'The Caution', another Now Zero track, is on disc two of the 1992 Volition Records compilation 'High'. Credits: "Written by Lawler/Steel/Mcphee. Produced and mixed by Scot Art and Stewart Lawler. Edited by Robert Racic for dB Productions." Vocals by Simm Steel. Now Zero was an attempt at electro pop; we performed this material around Sydney venues 1990-1993.

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This track is called 'Observatory Hill Dub'. It is based on Augustus Pablo's 'Up Warrika Hill' - can you tell that Augustus Pablo is my favourite dub artist no? The mix and possibly the arrangement in this track are not complete, it's only a rough mix for the time being, and I'm still working on the arrangement (if you've got any advice or feedback - even 'you suck' - please dump it in the comments of this blog entry). I originally put the skeleton down for this track some months ago when I did a whole batch of reggae rhythms for my use later. I have been steadily learning as many dub/reggae basslines from the 'classic riddums' as they say, and recording them or transcribing to keyboard parts.

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A big start at the "Bowery" in Ann St last night littered with too many Moscow Mules and interesting new people to meet. A pity they just wouldn't sell us jugs of the stuff, as we were sitting out the back celebrating Emily's 27th birthday with frequent trips to the bar. Met her fellow writers and photographers from the magazine she writes for as well as plenty of other nice people too.

Then we ran off to this tiny little venue where we saw a promising band called something like "Cold Spoon Conspiracy" (although they do need a better name). They play rock with high pop sensibilities, not a massively original concept but pretty tight in their execution and they might get somewhere with it I think. A terrible PA really prevented from hearing the vocals properly but the band itself was tight, in control and pretty interesting. The venue was very intruiging, a small shoebox on Ann St in the same building that the old IMA was in. No bar (byo only) trashy flouro lighting and graffitti all over the walls with a totally shite PA -- made me reminisce about the old warehouse gigs we used to put on in Sydney all those years ago. When such spaces where possible there.

I also saw one song from a band called "Oh Belgium" but they sounded like a poorly recorded outtake from a P.I.L. session so we left them to it (as also being past midnight the bottle-o had shut) and abandoned the place for the 'Depot', a large club upstairs in Brunswick St with plenty of space to move around and just the sort of no-bullshit nightclub that Newtown really needs. Emily got us in on the door and the DJ - a fellow we had met earlier at the Bowery - played a bunch of retro rock, glam, electro and punk to a room full of sweaty twenty somethings (and us distinctly not anywhere near twenty-somethings).

Brisbane nightlife is nowhere as bad as I imagined it.

Back on the air after the move to Brisbane on the account of Lisa scoring a good job at the University of Qld. The old "My cummerbund fell in the toilet" title has been scrapped in favour of "The horse, he sick" -- a name once used by one of my favourite Sydney sound artists, friend, and bloody genius, Ian Andrews.

I intend to focus the blog on music, new and past, that I stumble across. My own music is offered for download directly off the site or via a 'podcasting' client such as iPodder or Nimiq.

Although I ported some of the content over to the site, the old URLs to the blog are cactus as I simplified the site layout somewhat. The RSS feed is http://modular.autonomous.org/music/rss.xml and the html site is http://modular.autonomous.org/music/

Thanks to Simon Brown's excellent Pebble Blogging Software, 'The horse, he sick' (the blog formerly known as 'My cummerbund fell in the toilet') now supports the RSS 2.0 enclosure tag, which I will be using to podcast new original music from Victor X-Ray, and some historical pieces as well from earlier in my discography. Mainly, the podcasts will be in the Victor X-Ray Audio System category.

If you want to know more about podcasting, I suggest you visit ipodder.org or visit the podcasting group at yahoo. Point your iPodder or equivalent software at the following feed URL: http://modular.autonomous.org/music/categories/vx/rss.xml, and it will automatically download any new Victor X-Ray material that I place on the site, ready for you to listen to when you get up in the morning (or whenever).

As a test I have attached the track 'Radiation Yes Indeed' that's included on the Clan Analogue compilation 'Doppler Shift'. Big girly chorused vocals and piano over a old-school bassline and a classic rant about the neutron bomb. Music copyright Victor Xray 2004, used with permission. Commercial distribution prohibited.

If you don't have podcast client software installed you can just click on the 'attachment' link on this entry. If you are reading this from a news aggregator of some type that doesn't support enclosures, visit the blog entry to get the link.

This is the original mix of Alien Jungle Planet. It appears on disc 2 of the Clan Analogue compilation Cognition/Three CA025, and the limited edition EP V-Type Nerve Agent. Mixes of this track are also on the album G-Type Nerve Agent and on the ABC 'Sound Quality' compilation "Approved for export". The original mix still is one of the best songs I've written, and the mix is very cranky - a sickly Victorian-era carnival ride interpreted wrongly and left to die on an Alien Jungle Planet.

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Welcome to the Alien Jungle Planet.
We apologize for the inconvienience.
Please wait to be seated,
for the Alien Jungle Planet.

This is your Captain speaking.
Do not panic.
Please hold for an operator.
Do Not Cross The Line,
in the Alien Jungle Planet.

Your call is important to us.
I'm sorry Madame,
Please forgive me.
Call Now Our Operators Are Waiting,
at the Alien Jungle Planet.

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