Showing posts with label downtempo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label downtempo. Show all posts

03 November, 2025

587 Yeah, F your Endoscope


Having permanent damage from two endoscopes, I can relate with this song title.  That aside, hope this is an enjoyable mix for this early November when the crispness in the air is undeniable.

00:00  DJ Wally - Zeta Reticulli
10:28  The Egg - Fuzz
15:38  Palm Skin Productions - Trousers I Never Wore (Altered)
21:50  Yellow Magic Orchestra - Waterford (a23 diversion mix)
33:49  Extremadura - Waterworld (Afon Glandy mix)
39:43  Slowly - On The Loose (Autechre's for Internal Use Only mix)
46:29  The Monsoon Bassoon, Rothko - F*ck You F*ck Your Endoscope
50:03  DJ Hati Monji - Black Lightnin
56:32  Persona - Uptight
60:51  Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - Edge of the Edge (Voka Gentle remix)
67:19  Signaldrift - Strategies for Success Boxes
72:07  Sybarite - Secropia


07 October, 2025

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)



06 October, 2025

596 The Remix According to Herbaliser


Some great downtempo and chill hip hop from these vibe masters.  The Herbaliser Band is also noteworthy and have some great releases that build an eight piece full band out of the original duo.  Checking their discogs page, I'm not the only one that misspells their name as "Herbalizer" form time to time.


00:00  Coldcut - Atomic Moog 2000 (Post-Nuclear Afterlife Lounge mix)
07:35  Meat Beat Manifesto - Prime Audio Soup
14:16  DJ Food - Mella (Drive Faster mix)
19:05  DJ Vadim - Conquest of the Irrational (Vads Dad Diversion)
25:27  Push Button Objects - 360
28:44  East Flatbush Project - Tried By 12
32:44  Little Axe - Storm is Rising (For a few dollars more)
36:41  2 Player - Sometimes 
41:42  Nils Petter Molvaer - Platonic Years (DJ Fjord mix)
46:55  Seeed - Top of the City
50:58  The William Caslon Experience - More Close than Opran
57:02  Hugo Kant feat Ghettosocks - In The Woods
61:18  Paine feat DJ Fonx - Bene (Herbaliser vs Flying Fish remix)
64:57  Lamb - B Line
69:22  The Easy Access Orchestra - Las Chicas 
73:30  The Invisible Pair of Hands - Sloppy's Not Sloppy and More
77:29  Coco and the Bean - Versus the 90's
81:54  Jaffa - Elevator
86:46  Hippaly - A Dreamer's Dream (J.L.'s song)


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24 September, 2025

579 The Remix According to Mr Scruff



I've always been a casual fan of Mr Scruff's work.  I like his style and have several of his albums, yet nothing has ever jumped out as amazing or one of my favorites.  Still, he's got quite a style and a very extensive set of remixes out there.  My list below is a little different from Future Vintage's available mix on YouTube.


00:00  Snooze - Middle Class Lady
04:30  Border Crossing - Searching for Mr. Manuva
11:30  Red Snapper - Thomas the Fib
16:40  Nightmares on Wax - Gambia Via Vagator Beach
21:39  Manasseh - Rasselas
27:35  Glen Brown & King Tubby - Father for the Living
32:36  Bim Sherman - Must Be A Dream
38:26  Dub Syndicate - D.J. Scruff/Mafia
43:42  Moloko - Fun For Me (Instrumental)
48:36  Lamb - Gold
55:16  Mono - Silicone
60:02  Statik Sound System - Dr. Wheeler
64:15  Crustation - Purple
70:52  Phil France - Joy of Brass (Bumpy Dub)
76:06  Ramsey Lewis - Do What You Wanna (Soul Party remix)
81:23  Yam Yam - The Spectacle
86:34  Nicole Willis - If This Ain't Love
93:23  Omni Trio - Byte Size Life
99:01  Bonobo - Terrapin
106:54  Piano Circus Reich - Six Pianos


23 September, 2025

602 The Remix According to Ultramarine



For commenter Nimrod, a request to highlight Ultramarine in this series was very welcomed.  I had several of these tracks in my library already, and hadn't given them the attention they deserved.  That opener by Black Hearted Brother is worth the price of admission for sure.  I did also include the self-remix of Saratoga as I just enjoy it so much, even though they sampled the Eagles who I detest.

00:00  Black Hearted Brother - Got Your Love
06:04  Chris Coco - It an Tells Ya
12:27  Nav Katze - Nobody Home
19:04  The Boo Radleys - Lazarus
27:40  Hercules & Love Affair feat Sharon Van Etten
34:05  Tranquility Bass - We All Want To Be Free
42:40  Les Innocents - Colore
48:38  Ultramarine - Saratoga (Ultramarine Remix)
53:20  Mulu - Pussycat
59:46  Woo - Arc II
63:56  Everything But The Girl - Missing
69:09  Unhappybirthday - Jimmy
73:07  Iain Bellamy - All Men Amen



03 September, 2025

562 The Dark Pink Veneration of Diane


Still riding a bit of that quirkiness high, this time with some electronica and adjunct styles.  

00:00  Memotone - Shape in the Pond
01:19  Sun Electric - O'locco (Hyperfloral Thomas Fehlman remix)
06:18  Black State Choir - Ustasha
10:55  Paper Dollhouse - Diane
16:23  My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult - These Remains (tranzlucious mix)
21:09  Oneohtrix Point Never  Returnal (remixed by Christian Fennesz)
25:41  Legion of Green Men - Veneration of the Goddess
32:55  Stress Assassin - The Soul of a Microwave Oven
37:24  Christoph de Babalon - Hunger
40:50  Faust - Jassie
43:12  Cassetteboy - The Crime Busters of the Sea
44:37  Skinny Puppy - 200 Years
49:19  Hrvatski - Atelier (demo)
51:13  Danny Breaks - Bonus Beatz
54:49  The Tony Crackburn Orchestra - Dark Pink
57:41  Cliponville OrkEstra - Holy Me (Mark Van Hoen)
63:24  Lupine Howl - Vaporizer (3D mix)
70:37  Skinny Puppy - Rivers
75:07  Monster Rally - Washed Ashore



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



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)



29 May, 2025

532 Flowers



I really wanted to build a playlist around the Godflesh Track "Flowers," as that's a standout track from them in my opinion.  Unfortunately I was drawing a blank trying to find songs similar to this style.  The early era of Skinny Puppy was on my playlist for the day so I started picking a few of those tracks and just went with it.  Not what I originally set out to accomplish, however it did come together nicely in the end.

I love to hear suggestions on what else would go well with this theme.

  
00:00  My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - Confessions of a Knife, Theme Pt 3 (speed corrected)
03:28  Skinny Puppy - Film
05:43  Godflesh - Flowers
13:00  Coil - The First Five Minutes After Violent Death
15:23  Scorn - Drained
22:42  My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - Scene One, Seen 'Em All
24:24  Throbbing Gristle - Still Walking
29:06  Tom Ellard - Flower
32:18  In Slaughter Natives - Media
36:49  Skinny Puppy - Ambient Fruit
43:26  Meat Beat Manifesto - Pot Sounds
45:32  Throbbing Gristle - What A Day
49:59  Derniere Volonte - La Croix Sacree
52:57  :Wumpscut: - Marta Arnau Marti (Slaughter)
56:38  Meat Beat Manifesto - Stereophrenic
69:37  Skinny Puppy - Love
71:14  Death in June - Death Books I (Free Tibet)



08 May, 2025

524 Not Fade Away



Nothing to do with the Grateful Dead, though I do like the supportive and positive message from this picture.

00:00  Monolake - Phenomenon
05:48  Scala - Thirst
07:23  SoiSong - J3z
13:12  Natacha Atlas - Dub Yalil
19:19  Odd Nosdam - Lmd #7
22:02  Sounds from the Ground - Drawn to the Woman
30:18  Cosmic Connection - Alien Homesick Blues
36:29  The Sperm - Korvapoliklinikka Hesperia (Mira Calix remix)
42:59  Disjecta - Here
48:32  Clock DVA - RE/ACT2
54:50  Mort Garson - Voices of the Dead (The Medium)
56:46  Mark Van Hoen - I Remember
62:25  Malaria! - Your Turn to Run (Solex remix)
65:49  Solex - Another Tune Like 'Not Fade Away' (kid606remix)


05 May, 2025

Edward Francis Sharp - The Ballads



Edward Francis Sharp - The Ballads

The Unlikely Event
Share the Day
Moments
Seeing Red
Nuts in May
Fuse
Volicie
The Horn Section
Hotel X
der Khataclimici
The Unspeakable Revenge of the Killer Grapefruit
Angel Trail (Slight Return)
Radio 6
All Flags are False
But I'm Staring at the Stars
Stars on Some Days
Last Door on the Left


25 April, 2025

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



20 April, 2025

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



03 March, 2025

504 Too Strange To Be Good



A fun one made of some mostly electronic tracks that just didn't have a home in previous mixes. Not surprisingly, they all fit together really well here.  Glad I keep a folder of all my leftovers from mixes cause I can revisit them and make something cohesive.  This one I had on loop at work the other day and before I knew it I had already listened to the whole mix three times in a row. 


00:00  u-Ziq - Phiesope
05:52  Ry Cooder - Chloe
08:47  Estephanyart  G0TH SH0RTY
11:54  Two Sandwiches Short of A Lunchbox - Too Good To Be Strange
19:08  H-A-L-O Lewis - Eclipsed (Growth mix by LFO)
24:41  Not Breathing - The Amoebic Sea
35:03  Mum - The Ballad of the Broken Birdie Records (Ilo Mix)
41:02  Ulrich Schnauss - Stars
47:02  Indo Tribe - Shrink
51:12  AI - CCCP Street
55:11  Banyan - Cactus Soil
57:21  Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit - Rastafahndung
60:53  The Future Sound of London - Cascade Part 7
65:31  Not Breathing - Combustion
68:59  Third Eye Foundation - Counter Culture (version)
75:31  Gas - Timestretch / Earthloop


22 February, 2025

501b Unsorted Finds mix 2


This part of the mix is less worldly but nonetheless fantastic.  Several oddball tracks pepper this mix making it a fun ride start to finish.


00:00  The Blonde Bomber - I Am to Blame
01:46  Walter Brown - What Evil Have I Done
04:44  Buddy Morrow and His Orchestra - The Murders in the Rue Morgue
07:35  Pelding - Intermission
08:46  Torsion - Blues Patrol
15:35  Steve Roach - Gone West
22:07  Ry Cooder - Paris, Texas
24:52  Polmo Polpo - Farewell
29:40  The Hidden Hand - Reprise
32:05  Arto Lindsay - Noon Chill
35:25  Xingu Hill - The Neon God
42:52  Graham Bond - The Magician
46:52  Desert Mountain Tribe - Hitzefrei
51:52  Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Desarraigo
57:42  Zechs Marquise - Rotten Candy
61:39  Zement - C3S
68:27  Jac Berrocal - Signe Particulier
70:43  Blank Dogs - Tin Birds
73:57  Pretty & Nice - Peekaboo
75:45  Gary Numan - Films
79:34  Bush Tetras - Dub in the Night
84:20  The Detroit Cobras - Cha Cha Twist
87:02  Mark Mothersbaugh - My Home Town
88:31  The London Souls - How Can I Get Through



18 February, 2025

500c Moozlerantics - The early years



This set covers some of my earlier experiments, from 1994-2005.

  Principle B 107 - This was touched up in 2005, but is actually some of the earliest sample based work I did
  Ov -ites und -ettes (edit) - This track is actually an alternate recording from what was included on my bandcamp page, I think I made 5 or 6 versions of this one.
  Feeling Nervous - The first track I officially released, on a Legendary Pink Dots tribute album of fan made original compositions
  Feeling Nervous (remix) - a dramatically different version made a few months later
  Obsidian - One of my favorites from my high school years
  A Line in the Sand - Another from "realign the moon"
  Bonus Track (Atacan las Brujas) - Completely built using Fruity Loops and the namesake El Santo movie
  Perforate My Heart, Sunshine - Nearly all based on His Name Is Alive samples, with some supplemental original recordings
  Tuning-Preparation - The opening track from my college music project, a re-interpretation of Berlioz's Faust except I did it as a live soundtrack to the Jan Svankmajer film Faust.
  Epilogue...a new Faust - the closing track from my college music project.  Chaotic, but that's how the film ended.
  Noise with his gun (loop4) - A very early loop-based collage using samples from Muslimgauze, The Sundays, Scorn, Volcano the Bear, a several others I can't remember now.
  Influx - A performance piece for my high school talent show, I was in the background and invited anyone that felt like dancing up on stage, it got wild.  Lots of His Name Is Alive samples in here.
  Eat Me, Lord - This is probably the first track I shared with my friends.  
  Denial (remix) - My first remix attempt.  The original recording was a band I was in at the time, and I can honestly say I have zero recollection of what I was doing or how this was made.  Everything was analog on metal 4-track cassettes so I got very inventive on this track.
  Actualize and Instigate - Another from "Realign the Moon"
  And This Is How It Will End - The closer from "Realign the Moon"

16 February, 2025

500b Moozlerisms



This set is an overview of my mid-late period (2003-2010), just before the work compiled on "Where it Ended."  


  Top Shelf Whiskey - my response to watching Brisco County Jr
  Archazi Trib Long Loops - abandoned project based on samples provided by Archazi
  Forlorn #7 - a track I dramatically reworked several times
  Graven Image (Grave Dub #2) - A reworked track from an abandoned album
  Untitled - A collaboration with my friend Matt, this was what I provided, he never responded.
  We All Fall Like Rome (Dirty Version) - This is a one-take jam I did, taking inspiration from Jesu, Envy and Sunn O)))
  An Affair To Remember (Guitar version) - This was my response to a friend's film release party, he still owes me money for some soundtrack work I did on another film.
  Untitled Excerpt (Succubus) - A reworked track from my "Realign" period
  It May Be - A track based on scrambling some samples from my friends the Wild Angels
  The Farmer - A hodgepodge, the title comes from the Kimya Dawson track I sampled
  Onset - Opening track from "Realign the Moon" album, sets the tone for the rest of those pieces.
  Patiently - Another track based on more from the Wild Angels.
  Serenade in A Major - A classical guitar piece I wrote, sadly the resolving chord is cut off.  This is part of a six piece suite - though the recordings are pretty rough for the rest of it.
  Why I Love Colorado - This was reused on my only official album under the title "Seedy Market Street", this is an earlier version.
  Why I Left You - I reused some rap vocals from a coworker back in 1994


31 January, 2025

494B Mick Harris' Projects mix 2



The second half of the mix, focused more on his grindcore, dub and dark ambient sides.  This starts aggressively and then ends with some very smooth dark ambient.


00:00  Scorn - Spasm
02:45  Defecation - Vestige of Earthly Remains
05:38  Napalm Death - Walls of Confinement
08:30  Extreme Noise Terror - Another Nail in the Coffin (Peel Session)
10:16  Unseen Terror - Oblivion Descends (Peel Session)
12:22  PainKiller - Lathe of God
13:13  Praxis - Stronghold
14:43  Transmisia - Flame Projector (Upcoming Meeting mix)
20:39  Scorn - Automata
26:48  Fret - Lifford Res
32:14  Clang - Who's Who
38:01  Multicide - Zero Element
43:43  Scorn - Black Ash Dub
51:35  Painkiller - Blackhole Dub
54:55  Equations of Eternity - The Collector
61:40  Divination - Dream Light
70:27  Mick Harris & James Plotkin - Collision
80:50  Mick Harris & Ambre - Blaste
90:01  Mick Harris & Martyn Bates - Lucy Wan
104:14  Lull - Time Box