UBLF's Chilldown Period

18 December 2012

Chilldown Period - Episode 44 - Quantum Displacement

First off, gotta give credit for this podcast cover.
The background picture (taken in the town of Long Beach, Washington) is from Upupa4me and the photo can be found here. The people in the photo come from this photo taken by vonderauvisuals. The Creative Commons licenses can be found here and here for the respective photos.

To give you an insight to what I've been talking about for my podcast cover, here is a scientific taste looking at displacement on the subatomic level by using a SQUID device. Quantum is reserved for measuring movement, volume, etc., in the subatomic level. Very Small quantities. Here, we take what could be at the subatomic level (movement of electrons) and move from a small, quantum size to the Newtonian. Michio Kaku is one scientist trying to find a universal law so you can move from quantum/subatomic levels into Newtonian physics. What would happen if you could emulate the movement of an electron (go from one area, disappear, and show up in another place) and put humans in that same sphere. i.e., move them from one place and have them inexplicably appear in some place else. Such as a group of people from Chicago to a sleepy little town in Washington State? That's what I hope to show with this podcast cover.

I apologize for taking so long to get this podcast out. Holidays are coming, I'm trying to go on vacation, and my body seems to fight against me right now. So, my apologies for taking so long. I hope the wait is worth it.

You can download the podcast here, if you would like to do that as well!

Now, onto the tracklisting!

I Δ I
'Always'

CORVL
000
Facebook

Dead Times
Centuries
Dead Times
Bad Panda Records

XXYYXX
Lonely Sometimes
Relief in Abstract label
Facebook

VILLΛGE
Dive
Takeover
Facebook

Prism
Iconic Soul
Facebook

Dynasty Electric
Eye Wide Open
Dynasty Electric
Courtesy of Ariel Publicity
Facebook || Website

Hekkla
Bring it
KeepDeep Culture

Wolftek
End of the Line
End of the Line EP
Facebook

Zitan
Recollect
Facebook

Tulpa (facebook) & Fedbymachines (facebook)
Winter's Solstice

Korkey Buchek
I tell you
Facebook

subtle
lush
Facebook

Submotion Orchestra
Snow
Fragments
Exceptional Blue
iTunes || Facebook || Website

Mister Tweeks
Addicted
Dubstep.NET exclusive
pelicanfly
Facebook

Aaron Static
251
Reflections
Slime Recordings
Facebook || Webiste

DigitalPunk ft. Julia Belaya
Where is Your Love
Trilobit Records (website)
Facebook

Qualmsound
Chante (Dub)
Facebook || Website

Subranger and Elo Method
Waters of Forgetfulness
WELCOME
VK

SoundNBeats
Misty Hills
MLD014
Melodica Netlabel

Eskmo
I Just Want
Language EP
Ancestor
Facebook || Website

Elo Method
Enter the Heavens Door
Flavors.me

ExT and Zelmershead (Facebook)
Shady
Zelmershead website

Vanity (UK) feat Charlotte Rawling
Shelter
(also find it at Fat Kid on Fire)
facebook || bandcamp

26 November 2012

Dubstep Directive - Comfort

Here we go!

The Comfort edition of the Dubstep Directive!

First, I need to give credit to the Himalayan Trail's blog for the picture included in the podcast cover. You can find the photo here. and the license for use of the photo here. The original is a tremendous piece of photography and I remixed it some to give it a vintage look. The idea for this podcast cover comes from a T-shirt I saw in a local store where there was an outline for an elk with a landscape picture inside.

I thought I could do that and here is the result.

The fonts I used goes like this:

"Dubstep Directive" is in Jellyka Delicious Cake which can be found at dafont.com.

"est. 2009" and "Comfort is in Nevis typeface courtesy of Ten by Twenty.

"27" is in Ministry and Number is in Mensch Thin Inline which you can find at Lost Type Co-op.

Gotta give shouts to Kurryahurrd! She has introduced me to quite a few new artists and a multiplicity of massive music. Also, gotta give a shout to Pinners, AstreauxWorld and the noisyoyster, all of whom I follow on twitter and they have given me tremendous amounts of support.

26 November 2012: Corrected Undersky's information and added links to their facebook and soundcloud pages!

Now, onto the podcast!

Kusto
Sanya TV
Pyongyang EP
Facebook

Robin Blunt w/ Miss Lexie
String Theory
facebook (Robin) || facebook (Miss Lexi)

RDG
Ancient Dungeon
Hedmuk Exclusive
facebook

Outbound
Temperament
Temperament EP
Iron Shirt Recordings
iTunes || Juno || Facebook

Accel
Encounter at Fairpoint
Form EP
Vekta Records
facebook

Blackwax
Trapped Dub
LS005
Liminal Sounds
facebook

Mortal Grey
Destroy Them [VIP]
Phantom Hertz
facebook

UNCO
Cursed Dust
First it was Darkness, Then Came Undersky
Undersky Records
UNCO's facebook
Undersky's Facebook || Soundcloud

Decibel
GYAL
Decibel EP
Tectonic
facebook

Blackwax
Surface
Offkey EP
Subway Music
facebook

Mr. Mitch
Super Freak
Task Wax/Super Freak
GOB Stopper
facebook

EshOne
Theme Pouch
Elk004
ElkBeats
facebook

Zillion

Illogical and Come Back to Me

facebook

Beger
The Void (Menjaben Remix)
facebook (Beger) || facebook (Menjaben)

Subject 31
Psycho
facebook

Æon

Outgoing Personality

Outgoing Personality EP

facebook

Taiko

Bode [MST]

courtesy of Deep Heads

Skin E
Reveal
courtesy of Dubstep.NET
facebook || website

Maidu
The Way I See You (J.Sparrow remix)
The Way I See You Single
Smudge Music

Native
Endemic
Fat Kid on Fire exclusive

11 November 2012

Chilldown Period - Episode 43 - Iceland

This month we are taking an aural journey to Iceland!

You can download the podcast here.

Special thanks to all of the artists, booking agents, managers, etc. who have made this episode of the Chilldown Period possible.

One thing I enjoy about doing these series of podcasts is listening the different trends and styles of music from around the world. This is one of the great advantages of the internet that you can discover, listen to, purchase and for some, use these different influences in their music production.

Music shows so much individuality and can also be appreciated by one and all.

The photo used for this episode of the Chilldown Period comes to us from Matt and was taken at Skógarfoss, Iceland. The license for use of the photo is found here.

Just like I did for the Latvian episode of the Chilldown Period, we decided to cook/recreate some Icelandic recipes or Icelandic takes on different foods. We started off for lunch with Brauðterta, or sandwich loaf. According to Bibliophile's blog, this originated in the US and it looks to have been perfected in Iceland. We couldn't find some of the spices for the spread, so I improvised with Paprika, Ms. Dash and Cinnamon. I've never used asparagus in my cooking before, yet it makes a good ingredient for an egg salad. I improvised and put ham in between the layers of bread. I used black bread and topped it with ham and pears.

I thought I had taken a better picture. :)

Love the recipe and my wife declared quite a bit how she liked it. I'm a big sandwich fan. I frequent sandwich shops quite a bit and this is a fantastic variant which I cannot wait to share with friends and family.

The longest part of preparing this was boiling the eggs. I'm impatient, even for boiling eggs, yet the wait was worth it.

Our next dish we cooked up was Shepherd's Pie. We had to make do some cooking of the ingredients fresh before we mixed the dish. I had never cooked lamb before and I find it to be a very tender meat, like other cooks have said before me. The mashed potatoes were a new experience. I rarely make mashed potatoes and this time we used cheese in the recipe and bread crumbs. I wanted to use an Icelandic cheese and the closest I could find on short notice was a Norwegian cheese, Geitost (spelled Gjetost for American consumers). I LOVE this cheese. It has a rich, sweet flavor and works well in this recipe. My wife doesn't like how rich of a cheese it is, yet she liked the flavor it added to the mashed potatoes.

We also made Flatbrauð to go along with the Shepherd's pie. This recipe was fast to make. And it is delicious. Put honey and butter on it while it is still warm and you have a meal in and of itself. We used our electric griddle and cooked the bread like a pancake.

We needed more lamb to go along with the Shepherd's pie. That's the only quibble I have with the recipe and with future improvisation, it won't be a problem. Great recipe and it makes a fantastic dish!

It is cool to learn that if Shepherd's pie is done with beef it then becomes Cottage Pie!

We finished up our meal with something simple: Hrísgrjónagrautur. I was a little impatient with this so it wasn't as thick as I wanted it to be.

Needless to say, it was still good.

And yes, the recipes I found from Iceland are as good as the music found in this episode of the Chilldown Period.

Grand music, great food and good memories in the making of this podcast!

One mistake I made in the podcast and not in the tracklisting: Bonnie Gregory's tune is called "Same Notes" not "Some Notes".

My apologies and also, I apologize right here for my mispronunciations of the names of the tunes and Artists in this show. Please forgive me.

Now, on to the tracklisting!