Despite my wonky numbering system, this is my 500th mix here and to celebrate that milestone I figured it was time I veered from the standard for just a short while.
Once upon a time I was pretty active in creating music. Raised as a classical guitarist, then playing in an alternative rock band in the mid-90s, a punk band in the late 90s, finally re-focusing on electronic and noise based music with my guitar based midi converter, 303, and rudimentary 2 second sampler I attacked my imagination with ferocity.
I released one official album, one semi-official EP, two tracks on film scores, one college project, one tribute album, two tracks on other tribute albums, and the rest is all bedroom recordings on my 4-track Tascam. I made several cassettes for friends, and traded a lot of CD-R's online with other musicians. Found a few collaboration opportunities, several artists to remix, and had a lot of fun making a racket and stretching the possibilities of what I thought I could create.
The music in these three mixes is pretty much what you'd expected based on the mixes I've shared. Best I can compare it to is maybe early His Name Is Alive experiments, Plateau & Download, Tyranny for You era Front242, Nurse With Wound, Pascal Comelade, Faust, Severed Heads, breaks like DJ Shadow, grooves like DJ Wally, and perhaps early industrial like SPK.
Always unique and sometimes painful. 20+ years on I still genuinely like this stuff and wish I'd put more effort into production value and mastering. Armed with a stack of 100's of vintage sci-fi and El Santo movies, I sampled everything from V/VM, Muslimgauze, Crash Worship and Scorn to the Sundays, Lush and Kimya Dawson; and whatever I could find in-between. Plus I was nefarious and would hide tape recorders in my car and house when friends came over for drinks. Everything was fair game.
Here I present three new selections of tracks, unmixed so the listener can pick and choose what the want to hear. These supplement the five albums I have available on bandcamp.
First up is a collection of remixes. This is where I had the most fun. I was a site admin for a mp3 sharing site focused on independent musicians. Many of them reached out asking for a remix of one of their tracks and I happily obliged. Struck up a friendship with a few artists that continue today. This complements the album "Not What You Hoped For."
API - Aqua Regia (N2O Caustic Byproduct remix)
API - Left Hand Thread (Unconventional Screw Rotation mix)
Vincent Leeds - Lil Princess (remix)
Exile - Catch Me When I Fall (remix)
Moozler - It May Be (13th Halo's Waiting In Vein mix)
Moozler - ov -ites dub
Split - Red Shifted Starlight
Split - Red Shifted Strobe Light
Lester O'Shea - The Bush Is On Fire (Knock 'em Down Mix)
PanicNow Productions - Based on What You Say (diseased mix)
13th Halo - Its My Secret (Psycholinguistic remix)
Moozler - Sarabande in A Major (13th Halo Evangelical remix)
Lester O'Shea - Telling Stories (A Maudlin Expression)
Split - What Is (remix)
1-20 - Missing You (Moozler's lament)
13th Halo - Yeti (Abominable mix)
Pope - The Tangerine Lozenge (Part 4 The Morning After)
Split - JungleGuitar 3.0
Split - Deforestation
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