240 - Based out of Twin Peaks

Songs that reference or sample Twin Peaks.  There are a lot, and I picked the ones most appealing to me.   Yes I know I picked the less obvious track from Stars of the Lid.  Ending the mix with the long and difficult homage by V/VM. Sit back, and enjoy some damn fine coffee and cherry pie that'll kill ya.

00:00  Biosphere - The Silent Orchestra

07:34  Stars of the Lid - Gasfarming

10:43  Jedi Mind Tricks - The Heart of Darkness Interlude

11:26  Biosphere - The Things I Tell You

17:52  Yasume - When Audrey Dances (Where We're From The Birds Sing A Pretty Song, City Centre Offices)

22:57  KLF - Build A Fire

26:55  Mount Eerie - Between Two Mysteries

30:53  Moby - Go (Woodtick Mix)

37:22  Xiu Xiu - Audrey's Dance

41:36  Messer Chups - Twin Peaks Twist

44:48  Pizzicato Five - Catchy

51:43  Tricky & Sub Sub - Smoking Beagles

56:35  Fantomas - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

59:58  V/VM - There Was A Fish... In... The Percolator (Part1)

 

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239b - Ambient Americana v2 mix 2

Second half of this lengthy mix.  More to come as I didn't come across Hermanos Gutierrez until after I'd finished this one.  Also SUSS released a new material recently.  So much to explore.

00:00  Pan American - Dark Birds Empty Fields

02:25  SUSS - Drift

07:30  Mary Lattimore - Pine Trees

10:35  Labradford - Wien

16:01  Field Works - And Blue-Green Spruce

18:16  Eerie Gaits - Out in the Tall Grass

21:17  A Small Good Thing - The Art of Deception

21:50  Bill Laswell - Illinois Central

28:35  SUSS - The Walk Home

32:10  Explosions in the Sky - Home

34:19  Stress Assassin - Dust

35:51  David Lindley, Jim Dickinson, Ry Cooder - She's Leaving The Bank

41:39  Bill Frisell - Rain, Rain

44:11  Mary Lattimore - Sometimes He's In My Dreams

47:40  Michael Brook, Brian Eno & Daniel Lanois - Vacant

52:19  Chuck Johnson - Constellation

58:58  Chas Smith - Santa Fe

61:18  SUSS - Late Night Call

65:53  Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois & Roger Eno - The Secret Place

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239a - Ambient Americana v2 mix 1

Furthering my mixes (126A and 126B) in this genre, more soundtracks for the dusty old west.  These are my go-to anytime I'm alone and have to drive more than an hour somewhere.  I must be tapping into a past life, because this certainly is not what I'd expect for a suburbanite soccer dad office worker.    

00:00  Mark Orton - Bill

04:15  Viktor Krauss - Overcast

10:43  Red House Painters - Cabezon

13:42  Japancakes - Come In Alone (My Bloody Valentine)

17:57  Balmorhea - Sky Could Undress

21:46  Field Works - We Listen to Maples, Ash and Oaks

23:30  Daniel Lanois - Desert Rose

25:16  Bill Frisell - Think

29:46  Jake Xerxes Fussell - Three Ravens

32:19  North Americans - American Dipper

36:02  Andrew Tuttle - Hilliard Creek, Finucane Road

40:10  A Small Good Thing - A Mighty Stillness

46:17  SUSS - Echo Lake

51:52  Chuck Johnson - Riga Black

58:16  Pan American - Shenandoah

64:34  Brian Eno - Capsule

67:35  Labradford - P

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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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237 - Moby early years overview

Moby?  Seriously?   Yeah, I had a brief moment where I was really into his music.  Based on this overview you can tell which era.  By the time "Animal Rights" came out I was completely over it and never purchased another CD from him.  Glad he went on to such great success, but his humble beginnings is where I found the most joy.  These were some of the first "techno" CDs I bought, and it was the dubby feel to "Move" on Trance Europe Express that solidified my appreciation (sorry it wasn't available in the Spotify mix).  I saw him perform as the opening act on the "See The Light" tour with Vapourspace, Orbital and Aphex Twin.  The Twin Peaks homage "Go" is always great, and the b-sides from those early EPs are better than his album tracks.  My favorite release is the 6 track version of the Move EP.   I finished this mix with his guitar driven songs which I think hold up well on their own.  There is the added Bad Brains cover in the you tube mix, which isn't in the download because honestly, I forgot. Ending it all with where he started, in a punk band from the early 80s.

00:00  Go (Radio Edit)

03:33  Mobility

09:34  Move

15:20  All That I Need Is To Be Loved (Moby Dub)

22:44  Morning Dove

28:24  Next Is The E (Synthe Mix)

35:13  Go (Woodtick Mix)

41:41  Unloved Symphony

47:32  Thousand

51:43  The Rain Falls and the Sky Shudders

57:35  Straight To Hell (Feat Heather Nova) (The Clash)

62:00  Tiny Rubberband (Feat Butthole Surfers)

66:04  New Dawn Fades (Joy Division)

71:31  That's When I Reach For My Revolver (Misson of Burma)

75:22  All That I Need Is To Be Loved

78:01  Why Must I Follow (as Vatican Commandos)

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236 - Post Punk Dub

The late 70's early 80's saw the explosion of Post-Punk genre.  Combining teen angst, punk, alternative, funk and industrial all combined in a blender.  With an ear to the expanding reggae scene, many of these artists shared producers with that scene and so dub was a natural byproduct of the recording sessions.  While not like King Tubby, this stuff saw Adrian Sherwood explode with creativity.  Many others followed and created an excellent niche genre of post-punk dub.  

00:00  De Facto - 120E7 (Dub Version)

03:33  Basement 5 - Immigrant Dub

10:22  Dif Juz - Heset

16:52  New Age Steppers - My Whole World

22:05  Pigbag - Six of One

26:23  Killing Joke - Turn To Red

30:08  The Pop Group - She Is Beyond Good And Evil

33:26  Generation X - Wild Dub

36:55  A Certain Ratio - Abracadubra (Sir Horation 12")

40:26  Ruts DC vs Mad Professor - Pleasures of The Dance

44:58  Glaxo Babies - Who Killed Bruce Lee

50:43  Family Fodder - Bass Adds Bass

56:00  The Slits - Man Next Door

59:29  Sir Horatio - Sommadub

66:46  De Facto - Coaxial

68:22  Little Annie - Miss The Light

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