minima•darc … Sparse arrangements, stripped down and slowly creeping, soulful…but on the verge of breaking down. A more modern Trip Hop session. Or how I imagine it would sound like. It’s not the sound but the feeling that remains…

01. Massive Attack vs Burial – Four Walls
02. Saint Saviour – This Ain’t No Hymn (Ghettoscraper Zombie Drone Mix)
03. Bilal – Levels (Sonnymoon Remix)
04. Ernesto – Peace of Mind (Pinku Vääty Dub Remix)
05. Aquarius Heaven – Interview
06. Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XX – Home
07. Robot Koch feat. Grace – Like Rain
08. Emika – Count Backwards
09. Susheela Raman – Love Lies (Hit By A Rock Remix)
10. Switch & Andrea Martin – I Still Love You (Switch & JP Remix)
11. Clare Maguire – Ain’t Nobody (Breakage Remix)
12. Josh One feat. Shenkar & Lateef The Truthspeaker – Open Up (Beat Ventriloquists Remix)
13. Sofa Surfers – Hardwire (Marcus Kienzl Remix)
14. The Weeknd – Initiation

Next Session: A Dirty-fied Holiday/Christmas sound
(Have not made up my mind yet what the end of the year/beginning of the year session will be)

Broken Beat / Random Beat mixtape volume (lost track of count). Abstracted beats and rhymes for the fragmentaholics. Will it blend? Beats too chunky for easy consumption. This is how you rock to it.

01. Reggie & The Full Effect – Guess Who’s Back
02. Exile – Dawn of Nothing
03. Shigeto – Look At All The Smiling Faces (Take Remix)
04. Knxwledge – Bibimbap
05. DJ Q-Bert & DJ Babu – Thelonious Funk
06. Samiyam – Return
07. Free The Robots – Inter Arma
08. Pictureplane – Goth Star
09. Hudson Mohawke – Overnight
10. Suff Daddy – 4 My Holiks
11. DJ Krush feat. The Beat Knuckles – Beataholic Reformatory
12. Fanu – Bringing Out the Evil
13. Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX – I’m New Here
14. Lynx & Kemo – The Raw Truth
15. Mr. Lif – Ultra/Mega
16. Cut Chemist Feat. Edan and Mr. Lif – Storm
17. Onra – The One (feat. T3 from Slum Village)
18. Mr. Chop – Main Ingredient
19. Pretty Lights – Sunday School
20. Souleance – Passarinho
21. Pariah – Detroit Falls
22. Dee Edwards – Why Can’t There Be Love? (Pilooski Edit)
23. The Gaslamp Killer feat. Mophono – Carpool Dummy
24. The Glitch Mob – Fistful Of Silence
25. The Freestylers – Music is Music

Back to beatmatched mixing next session.

Part 1 of 2 Halloween Special. This is the Soundtrack edition. Still in that same, 80′s to 90′s era Euro-Suspense Thriller mode, with some old-school spooky synthesizer sounds to boot (this was originally a much longer recording that had more electro / zombie sounding elements, and initially titled Zombie Breakdance Apocalypse). It becomes more of a dance mix in the last 3rd of the session.

Death Comes Calling For Her Sexy Nude Killer In The Dark With Plumage…and Multiple Endings:

intro – Tale of Two Sisters
01. Massive Attack – Heat Miser
02. M83 – Black Hole
03. Goblin – La Chiesa
04. Mondkopf – Moon’s Throat
05. Goblin – Suspiria (Main Title)
06. The Cure – Three
07. Roll The Dice – Evolution
08. Sylvain Chauveau – Hurlements En Faveur De Serge T.
09. Kenji Kawaii – Phantom Screen
10. HTRK – Ice Eyes Eis
11. Deaf Center – Loft
12. Kenji Kawaii – Stand-and-Eat Soba Shop
13. Creep – Intro
14. The Hasbeens – I Fall To Pieces
15. Mondkopf – Legacy
16. Roll The Dice – Iron Bridge
17. The Aloof – Losing It
18. Camouflage – In Cold Blood
19. Romina – Hit Me
20. Lindstrøm – I Feel Space
21. Poni Hoax – Budapest
22. Goblin – Phenomena M15 (Alternate Version)
23. Light Asylum – Dark Allies
24. Doubting Thomas – F862

check back in later in the week for Part 2, Ghoulish Disco Edition. It’s the Devil’s Ball 2011.

I wondered how it would be like if I handled the playlist at a Starbucks or other cafe. My usual tendencies would have been to make it darker, like playing Tricky’s Pre-Millennium Tension all day, but that would get me fired. Steady Loungin’ for the caffeinated crowd:

01. José James – Blackmagic
02. Suff Daddy feat. Mar – Deep Shit
03. Kissey Asplund feat. Soliloquy – Move Me
04. DJ Krush feat. Zap Mama – Danger Of Love
05. The Soul Renegades feat. Texas – You’ll Never Know
06. Jamie Woon – Spiral
07. Samantha James – Amber Sky
08. Magnet – Overjoyed
09. Aim feat. Kate Rogers – Sail (Rae & Christian Remix)
10. Submotion Orchestra – All Yours
11. Elbow – Fugitive Motel
12. The Cinematic Orchestra feat. Fontella Bass – All That You Give
13. Moloko – Over & Over
14. Joash feat. Aaron David Frith – Climb

Bonus older Extra mix:

Thunder in the House of Boom

01. Morgan Page – Outside The City (Voltique Remix)
02. Superpitcher – Tell Me About It
03. John Dahlback – Late Night Worries (Guy Gerber’s Special K Remix)
04. Ben Watt – Guinea Pig (M.A.N.D.Y. & Smallboy Remix)
05. Tillman Cremer – Be My Friend
06. Sharam – Get Wild (Dub Mix)
07. Die Elfen & Phonique – The Red Dress (Tiefschwarz Remix)
08. M. Telemann – Wie Soll Man Sich Denn Bei Diesem Lärm Auf Den Bus Freuen?
09. Röyksopp – What Else Is There? (Trentemøller Remix)
10. Romanthony’s Nightvision – Never Fuck (Tomcraft Remix)
11. Bloc Party – Talons (Phones R.I.P. Remix)

In time, No one will remember our work, Our life will pass like the traces of a cloud, And be scattered like, Mist that is chased by the, Rays of the sun, For our time is the passing of a shadow, And our lives will run like, Sparks through the stubble.

01. Derek Jarman – “Impatient Youths of the Sun”
02. Lee Jones – “Kreuzberg 61 (Original)”
03. Nosaj Thing – “Us (Jon Hopkins Remix)”
04. Massive Attack – “Atlas Air (Jneiro Jarel’s Lavender Remix)”
05. Jatoma – “Paper Lights”
06. 65daysofstatic – “Sawtooth Rising”
07. The XX – “Shelter (Tiga Remix)”
08. Solar Bears – “Trans Waterfall”
09. Conjure One – “Places That Don’t Exist”
10. Underworld – “Always Loved A Film (King Creosote Cover)”
11. Bernhard Fleischmann – “Guided By Beats”
12. Fredrik – “Dance of the Peacock Phantom”

Nosaj Thing; one of my discovery at this year Sonar Festival…

Fredrik;

Derek Jarman; From his movie “Blue”
Blue is the twelfth and final feature film by director Derek Jarman, released just four months before his death by AIDS-related complications. Such complications had already rendered him partially blind at the time of the film’s release.

The film was his last testament as a film-maker, and consists of a single shot of saturated blue colour filling the screen, as background to a soundtrack where Jarman’s and some of his favourite actors’ narration describes his life and vision.

Going for a mood rather than a groove. This show is more “a picture paints a thousand words” but along the lines of sounds/music painting the visuals. Or we can cheat and just view the trailer listed in track no.3 below.

Intro:
01. The Cure – The Final Sound
02. Rktic – Geiger Radio
03. 13 Tzameti (see trailer here)
04. Porn Sword Tobacco – Den Kalla Handen

05. Enduser feat. Sol Thomas – Black Light
06. Swayzak – Saints
07. Meat Beat Manifesto – She’s Unreal (Grandbrother’s Tension Remix)
08. Doubting Thomas – The Moodswing
09. Consequence – Farewell
10. Pale Sketcher – Plans That Fade (Faded Dub)
11. Placebo – Running Up That Hill
12. Kidneythieves – Crazy
13. Lonely Galaxy – Have a Heart (Active Child Remix)
14. The Aloof – Wish You Were Here
15. Download – Attallal (Re-mix By Haujobb)
16. Deep Dish – My Only Sin
17. Depeche Mode – Stripped (Highland Mix)
18. Doubting Thomas – Theme from Pressurehead

Next podcast will be a tongue in cheek affair.

To sleep, and dream: episode twelve of Iconastasia is a lullaby for the insomniacs, those of us who find ourselves still awake at 4AM on a Sunday morning wondering when the relief will come. A delicate, shimmering mix of classic dreamy pop, indie, and ambient; dense soundscapes and gentle whispers of melody.

01. Grovesnor – Turn Your Radio Up
02. Tiefschwarz – Legends
03. Sofa Surfers – Walking Ghosts
04. Missy Higgins – Warm Whispers
05. Orsten – Fleur Blanche
06. Faithless – Drifting Away
07. Cinematic Orchestra – As the Stars Fall
08. School of Seven Bells – Half-Asleep
09. Broken Social Scene – Anthems for a Seventeen-Year Old Girl
10. The Postal Service – The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
11. Ulrich Schnauss – Goodbye
12. Thievery Corporation – Tomorrow

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Due to undulations and conflagrations in Shatterfreak’s world this podcast has been a long time coming, but as of Monday we are back in the saddle. And odd little collection of hip-hop derivatives and sonic tangents this is what happens when you end up raiding a folder you have opened in a while.

01. Paul White – Floating Free
02. TAKE – Face the Firing Squad
03. Asian Dub Foundation – 2 Face
04. Cypress Hill – How I could just kill a man
05. DJ Shadow – Six Days
06. Dreadzone – Straight to a Soundboy
07. Four Tet – She Moves She
08. Wayne Smith – Under me sleng teng
09. Kid Koala – Vacation Island
10. Lunar – Whale
11. Photek – Smoke Rings
12. The Herbaliser – Something Wicked
13. Tricky – Judas
14. The Streets – Weak Become Heroes

Dawn of 50 is approaching… a little warm up… bubbles ordered but for now some new bits and tunes some of what I’ve been enjoying in the past week. Always on time, just a year later.

01. Fever Ray – Mercy Street
02. Ikonika – Ingredients
03. Coma – Bruxelles
04. Plastikman – Ask Yourself
05. Karraskilla – Expreso Cali
06. Blonde Redhead – Love Or Prison
07. Mock & Toof – From Kashima
08. The Three Lions – You’ll Win Again
09. Smooth – Friendly yours
10. Sylvain Chauveau – From Stone to Cloud

End of summer vibe… around the pool food time, time to get out a little bit more and remember what it’s like before it’s dark again.

01. Myagi – Sweet
02. Zeebee – The One I Am
03. Parov Stelar – Shine (Dub Version)
04. Holy Fuck – Dr. Dr. E
05. Misteur Valaire – Monster Donte
06. Ichisan & Nakova – Povratak Otpisanih
07. Whitetree – Other Nature
08. Burn The Negative – Hero In Tokyo
09. Kelpe – Half Broken Harp
10. Misteur Valaire – November Number 3 (Feat. Fanny Bloom)
11. Five Star Hotel – Underground (Cayetano Remix)
12. Christ. – Happyfour Twenty (Prhizzm Remix)
13. Stefano Giaccone Peter Brett – The Man on the Moon
14. Salem – Sweat
15. The Fauns – 1991
16. God Help The Girl – The Psychiatrist Is In