246 - I put a seashell to my ear and it all comes back

Downtempo, chill, groovy tracks that embody the excitement of spring heading into summer.

00:00  Skylab - Seashell

05:22  Pram - Version

10:12  Burnt Friedman - Someday My Blues Will Cover the Earth (His Name Is Alive)

13:09  Peaking Lights - Breakdown

17:42  Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra - San Diego 

21:27  Section 25 - Uber Hymn (DDAA remix)

26:07  Gary Numan - Films

29:55  Chromatics - Shadow

33:24  Jane Weaver - Argent (Tom Furse Extrapolation)

39:11  Asobi Seksu - Strawberries (Ulrich Schnauss remix)

42:26  Kraftwerk - Radioaktivitat (single edit)

45:32  Depeche Mode - Policy of Truth

50:21  Morrissey - Suedehead (Sparks remix)

56:55  BT feat Tori Amos - Blue Skies (radio edit)

60:34  Deee-Lite - Party Happenin People (Sampladelic)

63:34  Lamb - Little Things (Klute remix)

70:12  Martin Denny - Firecracker

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245 - Aesop Rock

I've heard Aesop Rock is the hip hop artist with the largest vocabulary, beating out GZA and Kool Keith.  I've been a fan ever since I picked up Float at the Anticon show.  The below mix is a bit heavy on "The Impossible Kid" and "Spirit World Field Guide" only because I think those are his best and most consistent albums.  I really wanted to include something from his project The Uncluded, but it didn't fit with the rest.  Be sure to check the videos, all his official ones are excellent, I also found some live versions, and the rest should all be the lyric videos because its just awe inspiring to follow along with his rhymes.

00:00  The Four Winds

02:44  Rings

06:31  Mystery Fish

09:30  Kodokushi

13:12  Holy Waterfall

16:42  Zero Dark Thirty

20:00  Blood Sandwich

24:20  Cycles To Gehenna

28:17  Lazy Eye

31:01  Shrunk

34:09  Skip Town

38:21  Dorks (Blockhead remix)

41:58  Marble Cake

46:04  None Shall Pass

49:56  Commencement At The Obedience Academy

53:37  Button Masher

57:20  Get Out Of The Car

58:54  Black List (MF Doom feat Prefuse 73 & Aesop Rock)

62:35  Plagues and Bacon (Hail Mary Mallon)

65:43  Side Quest

67:01  Acid King (Malibu Ken)

70:29  Lotta Years

72:26  Molecules

75:47  The Mayor and the Crook

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Because I love "The Impossible Kid" so much, here's a bonus find.  The full album stream and a fan synced it up to a stop motion recreation of the Shinning.

244 - Listen for the color of the sky

A very pop oriented mix from me, with several twists and turns.  Breaks, funky grooves, downtempo, and plenty of strangeness in-between.

00:00  Danny Breaks - Junkie for Beatz

03:46  Durand Jones & The Indications feat Aaron Frazer - Witchoo

07:17  Milky Chance - Colorado

10:09  Jeremy Messersmith - oRgan dOnOr (corianderHalo mix by KILN)

14:40  DJ Krush - Kemuri

19:19  Silver Apples - Strawberry Lotus Focus (Loop Guru)

24:32  Hiss Golden Messenger - Grace Version

28:18  ISAN vs Solvent - Hergly Bergly (less mad andy mix)

31:56  Beastie Boys - Son of Neckbone

35:07  New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Part 4

39:11  Butthole Surfers and Moby - Tiny Rubberband

43:17  DJ Krush - Meiso (The Real Version)

47:49  Section 25 - The Process (Volcano The Bear remix)

50:20  KILN - Snowtongue (Dub1_rebuild)

55:40  Nilson - Down In The Garden

59:30  Danny Breaks - Bonus Beatz

63:07  DJ Cheb I Sabbah - Ganga Dev (Bedouin Ascent)

70:24  Kid Koala - Tricks N' Treats

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243b - Deee-Lite

Similar to Bjork, Deee-Lite always had fantastic remixes.  Many did fall into club/house music territory, but many others still played with the source material and made something very experimental in the end.  This mix features my favorites, and a few album tracks off Dewdrops in the Garden, which was their best album in my opinion.  My intention was to make one mix with alternating tracks between Bjork and Deee-Lite, but ended up heavy on one and light on the other.

00:00  Deee-Lite Theme (Global Village mix)

02:03  Party Happenin People (Sampladelic)

05:04  Bring Me Your Love (Johnny Vicious Cosmic Isness remix 2)

09:42  Picnic in the Summertime (Ronin's Get Down-Tempo Mix)

13:37  Say Ahh...

17:43  Apple Juice Kissing

20:47  DMT (DJ Silver & Supa DJ Dmitry remix)

26:30  Call Me (Sampladelic mix)

30:17  Bring Me Your Love (Johnny Vicious Cosmic Isness remix 1)

35:51  Stay In Bed, Forget The Rest

38:54  Party Happening People

42:49  Groove Is In The Heart (Sampladelic remix)

47:12  Call Me (DJ Icee's 407 Raw Bonus Beats)

50:14  Meditation!  (Towa Tei feat Lady Miss Kier)

54:44  Sampladelic Jumbo Jungle Remix

59:04  Music Selector Is The Soul Reflector (Supa DJ Dmitry & DJ Silver remix)

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243a - Bjork remixes

Never a rabid fan, but I did always appreciate the depth of remixes and remix artists Bjork enlisted.  Often I preferred the remixed version over the original track in her vast discography.  I liked the Sugarcubes, but after a couple tracks the guy got on my nerves and I would skip ahead to tracks like Birthday that were mere palatable.  On to her solo work, it was really the Underworld remixes of "Human Behavior" that really stood out to me.  Though I didn't include any of the tracks here, the early remix EP with the long title was a favorite for many years.  I remember my film club in college was able to get an advance screening of "Dancer In The Dark," we rented a coffee shop, hung a tarp and projected it on the back wall for an audience of about 20.  This mix features a very diverse set of remixes that I hope you enjoy, and maybe a few deep cuts that are new to some ears.  I did keep the album version of Army of Me, cause its just so good.  Otherwise, I tried to not duplicate tracks, but there are a few in vastly different forms in here.  

00:00  Bachelorette (RZA Remix)

05:23  I Miss You (Dobie's Rub, Pt2) [It's a Hip Hop Thing]

10:57  Isobel (Motorbass remix)

16:41  Lilith (Plaid remix)

21:17  All Is Full Of Love (Plaid remix)

25:19  Hyperballad (radio edit)

28:58  Play Dead (Tim Simenon 12inch remix)

33:53  Isobel (Portishead remix)

39:53  Hyperballad (Towa Tei remix)

47:57  Bachelorette (Mark Bell "Blue" remix)

50:36  Sun In My Mouth (Recomposed by Ensemble)

53:41  Headphones (Mika Vainio's 0mix)

59:49  Charlene

64:16  Possibly Maybe (promo version)

67:37  Venus As A Boy (7" Dream mix)

71:33  Human Behaviour (acoustic version)

74:34  Isobel (The Carcass remix)

80:09  Army of Me

84:01  It's In Our Hands (Soft Pink Truth mix)

87:46  Alarm Call (Rhythmic Phonetics mix by Matmos)

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241 - Untidy and Edgier

Grunge, heavy alternative rock.  A homage to the 90s.  This is the stuff I dove into back in middles school and high school.  While most of my friends gravitated towards punk, I loved the scuzzy dirty grunge scene.  Those harder hitting alternative rock songs and such.  Admittedly, I have much respect for Chris Cornell, but Loud Love was the end of my appreciation of Soundgarden, their pop hits really irked me.  Glad I got to see them as the opening act on for Pantera and then Skid Row.  Bonkers, and I recall they all came on the stage at the encore to do a cover of "Train Kept A Rollin."  I have fond memories of seeing the Butthole Surfers at Lollapalooza, where Gibby flung paper plates overhead and shot them with a BB gun.  Catherine Wheel's album Chrome is just a masterpiece for this genre.  Also, can't say enough good about the Beach Boy's-esque noise pop of the Jesus and Mary Chain.

00:00  Butthole Surfers - Sweat Loaf

04:52  Soundgarden - Ugly Truth

10:13  The Jesus and Mary Chain - Blues From A Gun (New York 1992)

14:26  Toadies - Mexican Hairless

16:14  My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise

19:56  Coaltar of the Deepers - C/O/T/D

23:38  Pixies - Isla De Encanta

25:17  Fuel - Untitled

29:12  Lanemeyer - Alarm

32:11  Catherine Wheel - I Confess

35:57  Something Like Elvis - Future Sport

41:34  The Lemonheads - Style (Godflesh Style)

44:06  The Jesus and Mary Chain - Never Understand

47:10  Butthole Surfers - Human Cannonball

50:54  Soundgarden - Loud Love

55:54  PJ Harvey - Sheela-Na-Gig

58:54  Lush - Baby Talk

61:07  Pixies - Gouge Away (Demo)

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