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SolarFlares — The Winter (Ok, now Spring I've Been Hella Busy) Mixtape

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Here it is, part one. Side B coming tomorrow. 

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Cluster -  Sowiesoso (So Not So So)

Chris & Cosey - Walking Through Heaven

Limonious - Swedish Pommak

Clara Mondshine -  Landung Bei Vollmond

Tom Cameron - Balsa

Delia Derbyshire - Quest

Paul Beaver & Bernard L. Krause - Dr Fox

The Residents - Constantinople

Gorilla Aktiv  - Suono Seguito

Haruomi Hosono - Sports Men

Sadistic Mika Band - Hi Jack (I’m Just Dying)

The | Liminal 2012 Condensed

1. Pelt – From The Lakebed
2. Laurie Spiegel – Drums
3. Actress – Ascending
4. Lee Gamble – Nowhen Hooks
5. Holly Herndon – Fade
6. Raime – Your Cast Will Tire
7. Andy Stott – Up The Box
8. Shackleton – Music For The Quiet Hour Part 1
9. High Aura’d – River Runs Like Jewels
10. Oren Ambarchi – Salt

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FACT mix 349: Silent Servant

 Groundislava | XLR8R

Cloudy morning and perfect coffee.

01 LOL Boys “Mind’s Clouded” (Friends of Friends)
02 Groundislava “Days”
03 Marc Romboy and Stephan Bodzin “Ferdinand” (Systematic)
04 Octave One “Burujha” (430 West)
05 Shlohmo “Ghost Pt. 2 (Groundislava Cool Mix)” (Error Broadcast)
06 Groundislava and Friends vs. Oliver $ “Doin Ya Thing” (Vendetta)
07 Ten City “That’s The Way Love Is” (Ibadan)
08 Tomas Barfod “Came to Party (Groundislava Remix)” (Friends of Friends)
09 Wax Stag “The Wash” (People in the Sky)
10 Benedek “Last Touch (Groundislava Cool Mix)” (Proximal)
11 Groundislava “Cold Water Breathing”
12 LOL Boys “Changes (Groundislava Cool Mix)” (Friends of Friends)
13 Chrono Trigger Original Soundtrack “The Day The World Revived” (Konami)
14 Groundislava “Untitled”
15 Groundislava feat. Jake Weary “The Upside (2010 Demo)”
16 Utada Hikaru “Simple and Clean” (Square Enix)

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Surgeon - Humanity Test

Here’s a mix of some of the new tracks I’ve been enjoying recently. See if you can spot the odd one out.

TRACKLIST:

Death Abyss - Seek Happiness In Victory, But Never In Peace (Inigo Kennedy remix) - MAK035 
Woo York - Void (Truncate Remix) - MUX006 
Samuli Kemppi - Hostile - KOMISCH012 
Midland and Pariah - SHEWORKS03B 
The Exaltics - Node#2 (Delta Funktionen Remix) - MA02 
Midland and Pariah - SHEWORKS03A 
Untold - Kane - HEK016V 
The Fear Ratio - Dirty Paws - BP035 
Kazuya Kawakami - Haunt - HHX08 
Blawan - Untitled - HINF8674 
Oris Jay - Said The Spider (Surgeon remix) - Texture Records 
Roberto - Going Nowhere Fast - AFFIN114 
Truncate - Diffraction (Jonas Kopp remix) - Modularz 8.1 
Planetary Assault Systems - Function 4 (Lucy Remix 1) - Mote030 
Roebin de Freitas - Doubt pt.1 - Unreleased 
Grenier - Uncertain - TEC062 
Phase - Binary Opposition (Inigo Kennedy Process) - TOKEN20RD 
Surgeon - As You Breathe Here Now - Semantica 50 
Svreca - Vilna (Orphx Remix) - Semantica33A 
Lory D - Acidattak - NMBRS23 
Randomer - Search It Out - Unreleased 
OM Unit - Preshah - TECCD013 
Diversion Group - Shirts And Skins - LINO22 
Blawan - Why They Hide There Bodies Under My Garage - HINF8674 
Midland - What We Know (Motor City Drum Ensemble Remix) - AUS1238 
Jacques Greene - Prism - 3024 019 
Oneohtrix Point Never - Remember (Surgeon remix) - SFT015

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Scalpel

Blawan, Midland, Pariah, Om Unit, Untold.

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Mary C. Brown and the Hollywood Sign - Dory Previn
Cocktails for Two - Spike Jones and his City Slickers
Boris the Bass -A.V.R.O. Dansorkest o.l.v. Hans Mossel
Bésame Mucho [1943] - Oscar Alemán
有難や節 - 守屋浩
ズンドコ節 - 小林旭
Koi no Kisetsu - Pinky & Killers
Body and Soul - Erroll Garner
Libertad - Iriarte and Pesoa
Wewe - Roberto Gatto
Romantic Conversation - Andy Shepheard
A Tour in Italy (Dub Version) - BandAid
Dancing With the Lion - Andreas Vollenweider

Photo: my old porch, one of the few things I miss about Vancouver.

IN CASE YOU FORGOT…

  dBridge 35 Min Mix - BOILER ROOM

Attn: O’Brien/BaltimoreHorses….

I’m dating myself here, but back in the day, I loved drum’nbass—- I lost interest somewhere between DieselBoy and clownstep- D&B became too fast, too formulaic, the darkside becoming too speedy: hearing it conjures up images of meth-tooth ravers in tattered phat pants wandering Vancouver’s Downtown East Side three years after the party ended.

After ignoring DnB for the better part of the last decade, I stumbled on this- this is something different. Stripped back, sinister and precise with drops in tempo and nods to D&B’s younger cousin Dubstep (or “Bass Music” or whatever the kids call it these days),  this won me over: serious business, with a narrative flow throughout reminding me of Shackleton, a key SolarFlares fave.

Ho selecta boh boh etc

Also: BOILER ROOM. Excellent podcast, check the mixes from Blawan, Midlands, Bicep. I like what’s coming out of there.

 Benjamin Damage & Doc Daneeka | XLR8R

Nice to hear the Midland & Pariah track (fave of the year so far), as featured on the West Norwood Cassette Library mix I’ve caned heavily on this blog….yup, a few months on,  still going through heavy rotation over here. ANNNNNyways:

As for the duo’s mix, it finds Benjamin Damage and Doc Daneeka skating along the nebulous territory where so-called “bass music” intersects with classic techno and house sensibilities. Much like the pair’s own productions, their selections here are often the sort of tunes that breathe new life, not to mention unique rhythms, into the standard techno template. It’s a compelling listen, and something that provides an interesting preview of where many bass-music refugees might be heading in the not-so-distant future.”

01 John Talabot “So Will Be Now” (Permanent Vacation)
02 DBX “Beat Phreak” (Accelerate)
03 Hayden Andre Project “Broken Chains” (Strobe)
04 Joy O “Wade In” (Hotflush)
05 Untold “Little Things Like That” (Clone)
06 Benjamin Damage & Doc Daneeka “No One” (50 Weapons)
07 Presk & Cinnaman “Sweat (Doc Daneeka Remix)” (Audio Culture)
08 Armando “Downfall” (Trax)
09 Sepalcure “Breezin” (Hotflush)
10 Ken Ishii “Extra” (R&S)
11 Midland & Pariah “Untitled”
12 Doc Daneeka “Tobyjug (Lando Kal Remix)” (Ten Thousand Yen)
13 Benjamin Damage & Doc Daneeka “Deaf Siren” (50 Weapons)
14 Cosmin TRG “De Dans” (50 Weapons)
15 Dexter “Juno Fest” (Rush Hour)

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Surgeon Live at Freerotation - Wales, UK - 07.22.11

TRACKLIST:

Chon Joltrane - Psalm
Om Unit - Prawn Cocktail
Instra:mental - Pyramid
N/A - Dead Letter Drop #1 [Letter - 001]
Emmanuel Jal - Kuar (Olof Dreijer Remix)
Skudge - Overture (Substance Remix)
Coil - The Snow
Instra:mental - Vicodin (Skudge Warehouse Mix)
Coil - The Snow (Jack Dangers Remix)
Brother From Another Planet - Planet Earth
Mace - Headstrong (John Selway Remix)
Rob Glennon - Modunation
Marcel Fengler - Thwack (L.B. Dub Corp Remix)
DJ Pierre - What Iz House Muzik
Robert Hood - Acrylic
Russ Gabriel - El Juan
Sbjekt - Objekt Tool
Cub - CU1
Swarm Intelligence - Fighting Talk VIP
Aphex Twin - Phloam
Ozka - Phantomz (Aubrey Remix)
Steve Poindexter - Computer Madness
RSD - Sugar Plumb Instrumental
The Martian - Search You Feelings
R-A-G - Rage
Emptyset - All Together Lost (Ben Klock’s Glowing Clap Mix)
K Alexi - Drug Test
Boris Noiz - Inceptive Point
Lone - Explorers
Kraftwerk - Tour De France (Version)
Ruskin & Broom - Mas
Thomas Bangalter - What To Do

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Evening listening for a Summer that still feels like Spring.

Togawa Jun

Lizzy Mercier Descloux

Dali’s Car

Roxy Music

Bryan Ferry

The Del-Byzanteens

Abwarts

Cabaret Voltaire

Nik Tyndall, Ashra, Earthstar, Michael Garrison, Steve Roach, the Durutti Column, Marisa Anderson, Robbie Basho.


mia grobelny / sub static mix / 11/10

Minimal, austere, dubby but groovy sophisto tech-house with lots of bounce to be found in certain passages.

Berlin, etc… How I like it.

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//Mia Grobelny (formerly M.I.A.)  producer/DJ  Berlin, Germany

Recently played with: Pangea, Stacey Pullen, Monty Luke, Konrad Black; Inaugurated Berghain’s Funktion One soundsystem in ‘08 with Alva Noto, Ricardo Villalobos, Richie Hawtin, Apparat & Shed.

Released on: Sub Static, Trapez, Traum, Areal, Treibstoff, Monika Enterprise, Wonder, Italic, Dumb-Unit, Kitty-Yo and Fumalab (Discogs)

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 20JFG Podcast: Hatchback

Haven’t been following 20jazzfunkgreats as religiously as before and this mix is alot more of that de rigeur kosmische/ambient/new-agey organic/sci-fi arpeggiated bliss that the kids are all crazy about these days but hey, bliss = bliss, will happily take it anytime, especially after midnight while sweating on lesson plans for tomorrow. Etc.

The tracklist seals the deal.

The soundtrack to an infomercial pushing time shares on distant worlds and the narcotics needed to get you there.  Hatchback string together a mix for the existential delights that await Deckard and Rachael once the lift doors close.  A dance through a gouraud shaded vision of the future dreamt up in a prog haze by NASA’s crack team of Balearic artisans.

Tracklisting:

rainflower – jade warrior
format & journey north – oneohtrix point never
ceres motion – mother mallard’s portable masterpiece company
grandioso – jd emmanuel
klangkörper – michael rother
four ever rainbow (part 3 alt mix) – steve hillage
rainbow canyon – iasos
amor real – global communication vs. jon anderson
universal avenue – double fantasy
serengeti – peter seiler
surrounding seas – jean-pierre decerf
le voyage – the alps
Racconti brevi: Lo specchio di Galadriel – arturo stalteri
esashi – haruomi hosono

borne on the solar wind – jade warrior 

Mix of the month: DJ MikeQ | XLR8R

Fierce, ultraminimal and hypnotic jack/bounce:

“…one of the leading figures of the East Coast’s long-running (but still largely underground) ballroom/vogue-house scene. Based in New Jersey, the 25-year-old producer is not only one of the most in-demand ballroom DJs, but he also heads up his own Qween Beat label and turns out a steady stream of vogue and ballroom tracks, re-edits, and remixes. We’ll be taking a much larger look at ballroom in the next issue of the magazine, but in the meantime, we’ve enlisted DJ MikeQ to assemble this exclusive mix and introduce himself (and by extension, the ballroom scene) to the XLR8R faithful. It’s an exciting listen; prepare yourself for lots of fierce/fabulous divas, blown-out snares, gritty sounds, and a seemingly incalculable number of tunes built upon a tiny loop from Masters at Work’s classic “The Ha Dance.”

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