Episode 170 - The Tear Garden Jams

If you're not already familiar, the Tear Garden is a bit of an industrial supergroup comprised of members from Skinny Puppy and Legendary Pink Dots.  Spread across five albums, the "Empathy Sessions" were slowly released over several years.  I loved digesting these in small doses, but eventually I felt the need to compile them in one long mix.  I have no idea if this is the order they were recorded, I am basing it all on the titles provided by the band.  Overall an enjoyable trip.

00:00  Empathy with the Devil

07:38  Extract from the Empathy Session

22:06  Extract from Empathy No2

31:37  Extract from Empathy No3

33:17  Empathy Unleashed

57:13  Do It Yourself From A-Z Part 1

62:38  Do It Yourself From A-Z Part 2

photo credit: common image shared for Tear Garden online, I really don't recall its origins

Episode 169 - There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

Title by Federico Fellini.  A mix of sludgy, manic, post-metal in all its glory.

00:00  Isis - Red Sea

07:06  Neurosis - A Chronology For Survival

16:24  Baroness - The Sweetest Curse

20:51  Napalm Death - Curse to Crawl

24:14  Russian Circles - Station

32:16  Riwen - The Curlew

37:20  Split Cranium - Death Bed, The Yellow Room

39:35  Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind

43:40  Red Sparowes - We Left the Apes to Rot, But Find the Fang Grows Within

50:05  pg.Lost - Kardusen

56:27  Pelican - The Cliff (Palms Remix)

62:35  Palms - Shortwave Radio

69:19  Jesu - Farewell

photo credit: Sculpture in a park in Littleton

Episode 168 - Noisy Shoegazers

Noisier moments of pop oriented shoegazing movement, mostly focusing on tracks from the 90s but a few oddball others mixed in for good measure.

00:00  Smashing Pumpkins - Siva

04:14  My Bloody Valentine - Feed Me With Your Kiss

08:06  Dinosaur Jr - Freak Scene

11:32  Pixies - Head On (Jesus & Mary Chain)

13:39  Catherine Wheel - Crank

17:13  Lush - Leaves Me Cold

19:52  The Jesus & Mary Chain - Never Understand

22:42  Dead Kennedys - Moon Over Marin

26:17  Modern English - Smiles and Laughter

29:19  The Chameleons - In Shreds

33:08  A Place To Bury Strangers - I Know I'll See You

37:03  Jane's Addiction - Mountain Song (Radio Tokyo Demo)

41:00  The Twilight Sad - And She Would Darken The Memory (edit)

45:30  The Prids - The Glow

49:31  Asobi Seksu - New Years

52:23  The Mighty Lemon Drops - Out of Hand

55:52  We Were Promised Jetpacks - This Is My House, This Is My Home

photo credit: https://goodwoodaudio.com/blogs/news/top-5-pedal-board-mistakes

Episode 167 - Beauty Creeping

Sad and creepy music that haunts you with its dark beauty.

00:00  Current 93 - All The Pretty Little Horses

02:27  The Kinks - Nothin In The World Can Stop Me Worryin' Bout That Girl

05:06  The Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes (Closet Mix)

10:43  Cat Stevens - The Wind

12:10  Neil Young - Harvest

15:09  Shirley Collins - Rambleaway

18:33  Maripol - Incendiaire

21:31  Donovan - London Town

24:34  Jane & Barton - It's a Fine Day

28:15  Grey Force Wakeford - Vercors

33:02  Nico - All That Is My Own

36:17  Lana Del Rey - Once Upon A Dream

39:14  The Kings Singers - The Oak and The Ash

42:11  Christopher Komeda - Rosemary's Baby

44:29  Paul Giovanni - Lullaby

45:14  Rebekah Del Rio - No Stars

52:26  Shirley & Dolly Collins - Never Again

54:03  Tori Amos - The Pool

56:26  Antony and the Johnsons - Mysteries of Love (Julee Cruise)

61:31  Sibylle Baier - The End

63:52  City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra - The Ninth Gate (Vocalise)

photo credit: D-town at night

Episode 166 - Hope Springs Eternal

My love for illbient genre, with some associated in style hip hop and downtempo tracks.  Though short lived I loved all things illbient and how few artists attempted, and less still got it right.

00:00  Beastie Boys - Root Down (Free Zone mix)

03:27  DJ Wally - Bitchley's Kow Korn

10:22  Hive - Fallout

13:21  Prunes - Cantona Style

18:30  I-Cue - Zoning

22:38  Mouse On Mars - Schlecktron (Double Mix)

27:31  Plat - Afture (Recurrence) Fakemix

31:26  Lunchbox - Brown Bag

34:00  UNKLE - Time Has Come (Portishead Plays UNKLE mix)

38:14  Beastie Boys - Sure Shot (Prunes mix)

40:50  Drunken Hoodlumz - Layin Low

44:36  Prefuse 73 - Pagina Cinco

49:15  Lloop - Long Jumps

55:24  4e - Warm Leatherette

57:43  DJ Spooky - Supersonic Bionic (Spectral Dub mix)

photo credit: vintage promo for Manitou spring water

Episode 165 - Moon Wiring Club Is More Than Just Filler

A Ghost Box favorite, I included several of their tracks as segues in stark contrast to this mix's title.  A lot of hauntology with a more electronic focus.  A lot of goodies to unpack here.  Children of Alice is the post-Broadcast group made in Trish Keenan's honor, and if its not already evident Broadcast is easily my favorite music ever.   Pink Anvil is a post-Ministry group, and I'm a big fan of anything Paul Barker works on.  Threw in a John Barry track, since I grew up watching Bond films and this track fits so well.  Odd Nosdam's roots in Mush and Anticon always kept me interested in where he goes.  The Chromatics track from Twin Peaks was certainly a standout.   A Small Good Thing the ambient western tinged side project from O Yuki Conjugate is one where I like them more than their bigger main group.  This is the only Pretty Lights track I like, and I've heard they went on to bigger and better things.  Mike and Rich is a lovely one off by some really big names in 90's (and beyond) techno.  Bonobo is another one I keep meaning to check out more from, but I always get sidetracked.  The Thought Gang is Lynch and Badalamenti, working so well together and actually collaborating on a music project here, just lovely.   And last to mention is early Human League when they were still quirky and experimental, and naming a song after THE BEST DOCTOR from the show's whole 50+ year run.   

Hope you enjoy this as much as I do.

00:00  MWC - Ponder Ye

00:31  Children of Alice - Rite of the Maypole, An Unruly Procession

07:00  MWC - Concealed Playroom

08:45  Pink Anvil - Cause I Told You So

13:14  MWC - Between Two Worlds

14:39  MWC - Thoughts Of A Sunken Village

15:49  John Barry - Spectre Island

16:48  MWC - Wandering Bishops

19:30  Odd Nosdam - Mirrors I

21:34  Chromatics - Saturday (Instrumental)

24:34  A Small Good Thing - Redeemer

28:51  Pretty Lights - Reel 15 Break 5

32:18  MWC - The Last Drop

33:18  Mike & Rich - Eggy Toast

37:18  MWC - Strangers in the Music

41:05  Bonobo - Ghost Ship

45:04  Thought Gang - Headless Chicken

47:26  Human League - Tom Baker

51:08  MWC - A Guided Tour

53:54  Thought Gang - The Black Dog Runs At Night

photo credit: a neighbor asked me to help fix their PC, this is what I found as the root cause.