595 The Remix According to Squarepusher

Thomas Jenkinson is aptly described as drum n bass with a significant jazz influence.  The basslines are top notch, and the break neck fury of the drums is worthy of Venetian Snares references.  His "Budakhan Mindphone" EP is still my favorite of his releases.   Honestly I could dive in more with their output, it just feels so intense I can't really get through a whole album in one sitting.

00:00  Mantra Percussion - Timber

08:56  Funki Porcini - Carwreck

13:12  DJ Food - Scratch Yer Hed

20:29  Danny Elfman - We Belong

27:30  Deftones - Pink Maggit

37:19  East Flatbush Project - Tried By 12

40:12  Chaos A.D. - Psultan

46:49  GoGo Penguin Music - F Maj Pixie

53:08  Ghostpoet - Meltdown

58:10  Machine Girl - Ass2Mars

62:20  Close Up Over - Caz

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589 The Remix According to Justin K Broadrick

The many of many name, JKB has been a mainstay in the industrial metal, noise, post-shoegaze, DnB, ambient, and just about every other scene.  Obviously I'm a super fan-boy and will blindly purchase anything he releases.  I'm presenting here four mixes which comprise maybe half of the remixes I've collected from his projects over the years.  This covers, Godflesh, Jesu, Pake Sketcher, JKB, JK Flesh, Tech Level 2, and Cylon projects as the credited remixers.  

00:00  Explosions in the Sky - The Birth and Death of the Day (Jesu mix)

09:37  Isis - Celestial (Signal Fills the Void mix by JK Broadrick)

19:41  5ive - Soma Remix by JK Broadrick Stage 1

21:26  5ive - Soma Remix by JK Broadrick Stage 2

29:12  Pelican - The Cliff (Justin Broadrick remix)

37:17  The Blood of Heroes - Remain (Justin K Broadrick remix)

43:38  Lustmord - Dub Awakening (Transmuted)

53:55  N.I.C. - Big Smoke Dub (JK Flesh remix)

60:11  Cult of Luna - Vicarious Redemption (remix by Justin K Broadrick)

69:45  The Lemonheads - Godflesh Style (remix by Justin K Broadrick)

72:19  Pantera - Walk (Decranial mix)

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00:00  Mogwai - George Square Thatcher Death Party (Justin K Broadrick Reshape)

04:37  The Pyramids - The Echo of Something Lovely (Jesu remix)

10:34  School of Seven Bells - Face to Face on High Places (Jesu remix)

15:23  Ceremony - It's Too Late (Justin K Broadrick remix)

21:18  My Disco - All I Can Do (Justin K Broadrick's Warmer remix)

29:38  Chelsea Wolfe - Everything Turns Blue (Justin K Broadrick remix)

34:14  Isis - Hym (Justin K Broadrick remix)

48:59  Lustmord - Dub Awakening (Other Dub)

57:17  Oathbreaker - Ease Me (Jesu remix)

62:21  Maninkari - Particpation Mystic (Remix by Jesu)

71:10  N.I.C. - Materialismo (Jesu remix)

77:03  Julien Baker - Favor (Jesu remix)

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00:00  Lustmord - Ashen (Godflesh)

06:07  Pigface - Burundi (Overload mix)

11:40  Khost - A Shadow on the Wound

19:11  These Hidden Hands - Dendera Light (JK Flesh remix)

25:50  Deathless - Inexstasis (JK Broadrick remix)

29:33  Controlled Bleeding - Swarm (Justin K Broadrick remix)

34:31  Pelican - Angel Tears (JK Broadrick remix)

46:59  N.I.C. - Say U Sick (JK Flesh remix)

53:49  Quoit - Plug 8 (Cylon remix)

61:16  Paragon - Shadow Mechanics (Tech Level 2 remix)

67:13  The Bug vs The Rootsman ft Mexican - WWW (Tech Level 2 remix)

72:01  Teledubgnosis feat Tech Level 2 - 80 Creeps (Dub & Bass Head mix)

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00:00  Extra Life - Made Flesh (Justin K Broadrick remix)

08:08  Iroha - Last Day of Summer (Jesu remix)

13:33  Jack Colwell - Beneather (Jesu remix)

17:45  Majeure - Teleforce (Justin K Broadrick remix)

26:51  RA - Paz Podre (JK Flesh remix)

33:30  Multiple Mono - False Prophet (Pale Sketcher remix)

39:54  Amantra - Rituals (Justin K Broadrick remix)

45:24  Earth - Harvey (Justin Broadrick remix)

53:24  The Bug vs Earth - Dog (feat JK Flesh)

58:02  Violetshaped - cX310 (JK Flesh reshape)

64:32  Isaurian - Hologram (Jesu remix)

70:24  Earth - Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine (Justin K Broadrick remix)

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574 The Remix According to Witchman

John Roome is the Witchman, and Gold Water, and a member of The Unknown Ghosts with Alex Paterson of the Orb.  His work under Witchman is a lot of broken beat, drum n bass, and dark ambient, where Goldwater is more straight up dark ambient with illbient tendencies.  The Unknown Ghosts is listed as dub, though I don't think it fits my description of that.  

Anyway, here's a set of his remixes that in my opinion are a mixed bag.  Some like the Bowery Electric, or the Jess Franco remix track track are up there in my favorites of his work, while others like Gary Numan was just not what I wanted.  

00:00  Jess Franco/Manfred Hubler/Siegfried Schwab - People's Playground (Soledad Dub)

08:15  Finitribe vs Witchman - The Bells (Witchman's Outcast mix)

15:05  Bowery Electric - Without Stopping

28:46  The Creatures - Say (Witchman's Very Long Mix)

36:34  Finitribe with Paul Haig - Theme

45:47  Witchman vs Jammin Unit - Blind Television (Cathode Ray Dub)

51:49  Audiomachine - Drakon's Empire

56:16  Clawfinger - Two Sides (Accelerator mix)

61:19  Curve - Chinese Burn (Eye of the Storm remix)

67:30  Ian Astbury - High Time Amplifier

72:00  Gary Numan - Cars '97 (Freebass Assault mix)

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567 The Remix According to 4Hero

4 Hero certainly have cemented their place in electronic music history, through their influence on Drum and Bass and Broken Beat genres.  They have matured over the years and deliver consistently great material at every twist and turn.  I was never a fan of "Mr. Kirk" which I suppose was their breakout single.  It wasn't until I heard "The Paranormal in 4 Forms" on the Macro Dub Infection compilation that I really got into their music.  They have released a tremendous number of remixes, and I selected a small list of my favorites here.  Mostly just what I had in my collection as the basis.

00:00  Talvin Singh - Traveller (4 Hero's Dollis Hill Futebol Mix)

06:03  Innerzone Orchestra - Bug in the Bassbin (4 Hero mix)

12:06  Sonz of a Loop Da Loop Era & The Scratchadelic Experience - Peace & Loveism (4 Hero Remix)

16:49  Goldie - Inner City Life (4 Hero Pt 1)

25:06  DJ Krush - Meiso (The 4 Luscious mix)

29:37  Bill Laswell & Jah Wobble - Orion (Dollis Dub mix)

35:25  DJ Krush feat the Roots - Meiso (The 4 Natural Ingredients mix)

39:08  Azymuth - Periscopio (Marc Mac for 4 Hero)

45:09  UR - Amazon (4 Hero Version)

52:58  Azymuth - Laranjeiras (4 Hero remix)

60:40  Bebel Gilberto - Samba Da Bencao

66:47  Goldie - Inner City Life (4 Hero's Pt 2)(Leave the Planet mix)

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563 Spring Heel Jack - Oddities Vol 2

One of my favorite drum and bass turned free jazz artists.  I was quite into raves for a spell, and "68 Million Shades..." was my usual road trip music heading up and back from events.  That one, and the "Everything But The Girl vs Drum and Bass EP."  SHJ really had an evolution with "Treader" then "Disappeared", so it wasn't THAT out of place when the free jazz album "Masses" was released as part of the Blue Series with Matthew Shipp; actually that whole series is incredible.  I suppose it isn't that far fetched that they hop genres as Ashley Wales did start in the post punk band Five or Six.

It took me a while to track it down in a local shop, though I did eventually acquire a copy of "Oddities" which bridges the gap between their DnB and Free Jazz with a set of experimental and ambient tracks that are just wonderful.  

Here we are 25 years later, and I felt I needed to pull together the remaining missing pieces into this "Oddities Vol 2."   Remixes, comp tracks, and a real highlight for me is the progression of Galapagos, which started as a remix of Tortoise and ended somewhere very different.

1  SHJ - Sweep

2  SHJ - A Permanent Theme

3  SHJ - Double Edge Dub

4  Outernational Meltdown - Hungry on Arrival (remix)

5  Statik Sound System - Revolutionary Pilot (Slow Dub)

6  Ben Neill - Tunnel Vision (Holland Tunnel mix)

7  Techno Animal - Heavy Water (re-mix)

8  Joi - Everybody Say Yeah (remix)

9  Everything But The Girl - Walking Wounded (dub)

10  Tortoise - Galapagos Version 1 (remix)

11  SHJ - Galapagos II

12  SHJ - Galapagos III

13  Alexis Taylor - Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue (Hackney Rd Dub)

1 = United Mutations (Lo Recordings Vol 3)

2 = Permanent Midnight (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

3 = Macro Dub Infection Volume One

4 = Music With No Name

5 = The Winter Collection

6 = Tunnel Vision (Remixes)

7 = Babylon Seeker

8 = Volume 15 Technology Alert!

9 = Everything But The Girl Vs. Drum 'N' Bass

10 = Tortoise Remixed

11 = Breakbeat Science

12 = Busy Curious Thirsty

13 = Listen With(out) Piano

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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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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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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

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494A Mick Harris' Projects mix 1

This is my selection covering the breadth and depth of Mick Harris' musical career.  I can't think of any other musician that has such variety in styles.  Starting more or less as the blast beat drummer from Napalm Death, and then covering everything from techno, drum and bass, dub step (years before it became a thing), avant garde, ambient, and drones.  Seriously, this is all over the place between these two mixes.  I did include Scorn four times in total, as I wanted to represent the evolution of their sound.  Yes Nick Bullen leaving the group dramatically changed the sound, and Mick Harris kept it going and evolving to the wonderful beast it is today.  The rest of these tracks represent his aliases, though some are full fledged musical projects involving others.  Each one certainly has its own distinct sound and vibe.  Incredible to think these are all from the same creative mind.

The projects of his that I didn't include are listed here; mostly omitted due to very long track lengths.

Intestinal Infestation - Rehearsal 88

Certain Beyond All Reasonable Doubt - Live Berlin 98

Frequencies - Neoartic

Pigface - A New High In Low (The Howler pt 1/2)

Somnific Flux

00:00  What Now? - Caustica

06:42  Matera - Too Much

11:54  Mick Harris - Screener

15:54  The Weakener - Closed Door

25:28  Mick Harris - Sidewalk

31:14  Tactile - Tactile vs Scorn

36:54  Trace Decay - Riverrun

44:05  Scorn - In The Margins

50:00  Mick Harris & Neil Harvey - Had It

55:47  Mick Harris & Eraldo Bernocchi - Latent Prints

60:20  Quoit - Set Up

65:58  Mick Harris & Mark Spybey - Bad Way To Start A Good Day

72:16  Micky Tornado - Chemical Plant (remix)

77:30  Hygiene - RO RL

83:17  Eddy Masvoodler - Pluck

88:23  Monrella - Report

94:37  Terminal - Test 

98:58  Lensman - Spool

104:02  Scorn - Dangler (No Original Members) (Beat Mix)

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436 The Remix According To We

There was that brief period of time in the late 1990's where Illbient flourished as its own beast.  Not trip-hop, not ambient, and not your average electronica act.  I believe DJ Spooky and DJ Olive were the ones that coined the term Illbient.  Only a handful of artists were part of this scene, yet the impact on me was immense.  We were one of the most prominent acts in the genre, and made up of DJ Olive, Once11 and Lloop.  I've thoroughly enjoyed their releases for many years and was thrilled to include them in this month-long series.   

Sure, they only remixed a couple artists, and its these Tipsy remixes that I was aching to build upon.  I do apologize in advance, my copy of that 12" is a bit dirty, don't worry the music still shines through.

00:00  Medeski Martin & Wood - Bubblehouse (BBQ remix)

06:27  Tipsy - Grossenhosen (Happi Voodoo Remix)

13:50  The Dylan Group - Bittersweet (Hor & Sour mix)

19:19  Arto Lindsay - Q Samba (Dub Mix)

24:34  Free Kitten - Gaa (feat We)

31:08  Medeski Martin & Wood - Spy Kiss (Whr R Your Childrn Mix)

38:03  Tipsy - Mr Excitement (Stoned In NYC remix)

45:58  Free Kitten - Never Gonna Sleep (mixed by We)

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417 The Remix According To A Guy Called Gerald

A Guy Called Gerald, aka Gerald Simpson, is a name that was vaguely familiar to me when I started this project.  His remix work for The Stone Roses, Can and DJ Spooky were the only tracks I knew him from.  As I thought about it more, I acknowledged that these three mixes were very good, and I should probably put more effort into his wider discography.  I've still not dove into his albums or original work, and am open to suggestions from other fans.  For his remix work, I did have several other of these tracks in my collection.  Diverse and solid work across the board here.  Ambient to drum and bass to dub to straight-forward electronica.  Loved this image, as it reminds me of vintage photos of Lee Perry, King Tubby and Scientist.

00:00  DJ Spooky vs The Freight Elevator Quartet - File Under Futurism (Ambient Mix)

05:35  The Orb - Oxbow Lakes (Everglades Mix)

11:33  Can - Tango Whiskeyman (A Guy Called Gerald Mix)

16:42  David Bowie - Telling Lies (Paradix Mix)

21:46  Lamb - Cotton Wool (A Guy Called Gerald Mix)

27:07  Tricky - Piano (The Green Stinky Mix)

32:15  Suns of Arqa - Govindas House In The City of Nine Gates (Kirk's Garage Mix)

36:56  Clint Mansell & Kronos Quartet - Body & Fear (A Guy Called Gerald Mix))

42:43  Cabaret Voltaire - Hypnotised (A Guy Called Gerald Music Mix)

48:43  The Stone Roses - Fools Gold (A Guy Called Gerald Top Won Mix)

55:54  Roku - Wang (A Guy Called Gerald Mix)

60:19  Mia Grobelny - Arcane (A Guy Called Gerald Mix)

65:54  Cath Coffey - Tell Me (A Guy Called Gerald Classified Mix)

70:21  Sharon Forrester - Love Inside (A Guy Called Gerald Mix)

75:42  Black Uhuru - Reggae Rock (feat A Guy Called Gerald)

80:21  Taro Hakase - Brazil Aquarela Do Brazil (Love With Fragrance Mix)

85:55  DJ Spooky vs The Freight Elevator Quartet - File Under Futurism (Jungle Mix)

 

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415 The Remix According To Muslimgauze

This one took me a lot of time to work through.  Finding the sources for all these Muslimgauze tracks was no easy hill to climb, but the view from the top is amazing.  I divided this into four parts, or two pairs of mixes.  The first one is the original tracks, and the second mix is what Muslimgauze turned them into.  The third mix is the Suns of Arqa and Rootsman tracks which Bryn Jones did full album remixes of, so those are paired up on the fourth mix with what he did with that source material.

The tracks pretty much line up, but there are some 1:2 or 2:1 relationships here.  Such as Talvin Singh's "Soft Works" became "Hard Rest" and "More Hard Rest" from Muslimgauze.  And Scientist and Dave/Ansel Collins became "Holy Man."  Systemwide's "Nommos" became both "Nommos' Ark" and "Nommos' Ghosts," because I wanted to showcase the diversity applied in Bryn's remixes.  

I know there are dozens if not hundreds more that could be added here (I had another 40 or so tracks tagged for this project).  I'd love to know if anyone else has matched up source material with remix from Muslimgauze.

00:00  Rasa Bhava - Devabansha (Tantric Laswell Mix)

09:48  Talvin Singh - Soft Works

19:41  Force of Angels - Dune

26:04  Scientist - De Materialize

28:47  Dave and Ansel Collins - Stalag 17

31:40  Systemwide - Nommos

36:59  Systemwide - Valencia

41:52  Luke Vibert - Infinite Potential

49:56  Nonplace Urban Field - Chilled #6

56:18  Pan Sonic - Radiokemia

62:18  Ryoji Ikeda - 1'11"

63:29  Reptilicus - Saabysma

67:56  Pearl - Open Sesame

73:33  Bad Sector - Li Chi

77:48  Porcupine Tree - Moonloop

94:54  Reverberation - Nite Time

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00:00  Makyo & Bill Laswell - Devabansha

06:02  Talvin Singh - Hard Rest

16:11  Talvin Singh - More Hard Rest

18:56  Force of Angels - Dune

23:49  Muslimgauze - Holy Man

29:16  Muslimgauze - Nommos' Ark

34:23  Muslimgauze - Nommos' Ghosts

41:49  Muslimgauze - Valencia In Flames

45:14  Luke Vibert - Infinate Luke Warm Vibe II

53:15  Nonplace Urban Field - Chilled No 6 Muslimgauze Remix

56:25  Panasonic - Radiokemia (Muslimgauze Remix 2)

64:07  Muslimgauze - Ryoji Ikeda Remix 02

68:15  Muslimgauze - Reptilicus

71:43  Pearl - Open Sesame

76:14  Muslimgauze - Bad Sector

81:16  Muslimgauze - Untitled (Camel Through A Needle's Eye D1 tk9)

87:19  Muslimgauze - Nite Time-Pray Time

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00:00  Suns of Arqa - Jagnath

07:42  Suns of Arqa - Bha Ravi

16:29  Suns of Arqa - Whirling Dub (Youth & Greg Hunter Mix)

20:10  Suns of Arqa - Acid Tabla

26:16  Suns of Arqa - Bye Ragi Version (Phil Kirby mix)

30:47  Suns of Arqa - Gavati

36:58  The Rootsman - Mektoub

41:35  The Rootsman - Saiyidi Dub

45:22  The Rootsman - Old Pan Killer (Ease Off mix by Glamorous Hooligans)

51:57  The Rootsman - African Style

58:24  The Rootsman - Intifada

64:15  The Rootsman - General Synopsis

70:56  The Rootsman - Western Sahara

75:12  The Rootsman - Cheb Ragga

78:40  The Rootsman - Perilous Time

84:50  The Rootsman - Luxor

88:27  The Rootsman - Aghat

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00:00  Muslimgauze - Waz Whirling

03:34  Muslimgauze - Bha Ravi

12:34  Muslimgauze - Whirling Dub

15:29  Muslimgauze - Acid Bends

19:51  Muslimgauze - Find The Missing Chord I Play

22:50  Muslimgauze - Gawati

26:26  The Rootsman vs Muslimgauze - Mecca

28:46  The Rootsman vs Muslimgauze - Qena

31:50  The Rootsman vs Muslimgauze - Tripoli

35:01  The Rootsman vs Muslimgauze - Aswan

37:47  The Rootsman vs Muslimgauze - Black Widows (Part 3)

41:22  The Rootsman vs Muslimgauze - Tuzla

44:18  The Rootsman vs Muslimgauze - Western Sahara (Revolutionary mix)

47:43  The Rootsman vs Muslimgauze - Cheb Ragga remix

49:51  The Rootsman vs Muslimgauze - Holy War (Part 2)

53:18  The Rootsman vs Muslimgauze - Luxor (Brotherhood mix)

55:17  The Rootsman vs Muslimgauze - Rawalpindi

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402 The Remix According To Third Eye Foundation

Continuing from mix230b, I felt there is enough for a new mix without pulling every song from "I poopoo on your juju."  Ok yeah, I did pull 4 tracks from there, but the rest are all found independently.  A distinct and recognizable take on drum and bass that can only be Matt Elliott.  You know what you're getting into when he slaps that 3EF tag on a track.

00:00  The Remote Viewer - All of the WCKWC Want To Be Abstract (3EF remix)

05:40  Micro:mega - Heart (The 3EF mix)

10:56  The Pastels - On The Way (3EF)

16:46  Orka - Volmar letur eygao aftur (feat 3EF & Com-Data)

19:43  Kat Anderson - My Guiding Star

28:15  Faultline - Mute (3EF remix)

34:28  The Telescopes - (Come Bring Your Love) Come Bring Your Magic

41:16  Silver Apples - I Have Known Love

45:49  Orka - Trioja Dagin (The 3EF rmx)

49:14  Urchin - Snuffed Candles (3EF remix)

57:09  Blonde Redhead - Four Damaged Lemons 

62:15  Ulver - Lyckantropen remix

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308a DJ Wally - Hungry in the Abstrakt

A ridiculously original and engaging DJ that I came across on the Headz 2A and This Is Home Entertainment vol 2 compilations, which showcased the best and brightest of the illbient and adjunct genres.  DJ Wally's contribution to the Jess Franco tribute "The Spirit of Vampyros Lesbos" is absolute gold.  He did dive into a bit of drum and bass and two-step, but his downtemp and illbient works are where I focus my attention, though I did include a couple of my favorites in this mix. The second half of this mix will address his work with Thirsty Ear, and the jazzier stylings he has offered.  

00:00  Outa My Head

06:24  Necromix

13:06  My Bloody Valentine (Nitty mix)

18:44  Bitchley's Kow Korn

25:49  Something In Those Trees

30:23  Jigen Remixz

34:33  Hungry in the Abstrakt (Feat Swingsett)

41:19  Mustela (Feat Swingsett)

47:21  Mustard Plaster

51:48  Smoke

57:15  Drugs In Front Of Me (Feat Frank Hess AKA Tube)

63:02  Space People

68:03  See What (Feat Swingsett)

73:30  The Ancient Evil

74:21  Children of God

74:25  At War

80:43  Conformed Dimentia

83:09  Zeta Reticulli Trip 1 (One)

 

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279 - The third leg of an illbient excursion

Getting looser with selections for this genre, and might be more trip hop/downtempo that illbient specifically.  Fun tracks pulled together for this one, which takes many twists and turns.

00:00  Grandmaster Flash - Adventures on the Wheels of Steel (Scratch Perverts remix)

05:42  RJD2 - De L'Alouette

08:46  John Hughes - Scarlet Diva OST mini-mix Rabbit Flashback / Street Song (Savath & Savalas remix) / Street Song (album version)

12:15  Lunchbox - Peanut Butter & Jelly

16:23  Lloop, Morpheus - Hibiscus

25:48  We - 3/10th of the Population

32:15  EBN E Sync (Professor Shehab, Lloop) - Drunken Monkey

38:55  Chessie - RKK-O Remix

40:35  Stars as Eyes - Placement in the Basement

42:45  Scorn - Night Tide

49:47  Meat Beat Manifesto - Cancer

54:17  Sub Dub - Dawa Zangpo

58:02  Badawi - Final Warning

63:06  We - Magnesium Flares

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238 - Drum and Bass

Way back in the late 90s, I was open to a lot of electronic music, and drum and bass was really starting to emerge as more than a sub-genre or fad.  Sure, there was jungle, dark drum and bass, breaks, and then it kind of eventually morphed into dub step which I cannot stand.  I like the class rolling synthy 808 bass drops, the renegade snares, the choppy beats, the frantic nature of some of this stuff.  A friend once described the style as hip hop beats sped up, over reggae beats slowed down.  This is a bit of a manic mix, with some fast beats holding it together. Ending with more noise than traditional drum and bass, but that's how I like it.

No clue why I didn't include Omni Trio, Spring Heel Jack, or Ed Rush & Optical... or pretty much anything from Moving Shadow records.  I'll have to remedy that someday.

00:00  MLO - New Generation (Boymerang Mix)

08:13  Pram - Cinnabar (PCM Version)

15:05  Roni Size & Reprazent - Brown Paper Bag (original)

23:56  Boymerang - Mind Control

31:45  PCM - Year Zero

40:32  Photek - Ni Ten Ichi Ryu (TeeBee Remix)

45:14  Scorn - The End (Nightmare Mix by PCM)

52:49  Photek - The Seven Samurai

59:25  Venetian Snares - Anguish

64:02  Kid606 - Here Kitty, Kitty

66:14  Jayrope - ImpressionistBoogieFreeze

68:11  Hrvatski - Insect Digestion Melancholy (Melancholic Music Box)

71:37  Persona - Sacrahackradubmix

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233d - Laswell's Electronic and Noisier Sides

Here we delve into the more electronica, drum and bass, noisier side of things.  Like the supergroup Praxis, where these tracks include Buckethead and Bootsy Collins for maximum effect.

00:00  Praxis - Blast / War Machine Dub

03:41  Bill Laswell - Low Membrane (Scanner Mix)

08:36  Bill Laswell - Digitaria

14:42  Bill Laswell feat Anti-Pop Consortium - Staple Nex

19:18  Nicole Blackman & Bill Laswell & Persian Singer - Hashish Poem

22:05  Valis - Black Wax

26:36  Praxis w/ DJ Disk & Mix Master Mike - Metatron Dub

32:44  William S. Burroughs & Iggy Pop & Techno Animal - The Western Lands

38:46  The Blood Of Heroes - Transcendent

42:45  Method of Defiance - Aether

47:51  Painkiller - Blackhole Dub

50:38  Bill Laswell & Nicholas James Bullen - Nocturnal Crawl

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230b - Third Eye Foundation Remixes

Similar to Autechre, when 3EF remixes a track, they make it something completely new and very recognizable as their own style.  

00:00  The Third Eye Foundation - Annex1 (Micro _ Mega) _ Explatino (Headphone)

06:11  Tarwater - To Describe You

10:55  Yann Tiersen - La Dispute

17:04  This Immortal Coil - Tattoed Man

22:25  Bowery Electric - Fear Of Flying

31:11  Hood - 3EF Mix

35:39  Mogwai - A Cheery Wave From Standed Youngsters

40:05  Thurston Moore - Root 16

44:03  Glanta - When I Dance

51:42  Bracken - Heathens

55:53  The Third Eye Foundation - Lost (Pour Elise Remix by Many Fingers)

61:25  Crescent feat 3EF - Superconstellation

74:15  Bump & Grind - Pan Odyssey (3EF reconstruction)

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230a - Third Eye Foundation overview

Matt Elliott aka Third Eye Foundation has made quite an impact on me.  From his humble beginnings as part of the space rock band Amp, to the post-rock of Movietone, he came out with a very distinct sound that was fully developed when he began his solo project Third Eye Foundation.  Noisy, shoegaze influence breaks and drum and bass that was unique and easily recognizable.  Despite taking a couple 8-10 year breaks between albums while he focused on his solo work under his own name (which is incredible stuff, melancholy singing over fingerpicked guitar) the Third Eye Foundation continues to go strong.

00:00  A Galaxy Of Scars (You Guys Kill Me)

06:45  An Even Harder Shade of Dark (You Guys Kill Me)

15:03  Are You Still A Cliche (With Troubled Mind) (What Is It With You)

19:33  Alarm Song (In Leeds with Da Weed) (You Gotta Get More Alive)

25:40  Goddamit You've Got To Be Kind (Little Lost Soul)

32:45  Stone Cold Said So (Little Lost Soul)

38:26  Lions Writing The Bible (You Guys Kill Me)

40:08  Happily After (Mumia Version) (Free Mumia Abu-Jamal)

44:52  Universal Cooler (Universal Cooler)

50:20  In Bristol With A Pistol (In Bristol With A Pistol)

54:12  016 (Fabulous Shit)

56:42  Lost (Edit) (Little Lost Soul)

62:45  Next Of Kin (Semtex)

68:35  Stars Are Down (split with KS Kollective)

73:02  Dreams On His Fingers (Semtex)

78:26  What To Do But Cry? (Ghost)

84:57  The Star's Gone Out (Ghost)

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Episode 177 - Pardon me if I speak in algorithms

Continuing on my previous mix (Episode 144) of mid-late 90's electronica.

00:00  LFO - Helen

06:25  Autechre - Chatter

13:24  Orbital - Halcyon

16:57  Black Dog Production - Object Orient

22:23  Material - Praying Mantra

27:06  Balil - Parasight

34:10  Autechre - The Egg

41:20  Orbscure vs The Orb - Backside of the Moon (Under Water Deep Space)

49:09  Meat Beat Manifesto - Mindstream (Mind The Bend The Mind)

57:16  Front 242 - T. (F.Y.) Slo-Mo

61:40  Everything But The Girl - Walking Wounded (Omni Trio mix)

68:16  Everything But The Girl - Before Today (Dillinja remix)

73:06  Pan Sonic - Teurastamo (from Peaches mix CD)

75:22  Autechare - Inhake 3

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