Starhazy

1. Stereolab - I Feel The Air (Of Another Planet)
2. Cosmic Analog Ensemble - Four Notes
3. Jane Weaver - Slow Motion
4. Francoise Hardy - Le Temps Des Souvenirs
5. Barry Adamson - Something Wicked This Way Comes
6. Dusty Springfield - Spooky
7. Broadcast - Locusts
8. Jane Weaver - Neotantrik Globes (Excerpt)
9. Brooks and O'Hagan - Calibair
10. Bertrand Burgalat - (Come Potrei) Scordare
11. The Advisory Circle & Hong Kong in the 60s - Seasons Change
12. Testbild! - Spacedog Walk
13. Jane Weaver - Noctilumina
14. Belbury Poly & Moon Wiring Club - The Music Room
15. The High Llamas - Cropduster
16. Scott Walker - Big Louise

An Electric Mind

1. Sven Grunberg - Naksitrallide Avamäng
2. Death & Vanilla - Necessary Distortions
3. Georges Vert - An Electric Mind
4. Jane Weaver - Argent
5. The Advisory Circle - Now Ends the Beginning
6. Harmonia - Dino
7. Sven Grunberg - Klaabu Kosmoses (1)
8. Air - Kelly Watch the Stars
9. Belbury Poly & Moon Wiring Club - The Young People
10. Cluster - Heisse Lippen
11. Sven Grunberg - Klaabu Kosmoss (2)
12. Pram - Beluga
13. Cavern of Anti-Matter - Void Beat (Karen Gwyer Remix)

The Flower Called Nowhere

1. The New 23rd - Ralph Carmichael
2. Literature is Fluff - The High Llamas
3. Science Fiction #10 - Horst Ackerman & Heribert Thusek
4. The Flower Called Nowhere - Stereolab
5. Midway - Jacques Siroul
6. Songs of Innocence - David Axelrod
7. This Is How You Dance - John Barry
8. The Book Lovers (Andy Votel Remix) - Broadcast
9. En Alabama - Leonie
10. Le Bracelet - Alain Goraguer
11. Naksitrallid - Sven Grunberg
12. Petramorphosis - Angelo Michajlov
13. Coral Bracelet - April March
14. Blazing Skyline - Jean-Pierre Decerf
15. Pure Funk - Mike Gillingham & Roy Stone
16. Unknowing Surveillance - Brian Bennett
17. A Simple Formality - Komeda

Le Pays Imaginaire

I have been remiss lately in actually posting things to this blog.  A LOT has been going on in my life.  I nearly lost my father.  I had my own health scare/issue to deal with.  I have continued to make mixes; it has been a nice form of therapy; I just have let some things fall by the wayside.  I'm going to do a huge dump of my recent mixes, and hopefully from now on I'll cross-post and get mp3 versions up.  If anyone would like an mp3 of a mix that isn't posted, let me know.  If you're looking for something I might have, also feel free to let me know.

I'm back into music-heavy mode working on my project, so I've got a lot of music set aside for future mixes.  (Making them helps me focus a bit sometimes, and also gives me ideas and inspiration.)  I've got the second part of my children's music mix to finish up; I've got a second part to my mix of music score cues - again with a lot of more modern stuff that one might not expect from someone like me; I've been on a library music kick lately which will likely bleed into a mix, as well as some hauntology stuff, etc.  And eventually, an announcement about my own project, which is beginning to metastasize into a higher stage of completion.

Glide Time

Gemini Calling

A relatively upbeat, relaxed mix for downbeat, furious times. Gainsbourgian pop/chanson, modern and vintage, rare library music, etc. (With a French / European bent, but not exclusively.)  

Download.

Mutation 24

I was asked if I could post a good quality rip of the wonderful "Mutation 24" by Claude Perraudin, a great French electronic/psych/prog library album released by RCA France in 1977.  It's quite good, fits in for me right beside the great late 70s Chicago 2000 or Auvidis library stuff (I'm thinking perhaps something like Dominique Guiot's "L'univers de la Mer" and the like), and of course Perraudin is probably most well known for his work on the Patchwork label.  I not too long ago used the track "Guitare Blessee" from this album in a mix.  Cool cover art as well.  So, with all that said, the link to download a 320 mp3 rip of the album is below - I hope it is enjoyed, and really, not a bad album to listen to as we ring in an uncertain new year.

Download here.

Saturn in the Summertime

1. Aires - The Zodiac
2. Twenty Feet Behind - Mary Hansen
3. Der Computer Nr. 3 - France Gall
4. Five Separate Wooshes - Imitation Electric Piano
5. Black Noise / Memory Band - Rotary Connection
6. Saturn in the Summertime - Barry Adamson
7. Triggers - April March
8. Beat! - The Karminsky Experience
9. Joyful Grass and Grape - Dorothy Ashby
10. Sexopolis - Jean-Pierre Mirouze
11. Echolalia - Cavern of Anti-Matter
12. Mon P'tit Homme Spatial - Christine Pilzer
13. Firebird - White Noise
14. Pling! - Shuggie Otis
15. All My Life - Ralph Carmichael
16. Destination Omega 3 - Sven Libaek
17. Carousel of the Planets - Perrey-Kingsley
18. Exo-Orbit - Gemma Ray
19. Cache Coeur Naif - Mouse on Mars

I rather like this one. No particular theme.  A 'mood' perhaps.  A bit more...'upbeat' than some recent ones?  Fight off the seasonal effective disorder.  Some very kind person called one of my ye olde mixes (seriously, I've been on mixcloud a long time!) 'one of the best on Mixcloud.'  Subjective, sure, but incredibly flattering; I think this mixtape maybe harkens back to that kind of mix, but with six years of somewhat widened tastes and musical discoveries (seriously, I'm enjoying the new Karminsky album a hell of a lot).

I hope you enjoy the mix.  You can download it here.

Building a Better Way

When I was a kid I came across a strange record called Go Fly A Kite, which had tantalizing song titles such as "Atom is Evil" and "Heaven Out of Hell."  It was also credited to General Electric as the artist, which I knew as a company that made appliances and got made fun of by Letterman on Late Night when I'd sneak out to watch TV in my insomniac childhood.  The consignment shop in my hometown (not called a thrift store - I wouldn't encounter those until I was able to venture into larger towns) had an upstairs loft where they kept sundry items that hadn't made it on to the shelves in the main part of the store, and when I was a kid, as long as I tucked in my t-shirt, they'd let me go up there and rummage through boxes of things.  It was often just garbage - often religious stuff, gospel or Sunday school lessons - though I did find John Rydgren's Silhouette LP in there (which is religious but also amazing and insane).  But every once in a while something truly magical would turn up.  I immediately bought Go Fly A Kite for a pretty meager sum (I'm absolutely certain it was less than a dollar) and my affinity for industrial musicals was born.  I held on to that record - I still have it in storage.  (I will have to dig it out and post it eventually - it s fabulous.)  Once I was a little older I was able I cane across a couple other industrial musicals/ad music, and have a few.  (I have many digital copies of ones I haven't been able to get physical copies of, which is generally good enough for me.)

One day I came across a copy of an album credited to Chevrolet called Music From Building A Better Way.  Believe it or not, I actually had a 45 put out by Chevrolet - who had their own label - featuring The Cyrkle (the band that brought you this madness) and Paul Revere and the Raiders - it's worth f**k-all; you can get a copy for under $5 USD.  (Don't - get it for free, it's out there.)

Apparently there was a promotional film Chevrolet released around 1974 called Building a Better Way which showcased the things you'd expect it would, and Chevrolet's label released the soundtrack to it, which is largely wordless.  (Voices appear, but only as a musical instrument for the most part.)  And I think it is a pretty fantastic album.  The music is surprisingly good.  Especially "Designing" and "Building."  "Building" is amazing, with tonal and mood shifts (it's very nearly a song suite) and Moog and an almost Beach Boys-esque vocal harmony segment, etc.  Put this album on divorced from the fact that it is a Chevrolet promotional item for hawking their cars and it's a pretty decent funk rock album.  I suppose it's cheese - especially in parts.  I played "Building" on one of my Near Mint guest bits and more than one person asked me about it.  I thought I would upload and share it.  It does appear to be somewhat rare - Discogs has two copies for sale starting at $145.  I think it's quite good, and I hope you will agree.

Download here.