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DJs FROM OUTER SPACE

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About Me


Welcome, my name is Gabriel Norland, I am the sole member of the collective known as . . .
DJs FROM OUTER SPACE
I am a high ranking disc (and desk) jockey for the avantrural crew. Also, I am the chief rabble rouser in the musical group known as The Ratfinks
CLICK 'ERE TO FIND OUT ABOUT WATTSFEST '08 (this year's avantrural event).
I am honoured to be hosting my friend Nuala's album launch party, it has a particularly attractive flyer
More info on the DJs From Outer Space...
DJ FRACTAL BROCCOLI
supplies you with a musical journey analogous to the voyage of a small insect on the surface of an unusual and yet delightfully edible plant - ambient soundscapes, field recordings and unexpected electronic undulations. The name is taken from a vegetable that looks like this .
DJ CHIN SUPPRESSOR
serves up a genre-bending agenda, mashing up all manner of music for the purpose of waistline wobbling.
THE POWERS OF 10
is about sampling, scratching, live looping and speaking poems over rural-reggae with The Ratfinks . Writing nonsensical-pseudo-socio-political-philosophical ramblings and spreading awareness of the strange and splendid. The name is taken from a 1977 film by Charles and Ray Eames that reveals the relative sizes of things in the known universe. The film has been conveniently uploaded on youtube for your viewing pleasure, just click here .
DJ SCRATCH MONKEY MC
combines turntablism and vocalism in one single, unprecedented performance technique. Using Ms Pinky's Interdimensional Wrecked System , which like other products available on the market, allows users to control digital music files with time-coded vinyl. However, Ms Pinky's software was built using Max/MSP and therefore its elements can be taken apart and adapted or remoulded. Friend and audio accomplice of the DJs FROM OUTER SPACE, Max Crackery, one night had the fantastic idea to use Ms Pinky vinyl tracking technology to create the Scratch Monkey Pro. This inspired invention can modulate the pitch of a live audio input. Basically this means that DJ SCRATCH MONKEY MC can scratch what he says as he's saying it. Below is a video clip demonstrating the Scratch Monkey software (apologies for bad quality).
Also, here's a film of me dancing by Alembic .
If you got to here, thanks for taking an interest - peace x

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/26/2005
Band Website: avantrural.com/djsfromouterspace
Band Members: Myself and my toys
Influences: badger, ferret, otter, weasel, stoat, vole, field mouse, rabbit, mole, swallow, starling, crow, albatross, rhinoceros, rice cakes, brian eno, moose, badger, beaver, mongoose, ladybird, chameleon, orang-utan, cypress hill, black widow spider, medusa the gorgon, spider monkey, scratch monkey, coldcut, dj food, sheep, black sheep, cow, pig, goat, badger, chicken, duck, taj mahal, badger, badger, badgers on top of other badgers, beaver, duck-billed platypus, the bonzo dog doo dah band, fox, flying fox, flying squirrel, squirrel, sloth, sea-lion, walrus, bob dylan, bob marley, rocket ships, trout, salmon, aphex twin, lobster, migrant bearded chemists, warp, deleuze & guattari, baudrillard, hyper-reality, dada, sex, angler fish, praying mantis, dj qbert, the scratch perverts, antelope, the prodigy, star-nosed mole, ferret, probably, lion, hinduism, jasper, spaniel, chaos theory, human being, dj shadow, chimpanzee, leftfield, peacock, quannum, parrot, heron, aardvark, edan, krs one, hip hop, eminem, beached whale, the fly, mosquito, dj spooky, badger, ferret, stoat, rat, bush-baby, jinji, the gentle people, hare, ska, avantruralism, morphic resonance, resonance fm, venetian snares, deer, richie hawtin, koala, mathew herbert, akufen, unicorn, stag, pornography, david lynch, wolf, big bird, little bird, planet mu, giraffe, cycrowave murry, grasshopper, dragonfly, butterfly, moth, micheal jackson, buzzard, pigeon, bald-headed eagle, steve reich, marmoset, luke vibert, pygmy hippo, richard d. james, quantum mechanics, the herbaliser, yesterday, tomorrow, crocodile, mo wax, plaid, josh wink, triceratops, rage against the machine, lemming, astrology, astronomy, john cage, prairie dog, antipop consortium, aesop rock, tapir, tape ear, tea pier, tip ‘ere, caiman, jam, miles davis, rhizomatic theory, the powers of ten, skink, the ratfinks, dr. octagon, ill just have an alf thanks mate, homo sapiens, homo erectus, homo neanderthalis, the culm valley crew, cut chemist, dj numark, kangaroo, crab, latryx, max crackery, ms pinky, max msp, wallaby, grizzly bear, panda bear, black bear, polar bear, spectacled bear, paddington bear, pooh bear, saul williams, infinite livez, raccoon, rephlex, vulture, hyena, shrimp, venetian snares, bat, bat-eared fox, fruit bat, douglas adams, octopus, the specials, madness, mackerel, stingray, eels, pike, c od, keep away from the trout, haddock, shark, the freestylers, armadillo, chris morris, hedgehog, porcupine, echidna, dog, god, james brown, ninja tune, elephant, roots manuva, cobra, python, rattlesnake, adder, adda-badda, the orb, the future sound of london, mr. lizard, rigid lizard, gecko, mos def, tree frog, salamander, newt, dj krush, komodo dragon, fluxus, nam june paik, horny toad, dj vadim, frilled ren, blind-albino-cave-hoek, susumu yokota, future gibbon, squarepusher, blue tit, hawk, peregrine falcon, bottle-nosed dolphin, cheddar cheese.
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My Blog

I flan, you flan, he flans, she flans . . . etc

I won't pretend to know much about Baudelaire but he coined a great term in his writing that I have come to know of. The term is 'Flanneur' and a flanneur is a poet whose environment is the crowd. He ...
Posted by DJs FROM OUTER SPACE on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:08:00 PST

The Free Lance Society

Are you a freelance worker? Well for just £20 a year you can register yourself as freelance with The Free Lance Society and to say thank you we will send you a free lance. Yes, a real, full sized lanc...
Posted by DJs FROM OUTER SPACE on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 04:04:00 PST

a dip in the river and a forestry commission collision

Last week I was working in Brecon, Wales, teaching DJ/music workshops in schools and youth clubs. I had a day off on Thursday and took the opportunity to enjoy the surrounding landscape on a beautiful...
Posted by DJs FROM OUTER SPACE on Sun, 07 May 2006 03:58:00 PST