Top5athon 2008

The sub-urbane shadowlands of Potrane... pronounced with two creepy R's.. was the venue for 2008's chocolate-fountain free countdown. Niall hosted the bash with his iPodtouch controlled set-up ....and soft red lighting. There were "ooh"s and there were "ahh"s...lots of pizza and many late arrivals throwing their usb keys and iPods at the DJ.

Some songs cleared the room while others were stopped altogther only to be revived by the Frakensteinien host. It was the usual mix of folk, jungle, jazz, funk, pop and metal but thats what we've come to love.

Special memorial track goes to Jimi Hedrix Experience "Fire" for drummer Mitch Mitchell. http://drop.io/mitchmitchell

Special shout-out for longest track of the night goes, once again to Rob for 19 minutes of excellent drone!

So without further ado... here's the lot.... including for the first time ever, full downloads although for one or 2 you'll have to pay if you're iTuning them, free if using another player! THESE ARE IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER.

Here we goooooooooooooooooooooo

Get the 5555555'S

Get the 4444444'S



Get the 3333333'S





Get the 2222222'S


The tracks that really lit up the skies in 2008 were!!

Get the 1111111'S

Barry's #1 is missing.......... if you find it email me!

Same again in 2010!

[T-shirt] New squarepusher design

In honour of the new album. Its my 3rd squarepusher design put the first 2 were cheapo white jobbies. This'll be black and professionally printed - long sleeves and short!

First t-shirt design
Second t-shirt design

I also did some funky animated gifs for various avatars:

Squarepusher - a tweeked song "Coathanger²" by me!

7\7\ Aphex Twin 7\7\

When I heard Aphex Twin was playing at Oxegen I immediately went about getting a ticket...but didn't want a weekend ticket as every single other acts looked like crap and who want to go camping at knacker festivals these days - especially after the chalet haven of Bangface. I ended up getting a Friday only ticket at Needsaticket.com and while it was pricey and they were well dodgey on the phone they came through for me just in time. This photo is form T-in-the-park the following nite.. same vibe.

I was also determined to record the entire thing on video because live recordings are my favourite goddamn pieces of information ever.

So J.B. drove us down to his mate Val's gaf who lives in a rambling old farmhouse nearby. These guy are major Ministry fans and the next morning would see me turn into one as we relaxed after the mahem with a few hours of Vals Ministry in Sweden video and other recordings as well as Butthole Surfers.
I miss Minsitry next week as I head to Paris with Aoife but get to see Butthole Surfers the following Thursdays.



We got "ready" and got a lift off Val to the massive mess of a festival site up the road. Wandering in we headed for the Pet Sounds tent where Aphex was due on in 40 mins. We met Sparky, the lighting guy who was in the central lighting rig and just finishing up with Tricky. I was trying my camera out on the rig, knowing it'd be a stable place to put the camera and zoom in on Aphex. I figured the sound wouldn't be great though and anyway the smoke/lights were playing havoc with the focus. So we met Brendan and Niamh, J.B's mates and made our way to a good location. The tent was starting to flood with ravers and RDJ was getting his shit together on stage.... he had a camera and was taking pictures of his set-up.

This photo is form T-in-the-park the following nite.. same vibe.

With everything set..... the gig kicked off. A Massive 1hr30mins of near 50% Aphex Twin music inlcuding Drukqs, Tuss, AFX, unreleased stuff and a couple of squarepusher humdingers. I videoed it all as best I could in the state I was in
and managed to lash it all up on WATMM and xltronic Monday morning. The gods of electronica were smiling on me as someone put up Squrepusher at Bangface entire set on WATMM. Praise be! I'll be youtubing the Oxegen set over the week too but thats gonna be a bit tedious... still it'll get to a wide audience.

A big pity those cunts at MCD - yeh you heard - have shut down thumped and boards from talking about this set.

I finnally got the recording on d'web in mp3 and mp4 formats. It's stored where every other known live set is at.... you may have to join to download.

The vids are also up on http://www.youtube.com/user/thekeyfumbler

Aphex Twin - 2008-07-11 Ireland-Kildare.mp3

Aphex Twin - 2008-07-11 Ireland-Kildare.mp4

For the record I've seen Aphex Twin 9 times:

1999 Olympia Theatre - Dublin- rare Ambient set with dancers.

2001 Sonar Festival - Barcelona - with Col and Niall - jungle/gabba mayhem

2001 (i think) Rephlex Allstars - Dublin - the famous Cylob-as-a-banana set.

2003 Warp Rave - Hackney - Me and Guliamo and no sleep

2003 All tomorrows Parties - with Col Nial and Antoin

2004 Rephlex Disco Assault - Bogdan, Astrobotnia, me in a wig

2005 Glade Festival - with psycho-ex-gf a tent and a load of shrooms

2005 Sonar Festival - Barcelona - with the pyscho-ex-gf

2008 Oxegen with JB - fully recorded

Col returns, Eric visits, We rave!

So Friday 4th July saw Col, that wayward traveller, return to the fold, from Austria. Eric was over for a birthday and we all met up along with Niall, Mel and Neill and that-college-mate-of-Erics-whose-name-I-forget and my budo buddy and fellow festivaller Ruairi.

It was Andrews Lane theatre for a FREE gig featuring "giveamanakick" and "dudley corporation"(?). The first act were rockin enough, havin seen them before support Electric Eel Shock(japanese naked drumming cheezy metal)... Act one was about as good as you'll get with a frantic drummer, guitarist and gasmask mic.. pretty good stuff. We weren't arsed with the second act so hit thing mote for a few pints and chat. We lost Mel and Neil and Ruairi to other projects that didn't involve the acid techno I'd been uppin'.

So we made out way to Kennedy's for Doubtfull Guest off planet-mu records and BODENSTANDIG 2000 from Rephlex. WOW WOW WOW! Absolutely amazing music from first daz german technoists with their chunky phat goose-stepping beats played to the visuals of Bavarian teletext images of pixalated sex-lines. One guy practically had leaderhosen on him and they played some folk instruments too. It was a fitting welcome back for Col I thought.

Next up was Doutfull Guest. She flabergasted me at Bangface with her golden-haired headbangin acid techno and ripped it up again here with more of the same antics. She's a very gorgeous laptop producer and meself an Niall chatted to her friend upstairs singing her praises royally. We all agree she kicked ass undoubtedly.

Doubtfull Guest - sswishhhhhhhhh

Burial Video - Near Dark

I shamelessly ripped off a gritty little Scottish movie - guess which one - to make this video for a Burial track.


Near Dark

Dublin Ceephax Summer Madness

Catching up with Jim and Guliamo who've both been AWOL in Japan and Italy respectively for 3-4 years was pretty amazing and lots of fun at the Ceephax gig at McGrudders in early June.

I took my Sony miniDV handcam and shot 35 min of 303 mayhem so here they are!


HERE WE GO.... 1/5



Can you plug that back in?.... 2/5



C'mon ya.... 3/5




Aubergines.... 4/5




WE CAN ONLY HOPE.... 5/5