Part 3, some more fine examples in this mix. I'll certainly be making more mixes of this style in the future, this is enough for now. Ending it with more from the Scott Pilgrim score, since the new show launches this week and I'm quite excited.
00:00 Mount Vernon Arts Lab - The Black Drop
03:08 Jane Weaver - Did You See Butterflies (Loops Variation)
07:26 Monoland - Vodoo
10:20 Node - Thin Air
18:38 Vanishing Twin - Vota Ubu
21:51 Jane Weaver - Slow Motion
26:48 Death & Vanilla - Arcana
31:03 Broadcast - Valerie
34:56 Pram - Strategies for Success Boxes
40:09 Portishead - Its a Fire
43:44 Vanishing Twin - It Sends My Heart Into A Spin
47:14 Death & Vanilla - The Dodens Vaniljsas Theme
I love this genre, spooky/nostalgic sounding songs somewhere in-between dreamy pop and dark ambient coming with a ghostly presence. I know Ghost Box has been the go to for this stuff for ages, so I tried to only incorporate a few tracks from their roster. Broadcast, Jane Weaver and Pram make several appearances across these three mixes. I really enjoyed making these mixes as I listen to this stuff quite frequently. Love how NPR is using Vanishing Twin as some segue music. Of course I love any excuse to work Mimir into a mix.
00:00 Vanishing Twin - Magician's Success
03:54 Nigel Godrich - Hello Envy
04:35 Pram - Mother of Pearl
09:40 The Vampires of Dartmoore - Tanz Der Vampires
12:07 Neotropic - Sunflower Girl
17:18 Tarwater - The Watersample (Kiln mix)
20:56 The Gaslamp Killer Amir Yaghami - The Cat's Meow
Love a good cover song, and the Cocteau Twins are notoriously difficult to cover properly. I've selected some of the best examples I had in my collection, and wanted to really showcase Faye Wong. She had a long standing collaboration with the Cocteau Twins, and the songs here represent her Mandarin interpretations of their works, and a couple tracks that Elizabeth and Robin wrote specifically for her.
Part two for my wife. This time focusing on Elizabeth's appearances with other groups. Sometimes taking the lead, sometimes hiding in the shadows, always putting her undeniable charm to every track. I included some more rarities of the Cocteau Twins here, and a couple remixes of her solo work which felt like this was the right place to share it.
00:00 Fuel - Butterfly Knife
04:14 Ian McCulloch - Candleland (The Second Coming)
07:46 Felt - Primitive Painters
13:37 Medicine - Time Baby III
17:20 Yann Tiersen - Kala
21:21 Dif Juz - Love Insane
24:22 Cocteau Twins + Mark Clifford - Pitch the Baby (live)
28:04 This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren
31:10 The Wolfgang Press - Respect
33:20 Elizabeth Fraser - Moses (Thighpaulsandra remix)
37:26 Massive Attack - Teardrop
42:45 Future Sound of London - Lifeforms Pt4 (Shuns Edit)
45:40 Howard Shore - Lothlorien
50:07 Elizabeth Fraser - Underwater (short shun remix)
53:32 Ian McCulloch - Candleland
56:40 Yann Tiersen - Mary
60:12 Cocteau Twins + Mark Clifford - Aloysius (live)
This is for my wife. She LOVES Cocteau Twins and I barely knew them when we met. To remedy that I quickly purchased the 2CD BBC sessions comp, and checked out a vinyl copy of "Heaven or Las Vegas" from the library (quite a find). The post-punk energy and darkness of "Garlands" era resonated the most with me. It wasn't until I came across the "Otherness" EP with remixes by Seefeel member Mark Clifford that I really opened up to the ethereal dreaminess of the majority of their work. Our first Christmas together, I bought my wife the 10CD Box set "Singles Collection" and we listened to those quite often, so I became much more familiar with the non-album tracks.
This mix may not be that super-rare, but it is rare enough to my wife and I. Covering non-album tracks, soundtracks, alternate versions and even those Fruitopia commercials jingles they did. As expected the sound quality of rare tracks will vary, but I think its pleasing overall.
The youtube and spotify mixes may not have all the rare versions, so I did my best. Like the demo version of Perhaps Some Other Aeon, or the alternat version of Pink Orange Red. Plus spotify seems to only have Lullabies to Violane and the 10CD singles box set, there are a lot of gaps in the playlist there.
00:00 Alice (Violaine)
04:16 Circling Girl (Volume version)
07:41 Summerblink (Doom Generation)
10:43 Orange Apppled (Love's Easy Tears)
13:26 Fruitopia #1 (Rarities and B-Sides)
13:54 Mud and Dark (Evangeline)
17:26 Need-Fire (Judge Dread)
21:22 Touch Upon Touch (Volume version)
25:23 Ivo (Alternate Version) (Treasure)
29:21 Perhaps Some Other Aeon (Demo) (Speak No Evil)
32:19 Pitch The Baby (Alternate Version) (Red Tape)
35:52 The Thinner The Air (Massive Attack Mix) (Victorialand)
38:53 Crushed (Lonely is an Eyesore)
42:02 Primitive Heart (Tishbite)
45:49 Flock of Soul (Tishbite)
49:15 Pink Orange Red (Alternate Version) (Rarities and B-Sides)
53:44 Evangeline (Treasure Hiding)
58:06 Dials (Rare Tracks EP)
60:34 Fruitopia #2 (Rarities and B-Sides)
61:18 Oomingmak (Instrumental) (Rare Tracks EP)
63:56 Round (Tishbite)
67:26 The High Monkey-Monk (Rare Tracks EP)
70:26 Be Still (Robin Guthrie Mix) (Rarities and B-Sides)
