Sonar 2010 live Lesley Flanigan and Brandien plus an excellent host of ear vibrating music

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Welcome to the long-awaited You Are Here show. This is Mags Hall.

Coming up, we have some live recordings from the Sonar Festival in Barcelona.

And to start with, we have some unfamiliar sounds from a very familiar label.

This is from Planet Moo, and this is Solar Bears.

This is Planet Moo.

And it's certainly a sonic departure from the sounds of the dubstep that we hear a lot of from the label in the last few years.

I have to say I've got a bit sick of, I know some people might be upset by that,

but I have to say it's quite refreshing to hear something a bit more electronic and noodley almost.

Anyway, if you want to check that out, Planet Moo is the label and it's planet.moo.

Now, here's our first live recording from the Sonar Festival.

This is Brandian, a Catalan-based electronic trio from the great Barcelona's Spark label.

This is Brandian.

You are in a human body made of bubbles of water, in a private jet, in a world of God.

Champagne and a certain luminosity.

And void, air skin.

And a sea full of clouds, white from below.

And a bubble of blue sky above.

And in the middle, your mind.

Your mind, a key to fate.

It is not what happens, but how you take it.

You fall, you are old, and you get up again.

And the house, the little house that falls at night,

after a night without a end, between the shadows,

is filled with yourself.

You realize.

That everything is void.

That everything is like a miraculous scenario.

Everything is in nature.

The game of the void and the light.

Everyone is getting further.

Everyone is lighting.

And the next is sold.

And the next is sold

And the next one is sold

Chant Chant Chant Chant Chant Lomeroрыororoeromass elar congüysicca

Thank you.

I'd like to open the skin and smash the time.

The comics and the anecdotes are made by the cannonheads.

Of the rest, we make the poem.

And I no longer exist.

Of the rest, we make the poem.

And I no longer exist.

And the heart.

And the body.

And the head.

And the head is shining.

The heart is so hot.

And the heart is shining.

now that was the sound of brandy in there live at the sonar festival and it was recorded especially

for us by richard guest and karen loben who went out as envoys for you are here and recorded some

of the sights and sounds of what went on there now if you'd like to hear more of brandy and check out

the label it's spark releases.com now i'm going to follow that with the tisha boys this is ulakawa

kawa rose from shagan the new electronic dance sound of south africa it's a compilation on honest

john's records of highly insane high-speed dance music and as you will hear even though this is

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We'll be right back.

© transcript Emily Beynon

Thank you.

Now that was the sound of Leslie Flanagan

live at Sonar.

Check out her website,

leslieflanagan.com,

I'm going to play you a tune now from the ever-present Xylitol and Pete Um.

In fact, Pete Um's done a remix for a forthcoming album and collaborations album

featuring Bellbury Polly, Nocturnal Emissions, AJ Holmes and the Hackney Empire,

Sculpture, Wobot, many, many others.

Anyway, I'll play you the tune and then I'll give you a link to that.

My practice is definitely the language of pain.

Whoa, nothing like a system

Most are lectures

Picking on the lit lens

I think it's pathetic

Connect to our voices

Clients for hands

Waste in the open

Strike to your friends

Larking in your asses

Larking on your sleeves

Liking this right face

Here comes the bereaved

To fuck you

Amazing

That driver is gone

No one to endorse me

We've lost it all

How do you work space-based?

Space-based

How do you work space-based?

Space-based

How do you work space-based?

Space-based

Amazing

Now, if you want to find out more about that remix album from Xylitol, check out his MySpace,

which unfortunately isn't called Xylitol, it's called Pierogi to make it more confusing.

It's P-I-E-R-O-G-I-I, and if you didn't know, the co-producer of this program, Jim Backhouse,

is actually Xylitol, so it's a shameless plug, but probably worth checking out.

Now I'm going to play you a tune from Bernard Fevere.

This is Central Way from Cosmos 2043.

Central Way from Cosmos 2043

Track 7

I'm going to play you a tune from P-I-E-R-O-G-I-N-G-I-N-G-I-N-G-I-N-G.

This is Central Way from Cosmos 2043.

Central Way from Cosmos 2043.

Now you've just heard three in a row, starting off with Bernard Fevere, the man behind Black Devil Disco Club.

Then Steve Everett, Twa Briggs.

Some spooky minimal electronics from the mid-80s.

This is from a music library LP on the Atmosphere's label.

And you've just heard Systematics Dinners on the Table.

This is from A Terrace Industry, a triple CD compilation collecting together material from the legendary Australian post-punk label M-Square Records.

Changing the mood somewhat, here's Sorang Santi with Iron Man.

A Terrace Industry, a triple CD compilation collecting together material from the legendary Australian post-punk label.

A Terrace Industry, a triple CD compilation collecting together material from the legendary Australian post-punk label M-Square Records.

That is the moon, it rises and it falls

Rise and fall, fall, fall, rise and fall

Not yet standing, rise and fall

Some nights in the morning, after the rooster crows

Cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck, the sun doesn't go down

Some nights in the evening, the sun goes down

The color turns red, it looks like a bell

Do you know? Don't guess it wrong

That is the sun, it rises and falls

Rise and fall, fall, fall, rise and fall

Not yet standing, rise and fall

This third one, slide, third course

It rises thinking and overnightline

Why do you get up?

I don't know why it's going up. I just stand and watch it go up.

Do you know what it is? Do you know what it is?

It's a product of Thailand and it won't go down.

It's going up, going down, going down, going down.

It's not going up, it's going down, it's going down.

The third, the third fast line, it came up and missed, and then it didn't go down.

So why it's coming up? I don't know why it's going up. I just stand and watch it go up.

Do you know what it is?

I don't know what it is, but it's a product of Thailand and I won't give it up.

Thank you.

I'm very sorry.

I am very sorry.

Now you've just heard two tracks in a row

from a compact series of 7 inches

from Finder's Keepers label

the first being Sontag Sandy

with a fantastic rendition of Iron Man there

Thai psych rock covers certainly do it for me

then you've heard Noor Janan I'm Very Sorry

again a reissue from a killer Lollywood film tune

and apparently Lollywood is different from Bollywood

as it's based in Pakistan

something I didn't know until I asked Jim this bit

just this moment ago

Now going to finish the show with Irene Moon and Ergo Fismas

this is a track called My Nest from Pangolian Variations

an album of surreal residence miniatures

exploring the world of nature

I have to say a big thank you to Karen Loban

and to Richard Guest for recording the sonar

for me

and also to Jim Backhouse my producer

hope you've enjoyed the show

and do keep in contact

our website as ever is

www.youarehere.co.uk

that's Y-O-U-A-R-E-H-E-A-R.co.uk

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time.

Pack it on.

© transcript Emily Beynon