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0181 by Four Tet 

In case you’ve missed this, Four Tet has uploaded a 40 minute album of rarities onto Soundcloud, and it’s fantastic:

Produced by Kieran Hebden between 1997 and 2001
Compiled 2012
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Also available on vinyl LP soon.

PK Mixtape 2012

A mixtape of music from and related to 2012 - tracklist then commentary below:

Tracklist:

1) Atari Video Game Logo - Suzanne Ciani (00:00 - 00:05)
2) Zenthial Arches - Team Doyobi (00:06 - 03:12)
3) Ye Ye - Daphni - JIAOLONG (03:12 - 09:17)
4) The Nightcaller - Flying Lotus (09:17 - 12:44)
5) Conversion Theory - Analogue Monsta (12:44 - 16:00)
6) Locked - Four Tet (16:00 - 24:18)
7) I Feel Love (12” Version) - Donna Summer (24:18 - 32:19)
8) Flutes - Hot Chip - In Our Heads (32:19 - 39:22)
9) Ricky’s Theme - Beastie Boys - Ill Communication (39:24 - 43:03)
10) Eclipse/Blue feat. Kazu Makino - Nosaj Thing (43:04 - 47:07)
11) Bamboo Music - David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto (47:07 - 52:13)

I felt like making another mixtape (just as I did last year), as … why the hell not. I’m no mixtape god so don’t expect anything masterful or comprehensive. I have to admit I wasn’t so into music this year, but thats not to say there was nothing worth attention. I hope, at least, there will be something anyone can appreciate.

1) Atari Video Game Logo - Suzanne Ciani

Taken from the “Lixiviation” album released by Finders Keepers Records, a compilation of examples and works by an electronic music pioneer.

2) Zenthial Arches - Team Doyobi

Taken from “Digital Music Volume 1” on Skam Records, a worthwhile addition to anyone who likes contemporary electronic music.

3) Ye Ye - Daphni - JIAOLONG

A solo effort from Daniel Victor Snaith, who also made the excellent “Swim” under the guise of Caribou. 

4) The Nightcaller - Flying Lotus

Taken from “Until The Quiet Comes”, the album is generally mellower than his previous outings, yet still has plenty to offer.

5) Conversion Theory - Analogue Monsta

Any release from TOKiMONSTA is always something I look forward to: a collaborative album with Suzi Analogue available for the price of an email address, is 10 tracks of psychadelic electronica soul. More Here

6) Locked - Four Tet

Taken from a compilation album of 12” releases, all enjoyable

7) I Feel Love (12” Version) - Donna Summer

2012 saw the passing of Donna Summer from cancer. For me, she will always be important for this track she made with Giorgio Morodor, released in 1977. A true archetype of popular electronic music which has withstand time (and employed a production hack to get it’s new sound as the technology at the time could not perform the way it does), noticed by Bowie and Eno as the sound of the next 15 years, can be played pretty much anywhere. RIP

8) Flutes - Hot Chip

From the ‘In Our Heads’ album, which I would say was mixed. However, I think this track is one of their best ever, and probably my most played tracks this year.

9) Ricky’s Theme - Beastie Boys

2012 also claimed the life of Adam Yauch aka MCA of the Beastie Boys (again, from cancer) at the age of 47 :( It was very sad news. Everyone here should know all the Beastie Boys classics, but here I decided something different, something that stood out for me from their ‘Ill Communication” album, a jazzy instrumental. RIP

10) Eclipse/Blue feat. Kazu Makino - Nosaj Thing

When I heard Nosaj Thing was going to release new material this year, I couldn’t wait. His Drift album was fantastic. Sadly, it was only this track that was released, and I can’t wait to hear new material in 2013.

11) Bamboo Music - David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto

My favourite release this year was not a commercial one - it was a compilation from the Root Blog called ‘野生の野望’ featuring 80’s Japanese electronic pop music related to musicians of the band Yellow Magic Orchestra. A wide range of music which until now I had a lack of knowledge of. More about the compilation (and links to get it) can be found here.

I hope you enjoy it :)

Rooftop Sessions V.25 by Aldous 

Nearly an hour and a half mix of downtempo, leftfield electronic music put together by aldous:

1)   Blockhead - Midnight Blue\
2)   Broadcast - Subject To The Ladder\
3)   Arms And Sleepers - The International\
4)   Amorph - Rainy Evenings\
5)   Yppah - Film Burn \
6)   Mike Flowers Pops - Debase (Aphex Twin Soft Palate remix)\
7)   Telekinesis - Please Ask For Help (Populous remix)\
8)   James Yuill - Head Over Heels\
9)   Malcolm McLaren - About Her\
10)   Arms And Sleepers - The Paramour\
11)   The Green Kingdom - Radiance Reflected (The Boats remix)\
12)   Two People In A Room - Been Trying To Meet You
13)   Donnacha Costello - Nothing, Still Nothing\
14)   Arc Lab - Slow Down\
15)   Boards of Canada - Open The Light\
16)   Displacer - Elbows Bent At Right Angles (w/ Broken Fabiola)\
17)   Soulja Boy - Pretty Boy Swag (Shlohmo remix)\
18)   The Remote Viewer - Last Night You Said Goodbye, Now It Seems Years.\
19)   The Boats - There Are Tunnels Where We Live\
20)   Xela - Streetlevel\

If you prefer, you can listen to this at it’s MixCloud page here, and check out other great mixes in the series at Aldous’ music site here (Personal Tumblr blog here).

Previous PK Aldous mix links here and here

Haunts mix WBRS Waltham, MA July 13, 2012 

I got a message from ghostmittens the other day ….

hi! if you like electronic music sets here’s a mix i did last month for a radio program in the US. its 30 tracks and it runs about 74 mins. maybe its stuff you’ve heard already but i thought you might enjoy it

It’s great … the kind of IDM / Electronica mix that is great to play when you travel around.

0:00 Dopplereffekt - Z-Boson
0:09 Four Tet - You Could Ruin My Day
2:01 Prhizzm - I Miss You Already
3:58 Iris - Vacant
7:19 Bleep - Coils
9:14 Phantogram - Futuristic Casket
12:19 Kalx - Gravitron
15:01 Esem - Dispherse
18:47 Carbon Based Lifeforms - Init
22:10 Christ - Making A Snow Angel
25:56 Legiac - Tretz Dizm
28:40 Professor Kazkaz - Europium
31:05 Arovane - Theme
32:59 Washed Out - Before
35:45 Planet Boelex & Lisa’s Antenna - Not From Here
38:37 Koss - SpeedofSound
41:34 Dissolved - Every Pulse Is Noted
44:12 Arc Lab - Spectres
44:29 El Iqaa - Rated Raqs „ #Things That Quicken The Heart
45:49 Ametsub - Peaks Far Afield
48:49 x|k - Warm Wishes
50:25 Patrick Pulsinger - Grey Gardens featuring Hanz Hautzinger
52:33 Weird Continental Types - Rizing
55:08 Sasha - Coma (Spangled Rubdub)
57:30 Anders Ilar - Cries Of The Wilderness
57:49 Culvre - The Consequence Of Love And Indecision
59:11 Charlie May - Midnight (Original Mix)
63:15 Soliquid - Music Is For Rich People (Original Mix)
66:54 Burial - Kindred
68:48 Gridlock - Chrometaphor

If you want to download it, you can get it from it’s SoundCloud page here

NOSAJ THING - MARY ANNE HOBBS XFM MIX 3.31.2012 

20 minute mix from the great Nosaj Thing for Mary Anne Hobbs show, leaves you wanting more:

Nosaj Thing - Sci (Rough)
Nosaj Thing - Eclipse/Blue Feat. Kazu Makino
Nosaj Thing x Architeq - Untitled
D Tiberio - Raver 5 
Jacques Green - iwont132 
Jamie xx - Touch Me
Lunice - Superman OG
Machinedrum - A New Meaning (Rough)
Jon Wayne - Jackknifee
Nosaj Thing x Teebs - Untitled
Nosaj Thing x Kendrick Lamar - Cloud 10 Rework

REBIRTH OF THE GLITCH by ISITWASHABLE

A mixtape of glitchtronichop (IDM | Glitch | Hip-Hop) by Isit Washable:

Chilled glitchy hiphop beats crazy programed beats and general noise compiled with love. Done off the cuff on a bored thursday evening rebirth of the glitch drops some of the finest sounds in its genre in a continuos 40 min mix by ISIT WASHABLE .You can catch the isit washable show on www.future-music.co.uk once a month friday 8-10 gmt where i play all genres of electronic music…

You can download it from it’s Soundcloud page here

Aldous - Rooftop Sessions V2 

Second in a series of what looks to be a promising IDM podcast - it’s better than the first one! Great for a Sunday evening.

Join us Thursdays at 10pm GMT / 5pm EST at: http://radio.torrentech.org/listen.pls
Flyer: http://bit.ly/wOVF5r

Download: http://www.divshare.com/direct/170023…

Tracklist:

1) Apparat - Ash / Black Veil
2) Kettel - Kingscourt Imp
3) Ochre - The Balance
4) Efterklang - Collecting Shields
5) Jon Hopkins - Lost In Thought
6) Arc Lab - Departure Music, Part Two
7) Emancipator - First Snow (Ooah remix)
8) Ernest Gonzales - While On Saturn’s Rings (Daedelus remix)
9) Ochre - REM Sleep Research
10) Amorph - Home Sweet Home
11) Ruxpin - I Noticed You Hovering Above me
12) Deru - Hello
13) Aphex Twin - Untitled [SAW2 CD1 Track1] (Four Tet remix)
14) Static - Dependent, Depending
15) Tycho - Dictaphone’s Lament
16) Datasette - Minus Fourteen
17) Ruxpin - Her Body Smells Of Cinnamon
18) Múm - Scratched Bicycle / Smell Memory (Peel Session version)
19) Tunng - Sweet William

Rooftop Sessions v1 

Downtempo IDM / experimental electronica mix:

The Rooftop Sessions are a new weekly radio show featuring myself and my good friend Dyer playing back-to-back sets of miscellaneous experimental electronica.

Join us Thursdays at 10pm GMT / 5pm EST at: http://radio.torrentech.org/listen.pls
Flyer: http://bit.ly/wOVF5r

1) The Boats - Keep Off The Boats
2) Múm - Póst Póstmaetur
3) Lymbyc System - Astrology Days (The One AM Radio remix)
4) The Notwist - Solitaire
5) Arms And Sleepers - A Smile In Sofia
6) Efterklang - Blowing Lungs Like Bubbles
7) Proem - Carpark Kittens
8) Deru - Words You Said
9) The Flashbulb - That Final Week
10) Tycho - A Walk
11) Enya - To Go Beyond (Dntel remix)
12) Remote Viewer - How Did You Both Look Me In The Eye?
13) Icebreaker International & Manual - A Thousand Years
14) Helios - Fourteen Drawings
15) Casino Versus Japan - Manic Thru Tone
16) Four Tet - My Angel Rocks Back And Forth (Icarus remix)
17) Radiohead - Morning Mr. Magpie (Pearson Sound Scavenger remix)
18) Dntel - (This Is) The Dream of Evan And Chan (Barbara Morgenstern remix)
19) Amorph - Dam
20) Arovane - Tokyo Ghost Stories
21) The Notwist - Boneless (Grizzly Bear remix)
22) The Boats - The Arrow Home
23) B. Fleischmann - Le Desir
24) Mariah Carey - Always Be My Baby (Asura remix)
25) Arc Lab - A Slight Incessant Breeze

Download: http://www.divshare.com/direct/16967986-fbf.mp3

Music For Bipolar People Vol. 1 By Roman Reinmann

A quality IDM / instrumental abstract Hip-Hop mix.

Tracklist:

01) Coat - Plaid
02) Summer Honey - Milieu
03) Love You Bring - Prefuse 73
04) Smile Around The Face - Four Tet
05) Crop Duster - Milieu
06) Tea Leaf Dancer - Flying Lotus
07) Won’t Do (Instrumental) - J Dilla
08) Busy Signal - By Prefuse 73
09) Spectrum - Boards Of Canada
10) Audio Track 16 - Boards Of Canada
11) Rooms Within Rooms - Milieu
12) Moth - Burial & Four Tet
13) Do The Astral Plane - Flying Lotus
14) ‘Kaychunk’ - Kyle Hall
15) Sun (Okinawa Lifestyle Remix) - Caribou
16) Wissensee - Autechre
17) Trail - Plaid

Fake Fish Distribution - version 500 sampler 

An IDM album created by Icarus, limited to 1000 copies. What is interesting is that each copy of the album will be a ‘unique’ version - using generative programming techniques each copy will have a different compositional structure on it’s tracks.

Icarus’ album, Fake Fish Distribution (FFD), uses generative and parametric software techniques to create 1000 unique records. FFD comes in the form of a vast array of structured variations on the album’s musical content, feeding unique versions to each unique listener.

The album is available as a limited edition, via the normal medium of music distribution — the media file download — with each of the 1000 versions only being sold once and in sequential order. Upon purchase, you become the owner of that unique version.

The above audio file is a sampler of the tracks. More information can be found at Icarus’ website here