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NEWS
MINKE IN "FUTURE MUSIC"
Minke's "Radio Minke" appears on the cover DVD of the March 2008 issue of "Future Music" magazine. Inside the magazine is a review of the track and a mini-interview with Minke.
FORTHCOMING GIGS
Minke will play a DJ set at the Big Chill Bar in Brick Lane, London on Sunday 8th April, at 1620 hrs.
Minke are to play a live AV set Concrete on the South Bank, London on Saturday 26th April, supporting Echaskech. Also appearing on the lineup is Dialog - expect AV sets from all three acts. Entry to the gig is free, and is the first night of "Echaskech presents..."
Minke are to play a live AV set at the Drop Beats, Not Bombs festival in Birmingham on Saturday 3rd May. The event runs from 9pm to 6am, and also features live sets from Boomclick Soundystem and Pariah Network, as well as DJ sets from Nick Luscombe, Mr Black, Dr.Piz and Jez Wells. Further details will follow, once we have 'em.
MINKE AV
We now have a YouTube site, containing several of our videos.
PURPLE RADIO
Rod hosts a regular monthly Sunday evening slot on Purple Radio.
Forthcoming dates tbc
MINKE ON MYSPACE
Below is a link to our MySpace site :
AUDIO
(to download, right-click and 'save target as')
starlet style .mp3 *NEW*
melancholic electronica.
written by lynn, produced by minke at the boring room, february 2008.
tiny transistors .mp3 *NEW*
another of our krautpop tunes.
written by lynn / devonshire, produced by minke at the boring room, march 2008.
this is our "dad house" tune :-)
written by lynn / devonshire, produced by minke at the boring room, november 2007.
a new tune that featured in our live sets last summer.
written by lynn / devonshire, produced by minke at the boring room, september 2007.
autobahn-era kraftwerk meets spacemen 3
written by lynn, produced by minke at the boring room, march 2007.
space age exotica.
written by lynn / devonshire. recorded at the boring room, december 2006.
an electro-tinged four-to-the-floor stomper, with added speak and spell.
written by lynn / devonshire. recorded at the boring room, december 2006.
this one has a krautrock influence. come on feel the neu!
written by lynn / devonshire. recorded at the boring room, august 2006.
MIXDOWNLOADS.NET
a selection of minke dj sets can be found on mix downloads.net
ABOUT US
minke are rod devonshire (aka reg) and gareth lynn (aka tantalising tina).
we met in brighton in 2000, and have been collaborating since 2001.
our music is the result of far too many late nights spent trawling our extensive music collections for samples,
taking in easy listening, strange pop, charity shop bargains, electronic oddness and other obscure audio nuggets.
since rod moved away from brighton in 2002, we've been collaborating by swapping files over the internet,
and between us our musical sack now positively bulges. some of the results are hosted here.
GIGS
2007
Minke Live AV set - Festinho near Oxford - 2nd September
Laroca - Festinho near Oxford - 2nd September
Minke DJ set - Reg played a funky lounge set at the Big Chill House on 15th August
Minke DJ set - Reg played a set for Purple Radio on Big Chill FM at Eastnor on 2nd August
Minke Live AV set - Digital City at Corsica Studios on 28th July
Minke Live AV set - Kentish Tea Party Tent @ Gazastock Festival near Sevenoaks, Kent - 7th July
Minke DJ set - Reg played a set of lounge and kraut rock at the Big Chill Bar on 18th March
Laroca - Just Music night at the Big Chill House, 8th March
2006
Minke Live set - Readers Wavs at the Big Chill House on 20th december
Laroca - Readers Wavs at the Big Chill House on 20th december
the "readers' wavs" compilation from the big chill forum is now available from http://www.bigchill.net
Minke Live set - Baked Beats in Islington on 27th august, alongside digitonal, boomclick soundsystem, bombay monkey and others
photos from the gig, taken by matt farrow, can be found here
Minke Live set - reg dj'd at the abc festival in buckinghamshire on 3rd september
Laroca - ABC Festival in Buckinghamshire on 2nd september
Laroca - the Big Chill festival in Herefordshire on 5th august
Laroca - Bush Hall, Shepherds Bush on 8th may
Laroca - Digital City on 28th april
2005
Minke Soundystem - minke debuted at digital city on new year's eve 2005, a party held in an art gallery at a secret east london location.
joining me on visuals was the rather splendid mach v (likes : prog rock. dislikes : house), who is part of the soxan crew.
a few pictures of digital city can be found here.
HISTORY
rod has been making music for twenty years.
after several years playing in a series of ill-fated bedroom bands, by the mid-90s, he was one third of house trio bush babies, whose sole release "delicious" had more than a whiff of fromage about it.
with the income from this single, rod invested in a home studio, and since 1998 has pursued a more eclectic musical direction.
rod also guests occasionally with laroca at their gigs - pictures here and here
likes : bracken, and lacey bond. dislikes : dunstable.
gareth has been hunched over his woolworths guitar and 4-track since adolescence, drawing his primary influences from the music of ice cream vans and
public information films.
likes: bracken, and lacey bond. dislikes: banjos.
PLAYLIST
Rod's home listening chart, February 2008
1. Working For A Nuclear Free City – Businessmen and Ghosts (Deaf Dumb and Blind)
2. LJ Kruzer – Miami Nooch / Schloopergloo (Uncharted Audio)
3. Echaskech – Every Touch / Frequency Apogee (Early Morning mix) (Just Music)
4. Jean Jacques Perrey and Luke Vibert – Moog Acid (Lo Recordings)
5. Yam Yam – Eatdubafrobeat (Big Chill)
6. Future Loop Foundation – Memories From A Fading Room (Louisiana)
7. Sven Libaek – Inner Space (Trunk)
8. Howard Devoto – Rainy Season (EMI)
9. Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree (Mute)
10.
Radiohead - In Rainbows (XL)
BUFF
most of our tracks are started by tina, on a pc running acid.
reg then takes 'em and gives 'em a bit of spit and polish at his home studio the boring room, adding sounds from his collection of prehistoric analogue synths, dusty old 70s beatboxes, casio keyboard, sampler and melodica.
all the sounds are recorded into his pc for further mangling, buffing, and general faffing, eventually emerging at the other end as minke.
thanks to andy ralph and saul parker for lending reg your synths.
LINKS
Matt F (photographer)