On this Very Special Episode of Base Camp Beta, Chris and Shawn trek down to Sheepshead Bay to visit their friend Salvatore Carlino aka P. Leone at his newly opened pizzeria, Lucia of Avenue X. After having some killer slices, they dive into a deep discussion of the topics that really matter: fermentation techniques, dough hydration, what Pete Well…

Chris and Shawn hike to Prospect Park, eat jerk chicken, and then have a technical glitch while talking about their now-infallible recording process. They reconvene a few days later to talk about the art of learning.Door Base Camp Beta

Live from L&B Spumoni Gardens in Brooklyn, NY. We talk giallo and italo-disco, dough hydration, and Richard H Kirk.Door Base Camp Beta

RIP Jasen LovelandWe dedicate this episode to our friend Andrew Smith aka Jasen Loveland who recently passed away. An incredibly prolific producer who immersed himself deeply in his music, we read through his "12 Studio Traditions" - a set of guidelines and traditions for keeping creativity flowing.Please explore Andrew's work over at his Bandcamp:…

Real relaxed show today as Shawn and Chris begin to shoot the shit about Basic Channel's "Dytiq" and Kid Creole & The Coconuts "Don't Take My Coconuts" but quickly get derailed towards topics from sourdough to NFTs.Door Base Camp Beta

The Base Camp Crew talks about Mark Fisher's 2013 essay "The Slow Cancellation of the Future", neoliberalism's effect on production and consumption of culture, and how 100 Gecs throws a wrench in to all of it.Mixed by David TatascioreOpening music: Beau Wanzer - Basement Dwellersbasecampbeta808@gmail.com…

Base Camp Beta is back and we're talking about RA and Boiler Room getting $1 million grants, the use of the word "community", and we try to imagine what a future for music could look like.Opening music: Beau Wanzer - Basement Dwellersbasecampbeta808@gmail.comDoor Base Camp Beta

It’s Season 2 of Base Camp Beta and we’re back from a break of what seems like 20 years. We talk about Coronavirus (obviously), its impact on underground music, and (hopefully) the death of the neoliberal order. We then dive into Depeche Mode’s undersung masterpiece “Construction Time Again” and try to imagine the eco-communist future we all deserv…

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Just the original crew today talking about Xenakis’ “Persepolis” and telling family stories about the Shah’s son. We also tell the story of our friend Peter Daou, talk about streaming and back catalogues, and analyze Reviewbrah and Guy Fieri’s analogues in music.Special surprise guest Dave Wagenbach of Bubblesound Instruments! https://www.ctrl-mod.…

Unfortunately the recording of the second panel with Sybil Jason and Ryan Martin got screwed up. The demons of the Zoom recorder strike again.So here is the third and final installment of "Clubland and Its Discontents" - a series of panel discussions exploring the dialectics of dance and non-dance in the New York Underground in collaboration with t…

First of "Clubland and Its Discontents" - a series of panel discussions exploring the dialectics of dance and non-dance in the New York Underground in collaboration with the Interzone festival.On this panel we talk about the "lost" years of the late 90s - early 00s in NY with Scott Mou (Queens/Jane/Other Music) and Jon Nicholson (SSPS/Porkchop/Exce…

Speculator drops by with a fancy microphone to talk about the YouTube biz. Check out Will’s show Talk Video https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD-qgVQIiEpUQEcTnWHh4Iw*patreon* *patreon* *patreon* www.patreon.com/basecampbeta *patreon* *patreon* *patreon*Daywalker + CF - Insectorium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3ODuapxOaMBlack Deer - Apex Break ht…

We’re psyched to have our friend Juan Mendez aka Silent Servant call in from a payphone somewhere in the valley and regale us with tales of faxing Submerge, early Sandwell District, and LA nightlife. Not much more needs to be said - enjoy the ride…*patreon* *patreon* *patreon* www.patreon.com/basecampbeta *patreon* *patreon* *patreon*Spacemen 3 - W…

This week our friend Sanna Almajedi drops by to talk some cultural theory, dive deep into Nuyorican spoken word, and share with us some 7000 year old Egyptian rave. We also talk about our first concerts, what we listen to in the shower, and stromboli. Be nice in the comments - you may just make a friend!DJ Sanna - Ethereal Beatbox https://soundclou…

Our friend C. Spencer Yeh drop by this week to talk sober partying and how hard it is to actually have deep conversations and make friends sometimes. We also talk about Spencer’s work at Spectacle theater and indulge in some movie talk. The rest of the episode is about music, from the impending return of schaffel to italian minimalism and Copacaban…

A hearty sandwich of an episode, the meat of which is an interview with Palestinian musician and activist Samir Eskanda. We talk about BDS organizing and tactics for musicians and music listeners to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people. We also discuss the BDS movement’s focus on institutions rather than individuals, and how the same can…

Steve Mizek - of Little White Earbuds and Argot Records fame - joins us this week to talk about the heyday of mp3 blogs and the many ways in which the music media landscape has changed since then. We ruminate on the importance of the record label in 2019, worry about mid-2000s blog house returning, and mourn the death of the mix podcast by remember…

We’re joined this week by Nihar Bhatt - producer, DJ, party thrower, and label partner of CZ. We talk about San Francisco, the “canary in the coalmine of capitalism”, and reminisce about the constantly changing (read: getting evicted) party scene in the Bay Area. We try to tackle the issues of scarcity in the music scene and try to imagine a future…

A spectre is haunting music - the undying spectre of witch house. Sybil Jason aka Farced joins us for this week’s Base Camp Beta where we for some reason talk about witch house and how it never really went away. We also talk about DIY culture and the lengths one used to have to go to before the internet (say, having to go trackdown bootleg CDs in J…

Never mind your half eaten hot dog, welcome to BCB, episode 13 in which we talk: Weird Science with Ania Waluk and Maroje Tabakovic, future communes, mountains vs. the beach, the frightening skeleton of Ocean City (NJ), TM, NY vs Chicago hot dogs, saxophone as the hot dog of the music world, how Subway changed my life. We also discuss songs from Te…

Base Camp Basic this week with the original zoo crew - no guests - just pure, uncut base camp. We talk about the Boiler Room, Burning Man, and the Grateful Dead. Like any trip, though, you gotta break on through to the other side where we actually talk about good music like Stephen Mallinder, Duet Emmo, and *ahem* electro-industrial.Any way, help g…

Tajh Morris aka Turtle Bugg moved to Detroit last year and misses five things about New York - on this week’s episode, we investigate those five things while snacking and drinking (as usual) and recording our first offsite episode at Base Camp Uptown (Chris’ apartment). We get progressively drunk and stoned and start to ramble about Heaven 17, poli…

It’s guys night on the podcast, so friend of the show Anthony Parasole stops by to talk guy shit: John Carpenter, Thom Yorke’s moany-ass voice, virtual clubbing, and why you may as well toss a suitcase full of cash out of a helicopter instead of press a record. We talk a lot of music, too - focusing on Synewave classics, Damon Wild, Tommy Musto, De…

This week’s Base Camp Beta, our ninth episode, features Moroccan-born, New York-based special guest Selwa Abd, better known by her musical alias Bergsonist, with bonus appearance by Greg Zifcak aka Wav Dwgs and part of Eats Tapes.We talk the vagaries of sharing and discovering music in the digital era, playing live shows with very little to no prio…

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 …

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 Lorrai…

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 …

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 ho…

BCB004 - Electro-Eco-Communism with Ben AllenEpisode 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 a…

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 GorbachevaShawn, 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 yo…

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 influ…

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 DwellersProduced by Rachelle RahmeMixed and Edited by David Tat…

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 Transmi…