Victor Xray Gig - 25th April

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 06:00:00 GMT

I will be doing a live set at the Spoonbill CD launch in Brisbane at the Step Inn in the Valley, Saturday April 25 2009. About 10pm in the corner bar.

The gig details are:

Host: !113g@1 v@1u3
Start Time: Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 9:00pm
End Time: Sunday, April 26, 2009 at 5:00am
Location: Step Inn (Downstairs + Corner Bar)
Street: cnr St Pauls Tce & Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley
City/Town: Brisbane, Australia
After nearly two years of questing through the audio underworld, wrestling crocodile-headed samplers and taming fire-breathing speaker stacks, Spoonbill has returned to the earth's surface, ready to address his ecstatic followers. His message: Zoomorphic, a shapeshifting sonic celebration of Spoonbillism. Zoomorphic is set to earn Australia's most unique aural oracle thousands of fresh converts across the globe. Zoomorphic is the third album by electronic musician Spoonbill (aka Jim Moynihan), following the critically acclaimed Megafauna (2005) and Nestegg (2007). This time around, Spoonbill's anarchic, quirk-funk, glitched-up aesthetic has been forensically finessed like never before, sculpted to a well-bodied medley of groove-based sound art. The Zoomorphic experience is crafted from an intricate web of edited studio recordings of exceptional musos melded with found sounds, foley folly and synthesized materials, much of which was captured while recently touring across US, Canada, Europe & UK. Squishy pulsating bass lines carpet the undergrowth, while dirty squelchy synth licks frolic in a warped menagerie of neurotic cyborgs, rattlesnakes, sirens, champagne froth, fireworks and crushed eggshells. The jamboree coalesces to form a single groove shrieking beat-creature, covered with feathers, scales, bells and whistles. Zoomorphic is a diverse musical mutant for late-night dancefloors, introspective train-rides, and everything in between. This fresh batch of Spoonytunes will captivate fans of glitch-hop, IDM, breaks, psychedelic electronica, folktronica, dubstep, trip-hop and more – but the Spoonbill's mighty call can't be pigeon-holed into any single genre. Some folk call it “vaudeville electronica”, responding to the jovial carnival feel like circus clowns with lobsters in their pants.

Celebrating the launch of the new CD in Brisbane in wild style across 2 rooms of the Step Inn, Spoonbill will be supported in the Main Room by:
SEED Byron- Lively http://www.myspace.com/7seed
SIMULCAST Live A/V http://www.myspace.com/simulcast
SILENT SHADOW Live http://www.myspace.com/silentshadowthemusical
BLUNT INSTRUMENT Lively Duo- Début http://www.myspace.com/bluntinstrumentbeats + DJ SHARDS !113g@1 v@1u3 http://www.myspace.com/d_appleseed

with Dubstep in the Corner Bar courtesy of:
CROOKED SOUND SYSTEM Canberra http://www.myspace.com/crookedsoundsystemspace
VICTOR X-RAY Live http://www.myspace.com/victorxray
FINGERPRINT Pitch Productions- Live http://www.myspace.com/fingerprintsound + RESETESER http://www.myspace.com/reseteser
& DANK MORASS DJs http://www.myspace.com/dankmorass

Tickets now on sale for $15 + b/f from OzTix.com & their vendors including Rockinghorse, Butter Beats & Gooble Warming.
http://tickets.oztix.com.au/?m=Choose&eventID=9210&promoID=100
$20 on the door on the night.

Victor Xray live at Upgrade/Next Level 27 Oct 2007

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:09:11 GMT

I've been quiet on the music and blogging front in recent weeks - I've been quite busy and distracted so unable to make new music as I attend to some of the administrivia surrounding making music.

This here's a recording of my set at Upgrade on 27th Oct. It's straight from the digital mixing there to memory stick - a very nifty feature. It suffers from one or two technical flaws - it seems very soft in volume, and more importantly one of the effects tracks has both L+R panned hard right which makes some reverbs and delays a bit lopsided. It's also EQ'd for a front of house PA system but it still sounds OK with a bit of fiddling in your MP3 player's EQ. The recording is nice and crisp at 192kbps for 45 minutes or so. I fucked up my timing again with this set so at the end I have to fill in my set time by playing a Retarded Mouse track which I introduce in a rather retarded fashion.

Warning big file ( > 60Mb)! Download Victor Xray Live @ Next Level 192kbps MP3.

Thanks to James and Dennis.

Intro/Warm up
John Barry in Baltimore
Shiver Ray
Dead Walk
The Dark Arts Of Dub
Half Step In Hell
Melodic Interlude
Gassing Gangsters
Dub Forever International
Poseidon's Lair
Skates On!
Fine I Me Nozzle
Everybody Take Drugs (Retarded Mouse)

Xray Dubs - live tag

Victor Xray Gig - 25th April

Victor Xray live at Upgrade/Next Level 27 Oct 2007