494B Mick Harris' Projects mix 2

The second half of the mix, focused more on his grindcore, dub and dark ambient sides.  This starts aggressively and then ends with some very smooth dark ambient.

00:00  Scorn - Spasm

02:45  Defecation - Vestige of Earthly Remains

05:38  Napalm Death - Walls of Confinement

08:30  Extreme Noise Terror - Another Nail in the Coffin (Peel Session)

10:16  Unseen Terror - Oblivion Descends (Peel Session)

12:22  PainKiller - Lathe of God

13:13  Praxis - Stronghold

14:43  Transmisia - Flame Projector (Upcoming Meeting mix)

20:39  Scorn - Automata

26:48  Fret - Lifford Res

32:14  Clang - Who's Who

38:01  Multicide - Zero Element

43:43  Scorn - Black Ash Dub

51:35  Painkiller - Blackhole Dub

54:55  Equations of Eternity - The Collector

61:40  Divination - Dream Light

70:27  Mick Harris & James Plotkin - Collision

80:50  Mick Harris & Ambre - Blaste

90:01  Mick Harris & Martyn Bates - Lucy Wan

104:14  Lull - Time Box

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494A Mick Harris' Projects mix 1

This is my selection covering the breadth and depth of Mick Harris' musical career.  I can't think of any other musician that has such variety in styles.  Starting more or less as the blast beat drummer from Napalm Death, and then covering everything from techno, drum and bass, dub step (years before it became a thing), avant garde, ambient, and drones.  Seriously, this is all over the place between these two mixes.  I did include Scorn four times in total, as I wanted to represent the evolution of their sound.  Yes Nick Bullen leaving the group dramatically changed the sound, and Mick Harris kept it going and evolving to the wonderful beast it is today.  The rest of these tracks represent his aliases, though some are full fledged musical projects involving others.  Each one certainly has its own distinct sound and vibe.  Incredible to think these are all from the same creative mind.

The projects of his that I didn't include are listed here; mostly omitted due to very long track lengths.

Intestinal Infestation - Rehearsal 88

Certain Beyond All Reasonable Doubt - Live Berlin 98

Frequencies - Neoartic

Pigface - A New High In Low (The Howler pt 1/2)

Somnific Flux

00:00  What Now? - Caustica

06:42  Matera - Too Much

11:54  Mick Harris - Screener

15:54  The Weakener - Closed Door

25:28  Mick Harris - Sidewalk

31:14  Tactile - Tactile vs Scorn

36:54  Trace Decay - Riverrun

44:05  Scorn - In The Margins

50:00  Mick Harris & Neil Harvey - Had It

55:47  Mick Harris & Eraldo Bernocchi - Latent Prints

60:20  Quoit - Set Up

65:58  Mick Harris & Mark Spybey - Bad Way To Start A Good Day

72:16  Micky Tornado - Chemical Plant (remix)

77:30  Hygiene - RO RL

83:17  Eddy Masvoodler - Pluck

88:23  Monrella - Report

94:37  Terminal - Test 

98:58  Lensman - Spool

104:02  Scorn - Dangler (No Original Members) (Beat Mix)

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493E Current 93 rarities

This last mix is me wanting to pull some compilation and rarities together.  Some were on the Sing Omega compilation, the rest are from small run singles and compilations.  Don't suppose anything on here is really that rare for any rabid fan like me, still a good opportunity to have them all in one place.

00:00  Nature & Organization - Hooves (2020 remaster, self-released)

04:33  Current 93 with Sebastian Horsley - Black Ship in the Underworld (Black Ship in the Underworld)

13:57  Current 93 - Dream of the Green Goddess (Absinthe box)

17:29  Current 93 - Frolicking (Terra Serpentes)

25:10  Current 93 - Passenger "Aleph" in Name (alternative mix, self-released)

29:42  David Tibet & Peter Atanasoff - Quiet Crosses (Sing Omega)

33:02  Death in June - Ô Paradis... (Paradise Rising)

38:20  David Tibet & Youth - Conspiracy Born (Sing Omega)

45:09  Current 93 & Pantaleimon - The Magical Bird in the Magical Woods (alternate version, Brain in the wire)

50:53  Current 93 - Red Hawthorn Tree (alternate version, Wire Tapper 6)

55:07  Current 93 - Jesus wants me for a Moonbeam (Devistate to Liberate)

57:39  Current 93 - Deuteronomy XXXIII:14 (How He Loved the Moon)

59:20  Current 93 - Holy Holy Holy (For Dusa) (Absolute)

64:12  Current 93 - Anti-Christ Anti-Christian (Peyrere)

67:11  Current 93 - A Dream Of TheInmostLight (For Christoph Heemann) (Foxtrot)

75:40  Current 93 - Some Morning when the moon was blood (Myths 4 - Sinople Twilight in Catal Huyuk)

82:04  Current 93 - Westron Wynde (alternate version) (Unreleased Rarities vol II)

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493D Current 93 covers

They've only done a handful of covers, yet each one is incredible and has a unique spin on the original.  

00:00  Since Yesterday (Strawberry Switchblade)

03:52  Diana (Comus)

12:43  Tamlin (The Fairport Convention / traditional)

23:08  The Courtyard (Simon Finn)

25:53  When The May Rain Comes (Sand)

29:00  Memories (Soul Caravan)

34:49  Sad Go Round (The Groundhogs)

40:26  Summer of love (Blue Oyster Cult)

42:19  All the pretty little horses (traditional)

44:53  St Peters Keys All Bloody (Simon & Garfunkle)

47:12  Jerusalem (Simon Finn)

52:16  Time of the Last Persecution (Bill Fay)

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Spotify (9/12)

493C Current 93 Remixes, Remixed and Covered

This one is a wild ride, but aren't they all?  I pulled together the worthwhile remixes and covers I could find, some fan made, others officially released.  The opening track is probably as close to a David Tibet remix as will appear, its the original track with some added effects and noise so it counts.  I tried to limit the tracks pulled from the only official tribute album "The Bells Shall Sound Forever."  The tracks that sampled C93 are appropriately labeled, though shouldn't be too difficult to find that source material used in them.  The Matmos remix is on probably the only official remix EP for C93, and its all good stuff especially if you are a JG Thirwell fan.  There's a couple fan made mash-ups, however I think they work pretty well.  The one with Bomb the Bass I've had for years and remember I had some online chats with the artist that was responsible for it, sorry for the low bitrate on that one.  The massive remix box set from Andrew Liles is here with the shortest track on it, which is representative of the larger picture for those interested.  Of course I ended it with the powerful cover by Rotting Christ. 

00:00  Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight (from FACT mix with some added effects)

03:13  O Paradis - Calling for Vanished Faces I

05:48  Current 93 - Whilst the Night Rejoices Profound and Still (DJ Broken Record remix)

10:48  Future Sound of London - Tired (includes Imperium II)

17:25  Current 93 - Black Ships Ate The Sky (remixed by Matmos)

23:07  Current 93 - Idumea (slow to speak remix)

28:18  :wumpscut: - Crucified (includes Holy Holy Holy (for Dusa)

32:09  Venetian Snares - Anguish (includes (Hey Ho) the Noddy (Ho))

36:46  Current 93 vs Bomb the Bass - Calling for Vanished Faces I

38:38  In Ruin - Oh Coal Black Smith

42:28  Decadence - Ach Golgota (Es Ist Vollbracht)

46:38  Sagittarius - Anti-Christ and Bar Codes

48:48  :Of the Wand & the Moon: - Benediction/Malediction

51:57  Vequinox - Earth Covers Earth

56:17  Death In June - Rule Again (Tibet mix)

59:55  Current 93 & Andrew Liles - St. Peter's Keys All Bloody (remix)

65:56  Der Feuerkreiner - Soft Black Stars

70:00  Column of Heaven - The Darkly Splendid World

71:25  The Well of Sadness - Dogun 

75:58  irr. app. (ext.) - Dead Side of the Moon

86:37  Rotting Christ - Lucifer over London

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493B Current 93 Manifestations

Mr. Tibet has a knack for showing up in some unexpected places.  Other times, he shows up exactly where you'd expect.  All of these tracks feature him as a guest, either on vocals, backing vocals, or some instrument like the bone flute.  

00:00  Psychic TV - Medmenham

00:51  Matmos - Messages From The Unseen World

08:06  Reinier Van Houdt – Midnight Rorschach

10:54  Shawn Pinchbeck & David Tibet - Extracts from the Faerie Queen

16:58  Human Greed - Dalkeith Night

23:00  The Post Romantic Empire Ensemble - Love Will Tear Us Apart (edit)

25:28  These New Puritans - Into the Fire

29:05  Six Organs of Admittance - The Manifestation (II.3)

31:48  Trappist Afterland – Give Thanks and Lament

35:57  Nature and Organisation - Bloodstreamruns

40:35  Backworld - The Lamb and the Lion

44:33  Death In June - Jerusalem the Black

47:20  Lisa Knapp - Staines Morris

51:18  Magik Lantern Cycle - Cities of the Red Night

57:12  Momick - Five

62:39  Othon - The Dreamer Is Still Asleep

69:29  Grave Pleasures - Atomic Christ

74:04  Death in June - This Is Paradise II

78:29  23 Skidoo - Banishing

83:06  Sigh - The Red Funeral

89:43  Skitliv - Towards The Shores Of Loss / Vulture Face Kain

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For your further research and potential listening pleasure, here is a list of tracks I do have but chose to omit:

Lee "Scratch" Perry – Baby Sucker (I'd say this is a questionable appearance, and not a great LSP song)

The Bevis Frond - Right On Hippie Dream (Way too long for a mix)

Mark Stewart - Nothing is Sacred? (can't really tell if he's on this or not)

Nurse With Wound (A LOT! He's on the majority of the first decade or two worth of records)

Coil (Nearly every albums thanks or is dedicated to David, but he has no appearances)

Thomas Ligotti (long narrative tracks with minimal vocals)

These are the tracks I don't currently have:

Aethenor - Faking gold and murder

Ardecore - La Povera Cecilia?

Whitehouse - Thank your lucky stars

The Hafler Trio – One Dozen Ecomomical Stories By Peter Greenaway

Costin Chioreanu - Chapter IV - Soundtrack For "Outside The Great Circle" Art Movie 2013

Larsen And Friends – ABECEDA

Mombus - & Bacillus Orchestra - Amber Cat

X-TG - Desertshores

The Volares - The Night We Taught Ourselves To Sing (Asleep in Egypt & Elegy for Tiny Tim)

493A Current 93 by any other name

If you were to ask me who is my most collected musical artist, it would be a close tie between Muslimgauze, Legendary Pink Dots and Current 93.  Here I've assembled some fanboy stuff over five themed mixes in my attempt to show the breadth and depth of their work, supplementing my previous mixes.

This first round is collecting tracks from each of David Michael Tibet Bunting's many projects.  These are all full aliases or collaborations and not just guest appearances.  Starting with my absolute favorite version of my favorite track from him, "The Dead Side of the Moon."  This is under his name with the main guy behind Nurse with Wound, David Tibet & Steven Stapleton.  They recorded this particular album twice, once as Musical Pumpkin Cottage and again as Musicalische Kurbs Hutte; giving each artist the space to wield their had as conductor. Then released several outtakes and alternate versions on Dead Memory and The Threat on Memory.  Zu93 is exactly that, the wonderful enigmatic group Zu paired up with Current 93, making some very interesting songs with a theme through the album.  Hypnopazuzu is Martin Glover aka Youth, with David Tibet.  The had done an unreleased collaboration (included in a subsequent mix here), and finally got together in 2016 to put this wonderful slab of vinyl together.  Nodding God is a project with Andrew Liles, David Tibet and an unnamed third member who could or could not real.  Still a great and bizarre album with lyrics only in Assyrian and Babylonian.  The next track is from the C93 album "Island" which is a collaboration with Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, and this particular track features backing vocals from that former Sugarcube, Bjork.  

Next up are The Aryan Aquarians, which by the reviews as the result of several drunken evenings, and has that kind of feeling to the music.  Certainly not my favorite of his projects though it has its moments.  Next up and from a similar period are The Nodding Folk, which was a one off project that released this two track single and an accompanying comic book.  The artists include personnel such as Savage Pencil, the musicians are all members of Coil, Nurse With Wound, Current 93, its worth seeking out, and here is a link to the comic.  Myrninerest is David Tibet with James Blackshaw as a tribute/homage to Jhonn Balance from Coil.  The album was released in multiple versions all by different producers/mixers.  I've only heard the copy I own and can't comment on any differences.  Black Ships is one of many aliases David used in this era surrounding his "Black Ships Ate the Sky" album (which I was a supporter and am listed in the thanks in the liner notes).  This particular track was from an early single with an alternate mix from his upcoming album under the C93 name.  Anok Pe is credited a couple times on other albums, "Birth Canal Blues" is the only EP under their name as the artist.  Its essentially Current 93 during the Hallucinatory Mountian era.  Lastly is Dogs Blood Order, which is where it all started in 1983.  David only released one album under this name, and that wasn't issued until 1997.  Its his early noisy tape collage style that can really unsettle a room.

00:00 Stapleton/Tibet - The Dead Side of the Moon

21:51 Zu93 - Confirm the Mirror Emperor

26:26 Hypnopazuzu - Magog at the MayPole

29:57 Nodding God - Calcination Totem Station

34:52 C93 & HÖH - Falling

38:51 The Aryan Aquarians - My Secret Gardener

42:30 The Nodding Folk - Children of the Nodapoc Gather Round

45:49 Myrninerest - Fangbell, Twilight

48:10 Black Ships - Vauvauvau

52:59 Anok Pe - Suddenly The Living are Dying

55:41 Dogs Blood Order - Maldoror Ceases to Exist (Live at the Equinox Event)

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I did include all 5 of these mixes into one spotify playlist, because there aren't enough of each mix to have its own 

492D The Remix According To FSOL

Fun times here.  The StereoMCs remix is quite engaging.  Apollo 440 using a beat from Portishead.  Cuvre is a nice opener as well.  The rest were new to me when I started compiling this mix and found most of these pretty high quality.

00:00  Curve - Rising (Headspace Mix)

09:12  Apollo 440 - Liquid Cool (FSOL remix)

16:02  Stereo MCs - Connected (FSOL remix)

21:38  Thierry Gotti - Out of Reality (Remix by the Future Sound of London)

25:21  Osamu Sato - Face-Savers On Line (F.S.O.L. mix)

35:09  Prefab Sprout - If You Don't Love Me (F.S.O.L. Deep Field Mix)

40:17  Deadly Avenger - Day One (F.S.O.L. Cosmic Jukebox Mix v1)

45:15  Jon Anderson - FSOL Deseo Reconstruction #2

49:51  Schmoelling & Waters - Morning Walk (Future Sound of London Remix)

56:50  David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - Darshana (re-constructed by The Future Sound of London)

66:45  Robert Miles - Paths (FSOL remix)

70:28  Bryan Ferry - I Put A Spell On You (FSOL 'Yage' remix)

75:26  Inner City - Praise (The Future Sound of London Concept Dub)

80:33  Unity - Unity (Future Sound of London Piano City)

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492C FSOL By Any Other name vol 2 mix 2

Here's the other half, and yes its some early 90's era techno.  Exactly what you expect, though I can see some of the inklings of magic that would be exploited to great success in their later works.

00:00  Smart Systems - The Nu Generation

04:32  Indo Tribe - Obstinta

09:59  Humanoid - Intermodal Container

14:03  AirCut - Eternal (Dub)

18:24  Luco - Stolen Documents (Jazz Dub)

23:41  Yunie - I Can See For Miles (Astral Mix)

27:54  Intelligent Communication - Drive (IC7471)

31:53  Metropolis - Metropolis (Analog)

37:23  Mental Cube - I'm Not Gonna Let You Do It

41:03  Art Scient Technology - A.S.T.

45:18  Semi-Real People - Livin Today (Med mix)

50:17  Candese - You Took My Love (Earth)

54:29  Cold Steel - Here We Go

58:50  Stakker - Humanoid

62:19  Homeboy - Sunshine and Brick

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492B FSOL By Any Other name vol 2 mix 1

Round 2. In 1992 FSOL released "Earthbeat," and 2007 they released "By Any Other Name vol 1."  These two compilations showed some of the many aliases they recorded under, which were mostly early incarnations doing early 90's techno.  In my research I found dozens of other names associated with them with much more modern styles that I really liked. Each one does have enough distinct about them to feel like a separate unit.  I've split this mix in two parts, the first focusing on more recent and non-traditional techno stylings, and the second which is that classic era with 4 on the floor beats.  The only real anomaly in this mix is Neotropic, which features a one off remix by Bin Dogs.  Otherwise these tracks are all Brian and Garry... and maybe a few guest musicians.

00:00  The Jazz Mags - Startled

04:30  Sand Sound Folly - Willow

07:04  Blackhill Trasmitter - Recovery

10:41  Far-Out Son of Lung - Cow

15:25  Yage - The Hunters Moon

18:43  Forest Trails - Mokguxtlk

22:43  Neotropic - Ultra Freaky Orange (Clock - Bin Dogs remix)

24:51  AI - Resist Not

26:44  Heads of Agreement - Earth Magnetic

31:28  AnALOguE Controlled SolENoiDs - Glockenspiel Snare Kitchen Tray

34:58  Semtex - We Have Explosive (remix)

46:38  The Bubble Heads - Frozen in the Air

50:23  Synthi-A - Surrounding the Garden is a Fog

54:53  Stoned Freshwaters - Everything is Easy With a Little Persuasion

58:45  6 Oscillators in Remittance - Cloudscraper (edit)

61:19  Filter and Pulses - Control Vista

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492A FSOL - One from each release

Easily one of my favorite electronic acts is The Future Sound Of London.  I know I've gushed over them in the past, and will again here as they deserve the praise.  Here I've made just four mixes, with ideas for a few more that may or may not materialize.  The first one was my attempt to pull one track off each of their releases to showcase an overview of their progression, depth, and creativity.  A few notes as my mix clearly doesn't include everything.  I skipped the 2008 Pulse EPs (they're included in a later mix), 2014 Artworks 1, 2007 A gigantic Globular Burst of Antistatic, We Have Explosive, My Kingdom, Accelerator or Lifeforms LP.  For those I didn't find any real standout tracks, or I'd included the best track in a version from an associated EP.   Next I left Archives, Environments and Calendars off as I saw those as separate entities.  Here is what is left, and I really like this mix which is roughly in reverse chronological order.

I'm rather frustrated that nearly none of the songs on these four mixes are on Spotify.  Hoping they work out some arrangement so FSOL can get more airplay there.  I know I'd stream a lot if it were available.

00:00  Ebb Flow

04:57  Informal Horizon

10:22  Dialectics

18:14  Multiple Falling Objects

22:16  Take Umbrage

25:55  Ayahuasca

32:03  Magnify Within The Thought

37:04  Water Garden

40:39  The Whispering Masses

45:02  Opposite of Thought

49:16  Monolith

53:08  Bring

59:25  Underground (Field of Flowers)

61:56  Across The Rivers

66:21  An End of Sorts

71:37  Vit Drowning Through Your Gill

76:58  Dirty Shadows

83:10  Snake Hips

91:35  Lifeforms (path 4)

100:29  Cascade (part 4)

104:55  Central Industrial

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491 The Remix According to u-Ziq part 2

Here are the rest of these selected remixes.  This one is even more frantic that the first, if you can imagine that!  Love the Siouxsie sample on the third track.

00:00  Chris & Cosey - Credit Sequence (mu-ziq mix)

08:54  Baader Meinhof - There's Gonna Be An Accident (u-ziq remix)

13:56  Mindless Self Indulgence - Bitches (u-ziq mix)

18:09  Point Black - Eternally (u-ziq mix)

23:22  Ra - Ev.Panic (u-ziq remix)

31:38  Aphex Twin - D-Scape (u-ziq remix)

37:19  The DJ Producer - Which Cunt (u-ziq's 68 mix)

42:04  Tipper - Dissolve (out) (u-ziq remix)

47:21  I-F Space - Invaders Smoking Grass (u-ziq remix)

53:60  FaltyDL - Rolling (u-ziq remix)

57:24  Mum - There Is A Number of Small Things & The Ballad of the Broken Birdie Records (u-ziq Straight mix)

65:21  Knox-Om-Pax - Caramel (u-ziq Caramello mix)

70:09  Dean Elliot - Lonesome Road (u-ziq remix)  

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491 The Remix According to u-Ziq part 1

Welcome 2025, I wanted to start with something fun that I didn't finish last year.  I had a very ambitious April and covered roughly 30 artists and their remix output.  One I neglected was µ-Ziq aka Mike Paradinas.  I first came across his work on The Autures vs µ-Ziq cd I picked up at Life By Design in Colorado Springs (God I miss that store).  Next I was thoroughly impressed with his remix of "On" by Aphex Twin, with that lovely intro where his metal tape got eaten a little and yet he still included it.  I've previously included some of his output and some of his projects like Mike & Rich or Slag Boom Van Loon in other mixes here.  While researching that remix series I found that I have a folder with 70+ of his remixes, so naturally it took me a while to distill these down to these two mixes of my favorites.  This first mix was easy as these are the tracks I knew best and have loved on them for many years.

00:00  Tipsy - Space Golf (u-ziq remix)

04:43  Bjork - All Is Full Of Love (u-ziq 1 minute mix)

05:28  Mum - There Is A Number of Small Things & The Ballad of the Broken Birdie Records (u-ziq F*cked mix)

12:36  Aphex Twin - On (u-ziq mix)

21:09  Seefeel - Climactic Phase #3 (u-ziq remix)

29:33  Placid Angels - Beauty Begins with Us (u-ziq remix)

34:56  Slag Boom Van Loon - spc-ch-pn (u-ziq remix)

39:02  Nav Katze - Happy (u-ziq mix)

46:00  Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater (remixed by u-ziq)

52:20  Matmos - Cymbals & Aspirin (u-ziq remix)

56:52  Mogwai - Fear Satan (u-ziq remix)

63:55  The Auteurs vs u-Ziq - Lenny Valentino 3

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