31 May, 2023

259a - Sol Invictus mix 1





Easily my favorite of the Neo-Folk genre, and best project from a former member of Death in June / Crisis UK.  Solid songwriting and lyrics, and catchy melodies over simple chord progressions.  I remember I had a great Sol Invictus t-shirt with the sun logo, and nearly every time I wore it some yahoo would comment that it was the coolest Sublime shirt.  I'd say, "No, sorry its for Sol Invictus," which was usually met with, "Oh you mean the new Faith No More album, that's great!" 


00:00  Looking For Europe (Trees in Winter)
03:36  Death of The West (Death of The West)
05:37  Amonst The Ruins (Death of The West)
08:25  Raven Chorus (Sol Veritas Lux)
13:47  Against The Modern World (Sol Veritas Lux)
15:41  In The Wake Of The Wolf (The Angel)
18:21  On and On (All Things Strange and Rare)
22:07  An English Garden (In The Rain)
26:14  Song Of The Flower (edit) (In A Garden Green)
30:59  The Watching Moon (King & Queen)
35:10  The Fool (La Croix)
38:55  Hedda Gabler (All Things Strange and Rare)
44:04  Stay (In The Rain)
48:46  Above Us The Sun (The Giddy Whirls Of Centuries)
53:18  Someday (King & Queen)
59:44  The Return (King & Queen)
64:07  Oh What Fun (In The Rain)
66:56  Somewhere In Europe (Sol Veritas Lux)
70:08  Believe Me (In The Rain)
73:56  In The Rain (In The Rain)
78:35  In Days To Come (In The Rain)


photo credit: random google image find

30 May, 2023

258b - Ambient Techno mix 2





A little more rhythm than the previous half, but still utter bliss throughout.

00:00  Wada - Ex Nihlo track 09
04:32  DJ Spooky - Muzique Psychotique
09:26  Skylab - Next
14:22  Voodoo Warriors of Love - Sweat
22:16  Miasma - Lupine Stare
32:23  The Orb - Blue Room (Excerpt 605)
37:54  DJ Spooky vs The Freight Elevator Quartet - File Under Futurism (A Guy Called Gerald Ambient mix)
43:40  GAS - Timestretch / Earthloop
47:10  Siouxsie and The Banshees - Kiss Them For Me (Ambient Mix)
51:45  MLO - Sleeper


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29 May, 2023

258a - Ambient Techno mix 1





Chill-out, mellow flowing electronic music.  More engaging than ambient, yet not dance floor oriented.  Again, Spotify and YouTube didn't have a significant number of these tracks, so those playlists combine mix 1 and 2.

00:00  MLO - Wimborne
08:45  Astralasia - Unveria Zekt (Wlasik Steuhn Abcension Mix)
17:28  Pelican Daughters - Aurascape
23:36  Biosphere - Cloudwalker II
28:48  Baio - Dead Hand Dub #4
32:38  Woob - Later
38:18  GAS - H2teo3
48:56  LFO - Helen
55:08  Orbital - Belfast (ANNA Ambient Remix)
60:00  Jan Jelinek - Do Dekor


photo credit: https://wallpapersafari.com/sci-fi-wallpapers/

28 May, 2023

257b - England's Hidden Reverse Focus





What a wonderful book this is, full of anecdotes and disgusting stories of the early days of industrial music surrounding the adventures of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound.  Also telling the intertwined stories of Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, United Dairies record label, and all the friends and relations surrounding this cast of unique characters.   This book does come with an excellent compilation of tracks, and I decided to supplement this with era specific music which was referenced or detailed in the book.  Well worth the read if anyone has even a passing interest in these artists or the scene.

00:00  Coil - At The Heart Of It All
04:51  Psychic TV - Medmenham
05:38  Lemon Kittens - Motet
08:36  Lustmord - Invocation of Shiva
12:31  23 Skidoo - Banishing
17:08  Throbbing Gristle - Don't Do As You're Told, Do As You Think
24:43  Coil - The First Five Minutes After Violent Death
27:16  Sol Invictus - Black Easter
31:38  Nurse With Wound - A Precise History Of Industrial Music
32:19  Sixth Comm & Freya Aswynn - Ragnarok
36:04  Tiny Tim with Nurse With Wound - Just What Do You Mean By Antichrist
43:16  Coil - Dark River
49:38  Sol Invictus - Fields
53:31  Current 93 - A Song For Douglas After He's Dead (Rebirth)
58:47  Coil - Ostia (Death of Pasolini)
65:05  Psychic TV - The Orchids
67:58  Current 93 - Hooves
72:18  Coil - Who By Fire (Leonard Cohen)
74:46  Current 93 - The Descent of Long Satan and Babylon


photo credit: Second edition book cover

27 May, 2023

257a - England's Hidden Reverse Influences





Tracks referenced, or artists listed as influences to the focus groups in the book England's Hidden Reverse.  Traditional folk, psychedelic rock, pagan folk, krautrock, and all kinds of outsider music.

00:00  Shirley Collins - Adieu To Old England
01:55  Fairport Convention - Tam Lin
09:01  Love - The Red Telephone
13:36  The Incredible String Band - The Water Song
16:16  Paul Giovanni - Willow's Song
20:53  Paul Giovanni - Fire Leap
22:16  The Watersons - Christmas Is Now Drawing Near At Hand
24:05  Fairport Convention - Reynardine
28:27  Love - Alone Again Or
31:32  Comus - Diana (Single version)
35:50  Brainticket - Brainticket (part one)
44:05  Amon Duul - Kaskados Minnelied
46:47  Amon Duul - Natur (Auf dem Lande)
49:27  Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Making Love To A Vampire With A Monkey On My Knee
52:35  Guru Guru - Stone In
58:09  Groundhogs - Sad Go Round
60:57  Blue Oyster Cult - This Ain't The Summer Of Love
63:15  Jac Berrocal - Rock N Roll Station
67:52  Aranos - New Guitar
72:00  Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday


photo credit: first edition book cover

26 May, 2023

256 - Fun and Funky mix





Yep, this is a fun and funky mix for sure.  Very reflective of a point in time for me, but also nostalgic for some history.  I was re-watching Enter the Dragon when I realized the soundtrack kicks some serious butt.  A local radio station played this Roxy Music track, which honestly I'd never heard before and I got into the groove.  There's a lot of crate digging for sample sources like Bob James (come on, everyone should recognize this), Onesness of Juju (FSOL), Shamek Farrah (Scorn), Ken Thorne (Portishead), Mina (Elvis Costello) Shub Niggurath (Scorn).  The track from Selda is a great protest song, worth it to look up the translated lyrics.  My phone's ringtone was this Hildegard von Bingen song for quite a while, can't listen to it without looking at my phone now.  It took me far too long to track down this Dimitri from Tokyo EP, my friend had this on vinyl back in the 90s, and he swore up and down that this was Dmitry from Deee-Lite, which I believed for the last 20-30 years.  My last annecdote is that I sadly first heard The Damned on Phantasmagoria, when I really should have started at the beginning with Damned Damned Damned, anyhow this track stuck with me for is sillyness for a goth/punk band.


00:00  Lalo Schifrin - Williams Vs Han (Enter the Dragon)
02:15  Roxy Music - Love Is The Drug
06:21  Leo Nocentelli - Thinking of the Day
08:51  Bob James - Take Me To The Mardi Gras
14:25  Sammy Davis Jr - Barretas Theme
16:47  Oneness of Juju - Poo Too
20:28  Shamek Farrah - First Impressions
25:36  Ben E King - Stand By Me
28:22  Ken Thorne - In The Alleyways
31:42  Mina - Un Bacio E Troppo Poco
34:51  Selda - Utan Utan
37:41  Science Fiction Dance Party - Souk El Juma
40:25  The Cosmic Jokers - Intergalactic Nightclub
44:19  Silver Apples - A Pox On You
49:25  Hildegard von Bingen - Vision (O Euchari In Leta Via)
52:51  Timi Yuro - Satan Never Sleeps
55:01  Dimitri from Tokyo - Toujours L'Amore
59:14  The Damned - Grimly Fiendish
62:57  Martin Denny - Firecracker
65:16  Shub Niggurath - Yog Sottoth


photo credit: Williams vs Han (Enter The Dragon)

25 May, 2023

255 - Reggae Sunshine





Solid classic reggae mix, heavy on the version.  A couple modern tracks thrown in for good measure, but overall a slate of tracks I've loved for many years.  I remember first coming across at least half of this from a fan mix I found online called "Cool Names Dub" from over 25 years ago, in the infancy of internet downloads.  Nearly every track was a banger.  

00:00  The Upsetters - Blackboard Jungle Dub (ver 1)
04:31  Lee Perry & The Upsetters - Bird In Hand
07:50  Horace Andy - You Are My Angel
10:37  Cables & The New Establishment - Baby Version
13:24  Doreen & Soul Vendors - Sugar (ver)
16:05  Max Romeo - Chase the Devil (original 7" version)
19:24  The Skatalites meet King Tubby - Heavens Gate
23:21  Desmond Dekker - Beautiful and Dangerous
26:06  Lee Perry & The Upsetters - People Funny Boy
28:39  Junior Dread - Sufferer's Heights
33:05  Bad Brains - Meek Shall Inherit The Earth
36:37  Cornel & Soundemensions - Queen of the Version
39:46  The Frightnrs - Do Unto Others (version)
43:39  Johnny Osbourne feat Papa Tullo - Back Off (Ringcraft)
50:10  Ben Bow & Soundemension - Mama Lulu version
53:58  Yabby You - Dicky Burton, God Is Watching You
56:46  Pablo Moses - Dubbin Is A Must
61:28  Earth & Stone - False Ruler
65:01  Ken Boothe & The Soul Vendors - When I Fall In Love / Dub
70:14  U-Roy - Control Tower
73:49  Earl 16 & Soundemension - No Mash Up The Version


photo credit: https://depositphotos.com/vector-images/reggae-background.html

24 May, 2023

254 - All over the place





Another wonky, all over the map kind of mix. Some classic hip hop remixes, some worldly travels, some post-punk, dub and everything in-between. I remember being so intrigued knowing that DJ Spooky did a remix of Earth.  I looked for it everywhere, before realizing I had some Amazon digital credits and could just buy the MP3 there easily.  

00:00  DJ Spooky - Ex Nihlo track 13
07:32  The Orb - The Truth is...
14:11  Butthole Surfers - Pepper (remix)
18:13  De La Soul feat DJ Shadow - Rocket Fuel
21:23  Double Dee & Steinski - The Sugar Hill Suite, Voice Mail
26:48  Trouble Funk - Hey Fellas (Red Snapper remix)
32:07  The Meters - Cardova
36:24  Phil Ranelin - Vibes From The Tribe
40:05  David Marez - Ensename
43:39  Museum of No Art - Textile Trance
49:14  Ozric Tentacles - Half Light In Thillai
54:38  DJ Rupture - Gold Teeth Theif #9
58:04  Medium Medium - Hungry So Angry (Version)
61:35  Earth - Crooked Axis for String Quartet (DJ Spooky)
67:42  The Orb - Golden Clouds (Youth Gigantic Dreadnaught Dub mix)


photo credit: https://murderiseverywhere.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-pontifex-le-veau-dor-and-me.html

23 May, 2023

253 - Terminal Cheesecake



Great band name, diverse sound, and lots of fun to be had.  The first 10 tracks are from TC, then the last six track are from their pseudonym Bud Alzir where they focused on just dub music to great effect.


00:00  Dame Clara Butt
00:54  Tiny Forehead
03:27  Obscured (!)
08:37  Shit Pump
11:01  Ceiling on Fire Eggs
14:29  Herbal Alien Flavour
22:42  Tibetan Lift Off
27:50  God's Turban and Tutu
38:00  Oily Bud
44:43  Mexical
47:02  See Them
53:17  Morocco
57:17  Bud of Alzir
62:18  Bud Vibration
67:59  Jah Lick
73:54  Return Dub


photo credit: discogs

22 May, 2023

252 - HNIA Relatives





Not to be left out, all the friends and family for His Name Is Alive.  Projects from Time Stereo, featuring members of HNIA, or productions of Warn's.  Diverse and wonderful music.

00:00  Saturday Looks Good To Me - Meet Me By The Water
02:58  Monster Island - Calling All Monsters
05:59  Liquorice - Farm (Team Player)
09:40  Denise James - Schools Out (Alice Cooper)
12:57  Monster Island - Happy Girl
16:02  Alan Scheurman - Starless
20:17  ESP Summer - Grow
23:33  Tarnation - Gentle Creatures
24:55  Elizabeth Mitchell - Little Sack Of Sugar
26:46  New Grape - track 03
29:33  Warn Defever - Which Will
32:03  ESP Family - Jubilee
35:28  Godzuki - Toast
38:12  Velour 100 - Pressed Flower
42:55  The Dirt Eaters - No Xpressway
46:04  Saturday Looks Good To Me - Alcohol
48:10  Godzuki - Clapton
50:03  Warn Defever - Sunrise
56:27  Persona vs Control Panel - track 03
60:16  Warn Defever - Broken Tango track 01
61:15  Velour 100 - Control Panel
65:49  IDA - Shotgun (Warn Defever remix)
69:52  Luminous Orange - Puppy Dog Mail (Fast)
73:35  Thurston Moore - Roots (remix by Warren Defever)
77:27  Persona - Thumper (Warn Defever remix)


photo credit:  Time Stereo Man Machine

21 May, 2023

251 - His Name Is Alive 4th Mix part 2





The last three mixes (part 1 earlypart 2 midpart 3 later) covered specific eras.  This half of the mix focuses a lot more on the ambient side, including several tracks from the recent solo home recordings from Warn pre-HNIA.    Spotify and YouTube didn't have most of these songs, so those playlists have what I could find out of part 1 and part 2 combined.

00:00  There's Something Between Us And He's Changing My Words (Two For Brown)
07:23  Vanilla (The Eclipse)
10:44  Porter (Hope Is A Candle)
13:10  Fascinated By A Willing Body (Love Can't Buy Me Happiness)
17:36  Either (Hope Is A Candle)
19:39  Last Thing Thought Of Version (Return Versions)
21:45  Entrance Protection (A Silver Thread)
22:46  All The Mirrors In The House (All The MIrrors In The House)
24:10  Keep The Moon On Time (Ghost Tape)
26:49  Silver Makeup (Silver Makeup single)
33:44  Ghosts (Mystery Spot)
37:38  Home Is (Home Is)
41:30  Brown Rice (Cloud Pop)
46:00  Sweet Earth Flying (Sweet Earth Flower A Tribute To Marion Brown)
52:53  USA vs Gamelan #1 (USA vs Gamelan)


photo credit: time stereo cloud box

20 May, 2023

251 - His Name Is Alive 4th mix part 1





As expected after that last mix, here is more His Name Is Alive.  The last three mixes (part 1 early, part 2 mid, part 3 later) covered specific eras, this two part mix covers the odds and ends and occasionally some newer tracks.  Spotify and YouTube didn't have most of these songs, so those playlists have what I could find out of part 1 and part 2 combined.

00:00  Can't Always Be Loved (Radio) (Can't Always Be Loved 7")
03:56  We Hold The Land (Great Lakes State Blues)
07:54  The Dirt Eaters (The Dirt Eaters EP version)
11:36  Someday Now (Free Concert 06 10 2004)
17:49  Brazil Outro (Friendly Science)
19:14  C-A-T-S (Here Forever Always) (Detrola)
22:37  Affection (Dreem Up)
25:49  Man On The Silver Mountain (Rainbow) (The Dirt Eaters EP)
29:31  Percussion Unamplified Pinecone (The Pinecone)
33:49  Geechee Recollections (Sweet Earth Flower A Tribute To Marion Brown)
39:57  Bleeder Poem (The Eclipse)
41:58  Nylon String Guitar Bowed Pinecone (The Pinecone)
45:48  You Need A Heart To Live (Detrola)
49:55  Get Your Curse On (Summer Left Your Heart Behind) (Detrola)


photo credit: F*ck the moon by Davin Brainard

19 May, 2023

250 - The ESP's Heard Them First (or Songs We Taught His Name Is Alive)





No secret that His Name Is Alive is one of my all time favorite groups.  In all their incarnations, they always have something interesting to provide.  This mix highlights the original songs covered in The ESP's 1920's bluesHNIA Dreem Up, and HNIA Time Stereo releases mostly.  It was a lot of work and a lot of fun tracking down all these songs.


00:00  Erika Hoffmann - Ragged But Right (Riley Puckett)
01:54  Blind Roger Hays - I Must Be Blind, I Cannot See
04:54  Blind Willie Johnson - Church, I'm Fully Saved To-Day
07:59  Blind Willie Johnson - Can't Nobody Hide From God
11:16  Blind Lemon Jefferson - Mean Jumper Blues
13:51  Rev. Gary Davis - I'm Gonna Meet You At The Station
16:27  Blind Alfred Reed - Always Lift Him Up and Never Knock Him Down
19:40  Blind Willie McTell - Don't You See How This World Made A Change
22:30  Teddy Grace, Billy Kyle, Buster Bailey, Dave Barbour, Delmar Kaplan, O'Neil Spencer - Betty and Dupree
25:21  Blind Boy Fuller - Truckin My Blues Away No.2 (Take 2)
28:07  Riley Puckett - Ragged But Right
30:54  Washington Phillips - Take Your Burden To The Lord
34:01  Peter Green - Seven Stars
37:01  Tiger Trap - Prettiest Boy
40:13  Masters of Reality - Jody Sings
42:58  Jane Siberry - The Taxi Ride
48:15  Leadbelly - Bring A Little Water, Sylvie
41:11  The Carter Family - Fond Affection
52:31  Neil Young - Harvest
55:35  Big Star - Nightime
58:18  Tommy Tucker - A Man In Love
60:02  Beatles - Long, Long, Long
62:57  Elizabeth Cotten - Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie
67:34  Two Gospel Keys - I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore
70:04  Duke Ellington - Solitude
73:27  The Supremes - When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes (live)
75:59  Big Star - Blue Moon
77:58  The Equals - Tear drops
80:18  Unrest - Imperial
88:00  Ida - Maybelle
94:37  Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well (part 1)
97:56  Rainbow - Man On The Silver Mountain
102:33  Jimi Hendrix - In From The Storm
105:55  John Denver - Sunshine on my Shoulders


photo credit: https://warpedrealitymagazine.com/2021/04/return-to-never-revisiting-early-his-name-is-alive.html

18 May, 2023

249e - Ambient mix 5





Last of my all ambient mixes.  This one stays right on the edge of dark ambient, while still light and relaxing.

00:00  Scorn - Little Angel
04:26  Burial - Subtemple
11:32  Muslimgauze - Tassili n'Ajjer I
21:00  Christoph Heemann - The Rings of Saturn #7
25:17  Anne Garner - Unhand
29:56  His Name Is Alive - Home Is 
33:32  D. Rothon - Bryn Glas
36:31  Velour - Dub Space
43:05  Yellow Magic Orchestra - Loom
47:51  Nurse With Wound - African Mosquito (sub mix)
59:09  Bright - Boham and Pribram
60:45  Aeolian String Ensemble - Sucker For A Soft Sob Story


photo credit: amanita musucaria

17 May, 2023

249d - Ambient mix 4





Day 4 of my ambient mixes, and this one has some unexpected finds.  Moving further from the dark ambient and into great textural, and relaxing music for most of it.  

00:00  Necromandus - Intro
00:51  MLO - DJ Food's Sonic Soup #2
02:56  Richard Skelton - The Viscid Substance
04:51  Susumu Yokota - Tobiume
09:16  Modern Studies and Tommy Perman - Ephemeris Mist
14:34  Andrew Chalk - Shimmer in the Sun
16:12  Scorn - Slumber
19:52  Dome - Ampnoise
23:56  Richard Thomas - Darbytuff (Tempered)
25:48  The Remote Viewer - Quiet Is The New Loud
34:07  Burial - Night Bus
36:02  The Future Sound of London - Episode
41:12  Muslimgauze - Tassili n'Ajjer II
47:26  Aeolian String Ensemble - Ingemisco
54:35  Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois & Roger Eno - An Ending (Ascent)
58:37  Caleb R.K. Williams - Blockfield
59:50  PlatEAU - Schipol
62:37  Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois - Ophelius 1stP118
64:36  Electric Skychurch - Outside


photo credit: faux wood panel background image

16 May, 2023

249c - Ambient Mix3





Third ambient mix in this series, with a bit of rhythm again and occasionally some guitar.  Not nearly as dark as the last mix, until the end.  
  
00:00  Tor Lundvall & Tony Wakeford - Autumn Nails
03:01  Mira Calix with Oliver Coates - In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country (Boards of Canada)
09:04  Kava Kon - Double-even self-dual binary error-correcting block codes
10:26  Boom Bip - Pulse All Over (peel session)
16:47  The Future Sound Of London - Magnify Within the Thought
21:43  Nigel Godrich - Love Me Some Walking
25:36  Eugenio Grandi - Girl in Danger
26:51  Peaking Lights - Moonrise
28:51  Terre Thaemlitz - Marcel Duchamp Air De Paris pt2
31:00  Ditterich von Euler-Donnersperg - DDBE210
32:12  Unknown - Lost
33:31  Phil Manzanera - Lagrima
35:52  Lightning in a Twilight Hour - The Munich Post
40:43  His Name Is Alive - Something About Hope
43:07  Polygon Window - Quino - Phec
47:28  Tony Wakeford and Steven Stapleton - Walk The White Ghost
52:12  Labradford - Disremembering
55:00  Sunn O))) & Nurse With Wound - Dysnystaxis


photo credit: campsite near Bonanza, CO

15 May, 2023

249b - Ambient mix 2 rhythmic and dark





Continuing the dark ambient style here, but with occassional rhythms behind the wash of sounds.  Maybe not as calming as most ambient music, which is why I love this stuff.  It hangs in the background yet fills a room with a sense of tension that is undeniable.

00:00  Nature and Organisation - Introduction
02:50  The Loop Orchestra - Radiophony
06:42  John Carpenter - The Garry Blair Thing
06:59  Phil Western - Last Moments
09:30  Tor Lundvall & Tony Wakeford - Sickness on the Wind
13:45  Biosphere - Ancient Campfire
21:06  Amp - Matilda's Shorts Wave
27:29  Matt Howden & Tony Wakeford - Ginnungagap I
32:12  Tor Lundvall & Tony Wakeford - The Final Green Place
35:07  Death In June - Untitled (Free Tibet)
41:16  Zoviet France - Daisy Gun
48:46  Current 93 - Invocation of Almost #2
54:10  Coil - How To Destroy Angels II


photo credit: grunge texture found online

14 May, 2023

249a - Ambient mix 1





Having worked most of my adult life in IT, I have a great appreciation for ambient music.  It is wonderful to have some calm, droning music playing in the background while I focus intently on the tasks at hand.  Of course, growing up with a fond appreciation of industrial music, I tend to gravitate towards dark ambient more than new age / spa style ambient.   Still, the next five mixes cover a lot of ground and I hope others enjoy this selection of my favorites.  Plenty enough to put on a loop and get through the workday.


00:00  Nurse With Wound - Spiral Theme
01:53  Aphex Twin - On (28 mix)
08:18  Autechre - PIOB (mix two)
14:45  Moby - The Rain Falls and The Sky Shudders
20:42  Johan Soderqvist - Giving Up
22:53  His Name Is Alive - All The Mirrors In The House
24:13  Aphex Twin - Cliffs
30:38  Mirror - Visiting Star (a2)
36:57  Johan Soderqvist - Death of Hakan
39:05  Christopher Young - God Sees Everything
42:46  John Carpenter? - The Thing That Was Bennings
44:40  Arditi & Toroidh - Untitled #11
48:53  Divination - Ain Soph Aour
54:14  Organum - AEO
59:20  Daniel Schmidt and The Berkley Gamelan - And the darkest hour is just before dawn (live)
  

photo credit: Roxborough Park

13 May, 2023

248 - Beastie Boys Instrumentals




The neighbors at my first apartment in college would play the Beastie Boys every day.  Seriously, everyday for a year I heard them.  I always appreciated their music, but hearing it so often and not of my own free will caused some resentment over time.  Then near 20 years later I was open to revisiting their catalog and I'm sure I'm not the only one that thought it was a good idea to compile all the Beastie's instrumental tracks in one place.  They're such talented musicians on top of their rhyming ability.  


00:00  Dis Yourself in 89 (Just Do It)
03:27  Body Movin (Kut Masta Kurt remix instrumental)
06:39  And What You Give Is What You Get
10:18  33 Percent God
13:59  Son Of Neck Bone
17:05  Groove Holmes
19:34  B For My Name
22:46  Namaste
26:30  Electric Worm
29:38  Bobo on the Corner
30:47  LTD
33:48  Off The Grid
38:15  Ricky's Theme
41:54  Sabrosa
45:23  Pow
47:22  Shambala
50:44  Dr. Lee, PhD (Dub mix feat. Lee Scratch Perry)
55:14  Suco De Tangerina
58:24  The Rat Cage
61:48  Learning Remote Control
63:27  Creepin'
65:52  Eugene's Lament
67:51  The Gala Event
71:14  Transitions
73:40  The Mix Up
77:09  Auntie Jackie Poom Poom Delicious
78:40  Lighten Up


photo credit: http://www.pedalsandeffects.com/blog/2016/9/13/pedals-and-effects-song-dissection-sabotage-by-the-beastie-boys

12 May, 2023

246 - I put a seashell to my ear and it all comes back





Downtempo, chill, groovy tracks that embody the excitement of spring heading into summer.

00:00  Skylab - Seashell
05:22  Pram - Version
10:12  Burnt Friedman - Someday My Blues Will Cover the Earth (His Name Is Alive)
13:09  Peaking Lights - Breakdown
17:42  Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra - San Diego 
21:27  Section 25 - Uber Hymn (DDAA remix)
26:07  Gary Numan - Films
29:55  Chromatics - Shadow
33:24  Jane Weaver - Argent (Tom Furse Extrapolation)
39:11  Asobi Seksu - Strawberries (Ulrich Schnauss remix)
42:26  Kraftwerk - Radioaktivitat (single edit)
45:32  Depeche Mode - Policy of Truth
50:21  Morrissey - Suedehead (Sparks remix)
56:55  BT feat Tori Amos - Blue Skies (radio edit)
60:34  Deee-Lite - Party Happenin People (Sampladelic)
63:34  Lamb - Little Things (Klute remix)
70:12  Martin Denny - Firecracker


Photo credit: Rudy

11 May, 2023

245 - Aesop Rock





I've heard Aesop Rock is the hip hop artist with the largest vocabulary, beating out GZA and Kool Keith.  I've been a fan ever since I picked up Float at the Anticon show.  The below mix is a bit heavy on "The Impossible Kid" and "Spirit World Field Guide" only because I think those are his best and most consistent albums.  I really wanted to include something from his project The Uncluded, but it didn't fit with the rest.  Be sure to check the videos, all his official ones are excellent, I also found some live versions, and the rest should all be the lyric videos because its just awe inspiring to follow along with his rhymes.

00:00  The Four Winds
02:44  Rings
06:31  Mystery Fish
09:30  Kodokushi
13:12  Holy Waterfall
16:42  Zero Dark Thirty
20:00  Blood Sandwich
24:20  Cycles To Gehenna
28:17  Lazy Eye
31:01  Shrunk
34:09  Skip Town
38:21  Dorks (Blockhead remix)
41:58  Marble Cake
46:04  None Shall Pass
49:56  Commencement At The Obedience Academy
53:37  Button Masher
57:20  Get Out Of The Car
58:54  Black List (MF Doom feat Prefuse 73 & Aesop Rock)
62:35  Plagues and Bacon (Hail Mary Mallon)
65:43  Side Quest
67:01  Acid King (Malibu Ken)
70:29  Lotta Years
72:26  Molecules
75:47  The Mayor and the Crook


photo credit: Discogs

Because I love "The Impossible Kid" so much, here's a bonus find.  The full album stream and a fan synced it up to a stop motion recreation of the Shinning.