552 The Confession of a Quiet Replica

Invigorated by finding Hrvatski's full catalog for "name your price" at bandcamp got me excited to revisit this era of Keith Fullterton Whitman's catalog.  I was also excited to find a bootleg copy of "Green Darkness vol 1" from MLTKK, I loved their music dearly up until their 3rd album.  I've slowly been trying to get into Oneohtrix Point Never and listen to UNKLE beyond their "Psyence Fiction" album.

00:00  OriOr - Quiet Sky

02:38  Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica (Matmos Edit)

06:28  Vas Deferens Organization - ORCA

11:23  Hrvatski - Akimbo (Rough)

15:08  The Tape-Beatles - Lament

18:55  My Like With The Thrill Kill Kult - Confession Three (The Curse)

22:32  Terminal Sound System - Wolves

27:13  Skinny Puppy - Carry

32:23  Squarepusher - Drax 2 (KCRW Session)

39:47  Clark - Re-Scar Kiln

42:15  Muslimgauze - mix 1e

43:42  UNKLE - Rock On (Scratchapella edit)

48:20  A Guy Called Gerald - Final Call

51:23  Burial - Unite on the Box of Dub compilation

56:15  Christoph De Babalon - China Death

61:38  Matmos - The Chrome Reflects Our Image

64:30  Motown Junkie - Moonlight in the Graveyard

66:34  Hrvatski - Eruption 1970

71:46  Ostrova - ---

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551 The Remix According to Skylab

Took forever to do this one, due mostly to having so many remixes that I just didn't like.  Weeding through those showcased the style that I did like from them.  That style being the 94-96 period with Howie B as a member.   Those early tracks like "Seashell," "Next," and "Twister" brought a smile to my face.  Their work on "Offbeat - A Red Hot Sound Trip" was something really special, like the collaboration with My Bloody Valentine at their peak.  I picked up their single for "The Trip" and was very disappointed, never bought any future releases from them.  In my opinion, this shows the impact one member of a group can have.  I suppose it always was Mat Ducasse's group, and most of these remixes are from the post-Howie B era.

00:00  Skylab vs Deluxe - Twister

05:00  My Bloody Valentine meets Skylab - Incidental Peace

09:50  Mescalito - Lovegate (Skylab Remix)

17:14  Meat Beat Manifesto - I Control Audio Collage #3 (remix by Skylab)

23:57  Pierre Henry & Michael Colombier - Psyche Rock (The Invisible Edit by William Orbit & Mat Ducasse)

28:50  Darleisa Cearcy - Caught Within (Skylab mix instrumental)

33:41  David Holmes - Caddell Returns (Mat Ducasse & Toshio Nakanishi remix)

39:18  Barry Adamson - What it Means (Skylab Plucked Chicken mix)

43:18  Silent Poets - Talk is Toy (Skylab Remix Inst)

53:50  Rick Wright - Thousand Furry Toys (Inverted Gravy mix)

62:11  David Holmes - 69 Police (Skylab Remix)

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550 Threshold-exceeding password syntax

Born out of leftovers from the last mix, plus re-finding my Three Mile Pilot CDs, realizing the Oiseaux-Tempete title is from Hakim Bey, finding this Orchids remix via The Pastels, and hearing this Ocean Blue track on the radio and reminding myself that I used to like them back in the 90s.  The swirl of my thoughts all came together here.

00:00  Three Mile Pilot - The Threshold

04:30  Q And Not U - Passwords

07:16  June of 44 - ReRecorded Syntax

12:06  The Faint - In Concert

14:23  Bloc Party - Price of Gasoline

18:37  Moving Units - Bricks & Mortar

22:00  !!! - Feel Good Hit of the Fall

26:57  The Rapture - AlieNation

31:30  Butthole Surfers - The One I Love (REM)

34:56  And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Another Morning Stoner

39:23  Sugarcubes - Birthday (Christmas Present mix)

43:19  Second Still - Sleep

47:59  Oiseaux-Tempete - Weird Dancing in All-Night II

50:51  The Convocation Of - Eternal Dreamtime

56:00  Gang Gang Dance - God's Money I (Percussion)

57:57  The Orchids - Another Saturday Night (Remix)

62:45  The Black Heart Procession - Your Church Is Red

66:49  The Ocean Blue - Ballerina Out of Control

70:31  The Sea and Cake - Seemingly

74:57  Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - And I'm Aching

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549 Steps and Flashes of Music as a Drug

Time to get those dancing shoes on.  This is not entirely a funk mix, just some dance oriented music that isn't techno.  Seeing !!! perform in or around 2000 was certainly a highlight and a fun evening.  I still think their first self titled album was their peak.  Same with the related group OutHud, they were on a roll until they added vocals, just wasn't my cup of tea.  Hope this mix gets you movin and a-grooving!  I sure can't sit still while listening to it.

00:00  !!! - The Step

05:53  Outhud - Hair Dude, You're Stepping On My Mystique

10:13  Talking Heads - I Zimbra (12" Version)

16:28  Polyrhythmics - Yeti, Set, Go

21:39  ESG - Christelle

23:28  Liquid Liquid - Push

25:22  Q and Not U - This Are Flashes

28:20  The Faint - Sex Is Personal

31:43  New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Get Better (Extended)

37:49  LCD Soundsystem - Time To Get Away

42:00  Gang of Four - To Hell With Poverty (Go Home Productions Remix)

46:27  Moving Units - Between Us and Them

49:31  Ikara Colt - Wake in The City

52:34  Aphrodesia - Ayala

56:58  South - All in for nothing (reprise)

60:20  Roxy Music - Love is the Drug

64:20  The Monks - Drugs in My Pocket

67:24  Gang Gang Dance - God's Money V

70:55  The Budos Band - Thrice Crowned

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548 Transient Ghost Stories

Both chill and unsettling, this mix certainly has that ghostly vibe.  Exactly what I've been needing lately.  Was a bit inspired by some of this album, then came across this post which melded these thoughts together.

00:00  Out Hud - Story of the Whole Thing

04:55  New War - Ghostwalking

13:20  Portishead - Untitled

15:21  Terminal Sound System - Duchamp Falls

19:48  The Novotones - The Gain of Loss

24:19  Bark Psychosis - Three Girl Rhumba

28:54  Tranquility Bass - Cantamilla (Ski Room Stew)

33:30  Cologne Tape - Welt 10 (Jorg Burger mix)

38:58  Innerzone Orchestra - Basic Math

47:44  Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - Road to Banyon

49:20  Jessamine - From Here To and Now Otherwise

55:05  Paul Mac - Redfern Address (in Memory of Vision)

60:15  Oiseaux-Tempete - Opening Theme (Ablaze in the Distance - Dag Rosenqvist remix)

64:42  ICE - Trapped in 3 dimensions (Skull mix)

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547 Ubu Smallbones

This came from my desire to include Coil and Blue next to each other somehow.  Plus, the Lou Reed meditations album is just wonderful and I've been wanting to use part of this somewhere.  The Moby track is just me adding the bassline from the original to the "Aquamix" remix - I love both versions however felt the remix was missing that groove.

00:00  Derniere Volonte - Ouverture

01:29  Flanger - Full on Scientist

06:52  Hive - Moves Within Time (3rd Movement)

10:11  The Prunes - Vinyl Anal

13:33  Coil - Ubu Noir

15:39  Blue - Smallbones

20:52  Clark - Frau Wav

24:58  DJ Food - Cookin

29:53  Eight Miles High - Art Gallery

31:38  Gold Water - Fractured Break

36:41  Hive - Sci-Clone

40:17  Terminal Sound System - Sunshine

45:25  Squarepusher - The Tide

49:37  The Prunes - Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door (Spaghetti Western mix)

50:50  Skinny Puppy - Choralone

53:38  Innerzone Orchestra - Eruption

58:39  Moby - Mobility (moozler re-edit)

63:08  Skinny Puppy - Guilty

66:20  Lou Reed - Wind Coda

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546 Lushed

A wonderful track from Orbital with some classic remixes, and here 32 years after its release I'm still coming back to it time and time again.   What I've done for this mix is include those originals (1-3) and era remixes (3-5, 7, 13) along with bootleg (9-10) and disguised remixes (6, 8, 12, 14) from peers and modern artists.  I read that Vapourspace created four remixes, and only as of recently two of them have been released.  Hopeful the remaining tracks will see the light of day sometime.  Despite this being 14 versions of the same track, there is plenty of depth and variety making it an engaging listen all the way through.

00:00  Orbital - Lush 3-1

05:39  Orbital - Lush 3-2

10:20  Underworld - Lush 3-3

23:08  Psychick Warriors OV Gaia - Lush 3-4 (Warrior Drift)

33:44  C.J. Bolland - Lush 3-5

39:55  Vapourspace - Space Walk (Uranic Myrigth)

45:01  Orbital - Lush (Euro-Tunnel Disaster '94)

51:48  The Drum Club - De-Lushed

61:17  Dabro - Lush (remix)

66:43  Salt Tank - Lush (Guitar mix)

73:36  Confidence Man - Re-Lush

78:50  The Drum Club - De-Lushed (Stars Above the Campfire mix)

83:47  Orbital - Lush (1926 Trancendance mix)

89:11  Vapourspace - Lush (Spacewalk mix)

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545 A dread of specters and witches

The song titles gave a spooky vibe, which inspired the title.  Thanks to Nathan's blog for supplying several of these tracks.  This is not your typical roots style dub mix.  Lots of interesting finds tossed together with some expected artists. 

00:00  Muslimgauze - Tikrit Majishan

06:30  Skull vs ICE - Operation Mind Control

13:58  New War - Ghostwalking 'Wild Body' Live Dub by HTRK

20:48  LA Vampires & Zola Jesus - Searching

23:37  Kevin Haskins - Highway (Dub remix)

26:49  Scalaland - Snow White Lies (Paul Freeguard Space Dub mix)

29:38  Rome - Beware Soul Snatchers (Black Nosed Buddha mix)

34:22  Terminal Sound System - Minimal Tolerance to Injected Errata

41:03  Kalpataru Tree - Gaia Tree Dub

51:14  Urban Jungle - Bad Man (Dub mix)

57:14  Indica Dubs meets Vibronics - Messenger of Peace featuring Splitz Horns

60:54  Lee Perry vs The Moody Boyz - Dub Take

68:13  Om Unit - Ghosts (Seekers International VIP)

72:37  DJ Krush feat Sly & Robbie - The Lost Voices

77:38  Lee Scratch Perry - Above and Beyond

81:47  Horace Andy - Sleepy's Night Cap

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544 I dreamt a dream last night

Title is a translation of the Opiate track.  I'd recently been investigating Skull, as having only heard them on the Macro Dub Infection CDs.  The rest of this mix just fell into place from there.

00:00  The Prodigy - Intro

00:21  Ralph Lundsten with Lovetopia Feelharmonic Orchestra - Prelude to the Future

06:47  My Bloody Valentine meets Skylab - Incidental Peace

12:10  Air Liquide - Im Erlenmeyer-Kolben pt.2

15:46  A Small Good Thing - Twice as Evil as You

18:36  Niels van Hoorn - Indian Dakota

23:04  Severed Heads - Hawaii Torso 97 Cigarettes

25:43  Skylab vs Deluxe - Twister

30:26  4 Hero - The Paranormal in 4 Forms

38:27  Dead Voice on Air - Geong G'uma

43:26  Skull - Flump

46:48  Opiate - Dromte mig en drom

49:12  Dimitri from Tokyo - Love Love Mode

56:10  Muslimgauze - Muslimgauze RMX tape 13 B2

60:18  Skull - Destroy All Monsters

66:38  Tom Ellard - Mount

68:42  Skinny Puppy - Natures Revenge (Dub)

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543C Post-Country

Wrapping it up with some more structure and less ambient in the traditional sense.  I mean, who would have expected a Funkadelic cover working in this style?  

00:00  Tulsa Drone - Chiaroscuro

04:34  Friends of Dean Martinez - All in a Golden Afternoon

09:34  William Tyler - Highway Anxiety

18:23  Hammock - Drugs and Religion

23:42  Japancakes - Always Stuck with Leaving

28:55  SUSS - Ursa Major

33:00  Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Martha's Dream

36:00  Earth - Tethered to the Polestar

40:26  Calexico - Where Only The Ashes are Left

44:43  All India Radio - Solstice

47:52  Viva Las Vegas - El Rio Llamado Orbigo

50:41  Elliott Smith - Kiwi Maddog 20/20

54:11  Volebeats - Maggot Brain (Funkadelic)

60:11  T.G. Olson - III

66:31  Oiseaux-Tempete - Ouroboros

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543B Bootgaze

Fun name for this style, and appropriate in my opinion.  Somehow I had previously overlooked the wonderful world of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' soundtrack work.  Sure I'd seen these movies but neglected to pick up the soundtracks which are great and really do compliment the films as a great composer should.  

00:00  Numun - Flower

05:47  Bill Frisell - Disfarmer Theme

11:17  Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Moving On

13:31  Hermanos Gutierrez - Lagrimas Negras

16:29  A Small, Good Thing - Hole in the Heart

20:18  Tulsa Drone - Red's Theme

22:28  Tara Jane O'Neil - Pearl Into Sand

25:42  Hammock - Meier

27:41  Pan American - The Cloud Room

35:07  SUSS - The Walk Home

38:45  Steven R Smith - A Celebration

42:41  Perry Frank - Barcelona Landscape

48:13  Calexico - Where Water Flows

49:52  The Cornfields - Common Street Train Song

56:14  Steven R Smith - Dust on Coils

61:09  Elgafar - Solitude

62:56  Friends of Dean Martinez - The Winter Palace

69:38  Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Last Chance for Love

73:25  Nate Hall - Night Theme

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