music; writing, performing, recording, listening, dancing. techno innit. music that sounds like fridges at 4am and other drones. the guardian on saturdays. the 3% of Caipirinhas that are well made. Stolichnaya. Japanese noodle dishes. Colonsay Lamb. Channel 4 News and the spot-the-PC-presenter-combination game. anything made by Nintendo. The Secret of Monkey Island 1+2. Insulting people's mums. Walking. Cities, and the hidden bits of them. the 3% of comics that arent geeky crap or wannabe-highbrow pseudo literary bollocks. bits of broken kit. max/msp, audiomulch, reaktor, roland sh101, nanoloop. Private Eye. Cats. the 3% of people that aren't total pricks. altered conciousness. The Chaos Engine. Disinformation books. Rave. British cheese. Brunettes and redheads. Being elitist. Stupid jokes. Francis Bacon. The Wife. More cats. BBC Micro. The Olympia Press. Farmers Manual and that ilk of weird broken looking graphics. Ghouls and Ghosts. Clever people. Being misanthropic. Independent record labels who dont kowtow to distributors. Clubs that are wee tiny cellars with a single red light and huge fuck-off speakers. Being depressed. Bubble Bobble. Cables and wires. Being untidy. Being absentminded. Second hand bookshops. Second hand record shops.
Music
Autechre, Sutekh, Hrvatski, To Rococo Rot, SL2, Carl Craig, Zoviet France, Fennesz, Stepan Mathieu, Surgeon, Basic Channel, Herbert, Steve Reich, Oliver Ho, Ekkehard Ehlers, Philip Glass, Stewart S Walker, Mark Broom, La Monte Young, Boards Of Canada, Modeselektor, Thomas Brinkmann, 2 Bad Mice, Terry Riley, Labradford, Pita, Orphax, Boom Bip, Tortoise, Sixtoo, Daigoro, Izu, Coil, Nurse With Wound, Stillupsteypa, Mokira, James Ruskin, Ultramagnetic MCs, Pita, Pan Sonic, Erstlaub, The first Prodigy album, Tersh Jetterax, Shitmat, Joe Gibbs, Weatherall, Noize Creator, irr.app.(ext), Deadbeat, Charlemagne Palestine, Francicso Lopez, Akira Rabelais, Mogwai, Stars of The Lid, Herbert, Kero, Scorn, Photek, Eno, Pimmon, Thomas Koner, Monolake, Jim O'Rourke, Sleeparchive, The Bug, Mika Vanio, LFO, Speedy J, Richard Devine, Corduan, Oren Ambarchi, Tim Hecker, Aoki Takamasa, Wolf Eyes, Sleeparchive, Public Enemy, Oscar Fucking Mulero, Tim Hecker, Prince Far I, Joy Division, other stuff.
Movies
Stalker, Lost Highway, The Man With Two Brains, Man Bites Dog, Mulholland Drive, Akira, Salome's Last Dance, Oldboy, Battle Royale, Zatoichi, Blue Velvet, Naked, Gozu, Wonderland (the Michael Winterbottom one not the Val Kilmer one), Croupier, Tzameti, Fire Walk With Me, Amadeus, Intacto, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Inland Empire, other stuff.
Television
Twin Peaks, Seinfeld, Lars Von Trier's The Kingdom, Brass Eye, MPD Psycho, Jam, The Thick Of It.
Books
V, American Psycho, Foucault's Pendulum, From Hell, A Scanner Darkly, The Manual - How To Have A Number One The Easy Way, The Crying Of Lot 49, Valis, Rapid Eye 1, 2 and 3, Cities of the Red Night, The Invisibles, If On A Winters Night A Traveller..., Blindness, The Western Lands, Infinite Jest, Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World, Book of Lies, the Strange Attractor Journals, other stuff.
Heroes
William Burroughs, Andrew Weatherall, Bill Drummond, Grant Morrison. My dad.
I need to update this a bit more. But I havent.
Best bet straight away is to leave here and go to http://ruaridh.marciablaine.com , its updated all the time and has free downloads etc.
Im Ruaridh, I live near Glasgow, I run a cafe and do musical stuff. Links to some dj mixes, tracks etc below.
New updated website at http://ruaridh.marciablaine.com featuring Max patches, lots of mixes to download, live sets, press archive and links to buy records online.
I'm a musician. I'm in a group called the Marcia Blaine School For Girls (http://marciablaine.com, or for full News Corp soul-selling action http://www.myspace.com/marciablaineindustries) who have released some records here and there. A couple of EPs, a curated compilation, some spilt singles. there was an album out a few months ago - reviews and press below or on the above Marcia sites. I also record solo as The Village Orchestra - ive released an album under that name which people seemed to like quite a bit - and with collaborators as Accrual (one lathe cut 7" and two cd-r albums). Oh and sometimes as Rose and Sandy as well. (a big sprawling pretentious dvd release one day soon).
Out Now:
The Marcia Blaine School For Girls - Halfway Into The Woods cd album (Highpoint Lowlife)
The Village Orchestra - Et In Arcadia Ego (Highpoint Lowlife)
Accrual - Cheophiori cdr album (Diesel Combustible)
Accrual - Kirkville Blue cdr album (Unlabel)
Coming Soon:
TVO - The Dark Is Rising 12"/cd-r album (Stuff Records) (out Spring 07)
The Village Orchestra and Friends - I Can Hear The Sirens Singing Again cd-r (Highpoint Lowlife)
The Village Orchestra/Konxompax split 12" (Highpoint Lowlife)
Rose and Sandy - Mapping Closure dvd video/album (Highpoint Lowlife) (somewhere in the dim future)
textura.org rated Et In Arcadia Ego their number 8 album of the year for 2005, as well as our 'Some Paths...' compilation their number 1 compilation for the year.
Uk Rock magazine 'Rock Sound' said this... “Should Ridley Scott ever wish to rework his visionary sci-fi picture, Blade Runner, he need look no further than Glasgow-based Ruardih Law to score the flight of his cameras over futuristic skylines. As the Village Orchestra, Law has crafted a debut varied in hue and texturally rich, where sound transcends invisible waves to send one spiralling into their imagination’s deepest recesses. It’s perfect silver screen fodder, it’s glitch-afflicted tangents a thoroughly modern update on Vangelis, et al. Technically accomplished but absolutely organic in its song-to-song sequencing. ‘Et in Arcadia Ego’ is a triumph of bedroom experimentation over big-budget orchestration, and the wonderful melancholy of ‘Many Rooms In My Fathers House’ and ‘Sunken’ is worthy of any directors investigation, immediately. Cue the final fade: the credits scroll, the audience leave, their dumbfounded silence defeaning: Law should afford himself a deserved bow.” 8/10
and lastly heres one from UK hiphop magazine (??) Undercover
Et In Arcadia Ego
(Highpoint Lowlife Records)
9/10
"While a certain Scottish duo has been stealing the headlines in the
electronica sections of all the most knowledgeable publications, fellow Scot
Ruaridh Law, in his Village Orchestra guise, has released one of the albums
of the year. As Boards Of Canada have moved towards a more pastoral sound,
it is refreshing to hear that Law’s bucolic offering remains firmly anchored
in electronica. One of the key aspects to the success of Et In Arcadia Ego
is the sheer scale of the sound. Where too many electronic artists are
afraid to fill the space between their listener’s ears, Law is keen to pack
it full. Law is at his best when creating an all-immersing whirligig of
electronic sound, as in the truly remarkable Jacob/Bad Hand At Cards v2, a
glorious electronic carousel with a curious melody at its epicentre that
sounds remarkably like a snippet of Wicked Game by Chris Isaac - but in a
good way. Put together with some crashing beats and marvellous chopped up
vocals, it is a thing of intense beauty. It’s difficult to pick out the best
tracks, as there is something great in each one. However, it is impossible
to ignore the magnificent, jubilant All The Little Lights Going Out, which
has everything from strings, a gloriously uplifting beat and a plaintive
vocal hidden far away to a myriad of gentle cracks, whistles and twinkles.
In short, if this doesn’t make you feel good, then nothing will. It must be
tiresome indeed for any electronica act coming out of Scotland to be
constantly compared to Boards Of Canada. With such a strong scene developing
north of the border, it is time that other artists came out from beneath
their shadow. Awesome - and a sign of great things to come."
Helllloooooooo!!!!Hope your ok!!!we have few special upitup events coming up! First Tempo(25thmay).Join us in the biggest electronic jam in the NorthWest!!! At Fact(Freeee)from 3 till 6 ....Then afterparty at mellomello for the Uperitive!!!Come down for food,wine and lovely music!!!
And The SPECIAL UPITUP Birthday!!! At the lemon lounge(28thmay),the co-founders of upitup all rejoin in liverpool!!!
Charles Dickens began pasting labels on blaking pots. The tragedy of his first love penetrated the depths of his soul, and converted him into one of the world's truly great authors. That tragedy produced, first, David Copperfield, then a succession of other works that made this a richer and better world for all who read his books. Dissappointment over love affairs, generally has the effect of driving men to drink, and women to ruin; and this because most people never never learn the art of transmuting their strongest emotions into dreams of a constructive nature.
"Sensible and oniric electronic, this new reference of Medusa. A beautiful and deep mental travel to the purest Warp style. A reference for re-listen and discover new sounds each time.Lots of respects for Aideem and Medusa"
This Saturday our big homie Dorian Concept is coming back to show us the best live set you will ever see..check the video below if you doubt! Saturday 8 - 12 @ The Ivy
