all positive, including some proper print magazines like The Wire, and moved from Northern California to Portland, Oregon, two weeks ago as of tomorrow! And probably a number of other things, as well!

In 2010 I will be playing lots of Ethernet shows, as soon and as many as possible, basically, at least around the Portland/Eugene/Vancouver area. I have several hours of new material that I’m really happy with, but that I have been feeling like is not suited for Kranky, more like it has been improving my “chops” and production skills. I’m not entirely sure what I’ll do with this past year’s worth of new tracks… I would love to put out a proper techno 12″, as I’ve made some dub techno and IDM-tinged tracks that I’m finally pleased with (and just because I love vinyl!). For Kranky, I will be working on something very deep and special, and I’m looking forward to exploring the brand new Native Instruments Absynth 5 synthesis engine, as Absynth 4 was the main compositional tool behind “144 Pulsations”.

So, my best wishes to all in 2010, I have a feeling its going to be a good one!

If you haven’t yet, please check out my semi-frequently-updated DJ Tanuki Music Review blog, where I’ve been posting short reviews of my all-time favorite albums, and also take a look at my Myspace page, where I’ve been posting all of the reviews of my Ethernet CD, as well as a brand new interview for The Offline People!

Happy New Year!

I am pleased to present a deep and hazy mix of some of my favorite dub-techno classics. Thanks to the cool Self-Titled online magazine for sharing my mix! The mix was put together in Ableton Live 7, with most of the tracks ripped from vinyl, and a couple of the newer tracks bought online in WAV format from Beatport, and features live dub FX and delay manipulations by yours truly. Oh yeah, the Bluetrain track is B2 from “Factory Dubs” ‘00!

Download the mix here!
http://www.self-titledmag.com/home/2009/09/22/test-pressing-toast-the-autumnal-equinox-with-an-exclusive-dub-techno-mix-from-ethernet-a-gas-euous-producer-who-oughta-be-called-ether/

My CD “144 Pulsations Of Light”, which is more in the drone-ambient territory rather than dub-techno, is out on Kranky on Oct. 5th! Here is the All-Music Review, featuring short clips of each track!

I decided to redesign my websites with a minimal, clean look for the summer. I have been busy getting into grad school and writing reviews for my music blog almost every day. I am happy to announce an official release date of October 5th for my CD, on the fantastic Kranky label, and I’ll share more details as the date gets closer!

I’ve been working on music fairly constantly, alternating mainly between long textural drone ambient pieces and more melodic loop-oriented, slightly IDM-tinged shorter pieces. I’ve also developed several laptop “performance environments” that I can play live for long periods of time, so I’m hoping I’ll have a chance to start playing shows in the next few months. NI Absynth 4 never ceases to amaze me, and I have been taking my minidisc recorder with me on hikes on Mt. Shasta regularly. The stillness in the air at 7,000 feet above sea level is amazing, and I enjoy sitting quietly and just listening.

Since today is the Summer Solstice, I made several recordings to capture the solar energy. Here is one:
Ethernet – Solar Elemental II

http://djtanuki.blogspot.com

I also realized I forgot to post here that I had a track on the Japanese netlabel Bump Foot’s 100th Release Compilation! It is an ambient house track created entirely with Jeskola Buzz last Fall. My contribution is called “Magnetic” and is track 5 on disc 1.

http://www.bumpfoot.net/bump100.html

Tim Gray – Deep Relaxation Session

A very busy time, with a lot of excitement. Lots of new music, some new equipment. The big news is that a very cool label picked up my album and will be releasing it on CD later this year! I’m hoping to do some sort of tour once its out, and it will be great to share my music with a wider audience.

Besides the ambient pulse music I’ve been focusing on since last Summer, I have also been working on some new material in the style of mid-late ’90s IDM ala Boards of Canada or Aphex Twin. I decided to have a go at videogame music, as I always enjoyed the mid-90’s Squaresoft RPG’s like Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 3, and their lush soundtracks by Nobuo Uematsu, Yasunori Mitsuda and others. I used four synth channels and a rhythm track, and I think it has a very SNES-like sound to it.

Here is some videogame music… maybe it could be “Theme for the Water Shrine”:
Ethernet – game music

And here is an IDM-style synth sketch:
Ethernet – synth sketch

Plastic City label (Jean Thibault! The Timewriter!)
Kompakt & Kompakt Pop & Kompakt Speicher labels
Burial and Hyperdub label, in general
Shackleton and Skull Disco label
v/a – The Modernist presents Popular Songs mix and 12″
Massive Attack – Blue Lines
Kawabata Makoto
Ivy, as ever
2 Many DJs- As Heard On Radio Soulwax mix series
Windy & Carl (Windy Weber – I Hate People on peacock splatter vinyl!)
Porno For Pyros – s/t
E.S.G. – A South Bronx Story
James White & The Blacks – Off White
Samiyam – Rap Beats Vol. 1
Aki Tsuyuko and Childisc Records in general
Everything But The Girl, as ever
Gina X Performance – Nice Mover (black sheep!)
Brendon Moeller – Electricity 12″
Nitzer Ebb circa ‘87-’88
Sheep On Drugs – Greatest Hits
The B-52’s – Cosmic Thing
Gas – Nah Und Fern
Fern Kinney – Groove Me 12″ (OMFGdisco)
Drinking Electricity (what a great ’80s band name)
Quietus Recordings
CV313 – Subtraktive 12″ (thankfully reissued, since I missed the tiny-edition-of-100-copies 3″ CD version last year..)
Intrusion – Tswana Dub 12″
Alexander Kowalski – Response
Rino Cerrone – Rilis 12″ series
The Advent
v/a – Disco Not Disco : Post Punk, Electro and Leftfield Disco Classics (Maximum Joy!)
Arthur Russell & Loose Joints
Polaris – Music From The Adventures of Pete & Pete
80z Guy’s Rare Hits of the 80s torrent series (Sophie & Peter Johnston! Friends! The Passions!)
Jan Jelinek – Kosmicher Pitch
The Dark Side Of Disco 12″ series
Iz & Diz 12″s
British Murder Boys (All The Saints Have Been Hung 12″!)
Styrax Leaves label (In Loving Memory 12″ series!)
Echocord label
Chicago Acid House, in general
Larry Heard (When Summer Comes 12″!)
Jahtari netlabel
Blind Melon – s/t
The Dead Milkmen (joejacktalcum.com bootleg of the month!)

Lots of other stuff too, and maybe a few too embarassing to mention here…
I’ve got a Sirius radio unit but 99% of the time I’m using it to listen to Howard Stern…
Let the music hit you, you won’t feel no pain…

This is a track that I am calling an “out take” or sketch from my recent sessions, since the mix is a little off, it is more rhythmic than most stuff I have been producing lately, and so I’m not planning to include it in my next release. It is made entirely with Buzz, using some Absynth 4 sampled material.

Ethernet – november sketch