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Rob McDowall

About Me


"Rob McDowall is one of those rare DJ's that crosses genres with consistently good results, skillfully providing an education in eclectic modern music..."
Dan Johnson - BBC New Media
"After hearing Robs mixes I was in no doubt he was the DJ for the event. His eclectic taste and the way he reacts to the crowd, and the environment means that I will definitely be asking him to play at more MASH events..."
Dan Brown - MASH Cinema
Booking/Other Enquiries
Please email info[at]robmcdowall.co.uk
Mixes
Click here to listen to my DJ set from the Green Man Festival (2006)
Event Diary
03/05/08 - drop beats not bombs - birmingham [ more ]
11/04/08 - static 2 - hereford [ more ]
29/02/08 - olo radio guest mix [ click to download ]
06/10/07 - static festival - herefordshire [ more ]
19/08/07 - the green man festival, brecon [ more ]
27/05/07 - secret garden party, mosely nr birmingham [ more ]
23/03/07 - the green man festival's rite of spring, hay-on-wye CANCELLED

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/29/2007
Influences: See my blog for charts

On Rotation:

Andy Garbi - The Sound of One

Thee, Stranded Horse
Churning Strides

Efterklang - Parades

Peter Broderick - Tour CDR

Jonquil - Lions

Hauschka - Room To Expand

Stars of the Lid
And Their Refinement of the Decline

Murcof - Cosmos

Labels: 4ad, anticon, antifolk, asphodel, bastet, bedroom community, black jazz, blue note, bo' weavil, capricorn, catskills, crippled dick hot wax, domino, drag city, durtro, ecm, ether, fat cat, finders keepers, gnomonsong, grand central, important, impulse!, jnana, kning disk, leaf, locust, lono records, lo recordings, lex, magnetic fields, metier, mr bongo, ninja tune, nonplace, planet mu, posteverything, quannum, red deer club, rumraket, scape, secret eye, seed, souljazz, soundway, strange attractors audio house, sterns music, strut, subrosa, thirsty ear, thrill jockey, tomlab, touch, trunk records, tru-thoughts, verve, vhf, voodoo-eros, warp, wrasse, young god, zebra traffic

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Authors: amiri baraka, basho, baudelaire, jean baudrillard, yochai benkler, william blake, bukowski, william s burroughs, samuel butler, byron, fritjof capra, lewis carrol, chomsky, gregory corso, david deutsch, jared diamond, philip k dick, philip jose farmer, ginsberg, nikki giovanni, heinrich harrer, nick herbert, herman hesse, bill hicks, herbert huncke, aldous huxley, kafka, keats, kerouac, ken kesey, jung, korzybski, philip larkin, mallory, marx, dick mcbride, marshall mcluhan, jack michelin, john michell, paul d miller, george monbiot, nietzsche, flann o'brien, orwell, plato, rousseau, douglas rushkoff, bertrand russell, shelley, gary snyder, steinbeck, dt suzuki, tennyson, dylan thomas, hunter s thompson, thoreau, david toop, kurt vonnegut, alan watts, whitman, william carlos williams, robert anton wilson, tom wolfe
Radio: adventures in modern music [ more ]
olo radio [ more ]
resonance fm [ more ]
samurai fm [ more ]
spinning on air [ more ]
you are hear [ more ]
Record Label: None
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Free Rotation 2008

I'll be DJ'ing at the Free Rotation Audio/Visual Festival on Sat 9th August.This years festival will take place on the 8th/9th/10th August at Baskerville Hall, a historic country mansion near Hay-On-W...
Posted by Rob McDowall on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:07:00 PST

Drop Beats Not Bombs - Sat 3rd May

Chilled Electronica & Down-tempo 9pm-6amJon Harris & Justin Bond (Loafers Lounge)Mr Black, Dr Piz, Jez Wells (Purple Radio)Nick Luscombe (XFM / Flo-Motion)Rob McDowall (The Green Man Festival)...
Posted by Rob McDowall on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:08:00 PST

STATIC II @ Borderlines Film Festival - 11th April

Friday 11th April (12-5pm and 7pm-12am)Gwynne Studio WarehouseThe Left BankHereford Installation and performance by local and international artists: Jaime JacksonDan BrownChris WhiteSally PayenPriyan...
Posted by Rob McDowall on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:15:00 PST

Guest Mix On Olo Radio

Olo Radio is an internet radio show run by Olo Worms (Fence Records) and has featured guest mixes by Vetiver, James Yorkston, Deerhoof, Safetyword, Minotaur Shock and Steve Mason. CLICK HERE TO ...
Posted by Rob McDowall on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:25:00 PST

Dick McBride - Upbeat & Groovy: Poems 1960 - 2008 (Audio CD 2008)

Recorded at his cottage in Herefordshire, "Upbeat & Groovy" is an anthology of poetry written and read by Dick McBride. The poems included here are those that he most often chooses ...
Posted by Rob McDowall on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:32:00 PST

Best of 2007

Akio Suzuki - K7 Box (ALM Records)Amiina - Kurr (Ever Records)James Blackshaw - The Cloud Of Unknowing (Tompkins Square) Bonnie Prince Billy - Ask Forgiveness (Drag City)Peter Broderick - Tour CD (CD-...
Posted by Rob McDowall on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 03:49:00 PST

DJing at the STATIC Festival

I'll be DJ'ing at the STATIC Festival in Herefordshire on October the 6th.You can find me in MASH Cinema's "Little Glitch Tent".from www.myspace.com/static061007On the 6th October there will be STATIC...
Posted by Rob McDowall on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:58:00 PST

DJ'ing at the Green Man Festival

I'm DJ'ing at this years Green Man Festival, at the Glanusk Estate nr Crickhowell on the 19th of August. You can find me in the DJ tent between 5-6pm on the Sunday Info from: blog.myspace.co...
Posted by Rob McDowall on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:00:00 PST

Google Antiquarian

from: www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further "It's been around a few months now, but this Google Earth plugin from Julian Cope and Holy McGrail's Modern Antiquarian web site really is the ur-tool for the ...
Posted by Rob McDowall on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 03:23:00 PST

DJ'ing at Free Rotation A/V Festival

Les Earthdoctor has booked me to DJ in the chill out room that the Dragon Collective is curating at the Free Rotation A/V Arts Festival in September. The aim of the Festival is ".....
Posted by Rob McDowall on Mon, 28 May 2007 04:41:00 PST