560B Quirky #2

Around this same time, I was revisiting my Cut Chemist collection, so naturally that is a heavy presence on this mix along with the same culprits that spawned the first part.

00:00  Cut Chemist - Lesson 4: The Radio

05:28  Coldcut - Say Kids (What Time Is It?)

10:11  Elmer Bernstein - Staccato's Theme (Happening at Waldo's Remix)

15:23  Tipsy - Space Golf 

19:20  John Buzon Trio - Caravan (Eat Static Remix)

25:02  Messer Fur Frau Muller - The moments has been stopped

28:07  Tosca - Orozco

33:31  Liquid Liquid - Cavern (Cut Chemist Rocks a Rave in a Missile Silo remix)

38:37  Krakatuk feat Gitarkin - Kristalinsky Kristal

39:47  Yellow Magic Orchestra - Camouflage (Mark Gamble Micro Mix I)

41:21  Messer Fur Frau Muller - Second Hand Dreams (Remix)

44:08  Messer Chups - For Everyone Older Than 30

47:38  Ozomatli - Cut Chemist Suite (The I.B.'z remix)

51:24  Messer Fur Frau Muller - I'm a Vibraphone

54:43  Dean Elliot - Lonesome Road (U-Ziq remix)

58:19  Gescom - Go Sheep

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560A Quirky #1

One step down from being a weirdo, these are just fun quirky songs that are engaging and exciting.  Sure, this stemmed from listening to too much Tipsy, then diving into early Messer Chups albums, and of course that led to Messer Fur Frau Muller.

00:00  Ghost Funk Orchestra - Spirits in the Distance

00:32  LowLiFi - Launch Patterns for the Space Age Girl

03:49  Messer Fur Frau Muller - Salute, Adieu!

09:22  Messer Chups - Druzilla-Twist

11:35  The Bran Flakes - Countdown to the End (Choo Choo Mix)

15:19  Mike Cooper - The Pit

16:02  MF Doom - Vomit (Monster Rally Remix)

18:03  Tipsy - Nudy on the Moon (Naked Volleyball Mix)

21:44  Zafari - Addis Ababa

25:18  Bumpenstein - Fuad Motel

28:27  Budos Band - Origin of Man

33:10  The Narcoleptics - High Over Glenelg

35:07  The Heliocentrics - Phantom of the Panther

37:21  Messer Chups - Annette Schneider

39:42  Yellow Magic Orchestra - Castalia (Mark Gamble Micro Mix III)

42:02  Kava Kon - Build Your House Underground

44:31  Black Sash - Matango! (Tipsy Remix)

48:46  Messer Chups - Tchaikovsky Beat

52:19  Messer Fur Frau Muller with Messer Chups - Jesus & Jesus

54:18  The Legendary Pink Dots - My Baby Likes to Hurt Me

56:56  Ghost Funk Orchestra - Outro

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Spotify (15/21)

557 Covers

A fun set of cover songs that I'd been enjoying lately.  Was a good trip down memory lane hearing these again as I've had most in my collection for quite a while.  The image here is a quilt, which I have an appreciation for the effort and craftsmanship put into them after spending a lot of time talking with the artists at the recent 4-H exhibit at our county fair.  Side note, my daughter took 1st place in her category at the fair and is now headed to the state fair later this month, exciting times for the Mooz household.

00:00  Nick Cave - Running Scared (Roy Orbison)

02:01  Mexrrissey - Estuvo Bien (Suedehead) (Morrissey)

05:39  Iron Horse - Carry On My Wayward Son (Kansas)

09:04  First Aid Kit - Famous Blue Raincoat / Anthem (Live) (Leonard Cohen)

15:03  Codeine - Atmosphere (Joy Division)

19:41  Scarlett Johansson - Town With No Cheer (Tom Waits)

24:28  Dead Boys - Pigs on the Wing (Pink Floyd)

28:09  Antony & The Johnsons - I was young when I left home (Bob Dylan)

33:37  Bonnie Pink - Through the Dark (The Sundays)

37:36  The Ropers - Jumping Someone Else's Train (The Cure)

40:10  Bunnygrunt - Silly Girl (Descendents)

42:27  The Locust - Master and Servant (Depeche Mode)

46:05  Sing-Sing - Sunbathing (Lush)

48:55  Murder By Death - Road to Nowhere (Talking Heads)

53:11  Beautiful Junkyards - Radioactivity (Kraftwerk)

57:28  Fall of Saigon - The Model (Kraftwerk)

60:28  Space Negros - I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges)

63:17  Jah Wobble - Time (Pink Floyd)

77:17  The Dynamics - Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes)

72:25  Richard Cheese - Smoke Two Joints (Toyes)

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531 somehow magic happened

I have a system for sorting songs for my mixes and I usually have an overflow or leftover pile in a folder.  After my recent mixes, these were the songs in that folder.  I put them in WinAmp (yes its still my preferred audio player) and sorted on filename, I really liked the results.  No shuffling, no swapping things around.  This lined up perfectly in my opinion.  So here is that magic, a fun and diverse mix that works very well in my opinion.

00:00  Mark Van Hoen - He Run Far

05:25  Genesis - Watcher of the Skies

12:39  A Place To Bury Strangers - Frustrated Operator (Slowdive remix)

16:46  Scala - Remember How To Breathe

20:30  Pye Corner Audio - Saturation Point (Sonic Boom remix)

25:28  Trial of the Bow - From the Mountains of Tangier

32:19  SoiSong - T-Hu Ri Toh

39:45  Ralph Myerz & Digable Planets - Rebirth of Slick (Rebirth of Dub)

44:31  Mark Van Hoen - The Warmth Inside You

48:53  Pekka Airaksinen - Sukirti

52:09  Nurse With Wound - Bum Brush Effect (Long Version)

61:21  Lou Reed - This Magic Moment

64:38  Leonard Cohen - One of Us Cannot Be Wrong

68:57  MF Doom - Vomitspit

71:45  June of 44 - Generate

75:51  Edward Ka-Spel - A Rainy Day in July

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525 Epistemology

A wonderfully odd assortment of music here which I suppose is befitting of the title.

00:00  Nurse With Wound - Groove Grease (Hot Catz)

03:32  Edward Ka-Spel - The Lady with the Lamp

11:21  Scala - Think in Japanese

16:03  Sun City Girls - Lemurs Urine

17:56  Trial of the Bow - The Promise

21:12  The Creatures - Fury Eyes

23:19  A Hawk and a Hacksaw - The Sky is Blue, The Desert is Yellow

27:27  Mushroom's Patience - The Swing of Fools

33:14  Battles - Atlas

40:18  Pekka Airaksinen - Epistemological World Error

45:17  Bastro - Wurlitzer

47:02  DDAA - Driving My Car with a Cigarette

51:23  Malaria! - Traum (Matador Remix)

55:47  Ajraxin - No Focus (Nurse With Wound)

62:34  Edward Ka-Spel - Specrescape 4

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501a Unsorted Finds mix 1

Now back to your irregularly scheduled programming.

I was recently combing through an old hard drive and found a rather large collection of music in a folder titled "unsorted."   This had to have been from 6 or more years ago, and for whatever reason I had never integrated these albums into my larger collection.  So I sorted through them, found some real gems, and put together these two mixes covering a very wide variety of musical styles.

00:00  Pierre Henry, Michael Colombier - Prologue

02:44  NOMO - Nu Tones

06:22  Yma Sumac - Bo Mambo

09:39  April March - Laisse Tomber Les Filles

11:37  Las Misioneras de la Montana - Alegrense Todos

14:00  The Peanuts - Magico Luna

16:20  Mariachi El Bronx - Silver or Lead

20:06  Juthika Roy - Tan Man Pe Manhar Ne Holi

22:57  Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica - Third River Rangoon

27:29  Steve Douglas - Nubian Lament

28:59  Yakob Mberu & Yermiasu August Pah - Foti

31:27  Pedro del Villar Quinones - Pfeifen vom Bauhuas

31:56  Sosena Gebre Eyesus - Aser Awetar

37:26  Yonderboi - No Answer From Petrograd

41:51  Steven Schramm & Jonas Kvarnstrom - Terror Drive

47:06  Mahjun - Sec Bellure Cornichon

51:32  2L8 - C' Stasimo

54:47  Barbara The Gray Witch - Witch's Love Song

57:32  Ruth White - The Irremediable

62:10  Picchio Dal Pozzo - Merta

65:08  Simon Benson - Colour Cacophony

65:54  Jean Guerin - Maochat

70:22  The Radiophonic Workshop - Mind the Gap

74:27  Richard Buckner - Kate Rose

75:02  unknown - God will F&ck You Up John R Butler - Hand of the Almighty

77:01  Michael Mills - Grateful Dead

77:25  Perrey & Kingsley - The Savers

79:05  Alan Hawkshaw - The Speed of Sound

81:45  Oku & AK7 - Change Yes Change

85:57  Angels Dust - Haunted

88:20  Vverwvolf Grehv - Linking Life to Death in a Continuous Experience

89:35  Yonderboi - Outro

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446 Quirky Covers

00:00  Bunnygrunt - Love Theme From MST3K (Best Brains/MST3K)

01:40  The Cardigans - Das Model ('00) (Kraftwerk)

04:24  The Bouncing Souls - Don't You (Forget About Me) (Simple Minds)

09:01  The Legendary Pink Dots - Super (Neu!)

13:17  Iron Horse - Renegade (Styx)

17:16  Calexico - Corona (Minutemen)

20:31  Mexrissey - El Primero Del Gang (Morrissey)

25:32  Johnny Aloha - Vacation (Lindsey Buckingham)

27:57  Faith No More - Lets Lynch the Landlord (Dead Kennedys)

30:49  Devo - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Rolling Stones)

33:27  Mars Volta - Birthday (Sugarcubes)

37:41  Marsha Qrella - Pink Frost (The Chills)

42:12  Piney Gir - I Want To Touch You (Catherine Wheel)

46:22  Prince Fatty - Got Your Money (O.D.B.)

49:42  The Limianas - Mother Sky (Can)

55:23  Melvins - Trackfive (Throbbing Gristle)

62:27  Primus - Hello Skinny/Constantinople (The Residents)

67:08  The Guitaraculas - Love's Secret Domain (Coil)

70:24  Of The Wand and The Moon - Untitled (Der Blutharsch)

73:36  Jesu - The Funeral Party (The Cure)

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412 Ornithology Love Theme From A State of Malaise

Back to what I love most, odd music.  Stuff that is mesmerizing and difficult, bizarre and rare.  A fun journey that bounces around but leaves a smile on my face.  

Julie's Haircut doing a cover of Jodorowsky.  Blind Cave Salamander I only know of because of the Nurse With Wound Connection.  I don't recall where I can across Memotone, sounding like The Caretaker and Broadcast meeting in a Dashiell Hammett novel.  Andrzej Korzynski coming in from the Possession soundtrack.  Then David Tibet and HOH acting as bizarre loung singers.  Dif Juz in their first of two appearances here, doing a bit of post-rock/dub.  HNAS doing their thing to the sounds of the swinging sixties.  John Grant (from the Czars) paired up with Chris and Cosey for this remix, with the best line about Scanners in it.  Taking it back on that tip to a favorite from Throbbing Gristle which led perfectly into this fun one from XTC and an outtake from the 3rd Reich album by the Residents.  

Huelsenbeck from a Can tribute album. Then Akos Stefi perking things up with this fun ditty that may just get stuck in your head.  Bunnygrunt doing things right by covering the theme to a favorite long time show.  Cosmo Sheldrake is one I heard on the radio and thought it so unique I had to pull over and look up the song on the stations playlist so I wouldn't forget it.  Dif Juz's second appearance, an excerpt from the lengthy SWNN track.  Leven Signs is another I am fuzzy on where I came across them, likely when I was researching artists for my unexpected Gamelan mixes.  Der Blutharsch from their middle period, just before they went all psychedelic rock.  This one features Geoffrey D from the excellent Derniere Volonte.  A bootleg peel session featuring Alien Sex Fiend.  Making things uncomfortable with a Time Stereo artist, live ESP from the ESP Beetles which is more than likely Warn Defever and Davin Brainard.  And Leven Signs bringing it home again with some chaotic belly dance music.

00:00  Julie's Haircut - The Tarot

06:24  Blind Cave Salamander - Ljubljana

10:34  Memotone - The Magpie

13:31  Andrzej Korzynski - Opetanie 2

13:57  Current 93 & HOH - Paperback Honey

18:34  Dif Juz - Pass it on Charle

22:20  Hirsche Nicht Auf's Sofa - Silvester-Effekte

24:54  John Grant - Grey Tickles Black Pressure (Carter Tutti Remix)

30:52  Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats

33:28  XTC - Short Leave Ornithology (Another 1950)

38:57  The Residents - 05 (3rd Reich Sessions)

41:16  Huelsenbeck - I Really Was In State of Malaise

46:23  Akos Stefi - Mariguana Cha-Cha-Cha

49:20  Bunnygrunt - Love Theme from MST3K

51:01  Cosmo Sheldrake - Come Along

55:15  Dif Juz - SWNN part 2

56:18  Leven Signs - Prague Spring

61:40  Der Blutharsch feat Geoffrey D - 08 (When All Else Fails)

64:54  Alien Sex Fiend - Ignore The Machine (Peel session)

71:26  live ESP - Something

78:22  Leven Signs - Our Position Vanishes

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Episode 172 Library Grooves, Hauntology and Retro Bliss

Here is a set of library tracks, soundtracks, old rare grooves, some modern retro tracks and a bit of world music thrown in.  Altogether a chill, groovy mix for this mid-winter bliss.

00:00  Francois De Roubaix - Les Dunes D'Ostende pt3

00:39  Nora Orlandi - Lo Strano Vizio Della Signora Wardh (Seq 24)

01:50  Kava Kon - Escape From Bermuda

04:38  Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra - The Chase

08:16  Giuliano Sorgini - John Dalton Street

10:33  Francois De Roubaix - Les Dunes D'Ostende pt5

11:32  Nightmares on Wax - A Night's Interlude

14:33  Bruno Nicolai - Pursuited, Jennifer's Recall

18:06  Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra - P Walk

22:14  Remigio Ducros - Una Partita Agitata

25:05  The Soundcarriers - Calling Me Reprise

26:08  Broadcast - Booklovers (Andy Votel Remix)

33:18  Belbury Poly - The Moonlawn

37:10  Slag Boom Van Loon - Poppy Seed (Reprise) (Boards of Canada Remix)

39:00  Belbury Poly - Caermaen

42:32  Stereolab - Jenny Ondioline pt2 (Breakdown mix)

48:49  Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra - Laurel Canyon

50:49  Mice Parade - Warpshire (edit)

53:00  The Soundcarriers - Boiling Point

56:59  Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra feat Natacha Atlas - Cairo Cairo (edit)

59:47  Selda - Utan Utan

62:29  De Evergreens - Es Lilin

65:32  Ixtahuele - Dengue Fever

67:40  Peppino De Luca - The Secret of Dorian Gray

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Episode 143 - Tipsy and Such

The group Tipsy is something quite unique and special.  Taking a turntablist approach to exotica, and blending with live instruments creating something wild and unique and perfect for cocktails parties on the moon.  This mix was built around several Tipsy songs, and then I filled in the gaps with similar music that keeps it varied and moving along at a great pace.  While I love Tipsy, the novelty wears off after a half dozen tracks.  Though they are perfect for almost any playlist.  Despite the focus and name of this mix, Spotify has nearly no tracks available from Tipsy, how frustrating.

00:00  The Champs - Beatnik

01:53  Holger Czukar - Witches Multiplication Table

06:37  Tipsy - Reverse Cowgirl

09:35  Tipsy - Grossenhosen

13:10  O Paradis - De Espaldas Al Milagro

17:12  Draco - V-A-C-A-N-T

20:34  Tipsy - Liquordelic

24:32  Odd Nosdam - Untitled 02 (Clouddead Beats)

27:01  Aldo Buonocore - La Fine di Fanny

30:12  Forest Swords - Rattling Cage

33:58  O Paradis - El Opio De Tu Belleza

37:54  The Budos Band - Vertigo

40:49  Here Lies Man - So Far Away

43:38  Belbury Poly - The Elsewhere Shuffle

48:06  Derniere Volonte - Coeur de Legionnaire

51:15  Tipsy - Nude On The Moon

54:00  Odd Nosdam - Untitled 06 (Clouddead Beats)

56:02  Broadcast - Bit 35

57:47  23 Skidoo - Another Baby's Face

62:23  Fall of Saigon - Visions

64:37  The Residents - Serenade For Missy

photo credit:  vinyl label for Space Golf/Ms. Excitement 12" from Tipsy