I needed to do something different, so: an hour of ambient music.
Sad, sleepy, and distant. I don't know much about ambient, and it's
maybe a little awkward or careless to mix it like this, but I hope
it's enjoyable nonetheless.
Due to technical difficulties this installment of Movement Through Thought
did not broadcast or archive correctly at aNONradio. As such,
the mix had to be re-recorded: right-click save-as here or
on the spectrogram above to download, or check it out at mixcloud.
There are a few releases I'd like to highlight this week, starting
with the classic Stalker by Robert Rich and
Brian Lustmord. I suspect this is a very well known album and
I'm just out of the loop, but it's worth repeating that it's terrific.
The tracklist link above takes you to the album's entry at the
Hearts Of Space website which will in turn take you to amazon if you
want to purchase it.
The second is J. Wiltshire's album Resa on
Musar Recordings, who were kind enough to send me a promo
copy of the album. (Thank you). The sixth track In The Position plays
here as track 10. It's a hazy album, sometimes warm and playful,
sometimes more distant. I like it. And it gave this
installment of MTT its name, though I misremembered the exact words.
My last highlight is Xela's album Exorcism, nearly a third
of which plays at the end of this mix. I think I heard about Exorcism
through Warren Ellis's old blog back in 2012, I downloaded
it and loved it immediately. The sendspace link in the original blogpost
for the album is down, and so is the soundcloud upload.
Fortunately a user named Strelok has uploaded the whole thing
to youtube: track 1 Charm, track 2 Recitation,
track 3 Potion. This is one I often return to, so give it a listen
if you haven't heard it before.
This is my last broadcast on aNONradio, the last new episode
of Movement Through Thought to be transmitted there. I won't go into
detail why - I don't care for drama, and it's really not worth the
time. I'd rather not distract from the music. The music is more
important.
I'd like to get back on the radio somewhere, but that will take time
I think. For now I will keep up the practice by uploading shows to
mixcloud, starting next week. Something for the beginning of October.
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.
Right-click save-as here or on the spectrogram above to download
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.
Most of the selections this hour come from four labels:
Deep Medi Musik (tracks 6, 13, and 17), Punch Drunk
(tracks 2 and 4), Sentry (tracks 10 and 11), and Tectonic
(tracks 3, 14, and 15). Classic dubstep labels, with Sentry being the
newcomers here. All four have their releases available on bandcamp,
and are absolutely worth checking out.
There are two new releases I'd like to highlight today, the first being
Danny Daze's Protocol 305 on Schematic, which just came
out earlier this month.
I'm playing Twisted at -6% in this mix, which drops it roughly a
semitone, puts it right around 70 BPM, and makes it sound dope as hell.
A little Miami flavor in an otherwise mostly UK set.
Luka Prinčič's Transport Layer Security EP is the second release
I'd like to call attention to.
Both the title track and the more dramatic Polyental incorporate
polyrhythms and changes in tempo to a welcome and interesting effect.
Reminds me a bit of '90s Black Dog.
Very good tunes, and available name-your-price over at
Luka Prinčič's bandcamp.
Last shout out is to Seattle's DJ Struggle whose 2007 Struggle Dubs 5
mix is where I get the transition from Roll With The Punches to
Channel One, and a large part of where my taste in dubstep
comes from in general. (That and Monkeytek & Ryan Organ's old
club night Various).
And that's another August bass month done. I'll be back next week with
something fast again, new and old electro at ~135, the usual.
Bass month continues. Electro and Detroit technobass at 140. Features
new tracks by Client_03, Cyan85, Grammar Of Movement, Sepehr, and
Turk Turkelton. (Well, new tracks by my standards).
Right-click save-as here or on the spectrogram above to download
the mix. This mix is also available at mixcloud.
The first release I'd like to highlight is Autobot-1000 &
DJ Di'jital's Bass Programmer EP, first released on
Twilight 76 in 2002, and available now from Di'jital's bandcamp
page. I picked this up recently and it's terrific. Bass Programmer is
a legit technobass anthem; the original mix, played here, is smooth,
where Di'jital's mix is rougher and tougher. The other two tracks both
sound Kraftwerk-y to me, and are very strong. (Atomic
belongs on Radioactivity, Input/Output belongs on Computer World).
This is a really great EP, so go check it out.
All of these tracks are good, of course, but I've delayed writing this
long enough and feel the need to stop here. I'll be back next week at
the same time and place with ~70 BPM bass music, mostly dubstep. It
feels right to halve the tempo to close out the month.
