Friday, June 30, 2017

Endless Season



Vintage and modern electronics and atmospherics.

Brian Bennett, Suzanne Ciani, The Orb, Francis Monkman, Noveller, Peaking Lights, Paul Hart, John Fiddy, Ken Ishii, Alan Hawkshaw, and more.

Satellite Anthems



Dreamy.

All In The Golden Afternoon



Psych/folk/dreamy etc. mix.

Parallelograms



Psych/folk-ish/hauntology-esque/proggy mix.  As ever, if anyone wants this in mp3 form, let me know.

Summer Water



Playing catch up here with these.  Here's a psych/folk mix with a bit of downtempo/chanson/experimental in there.

Sunday, June 18, 2017

Nothing Is Real



1. Noveller - Rubicon
2. Magical Power Mako - Welcome To The Earth
3. e.m.a.k - Filmmusik
4. Turn-On - Electrolocation Of Fire Ants
5. Kitaro - Eternal Spring
6. Broadcast - Subject To The Ladder
7. Barry Adamson - Theresa Green
8. Scott Walker - Dealer
9. Jane Weaver - The Fallen By Watch Bird
10. Viernes - Honest Parade
11. Gwenno - Patriarchaeth
12. Mariah - Shinzo No Tobira
13. Oval - Delft
14. Suzanne Ciani - The Second Wave (Sirens)
15. Cavern Of Anti-Matter - Pulsing River Velvet Phase
16. Boards Of Canada - Nothing Is Real


I actually really quite like this one.  I hope you do too.

Thursday, June 15, 2017

Calm Down



1. The New Lines - In Which A Child Consults The Occult To Revive His Dead Cat 1
2. Tudor Lodge - Willow Tree
3. The Galaxy Electric - Calm Down
4. Wendy & Bonnie - Five O'Clock In The Morning
5. Pram - Bewitched
6. Daisy Chain - Zzotto
7. Susan Christie - Echo In Your Mind
8. Broadcast - Accidentals
9. Cate Le Bon - Me Oh My
10. Shuggie Otis - Walkin' Down The Country
11. Heather Trost - Real Me Real You
12. Death And Vanilla - Shadow And Shape
13. Lights - Branches Low
14. Jane Weaver - Arrows
15. Mariah - Fujiyu No Nezumi
16. Viernes - Glacial Pace Of Change
17. The New Lines - Voyager Program 1977
18. Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms
19. Chrysalis - April Grove
20. April March - Que Le Soleil Soit Maudit
21. Laetitia Sadier - Merci de M'Avoir Donne la Vie
22. Spoils Of War - Victoria Falls

This one, for me, needed to happen.  You can download it if you are so inclined.

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

When I'm Sleeping



1. Spoils Of War - Now Is Made In America
2. Cate Le Bon - Fold The Cloth
3. Galaxy Lin - Boy For Sale
4. Alcatraz - Where The Wild Things Are
5. Piero Umiliani - Easy Dreamer
6. Heather Trost - Agistri
7. The Galaxy Electric - Doorbell
8. Mariah - Shinsen
9. Viernes - Entire Empire
10. Didier Thibault - Solaria
11. Bibio - Dopplerton
12. Julie Covington - My Silks And Fine Array
13. High Llamas - Cotton To The Bell
14. Marie Laforet - Pour Celui qui Viendra
15. Jameson - Candy Colored Dragon
16. Out Of Focus - When I'm Sleeping
17. Jane Weaver - I Wish
18. Psychonauts - Circles

After some time spent in space and in other weird places, a sort of return to Earth.  I very much like this one, and it's very "current" for me.

Download!

Portals And Parallels

This mix is a bit of an odd duck and got eaten by Mixcloud when I tried to post it a while back - I thought it'd posted, but I later saw an error to do with my connection or some such. It is one I wasn't quite sure about to begin with, so I just let it be.

Apparently it got seen by some people as it went up and back down again, and I thought perhaps I could just post it here (as I've moved past it as far as my shows on Mixcloud go - in fact, the "space trilogy" were done, except for most of the first one, at the same time and then split up - I do these as close to "live" as possible - so until the mix I posted yesterday that I will be posting here as soon as I'm done writing this, I was posting mixes that were, for me, in the past; I'm not sure if that makes any sense but, there you have it).

So: Here, to listen to or download if you so wish, is a mix that I titled Portals And Parallels. It has a theme which I hope will be pretty apparent as it goes along.


Sunday, June 11, 2017

Oracles



No theme here, really - possibly a vague sense of "the dark" and at times maybe "occult."  A blend of styles from psych rock to electronic to "post-rock" to krautrock etc.  Hopefully good.  I like it.

1. Emerald Web - Flight Of The Raven
2. Cavern Of Anti-Matter - Total Availability And The Private Future
3. Pawnshop - My Shade
4. The Pattern Forms - Daylight
5. Alain Goraguer - DĂ©shominisation (I)
6. Black Channels - Oracles
7. The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - Come And Buy
8. Between - Devotion
9. The Rattles - The Witch
10. Christophe - Harp Odyssey
11. The Zodiac Cosmic Sounds - Taurus
12. Andrew Brown - Tarot (Ace Of Wands Theme)
13. Jane Weaver - The Architect
14. John Foxx and The Belbury Circle - The Right Path
15. Pye Corner Audio - Autonomization
16. Magical Ring - Fire Zone
17. The Slipstream Group - March Of Time (V1)
18. Bruce Haack - National Anthem Of The Moon
19. Sunforest - Magician In The Mountain
20. Kati KovĂ¡cs - Wind Komm Bring den Regen Her
21. Francois de Roubaix - Survol
22. The Pattern Forms - Don't Let Me Dream

Here's a fun clip of Kati Kovacs doing Wind Komm Bring Den Regen Her on what I assume is Hungarian TV in the 70s.



Thursday, June 8, 2017

Space Nocturno



Third (and final?) in the "space trilogy." A past vision of the future. 70's/80's electronics, ambient, space disco, beautiful synths and spacey beats. With Emerald Web, Harry Forbes, Unit Eight, Alan Hawkshaw, Boneschi, Paul Hart, Mladen Franko, Tony Hymas, and many more.

I quite like this one - it is probably my favorite of the three.  Which are linked, of course, simply by having space in the title.  This one is pretty much entirely library music, with the exception of - I'm pretty sure - one single track; the other two mixes were majority library, but with tracks from Moog records or weird sci-fi soundtracks etc. in there as well.  This one is all-in on library music, and specifically late 70s to early-to-mid 80s.  Bruton and KPM are featured most heavily here (where I had quite a bit of Chappell in the other two, specifically from the AV series), with some from Parry and CAM and the like as well.  It's also the longest, and features 30 tracks (!), and I'm going to be a bit coy with a tracklisting for this one.  I'm proud of these, I quite like this one in particular, and clearly I'm once again getting something out of my system.  I've been shifting a bit into some other stuff so we'll see what comes next.  

Hopefully, though, it won't just be another mix.  Some things are moving forward in my project and I might have something to share of that, though it'll be cryptic and anticlimactic I'm sure.  It's coming along.  

Sunday, June 4, 2017

Twilight Time



1. Alpha - Sleepdust
2. The Moody Blues - Twilight Time
3. Scott Walker - Nite Flights
4. The Moon - I Should Be Dreaming
5. Pram - Track Of The Cat
6. Moon Wiring Club - Slumberwick Dreams
7. Alpha - Once Round Town
8. Georges Vert - Sur Le Vif
9. Air - J'ai dormi sous l'eau
10. Cosmic Eye - Dream Sequence Part 4
11. Sketch Show - Traum 6.6
12. ToiToiToi - Mond in den Ă„sten
13. Jane Weaver - A Circle And A Star (Part 1 - with The Focus Group)
14. Viernes - Liquid Tunnel
15. Boards Of Canada - '84 Pontiac Dream
16. Stereolab - Come And Play In The Milky Night
17. Joe Meek With The Blue Men - Valley Of No Return
18. The MFQ - I Had A Dream Last Night
19. Oval - Kardamom
20. Alpha - Sometime Later (Remix)

Friday, June 2, 2017

Spaceline



Still in space...
1. Suzanne Ciani - Eighth Wave
2. Brian Bennett - Voyage
3. 101 Strings - Flameout
4. Alain Goraguer - Ten et Tiwa
5. Bernard Fevre - Space Team
6. Fiddy/Burdson - Robotory
7. Trevor Bastow - Tomorrow's City
8. Tony Hymas - Final Inspection
9. Frank McDonald & Terry Devine-King - Fathoms
10. Brian Bennett - Shuttlecraft
11. Visit Venus - First Man On The Moog
12. Rick Baker - Shorelines
13. Decerf - Surrounding Seas
14. Martin Pilar Group - From Another World
15. Francis Monkman - Getting Ready
16. McDonald/Devine-King - Second Ordeal
17. Vandroogenbroeck/Monsen - Spaceline
18. Klaus Weiss - Surfing Romance
19. Jon Brooks - Pineapple Castle
20. Nicolas Peyrac - Rite
21. James Asher - Research Specimens
22. Francis Monkman - Man and Superman
23. Brian Bennett - A New World
A sort of part 2 to "Spaceport."  One of my earliest experiences with library music was Future Sound Of London.  They sampled "Shining Ice" (which is on the Spaceport mix) on a track on their album Lifeforms - and when I say sampled, I mean they basically just took that track and added to it.  It was my favorite track, and in an interview they mentioned picking up library records and sampling them. There was that phrase again, "library music."  I had heard of library music before - from The Prisoner, I believe, and seeing it mentioned on some BBC stuff.  Years later I'd get my hands on one, and it was an 80s library LP.  I wish I still had it so I could say where it came from; I want to say it was part of the University of Florida's library collection because I know I got it in Gainesville, Florida.  So I have always had an affinity for the 80s library that it seems like a lot of aficionados sort of shun - for the most part, it seems like the library music love stops at the early 80s, if not, for some, the late 70s.  I get it.  That's not a complaint - I don't think I would be very interested in listening to library music from the 90s, for example.  And I have noticed - from hearing samples, listening to other people's mixes, and seeing the prices go up - that some love is being generated for 80s library.  I'm glad I snagged some of the Chappell AV stuff when I could!  (The AV series was absolutely derided at one point and I heard more than one person call it "the worst" - but there are some absolutely amazing and gorgeous things among that series.)  Bruton's 80s output is also pretty damned good.  Library music is often hit or miss.  By its nature, perhaps, to some extent.  I will say that, for a kid who was into punk (and glitchy electronic music, which seemed pretty "punk" to me in a way), it's kind of funny that one of the biggest musical loves of my adult life has turned out to be library music.  Music that has "sold out" before it was even made!  (I wasn't ever really someone who necessarily gave a damn if an indie band signed to a label - they've got to keep the lights on.)  It's interesting that a type of music that is made to be put on a shelf and pulled and used for commercial endeavors - whether they be actual commercials, documentaries, or, in many cases, porn (a LOT of library music was used for porn) - is also often the most adventurous and experimental and beautiful.  Anyways.  I'll try to leave some space between mixes after this one, but I have enjoyed these, and I've certainly got plenty more spacey, "futuristic" library music up my sleeve.
And just for fun - usually when I make a mix, I scribble out a tracklist for myself.  Here's the one for this mix - not especially interesting, but here it is anyway.

Upset Strip



This one...a lot of strangeness or oddball stuff that I didn't put on other mixes.  I enjoy this one a lot, and maybe my idea of "weird" is tame.  I skipped writing down a tracklist for this one - sometimes I think it's more fun to not know what's coming around the corner.  But, as it says on Mixcloud:

With Mort Garson, Joe Meek With The Blue Men, The Spoils Of War, Vampire State Building, Pram, Mike Vickers, Marvin The Paranoid Android, Moon Wiring Club, and more.

Spaceport



In space!
1. Alan Hawkshaw - Eternity
2. Toomorrow - Spaceport
3. Paul Shaw & Dave Rogers - Cloud Hopping
4. Bernard Fevre - Cosmic Rays
5. Brian Bennett - Discovery
6. Emerald Web - The Dragon's Gate
7. Electronic Butterflies And Their Synthesizer Orchestra - Skylab
8. Jean-Pierre Decerf - The Orion Belt
9. Georges Vert - Pegasus Dub
10. Williams & Grossart - Shining Ice
11. Brian Hodgson - Cathedral of Space
12. Alan Hawkshaw - Astral Plain
13. 101 Strings - Barrier X-69
14. Tom Dissevelt - Orbit Aurora
15. The Apartment - Viva La Urano!
Lots of mixes in the past few weeks.  I have two more up that I will post here now.  Clearly I'm getting something out of my system.  This one was made just because I've been listening to a lot of 80s library music, as well as having Emerald Web on repeat and listening to the soundtrack to the awful Olivia Newton John film Toomorrow, which has one absolutely killer track on the soundtrack (the rest of it is pretty good too - skip the film, though, or save it for a D-movie night).  At first I wasn't even going to post this as it was made in the middle of the night for me.  I ended up getting a pretty good response to it.