Victor Xray http://virb.com/victorxray "deeply uneasy listening" ... "DUB-HEAVY DOOMSTEP BLEND OF PARANOID DUBBY MADNESS" ... "music for a bleak, low budget horror film" ... "great with a coffee & a spliff first thing in the morn!" ... and ... " breakbeats that roll like glaciers, heavy on the bass". In recent years I've been exploring the sounds of UK-garage and dub derived genres such as breakbeat, dubstep, etc. In 2007 my EP "Victor Xray's Dark Arts Of Dub" was released on vinyl as Autonomous Production AUTON01 and simultaneously as Transcom eCom39 on iTunes and other download only outlets. Some of my tunes are being released on label Skuzzy Beatz via digital-tunes and other download outlets. See releases available on iTunes Music Store. For the most up to date music see the blog Xray Dubs which is updated with new music and downloads every month. ]]> Virb 2.0 (@victorxray) en Victor Xray - Fifty More Still http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/5861593 Dumbness and despair - desertion
The desertion of your friends from you
You from your friends
Everyone from everyone
Isolation and loneliness
Hating and suspecting each other
D is finally death
Slow death
Hey ... Well, that's it

University is off for the year, here's a new track for my first free weekend in 3 months: Fifty More Still - minimalist, bassy, spiky, desolate.

Download Victor Xray Fifty More Still (14.1MB 320kbps mp3).

TO DOWNLOAD: As usual, click the "attachment" link(s) in this entry if you are viewing the HTML web page - or use a podcasting client RSS feed of the blog to get automated downloads of any new music placed on Xray Dubs. If you can't see a download link anywhere go to the original page url - usually linked from the title.

]]> Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:57:37 -0700 http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/5861593 Projeckt Inertia - Someone Like You http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/5712723 I've got a remix on this Projekt Inertia release from Transcom, check it out at http://itunes.com/ProjektInertia (N.B. REQUIRES ITUNES)

Dear Friends,

Perth-based beats duo "Projekt Inertia" announce the release of their new single "Someone like You" through Trans:Com. This EP features 4 very fine leftfield vocal and instrumental dance tracks, and includes bonus remixes for breaks and dub lovers; with mixes by Lo Key Fu, Fridayz, and Victor Xray. The EP is available now on iTunes at http://itunes.com/ProjektInertia - so go and have a listen!
 
Also - watch this space for news about their forthcoming album!

Best regards
Dennis & Anna @ TransCom
Projekt Inertia, Someone Like You

]]> Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:28:32 -0700 http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/5712723 Flower Fingers http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4604483 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:17:22 -0700 http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4604483 Clan Analogue back catalogue : the Festival Years http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4482717 Transmission Communications are also working on their 1990s back catalogue too. In the email this afternoon from this little missive from Clan Analogue: included in this is my first solo album-length release G-Type Nerve Agent (CA023), and a lot of these other albums have withstood the test of time, Pear Shaped in particular but I still listen to Disco Stu and the first Deepchild album too, as well as various tracks off all the others. A fine collection of music is represented here!
Clan Analogue: The Festival Years

Clan Analogue are pleased to announce that a selection of its classic releases from the years 1998 to 2001 are now available in digital format from iTunes and other digital retailers.  These albums are from an era when Clan Analogue snuck in through the back door of the corporate music industry, signing a lucrative distribution deal with Festival Records and releasing a series of albums still hailed as classic milestones in modern Australian electronic music.

Clan Analogue will shortly be releasing Re Cognition: The Clan Analogue Legacy Collection, a selection of the greatest tracks from the history of Clan Analogue, on a triple disc set, including a bonus CD of new remixes and DVD containing all the filmclips and the Plug In & Switch On documentary.

Now available in digital non-physical format are:

Jaunt 2: A Sojourn in Bass – various artists (catalogue number CA017)
A throbbing journey through drum’n’bass, dub, trip hop and downbeat grooves, with tracks by many Australian electro-funk luminaries.

Telemetry Orchestra - Live Better Electrically (catalogue number CA019)
Debut album from indie-dance crossover act Telemetry Orchestra, combining funk grooves with deep analogue synthesis in a new form of spaced-out electro-lounge.

Cognition Two: 20 Disco Greats – various artists (catalogue number CA020)
20 Disco Greats took Australian electronica deep into the Disco ghetto of funky beats and smooth basslines.  Nominated for a Dance Music Award!

Disco Stu – Adult Themes (catalogue number CA022)
Prior to Englishman in Ibiza fame, Disco Stu released Adult Themes, a minimalist conglomerate of mangled disco samples, sparse electronics and driving basslines.

Nerve Agent – G-Type Nerve Agent (catalogue number CA023)
Staking out an area between fucked-up dub and funked-up techno with a dash of house thrown in, the debut release from the artist who later became Victor X-Ray.

5000 Fingers of Dr T – Buttsqueezer (catalogue number CA024)
5000 Fingers of Dr T present a collection of funky tracks, tasty tunes, buzzy squelches and groovy electro beats.

Cognition Three – various artists (catalogue number CA025)
A deviant beat-based sound journey and an extraordinary excursion into electronica audio bliss of the purest form, from tech-house to deep bass.

Deepchild – Hymns From Babylon (catalogue number CA026)
The debut album release from the internationally renowned Deepchild, an eclectic album of experimental breaks, analogue blips and dirty bass-laden grooves.

Pear Shaped – Pear Shaped (catalogue number CA027)
The side project from Atone’s Andy Fitzgerald, fusing smooth dub, drum’n’bass and hip hop, with collaborators such as Jodi Phillis and Serena Gartner.
]]> Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:17:07 -0700 http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4482717 Green metal blowout http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4258188 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:29:41 -0700 http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4258188 Reflective dark mood http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4173149 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 07:15:03 -0700 http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4173149 Victor Xray - Fucker [new drum mix] http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4110413 What seems to be the problem?
Death.
Death? Well I'm afraid that's a little out of my jurisdiction.
I want more life, fucker.

New version of 'Fucker' - the track from last week - with bigger, nastier drums and some other mix tweaks. Old one removed.

Download Victor Xray Fucker (10.7MB 320kbps mp3).

TO DOWNLOAD: As usual, click the "attachment" link(s) in this entry if you are viewing the HTML web page - or use a podcasting client RSS feed of the blog to get automated downloads of any new music placed on Xray Dubs. If you can't see a download link anywhere go to the original page url - usually linked from the title.

]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:07:47 -0700 http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4110413 Victor Xray - Fucker http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4110412 What seems to be the problem?
Death.
Death? Well I'm afraid that's a little out of my jurisdiction.
I want more life, fucker.

Well that's the sample that drives the heart of this track. I've been a little quiet of late, my mid-semester break has not been as productive as I would have liked - I've got lots of bits and pieces of half-completed tracks but nothing fully developed yet. In the meantime I went to L.A. where I got the incredible Akai APC-40 Ableton controller for a fantastic price at Guitar Centre in Hollywood (much cheaper than possible in Australia). Anyway with this bit of kit I've been jamming away at those little segments and this track is the first result, with a great simple driving synth line. I've had a bunch of the Bladerunner samples lying around and wanting to do something with them for a little while. I figured the less, the better, and the result is "Fucker". The string synth figure is also based on the Vangelis soundtrack.

There's another track - a bit more of an APC-40 jam session than this one - I might also upload later tonight

Download Victor Xray Fucker (10.7MB 320kbps mp3).

TO DOWNLOAD: As usual, click the "attachment" link(s) in this entry if you are viewing the HTML web page - or use a podcasting client RSS feed of the blog to get automated downloads of any new music placed on Xray Dubs. If you can't see a download link anywhere go to the original page url - usually linked from the title.

]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:07:46 -0700 http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4110412 Victor Xray - Into the Wastes of Time http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4110411 This track is a more minimal-sounding apc-40 jam than the one I uploaded earlier today (Fucker). It has a nice space about it, I think. Will make a good live track.

Download Victor Xray Into The Wastes Of Time (13.6MB 320kbps mp3).

TO DOWNLOAD: As usual, click the "attachment" link(s) in this entry if you are viewing the HTML web page - or use a podcasting client RSS feed of the blog to get automated downloads of any new music placed on Xray Dubs. If you can't see a download link anywhere go to the original page url - usually linked from the title.

]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:07:46 -0700 http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4110411 Victor Xray - Fucker http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4110410 What seems to be the problem?
Death.
Death? Well I'm afraid that's a little out of my jurisdiction.
I want more life, fucker.

Well that's the sample that drives the heart of this track. I've been a little quiet of late, my mid-semester break has not been as productive as I would have liked - I've got lots of bits and pieces of half-completed tracks but nothing fully developed yet. In the meantime I went to L.A. where I got the incredible Akai APC-40 Ableton controller for a fantastic price at Guitar Centre in Hollywood (much cheaper than possible in Australia). Anyway with this bit of kit I've been jamming away at those little segments and this track is the first result, with a great simple driving synth line. I've had a bunch of the Bladerunner samples lying around and wanting to do something with them for a little while. I figured the less, the better, and the result is "Fucker". The string synth figure is also based on the Vangelis soundtrack.

There's another track - a bit more of an APC-40 jam session than this one - I might also upload later tonight

Download Victor Xray Fucker (10.7MB 320kbps mp3).

TO DOWNLOAD: As usual, click the "attachment" link(s) in this entry if you are viewing the HTML web page - or use a podcasting client RSS feed of the blog to get automated downloads of any new music placed on Xray Dubs. If you can't see a download link anywhere go to the original page url - usually linked from the title.

]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:07:46 -0700 http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4110410 Victor Xray 'Lamplighter' clip ... video walled http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4110408 yooouuutuuube.com does a video wall of any you tube video that you input into it. Here's the Victor Xray 'Lamplighter' video run through it; particularly effective because of the use of the horizontal wipe I think. Here's the link: Victor Xray 'Lamplighter' on yooouuutuuube.com ...Here's the same one without the 'zoom' which gives a strobing effect.]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:07:45 -0700 http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4110408 Build a studio http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4110406 floating room.

A quick google around turns up some interesting links:
Happy studio building!]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:07:45 -0700 http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4110406 IMGP5670.JPG http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4110334 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:05:15 -0700 http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4110334 Volume @ V&A and trip home - 42 http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4110333 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:05:15 -0700 http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4110333 Volume @ V&A and trip home - 9 http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4110332 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:05:15 -0700 http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4110332 England, European trip 2006 - 88 copy http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4110331 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:05:14 -0700 http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4110331 http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4110330 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:05:13 -0700 http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4110330 http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4110329 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:05:13 -0700 http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4110329 http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4110328 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:05:13 -0700 http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4110328 http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4110327 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:05:12 -0700 http://virb.com/victorxray/posts/text/4110327