497 Post-metal Psyche Noise mix from 2006

All things that are close but not quite straightforward metal.  Lots of offshoots and sub-genres on display here leading to a pretty cohesive mix.  

00:00  Jesu - Star (edit)

05:58  Earth - Tallahassee

09:39  Isis - 1000 Shards

15:47  Pelican - A Delicate Sense of Balance

20:55  John Fahey + Cul De Sac - The New Red Pony

26:38  Abunai! - Cosmo Gun

33:56  Spacemen 3 - Losing Touch With My Mind

38:37  Loop - Carry Me

43:26  Fudge Tunnel - Teeth

47:10  Big Black - L Dopa

48:51  Godflesh - Veins

53:14  Doom - Slave to Convention

54:11  Napalm Death - Siege of Power

57:41  Hank Williams & Assjack - Got to Buy Paw a Truck

59:50  Dalek - Distorted Prose

65:48  Princess Dragonmom - Aube rmx

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496 Post-Avant-Punk (a mix from 2006)

This is a fun one.  Closely related in style to the last one, but this goes even further into the obscure and weird, and then wraps up with some punk and oddities.  That last one is a great closer, and sadly its not Christmastime anymore.

00:00  Fall of Saigon - Vision

02:14  Kim Fowley Jr - Face of the Factory Floor

05:16  Knusperkeks - Rechtslinksgeradeaus

08:08  The Residents - Weight-Lifting Lulu

11:11  The 012 - Asbestos Lead Asbestos

16:33  The Southern Death Cult - All Glory (Peel Session)

21:02  Project 197 - Raiding the Film Archives

23:02  GNR - Portugal Na Cee

26:21  Finesse - Nervous

29:21  Devo - Recomba DNA

31:13  Pierre Henry & Michel Colombier - Jericho Jerk

33:38  Warsaw - Inside the Line

36:19  Faust - The Sad Skinhead

38:49  The End - Time Before I'm Done

42:03  The Wedding Present - Crushed

44:48  Mizutama Shobodan - Vacuous Pack Travel

47:16  DFL 48 - Russian Dragon

48:38  Big Black - I Can't Believe

49:38  Dinosaur Jr - Raisins

52:48  Operation Ivy - I Wanna Be Sedated (Ramones)

54:47  Dead Kennedys - Dreadlocks of the Suburbs (demo)

57:53  Knusperkeks - Sie

60:08  Twin Peaks Cast - The Twelve Days of Christmas

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495 From Post-Punk to No Wave (a mix from 2006)

Here is another one from the archives.  I made a robust set of 10 mixes sometime in 2006, covering all aspects of the music styles I listened to around that time.  This one is no wave, post-punk, and some wild and crazy stuff in-between.  I'd had this Crawling Chaos track for decades and it was tagged with the comment "Rumored to feature Ian Curtis."  I doubt there is much to that rumor, which likely came about because this album was released Factory records in early 1980.  The Anosi track is also a mystery, I have no information on it, and had actually found the same file on another blog and Last.Fm with this same cryptic title.  The tracks by Akineton Retard and Ocaso Epico were untitled on my hard drive.

00:00  The Legendary Pink Dots - April's Song

03:10  Less Dance - There's A Will

06:46  Cabaret Voltaire - No Escape

10:09  Cabaret Voltaire - Sluggin for Jesus (part one)

15:02  Crawling Chaos - Berlin

21:53  Tuxedomoon - Dark Companion

25:45  Urang Otan - Waiting for Check

29:09  New Age - Progression (acception)

32:07  Omoide Hatoba - Acid Contemporary

34:38  Nagamatzu - Bird, Spider, Fly

37:45  Danielle Dax - Olamal (US Mix)

38:53  Akineton Retard - Pista 6

41:38  Glaxo Babies - Seven Days

45:37  Toncho Pilatos - Kukulkan

48:44  Love Live Life + 1 - Love Will Make

52:58  The Visitors - 2 Moth

55:17  Fall of Saigon - She Leaves Me All Alone

59:24  Ocaso Epico - Sem Titulo

60:31  Gorilla Aktiv - Spiegelbild

62:22  Bombay Ducks - Life for Christine

64:11  Suicide - Radiation

67:09  Anosi - (bonus track from the 1st 7inch 1983)

70:47  Xoris Perdado - To hroma kai to shima

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494B Mick Harris' Projects mix 2

The second half of the mix, focused more on his grindcore, dub and dark ambient sides.  This starts aggressively and then ends with some very smooth dark ambient.

00:00  Scorn - Spasm

02:45  Defecation - Vestige of Earthly Remains

05:38  Napalm Death - Walls of Confinement

08:30  Extreme Noise Terror - Another Nail in the Coffin (Peel Session)

10:16  Unseen Terror - Oblivion Descends (Peel Session)

12:22  PainKiller - Lathe of God

13:13  Praxis - Stronghold

14:43  Transmisia - Flame Projector (Upcoming Meeting mix)

20:39  Scorn - Automata

26:48  Fret - Lifford Res

32:14  Clang - Who's Who

38:01  Multicide - Zero Element

43:43  Scorn - Black Ash Dub

51:35  Painkiller - Blackhole Dub

54:55  Equations of Eternity - The Collector

61:40  Divination - Dream Light

70:27  Mick Harris & James Plotkin - Collision

80:50  Mick Harris & Ambre - Blaste

90:01  Mick Harris & Martyn Bates - Lucy Wan

104:14  Lull - Time Box

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494A Mick Harris' Projects mix 1

This is my selection covering the breadth and depth of Mick Harris' musical career.  I can't think of any other musician that has such variety in styles.  Starting more or less as the blast beat drummer from Napalm Death, and then covering everything from techno, drum and bass, dub step (years before it became a thing), avant garde, ambient, and drones.  Seriously, this is all over the place between these two mixes.  I did include Scorn four times in total, as I wanted to represent the evolution of their sound.  Yes Nick Bullen leaving the group dramatically changed the sound, and Mick Harris kept it going and evolving to the wonderful beast it is today.  The rest of these tracks represent his aliases, though some are full fledged musical projects involving others.  Each one certainly has its own distinct sound and vibe.  Incredible to think these are all from the same creative mind.

The projects of his that I didn't include are listed here; mostly omitted due to very long track lengths.

Intestinal Infestation - Rehearsal 88

Certain Beyond All Reasonable Doubt - Live Berlin 98

Frequencies - Neoartic

Pigface - A New High In Low (The Howler pt 1/2)

Somnific Flux

00:00  What Now? - Caustica

06:42  Matera - Too Much

11:54  Mick Harris - Screener

15:54  The Weakener - Closed Door

25:28  Mick Harris - Sidewalk

31:14  Tactile - Tactile vs Scorn

36:54  Trace Decay - Riverrun

44:05  Scorn - In The Margins

50:00  Mick Harris & Neil Harvey - Had It

55:47  Mick Harris & Eraldo Bernocchi - Latent Prints

60:20  Quoit - Set Up

65:58  Mick Harris & Mark Spybey - Bad Way To Start A Good Day

72:16  Micky Tornado - Chemical Plant (remix)

77:30  Hygiene - RO RL

83:17  Eddy Masvoodler - Pluck

88:23  Monrella - Report

94:37  Terminal - Test 

98:58  Lensman - Spool

104:02  Scorn - Dangler (No Original Members) (Beat Mix)

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493E Current 93 rarities

This last mix is me wanting to pull some compilation and rarities together.  Some were on the Sing Omega compilation, the rest are from small run singles and compilations.  Don't suppose anything on here is really that rare for any rabid fan like me, still a good opportunity to have them all in one place.

00:00  Nature & Organization - Hooves (2020 remaster, self-released)

04:33  Current 93 with Sebastian Horsley - Black Ship in the Underworld (Black Ship in the Underworld)

13:57  Current 93 - Dream of the Green Goddess (Absinthe box)

17:29  Current 93 - Frolicking (Terra Serpentes)

25:10  Current 93 - Passenger "Aleph" in Name (alternative mix, self-released)

29:42  David Tibet & Peter Atanasoff - Quiet Crosses (Sing Omega)

33:02  Death in June - Ô Paradis... (Paradise Rising)

38:20  David Tibet & Youth - Conspiracy Born (Sing Omega)

45:09  Current 93 & Pantaleimon - The Magical Bird in the Magical Woods (alternate version, Brain in the wire)

50:53  Current 93 - Red Hawthorn Tree (alternate version, Wire Tapper 6)

55:07  Current 93 - Jesus wants me for a Moonbeam (Devistate to Liberate)

57:39  Current 93 - Deuteronomy XXXIII:14 (How He Loved the Moon)

59:20  Current 93 - Holy Holy Holy (For Dusa) (Absolute)

64:12  Current 93 - Anti-Christ Anti-Christian (Peyrere)

67:11  Current 93 - A Dream Of TheInmostLight (For Christoph Heemann) (Foxtrot)

75:40  Current 93 - Some Morning when the moon was blood (Myths 4 - Sinople Twilight in Catal Huyuk)

82:04  Current 93 - Westron Wynde (alternate version) (Unreleased Rarities vol II)

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