Swingshift: Babes of the Abyss - Part II

“Meeting a girl’s friends is a tricky tight rope act. A little flirting never hurts but too much flirting will yield you enemies for life. I quickly decide that my best strategy, as is often the case in awkward social situations, is to throw a ludicrous amount of charm and booze at the situation. By the time I order the third round of shots and run through my greatest hits of self-deprecating stories, it is as if we are all old friends.”


Part II of Babes of the Abyss is live at T21.

The Allied bennies come on cool and slow. We discover the reason behind Rodriguez’s surprise social call and the NYPD detective and the charmed feline form a sinister alliance.

Then Dick settles in to his new role as the boyfriend. He meets the lovely L-Girls and glimpses a well-chiseled shadow from Qarin’s past from across a crowded room.

I'm thinking of assembling a Swingshift playlist. Zola Jesus v. LA Vampires is definetly the soundtrack for this chapter.




Swingshift: Babes of the Abyss - Part II

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Swingshift: Babes of the Abyss

"I wake to the familiar sensation of my brain trying to burst its way out of my skull. I manage to turn the AC to full blast and pull a sheet over my head to hold back the day a few more minutes. I close my eyes and let frantic images of the previous night’s debauchery scroll by. Glimpses of fevered copulations, teasing, taunting, bordering on violence and ending, as has become common, with me handcuffed to the headboard."


Babes of the Abyss a new storyline in the Swingshift series is live at T21.

The story picks up a few weeks after the events of Dog Days' Nights. It is built so that a reader could jump in to the series now with minimal confusion. However, it also fits within a larger narrative for the series.

Babes of the Abyss should be a little sexier and a touch more surreal than the previous story. It will see our man Dick operating out on his own in a bizarre underworld, pushing himself well beyond the break of sanity. I you enjoy it.




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Happy Birthday - Rose Sélavy

“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”

A happy 123rd Birthday to Marcel Duchamp the OG (original game-changer).

Unified Bass Theory Vol. 2

A sequel to my original Unified Bass Theory mix, again I tried to draw from a broad spectrum of underground BASS sounds, mining the fertile margins at the edges of UK Funky, House, Dubstep and West Coast beats.

The mix has a serious summer vibe, custom built for both sun drenched afternoons and sweat soaked late nights.

Unified Bass Theory Vol. 2 by kelcey

1) Gil Scott Heron - New York is Killing Me
2) Eprom - Bubble
3) Free The Robots - Orion's Belt Buckle
4) The xx - Islands (Untold remix)
5) Jose James - Warrior (SBTRKT remix)
6) Grace Jones - Love You To Life (Digital Mystikz remix)
7) Ikonika - Yoshimitsu
8) Pariah - Orpheus
9) Ramadanman - Don't Change For Me
10) F- Energy Distortion (Untold remix)
11) DJ MA1 — High Definition (Deep Teknologi remix)
12) Hardhouse Banton - Rein (Roska remix)
13) MJ Cole - Phoenix Riddim
14) MJ Cole - AO (MJ's Open Your Gob dub)
15) Girl Unit - IRL (DVA's Hi Emotions remix)
16) Karizma - I.C.U.
17) A Made Up sound - Sun Touch
18) Zero 7 - Ghost sYMbOL (Julio Bashmore remix)
19) Altered Natives - Raaatid Einstein
20) Argy & DJ Gregory - Our Drums
21) DVA - Ganja
22) Hypno - Over the Top
23) Kentphonik - Hiya Kaya (Rocco Deep mix)
24) Roska - The Sheppard
25) Hot Chip - I Feel Better (Ill Blu remix)

Swingshift: Dog Days' Nights - Part VII

“In my own sudden moment of action, I slam the study door shut and bolt the lock. This leaves me alone in the small room with a near catatonic Murzim, moaning and clutching his balls, and a massive, sinister demon dog. It is perhaps the dumbest decision I have ever made but I have an irrational faith in my secret weapon.”


Part VII of Dog Days’ Nights is live at T21. This is it, the frantic conclusion. This installment is a twisted riff on a classic mystery cliche, where all the players assemble in the study for the big reveal. Only here, the players include a demon, a pack of street dogs and an enchanted cat.

Dog Days’ Nights is the first of three interconnected story lines in the series. The next story, Babes of the Abyss, will go live in a couple weeks.

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R.I.P. Rammellzee

All humans are spectators to Art in the second dimension. We are only recording recepticles for energy’s knowledge for the build procedure.

[...]

Death is remanipulation only be electromagnetic knowledge energy leaving disease because of malfunction of inhabited diseaseculture, other deaths are only CHANGE. Electromagnetics’ knowledge disperses back into the course of the Van Allen Belt’s (in purity).

from the ICONIC TREATISE ON GOTHIC FUTURISM


I’m not sure how I originally came across Rammellzee’s Iconic Treatise on Gothic Futurism. The CCRU or Kodwo Eshun may have had something to do with it. The internet surely did. What I do know is that I was in no way prepared for the experience.

While Ramm’s music is excellent and truly foundational it was this pamphlet that really blew my mind. Reading it is one a unique experiences where even as you strain to make sense the text you are convinced the words and symbols are re-wiring your neurons without your consent.

Ramm:Ell:Zee >> Performer of the Equation >> Runner of the Transversus, may his eletomagnetic knowledge return to the Van Allen Belt.




video via @Hyperdub

Swingshift: Dog Days' Nights - Part VI

Things are tense in the interrogation room. My story has run out of yarn but the promised revelations and actionable conclusions have not materialized. I am convinced there is something more, that the timeline is incomplete.


After a small delay, my bad, Part VI of Dog Days' Nights is live at T21. In this installment our battered hero commits the unpardonable sin of sobering up and getting some sleep. A respite he pays dearly for. Also, our story returns full circle to the beginning and we discover a little bit about what is up with the cat.

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