The Touch Radio podcast has taken a break from its pure field-recording mode for a proper live performance, and what a performance it is. Recorded last December at the National Pantheon in Lisbon, Portugal, “Book of Hours” (MP3) captures the intensely dense waves of sound resulting from a combination of bells, bowls, and glasses rung and struck, echoing in the depths of the Pantheon’s massive dome, and further expanded courtesy of what Touch describes as “space multi-channel diffusion and real-time processing.”
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The performers are Paulo Raposo on said processing, Carlos Santos on “glass and bell,” and João Silva on “crystal bowl.” More details and additional photos at touchradio.org.uk.
One of the more wide-ranging production figures in the outer regions of hip-hop is Odd Nosdam, and DJ Pain takes a little tour through Nosdam’s back catalog on a recent, nearly hour-long mix, The Odd Side of the Sun. The DJ mixes at a quick rate (see below), but never loses site of Nosdam’s deep-seated downtempo mode. Nosdam favors sublimated noise, strummed guitar, sci-fi synths, and understated beats, all of which are in abundance here.
