Episode 60, Some Assembly Required

Episode 60, Some Assembly Required

01 Dsico - “Just mix f***ing anything”
02 Brian Eno/David Byrne - “Mea culpa”
03 Otomo Yoshihide - “Virus 5”
04 The Tape-beatles - “Architectural requirements”
05 John Oswald - “It's a Beautiful Day (The B-Day Arrangement)”
06 Sawako - “Super star”
07 Project Data Control - “Know yr. Doses”
08 T. Hecker - “Introduceing Carl Cox”
09 John Oswald - “Open
10 John Oswald - “Urge”
11 John Oswald - “Manifold”
12 John Oswald - “Blur”
13 John Oswald - “Zoom”
14 John Oswald - “Cyfer”
15 John Oswald - “Compact”
16 John Oswald - “Worse”
17 John Oswald - “Mad Mod”
18 John Oswald - “Temperature”
19 John Oswald - “Massive”
20 John Oswald - “Velocity”


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Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas, from Some Assembly Required!

I hope to have a new SAR Q&A to upload in just a little while, so stay tuned. In the meantime, I hope you'll enjoy this week's (Christmas themed) episode, originally broadcast in Minneapolis exactly two years ago. I'm uploading it a week early, so that our syndicating stations will have access to it in time to air before Christmas...

I started the podcast of this program almost two years ago now (it has been on the air since 1999), and the first thing I uploaded was a special mix of Christmas-themed sample based music and audio art. The mix was very popular, which was really encouraging as I began to podcast regular episodes a week later. The episode I'm uploading this week is the December, 2005 radio show I put together using the same playlist as the Christmas mix I'd produced for that first podcast....

It's been a great couple of years online - stay tuned for a new Q&A and in the new year, a linkable list of all the nearly 100 Q&A's which have been uploaded over the past two years!

Happy Holidays, and thanks for listening,
Jon Nelson

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Episode 129, Some Assembly Required

Episode 129, Some Assembly Required (Christmas Theme) 01 DJ John – “The Christmas massacre of Charlie Brown” 02 John Oswald – “White” 03 Corporal Blossom – “The Christmas song (chestnuts)” 04 Corporal Blossom – “Little drummer boy” 05 Escape Mechanism – “Elf song” 06 Dummy Run – “Jolly holiday” 07 The Evolution Control Committee - “The Christmas wrong” 08 No-L – “Have yourself a merry little Christmas” 09 Cassetteboy - “XFM Christmas cut up” 10 Diffusion – “dnbchristmas” 11 Lovecraft Technologies – “Frosty the snowman” 12 Poj Masta – “Santar Klaws” 13 Mr. Fab and The RIAA – “Santa's acid hawaiian space disco” 14 Corporal Blossom – “White Christmas” Use this address, for your pod software: http://feeds.feedburner.com/some-assembly-required/JSpD

Wax Tailor

Wax Tailor

Wax Tailor is French turntablist Jean Christophe Le Saout. He started his musical career in the nineties, as part of the group "La Formule" and started working solo, as Wax Tailor, in 2001. He currently has two full length album's available. His debut release, Tales of the Forgotten Melodies, came out in 2005, and was followed by 2007's Hope & Sorrow.

He often works with guest musicians and vocalists. Live, Le Saout mans the turntables with help from cello player Marina Quaisse, singer Charlotte Savary and others. Madwreck & Mattic (The Others), FP & Green T (A State of mind) have been known to join the lineup as well. For more information, check out his website and myspace page.

Without further ado, here's the SAR Q&A with Wax Tailor...

*Name: Wax Tailor

*Are there any additional names used to describe this project: No

*Do you use a pseudonym? Wax Tailor is the pseudonym.

*Members: Wax Tailor is my solo project which features guest vocalists or musician. On the last album, I had the pleasure to work with Ursula Rucker, Sharon Jones or Charlotte Savary to name but a few. Then there's the Wax Tailor as a live show, which is more of a band because I tour with Charlotte Savary (Vocals), Marina Quaisse (Cello) and Marine Thibault (Flute).

*Founding Member: Jean Christophe Le Saout (Keyboards, Scratches & Sample)

*Tape manipulations, digital deconstructions or turntable creations: I would just talk about a wax tailor. Of the three, tape manipulations might be the most appropriate, although it is restrictive because my influences often come from Movie dialogues I like.

*Is there a story behind your name? I began to produce tracks with a sampler in the early 90’s, sampling some vinyls. I was building instrumentals around lyrics, so for me it was kind of costumes & I felt as a wax tailor.

*Location: Paris, France

*Original Location: Vernon, France

*What is your creative/artistic background: I was an MC/producer/manager in a French rap band called La Formule which had some measure of success in the early 90's.

*History: 5 years now for this project.

*Born: I was born in 1975 in Vernon.

*Motivations: I never ask myself this question. Music is something natural & necessary in my life.

*Philosophy: I don’t know if it’s a philosophy, but there’s the Hip-Hop culture that is the foundation to all I do. In a way you could say that I am trying to expand Hip-Hop's boundaries. It feels to me that previously Hip-Hop was a broader musical genre, and that it got defined in a very restrictive way. I'm hoping to give people outside of Hip-Hop a new perspective on this movement.

*How would you like to be remembered: As a music maker & lover.

*Web address:
www.waxtailor.com
www.myspace.com/waxtailor

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Episode 195, Some Assembly Required

Episode 195, Some Assembly Required

01 Z-Trip – “Rockstar II”
02 Wobbly – “Stillupsample birds”
03 Go Home Productions - “Ray of gob”
04 Public Works – “Mortal mind”
05 DJ Nikoless - “DJing for dummies”
06 Wax Tailor – “Sometimes”
07 Go Home Productions – “Kelly's Lazy Papa”
08 DJ Maniphest Featuring Mr. Thing – “U.T.A. : 2”
09 dj soft – “yeahyeahyeahyeahyeah”
10 Jeffrey Sconce – “Cheap sentiment”
11 DJ Happee – “Last Night I Ruled The World”
12 Secret Mommy – “The Drink”
13 Cassetteboy – “Krylon”
14 Orchid Spangiafora – “Gulf”
15 Divide and Kreate – “It's a fine holiday”


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