Claude Vonstroke's warped house label Dirtybird are running a remix competition for the new single by the Martin Brothers, a dark, breathy cut with the ubiquitous half-compelling/half-infuriating vocal line. I didn't intend to actually create a complete remix - submitting a remix a week before the voting deadline ends is essentially a pointless exercise - but after paring down a couple of the parts to their skeletal forms, I wound up creating this witchy phantasm of the original:

The Martin Brothers - Dum (Ad Hoc's invocation remix)

To be played at the opening and close of your next seance.

Photos and sound now up from my set at last week's Çonic Social. Hopefully this means I can now take a break from typing the Ç cedilla escape sequence. Thanks to Julia for a great collection of photos.

I'm currently wrapped up in sonic contortions with the first couple of tracks of the forthcoming Isometric EP, hopefully due for release sometime in August. This'll also be preceded by a highly limited split 7" with An Empty Orchestra. Cheers for the patience, it's been a mindbogglingly long time in the coming...

We're also seeking remixers for the debut Platnik EP, "Fear of Electrons" (available free here). Give me a shout if you're interested, with the song(s) that you'd like to remix, and I'll hit you up with the multitracks.

Another gig tomorrow night, back in the East at Dust, between Farringdon and Old Street. More pulsating synths and towering drones.

FREE, 27 Clerkenwell Road, 9pm.

Yowsers, it's been a while. The first Ad Hoc gig in many moons is happening in Herne Hill, south London, this Thursday night. It marks the opening of the What They Could Do: Escape! series, a run of free monthly events featuring an unremittingly diverse and avant-garde lineup.

The opening features a kind of What They Could Do pick'n'mix, with bands, performances, DJs and short films from the usual cast. Subsequent months will feature bookings from the wider universe — and beyond...

8pm-1am, free, opposite Herne Hill station. Full details on the flyer.

After a several-month hiatus, we're excited to announce an impromptu gig this Thursday night (17th January), the first of the year's staggered series of London-based events staged by What They Could Do, They Did.

AD HOC AND MIXPASTE (LIVE AUDIO/VIDEO REMIX)
Working with fragments of audio and video, both familiar and unfamiliar, Ad Hoc and Mixpaste create live, unprepared and frenetic cross-media remixes. Ad Hoc is here performing material from his debut 'Isometric' EP, assimilating influences from 8-bit gaming to post rave culture, with Mixpaste gleefully colliding film clips from the 80s to now.

PLUS Kardy, One Million Houses, Robert Evans, WTCD films + DJs...

GINGLIK
(1 Shepherds Bush Green W12 8PH)
FREE / 8PM - 1AM

(more info and full lineup...)

One of the hidden benefits of open music hardware is that, in the inevitable case of gig-induced failure, it's possible to carry out your own repairs and maintenance. And lo, after months of inaction due to sticky silicone buttons, a complete disassembly and once-over with contact cleaner and canned air has once more rendered the 40h to its virile prime. Try that with a Tenori-On.