Off Beat - Sunday November 5th - Workshop - IDM, downtempo

universal sea · Post by **universal sea** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 11:23 pm

The debut of the new monthly Sunday nights at Workshop - Off Beat - introduces Melbourne to regular IDM, downtempo, off-centre sounds, rhythmic ambience, atmospheric drum & bass, dubstep, grime, acid polka, 3/4, swing, instrumental space rock, instrumental hip-hop, spoken word, dub, go-go and funky electronica.

Hosted by Lephrenic and Sea, with special guest easysleeper, and drop ins from drop outs all around the country. Beyond sounds... the other four human senses will be satisfied.

Wind down your weekend with laid back beats in a chilled environment, enjoy the patio on a balmy pre-summer evening. This will be a special, different kind of night.

Date: Sunday November 5th 2006
Venue: Workshop - corner A'Beckett and Elizabeth Street, Melbourne city
Free entry

Recorded for UMFM and Workshop Radio.

Workshop - www.theworkshop.com.au
UMFM - www.umfm.net

Sustain · Post by **Sustain** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 11:39 pm

farkin nice work fellas

will be sure to check this

quick · Post by **quick** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:00 am

sweet....

Lephrenic · Post by **Lephrenic** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:32 am

I'm excited.

Sustain · Post by **Sustain** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:37 am

hey yo heggsy- bring tha china bar!!!!!!

Grey Son · Post by **Grey Son** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 8:32 am

Well good!!
Been looking for something like this, are you going to play bossa nova prog polka??

FoundationStepper · Post by **FoundationStepper** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 9:55 am

lolz

i remember being told off by managment at blackcat for playing that sort of stuff on our sunday gig...

freaked the staff out apparently...

gb · Post by gb » Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:19 am

Fark... this sounds wicked.

Have just been putting the finishing touches on a 3/4 track this week... love switching up the time sigs. every now and then.

mr lob · Post by **mr lob** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:19 am

good work fellas

wicked venue and damn nice promoters

universal sea · Post by **universal sea** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:32 am

Grey Son - bossa nova prog polka with a bit of a spy game twist

FoundationStepper - Your musical catalogue will be quite interesting for something like this, sans freak outs

gb - please send me your 3/4 track! One of these Sundays we're going to attempt a fully 3/4 excursion. sea at umfm dot net, I'd love to hear it.

mr lob - you're too sexy for your shirt

gb · Post by gb » Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:39 am

universal sea wrote:Grey Son - bossa nova prog polka with a bit of a spy game twist

FoundationStepper - Your musical catalogue will be quite interesting for something like this, sans freak outs

gb - please send me your 3/4 track! One of these Sundays we're going to attempt a fully 3/4 excursion. sea at umfm dot net, I'd love to hear it.

mr lob - you're too sexy for your shirt

Cool man, I should be putting the finishing touches on it early next week. I've got another one in 5/4 on the burner at the moment, I'll shoot you a copy of that too if you're keen...

universal sea · Post by **universal sea** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:50 am

sounds good

I've got some industrial mathrock at 5/4 that could blend in with..

shoot anything my way, wad and all

Lephrenic · Post by **Lephrenic** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:25 pm

Just don't get it on me.

It's Off Beat, not Beat Off.

FoundationStepper · Post by **FoundationStepper** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:02 pm

evening or afternoon?

universal sea · Post by **universal sea** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:09 pm

evening... need to confirm start time but other Workshop Sundays begin at 6pm.

Dakini · Post by **Dakini** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:16 pm

Nice work!!! Good to see more gigs like this popping up

TimmyG · Post by **TimmyG** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 10:13 pm

Nice one!

Lephrenic · Post by **Lephrenic** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 3:06 am

Remember, remember the 5th of November...

Cubist · Post by **Cubist** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:44 am

Nice one chaps!

universal sea · Post by **universal sea** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 3:05 pm

Last Sunday we had an excellent rehearsal session. Lephrenic, easysleeper and I rotated, 2-3 tracks each at a time, accustomed ourselves with each other's music catalogues and, for me anyway, figured out the work that needs to be done in the two weeks remaining.

If anybody's interested in a random smattering of our audio, check out this stream at 64kbps, around 3 1/2 hours of excellent toonage. We practiced mixing between styles a lot, which you'll see was quite tricky at times.

www.umfm.net/radio/streams.php?streamid=261

official flyer & poster to come soon.

after rehearsal pic:

universal sea · Post by **universal sea** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 11:12 am

I can't believe it's this coming Sunday.

The posters and flyers are around

This week's gig guide for Workshop, should be a stellar weekend there.

Flash · Post by **Flash** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:41 pm

Awsome i might check this out!
been listening to a lot of downtempo recently and am really loving it.

universal sea · Post by **universal sea** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:45 pm

Downtempo is great.

Here are a couple of excellent internet radio stations that play downtempo, IDM stuff, etc.

Limbik Frequencies - http://www.umfm.net/radio/stations.php?stationid=113

Buzzoutroom - http://www.umfm.net/radio/stations.php? ... uzzoutroom

Straight up downtempo and breaks - Voodoo Gospels - http://www.umfm.net/radio/stations.php?stationid=143

And for the super glitch lovers - Cliqhop - http://www.umfm.net/radio/stations.php?stationid=43

Grey Son · Post by **Grey Son** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:46 pm

Glitch all the way baby, ill be there for sure....

Bring on the BROTHERHOOD OF THE DRILL he he

universal sea · Post by **universal sea** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 8:13 pm

GB - your 3/4 track is incredible and a prime example of why I think 3/4 and those sorts of time signatures have so much potential in their own right... it's jazzy, a clever drum & bass percussive approach, has a special swingy groove because of the timing. It's great.

It's on my playlist Sunday for sure, and beyond. Top class.

Grey Son · Post by **Grey Son** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 8:51 pm

universal sea wrote:GB - your 3/4 track is incredible and a prime example of why I think 3/4 and those sorts of time signatures have so much potential in their own right... it's jazzy, a clever drum & bass percussive approach, has a special swingy groove because of the timing. It's great.

It's on my playlist Sunday for sure, and beyond. Top class.

Clip..........??????????

gb · Post by gb » Tue Oct 31, 2006 9:53 am

Cheers Sea, glad you liked it. You've got me digging through some of my older stuff at the moment to find any others I've got that don't "fit the grid" so to speak... I'll keep you posted.

Grey Son - I'll try and get something up onto myspace or something, I'm a bit lazy in that regard...

universal sea · Post by **universal sea** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 2:22 am

a couple of days away. we have a need for a couple of midgets... we will be setting fire to you temporarily. Drinks will be on the house, though most will be dealing with your fire.

In any event, please reach out to Off Beat staff with your qualifications, the main one being you must be small.

This is in lieu of fireworks, upon which city council frowns grimly.

Thank you for your attention.

universal sea · Post by **universal sea** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 2:23 am

gb - I just blended your track in with some of the other tracks in my little black book, and it impressed again. You're going to live a long life and enjoy the splendours of kingdom come.

gb · Post by gb » Thu Nov 02, 2006 11:39 am

Excellent. Then it's all going to plan....

What time are you kicking off on Sunday? Could be a bit of a session I think - 4 day weekend!!

universal sea · Post by **universal sea** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 11:52 am

I'll be there from 4 or so, we'll be kicking off at 5 with an hour Sea warm up set, we rotate an hour-plus each through to the end.

I'm not going on a bender this weekend so Sunday will be my big night out.

Lephrenic · Post by **Lephrenic** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 2:31 pm

kcor s'teL

Dakini · Post by **Dakini** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 10:54 pm

Good luck with this guys, afraid I'll be out of town for a gig (as per usual)...hope to make it to the next one. Keep me in the loop!

universal sea · Post by **universal sea** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 11:05 pm

For sure... rumour has it December 3rd has some nutty, surreal kinds of non-musical things planned to complement it.

Have a most excellent gig, loop it up.

Lephrenic · Post by **Lephrenic** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 2:33 am

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universal sea · Post by **universal sea** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 3:51 pm

The first ever Off Beat weekend has begun in style, kicking off with an Anytime that led a small crew through the wonders of Mai Tai (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED) and China Bar. Thanks to Elky and Troopz for taking care of me and making this weekend memorable already.

I'm psyched... tomorrow is approaching, I need a bit of getting my choonage together, which Special Hegg will assist with. Off Beat is close.

Post by **huge** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 4:38 pm

universal sea wrote:If anybody's interested in a random smattering of our audio, check out this stream at 64kbps, around 3 1/2 hours of excellent toonage. We practiced mixing between styles a lot, which you'll see was quite tricky at times.

www.umfm.net/radio/streams.php?streamid=261

man i love that mum tune.

this sounds rad fellas. after a little downbeat session this morning with the heggster im excited to hear what you guys can pull out.

Lephrenic · Post by **Lephrenic** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 1:06 am

Thanks everyone for coming down, I had an awesome and a great way to begin the monthly Off Beat residency. Aside from the slapper who kept requesting Billy Idol, there seemed to be a real vibe in the place and an appreciation for diverse sounds. I hope all the gigs are this much fun.

universal sea · Post by **universal sea** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 1:25 am

It was solid... thanks to everybody who came down, particularly the sizeable Melbourne Beats contingent. I could have been more social with you lot. Well done to Griff for showing up and sticking around.

Also I repeat the disclaimer - I am not a DJ! I swung it by the seat of my pants. The recording will sound fine but there is a universe of room for improvement.

Special thanks to Lephrenic and Easysleeper who played majestic sets, and to the excellent Workshop crew.

Next one is December 3rd and it will be more than just the music... off beat theatre is a component in the works to complement it all.

Well done everybody.

Post by **fooishbar** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 1:34 am

sounds fantastic, guys. big ups. i'll check it when i'm next around.

gb · Post by gb » Mon Nov 06, 2006 3:10 pm

universal sea wrote:It was solid... thanks to everybody who came down, particularly the sizeable Melbourne Beats contingent. I could have been more social with you lot. Well done to Griff for showing up and sticking around.

Also I repeat the disclaimer - I am not a DJ! I swung it by the seat of my pants. The recording will sound fine but there is a universe of room for improvement.

Special thanks to Lephrenic and Easysleeper who played majestic sets, and to the excellent Workshop crew.

Next one is December 3rd and it will be more than just the music... off beat theatre is a component in the works to complement it all.

Well done everybody.

Nice work people! Had an awesome night! Don't worry about your DJ skills mate, your track selection made up for any shortfallings!!

Let me know whem you want to run over some ideas for this live project you were talking about - hell keen!