23 July, 2025

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



20 July, 2025

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


18 July, 2025

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)



16 July, 2025

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



14 July, 2025

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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11 July, 2025

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



08 July, 2025

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)



05 July, 2025

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


03 July, 2025

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