624 The Prodrome Halycon Days of the Journeyman

 

Getting back to the task at hand, off a backup hard drive while I still piece together my home office one box at a time. This mix has it all, if electronic music is your game. Drome makes two appearances here, I mentioned before about finding them by happy accident so its natural I’d have several tracks from them show up. This Susumu Yokota track elicited that “what the heck, I’ve heard this before” reaction, which does appear via the Unidad Sasao track “No Longer (Ignore Me)” featuring Jurgen Weber from Novy Svet. 9 Lazy 9 being an early favorite from Ninja Tune, and features the first of two Journeman remixes in this set. Tosca being a Richard Dorfmeister project and it shows; the Fila Brazillia remix flows so well with this material. Cassetteboy doing their fun plunderphonic cut-up approach to the motorik of Fujiya & Miyagi, which leads so well into the psychedelic drone washes of Spiritualized, then the cLOUDDEAD remix of Boom Bip. If it was still mixing these tracks together like my former style, this would’ve come out great. Nut’n’Honey is a mystery artist on Tigerbeat6, releasing only one track on a compilation which leads me to believe this is an alias for one of the regulars at the time (Kid606, CEX, Lesser, Aelters, etc). Unitone Hi-Fi here with the second Drome appearance. Hab was another mystery to me, had this in an unsorted folder as a standalone track on my hard drive, I really like how this doesn’t really intensify until about the last minute. Powwoww came to my attention via their sample of Orbital’s Halycon, which of course famously sampled Opus III covering Jane. Unfortunately, my copy of this track cuts off very early. I’ll keep digging and see if I can find a full-length version somewhere and replace it in the download here. DJ X-Plorer with the twin peaks reference, which also samples Orbital’s Halycon, similar style but since it’s the full track, I seem to like it more than the previous one. MBM with a newer comp track, and then Ian Boddy & Chris Canter’s collaboration from 2000 (reissued last year) which I suppose is a little out of place, though still a good closer to this mix.

01 Drome – Cheezy Birth
02 Susumu Yokota – Hisen
03 The Invisible Pair of Hands – Me Me Me
04 9 Lazy 9 – Journeyman’s Electric Lazyman
05 Tosca – F*ck Dub (Fila Brazillia mix)
06 Fujiya & Miyagi – Electro Karaoke (Cassetteboy remix)
07 Spiritualized – 100 Bars (Flashback)
08 Boom Bip – Closed Shoulders (cLOUDDEAD remix)
09 Nut n Honey – Eskimokisses
10 Systemwide – Ripe Up-Midnight Sun Remix (Pan American)
11 Unitone HiFi – Unitone Theme (Unidromed)
12 Hab – Pan (Journeyman’s Peekaboo)
13 powwoww – Protect Us (Finite)
14 DJ X-Plorer – Death to Laura Palmer
15 Meat Beat Manifesto – Anon
16 Ian Boddy & Chris Carter – Concussed

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625 Dark Jazz 2

  

01 Jon Hassell – Light on Water (live)
02 Black Chamber – Other Days
03 Nobody Jazz Ensemble – A Forest Fog
04 Hidden Orchestra – Footsteps
05 The Cinematic Orchestra – Burn Out
06 Non Credo – Gumption
07 Uplotnenie feat 73fm – Drug Killah Jazz (pt1)
08 The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble – Sharbat Gula
09 Detour Doom Ensemble – Down
10 Six Fingered People – Flares Burning Bright at Dawn
11 Michael Arthur Holloway – Dead Weight
12 Dale Cooper Quartet and the Dictaphones – Une Cellier
13 Lowering – Nighthawks
14 The Midnight Ensemble – Blood in Moonlight

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P625 Dark Jazz 1

 

A good mix of darker leaning Jazz, because even though I love it an hour plus mix of doom jazz is a bit much for me most days.


01 Bohren & der Club of Gore – Prowler
02 Kinetoscope Ensemble – A Boy’s Best Friend
03 A Small Good Thing – A Twist of Lemon
04 Rapoon – Donnez-Moi une Cigarette
05 Miles Davis – Nuit Sur Les Champs-Elysees (Take 3)
06 Charles Mingus – Memories of
07 ***/South – Broken Promises
08 Duke Ellington – Midnight Indigo
09 Lalo Schifrin – Danube Incident
10 Asger Baden – Crooked Spoke
11 Last Call at Nightowls – My Distant Dream
12 Angelo Badalamenti – Theme from Twin Peaks-Fire Walk with Me
13 Theo Travis – Broken Heart Street
14 Trigg & Gusset – Krakau
15 The Lovecraft Sextet – Black Light
16 Grant Green – Idle Moments (Rudy Van Gelder edition)

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P626 Los Creatura

 

Working off a back-up hard drive while I look for my primary sources. This’ll last me a week or two before I run out of stuff I had previously made copies of.

Probably one of my earliest introductions to Jim O’Rourke, and Microstoria to be honest. Instant Coffee! Is a one-time project by Lisle Ellis (jazz bassist), M.C. Schmidt of Matmos, and Jason Willett of Half Japanese (and other fun bands). The music is as absurd as you can imagine from them. Object beings is an early assembly of members that would later grow to fame on AntiCon records (DoseOne and Why? with a couple others). Pan American from their debut album, which was still more aligned with early Labradford sound, both of which evolved beautifully into something greater than their parts. Oval doing what they do, without the partnership of Mouse on Mars from the Microstoria projects. Lawrence English and Stephen Vitiello here and the “with Brendan” happens to be Brendan Canty from Fugazi. Then Rapoon and Zoviet*France leftovers from the aforementioned album review project elsewhere. Bourbonese Qualk felt like the right follow up there, leading to Brokeback which is the side project led by Tortoise’s Douglas McCombs, and this track features vocals from Stereolab’s Mary Hansen performing a song from “Night of the Hunter.” World Standard getting appropriately spooky for late October. The Triple Tree and L’Orchestre Noir are Tony Wakeford (Sol Invictus) projects and showing his focus outside the normal noir folk he’s known for. I really am enjoying the post-reunion Swans albums. They’re something totally different and yet familiar, I just have to set aside some time and focus as they are all filled with lengthy and rewarding tracks.


01 Microstoria – Jim O’Rourke / Namm Weekend Pass mix
02 Motion Sickness of Time Travel – Black Umbrella
03 Instant Coffee! – Don’t Buy Dope from Strangers
04 Object Beings – Family Day
05 Spaceways – Kurosawa Meets Slow Charlie
06 Pan American – Lake supplies
07 Oval – Line Extension
08 Main – Liquid Reflective (Kling Klang)
09 Lawrence English & Stephen Vitiello – with Brendan
10 Rapoon – Amuz
11 :Zoviet*France: - Nostalgie De La Boue
12 Bourbonese Qualk – Pogrom
13 Brokeback – Pearl’s Dream
14 World Standard – Loser’s Lounge
15 Piero Piccioni – Main Titles (from Una Colt in Mano Al Diavolo)
16 The Triple Tree – Mrs. Mothersole
17 L’Orchestre Noir – O Virgo Splendors
18 Swans – Song for a Warrior
19 Joe Westerlund – Tem
20 Calibro 35 – Trafelato

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Short vacation (updated)

Back in a few days.  Moving and unpacking before I can start posting again.  Plenty more to come.

Update 10/26 - The move went well, but learned a lesson when other people pack boxes for you.  I found my PC and external hard drives, however have not yet found the cables or power adapters.  The hunt continues....

P623 Relations

A while back I was on a June of 44 kick, and doing my investigating I saw the members had been in a whole slew of other bands, all good ones too. This mix is diverse and shows the talent of each member through several iterations of projects. 

June of 44 being Doug Scharin, Fred Erskine, Jeff Mueller and Sean Meadows. Hoover was an earlier band of Fred’s with Joseph McRedmond who’d also end up in the Crownhate Ruin with him. HiM is the dub-influenced post-rock solo project of Doug Scharin with many guests. Activities of Dust is you guessed it, the Bill Laswell link with Bernie Worrell, Jeff Parker and Doug. Mice Parade is Adam Pierce’s (The Swirlies & The Dylan Group) project featuring Doug. The slow-core Codeine featured Doug on “The White Birch” and a couple singles. The Shipping News features Jeff Mueller and leans more towards post-hardcore. They came from the ashes of Rodan with Jason Noble and were originally tagged with creating music for NPR’s “This American Life.” The Crownhate Ruin featuring Fred and Joseph from Hoover, lean even more into post-hardcore. Rodan were I suppose just bridging on math-rock while holding the post-hardcore roots down, and were Jeff Mueller, Jason Noble, Tara Jane O’Neil and Kevin Coultas. Directions brings it back to Tortoise and Gastr Del Sol with Doug working alongside Bundy K Brown and James Warden. Retsin, a deviation, I think I included them due to the Tara Jane O’Neil connection from Rodan, as they’re not necessarily directly related to June of 44. Getting back on track, Lungfish is Sean Meadows and should be pretty familiar for the post-hardcore fan base. Rex touches back to the slowcore sound and once again features Doug. Ending it with The Sonora Pine which has Sean Meadows on their first album, along with Tara Jane O’Neil (see she’s like an extended family member here), Kevin Coultas and Samara Lubelski. I think it’s a good trip down and back through this set of related bands. I was thinking of doing a similar project with Tortoise which may take some time. Any other bands I should dive into for a future mix of this nature?

01 June of 44 – Generate
02 Hoover – Regulator Watts
03 HiM – The Way Trees Are
04 Activities of Dust – Shades of Appearance
05 Mice Parade – Pursuant to the Vibe
06 Codeine – Loss Leader
07 Shipping News – Books on Trains
08 The Crownhate Ruin – Ride Your Ride.
09 Rodan – Darjeeling
10 Directions – Track 4
11 Retsin – Hybrid Ice Princess
12 Lungfish – Cross Road
13 Rex – Nothing is Most Honorable than You
14 The Sonora Pine – Claister

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