491 The Remix According to u-Ziq part 1

Welcome 2025, I wanted to start with something fun that I didn't finish last year.  I had a very ambitious April and covered roughly 30 artists and their remix output.  One I neglected was µ-Ziq aka Mike Paradinas.  I first came across his work on The Autures vs µ-Ziq cd I picked up at Life By Design in Colorado Springs (God I miss that store).  Next I was thoroughly impressed with his remix of "On" by Aphex Twin, with that lovely intro where his metal tape got eaten a little and yet he still included it.  I've previously included some of his output and some of his projects like Mike & Rich or Slag Boom Van Loon in other mixes here.  While researching that remix series I found that I have a folder with 70+ of his remixes, so naturally it took me a while to distill these down to these two mixes of my favorites.  This first mix was easy as these are the tracks I knew best and have loved on them for many years.

00:00  Tipsy - Space Golf (u-ziq remix)

04:43  Bjork - All Is Full Of Love (u-ziq 1 minute mix)

05:28  Mum - There Is A Number of Small Things & The Ballad of the Broken Birdie Records (u-ziq F*cked mix)

12:36  Aphex Twin - On (u-ziq mix)

21:09  Seefeel - Climactic Phase #3 (u-ziq remix)

29:33  Placid Angels - Beauty Begins with Us (u-ziq remix)

34:56  Slag Boom Van Loon - spc-ch-pn (u-ziq remix)

39:02  Nav Katze - Happy (u-ziq mix)

46:00  Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater (remixed by u-ziq)

52:20  Matmos - Cymbals & Aspirin (u-ziq remix)

56:52  Mogwai - Fear Satan (u-ziq remix)

63:55  The Auteurs vs u-Ziq - Lenny Valentino 3

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490 Shadows mix B

Wishing everyone a very kind, peaceful, and supportive 2025.  We all need the help of our community, family and friends for everything life throws at us today, tomorrow and in the distant future.

00:00  Muslimgauze - Shadow of the West

07:59  Skinny Puppy - Shadow Cast

12:15  Current 93 - The Dream of a Shadow of Smoke

17:22  Edward Ka-Spel - The Shadow Mask

21:23  The Prids - Shadow and Shadow

25:03  The Future Sound of London - Long Shadows

32:24  Sonic Youth - Shadow of a Doubt

35:45  Electric Orange - Soul Shadows

41:42  Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Having an Average Weekend

44:15  Yo La Tengo - Cast a Shadow

46:33  Warsaw - Shadowplay

50:13  Jesu & Sun Kil Moon - A Song of Shadows

56:16  Head of David - Shadow Hills California

60:40  Meat Beat Manifesto - Shadow and Substance mix (DJ Spooky)

66:20  The Legendary Pink Dots - Cheating the Shadow

69:50  Equations of Eternity - Shadow Sewer

77:22  Muslimgauze - Bright Shadows

79:59  Four Tops - Standing in the Shadows of Love

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490 Shadows mix A

Ending 2024 with an appropriately somber and mellow couple of mixes. 

I've wanted to use this opening Piano Magic track for a long time, but never found the right place for it.  I finally thought, what about shadows... and by sheer luck, an episode of Kids in the Hall came on and the theme song is from Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet and I knew I had my theme.  Fortunately, Current 93 has plenty of songs with Shadow in the title so I was off to a great start.  Plus, I have been hanging on to this picture for a while.  Its a fan made comic strip using the lyrics from that opening track by Piano Magic.  Always thought this was pretty cool.

00:00  Piano Magic - I Came to Your Party Dressed as a Shadow

04:04  Yo La Tengo - Shadows

06:24  Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Long Shadow

09:53  Sam Prekop - The Shadow

14:31  Current 93 + Nurse With Wound - Walking Like Shadow II

17:14  Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio - Mary Dances in the Shadows/The Holiest of Harlots

21:22  Piano Magic - I Have Moved Into The Shadows

25:45  Material - Shadows of Paradise

35:18  Future Sound of London - Dirty Shadows

41:33  Death In June - A Sad Place to Make A Shadow

44:34  Current 93 - Chewing on Shadows

48:50  Current 93 - Where the Long Shadows Fall

54:51  Rapoon - The Shadows Approach

62:40  Nordvargr - The Shadows Are Bent By My Presence

66:27  Current 93 + Nick Cave - I Could Not Shift the Shadow

72:32  Grey Force Wakeford - Shadows in the Light

79:44  Rapoon - Sunday's Shadows

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489 Body Parts

I've been hooked on this Purity Ring track lately, and the PTP track from my recent Ministry mix felt like it was similar in theme.  I've wanted to include this oddball His Name Is Alive track forever.  Then "The Choke" came on shuffle and I knew I had to pull this mix together based on the samples used in it.  All tracks about or titled about body parts and not anything sappy about eyes.  Yes, lots of creepy and weird music here, I felt the need to get back to my roots. 

00:00  Skinny Puppy - The Choke

06:08  His Name Is Alive - Put Your Finger in Your Eye

06:50  Purity Ring - Fineshrine

10:18  Stereolab  Spinal Column

12:53  Kid606 - If My Heart Ever Ran Away

16:50  The Darkening Scale - Bake Sore Toe

19:21  Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - What's The Ugliest Part of Your Body?

20:24  People Like Us & Wobbly - Shot in the Breast

22:59  Ozric Tentacles - Space Between Your Ears

30:39  Renaldo & The Loaf - The Elbow Is Taboe

33:27  PTP - Show Me Your Spine

38:12  Severed Heads - Goodbye Tonsils

42:14  The Residents - Smelly Tongues

44:00  Captain Beefheart feat Frank Zappa - Man With The Woman Head

45:27  Aranos, Jon Mueller, C. Rosenau - Thinking of Pen!s and Vag!na

50:30  Nurse With Wound - Nasal Hair

52:11  Volcano The Bear - My Favourite Tongues

54:52  Swans - Where Does A Body End?

58:25  I Am Spoonbender - Ears Are Merely Human

60:43  Fudge Tunnel - Teeth

64:25  Slayer - Dead Skin Mask

69:35  Butthole Surfers - Tongue

71:32  Alien Sex Fiend - Smoke My Bones

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488 Zack de la Rocha's other appearances

I recall a bit of shock when I put on Lyricist's Lounge and heard Zack doing a collaboration with KRS-One, and it was quite good.  Based on that, I started to seek out all his other guest vocal performances and came up with this list, I think it has most of them.  I didn't include One Day As A Lion as that was on a recent mix, and Farside where he plays guitar because I just didn't like it and it didn't fit in anywhere on this mix.  He also played guitar in Hard Stance, so included that as it fit the vibe towards the end of this mix.

00:00  Zack de la Rocha, KRS-One & The Last Emperor - C.I.A. (Criminals In Action)

04:33  Deltron 3030 - Melding of the Minds

08:32  DJ Shadow - March of Death

12:29  Roni Size - Centre of the Storm

20:06  Saul Williams - Act III Scene 2 (Shakespeare)

24:23  Chuck D, The Roots, and Zack de la Rocha - Burned Hollywood Burned

28:24  Zack de la Rocha - Digging for Windows

31:50  Run The Jewels - A Report To The Shareholders : Kill Your Masters

38:01  Run The Jewels - Close Your Eyes (and count to f*ck)

41:55  Run The Jewels - JU$T

45:20  Blackalicious - Release (part 1)

46:47  Unbound Allstars - Mumia 911 Bloody Murder (West Coast Remix)

51:01  Chuck D & Zack de la Rocha - Zapata's Blood

58:09  DJ Shadow - Artifact (vocal version)

61:01  Zack de la Rocha - We Want It All

64:47  Hard Stance - Is This The End/Torn Apart

68:18  Inside Out - No Spiritual Surrender

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481 Roots Manuva Guest Spots

Roots Manuva aka Rodney Smith is a name I'd heard and seen everywhere but took a while before diving into his catalog.  I think it was the Pharoahe Monch track that first drew my attention, and then I was excited to hear his dub album "Dub come save me."  Of course, the collab track with Jurassic 5 really stood out, and a guest spot with Massive Attack doesn't hurt one's street cred.  Yeah, pretty much every artist on this mix is quite an honor to work with, so Roots Manuva is certainly doing something right.

00:00  Leftfield - Dusted

04:31  Jurassic 5 - Join The Dots

08:13  Beth Orton - Daybreaker (remix)

12:45  Amon Tobin - Saboteur (Version)

17:01  Massive Attack - Dead Editors

21:38  DJ Shadow - GDMFSOB (UNKLE Uncensored)

28:01  Lee Scratch Perry - International Broadcaster

33:50  Pharoahe Monch - Simon Says (Skitz Version)

37:25  23 Skidoo - Where You At

42:46  The Herbaliser - Lord, Lord

46:50  The Herbaliser - Starlight

51:50  Nightmares on Wax - 70's 80's (upbringing mix)

56:40  Antipop Consortium - NY to Tokyo

59:50  The Cinematic Orchestra - All Things To All Men

69:54  Dust - Where You Wanna Be

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