411 Air travel is fear of death

I guess this all started from revisiting the Mojo compilation "Pigs Might Fly" from 2017, where the first two tracks are pulled from.  The rest is a psychedelic trip through many styles and sub-genres all around the hauntology and post-rock areas ending with a head trip from Achim Reichel which came from my frequent revisiting of the Nurse With Wound list.  Should be obvious after that month of electronic remixes I needed a palate cleanser.  

00:00  Josefin Ohrn + The Liberation - Sister Green Eyes

03:40  Gong - Through Restless Seas I Come

10:31  Magick Brother & Mystic Sister - The First Light

12:48  Anna Sjalv Tredje - Tusen ar & Sju Timmar

20:41  Dead Voices on Air - Papa Papa Paet Flag

24:39  Julie's Haircut - Karlsruhe

30:56  Josefin Ohrn + The Liberation - Imagine You

36:51  Grace Cale's Dubset - Bibbering Blaggat (Hittite War Chant)

39:59  Ghost Power - Panic In The Isles of Splendour

43:30  Boris - New Years (Asobi Seksu)

47:49  The Oscillation - On The Run (Pink Floyd)

52:29  Cluster - James

55:30  Godspeed You Black Emperor - Outro

62:02  Dif Juz - Tabla Piece

65:18  A.R. & Machines - Truth and Probability

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412 Ornithology Love Theme From A State of Malaise

Back to what I love most, odd music.  Stuff that is mesmerizing and difficult, bizarre and rare.  A fun journey that bounces around but leaves a smile on my face.  

Julie's Haircut doing a cover of Jodorowsky.  Blind Cave Salamander I only know of because of the Nurse With Wound Connection.  I don't recall where I can across Memotone, sounding like The Caretaker and Broadcast meeting in a Dashiell Hammett novel.  Andrzej Korzynski coming in from the Possession soundtrack.  Then David Tibet and HOH acting as bizarre loung singers.  Dif Juz in their first of two appearances here, doing a bit of post-rock/dub.  HNAS doing their thing to the sounds of the swinging sixties.  John Grant (from the Czars) paired up with Chris and Cosey for this remix, with the best line about Scanners in it.  Taking it back on that tip to a favorite from Throbbing Gristle which led perfectly into this fun one from XTC and an outtake from the 3rd Reich album by the Residents.  

Huelsenbeck from a Can tribute album. Then Akos Stefi perking things up with this fun ditty that may just get stuck in your head.  Bunnygrunt doing things right by covering the theme to a favorite long time show.  Cosmo Sheldrake is one I heard on the radio and thought it so unique I had to pull over and look up the song on the stations playlist so I wouldn't forget it.  Dif Juz's second appearance, an excerpt from the lengthy SWNN track.  Leven Signs is another I am fuzzy on where I came across them, likely when I was researching artists for my unexpected Gamelan mixes.  Der Blutharsch from their middle period, just before they went all psychedelic rock.  This one features Geoffrey D from the excellent Derniere Volonte.  A bootleg peel session featuring Alien Sex Fiend.  Making things uncomfortable with a Time Stereo artist, live ESP from the ESP Beetles which is more than likely Warn Defever and Davin Brainard.  And Leven Signs bringing it home again with some chaotic belly dance music.

00:00  Julie's Haircut - The Tarot

06:24  Blind Cave Salamander - Ljubljana

10:34  Memotone - The Magpie

13:31  Andrzej Korzynski - Opetanie 2

13:57  Current 93 & HOH - Paperback Honey

18:34  Dif Juz - Pass it on Charle

22:20  Hirsche Nicht Auf's Sofa - Silvester-Effekte

24:54  John Grant - Grey Tickles Black Pressure (Carter Tutti Remix)

30:52  Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats

33:28  XTC - Short Leave Ornithology (Another 1950)

38:57  The Residents - 05 (3rd Reich Sessions)

41:16  Huelsenbeck - I Really Was In State of Malaise

46:23  Akos Stefi - Mariguana Cha-Cha-Cha

49:20  Bunnygrunt - Love Theme from MST3K

51:01  Cosmo Sheldrake - Come Along

55:15  Dif Juz - SWNN part 2

56:18  Leven Signs - Prague Spring

61:40  Der Blutharsch feat Geoffrey D - 08 (When All Else Fails)

64:54  Alien Sex Fiend - Ignore The Machine (Peel session)

71:26  live ESP - Something

78:22  Leven Signs - Our Position Vanishes

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What's Next?

 All good things must come to an end.  My marathon of remix overviews has run its course, or more accurately I've run out of ideas.  I had a couple more planned but don't quite have the time to sort through all the tracks.  I'll revisit those sometime in the future.   

Of course, I'm always open to suggestions, requests, & recommendations.  

I have another series planned soon, on a completely unrelated subject.  Until then I'll return to a few individual and one-off mixes that I've been sitting on for a while.  Thanks to anyone enduring this journey with me, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did making these mixes.

441 The Remix According To Leafcutter John

What? Isn't that the guy that does my yardwork?   Nah, its John Burton, a very obscure and experimental electronic artist.  He's also a member of Polar Bear, the post-Jazz group not the post-Jane's Addiction group.  This music is bizarre and well crafted.  I was the Slag Boom Van Loon track where I first scratched my head over this artist.  Then he started appearing on several of those Wire Tapper CDs and I was hooked.  Here's a good overview of the remixes he's completed, and most of these were new to me when I starting researching his output.

00:00  Capitol K - Pillow (Playtime Mix)

03:30  Slag Boom Van Loon - Broccoli (Leafcutter John remix) 

09:43  Badly Drawn Boy - The Shining (Capitol K Remix)

14:29  Talvin Singh - Traveller (Leafcutter John remix)

20:13  JAM String Collective - Monk Had A Dream (Leafcutter John remix)

24:19  Liz Hanks - Brook (Leafcutter John remix)

29:34  Origamibiro - Quad Time (Leafcutter John remix)

35:01  Lau - The Bell That Never Rang (Leafcutter John remix)

40:12  Inwards - Mouse (Leafcutter John remix)

44:59  Strings of Consciousness - Untitled (Leafcutter John remix)

50:00  Electric Company - Thursa2 Hostile Takeover Mix (Leafcutter John remix)

54:54  ORE - Skarn (Leafcutter John remix)

61:50  Dot Never - Drill (Leafcutter John remix)

66:50  Glen Velez - Untitled (Leafcutter John remix)

72:12  Friends of Jitney - Good Mourning (Leafcutter John remix)

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440 The Remix According to The Black Dog (Productions)

I am a big fan of their early works, Bytes and Spanners are incredible albums.  I first came across them via the Trance Europe Express compilation, then the Bjork remixes.  I know they splintered early on and one member left to become Plaid.  Black Dog dropped "productions" from their name and the music evolved in style as well.  I had another 20 or so remixes for this mix that I didn't include as that musical evolution seemed to subdue their wonkyness in my opinion.  So the remixes here are all showcasing the early years and the stuff that had a bit more flair than the average electronic remix tends to be.

00:00  Radiohead - Talk Show Host (Black Dog Remix)

04:07  Blondie - Fade Away and Radiate (108 BPM mix)

09:22  Bjork - Come To Me (Black Dog Mix)

14:21  Nav Katze - More THan A Feeling (Black Dog Mix #2)

20:44  The Creatures - Guillotine (Bitten by the Black Dog)

25:18  Garbage - Breaking Up The Girl (Black Dog Wounded by the Warbeast mix)

30:00  Soft Ballet - Perfection (Plaid & Black Dog mix)

37:56  Nav Katze - Never Not (Black Dog Mix #1)

44:55  Lalo Schifrin - Bullitt (Bitten by the Black Dog Cruise Control)

49:24  Bjork - The Anchor Song (Black Dog Mix)

54:06  Ned's Atomic Dustbin - All I Ask Of Myself Is That I Hold Together (No Answer mix)

59:19  Elbow - Newborn (Bitten By The Black Dog)

63:47  The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You (The Black Dog Lithium Carbonate 300mg mix)

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00:00  Anodyne - Corrosion (Bitten By The Black Dog)

09:26  Reload - Le Soleil Et La Mer (Black Dog Productions Remix)

15:41  Laurent Garnier - Crispy Bacon (Bitten By The Black Dog)

23:06  Rubens - Breaking Into Smile (Black Dog Mix)

29:20  Black Sifichi - Unsavoury Products (Bitten by the Black Dog)

34:03  Derailleur - Cognate (Bitten Deep by the Black Dog)

40:20  Alter Ego - Tanks Ahead (Black Dog Remix)

47:42  Mark Broom & Plaid - Gold Cheese (The Fairgrind Version)

52:35  Phenomyna - Into the Other World (Explained by the Black Dog)

58:43  Plan V - Tripulante 2.4 (Black Dog Remix)

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439 The Remix According To The Remote Viewer

Goodness, where to start.  The Remote Viewer is a project of Craig Tattersall and Andrew Johnson, both ex-members of Hood, who now work together as Famous Boyfriend.  Craig is also part of The Boats, The Humble Bee, The Sea, The Seaman and the Tattered Sail, and others I'm sure I'm forgetting.  As for The Remote Viewer, I like how their discogs description sums up their sound, "They make diligently processed melancholic pop which combines the aesthetics of early 90s miserabilism and the technical astuteness of contemporary electronica."  Plus, sharing their name with one of Coil's finest albums.  

00:00  Origamibiro - Ballerina Platform Shoes

05:12  Bracken - We Cut The Tapes and Scatter

09:22  Atone - Seul

12:49  Acetate Zero - Remote Viewer Version

16:44  Third Eye Foundation - What Is It With You

23:08  Accelera Deck - Untitled

28:16  epic45 - Walk Led To Happiness

32:50  Benoit Pioulard - Hawkeye

37:35  Austin Benjamin Trio - The Doublethinkers

42:52  Brael & Tokyo Bloodworm - Untitled 1

47:53  epic45 - The Village Is Asleep

55:27  Tokyo Bloodworm - Mergers and Occupations

61:05  Ian Hawgood - A Film By The Remote Viewer

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