423 Rhyme and Reason

Time for some more hip hop, I always have a folder collecting my favorite rap tracks. Starting with RJD2 with members of Cannibal Ox and Living Legends with Aesop Rock; great collab track here. A classic because you can never have enough of tha God Rakim. Then Cypress non-album track from the Juice soundtrack. DJ Spooky with Organized Konfusion, remixed for the Subliminally Minded EP. A solid Tribe remix, then a strong collab from Ghostface and BADBADNOTGOOD. Taking it back to a memory from warped tour 96 or so when I saw the Alkaholiks, spewing their OE 40's all over the crowd. Mos Def and Talib Kweli really were one of the best pairings in my opinion, next to Method Man and Redman. Phife Dawg is someone I feel needs more props for his guest appearances, he always came in prime form. Of course, MF Doom, mad respect and sad I had neglected to include him in previous rap mixes, he's one of the best. Next is the Sofa Surfers from their Encounters album (well worth checking out). Hitting hard with Run The Jewels, I love this track and its window rattling bass. Segues perfectly into Roots Manuva on a banger here as well. Vast Aire's second appearance, followed by Dalek's second as well, both with other groups so doesn't break that mixtape rule. And ending it all with a rare novelty track, because I am a big fan of the Zelda series of games and this track really does a great job touching on several versions in that history up to and including Breath of the Wild.


00:00 RJD2 feat Blueprint, Vast Aire, Aesop Rock & Murs - Final Frontier (Remix)
04:06 Eric B & Rakim - Don't Sweat The Technique
08:13 Cypress Hill - Shoot 'em Up
11:45 DJ Spooky feat Prince Poetry and Pharoah Monch - Rekonstruction (Rhyme and Reason mix)
15:23 A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation (Properly Relaxed Mix)
20:25 Ghostface Killer with BADBADNOTGOOD feat Elzhi - Gunshowers
23:28 The Alkaholiks feat King Tee - DAAAM!
28:06 Black Star - Definition (What We Really Said Version)
31:26 Phife Dawg and Fu-Schnickens - La Schmoove
36:18 MF Doom - Kon Queso
40:18 Sofa Surfers feat Dalek and Dev1 - Elusive Scripts
44:48 Run The Jewels - Legend Has It
48:13 Roots Manuva - Swords n the dirt
52:49 Cannibal Ox feat Alaska and Cryptic - Atom
58:20 Dalek - From Mole Hills
63:15 Amerigo Gazaway - Hero of Time


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422 Unexpected Gamelan mix 4

4th mix in this series, I had just enough leftovers to start this, and then found a few more in the archives to bring it up to the right length.  Then ended it with a traditional Gamelan piece because, why not?

00:00  Andrew Liles - F*%k It

00:59  Four Tet - Sun Drums and Gamelan

06:56  OOIOO - Pebarongan

12:07  Uwalmassa - Rantas

17:07  Plaid & Southbank Gamelan Players - part I

26:39  The Future Sound of London - We Flew Together

29:16  The Orb - Sausage Tats Mit Gravy (Dom Mix #1)

40:43  Marc Barreca - Radiolucent

47:20  The Residents & Sekar Jaya - Wormwood Gamelan (Fillmore 98)

53:32  Plaid & Southbank Gamelan Players - ?

60:10  Godspeed You Black Emperor - We Drift Like Worried Fire

79:35  Master Musicians of Bukkake - Iron Age Nativity / Black Moss Invocations

84:39  Java L'Art du Gamelan - side 2

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421 A bucket of slugs posting about punks

This was my jam back in college.  I was on a heavy post-punk kick and would put this 3CD comp in the rotation at most of our parties.  One roommate was into Ska, one Rockabilly, one only listened to the Beastie Boys, so my discs helped round that out and make a few casual listeners scratch their heads.   

The name of this mix comes from the Nothing's Going To Happen site, which consistently posts excellent mixes.  I've found many times when I am struggling to find a very specific and very odd track, they usually have posted it somewhere on their site.  For this post punk mix, instead of ripping my own CDs (which I'd have to dig through boxes in my basement for) most of what I wanted was already comped by Slug.  I did add several to what they'd provided, and also found several new gems in their mixes I'd not have come across otherwise.

00:00  Gang of Four - To Hell With Poverty

04:55  Mission of Burma - Max Ernst

07:53  Swell Maps - Blam!!

11:23  Scars - She's Alive

14:18  Xno - Angel

18:22  Scorched Earth Policy - Too Far Gone

20:52  Modern Eon - Second Still

23:33  Minutemen - The World According To Nouns

25:38  Comsat Angels - Be Brave

29:21  Department S - I Want

32:48  Public Image Ltd - Memories

37:48  Medium Medium - Hungry So Angry

41:39  Clock DVA - White Cell

46:11  Cocteau Twins - Wax and Wane

49:57  The Chameleons - Here Today

53:42  This Kind Of Punishment - From The Diary of Hermann Doubt

56:58  The Nightingales - Idiot Strength

60:06  Artery - Afterwards

63:49  The Great Unwashed - Can't Find Water

65:52  Nocturnal Projections - Could It Be Increased?

68:56  In Camera - Legion

72:55  Children's Hour - Looking For The Sun

78:42  Geisterfahrer - Blumen

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00:00  Mission of Burma - Academy Fight Song

03:02  Gang of Four - Damaged Goods

06:27  Mecano - Note of a Stroll In Spring

11:35  Fini Tribe - Backwards and Forwards We Lean

15:07  New Order - ICB

19:37  Fall Of Saigon - Blue Eyes

21:38  Pigbros - Excessive

24:34  Young Marble Giants - Cakewalking

27:21  Bona Dish - 8am

30:33  The Comsat Angels - Another World

35:07  The Feelies - Moscow Nights

38:54  Out on Blue Six - Examples

43:22  Cocteau Twins - Shallow Then Halo

48:33  The Honeymoon Killers - Histoire A Suivre

51:30  23 Skidoo - IY

56:19  Ballon d'Essai - Testimony to Paradise Street

60:09  Bauhaus - A God in an Alcove

64:09  The Royal Family and the Poor - Voices

68:13  The Chameleons - Perfume Garden

72:27  Guerre Froide - Peine Perdue

75:35  Modern Eon - Mechanic

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421 Bob Mould

Growing up I always liked Bob Mould's projects, however it wasn't until about 2 or 3 years ago when I really started to love the music.  My friend Chris is a lifelong fanatic of his works, and for his housewarming gift I bought two books about Bob. That really prodded me to listen to more of his works again.  I nabbed a copy of Zen Arcade and Copper Blue on vinyl and haven't looked back.  I then dove in deep and checked out some of his other projects like Blowoff and Loudbomb.  I kept this mix in a bit of a shuffle, with Husker Du, Sugar and solo works in a pretty steady rotation.  I ended it with his only remix, of the band Low which is pretty wild and unexpected.

00:00  Husker Du - Something I Learned Today

01:56  Sugar - Titled

06:04  Bob Mould - I Apologize (Live)

09:23  Husker Du - In A Free Land

12:11  Sugar - Running Out Of Time (live)

14:36  Bob Mould - Losing Time

16:43  Husker Du - Everything Falls Apart

18:49  Sugar - Gift

23:04  Bob Mould - I Don't Know You Anymore

25:56  Husker Du - Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely

29:18  Sugar - If I Can't Change Your Mind

32:26  Bob Mould - Voices In My Head

36:11  Husker Du - Flip Your Wig

38:53  Bob Mould - See A Little Light

42:01  Husker Du - Chartered Trips

45:28  Sugar - Changes

50:30  Bob Mould - Best Thing

53:19  Husker Du - Makes No Sense At All

55:52  Sugar - Your Favorite Thing

59:34  Bob Mould - Art Crisis

62:59  Husker Du - These Important Years

66:39  Sugar - Helpless

69:33  Bob Mould - Eternally Fried

73:01  Husker Du - Real World

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00:00  Bob Mould - Sunshine Rock

03:07  Bob Mould - Lost Faith

06:23  Husker Du - Its Not Funny Anymore

08:27  Bob Mould - Can't Fight It

12:06  Husker Du - I Apologize

15:40  Sugar - And You Tell Me

20:40  Bob Mould - Anymore Time Between

26:17  Husker Du - Do You Remember?

28:09  Bob Mould - Next Generation

30:28  Husker Du - Listen

32:21  Sugar - After All The Roads Have Led To Nowhere

35:30  Bob Mould - Star Machine

38:51  Husker Du - Celebrated Summer

42:44  Bob Mould - New #1

47:24  Bob Mould - Stop Your Crying

51:39  Blowoff - Here and Now

55:28  Loudbomb - Guys Like You

59:10  Bob Mould - Always Tomorrow

63:03  Bob Mould - The War

66:36  Blowoff - Fallout

70:15  Loudbomb - Number Nine

75:08  Low - Monkey (Bob Mould Remix)

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414 Don't Say No to the Red Plateau

Call this part two of the "Air travel" mix from a couple days ago, as it is more tracks that were recollected based on the Mojo "Pigs Might Fly" compilation.  Always love the Jane and her husband collaborations.  Included a mid-late period Can track off Saw Delight, an album I don't listen to as often as their earlier more iconic works.  Mummy Dust Trippers is a leftover track from when I compiled the Unexpected Gamelan series.  Ulan Bator is a quirky fun post-rock group from France.  I'd had this track sitting in a folder for years waiting for the right mix to include it in.  Josefin Ohrn is an artist I came across via that Mojo comp and started seeking out whatever else I could find from them.  Orthodox is a doom metal band, but here they're somewhat less heavy and more psychedelic - I like to think of this song as a doom laden free jazz version of "The End" by the doors; maybe that's a stretch.  Larsen is a group I'd not have paid much attention to if not for the Nurse With Wound collaboration.  I tend to find a lot of music through that kind of association.  The Quickspace track is from an old krautrock/motoric compilation I made about 10-15 years back, and reused it here.  Pretty sure I have those old mixes slated for upload soon so it'll be duplicated there.  I came across a "demos and rarities" version of James Plotkin's "The Joy Of Disease" and refamiliarized myself with the wonderful music there.  Ending with a track from that Mojo comp with ties this up nicely.

00:00  Jane Weaver - Electric Mountain (Andy Votel Analogue Mountain Instro)

04:15  Can - Don't Say No

10:42  Mummy Dust Trippers - Cacti-Crypt Metamorphosis Bells

18:03  Ulan Bator - Haupstadt

25:33  Josefin Ohrn + The Liberation - Dunes

32:19  Orthodox - Con Sangre de Quien te Ofenda

40:41  Larsen - Impro #1

43:43  Quickspace - Lob It

46:00  James Plotkin - Red Plateau

54:05  Julie's Haircut - Salting Traces

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413 Derangments in the Mountains

This starts off with some solid trip hop and downtempo tracks that'll get ya groovin. Then a climactic track from Aereogramme leading into some heavier stuff and dubs, all keeping that same vibe.  The Fireman was a nice find I stumbled upon, I'm sure I'm very late to the game.  Its Youth and Paul McCartney, a pairing I never imagined could work but it does.  Trevor Hall is my meditation coach's favorite musician, and glad he has some dubs out there that are top notch.  Goth Babe is played on my local radio station a lot and I can't ever turn it off when I hear it.  Tara Jane O'Neil puts a great spin on a classic everyone should know and sign along to.  Then a super rare Police track, had a good discussion with a friend last weekend on how he hates the Police, and I hate Aerosmith - maybe this track would change his mind, its like no other version of Roxanne I've heard.  Numun is a side project from SUSS, who I covered on my Ambient Americana series.  Then ending with All India Radio for a chill letdown after some of the chaos of this playlist.

00:00  Portishead - Over (remix)

04:04  Sade - Feel No Pain (Version)

09:20  Digable Planets - Rebirth Of Slick (Cool like Dat) (7" remix)

13:20  Belbury Poly - The Path

17:35  Aereogramme - Alternate Score

22:23  Guardians of Dalliance - Turn To Gold

25:12  Faust vs Dalek - T-Electronique

29:18  Blackfilm - Lost

33:25  The Fireman - Bison

36:00  Beastie Boys - Bodhisattva Vow (instrumental)

39:01  Banco de Gaia - Kara Kum (Bombay Dub Spaghetti Eastern Mix)

44:24  The Woodleigh Research Facility - Emancipation Garage

50:34  Trevor Hall - My God (Urani and Fox dub)

55:35  Goth Babe - Alone in the Mountains

58:49  Tara Jane O'Neil - Cruel Summer (Bananarama)

62:32  The Police - Roxanne mix (Stewart Copeland's Derangments)

65:28  Numun - Voyage Au Soleil

70:47  All India Radio - Untitled April 2017

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