314a Andrew Liles Avant Garde

Here beings a five part overview of Andrew Liles' work.  He has released so many albums I honestly cannot keep up, and I know my collection has some critical gaps.  While uploading these mixes, I found Spotify to be not worth the effort.  A quick search there yielded only three albums.  YouTube was better, though not enough of what I wanted to share was available.  I am hoping that these five mixes help introduce him to a new audience, or give existing fans of his work a nice reminder of the diversity of his catalog.

This first overview is focused on his unique, avant garde stylings.  Sure, most of his output falls into that category.

00:00  To Maim a Donkey Part 1 (Black Widow)

00:50  Untitled (Nocturne) (Prelude To An Un World)

02:25  Tawny (Black Mamba)

03:28  All Doors Open By Colin Potter (In My Father's House Are Many Mansions)

09:24  Cheap Red Plonk (Miscellany 1)

10:27  A Life More Ordinary (All Closed Doors)

12:48  The Bombardier Sings (Tubercular Bells)

15:21  You Should Have Told Me First (Tubercular Bells)

17:20  Time Travel Promenade (Black Pool)

18:34  The Pleasure Tract of Medial Forebrain Bundle (Gazogene Machines)

21:39  Haulage (Miscellany 1)

24:02  Brazil (Miscellany 1)

28:17  Lifestyle To Accommodate Beard (Black Mamba)

30:33  As on a Dung Hill (Black End)

33:27  Quicksand Mud Slide (Black Widow)

38:32  Heartworms (The Flesh Creeping Gonzoid Speciality Offal & Choice Cuts Disc 1)

42:22  Black Mamba Dub (Black Mamba)

46:28  Guinea Pigs (Ouarda (The Subtle Art of Phyllorhodomancy))

48:41  The Auto Spirit & Familiar Phantoms (Black Sheep)

51:01  All Closed Doors (All Closed Doors)

58:51  RC (RC)

69:23  A Cold Spring In Summerland (My Long Accumulating Discontent)

71:32  An Un World (outro) (An Un World)

 

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312 Industrial and some EBM

Nothing much to say, just a collection of some of my favorites in the genre and a few stone cold classics.  Once I posted this mix, I realized the last song was left off.  That's OK, it was filler anyway.

00:00  Scorn - Almost Human

13:36  Test Dept - Total Nervous Phenomenon

17:14  Terminal Cheesecake - Track 9 (Angels in Pigtails)

21:17  Einsturzende Neubauten - Yu-Gung (remixed by Adrian Sherwood)

28:38  Skinny Puppy - Deep Down Trauma Hounds (remix)

36:03  Front 242 - Headhunter V3.0

40:41  Camera - Uberall Teilchen / Teilchen Uberall

44:39  Nine Inch Nails - Gave Up (remixed by Coil with Danny Hyde)

49:58  Throbbing Gristle - Adrenalin

53:46  Ministry - Cannibal Song

59:46  :wumpscut: - Crucified

63:34  Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumors

69:54  Keith LeBlanc - Einstein Mad Dub

73:29  Def FX - No Time For Nowhere (Aquarius Mix)

  

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311b - Broadcast's Odd Songs

Here are the tracks that endeared Broadcast as a solid spot on my all time favorites.  Their quirky, vintage, library sounds that they brought into pop culture and a wide fanbase.  To further their street cred in my book, anything Andy Votel touches is gold as well.  His remix takes an amazing song to even further levels.  The Broadcast remix of Gonjasufi is mind-blowing as well, sounds like it was plucked straight from the soundtrack of "Valarie and Her Week of Wonders."

00:00  Test Area

05:46  The Be Colony / Dashing Home / What On Earth Took You? (with The Focus Group)

08:01  The Caliph's Tea Party (Broadcast & The Focus Group "DedNd" remix, Gonjasufi remixed)

13:03  Chord Simple

17:32  Booklovers (Andy Votel remix)

24:46  Accidentals

28:06  Microtronics 07

30:01  Interiors (The Sea and Cake remixed)

33:16  Colour Me In

36:02  Man Is Not A Bird

39:48  Interlude 2

41:23  I Found the F (Gravenhurst covering Broadcast)

44:35  I See, So I See So (with The Focus Group)

46:44  Microtronics 05

48:25  Sixty Fourty

52:50  Pendulum

56:07  Angel (St Etienne remixed)

60:19  Hawk

63:58  Unchanging Window / Chord Simple

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311a - Broadcast's Nice Songs

Why oh why did it take me this long to put out an overview of what is easily my favorite group of all times?  I cannot overstate how passionately I adore this music.  The Noise Made By People was my first exposure which was amazing as I had always associated WARP records with innovative IDM/electronica and dance oriented music.  Here was this group that had electronic elements, but with catchy pop hooks, creative lyrics, and a sound reminiscent of library music and 60's soundtracks.  Their start with singles on Stereolab's Duophonic label was the absolute best launching pad for their sound, and WARP gave them the right exposure as they build their label roster as well.  This is a band where I can truly say there is something for everyone, and I mean it.

There is also a great Broadcast overview mix at Nothing's Going to Happen's blog.  Definitely worth checking out, as it covers some different ground than my two mixes.

00:00  Before We Begin

03:13  City In Progress

06:41  Papercuts

11:09  Message From Home

14:37  Come On Let's Go

17:45  Echo's Answer

20:51  The Book Lovers

24:18  Where Youth and Laughter Go (Peel session)

26:50  Accidents Will Happen (The Projects remixed)

30:19  The Be Colony (with The Focus Group)

34:47  Poem of Dead Song

37:14  Illumination

40:12  Bit 35

41:57  Still Feels Like Tears

45:32  Another Pearl (Badly Drawn Boy remixed)

49:29  Lights Out

54:00  Look Outside

57:40  The World Backwards

61:25  Unchanging Window

65:00  Tears in the Typing Pool

67:07  Winter Now

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310 Alternative Acoustic Pop

A simple, straightforward mix of songs that bring me joy in these dog days of summer.  

00:00  The Jesus and Mary Chain - Dirty Water

02:58  The Charlatans - Come In Number 21

06:54  The Psychedelic Furs - Heaven

09:59  Levy - Rotten Love

13:07  Dinosaur Jr - Boy With The Thorn In His Side (The Smiths)

14:58  This Mortal Coil - You and Your Sister (Chris Bell)

18:07  Legendary Pink Dots - Sterre

22:12  Monsters of Folk - Map of the World

26:07  Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun

28:30  The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again

31:33  Pixies - Where Is My Mind?

35:15  The Sundays - I Kicked A Boy

37:25  The Dead Milkmen - Punk Rock Girl

39:58  Kimya Dawson - Chemistry

42:23  Magnetic Fields - The Night You Can't Remember

44:39  Jane's Addiction - Classic Girl

49:24  Siouxsie and The Banshees - The Last Beat Of My Heart

53:49  Modest Mouse - Third Planet

57:43  Spiritualized - Don't Just Do Something

64:31  My Morning Jacket - They Ran

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309c DJ Spooky mix 3 ambient

Third and final part.  This is more focused on his ambient works, which in my opinion is the largest part of his discography and my favorite of his styles.  Hoping that these three mixes helped expose his works to some new fans.

00:00  Muzique Psychotique

05:10  Subsidia Pataphysica

10:22  Sounds From Planet X (Feat Dave Lombardo)

10:54  Variation Cybernetique: Rhythmic Pataphysic

13:28  Sub Dub Prologue

17:01  Earth (Earth remixed)

25:45  City Life (Steve Reich remixed)

32:35  Crime

39:23  Nihilisumus Dub

43:24  Ryu-Ki (Lulu's Peace mix, DJ Krush remixed)

49:39  Star Chart

52:41  It's Nice Not to Lose Your Mind in 99 (Reprise)

53:07  Foriegn Matter

58:46  Periphique

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309b DJ Spooky mix 2

Second part, and what I'd consider more crowd pleasing tracks.  Maybe a little less abstract but still full of innovation.  I was so giddy with excitement when I heard DJ Spooky had a collaboration album with Twilight Circus (a personal top ten favorite).  Then even more excited for the sister EP with Alter Echo, just amazing stuff that bridges the gap of the dub with illbient masters.  I really don't recall why I only included one track from the remix album Dubtometry, probably because there was so much great music on all his other projects.  The Merzbow remix is pretty great, took the master of Japanoise and made it digestible for a larger audience.  As you can tell, I loved the Drums of Death album with Dave Lombardo - solid start to finish and so many incredible guest appearances on it.  One glaring omission in these mixes is the Creation Rebel and Trojan records albums, also worth checking out.

00:00  Synchronic Disjecta

04:23  Soon Forward

09:54  Rekonstruction (Rhyme and Reason mix feat Prince Poetry and Pharoah Monch)

13:30  Other Planes of Dub (Feat Twilight Circus)

18:35  Alter Echo Dubtometry (Optometry rmx)

22:41  Phase Anasi (Feat Twilight Circus)

26:50  Maldoror's Gambit

31:43  Ibid, desmarches, ibid

37:10  Catechism (Mex Black Grass remix Feat Killah Priest)

40:52  Brother's Gonna Work It Out (Feat Chuck D and Dave Lombardo)

45:23  Takemitsu (Merzbow remix)

49:35  Public Enemy #1 2005 (Feat Chuck D and Dave Lombardo)

54:02  Shadow and Substance mix (Meat Beat Manifesto remixed)

59:43  Assisted Suicide (Feat Dalek and Dave Lombardo)

62:50  Galactic Funk

68:31  Drinking

73:28  Mundo Civilizado (Inversion mix, Arto Lindsay remixed)

  

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309a DJ Spooky mix 1

Another amazing DJ that pushes boundaries and is hard to classify since he reinvents his sound with every album and project.  I was blown away by Riddim Warfare, my first exposure to his music.  I recall purchasing "Subliminal Minded" EP at Taang records near San Diego way back in the late 90s, and pretty sure I pissed off my punk friends by playing this frequently when I'd crash on their couches.  The collaborations with Freight Elevator Quartet and Scanner really blew me away and I was a dedicated fan from then on.  A common refrain here, I'm sad that Spotify has such a small selection of his works, as I think everyone should have the opportunity to hear DJ Spooky.

00:00  Intro: Anagramme Oulippienne

00:39  An Embarrassment Artist

07:01  Glass Beads

11:33  Astral Blue (with Twilight Circus and Alter Echo)

16:34  Osmose (with Freight Elevator Quartet)

20:48  Supersonic Bionic (Spectral Dub mix)

27:19  Dr. Satan Echo Chamber

27:38  Dub Summit (with Twilight Circus and Alter Echo)

31:43  Creation Rebel (with Mad Professor and Rob Swift)

36:24  Uncanny (with Scanner)

41:47  Theme of the Drunken Sailor 

46:57  Guanxi (with Scanner)

50:43  Downtempo Manifesto (with Freight Elevator Quartet)

54:35  Interlude Journey Into Sound

55:39  Obscure Disorder (Ghost Hacked!!!) (with Dave Lombardo)

61:06  Delerium Tremens

64:08  Variation on a Freight Theme (live) (with Freight Elevator Quartet)

69:31  Synaptic Dissonance

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308b DJ Wally - Tree Smokin'

More jazz, less abstract, still amazing.  A lot of work with Matthew Shipp included here, and some collabs/remixes with another legend, Mr. Jack Dangers.  Solid bass grooves and funky drumming, which is a staple in all of DJ Wally's work.

When searching for images, I realized how many DJ Wally's there are out there.  It can be quite confusing for what I had naively thought was a unique name.  So here is a link to his discogs page for what I consider the preeminent DJ Wally.

00:00  Hello (Intro)

01:15  Sentimental Stamina 

06:55  Yes It's True

10:36  Thirsty Thrills

15:19  Travelogue 1 (NYC to Hawaii)

18:49  Travelogue 2 (Medley)

23:58  A Day in the Life

28:44  Stringsnthings (Feat Swingsett)

31:29  Nothing Stays The Same

35:06  Echo In Space Dub (Meat Beat Manifesto remixed)

38:48  Mr Beaver Saves The Day

45:30  A Postcard from Crater Lake

48:42  Lessons Learned (Interlude)

49:48  Mr Beaver Smokes a Tree

54:54  Shaken

57:01  I Spy

59:26  My Man's Gone Now (Nina Simone remixed)

63:16  Out of the Blue (DJ Spooky)

64:55  Wiggin (Feat Swingsett)

71:31  Terrorific

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308a DJ Wally - Hungry in the Abstrakt

A ridiculously original and engaging DJ that I came across on the Headz 2A and This Is Home Entertainment vol 2 compilations, which showcased the best and brightest of the illbient and adjunct genres.  DJ Wally's contribution to the Jess Franco tribute "The Spirit of Vampyros Lesbos" is absolute gold.  He did dive into a bit of drum and bass and two-step, but his downtemp and illbient works are where I focus my attention, though I did include a couple of my favorites in this mix. The second half of this mix will address his work with Thirsty Ear, and the jazzier stylings he has offered.  

00:00  Outa My Head

06:24  Necromix

13:06  My Bloody Valentine (Nitty mix)

18:44  Bitchley's Kow Korn

25:49  Something In Those Trees

30:23  Jigen Remixz

34:33  Hungry in the Abstrakt (Feat Swingsett)

41:19  Mustela (Feat Swingsett)

47:21  Mustard Plaster

51:48  Smoke

57:15  Drugs In Front Of Me (Feat Frank Hess AKA Tube)

63:02  Space People

68:03  See What (Feat Swingsett)

73:30  The Ancient Evil

74:21  Children of God

74:25  At War

80:43  Conformed Dimentia

83:09  Zeta Reticulli Trip 1 (One)

 

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307 Oldies Rockin

Growing up listening to oldies left a permanent mark on my musical tastes.  Whether nostalgia, or past lives, or whatever it is, I just love this stuff.  Has that warm feeling of home in most of the songs, like an old friend coming back to visit.

00:00  Bobby Parker - Watch Your Step

02:40  Bobby Fuller - I Fought The Law

04:49  The Who - My Generation

08:04  Them - Baby Please Don't Go

10:43  The Animals - Memphis Tennessee

13:42  Buddy Holly & The Crickets - Oh, Boy!

15:47  Ritchie Valens - La Bamba

17:48  The Rolling Stones - Poison Ivy (version 2)

19:50  Bill Haley - Shake, Rattle and Roll

22:18  Bobby Fuller - Do You Wanna Dance

24:37  Ritchie Valens - Come on, Let's Go

26:33  Them - Here Comes The Night

29:13  The Velvet Underground - Who Loves The Sun

31:52  Roy Orbison - Running Scared

33:58  The Kinks - A Well Respected Man

36:34  Creedence Clearwater Revival - Lookin Out My Back Door

39:00  Buddy Holly & The Crickets - Not Fade Away

41:13  Roy Orbison - In Dreams

43:58  Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs - Lil Red Riding Hood

46:36  The Seeds - Can't Seem To Make You Mine

49:35  Credence Clearwater Revival - Lodi

52:30  The Kinks - This Time Tomorrow

55:51  Neil Young - Ohio

58:39  The Rolling Stones - Mother's Little Helper

61:18  The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Castles Made of Sand

63:58  Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man

67:05  Cat Stevens - Wild World

70:18  Elton John - Rocket Man

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306 Popular songs with context

 

Inferred from the last mix and this one, I was in a much more lighthearted mood, after spending much of last week's posts diving deep into the dark realms of Current 93.  Life is all about balance and moderation after all.  Some call outs, I always preferred this version of Pretty in Pink, not as polished as the one from the movie.  My wife and I used to watch History Detectives on PBS and I loved that they used Elvis for the theme.  This Keren Ann track stands out in how it seamlessly transverses multiple genres in a short space.  The Iggy Pop track seems to get stuck in my head at least a few times a year.  RIP Prince, I was thrilled to see some of these tracks come out of his vault.  Last year my Xmas gift to my Dad was the Steve Miller box set, and yeah I do like a couple of his tracks.  Thanks to Guardians of the Galaxy, we listen to Redbone at least once a week now.  Had to include my favorite track by Bowie, and the prettiest song by VU.  

00:00  Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue
03:49  The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink
07:33  Elvis Costello - Watching The Detectives
11:11  Keren Ann - Lay Your Head Down
15:51  The Pretenders - Brass In Pocket
18:49  Iggy Pop feat Kate Pierson - Candy
22:41  Nina Simone - Here Comes The Sun
26:10  The Rolling Stones - I'm Free
28:29  The Faces - Ooh La La
31:45  Prince - Manic Monday
34:31  Steve Miller Band - Take The Money and Run
37:11  Redbone - Come and Get Your Love
40:31  David Bowie - Sound and Vision
43:28  The Rolling Stones - She's A Rainbow
47:37  The Velvet Underground - Stephanie Says
50:19  Billy Idol - Eyes Without A Face
54:19  Shannon - Let The Music Play
57:49  Hall & Oates - I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)
63:41  Elton John - I'm Still Standing

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305 New and Old leftovers

Odd assortment of oldies and not so oldies.  These are all tracks that didn't make the final cut of my previous mixes, and fortunately they all fit together nicely here.  If only I included a couple tracks by the Kinks, this could almost pass off for a Wes Anderson soundtrack. 

00:00  The Velvet Underground - All Tomorrow's Parties

02:39  Tim Buckley - I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain

08:31  The Mamas and The Papas - California Dreamin

11:05  Wallace Collection - Daydream

15:11  Shirley & Johnny - Don't Make Me Over

18:34  The Sundays - Skin & Bones (Peel session)

22:38  Johnny Cash - Born To Lose

24:43  Townes Van Zandt - My Proud Mountains

29:43  Going Home - Give You My Loving

33:10  Donovan - Jersey Thursday

35:19  Jim Croce - Walkin Back To Georgia

38:04  Van Morrison - And It Stoned Me

42:32  Johnny Cash - Delia's Gone

44:45  The Stranglers - Golden Brown 

48:54  Monsters of Folk - Baby Boomer

51:38  Fairport Convention - Tam Lin

58:46  Revolutionary Army of The Infant Jesus - I Carry The Sun

60:45  Jennie Pearl - Maybe In Another Year

63:31  Prince - Nothing Compares 2 U

68:05  Shirley & Dolly Collins - The Gower Wassail

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An update

 

For the last almost year I've diligently shared one mix a day, nearly every day.  I've got another 50 or so finished, and typically 100 or more in the works.   I never thought I could keep up this feverish pace forever.  Going forward my plan is to share 2-3 full mixes a week, giving me more time to work on new ones and actually digest more of the records I've been purchasing.

Not going anywhere, just slowing down a little.  I'm always open to requests and suggestions, and love discourse on any band, genre or musical topic.  Please call out other sites and mixes to me as well, I love finding something new.

304 Stereolab part 2

Part 2, including spotify and youtube links which are the combined mixes.

00:00  The Noise of Carpet

03:00  Revox

07:00  Mountain

10:42  International Colouring Contest

14:18  The Long Hair of Death

19:00  Music for the Amorphous Body Center

20:29  Les Yper-sound

24:25  Brakhage

29:47  Spark Plug

32:10  Miss Modular

36:34  Cybele's Reverie

39:21  Allures

42:39  Barok Plastik

45:33  Pinball

48:40  Fluorescences

51:54  The Free Design

55:27  Contronatura (Prelude to an Autumn of Faun mix)

60:42  Miss Modular (Automator Remix)

64:50  Stereolab Mix (Chinese Whispers)

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