490 Shadows mix B

Wishing everyone a very kind, peaceful, and supportive 2025.  We all need the help of our community, family and friends for everything life throws at us today, tomorrow and in the distant future.

00:00  Muslimgauze - Shadow of the West

07:59  Skinny Puppy - Shadow Cast

12:15  Current 93 - The Dream of a Shadow of Smoke

17:22  Edward Ka-Spel - The Shadow Mask

21:23  The Prids - Shadow and Shadow

25:03  The Future Sound of London - Long Shadows

32:24  Sonic Youth - Shadow of a Doubt

35:45  Electric Orange - Soul Shadows

41:42  Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Having an Average Weekend

44:15  Yo La Tengo - Cast a Shadow

46:33  Warsaw - Shadowplay

50:13  Jesu & Sun Kil Moon - A Song of Shadows

56:16  Head of David - Shadow Hills California

60:40  Meat Beat Manifesto - Shadow and Substance mix (DJ Spooky)

66:20  The Legendary Pink Dots - Cheating the Shadow

69:50  Equations of Eternity - Shadow Sewer

77:22  Muslimgauze - Bright Shadows

79:59  Four Tops - Standing in the Shadows of Love

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490 Shadows mix A

Ending 2024 with an appropriately somber and mellow couple of mixes. 

I've wanted to use this opening Piano Magic track for a long time, but never found the right place for it.  I finally thought, what about shadows... and by sheer luck, an episode of Kids in the Hall came on and the theme song is from Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet and I knew I had my theme.  Fortunately, Current 93 has plenty of songs with Shadow in the title so I was off to a great start.  Plus, I have been hanging on to this picture for a while.  Its a fan made comic strip using the lyrics from that opening track by Piano Magic.  Always thought this was pretty cool.

00:00  Piano Magic - I Came to Your Party Dressed as a Shadow

04:04  Yo La Tengo - Shadows

06:24  Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Long Shadow

09:53  Sam Prekop - The Shadow

14:31  Current 93 + Nurse With Wound - Walking Like Shadow II

17:14  Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio - Mary Dances in the Shadows/The Holiest of Harlots

21:22  Piano Magic - I Have Moved Into The Shadows

25:45  Material - Shadows of Paradise

35:18  Future Sound of London - Dirty Shadows

41:33  Death In June - A Sad Place to Make A Shadow

44:34  Current 93 - Chewing on Shadows

48:50  Current 93 - Where the Long Shadows Fall

54:51  Rapoon - The Shadows Approach

62:40  Nordvargr - The Shadows Are Bent By My Presence

66:27  Current 93 + Nick Cave - I Could Not Shift the Shadow

72:32  Grey Force Wakeford - Shadows in the Light

79:44  Rapoon - Sunday's Shadows

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489 Body Parts

I've been hooked on this Purity Ring track lately, and the PTP track from my recent Ministry mix felt like it was similar in theme.  I've wanted to include this oddball His Name Is Alive track forever.  Then "The Choke" came on shuffle and I knew I had to pull this mix together based on the samples used in it.  All tracks about or titled about body parts and not anything sappy about eyes.  Yes, lots of creepy and weird music here, I felt the need to get back to my roots. 

00:00  Skinny Puppy - The Choke

06:08  His Name Is Alive - Put Your Finger in Your Eye

06:50  Purity Ring - Fineshrine

10:18  Stereolab  Spinal Column

12:53  Kid606 - If My Heart Ever Ran Away

16:50  The Darkening Scale - Bake Sore Toe

19:21  Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - What's The Ugliest Part of Your Body?

20:24  People Like Us & Wobbly - Shot in the Breast

22:59  Ozric Tentacles - Space Between Your Ears

30:39  Renaldo & The Loaf - The Elbow Is Taboe

33:27  PTP - Show Me Your Spine

38:12  Severed Heads - Goodbye Tonsils

42:14  The Residents - Smelly Tongues

44:00  Captain Beefheart feat Frank Zappa - Man With The Woman Head

45:27  Aranos, Jon Mueller, C. Rosenau - Thinking of Pen!s and Vag!na

50:30  Nurse With Wound - Nasal Hair

52:11  Volcano The Bear - My Favourite Tongues

54:52  Swans - Where Does A Body End?

58:25  I Am Spoonbender - Ears Are Merely Human

60:43  Fudge Tunnel - Teeth

64:25  Slayer - Dead Skin Mask

69:35  Butthole Surfers - Tongue

71:32  Alien Sex Fiend - Smoke My Bones

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488 Zack de la Rocha's other appearances

I recall a bit of shock when I put on Lyricist's Lounge and heard Zack doing a collaboration with KRS-One, and it was quite good.  Based on that, I started to seek out all his other guest vocal performances and came up with this list, I think it has most of them.  I didn't include One Day As A Lion as that was on a recent mix, and Farside where he plays guitar because I just didn't like it and it didn't fit in anywhere on this mix.  He also played guitar in Hard Stance, so included that as it fit the vibe towards the end of this mix.

00:00  Zack de la Rocha, KRS-One & The Last Emperor - C.I.A. (Criminals In Action)

04:33  Deltron 3030 - Melding of the Minds

08:32  DJ Shadow - March of Death

12:29  Roni Size - Centre of the Storm

20:06  Saul Williams - Act III Scene 2 (Shakespeare)

24:23  Chuck D, The Roots, and Zack de la Rocha - Burned Hollywood Burned

28:24  Zack de la Rocha - Digging for Windows

31:50  Run The Jewels - A Report To The Shareholders : Kill Your Masters

38:01  Run The Jewels - Close Your Eyes (and count to f*ck)

41:55  Run The Jewels - JU$T

45:20  Blackalicious - Release (part 1)

46:47  Unbound Allstars - Mumia 911 Bloody Murder (West Coast Remix)

51:01  Chuck D & Zack de la Rocha - Zapata's Blood

58:09  DJ Shadow - Artifact (vocal version)

61:01  Zack de la Rocha - We Want It All

64:47  Hard Stance - Is This The End/Torn Apart

68:18  Inside Out - No Spiritual Surrender

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481 Roots Manuva Guest Spots

Roots Manuva aka Rodney Smith is a name I'd heard and seen everywhere but took a while before diving into his catalog.  I think it was the Pharoahe Monch track that first drew my attention, and then I was excited to hear his dub album "Dub come save me."  Of course, the collab track with Jurassic 5 really stood out, and a guest spot with Massive Attack doesn't hurt one's street cred.  Yeah, pretty much every artist on this mix is quite an honor to work with, so Roots Manuva is certainly doing something right.

00:00  Leftfield - Dusted

04:31  Jurassic 5 - Join The Dots

08:13  Beth Orton - Daybreaker (remix)

12:45  Amon Tobin - Saboteur (Version)

17:01  Massive Attack - Dead Editors

21:38  DJ Shadow - GDMFSOB (UNKLE Uncensored)

28:01  Lee Scratch Perry - International Broadcaster

33:50  Pharoahe Monch - Simon Says (Skitz Version)

37:25  23 Skidoo - Where You At

42:46  The Herbaliser - Lord, Lord

46:50  The Herbaliser - Starlight

51:50  Nightmares on Wax - 70's 80's (upbringing mix)

56:40  Antipop Consortium - NY to Tokyo

59:50  The Cinematic Orchestra - All Things To All Men

69:54  Dust - Where You Wanna Be

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470 MC Dälek Appearances

Will Brooks aka MC Dälek first caught my attention on the 2nd Gen track and/or remixed by Techno Animal.  His lyrics and flow were mind blowing.  I quickly dove in and found the Classical Homicide and Megaton tracks with Techno Animal, and shortly after they released "Brotherhood of the Bomb" with the track Hell.  That solidified it and I quickly bough all the vinyl and CDs I could find from Dälek.  I was not disappointed.  Nary a dull track in his discography, including solo project IconAclass. 

00:00  The Young Gods and Dälek - Abandoned Language Intro

06:00  DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid & Dave Lombardo - Assisted Suicide

09:00  Dälek - Classical Homicide (Techno Animal Remix)

14:02  Sofa Surfers feat Dälek & Devi - Elusive Scripts

18:50  2nd Gen feat Dälek - and_or (Techno Animal vocal mix)

23:52  Deadverse Massive feat Dälek & Gym Brown - Walls of Insurrection

26:05  The Bug - Fractured

30:41  Techno Animal feat Dälek - Hell

36:06  Oddateee feat Dälek - Solo Timeless Level

40:21  Psycho-Path feat Dälek - Weapon Of Opportunity

44:59  The View Electrical feat Dälek - Fell From Grace

50:03  Uniform feat Dälek - A Swollen Vendetta

53:48  Goth-Trad feat Dälek - Skin No Longer Scars

59:09  Aucan - Storm Rmx

63:16  AKD & Deepstar feat Dälek - Language Universal

67:55  Stearica feat Dälek - Occhio (edit)

72:16  The Young Gods and Dälek - Abandoned Language Outro

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487 Counting 0 to 30

Nothing original here, this has to be a common theme for playlists.  This is my take.  Had originally planned just a one to ten, then remembered this great Godflesh cover, and this Nick Cave song came on rotation so I felt I needed to continue it.   I almost stopped at 21 as it was hard searching for this title as 99% of the search results were for Twenty One Pilots, ugh!  At least I remembered King Crimson, which kept this one moving along.   Honestly, after thirty I really struggled to find anything I cared enough about to include. 

I really like how much this mix jumps around, I find it fun and entertaining.

00:00  Godflesh - Zero The Hero (Black Sabbath)

06:01  Bigod20 - One

11:05  Khruangbin - Two Fish and an Elephant

14:33  Snowpony - 3 Can Keep a Secret (if 2 are dead)

18:09  Bright Eyes - Four Winds

22:15  Melvins - Trackfive (Throbbing Gristle)

29:16  Black Flag - Six Pack

31:33  Sunny Day Real Estate - Seven

36:16  Husker Du - Eight Miles High (The Byrds)

39:57  The Sisters of Mercy - Nine While Nine

43:52  808 State and UB40 - One in Ten  

46:27  Primus - Eleven

50:44  Venetian Snares - Twelve

52:59  Johnny Cash - Thirteen (Danzig)

55:22  The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters

59:03  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow

64:30  Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons

67:01  Prince and The Revolution - 17 Days

70:48  Alice Cooper - I'm Eighteen

73:34  The Rolling Stones - 19th Nervous Breakdown

77:22  To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie - I Box Twenty

81:25  King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man

88:38  Roy Orbison - Twenty-Two Days

91:40  Psychic TV - Hymn 23

92:13  Cult of Luna - 24 Hours (Joy Division)

96:38  Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4

101:25  DeVotchKa - Twenty-Six Temptations

105:28  Title Fight - 27

107:50  Why? - Twenty-Eight

108:33  The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Twenty-Nine (Albini)

110:45  Sarah Watson - Thirty

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480 Hip Hop Mash-Ups pt2

00:00  Wugazi - Sleep Rules Everything Around Me (13 Chambers)

03:15  Tor - Star of Wonder/None Shall Pass (Aesop Rock vs Sufjan Stevens) (Illinoize)

07:46  Amerigo Gazaway - Trouble in the Water (Fela Soul - Fela Kuti vs De La Soul)

12:16  I Sheik - Shadowboxin (Wu-Tang Meets Portishead)

15:28  Max Tannone - Optimistic Moment (Jaydiohead)

20:12  Max Tannone - Definition of Blitzkreig (Black Star vs The Ramones) (Mic Check 1234!)

23:42  The Kleptones - Chess Game at the Gates of Hell (Yoshimi Battles The Hip Hop Robots)

27:50  Girl Talk - Jump on Stage (All Day)

34:12  Evolution Control Committee - Rebel Without a Pause (Whipped Cream Mix) 

35:51  A Clan Called Wu - Shame on Ya Lyrics (Enter The Marauders)

36:50  Team Teamwork - Fumbling Over Words (Edan vs Zelda)(The Ocarina of Rhyme)

39:11  Cookin Soul - Land of the Dead (feat 2Pac and 50 Cent) (Night of the Living Dead pt II)

42:07  Cookin Soul - Gremlins (feat Notorious B.I.G., Snoop Dogg & Busta Rhymes) (Night of the Living Dead pt 1)

45:16  Funky DL - It Ain't Hard To Tell (Jazzmatic)

48:49  DJ BC - Method Gras (Wu Orleans)

51:45  DJ Cappel & Smitty - Hypnotize / Little Green Apples (Blue Eyes Meets Bed-Stuy)

54:22  The Pharcyde vs A Tribe Called Quest w/ Sublime - Doin Time' (Bizarre Tribe: A Quest to the Pharcyde)

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480 Hip Hop Mash-Ups pt1

Novelty music for sure, however some of these really work well.  In my opinion that's a rarity as there seems to be a flood of average mash-ups out there.  Sometimes there is alchemy and these two mixes really showcase the tracks that keep me coming back looking for more mash-ups.  A couple are loosely in this genre like the Kid 666 track, that is Kid606 remixing Missy Elliot, and its included here for the awesome inclusion of A-Ha's "Take On Me" at the end.  Girl talk is more like a massive mash-up mixtape, with some really great spots.  That Cut Chemist remix is not really a mashup, but its got such a strong use of Bauhaus that I had to include it.

00:00  Amerigo Gazaway - B.I.G. Poppa's Got A Brand New Bag (The Notorious J.B.'s: The B.I.G. Payback)

03:48  The Wudos Band - Ayno Tellin (Wu Tang Clan vs Budos Band Mix Tape)

07:16  Max Tannone - Make It N.Y. (Ghostfunk)

10:31  The Pharcyde vs A Tribe Called Quest - Runnin' (Bizarre Tribe: A Quest to the Pharcyde)

15:01  Amerigo Gazaway - Stakes is High (Fela Soul - Fela Kuti vs De La Soul)

20:10  Max Tannone - Mourning Unknown (Dub Kweli)

23:26  Mos Dub - History Town (Mos Dub)

26:37  Prince Fatty - I Know  You Got Cumbia (Eric B. and Rakim vs Lito Barrientos Y Su Orquesta)

31:35  DJ BC - Boxing Fats (Wu Orleans)

33:50  PB Presents - Publicity Biscuit (Wu Tang Clan & Portishead Mix Elixr)

35:58  Wugazi - Sweet Release (13 Chambers)

39:01  Max Tannone - Police Get Busy (Black Thought vs Dead Kennedys) (Mic Check 1234!)

42:38  Kid 666 - Take The Piss On (Freakbitchlickfly)

45:44  Girl Talk - No Pause (Feed The Animals)

48:56  Funky DL - Nas Is Like (Jazzmatic)

52:32  Cookin Soul - Halloween pt II (feat 2Pac & Notorious B.I.G.) (Night of the Living Dead Pt II)

54:54  Cut Chemist feat Chali 2na & Roots Manuva - Join The Dots (Bow House mix)

58:42  The Kleptones - Are You A Visionary? (Yoshimi Battles The Hip-Hop Robots)

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486 One-Off Collaborations C

This third mix is some jazz, hip hop, reggae, industrial, and electronica.

Mix 3:

00:00  Motorpsycho & Jaza Jazzist - Bombay Brassiere

05:49  Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezei - Royal Roost

11:25  Badbadnotgood & Ghostface Killah feat MF Doom - Ray Gun

14:30  The Skatalites meet King Tubby - Herb Man Dub

17:38  Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell - Alam Dub

24:10  DJ Spooky & Twilight Circus Dub Sound System - Gamma Burst

28:04  Acid Horse (Ministry & Cabaret Voltaire) - No Name No Slogan (Hypo Luxa/Hermes Pan)

33:52  PTP (Ministry & Skinny Puppy) - Show Me Your Spine

38:37  Two Sandwiches Short of a Lunchbox (Andrea Parker & David Morley) - Too Good To Be Strange

45:46  Slag Boom Van Loon (Speedy J & µ-Ziq) - Poppy Seed

50:42  The Fires of Ork (Biosphere & Pete Namlook) - The Fires of Ork I

58:24  Brian Eno & David Byrne - Come With Us

60:58  Solex & M.A.E. - Birthday Superboy

64:06  Mike & Rich (µ-Ziq & Aphex Twin) - Reg

69:36  Kid Koala & Emilana Torrini - Adrift

74:37  The Uncluded (Kimya Dawson & Aesop Rock) - Jambi Cafe

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486 One-Off Collaborations B

This second mix is more post-metal, industrial metal, and black metal focused.

Mix 2:

00:00  Low & Dirty Three - Lordy

04:14  The Ex & Tortoise - The Lawn of the Limp

08:08  Wavves & Cloud Nothings - Hard to Find

10:53  The Body & Thou - The Devils of Trust Steal the Souls of the Free

12:52  Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas - A Greater Call

20:52  Isis & Aereogramme - Low Tide

29:36  Black Heart Procession & Solbakken - Things Go On With Mistakes

40:15  Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - Hollywood

45:02  1000 Homo DJs (Ministry & Nine Inch Nails) - Supernaut

51:24  One Day As A Lion (Rage Against The Machine & The Mars Volta) - One Day As A Lion

55:47  Pailhead (Ministry & Fugazi) - I Will Refuse

59:50  The Bug & Earth - Agoraphobia

64:04  Jesu & Sun Kil Moon - Father's Day

70:04  Sunn O))) & Boris - The Sinking Belle (Blue Sheep)

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486 One-Off Collaborations A

This is kind of a grey area as it relates to my previous "supergroups" post.  This time I tried to focus on more side projects and one album collaborations between some artists.  There are certainly some loose interpretations of this theme here, still a great selection across these three mixes.

This first one is focused on dark ambient, industrial, and neofolk music.

Mix 1:

00:00  Les Joyaux De La Princesse & Regard Extreme - Jetzt Aber Tagts

03:22  Zu93 (Zu & Current 93) - Confirm the Mirror Emperor

07:55  Nurse With Wound & Larsen - Rock, Baby, Rock

12:53  Hypnopazuzu (Youth & Current 93) - Sweet Sodom SingSongs

17:42  Melvins & Lustmord - Toadi Acceleratio

20:20  Scorpion Wind (Death In June & Boyd Rice) - In Vino Veritas

24:39  Nurse With Wound & Aranos - Mary Jane

30:49  Lustmord & Metal Beast - Open Towers Emerge (Version)

35:12  Les Joyaux De La Princesse & Freya Aswynn - Wolf Rune 1

41:07  Hank & Slim (Rapoon & Nocturnal Emissions) - Suitcase on the Highway

44:29  Wolf Pact (Boyd Rice, Death in June & Der Blutharsch) - Murder Bag

48:53  Nurse With Wound & Faust - Lass Mich

61:53  Tony Conrad & Faust - The Death of the Composer was in 1962

65:02  Stereolab & Nurse With Wound - Exploding Head Movie

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483 Supergroups and side projects B

Part two, same theme, different genres.

00:00  Pigface - Suck (EVERY industrial band you've ever heard)

03:37  Ataxia - The Sides (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Fugazi)

10:09  Tear Garden - Tasteless (Skinny Puppy, Legendary Pink Dots, Anthony Valcic)

14:55  The Glove - Mr. Alphabet Says (The Cure, Siouxsie and The Banshees)

18:40  Mad Season - Long Gone Day (Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Screaming Tress, Walkabouts)

23:25  Monsters of Folk - Map of the World (My Morning Jacket, Bright Eyes, M Ward, Centro-matic)

27:16  Astrobrite - More (Star/Loveliescrushing/Mahogany/Majesty Crush/Dark Red/Paik/Xebec/Coaltar of the Deepers)

32:03  Mimir - Untitled #2 (Legendary Pink Dots, Christoph Heemann, Jim O'Rourke, Andreas Martin)

39:20  Oysterhead - Little Faces (Primus, Police, Phish)

44:07  Black Star - Respiration (Dr Luke's remix) (Mos Def & Talib Kweli)

47:56  Electronic - Get The Message (New Order, The Smiths)

52:59  Travelling Wilburys - Last Night (Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty)

56:41  The Highwaymen - Big River (Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson)

59:18  Million Dollar Quartet - Walk That Lonesome Valley (Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash)

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