492D The Remix According To FSOL

Fun times here.  The StereoMCs remix is quite engaging.  Apollo 440 using a beat from Portishead.  Cuvre is a nice opener as well.  The rest were new to me when I started compiling this mix and found most of these pretty high quality.

00:00  Curve - Rising (Headspace Mix)

09:12  Apollo 440 - Liquid Cool (FSOL remix)

16:02  Stereo MCs - Connected (FSOL remix)

21:38  Thierry Gotti - Out of Reality (Remix by the Future Sound of London)

25:21  Osamu Sato - Face-Savers On Line (F.S.O.L. mix)

35:09  Prefab Sprout - If You Don't Love Me (F.S.O.L. Deep Field Mix)

40:17  Deadly Avenger - Day One (F.S.O.L. Cosmic Jukebox Mix v1)

45:15  Jon Anderson - FSOL Deseo Reconstruction #2

49:51  Schmoelling & Waters - Morning Walk (Future Sound of London Remix)

56:50  David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - Darshana (re-constructed by The Future Sound of London)

66:45  Robert Miles - Paths (FSOL remix)

70:28  Bryan Ferry - I Put A Spell On You (FSOL 'Yage' remix)

75:26  Inner City - Praise (The Future Sound of London Concept Dub)

80:33  Unity - Unity (Future Sound of London Piano City)

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492C FSOL By Any Other name vol 2 mix 2

Here's the other half, and yes its some early 90's era techno.  Exactly what you expect, though I can see some of the inklings of magic that would be exploited to great success in their later works.

00:00  Smart Systems - The Nu Generation

04:32  Indo Tribe - Obstinta

09:59  Humanoid - Intermodal Container

14:03  AirCut - Eternal (Dub)

18:24  Luco - Stolen Documents (Jazz Dub)

23:41  Yunie - I Can See For Miles (Astral Mix)

27:54  Intelligent Communication - Drive (IC7471)

31:53  Metropolis - Metropolis (Analog)

37:23  Mental Cube - I'm Not Gonna Let You Do It

41:03  Art Scient Technology - A.S.T.

45:18  Semi-Real People - Livin Today (Med mix)

50:17  Candese - You Took My Love (Earth)

54:29  Cold Steel - Here We Go

58:50  Stakker - Humanoid

62:19  Homeboy - Sunshine and Brick

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492B FSOL By Any Other name vol 2 mix 1

Round 2. In 1992 FSOL released "Earthbeat," and 2007 they released "By Any Other Name vol 1."  These two compilations showed some of the many aliases they recorded under, which were mostly early incarnations doing early 90's techno.  In my research I found dozens of other names associated with them with much more modern styles that I really liked. Each one does have enough distinct about them to feel like a separate unit.  I've split this mix in two parts, the first focusing on more recent and non-traditional techno stylings, and the second which is that classic era with 4 on the floor beats.  The only real anomaly in this mix is Neotropic, which features a one off remix by Bin Dogs.  Otherwise these tracks are all Brian and Garry... and maybe a few guest musicians.

00:00  The Jazz Mags - Startled

04:30  Sand Sound Folly - Willow

07:04  Blackhill Trasmitter - Recovery

10:41  Far-Out Son of Lung - Cow

15:25  Yage - The Hunters Moon

18:43  Forest Trails - Mokguxtlk

22:43  Neotropic - Ultra Freaky Orange (Clock - Bin Dogs remix)

24:51  AI - Resist Not

26:44  Heads of Agreement - Earth Magnetic

31:28  AnALOguE Controlled SolENoiDs - Glockenspiel Snare Kitchen Tray

34:58  Semtex - We Have Explosive (remix)

46:38  The Bubble Heads - Frozen in the Air

50:23  Synthi-A - Surrounding the Garden is a Fog

54:53  Stoned Freshwaters - Everything is Easy With a Little Persuasion

58:45  6 Oscillators in Remittance - Cloudscraper (edit)

61:19  Filter and Pulses - Control Vista

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492A FSOL - One from each release

Easily one of my favorite electronic acts is The Future Sound Of London.  I know I've gushed over them in the past, and will again here as they deserve the praise.  Here I've made just four mixes, with ideas for a few more that may or may not materialize.  The first one was my attempt to pull one track off each of their releases to showcase an overview of their progression, depth, and creativity.  A few notes as my mix clearly doesn't include everything.  I skipped the 2008 Pulse EPs (they're included in a later mix), 2014 Artworks 1, 2007 A gigantic Globular Burst of Antistatic, We Have Explosive, My Kingdom, Accelerator or Lifeforms LP.  For those I didn't find any real standout tracks, or I'd included the best track in a version from an associated EP.   Next I left Archives, Environments and Calendars off as I saw those as separate entities.  Here is what is left, and I really like this mix which is roughly in reverse chronological order.

I'm rather frustrated that nearly none of the songs on these four mixes are on Spotify.  Hoping they work out some arrangement so FSOL can get more airplay there.  I know I'd stream a lot if it were available.

00:00  Ebb Flow

04:57  Informal Horizon

10:22  Dialectics

18:14  Multiple Falling Objects

22:16  Take Umbrage

25:55  Ayahuasca

32:03  Magnify Within The Thought

37:04  Water Garden

40:39  The Whispering Masses

45:02  Opposite of Thought

49:16  Monolith

53:08  Bring

59:25  Underground (Field of Flowers)

61:56  Across The Rivers

66:21  An End of Sorts

71:37  Vit Drowning Through Your Gill

76:58  Dirty Shadows

83:10  Snake Hips

91:35  Lifeforms (path 4)

100:29  Cascade (part 4)

104:55  Central Industrial

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491 The Remix According to u-Ziq part 2

Here are the rest of these selected remixes.  This one is even more frantic that the first, if you can imagine that!  Love the Siouxsie sample on the third track.

00:00  Chris & Cosey - Credit Sequence (mu-ziq mix)

08:54  Baader Meinhof - There's Gonna Be An Accident (u-ziq remix)

13:56  Mindless Self Indulgence - Bitches (u-ziq mix)

18:09  Point Black - Eternally (u-ziq mix)

23:22  Ra - Ev.Panic (u-ziq remix)

31:38  Aphex Twin - D-Scape (u-ziq remix)

37:19  The DJ Producer - Which Cunt (u-ziq's 68 mix)

42:04  Tipper - Dissolve (out) (u-ziq remix)

47:21  I-F Space - Invaders Smoking Grass (u-ziq remix)

53:60  FaltyDL - Rolling (u-ziq remix)

57:24  Mum - There Is A Number of Small Things & The Ballad of the Broken Birdie Records (u-ziq Straight mix)

65:21  Knox-Om-Pax - Caramel (u-ziq Caramello mix)

70:09  Dean Elliot - Lonesome Road (u-ziq remix)  

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491 The Remix According to u-Ziq part 1

Welcome 2025, I wanted to start with something fun that I didn't finish last year.  I had a very ambitious April and covered roughly 30 artists and their remix output.  One I neglected was µ-Ziq aka Mike Paradinas.  I first came across his work on The Autures vs µ-Ziq cd I picked up at Life By Design in Colorado Springs (God I miss that store).  Next I was thoroughly impressed with his remix of "On" by Aphex Twin, with that lovely intro where his metal tape got eaten a little and yet he still included it.  I've previously included some of his output and some of his projects like Mike & Rich or Slag Boom Van Loon in other mixes here.  While researching that remix series I found that I have a folder with 70+ of his remixes, so naturally it took me a while to distill these down to these two mixes of my favorites.  This first mix was easy as these are the tracks I knew best and have loved on them for many years.

00:00  Tipsy - Space Golf (u-ziq remix)

04:43  Bjork - All Is Full Of Love (u-ziq 1 minute mix)

05:28  Mum - There Is A Number of Small Things & The Ballad of the Broken Birdie Records (u-ziq F*cked mix)

12:36  Aphex Twin - On (u-ziq mix)

21:09  Seefeel - Climactic Phase #3 (u-ziq remix)

29:33  Placid Angels - Beauty Begins with Us (u-ziq remix)

34:56  Slag Boom Van Loon - spc-ch-pn (u-ziq remix)

39:02  Nav Katze - Happy (u-ziq mix)

46:00  Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater (remixed by u-ziq)

52:20  Matmos - Cymbals & Aspirin (u-ziq remix)

56:52  Mogwai - Fear Satan (u-ziq remix)

63:55  The Auteurs vs u-Ziq - Lenny Valentino 3

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