Base Camp Beta

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BCB008 - Aliens and Alea feat Doug Lee May 29, 2019

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Base Camp Beta is down a Chris (Miller) but up a Doug (Lee), who visits to tell us the story of An-I. We muse over compositional techniques, the rise and fall of disco edits, music's cross-cultural effects, and the history of trance. Later, we're joined by surprise guest Jon Santos, who tells us a bit about the mid-90's San Francisco rave scene. We also cover a lot of music in this episode! As true Base Camp stalwarts of the outer regions, we talk about everything from minimalist rhythmic noise to cosmic jazz fusion to twee breakcore. Haus Arafna - Für immer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b66AIs0xCvA Ford Proco / Coil - Expansión Naranja https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tViHXKU-pos Soft Machine - Over 'N' Above https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKxojs0jqyA Knifehandchop - Going Back to Scarborough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcOvL9GyLNs Base Camp Beta is brought to you from Control - www.ctrl-mod.com - and is made possible with the support of our generous patrons. Check out our Patreon here: www.patreon.com/basecampbeta Opening music: Beau Wanzer - Basement Dwellers Produced and Edited by Rachelle Rahme Mixed by Dave Tatasciore basecampbeta808@gmail.com

BCB007 - Vampires Don’t Play Games, and Other Self-Marginalizations feat Lorraine Sangre May 25, 2019

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New York City DJ and Producer for three thousand years and counting, L. “Your Friend is My Stranger” Sangre (@lsangre) joins Base Camp Beta to talk about anti-social media, beverages of choice (blood), the wages of fear, brilliance of Chris & Cosey, accrual of meaning, and everyone’s favorite analyst, Dr. Frasier Crane. We’re listening. Check Lorraine’s soundcloud @lsangre and her show at BASEMENT NY on June 8 - www.eventbrite.com/e/quo-vadis-ver…ets-60913694500 Thanks to Control @ctrlmod for letting us record at the shop. This episode is brought to you by a couple nice bottles of natural wine that Katie brought, some cheap sunflower seeds from the deli courtesy of Rachelle, Beyond Sausage, and our very awesome patrons who are helping to make this show possible. Check the patreon out here - www.patreon.com/basecampbeta Chris & Cosey - Re-Education Through Labour - www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDTXpk8-YSQ Cocteau Twins - Cherry Coloured Funk (Seefeel Remix) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxR-GSKvg2A Final Cut - I Told You Not To Stop - www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-W2RvpKbP8 Opening music: Beau Wanzer - Basement Dwellers Produced and Edited by Rachelle Rahme Mixed by Dave Tatasciore basecampbeta808@gmail.com

BCB006 - La Techno Continua ~ASMR~ feat Aerin Ercolea May 14, 2019

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Aerin Ercolea aka @mxsilkman from Cleveland’s In Training collective joins Shawn, Chris, Katie, Chris, and Rachelle for a wide-ranging episode covering the Red Brigades, queer raving, capitalist reproduction, and Darude’s 9/11 memorial events. We start at Italian operaismo and leftist theory and end up drinking natural wine and eating fancy cheese like the petit bourgeois we truly are. We also talk Iesope Drift and their influential run of hard, bizarre minimalist techno tracks. This episode is brought to you by our very awesome patrons who are helping to make this show possible. Check the patreon out here - www.patreon.com/basecampbeta Iesope Drift - Tuljahn A1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oonpfGzVKRU Obscurum - Dom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aXkDOnj2Bk Opening music: Beau Wanzer - Basement Dwellers Produced, Edited, and Mixed by Rachelle Rahme basecampbeta808@gmail.com

BCB005 - Community College Philosophy 101 With Nick Klein May 07, 2019

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Friend of the show Nick Klein joins us for some real pessimist hours - we’re bumming each other out about everything from careerism to higher education to the idea of recorded music in a cool 60 minutes. Nick also shares with us three tracks that mean a lot to him - Robert Hood minimalism, weird 80’s japanese industrial-funk, and classic Chicago house. Check Nick's soundcloud @nick-klein and his upcoming release with Wilted Woman on Alien Jams https://alienjams.bandcamp.com/album/caf-kotti This episode is brought to you by a couple nice bottles of natural wine that Nick brought, a grandma pie, and our very awesome patrons who are helping to make this show possible. Check the patreon out here - www.patreon.com/basecampbeta Robert Hood - Untitled https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVWjrPmHAzE EP-4 - Robothood Process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jq54pYgyvY Ten City - Suspicious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pnv9dCk9WM Opening music: Beau Wanzer - Basement Dwellers Produced and Edited by Rachelle Rahme Mixed by Dave Tatasciore basecampbeta808@gmail.com

BCB004 - Electro-Eco-Communism With Ben Allen May 01, 2019

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BCB004 - Electro-Eco-Communism with Ben Allen Episode four of Base Camp Beta, where CZ, Chris, and Shawn are joined by Knoxville, TN based scientist, promoter, and activist Ben Allen @dialecticsines. We talk about how to throw community-focused parties, how to fold political activism in with those parties, and how to bring people together (spoiler alert: it’s the *brand*). Later, we talk about Der Zyklus’ mega-classic “Formenverwandler”, the beauty of minimalism, and come to terms with Gerald Donald’s uhhh ~problematic~ references. This one’s for the bees and all the beekeepers out there - keep our guys safe! Become a patron today and help us get some more mics https://www.patreon.com/basecampbeta Der Zyklus - Formenverwandler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBKRYBwguqk Opening music: Beau Wanzer - Basement Dwellers Produced and Edited by Rachelle Rahme Mixed by Dave Tatasciore basecampbeta808@gmail.com

BCB003 - All That Is Solid Melts Into Tech-House feat Saheer Umar And Asya Gorbacheva Apr 23, 2019

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BCB003 - C O S M I C M A N H A T T A N or: All That Is Solid Melts Into Tech-house feat Saheer Umar and Asya Gorbacheva Shawn, Katie, and Chris tend bar for episode three of Base Camp Beta and invite our friends Saheer Umar and Asya Gorbacheva over for a wide-ranging chat, jumping our way around topics such as: *being a DJ with no friends *faking your death *The Secret, and how to manifest your dreams *Daniele Baldelli, and how to trainwreck with style *situationist karaoke *Lil Nas X and the culture jamming cowboy emoji *bread ...and so much more. Like our favorite Baldelli mixes, this one consists of hard left turns and excessive filter use, all with a belly full of gluten. Yes, the sound quality could be improved in some parts - maybe you’d like to help us buy some better microphones? Sign up to be an alpha-tier subscriber today! https://www.patreon.com/basecampbeta Check out Saheer and Asya's INTERNETPOWERLIFTINGFEDERATION https://soundcloud.com/internetpowerliftingfederation Trumpet fight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha7smLPz2GY C98 Daniele Baldelli http://cosmicmantova.blogspot.com/2012/05/c98-del-1984.html Learn 2 BAKE https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/no-knead-bread-56389453 Opening music: Beau Wanzer - Basement Dwellers Produced, Mixed, and Edited by Rachelle Rahme basecampbeta808@gmail.com

BCB002 - Corporate Influencers feat Cindy Li Apr 16, 2019

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Episode 2 of Base Camp Beta, in partnership with ABSOLUT Vodka, Boiler Room, and Saudi Aramco. We’re thrilled to have our very first guest, Cindy Li aka @cl_lit, on to talk about the spread of corporate influence in nominally “underground” music scenes, the need to #synergize with your fellow #brands, and get in touch with our inner Instagram influencer. We also dig in to Dat Oven’s “Jet Set” - a 1998 NY house record recreating all of the worst club conversations you’ve tried to get out of, and finally take down the trash heap that is Boiler Room’s pay-to-play bullshit. Shawn’s astrology app said “Try not to talk shit today” when we recorded this and I think we mostly kept to it. Dat Oven - Jet Set (Shunji Moriwaki Dub) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJWviSx-7hg Steely Dan - “Doctor Wu” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImtdntJQfSs Opening music: Beau Wanzer - Basement Dwellers Produced, Mixed, and Edited by Rachelle Rahme basecampbeta808@gmail.com

BCB001.5 - Taurine Comedown Apr 12, 2019

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Beta is back, covering last week's hottest news - the closure of RBMA and Red Bull Radio. Old hat, you say? We also cover some even older hats, talking Ron Hardy edits, house music anti-canons, and Scott Walker. Cameo from Katie Rose talkin' 60s pop. Opening music: Beau Wanzer - Basement Dwellers Produced by Rachelle Rahme Mixed and Edited by David Tatasciore basecampbeta808@gmail.com

BCB001 - Waveform Transmission Apr 08, 2019

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Episode One... ePisode 1... ep-1... and it's a big one. Chris, Shawn, and the other Chris (CZ) lay out our plans for discourse domination by talking about perceived authority in music criticism (it sucks), the tyranny of curators, and Jeff Mills' sinister gatekeeping. Speaking of - the records we're discussing today are Jeff Mills - Waveform Transmission Vol. 1 + 3 VNV Nation YouTube dancers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQakGqzKy7E Underground Resistance - Base Camp Alpha 808 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBRTZPLOk-Q Opening music: Beau Wanzer - Basement Dwellers Produced by Rachelle Rahme Mixed and Edited by David Tatasciore basecampbeta808@gmail.com

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