Memories of Miss Memory

I have dealt with my fair share of sound engineers over the years but you sir, take the cake.

It was clear from the outset that you were new at the job, or maybe you were just pre-occupied with something else when you were setting up. During sound check, disappearing from a desk while leaving faders up is not the cleverest thing to do. Maybe your employer hasn’t seen you working yet, or maybe you forgot your lessons from Sound Engineering School. Even though we had a full hour sound check you decided not to check the levels properly so that when the house was full, the mics were either feeding back or distorting and the instrument channels weren’t up. Did you forget to mark your channels clearly?

But worst of all Mr Sound Engineer, when the concerned promoter of the night comes up to you to ask you to check the front of house speakers during a DJ set, I fail to see why you would threaten to have them forcibly removed. It was a sincere enough question asked by not only the promoter, but other keen beat heads in the room.

The Civic Underground Sound System is one of the best in Sydney, but you made it sound terrible. If I ever have the misfortune of seeing you again when I am the promoter of an event at the Civic, or any other event I will ask for you to be taken off the job. It’s people like you that ruin people’s hearing and make bad vibes for an otherwise amazing event.

I will be taking up the matter with your employer.

Yours sincerely,

Sofie

Just a heads up that I am DJ’ing down at Flunked this Thursday night, hopefully I will get to play all those fab new tracks I was saving up for last Friday night, but was having waay too much fun on the dancefloor to get up and play.

Where: UTS Loft Bar
When: Thursday 18th June
Howmuchie: Free-ie
When: 8pm

Its my delight and pleasure to be able to announce that Blu and Exile are touring around Australia’s east coast as part of the Red Bull Music Academy festivities over the coming weeks. If you are in Melbourne, Adelaide or Brisbane and are a music maker or music lover, you will also be able to hear them speak about their work as well as check out their show.

Check here for more info on their Red Bull Music Academy tour dates.

We also sorted a Sydney show with Blu and Exile for Space is the Place - check here for info on the Sydney show.

These two LA lads set about making a name for themselves in the underground hip hop world, but now the world is definitely starting to sit up and take notice.

If you are like me and have a penchant for the more instrumental hip hop sound, I would give Exile’s brand new album “Radio” a listen. Released on Plug Research, the entire album is made up of cut ups from radio broadcasts.

Exile is not only a cutup wizkid but an MPC virtuoso. Check out his skills on this short clip from the Red Bull Music Academy lecture in Barcelona 2008