Electro, sometimes smooth, sometimes noisy, leaning into IDM territory near
the end. A similar selection to last week's program (I guess I
wasn't done with that particular mood yet).
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this mix. This mix is also available at mixcloud.
Vertical67's Black Water is from a recent series of self-titled
7"es on Brokntoys, all sort-of experimental, all very cool. I'll be
playing more from that series in upcoming sets, so keep an eye (ear?)
out.
A couple things about Ben Milstein's Felonius Crunk:
one, it's playing at -6% here to fit with the tempo of this mix, and
two I wouldn't be surprised if I've misidentified where the downbeat is.
It's a difficult track to figure out. I'm a fan of Milstein but I rarely
play his music in sets. His work is pretty abstract, dark, noisy.
It's worth saying too that he's terrific live, don't miss a chance to see
him perform.
Felonius Crunk leads into Solid State Logic by Haujobb
from their 1995 album Freeze Frame Reality. Kind of a stretch as
a mix, but it's my habit to go out on a big track, and I really wanted
to hear it.
And that's that. I'll be back next week with another upload on Thursday
evening PDT. I think I'll play a little industrial next, it feels like
a good time. (My industrial collection is pretty limited, so don't
expect anything too fancy).
Electro all at ~128 BPM, the October mood. Features a few classics
(Isolation, Think Like Us) as well as new tracks (Trichome's Thoth Lowrider).
And: I finally cleaned the potentiometers in my DJ mixer.
Right-click save-as here or on the spectrogram above to download
this mix. This mix is also available at mixcloud.
Trichome's 2020 album Cognitive Dissonance deserves a paragraph.
It's the most Experimental Liquor Museum thing I've heard in
years and it's fantastic. Schematic has been on fire lately
and this is my favorite of their recent output. Thoth Lowrider
is the selection here, and the whole release is great and worth
checking out at the link above.
I had another ending worked out with Loopt by The Wee DJs playing
right after Polar by Señor Frio but I very much wanted to hear
Versalife's Pathogen. I'll get to Loopt some other day.
There's some missed cues and uneven levels here, as usual, but
the perfect is the enemy of the good, as they say. I'll have another
mix up and ready to download next week (Thursday evening PDT again).
Scape One's Hyperbolix is (relatively) new, released in
February on the album Cosmic Trax through Mr. Baggaley's bandcamp.
I played the first track off it a couple months ago, one of the Jive
Rhythm Trax tributes. Hyperbolix is more moody than those tributes,
more in line with what the album sounds like as a whole.
The other new song this week is Pearson Sound's
Everything Is Inside Out from his Alien Mode EP.
I played the A side of this two weeks ago and am really glad
to get to this track (B2) now. It's a genre-bending piece,
as much techno or breaks or IDM as it is anything else. The kicks
are arranged in the same pattern as the second half of the Numbers rhythm,
there's no snare or strong accent on 2, I dunno, it's weird. And weird
in this case is good.
There's lots more to recommend here: Shadowbunny is awesome,
Ivna Ji's Laax EP is one of my favorite EPs of the last
couple of years, even an old semi-forgotten tracker mod in Aliensex
by Kaiowa. But I feel like moving on. I'll be back next week with
something slower, as usual.
The marquee track of this selection is without a doubt Legowelt's
Shadows In The Street Life from his album Pancakes With Mist.
I've been waiting to play it for a month or more now. An electro anthem,
the kind I find only every few years. Mixes well with Skyway Motel,
too, which is pretty cool.
Another thing to mention is that Rude 66's classic Overkill
is playing at -6% in this mix. On second listen it sounds a bit off,
a bit wrong, though to some extent that was my intention. Maybe it
would have been better a little slower. Check the link above to
hear Overkill at its original speed if you're unfamiliar with it.
I'm happy with this. We've been having a, ah, weather event where
I am in Oregon and the music choices this hour reflect that. The
performance could be better, there are some annoying unfinished edges
in the mix, but I'm always going to say that. Oh, and my little vocal
intro wasn't archived correctly, but that's OK.
Breaks, electro, IDM, and a little future garage, all at a bit less than
half the tempo of last week's show. This hour features new(ish) music by
Andy Garvey, Client_03, and Pearson Sound.
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the mix. This mix is also available at mixcloud.
The first release I'd like to highlight in this is Pearson Sound's
Alien Mode EP, released a couple of months ago on the great
Hessle Audio. I like the title track Alien Mode a lot, a
breaks workout with some fun vocal distortion (timestretching?). It shows
up here near the end of the hour. There's a very good tune on the B-side
of the EP too which I'll probably play in a few weeks.
Immediately after Alien Mode is Low Orbit Satellite's
Objects In Space from their album Objects In Space.
I spent an afternoon about six months
ago going through the releases on Low Orbit Satellite's bandcamp, and I
think Objects In Space is my favorite. It's four strong trancey electro
tracks and one ambient dub techno track, very much my thing.
Tracks 7 through 10 form a little future garage segment. I don't know
much about the style and only have a few tracks (most of it sounds like
Burial's Untrue to me) but I enjoy it and it's fun to play every now
and then. Mixing future garage is a challenge, one I haven't practiced
much, so that segment is maybe a little rocky.
That's all the commentary for #184 I have in me. I'll be back next week
with something slower, returning to my usual trend of reducing tempo
through the month.
I featured Legowelt near the beginning of the show again this week,
with a track from his new album Pancakes With Mist. The release
of Pancakes somehow slipped by me, or I'd have played
Shadows In The Street Life weeks ago. It's very good (I like
it anyway) and currently listed as name-your-price, so go check it out.
The Duran Duran remix at the end of this hour is of course from
MASK 500. The copy I have, the copy that's played here, is the
2009 bootleg. I've both played and written about it before,
and I'm sure I will again. Might be worth writing up a post dedicated
to it.
I didn't leave myself enough time to read the tracklist out loud at
the end of this show, unfortunately. Sorry to the folks who got left
out. I don't have too much more to say about this one; it was fine.
The last 20 minutes are particularly good, I think.
Thanks to everybody out there listening. I'll be back next week
to continue my tradition of playing bass music in August, so
prepare yourself for at least two weeks of Miami Bass.
