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  • Les Wilkins

  • 56 / Male
  • Llangurig, Wales, UK
  • Last Login: 7/14/2009

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Interests

  • General

    Music, Trees and other Plants, Music, Insects, Music, Eco, Music, Organic Gardening, Music, Motorcycles, Reading, and last but not least - Music.
  • Music

    Labels : OnU Sound, Universal Egg, Deep Root, Scoops, Meteosound, ~scape, Dubhead, Select Cuts, Echo Beach, Collision, Third Eye, Ninja Tune, Warp, Chocolate Fireguard, Nation, Wrasse, Tanty, Blood & Fire, Pressure Sounds, Barbarity, Rhythm & Sound, Burial Mix, ROIR, Trimsound, Mindtours, Bathysphere, Harthouse, Zip Dog, Stay Up Forever, Smitten, Cluster, 4 x 4, Edge, !K7, Fat!, Whole 9 Yards, Against The Grain, Tru Thoughts, Catskills, Soul Jazz, Spectral, Em:t, R&S, Compost, Pork, Cup of Tea, Skint, Crai, Ankst, Domino, Crammed, Kompakt, Shitkatapult, Finger Lickin', Ralph, Crammed, Honest Jon's, Stoned Asia, Syllart, Mr. Bongo, Deeplay, Six Degrees, Quatermass, Jalapeno, Outcaste, Quannum, Ubiquity, Hammerbass, Interchill, Boomshackalacka, Hard Hands, Rising High, Dragonfly, LSD, Guerilla, Planet Dog

    Bands / Artists : Adrian Sherwood, African Head Charge, Aiwa, Ali Farke Toure, Alice Coltrane, Alice Russell, Alpha & Omega, Amon Tobin, Another Fine Day, Anrhefn, Antibalas, Aphex Twin, Aretha Franklin, Augustus Pablo, Baaba Maal, Baghdaddies, Baka Beyond, Batucada Sound Machine, Beach Boys, Beat, Beatles, Bill Laswell, Bim Sherman, Björk, Black Star Liner, Black Uhuru, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bongwater, Bootsy Collins, Boozoo Bajou, Breakestra, Brian Eno, Burial, Burnt Friedman, Bus, Bush Chemists, Butthole Surfers, Cab Calloway, Calexico, Can, Captain Beefheart, Celtica, Christy Moore, Cinematic Orchestra, CJ Bolland, Clash, Coil, Coldcut, Congos, Cramps, Cream, Curtis Mayfield, Daara J, Danny Thompson, Dave Angel, Dave Clarke, D'Booga, Dinosaur Jr., Disciples, Divine, Dollar Brand, Donovan, Doors, Doug Wimbish, Dr. Feelgood, Dreadzone, Dub Syndicate, Dubdadda, Dubmerge, Dubrovnik, Dusty Springfield, Eat Static, Echo & The Bunnymen, Einsturzende Neubaten, Electric Groove Temple, Emperor Sly, Extremadura, Family, Fela Kuti, Femi Kuti, Fenin, Ferdinand Fehlers, Fila Brazilia, Fingathing, Fleetwood Mac (pre-Californiacation only!), Foetus, Four Tet, Four Tops, Free, Front 242, Future Loop Foundation, Gallon Drunk, Gary Clail, Gasper Lawal, Gavin Bryars, George Clinton, Gil Scott Heron, Ginger Baker, Glen Campbell, Goldie Lookin' Chain, Gong, Gorillaz, Graham Bond, Groove Corporation, Gun Club, Half Man Half Biscuit, Happy Mondays, Hazah, Headmix, Hen Wlad Fy Mamau, Henry & Louis, Hexstatic, Holger Czukay, Homesick James, Howlin' Wolf, Husker Dü, Ian Dury, Iggy Pop, Isaac Hayes, Ivor Cutler, Jackie Leven, Jackie O Motherfucker, Jah Wobble, James Brown, James Chance / White, Jamie Lidell, Jeb Loy Nichols, Jeff Mills, Jesus & Mary Chain, Jimi Hendrix, John Adams, John Betjeman, John Coltrane, John Cooper Clarke, John Lee Hooker, John Mayall, Joi, Joseph Arthur, Joy Division, Julian Cope, Juno Reactor, Kamel Nitrate, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kate Bush, Kava Kava, Keith LeBlanc, Kevin Ayers, Khaled, Killing Joke, King Tubby, Kit Clayton, KLF, Kraftwerk, Leadbelly, Lee Perry, Leftfield, Leonard Cohen, Lightning Hopkins, Llwybr Llaethog, Loop, Loop Guru, Love, Lovegrocer, LTJ Bukem, Luke Slater, Lydia Lunch, Mandragora, Manu Dibango, Marianne Faithfull, Mark Iration / Iration Steppas, Mark Stewart, Massive Attack, Michael Franti, Miles Davis, Misty In Roots, Molara, Momo, Mr. Scruff, Muddy Waters, Mulatu Astatke, Muslimgauze, My Bloody Valentine, Necks, Negativland, Neil Young, Nick Cave, Nightmares On Wax, Nitin Sawhney, Noiseshaper, Nucleus Roots, Nuru Kane, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Oojami, Orb, Oumou Sangare, P.I.L., P.J.Harvey, Pablo Moses, Palookaville, Parliament / Funkadelic, Patti Smith, Paul Robeson, Paul Weller, Penguin Café Orchestra, Pere Ubu / David Thomas, Peter Green, Pharaoh Sanders, Philip Glass, Pogues, Pole, Pop Group, Portishead, Powersteppers, Primal Scream, Prince Far I, Psychedelic Furs, Quantic, Rachid Taha, Raincoats, Ramones, Ravi Shankar, Renaldo & The Loaf, Residents, Robert Johnson, Robert Wyatt, Rolling Stones (before mid-70s), Roots Manuva, Rootsman, Ruts, Salif Keita, Scanlan, Scott Walker, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Senor Coconut, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Sex Pistols, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, Shri, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Skalpel, Skatalites, Skinny Puppy, Slits, Sly Stone, Smoke Like A Fish, Snakefinger, Snowboy, Sonic Youth, Sounds From The Ground, Southside Johnny, Spacemen 3, Specials, Spencer Davis Group, Spiritualized, Squarepusher, Stella Chiweshe, Stereo MCs, Steve Hillage, Steve Reich, Stone Roses, Stranglers, Subtronix, Sugarcubes (no you silly person - this is NOT the same band as the Sugababes...you know who you are), Suicide, Suns of Arqa, Sven Vath, Swami, Swans, Sylvester, Talvin Singh, Teardrop Explodes, Ted Hawkins, Television, Test Dept., Thin Lizzy, Thomas Mapfumo, Tikiman, Tim Buckley, Tinariwen, Tom Ellis, Tom Jones, Tom Waits, Tony Allen, Toumani Diabate, Traffic, Transglobal Underground, Trouble Funk, Tuxedomoon, Twilight Circus, Two Lone Swordsmen, Underworld, Up Bustle & Out, Van Morrison, Velvet Underground, Vibronics, Viv Stanshall / Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Wah!Heat!, Waterboys, Who, Woody Guthrie, Working Week, Yargo, Yello, Zion Train…

    DJs : Dave Dove, Den, Gini, Extremadura, Colin Cod / Pantonal, Fflyffi Lyf Bybl, Tom Ellis, Eugene, Perch, Colin Allcars, Andy Weatherall, Dave Clarke, Pathaan, DJ Derek, Daniel Meteo, Rennie Pilgrem, Skratchy, Mr. Scruff, Freestylers, John Peel, Pablo 'Mangotrasher', Andy Kershaw, Kerfuffle, Smiler, John The Boptist, Nelson Dilation, Monkey Pilot, Michael Dog, Jeff Mills, Dave Angel, Sven Vath, Steve Rachmad, LTJ Bukem, Village Disco, Chris Liberator.
  • Movies

    I watch very few - old favourites include Life of Brian, Blues Brothers, Midnight Cowboy, Down By Law, Woodstock, Midnight Cowboy, Don't Look Now, Clockwork Orange, Airplane, Brazil, David Lynch films, Alien, Chicken Run, Spinal Tap, Beavis & Butthead Do America, Curse of The Wererabbit, South Park - The Movie, Eraserhead, Vanishing Point, Paris Texas, all Wallace & Gromit, Woodstock, Fantastic Planet, 1984, Italian Job (original only), Reefer Madness, Nosferatu, .
  • Television

    Wildlife and Nature documentaries, Beavis & Butthead, South Park, King of The Hill, CSI, Have I Got News For You, Ripping Yarns, documentaries on Wales - its Wildlife, Culture, Landscape and History, Monty Python (I know - yawn!!), 2001, Star Trek, Young Ones, Flowery Twats, New Statesman, Fast Show, Nighty Night, Alan Partridge, League of Gentlemen, The Office, Rob Brydon, Family Guy, Dr. Who
  • Books

    Jack Kerouac, Leonard Cohen, Hunter Thompson, Tom Wolfe, Colin Tudge, Richard Feynman, Richard Dawkins, Harry Crews, David Toop, Greil Marcus, Nick Kent, William Golding, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ken Kesey.

    A lot of 'musicology', natural history, ecology and 'popular science'.
  • Heroes

    Tony Benn, Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Hunter Thompson, William Burroughs, John Peel.

    All those who risk their freedom and lives to try to make the world a fairer place.

Details

  • Status: In a Relationship
  • Here for: Networking
  • Hometown: Llangurig
  • Religion: Atheist
  • Zodiac Sign: Taurus
  • Occupation: DJ / IT Support & Website creation

Networking

Status and Mood

  • Les Wilkins For any of my friends @ Beatherder Festival http://lnk.ms/0jGN7 this weekend - I'm playing in the Yurt Reynolds venue on Lazy Meadow from 11.20pm Saturday; it w
    Mood: optimistic optimistic
    at 5:36 PM Jul 2

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About me:



Reggae Night @ Llanidloes Football Club, 25 April 2009After our first two successful nights - plenty of people, great atmosphere! - we are having another night of reggae in Llanidloes, this time with the four resident DJs. We can now carry on until 1.30am instead of the midnight finish which we had for the first 2 nights - so even better value!


Boycott Israel - if you are as sickened as I am by Israel's despicable treatment of the Palestinian people, please check out the following :

Boycott Israel

Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel




I've cut back a lot on my DJing since 2007, but still enjoy the occasional gig - details of what's upcoming are on my Earthdoctor - Music MySpace site.

Also now making my own music - see Earthdoctor - Music MySpace site.

Formerly part of Dr. Funkenstein (with DJs Gini and Den, with whom I still regularly play), I play throughout the UK, with a range of styles - predominantly dub, global beats, old & new funky beats, funky electro / techno and an eclectic selection of chilled-out tracks.


  • I co-founded the Dragon Collective, a voluntary organisation based in mid-Wales, with contemporary 'pop' artist Brian Jones in 1996. We are interested in all aspects of the music scene and related Visual & Performance Arts, predominantly, though not exclusively, in Wales.

  • Festival sets - resident DJ in Greenpeace's Cafe Tango at Glastonbury for several years, and also in the Gaiaspace Dome, Glade Stage and Dance Tent backstage; Artists / Crew Bar and Hospitality Tent at WOMAD; Shambala (3 years); The Workhouse; Small Nations; Timeless; Godiva; Llangollen Fringe (3 years); Sheep Music; Megadog Beach Festival; Eclipse Festival on The Lizard.

  • Club sets - Return To The Source; Pendragon; Global Head Funk (@ Herbal); JuJu and Sundaze in Sheffield; Disoriental in Bradford; Band On The Wall in Manchester; Toucan Club, Clwb Ifor Bach, The Point and The Coal Exchange in Cardiff; Hendre Hall near Bangor; Thekla and Fiddlers in Bristol and many other venues. I regularly play at underground parties throughout Wales and the Borders.

  • Many nights in Aberystwyth since the early 1990s, at Po Na Na, The Bay, Arts Centre and the Students Union. Promoted dub nights for 2 years in the town.

  • Promoted and DJed at Dragon Collective and Module 8 club nights in Mid and South Wales, featuring such acts as Zion Train, Dreadzone, Momo, Kamel Nitrate, Future Loop Foundation, Emperor Sly, LTJ Bukem, Timeshard, Ozric Tentacles, Mandragora, Eat Static, Dubmerge, The Baghdaddies, Headmix, Elephant Talk, Baka Beyond, Transglobal Underground and Joi.

  • I regularly supported Zion Train for several years on UK club and festival dates, and also played at their last two ‘Bass Odyssey’ nights at The Rocket in London and their stage at Frome Festival. For many years I also did the international club and radio promotion for their label Universal Egg.

  • I have supported many live roots / world music bands such as Transglobal Underground, Oojami, Kamel Nitrate, Headmix, The Baghdaddies, Sansaar, Dr. Didg, Kangaroo Moon, The Rythmites, King Masco, Baka Beyond, Rico Rodriguez, Edward II, Tragik Roundabout, Geno Washington, Big Joe Turner, Santana Mongoley & Les Zaza, Pressgang, Balfa Toujours, La Cucina, Hassan Erraji & Arabesque, Edward II, The Mighty Diamonds and Back To Base.

  • I used to do a monthly global beats / dub / electronica guest spot on Radio Ceredigion (based in Aberystwyth) and have occasional featured mixes on Radio Maldwyn (based in Newtown, Powys). I have had a 90 min. radio show broadcast by Belgrade Yard Sound System in Zagreb and Belgrade.

  • I distribute a fortnightly playlist to all the main UK dance magazines, and my playlist has featured in many magazines.

Who I'd like to meet:

In the interests of maintaining and organic, wholemeal, non-sexist site, I will say no more!






The FreeRotation Audio-Visual festival is taking place again in 2009 on the weekend of 14 - 16 August, in the same wonderful venue, Baskerville Hall, near Hay on Wye. Many of the favourites from last year will be playing again, plus many new faces too - see the website for details.

The Freerotation Electronic Audio-Visual Festival took place on the weekends of 7-9 September 2007 and 8-10 August 2008, bringing together cutting-edge international electronic musicians and visual artists from many genres, for a weekend long feast of dancing, networking and relaxing. I hosted the chill-out room, Mindtours the dance room, and there was loads of top-quality music in each, both live and DJ - including Move D, Shackleton, DJ Mitch, Steevio & Suzybee, Earthdoctor, Jackmate aka SoulPhiction, Portable / Bodycode, Gaetano Parisio, Sven Weisemann, Move D, Digital Mysticz, John Tree, Reflektor, Lump, Freunde der Famille and Redshape. See the FreeRotation website for the full line-up.

Here's a video by VJ Aero, who took part in the Freerotation weekend. Also check his MySpace<> page.


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Comments

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  • Jul 14 2009 9:20 PM

    Hi Les, thanks for adding The Live Room to your friends and hope we'll meet again someday
    Best wishes
    Ron (ex-Cambria Arts) TLR, Bradford
  • Jul 6 2009 12:48 PM

    Hey Les! It was a bit of an experiment but it really went quite well in the end. None of us had ever worked together before until the day before the performance. You can't imagine how nervous I was, as both of them are seasoned musicians and Yanka Rupnika is a living legend in Bulgaria. Hopefully, this is the first step in a longer term and fruitful collaboration. Bulgarians certainly know how to party! Great crowd :)
  • Jun 29 2009 3:10 PM

    pictish,celtic,Scotland,tribal
  • May 28 2009 1:34 PM

    La basse est massive et battant comme un âne swolen
  • Apr 29 2009 12:02 PM

    mmm I shall have to put that into the google translator I don't personally speak rhubarb!
  • Apr 27 2009 3:28 PM

    really....What did the rubarb say?
  • Apr 17 2009 4:23 PM

    Thanks for being friends! One World - One Heart
  • Mar 23 2009 7:04 PM

    Hi Les , just tought you might want to listen to my recent podcast at :
    http://www.dubrovnik.org.uk/
    I hope you are well.

    M.
  • Mar 23 2009 2:11 PM

    heya les matey tom chant here,, sending you some good vibes from tri valley ,, big respect for ya mate !! cant wait for the launch party in hereford ,, agh yeh if ya need a hand shifting gear at free rotation id be more than happy to help ya out neways what you been upta recently mate?! peace and love
  • Mar 19 2009 11:58 PM

    I see you're having a reggae equinox too! Have a good one- my new reggae alter ego fflyffi dyb bybl is having an outing the same night supporting redstripe
    rastafarai!
    Dx
  • Mar 3 2009 9:36 AM

    Hi Les,

    Sorry I haven't had time to thank you for the cds. Really enjoying them, although I am still using most of my time on working on the house. Finally got my new controller up and running (after squeezing my brains for a month with the usb connection that didn't work properly at all, I have just connected it via midi and it works perfectly, so I will send you a new mix soon. I am also going to keep working on more chilled tunes, and let's see if I'm ready for the summer...

    Love and Light
    Fer
  • Mar 2 2009 11:44 AM

    Welcome aboard the good ship Statik Sound System, hope you like the profile and tracks, we are liking yours, all the best from Bristol, England.
  • Feb 4 2009 9:46 PM

    Welcome in the illegal dub myspace crew !!
    Force for you.

    NagualX.
  • Jan 1 2009 12:57 PM

    happy new year guys !!!!!!!!!!!!

    peace
    steevio n suz
  • Dec 2 2008 6:25 PM

    greetings earthdoctor and cheers for accepting our request.much respect to you.all the best.
  • Nov 16 2008 2:41 PM

    Cheers for the add!

    No Borders South Wales organises against migration controls and fights for freedom of movement for all.
    Keep any eye on our blogposts and bulletins to see how you can help resist the border regime!

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  • Oct 10 2008 12:43 PM

    22.10.08: I-Tal @ Bl.
    Ffestiniog!!
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  • Aug 20 2008 10:57 AM

    Hey earthdoctor, thank you for your comments on the back catalog, much appreacited.


    Cheers
    Chris :)
  • Aug 19 2008 9:04 PM

    Hey Hello Les ;o)

    Good tae see yeah at Freerotion ;o) Hope yer taking easy ;o) One Love
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  • Aug 11 2008 11:06 PM

    thanks les !!!
    love and light
    steevio
  • Aug 3 2008 3:49 PM

    enjoy the glimpse of new anorakism av-project ’no doctor required’


    anorakism: no doctor required from digital donut on Vimeo.

  • Jul 16 2008 10:04 PM

    If we get offered the same next year, you're certainly welcome back with us :D See ya at Free Rotation!