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PK Mixtape 2011 - Tracks | Tributes | Discoveries

After sharing loads of mixes on this Tumblr blog, I thought I would have a go at making one myself - this is actually the first time I have attempted a digital one, so if you spot any flaws - that’s why. I’m not a sound engineer, nor am I a DJ, and I didn’t see any need to create some sort of end-of-2011 list as there are more experienced and knowledgeable people who do that. If anyone has some constructive criticism, feel free to let me know …

This is a collection of tracks that have been played a lot on my iPod Touch, some things I have shared on this Tumblr blog that have been of interest, and some tributes to people who have passed away this year, or the anniversary of their passing.

TRACKLIST:

01) Ant City - Kuedo (2011) [00:00:00]
Great atmospheric album - like Nosaj Thing went back to the early 80s, kidnapped Vangelis to make another sci-fi soundtrack with an 808 drum machine

02) Separator - Radiohead (2011) [00:03:11]
Last track to their ‘King Of Limbs’ album

03) VCR (Four Tet Remix) - The XX (2010) [00:08:26]
I rebloged this from notational - someone who I have been following for ages who, among the other things he does, has good taste in music

04) Bright Shadows - TOKiMONSTA (2011) [00:16:44]
From her ‘Creature Dreams’ EP released this year

05) Confusion - DJ Soulscape Feat. 각나그네 (2003) [00:20:26]
Musical curiosity has led me to this Korean Hip-Hop DJ (I’ve posted two of his mixes here + here) and very recently received a couple of his albums. This track is one of two on this mix that appear from his ‘Lovers’ album. I don’t understand a word being said, but the delivery and production is great.

06) Le Corbeau Et Le Renard - Dynastie Crisis (1970) [00:25:59]
Posted earlier this year, the French prog-rock band Dynastie Crisis, who didn’t get any recognition in their time, produced a track which to modern ears sounds like Hip-Hop … all the way back in 1970 …

07) Push Me Pull You - Futurisk (1982) [00:28:44]
I somehow managed to come across the musical genre ‘Synth Punk’, and I love this jam …

08) Futura - Battles (2011) [00:31:04]
From their ‘Gloss Drop’ album

09) Trapped - Boards Of Canada (1995) [00:37:17]
A catchy remix allegedly put together by the Boards of Canada (under the pseudonym Hell Interface, found on one of their mixtapes (video here)

10) Gratitude - Acoustic Ladyland (2009) [00:40:49]
Discovered this on a mix for an ATP event in London curated by Portishead. The track is taken from their album ‘Living WIth A Tiger’, an instrumental rock album that tests how the saxaphone can be a lead instrument in the genre. I enjoyed it.

11) Me And The Devil - Gil Scott-Heron (2010) [00:45:02]
RIP to the guy who wrote ‘The Television Will Not Be Televised’ amongst others …

12) Always Crashing In The Same Car - David Bowie (1977) [00:48:33]
Somehow late to the party, I bought Bowie’s ‘Low’ album this year - besides, you can’t really go wrong with putting Bowie in a mixtape …

13) I Just Want To - Reggie Watts (2009) [00:52:00]
Just a great track put together on the spot - it is probably better appreciated on the video (which you can see here)

14) On Her Majesty’s Secret Service - John Barry (????) [00:55:22]
A composer who did have a talent for bringing style and drama to the films he worked on … RIP

15) Another One Bites Da Funk - Daft Queen (2009 redo, originally 2003) [00:58:01]
Earlier this year, Google celebrated Freddie Mercury’s would-be birthday in one of their doodle’s, it was also the 20th anniversary of his passing. I wouldn’t say I was a Queen fan, but looking now he was a great talent and personality, something sadly lacking in modern times. This mash-up with Freddie’s vocals escalates the fun factor of the original (you can get the track here)

16) Jasmine - DJ Soulscape Feat. 청안 (2003) [01:01:55]
Last track on this mix is another one from DJ Soulscape’s ‘Lovers’ album, a simple upbeat track to end on. I still have no idea what is being said …

This mix is posted on Soundcloud, so if you would rather hear it there, click here

Colonel Abrams & Boards of Canada - Trapped (Hell Interface edit)

A couple of weeks ago, I posted about a mixtape made by Boards of Canada, a cassette-only release for their friends. One of the tracks that stood out for me was what turns out to be a remix of an 80s RnB track called ‘Trapped’ by Colonel Abrams (above).

Here is the track put into the original music video, put together (I presume) by HanMono.

Incidentally, Boards of Canada created this under the name ‘Hell Interface’, and have another 80s song remix by Midnight Star called ‘The Midas Touch’. The video, similarly mixed with the remix can be found here (warning: extreme 80s style)

Boards of Canada - A Few Old Tunes 

Uploaded by +dB on SoundCloud, this is one of a few cassette-only compilation releases by (allegedly) Boards Of Canada given to friends, featuring early studio demos, oddities, and ideas (such as the fourth track “Trapped” sounds like a vocal mash-up from a club R’n’B song with their instrumentation style). Originally released in 1996.

Tracklist:

1.01 [0:00:00] “Spectrum” (2:19)
1.02 [0:02:19] “Light, Clear, Hair” (0:41)
1.03 [0:03:00] “P.C.” (0:48)
1.04 [0:03:48] “Trapped” (3:52)
1.05 [0:07:40] “Rodox Video” (1:19)
1.06 [0:08:59] “Happy Cycling” (1:49)
1.07 [0:10:48] “House Of Adin’adab” (1:55)
1.08 [0:12:43] “Finity” (5:00)
1.09 [0:17:43] “Forest Moon” (6:35)
1.10 [0:24:18] “Skimming Stones” (2:12)
1.11 [0:26:30] “Carcan” (1:50)
1.12 [0:28:20] “Devil” (0:14)
1.13 [0:28:34] “Mansel” (5:36)
1.14 [0:34:10] “She Is P” (1:42)
1.15 [0:35:52] “Davie Addison” (1:15)

2.01 [0:37:09] “Sac” (1:23)
2.02 [0:38:32] “Blockbusters” (0:40)
2.03 [0:39:12] “I Will Get It Tattooed” (1:37)
2.04 [0:40:49] “The Way You Show” (2:56)
2.05 [0:43:45] “I Love U” (1:41)
2.06 [0:45:26] “King Of Carnival” (4:18)
2.07 [0:49:44] “M9” (3:32)
2.08 [0:53:16] “Original Nlogax” (1:11)
2.09 [0:54:27] “Sequoia” (4:49
2.10 [0:59:16] “Boqurant” (1:43)
2.11 [1:00:59] “5.9.78” (4:14)
2.12 [1:05:13] “Wendy Miller” (0:32)
2.13 [1:05:45] “Paul Russell’s Piece” (0:53)
2.14 [1:06:38] “Up The March Bank” (3:24)
2.15 [1:10:02] “Nova Scotia Robots” (1:47)

Also worth noting is that Old Tunes Vol. 2 is uploaded as well [here]

Link to A Few Old Tunes on SoundCloud here

Plaid - Futura Connect via by +dB

Tracklist:

A01 Vulva “Bad Mother Dub”
A02 Boards Of Canada “June 9th”
A03 Sandoz “Chocolate Machine”
A04 Pointers “Ooby”
A05 Zulutronic “Drop-A-Lot”
A06 G 104 “Bassphemic Village”
A07 Pierre Bastien “Les Steles De Xerces”
A08 Jonah Sharpe “Emit Ecaps”
A09 Autechre “Laughing Quarter”
A10 Aphex Twin “Yellow Calx”
B01 Bola “Forcassa 3”
B02 Beaumont Hannant “Awakening The Soul “
B03 Squarepusher “My Sound”
B04 Redcell “The Silicon Garden”
B05 Elixir “Magic Orange”
B06 Kushti “Breaking Rocks”
B07 Verismo “Cross My Palm”
B08 Global Goon “Long Whiney”
B09 Paddington Breaks “Guaranteed Paddington Access”
B10 Mouse On Mars “Ju Ju”
B11 Alex Corder “Freestyle Sunset”

Boards Of Canada - Peel Session, John Peel Show - BBC Radio 1 1998-07-21 Uploaded by +dB

320 59.82MB t.1-4 Boards Of Canada - Peel Session, John Peel Show - BBC Radio 1 1998-07-21 (FM)

Presented By: John Peel

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Tracklist:

Released As: ‘Peel Session’ (1999) [Warp]

1 [00:00] “Aquarius (Version 3)” (6:24)
2 [06:24] “Happy Cycling” (7:33)
3 [13:57] “Olson (Version 3)” (2:31)
4 [16:28] “XYZ” (8:06)

Last Walk Around Mirror Lake - Boom Bip (Boards of Canada Remix) by FroschYankee

from the album Corymb (Lex Records 2004) Written by Bryan Hollon (Boom Bip), remix by Marcus Eoin & Michael Sandison (Boards of Canada). Unofficial video made by FroschYankee from the movie Adrenaline Rush (The Science of Risk). Location: Eikesdalen (Norway).

Disappear by M&M (C64 Demo)

A Commodore 64 demo with some lovely touches - bonus points for recreating a Boards of Canada track on the system

Music Is Math by Glenn Marshall

This is the HD and finished version of my video ‘Music Is Math’. I just let the program run till the end of the music, I felt reluctant to interfere too much by trying to sculpt an ending, and just let the code run its own natural course.
Music by Boards of Canada. Animation created with the Processing language, further info on my website butterfly.ie

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