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:: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 ::

Black Swan Closed Again

It's closed again. So this Saturday's gig is cancelled. =[

I may have posted this already but I've created a Save the Black Swan flickr group, to run alongside the facebook group.

Labels: Bristol, Gigs, Gusset, News

:: Dan 20.1.10 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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The legendary Black Swan has been temporarily closed down over Christmas and New Year but it has won the second licensing appeal!

This also means that the next Gusset gig IS BACK ON! Opening hours will be reduced to 3am as of 21 days from the hearing (14.01.10) but that will not affect this gig.

Labels: Bristol, Gigs, Gusset

:: Dan 15.1.10 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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Gusset VJ set for Alt.Vault back room @ the Black Swan, 23.01.10

Labels: Bristol, Flyer, Gigs, Gusset, Visuals, VJ

:: Dan 14.12.09 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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Bit late to mention it. Forgot I hadn't posted about it before.



Live Electronica/Noize/Dub Step/Glitch
@ The Alt Vault
The Junction 8th Nov 2009
Kundama
Gusset
Alexander Thomas
Tim C Holehouse
Includes Free Jam
Free Entry
7-11pm

I'm doing an AV set. Databent photo slideshow. Improvised laptopless audio. And I'm on day three of a killer headache so expect it to sound like the inside of my head.

Labels: Flyers, Gigs

:: Dan 8.11.09 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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New Colston Hall Foyer Opening Night Party
[set times etc on that link]


Tonight: An evening of multi-media events both indoor and outdoor to mark the official opening of the new foyer

Entry free on a first come first served basis - just come along on the night.
No ticket required.

Doors will open at 17:30 and performances will start at 18:15 with African Drummers and Dancers

The event will feature Andy Sheppard' s Saxophone Massive, Adrian Utley's 'Music for Massed Guitars', The Emerald Ensemble, Richard Barnard, Cirque Bijou, Charles Hazlewood, Sheelanagig and more.

An evening of multi-media events both indoor and outdoor to mark the official opening of the new foyer featuring a 200 saxophone massive, a world premiere of a new choral work featuring over 80 voices, the ground-shaking sound of 100 guitars played in unison and, to end the night in style, a gypsy jazz hoopla.



Guess where I'll be drinking afterwork today.

Labels: Bristol, Gigs

:: Dan 18.9.09 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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Video release. This is a quick 10 min version of the 45min Databent UrbEx live set I played at Bash Out at the Black Swan, Bristol on 20th June 2009.

All photographs and image & audio manipulation by Dan Gusset.
Cover image courtesy of Lisa Furness

Source audio: Field recording of metal roof in the sun by Nick Adamson, MC Prof C and MC Doc G from Radio 4, Floreo De Lamas by Guamary, The Collier's Rant by Bob Davenport, Rubik's Cube: 10.56 seconds, Grow Grow Grow by PJ Harvey @ 33RPM, The Training of O, Mothers Talk by Tears For Fears @ 17RPM, White Chalk by PJ Harvey @ 33RPM.

Labels: BashOut, Databent, Film, Gigs, Gusset, Photography, Urban Exploring, Video, WEFT

:: Dan 4.7.09 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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main room: jungle & multi core

the outside agency
[aka dj hidden and eye-d - live bristol debut]

twinhooker & paulie walnuts
[mad dem sound usa: soldiers in the streets tour]

duranduranduran
[cock rock disco, planet mu - live birthday set!]

ely muff
[headfuk/deathchant - live]

boep
[aka schemeboy vs randomoidz - adverse camber]

bashout allstars
[resident badmen]

upstairs: staggering bass abuse

rogue state ft. mc deadman
[r8 recordings - bristol debut]

lief ryan
[growth recordings - bristol debut]

noyeahno
[rag’n’bone]

big d’s dancehall clearout

diode
[aka el kano vs magimix - adverse camber]

davey t
[dissident]

back room: the bashout lectures

dan gusset and friends

dubboy vs beavis inna rootstyle

& more tbc...

sat 20 june 2009
black swan, bristol
10 til 5,
£8 b4 11, £9 after...
tickets: £6 [plus booking fee]




The Bash Out Lectures with Dan Gusset and Friends

Dan Pope (aka Gusset) will be presenting an A/V performance of data bent versions of his urban exploring photos alongside a live drone/glitch soundtrack in room three of Bash Out at the Black Swan, Bristol on Sat 20th June (10pm – 6am).

Data bent images are intentionally corrupted digital images where the files have bits altered, cut around, have channels moved or filtered, and are otherwise bastardised to cause all forms of distortions and bizarre effects. Often the results are disappointing fields of black or images that refuse to open at all but persistence and luck can lead to intriguing results.

Like it's close relative circuit bending, where any electronic sound making device, usually a cheap children's toy, is dismantled and its circuitry randomly rewired, it's something that anyone can try. It may just be noise with occasional recognisable hints of what it once was, but there is a beauty to be found in there either by close study or by allowing it to wash over you.

Among the friends Dan has filled the rest of the line-up with will be a Dub Boy & Beavis - Inna Rootstyle, films from public space hijacker and Occasional Cinema organiser Badoni, and beatless soundscapes from Freq.

Labels: BashOut, Bristol, Databent, Electronica, Film, Flyer, Gigs, Gusset, Photography, Urban Exploring

:: Dan 3.6.09 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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I've decided what I'm doing for my set at the Bashout Lectures (Black Swan, 20th June). I'm presenting data bent versions of my urban exploring photos and providing a live drone soundtrack. I've been inspired by the brilliant stAllio, who I've been following since I found his Mash Smarter Not Harder mash-up.

stAllio's way - databending and glitch art primer, part 1: the wordpad effect



stAllio's way - databending and glitch art primer, part 2: sonification

Labels: Databent, Gigs, Photography

:: Dan 27.5.09 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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I'll be DJing at in Mina Park at sunset before the next Occasional Cinema event on Tuesday 21st April.



Map

Labels: Cinema, Film, Gigs, Gusset

:: Dan 3.4.09 [Arc] [4 comments] ::
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"Alan Titmash at work"

Thanks to everyone who came along to the Boomshank Redemption gig on Saturday. It was my first London gig and I really enjoyed it. It went well and the crowd were great. Thanks too to everyone I caught up with and chatted to, especially Johnny for putting me on the bill (happy birthday btw), Phil and Sigrid for putting me up, Rory, Ameet and Sarah for their great sets, James, it was good to meet you finally, and the dude I met previously at the Wrong gig in Brighton, sorry I've forgotten your name again.

I'm still playing Mixxx DJ sets at the moment since my move to Ubuntu but it's given me a lot of freedom to match the set to the crowd, so this one was heavy on the gabba and breakcore as that's what people were asking for.

When I'm having a good gig I do like to chat a bit over it and this was the first time I used a Mark E. Smith style rant I'd written after some friends lost their jobs recently. I used it over the final tune and ended it abruptly to see what the reaction was. In the sudden silence that followed me pulling the cables I heard two lone voices from the front of the crowd. One said, "thank fuck for that," the other, "that was intense." I take the second one as a compliment, just, but the first tells me I over did it a bit. Useful feedback.


"Sunday morning in a cafe near Paddington Station. The wobby reflection in the bar was a nice analogy of how I was feeling."

Labels: Gigs, Gusset, London

:: Dan 10.3.09 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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London gig this Saturday.





The Boomshank Redemption

Saturday 7th March
8pm-5am

Visions Video Bar
588 Kingsland Rd, London, E8 4AH

£3 before 11pm. £5 after.
No admission after 3am.

Randomoidz – DJ/Live
Winner of both the Bristol and London 2008 Laptop Battles.
His sets merge many different styles and are likely to raise a smile or two, but there are no gimmicks. Randomoidz is on fire! Wicked music to move your feet to.
(Adverse Camber / Ninja Columbo)

El Kano – DJ
Another AdCam boy, El Kano promises bass ragga and noise. He has devastated many soundsystems throughout the country for several years now with a blinding selection of heavy tracks from death metal to jungle via bhangra and dark techno.
(Adverse Camber)

Gusset – Live
The one man Gusset live experience courtesy of Dan P. He's a fundamental part of the Bristol breakcore collective, co-presenting the Goatlab Radio podcast, promoting shows, producing, playing live and has just started a netlabel. Expect oddness!
(Death$ucker)

Wombcorps – DJ
Sarah has been DJing all over the shop lately. Expect only the finest cuts of Jungle-shank and Hardcore-rump.
(Bad Sekta)

Alan Titmash – DJ/Live
The puerile breakcore influence refuses to fade, but Titmash's DJ sets inject a lot more funk and groove into the proceedings.
(Blunt Force Trauma / Structural Damage)

Shredexx – DJ
Fresh dubstep from the past, present and future (white labels!).
(DehdBeatz)

SVO – DJ
Jacking crowdpleasers.

+ MORE (hopefully!)

––Links
Google Map
MySpace Page
MySpace Event
Facebook Event
Randomoidz
El Kano
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http://www.myspace.com/boomshankredemption

Labels: Gigs, Gusset, London

:: Dan 2.3.09 [Arc] [1 comments] ::
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Free books at the Book Barn
Hands off! Some of those are mine. I took boxes full of books in there for them to sell over the years, some not long before it closed. I'm quite annoyed about this. =[

Books' free-for-all in warehouse

People have been invited to help themselves to the books

People in Bristol have been invited to help themselves to free books at a warehouse which were left behind when the owners left the site.

Bookbarn's lease on the premises in Arnos Vale recently expired and when the firm moved out it left behind thousands of books.

Managers of the Paintworks site have invited people to help themselves.

This Bookbarn is in no way connected to the company BookBarn International at Hallatrow in North Somerset.

In no way connected? Except that they were sister stores running on the same account so money you earned in one store could be spent in the other. So I feel like they've given away some of my books. So I went down there on Friday and took goods of equivalent value. Felt better after that.

I also bumped into some squatters I know in there, busty loading book cases into a van. Apparently their fifth day on the job! And I got a gig out of it. I'll be playing another Occasional Cinema film night in Stokes Croft on April Fools Day.

Guardian
Daily Mail *spit*

Labels: Bristol, Gigs, Literature

:: Dan 26.2.09 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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Yay! Blogger problems fixed! Seems Google changed some of the settings and it took a bit of trial and error to work around it. Shouldn't have taken a month but I've had a lot on.

There is a post backlog that will follow in the next few days.

In other news, I have a gig tonight:

Malawi Education Project Fundraiser : Boxcutter / Appleblim / The Gasman / Sunken Foal + MORE!!



I'm on in the bar from 10. Which is in 45 mins, so I better get moving.

Labels: Blogger, Gigs

:: Dan 7.2.09 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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Wed 17th December, Stokes Croft, Bristol



This will be my first proper photo exhibition (ie more than one shot! I've got 56 in there I think) so I'm really excited about this. I'll also be DJing my favourite ominous film scores as well as some of Gusset's lesser heard soundtrack work after Manufactured Landscapes to close the night. Can't wait!

Labels: Bristol, Electronic Music, Gigs, Photography, Urban Decay, Urban Exploring

:: Dan 9.12.08 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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I have had to cancel my appearance at the Oxjam gig tonight due to the technical failure of my laptop. I will be reinstalling my OS when I should be parting for charity, unfortunately.

This is the first time I've ever cancelled a gig and I feel terrible about it.

If you do still go along I'm sorry I'm not there. I have left a box of free CDs at the venue for people who turn up. Please donate to Oxfam if you take one.

Labels: Gigs, Gusset, News

:: Dan 15.11.08 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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Goatlab Radio Show Nov 2008 with 606, Dan Gusset & Martin Freq [tracklisting, download and links]
Direct download [63MB MP3]

As played at the end of the radio show...
Somatic Responces says, "Radiohead have got this online remix comp thing going on.....
We knocked 3 mixes, 2 slow, 1 fast...please take some time to listen and vote and blab about it if you want...."
Mix 1
Mix 2
SR to Blame Mix

The Squarepusher Guardian Music takeover
Live session: Exclusive new track
Complete takeover here

Found in the C8 thread mentioned in the radio show...
Amen Evilution Projekt
"this projekt consists in producin tunes usin only one sample, the infamous amen break, to build each part, rythmics,basslines,scapes,synth-like sounds....evryfkinthang! expect strong sound manipulations creating tracks rangin from downtempo to breakcore thru abstract sounds and scapes...if u r interested in participatin to the proj, contact me and submit your tracks!"

Abelcain: Still Life
Produced by Abelcain for the photography of Rebecca Sadler [page with 45MB zip]

Labels: Gigs, GoatLab, MP3, Radio

:: Dan 14.11.08 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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Goatlab & Freq present:



Dev/Null (Cock Rock Disco / Violent Turd)
Ladyscraper (Wrong Music / Deathchant)
Defazed (1manarmy)
Gusset (Death$ucker / Disco_r.dance)
Phlegm

The Attic, Stokes Croft
Thurs 20th Nov
9 - 2
£5

Thanks to doppelganger for the flyer

Labels: Flyer, Gigs, Gusset

:: Dan 2.11.08 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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Gig tonight at the Attic Bar, Stokes Croft. 9pm 'til 1am, only £3!
The running isn't completely fixed yet but it'll probably be something like:

9 – 9:30	Gusset
9:30 – 10	Demon Cabbage
10 – 10:30	Raxyor
10:30 – 11	Tripledot
11 – 11:30	Hardoff
11:30 – 12:30	Shitmat
12:30 - 1	Parasite

I'll be kicking things off with a zombie music set.

Labels: Freq, Gigs, GoatLab, Gusset, Wrong

:: Dan 9.10.08 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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I've teamed up with Freq and Wrong Music to pull together this fairly last minute gig so Hardoff would have a Bristol gig while he's in the UK in a couple of weeks.


[Flyer by doppelganger]

Freq + Wrong Music + Goatlab presents:

Shitmat (Planet Mu / Wrong Music)
Hardoff (V/Vm Test / Digital Vomit)
Gusset (Death$ucker / Disco_r.dance)
Parasite (Peace Off / Clash)
Demon Cabbage (Wrong Music)
& Tripledot

The Attic, Stokes Croft, Thursday 9th Oct
Time: 9 - 1
£3

Other Gusset gigs coming up include at Oxfam benefit at The Farm in St Werburghs on Sat 15th Nov, Wrong Music at the Black Swan ("Wrong at the Swan"?) on Sat 29th Nov and maybe another Freq colab with Dev/Null at the Attic on Thurs 20th Nov (TBC). More news as I get it.

Labels: Gigs, GoatLab, Gusset

:: Dan 27.9.08 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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goatlab venue review
Originally uploaded by gusset.

Thank you Venue for this lovely review!

“Gusset, with Parasite, at one point puts Lily Allen’s ‘Smile’ through a rapid wash cycle and his faders-to-10 set closer is a thrilling jack hammering explosion of drum & bass and a highlight of the evening that sets the room properly dancing. “

This was actually a Gusset back-to-back with Parasite set so full credit to Armin too. I think that final track referred to was one of his selections. As I remember, it went something like this:
Exillon – Acid Panda Laptop Death
Parasite selection
Alan Titmash – Ditch Pig
Parasite selection
The Teknoist & Scheme Boy - Leppers on Garys …
vs Microphist – I Love Lily Allan (cranked up a bit)…
vs Julie Andrews – The Lonely Goat Herd (cranked up a lot)
Parasite selection
Gusset – Gussetbusters (Ghost Busters theme mash-up)
Parasite selection

So thanks to Jay, Jon, Mike, Ash, Dunc, Julie, Spokesy and Armin for their input there!

Labels: Gigs, GoatLab, Gusset, Review

:: Dan 1.7.08 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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