A Springtime Mix From The Loft
I shut myself up in the loft again last Saturday, and another mix popped out.
I think this is my favourite mix that I’ve done in recent times. I don’t know why. I’m just really pleased with the sound. I think it’s because I lucked out on finding a load of tracks that I really like. I hope you like it/them too…
Tracklist:
Dayvan Cowboy - Boards of Canada
Woozy with Cider (Jon Hokins Remix) - James Yorkston
Mahogany (Instrumental Mix) - Lexx
Take a Break (Maurice Fulton Remix) - Rollmottie
Get Up (Greg Wilson’s Special Mix) - Elektrons
…The Party’s Upstairs - Jay Shepheard
Move Me (Phonique Remix) - Trickski
Invasion - The Murmers
Little Johnny Brown - Sam Amidon
Roscoe (Beyond the Wizards Sleeve Remix) - Midlake
The Theme (Autechre Mix) - Unique 3
So Weit Wie Noch Nie - Jurgen Paape
One Pure Thought (Supermayer Remix) - Hot Chip
Planetary (Dub) - Booka Shade
Lost (Mazi and Duriez Remix) - Tyree Cooper and Marc Romboy
We Love - Jurgen Paape and Boy Schaufler
Glad To Know You (Todd Terje Re-Edit) - Chaz Jankel
Funkatarium - Jump
As normal, most tracks originally came from Beatport.com - if you like them in mixed format please buy.
Enjoy. Or don’t.
My Balearic Muxtape
Everyone seems to be Muxtaping today.
They’re calling it the easy way to create and share mixtapes. And it is. You just upload your tracks and it puts them together in a nice webpage where people can just click to listen.
They’ve got a blog here: http://muxtape.tumblr.com/.
37 Signals bigged it up so it’s being hammered at the moment (uploading is disabled for the moment as I write this). There’s also obvious issues regarding rights. They do say you should used cleared tracks - but if you look at any of the muxtapes on there most of them aren’t. Including mine (sorry).
My afternoon’s balearic listening can be heard right here: http://baleariciain.muxtape.com/
One of those brilliantly simple sites that does one thing very well.
Art of Noise: Moments in Love
A classic bit of 80s Balearic tunage. What’s not to love. A proper classic. Not 100% sold on the video though…
Yet Another Silly Moment in Techno
Is this techno viking’s mum? Or grandma?
Very scary indeed.
Computer Music Skillz
Sorry for the flurry of posts. It’s the first excitable surfing I’ve done in a while.
I am so envious of this guy’s ability with his computer music equipment:
Here’s some more beatfoolery:
Jealous.
Poor Portishead
I feel dead sorry for Portishead. They were stunning. And then they became the soundtrack to a thing that no-one wanted to be.
But their music skills are good:
And reading about them in the Observer made me like them again. I love the fact that they’d press samples that they’d create back onto vinyl so they can scratch them and make them sound like records. Dedication.
Looking forward to the new album later in the Spring.
Fun Fun Fun auf der Autobahn
Wowza. This 12 minute tripped out animation for Kraftwerk’s seminal Autobahn is quite something.
Buy the DVD (or VHS) and find out more here.
If I Was 17 Again
If I was much younger I'd be well into the whole Rock/Rave thing. Or at least I think I would.
I kind of like it but I think my ears are too old. It's a bit like that mosquito thing that only teens can hear. I like moments of it in short bursts but it's too noisy for my delicate eardrums.
The music and the fashion borrows stuff from a load of other things I like. But it feels like it's managed to become a new thing in its own right. And that's important for 17 year olds right?
I shouldn't be allowed to go anywhere near it. It's their time now. And I'm not going to spoil it for them by pretending to be into it. But if I was 'into it' I'd like this:
And I’d quite like these guys too:
Typographic Synthesizer - So Good It’s Magic!
You know sometimes when you see something so amazing that you almost forget to breathe while you’re looking at it. Well I’m just about finished hyperventilating after the end of this video.
The guys at Meek.fm have created something that creates an incredible relationship between typography, sound and a control surface. You can tweak type using knobs, and the sound is generated by the form of the letters. It’s nuts. Totally nuts.
I also love the modesty of the video, the fact it ends with an almost slightly unsure: “OK, that’s it. Thanks”. If I was wearing a hat I’d take it off to these guys.
Pre-YouTube Silly Moments In Techno
I should probably start a separate category in the blog for this stuff. It just seems to keep on coming…
I loved this clip for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it’s a bunch of cheeky young ravers from Edinburgh. I would have been living there at the time and I’m pretty familiar with their ilk.
But the best thing about the clip is that it’s from a time way before YouTube. These guys were playing to the camera for no other reason than just mucking about. The only outlet for this stuff used to be You’ve Been Framed, and I don’t think they were going for that…
Thirdly it’s been recorded on Betamax which means there’s a load of ‘non-digital artefacts’ in the clip. The tracking being slightly off in places, moments of tape slur and more.
If you get bored jump through it, there’s new characters, new styles and so much more to see…
