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A selection of raw analog-synthesizer music, from noisy lo-fi industrial to melodic synthpop, courtesy of Ghostly’s resident expert on the subject Solvent.

TRACKLIST
“Attack Warning Red” [excerpt] – Civil Defence Program
“Entry” – November Növelet
“Open & Shut” – Martial Canterel
“Blank Clocks” – The Future
“Riot Squad” – Vice Versa
“Step in Time” – Psychic Youth
“Rabies” – Naked Lunch
“Speed” – Daily Fauli
“F.U. Klaxon” – Beau Wanzer
“The Tale of Bernie Woodstein” – Legowelt
“Attack Warning Red” [transition] – Civil Defence Program
“Wellengenerator” – Im Namen Des Volkes
“Protect and Survive” – Civil Defence Program
“Automation” – Robert Lawrence & Mark Phillips
“33a1” [edit] – John Bender
“Television Set” – Television Set
“Solarize” – The Rorschach Garden
“U?berbeast” – Medio Mutante
“It’s About Now” [excerpt] – Cabaret Voltaire

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As you can see guys and gals i’m a photoshop ninja, give me a project and i’ll make it happen, you want a dorky kid to look like a jackalope? no problem, you want ferns cut out in 2 minutes using an eraser at 48px? no problem, rocking CS3 over here and using it to about 1/1000th of its potential, don’t blame Scott or Alex for the bad design work here please hah.

So, yes thats me above, I did this mix of some songs for The Mixtape Club that were all at 94 Beats Per Minute, a short mix that is only clocking in at about 34 minutes. I named it The Black Bear Caught The Crystal Deer Surfing With A Pitchfork because all the hip bands have some key words in their names. You see if your band was Flamingo Fantasy you probably won’t get much love, maybe in 2014 when flamingos get really cool but for now you better have a surfing bear or make noise and use the word hair in your band name, that way you can take cuts and get on some reviewers priority piles. Well enough with my banter, here are some great songs that I have posted already probably in the past month or so that I like as a collective, as always thanks for reading and listening to the material on the blog.

NOTE: There’s an exclusive track on here, the last song by Shigeto who recently remixed Tycho, it will be out on 4.20.2010 on Ghostly International.

DOWNLOAD THE MIX HERE FOR FREE

High Wolf – Don’t Fuck With The Tropics
Paul White – Highlife
Phantogram – As Far As I Can See
Kerri Chandler – Crazy Bonus
Jay Electronica – Exhibit C
Mux Mool – NAFE
Alan Parsons Project – I Robot (Pilooski edit)
Gorillaz ft. Bobby Womack & Mos Def – Stylo
Giorgio Moroder – To The Bridge
Shigeto – Embrace The Cold

You would all tell me if my frequent posting on Washed Out was unhealthy right? well this is somewhat special since its a mix from his blog that you can download for free. Its really crispy and diverse like finding a damaged cassette mix from the basement of your favorite radio station that 25 years old and playing it.

Arch M – “Bedrm Band at Caf NVA (edit)”
The Samps – “Magnetic Thys”
Samiyam – “Wrap Up”
Toro Y Moi – “Brubek”
Koushik – “Homage”
Osborne – “Afrika (Bullion Remix)”
Iasos – “Inter-Dimentional Music”
Jack Nitzsche – “Untitled (edit)”
The Khalsa String Band – “Song of Bliss”

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One of the best tracklistings and mixes i’ve seen and heard in a while is this one from St. Louis’ Phaseone that Pitchfork posted yesterday, download it here. Check the tracklist out to see if your interested, i’m sure many of you will be very pleased:

TRACKLIST
Slowdive – Miranda
Curren$y – I’m just dope
Aphex Twin – Fingerbib
Nite Jewel – Want you back (phaseone remix)
Lukid – Hair of the dog
Talking Heads – Listening wind
Tricky – Bad dream
Polanski – punked out
J Dilla – Oxtopus boom boom
Falty DL – Made me feel so right
James Pants – Shower party
Fleetwood Mac – Isn’t it midnight
Teebs – Humming birds
Actress vs. Zomby – Aazz2
Phaseone – Sandra

* Note that the photo above is unrelated.

With Dubstep branching out to see how far the genre can be pushed a ton of new ideas start to surface and a fusion of appealing sounds start melting together. One group i’m really excited about is Sepalcure which is a collaboration of Brooklyn’s Praveen and Machinedrum. the duo is doing a fine job of taking hints of soulful house and dubstep to create what they call Lovestep. One thing that Sepalcure has that other dubsteppers don’t usually have and ISO50 fans might also really enjoy is fine art direction by the multi talented designer Sougwen Chung. As you can see above and below her posters and videos of her work are a perfect fit for this heartfelt music.

Sepalcure’s debut performance alongside Untold, TRG, Pole, 2562 & more is February 13th at Unsound Festival NYC.

Below is a “Lovestep” mix done by Percussion Lab Founder/Sepalcure’s very own Praveen.

TRACKLIST
Pangaea – Memories
Burial – You Hurt Me
TRG – Broken Heart (Martyn Remix)
Untold – Dante
DFRNT – Tripped (Synkro Mix)
Synkro – Inhale
Sines – Memories Are Here
DFRNT – Tripped (Ital Tek Remix)
FaltyDL – Party
Joy Orbison – J. Doe
Sepalcure – Deep City Insects
Floating Points – K&G Beat

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Sepalcure – Feeling That I Know So Well from sougwen on Vimeo.

Sepalcure – Every Day of my Life from sougwen on Vimeo.

Probably one of the most educational mixes i’ve ever heard, this really lays out what has happened in Hip Hop in the last 10 years, call it Glitch Hop, Dubstep, Downbeat, Bass Music but its all just different forms of Hip Hop.

“2tall, Clockwork and Kper are very proud to let you know that our new mix, A Boom Bap Continuum, is now live. We’ve worked very hard on this for most of the year and we hope you will enjoy it as much as we did putting it together.

The mix features over 200 tracks by more than 50 producers all mixed, edited and mashed up in 80 minutes. The intention is simple: we wanted to highlight the lineage of hip-hop production and beat making from the turn of the millennium to the present day, and perhaps shed some light on the fairly quiet revolution that has been taking place under the surface of mainstream media in recent years.”

Download, artwork and text all available on the website

TRACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS – full tracklist here

2001
Prefuse 73 – Nuno into
Dabrye – So Scientific

2002
Boards of Canada – Sixtyniner into
P.U.T.S – Acid Raindrops (prod. Thes One)

2004
Telefon Tel Aviv – I Lied into
Loefah – Horror Show

2005
The Bug – Fire (Version) into
Boom Bip – The Move

2006
Dj Krush – Kemuri (Untouchable Mix) into
Clark – Herr Barr

2007
Waajeed – Tron into
Flyamsam – Green Tea Power

2008
Rustie – Zig Zag into
Flying Lotus – Auntie’s Lock/Infinitum (Quarta 330 remix)

2009
Paul White – Synth March into
Machinedrum ft. ie.merg – 911

2tall, Kper and Clockwork – A Boom Bap Continuum

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Continuing our Dubstep Essential Series which has been exclusively for the blog we have part 2 from Guardian coming in at just over 54 minutes and about 37 tracks which keeps the flow of the mix really fresh.

I love the tempo of Dubstep even if I play it for a friend that doesn’t like electronic at all they always react in a positive/surprised way towards the tracks as something completely new, I mean who doesn’t like good heavy low end and dark spacey sounds that you’ve never heard before every once in a while.

Tomorrow a few friends and I are going for the first time to see BBC Radio 1’s Mary Ann Hobbs DJ some Dubstep at Dub Wars which should be killer. A little about Guardian, he is one of the best Dubstep producers I know, he’s from Detroit but lives now in Brooklyn, he is one of the best Dubstep DJ’s i’ve heard out too because of his range and he peaks out into rowdy tracks at perfect times but doesn’t rely on it and its more about track selection for him, hope to see him play around the US/UK this year.

TRACKLIST
A Setting Sun – En el Mes de Agosto (Moodgadget)
The Others – Hear Dis Style (Boka)
James Blake – Air & Lack Thereof (Hemlock)
Ramadanman – Blimey (Hessle Audio)
Ike Release – Jenova (Infrasonics)
Spatial – 90121 (Infrasonics)
Millie & Andrea – Black Hammer (Daphne)
Cyrus – Bounty (Tectonic)
Loefah – It’s Yours (White Label)
Pinch – Gangstaz (Tectonic)
Headhunter – Prototypes (Tempa)
Skream – Chest Boxing (Tempa)
The Bug – Jah War (Loefah Remix) (Ninja Tune)
The Bug – Jah War (Ninja Tune)
Pressure – Money Honey (Hyperdub)
MRK1 – Revolution 909 (Earwax)
Guardian – Charm Dub (unreleased)
Joker – Untitled_rsn (Tectonic)
Martyn – Vancouver (2562 Puur Natuur Dub) (3024)
TRG – Harajuku (Tempa)
Ramadanman – Humber (Apple Pips)
Spatial – 81012 (Infrasonics)
Sully – Duke St Dub (Mata-Syn)
Ramadanman – Carla (Soul Jazz)
Martyn – Everything About You (Tempa)
Pinch – Motion Sickness (Tempa)
Martyn – Velvet (~scape)
Untold – I Can’t Stop This Feeling (Hessle Audio)
Ramadanman – Revenue (2nd Drop)
Ramadanman – Revenue (Untold Remix) (2nd Drop)
2562 – Love In Outer Space (Tectonic)
MRK1 – Borderline (Contagious)
DJ Mujava – Township Funk (Skream Remix) (White Label)
Pinch – Punisher (Skream Remix) (Planet Mu)
Pinch – Punisher (Planet Mu)
Pinch – Punisher (V.I.P.) (Planet Mu)
Shigeto – Beat It Up (forthcoming Moodgadget)

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Guardian – Guardian Wins The World Cup

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Bullion is debuting tonight in the US in New York and tomorrow in Los Angeles at Low End Theory, definitely worth checking him out, here is some more info on the DJ/Producer at Turntable Lab.

US DATES
Aug 11 2009 – 11:00P Plan B – New York, US w/ Pilooski, In Flagranti
Aug 12 2009 – 11:00P Low End Theory – Los Angeles, US

TRACKLIST
Free Spirits Intro
Sweet And Innocent – Express Your Love
Iron Butterfly – It Must Be Love
The Moody Blues – I Don’t Mind
The Manhattans – Follow Your Heart
Birtha – Feeling Lonely
The Bee Gees – To Love Somebody
ELO – Telephone Line
Joni Mitchell – Solid Love
The Four Tops – Still Water (LOVE)
Let’s Kiss Blonde Coeds Interlude
Adrian Baker – Is This Love
Ned Doheny – A Love Of Your Own
Tony Grey – She’s My Love
The Koobas – Woe Is It Love My Dear?
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – More Love
Free Spirits Outro

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Bullion – Mixed Up In Love II

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Grain Edit has posted up a very nice Jazz mix by Mike Cina along with a short interview on his thoughts about record collecting and music. It’s always nice to hear what other designers are listening to and being influenced by; it often brings more clarity to my understanding of their work.

Mike also contributed the custom mix cover you see above and some shots of the album covers for the songs included in the mix (a few are shown below). You can check out the interview and download the mix here.

Recently I posted a debut track by Slow Hands which is coming out on Brooklyn’s Wolf+Lamb label, you may know Ryan from New York’s DJ duo Worst Friends which our Tom Croose is the other half of. I asked Ryan to focus on something eclectic and something for designers and creatives to listen to while working instead of something a little more dance driven and Ryan really delivered by using everything from Slum Village to The Steve Miller Band to DFA’s Woolfy.

Once you get to the Project Sandro track you’ll end up in a slow and steady groove — it slays actually — I’ve been waiting for something like this for awhile and the ending movie sample is pretty sweet.
Look for the next couple of mixes to be non-genre specific and melodic and hopefully something that exposes the diversity in electronic/rock/etc music.

The iPhone photo was taken while Ryan was asleep and then Scott came in and made it proper.

TRACKLIST
Alice In Wonderland (Soundtrack) – The Garden & All In The Golden Afternoon
Slum Village – Fourth and Back
Sade – Sweetest Taboo (Slow Hands edit)
The Steve Miller Band – Fly Like An Eagle
Soulphiction – Prison Song (Feat. Marcin Oz)
Aldo del Lago, Tolousse y Alain Junot – La Isla Bonita
Ab Orchestra – La Isla Bonita
David Bowie – Magic Dance
Project Sandro – Blazer
Woolfy vs. Projections – Isabella
Trus’me – Drilling
Wareika – Belonging (Vocal)
Tensnake – Holding Back (My Love)
Slow Hands – Fast Tongue
Chateau Flight – Instand Replay
Talking Heads – Sax And Violins
Dan Auerbac – When The Night Comes
Princess Outro

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Slow Hands – “Afternoon To-Night” Mix

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