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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P611 Late Night Dub Eclipse

Has that kind of vibe, possibly because I’m finishing this one up while watching the lunar eclipse tonight (Aug 27th).  Not much to say other than I'm happy that I finally got to use this track from Ida in a mix somewhere.


01 Human Mesh Dance – Wet Moon
02 Richard H Kirk – Worldwar Three
03 Journeyman – 50CC (Part 1)
04 Muslimgauze (AP Reworks) – Citadel in Nightlight II
05 Sub Dub – Liquid Calling (Adham Shaikh Remix)
06 Drome – Hinterland, Kassler Kessel
07 Another Fine Day – Life Before Land
08 Electronic Eye – Counter Insurgent
09 The Disciples – Two Minds
10 Bandulu – Run Run
11 Skylab – Next
12 Ida – Shotgun (Brown Rice in a Magic Shop Dub)
13 Angelo Badalamenti – Dub Driving
14 Systemwide – Reclame-Montreal Winter Dub Remix (Deadbeat Remix)
15 Pole – Uberfahrt
16 Woodleigh Research Facility – Salacia

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P610 Been Through Some Stuff

I recently came across World Standard and was surprised I hadn’t found them sooner, especially considering how much time I’ve spent digging around for ambient country. I like that there seems to be a different approach with each release, which is why they show up twice on this mix. Slick Sixty has a bit of a Sublime vibe going on, at least to my ears, and the Boards of Canada track fits suspiciously well next to it. I also finally tracked down the Cedell Davis remix, which meant ripping it from YouTube. I’d been trying to fill in some of the gaps in my cLOUDDEAD collection, so this one had been on the list for a while.

Maria Marquez and Frank Harris come next with a track from the enjoyably bizarre Ralph Records compilation Potatoes. From there, Ghost Power brings us into the world of Tim Gane and Jeremy Novak. The Drome track was actually a happy accident. I had been looking for Graham Lewis’ project Dome when I came across Burnt Friedman’s Drome instead. I’ll take that kind of mistake any day. It leads nicely into the dance-punk of Holy F*ck, the grimy hauntology of Project Gemini, and the psyche-kraut groove of Cave. Things then take a turn toward some classic post-rock with The Mercury Program and Isotope 217, before Nathan’s recommendation of The Invisible Pair of Hands and Spaceways.

The final two tracks come from Random and Bass Kittens, both aliases of Jon Drukman. I had been looking into his work after learning that Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto had a side project called the JDs with them. That sent me down another one of those little research rabbit holes, which is generally how these things go. By the time I got to the end of this mix, I had picked up a few things I was actively looking for and quite a few more that I wasn’t. That’s usually a pretty good sign.

01 World Standard – Good Red Road
02 Slick Sixty – Someone Else’s Square
03 Boards of Canada – In A Beautiful Place Out in the Country
04 Cedell Davis – Been Through Some Stuff (cLOUDDEAD remix)
05 World Standard, Moose Hill – Desert Blue
06 Maria Marquez and Frank Harris – Canto Del Pilon
07 Ghost Power – Opsimath
08 Fujiya & Miyagi – Hundreds & Thousands
09 Drome – H-Fanatic
10 Holy F*ck – Red Lights
11 Project Gemini – The Last Midnight
12 Cave – Shikaakwa
13 The Mercury Program – The Sea is in Here
14 Isotope 217 – New Beyond
15 The Invisible Pair of Hands – Inbetween Times
16 Spaceways – Tyner
17 Random – The End
18 Bass Kittens – Another Rainy Day

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