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DJ IK

addicts of mugwump fluid are known as reptiles.

About Me

"I predict .. in the near future .. right wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus."

daytime: sun, beer, ambient electronic and reggae, and bent grass greens. nighttime: flay or makhni, glenmorangie, and liquid drum & bass on large sound systems. anytime:: the studio, herbal refreshment, and the pull of 1198ccs on 2 wheels. My main goal in life is to make Curved Space Labs a brilliant record label, put out my vision of electronic music, tour extensively with my band Fragment and as a dj, and run the whole operation from the CSL Bali Compound - an estate comprised of a Neve-powered, glass-encased studio, coffee plantation, herb garden, and a pack of dogs. curvedspacelabs.com is operational and in phase I. The Other Area podcast is on hiatus at the moment...


[DJ MIXES]

:: Soundtrack for journeys to worlds beyond...
"DEEP SPACE"
Nice fresh tracks to accompany your Indian Summer trip through space & time...we have the, ah...transloader injection burn... Listen|Download | Tracklisting
:: My latest offering to Pook's NorCal outpost
"FUTURE BAY ROVER"
Shorter 45.00m set exploring the dub/minimal/smokey side of d&b...late summer blazin' Listen|Download | Tracklisting
:: The definitive Summer mix for 2007!
"BALI COMPOUND"
Alright, here's this summer's mix in tribute to the future Curved Space Labs' Neve-powered, glass-encased studio plantation....very fresh throughout! Another road trip-tested mix! Listen/Download | Tracklisting
:: A new pair of mixes by DJ Ik vs. DJ Jagdish!!
"LUDLOW SESSIONS"
This one is takin' it back to the golden age of hard-ass drum n' bass. Classic after classic is dropped in this 2 part series, and is guaranteed to get your head bangin' VOL I :: Listen/Download | Tracklisting VOL II :: Listen/Download | Tracklisting
:: Another new mix by Ik & Jagdish!!
"LIGHT IN THE SKY"
The best in atmospheric, intelligent, liquidy drum and bass. This mix was inspired by a strain of herb called Jack Herer. Pretty much our highest mix ever. Made with cats who truly enjoy drum and bass in mind, please enjoy with no distractions and at a comfortably loud level. Smoke one on this to get the full effect. Listen/Download | Tracklisting
:: Check the massive Bhangra set!
"MASTERS OF DHOL, VOL. I"
Lots of anthems on this one...Jazzy B., Safri, Lehmber, Bikram Singh and more!

Listen/Download | Tracklisting

My Interests

music. people, change, revolutions, motorcycles, GLBC and other solid microbrews, cooking, single malt scotch whisky, hamilton russell 2005 pinot noir, sencha and genmaicha, central american and indonesian coffees, Punjabi culture, history, astro and quantum physics, the universe, nature, travel, salt air, the sun, beaches, only having a wedge in, tattoos, hap ki do, walking around nyc at night in the summertime, and making sure the party never ends...

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who's chilled out, real and wants to live life. Also, I'd like to sit down and hang with Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky & Cevin Key and would love to commune with William S. Burroughs, Bob Marley and John Lennon.

Music:

skinny puppy, fragment, cevin key, doubting thomas, download, tear garden, plateau, mouse on mars, sun electric, ken ishii, aphex twin, orb, autechre, speedy j, jack dangers, meat beat manifesto, freaky chakra, coil, scorn, ministry, front line assembly, revolting cocks, 242, einsturzende neubauten, seefeel, 808 state, LFO, future sound of london, aquasky, dara, marky, calibre, total science, marcus intalex, mist:i:cal, juju, xrs, bungle, mutt, ed rush and optical, d. kay, high contrast, mathematics, nu:tone, invaderz, jeff mills, richie hawtin, advent, steve stoll, dave angel, cari lekebusch, joel mull, adam beyer, selway, gaetano parisio, john tejada, moshic, talib kweli, mos def, 9th wonder, pharoahe monch, scaramanga, a tribe called quest, pharcyde, buckshot/black moon, kool keith, murs, little brother, jean grae, mfdoom, gza, cocoa brovaz, common, zion i, public enemy, ice cube, dj krush, beastie boys, bob marley, augustus pablo, thomas fehlmann, macka b., twilight circus, king tubby, scientist, b21, balwinder safri, sukshinder shinda, bikram singh, lehmber hussainpuri, jazzy b., panjabi mc, midival punditz, cheb i sabbah, badmarsh and shri, ustad zakir hussain, ustad alla rakha, pandit shivkumar sharma, slayer, death, metallica, sepultura, fugazi, 7 seconds, dri, jello biafra, descendents, the misfits, minor threat, bad religion, the clash, circle jerks, jane's addiction, smashing pumpkins, primus, rage against the machine, tenacious d, the doors, david bowie, red hot chili peppers, the cure, bauhaus, depeche mode, love and rockets, tones on tail, joy division, new order, echo and the bunnymen, jesus and mary chain, siouxsie, cocteau twins, lush......

Movies:

platoon, lock stock and two smoking barrels, snatch, reservoir dogs, planet terror, deathproof, pulp fiction, natural born killers, fear and loathing in las vegas, uturn, the professional, killing zoe, true romance, heat, buffalo '66, kill bill, el mariachi, desperado, amores perros, children of men, wall street, the last temptation of christ, excalibur, wild at heart, lost highway, sexy beast, run lola run, animal factory, hard boiled, full metal jacket, apocalypse now, salvador, jfk, steal this movie, the us vs. john lennon, east is east, bend it like beckham, pardes, salaam bombay, asoka, chinese connection, fists of fury, jet li's fearless, old boy, the legend, enter the dragon, zatoichi, hero, house of flying daggers, akira, spirited away, borat, the life aquatic, rushmore, lost in translation, half baked, office space, austin powers, black sheep, 40 year old virgin, caddyshack, stripes, animal house, the van, the snapper, mean machine, layer cake, monty python, aliens, hellraiser, star wars, braveheart, the lord of the rings trilogy...

Television:

Tenacious D, Mr. Show, Kids in the Hall, Da Ali G Show, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Extras, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Naked Chef, 24, No Reservations, Monty Python, The Young Ones, Star Trek: TNG.

Books:

Naked Lunch, Junky, Exterminator, My Education, Yage Letters, Interzone, Ghost of Chance, Last Words, etc. - William S. Burroughs; Kingdom of Fear, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompson; Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain; Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller; Damnation Game, Thief of Always - Clive Barker; Visions - Michio Kaku; Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking; Life Of Pi - Yann Martel; Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali; Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegaut; Train To Pakistan - Khushwant Singh; Satanic Verses, Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie. POLITICAL: Understanding Power, Manufacturing Consent, Common Good, Hegemony or Survival, Interventions, etc. - Noam Chomsky; Power Politics, An Ordinary Persons Guide to Empire - Arundhati Roy; Tariq Ali, Uri Avnery, Greg Palast, Robert Jensen, Subcomandante Marcos. PHILOSOPHICAL: Krishnamurti, Vedic texts, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Gysin, Genesis P-Orridge, and other things of that nature...

Heroes:

Bob Marley and William S. Burroughs, both of whom's words I live by, and George Carlin and Bill Hicks.

My Blog

New Mix Up!!

check out my latest mix, "Deep Space"...listen to the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy...
Posted by DJ IK on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 03:07:00 PST

Evo Morales, President of Bolivia, is my hero.

'El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!'Jon Stewart just interviewed President Morales on the Daily Show and it was brilliant.  After talking about how he got into power from humble beginnings as a...
Posted by DJ IK on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:25:00 PST

Music & Supersymmetry

Santoor might be the best sounding intsrument ever devised.  At least in the way that Pandit-ji Shivkumar altered it and plays it.  Throw in the world's best tabla player, and you're talking...
Posted by DJ IK on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:24:00 PST

re: tourists in NY

Sigh....I fall more in love with Anthony Bourdain with each passing day...surprisingly enough, I only have just begun reading Kitchen Confidential...just never got around to it, I guess, but its givin...
Posted by DJ IK on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:51:00 PST

yeeeeahhh...listen to my band Fragment’s tunes

Just got done uploading a bunch of tracks on my band's myspace page, so anyone who's into quality electronic music should double click any of the tunes below to preview and buy!  For details abou...
Posted by DJ IK on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:47:00 PST

positive vibration

since I've been about 14, I've know that I really want nothing to do at all with what is common.  as I've steadily gotten older, that realization has become more apparant.  it manifests itse...
Posted by DJ IK on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:57:00 PST

Best Standup Comedy Specials Ever

I came to realization quite a few years ago that I absolutely love great standup.  Because of the fact that there are a lot of amazingly bad comics out there who have no business filming a s...
Posted by DJ IK on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:10:00 PST

COSMIC ORGANICISM of the UNIVERSAL MOLECULAR

COUM is a means ov removal. Removing thee barriers between energy, intuition and body. Removing thee ego and thee premeditated act ov creation.COUM is a transmission ov energy. There are no media, onl...
Posted by DJ IK on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:59:00 PST

bloodlines

so, earlier tonite i just started reading Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali...and its really good. I've only completed the first chapter, but its called Bloodlines, and the funny thing about that is that I'...
Posted by DJ IK on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:08:00 PST

declaring west coast intentions

NYC is out of the equation after all...thought I'd give it one last shot, given how much the city means to me. But its apparant that the city is just not what it used to be. While I still love it de...
Posted by DJ IK on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:36:00 PST