493C Current 93 Remixes, Remixed and Covered

This one is a wild ride, but aren't they all?  I pulled together the worthwhile remixes and covers I could find, some fan made, others officially released.  The opening track is probably as close to a David Tibet remix as will appear, its the original track with some added effects and noise so it counts.  I tried to limit the tracks pulled from the only official tribute album "The Bells Shall Sound Forever."  The tracks that sampled C93 are appropriately labeled, though shouldn't be too difficult to find that source material used in them.  The Matmos remix is on probably the only official remix EP for C93, and its all good stuff especially if you are a JG Thirwell fan.  There's a couple fan made mash-ups, however I think they work pretty well.  The one with Bomb the Bass I've had for years and remember I had some online chats with the artist that was responsible for it, sorry for the low bitrate on that one.  The massive remix box set from Andrew Liles is here with the shortest track on it, which is representative of the larger picture for those interested.  Of course I ended it with the powerful cover by Rotting Christ. 

00:00  Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight (from FACT mix with some added effects)

03:13  O Paradis - Calling for Vanished Faces I

05:48  Current 93 - Whilst the Night Rejoices Profound and Still (DJ Broken Record remix)

10:48  Future Sound of London - Tired (includes Imperium II)

17:25  Current 93 - Black Ships Ate The Sky (remixed by Matmos)

23:07  Current 93 - Idumea (slow to speak remix)

28:18  :wumpscut: - Crucified (includes Holy Holy Holy (for Dusa)

32:09  Venetian Snares - Anguish (includes (Hey Ho) the Noddy (Ho))

36:46  Current 93 vs Bomb the Bass - Calling for Vanished Faces I

38:38  In Ruin - Oh Coal Black Smith

42:28  Decadence - Ach Golgota (Es Ist Vollbracht)

46:38  Sagittarius - Anti-Christ and Bar Codes

48:48  :Of the Wand & the Moon: - Benediction/Malediction

51:57  Vequinox - Earth Covers Earth

56:17  Death In June - Rule Again (Tibet mix)

59:55  Current 93 & Andrew Liles - St. Peter's Keys All Bloody (remix)

65:56  Der Feuerkreiner - Soft Black Stars

70:00  Column of Heaven - The Darkly Splendid World

71:25  The Well of Sadness - Dogun 

75:58  irr. app. (ext.) - Dead Side of the Moon

86:37  Rotting Christ - Lucifer over London

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493B Current 93 Manifestations

Mr. Tibet has a knack for showing up in some unexpected places.  Other times, he shows up exactly where you'd expect.  All of these tracks feature him as a guest, either on vocals, backing vocals, or some instrument like the bone flute.  

00:00  Psychic TV - Medmenham

00:51  Matmos - Messages From The Unseen World

08:06  Reinier Van Houdt – Midnight Rorschach

10:54  Shawn Pinchbeck & David Tibet - Extracts from the Faerie Queen

16:58  Human Greed - Dalkeith Night

23:00  The Post Romantic Empire Ensemble - Love Will Tear Us Apart (edit)

25:28  These New Puritans - Into the Fire

29:05  Six Organs of Admittance - The Manifestation (II.3)

31:48  Trappist Afterland – Give Thanks and Lament

35:57  Nature and Organisation - Bloodstreamruns

40:35  Backworld - The Lamb and the Lion

44:33  Death In June - Jerusalem the Black

47:20  Lisa Knapp - Staines Morris

51:18  Magik Lantern Cycle - Cities of the Red Night

57:12  Momick - Five

62:39  Othon - The Dreamer Is Still Asleep

69:29  Grave Pleasures - Atomic Christ

74:04  Death in June - This Is Paradise II

78:29  23 Skidoo - Banishing

83:06  Sigh - The Red Funeral

89:43  Skitliv - Towards The Shores Of Loss / Vulture Face Kain

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For your further research and potential listening pleasure, here is a list of tracks I do have but chose to omit:

Lee "Scratch" Perry – Baby Sucker (I'd say this is a questionable appearance, and not a great LSP song)

The Bevis Frond - Right On Hippie Dream (Way too long for a mix)

Mark Stewart - Nothing is Sacred? (can't really tell if he's on this or not)

Nurse With Wound (A LOT! He's on the majority of the first decade or two worth of records)

Coil (Nearly every albums thanks or is dedicated to David, but he has no appearances)

Thomas Ligotti (long narrative tracks with minimal vocals)

These are the tracks I don't currently have:

Aethenor - Faking gold and murder

Ardecore - La Povera Cecilia?

Whitehouse - Thank your lucky stars

The Hafler Trio – One Dozen Ecomomical Stories By Peter Greenaway

Costin Chioreanu - Chapter IV - Soundtrack For "Outside The Great Circle" Art Movie 2013

Larsen And Friends – ABECEDA

Mombus - & Bacillus Orchestra - Amber Cat

X-TG - Desertshores

The Volares - The Night We Taught Ourselves To Sing (Asleep in Egypt & Elegy for Tiny Tim)

493A Current 93 by any other name

If you were to ask me who is my most collected musical artist, it would be a close tie between Muslimgauze, Legendary Pink Dots and Current 93.  Here I've assembled some fanboy stuff over five themed mixes in my attempt to show the breadth and depth of their work, supplementing my previous mixes.

This first round is collecting tracks from each of David Michael Tibet Bunting's many projects.  These are all full aliases or collaborations and not just guest appearances.  Starting with my absolute favorite version of my favorite track from him, "The Dead Side of the Moon."  This is under his name with the main guy behind Nurse with Wound, David Tibet & Steven Stapleton.  They recorded this particular album twice, once as Musical Pumpkin Cottage and again as Musicalische Kurbs Hutte; giving each artist the space to wield their had as conductor. Then released several outtakes and alternate versions on Dead Memory and The Threat on Memory.  Zu93 is exactly that, the wonderful enigmatic group Zu paired up with Current 93, making some very interesting songs with a theme through the album.  Hypnopazuzu is Martin Glover aka Youth, with David Tibet.  The had done an unreleased collaboration (included in a subsequent mix here), and finally got together in 2016 to put this wonderful slab of vinyl together.  Nodding God is a project with Andrew Liles, David Tibet and an unnamed third member who could or could not real.  Still a great and bizarre album with lyrics only in Assyrian and Babylonian.  The next track is from the C93 album "Island" which is a collaboration with Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, and this particular track features backing vocals from that former Sugarcube, Bjork.  

Next up are The Aryan Aquarians, which by the reviews as the result of several drunken evenings, and has that kind of feeling to the music.  Certainly not my favorite of his projects though it has its moments.  Next up and from a similar period are The Nodding Folk, which was a one off project that released this two track single and an accompanying comic book.  The artists include personnel such as Savage Pencil, the musicians are all members of Coil, Nurse With Wound, Current 93, its worth seeking out, and here is a link to the comic.  Myrninerest is David Tibet with James Blackshaw as a tribute/homage to Jhonn Balance from Coil.  The album was released in multiple versions all by different producers/mixers.  I've only heard the copy I own and can't comment on any differences.  Black Ships is one of many aliases David used in this era surrounding his "Black Ships Ate the Sky" album (which I was a supporter and am listed in the thanks in the liner notes).  This particular track was from an early single with an alternate mix from his upcoming album under the C93 name.  Anok Pe is credited a couple times on other albums, "Birth Canal Blues" is the only EP under their name as the artist.  Its essentially Current 93 during the Hallucinatory Mountian era.  Lastly is Dogs Blood Order, which is where it all started in 1983.  David only released one album under this name, and that wasn't issued until 1997.  Its his early noisy tape collage style that can really unsettle a room.

00:00 Stapleton/Tibet - The Dead Side of the Moon

21:51 Zu93 - Confirm the Mirror Emperor

26:26 Hypnopazuzu - Magog at the MayPole

29:57 Nodding God - Calcination Totem Station

34:52 C93 & HÖH - Falling

38:51 The Aryan Aquarians - My Secret Gardener

42:30 The Nodding Folk - Children of the Nodapoc Gather Round

45:49 Myrninerest - Fangbell, Twilight

48:10 Black Ships - Vauvauvau

52:59 Anok Pe - Suddenly The Living are Dying

55:41 Dogs Blood Order - Maldoror Ceases to Exist (Live at the Equinox Event)

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I did include all 5 of these mixes into one spotify playlist, because there aren't enough of each mix to have its own 

492D The Remix According To FSOL

Fun times here.  The StereoMCs remix is quite engaging.  Apollo 440 using a beat from Portishead.  Cuvre is a nice opener as well.  The rest were new to me when I started compiling this mix and found most of these pretty high quality.

00:00  Curve - Rising (Headspace Mix)

09:12  Apollo 440 - Liquid Cool (FSOL remix)

16:02  Stereo MCs - Connected (FSOL remix)

21:38  Thierry Gotti - Out of Reality (Remix by the Future Sound of London)

25:21  Osamu Sato - Face-Savers On Line (F.S.O.L. mix)

35:09  Prefab Sprout - If You Don't Love Me (F.S.O.L. Deep Field Mix)

40:17  Deadly Avenger - Day One (F.S.O.L. Cosmic Jukebox Mix v1)

45:15  Jon Anderson - FSOL Deseo Reconstruction #2

49:51  Schmoelling & Waters - Morning Walk (Future Sound of London Remix)

56:50  David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - Darshana (re-constructed by The Future Sound of London)

66:45  Robert Miles - Paths (FSOL remix)

70:28  Bryan Ferry - I Put A Spell On You (FSOL 'Yage' remix)

75:26  Inner City - Praise (The Future Sound of London Concept Dub)

80:33  Unity - Unity (Future Sound of London Piano City)

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492C FSOL By Any Other name vol 2 mix 2

Here's the other half, and yes its some early 90's era techno.  Exactly what you expect, though I can see some of the inklings of magic that would be exploited to great success in their later works.

00:00  Smart Systems - The Nu Generation

04:32  Indo Tribe - Obstinta

09:59  Humanoid - Intermodal Container

14:03  AirCut - Eternal (Dub)

18:24  Luco - Stolen Documents (Jazz Dub)

23:41  Yunie - I Can See For Miles (Astral Mix)

27:54  Intelligent Communication - Drive (IC7471)

31:53  Metropolis - Metropolis (Analog)

37:23  Mental Cube - I'm Not Gonna Let You Do It

41:03  Art Scient Technology - A.S.T.

45:18  Semi-Real People - Livin Today (Med mix)

50:17  Candese - You Took My Love (Earth)

54:29  Cold Steel - Here We Go

58:50  Stakker - Humanoid

62:19  Homeboy - Sunshine and Brick

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492B FSOL By Any Other name vol 2 mix 1

Round 2. In 1992 FSOL released "Earthbeat," and 2007 they released "By Any Other Name vol 1."  These two compilations showed some of the many aliases they recorded under, which were mostly early incarnations doing early 90's techno.  In my research I found dozens of other names associated with them with much more modern styles that I really liked. Each one does have enough distinct about them to feel like a separate unit.  I've split this mix in two parts, the first focusing on more recent and non-traditional techno stylings, and the second which is that classic era with 4 on the floor beats.  The only real anomaly in this mix is Neotropic, which features a one off remix by Bin Dogs.  Otherwise these tracks are all Brian and Garry... and maybe a few guest musicians.

00:00  The Jazz Mags - Startled

04:30  Sand Sound Folly - Willow

07:04  Blackhill Trasmitter - Recovery

10:41  Far-Out Son of Lung - Cow

15:25  Yage - The Hunters Moon

18:43  Forest Trails - Mokguxtlk

22:43  Neotropic - Ultra Freaky Orange (Clock - Bin Dogs remix)

24:51  AI - Resist Not

26:44  Heads of Agreement - Earth Magnetic

31:28  AnALOguE Controlled SolENoiDs - Glockenspiel Snare Kitchen Tray

34:58  Semtex - We Have Explosive (remix)

46:38  The Bubble Heads - Frozen in the Air

50:23  Synthi-A - Surrounding the Garden is a Fog

54:53  Stoned Freshwaters - Everything is Easy With a Little Persuasion

58:45  6 Oscillators in Remittance - Cloudscraper (edit)

61:19  Filter and Pulses - Control Vista

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