Saturday, January 31, 2009

MUSICAL AMBASSADOR


Volume 4 and still going strong. I'm really pleased with this series. Not much to really say... just some great music the way I hear it. "Push Push" is an all time favorite... and I think my delay mix does it justice. That Rob G blew me away last year when I heard the original on a Ron C mix. Just listen, enjoy and comment if you can.






Artikal Don


http://www.divshare.com/download/6436096-2ca


Haji Springer - Hello Buddy (Slowed)
Joe Crepusculo - Los Cuatro Elementos
Rockers Hi-Fi - Push Push
Rob G - How You Like Me Now (Slowed)
Gregory Isaacs - Rock On
Warraw - Untitled 6
Eddie Kendricks - My People
Bon Iver - Brackett, WI
Alarm Will Sound - Fingerbib
Shabba Ranks - Roots and Culture

Thursday, January 29, 2009

MAD, BAD AND MIXED UP IN THE HEAD



The third installment in my Sufferation series. This one adds the element of my (musical) lust for Ron Hardy. After a mournful ly uplifting Scratch Perry track and some light AM G Funk, I try my hand at a rough and nasty Hardy style edit of the Pointer Sisters. Three oddly placed Xacto cuts later... and the vocal core of the song comes in briefly... only to be obliterated by a wash of dub and feedback.

There's no turning back.

No slackness... strictly dread.








Step Into the A.M.




http://www.divshare.com/download/6428048-b1c





Kiddus I - Crying Wolf-Nyahbingi Take
The Jacka and 12 Gauge Shotie - Sunshine
Pointer Sisters - How Long (Nattymari's Music Box Re-Edit)
Arab on Radar - My Mind is a Muffler
2 One One - Real Muthafuckas
Cellski f/ C- Bo - Murder on My Mind
Boz Skaggs - Lowdown (Slowed)
Pluxus - Business
Morwell Unlimited Meets King Tubby - Morwell's Star
Isley Brothers - Machine Gun
Paul Masse - Time N' Cherry Wine

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

LEFT SHOE, RIGHT FOOT, NEW SERIES


I'm going to officially declare this next phase of mixes a series... and dub them the SUFFERATION MIXES. Yep... basically, we're looking at the same selector status... but a different way of listening to the tracks I select.

My trick bag will be one from that rises, like a murky phoenix, from the ashes of Black Ark studio. Dark and heavy dub... overbearing bass.... mud and cosmic funk. I love it... I love the beginning of MAGGOT BRAIN... those little droplets of multitap before George tastes the maggots in the mind of the universe.

Sure I'm using filters... but there's also a lot of manual dubbing here. Most of these tracks have been hand manipulated... not that it matters. It's what your ears hear, right?


I like these past two mixes... and I want more.








Nuff Pressure Pass (Sufferation 2)



http://www.divshare.com/download/6415931-c0c



Shock G - Baby, You OK? (Slowed)
Herman Dune - I Do the Crabwalk
In Flagranti - Reputation or Notoriety
Mon-o-Phone - Drive
Sonny Rollins - Shout It Out
Beachwood Sparks - Butterflys (Singing and Sleeping)
Pino D'Angio - Ma Quale Idea
Dillenger - Mickey Mouse Crab Louse
Grand Duchy - Break the Angels
Lightnin Rod - Sport (Slowed)
4 St. Orchestra - Scientific (Hurting Dubb)
Cotton Jones - Some Strange Rain

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

HAT TIP TO TUBBY



My Myspace page proudly states my obvious heroes. Among them (and at the top of the list) are Larry Levan, Robert Davis (DJ Screw) and King Tubby. Pioneers of the sonic kingdom. Men blessed with the gift to make music a very personal journey.

I couldn't even begin to consider myself in their league... I just hope I do them justice. Each, for the most part unknowingly, fulfilled the dream of my uber hero, William S. Burroughs. Taking mass marketed media and warping it to fit their own, slightly sinister, goals. The result is often termed psychedelic... although that is a perception based upon outside objectivity.

Any expression so intimate will seem strange to outside ears. A different language spoken on a bus. A sign, printed in an alphabet never seen before. It seemed bizzare in the mid-60's, but do Brian Wilson's late compositions really sound so strange now? We've heard so many sounds influenced by them, that we've grown accustomed to it... and now we simply hear the beauty that was always there.

My heroes played their music the way THEY wanted to hear it. Thankfully, others wanted to hear it the same way. They were not attempting to make strange, trippy drug music... they were just trying to express to the world what they heard. These blog mixes have helped me to do that. I've reached a point where my mixes have become extremely personal.

I only hope that they touch a few others as well... and possibly inspire them the way Robert, Larry and Tubbs do me.










Sound Selector Status




http://www.divshare.com/download/6401668-bfe




David Gates - Goodbye Girl (Slowed)
Harry Chapin - Cats in the Cradle (Slowed)
Flying Lizards - Move On Up
Joe White - Mellow Dub
Starfucker - Miss You
G Side - Minute Away - (Slowed)
Yay Boyz and Dru Down - Pimpy Doo
On Every Shore
The Books - Cello Song
Undisputed Truth - Smiling Faces Sometimes
Lizzy - Love is a Treasure
Nouvelle Vague - Guns of Brixton

Monday, January 26, 2009

NEW YORK'S HOME, BUT IT AIN'T MINE NO MORE




I hate this East Coast cold, dude. Seriously! I hate the fashion and music and probably the people out here. I wonder why L.A. has the reputation for being bitter, icy and heartless.


Lucky number seven in my serious of unwanted trash. I cheated a little and threw in some stuff I wanted too... so it's more like 3/4 Septritus. Still... it was an excercise in making that which don't fit, fit.

Why the hell did I hold on to that Dosh track for like 2 months??? It's so fricking sweet!








SEPTRITUS



http://www.divshare.com/download/6387373-083




Juvelen - Watch Your Step
Katey Red - Stupid
Spoon - Well Alright
Shock G - Gotchoo (Chilled)
Little Claw - Ice Age
Dosh - Rock It to the Next Episode
Dillenger - Leave the Arena
Killer Mike - My Life Kane and Abel (Slowed)
Jeremy Warmsley - If He Breaks Your Heart
Safeashome - 1987 198X
MF Doom - Ballskin

Saturday, January 24, 2009

TORN BETWEEN TWO LOVERS


Another early night before another early morning. me love dub. Me love dub.



This mix starts on some slowed voodoo funk and ends somewhere on the streets of Houston. In the middle I revisit my childhood and make some new friends in the process.












Suck Her Back In

http://www.divshare.com/download/6387207-675



Jeb Loy Nichols - Dr. Noblio (Slowed)
Popnoname - Nightliner 1
Secret Mommy - Music Room
Friend John - Multicolor Dub
The Whip - Sister Sam (Bitchee Bitchee Ya Ya Mix)
The Starlets - Maggie Loves Hopey
Steve Forbet - Say Goodbye to Little Jo (Slowed)
The Outsiders - You Remind Me
Lullatone - The Bathtime Beat
Worldwide Riders - Laws of Life (Slowed)

Friday, January 23, 2009

WHAT'S THAT SECRET YOU'RE KEEPING?


Another little journey behind my green door. No multiple handjobs or Davie and Moore horrorpop... just layered beats and textures... ultimately ending in some cosmic drone.

Gobble gobble. Eat my cherry for 100 pts!









It's Not Supposed to Matter




http://www.divshare.com/download/6382668-471




Sogyumo Acacia - Begin Travelling
Emancipator - Lionheart
Amok - Lis
The Clipse - Still Got It For Cheap
Bunny Lake - Deeper Confession (Slowed)
Ballady i Romanse - Toksyczna Para
Benoit Pioulard - A Woolgathering Exodus
Clint Holmes - Playground In My Mind (Slowed)
Shock G - Cherry Flavored Email (Chilled)
Kelpe - Yippee Space Ghost
Dead Man - Today

Thursday, January 22, 2009

UNLOAD THE BARREL AND LAUGH


A mellow little selection of psychedelic ambient beats and pieces. Happiness in a little 224 kbps container. A fake adobe painting and a handshake.








echopera



http://www.divshare.com/download/6366214-a90



Kingfisherg - Green Eyed Diamond
Tape - Moth Wings
Grampall Jookabox - Ghost (Slowed)
Can - Empress and the Ukraine King
In Flagranti - Subvariety
The Do - Queen Dot Kong
The Plastics - Robot
Astrid Quay - The Caterpillar (Slowed)
Ami Marie - Wir Sind Zufrieden
Damenbart - Bewusstserweiterung
Dr. John - Walk on Guilded Splinters
Eagle and Talon - Georgia
Fever Ray - Concrete Walls

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

I GO RAMBO YOU GO PREDATOR


I just banged my thumb (which looks almost perfect now) and I think I now realize the full meaning of "white light going messing up my mind." Anyway... here's a magical mix for all you members of the D.A. Guaranteed to keep the Death Eaters away!






Dumbledore



http://www.divshare.com/download/6365910-daa



Brent Cash - This Sea, These Waves
Mickey Moonlight - Interplanetary Music
Whitest Boy Alive - 1517
Poney Poney - Cross the Fader (Headman Mix)
Pluxus - Dagmeja
Kelpe - Half Broken Harp
Matmos - Polychords
Kaada - Care
Smoov-E - Bachelor
Jacqueline Taleb - 7 Am
The Animated Egg - Sock It My Way
Jens Lekman - Happy Birthday, Dear Friend Lisa
Colortone Library - Reminiscences

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

BURNING WITH BOREDOM NOW


Easy selector! This one is pretty dubby... albeit not strictly a dub mix. I'm freaking hooked on the slowed Baile track that starts it off... and pretty much committed to further freaking with that Paul Simon beat.

Had a nice day with family yesterday and a verbal war with the fiance. Not looking forward to six more days of slavery... but my little cyber lives help ease the tension. Blogging... two consecutive games of harvest moon and my own household ranching chores keep a restless mind busy.

Life in paradise isn't always pretty.






mercy beach



http://www.divshare.com/download/6359109-a21




Jean Al Nippon and Orgasmic - Alice (Slowed)
Riley All Stars - Staga Dub
Lucy Mercier Descloux - Aya Mood
Mr. Partridge - Madhattan
Lullatone - The Bedtime Beatbox
Tape - Beams
Paul Simon - 50 Ways to Leave your Lover (Slowed and Archived)
This is Deer Country - Jackie
Sunken Foal - Without Any Thought
Soguymo Acacia Band - Hangul Alphabets
Eagle and Talon - Tight Score
Max Cooper - Harmonisch Serie (Slowed)
Tight Wayz - Tempers Flair (Slowed)




Sunday, January 18, 2009

TONIGHT I'M GONNA PARTY LIKE IT'S 1995


This mix sounds a little different, and totally transports me back about 15 years. A lot of the songs are new, but somehow it triggers memories from back in those days. A little combination of twee little shoegaze and psych drifting into some IDM heavier than what I normally present on this blog. It features longer songs and nary a pop or hip hop song, slowed up or otherwise.

I like the journey it takes me on. I hope someone else does too.





rapid regression



http://www.divshare.com/download/6347081-4f9



Teenage FanClub - Mount Everest
Michael Head and the Strands - Loaded Man
John Frusciante - Ah Yom
Azzuro - Solaris
Anders Ilar - Ludwijka vIII
Reload - Ahn
Po- Broken Fingers
Bradbury - Sinistrogynic Moebius Disc
Telefon Tel Aviv - Your Mouth

Saturday, January 17, 2009

CHRONOLOGY


I'm 38 today. I'm older than hip-hop... about as old as dub. To celebrate... well work, and another mix for you to do it in your earhole. I'm lame and have to work early tomorrow too... so take a big crack hit for me, if you can.


Cheers!

BTW: I really love this Whitest Boy Alive shit. Erland Oye manages to almost channel Arthur Russell... whom I miss almost daily.







WANT SOME SKANK



http://www.divshare.com/download/6335463-91a



Tujiko Noriko - Wasunerai Hikari
Riow Arai - Over Circle
Plaid - Non Hoi
Brael and Tokyo Bloodworm - Magic Wand
Coconut Records - The Summer
Atlas Sound - River Card
Faust - It's a Bit of a Pain
Nickel Eye - Back From Exile
Gainsborough Gallery - If She Don't Turn Your Head
Vashti Bunyan - The Coldest Night of the Year
Leander - Four Days
The Whitest Boy Alive - Courage

Friday, January 16, 2009

SELECTED AMBIENT WORKS



I did a little remix project for my new m8 Taklamakan from Croatia. I took elements of his work entitled "Lighthouse," which is almost chamber music. The original is here:


http://www.mediafire.com/?ymgy5w52giy


The results are interesting. Fledgling. Worth a listen? Basically a little bit of tone poetry with some RZA dub and a nice little Kid 606ey tweakage of Frank Mill's "Music Box Dancer." I hear elements of Eno, Cage and a whole lot of Akira Yamaoka (the guy that did the SILENT HILL soundtracks.)

Overall I'm pleased to just be creating some noise again.











Lighthouse Variations (taklamakan vs. nattymari)



http://www.divshare.com/download/6330540-25f



Twilight Beacon
Darkness Into Light I
Darkness Into Light II
Light Into Darkness I
Light Into Darkness II
Lighthouse Dub
Light After Sunset

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

YOU GET NOTHING


Join me in the Great Glass Elevator for today's voyage beyond the ceiling. Watch out for sharp objects, as you peer into the solace and devestation of my cracked existence. Nod head, dance like Vitus, and have fun... if you dare.






reloaded in 224 kbps


Fizzy Lifting



http://www.divshare.com/download/6324101-32f



Po - A Tree in the Palm of My Hand
SQZMYLMNS - Oakland (Slowed)
Shady Nate and Jay Jonah - Baby Baghdad (Slowed)
Fever Ray - Dry and Dusty
Brael and Tokyo Bloodworm - Seed
Friend John - Below the Sun
1900 - Kolbrytama
The New Sound of Numbers - Tuning the Air
Ultra Orange and Emmanuelle - Sing Sing
Lene Lovich - I Think We're Along Now
DJOC - The Milk's Gone Bad
Mi Ami - Feel You
Bread - If (Slowed)

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

PARSLEY, SAGE, ROSEMARY AND CRIME


I guess all this virtual farming in HARVEST MOON is having an effect on me. This is a particularly crunchy granola earth mix. Lots of new psych and such. I've been a little slow on the post because I'm fucking with some noise remixes for a super secret project... will post results here.

Shine on, you crazy diamonds!








Garden Gifts



http://www.divshare.com/download/6305196-230



A Setting Sun and Shigeto - When I Look at Your Face I Laugh and Cry
Brightblack Morning - Friends of Time
Hot Chip/Robert Wyatt - Made in the Dark
Hurtmold - Churumba
Mi Ami - Clear Light
Grampall Jookabox - Old Earth, Wash My Beat
Here We Go Magic - Ahab
Carla Bozulich - Pissing
Klaus & Kinski - Rocanrolear

Sunday, January 11, 2009

CREATING ORDER OUT OF CHAOS


Something's been going on lately. It seems like my mixes are all out of order. When I review them, I wind up moving large chunks of tracks around until I'm satisfied. I don't know if this means I'm all out of whack, or whether I've just developed a more critical ear.

I'm pretty happy with this mix. I don't like the fact that that excellent John Maus song just cuts off all weird at the end. Really... I know it's all cool to claim "lo-fi," but why ruin your tracks with poor production??? If the kids making music in their bedrooms in the 60's and 70's had access to our technology... they wouldn't have released shitty demo quality tracks on cassette. It's cool to respect and emulate them... but use today's available technology.

I love your music Mr. Maus... but it isn't a badge of eccentricity to piss away quality material like that.






...from the bottom of my black little emo heart...



http://www.divshare.com/download/6298615-446



Prissa - Se Que Acabaremos
Dan Lacksman Association - Lonely Days
Alan Scheurman - Marco Polo
Army Navy - Jumping Someone Else's Train
Fantastic Magic - Jam and Yima
John Maus - The Peace That Earth Cannot Give
Lucky Dragons - Ton (Javelinas) Plays Compliment
Icey Hott - Money, Money (Slowed)
Lineland - Emerald Board
Rigil - Free to Roam
That Ghost - Top Shelf
The Starlets - Like Novacaine
Prissa - Se Que Acabaremos
Dan Lacksman Association - Lonely Days
Alan Scheurman - Marco Polo
Army Navy - Jumping Someone Else's Train
Fantastic Magic - Jam and Yima
John Maus - The Peace That Earth Cannot Give

Friday, January 9, 2009

IT'S ALL TAKING AND NO GIVING






The first of my mixes done entirely on new software. Has its rough spots, and is extremely all over the place... but still a sweet little journey into my twisted psyche. I started it totally differently and revamped it - so the cool freak shit would start it off and then it would dwell into moodyness and eventually Meekiness.

Me likes... hope someone else does too.











right. click. copy. infringe.



http://www.divshare.com/download/6277652-293




Dara Puspita - Kerdja Kami
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Wawa
The Plastics - Copy
DJ Wally - Walk With a Limp
Riow Arai - Criminal Groove
3-2 - Slowed Up (Slowed)
Bunny Lake - Stilleto Stomp (Slowed)
Juvelen - A Dream
The Do - At Last
Major Organ and the Adding Machine - Swimming, Laughing, Playing
Lineland - Tinsel Spots
Joe Meek - Valley of the Saroos
Fantastic Magic - Sea of Gold

Thursday, January 8, 2009

WHAT A WAY TO MAKE A LIVING


Nice little mix. Nice little cover. I'm late for work. This icey rainy cold shit has me all slowed up. Try to enjoy the climate... wherever you might be.






nine2five



http://www.divshare.com/download/6267797-3c8



woodcraft folk - tracy finger
the do - on my shoulders (chamber version)
animal collective - guys eyes (chilled)
perfugium - heeding the call
last step - my home recordings
gina x experience - plastic surprise box
mr 3-2 - sitting high (slowed)
hudson mohawke - polkadot blues
ballady i romanse - magnetizm serc
vells - integration
hot, col and custard - never ever
dolly parton - I will always love you (slowed)

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

DRAGGED A COMB ACROSS MY HEAD




Running late for work. This is one of the better mixes I've made recently... and one helluva good salty pork lunchmeat.









DEFLOWERED



http://www.divshare.com/download/6260919-81f



Cocoanut Groove - A Gull's Wing
Robots in Disguise - I'm Hit (Slowed)
Tenniscoats - Kimminaritai
Jacka - The End (Slowed)
Luga - Teas for Bridges
Terminal 11 - Counter Clockwise Chant Pattern
Animal Collective - Brothersport
Jagat Skad - Veinte Anos No Es Nada
Ghetto Souljahz - Ain't That a Bitch (Slowed)
Miss Emily Brown - Sleeping Lions
Sweet - Love is Like Oxygen (Slowed)

Monday, January 5, 2009

THE FAN


I got a message and friend request from a stranger yesterday. He likes some of my old (published) writing. Damn that made me feel good. Almost better would be a comment or two around here... hint hint. Honestly, I don't mind talking to myself... I do it all the time. My blog counter seems jacked the fuck up... so I don't even know if anyone cares.

Therefore... a nice little radio style mix. This one carelessly jumps genres... focusing only on a little mix of music I've been enjoying. The last few crop of mixes were too 'mixtapey' for me possibly. Who knows... as this is quasi-random spooge anyway.

That said: Luga ->Animal Collective ->BFF is a pretty sweet butt blend.

Aren't I supposed to be ranting about how last year sucked??? Don't even know if I will. I lost a lot of innocence and a degree of security and trust I may never gain back... but a year's a year. I'm farming on Wii, listening to music, eating sushi and my thumb works alright. Don't really feel like complaining.












LOSING PARTS




http://www.divshare.com/download/6248813-d9f




Tujiko Noriko - Gift (Damian Shingleton Mix)
? - Love(Slowed)
Mainly Spaniards - That's What Friends Are For
Serge Gainsbourg - Cargo Culte
Sniper Unit - Break Your Neck (Slowed)
Living - Luga
Animal Collective - My Girls
BFF - Together Forever
Listen - Jesus Love
Shady Nate and Jay Jonah - Piles Em In (Slowed)
Pioneers - The Ghetto

Sunday, January 4, 2009

THUMBNAIL GALLERY

Some new photos of my healing thumb for those keeping up with the slice of life saga:












Saturday, January 3, 2009

SCABS


My big graft scab is falling off. To celebrate... part two of my Louisiana series. Some dirty slowed swamp hop for your ass!

Some tracks sound fucked, because only tape rips exist. DEAL!







'Bout It the Devil



http://www.divshare.com/download/6111220-f20




Welcome to the NO -Gank D
Ike Them Hoes - Pimp Dogg
LYrical Joyride - Black Mophia Clan
Early in the Morning - T Mann
Clocking G's - Dirt Red
Shake Fa Ya Hood - Ricky B
Gangsta 2 Da End - EWV
Slanging Ain't No Thang - Ruthless Juveniles
Bring da Business - Freedom
A Motha Fuckin Hustlah - Pimp Dogg
Do You Really Wanna - Prime Time
NOLA - Legend Man
Bootin Up - Da Shara

Friday, January 2, 2009

COMPUTER LOVE



Getting close to the end of my little cushion of backlog. Made this one a week or so ago. Been listening to it personally since. I really enjoy it... although there's some weird transitions in it. Sometimes they work to my ears... sometimes not. That said, it's a bit more adventurous... which is always a good thing.

Happy 2009 to everyone. I'll continue to do this, as it keeps me sane(ish).








Horn Swaggled



http://www.divshare.com/download/6208021-ee3


Eugen Thomas - Undergroovin
Sixto Rodriguez - Sugar Man
Onra - Porn (Slowed)
Parental Advisory - Like We Do (Slowed)
Steven Bishop - On and On (Slowed)
Pierce - Miss Your Tape (Phantom's Revenge Mix)
Brigitte Fontaine - Patriarcat
Psychoward - PWMF Pt 1 (Slowed)
Jackie Mittoo - Ayatollah
Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4
Tom Waits - A Sweet Little Bullet from a Pretty Gun