{"id":3837,"date":"2021-04-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/?p=3837"},"modified":"2021-06-27T00:52:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T07:52:56","slug":"soundwave-56-john-shanahan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/soundwave-56-john-shanahan\/","title":{"rendered":"SOUNDWAVE : 56 : JOHN SHANAHAN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today\u2019s guest deejay is John Shanahan, host of the Hypnagogue Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

I follow all the guest deejays on Twitter (check my SOUNDWAVE list here<\/a>), and the Hypnagogue Podcast kept turning up on Kirk Markarian<\/a>\u2019s Twitter feed. I trust Kirk\u2019s taste in music<\/a>, so I listened to a few episodes of Hypnagoge. I loved everything I heard and invited John to guest deejay on SOUNDWAVE.<\/p>\n\n

John\u2019s mix is everything you\u2019d expect in a SOUNDWAVE mix, but what especially delighted mas his selected dub\ufffc tracks.<\/p>\n\n

I\u2019ve been a fan of dub since last century.<\/p>\n\n

I first became aware of dub when I read William Gibson<\/a>\u2019s cyberpunk classic, Neuromancer<\/a><\/em>. In the novel, Case, our protagonist, finds himself in a Jamaican space colony called Zion. <\/p>\n\n

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Case gradually became aware of the music that pulsed constantly through the cluster. It was called dub, a sensuous mosaic cooked from vast libraries of digitalized pop; it was worship, Molly said, and a sense of community.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

I was intrigued by that mysterious description. Shortly afterwards I came across the 21st Century Dub<\/a> album on ROIR<\/a>. I was hooked and became a dub devotee. I even adopted the persona of a character called King Dub<\/a>. I\u2019d speak with an Jamaican patois, and combined with some echo and pitch-shifting, I became a deejay from the deepest realm of dub spinning tracks from everyone from Ras Michael and The Sons of Negus<\/a> to The Orb<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

When I launched SOUNDWAVE I assumed there would be a lot<\/em> of dub. The genre is a natural fit for the format of those show. I\u2019ve been disappointed that dub has been a blind spot and I\u2019m relieved that John is the first guest deejay to include dub tracks in the mix. Hopefully he won\u2019t be the last.<\/p>\n\n

John has some words about his mix below.<\/p>\n\n

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Before I wrap things up I want to let you know that guest deejay<\/a> Frank Riggio<\/a> has released his new single, Empreinte Initiale<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n

Join us next week when our guest deejay will be Roedelius<\/a>. Check out his livestream concert here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

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The Hypnagogue Podcast began over a decade ago as an offshoot of the Hypnagogue Reviews<\/a> site, which I ran from 2003 until 2017, when I decided I didn\u2019t have anything worth saying anymore. Now the music does the eclectic talking for me every two weeks, built from the amazing range of music sent my way.<\/p>\n\n

I laid down this Soundwave mix as I do my own show\u2014picking an interesting place to start and following a stream of semi-conscsiousness through my library to see what associations arise. So we kick off with haunting sound-sculptor Joe Frawley<\/a> and move with the piano into the sparse, emotional spaces of Memory Bell<\/a>. The Detroit76<\/a>, a Matt Borghi<\/a> side project, shifts us smoothly into beat-driven groove territory, segueing into tasty licks from Austin funk-dub duo Canartic<\/a>, which melts neatly into into vintage Cyberchump<\/a>. Forest Robots<\/a> offer a bridge by way of plucked-string tones in a wash of electronica, and Corciolli & Emmanuele Baldini<\/a> use it to escort us further intro electro-acoustic territory. That put me in mind of the modern chamber music of Domingues and Kane<\/a>, after which we flick the switch to Tim Story<\/a>\u2019s brand of electronic chamber music. At the end, the ride finishes courtesy of the person who brought my show to Joseph\u2019s attention in the first place, Neuro\u2026No Neuro<\/a>, aka Kirk Markarian.<\/p>\n\n

Thank you, Kirk! <\/p>\n\n