Four rounds of Edward Ka-Spel at his finest!

This is another of my all time favorite bands, the Legendary Pink Dots.  I've been an avid collector for over three decades now and am thrilled they are still putting out new material at a feverish pace.

Looking back at their catalog, I had spent all my time and focus on the main band that I honestly overlooked most of Ed Ka-Spel's solo material.  Sure I had bought several of these albums, unfortunately they sat on my shelves collecting dust.  Over the last month, I've corrected this, and given everything I own a thorough listening, then I went through ALL the bandcamp releases he had made available and supplemented my catalog that way.  I ended up pulling together four mixes of the tracks that really stood out to me.  Each one divided into its own mood or genre.

I've left all four mixes, unmixed.  The majority of these albums are available at a name your price feature on bandcamp.  Please support the artist.

Edward Ka-Spel - Straight forward enjoyable songs

Testing the Waters

Waves Unchained

Hey Rainman (Forest Friendly version)

The Ministry of Dosinformation

The Ruin Parts 4

Lines

Beautiful, Plastic

A Fistful of Kwanzas

Executive Suite / Follow the Leader

Bikeadelic

Imperfect Day

Grooovy

Track, No Trace

Trifle

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522b See Me Feel Me

The second part focused this time on the remixes those members had done in their individual capacity.  Sure, the Autechre remix was billed as Seefeel, however it was Mark Clifford solo.

00:00  Neil Halstead - Tied To You (Mark Van Hoen remix)

03:43  Dead Leaf Echo - Woolgathering (Mark Van Hoen remix)

08:46  Slowdive - Shine (Splendiferous Locust mix)

13:03  Cocteau Twins - Feet Like Fins (Mark Clifford mix)

18:27  Autechre - Seefeelmx (Mark Clifford mix)

24:30  Seefeel - Plainsong (Sine Bubble Embossed Dub)

32:55  Silvania - Oval (Locust mix)

38:44  Shiny Gnomes - Thinking at the Edge of the Unthinkable (Amoebas mix by Locust)

45:43  Fingernail - Listen to a Song by Fingernail Remixed by Wooden Spoon

50:02  Phoenecia - Monday (Disjecta remix)

55:54  As One - Mihara (Reflected by Autocreation)

62:04  Nav Katze - Ting Cog (Disjecta mix)

67:54  Neil Halstead - Full Moon Rising (Mark Van Hoen remix)

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photo credit: Powerpuff Girls, See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey!

522a Other ways to Sea the Feel

Seefeel is easily one of my top 10 favorite bands ever.  Receiving the reissue Quique LP box set in the mail last month reinvigorated my love for them.  I present here two mixes of all the other projects the members of Seefeel had participated in.  I stuck with what I considered the core lineup of Daren Seymour, Mark Clifford, Mark Van Hoen and Sarah Peacock.

00:00  IHVH - Benedictum

03:46  Oto Hiax - Lowlan

08:26  Autocreation - Snatch

13:35  Zurich - Too Scared To Breathe

19:33  Scala - Naked

24:49  Locust - Murderer, Dreamer

30:29  Disjecta - Smokehead

35:42  Fuxa - Our Lips are Sealed (The Go-Gos)

41:57  Echo Park - Innocent X

46:27  Sing-Sing - Tegan

51:16  Black Hearted Brother - UFO

55:46  January - All Time

61:46  Simon Breed feat Sarah Peacock - Pinhole in the Blanket

67:07  Eternal - Sleep

70:27  Sneakster - Fireheart (Robin Guthrie mix)

74:45  Cliffordandcalix - Pull It A Part 1 - 2002

77:20  Mark Van Hoen - Visions of the North 

82:47  Mark Clifford & Simon Keahola - 2

84:35  Woodenspoon - Souff Souff

93:35  W.F.O. - No-One in the World (Edit)

103:01  Drone - Mummming

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521 Top Ramen all around me

I always have a folder where I toss rap and hip hop tracks that I like, and eventually pull them into a mix.   This one had been sitting for about the last two years before I noticed I had over 100 tracks thrown together.  There are some really fun tracks in here, and a good ride start to finish.

00:00  Cypress Hill - Roll it up, Light it up, Smoke it up

03:21  Sage Francis (Non-Prophets) - I Keep Calling

08:08  Scienz of Life - Powers of Nine Ether

12:40  The Cenobites feat Bobbito - Kick A Dope Verse

16:37  DJ Shadow - Building Steam with a Grain of Salt

23:10  Nujabes feat Cise Starr & Akin - Feather

25:52  A Clan Called Wu - Cash Award

28:34  A Tribe Called Quest & Leaders of the New School - 7 MC's mix

33:55  EL-P DBA The Lyrical Punisher & J-Treds - Freesyle (interlude)

38:35  The Earthlings - Top Ramen Crashes the Bill

40:09  Notorious B.I.G. - Everyday Struggle (Original demo mix)

45:18  RJD2 - Poorboy Lover Megamix (track 12)

46:58  Bahamadia - 3 Tha Hard Way

51:04  Busta Rhymes - Turn it up, fire it up (remix)

54:45  Big Pun - The Dream Shatterer

58:15  Alias - Jovial Costume

63:19  Nas - Made You Look

66:42  MF Doom feat De La Soul - Rock Co.Kane Flow

69:47  Dilated Peoples - Worst Comes to Worst

72:56  Canibus feat Free & Pras - Patriots

75:58  Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge feat William Hart - Enemies All Around Me

78:03  Mobb Deep - Eye For an Eye (Your Beef is Mine)

82:46  Madvillain - All Caps

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Spotify (20/23)

520 Ashamed to Inauguration by way of Hemlock

Its 4/20 man!   This mix has little to do with that unofficial holiday, but I suppose it would be a good soundtrack for chillin in the afternoon as one does.

00:00  Alias feat DoseOne - Opus Ashamed 

04:55  Tortoise - C.T.A.

10:00  Sybarite - Sun With Teeth

13:40  Mark Van Hoen - Since Tomorrow Will Come

18:53  The Telescopes - Italian Air

24:00  Bruce Springsteen - State Trooper (Trentemoller Mix)

28:33  Echo Park - Innocent X

33:03  Richard Thomas - Echo-Locator2

36:31  Andy Votel - Hemlockd

40:02  Bedouin Ascent - Composition C for Neutral Space

42:33  Pram - Strategies for Success Boxes

48:01  Mark Franklin - Release to the System (Original Mix)

56:31  DJ Food - Aerosolilique Pts 1-3

61:44  Creature - Stuffed Hostage (The Ambient Western Orb Mix)

68:59  Slam - Inauguration

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Spotify (10/15)

519 Sense and the Story's End

A little bit of what is making me smile lately.

00:00  Wolf Alice - Sense (King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard)

03:17  Sieben - Maldoror

07:26  Neither/Neither World - All I Ever Wanted (Bauhaus)

11:29  The Legendary Pink Dots - Our Dominion

17:18  His Name Is Alive - Young

20:53  Townes Van Zandt - Tecumseh Valley

25:36  Social Distortion - Alone and Forsaken (Hank Williams Sr.)

28:39  Violent Femmes - American Music (Alternative Mix)

32:13  Adam Green - Bleeding Heart

34:05  Kimya Dawson - Everything's Alright

36:35  Tiger Trap - Prettiest Boy

39:44  The Notwist - Neon Golden

45:36  Slowdive - Kisses (Electronic Version 3)

49:04  A Certain Ratio - Where You Coming From (Jane Weaver Rework)

53:00  Ben Hobbs - Here's Where The Story Ends (The Sundays)

57:27  Father John Misty - I Guess Time Just Makes Fools Of Us All

65:47  Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Baby

70:11  Heidi Berry - The Devil

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518 Odd Todd

These are the types of mixes I love to make.  Zany and oddball music from all over the map.  Some recent feedback led me to think I may offer some of these mixes in an unmixed format, especially when the tracks are a bit more rare or unavailable elsewhere.

00:00  The Legendary Pink Dots - Rituals

01:45  DDAA - King Deebo is Six Tracks for a Kit

06:25  ESP Family - I Can't Live at Home in this World Anymore

09:18  Ak'chamel, The Giver of Illness - The Great Saharan-Chihuahuan Assimilation

11:53  The Poems - Shoot To Kill

14:51  Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Tetsuo (Makoto Kubota Remix)

18:08  Nostalgie Eternelle - Distorted Picture

19:32  Mushroom's Patience - Weird Monsters

24:31  Echo Park - Eugenics

30:13  Current 93 - track 02 (Invocations of Almost)

36:02  These New Puritans - Into the Trees (Ossian Brown Recomposition)

41:10  Controlled Bleeding - Needle Evening (Tim Story Remix)

47:11  Maps - Lack of Sleep (Pye Corner Audio remix)

51:45  Hirsche Nicht Aufs Sofa - Vogelzang ("Willkur Nach Noten" - Dragnet)

54:21  Section 25 - Uber Hymn (DDAA remix)

59:00  Edward Ka-Spel - Lines

62:52  These New Puritans - Inside the Rose #MeToo (Andrew Liles)

67:18  Creature - 'Ow Much!

71:41  Pierre Henry & Michael Colombier - Psyche Rock

74:15  The Space Negros - Out to Launch

75:48  Dawson - J. Cloths Ltd Edition All In One Bumper Revolting Pack (Sling Back Fruit Bowl)

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517 Tortoise - What if? disc 2

Second disc of my imaginary Tortoise rarities and remixes compilation.

00:00  Tortoise - Why We Fight (D Version)

05:43  Mouse on Mars & Tortoise - Shoe Fly

10:09  Coldcut - More Beats & Pieces (John McEntire Tortoise mix)

16:10  Red Snapper - Crusoe Takes A Trip (John McEntire Tortoise mix)

22:51  Tom Ze - Curiosidade (Tortoise Remix)

27:11  Tortoise - Fallslake (by Nobukazu Takemura)

30:56  Gang of Four - Paralyzed (Tortoise remix)

34:16  Techno Animal - Version Tortoise

39:27  Eyeremix - High Class Slim Came Floatin'

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517 Tortoise - What if? disc 1

Big fan of Tortoise and all their associated side and solo projects.  Back in college, "Millions Now Living Will Never Die" was my go-to study music.  Even now, every time I hear that album it brings back memories of late nights writing papers, studying, and doing everything I could to survive working full time, being a teacher, and getting a degree, oh yeah and still having a social life while living with two bartenders and a tattoo artist.  Those were wild times.

This mix poses the question what if they reissued "A Lazarus Taxon" today with two discs of additional rarities/comps/remixes?   Well, here is what I'd imagine that might just look like, collecting up all the odds and ends that didn't wind up on that original release,  "A Digest Compendium of The Tortoise's World" or the "remixes" album.

00:00  Intro

02:55  In A Thimble

09:03  Mosquito

12:35  Ice Ice Gravy

25:20  Sheets

27:06  Beautiful Love

31:37  Onions Wrapped in Rubber

32:21  Madison Area

35:47  Ruba'iyat

39:29  Lonesome Sound

42:56  Outro

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516 Old Dub

00:00  Fazal Prendergast & The High Times Players - Kingston Mall

04:16  Mighty Diamonds - Blackman Dub

07:52  Dennis Green - Wanted Man

10:13  Jah Stone - Collie Weed

13:28  Scientist & Dubiterian feat Horace Andy - Money Money Dub

16:21  The Mighty Two - Burning Version (Burn Babylon Dub)

19:09  Augustus Pablo - Omo Valley Dud

22:02  Sylford Walker & Welton Irie - Lambs Bread International

26:25  Prince Fatty, The Aggrovators & Bunny Lee - Dub is Shining

30:32  Black Uhuru - His Imperial Majesty

34:06  Channel One - King of the Minstrels

37:21  Leroy Horsemouth Wallace - Armageddon Dub

40:23  Prince Fatty, The Aggrovators & Bunny Lee - Adubajonoi

43:50  Aston Family Man Barrett & Knotty Roots - Distant Drums (Dub Version)

47:01  Delroy Witter - Wake Up Dub

50:33  Dennis Bovell - Do You Dub Me

52:58  Skin, Flesh & Bones - Dem Yah Dub

56:23  Mykal Rose - Funeral Dub

59:54  U Black - Natty Dread at the Controls

63:03  Grace Cale's Dubset - 4-in-A-Dub

66:01  The Boris Gardiner Happening - Jah Stoned Dub

68:57  Selassie I Rockers - Gone Dub

72:48  Lloyd Coxsone - Untitled

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516 New Dub

00:00  Tena Stelin & Sound Iration - Orthodox Music

04:17  Sly & Robbie meet Dubmatix - Riding East

08:18  Dubkasm feat Ras Addis - Beto's Yard

12:27  Champagne Dub - Sink

16:58  Indica Dubs meets The Disciples - Stone Dub

20:38  Prince Fatty feat Earl 16 and Horesman - 100 Weight of Collie Weed (disco mix)

24:23  Lee Scratch Perry & Youth - Butterfly Sky (Dub Mix)

29:01  Dubby Stardust feat Vinyl Sky - Ashes to Ashes

34:24  Horace Andy - Superstition

39:16  L.B. Dub Corp feat Baal & Mortimer - Golden Star

44:48  Lee Scratch Perry - Here Come The Warm Dreads

49:30  Marty Dread & Willie Nelson - Light This Up

53:50  Another Channel - Seek Truth

58:23  Om Unit - Dissolved (Deadbeat Remix)

64:45  Androo - Some Thing Dub

67:37  Black Market Dub - Plan 9 From Outer Space

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515F The Accessible Side of Difficult Music

See reference list on this post.

00:00  Matmos - Keine Zahne

03:49  Ptose - F.M. Creatuers

05:15  Steve Severin - Mal d'Aurore

07:06  Cyclobe - Indulge Yourselves with our Delicious Monster  

10:15  Ergo Phizmiz - Green Elephant

13:38  Electric Company - Tu M'ennuis

16:03  People Like Us - Taking a Walk

19:43  V/VM - One For Tricky Ricci

23:50  Broken Penis Orchestra - The Rape of the Garden Maiden

26:00  Nurse with Wound - Nana or a Thing of Uncertain Nonsense

31:32  Songs of Norway - Angels Exist

36:08  La STPO - Cet A-mort Vibre L'air (edit)

44:06  Volcano The Bear - The Woman Who Weighs out the Wool

46:52  People Like Us / Cyclobe - I Believe in Mirrorballs

51:26  Matmos - Great White Entertainers

51:45  Cul De Sac - Needlepoint (DJ Rupture's Needlepoint mix)

55:18  Farmers Manual - Spellcheck=False

57:22  speedranch^janskynoise - S^JN botanical mattress with fleas in a midnight toker

61:39  Kid606 - Catstep/My Kitten/Catnap (vatstep dsp remix by Hrvatski)

67:36  Sycophants - Fourth

68:44  Princess Dragonmom - No Used

74:31  Black Humour - Electro Nuts

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515E The Accessible Side of Difficult Music

See reference list on this post.

00:00  Con - Hommage A Kyoto

00:59  Einsturzende Neubauten  Wardrobe

03:38  Irr.App.(Ext.) - Knit, Semble, Straighten and Mend

11:39  Black Light District - Stoned Circular III

16:58  Novy Svet - Manana

20:35  His Name Is Alive - The Silver Piano

25:50  Fini Tribe - All Fours

29:56  Wesleyan - Dunlavy

33:25  Controlled Bleeding - After the Rain

37:27  Echo Park - Eugenics

40:56  Thurston Moore - untitled (Remixed by Springheel Jack)

46:01  Nagamatzu - Bird, Spider, Fly

49:00  Volcano The Bear - 11 Years of Saying Yes

52:34  Legendary Pink Dots - Mirror Messiah (Live Cologne 1983)

58:06  Derniere Volonte - Un Refrain Solitaire

61:48  Sybarite - The Mast

64:16  Gold Water - Fractured Break

69:53  Pole - SpaB

75:56  DJ Spooky - Temporally Displaced

79:56  Un Festin Sagital - Bajo un Sol Inclemente

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