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“As they worked, Case gradually became aware of the music that pulsed constantly through the cluster. It was called dub, a sensuous mosaic cooked from vast libraries of digitalized pop; it was worship, Molly said, and a sense of community. Case heaved at one of the yellow sheets; the thing was light but still awkward. Zion smelled of cooked vegetables, humanity, and ganja. …”
”We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub.” - William Gibson, Neuromancer.
Be forewarned, this is heavy weed-smoking music.
The final frontier of dub, volume one
#dub #reggae #spacedub #scifi
TRACKLIST
1. Space – Beyond The Wizards Sleeve
2. I Wait – Digital Mystikz
3. The Roots – Alpha & Omega
4. Searching Dub (Version) – The Bush Chemists
5. Watch How You Flex – Ed Robinson & Buju Banton
6. Promised Land/Love Fire (Version) (Zakarius Dub) – Maurice ‘Jack Scorpio’ Johnson
7. Long Time I No Smoke – The Bush Chemists
8. Imperial Stepper – The Disciples
9. We Are The Dub – Jah Free
10. Jah Jah Dub – Jah Shaka
11. No Reservation – Revolutionary Dub Warriors
12. Bless Them (Dub Mix) – The Disciples Meet The Rootsman
13. Year 3000 Style (Iration Steppas Remix) – The Rootsman
14. Rice And Peas – Iration Steppas
15. Tru Powwa – Rusko
16. Hail Jah – Dubkasm
17. Almighty I Part 3 (Vocal Dub) – Vibronics
18. Never Surrender My Dub – Jah Warrior
19. Prophets – Vibronics
20. Air Of Victory Dub – The Dub Oracle
21. Aqua Dub Remix – Don Peyote
22. Hot Milk Version – Sly & Robbie
23. Major Tom – Visti & Meyland
“Hauntological art can be thought of as having two stages, or layers. The first layer seems to present something that’s in some way idealised – this is often but not always an image involving the past. …
The second, ‘hauntological’ layer problematises, compromises and obfuscates the first layer, undermining or damaging it in some way and introducing irony into the work, and represents the opinionated viewpoint of the present. While the first layer might express hope and confidence, the hauntological layer contradicts and undoes this by expressing a satirical doubt and disillusionment. …
The hauntological layer ‘deconstructs’ the first layer – in this way hauntological texts deconstruct themselves. Just as it’s impossible to pin down a ghost conceptually, it’s not always easy to separate the two opposing layers of a hauntological text because they occur simultaneously. The first layer is ‘inside’ the second layer (‘the past inside the present’). The first layer (‘the past’) can only be seen through the medium of the second layer (‘the present’) so that we can’t be entirely sure of the image portrayed by the first layer. This process of obfuscation is a metaphor for memory (or more specifically an allegory of memory), and more broadly an allegory of any sort of representation of the world or any inadequately (‘untruthfully’) symbolic or imaginary conceptualisation. The hauntological layer shows the first layer to be ‘untrue’ (as k-punk puts it, ‘the origin was always spectral’ to begin with) and hints at some unresolved lack in this truth.” - Adam Harper, Hauntology: The Past Inside The Present
Modeled on the pacing of an acid trip, a hauntological exploration of psychedelia and the search for true self, from its naïve highs to its disorienting lows.
THROUGH THE KEYHOLE AND INTO THE GARDEN...
#psychedelic #psychedelicrock #freakbeat #hauntology
TRACKLIST
1. Off The Coast – Map Of Africa
2. Hallucinations – Roy Budd
3. Metamorphosis – Ananda Shankar
4. The Year Of The Sun – The Gordian Knot
5. Leo - The Lord Of Lights – The Zodiac
6. Free From The City – The Poppy Family
7. Renaissance Fair – The Byrds
8. The Words – The Cyrkle
9. I Can See Through You – Episode Six
10. King Midas in Reverse (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve Re-edit) – The Hollies
11. Biography – Woody Kern
12. Rainbow Ride – Andy Kim
13. Explosive Corrosive Joseph – John Schroeder Orchestra
14. Optical Sound – The Human Expression
15. Ritual 1 – The West Coast Pop Art Experiment Band
16. I Can Take You To The Sun – The Misunderstood
17. The Garden Of Earthly Delights – The United States Of America
18. Elysian Feels – Amorphous Androgynous
19. Astral Taxi (The Time & Space Machine Re-edit) – Tin Tin
20. Moonsong: Pelog – Joe Byrd And The Field Hippies
21. Hocusing For Beginners – The Advisory Circle
22. Morning Wonder – The Earlies
A man from the stars who long ago conquered death and since grew impossibly jaded with himself over an eternity spent plundering galaxy after endless galaxy reflects. Immune to pleasure and immune to pain, the only impulse left unexplored is his own termination. In the final act of navigating the path of his spacecraft directly into the binding energy curve of a solar corona, the seeker finds the peace of mind he scoured the infinite in search of, his salvation an escape from the torment of time itself.
Programmed and mixed in 2008 for the SVA radio show Electric Funeral and inspired by the title of a Pink Floyd song, I was reading quite a bit of science fiction anthologies at the time. (If anyone can identify what the fourth track is or any other song referred to as “???” in the tracklist, please email me and let me know because I no longer remember and wish I did.)
Set the controls for the heart of the sun (electric funeral episode 19)
#minimalwave #kosmischemusik #industrial #newwave #nihilism #electricfuneral
TRACKLIST
1. Requiem For HAL – Blackzack
2. Einzelgänger – Einzelgänger
3. Sun Flight – Silicon Teens
4. ???
5. Black Antlers (Where's Your Child?) (Version 1) – Coil
6. Purple Haze – The Flying Lizards
7. At The Heart Of It All – Nine Inch Nails
8. Check It Out – Cybe
9. Oxygène (Part II) – Jean Michel Jarre
10. Oxygène (Part III) – Jean Michel Jarre
11. Flashing – Goblin
12. Assault On Precinct 13 – John Carpenter
13. An Evening In Berlin – Bakterielle Infektion
14. The Echoes Fade – Poeme Electronique
We open on a dialogue between a group of fugitives in a hijacked transport who have just escaped from an isolated penal colony in a future vision of the American midwest. In our protagonists evasion, they scour for the kind of refuge easily overlooked by any potential pursuer for uncounted hours, perhaps days, over a ocean-like canopy of green, a region abandoned long ago by an unnamed catastrophe and reclaimed by the persistence of nature. Their ideal sighted, they proceed to land on the densely forested surface and are confronted beneath the arboreal camouflage with a paradise inhabited by a vast population void of children, adults, and the elderly, and comprised solely of teenagers. Though the people of this nation-in-hiding have mastered all the sophistications of a technologically advanced society and a balance between the colonization of their people and the ecology of their world, their social order and interpersonal dynamics are ruled by the hormonal fluctuations of their biological immaturity. A narrative that unfolds from the first person viewpoint of the fugitives, the tone of how our protagonists express their interpretation of events is progressively curbed by a strange hormonal devolution in thought processes of themselves accompanied by a physical rejuvenation unlike anything they’ve collectively encountered before, all seemingly a reaction to a subtle miasma they suddenly realize is emanating off the planet itself, only moments too late to care enough to resist.
Programmed and mixed in 2007 for the SVA radio show Electric Funeral.
teen planet (electric funeral episode 17)
#newwave #minimalwave #synthpop #postpunk #electricfuneral
TRACKLIST
1. Intro – Blackzack
2. Spectrum Is Green – Solid Space
3. Platform 6 – Exhibit A
4. All Rights Reserved – Fred
5. Jane's Third Party – Sudden Sway
6. Dalek I Love You (Destiny) – Dalek I
7. Elevate – Voice Farm
8. Groovin' Over Beirut – Proxies
9. Short Wave – Ruins
10. Banzai – Kevin Coyne
11. Joy Of Radiation – Richard Bone
12. Robot – Plastics
13. Video Violence – Bobby And Synthia
14. Light My Fire – Moebius
15. Teen Planet – Patrick Cowley
16. Nite Time Ryhthm – One Plus One
17. Subliminal – Drinking Electricity
A dream of utopia. A visit to a synthetic world of variety and convenience. A place outside of history, where an unseen intelligence builds a future catered to every whim your unconscious can manufacture and the neurobiology of your hidden reflexes fail to deny. A return to innocence through the sublimation of free will. Rejoice, for the great synchronicity has arrived, let us do the digital dance!
Programmed and mixed in 2007 for the SVA radio show Electric Funeral.
The Digital Dance (Electric Funeral Episode 11)
#technopop #modernclassical #italo #newwave #synthpop #spacedisco #electricfuneral
TRACKLIST
1. Europe Endless – Kraftwerk
2. Scarlatti Sonata in E K531 – Walter Carlos
3. Pagoda Of Sin – Japanese Telecom
4. Popcorn – Hot Butter
5. I Wanna Be Your Lover – La Bionda
6. Digital Dance – Anti-Matter
7. ???
8. Key – Yellow Magic Orchestra
9. Check-Out Five – Naif Orchestra
10. Girl On Me – Amin Peck
11. The Chase – Giorgio Moroder
My first truly concerted effort at a promotional mix for dj work that I shopped around NYC as a fresh faced college grad, all vinyl with an intro noodled out of a Roland sampler and originally recorded in 2004. Other than a couple cringe-worthy minutes of early-aughts electro house, I still think it’s pretty good.
Xenon
#disco #newwave #italo #spacedisco #electro #house #HiNRG #synthpop
TRACKLIST
1. Beet Toop – Gazeebo
2. Who Dunnit – Gino Soccio
3. We Move – Visage
4. It's A War – Kano
5. Passion (Remix) – The Flirts
6. Set It Off – Strafe
7. Set It Off (Remix) – Strafe
8. How To Pick Up Girls – Bobby "O"
9. Here I Am – Mike Mareen
10. Mind Warp – Patrick Cowley
11. Aerodynamik (Kling Klang Dynamix) – Kraftwerk
12. Do I Look Like A Slut (Larry Tee Original) – Avenue D
13. Untitled – Matzo & Pauli
14. Skin Tight (Dub) – Sucker DJ's
15. Neon Human – Felix Da Housecat
16. Spacer Woman – Charlie
17. Heatstroke – Man Parrish
18. E=MC2 – Giorgio Moroder
19. In Love With Love – Munich Machine