Pulling tracks together for these mixes is a fascinating way to consider music and fiinding the common elements to link things together. In part the approach is based on a quote we were often reminded of, at Art School, was by the English painter Walter Sickert which goes something like ‘a little bit of your last colour goes into your next colour – to create harmony’.
So in this setting, despite decades, genres, all sorts of oil and water type variables, how can I create a mix that floats entertainingly, being cohesive, and all over the place at the same time? It’s also interesting to consider the new music we are discovering, and writing about, in the midst of the work that’s possibly influenced it in the first place…
Soniko 4: Sunfloroj por Ukrainio
- Morly Grey – The Only Truth
- Hiroyuki Usui – The Stoats – [In Progress]
- The Magic Mixture – Moonbeams
- Robbie Lee & Lea Bertucci – Glitter and Gleam
- Ben Glas – Palate Cleanser
- Mirrors – Frustration
- Syrinx – Tillicum
- Petar Klanac & ensemble 0 – Maite dut bizitza [reassembled organ sequences]
- Alan Silva – Skillfullness
- 1The Liverpool Scene – We’ll All Be Spacemen Before We Die
- Space Ponch – Tati Suite
- TOMO – courants eau de source
- Jodi – Experimento
- Creeping Pink – (feel through a hole in the trail to Sound Creek)
- Robert Beatty – Escape Spirit Videoslime
- Hiroyuki Usui – No Nothing Thank You Session
- Children Of The Mushroom – You Can’t Erase A Mirror
- Lithops – Uni Umit 5
- Monolight- Stranded In Narrow Air
- Reinhold Friedl – Golden Quinces, Earthed for spatialised Neo-Bechstein
- Bitchin Bajas – Diaspora
- A.R. & Machines – Einladung
- Charles Ives – The Unanswered Question
- Joe Meek & The Blue Men – Entry Of The Globbots
- The High Llamas – Mini Management (Jim O’Rourke Remix)
- Connan Mockasin – Forever Dolphin Love
- Conrad Schnitzler – Gelb 10
- The Asylum Choir – Icicle Star Tree
- The Focus Group – The New Activity
- Henry Cow – Teenbeat
- d – Firspk
- Tom Recchion – Dubby Struts In Trenchtown (RIFS #2)
- John Cage – First Construction in Metal
- Buffy Sainte-Marie – He’s A Keeper Of The Fire
- Harumi – Samurai Memories
- Alvin Lucier – The Duke of York
- The Spoils Of War – E-Thing
- John Fahey – Knott’s Berry Farm Molly
- m. geddes gengras – The Empty Space (side B)
- France – Voyage Spectral (partie 5)
- Maryanne Amacher – Dense Boogie 1