P618a Peaceful

 

I’d made these next four mixes for music while I was studying for some technical certifications. I’ll stagger them over the coming week. First up is the most mellow and drone centered of them, long tones with soft edges. I’ve just recently started to explore the vast discography of Motion Sickness of Time Travel, solo work of Rachel Evans. She’s married to Grant Evans, and they’ve got several projects together. I’m really fond of her style, lots of processed vocals, or are they synth pads? Guess that is part of the charm. Biosphere needs no introduction, nor does Pete Namlook and Tetsu Inoue for this genre. Christina Vantzou who is half of Dead Texan (The other half being Adam Wiltzie of Stars of the Lid), quickly gained my attention when I came across her work. Each album is followed by an excellent remix album, something I really enjoy with artists do that. I found Tor Lundvall through his collaboration with Tony Wakeford, and have really enjoyed his solo work as it can be quite dynamic for ambient work. His music sounds very much like what his paintings should sound like.

Kevin Richard Martin might seem out of place here at first, however his work under his own name (instead of The Bug, Techno Animal or King Midas Sound) show a completely different side. “Sleep Circle” is represented here as I keep returning to this as an album to fill an evening with peaceful music. Oneohtrix Point Never keeps calling to me, yet I feel overwhelmed by their discography as I have barely scratched the surface. Laraaji and Brian Eno, yeah this is a classic and great meditation music.

Included the full Harold Budd track here as its just so magical. Then Peter Andersson is another surprise, not for ambient music, but because this is not his typical dark ambient style from Raison D’Etre. Stars of the Lid then Basinski’s Disintegration Loops excerpt are more modern classics of how this style keeps evolving and experimenting. Finally ending things with Richard Skelton and Bass Communion which helps me not feel guilty that almost two hours passed while this mix played.


01 Motion Sickness of Time Travel – Closer
02 Biosphere – Dover Ferryport
03 Pete Namlook and Tetsu Inoue – Orion Transfer 6
04 Christina Vantzou – 11 11
05 The Dead Texan – A Chronicle of Early Failures Pt Two
06 Tor Lundvall – Despair
07 Kevin Richard Martin – Worthlessness
08 Max Richter, Grace Davidson – Path 3 / Whose Name is Written on Water (Pt 2)
09 Tim Hecker – Live Room Out
10 Oneohtrix Point Never – Months
11 Laraaji – Meditation #2
12 Mark Isham – Tibet Part II
13 Harold Budd – Bismillahi ‘Rrahamani ‘Rrahim
14 Peter Andersson – Piano Movements VIII
15 Alio Die & Sylvi Alli – The Inner Sea (Silver Sea)
16 Stars of the Lid – The Better Angels of our Nation
17 William Basinski – dlp 1.2.2
18 Richard Skelton – The Viscid Substance
19 Bass Communion – A Grapefruit in the World of Park

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P617 MBM Rarities X2

No surprise I wanted to continue sharing more from Jack Dangers and crew. My fanaticism ebbs and flows over the years yet I always come back and catch up on everything they’ve released. Here are two more mixes to supplement what I’ve already shared, this time focusing on some compilation, side project, and rare appearances.


01 Re-animator (Test Pressing Version)
02 Jack Dangers - A Strange Case of Instrumentation (Brainwaves)
03 Psyche Out (Version 2)
04 Now (Remix) (Promo 12”)
05 Drop (Remix) (Volume 04)
06 I’m In Paradise Now (Promo 12”)
07 Love Mad (93 version) (Nuclear Bomb EP)
08 Fire Escape – Wasabi
09 Fire Escape – Goodbye Archetype
10 She’s Unreal (Alternate Mix 3) (Plastic Compilation Volume 1)
11 Future Worlds (Alternate Version) (Volume 16)
12 Re-Animated (self-released)
13 We Done It Again (In Defense of Animals 2)
14 I Control (Audio Collage #2) (Offbeat – A Red Hot Sound Trip)
15 I Control (Audio Collage #3) (Skylab remix) (Offbeat – Red Hot Remixes)
16 Simularca part 1 (Trance Atlantic vol 1)
17 Simularca part 2 (Survival 2000)

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01 Source of Uncertainty (XLR8R – Convergence: Where Live Meets Electronic)
02 Electric People (Jack Dangers Remix) (FMCD June 1996)
03 Anon (Earth Dance)
04 The JDs – Heterodyne
05 Jack Dangers – Holy Ghost on the Nod Over the Body of Bliss (Allen Ginsberg’s The Fall of America)
06 The Most Music (Igloo Trax Vol 2 The Most Music)
07 Apathetic Sympathetic (Brainwaves 2008)
08 Structures (Version) (Brain in the Wire)
09 Unavailable Memory (Moog)
10 The Unprintable Word (Metropolis: Rebirth 1.0)
11 Martenot Waves (The Animatrix)
12 Parts 1-4 (Better Living Through Circuitry)
13 Mind over Matter (Destroy All Humans!)
14 Sig Sally (Igloo Trax Vol 2 The Most Music)
15 We Shall Destroy You (Destroy All Humans!)
16 Jack Dangers - Ancient Krell Music (Forbidden Planet Explored)
17 Brain Wrong (Cold Waves VII)

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P615 Ambient Country

 

Prior to my hiatus, I had alluded that there were more of these mixes in the hopper. Here are two more with some new artists in the mix as well as additional tracks from artists featured previously. I suppose this would’ve worked better when I made it back in early summer as I think they capture that feeling of hot desert days and cool star filled nights. As I was researching this, I was surprised, then not surprised at how much AI generated music was on youtube that fit this style. As such, I decided AI generated images would be used instead of my usually random finds.


01 Piero Piccioni – Arizona Dreaming
02 World Standard – Loving Spoonful
03 Field Works, Stuart Hyatt, Julien Marchal, Youmna Saba, Fadi Tabbal, Danny Paul Grody, Bob Hoffnar, Tomas Lozano, Dena El Saffar – The Morning Bends Down
04 Joe Harvey-White & Geir Sundstol – Ribbles
05 Ikue Mori with Robert Quine & Marc Ribot – Painted Desert
06 Scenic, Bruce Licher, James Brenner, Brock Wirtz – Hole in the Wall
07 Steve Kilbey – Hypnogogue
08 Date Palms – Yuba Source Part I
09 Scenic, Bruce Licher, James Brenner, Brock Wirtz – The Mid Hills
10 Pan American – Ord-Lhr
11 Loscil – Emma
12 Bruce Kaphan – Outpost
13 Susumu Yokota & Rothko – Distant Sounds of Summer
14 Chuck Johnson – Moonstone
15 Hammock – I Can Almost See You (Raising Your Voice… Trying to Stop an Echo)


01 Rex – A Good Time to Die
02 Gregory Uhlmann, Josh Johnson, Sam Wilkes – Arpy
03 Godspeed You Black Emperor – The Cowboy…
04 Death Ambient – Ways Out
05 Scenic, Bruce Licher, James Brenner, Brock Wirtz – Down Black Canyon Road
06 Joe Harvey-Whyte & Bobby Lee – Plainsong
07 Earth – Miami Morning Coming Down II (Shine)
08 Four Tet & William Tyler – Secret City
09 Date Palms – Yuba Reprise
10 Labradford – G
11 Myles Cochran – The Deepest Sea
12 Old Saw – Tilt of the Lamp
13 Brian Eno – Last Step from the Surface
14 Joe Harvey-Whyte & Geir Sundstol – Otra Mantra
15 Chuck Johnson – Superior Mirage

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P614 The Remix According to Mogwai

Can’t say I was ever the biggest fan of Mogwai. They’re quite good at what they do. I felt that when they came out there was a flood of similar sounding bands and I really couldn’t tell many of them apart. Their remix album “Kicking a Dead Pig” is pretty good, though inconsistent. It was when I heard their Neu! remix that I realized they had some serious chops as remixers, and dug out several other tracks I had in the archives from them. I suppose this all does sound very much like them, but not all in the expected post-rock vein.

01 Link – Arcadian
02 Neu! – Super
03 Bloc Party – Plans
04 Clark – Shut You Down
05 Cloth – Felt
06 F*ck Buttons – Colours Move
07 Grandbrothers – Organism
08 JamesHeatherSounds – In Your Spirit
09 Kid606 – Done with the Scene (444mix)
10 Max Richter – Path 5 (official remix)
11 Mint Julep – Aviary
12 Pluramon – Hintergrund
13 Thurston Moore - <untitled>
14 Transatlantic Alliance – Saint Wulfstan
15 Boom Bip – The Use of Unacceptable Colors in Nature
16 The Paradise Motel – Drive
17 Mogwai – Fear Satan
18 Earth – Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine

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P613 The Remix according to EY3

Crazy, over the top and manic creativity abounds here. You know what to expect and this delivers.

01 Yellow Magic Orchestra – Cosmic Surfin’ (Merry-Go-Round Mix)
02 Tortoise – High Class Slim Came Floatin’ (Eyeremix)
03 Neu! – Fur Immer (Eye/Boredoms Remix)
04 Gong – remixed by Yamataka Eye
05 Dachambo, EYE, Sinkichi – Conga La Gotta (Key2 – Nah4 Mix)
06 Boredoms – 7+ (EYE remix)
07 Lindstrom – The Contemporary Fix (EYE remix)
08 Wrench – Cosmic Hierarchy (EYE remix)
09 Black Dice – Endless Happiness (EYE remix)
10 OOIOO – Asozan (EYE remix)
11 Zeebra, EYE – Smokin at the Lobby (Your Turn)(Magic Mushroom mix)
12 Makoto Kawamoto – Gimmie Shelter (EYE remix)
13 Walrus – Moth (Remixed by EYE)
14 Battles – Sundome (EYE remix)
15 Yo La Tengo – Stupid Things (remix by EYE)
16 Atami – Nightingale (X-mas mix)
17 Boredoms – ◌ (♡ Remix)

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P612 Electric Driving to a Secret Horizon

About a third of these tracks come from the now deleted “Drive Baby Drive” Motorik mixes on https://groovylibrary.blogspot.com/. The Talking Heads track really kicked me off on this tangent, the extended outro of Psycho Killer goes into some great Krautrock/Motorik territory and is probably my favorite version of this track. Hallogallo 2010 is Michael Rother with Steve Shelley and Aaron Mullan, and this is what I wanted for the 4th Neu! Album, not that 1986/#4 stuff – ugh! I often return to the first Sonic Youth album as it sounds unique, yet also foundational for everything they’ve done since. The Orb track shows how I’m not sticking with only Motorik beats here, yet it still fits well with the flow. Not much to say really on the rest, I wanted some good hypnotic driving music, and this is what I got. I have a long road trip coming up, so this will certainly help pass some time.


01 Talking Heads – Psycho Killer (Old Grey Whistle Test)
02 Viddjur – Planet 3
03 Hallogallo 2010 – Drone Schlager
04 Sonic Youth – She is Not Alone
05 Can – Moonshake
06 Zatua – Silver Horizon
07 The Orb – Secrets (I Love a Woman in Uniform mix)
08 The Follakzoid & J Spaceman – Electric
09 Mladi Gorani – Nano
10 BEAK> - Lulsgate
11 Silver Apples – Oscillations
12 Kikagaku Moyo – Green Sugar
13 Fly Pan Am - éfférant/afférant
14 Trees Speak – Soul Machine
15 BEAK> - Liar
16 Panama Fleets – Elecktromotorik Diesels
17 Trigona – Von Graf

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