598 The Remix According to Stereolab

Coming to the end and for the finale two more posts of some favorite groups doing remixes.  First is Stereolab applying their quirky fun tactics to a slew of other artist's works.   Time signature shifts, Pierre Henry stylized electronic flourishes, motoric beats, and a general fun atmosphere everywhere.

The Urian Hackney track is the outlier here, its not a Stereolab Remix but a cover turned into a dub version which I really liked and thought it might fit with the flow of songs here.  Also the Hairy Butter track has been listed as a remix and a collaboration.  

00:00  Microstoria - Microlab: Endless Summer

03:01  Mice Parade - Warm Hand in Farmland

07:59  The Sea and Cake - Tea and Cake

11:56  Boards of Canada - Kid For Today

15:57  The Pastels - One Wild Moment

20:54  Thurston Moore - <untitled>

24:34  Hairy Butter - Brain Drain

27:35  Serena-Maneesh - D.I.W.S.W.T.T.D.

30:56  The Avalanches - Since I Left You

35:25  Urian Hackney - Op Hop Detonation Dub

37:43  The Little Ones - Oh, MJ!

42:53  White Lies - Is Love

49:15  Prop - Statice Mount Zero

53:05  Todd Rundgren - Wrap Your Arms Around Me (Stereolab vs High Llamas)

57:20  Bonnie Pink - Sleeping Child (The Gyrations of Virgin Microbes mix)

61:40  Ryoko Hirosue - Ashita E

65:29  The Free Design - Harve Daley Hix (Stereolab & High Llamas)

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00:00  The Boo Radleys - Martin Doom! Its Seven O'clock

06:28  No Joy - Indigo Child

09:35  Manic Street Preachers - Tsunami

16:14  Jazzanova - Another New Day

20:52  Her Space Holiday - Girl Problem

26:37  Shonen Knife - Hot Chocolate

33:56  Dimension 5 - Mudra

40:35  Cube Juice - Mars of Chicken (La Declosion mix)

45:42  Todd Rundgren - Put Your Arms Around Me (Stereolab vs High Llamas)

50:47  The Polyphonic Spree - Soldier Girl

54:58  Zero 7 - Home

61:45  Popul Vuh - Hosianna Mantra

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597 The Remix According to Neotropic

Riz Maslen gained notoriety certainly with the help of Future Sound of London.  She was featured on some of their early works, and yes was lip syncing on their Top of the Pops video performance of "Papua New Guinea."  By 1996 she was signed to Ntone (part of Ninja Tune) and was carving out her own brand of downtempo/ambient work.  She's also released on Mush and Anticon, and has some work with Dose One of cLOUDDEAD fame.  

00:00  DJ Food - Inosan (Neohead Phone Head F&ck)

07:15  Fujiya & Miyagi - Shake/Diagrams 

11:02  Alias & Tarsier - 5 Year Eve

18:48  Grain - Does Jesus Have Buddha Nature? (Old Sea Dog mix)

24:16  Skinny Puppy - Love in Vein (Go Girl Trio mix)

29:16  Low - Anon (Pollen)

34:13  Ulver - He Said/She Said

40:52  Mirum Mulier - Like You

45:05  Ollo - The If If (The Lady Husk Sings Empty Frame Version)

51:36  Anne Garner - Unhand 

56:38  Middlemarch - Visitation

62:48  Low - Do You Know How To Waltz? (Vert)

67:12  Frank Chickens - We Are Ninja (mix no2)

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596 The Remix According to Herbaliser

Some great downtempo and chill hip hop from these vibe masters.  The Herbaliser Band is also noteworthy and have some great releases that build an eight piece full band out of the original duo.  Checking their discogs page, I'm not the only one that misspells their name as "Herbalizer" form time to time.

00:00  Coldcut - Atomic Moog 2000 (Post-Nuclear Afterlife Lounge mix)

07:35  Meat Beat Manifesto - Prime Audio Soup

14:16  DJ Food - Mella (Drive Faster mix)

19:05  DJ Vadim - Conquest of the Irrational (Vads Dad Diversion)

25:27  Push Button Objects - 360

28:44  East Flatbush Project - Tried By 12

32:44  Little Axe - Storm is Rising (For a few dollars more)

36:41  2 Player - Sometimes 

41:42  Nils Petter Molvaer - Platonic Years (DJ Fjord mix)

46:55  Seeed - Top of the City

50:58  The William Caslon Experience - More Close than Opran

57:02  Hugo Kant feat Ghettosocks - In The Woods

61:18  Paine feat DJ Fonx - Bene (Herbaliser vs Flying Fish remix)

64:57  Lamb - B Line

69:22  The Easy Access Orchestra - Las Chicas 

73:30  The Invisible Pair of Hands - Sloppy's Not Sloppy and More

77:29  Coco and the Bean - Versus the 90's

81:54  Jaffa - Elevator

86:46  Hippaly - A Dreamer's Dream (J.L.'s song)

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595 The Remix According to Squarepusher

Thomas Jenkinson is aptly described as drum n bass with a significant jazz influence.  The basslines are top notch, and the break neck fury of the drums is worthy of Venetian Snares references.  His "Budakhan Mindphone" EP is still my favorite of his releases.   Honestly I could dive in more with their output, it just feels so intense I can't really get through a whole album in one sitting.

00:00  Mantra Percussion - Timber

08:56  Funki Porcini - Carwreck

13:12  DJ Food - Scratch Yer Hed

20:29  Danny Elfman - We Belong

27:30  Deftones - Pink Maggit

37:19  East Flatbush Project - Tried By 12

40:12  Chaos A.D. - Psultan

46:49  GoGo Penguin Music - F Maj Pixie

53:08  Ghostpoet - Meltdown

58:10  Machine Girl - Ass2Mars

62:20  Close Up Over - Caz

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594 The Remix According to DJ Spooky

DJ Spooky aka Paul D Miller is probably best known for this Illbient work in helping define that genre in the late 90s.  Then his mix CDs are an incredible overview of some odd corners of electronic music.  His split EP series has some of the wildest names in experimental music, and his solo albums are just fantastic start to finish.  I don't think I've come across anything of his that I didn't instantly like.  His early work "Songs of a Dead Dream" has to be named after the excellent story collection from Thomas Ligotti.  I have always loved his collaborations with Freight Elevator Quartet, Twilight Circus, Dave Lombardo and Scanner.  So many iconic releases in his discography, all worth checking out.

His remix work is also diverse and a thing of beauty.  I got all the way through this... and then remembered the great remix he did for Merzbow.  Shoot!  I'll add that to a future mix.

00:00  DJ Krush - Ryu-Ki (Lulu's Peace Mix)

06:18  Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand

13:50  DJ Logic - Spooky Logic

20:05  KK Null & James Plotkin - Sawtooth Swirl Irreducible Gated Momentum Dub Mix

29:35  Earth - Crooked Axis for String Quartet

38:19  Arto Lindsay - Mundo Civilizado (Inversion mix)

45:35  Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble - In Sea of C (after T. Riley's In C)

50:26  Badawi - Jihad

54:52  Barrington Levy - Under Mi Sensi

59:06  Bob Marley & The Wailers - Rainbow Country (funk remix)

63:22  Sublime - Doin' Time (Tricked Out Life Sentence remix)

69:10  DJ Spooky & Dave Lombardo with Public Enemy - Public Enemy Number One (Drums of Death remix)

73:37  Meat Beat Manifesto - Shadow and Substance mix

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00:00  Kahimi Karie - Kemuri 

06:12  Graham Reynolds - Ada 

09:45  Abdullah Ibrahim - Mindif (Trio Version)

14:07  Gabriel Prokofiev & Peter Gregson - Jerk Driver 

17:12  David Rothenberg - Killa Koholla 

22:06  Bally Sagoo - Tum Bin Jiya 

26:52  Don Byron - Belmondo's Lip

30:12  Federico Aubele - Su Melodia

34:18  Meredith Monk feat Henry Grimes - Evening 

38:23  Ben Neill - Pentagram (La Mer mix)

45:06  Steve Reich - City Life (Open Circuit)

51:58  Tuatara - Morocco 

57:03  Karsh Kale - One Step Beyon (Datalife 2002 mix)

63:14  Pulse - Wave (Unkut Modular Ekstasis remix)

69:47  Swirlies - Version In Harmony Retrograde Transposition

75:55  Graham Reynolds & The Golden Arm Trio - It Don't Mean (It Don't Mean a Thing String Abstraction remix)

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593 The Remix According to Cut Chemist

I miss the height of turntablism in the late 90's early 2000's.  For a while it felt like this genre could take over.  His DJ mixes "Rare Equations", "Live at the Future Primitive" with Shortkut, "Brainfreeze" and "Product Placement" with DJ Shadow were a permanent fixture in my car stereo.  He has mad skills, and thats the best way to put it.  Cut Chemist's contributions to Jurassic 5 and Ozomatli are top notch too.  He also released a compilation of rare/unreleased gems from Vox Populi! and Pacific 231; that one really surprised me.  I'm thrilled to see he is still very productive and tackling genres that go far beyond hip hop.

00:00  Blackalicious - Alphabet Aerobics (The Cut Chemist 2 1/2 Minute Workout)

02:08  DJ Shadow - The Number Song (Cut Chemist Party Mix)

07:14  Major Force - The Re-Return of the Original Artform (Cut Chemist mix)

11:19  Roots Manuva - Join The Dots (remix)

15:00  Ugly Duckling - Eye on the Gold Chain (remix)

18:14  Beastie Boys - An Open Letter to NYC (remix)

22:05  Jurassic 5 - Jayou (remix)

25:19  Edan feat Percee P - Torture Chamber (Cut Chemist Mix)

29:10  Percee P - Throwback Rap Attack (Cut Chemist Lucas Flipped a One Sided Tape He Found In 1987 Into Stereo Remix)

31:50  Ozomatli - Cut Chemist Suite (remix)

35:29  Liquid Liquid - Cavern (Cut Chemist Rocks a Rave in A Missile Silo remix)

40:34  Blondie + Fab 5 Freddy - Yuletide Throwdown (remix)

45:12  Jem - They (remix)

48:20  Breakstra - How Do They Really Feel (Atkins edit)

52:14  Gary Bartz - Soulsea (remix)

54:34  L A Carnival - Blind Man (remix)

58:06  Terumasa Hino - Beyond the Mirage (remix)

62:02  Quantic and His Combo Barbaro - Un Canto a Mi Tierra (remix)

65:58  Tito Puente - Machito Forever (remix)

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