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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The Prophet Qa-Spel - Proggy Wonderland

The Prophet Qa-Spel - Proggy Wonderland

Psilocybe Cubensis

Spin the Circle

Motorik

Last Man Standing

A Hollywood Sunset

A Single Bell for my Love

All At Sea / Magic Finger

Escape Route

Anorexic Locusts

Intermezzo

They Seek Her Here.....

This is the Place

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502 Am I still me when her eyes are closed?

00:00  Bill Wells Octet - Pink Kitty

04:16  Death In June - Leopard Flowers (Of Mix)

07:56  Mar-Vista - Her Eyes are Closed

11:58  Lard Free - In A Desert/Alambic

17:35  The Devil & The Universe - Crescent

21:02  Muslimgauze - Track 05 (un-used re-mixs)

31:20  Abu AMA - DecontamiNation (Stomp Dub)

33:31  Tristwch Y Fenywod - Llwydwyrdd

37:24  Genesis - The Waiting Room

42:14  The Legendary Pink Dots - I Dream of Jeannie

46:05  C-Tec - Lost

50:57  u-Ziq - Melancho

56:12  Laika - Thomas

59:37  Tujiko Noriko - Tokyo Tower

63:59  Colin Potter - Is It You, Is It Me?

65:28  Harmonia - Ahoi! (Herbert's Fall Dub)

72:05  s/t - Der Zwiebelfisch (Klangbad version)

77:25  Lustmord - Invocation of the Nameless One

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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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487 Counting 0 to 30

Nothing original here, this has to be a common theme for playlists.  This is my take.  Had originally planned just a one to ten, then remembered this great Godflesh cover, and this Nick Cave song came on rotation so I felt I needed to continue it.   I almost stopped at 21 as it was hard searching for this title as 99% of the search results were for Twenty One Pilots, ugh!  At least I remembered King Crimson, which kept this one moving along.   Honestly, after thirty I really struggled to find anything I cared enough about to include. 

I really like how much this mix jumps around, I find it fun and entertaining.

00:00  Godflesh - Zero The Hero (Black Sabbath)

06:01  Bigod20 - One

11:05  Khruangbin - Two Fish and an Elephant

14:33  Snowpony - 3 Can Keep a Secret (if 2 are dead)

18:09  Bright Eyes - Four Winds

22:15  Melvins - Trackfive (Throbbing Gristle)

29:16  Black Flag - Six Pack

31:33  Sunny Day Real Estate - Seven

36:16  Husker Du - Eight Miles High (The Byrds)

39:57  The Sisters of Mercy - Nine While Nine

43:52  808 State and UB40 - One in Ten  

46:27  Primus - Eleven

50:44  Venetian Snares - Twelve

52:59  Johnny Cash - Thirteen (Danzig)

55:22  The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters

59:03  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow

64:30  Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons

67:01  Prince and The Revolution - 17 Days

70:48  Alice Cooper - I'm Eighteen

73:34  The Rolling Stones - 19th Nervous Breakdown

77:22  To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie - I Box Twenty

81:25  King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man

88:38  Roy Orbison - Twenty-Two Days

91:40  Psychic TV - Hymn 23

92:13  Cult of Luna - 24 Hours (Joy Division)

96:38  Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4

101:25  DeVotchKa - Twenty-Six Temptations

105:28  Title Fight - 27

107:50  Why? - Twenty-Eight

108:33  The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Twenty-Nine (Albini)

110:45  Sarah Watson - Thirty

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483 Supergroups and side projects B

Part two, same theme, different genres.

00:00  Pigface - Suck (EVERY industrial band you've ever heard)

03:37  Ataxia - The Sides (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Fugazi)

10:09  Tear Garden - Tasteless (Skinny Puppy, Legendary Pink Dots, Anthony Valcic)

14:55  The Glove - Mr. Alphabet Says (The Cure, Siouxsie and The Banshees)

18:40  Mad Season - Long Gone Day (Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Screaming Tress, Walkabouts)

23:25  Monsters of Folk - Map of the World (My Morning Jacket, Bright Eyes, M Ward, Centro-matic)

27:16  Astrobrite - More (Star/Loveliescrushing/Mahogany/Majesty Crush/Dark Red/Paik/Xebec/Coaltar of the Deepers)

32:03  Mimir - Untitled #2 (Legendary Pink Dots, Christoph Heemann, Jim O'Rourke, Andreas Martin)

39:20  Oysterhead - Little Faces (Primus, Police, Phish)

44:07  Black Star - Respiration (Dr Luke's remix) (Mos Def & Talib Kweli)

47:56  Electronic - Get The Message (New Order, The Smiths)

52:59  Travelling Wilburys - Last Night (Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty)

56:41  The Highwaymen - Big River (Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson)

59:18  Million Dollar Quartet - Walk That Lonesome Valley (Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash)

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Spotify (28/29) combines both mixes

384 Sports, Not Heavy Crime

This is another downtempo electronic mix of stuff I'd been listening to at the time.  I'd been wanting to include this Elvis Costello remix for a while, not easy since its long.  It is kind of the focal piece here, bringing it all together before cooling off towards the end.  The first track I got from a record label sampler with the Wire.  Akusmi and Young Marco are leftover tracks from my unexpected Gamelan mixes.  Death and Vanilla as familiar from my Hauntology mixes, and this "dub" remix album is quite interesting, jury is still out for me though I do find this track as a standout.  I've been really enjoying All India Radio lately, they're a great mix tape band since I rarely find myself engaged for a full album.  Jumping ahead, I've got a lot of FSOL albums and am slowing working through all of them again finding wonderful gems amongst their consistently strong catalog.  I love the Headz 2A compilation from Mo Wax and every time I revisit it I find another incredible track, like this Stereo MC's one.  Then the aforementioned Elvis track, which DJ Food work their magic on and make it sound like nothing you'd ever expect from Mr. Costello. Finally some prog, electro dub, and glitch-hop to close it out.  

00:00  Xploding Plastix - Sports, Not Heavy Crime

05:02  Akusmi - Divine Moments of Truth

09:15  Young Marco - Temple On A Road

14:06  Blackfilm - Invisible Corridor

19:49  Death & Vanilla - Perpetuum Mobile (Civilistjavel dub)

28:04  All India Radio - Skarasen

31:36  Twilight Circus - Carousel

35:21  Floatpoint - Ilmabahujailkt

37:18  Yppah - Shutter Speed

41:03  The Future Sound of London - We Flew Together

43:43  Phoenecia - Sunset Condor

48:30  Stereo MC's - What Is Soul? (Instrumental)

53:15  Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Little Atoms (DJ Food Rinse)

64:11  ARC - Arcadia

68:38  Sub Dub - Vision Quest

75:13  Purple Confusion - Return to Nassau

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289 - Proggy Electronica

Added bonus, a fourth proggy synth mix.  This time though, its more electronica, trance and dub infected and less vintage in nature.  Most of these are pulled from the free samplers from DiN bandcamp page.

00:00  Mazmoneth - De Molay

03:56  Dub Atomica - Autonomic

08:13  Ian Boddy & Chris Carter - Caged

13:51  Cluster & Eno - Broken Head

18:56  Parallel Worlds & Self Oscillate - Ground Warmth

23:01  Markus Reuter & Ian Boddy - History

26:52  Dub Atomica - Atomicity

29:15  Parallel Worlds - Shade

34:51  Cluster & Eno - Tzima N'arki

39:11  Scanner - The Ascent

45:40  Jesus Jones vs Aphex Twin - Zeroes and Ones

51:21  Ian Boddy & Parallel WOrlds - Soliloquy

55:53  Nigel Mullaney - Dusk is the Musk

63:00  Mazmoneth - Spooks

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288c - Proggy Synths mix 3

Third part and a bit darker in theme here.  

00:00  Bas Broekhuis - Part 3

08:17  Biosphere - The Fires of Ork I

15:50  Electronic Eye - Circuitry Man

19:02  Tangerine Dream - Haunted Heights

24:41  Node - Shinkansen West

35:40  Redshift - Nails

50:08  Ian Boddy - 21 Degrees

64:21  Waveshape - Amplituden

68:40  Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (Steven Wilson remix)

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288b - Proggy Synths mix 2

Part 2 - more of the same wonderful modulations and knob twiddling.

00:00  Node - Olivine

07:32  Tangerine Dream - Rubycon side B (7")

10:37  Robert Rich & Steve Roach - Mica

15:19  Bluetech - Bardo Waves

19:40  Mark Shreeve - Standard X 10

32:33  Ian Boddy - End Sequence

34:24  Redshift - Vampyre

45:31  Dave Bessell - A Man is A Small Thing and The Night is Large and Full Of Wonders

51:59  ARC - Church

61:22  Tangerine Dream - Circulation of Events

66:54  Cluster - Live in Der Fabrik

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288a - Proggy Synths mix 1

I'm sure it was coming across Node on the Volume compilations in the 90's that really sucked me into this genre.  Then the DiN compilations that accompanied The Wire magazine.  Finally realizing I had some sadly neglected Tangerine Dream records in my collection, I sat forth to pull this three part mix together of some excellent examples of modern (and a couple classics) proggy synths.

00:00  Node - Alternator

03:31  Klaus Schulze - Frank Herbert

14:03  Ian Boddy - Out There

22:53  Tangerine Dream - Rain Forest

25:19  Pete Namlook & Klaus Schulze - Astro Know Me Domina Part II

28:42  Pete Namlook & Klaus Schulze - Astro Know Me Domina Part III

32:16  Robert Rick & Ian Boddy - Edge of Nowhere

38:41  Cluster - Hollywood

42:56  Anna Sjalv Tredje - Mossen

50:03  Mark Shreeve - Black Candles

53:33  Redshift - Spin

61:18  ARC - Steam

71:38  Tangerine Dream - Ricochet part 2 (Steven Wilson new stereo remix)

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Episode 202 - Just Your Average Prog Rock

Probably run of the mill stuff for anyone into this genre.  I selected the few tracks I really liked and put them together here.

00:00  King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man

04:41  Horrific Child - L'Etrange Mr Whinster (Demdike Stare's Les Vampires Emeutes Mashup)

10:19  Frank Zappa - Bognor Regis

14:50  Rush - La Villa Strangiato

23:23  Frank Zappa - The Gumbo Variations

40:00  Pink Floyd - Come in Number 51, Your Time Is Up

44:46  King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black

52:35  Emerson Lake & Palmer - Karn Evil 9 1st Impression #2 (35th Anniversary Version)

57:18  King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (Abbreviated)

62:03  Jean Guerin - Triptik 2

67:44  Frank Zappa - Chunga Basement

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Episode 49 - Progadelic

Prog and Psyche music aplenty.  Great dark, engaging music here.  So many styles that all blend well together.  Node is a superb, supergroup focusing on modular synth noodling.  Lotus Eaters is another supergroup of extreme and metalheads.  There is more than one freak-folk group called The Trees, this is the more obscure one.  I absolutely love Volcano the Bear, in all their difficult majesty.  Grails and Envy are pretty standard fare and expected in this mix.  James Plotkin makes a second appearance (solo work this time).  Yes, my adoration of Acid Mother's Temple is here, with (one of) their David Lynch homage.  Taking back to the old school with a couple classics, then hitting up the obscure again with The Sonic Catering Band via Colm Ó Cíosóig and Simon Johns.  Wrapping it all up with the ever dominant caring Nurse.

00:00 Node - Olivine

07:39 Lotus Eaters - Untitled 2

12:29 Trees - Track 02

14:29 Volcano The Bear - Reahs Mort

17:58 Grails - Bad Bhang Recipe

21:54 Envy - Zero

23:52 James Plotkin - Hung on a Line

29:05 Acid Mothers Temple - Blue Velvet Blues (live)

42:05 Agitation Free - Rucksturz

44:05 Electric Sandwich - China

47:08 The Sonic Catering Band - Flavour X (Clear Spot remix)

54:17 Nurse With Wound & Aranos - Sunset Belly Mother

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