P621 Just Unstable Enough

Taking it a step further from the last mix, while still pretty chill.

Raime’s “Notions 2 Notion” sets the tone immediately—bleak, skeletal electronics that make a great lead-in to The Bug’s “Void,” featuring the unmistakable voice of Liz Harris. Matriochka which I grabbed from NØ and its quite a strange ride that I haven’t fully digested yet.  Hillage’s remix is a particularly nice bit of time travel, leading to Dr Parnassus, Suns of Arqa, Somko and Electronic Dub which are all like different rooms of the same house.

Keichi Suzuki blends so well next to The Sect, a CD I nabbed at a strangers house when passing through a town back in college; it was a strange memory that came up listening to this again. Bass Kittens has the same vibe but a more modern twist or maybe it’s a subdued Big Beat vibe here. The Shamen came up from NØ’s onslaught of their singles a few months back. I gave them all a listen but only really liked a handful of tracks. Taking it down in intensity is Sven Väth leading to my favorite Orbital track. уплотнение here sounds almost like Boards of Canada meets The Caretaker, due to the heavy static and wobbly vibe. Then there’s Tolouse Low Trax to close things out and reminds of where this started with some murky basement dub.


01 Raime – Notions 2 Notion
02 The Bug – Void (feat Liz Harris)
03 Kelly Lee Owens – Anxi (feat Jenny Hval)
04 Matriochka – Tetugyo
05 Stereo MC’s – Fever (Steve Hillage remix)
06 Dr Parnassus – Kat Man Do
07 Suns of Arqa – Did He Die? (Zea Yoph Mix)
08 Somko – Addoro
09 Electronic Dub – Electronic Dub 4
10 Keichi Suzuki – Satellite Serenade (Transasian Dub)
11 The Sect – Dream Circuit
12 Bass Kittens – Play it Backwards (Club Mix)
13 The Shamen – In The Bag
14 Sven Vath – Harlequin’s Meditation (B-Zet)
15 Orbital – Semi-detatched (TeX)
16 уплотнение – поздно
17 Tolouse Low Trax – Milk in Water (Grim Lusk’s Dub Version)

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P618d Lights Off!

 

This isn’t terribly dark music, the quiet dread-soaked horror movie stuff. I’d say it is more somber than the previous mixes, with some more experimentation here and there. New Cult of the Sun Moon is Robin Storey (Rapoon) with Andrew Diey (Black Faction), so you know what to expect of this project. Hawthonn is a project that came to my attention due to their references and tributes to Jhonn Balance of COIL. After this, many more names from previous mixes. Then The Caretaker aka James Kirby, whom should be well known by anyone into this genre. The Nurse With Wound track is from a bonus CD from the Images/Zero Mix CD & book set from 2008. Ending it with Andrew Liles featuring most of Volcano The Bear, which is a perfect match in my opinion. Hope this was an enjoyable descent/ride through some ambience this week.


01 Max Richter – Song
02 New Cult of the Sun Moon – Sun Phase 6
03 Hawthonn – Odo Galse
04 Bass Communion – Indicates Void IV
05 Biosphere – Black Lamb & Grey Falcon
06 Harold Budd & Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois – Dark-Eyed Sister
07 Biosphere – Antennaria
08 The Caretaker – Mental Caverns Without Sunshine
09 Nurse With Wound – Requital for Lady Day
10 Jon Hassel – Blues Niles
11 Christoph Heemann – Untitled (Rings of Saturn)
12 Andrew Liles – My Long Accumulating Discontent (feat Aaron Moore & Nick Mott)

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P618c Devotional Withering

 

Ambient music with rhythm, yet it never distracts from being background filler. Joe Westerlund is the drummer from Megafaun and session musician for North Carolina’s folk-experimental scene, and here this takes a bit more of a free-jazz style creating a lot of space in this opening track. Jon Hassell the trumpeter creating some sublime and otherworldly transcendent music. Some more familiar names from the previous mixes showing a bit more of some loops or almost rhythms here. That leads us to Forrest Fang, a employment law defense litigator and ambient composer, talk about a double life! Noveller’s guitar based ambience is cinematic in feel and this track is from an album based around sleep paralysis, which you can definitely feel. Then we have Oval, where last mix I featured Microstoria, this is more straight forward glitch based. Asfandyar Khan is an artist from Pakistan and has several “name your price” albums up on bandcamp if this is your style of music. I ended it with a favorite from Harold Budd, piano and pads, a track I use for short meditations during the day.


01 Joe Westerlund – The Circle
02 Jon Hassell – Aurora
03 Labradford – Recorded and Mixed at Sound of Music, Richmond, VA.
04 Christina Vantzou – The Library
05 Oneohtrix Point Never – Grief and Repetition
06 Kevin Richard Martin – Loveless
07 Biosphere – Ancient Campfire
08 Andrew Liles – Together Alone
09 Forrest Fang – Night Procession
10 Noveller – The Fright
11 Oval – Momentan VR
12 Loscil – Halcyon
13 Motion Sickness of Time Travel – Auto Suggestion
14 Asfandyar Khan – Anomie
15 Harold Budd – As Long As I Can Hold My Breath

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P618b Middling Stature Despite the Grand Vista

 

This next mix moves from the peaceful calm of the previous and bridges the gap towards the darker end to this series. I’ll skip around more in my write ups as not to repeat myself. I find that I do like most artists on Kranky, and have enjoyed researching each new name I came across on some early compilations they released. Loscil being one of them that grabbed my attention, as each album is written under a theme, and the music is very evocative of that intent. Microstoria being the group composed of Markus Popp (Oval) and Jan St Werner (Mouse on Mars), is actually more than the sum of its parts. What you expect but then much more, especially on this remix album. Philip Jeck’s turntablist work is surprising to me as I always associated that term with Q-Bert, Shadow, Kid Koala, etc. His approach is much more nuanced and has a different type of control. Andrew Liles using the longest named place in the English-speaking world for a track title, and I think this is more of his wry humor he throws into the monsoon of releases he has put out. Each one of those goes in unexpected directions and can be rewarding and difficult at the same time.

Robert Haigh has gone all over the map with his projects, from Truth Club, Fote, Sema, Omni Trio, and his solo works. I’m glad he’s back to some ambient and piano works as I think that shows his raw talent the most. Another Kranky shout out to Labradford, I’m so glad I bought “Prazision” in the early 90s on a whim, I’ve loved every release since then. I was introduced or had my attention focused on the guitar playing of Andreas Martin through the Brainwashed Eye video, where his style and humble nature let the music really shine. Here with his brother Christoph Heemann they make some wonderfully beautiful music, that isn’t too far off from HNAS later years’ sound which they both were involved in. Old Saw is one I captured for my Ambient Americana mixes, and they do fit well here as a bridge into Asunta’s clarinet and harmonium and Rapoon using similar instruments to a darker vibe ending this mix on an unsettled and uneasy place.


01 Christina Vantzou – CV
02 Loscil – Endless Falls
03 Microstoria – C-Schulz & Hajsch / Microstoria Remix
04 Richard Skelton – For Either Deadened or Undeadened
05 William Basinski – dlp 4.2
06 Lawrence English & Stephen Vitiello – with Chris
07 Philip Jeck – Wipe
08 Andrew Liles - Taumatawhakatangitangihangakoauautamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahullanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyllllantysiliogogogoch - Part 3
09 Stars of the Lid – F*cked Up (3:57am)
10 Grouper – A-D (excerpt)(from ’10’, Room-40)
11 Tony Wakeford et L’Orchestre Noir – The Widow II
12 Robert Haigh – Berlin Kino
13 Harold Budd & Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois – Late October
14 Tim Hecker – Black Refraction
15 Andrew Liles – Soft Focus
16 Labradford – P
17 Andreas Martin & Christoph Heemann – Untitled
18 Old Saw – Lacustrina
19 Asunta – Landscape VI / Krajobraz VI
20 Rapoon – Last Twilight

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P618a Peaceful

 

I’d made these next four mixes for music while I was studying for some technical certifications. I’ll stagger them over the coming week. First up is the most mellow and drone centered of them, long tones with soft edges. I’ve just recently started to explore the vast discography of Motion Sickness of Time Travel, solo work of Rachel Evans. She’s married to Grant Evans, and they’ve got several projects together. I’m really fond of her style, lots of processed vocals, or are they synth pads? Guess that is part of the charm. Biosphere needs no introduction, nor does Pete Namlook and Tetsu Inoue for this genre. Christina Vantzou who is half of Dead Texan (The other half being Adam Wiltzie of Stars of the Lid), quickly gained my attention when I came across her work. Each album is followed by an excellent remix album, something I really enjoy with artists do that. I found Tor Lundvall through his collaboration with Tony Wakeford, and have really enjoyed his solo work as it can be quite dynamic for ambient work. His music sounds very much like what his paintings should sound like.

Kevin Richard Martin might seem out of place here at first, however his work under his own name (instead of The Bug, Techno Animal or King Midas Sound) show a completely different side. “Sleep Circle” is represented here as I keep returning to this as an album to fill an evening with peaceful music. Oneohtrix Point Never keeps calling to me, yet I feel overwhelmed by their discography as I have barely scratched the surface. Laraaji and Brian Eno, yeah this is a classic and great meditation music.

Included the full Harold Budd track here as its just so magical. Then Peter Andersson is another surprise, not for ambient music, but because this is not his typical dark ambient style from Raison D’Etre. Stars of the Lid then Basinski’s Disintegration Loops excerpt are more modern classics of how this style keeps evolving and experimenting. Finally ending things with Richard Skelton and Bass Communion which helps me not feel guilty that almost two hours passed while this mix played.


01 Motion Sickness of Time Travel – Closer
02 Biosphere – Dover Ferryport
03 Pete Namlook and Tetsu Inoue – Orion Transfer 6
04 Christina Vantzou – 11 11
05 The Dead Texan – A Chronicle of Early Failures Pt Two
06 Tor Lundvall – Despair
07 Kevin Richard Martin – Worthlessness
08 Max Richter, Grace Davidson – Path 3 / Whose Name is Written on Water (Pt 2)
09 Tim Hecker – Live Room Out
10 Oneohtrix Point Never – Months
11 Laraaji – Meditation #2
12 Mark Isham – Tibet Part II
13 Harold Budd – Bismillahi ‘Rrahamani ‘Rrahim
14 Peter Andersson – Piano Movements VIII
15 Alio Die & Sylvi Alli – The Inner Sea (Silver Sea)
16 Stars of the Lid – The Better Angels of our Nation
17 William Basinski – dlp 1.2.2
18 Richard Skelton – The Viscid Substance
19 Bass Communion – A Grapefruit in the World of Park

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P615 Ambient Country

 

Prior to my hiatus, I had alluded that there were more of these mixes in the hopper. Here are two more with some new artists in the mix as well as additional tracks from artists featured previously. I suppose this would’ve worked better when I made it back in early summer as I think they capture that feeling of hot desert days and cool star filled nights. As I was researching this, I was surprised, then not surprised at how much AI generated music was on youtube that fit this style. As such, I decided AI generated images would be used instead of my usually random finds.


01 Piero Piccioni – Arizona Dreaming
02 World Standard – Loving Spoonful
03 Field Works, Stuart Hyatt, Julien Marchal, Youmna Saba, Fadi Tabbal, Danny Paul Grody, Bob Hoffnar, Tomas Lozano, Dena El Saffar – The Morning Bends Down
04 Joe Harvey-White & Geir Sundstol – Ribbles
05 Ikue Mori with Robert Quine & Marc Ribot – Painted Desert
06 Scenic, Bruce Licher, James Brenner, Brock Wirtz – Hole in the Wall
07 Steve Kilbey – Hypnogogue
08 Date Palms – Yuba Source Part I
09 Scenic, Bruce Licher, James Brenner, Brock Wirtz – The Mid Hills
10 Pan American – Ord-Lhr
11 Loscil – Emma
12 Bruce Kaphan – Outpost
13 Susumu Yokota & Rothko – Distant Sounds of Summer
14 Chuck Johnson – Moonstone
15 Hammock – I Can Almost See You (Raising Your Voice… Trying to Stop an Echo)


01 Rex – A Good Time to Die
02 Gregory Uhlmann, Josh Johnson, Sam Wilkes – Arpy
03 Godspeed You Black Emperor – The Cowboy…
04 Death Ambient – Ways Out
05 Scenic, Bruce Licher, James Brenner, Brock Wirtz – Down Black Canyon Road
06 Joe Harvey-Whyte & Bobby Lee – Plainsong
07 Earth – Miami Morning Coming Down II (Shine)
08 Four Tet & William Tyler – Secret City
09 Date Palms – Yuba Reprise
10 Labradford – G
11 Myles Cochran – The Deepest Sea
12 Old Saw – Tilt of the Lamp
13 Brian Eno – Last Step from the Surface
14 Joe Harvey-Whyte & Geir Sundstol – Otra Mantra
15 Chuck Johnson – Superior Mirage

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P614 The Remix According to Mogwai

Can’t say I was ever the biggest fan of Mogwai. They’re quite good at what they do. I felt that when they came out there was a flood of similar sounding bands and I really couldn’t tell many of them apart. Their remix album “Kicking a Dead Pig” is pretty good, though inconsistent. It was when I heard their Neu! remix that I realized they had some serious chops as remixers, and dug out several other tracks I had in the archives from them. I suppose this all does sound very much like them, but not all in the expected post-rock vein.

01 Link – Arcadian
02 Neu! – Super
03 Bloc Party – Plans
04 Clark – Shut You Down
05 Cloth – Felt
06 F*ck Buttons – Colours Move
07 Grandbrothers – Organism
08 JamesHeatherSounds – In Your Spirit
09 Kid606 – Done with the Scene (444mix)
10 Max Richter – Path 5 (official remix)
11 Mint Julep – Aviary
12 Pluramon – Hintergrund
13 Thurston Moore - <untitled>
14 Transatlantic Alliance – Saint Wulfstan
15 Boom Bip – The Use of Unacceptable Colors in Nature
16 The Paradise Motel – Drive
17 Mogwai – Fear Satan
18 Earth – Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine

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P610 Been Through Some Stuff

I recently came across World Standard and was surprised I hadn’t found them sooner, especially considering how much time I’ve spent digging around for ambient country. I like that there seems to be a different approach with each release, which is why they show up twice on this mix. Slick Sixty has a bit of a Sublime vibe going on, at least to my ears, and the Boards of Canada track fits suspiciously well next to it. I also finally tracked down the Cedell Davis remix, which meant ripping it from YouTube. I’d been trying to fill in some of the gaps in my cLOUDDEAD collection, so this one had been on the list for a while.

Maria Marquez and Frank Harris come next with a track from the enjoyably bizarre Ralph Records compilation Potatoes. From there, Ghost Power brings us into the world of Tim Gane and Jeremy Novak. The Drome track was actually a happy accident. I had been looking for Graham Lewis’ project Dome when I came across Burnt Friedman’s Drome instead. I’ll take that kind of mistake any day. It leads nicely into the dance-punk of Holy F*ck, the grimy hauntology of Project Gemini, and the psyche-kraut groove of Cave. Things then take a turn toward some classic post-rock with The Mercury Program and Isotope 217, before Nathan’s recommendation of The Invisible Pair of Hands and Spaceways.

The final two tracks come from Random and Bass Kittens, both aliases of Jon Drukman. I had been looking into his work after learning that Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto had a side project called the JDs with them. That sent me down another one of those little research rabbit holes, which is generally how these things go. By the time I got to the end of this mix, I had picked up a few things I was actively looking for and quite a few more that I wasn’t. That’s usually a pretty good sign.

01 World Standard – Good Red Road
02 Slick Sixty – Someone Else’s Square
03 Boards of Canada – In A Beautiful Place Out in the Country
04 Cedell Davis – Been Through Some Stuff (cLOUDDEAD remix)
05 World Standard, Moose Hill – Desert Blue
06 Maria Marquez and Frank Harris – Canto Del Pilon
07 Ghost Power – Opsimath
08 Fujiya & Miyagi – Hundreds & Thousands
09 Drome – H-Fanatic
10 Holy F*ck – Red Lights
11 Project Gemini – The Last Midnight
12 Cave – Shikaakwa
13 The Mercury Program – The Sea is in Here
14 Isotope 217 – New Beyond
15 The Invisible Pair of Hands – Inbetween Times
16 Spaceways – Tyner
17 Random – The End
18 Bass Kittens – Another Rainy Day

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P609 Properly Disorienting

This is music that is more of a stretch, and probably more enjoyable when I am alone. I’ve been trying to use my downtime to my advantage, catching up on a lot of music I had acquired over the last year but never really had the time to sit with. A few of these tracks sent me down rabbit holes looking for other new artists, and several of those discoveries brought a pretty big smile to my face. That is always one of the best parts of digging through music: you start with one track and suddenly you have five more things you need to hear.

It starts out in outright weirdness with A Mouse Orchestra and Un-Kommuniti, then wanders into the more ambient touchstones like Mike Cooper the British lap-steel guitarist who went from folk-blues scene to experimental & exotica. That sits alongside Soul Whirling Somewhere and the hushed modern-classical world of A Winged Victory for the Sullen. The Trigg & Gusset track appears seemingly everywhere David Lynch is tagged on Bandcamp. There is a nice stretch of hypnotic and experimental stuff here before things start getting a little more restless. Imitation Electric Piano brings some movement, followed by Jackie-O MF’er, and from there the playlist starts taking some pretty unexpected turns.

The second half is where things really get fun. Kevin Richard Martin’s dubby dark downtempo leads into Julianna Barwick’s choir-loop style fractured via the Prince Rama remix, followed by the genuinely unexpectedly wonderful combination of Venetian Snares and Daniel Lanois, which I learned was recorded in a former Buddhist Temple in Toronto. Then it keeps moving, with Lara Sarkissian and Valentina Magaletti who I had spent a lot of time chasing down all the projects she’d worked with. I kept the vibe going with Yu Su, Tolouse Low Trax, Tomaga (another Valentina project), which all would fit neatly with some Shackleton. Solar Lodge slows it back down a bit before Carl Gari & Abdullah Miniawy’s track which lovingly reminds me of Bryn Jones. Ending with another Lara Sarkissian track with Locust because I will blindly dive into any Mark Van Hoen project. There isn't really a comfortable place to settle in here, which is kind of the point.


01 A Mouse Orchestra – A Lump in Your Throat Pt 1
02 Un-Kommuniti – (Heavy) Sh!t at the Station 1
03 Five or Six – Aroma
04 Mike Cooper – A Pattern of Islands
05 Soul Whirling Somewhere – Opening the Ten-End
06 A Winged Victory for the Sullen – The Haunted Victorian Pencil
07 Trigg & Gusset – Krakau
08 Imitation Electric Piano – Progressive Rock
09 Jackie-O Motherf*ck3r – Skylight (Recorded Live at Cargo, London, UK)
10 Kevin Richard Martin – One Hundred Deaths
11 Julianna Barwick – Prizewinning (Prince Rama remix)
12 Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois – Best P54
13 Lara Sarkissian – Our Dead Can’t Rest (Old Jugha Flute Dance)
14 Valentina Magaletti – A Queer Anthology of Drums
15 Yu Su – Futuro
16 Tolouse Low Trax – Milk in Water
17 Tomaga – Tuscan Metalwork
18 Solar Lodge – Our Dead Steed
19 Carl Gari & Abdullah Miniawy
20 Lara Sarkissian, Locust – DBM

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584 Around and about some Post-Country

Took a little break there, the ebb and flow of life can sometimes get overwhelming.   I'm back and hope to continue with my regular cadence of sharing mixes a few times a week.

I was picking up my daughter at school and complimented another dad on his excellent "Murder By Death" t-shirt.  One of the other Dads I was with said he'd never heard of them before.  Upon my recommendation to start with their covers albums, he quickly became a big fan and bought tickets to see them on this tour.  

That exchange got me moving along on this mix, which I had started with some ambient Americana tracks for my series on that topic, though quickly moved into post-country territory.  I also broke out my Possessed by Paul James records which are quite entertaining.  Included some odd ball country tracks I came across, like the one in Eastbound and Down, the Jim Keach track was sampled by the Orb in their YMO "Tong Poo" remixes which is just wild, and then closed it with that Elmer track from a punk rock compilation "Songs About Drinking."

Hope you enjoy the ride.

00:00  Murder By Death - Theme (For Ennio Morricone - Extended Version)

03:56  Little Tornados - Ben's Boat

05:22  The Title Sequence - Desert Song

08:12  Brightblack - Own Time

13:24  J Mascis - Untitled #2

14:46  Aoife O'Donovan - Nebraska (Bruce Springsteen)

18:42  Crownley - Untitled

20:57  A Small Good Thing - Jane Russell

22:58  Andrew Tuttle - Scribbly Gums Park

25:22  The Black Heart Procession - Guess I'll Forget You

29:51  Dean Owens - El Tiradito

32:07  Sara Watkins - Blue Shadows on the Trail

34:43  Jim Reeves - 'Til the End of the World

36:20  Numun - Awaken

39:18  Drag the River - Beautiful & Damned

42:23  Balmorhea - Clear Language

45:35  Terminal Sound System - Theme for Broken Home

51:10  Rebolledo & The Novotones - Mountain Eagle (The Black Frame Desert mix)

57:28  Townes Van Zandt - Waitin' Around to Die

59:48  Marisa Anderson - Bench Seat

60:41  Dean Owens - Mother Road

64:52  Murder By Death - Here's Looking at You, Kid (Gaslight Anthem)

67:59  Possessed By Paul James - Pills Beneath Her Pillow

73:36  Tia Blake - Plastic Jesus

75:57  Mack Allen Smith - I'm Not Drunk, I'm Just Drinkin

77:59  Jim Keach - Wildwood Boys

82:04  Elmer - Here's To You

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I'm stopping Spotify playlists for now, I was really upset that the last time I played some music there, I saw at least three ICE Recruitment video ads in 30 minutes.  That really upset me and I'll not use their service until this changes.

597 The Remix According to Neotropic

Riz Maslen gained notoriety certainly with the help of Future Sound of London.  She was featured on some of their early works, and yes was lip syncing on their Top of the Pops video performance of "Papua New Guinea."  By 1996 she was signed to Ntone (part of Ninja Tune) and was carving out her own brand of downtempo/ambient work.  She's also released on Mush and Anticon, and has some work with Dose One of cLOUDDEAD fame.  

00:00  DJ Food - Inosan (Neohead Phone Head F&ck)

07:15  Fujiya & Miyagi - Shake/Diagrams 

11:02  Alias & Tarsier - 5 Year Eve

18:48  Grain - Does Jesus Have Buddha Nature? (Old Sea Dog mix)

24:16  Skinny Puppy - Love in Vein (Go Girl Trio mix)

29:16  Low - Anon (Pollen)

34:13  Ulver - He Said/She Said

40:52  Mirum Mulier - Like You

45:05  Ollo - The If If (The Lady Husk Sings Empty Frame Version)

51:36  Anne Garner - Unhand 

56:38  Middlemarch - Visitation

62:48  Low - Do You Know How To Waltz? (Vert)

67:12  Frank Chickens - We Are Ninja (mix no2)

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594 The Remix According to DJ Spooky

DJ Spooky aka Paul D Miller is probably best known for this Illbient work in helping define that genre in the late 90s.  Then his mix CDs are an incredible overview of some odd corners of electronic music.  His split EP series has some of the wildest names in experimental music, and his solo albums are just fantastic start to finish.  I don't think I've come across anything of his that I didn't instantly like.  His early work "Songs of a Dead Dream" has to be named after the excellent story collection from Thomas Ligotti.  I have always loved his collaborations with Freight Elevator Quartet, Twilight Circus, Dave Lombardo and Scanner.  So many iconic releases in his discography, all worth checking out.

His remix work is also diverse and a thing of beauty.  I got all the way through this... and then remembered the great remix he did for Merzbow.  Shoot!  I'll add that to a future mix.

00:00  DJ Krush - Ryu-Ki (Lulu's Peace Mix)

06:18  Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand

13:50  DJ Logic - Spooky Logic

20:05  KK Null & James Plotkin - Sawtooth Swirl Irreducible Gated Momentum Dub Mix

29:35  Earth - Crooked Axis for String Quartet

38:19  Arto Lindsay - Mundo Civilizado (Inversion mix)

45:35  Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble - In Sea of C (after T. Riley's In C)

50:26  Badawi - Jihad

54:52  Barrington Levy - Under Mi Sensi

59:06  Bob Marley & The Wailers - Rainbow Country (funk remix)

63:22  Sublime - Doin' Time (Tricked Out Life Sentence remix)

69:10  DJ Spooky & Dave Lombardo with Public Enemy - Public Enemy Number One (Drums of Death remix)

73:37  Meat Beat Manifesto - Shadow and Substance mix

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00:00  Kahimi Karie - Kemuri 

06:12  Graham Reynolds - Ada 

09:45  Abdullah Ibrahim - Mindif (Trio Version)

14:07  Gabriel Prokofiev & Peter Gregson - Jerk Driver 

17:12  David Rothenberg - Killa Koholla 

22:06  Bally Sagoo - Tum Bin Jiya 

26:52  Don Byron - Belmondo's Lip

30:12  Federico Aubele - Su Melodia

34:18  Meredith Monk feat Henry Grimes - Evening 

38:23  Ben Neill - Pentagram (La Mer mix)

45:06  Steve Reich - City Life (Open Circuit)

51:58  Tuatara - Morocco 

57:03  Karsh Kale - One Step Beyon (Datalife 2002 mix)

63:14  Pulse - Wave (Unkut Modular Ekstasis remix)

69:47  Swirlies - Version In Harmony Retrograde Transposition

75:55  Graham Reynolds & The Golden Arm Trio - It Don't Mean (It Don't Mean a Thing String Abstraction remix)

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590 The Remix According To The Orb

The wonderfully weird world of The Orb's remixes.  They go wild in the best possible way, and I will dive into anything with their name on the credits.  I've kind of stopped following their original material as it was probably the early 2000s when I felt their style changed too much from that ambient dub beginnings that made them legends in my book.  Here I've pulled together 50 of my favorites.   I know that's a lot, but there are just so many dang good ones.  

The Orb has released three volumes of Auntie Aubrey's compilations of their remixes.  This is significant as they tend to release those tracks in new edits, some extended, and most with additional samples layered in.  Some of my mixes contain those version, though I tried to stay with the original version where I thought they help up enough on their own.

00:00  Yellow Magic Orchestra - Tong Poo (Planet of the Crossing mix)

09:47  Front 242 - Crapage (Never Hurry a Murray mix)

15:16  The Damage Manual - Sunset Gun (Fully Monty Sunny Orb Up mix)

20:21  Can - Halleluwah (Halleluwa Orbus 2 mix)

29:43  The Art of Noise - Art of Love (Youth & Orb mix)

34:01  System 7 - Mia (Ultraworld Colony mix)

42:11  Primal Scream - Higher Than The Sun (Higher Than the Kite mix)

50:58  Robbie Williams vs The Orb - I Started a Joke (I Started an Orb mix)

55:24  Keith Hudson - I'm Alright (Orbing Alright in Dub)

60:30  Meat Beat Manifesto - Radio Babylon (Beach Blanket Bingo Land by the Orb)

73:36  Material - Praying Mantra (Orb Remix edit)

80:22  Sun Electric - O'Locco part 3

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00:00  Pato Banton vs DJ Orb - Beams of Light

07:07  Blue Pearl - Mother Dawn (Buckateer mix 3)

19:56  Yellow Magic Orchestra - High-Tech Ambience

26:46  Gary Numan & Tubeway Army - Jo the Waiter (Bon Apetit mix)

36:17  Pop Will Eat Itself - Home (Orb Sweet Sin and Salvation mix)

47:37  Audioweb - Faker (Orb Things Bright and Bootiful)

57:42  Youth - Four Horsemen (The Orb's Uraniborg Castle in the Sky remix)

63:05  Killing Joke - Requiem (A Floating Leaf Always Reaches the Sea mix)73

73:42  Ayumi Hamasaki - End of the World (Orb 7" Dub)

80:02  Richard Wright - Runaway (Leggit Dub by the Orb)

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00:00  KLF - 3am Eternal (Blue Danube Orbital mix)

08:29  Suns of Arqa - Govinda's Dream (The Orb mix)

13:29  The Gyuto Monks of Tibet - Legend of the Yogi (The Orb's Garden of Knowing the Ambient mix)

20:30  Another Fine Day - Hairborough Fair (The Orb remix)

26:38  Yasuaki Shimizu - Morocco Mole

33:20  Ready Made - Ambient State

34:27  Wir - So and Slow it Goes (The Orb in Atlas mix)

41:14  Se Berlin - Shuttle 

45:49  Louis Armstrong's Orchestra and Chorus - What a Wonderful World (The Orb remix)

51:16  Coldcut & Hexastatic - Timber (Super Sargasso Orb mix)

57:24  Mindless Drug Hoover - The Reefer Song (Grass Garden of Child's mix)

60:24  Denez Prigent - Yann Chaseour Heart of Black Hold (Orb remix)

69:15  The Cranberries - Zombie (Camel's Hump mix)

76:50  Serge Gainsbourg - Requiem pour un c (the Orb remix)

82:42  Killing Joke - European Super State (The Orb vs Youth remix)

 

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00:00  System 7 - 7:7 Expansion (Conspiracy mix)

10:00  Front 242 - Rhythm of Time (Victor the Cleaner mix by the Orb)

15:56  Anesthesia - Dirty Kiss (Orb Remix by the Orb)

23:34  Depeche Mode - Happiest Girl (The Pulsating Orbital mix)

29:46  Gong - A PHP's Advice (Gong with the Wind)

37:26  The Grid - Crystal Clear (Crystal Clear Water Revival mix)

44:39  Hybrid - Higher than a Skyscraper (Orb remix)

53:47  Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Music for a Found Harmonium (Pandaharmoniumorb mix)

58:38  Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug (The Orb)

64:34  Tangerine Dream - Towards the Evening Star (Mandarin Cream mix)

72:49  The Geep - The Geep (Goddess of my Soul mix)

78:22  David Harrow - Revolution (The Orb remix)

83:48  Paradise X - 2 Much (Start & Depart to Paradise)

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573 The Remix According to Jim O'Rourke

Jim O'Rourke has quite the list of credentials and he continues to find new and incredible opportunities to collaborate with artists from all over the globe and genres.  I think I first came across his name when a friend left "Eureka" at my house and I really dove into it.  Gastr Del Sol was another group I was introduced to at this time, and then not long afterwards I saw his collaborations with Sonic Youth and it was official I was a big fan of his work.

Here are two mixes showcasing his diverse background remixing artists.  

00:00  Organum - Obon

04:15  Labradford - The Church Song

09:43  Earth - Thrones and Dominions

25:32  Oren Ambarchi - All Acrostics (Jim O'Rourke and Tim Barnes remix)

27:27  Nurse With Wound - Tape Monkey Mooch

38:02  Autechre - Characi (6 Seconds over Sheffield)

43:56  Merzbow - House of Kaya

47:46  Voice Crack - Mandatory Plastic Cup

51:30  Main - Suspension (Hyaline)

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00:00  The High Llamas - Mini-Management

08:26  The Sea and Cake - I Took the Opportunity to Antique My End Table

15:29  Kid Loco - A Little Bit of Soul

22:23  Tortoise - Reference Resistance Gate

31:07  Mice Parade - Mystery Bretheren Vironment

41:39  The Pastels - Leaving this Island

44:04  Microstoria - Namm Weekend Pass

51:07  Oval - Do While

55:42  Tortoise - Initial Gesture Protraction

60:00  Neneh Cherry & The Thing - Accordion

66:07  The Jesus Lizard - Needles for Teeth

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572 The Remix According to Bundy K Brown

Mr. Kenneth Brown, also known as Bundy K Brown is part of the inner circle of Chicago musicians that I associate with Tortoise.  He was a member of Bastro/Gastr Del Sol and was one of the founding members of Tortoise.  He bounced around as a sound engineer, producer, mixer and remixer for several artists.  Here's a wonderful overview of his remix work which I find both engaging and relaxing at the same time.

00:00  The Dylan Group - Sandcastles (And to Her Legs She Smiled)

04:42  Tortoise - Not Quite East of the Ryan

09:43  Calexico - Chach (Tasha Bundy remix)

15:09  Directions - Echoes (Continental Drift Version)

24:09  Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater (remix)

31:06  DJ Food - Tricky Little Ears (The Cheech Wizard Pays Respect To All Living Creatures Who Inhabit Dark Places

37:56  The Sea and Cake - Bird and Flag (The Cheech Wizard Meets Baby Ultraman in the Cool Blue Cave (Short Stories about Birds, Trees and the Sports Life Wherever You Are)

43:31  Tangents - Dank Memes & Things (The Cheech Diva's Evensong in the Time of Orange Skinned Camachos and Shrill DM Masons)

49:34  Bastard - C.F. min

52:29  Pele - Testosterina

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00:00  Tortoise - Find the One (Wait, Abstraction No. 3)

10:06  Calexico - Butterfly Mouth (ABBC Bundy K Brown remix)

14:23  Boat - Rowrow (Transparent Cheech Education Beta mix)

23:30  No.9 - Laws of Large Numbers

30:21  Tarwater - A Burgundy Underside (remix - edit)

34:04  Aerial M - Attention Span Deficit Disorder Disruption

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570 The Remix According to Spacetime Continuum

Jonah Sharp's project focused on experimental global ambient music.  He is also owner and operator of Reflective Records.  This is another short but solid set of tunes.  I will thrilled to see he remixed Ponga, a band with a very unique take on free-jazz that I was introduced to about 20 years back from some friends in France.  The Muslimgauze track is what I really wanted to highlight here as it is gorgeous. 

00:00  MLO - Wimborn

10:24  Muslimgauze - From the Edge

16:01  Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug

21:43  Me-Sheen - Electrostatic

30:16  Prism - 4° C

36:17  Foxgluv - Triple Cherry (dub)

42:57  Lypid - Stratospheric 

49:29  Ponga - Naugahide 

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558 Regular Girl Fragments Saved Superstar

Not much to say about this one.  More electronic tunes, some DnB, lots of quirky good fun.

00:00  Legion of Green Men - Interim Opuscule #57

01:19  Oneohtrix Point Never & Elizabeth Fraser - Tales from the Trash Stratum

04:18  Miki Nakatani - Superstar (Andrea Parker mix)

09:30  Million Brazilians - Untitled III

11:49  Nodens Ictus - Pigtuft

14:48  Bowery Electric - Saved (readwriteerror mix by Thread)

19:49  Squarepusher - Decathlon Oxide

23:53  Clark - Urgent Jell Hack

27:52  Everything But The Girl - Blame (J Majik VIP remix)

33:50  Amon Tobin - Like Regular Chickens (Dillinja mix)

41:09  The Art of Noise - Art of Love (Remixed by Ils)

47:09  Jacob's Optical Stairway - Fragments of a Lost Language

52:20  Hrvatski - You Didn't Look High Enough

58:08  Christoph de Babalon - The Hunt

63:05  Cliponville OrkEstra - Queens (Yamantaka / Sonic Titan)

66:15  Sun Electric - Shuttle

71:07  Thomas Park with Brian Eno and David Byrne - Dub Me Somebody 2

76:10  Faust - Meer (alternative take)

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556 Snippits mix 3: the bits between the bits

Here it is, volume 3 of my snippit mixes.  Collecting short tracks (generally 1 minute or less) from albums when I was compiling other mixes and dumped them in a folder to be sorted later.  96 tracks took quite an effort to sort and arrange into somewhat of a musical narrative.  Quirky humor, blasts of cacophony, at times peaceful, and some almost resembling songs.  Vol 1 and Vol 2 still available.

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00:00  Pigface - Dialogue

00:05  Fantomas - untitled

00:07  My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult - Acid X-Mas

00:09  People Like Us - Mr Rotovator / Barry Bonker

01:13  The Evolution Control Committee - Hello

01:29  Dr. P. Li. Kahn - Der Gute Ton

01:40  The Rapture - In Finite Clock!

02:09  Iceage - Intro

02:51  Scattertape - Shelving A Tempered String (Intro)

03:51  Legion of Green Men - Time Tunnel

04:03  Edward Ka-Spel - Intermezzo

04:31  Picchio Dal Pozzo - Bofonchia

05:20  Nostalgie Eternelle - Laqueda

06:29  Gang Gang Dance - Interlude (No Known Home)

07:44  Hieroglyphics - Prelude

08:04  Thrones - Hulder Maiden

08:31  Clark - Dew on the Mouth

09:35  Wavves X Cloud Nothings - Untitled II

10:47  Destroy All Monsters - Imagine

10:53  Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground (Politician mini rap)

11:02  Cassetteboy - Hodeous Krow

11:48  The Horse He's Sick - Musicbox2

12:55  Ninetynine - Manga Girl Cut

14:00  Necromandus - Mogidisimo (reprise)

15:08  Yonderboi - The Severance

15:28  Fuel - Firefly

16:35  The Amorphous Androgynous - Physically I'm Here, Mentally Far, Far Away

17:40  Kid Congo Powers, Julee Cruise & Khan - Julee Sweet Talk

17:48  Wavves X Cloud Nothings - Untitled I

19:03  Howard Finster - Brief Harmonica Interlude

19:26  Calexico - Vinegaroon

20:29  Androo - Overflown Y Dub

20:42  Collections of Colonies of Bees - Fun

21:59  Soft Pink Truth - Lookin Back (Carol Channing)

22:42  Hood - //-

23:20  Matt Howden - Small Dark Spot (from Neptune)

24:10  Mark Van Hoen - Past Glories

24:55  Irr. App. (Ext.) - The Demi-Omadaun's Tale

25:55  Edward Ka-Spel - Prelude for a Splash

26:13  Mark Clifford - Phased Final

27:05  Oku & AK7 - Last Night

27:17  Mort Garson - ESP

28:06  The Legendary Pink Dots - een ogenblik alstubleft

29:24  Outhud - This Just In (Intro)

29:50  Gigabot - Krouter

30:50  DJ Spooky vs The Freight Elevator Quartet - The RCA Mark II Synthesizer

31:37  Michael Mills - Prince

31:45  Aphrodesia - November 5 (part I)

33:01  Viktor Vaughn - Overture

33:35  Jeremy Lubbock - Full Blast Link

33:48  Antipop Consortium - PSA 2

34:42  Typhoon - Intermission

35:47  The Prunes - Intermission pt 6

36:17  Felt - Christina Intro

36:39  Felt - Corey's Interlude

37:19  Genesis - Aisle of Plenty

38:46  Faust - Dr. Schwitters Snippet

39:35  Colin Potter - Quick One

39:55  The Uncluded - Superheroes

40:32  Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Samples - Hawaiian Machine Chant

41:37  SPASM - John Cage Said

42:47  Download - Lenge T'agn

43:51  Q and Not U - O'No

45:03  Twisted Science - Link One

45:43  Mice Parade - Dub Interlude #1 (Boodley)

46:16  Space Negros - Sweep

46:44  Colin Potter - Vertigo

46:56  Malaria! - Interlude Mensch/Desire

47:25  Download - Papa Papa Mula CWM

48:19  Cock E.S.P. - I lied about your band so I could drink beer for free

48:59  SPASM - If I Cut The Globe

49:17  Nailbomb - Sh!t Pinata

50:25  Buckethead - A3 (KFC Skin Piles)

51:11  People Like Us - I Am Very Happy

51:57  Gas - Vapourware

52:56  Severed Heads - Floopness

54:09  DBPIT - Ambient 1

55:11  Odd Nosdam - Toki 1

56:00  Front 242 - offend

57:23  Reinier Van Houdt - Spiral

58:45  Deerhunter - Tape Hiss Orchid

59:37  Ninetynine - Gamelan

60:00  Acid Bath - Old Skin

61:14  S.A. Slayer - TLO 22 

62:01  Ceremony - Kersed

62:39  Les Joyaux De La Princesse & Regard Extreme - Untitled

62:42  Paavoharju - Vitvalkoinen

64:13  Om Unit - Intro

65:03  Locust - Morning Light

66:22  Spielbergs - Kano GM

66:42  Fugazi - Untitled

67:29  Burial - Untitled

67:56  u-Ziq - 27

68:56  UNKLE - Outro (Mandatory)

69:54  The Residents - Be Kind to U-Web Footed Friends

70:29  Edward Ka-Spel - Lights' Out

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555B A Hazy Shade of Farmsteading

00:00  Nigel Godrich - Sorry I Guess

01:10  Foehn - A Wild Face Pours Words on the Last Beach

05:29  Slow Loris - Too Bad Man

10:16  Hood - Boer Farmstead 

14:54  AMP - Sunflower (Acoustic Version)

17:51  Flying Saucer Attack - At Night 

51:49  Labradford - WR

24:20  Hood - Brances Bare

29:43  Sigur Ros - Svefn-g-englar

38:34  Jessamine - Secret

43:35  Saddar Bazaar - West

48:25  AMP - GreenSky BlueTree

51:09  Main - Flametracer

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555A Remember the Big Sun

This is another old set of files I'd been sitting on (was originally mix 194 in my numbering system).  Focused mostly on lo-fi, ambient, fuzzy shoegaze stuff.  I'm sure there's a name for this genre, though it eludes me now.

00:00  Labradford - V (Harold Budd remix)

05:19  Movietone - Sun Drawing

09:03  Foehn - Pour Vous Timide Voyou

12:57  Bark Psychosis - Big Shot

17:31  Centipede - White

20:59  Possession - For Andrew Gide

23:13  Hood - Fading Hills

27:21  AMP - Remember?

32:18  Flying Saucer Attack - Feedback Song Demo

34:47  Crescent - Superconstellation (Third Eye Foundation)

47:40  Main - Spectra Decay

52:05  Sound Smith - Song 9

55:50  Jessamine - You Have Ugly Talents, Martha

61:25  AMP - Zoe

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