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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 :

Minke on My Space


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.

albert.mp3

this is our "dad house" tune :-)

written by lynn / devonshire, produced by minke at the boring room, november 2007.

a new dimension in fun.mp3

a new tune that featured in our live sets last summer.

written by lynn / devonshire, produced by minke at the boring room, september 2007.

radio minke.mp3

autobahn-era kraftwerk meets spacemen 3

written by lynn, produced by minke at the boring room, march 2007.

wonderful.mp3

space age exotica.

written by lynn / devonshire. recorded at the boring room, december 2006.

we are minke.mp3

an electro-tinged four-to-the-floor stomper, with added speak and spell.

written by lynn / devonshire. recorded at the boring room, december 2006.

the sound comes alive.mp3

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

Minke on My Space

Digital City

Laroca - Just Music website

Echaskech

Jon Hopkins

Digitonal

The Big Chill

Haven4

Soxan

Input Junkie

Matt F (photographer)