30 June, 2025

543A High Desert Ambient


The next three mixes continue my fascination with Ambient Americana.  Each focused on a sub-genre if that's possible, building in some intensity towards more traditional song oriented tracks in the third.  I found many new artists to explore and have really enjoyed this.  These mixes have been in constant rotation while I'm working for the last couple weeks.  So much so that I've slacked on compiling new mixes as a result.  

Here are the previous four mixes I made.  

00:00  Corntuth - C-005
04:40  Western Skies Motel - Leaving Behind
08:24  Elgafar - Serene
11:09  Barn Owl - Devotion I
16:58  SUSS - Everything is so Beautiful
18:39  Date Palms - Exodus Due West
22:10  Geir Sundstol - Los
24:53  Oiseaux-Tempete - Nuage Noir (May Roosevelt remix)
28:18  Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Texas Midlands
30:12  Steve Roach & Roger King - Ghost Train
37:19  North Americans - Western Town, with Road to Mountain
41:09  Aix Em Klemm - The Luxury of Dirt
47:06  Tim Hecker - Step Away from Konoyo
51:30  David Sylvian & Holger Czukay - Premonition (Giant Empty Iron Vessel)
67:42  Luke Schneider - Anteludium


26 June, 2025

Back in a few days

 


Enjoying a much needed break from work to celebrate 20 years with my love.

Hope everyone is living their best life and loving the summertime.

All the best,

Mooz


22 June, 2025

542 Where Pink met Floyd



This does include tracks from the namesakes of Pink Floyd, along with a lot of other classic blues and old folk tracks.  Its been a while since I broke out this genre and I felt inspired.  I seem to always throw Stevie in these mixes as he's the only modern-ish blues artist I frequently listen to.


00:00  Walter Brown - What Evil Have I Done
03:01  Kid Bailey - Rowdy Blues
05:59  Floyd "Dipper Boy" Council - Working Man Blues
08:59  James Skip - Devil Got My Woman
11:53  Leadbelly - Where Did You Sleep Last Night
14:50  Pink Anderson - C.C. and O. Blues
17:52  John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom
20:28  Robert Johnson - 32-20 Blues
23:15  Papa Harvey Hull - Original Stack O'Lee Blues
25:55  Bo Diddley - She's Fine, She's Mine
28:34  Charley Patton - Moon Going Down
31:47  Blind Lemon Jefferson - Corinna Blues
34:51  Rev Gary Davis - I'm Gonna Meet You at the Station
39:27  Son House - John the Revelator
41:55  Robert Johnson - Sweet Home Chicago
44:51  Sleepy John Estes - The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair
47:44  Bukka White - Shake 'Em On Down
50:41  Stevie Ray Vaughan - Cold Shot
54:36  Howlin Wolf - No Place To Go (A.K.A. How Many More Times)
57:24  The Rolling Stones - The Spider & The Fly
60:58  Jimmy Murphy - We Live A Long Time To Get Old
63:21  Leadbelly - Goodnight Irene



19 June, 2025

541 Aaron Hated People



More leftovers from those first 100ish mixes.

One of my hobbies is tracking down where artists get their samples from.  Wasn't until I was watching this classic holiday film that this one clicked in my head.  


00:00  Beequeen - The Edit Three Step
05:56  Colder - Crazy Love
11:05  Silver Apples - Oscillations
13:49  DJ Olive & Earwig - Crossunder
17:51  Cevin Key feat Edward Ka-Spel - A Certain Stuuckey
26:35  Download - Sidewinder Snake
30:18  Bass Communion - The Battle of Tetris (Monolake)
37:52  Der Blutharsch - Flying through the Exit remix
42:22  Skinny Puppy - Censor (Guru remix)
46:24  Psychic TV - I.C. Water (edit)
52:11  Bomb The Bass - Beat Dis (12" version)
58:00  Venetian Snares - Aaron2
62:45  Kid606 - For When Yr Just Happy To Be Alive
66:12  Renaldo & The Loaf - Early Twirly
68:06  The Residents - Bach is Dead
69:16  Throbbing Gristle - What A Day
73:48  Venetian Snares - Mismo Canibalismo



16 June, 2025

539 Blame your strong blood, how it would break


Some oddball tracks mixed in to keep this spicy in-between some very recognizable tracks. 

I pulled the track title from words from every other track title in this mix... only later search and Google AI indicated that this phrase was used in a Jelly Roll song (my daughter is a fan).  Weird happenstance.




00:00  Chapterhouse - Pearl (edit)
02:58  Damage Manual - Blame and Demand (Wobble-Laswell Hybrid edit)
07:58  Clor - Goodbye
11:12  Dirty Projectors - Keep Your Name
15:39  Laika - Lower Than Stars
20:29  The Sea and Cake - Too Strong
23:18  Moonshake - Coward mix
25:23  The Cure - The Blood
29:01  David Bowie - Quicksand (demo)
33:36  Novy Svet - How
35:11  The Mountain Goats - Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton
37:35  Elliott Smith - Isn't It A Pity (George Harrison)
40:35  Piano Magic - Not Fair
44:41  Alice in Chains - Would?
48:06  The Gaslight Anthem - The Queen of Lower Chelsea
51:39  The Prids - Break
55:46  Beastie Boys - Sabotage
58:34  My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realize
62:14  The Jesus and Mary Chain - Upside Down
65:07  Catherine Wheel - Kill Rhythm
68:58  Death in June - Symbols of the Sun (live)



14 June, 2025

538 Punk Leftovers




Cleaning out my folder of punk songs that have been favorites for many years.
Pre-Soul Asylum in their punk days.  The Meatmen making a Boris the Sprinkler sound like their own.  The Queers back when I used to see them hanging around the scene with the local favorites, The Nobodys.  A young Shane McGowan in the Nipple Erectors, Pre-The Cure in Lockjaw.  Naked Aggression using a Francisco Tarrega Capricho árabe intro, which blew me away as a teen seeing them perform in a friend's living room and recognizing this track as I was a classical guitar instructor at the time.  Title Fight is a new group a friend recommended and I'm really getting into them.  Lots of odds and ends and a wild ride start to finish!

00:00  Loud Fast Rules - Nowhere to Go (Demo)
03:32  F.Y.P. - Red Light Special
04:32  Propagandhi - The Overtly-Political-But-Oh-So-Intensely-Personal Song
05:17  Fishbone - Subliminal Fascism
06:41  Meatmen - Drugs & Masturbation (Boris the Sprinkler)
08:18  Descendents - Coolidge
10:56  Dancing French Liberals of 48 - Spit in your eye
13:41  Propagandhi - Showdown
17:19  Face to Face - Don't Turn Away
20:07  Nation of Ulysses - Telepathic Love (Greg Sage & The Wipers)
21:23  The Queers - I Met Her At The Rat (Single version)
24:13  X - Nausea
27:49  The Victims - Television Addict
30:40  The Starvations - Clementine
33:45  Television Personalities - Part Time Punks
36:21  Wipers - Mystery
38:02  The Saints - I'm Stranded
41:30  Nipple Erectors - So Pissed Off
43:03  The Damned - New Rose
45:39  D.O.A. - The Prisoner
47:39  Angelic Upstarts - Teenage Warning
50:35  Lockjaw - Radio Call Sign
52:03  Anti-Flag - Anti-Violent
54:52  Shattered Faith - Another Day Passes
57:00  Naked Aggression - Ode to a Fucked Up World
58:37  The Exploited - I Believe In Anarchy
60:23  Shelter - Chance
61:34  Other Half - Like A Dog
62:11  Red City Radio - Where We're Going We Don't Need Roads
65:20  Title Fight - Symmetry
67:29  Spielbergs - This is Not the End
70:18  Los Villains - Marked Card
73:01  The Hives - A Get Together To Tear It Apart
74:50  Youth of Today - Positive Outlook


11 June, 2025

537 Take a chance



Dub infected outtakes from those first 100ish playlists on here.


00:00  Soul Sugar ft Courtney John - Take A Chance Version
03:56  Hepcat vs Victor Rice - Hooligans (dub 15)
06:54  Twilight Circus Dub Sound System - Dub Frequency
10:35  Jeremy Taylor - Blue in Green (Dub)
13:34  Lee Perry meets Prince Jammy - Rude Boy
17:05  Johnny Osbourne - Kiss Somebody
19:36  The Frightnrs - Dispute
22:33  The Specials - Rudy, A Message To You
25:17  Bob Marley & The Wailers - Soul Rebel
28:33  Hepcat vs Victor Rice - Dance Wid' Me (Dub 15)
31:48  Augustus Pablo - King Tubbys Dub Song
35:02  Unitone HiFi - Guiding Star (Dub mix by Manasseh)
39:40  Easy Star All-Stars - Time Version
43:10  Suns of Arqa - Acid Tabla (Adrian Sherwood remix)
50:31  Coldcut & On-U Sound - Robbery (Dub)
53:56  Fedayi Pacha - Emir of dub High
58:07  Unitone HiFi - Babylon (neo showdown)
64:51  Systemwide - Contrapositive


Spotify (14/18) Some versions are different.

08 June, 2025

536 Nothing is Happening



The first 100 or so mixes I posted here all had a few tracks omitted, mostly due to length concerns as I try to keep everything around 75 minutes (call me nostalgic, I got stuck in this mindset when I was burning everything on CD-R's back in the day).  Fortunately, I dumped all those extra tracks into a folder and am just now revisiting them.  

00:00  The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Avian Lung
05:23  Digable Planets feat Lester Bowie and Wah Wah Watson - Flying High in the Brooklyn Sky
11:37  Lady June's Linguistic Leprosy - To Whom it May Not Concern
14:21  Gang Starr - DJ Premier in Deep Concentration
17:15  The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Shadows
21:03  Iconaclass - The Art of EMCEE
25:27  L A N D feat David Sylvian - Nothing is Happening Everywhere
31:03  Skitz & MC D & 2Ice - Champion Sound
35:17  Soul Sugar - Get Up and Get It Version
38:15  Ponga - Pick Up The Pieces of Saturn
42:57  Geto Boys - Still
46:52  The Soundcarriers - Calling Me Reprise
47:59  Jac Berrocal - Lidice
52:32  Dalek - Desolate Peasants
56:30  The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Erotic Love Queen
62:43  Clouddead - And All You Can Do Is Laugh (side A)
68:01  Lalo Schifrin - First Night Out


05 June, 2025

535 The Patience of a Mushroom



A chill mix of mostly indie folk, and some positivity spread throughout.  Plus a rare classic Pink Floyd song I was only recently made aware of.  Last week I wore a Shelter t-shirt to a meeting with my Sangha, and no one else had heard them yet, so I played this acoustic cover and they all loved it.  Felt only right to follow that with a Plum Village recording.


00:00  Cave In - Nothin (Townes Van Zandt)
03:16  Heather Trost - Early Gardens
05:36  Pan American & Michael Grigoni - New World, Lonely Ride
09:01  Double Virgo - Rent Boy (HTRK)
11:16  Death in June - Luther's Army (Black Mix)
15:13  Le Volume Courbe - Mind Contorted
18:18  Amenra - Kathleen (Townes Van Zandt)
21:30  Codeine - Atmosphere (Joy Division)
26:07  Pink Floyd - Embryo
30:36  Tarnation - Halfway to Madness
35:55  Mushroom's Patience - Water Track 09
37:25  Jeff Eisenberg Kirtan - Mantra (by Shelter)
40:09  Plum Village - Silence is an Ocean
41:52  Escondido - Evil Girls
45:30  The Aqua Velvets - Guitar Noir
49:53  Radar Bros - You and the Father
54:35  A Hawk and a Hacksaw - Night Sneaker
56:12  Nick Cave - La Vie En Rose
59:53  Girl In Red - I'm Back
62:48  Shanin Blake - Energy Vampires


03 June, 2025

534 Stop Making Speeches



This one's some punk-adjunct music.  Some post-punk, post-rock, and whatever else felt like a good fit.  

00:00  Sparkalepsy - King of the Hill (Minutemen)
03:26  Bastro - Nothing Special
07:48  Shipping News - Books on Trains
13:14  Hazel - Day Glo
16:06  Pg. Lost - A Final Vision
24:25  Khoma - Stop Making Speeches
29:00  The Crownhate Ruin - Ride Your Ride
33:20  Sunny Day Real Estate - Pillars (Radio Edit)
37:01  And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Mistakes & Regrets
40:47  Sparta - Cut Your Ribbon
43:51  At The Drive-In - One Armed Scissor
47:34  Spielbergs - Go!
51:39  Wire - Second Length (Our Swimmer)
54:22  Second Layer - Courts or Wars
58:00  Warsaw - At A Later Date (Live)
61:08  Dawson - Prep Dub


01 June, 2025

533 The stuff of legends



Diverse metal-themed mix.  A couple silly tracks next to some hard hitting post-metal; I think the image here sums this up perfectly.  Worth it to stay until the end for an excellent Suicidal Tendencies rarity.  

00:00  Okilly Dokilly - Nothing at All
02:10  Toundra - Zanzibar
07:00  The Ocean - Rhyacian
17:20  Deftones - Fist
20:10  Junius - He Fell Before Her
21:17  Year of No Light - Selenite
25:41  Cult of Luna - Tannhauser Derive (Refused)
35:33  Russian Circles - Vorel
40:51  Filter - Hey Man Nice Shot (Sawed off edit)
46:07  Soundgarden - Hands All Over
52:02  Dr. Colossus - Whack Sabbath (live)
54:49  Malformed Earthborn - The Intoxicating Tase of Freedom
58:40  Godflesh - Dead Head
62:23  Obituary - Til Death
66:13  Beowulf - Unicorn
68:32  Suicidal Tendencies - Look Up (The Boys are Back)