Musicophilia Blog (by that guy who did '1981') Updates Thread

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Just a warehouse for mixes new and old, really, rather than letting them float off into total oblivion. Might turn into something more, might wither on the vine. But I hope to update at least once every two weeks with a mix/compilation, new or old. The old 1981 mixes (possibly updated, maybe not) will be amongst them, for any of the people to whom I was never able to provide a physical copy.

I doubt I'll be doing many full album uploads, as there are people sharing far more amazing and long-lost things than I could possibly find: so at the very least, I'm providing links to some much better and important and useful blogs. When I post, I'll try to keep the blabbing to a minimum, and hope that you'll trust my recommendation enough to let the music do the talking. Content could be just about anything, but I imagine I'll tend to focus on post-punk, various facets of the 70s, early electronic/experimental stuff, heavily layered mixes, library sounds, the usual weirdo geek stuff but hopefully with a few surprises even for hardened fellow addicts like yourselves.

If you've got a moment:

http://musicophilia.wordpress.com

Subscribe or drop me a comment there, if you like what you hear.

Many thanks,

I.M.

Heya I.M., sounds like a treat!

Hope you like it, Ned!

bookmarked!

hey there, soundslike. will check it out.

Ettiem? Nice!

You guys still doing the kugars club? I'm looking to start something like that up here, miss it.

it's sorta fallen off the last year or so, unfortunately. but it could get revived at pretty much anytime if we'd agree on a meeting place/time. we slow.

awesome. i was lucky enough to get a copy of 1981 and i will definitely follow your blog.

Andrew-- will you pass this along to all those guys, tell them to say hi sometime? I'd love to get you or any of them to guest- or co-blog, if you were interested. I was down there a couple weeks ago for the first time in almost two years, but I didn't get to see anybody but family and business associates.

Cutty, Tyler-- I'll try to make it worth your while!

sure thing!

Sweet, thanks.

New mix up, probably the only one I'd say I'm "proud of" of all the mixes I've ever made, but it's a little weird. . . very heavily mixed. . .

this is awesome. i still have friends that covet the 1981 mix.

Is that photo from Eastern State Penitentiary?

Those 1971-themed "Le Tour du Monde" mixes are spectacular, and much appreciated. I'm a subscriber...

Mr. Justen-- The photo is from an 1900s jail that I helped document for HABS prior to its demolition. As for coveting the '81 set--well, starting today, I'm posting some of the original mixes on the blog, with some new "discs" to follow.

Mike-- Thanks, very glad you like it. 'Volume 7' (the first set I made in the 'Le Tour du Monde' series) should be up in the next few days--features some of my absolute top beats and bass lines of all time.

Any advice on which 1981 mix should go up next?

Got another 'Le Tour du Monde' uploading now. . .

i really love the "heart" disc in the 81 set -- not as many new discoveries there for me, but it might be my fave in terms of overall flow.

These looks really cool, will keep an eye out.

Tyler-- I was thinking either the 'Heart,' 'Cassette' or 'Convertible' one next. . .

Sonderangerbot-- let me know what you think.

Got a series of short mixes of very short songs forthcoming. 'Miniatures : Post-Punk,' three volumes, featuring all tracks two minutes long or shorter. Still working out the flow, but I like the cover art.

New mix posted:

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/le-tour-vol-07_01-front_small.jpg?w=500&h=500

Various Artists - ‘Le Tour du Monde, Volume 7′
(2xLP, Musique du Monde, France - 1973)

Side A:
01 [00'00"] Dorothy ASHBY - “Soul Vibrations” (1968, USA)
02 [03'13"] Janko NILOVIC - “Roses & Revolvers” (1970, Yugoslavia)
03 [06'59"] FAUST - “The Sad Skinhead” (1973, Germany)
04 [09'23"] Karen DALTON - “Same Old Man” (1971, USA)
05 [11'45"] Beaver & KRAUSE - “Another Part of Time” (1970, USA)
06 [16'24"] Tonio RUBIO - “Bass in Action No. 1″ (1973, France)
07 [19'40"] Franco BATTIATO - “Fenomenologia” (1972, Italy)

Side B:
01 [00'00"] Bobby DARIN - “The Harvest” (1968, USA)
02 [03'08"] Lothar & the HAND PEOPLE - “Machines” (1968, USA)
03 [05'27"] Tokyo KID BROTHERS - “I Kind of Hate My Father Rock” (1973, Japan)
04 [08'40"] John CALE & Terry RILEY - “Church of Anthrax” (1971, USA)
05 [12'43"] Milton NASCIMENTO - “San Vicente” (1972, Brazil)
06 [15'20"] Gerard MANSET - “Vivent Les Hommes” (1970, France)

Side C:
01 [00'00"] Richie HAVENS - “Eleanor Rigby” (1967, USA)
02 [02'40"] The MILLENNIUM - “Prelude” (1968, USA)
03 [03'55"] CARAVAN - “A Day in the Life of Maurice Haylett” (1970, England)
04 [08'51"] Roger ROGER - “Safari Park” (1972, France)
05 [11'03"] Sharp FIVE - “Haru No Umi” (1968, Japan)
06 [17'49"] Duncan BROWNE - “Country Song” (1973, England)

Side D:
01 [00'00"] Bernard ESTARDY - “La Gigouille” (1967, France)
02 [03'56"] Ron GEESIN - “A Cymbal and Much Electronics” (1973, Scotland)
03 [06'29"] Free DESIGN - “Never Tell the World” (1967, USA)
04 [08'53"] Les MOGOL - “Madimak” (1971, Turkey)
05 [10'45"] Augustus PABLO - “Jah Rock” (1973, Jamaica)
06 [13'36"] Ennio MORRICONE - “Trafelato” (1971, Italy)
07 [15'35"] Nick DRAKE - “Tow the Line” (1971, England)
08 [17'54"] Serge GAINSBOURG - “Avant de Mourrir” (1970, France)

Total Time: 91:00

Find it here.

Another new mix posted this morning--post-punk tracks, all under 2 minutes long, 35-minute mix.

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/various_-_miniatures_post-punk-no-1_small.jpg?w=500&h=500

Miniatures : Post-Punk No. 1 (1977-1983)

[00:00] 01 English Beat - "Click Click" (1980)
[01:33] 02 The Fall - "Dice Man" (1979)
[03:10] 03 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - "This is Helena" (1983)
[04:55] 04 Front 242 - "Geography II" (1982)
[06:00] 05 Scritti Politti - "Mesthetics" (1979)
[07:43] 06 Dome - "Nd-Drm" (1981)
[09:20] 07 Names - "Music For Someone" (1981)
[11:08] 08 Swell Maps - "Full Moon in My Pocket" (1979)
[12:40] 09 Dif Juz - "SWNN Part 2" (1983)
[13:40] 10 Talking Heads - "Who Is It?" (1977)
[15:25] 11 The Glove - "Opened the Box (A Waltz)" (1983)
[16:54] 12 Durutti Column - "Jazz" (1979)
[18:28] 13 Young Marble Giants - "Salad Days" (1980)
[20:21] 14 Fire Engines - "Plastic Gift" (1981)
[21:20] 15 100 Flowers - "Horizontal" (1983)
[22:22] 16 Voigt-465 - "P" (1979)
[23:28] 17 Slits - "Shoplifting" (1979)
[24:54] 18 Suburbs - "Macho Drunk" (1981)
[26:40] 19 Red Crayola - "1917" (1981)
[27:47] 20 Beakers - "4 Steps Toward a Cultural Revolution" (1981)
[29:10] 21 Massacre - "Bones" (1981)
[30:56] 22 The Ex - "Machinery" (1982)
[31:27] 23 Industry - "Logging Time" (1980)
[33:20] 24 Homosexuals - "Astral Glamour" (1978)

Total Time: [35:15]

Download here

I approve. I would, though.

wow, no minuteman on that mix!

minutemen, of course.

Seemed like Minutemen would be too easy. . .

I'm wavering on slotting them into the otherwise finished No.s 2 and 3. . .

Thanks, Ned. Gotta have a silly spastic mix that's easy to cobble together now and then.

I've had a couple questions from people asking where I bought the 'Le Tour du Monde' comps, or where vinyl copies can be purchased, or who originally compiled them. So it seems that I've been unclear--anything on my blog (unless noted as a guest blog or full album) is a mix made by me. I'll quote my reply to one such question from the blog:

I didn’t mean to cause confusion with the ‘Le Tour du Monde’ thing–just couldn’t think of a title for the mixes I was making, or concoct a theme other than that they were generally international in selection and from a few certain years. So I made up the ‘Le Tour du Monde’ thing as a flexible catch-all, and the verisimilitude just sprang from there, for fun–a chance to write over-the-top liner notes (original and reissue variety) and have a few in-jokes, make funny old covers.

I hoped it was pretty evident that the covers/"liner notes" were homages to a period and style of effusive, exuberant marketing and design; or at least that they were very faux, as my Photoshop skills are minimal at best. But maybe I'm too much of a geek in finding such stuff funny. I hope I haven't offended anyone, and that the music is no less enjoyable if not actually compiled in 1971 or 1973. The release dates and albums of extraction are accurate, to the best of my knowledge/the information in my collection.

Well you had me fooled. I thought they were genuine 70s cheese. I really like them a lot though, perfect for long car journeys, I've found.

ha, yeah, those would be some miraculously weird comps if they were real! the designs are fun, though. i certainly wouldn't mind having vinyl copies in my collection ...

I think this is all downright funny now that I understand it! Gotta love that cute record shop sticker on the front, too.

the post punk mix interests me. i'm downloading, and i'll check back occasionally. cool!

soundslike, you really are an awesome kinda dude. thank you!

Wow, thanks, Mr. Fiendish.

Nate--I enjoyed testing them on long walks/train rides/bus rides, glad to hear they work well for long drives, too. I'd hoped that at 90 minutes but in four sections, they could be treated as a long mix, or as short mixes to mix and match or listen individually.

Tyler--yeah, I wish I had real vinyl copies. Do you think the ring wear is too much/too bad? Again, weak Photoshop skills. . .

Does anyone mind much that I present them as long mp3s, rather than individual tracks? Somehow it feels slightly more ethical or quasi-legal or something, but also I really like the idea of listening to a mix as a sum-total. In the case of the six-tracks-at-a-time type mixes (like the 'Collide/Coalesce' mix) it'd be impossible to break them up except fairly arbitrarily. . .

Oh--and hope you like what you find, Mr. Keller. Don't miss the '1981' mixes, if you're into post-punk.

i did like it! someone recommended me the homosexuals a while back and i had forgotten.

to answer your question, i would definitely rather you split the tracks up. it would be much easier to keep track of what's what. however, it's your site, do what you want.

haha, the ring wear is great!
i don't mind the tracks being grouped together, but certainly wouldn't complain if they were split up. still it is kind of nice to take the mixes as a whole, which grouping the tracks together forces me to do.

Does anyone mind much that I present them as long mp3s, rather than individual tracks?

the only reason i'd maybe like them split is because i'm spectacularly anal about my last.fm stats. i don't think that's as important as you getting the exact effect you're going for, though -- you must do what you think suits the mix in question.

I like them together. I'd be more tempted to cherry pick if they were separated.

Well, just for the record, I never would have seen what's there as being "ring wear" without being told that's what it's supposed to be. But having said that, it still contributes to the overall art of the sleeve.

I'll be downloading the post-punk mix shortly. Would prefer to have tracks split up, probably.

I like them together. I'd be more tempted to cherry pick if they were separated

this could be easily avoided by presenting the download as a .zip containing individual songs

soundslike, you really are an awesome kinda dude. thank you!

^^^

This post-punk mix is brilliant.

Yep, I enjoyed the post-punk mix as well. Short, sweet and quick. Good fun. There's a few things there I hadn't heard before that sounded pretty good, too.

Thanks, everyone. I appreciate the feedback and response.

Regarding splitting tracks versus having single mixes or "sides"--I think for now what I'll do is continue to post old mixes (including the '1981' stuff) as separate files, when that's how I mixed them; and for all more recent mixes and new ones, I'll post them as single files/sides. The way I've tended to make comps/mixes since the '1981' stuff is with multi-track software, so that I can more easily balance sound, control the flow/segues, overlap tracks, etc. Most mp3 players (software or hardware) don't do gapless playback still, right? So when mixes are intended to have tight flow or segues, I find the gaps off-putting. Plus, I do like the idea of encouraging people to listen to the mix as a sum-total, like back in the days of cassette mixes at least, instead of just contributing more random tracks to hard drives (unless that's the stated goal). Does that seem reasonable?

I was going to wait on posting more of the post-punk 'Miniatures' mixes, but since people seem to enjoy them, I'll put another one up tonight if I can get my computer to stay turned on long enough to make the files and upload, having some real technical difficulties. I hope to have another 'Le Tour du Monde' mix up in the next week; and I'll probably throw another '1981' mix out there, too.

Thanks again!

itunes does gapless playback. fwiw I would prefer individual tracks - at the moment i'm c&ping the track listing into the lyric field for the mix, and having that on-screen while it's playing. I find myself constantly referring back to it to find out what i'm listening to. individually named tracks are just more convenient.

New mix posted this morning:

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/various_-_miniatures_post-punk-no-2_small.jpg?w=500&h=500

Miniatures : Post-Punk No. 2 (1975-1983)

[00:00] 01 Liquid Liquid - "Push" (1981)
[01:57] 02 David Bowie - "Breaking Glass" (1975)
[03:38] 03 L Voag - "Bedroom" (1979)
[05:05] 04 DNA - "32123" (1981)
[05:57] 05 Trio - "Tutti Frutti" (1983)
[07:51] 06 The Teardrop Explodes - "Pure Joy" (1981)
[09:36] 07 Raincoats - "No Side to Fall In" (1979)
[11:26] 08 Virgin Prunes - "Fado" (1982)
[13:16] 09 Elvis Costello - "Hoover Factory"(1980)
[15:00] 10 49 Americans - "Glimpse Go By" (1982)
[16:40] 11 Essendon Airport - "Three Against Four" (1979)
[18:20] 12 Dancing Cigarettes - "Mr. Morse" (1981)
[19:38] 13 Captain Beefheart - "Flavor Bud Living" (1980)
[20:37] 14 Matthais Schuster - "Umarmung" (1981)
[22:13] 15 Stick Men - "Mystery Party" (1982)
[23:45] 16 Crash Course in Science - "Kitchen Motors" (1981)
[25:40] 17 Family Fodder - "Dazomo" (1981)
[27:28] 18 Rosa Yemen - "Tso Xin Yu Xin" (1978)
[28:48] 19 Aksak Maboul - "Inoculating Rabies" (1980)
[30:38] 20 Flying Lizards - "Cirrus" (1981)
[31:45] 21 Brian Eno - "Over Fire Island" (1975)
[33:13] 22 Wipers - "Our Past Life" (1983)

Total Time: [34:40]

Check it out, let me know what you think with a comment.

And Nate--

I didn't know iTunes did gapless, as I've avoided using it. . . I've been including the tracklist in the comments and lyrics sections of the mp3s id3 tags. For all non-segued mixes, I'll stick with individual tracks; for those that are, I'll stick with compiled mp3(s). Hope that won't turn you or anyone away from listening. Always subject to revision, but right now I just feel better about it that way.

FWIW, I think that's the best way to go. When I'm listening to your mixes, I just nudge the iPod select button to lyrics. Hey presto: timed track listings!

is 'Breaking Glass' really as old as 1975?

Whoops, no it is not. Argh, I need to be sure to check years when I use my ripper. Sorry : /

sorry to draw attention to the error. this blog/resource is superb anyway.

No worries, Blueski. I clearly missed it, and it's better to have it correct. And thank you, I'm glad you like it.

I hope to post another mix in the next day or two. . .

The last of the 'Post-Punk' Miniatures mixes up this morning:

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/various_-_miniatures_post-punk-no-3_small.jpg?w=500&h=500

Miniatures : Post-Punk No. 3 (1976-1983)

[00:00] 01 Wire - "Another the Letter" (1978)
[01:09] 02 ESG - "Chistelle" (1983)
[02:57] 03 British Electronic Foundation - "Music to Kill Your Parents By" (1981)
[04:19] 04 MX-80 Sound - "Train to Loveland" (1977)
[05:59] 05 Orange Juice - "Breakfast Time" (1980)
[07:57] 06 Simple Minds - "Cacophony" (1979)
[09:36] 07 Buzzcocks - "I Love You, You Big Dummy" (1976)
[10:53] 08 Phantomband - "Trapped Again" (1981)
[12:00] 09 Debile Menthol - "Tante Agatthe"(1981)
[13:59] 10 Devo - "Timing X" (1979)
[15:07] 11 Pere Ubu - "I Will Wait" (1978)
[16:50] 12 Pyrolator - "Cassiopeia" (1981)
[18:33] 13 Ludus - "Redress" (1982)
[18:50] 14 Diagram Brothers - "Litter" (1981)
[20:23] 15 The Feelies - "Fa Ci-La" (1979)
[22:21] 16 Dalek I Love You - "You Really Got Me" (1980)
[24:20] 17 Bauhaus - "Scopes" (1980)
[25:55] 18 Suicide - "Speedqueen" (1976)
[27:04] 19 XTC - "New Town Animal in a Furnished Cage" (1978)
[29:00] 20 Dinosaur L - "#2 (No, Thank You)" (1981)
[30:17] 21 The Go-Betweens - "Arrow in a Bow" (1982)
[32:13] 22 Swamp Children - "Samba Zippy (Part 1)" (1982)
[32:56] 23 Weekend - "Midnight Slows" (1982)

Total Time: [34:55]

Hope it starts your weekend right. And hopefully no dumb errors this time : \

Download it from here

you're the best

the only reason i'd maybe like them split is because i'm spectacularly anal about my last.fm stats.

What he said. Maybe you could add a cue file to the download?

Thanks, Mr. Keller. I'm just a messenger, to be sure. But I'm glad you like the music.

Mr. Dods-- how does one do that? How would it work? Sorry, I'm ignorant on cue files, beyond having heard of them vaguely.

i have to say: so am i.

soundslike: i very much enjoyed "complicity", too: thanks for sharing that.

i ended up downloading most of the songs & making my own 42 track post punk mix with gaps in between the songs & added a bunch of material not on these mixes.I prefer individual tracks but the mixes are all fantastic & if nothing else make me seek out & discover or rediscover lots of great stuff.Like i'd forgotten how much i like Dalek I Love You & i'd never heard of the Dancing Cigarettes so regardless of how you post them it's a winning situation

if nothing else make me seek out & discover or rediscover lots of great stuff.

Even though I do really try to make mixes that stand on their own and present something unique at least in terms of context for those who already know all the music therein-- getting people to further/deepen their addictions, seek out new-to-them stuff is always my ulterior agenda. Always happy to hear when it works! Did you add more <2min. tracks?

i very much enjoyed "complicity", too: thanks for sharing that.

I guess it was a little underhanded of me to post that, but I figured most people wouldn't download (which has been the case) but a few might like it. Thank you!

yep i added a bunch of sub 2 minute tracks & maybe a few just over 2 minutes.Maybe i'll post that mix as a comment in your blog.

Hmmm...I didn't know about this "Complicity" thing before, but I'm curious to hear it, downloading now, thanks!

Sadly I have not gotten around to the 2nd and 3rd post punk mixes yet. In due time...

New mix posted this morning, a very brief but hopefully not very slight mix featuring heavily segued and intertwined music in an attempt to create a sense of an enveloping environment and a sense of movement.

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/00_various_-_gloaming_1731-2005_cover-small.jpg?w=500&h=500

Various - 'Gloaming' (1731-2005)
Sensory Replication Series #2

[00:00 - 03:50]
01 Tangerine Dream - "Sequent C" (1974)
02 Tony Conrad & Faust - "The Pyre of Angus Was in Kathmandu" (1971)

[03:30 - 05:35]
03 Wolfgang Mozart - "Adagio for Glass Harmonica" (1791)
04 Artist Unkown - Arabic Chants {modified} (Unknown)

[05:20 - 07:40]
05 Chicago Underground Trio - "O Sino" (1999)
06 Matt Anders - "Heathering Blues" (2004)

[07:30 - 10:20]
07 Iannis Xenakis - "Akrata" (1965)
08 Keith Jarrett - "I'm Through With Love" {modified} (1999)

[10:15 - 14:20]
09 Penguin Cafe Orchestra - "Harmonic Necklace" {modified} (1981)
10 Cluster - "Fur Die Katz" (1971)
11 Steve Reich - "Nagoya Marimbas" (1994)

[14:00 - 15:00]
12 Alan R. Splet - "Space Travel with Changing Choral Textures" (1983)
13 Sylvie Courvoisier - "Tourine" (2003)

[14:55 - 18:20]
14 John Cage - "Prepared Piano Concerto, Part III" (1951)
15 Bjork - "Ambergris March" (2005)
16 Antonio Vivaldi - "Double Concerto, Largo G Minor" (1780s)

[18:10 - 19:30]
17 Brian Eno - "Lizard Point" (1982)
18 Low - "Untitled No. 2" (2001)

[18:55 - 22:20]
19 Matthew Herbert - "About This Time Each Day" (2001)
20 Holger Czukay - "Boat-Woman Song" (1969)

[22:15 - 27:34]
21 23 Skidoo - "Shrine" (1982)
22 Einsturzende Neubauten - "U-Haft Muzak" (1983)
23 Johann Sebastian Bach - "Air (For Organ), BWV 1068" (1731)

Find it at the usual place

bach next to einstürzende neubauten. on paper/screen it looks pretty audacious. it would have been even more shocking to have the neubauten at the end though...

Not next to--they're actually mixed together. Everything that's listed under the same brackets is intertwined, and the sections are usually segued, too. If I remember correctly, I think it does technically finish with the Neubauten : )

A little of the mumbling from the blog:

Whereas more recent mixes I’ve attempted in this vein have involved sometimes upward of five simultaneous tracks coalescing around a central track of emphasis, beat-oriented tracks combined with ambient tones and sound effects, remixes, dub versions, etc.—this mix was an intentionally simpler affair. The emphasis is on tone, melody, texture, and rhythm is subtle. Most of the sections of the mix are comprised of duets or trios, often with each element equally featured on the sound stage, as in the case of Bjork’s instrumental “Ambergris March” and Vivaldi’s “Double Concerto, Largo G Minor,” which pull together and spin apart. At other times, languid, liquid melodicism is countered with abrasion—for example, the sweet simplicity of an organ-based rendition of Bach’s “Air” with the percussive rancor of an Einsturzende Neubauten track far off to the right, its low, steady heartbeat-like bass elements adding a bit of menace. On the whole, the sound tends toward the beautiful—this is not difficult listening. But as with a sunset viewed alone, far from anyone else, even as one admires the brilliant color and light, one knows there is darkness not far off.

Hope you dig it. . .

A mix from the '1981' box set posted this morning:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3042/2988481177_0e8cee6c34.jpg

1 9 8 1 | Convertible

01 Young Marble Giants - Final Day (1981) [1:43]
02 Orange Juice - Poor Old Soul (1981) [2:29]
03 Martha & The Muffins - This Is the Ice Age (1981) [4:06]
04 Altered Images - Happy Birthday (1981) [3:01]
05 The Church- Too Fast For You (1981) [3:33]
06 Scritti Politti - The Sweetest Girl (1981) [4:09]
07 Romeo Void - Myself To Myself (1981) [3:46]
08 Barracudas - Don't Let Go (1981) [3:28]
09 The dB's- Black and White (1981) [3:09]
10 Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed (1981) [2:45]
11 Magazine - The Honeymoon Killers (1981) [3:39]
12 Suburbs - Spring Came (1981) [3:18]
13 Marine Girls - Tonight (1981) [1:22]
14 Pretenders - Message of Love (1981) [3:07]
15 Necessaries - More Real (1981) [2:48]
16 The Teardrop Explodes - Falling Down Around Me (1981) [3:08]
17 Squeeze - Is That Love (1981) [2:31]
18 The Go Betweens - Your Turn, My Turn (1981) [3:03]
19 Robyn Hitchcock - Love (1981) [4:34]
20 The Stranglers - Golden Brown (1981) [3:28]
21 The Ramones - It's Not My Place (1981) [3:23]
22 XTC - Respectable Street (1981) [3:40]
23 Pylon - Crazy (1981) [3:13]
24 Elvis Costello - Strict Time (1981) [2:42]
25 REM - Radio Free Europe (1981) [3:49]

Posted as originally released, with separate tracks (even though there are a couple. . . cheats, shall we call them, in considering all of it to be released in 1981). This is the "poppy" disc, the sort of stuff that often flies under the radar of our concepts of "post-punk," but the mix is a fave of mine. I hope you'll enjoy.

Check it out at Musicophilia.

Another '1981' mix up, and it's one of my top three or four:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3217/3019111928_f7102d44cc.jpg

1 9 8 1 | Brain

01 Art Bears - Truth [2:55]
02 The Birthday Party - Cry [2:41]
03 Glenn Branca - Structure [3:04]
04 Klaus Nomi - The Twist [3:06]
05 Ex, The - Weapons for El Salvador [2:43]
06 Flying Lizards - Hands 2 Take [4:06]
07 Negativland - Dearmary [1:49]
08 New Age Steppers - Crazy Dreams & High Ideas [2:58]
09 Lemon Kittens - Kites [3:29]
10 Trio - Kummer [2:40]
11 Pere Ubu - Lonesome Cowboy Dave [1:52]
12 The Residents - Would We Be Alive [3:20]
13 Matt Johnson - The River Flows East In Spring [1:33]
14 Eyeless in Gaza - The Decoration [2:45]
15 Einstürzende Neubauten - Abstieg & Zerfall [4:28]
16 Fire Engines - Candyskin [2:54]
17 Section 25 - Hit [2:50]
18 Crass - Bata Motel [3:28]
19 Liaisons Dangereuses - Aperitif De La Mort [1:37]
20 Crash Course in Science - Factory Forehead [3:00]
21 Foetus - Thank Heaven for Push Button Phones [4:26]
22 Cabaret Voltaire - A Touch Of Evil [1:52]
23 Chrome - Planet Strike [2:25]
24 DNA - Blonde Red Head [1:52]
25 Clock DVA - 4 Hours [3:52]
26 Homosexuals - Nursery Chymes [2:40]
27 Wim Mertins - Multiple 12 [1:00]
28 This Heat - Makeshift Swahili [3:54]

[Total Time: 79:20]

Darker, weirder, wittier, artier stuff this outing.

Musicophilia

New mix up this morning, covering post post-punk tunes:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3239/3034075426_d1bcfa85df.jpg?v=1226926519

Various - 'Post Post-Punk' (1983-1994)

01 Liquid Liquid - "Scraper" (1983) [3:41]
02 Camberwell Now - "Daddy Needs a Throne" (1984) [3:24]
03 ESG - "Erase You" (1983) [4:08]
04 Ex - "Machinary" (1983) [2:57]
05 Mark Stewart - "Jerusalem" (1983) [3:45]
06 Disco Inferno - "In Sharky Water" (1994) [4:40]
07 Biting Tongues - "Compressor" (1987) [4:52]
08 Trio - "Girl Girl Girl" (1983) [3:30]
09 Special AKA - "House Bound" (1984) [4:12]
10 Neon Judgement - "Please Release Me Let Me Go-Go" (1983) [4:34]
11 David Thomas - "Big Breezy Day" (1985) [3:24]
12 Thick Pigeon - "Dog" (1983) [2:21]
13 100 Flowers - "Horizontal" (1983) [1:06]
14 Blackouts - "It's Clay Again" (1983) [6:17]
15 Arthur Russell - "See-Through" (1986) [2:10]
16 Dog Faced Hermans - "Volkswagen" (1994) [5:35]
17 Creatures - "Weathercade" (1983) [2:48]
18 Death Comet Crew (ft Rammellzee) - "Exterior Street" (1984) [4:32]
19 Sonic Youth - "Shadow Of A Doubt" (1986) [3:32]
20 Cybotron - "Clear" (Edit) (1983) [3:21]
21 Colin Newman - "But I" (1986) [4:54]

[Total Time: 79:43]

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This one is upped as individual tracks, since that's how it was originally put together. Hope you guys like it. Flimsy as the premise may be, it's a nice listen, better coherence and flow than one might expect.

If an admin or moderator reads this:

Would it be possible to change the name of this thread to something like:

Musicophilia Blog (by that guy who did '1981') Updates Thread

Or something like that? Because I guess that's really what this has become. . .

Thanks!

looks cool! i'm still catching up -- haven't had time to listen to "the gloaming" mix, but looking forward to it. keep it up!

Tylerw -

'The Gloaming' and the other heavily mixed ones like that are my favorites--but I don't think many others agree. Hope you like it. Thanks for continuing to check them out.

got yer thread title change

The ‘Collide\Coallesce’ mix a while back was awesome I might add, I have much of the stuff in it but still couldn't sort it out all the time. I will check out the Gloaming mix next.

Pashmina--

Thanks for that! Just seems more accurate, it's no longer really an announcement of a new blog.

Sonderangerbot--

I'm glad you liked it--definitely the mix I've worked hardest on, thought out every tiny detail. 'Gloaming' is more low-key, but probably the fullest experience relative to length of mix (it's only 28 minutes long) of anything I've done. I'll be curious what you think.

I'm right now putting the finishing touches on six new mixes in the style of the 'Le Tour du Monde' mixes, created via the seemingly popular 'Miniatures' approach. . . Also another "full-sized" 'Le Tour du Monde' should be finished this week, and another 1981 volume or two will probably go up, along with another full album.

So keep your eyes peeled, some really great stuff coming in the next few days.

Starting a new series today that combines the 'Le Tour du Monde' musical territory with the short-and-sweet tendencies of the Miniatures Post-Punk mixes:

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/les-miniatures_volume12_front_small.jpg?w=500&h=500

Various Artists - ‘Les Miniatures’ Volume 12
(10″ LP, Musique du Monde, France - 1975)

Side A:
[00'00"] 01 PEOPLE - “Prologue” (1971, Japan)
[01'45"] 02 FAUST - “I’ve Got My Car and My TV” (1972, Germany)
[03'00"] 03 Henry COW - “Arcades” (1974, England)
[04'50"] 04 Curtis MAYFIELD - “Junkie Chase” (1972, USA)
[06'20"] 05 SEESSELBERG - “Eintrachtkreis-Paranoia” (1973, Germany)
[07'15"] 06 Kevin AYERS - “Two Goes Into Four” (1974, England)
[08'50"] 07 Sun RA - “Wurlitzer & Celeste” (1972, USA)
[10'35"] 08 Serge GAINSBOURG - “Ah! Melody” (1971, France)
[12'20"] 09 Joe UFER - “Drums on Phasing No. 6″ (1973, Germany)
[13'30"] 10 Paul SIMON - “Hobo’s Blues” (1972, USA)

Side B:
[00'00"] 01 Milton NASCIMENTO - “Saidas E Bandeiras No. 1″ (1972, Brazil)
[01'20"] 02 Raymond VINCENT - “Mouvement pour Arcet” (1973, France)
[02'30"] 03 Sly & THE FAMILY STONE - “Mother Beautiful” (1974, USA)
[04'15"] 04 Erkin KORAY - “Korkulu Ruya” (1974, Turkey)
[05'45"] 05 Orchester FRITZ MALDENER - “Wild Luck” (1973, Germany)
[07'20"] 06 Gil SCOTT-HERON - “Billy Green is Dead” (1973, USA)
[08'45"] 07 Sammy BURDSON GROUP - “Electronic News No. 3″ (1973, Germany)
[10'00"] 08 Lou REED - “New York Telephone Conversation” (1972, USA)
[11'30"] 09 Franco BIXIO - “Dog’s Heart” (1974, Italy)
[12'00"] 10 Robert WYATT - “Muddy Mouse (A)” (1975, England)
[13'15"] 11 John CALE - “Days of Steam” (1972, Wales)

[Total Time: 29'55"]

Rough translation, back cover text:
“Continuing the tradition, ‘Les Miniatures’ Volume 12 brings more amazing sounds from around the world–all speeding to you in less than two minutes! Whirl your way through the hippest sounds of the today, from France to the United States to Germany to Italy to Wales and even from Turkey. The world is moving faster than ever–so we present to you the very best music, in miniature! But don’t worry, all the beats, the strings, the voices and the keyboards are there in full size. It’s ‘Les Miniatures!’”

Notes:
Following the recent reissues of some of the long-lost, highly sought-after ‘Le Tour du Monde’ compilations, we bring you another discovery from Musique du Monde, the French label known during the 60s and 70s to taste-makers the world over: Volume 12 of the ‘Les Miniatures’ series. Originally released as “miniature” limited-edition 10″ LPs, the ‘Les Miniatures’ discs bring all of the sounds we loved from ‘Le Tour,’ and with similarly international flair, but it does so entirely with tracks befitting the diminutive LP format–all under two minutes in duration! For their brevity, there is no skimping here–all the string flourishes, brass punches, heavy bass lines, and sample-worthy beats are here, along with the upper crust of the singer-songwriter world from 1971 to 1975. And as with ‘Le Tour,’ Musique du Monde refused to see barriers or genres, weaving together the post-funk, the delicate, the experimental and concrete seemingly without effort. You’ll find both old favorites–Sun Ra, Kevin Ayers, Faust, John Cale, even Paul Simon and Curtis Mayfield–and lesser-knowns like the Sammy Burdson Group, Erkin Koray, Joe Ufer, and Franco Bixio. In less than thirty minutes, ‘Les Miniatures’ provide a fully-rounded musical journey. Keep your eyes peeled–several volumes have been unearthed, and the Musicophilia reissue program will be sharing them all in due time. — I. Sonnecomme, November 2008

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Let me know what you think--several more will follow in quick succession--in fact, they're already finished. So I hope a few of you enjoy this one.

nobody sounds like ian soundcomme! hey all that tasty stuff fits on one side of a c60!

Glad you like it, Alex. Save the other side of that c60 for the next one.

Once I've added a Miniatures mix to my iPod, then what? Mike T. Diva said all he had to do was switch the iPod select button to "lyrics" and he got a timed tracklisting?? My fucking iPod does NOT have a "lyrics" option on the main menu. I don't like to be chained to listening to music on my computer. Imagine being able to take my iPod into my bedroom, pass out drunk, and STILL be able to find out from iPod what song was playing at any given time...

Press the middle button on your ipod while the track's playing til you get to the tracklisting: 1st press = search, 2nd press = coverart, 3rd press = lyrics/tracklisting, 4th press = rating.

Okay, I got a tracklisting. Yay! But it's very hard to reproduce the effect without clicking again and again and hoping for the best. At first I thought the secret was to choose "Album" on the third click, but it appears even that is not fullproof. No, I still know of no fullproof way to get that tracklisting to come up except clicking a bunch of times and waiting and hoping. It's really bizarre. It seems to have something to do with the rhythm in which you click the previous two times.

Bimble, I hope you can work it out, man.

New mix this morning, the next in the 'Les Miniatures' series, lots of short-and-sweet:

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/les-miniatures_volume03_front_small.jpg?w=500&h=500

Various Artists - 'Les Miniatures' Volume 3
(10" LP, Musique du Monde, France - 1971)

Side A:
[00'00"] 01 Nick DRAKE - "Introduction" (1970, England)
[01'25"] 02 SAGITTARIUS - "You Know I've Found a Way" (1967, USA)
[02'05"] 03 Orchester ROLAND KOVAC - "Service No. 2" (1968, Austria)
[04'30"] 04 David BATISTE & THE GLADIATORS - "Funky Soul" (1970, USA)
[06'05"] 05 Pearls BEFORE SWINE - "(Oh Dear) Miss Morse" (1967, USA)
[08'00"] 06 Ennio MORRICONE - "Le Fotografie" (1971, Italy)
[09'00"] 07 Hiro YANAGIDA - "Love T" (1970, Japan)
[10'20"] 08 Oskar SALA - "Interludium" (1970, Germany)
[11'50"] 09 Roger ROGER - "Shere Kahn" (1971, France)
[13'45"] 10 Velvet UNDERGROUND - "Here She Comes Now" (1968, USA)

Side B:
[00'00"] 01 Serge GAINSBOURG - "Champêtre Et Pop No. 2" (1967, France)
[01'20"] 02 Red NOISE - "A La Memoire du Rockeur Inconnu. . ." (1971, France)
[02'05"] 03 Bob MARLEY & THE WAILERS - "Sun is Shining" (1971, Jamaica)
[04'00"] 04 The SHAGGS - "That Little Sports Car" (1969, USA)
[06'05"] 05 Les MOGOL - "Madimak" (1971, Turkey)
[08'00"] 06 Syd BARRETT - "Golden Hair" (1970, England)
[09'50"] 07 Amon DÜÜl II - "The Return of Ruebezahl" (1968, Germany)
[11'20"] 08 Reg WALE- "Bright Spark" (1970, England)
[13'05"] 09 KLUSTER - "3" (1971, Germany)
[14'10"] 10 King CRIMSON - "Peace (A Theme)" (1970, England)

[Total Time: 31'05"]

Rough translation, back cover text:
"Get ready for a joyride: 'Les Miniatures' Volume 3 is here! As they say, "big things come in small packages," and this is the proof. Travel from France to Italy to the United States to Germany to Japan, Turkey, Jamaica, Austria. . . around the world in half an hour! For a fast-paced world, there's still time to enjoy the fullness of modern sounds on the cutting edge in music. It's here, it's 'Les Miniatures!'"

Notes:
Our second reissue from Musique du Monde's nearly-forgotten 'Les Miniatures' series, 'Volume 3' comes to us from several years earlier than our first reissue, 'Volume 12', covering the years 1967 to 1971. But Musique du Monde had their finger no less on the pulse in '71, and so here again, like the 'Le Tour du Monde' series you'll find all the sophisticated pop stylings, proto-punk and art-rock energy, late psychedelic sensibility, sound library swing and punch, and krautrock mystery and dynamism that we've come to expect. But like all the other 'Les Miniatures' volumes, No. 3 brings all this to the listener in tracks under two minutes, twenty tracks in only thirty-one minutes. Originally issued as a 10" LP, and especially scarce in these earlier volumes even at the time of their original release as a promo record to producers, musicians, critics, journalists and general style-setters, it's was truly a lost gem--until now. Always eclectic, Musique here brings together acts as diverse as Ennio Morricone, Serge Gainsbourg, Bob Marley, King Crimon and the Velvet Underground, but not scrimping on the less-known (then) but no less revered (now) Nick Drake, Sagittarius, Hiro Yanagida, Roger Roger, The Shaggs, Kluster, and others. The brevity without compromise is perhaps even more appropriate for our world now than in '71, as we are even more "fast-paced" than ever, and when we must foster the "fullness" of our musical appreciation when and where we can. We at the Musicophilia label are still just getting started with our reissues of this series (and of 'Le Tour du Monde')--no time to slow down now! -- I. Sonnecomme, November 2008

Hope you like it, guys. Pass it on. Musicophilia at Wordpress.com

i love the bimble vs. soundslike rivalry

I wasn't aware there was one.

Nor can I see anything -- on this thread, or either blog -- to suggest its existence!

omg how am I going to get through all of this

the rivalry started on the 1981 thread

FYI

This whole bimble/I.M. exchange is pretty bizarre.
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, April 13, 2005 7:18 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Hmm, you must have a better memory than me : )

Bimble and I have pretty significant divergence in taste, I'd say--he goes in for the sub-Joy Divisiony vein of post-punk a lot, whereas that's pretty my my least fave. But a difference doesn't constitute a rivalry. He's certainly passionate about what he likes, and I respect that.

is that why you took 1981 as reference year? to avoid the dilemma of having to choose joy division songs? come to think of it, that is the main disadvantage of 1981 from my pov. that there is no joy division. besides that it is a phantastic year. i suppose there was at least one new order song on your compilation cds. the three compilations you posted didn't have any yet though iirc. somehow i have the feeling we had this discussion already.

btw i am looking forward to listen to that late 60s/early 70s miniatures mix tonight.

I like Joy Division themselves just fine, though they probably wouldn't make my top 30 or 40 post-punk acts--and I will admit freely to much preferring New Order, generally. I just don't generally care for the stuff that was clearly "inspired" by Joy Division's (and early Factory's) influence, like Crispy Ambulance or the Pin Group or five thousand other groups doing po-faced theatrical dourness with sort of bleating vocals and overwrought lyrics. (That's not how I'd describe Joy Division's music, mind, but with a few exceptions, that's how their follower-bands tend to sound to me).

Hmm--so the most recent mix ('Les Miniatures, Volume 3') was apparently taken down, or became inaccessible through some glitch. I've re-upped it, for anyone who wasn't able to get it. I hope this doesn't become recurrent. . .

i don't care for the bands inspired by joy div neither. i think i hardly ever cared for bands which were mainly influenced by the sound of one other band. that's not innovative, that's boring. i don't look for pale copies of originals. probably nobody does. but joy division themselves are my favourite band in between punk and post-punk. they transformed their explorations of the dark regions of the human soul into incredibly powerful music.

True, any carbon-copy (or to be period-appropriate, I guess we should say Xerox) is bound to be dead-boring. But the sort borne of cult-of-personality can be extra icky. The main thing to me is that the Joyless Division wannabes just never sound like they're having any fun at all--which can't be said of Joy Division themselves.

Undance to the radio.

Another JD-less 1981 mix up this morning: 'Amplifier'

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3230/3076820555_a731cf0a0d.jpg

1 9 8 1 | Amplifier

01 The Embarrassment - Celebrity Art Party [3:06]
02 Minutemen - Straight Jacket [0:57]
03 The Replacements - Johnny's Gonna Die [3:24]
04 Flesh Eaters - Pray Til You Sweat [2:36]
05 Black Flag - Louie Louie [1:19]
06 Stiff Little Fingers - The Only One [4:18]
07 Mx-80 - Cover To Cover [2:42]
08 Meat Puppets - Big House [1:06]
09 Agent Orange - Too Young To Die [2:04]
10 The Saints - Paradise (Edit) [2:56]
11 Buzzcocks - I Look Alone [3:01]
12 Empire - All These Things [3:15]
13 Secret Hate - New Routines-Suicide [1:26]
14 The Gordons - Coalminers Song [5:43]
15 Virgin Prunes - Twenty Tens [2:27]
16 The Cramps - Green Fuz [2:06]
17 Minor Threat - Straight Edge [0:45]
18 100 Flowers - Reject Yourself [2:34]
19 The Undertones - Julie Ocean [1:46]
20 Bad Brains - Pay To Cum [1:30]
21 Flipper - Ha Ha Ha [2:13]
22 Mission of Burma - Fame and Fortune [3:35]
23 Gun Club - Goodbye Johnny [3:45]
24 Josef K - Crazy To Exist [2:57]
25 Swimming Pool Q's - Rat Bait [2:21]
26 Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off [0:59]
27 Au Pairs - Love Song [2:52]
28 Wipers - When It's Over [6:36]
29 X - Adult Books [3:19]
30 Zoomers - Give Your Heart [2:13]

Two month anniversary of the blog today, and I discovered I have stats on downloads: just over 1,140! That is really great, far more than I imagined. Hope that means you are liking the music!

I'm very excited about the several 'Le Tour du Monde' volumes I've got going right now, as well as the three more 'Les Miniatures' mixes already finished (shy of artwork). Thinking the 'Heart' mix next for the 1981 set--but then what? Anyone have any requests, feedback, ideas, etc.?

Thanks, everyone!

keep upping the 1981 volumes please because i had the entire set stolen from my car in 2006

actually, the set wasn't stolen from my car. my car was stolen with the set in it.

maybe a group of car thieves has been totally schooled on 1981 post punk

Ouch, I'm sorry someone stole your car just to get a handmade box set. The addiction to music can be so sad sometimes. . .

You pick the next one, then, since you've been so harshly deprived ; )

I put up a few polls to get a sense of what people like or don't about the blog, the mixes, etc. Obviously it's not very important, but if anyone is bored--I'd really appreciate your participation.

i'm quite pleased with the "heart" mix being uploaded next

Cutty--

'Heart' it will be, then. Got a preference after that?

The results from the polls I put up have been really interesting--thanks to everyone for participating so far.

• Unsurprisingly, a lot of my visitors seem to be ILMers, which is great. Decent numbers have found it through other blogs or from friends, though, which is neat.
• A good number of over 40s, all the rest so far between 26-40--so, damn, old weird 70s stuff and post-punk aren't huge with the youngster set (or maybe I just haven't pimped it on MySpace enough).
• Getting visitors from mostly North America, unsurprisingly; but also Europe and Asia.
• Good news to me: there seems to be large crossover appeal between the post-punk stuff and the earlier 70s stuff (and maybe the weirder heavily-mixed stuff), not just factions coming for one or the other too much.
• Also great news: lots of people are finding stuff that's new to them, and a good majority are buying new music as a result! Take that, RIAA.
• People don't seem to think I'm posting mixes to often. That's cool, though I doubt I'll always keep up the rate of one mix every four days.
• "Late 70s-Early 80s" is winning "favorite years for music" by a wide margin, "Early-Mid 70s" next. That fits the blog's M.O. pretty well.
• Surprisingly, people want to hear "Pretty stuff in general" from the blog next, in terms of territory not yet covered. Hmm. . .
• Most shockingly, people seem to think the hype-blurbs I'm writing help them get interested in the music. I admit, they're getting harder to write, and I'm no writer to begin with. But I'll keep trying.

where do you find the time, ian?

Well, fortunately most of the mixes I've posted I'd already made before the blog.

But basically right now my career is in a lull, so I figure if I'm going to be wasting time, I should at least waste it with music that helps other people waste time, too.

whoa, didn't even know about this. i'm linking to it via my blog.

This whole bimble/I.M. exchange is pretty bizarre.
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, April 13, 2005 7:18 PM (3 years ago)

― cutty, Friday, November 28, 2008 1:12 PM (1 week ago)

cutty, you aren't the only one who remembered this important moment in history.

Hey i, hope Portland's treating you well.

Poly-

Things are good. Hope things are ok in S.F.

Mike A.-
Thanks, hope you like it. I think we talked some back in the 1981 box set days, yes?

i love the bimble vs. soundslike rivalry

It seems as if my name is being evoked in this thread a little too often. ;)

I was thinking that even if there *were* a rivalry, it would be a pretty silly one because even if Ian & I share a love a post-punk, he's obviously interested in doing a different thing with his blog than I am with mine. I simply don't feel the same creative drive he feels to do mixes of stuff, for one thing. I've never put up mixes on my blog (although I did once put up a short list of songs on a mix I'd made for myself) and I don't see that changing any time soon. It's just not something I want to do. Further, as Ian has said, there are some pretty fundamental differences in musical taste. What was said earlier here about my tastes is true enough, but to be honest, I find myself veering off towards disco/funk/mid-80's R&B/club music and even early 80's Top 40 kind of stuff more and more, and I don't believe he's interested in any of that. By the same token, he's into a lot of non-post-punk stuff that I'm not interested in.

So hey, you know, "two great tastes that taste great together" or whatever, apples & oranges, etc. There's plenty of room for both of us is the way I see it.

In the very off chance anyone is interested, I posted two albums of my own work today.

Hope to have a new 'Le Tour du Monde' volume up tomorrow morning, stuff from 1969-1972.

New mix is up: the third 'Le Tour du Monde' compilation. A dark and spooky one, liberal with the beats.

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/00_various_-_le-tour-du-monde-volume-05_2xlp_1971_cover-small.jpg?w=500&h=500

Various Artists - ‘Le Tour du Monde, Volume 4′
(2xLP, Musique du Monde, France - 1971)

Side A:
01 [00'00"] Jean-Jacques PERREY - “E.V.A.” (1970, France)
02 [03'06"] Curtis MAYFIELD - “Underground (Demo)” (1970, USA)
03 [06'12"] Roy BUDD - “Goodbye Carter!” (1971, England)
04 [09'18"] Gershon KINGSLEY - “For Alisse Beethoven” (1969, Israel/Germany/USA)
05 [11'23"] Piero PICCIONI - “Blue Rhythm Festival” (1968, Italy)
06 [14'20"] Stevie WONDER - “Look Around” (1971, USA)
07 [17'03"] Vladimir USSACHEVSKY - “Sketch 2″ (1971, Russia/USA)
08 [17'54"] Bruno SPOERRI - “Les Electroniciens” (1971, Germany)
09 [19'48"] The OPEN WINDOW - “4:00AM June, The Sky Was Green” (1969, USA)

Side B:
01 [00'00"] Jorge BEN - “Take It Easy, My Brother Charlie” (1969, Brazil)
02 [02'33"] Dionysis SAVOPOULOS - “O Paliatsos Ki O Listis” (1971, Greece)
03 [05'20"] Hugo MONTENEGRO - “Peace Train” (1971, USA)
04 [07'50"] Andy LOORE - “Mixed Drums” (1970, Yugoslavia/France)
05 [09'29"] Yuya UCHIDA & THE FLOWERS - “Greasy Heart” (1969, Japan)
06 [13'17"] The FUNKEES - “The Dancing Time” (1971, Nigeria)
07 [16'32"] TRUST - “Les Blés” (1970, France)
08 [20'04"] Simon FINN - “Laughing Till Tomorrow” (1970, England)
09 [22'40"] United STATES OF AMERICA - “Coming Down” (1968, USA)

Side C:
01 [00'00"] Giancarlo GAZZANI - “Under Drama” (1971, Italy)
02 [02'53"] SPIRIT - “Mellow Fellow” (1969, USA)
03 [06'36"] Bill FAY - “We Have Laid Here” (1971, England)
04 [09'01"] Miles DAVIS - “Willie Nelson (Insert 2)” (1970, USA)
05 [13'15"] Yoko ONO - “Mrs. Lennon” (1971, Japan/USA)
06 [17'22"] György LIGETI - “No. 2, Coulée” (1969, Romania/Austria)
07 [19'34"] Swamp SALAD - “Ode to Billy Joe” (1971, Australia)
08 [22'05"] NICO - “Nibelungen” (1968, Germany)

Side D:
01 [00'00"] CAN - “Turtles Have Short Legs” (1971, Germany)
02 [03'01"] Stark REALITY - “Cooking” (1970, USA)
03 [05'37"] Ennio MORRICONE - “Guardami Negli Occhi” (1969, Italy)
04 [07'45"] Black HEAT - “Wanoah” (1971, USA)
05 [10'15"] Saka ACQUAYE - “Akudonno” (1969, Ghana)
06 [12'45"] Francis LAI - “Dans La Poussiere du Soleil” (1971, France)
07 [14'58"] Monk MONTGOMERY - “Fuselage (Part I)” (1971, USA)
08 [17'25"] Isaac HAYES - “Ike’s Mood” (1970, USA)
09 [22'13"] Velvet UNDERGROUND - “I Love You” (1970, USA)

[Total Time: 100' 35"]

Rough translation, back cover text:
“You can feel the change. It’s happening in France. . . but it’s also happening in every corner of the planet! Come with us on a journey to The United States, to Germany, to Russia, to Greece, Nigeria, Israel, England, Japan, Romania, Italy, Ghana—come on a world tour! It’s the whole world, a new revolution on a twelve-inch platter! Feel the funky rhythms, ride the shimmering strings, bounce with the bass, know the new sound, hear the new voice. This is your time, this is our time—on Le Tour du Monde!”

Reiussue Notes:
We at the Musicophilia reissue program are proud to bring you another killer package from France’s revered Musique du Monde: ‘Le Tour du Monde, Volume 4′. Another trip around the world from the hippest compilers and listeners at the dawn of the 70s—fifteen countries worth of the Moog-laden, Rhodes-fed, breaks-filled, string-kissed bliss-outs, futurist pop concoctions, mellow moods, and jazzy freak-outs. By 1971, Musique du Monde was in full stride, releasing some of the best (and today, rarest) sound library records in France, but with a growing reputation amongst the cognescenti for their compiling chops through the ‘Le Tour’ and ‘Les Miniatures’ series, released in limited quanties direct to DJs, record store and club owners, and occasionally as scarce commercial releases. And already their ethos of seeing no borders—neither national nor sonic—was in full swing. So on ‘Volume 4,’ with tracks spanning 1968 to early 1971, you’ll find a Greek cover of “All Along the Watchtower;” a Japanese cover of Jefferson Airplane’s “Greasy Heart,” and a sunshine-pop cover of “Peace Train;” Vladimir Ussachevsky and Gyorgy Ligeti alongside Isaac Hayes, Bill Fay and Jorge Ben; high-life from Ghana, and Afrobeat from Nigeria; Yoko Ono presaging Big Star; unique takes on funk from Italy, Germany, and Australia alongside Miles Davis breaking it down hard with Sonny Sharrock; foundational synth-pop from Jean-Jacques Perrey, Gershon Kingsley, and Hugo Montenegro; and unreleased or rare (at the time) demos and singles from Can, Nico, the Velvet Underground, Bruno Spoerri, and Curtis Mayfield, among others. ‘Volume 4′ transports us not just through many places but wholly to another time, when possibilities were infinite and boundaries were for breaking. We may never regain the openness to change and hopeful eagerness for the future that Musique du Monde captures here—but it remains, now as then, “our time” to enjoy, our “new sound” to experience. — I. Sonnecomme, December, 2008

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Seems the upload for 'Volume 4' was down last night--I've re-upped, should work now.

I'm listening to the Complicity stuff now. It's mostly really, really good. It's been awhile since I appreciated music that sounds like this. It's funny I've had Aphex Twin's SAWII on my iPod for weeks waiting for the moment when I'll want to hear it again and I ended up just taking it off my iPod! But some of this Complicity stuff really fills a need. I like that you used the sound of rain...I heard something else like that recently that made me want to pull out THAT Cure song, but I didn't.

5th disc from the 1981 set is up:

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/00_1981-heart_1981_coversmall.jpg?w=500&h=500

1 9 8 1 | Heart

01 Cure, The - All Cats Are Grey [5:24]
02 Passions - Alice's Song [3:13]
03 Depeche Mode - Any Second Now (Voices) [2:35]
04 Durutti Column - The Missing Boy [6:38]
05 Costello, Elvis & The Attractions - Gloomy Sunday [3:15]
06 MX-80 - Promise of Love [4:40]
07 Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime (Edit) [3:22]
08 New Order - Doubts Even Here [4:20]
09 Shelley, Pete - It's Hard Enough Knowing (Edit) [2:50]
10 Sound, The - Winning [4:18]
11 Japan - Ghosts [4:34]
12 This Heat - A New Kind Of Water [5:02]
13 Raincoats - Only Loved At Night [3:30]
14 Gist - Love at First Sight [3:42]
15 Numan, Gary - Dance [2:45]
16 Psychedelic Furs - No Tears [3:16]
17 Gang of Four - Paralysed [3:23]
18 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Romance Of The Telescope [3:19]
19 Ultravox - Rage In Eden [4:12]
20 Weekend - Nostalgia (Demo) [5:21]

One of the best in the set, with many of the strongest tracks of the year, in my opinion. Give a listen.

I'm listening to the Complicity stuff now. It's mostly really, really good. It's been awhile since I appreciated music that sounds like this. It's funny I've had Aphex Twin's SAWII on my iPod for weeks waiting for the moment when I'll want to hear it again and I ended up just taking it off my iPod! But some of this Complicity stuff really fills a need. I like that you used the sound of rain...I heard something else like that recently that made me want to pull out THAT Cure song, but I didn't.

Thanks a lot, Bimble. I'm glad you like it. The weird thing is, when I recorded it, I hadn't heard Aphex Twin (nor Tangerine Dream nor early Cluster. . .) so I'm not sure where to think it fits in.

I just listened to that Heart disc last week -- probably my favorite in terms of mix/flow on that 1981 set! Especially that you put the best-known Talking Heads track right there in the middle, instead of picking something more obscure. It's kind of like you can hear about a hundred different musical elements from 1981 coalesce triumphantly into that one song. Anyway, it made me hear "Once In A Lifetime" in a whole new way, which is saying something, since that song is pretty much inescapable.

Tyler--

I couldn't not include "Once in a Lifetime"--it's one of the few post-punk tracks I remember from my childhood, having a very strong emotional response to it (the video in particular). I was an odd kid, I guess, but as a kid, all I heard was a joyous feeling in it, obviously the satirical or critical elements, the "how is this my life, this is not what I expected" elements didn't reach me. And I still like to try to imagine it with a purely earnest spin, more seeing ones life and being astonished that one is surrounded by beauty. But you're right--it's pretty much got a lot of the best qualities of post-punk rolled up into one--sort of funny that I loved Talking Heads as a 13-17 year old, but never really had any inkling they were part of a broader picture. It still comes back to them for me, now that I've heard hundreds and hundreds of their compatriots. I'm glad the context made it feel new for you, that's everything I could hope for when I include things everyone already knows in mixes.

Thanks for the blog, Soundslike. I'm really enjoying the Tour Du Monde stuff in particular.

Glad you like it, Daniel. A third series, besides 'Le Tour du Monde' and 'Les Miniatures,' is about to be discovered from the Musique du Monde label from a few years later I hope you'll like. . .

Third mix of the heavy-mixing sort posted:

http://www.mediafire.com/?z0uz1wmwxjq

Various Artists - The Somnambulist (1908-2007)

01 [00:00 - 01:20] Reich, Steve - New York Counterpoint: Fast (1985)
02 [00:05 - 05:00] Hayward, Charles - Lopside (1990)
03 [00:05 - 06:35] Oliveros, Pauline - Big Mother is Watching You (1966)
04 [01:20 - 08:30] Young, LaMonte - Well Tuned Piano (1964)
05 [02:00 - 05:00] Eno, Brian - Drift (1983)
06 [02:25 - 06:10] Morricone, Ennio - Astrazione Con Ritmo (1973)
07 [03:30 - 06:00] Stockhausen, Karlhenz - Kontakte: Structur V (1959)
08 [03:30 - 06:10] Xenakis, Iannis - Metaux (1979)
09 [03:40 - 06:55] Deadbeat - Sunday Morning (2001)
10 [04:30 - 06:50] Hu Vibrational - Her Dream of Peace (2006)
11 [04:35 - 07:05] Ravel, Maurice - Ma Mere l'Oye: Le Jardin Feerique (1908)
12 [04:40 - 08:10] Cage, John - Sonata XIII (1947)
13 [04:55 - 11:45] Burning Star Core - Deaf-Mute Spinning Resonator (2006)
14 [05:25 - 12:20] Raajimakers, Dick - Ein Reiterstuck (1966)
15 [05:35 - 06:35] Drake, Nick - Sketch 1 (1967)
16 [05:45 - 06:50] Robb, JD - Collage (1970)
17 [06:30 - 09:30] Schulze, Klaus - Satz-Gewitter (1972)
18 [06:40 - 10:00] Davis, Miles - Rated X (1975)
19 [06:50 - 11:10] Einsturzende Neubauten - Ragout Kuchen Rezpt Von Einsturze (1998)
20 [07:00 - 12:45] Deuter - Atlantis (1971)
21 [07:55 - 14:40] Branca, Glenn - Harmonic Series Chords (1981)
22 [09:00 - 12:00] Morricone, Ennio - Ninna Nanna Per Adulteri (1969)
23 [09:15 - 15:10] Ferrari, Luc - Interrupteur (1967)
24 [09:50 - 16:25] Autechre - VI Scose Poise (2001)
25 [10:00 - 13:20] Neu! - Super 16 (1973)
26 [10:05 - 15:05] Cale, John - Wall (1970)
27 [10:30 - 15:20] Cluster - Hollywood (1975)
28 [11:10 - 18:15] Cage, John - Rozart Mix (1965)
29 [12:00 - 15:00] Lucier, Alvin - A Tribute to James Tenney, Part 4 (1986)
30 [12:45 - 25:40] Pauser, Erik & C.M. von Hauswolff - Phaus Eternal Love (1993)
31 [12:50 - 29:30] Menche, Daniel - Jugularis, Part 1 (2006)
32 [14:40 - 19:20] Morricone, Ennio - Fumeria D'Oppio (1981)
33 [14:50 - 19:30] Burial - Ghost Hardware (2007)
34 [15:15 - 19:45] Dockstader, Tod - Wire (2005)
35 [15:55 - 20:10] Stockhausen, Karlheinz - Kontakte: Struktur X (1959)
36 [16:20 - 22:05] Czukay, Holger - Canaxis (1969)
37 [17:40 - 20:30] Bhutan Tibetan Monks - Cross-Flute Folk Song (1971)
38 [18:00 - 22:10] Cage, John - Quietly Flowing Along (1950)
39 [18:50 - 21:45] Sharrock, Sonny - Blind Willy (1969)
40 [19:45 - 23:30] Defever, Warn - Jewel (2000)
41 [20:05 - 24:40] Battiato, Franco - Nel Cantiere Di Un Infanzia (1973)
42 [21:00 - 23:30] Pablo, Augustus & King Tubby - King Tubby's Meets Rockers Uptown (1975)
43 [21:30 - 28:00] Aksak Maboul - Masoul Alakefak (1979)
44 [22:00 - 30:20] Conrad, Tony & Faust - From the Side of the Machine (1972)
45 [22:15 - 31:40] Harrison, George - Under the Mersey Wall (1969)
46 [25:05 - 33:00] Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. - Cloudscape For Peggy (1970)
47 [25:45 - 30:55] Kraftwerk - Megahertz (1971)
48 [28:05 - 32:30] 23 Skidoo - Mahkala (1982)
49 [28:30 - 31:50] Dockstader, Tod - Bottom (2005)
50 [29:00 - 34:30] King Crimson - Trio (1974)
51 [29:10 - 33:45] Soundslike - Ghost Sketch (2007)
52 [30:10 - 34:05] Bhutan Tibetan Monks - Dramnyen Choshe (1971)
53 [30:25 - 35:30] Funkstorung - Mind the Gap (2000)
54 [30:20 - 36:10] Chatham, Rhys - Two Gongs (1971)
55 [32:00 - 35:00] Peruvian Folk Musicians - Mauca Zapotoyke (1969)
56 [32:15 - 38:25] Oliveros, Pauline - Bye Bye Butterfly (1965)
57 [33:30 - 38:20] Agitation Free - Ala Tul (1972)
58 [33:55 - 38:50] Sanders, Pharoah - Red, Black & Green (1971)
59 [35:30 - 41:10] Bryars, Gavin - Sub Rosa (1986)
60 [36:15 - 40:55] Tortoise - Blue Station (2001)
61 [37:20 - 39:30] Otis, Shuggie - Freedom Flight (1971)
62 [38:45 - 41:50] Huun Huur Tu - Harmonics in the Wind (1999)

This one is for the ghost-hunters and sound-as-music geeks. That's not to say it's uneasy listening. . .

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Cover for that last one:

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/00_various_-_the-somnambulist_1908-2007_coversmall.jpg?w=500&h=500

The sixth '1981' mix went up yesterday:

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/1981_individual-mixes_cassettesmall.jpg?w=500&h=500

[b]1 9 8 1 | Cassette[b]

01 Clean, The - Billy Two [2:22]
02 Fall, The - Lie Dream of a Casino Soul [3:09]
03 Dow Jones & The Industrials - Ladies With Appliances [2:22]
04 Ludus - Mutilate [2:33]
05 Nervous Gender - Fat Cow [2:37]
06 49 Americans - Love at first sight [1:23]
07 Plasticland - Office Skills [1:43]
08 Beakers, The - Four Steps Toward A Cultural Revolution [1:29]
09 Felt - Something Sends Me to Sleep [2:54]
10 Work - Duty [1:02]
11 Fall of Saigon - Blue Eyes [2:00]
12 Blackouts, The - Dead Man’s Curve [3:26]
13 Scapa Flow - Somewhere [2:41]
14 Dancing Cigarettes - Mr Morse [1:23]
15 Amoebas In Chaos - Designer Genes [1:28]
16 Tall Dwarfs - All My Hollowness to You [2:20]
17 Monitor - Amphibious [3:04]
18 Dolphins - She Took a Long Cold Look [1:20]
19 Blue Orchids - Bad Education [2:28]
20 Watt, Ben - Departure [1:34]
21 Neonbabies - Profi [Edit] [3:20]
22 Voice Farm - AM City [Edit] [1:31]
23 Laughing Apple - Wouldn’t You [2:16]
24 Social Climbers - Hello Texas [2:09]
25 Der Plan - Das Insekt [1:30]
26 Biting Tongues - Reflector [2:40]
27 Flux of Pink Indians - Sick Butchers [2:27]
28 Aztec Camera - Lost Outside The Tunnel [3:29]
29 Diagram Brothers - Bricks [2:43]
30 Human Switchboard - I Used to Believe in You [3:56]
31 Half Japanese - My Knowledge Was Wrong [0:55]
32 Television Personalities - This Angry Silence [2:38]
33 Philosophic Collage - Toxic Poppies [1:32]
34 Violent Femmes - Waiting For The Bus [Demo] [2:07]
35 Thick Pigeon - Silhouettes [3:23]

Three more to go!

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i love you

Do I know you?

Haha beautiful goth sleeve for the Somnambulist! AWESOME. ;)

Okay finally found the link for the Somnabulist 3 mix. My god you don't make it easy!

like, in real life?

I don't know what you mean by that. Sorry.

i wasn't talking to you, bimble.

but i love you, too

Haha okay sorry. Kate Bush fans need to stick together, anyway. :)

also you should love me for posting that cocteau twins video that you jizzed all over

This has gone south quickly. . .

Not in real life--at all?

i bought the 1981 set from you when it came out. you've spoken to me upthread and in the 1981 thread. i've been on ILX for a long time. i don't understand your question, really.

what would knowing me entail?

Sorry, no big deal. Just thought given your upthread comment re: Bimble etc., I didn't know what to make of your next comment. Ah, internet communication.

I'm listening to 1981 Cassette right now. I've heard of half the bands, and maybe not heard any of the songs before. It amazes me that there is always so much more to hear, even in areas I'm familiar with. thanks.

Is the one called Der Plan - Das Insekt a cover version? It seemed familiar.

James--

Hmm-- not being German nor a deep expert in DNW, I'm not sure, but I didn't think so. It does sort of sound like a children's song, though, from some sort of nature program : )

Making the '1981' box was a years-long exploration of exactly that endlessness you're describing. When I started culling the mix, I probably only knew 3/4ths of what eventually ended up in the box, maybe 1/2 or less of what was in the 'Briefcase' appendix mp3 disc--spent nearly two years buying almost exclusively post-punk, which had already been a fixture for a while. And the year 1981 in particular is truly never ending, and I didn't even try to cover disco, electro-disco, hi-NRG, hip-hop, etc. with the box. Even though I sort of burnt out on post-punk a little, to this day, without trying (indeed almost avoiding the stuff) I still discover something else from '81 almost every week or two.

Went over 2,500 downloads yesterday, very cool. Thanks everyone for listening!

everyone loves the 1981 guy

still got my copy beside me

dude gets all weird when you tell him you love him

: )

Love the music, not me ; )

That Somnambulist mix looks fantastic - both tracklist & sleeve. Will download when home..

Hope you like it, Willem. Those sort of mixes are my personal faves, the ones I most enjoy doing--I guess they're the closest to an actually creative act on my part, more expressive. But unsurprisingly, they're the least popular/downloaded.

Got one I think has turned out really great that's a little less dense, that's going to be part of a blog-post-swap between me and Andrew M. aka Ettiem at his Gris Gris On Your Doorstep blog (which everyone should be checking out). It's a really spooky, sort of story-telling thing.

Happy New Year, everyone! Thanks to everybody checking out these mixes, and I hope you'll stick with me, got over a dozen new mixes in the works that I'm really excited about.

Here's a quick 2008 (um, and 2007) look back, saying goodbye to the last eight. . .

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/various_-_get-off-my-lawn-2008_2008_coversmall.jpg?w=500&h=500

Various - Get Off My Lawn, 2008, And You Too, 2007!
A Curmudgeon’s Guide to Fun During the Apocalypse

Part 1
01 [00:00] Matt Anders - “Are You Afraid To Die” (Unreleased, 2008)
02 [03:07] Ayatollah - “Charlie Is Brown” (Louder, 2008)
03 [05:03] Erykah Badu - “The Healer” (New Amerykah Part One, 2008)
04 [09:05] Idol Fodder - “Analyse My Life” (Babytalk, 2007)
05 [12:06] Re-Up Gang - “Money” (Clipse Presents: Re-Up Gang, 2008)
06 [15:32] Retribution Gospel Choir - “Easy Prey” (Retribution Gospel Choir, 2008)
07 [17:48] Matmos - “Polychords” (Supreme Balloon, 2008)
08 [21:12] Glass Candy - “Rolling Down the Hills” (Beat Box, 2007)
09 [24:24] Burial - “Archangel” (Untrue, 2007)
10 [28:06] Portishead - “The Rip” (3, 2008)

Part 2
11 [00:00] J-Dilla - “Say It” (Jay Loves Japan, 2008)
12 [02:50] Caribou - “Sundialing” (Andorra, 2007)
13 [07:13] Gnarls Barkley - “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul” (The Odd Couple, 2008)
14 [10:21] Tauchsieder - “Clubbed” (Louder, 2007)
15 [13:55] Spiritualized - “Death Take Your Fiddle” (Songs in A&E, 2008)
16 [16:52] Voodoo Economics - “”What if Those Heavy Things. . .” (If : Then :: Iminami, 2007)
17 [19:39] The Roots - “Get Busy” (Rising Down, 2008)
18 [23:09] Robert Wyatt - “Stay Tuned” (Comicopra, 2007)
19 [26:48] Radiohead - “4 Minute Warning” (In Rainbows, Part 2, 2007)

[Total Time: 63:01]

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First mix of the new year starting the year off on a mellow note (but with more ambitious things are soon to come).

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/miniatures-lullabies-no-1.jpg?w=500&h=500

Various - Miniatures : Lullaby No. 1 (1957-2004)

01 [00:00] Nick Drake - "Horn" (1972)
02 [01:19] Jeremy Enigk - "Lewis Hollow" (1996)
03 [03:13] Björk - "Show Me Forgiveness" (2004)
04 [04:33] Sylvie Courvoisier - "Turoine" (2003)
05 [05:30] Felt - "Red Indians" (1984)
06 [07:24] Burmese Choir - "Kukburi Sifoa" (1974)
07 [08:36] Low - "Try Try Try" (1995)
08 [09:07] Bob Dylan - "Man On the Street" (1964)
09 [10:59] Big Star - "Blue Moon" (1976)
10 [12:59] Leo Kottke - "The Driving of the Year" (1971)
11 [14:53] Modern Lovers - "Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste" (1972)
12 [16:29] Moondog - "Sextet" (1957)
13 [17:57] Bahaman Folk Musicians - "I Told You People Judgement Coming" (1965)
14 [18:48] Syd Barrett - "She Took a Long Cold Look" (1970)
15 [20:36] Willie Nelson - "Minuet in G" (1975)
16 [21:10] Can - "Ethnological Forgery Series, No. 8" (1975)
17 [22:45] Mark Kozelek - "Love Hungry Man" (2001)
18 [24:23] Saka Acquaye - "Kenya Sunset" (1969)
19 [25:52] Tyrannosaurus Rex - "The Misty Coast of Albany" (1969)
20 [27:20] Bali Gamelan - "Tjatrik II" (1969)
21 [28:27] Cat Power - "I Found a Reason" (2000)

[Total Time: 30:28]

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Musicophilia's biggest mix yet went up today:

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/small_vol00.jpg?w=500&h=500 http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/composite_vol1-4_small.jpg?w=500&h=500

Various Artists - 'Le Meilleur de Les Rythmes du Monde'
(4xLP Box Set, Musique du Monde, France - 1981)

Volume One

A1 [00:00] TELEX - "Moskow Diskow" (Looking for Saint Tropez, 1978) Belgium
A2 [04:40] Giorgio MORODER - "From Here to Eternity" (From Here to Eternity, 1977) Italy
A3 [09:35] Moon BIRDS - "Crystal No. 3" (Cosmic No. 1, 1977) France
A4 [12:10] John FOXX - "Plaza" (Metamatic, 1980) England
A5 [15:35] Three DEGREES - "Set Me Free" (3D, 1979) USA
A6 [19:35] Mr. PARTRIDGE - "The Forgotten Language of Light" (Take Away/The Lure of Salvage, 1980) England
A7 [22:50] Geoff BASTOW - "Communique" (The Video Age, 1980) Belgium

B1 [00:00] Brian ENO - "Untitled" (Unreleased, 1979) England
B2 [02:00] Space ART - "Welcome to Love" (Play Back, 1980) France
B3 [08:15] DROIDS - "Shanti Part I" (Star Peace, 1978) France
B4 [10:50] Yellow MAGIC ORCHESTRA - "Firecracker" (Yellow Magic Orchestra, 1978) Japan
B5 [15:10] PRINCE - "Sexy Dancer" (Prince, 1979) USA
B6 [19:10] CAN - "Safe" (Can, 1978) Germany

[Total Time: 50:20]

Volume Two

C1 [00:00] Hot R.S. - "In a Gadda Da Vida" (Forbidden Fruit, 1978) South Africa
C2 [05:10] Patrick COWLEY - "Megatron Man" (Megatron Man, 1981) USA
C3 [09:25] Roland BOCQUET - "Dancing" (Unreleased, 1981) France
C4 [13:30] Essendon AIRPORT - "How Low Can You Go?" (Sonic Investigations of the Trivial, 1979) Australia
C5 [15:55] KRAFTWERK - "Spacelab" (The Man-Machine, 1978) Germany
C6 [20:50] Donna SUMMER - "Our Love" (Bad Girls, 1979) USA

D1 [00:00] Jean-Phillippe GOUDE - "Machine" (Drones, 1980) France
D2 [03:50] This HEAT - "24-Track Loop" (This Heat, 1979) England
D3 [07:45] LIME - "You're My Magician" (Your Love, 1981) Canada
D4 [13:00] SPARKS - "Tryouts For the Human Race" (No. 1 in Heaven, 1979) USA
D5 [18:05] LEDA - "Endless Race" (Welcome to Joyland, 1978) Germany
D6 [21:00] SUICIDE - "Cheree" (Suicide, 1977) USA

[Total Time: 49:50]

Volume Three

E1 [00:00] Gary NUMAN - "Everyday I Die" (Tubeway Army, 1978) England
E2 [02:00] Grace JONES - "Pull Up To The Bumper" (Nightclubbing, 1981) Jamaica
E3 [06:20] Haruomi HOSONO & Tadanori YOKOO - "Malabar Hotel, Upper Floor, Moving Triangle" (Cochin Moon, 1978) Japan
E4 [10:25] HELDON - "Les Soucoupes Volantes Vertes" (Interface 1978) France
E5 [12:05] Loose JOINTS - "Is It All Over My Face" (Is It All Over My Face, 1980) USA
E6 [16:30] Liaisons DANGEREUSES - "Peut Etre . . . Pas" (Liaisons Dangereuses, 1981) Germany
E7 [19:45] Munich MACHINE - "A Whiter Shade of Pale" (A Whiter Shade of Pale, 1978) Italy

F1 [00:00] FUNKADELIC - "One Nation Under a Groove" (One Nation Under a Groove, 1978) USA
F2 [06:00] League UNLIMITED ORCHESTRA - "Don't You Want Me" (Unreleased, 1981) England
F3 [09:50] Black DEVIL - "No Regrets" (Disco Club, 1978) France
F4 [14:00] Electronic SYSTEM - "Time Trip" (Disco Machine, 1977) Belgium
F5 [18:15] Dee D. JACKSON - "Automatic Lover" (Cosmic Curves, 1978) Italy
F6 [21:45] Trevor BASTOW - "Better Ways" (The Video Age, 1980) Belgium

[Total Time: 50:00]

Volume Four

G1 [00:00] Depeche MODE - "I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead" (Speak & Spell, 1981) England
G2 [02:00] CHROMIUM - "Beam On" (Star to Star, 1979) USA
G3 [07:05] Ryuichi SAKAMOTO - "Riot in Lagos" (B-2 Unit, 1980) Japan
G4 [10:20] TRANSVOLTA - "Disco Computer" (Disco Computer 7", 1979) Belgium
G5 [13:20] Gina X PERFORMANCE - "Nice Mover" (Nice Mover, 1979) Germany
G6 [17:35] Marvin GAYE - "Time To Get It Together" (Here, My Dear, 1978) USA
G7 [20:30] British ELECTRONIC FOUNDATION - "Groove Thang" (Music for Listening To, 1981) England

H1 [00:00] INDUSTRY - "Ready for the Wave" (Industry EP, 1980) USA
H2 [03:25] Akira SAKATA - "Panco" (Tenoch Sakana, 1980) Japan
H3 [06:05] Venus GANG - "Love To Fly" (Galactic Soul, 1978) France
H4 [09:20] BOHANNON - "Listen to the Children Play" (Summertime Groove, 1978) USA
H5 [13:30] Francis RIMBERT - "Games" (Bionic Orchestra, 1979) France
H6 [15:15] ZODIAC - "Zodiac" (Disco Alliance, 1980) USSR
H7 [18:40] Aksak MABOUL - "Saure Gurke" (Onze Danses Pour Combattre la Migraine, 1977) Belgium
H8 [19:45] Giorgio MORODER - "I Wanna Rock You" (E=MC2, 1979) Italy

[Total Time: 50:05]

Rough Translation, Back Cover:
"Through the years, Musique du Monde has brought you the cutting edge of listening pleasure. And now, we are proud to present to the general public some of the most amazing sounds from the previously only privately-issued 'Les Rythmes du Monde' series. We continue our tradition of finding you the very best of new music from around the globe, seeking sounds that speak the universal language. Here you will find the pounding rhythms of the discotheque, love songs for fantastic robots, a new electronic era of sexy cosmic fun. Its happening in France, in Italy, in Germany, the United States, Belgium, Japan, South Africa, and have no doubt, in outer-space. This is the sound of the future, but it reaches to the very soul of life, to the elemental rythm of the heart. Switch it on, plug yourself in, and let everything go: become part of the collective music. This is the very best of 'Les Rythmes du Monde'."

Reissue Notes:
The Musicophilia reissue program is proud to present a major missing piece the history of the Musique du Monde label's golden age: 1981's four-LP box set, 'Le Meilleur de Les Rythmes du Monde'. This set was a 'best of' collection released (in limited quantities) to the public culled from the privately issued and distributed 'Les Rythmes du Monde' set. So far, none of the individual records from that almost mythic series has been unearthed; like other private releases from Musique, it was shipped direct only to a who's-who of music taste-making cognoscenti. It is rumored that Monsieur Jan Marine (one of the founders of Musique du Monde and the label's primary mixer and song-finder for their various compilation series) went to the U.S. and trained in the then-nascent art of beat-matched DJing with Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckles, and even Francis Grasso during the mid-70s, in preparation for the label's forays into disco. 'Les Rythmes du Monde,' especially the later volumes from which this 'Best Of' is believed to be culled, brought Musique into new territory for the public ear. But the territory heard here is heavily rooted in the funk, soul, pop, tropicalia, proto-punk, dub, musique concrete, sound library LPs and early electronics that were the focus of earlier 'Le Tour du Monde' and 'Les Miniatures' discs. 'Les Rythmes' was the label's natural extension, and taken together with their work over the previous decade plus, one almost has an "alternate history" of pop music—the history that should have been, or that was, if you knew where to point your ears. So we welcome you to this world of fuzzy electronics, four-on-the-floor beats, floating robot voices, cosmic space-ship chases, and glorious dancefloor hedonism that would itself go on to become the foundation forthe next thirty years of discotheque sound. The graphic design of the record sleeves may be dated and passe, but the sounds found within these sleeves remains as relevant and essential today as ever.
— I. Sonnecomme, January 2009

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Seems to have been another spate of files going down, but they all seem to be back online now. If anyone sees one down, please let me know.

Posted a year-end list of sorts: Top Couple-Dozen Non-2008 Discoveries of 2008.

Just in case you really love end-of-year lists.

Also, all files seem to be down at the moment. . . fingers crossed. . .

Everything is back up, re-uploaded Volume 4 of the new 'Les Rythmes du Monde' mixes, if anyone was having trouble downloading that one earlier.

Also, a bit of a discussion going on the ethics of mp3/mix-blogging going, love to hear from you guys.

Second 'Miniatures : Lullaby' mix just upped:

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/miniatures-lullaby-no-2.jpg?w=500&h=500

Various - Miniatures : Lullaby No. 2 (1903-2004)

01 [00:00] John Cage - "Six Melodies for Violin & Harp, No. 5" (1950)
02 [01:34] Astrud Gilberto - "Manha de Carnaval" (1965)
03 [03:28] Colin Newman - "Alone on Piano" (1981)
04 [05:21] Mike Redmann - "Sandwich Knife" (2005)
05 [06:38] Shaggs - "Wheels" (1975)
06 [07:54] Tom Waits - "Just Another Sucker on the Vine" (1983)
07 [09:35] Peruvian Folk Musicians - "Torallay Toro" (1969)
08 [11:25] Soundslike - "First Snow Since We Were Six" (1999)
09 [12:58] Hank Williams - "Ready to Go Home" (1952)
10 [14:44] Valerie Walker - "When I Was in Colón" (1973)
11 [15:55] Built to Spill - "Twin Falls" (1994)
12 [17:45] Sam Phillips - "Hole in My Pocket" (2004)
13 [19:02] Neil Young - "Organ Solo" (1996)
14 [20:31] Vashti Bunyan - "Hebridean Sun" (1970)
15 [21:42] Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - "Desafinado" (1962)
16 [23:41] Penguin Cafe Orchestra - "Harmonic Necklace" (1981)
17 [24:54] Ravel - "Ma Mere l Oye, No. 1 - Pavane" (1903)
18 [26:20] John Fahey - "Bicycle Built for Two" (1966)
19 [27:28] Uncle Tupelo - "I Wish My Baby Was Born" (1992)
20 [29:04] The Zombies - "The Way I Feel Inside" (1964)

[Total Time: 30:44]

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First mix of a new post-punk series focusing on music made by women up today:

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/the-young-ladys-post-punk-handbook-volume-1.jpg?w=500&h=500

Various - The Young Lady's Post-Punk Handbook, Volume 3 (1980-1983)

01 [00:00] Creatures - "Miss The Girl" (Feast, 1983)
02 [02:27] Eurythmics - "Sing-Sing" (In the Garden, 1981)
03 [06:30] Phew - "Doze" (Phew, 1981)
04 [09:57] E.S.G. - "Moody" (ESG EP, 1981)
05 [12:47] Maximum Joy - "Searching for a Feeling" (Station M.X.J.Y., 1982)
06 [17:01] Los Microwaves - "La Voix Humane" (Life After Breakfast, 1982)
07 [19:44] Ludus - "My Cherry is in Sherry" (The Seduction, 1981)
08 [22:24] Crash Course in Science - "Cardboard Lamb" (Signals from Pier Thirteen EP, 1981)
09 [24:57] Grace Jones - "Nightclubbing" (Nightclubbing, 1981)
10 [29:57] Lydia Lunch - "Gloomy Sunday" (Queen of Siam, 1980)
11 [32:46] Marilyn & The Movie Stars - "So Disgraceful" (So Disgraceful EP, 1982)
12 [36:16] Young Marble Giants - "Music for Evenings" (Colossal Youth, 1980)
13 [39:19] The Pretenders - "Lovers of Today" (Pretenders, 1980)

[Total Time: 45:14]

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ha, awesome artwork

Thanks, cutty. No real reason for the Victorian approach other than pretty obvious irony--and that it's a lot of fun to do in InDesign. Gotta love their audacious use of typefaces-by-the-dozen, and gold-leaf like it's going out of style. . .

Hope you like the mix, too.

Seconded on the artwork props. That's fantastic: not a trick missed. Look forward to listening, too.

Thanks, Grimly. I'd just spent the day walking around looking at Victorian cast iron buildings of the 1880s, so I guess I had their tricks on the brain.

The next volume in 'The Young Lady's Post-Punk Handbook' is now up:

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/the-young-ladys-post-punk-handbook-volume-2.jpg?w=500&h=500

Various - The Young Lady's Post-Punk Handbook, Volume 2 (1979-1983)

01 [00:00] Family Fodder - "Savoir Faire" (Monkey Banana Kitchen, 1980)
02 [02:23] Au Pairs - "It's Obvious" (Playing With a Different Sex, 1981)
03 [08:43] Chris & Cosey - "This Is Me" (Heartbeat, 1981)
04 [11:42] Plastics - "Back to Wigtown" (Origato Plastico, 1980)
05 [14:20] Pylon - "Cool" (Cool/Dub 7", 1979)
06 [17:18] The Slits - "Love und Romance" (Cut, 1979)
07 [19:46] Siouxsie & The Banshees - "Lunar Camel" (Kaleidoscope, 1980)
08 [22:43] The B-52's - "52 Girls" (The B-52's, 1979)
09 [26:19] Swamp Children - "Boy" (Little Voices EP, 1981)
10 [29:36] Y Pants - "That's The Way Boys Are" (Beat It Down, 1982)
11 [32:30] Antena - "Camino Del Sol" (Camino Del Sol, 1982)
12 [36:15] Vivien Goldman - "Launderette" (Launderette 7", 1981)
13 [39:14] Cocteau Twins - "But I'm Not" (Garlands, 1982)
14 [41:55] Thick Pigeon - "Jess + Bart (Mix)" (Unreleased [Miranda Dali bonus], 1983)

[Total Time: 45:10]

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Also--planning on putting up another '1981' mix in the next week or two--anybody have a preference between 'Computer' and 'Fire'? I think I'll end with the 'Icicle' disc.

fire sounds fine with me. i suppose there'll be some gun club on that one, or not?

You would sort of think so--but it looks like they ended up on the 'Icicle' disc.

The third and final (for now) volume of 'The Young Lady's Post-Punk Handbook' is up:

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/the-young-ladys-post-punk-handbook-volume-3.jpg?w=500&h=500

Various - The Young Lady's Post-Punk Handbook, Volume 3 (1980-1983)

01 [00:00] Creatures - "Miss The Girl" (Feast, 1983)
02 [02:27] Eurythmics - "Sing-Sing" (In the Garden, 1981)
03 [06:30] Phew - "Doze" (Phew, 1981)
04 [09:57] E.S.G. - "Moody" (ESG EP, 1981)
05 [12:47] Maximum Joy - "Searching for a Feeling" (Station M.X.J.Y., 1982)
06 [17:01] Los Microwaves - "La Voix Humane" (Life After Breakfast, 1982)
07 [19:44] Ludus - "My Cherry is in Sherry" (The Seduction, 1981)
08 [22:24] Crash Course in Science - "Cardboard Lamb" (Signals from Pier Thirteen EP, 1981)
09 [24:57] Grace Jones - "Nightclubbing" (Nightclubbing, 1981)
10 [29:57] Lydia Lunch - "Gloomy Sunday" (Queen of Siam, 1980)
11 [32:46] Marilyn & The Movie Stars - "So Disgraceful" (So Disgraceful EP, 1982)
12 [36:16] Young Marble Giants - "Music for Evenings" (Colossal Youth, 1980)
13 [39:19] The Pretenders - "Lovers of Today" (Pretenders, 1980)

[Total Time: 45:14]

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You're doing a fantastic work here, Soundlike! And I love the artwork too.

Thanks : )

It's been better than a month, so I've put up the seventh disc from the '1981' set:

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/1981-computer1.jpg?w=500&h=500

1 9 8 1 | Computer

01 Depeche Mode - Just Can’t Get Enough [3:39]
02 Devo - Working In a Coal Mine [2:49]
03 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft - Der Mussolini (Edit) [2:26]
04 Thomas Dolby - Europa & The Pirate Twins [3:21]
05 Associates - White Car in Germany (Edit) [3:28]
06 Eurythmics - Take Me To Your Heart [3:35]
07 Heaven 17 - The Height of the Fighting [3:00]
08 Plastics - Diamond Head [3:18]
09 Yello - Bostich (Edit) [2:11]
10 New Musik - Areas [1:02]
11 Human League - The Things that Dreams Are Made Of (Edit) [3:39]
12 Manuel Gottsching - E2 E4 (Excerpt) [1:50]
13 Duran Duran - Girls on Film [3:27]
14 Tuxedomoon - Incubus (Blue Suit) [3:46]
15 Gary Numan - Stories [3:10]
16 The Blue Nile - I Love This Life [3:46]
17 Chris & Cosey - This Is Me [2:55]
18 Moev - Cracked Mirror (Edit) [3:34]
19 Cybotron - Alleys Of Your Mind [3:32]
20 The Buggles - Blue Nylon [2:26]
21 Soft Cell - Tainted Love [2:38]
22 Cars - Shake It Up (Edit) [2:54]
23 Classix Nouveaux - 623 [2:25]
24 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Sacred Heart [3:30]
25 Kraftwerk - Computer Love (Edit) [4:16]

[Total time: 79:30]

Download it here

Two more to go!

Brilliant as ever, thanks!

Thank you, sir.

To be honest, I hadn't actually listened to much post-punk for a while. But putting together the 'Women of Post-Punk' mixes on the request of a blog reader has rekindled my enjoyment. So hopefully I will pursue some further '1981'-related mixes after the original set is fully up. It's always good to be reminded of how true it is that something new-to-you is as good as new, so it's been fun seeing the 1981 mixes get downloaded in pretty large quantities--it's probable I'm getting them now to more of the audience I had in mind when I first made them, that is, those for whom the music is a new experience.

Or "madam," I guess I can't presume : )

That last bit is the beauty of it! A lot of the music on '1981' was either tucked away in my memory somewhere, or is indeed entirely new to me. The former also is a 'new experience' in a way, or 'renewed'.

And it is indeed sir :)

That's true-- re-new-to-you can be just as good. My justification for having a record collection I could never get through in a year, and records I've not heard in years.

looks like i beat ian here to promote our little scheme.

we've got ourselves a nerdy blogger mix exchange program going. he's made a beautiful mix that's up at my place, gris gris on your doorstep. good stuff.

i'll be sending him my response in the next week.

I hope you guys will give this one a listen--I've got cover art, but in a way, the header image of Andrew's site captures it better. . .

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/sensory-replication-series-no-6.jpg

Various Artists - ‘Tall Stories of Evil Gris-Gris’ (1915-2007)

01 [00:00 - 03:00] David Byrne - ‘Ghost” (Knee Plays, 1984)
02 [02:05 - 07:25] David Sylvian - “The Only Daughter” (Blemish, 2003)
03 [02:30 - 12:25] Pierre Henry - “Dislocation” (Le Livre Des Morts Égyptien, 1988)
04 [07:10 - 10:20] Kode 9 & The Spaceape - “Correction” (Memories of the Future, 2006)
05 [10:20 - 19:55] David Thomas & Two Pale Boys - “River” (Surf’s Up, 2001)
06 [19:00 - 23:10] Disco Inferno - “Love Stepping Out” (Summer’s Last Sound EP, 1992)
07 [19:50 - 24:00] Scanner - “Emily” (An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music Vol. 2, 2003)
08 [23:20 - 28:30] Muddy Waters - “My Captain” (Folk Singer, 1964)
09 [24:15 - 28:35] Bernard Parmegiani - “Kaleidoscope II” (Pour en Finir avec le Pouvoir d’Orphee, 1972)
10 [28:35 - 31:40] Low - “Balarus” (Drums & Guns, 2007)
11 [28:40 - 31:45] Pole - “Fohlenfurz” (3, 2000)
12 [31:45 - 33:35] J Dilla - “Lightworks” (Donuts, 2006)
13 [32:50 - 36:20] Ike Yard - “NCR” (Ike Yard, 1982)
14 [33:20 - 36:30] The Knife - “Still Light” (Silent Shout, 2006)
15 [36:00 - 40:35] Shona Folk Musician - “Nyamaropa yeVana Vava Mushonga” (The Soul of Mbira, 1973)
16 [36:45 - 40:55] Mnemonists - “Nailed” (Nailed/Tic EP, 1983)
17 [40:55 - 47:00] The For Carnation - “A Tribute To” (The For Carnation, 2000)
18 [41:00 - 48:35] Edgar Varèse - “Poeme Electronique” (Music of Edgar Varèse, 1958)
19 [46:40 - 50:10] Stina Nordenstam - “This Time John” (Dynamite, 1996)
20 [47:15 - 51:20] Shriekback - “Hapax Legomena” (Lined Up EP, 1983)
21 [49:35 - 53:50] Charles Ives - “Section A: Earth & The Firmament” (Universe Symphony, 1915)
22 [52:00 - 55:45] Arto Lindsay - “Unsure” (Prize, 1999)
23 [55:30 - 60:40] Squarepusher - “Iambic 5 Poetry” (Budakhan Mindphone, 1999)
24 [55:35 - 57:20] Charles Dodge - “The Days Are Ahead” (Synthesized Voices, 1976)
25 [55:40 - 60:45] Tangerine Dream - “Birth of Liquid Plejades” (Zeit, 1976)
26 [60:35 - 62:20] Iannis Xenakis - “Concrete PH” (Electronic Music, 1962)
27 [60:40 - 62:25] Leadbelly - “Yes, I Was Standing in the Bottom” (Last Sessions, 1948)
28 [60:55 - 68:30] Gruppo D’Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza - “Soup” (Nuova Consonanza, 1975)
29 [62:15 - 66:15] Zazou, Bikaye & Cy 1 - “Lamuka” (Noir et Blanc, 1983)
30 [66:05 - 69:50] Anja Garbarek - “Blinking Blocks of Light” (Smiling & Waving, 2001)
31 [69:10 - 71:55] Brigitte Fontaine & Areski - “La Tête Bandée” (L’Incindie, 1974)
32 [71:45 - 79:20] Dr. John - “I Walk on Guilded Splinters” (Gris-Gris, 1968)

[Total Time: 79:24]

This time, like Andrew points out--over at Gris Gris On Your Doorstep, so you can skip the usual blurbage by me at Musicophilia, unless you are weird and like that stuff.

A very short mix up today, one that might look edgy and cerebral from the tracklist, but which actually consists of remarkably beautiful, emotional music:

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/sensory-replication-series-no-1.jpg?w=500&h=500

Various Artists - 'Adrift' (1969-2001)

01 [00:00 - 02:10] John Cale - “Wall” (1970)
02 [02:00 - 04:30] Faust - “Das Meer” (1971)
03 [04:20 - 07:35] Rachel’s - “With more Air Than Words/All Is Calm”(1996)
04 [07:00 - 11:30] Soundslike - “Violence” (2001)
05 [10:15 - 13:00] This Heat - “Water” (1979)
06 [11:40 - 15:45] Mnemonists - “Nailed” (1983)
07 [13:00 - 14:40] Harmonia - “Trace” (1976)
08 [15:30 - 23:40] Neu! - “Leb Wohl” (1975)
09 [21:40 - 25:10] Holger Czukay - “Boat-Woman-Song” (Excerpt) (1969)
10 [24:30 - 31:20] Brian Eno - “Fullness of Wind” (1975)

[Total Time: 31:20]

I hope you'll give it a listen here.

Also, I've just received Ettiem's half of the "blog-swap" between Musicophilia and Gris Gris On Your Doorstep, and it should be up later this week, so keep your eyes peeled. I've been blessed with several of the man's mixes over the years, and there's no way this one won't be hot shit.

Proud to present a mix by ILM's very own Ettiem/Andrew M.:

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/00_various_-_human-heads_ettiem-mix_2009_cover.jpg?w=496&h=481

Various Artists - Human Heads

Mixed by Ettiem

01 Cheval Fou - La Fin de la Vie (Country Florist Loops)
02 Verne Langdon - Sound Trip Through the Catacombs
03 Temptations - Psychedelic Shack
04 Ultrafunk - Buffalo Soldier
05 Ventures - He Never Came Back
06 Parliament - Funky Woman
07 James Last - Voodoo Ladys Love
08 Brain Donor - Pagan Dawn
09 Coloured Balls - That’s What Mama Said
10 Chrisma - C-Rock
11 Savage Resurrection - Thing in ‘E’
12 Tommy James + Shondells - Candymaker (Ettiemedit)
13 War - Gypsy Man

[Total Time: 53:00]

You know you want it, come and get it.

Today I've made a pretty big addition to the Musicophilia blog: a second, non-mix blog: Musicophilia Daily

After five months, 30,000 views, and over 6,600 downloads of more than 30 mixes, it’s time for Musicophilia to expand. My ultimate goal when I started blogging was to help people hear great music, and hopefully get inspired to support the featured artists and independent music shops. I love mixes, and I think they can have value in and of themselves; but they take a lot of time (for mixers and listeners) and energy, and have their own inherent limitations in terms of variety and spontaneity. So to further Musicophilia’s goal, I’d like to have the flexibility to move beyond the mix-only format, to share individual tracks, links to recommended posts at other blogs, videos, reviews, out-of-print albums, previews of upcoming mixes, questions, and ideas; all sharing the spirit and sounds of Musicophilia. However, I would like to do so without cluttering up Musicophilia–which will continue to focus on carefully crafted mixes–or forcing more content on its subscribers than they bargained for. To that end, I’d like to present Musicophilia Daily.

Up so far today: streaming audio from La Dusseldorf, Our Daughter's Wedding, and Wapassou; and the video for Dif Juz' "No Motion". Hopefully I'll update at least once a day.

[If anybody knows how to get streaming audio to show up in posts when read in Google Reader, it'd be a big help to know--so far it just shows images and text from the posts.]

Please give it a look, give me feedback, suggestions, etc. Thanks!

great new blog ian, congratulations. i can't help you about the streaming issue in the reader, actually personally i prefer it that way. i think people who like to listen to the stuff should go to the site.

something else i have noticed which i find much more serious is the fact that the audios do not stream at all chez moi. they keep buffering forever. i tried all three. could it be that the links are wrong (that was the reason for this behaviour when i had the problem on my blog)? or maybe that google does not allow streaming from google sites?

i just tried to audio link to a file on google sites on my blog and it worked. so i suppose there is something wrong with your links. did you delete the part starting with the question mark at the end (i did)?

Damn. Well--I don't think it is a problem with the links; more likely the Google concern. They were working for me earlier--did anyone else have them work? Then just now, after reading your posts, they didn't work. Then I signed into the account where I have the files hosted; suddenly they work again--but I can't imagine that would effect anyone but me. . .

So I guess this is a general call--anyone know a stable way to stream audio for free? Or, anyone a fan of the site who has a big heart and access to a little server space and a medium amount of bandwidth?

I hope this thing lives for more than one day. . .

could it be that you set the site private? have a look under "site settings", "share this site". is there a checkmark under "advanced permissions" to make it public?

Hmm--did have it private, but I figured that just made the index .html private. . . I'd come up with a temporary fix, looking into just buying some server space/bandwidth--but it'd be great if Google just works. I'll test it and see if that fixes things--looking around, I'd seen reports of similar attempts tending to cease working after a week or so. Thanks for the help, Alex.

Ok--so at least for now streams seem stable; I'm looking into buying some hosting space/bandwidth, but the front-end nature of the cost makes it seem a little foolish. . .

Suddenly Google Reader's little built-in audio player is working, which is good. But it adds a download link ("Original audio source") that I'd like to avoid--anybody know how to get rid of it?

Up so far:

• Chrisma,
• The Feed-Back,
• La Dusseldorf,
• Our Daughter's Wedding,
• Wapassou;

• Wire,
• His Name Is Alive,
• Ut,
• Peter Zummo with Arthur Russell,
• an Arthur Russell reivew,
• Erkin Koray,
• Daniel Menche,
• The Congos,
• Steinski & Double Dee, and others. . .

the google reader does not show the download link for my blog so i suppose it has to do with the reading settings (of wordpress) where i checkmarked the option that feeds should only show a summary, i.e. the text is cut after 50 words or so. people who want to read the whole post have to click to get on the site.

may i ask how you succeeded in getting rid of the download link?

I don't think I have succeeded--it seems as though it has something to do with whether or not Google has indexed new posts--so far it hasn't indexed the ones from today, maybe, and so Google Reader doesn't show the download link--unfortunately, nor does it show the audio player. I have a feeling both will show up later today. . .

So if anybody does know how to get rid of the link--let us both know : )

this is pretty much the best blog out there dude. thx so much.

Yes it is, that Chrisma was a wonderful discovery for me. Also glad for it introducing me to Egg City Radio so I could hear this fantastic Wallenstein album.

Thank you both so much! You should check out some of the blogs linked from mine, doing primary-source sharing--that's where some really amazing stuff is being unleashed on the world. But I'm honored you like what I'm doing, too.

I think the format of the new blog is a great idea. Much easier to digest, and it's fun seeing the original sleeves for things as well.

Posted a mix to introduce people to Musicophilia Daily, summing up the first week (well, four days) of audio posts.

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/00_various_-_musicophilia-daily-week-one-sampler_march-2009_cover.jpg?w=500&h=500

Various - Musicophilia Daily Week One Sampler
musicophiliadaily.wordpress.com | March 3-6, 2009

01 [00:00] La Dusseldorf - “La Dusseldorf” (1976)
02 [04:00] Wapassou - “Chatiment” (Excerpt) (1974)
03 [09:22] Our Daughter’s Wedding - “Buildings” (1982)
04 [12:45] Chrisma - “C-Rock” (1977)
05 [18:05] The Feed-Back - “Kumalo” (Edit) (1970)
06 [26:10] Laurie Anderson - “It’s Not the Bullet That Kills You” (1976)
07 [29:53] Ut - “Safe Burning” (1989)
08 [33:48] Steinski & Double Dee - “Lesson No. 1 - The Payoff Mix” (1983)
09 [39:08] Peter Zummo & Arthur Russell - “Song IV” (Excerpt) (1985)
10 [44:52] Antonio Vivaldi - “Double Concerto, Largo, G Minor” (1780s)
11 [48:05] Erkin Koray - “Sir” (1974)
12 [50:55] His Name Is Alive - “One Year” (2001)
13 [54:35] Cyber People - “Polaris (Club Mix)” (Excerpt) (1984)
14 [58:14] Gamelan Semar Pegulingan Club - “Gambang” (1972)
15 [61:20] Arthur Russell - “Our Last Night Together” (1986)

[Total Time: 64:55]

This one is stream-able and downloadable at Musicophilia.

Also, for all '1981' fans--I think weekends at Musicophilia Daily are going to be devoted to tracks from the 'Briefcase' mp3 disc from the box set. . .

Hope you enjoy what's going up.

great blog

Thanks, Hunter. Hope you were able to get the 'Feet' mix to download--I couldn't find any problem. . .

Can anyone tell me if streams are working for them right now at Musicophilia Daily? They're not for me, presently, but I've been having trouble with my browsers and flash lately, so it might be that.

I guess I'm probably just going to pony up for server space/bandwidth, doesn't seem to be any other reliable way to do this thing.

Working for me.

Worked for me last night.

they don't work for me neither right now. the progress bar goes up until the end and then it just says "buffering" in the player. i had this before, it seems to be an on/off thing.

Still no issues with Firefox and me.

i am at home right now and while the wire song worked the other two new ones didn't. and the gamelan neither. as i have the same problem on my blog (where i use google sites as repository) i guess it is either the player or maybe wordpress (they had an outage this afternoon). btw i use firefox, too.

Thanks, all. Now works in IE for me; not in Firefox. As long as it's still streaming from the source, that's what I needed to know.

So it seems like re: the Flash issue ("buffering" indefinitely) if you go into Tools->Add-Ons and disable and then re-enable your Flash plug-in, and then reload the page--streams work again. At least that seems to be working for me.

Still haven't figured out how to disable "Original audio source" links in Google Reader--love it if anyone knows how to fix that. . .

that flash player deactivation and reactivation thing doesn't work for me, sorry. you are talking about shockwave flash here, aren't you?

concerning the audio links in the reader, i'd prefer if they were kept as otherwise most of the time i cannot listen to the music.

it seems like the first song is working and the others after that aren't any more.

I updated my Flash plugin and now it seems to work. . .

which version have you got? mine is shockwave flash 9.0 r124. and where would i get a new one? this add-on business seems to be a mess in firefox. i have no problem with ie.

i tried the latest version on the adobe site, to absolutely no avail. the version number didn't even change after installation.

here at home i have shockwave flash 9.0 r115. this is a joke. i can't even listen to youtube videos anymore. they stop for ages after two seconds and then there is no sound. not that i miss something but what the hell.

This is what fixed it for me: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?promoid=DXLUJ

thanks a lot, version 10 does the trick.

concerning the download link you could ask here as there is just a flash play button and no link in the posts in google feed reader, it is a tumblr blog though.

Thanks for that, Alex. I've actually become friends with that guy, he does a nice blog. I think it does come down to that one being a tumblr blog--tumbler hides the location of mp3s.

What I gather is that basically Reader just takes the first URL it finds that ends in ".mp3" and puts that in the built-in player (with the "original audio source" link for whatever reason). The only workaround I can think of right now is putting in a reference to some generic mp3 first in every post that just literally says "please visit musicophiliadaily.wordpress.com to listen to this track" and that will be what gets played in Reader, but that isn't what I really want. I want people to be able to stream the audio in Reader, just not download the source files. . .

Finally a new mix up at Musicophilia:

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/electromance1.jpg?w=500&h=500

Various - ‘Electromance’ (1969-2006)

01. Silver Apples - “I Have Known Love” (1969) (3:49)
02. Giorgio Moroder - “From Here to Eternity” (1977) (4:11)
03. Radiohead - “Worrywort” (2001) (4:28)
04. The Knife - “Heartbeats” (2002) (3:51)
05. Prefuse 73 - “Why I Love You” (2003) (2:38)
06. Rachel’s - “Artemisia” (1999) (2:37)
07. Herbert - “The Audience” (2001) (5:45)
08. Arthur Russell - “Just a Blip” (1985) (3:33)
09. Depeche Mode - “I Want You Now” (1987) (3:00)
10. Outkast - “Love In War” (2003) (2:56)
11. Burial - “Distant Lights” (2006) (2:18)
12. Mos Def - “Climb” (1999) (3:58)
13. Prince - “I Wanna Be Your Lover” (1979) (3:04)
14. Vitalic - “U and I” (2005) (2:23)
15. Suicide - “Cheree” (Remix) (1977) (3:20)
16. Kraftwerk - “Computer Love” (1981) (3:19)
17. Laurie Anderson - “Walking & Falling” (1982) (1:53)
18. Scritti Politti - “The Sweetest Girl” (1982) (4:16)
19. Rebecca Gates - “Lure & Cast” (2001) (3:16)
20. Portishead - “It Could Be Sweet” (1994) (4:15)
21. Brian Eno - “By This River” (1977) (2:30)
22. Bjork - “Undo” (2001) (5:41)

[Total Time: 77:00]

Find it here at Musicophilia.

Also, a bunch of good stuff up at Musicophilia Daily last week--Bill Cosby's cosmic free-funk, a great Bjork b-side, Creation, Godley & Creme, Can b-side, The Blue Nile, Bernard Estardy, Japanese No Wave offshoot Friction, a great Wire b-side, The Congos, Daniel Menche, plus two batches of tracks from the 1981 'Briefcase' disc--and a bunch of good stuff coming this week, starting today with a made Burundi recording and unsung Canterbury heroes Caravan. Audio problems seem to be resolved for the time being.

Thanks!

I've got a new idea and I need your help:

Things are still getting cooking over at Musicophilia Daily a few weeks in. Already there have been over 40 tracks shared, numerous links, and even an original review. There’s another feature I’d like to add– but in order to do so I’ll need your participation. I’ve already talked with half a dozen of you whom I know to be talented musicians; I suspect, given the sort of stuff we’re listening to here, that there are many more of you. And I would like to showcase music made by Musicophilia listeners, for other listeners. I know it wouldn’t be the biggest bit of publicity you’re likely to receive, but it would certainly be reaching discerning and passionate ears.

So if you’d like to be featured, leave a comment with a link to your music (be sure to use a working email address–nobody but me will see it). I can’t guarantee anything, but if what you’re doing seems like it might appeal to Musicophilia listeners, I’ll get in touch with you. I’d like to use one or two choice tracks to stream directly in the blog post, along with artwork or a photograph, which I’ll need you to supply; then I’ll write up a snappy blurb, and link to your site(s)/MySpace/Facebook/etc. I feel like this would really add something to what I’m putting together with these two blogs, so I would really appreciate your participation.

Link to the post is here. Please don't be shy! Thanks!

The first non-box set "addendum" mix to '1981' just posted: a DNW compilation of tracks from '81

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1 9 8 1 | How To Say 1981 In German

01 Neonbabies - “Profi” [3:51]
02 Absolute Body Control - “Is There an Exit” [4:09]
03 Grauzone - “Ich Lieb Sie” [3:16]
04 Palais Schaumburg - “Gute Luft” [2:38]
05 Beranek - “Crystal Dream” [3:23]
06 Geisterfahrer - “Himmel auf Erden” [1:56]
07 Pyrolator - “Elefantendisco” [3:10]
08 Klopferbande - “Am Hauptfelsen” [4:45]
09 Sudenten Creche - “Are Kisses Out of Fashion?” [3:19]
10 Din a Testbild - “Logischer Gefrierpunkt” [4:11]
11 Kitchen and The Plastic Spoons - “Filmen” [3:35]
12 Metro Pakt - “Neue Straßen” [2:40]
13 Kosmonautentraum - “Kosmonautentraum No. 6″ [1:12]
14 Mythos - “Robot Secret Agents” [3:05]
15 1000 Ohm - “A.G.N.E.S.” [6:22]
16 Les Vampyrettes - “Biomutanten” [4:39]
17 Deutsche Wertarbeit - “Deutscher Wald” [4:01]
18 Matthias Schuster - “Schlaglichter” [2:38]
19 Van Kaye and Ignit - “Opera of Worms” [3:59]
20 Starter - “Part of You” [3:10]
21 Exkurs - “Fakten” [3:55]
22 Weltklang - “Veb Heimat” [2:26]

[Total Time 76:20]

Check it out at Musicophilia.

8th of 9 '1981' mixes is up today-- 'Fire':

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1 9 8 1 | F i r e

01 A Certain Ratio - Waterline [3:36]
02 New Order - Chosen Time [4:07]
03 Fad Gadget - Make Room (Edit) [3:18]
04 Fun Boy Three - The Lunatics [3:12]
05 David Byrne - The Red House [3:22]
06 Creatures - But Not Them [3:20]
07 Raybeats - Calhoun Surf [1:53]
08 Suburbs - Tired of My Plans [3:33]
09 David Thomas - Crickets in the Flats [4:59]
10 Killing Joke - Butcher (Edit) [3:12]
11 Japan - Talking Drum [3:33]
12 The B-52’s - Give Me Back My Man (Remix) (Edit) [3:04]
13 Lizzy Mercier-Descloux - Room Mate [2:44]
14 The Beat - Too Nice To Talk To [3:08]
15 Lounge Lizards - Do The Wrong Thing [2:39]
16 INXS - Stay Young [3:24]
17 Prince - Controversy [3:28]
18 Talking Heads - Houses in Motion (Edit) [2:51]
19 Bauhaus - Of Lillies & Remains (Edit) [2:51]
20 The Specials - Ghost Town (Edit) [3:47]
21 Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love [4:02]
22 Wire - Midnight Bahnhof Cafe (Edit) [2:38]
23 Family Fodder - Emergency [2:39]
24 Raincoats - Shouting Out Loud [4:54]

[Total Time: 80:14]

Get it at Musicophilia. Only one more to go!

A Musicophilia first just went up: a complete out-of-print post-punk album, one that no one else seems to have shared. It will definitely appeal to fans of the '1981' box set.

Check it out here.

The payoff who clicked through on the above April foolery was this:

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'1981 Briefcase, Volume 1'

Among the highlights from the twenty artists in this collection: 1000 Ohm, Absolute Body Control, and Beranek (also featured in higher quality as part of the “1981 addendum” mix, ‘How To Say 1981 in German‘); early A Flock of Seagulls and ABC; Adam & The Ants; Alternative TV; 49 Americans side-group Avocados; pre-Bangles The Bangs; The Work-related Black Sheep; Blondie; and Cyndi Lauper’s first foray, Blue Angel, amongst others.

Catch it here, and new tracks each weekend here.

Ha! You totally fooled me! And almost a week after the 1st!

Thing is, Ive always had this fascination with the Seychelles Islands. So the second I saw that a lost classic post-punk album came from there, I clicked away. Great job!

The return of the Musique du Monde label! The third 'Les Miniatures' volume went up today:

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Various Artists - 'Les Miniatures' Volume 14
(10" LP, Musique du Monde, France - 1975)

Side A:
01 [00'00"] Janko NILOVIC - "Flock" (Percussions Dans L'Espace, 1974, Yugoslavia)
02 [01'20"] Shuggie OTIS - "Happy House" (Inspiration Information, 1974, USA)
03 [02'24"] Popol VUH - "Kleiner Krieger" (Einsjager & Siebenjager, 1974, Germany)
04 [03'18"] Penguin CAFE ORCHESTRA - "From the Colonies" (Unreleased, 1975, England)
05 [04'48"] Marvin GAYE - "The Break In (Police Shoot Big)" (Trouble Man, 1972, USA)
06 [06'39"] The RESIDENTS- "Boots" (Meet The Residents, 1974, USA)
07 [07'30"] Bernard PARMEGIANI - "Incidences/Battements" (Unreleased, 1975, France)
08 [09'15"] Curt BOETTCHER - "Without Her" (There's An Innocent Face, 1973, USA)
09 [10'37"] Hugh HOPPER - "Minitrue" (1984, 1973, England)
10 [11'55"] The AGGROVATORS - "I Am Lost Dub" (Unreleased, 1975, Jamaica)
11 [13'38"] KRAFTWERK - "Uranium" (Radio-Activity, 1975, Germany)

Side B:
01 [00'00"] Free DESIGN - "Fugue" (There Is A Song, 1972, USA)
02 [02'00"] David SNELL - "International Flight" (Unreleased, 1973, England)
03 [03'54"] Franco BATTIATO - "Cariocinesi" (Fetus, 1972, Italy)
04 [05'45"] Karl HEINZ SCHAFER - "Kidnapping" (Les Gants Blancs du Diable, 1973, France)
05 [07'04"] Big STAR - "I'm In Love With a Girl" (Radio City, 1974, USA)
06 [08'48"] Brigitte FONTAINE & ARESKI - "Les Petites Madones" (L'Incindie, 1974, France)
07 [09'42"] Barry WHITE - "Stick Up" (Together Brothers, 1974, USA)
08 [11'39"] Bryan FERRY - "Rivers of Salt" (These Foolish Things, 1973, England)
09 [13'22"] Brian ENO - "Another Green World" (Another Green World, 1975, England)

[Total Time: 29' 36"]

Rough translation, back cover text:
"It's a big world--on a small record! This is the groove the world spins on today, with the melodies that get you singing and beats that can't be stopped! Take a trip at thirty-three and a third rotations per minute, the new speed of sound, and get yourself "funkified" These are the tunes that will bounce through the streets in France, in England, in the United States, in Italy, in Jamaica, even in Yugoslavia. You'll get it all with 'Les Miniatures'!"

It's available for download (with a couple streamable sample tracks, if you need convincing) at Musicophilia here.

The ninth of nine main mixes from the '1981' box set is up:

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1 9 8 1 | I c e

01 Holger Czukay - Fragrance (Edit) [3:16]
02 Jerry Harrison - Worlds In Collision [5:03]
03 Comsat Angels - Restless [3:16]
04 Selecter - Their Dream Goes On [3:42]
05 Gun Club - Promise Me [2:37]
06 ESG - You're No Good [3:12]
07 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Into the Light [4:15]
08 Laurie Anderson - O Superman [8:21]
09 Phew - Fragment (Edit) [2:37]
10 Honeymoon Killers - Histoire a Suivre [3:05]
11 The Del-Byzanteens - Girl's Imagination [6:44]
12 Was (Not Was) - Oh, Mr. Friction [3:32]
13 Brian Eno & David Byrne - A Secret Life [2:30]
14 Echo & The Bunnymen - All My Colours [4:03]
15 Material - Square Dance [4:27]
16 Ryuichi Sakamoto - Kachakuchane (Edit) [2:50]
17 Grace Jones - Nightclubbing [5:04]
18 The Slits - Earthbeat (Peel Session) (Edit) [5:44]
19 Robert Wyatt - Born Again Cretin [3:06]
20 Delta 5 - Different Fur [2:37]

It's at Musicophilia; more 1981 stuff is at the 'Briefcase' tracks at Musicophilia Daily. If you've liked the box set, spread the word. Thanks!

Finally got 'em all! Thanx bub!

Collect 'em all! Hope you like the last one, Kevin--one of my faves, and the last one I finished, if I remember correctly.

I'm really enjoying it. Never heard of The Del-Byzanteens before. Worked really well after the Holger Czukay track (also new to me). iTunes was playing the tracks out of order.

How did you program the tracks? Or did I miss that somewhere on the site?

In any event, thanx billions for all your hard work. It's very much appreciated.

I'm not sure I know what you mean by "program" here. . .

Billions! Wow! Thank you, um, googles for listening : )

How did you decide the order of the tracks?

Oh, gotcha. I tend to just pick the tracks I want to be on a mix, maybe a couple extra; then start randomly trying combinations. Nothing too methodical, really. The '1981' set was on a somewhat larger scale, obviously; and I did spend a lot of time on culling and sequencing and getting the levels right and manually removing pops and clicks and all that, but I think the running orders came pretty easily. The set went through three versions, and a couple of the mixes changed a lot.

OK thanx, sounds. Still have only heard bits and pieces. I'll report back with faves whenever I finish the thing.

'1981 Briefcase, Volume 2'

Now that all nine of the main '1981' mixes are available, I'm compiling the 'Briefcase' tracks. 2nd collection (20 tracks) is up today.

A fun one up today: covers of classics (rock, pop, r&b, etc.) by post-punkers. As a bonus, links to all the originals.

Various - No Heroes

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Post-punk is often quite catchy in its way, and so there’s plenty of singability, listenability, pop ability on display–some of which actually had some popular impact in the grand tradition of the commercial cover tune. The Beatles get channeled by Yellow Magic Orchestra, The Feelies, and Hecter Zazou. Lee Dorsey and Al Green are both faves, fueling Devo and Trio, Talking Heads and Orange Juice, respectively. There’s Motown and funk love to spare, with A Certain Ratio, Flying Lizards, Soft Cell and The Slits being careful to avoid direct theft they can’t pull off, but honoring the sources with their own quirks firmly displayed. Straight-up pop is in evidence with Lydia Lunch, Tom Tom Club, Lene Lovich, Plastics and Antena joining the Oldies parade–and even Psychedelic Furs tackling “Mack the Knife”. As for the “I Hate Pink Floyd” sentiment, Dolphins aren’t having it, and The Pretenders clearly don’t hate the Kinks. Lizy Mercier-Descloux and the Selecter take you to the movies, and XTC and The Cure of all people show Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix love. The Gun Club reach back to Robert Johnson, and Siouxsie’s Creatures laud The Troggs. Only Bauhaus and Japan cover material you’d think of as post-punk-approved–Eno and The Velvets–but they do it with aplomb. I can’t say most of this music eclipses the originals–be sure to check below for links to all of the source tracks–but it’s all a lot of fun.

Check it out here at Musicophilia.

You do amazing work.

Thanks so much! The artists do the work, I just do my bit to spread the word.

Link to the 'No Heroes' mix was down, it's been fixed. Sorry for any inconvenience.

New mix up that's safe to play around your significant other even if they're not also a music geek. . . Simple, beautiful, spare music.

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Various Artists – ‘Still’

Part I
01 [00:00] Giovanni Maria Trabaci – “Toccata Seconda & Ligature Per L’arpa” (1630s)
02 [02:57] Dave Brubeck – “Fujiyama” (1964)
03 [07:54] Mark Hollis – “Inside Looking Out” (1998)
04 [14:06] Brigitte Fontaine & Areski – “Declaration de Sinistre” (1974)
05 [16:11] Noday Family – “Mago Uta” (1968)
06 [18:18] Moondog – “Marimba Mondo 2″ (1977)
07 [23:30] Nick Drake – “Rider On the Wheel” (1970)
08 [26:00] L.S. Gelik – “Bandung (Mang Koko)” (1992)
09 [29:36] Rachel’s – “Egon & Gertie” (1996)
10 [32:35] Nina Simone – “Black Is The Color Of My True Love’s Hair” (1966)

Part II
11 [00:00] Bob Dylan – “Moonshiner” (1963)
12 [05:02] Miles Davis – “In A Silent Way” (1970)
13 [09:12] Joni Mitchell – “A Case of You” (1971)
14 [13:32] Toumani Diabate – “Jarabi” (1989)
15 [18:32] Colin Blunstone – “Though You’re Far Away” (1971)
16 [21:52] Gerald Bole – “Moonlight” (1983)
17 [23:56] Low – “Long Long Long” (1998)
18 [27:41] Keith Jarrett – “Don’t Ever Leave Me” (1999)
19 [30:18] Tongan Folk Musicians – “Faikava Love Song” (1974)
20 [32:58] Arthur Russell – “Our Last night Together” (1986)

[Total Time: 72:24]

Available for download, with streaming samples, at Musicophilia here.

nice. judging from the tracklist, looks like a super-moody mix! i've been falling behind w/ this blog, but i think now is the time to catch up! thanks for all the music ...

Ha, I guess it could be called "moody"--hopefully not in a bad way : )

currently reading this book http://www.musicophilia.com/

i didn't like that book at all. bloated and repetitive. insights into music equal zero. reminded me somehow of allen carr and his books on drugs and dependency. a total waste of time.

i'm kinda feeling you. i studied psychology in college. this just feels like a text book. it's all just about brain injuries. and old people that like classical music.

I thought it was a pleasant read, a few really enjoyable anecdotes, a few really frightening auditory possibilities. It's not a particularly in-depth or sustained thesis, but I didn't get the impression it intended to be.

After a bit of hibernation, including a lovely two week stay in a hospital, Musicophilia should be getting going again. Recently I've been honored to feature guest mixes by the creative minds behind Portland's The Harvey Girls and Chattanooga's Love, Execution Style. They're really eclectic, adding new wrinkles to the blog as well as a good bit of shared spirit with the things I've done there. I hope to be back with *finally* completed mixes of my own--some I've only been working on for months--in the next couple weeks.

Afternöön Röck Blöck

First new mix since escaping the hospital, in the 'Musique du Monde' vein but edging toward the post-punk stuff. Part one of a series of (at least) three:

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Various Artists - 'Le Mystère de la Musique,' Volume One
(Musique du Monde, France - 1977)

A1 [00:00] Henri TEXIER - "Le Piroguier" (Amir, 1976) France
A2 [04:04] Joni MITCHELL - "The Jungle Line" (The Hissing of Summer Lawns, 1975) Canada
A3 [08:25] Arthur RUSSELL - "Goodbye Old Paint" (Unreleased, 1975) USA
A4 [11:52] Osama KITAJIMA - "Tengu, A Long-Nosed Goblin" (Benzaiten, 1974) Japan
A5 [14:47] Bernard PARMEGIANI - "Incidences: Battements" (De Natura Sonorum, 1975) France
A6 [16:30] Lou REED - "Kicks" (Coney Island Baby, 1976) USA

B1 [00:00] Alan PARKER & John CAMERON - "Sahara Sunrise" (Afro Rock, 1973) England
B2 [02:59] Brigitte FONTAINE & ARESKI - "La Harpe Jaune" (Vous et Nous, 1977) France
B3 [05:43] Le ORME - "India" (Contrappunti, 1974) Italy
B4 [08:44] Sun RA - "That's How I Feel" (Unreleased, 1977) USA
B5 [14:07] HARMONIA - "Trace" (Unreleased, 1976) Germany
B6 [15:09] Iggy POP - "Nightclubbing" (The Idiot, 1977) USA
B7 [18:53] Hamilton BOHANNON - "Come Dance With Me" (On My Way, 1977) USA

[Total Time: 45:37]

Rough Translation, Back Cover:
"How does one describe the mystery of music? Perhaps it's best to let music speak for itself: language may get in the way. And so we present 'Le Mystère de la Musique,' which explores the changing sound of a world where borders are disintegrating between sounds, and between people. Across the discs of this series you will find feelings of the night, of the unknown, of the new and as yet undefined. This music refuses to fit itself to the old, established genres and boundaries. Instead, it pushes forward into a future where freedom of expression and breadth of creativity are the central reasons for being. The mystery is not a riddle to be solved: it asks you to revel in the indescribable, the unknown, the journey and not the destination. Open your ears, and your mind will follow, through the mystery of music."

Grab that one here.

I've also added a handy Visual Mix Index since, approaching the 1st birthday of the blog, there are now over 50 mixes. Hope you dig it.

looks good! sorry to hear about the hospital stay, hope everything is better now! was just listening to one of the "Latter Day Can" mixes you made -- some great stuff on there.

Thanks, Tyler. Hope you like this one--there are a couple more going up soon. Late Can definitely doesn't get enough credit--but putting together the post-Can one was revelatory even for me--I'd just never thought of it as a sum-total, but it really adds up into some great stuff.

i don't have much patience for the kraut/postpunk stuff, but sir, your Still mix was probably the best long-playing record i have heard this year. revelatory.

Wow, that's really cool to hear, Sean. I try to make something for (almost) everybody. 'Still' actually ended up being "useful" in the hospital--had it playing during a couple in-room procedures, nurses all commented it was very calming : )

Next volume in the Le Mystère de la Musique series is up. This one has a little more "daylight," a little more song-oriented:

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Various Artists – ‘Le Mystère de la Musique,’ Volume Two
(Musique du Monde, France – 1977)

A1 [00:00] Kevin AYERS – “Thank You Very Much (Demo)” (Unreleased, 1975) England
A2 [02:56] David BOWIE – “Weeping Wall” (Low, 1977) England
A3 [05:45] Emmanuelle PARRENIN – “Topaze” (Maison Rose, 1977) France
A4 [07:26] Albert MARCOEUR – “Elle Itait Belle” (Album a Colorier, 1976) France
A5 [10:17] Laurie ANDERSON – “It’s Not the Bullet That Kills You” (Airwaves, 1976) USA
A6 [13:55] Robert WYATT – “Song for Che” (Ruth is Stranger Than Richard, 1975) England
A7 [17:28] Roy AYERS – “A Tear To A Smile” (A Tear To A Smile, 1975) USA

B1 [00:00] Luciano CILIO – “Dialoghi dal Presente, Part 3″ (Dialoghi dal Presenti, 1977) Italy
B2 [02:06] TELEVISION – “Prove It” (Marquee Moon, 1977) USA
B3 [07:04] This HEAT – “Basement Boy” (BBC session, 1977) England
B4 [08:40] Augustus PABLO – “East of the River Nile” (East of the River Nile, 1977) Jamaica
B5 [11:28] Lewis FUREY – “Last Night” (Lewis Furey, 1975) Canada
B6 [14:25] Brian ENO – “Aragon” (Unreleased, 1976) England
B7 [15:30] Penguin CAFE ORCHESTRA – “Chartered Flight” (Music From the Penguin Cafe, 1976) England
B8 [21:09] Sibylle BAIER – “The End” (Unreleased, 1974) Germany

[Total Time: 46:56]

Get it here (with several streaming sample tracks).

Awesome tracklist & artwork as usual !

Thanks, sir. Third volume in the series, a much darker affair, coming up next week.

The Musicophilia blog turns one year old today. . .

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October 4th marks the one-year anniversary of Musicophilia’s first post and first mix, and in that time the blog has featured almost one mix for every week (indexed here), which between them have been downloaded over 15,000 times with nearly 70,000 views and at least 200 subscribers.

Got a poll up, and a little drawing going for a few CDs (Kluster, David Axelrod, Jean-Jacque Perrey at least) for those who leave a comment. Check it out here.

Part three of the ‘Le Mystère de la Musique‘ trilogy of mid-70s compilations is now up:

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Various Artists – ‘Le Mystère de la Musique,’ Volume Three
(Musique du Monde, France – 1977)

A1 [00:00] David AXELROD – “Everything Counts” (Heavy Axe, 1975) USA
A2 [06:52] Big STAR – “Nightime” (Unreleased, 1976) England
A3 [09:38] Bob MARLEY – “Jamming (Version)” (Unreleased, 1977) Jamaica
A4 [12:39] Stevie WONDER – “Pastime Paradise” (Songs in the Key of Life, 1976) USA
A5 [16:00] Ennio MORRICONE – “Un Salotto Troppo Elegante” (Stato Interessante, 1977) Italy
A6 [17:47] Roxy MUSIC – “Sentimental Fool” (Siren, 1975) England

B1 [00:00] Jorge BEN – “Errare Humanum Est” (A Tabua de Esmeralda, 1974) Brazil
B2 [04:48] Pere UBU – “Heaven” (”The Modern Dance” single, 1977) USA
B3 [07:52] Willie NELSON – “Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain” (The Red-Headed Stranger, 1975) USA
B4 [10:07] Miles DAVIS – “He Loved Him Madly” (Get Up With It, 1975) USA
B5 [18:54] Lard FREE – “Tatkooz a Roulette” (I’m Around About Midnight, 1975) France
B6 [20:36] CYMANDE – “One More” (Cymande, 1972) Guyana & Jamaica

[Total Time: 46:54]

It's an accessible, deeply funky, but slightly dark and contemplative affair, a counterpoint to the more uptempo feeling of the second volume. I hope you dig it--get it here at Musicophilia.

Also, if you missed it before, if you like the mixes at Musicophilia, please take a moment to participate in the 1st Birthday poll and drop a comment there to be entered in a drawing for free CDs from favorites like David Axelrod, Kluster and Jean-Jacque Perrey.

Just in case you missed it over at the Flaming Lips - 'Embryonic' thread--I've put together a mix inspired by, and possibly digging in the roots of, the Lips' astonishing new album:

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Various Artists - 'Zygotic' (After the Flaming Lips' 'Embryonic') (2009)

‘Embryonic’s central production feature is the classic Lips technique of very heavily compressing the drums, creating a distorted, absolutely massive sound, this time devoted to more intricate and sexier beats than ever before. Other sonic “solids” are created with stabs of distorted guitar, swooping harps, distant bells, and subtle percussion. But despite these distorted and compressed elements, the music is (literally) highly dynamic, and around and between these sonic boulders and rocks is a beautiful and melodious stream of electric piano and organ, treated vocals, strings and xylophones, and ambient texture. ‘Zygotic‘ recreates this blend from two major strands. First, art rock (Krautrock especially,) sound library and soundtrack music, and fusion jazz–all with drums as huge as possible–recreate the bursting energy and ferocious beats. And second, work from minimalists, hazy psychedelia and musique concrete artists creates the contemplative web of melody and texture that holds the mix together.

From the heavy camp, we have artists like Led Zeppelin (who created the original mammoth rock drum sound) and Miles Davis (with the insanely heavy “Rated X”), early Kraftwerk, Ennio Morricone’s The Feed-Back, the Silver Apples, Jaki Liebezeit-led Can, This Heat’s Charles Hayward, White Noise, Heldon, Joe Ufer, Janko Nilovic and Faust. Adding texture and experimentalism are Tod Dockstader, Jon Appleton, Yoko Ono, Erkki Kurenniemi, Pierre Henry, Dick Raiijmakers, Alvin Curran, Tangerine Dream’s Klaus Schultze, Francois Bayle, and Bernard Parmegiani. And tying it all together with moody beauty are David Axelrod, Roy Budd, Pierre Arvay, Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Co., Neu, Cluster, Alice Coltrane, Nino Nardini, Egisto Macchi, Joe Meek, Bernard Estardy, Brian Eno, Luciano Cilio, Franco Battiato and the United States of America. Of course, none of these is segregated from the rest, and hopefully it is their intertwining which makes this mix a successful homage to ‘Embryonic‘.

Download the mix here at Musicophilia, and stream the new Flaming Lips album here.

Two new mixes posted since last I updated here. One is a straight-ahead favorites of 2009 (from the perspective of someone picking it up almost by accident); but the more exciting one in my opinion is the following, which began as a "favorites of the decade" mix, but evolved into a much more singular and enveloping sound-journey:

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'A Decade in the Dark' (2000-2009)

Ten years out from 2019, it’s pretty clear ‘Blade Runner‘ was a little off the mark in terms of flying cars, bio-engineered supermen, a resurgent retro-Deco architecture (alas), and attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. But as this first decade of the new millennium comes to a close, I can’t help but feel like the film nevertheless got more right than we might like to admit. Not the least is the pervading sense of darkness; no, things aren’t literally gritty, wet and ever-dark, but it’s not hard to feel after this bungled decade that things might not be soon enough if things carry on with current trajectory. The upside of this noir condition is that uncertain times, a futurism that isn’t optimism, and the melted cultural edges of an internet age have produced a lot of fantastic music that wouldn’t sound the least bit out of place in the sin dens and street bazaars (and cold storage laboratories) of ‘Blade Runner‘.

01 [00:00] The Knife – “Silent Shout” (Silent Shout, 2006)
02 [04:30] Daniel Menche – “Concussions, Part 2″ (Concussions, 2005)
03 [04:58] Erykah Badu – “The Healer” (New Amerykah Part One (4th World War), 2008)
04 [08:40] Bjork – “Where Is The Line” (Medulla, 2004)
05 [13:17] Burial – “U Hurt Me” (Burial, 2006)
06 [18:29] Portishead – “Machine Gun” (Third, 2008)
07 [23:04] Junior Boys – “When No One Cares” (So This Is Goodbye, 2007)
08 [27:00] Low - “Breaker” (Drums & Guns, 2007)
09 [29:46] Flaming Lips – “See the Leaves” (Embryonic, 2009)
10 [34:08] David Sylvian – “Late Night Shopping” (Blemish, 2003)
11 [36:52] Thom Yorke – “The Clock” (The Eraser, 2006)
12 [41:11] David Thomas & Two Pale Boys – “Surf’s Up” (Surf’s Up!, 2001)
13 [49:42] The For Carnation – “Moonbeams” (The For Carnation, 2000)
14 [59:00] Fennesz – “Onsay” (Venice, 2004)

[Total Time: 60:00]

Get it here at Musicophilia

Went over 20,000 mixes downloaded this week! Totally amazed, and hopefully I've spurred some music purchases.

It's been slow lately, but I've got several series cooking, including a singer-songwriter series, a sound library bunch, and more "post post-punk" 80s/90s/00s mixes.

Really missing this blog, and the sister site.

Sorry : \

I honestly hope to have 3-6 mixes within the next three months. There's always the back catalogue, in the meantime?

Musicophilia Daily will probably remain moribund, unless I just start posting things without having to write blurbs. It was a fun exercise for a while, but I don't have the time/energy for that, now--doubt too many people will just click "play" without them, though.

Don't feel bad, it was always a treat to read and I 100% understand the necessities of "real life" taking over. Just so happened that the slow down in posting coincided with me being laid off and having a lot more time to investigate, which was disappointing. I'll very much look forward to whatever comes next!

Glad to hear there's still interest, for sure. Just got word today that some of the most musically knowledgeable guys I know will be working up guest mixes in the near future, in areas I dig but haven't yet covered at the blog. So that should help the slack, for sure.

FYI, if you want to quickly see what you might have missed before, check here:

An index of every mix that's been posted

My favorites, though the least-downloaded, are the Sensory Replication Series mixes, so check those out if you haven't--start with 'Collide/Coalesce' to get a feel for what they're all about.

I was just listening to the Musique du Monde comps last night. So much great stuff there!

Glad you dig them. You should find a lot to love on the upcoming Sound Library series, and the early-mid-70s singer-songwriter mixes I'm working on.

First new mix in a long time is up:

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/folder.jpg?w=500&h=500

Various - ‘His Heart Had Six Strings,’ Vol. 1 (1968-1977)

Part 1
01 [00:00] Duncan Browne – “Journey” (Duncan Browne, 1973)
02 [03:15] Colin Blunstone – “Andorra” (Ennismore, 1972)
03 [06:28] Leonard Cohen – “Chelsea Hotel No. 2″ (New Skin for the Old Ceremony, 1974)
04 [09:27] Paul Simon – “Peace Like a River” (Paul Simon, 1972)
05 [12:40] Areski – “Le Dragon” (Un Beau Matin, 1972)
06 [15:07] Arthur Russell – “Close My Eyes” (Love Is Overtaking Me, 1974)
07 [17:39] Lewis Furey – “Love Comes” (Lewis Furey, 1975)
08 [21:05] Kevin Ayers – “Two Goes Into Four” (The Confessions of Doctor Dream, 1974)
09 [22:35] Bob Dylan – “If Not For You” (New Morning, 1970)
10 [25:02] Eduardo Mateo – “Quien te Viera” (Mateo Solo Bien Se Lame, 1972)
11 [27:00] Brian Eno – “By This River” (Before & After Science, 1977)

Part 2
01 [00:00] Big Star – “Holocaust” (Third, 1976)
02 [03:46] Henri Texier – “Amir” (Amir, 1976)
03 [07:05] Van Morrison – “Slim Slow Slider” (Astral Weeks, 1968)
04 [10:21] Procol Harum – “Too Much Between Us” (A Salty Dog, 1969)
05 [13:56] Leo Kottke – “Eight Miles High” (Mudlark, 1971)
06 [17:38] Jorge Ben – “Zumbi” (A Tabua de Esmeralda, 1974)
07 [21:04] Curt Boettcher – “I’ve Been Wrong” (There’s An Innocent Face, 1973)
08 [24:37] Bill Fay – “Come A Day” (Time of the Last Persecution, 1971)
09 [27:04] Tom Waits – “Closing Time” (Closing Time, 1973)

[Total Time: 61:16]

Download it here at Musicophilia.

Say the words “singer-songwriter” to some music geeks, and you may induce a Pavlovian cringe. It’s a much-abused term, no doubt, often applied to every M.O.R. woman to sit at a piano and wail, every goateed doofus to wallow over his mother-of-pearl-inlaid Taylor or Ovation. But taken (as a start) as a natural progression out of 1960s folk revivalism into music with more potential for both sonic breadth and popular appeal, it is one of the bedrocks of the greatest decade in popular music, the equal of funk or post-punk or Krautrock. It’s sometimes spare and unadorned, sometimes verges on baroque pop, and often brings in jazz and chamber music touches to become something that just doesn’t fit under a more accurately descriptive ready-made label. This mix is intended as evidence that if handled with care, a few unabashedly poetic lyrics, a little soul-searching confession, some sing-along melodicism, and an acoustic guitar can add up to a very good thing. ‘His Heart Had Six Strings, Vol. 1‘ features (as the title suggests) male songwriters; it will be followed up soon with a feminine counterpart–and probably a sequel, since I left so many favorites of this volume.

Shit that tracklist looks amazing.

Still deriving so much joy from 1981. You are the best mixmaker I know of.

Wow, what a kind thing to say. I'm not a real mixer, couldn't DJ or beatmatch to save my life. But I love compiling songs : )

Well, you knew what I meant by 'mix'. I should have said 'compilationeer' :)

Hey guys. In the off chance anyone is interested, finally made a new mix--follow up to the last one, published only eight months ago!

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/folder.jpg?w=500&h=500

Various – ‘Her Heart Had Six Strings’
Volume 2 (1965-1977)

Part 1
01 [00:00] Emmanuell Parrenin – ” Ce Matin À Frémonte” (Maison Rose, 1977)
02 [02:35] Joni Mitchell – “California” (Blue, 1971)
03 [06:20] Odetta – “Hit or Miss” (Odetta Sings, 1971)
04 [10:11] Sibylle Baier – “William” (Color Green, 1973)
05 [12:31] Karen Dalton – “Katie Cruel” (In My Own Time, 1971)
06 [14:45] Brigitte Fontaine – “La Harpe Jaune” (Vou et Nous, 1977)
07 [17:33] Anne Briggs – “Fine Horseman” (The Time Has Come, 1971)
08 [20:38] Kate & Anna McGarrigle – “My Town” (Kate & Anna McGarrigle, 1975)
09 [23:27] Annette Peacock – “Gesture Without Plot” (I’m The One, 1972)
10 [26:49] Bridget St. John – “The Lady and the Gentle Man” (Songs for the Gengle Man, 1971)

Part 2
01 [00:00] Linda Perhacs – “Hey, Who Really Cares?” (Parallelograms, 1970)
02 [02:33] Candi Stanton – “I’ll Drop Everything and Come Running” (Candi Stanton, 1973)
03 [05:21] Shelagh McDonald – “City’s Cry” (StarGazer, 1972)
04 [07:50] Mimi Farina – “Miles” (Reflections in a Crystal Wind, 1965)
05 [10:33] Linda Thompson – “Withered and Died” (I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight, 1974)
06 [13:59] Roberta Flack – “Killing Me Softly with His Song” (Killing Me Softly, 1973)
07 [18:45] Nico – “Afraid” (Desertshore, 1970)
08 [22:14] Vashti Bunyan – “Window Over the Bay” (Just Another Diamond Day, 1970)
09 [23:55] Nina Simone – “Black is the Color of My True Love’s Hair” (Wild is the Wind, 1966)

[Total Time: 57:25]

Check it out at the Musicophilia blog. Have a great new year!

SO SO SO happy about this. thank you so much. happy holidays and new year and marriage and all the rest

Thank you, sir! Makes me smile. Hopefully I'll get to do at least one of the more typically Musicophilia-style mixes--I had a whole series of library mixes in the Musique du Monde mold, an early electronics series, more 'Tour du Monde' volumes, and several more "Post-post-punk" mixes in various stages of completion. Maybe one day I'll finish them!

"Still" is still among the best full-length recordings i've heard in the past five years.

Whoa, glad you liked it so much! I realized I made the mistake of reusing a track from that mix on this most recent mix. . . but it's such a good one, hopefully nobody minds.

BTW, I put the '1981: Amplifier' mix back up--don't know why it was down, and if it goes again I'll take that as a sign. So grab it quick folks, if you missed it back when (2004 or 2008).

http://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/1981-amplifier-mix-2005/

Finally the "Best of 2010" mix nobody asked for:

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/folder.jpg?w=500&h=500

Various – ‘A Year in the Light’
(2010)

01 [00:00] Caribou – “Found Out” (Swim, 2010)
02 [03:18] The Knife – “Colouring of Pigeons” (Tomorrow, in a Year, 2010)
03 [14:15] Jamie Lidell – “Compass” (Compass, 2010)
04 [18:58] Four Tet – “Sing” (There is Love In You, 2010)
05 [25:33] Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – “Merciless and Great” (The Wonder Show of the World, 2010)
06 [30:59] James Blake – “I Only Know (What I Know)” (Klavierwerke EP, 2010)
07 [36:08] Shobaleader One – “Abstract Lover” (d’Demonstrator, 2010)
08 [39:50] LCD Soundsystem – “Home” (This Is Happening, 2010)
09 [47:38] Antony & The Johnsons – “The Spirit Was Gone” (Swanlights, 2010)
10 [50:49] Darkstar – “Deadness” (North, 2010)
11 [55:21] Record Club – “Grey Afro” (Record Club: ‘Skip Spence’s Oar’, 2010)
12 [62:55] Charlotte Gainsbourg – “Vanities” (IRM, 2010)
13 [66:22] Joanna Newsom – “On a Good Day” (Have One on Me, 2010)

[Total Time: 68:11]

Get it here.

thanks, i am looking forward to listening to it. i missed 2010 more or less completely in terms of new music.

Howdy everybody. I actually put up a few mixes this year, hope you guys dig them. I've also added streaming options for each (plus some of the old 1981 mixes), at the Musicophilia Soundcloud page. They can be downloaded per usual at the links below:

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/00_musicophlia_-_various_-_the-gold-and-the-silver-dream_1971-1982_cover-a.jpg?w=500&h=500

Various Artists – ‘The Gold and the Silver Dream’ (2013)
(After Daft Punk’s ‘Random Access Memories’)

01 [00:00] Amon Duul II – “Spaniards & Spacement” (Only Human, 1978)
02 [05:43] Brian Bennett – “Solstice” (Voyage, 1978)
03 [11:43] Beaver & Krause – “Looking Back Now” (All Good Men, 1972)
04 [15:35] William Sheller – “Inroit” (Lux Aterna, 1972)
05 [18:45] Zeus B. Held – “Nice Mover (Backing)” (Nice Mover (Gina X), 1979)
06 [22:51] The Jacksons – “Wondering Who” (Triumph, 1980)
07 [27:08] Francis Personne – “Fresques” (Towards, 1977)
08 [30:04] Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – “Romance of the Telescope” (“Joan of Arc”, 1981)
09 [33:20] Vuolo & Grande – “Leaving” (Desert, 1979)
10 [37:27] Roxy Music – “The Space Between” (Avalon, 1982)

11 [41:58] Space Art – “Welcome to Love” (Play Back, 1980)
12 [48:33] Le Orme – “Al Mercato delle Pulci” (Storia o Leggenda, 1977)
13 [52:29] Cerrone – “Give Me Love” (Supernature, 1977)
14 [56:53] Roland Bocquet – “Paradia” (Robot Rose, 1982)
15 [61:38] Nilsson- “The Moonbeam Song (Demo)” (Nilsson Schmilsson, 1971)
16 [65:05] Curt Boettcher – “California Music” (California Music, 1978)
17 [68:16] Gino Soccio – “Closer” (Closer, 1981)
18 [72:03] Munich Machine – “In Love With Love” (Whiter Shade of Pale, 1977)
19 [78:17] Stardrive – “Funkascensions” (Stardrive, 1974)
20 [83:49] Eno & Cluster – “The Shade (Excerpt)” (After the Heat, 1978)

[Total Time: 85:00]

Get it here

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/folder.jpg?w=720

Various – ‘Their Hearts Had Six Strings’
(1967-1976)

Volume 3
01 [00:00] Townes Van Zandt – “Highway Kind” (Demo) (Sunshine Sessions, 1971)
02 [02:14] The Pentangle – “Sally Free and Easy” (Solomon’s Seal, 1972)
03 [06:08] Mickey Newbury – “T. Total Tommy” (Looks Like Rain, 1969)
04 [09:56] Tim Buckley – “Moulin Rouge” (Starsailor, 1970)
05 [11:50] Bonnie Raitt – “Thank You” (Bonnie Raitt, 1971)
06 [14:40] Tia Blake – “I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow” (Folksongs & Ballads, 1971)
07 [17:20] Bob Desper – “Dry Up Those Tears” (New Sounds, 1974)
08 [20:28] Michael Hurley – “Troubled Water” (Armchair Boogie, 1971)
09 [22:34] Ruthann Friedman – “Danny” (Constant Companion, 1969)
10 [24:20] Rodriguez – “To Whom It May Concern” (Coming From Reality, 1971)
11 [27:38] Tax Free – “Day Revealed Your Face” (Tax Free, 1971)
12 [30:28] Lo Borges – “Homem de Rua” (Lo Borges, 1972)
13 [32:26] John Martyn – “Go Down Easy” (Solid Air, 1973)
14 [36:03] Carol Kleyn – “Street Song” (Love Has Made Me Stronger, 1976)
15 [38:32] Gary Higgins – “Stable the Spuds” (Red Hash, 1973)
16 [43:50] Susan Christie – “Echo In Your Mind” (Paint A Lady, 1967)
17 [47:03] Wizz Jones – “Slow Down to My Speed” (The Legendary Me, 1970)
18 [50:10] Nick Drake – “At The Chime of a City Clock” (Bryter Later, 1970)

[Total Time: 54:56]

Volume 4

01 [00:00] Lou Reed – “I Love You” (Lou Reed, 1972)
02 [02:15] Susan Pillsbury – “Highway” (Susan Pillsbury, 1973)
03 [04:40] Richie Havens – “High Flyin’ Bird” (Mixed Bag, 1967)
04 [08:12] David Bixby – “Morning Sun” (Ode to Quetzalcoatl, 1969)
05 [11:47] Larry Jon Wilson – “Things Ain’t What They Used To Be” (New Beginnings, 1975)
06 [14:47] These Trails – “Rapt Attention” (These Trails, 1973)
07 [17:00] Nilsson – “I’ll Never Leave You” (Nilsson Schmilsson, 1970)
08 [21:09] John Prine – “Hello In There” (John Prine, 1971)
09 [25:37] Ted Lucas – “I’ll Find A Way To Carry It All” (Ted Lucas, 1975)
10 [29:02] Jim Sullivan – “Plain As Your Eyes Can See” (U.F.O., 1969)
11 [31:27] Michael Chapman – “You Say” (Rainmaker, 1969)
12 [35:06] Heaven & Earth – “Jenny” (Refuge, 1973)
13 [38:22] Shuggie Otis – “Strawberry Letter” (Freedom Flight, 1971)
14 [42:15] Dillard & Clark – “So Sad” (Through the Morning, Through the Night, 1969)
15 [45:36] Bob Dylan – “If Not For You” (Alternate) (Another Self Portrait, 1970)
16 [48:05] Jerry Moore – “Life Is A Constant Journey Home” (Life Is A Constant Journey Home, 1967)
17 [52:26] Judee Sill – “Lopin Along Thru the Cosmos” (Judee Sill, 1971)

[Total Time: 55:35]

Get it here

Hope people dig them!

I approve. (I would!)

Heh, glad you do, Ned.

Nice work as always!

New mix, centered around the incorporation of the synthesizer into sometimes unexpected territory in the early/mid-70s.

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/00_le-nouveau-son_volume-4_1969-1976_cover-front.jpg?w=720

Various Artists - 'Le Nouveau Son,' Volume Four
(Musique du Monde, France - 1976)

Disque A

01 [00:00] Todd RUNDGREN - "International Feel" (A Wizard, a True Star, 1973) United States
02 [02:45] Silver APPLES - "You and I" (Contact, 1969) United States
03 [05:43] Ananda SHANKAR - "Snow Flower" (Snow Flower, 1970) India
04 [08:40] EROC - "Abenfrienden" (Eroc 1, 1975) Germany
05 [10:52] 10cc - "The Worst Band In the World" (Sheet Music, 1974) England
06 [13:38] Amon DUUL II - "Trap" (Vive la Trance, 1974) Germany
07 [17:15] John CALE - "Sylvia Said" (Fear, 1974) Wales
08 [21:19] SYREETA - "Cause We've Ended As Lovers" (Stevie Wonder Presents Syreeta, 1974) United States
09 [25:41] Duncan BROWNE - "Ragged Rain Life" (Duncan Browne, 1973) England
10 [28:37] Hall & OATES - "When the Morning Comes" (Abandoned Luncheonette, 1973) United States
11 [31:35] Sensations Fix - "Do You Love Me?" (Fragments of Light, 1974) Italy
12 [34:43] Catherine RIBEIRO - "Un Regard Clair" (L'Home des Champs, 1974) France
13 [39:13] FRANCISCO - "Heal Yourself" (Cosmic Beam Experience, 1976) United States
14 [43:34] Brian ENO - "The Big Ship" (Another Green World, 1974) England

Disque B

01 [00:00] PLACEBO - "Balek" (1973, 1973) Belgium
02 [04:23] Harry NILSSON - "Black Sails (Alternate)" (Unreleased, 1974) United States
03 [06:54] Marcos VALLE - "Mais do Que Valsa" (Previsao do Tempo, 1973) Brazil
04 [09:40] Roxy MUSIC - "Pyjamarama" (7" Single, 1973) England
05 [12:42] Wolfgang DAUNER - "Kamasutram" (Rischkas Soul, 1972) Germany
06 [16:25] D.R. HOOKER - "Forge Your Own Chains" (The Truth, 1972) United States
07 [20:50] These TRAILS - "Psyche I & Share Your Water" (These Trails, 1973) United States
08 [26:13] Tim BUCKLEY - "Song to the Siren" (Starsailor, 1970) United States
09 [29:44] Franco BATTIATO - "Aria di Rivoluzione" (Sulle Corde di Aries, 1973) Italy
10 [34:31] Michael CHAPMAN - "Night Drive" (Wrecked Again, 1972) England
11 [38:19] Jacqueline THIBAULT - "Lover's Prayer" (Evening Colours, 1976) France
12 [41:31] COMUS - "To Keep From Crying" (To Keep From Crying, 1974) England

[Total Time: 93:40]

Download it here

Hope you dig it, guys. The Comus track alone is a stunner--not at all what you'd expect.

I think your links are wrong. I just get the art.

Whoops--corrected now! Thanks!

http://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2014/02/18/musique-du-monde-le-nouveau-son-vol-4-1969-1976/

New mix:

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/00_various_-_circuits_1983-2013_cover.jpg?w=720

Various - 'Circuits'
(1983-2013)

01 [00:00:00] Depeche Mode - "The Things You Said" (Music For the Masses, 1987)
02 [00:04:01] Hector Zazou, Bony Bikaye & CY1 - "M'Pasi Ya M'Pamba" (Noir et Blanc, 1983)
03 [00:08:36] Laurie Anderson - "Excellent Birds" (Mister Heartbreak, 1984)
04 [00:12:10] Fever Ray - "Concrete Walls" (Fever Ray, 2009)
05 [00:17:28] Blue Nile - "From Rags to Riches" (A Walk Across the Rooftops, 1984)
06 [00:21:33] Atoms for Peace - "Ingenue" (Amok, 2013)
07 [00:26:00] Daft Punk - "Something About Us" (Discovery, 2001)
08 [00:29:53] Arthur Russell - "Me For Real" (Another Thought, recorded 1990)
09 [00:33:26] Funkstorung - "Appetite For Disctruction" (Appetite For Disctruction, 2000)
10 [00:37:50] Matthew Herbert - "I Miss You" (Bodily Functions, 2001)
11 [00:42:20] Pole - "Streit" (2 EP, 1998)
12 [00:46:56] David Sylvian - "Maria" (Secrets of the Beehive, 1987)
13 [00:49:16] Burial - "Stolen Dog" (Street Halo EP, 2011)
14 [00:55:13] Tricky - "Poems" (Nearly God, 1996)
15 [01:01:38] Hercules & Love Affair - "My House" (Blue Songs, 2011)
16 [01:06:37] 808 State - "Spanish Heart" (ex:el, 1991)
17 [01:09:34] Scritti Politti - "Perfect Way" (Cupid & Psyche, 1985)
18 [01:14:14] Talk Talk - "April 5th" (The Colour of Spring, 1986)
19 [01:19:42] Portishead - "It Could Be Sweet" (Dummy, 1994)
20 [01:24:17] Pinch - "Battered (Instrumental)" (Underwater Dancehall, 2007)
21 [01:26:50] Deadbeat - "Organ In the Attic that Sings the Blues" (Wild Life Documentaries, recorded 1990)
22 [01:30:36] Caribou - "Jamelia" (Swim, 2010)
23 [01:33:45] Autechre - "Eutow" (Tri Repetae, 1996)
24 [01:37:52] Martin Dupont - "Inside Out" (Hot Paradox, 1987)
25 [01:40:02] Les Attaques - "Again" (Unreleased, recorded 2006)
26 [01:45:40] Junior Boys - "Work" (Begone Dull Care, 2009)
27 [01:51:56] James Blake - "Retrograde" (Overgrown, 2013)
28 [01:55:30] Brian Eno & Harold Budd - "Against the Sky" (The Pearl, 1984)

[Total Time: 2:00:00]

http://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2014/03/09/post-post-punk-circuits-1983-2013/

thanks for another one, these are always great

yeah thanks!

Thanks guys, hope you liked it.

Soundslike! I am so glad to be able to reach out across the digital divide and give you a virtual fist bump. I was one of the lucky recipients of your original 1981 box years ago. I still remember standing in my tiny room in Red Hook and pulling out the box from the envelope and finding it hard to believe that someone had put all of this work into something and give it out for free. And the music...things never heard before or since. Years passed and sad to say, I lost place of the box. So happy to come across across this post on ILX and want to say thanks for the music...your achievement is towering.

Thanks very much! That's why I made it--hoping people for whom the music was new would have an experience like that. I miss physically making mixes--glad knowing the boxes are out there somewhere (I didn't manage to keep a physical copy myself, actually). You may have already seen, but all the '1981' mixes are available for download at the blog :

http://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/musicophilia-the-complete-1981-box-set/

Just put up two new, related mixes, one focusing on late 60s/early 70s Library and soundtrack and early electronic pop; and the other the heirs to those sounds who picked up the torch in the 1990s through now. Both were inspired by the effect Stereolab and Broadcast had in serving as gateways into these kinds of sounds. I hope to follow up with a mix covering the Krautrock/motorik and late 70s/early 80s eletronic-tinged Library, and the 1990s-now offspring. Don't have them up on the blog yet for download, but you can stream at the following:

'Memories of Tomorrow' (1997-2015)

https://images-mix.netdna-ssl.com/w/300/h/300/q/85/upload/images/extaudio/360e3aa2-e697-4f31-b9c4-23252683aabd.jpg

https://www.mixcloud.com/musicophilia/musicophilia-memories-of-tomorrow-1997-2015/

01 [00:00] Death and VANILLA - "Necessary Distortions" (To Where the Wild Things Are., 2015)
02 [05:55] BEAK - "Lulsgate" (Beak II Bonus, 2012)
03 [08:15] Jane WEAVER - "Argent" (The Silver Globe, 2014)
04 [16:10] Mount Vernon ARTS LAB - "The Black Drop" (The Seance at Hobs Lane, 2007)
05 [19:22] Last EX - "Trop Tard" (Last Ex, 2014)
06 [23:57] His Name IS ALIVE - "Everything Takes Forever" (Ft. Lake, 1998)
07 [28:02] The SOUNDCARRIERS - "Let It Ride" (Harmonium, 2009)
08 [33:45] PORTISHEAD - "The Rip" (Third, 2008)
09 [38:05] Belbury POLY - "Goat Foot" (The Belbury Tales, 2012)
10 [41:03] BROADCAST - "Unchanging Window" (The Noise Mde by People, 2000)
11 [44:48] CARIBOU - "After Hours" (Andorra, 2007)
12 [50:44] Yo La TENGO - "The Sea Horse (excerpt)" (The Sounds of the Sounds of Science, 2002)
13 [53:13] BECK - "Paper Tiger" (Sea Change, 2002)
14 [57:56] IVY - "Back In Our Town" (Apartment Life, 1997)
15 [62:27] TORTOISE - "I Set My Face to the Hillside" (TNT, 1998)
16 [68:19] STEREOLAB - "The Emergency Kisses" (Cobra & Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night, 1999)
17 [74:12] The Advisory CIRCLE - "The Patchwork Explains" (As the Crow Flies, 2011)
18 [77:04] AIR - "Ce Matin La" (Moon Safari, 1998)
19 [80:35] Erykah BADU and Flaming LIPS - "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (Heady Fwends, 2012)

'La Diffusion' (1957-1975)

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https://www.mixcloud.com/musicophilia/musicophilia-la-diffusion-1957-1975/

01 [00:00] Raymond SCOTT - "The Rhythm Modulator" (Manhattan Research Co., 1957)
02 [01:12] Silver APPLES - "Oscilations" (Silver Apples, 1969)
03 [03:55] Barry FORGIE - "Dawn Mists" (Stringtronics, 1972)
04 [07:17] Jean-Michel JARRE - "Black Bird" (Rarities, 1972)
05 [10:24] Mother Mallard's Portable MASTERPIECE CO. - "Cloudscape for Peggy" (Self-Titled, 1970)
06 [13:40] Jacques THOLLOT - "Cecile" (Quand le son Devient Aigu, 1971)
07 [15:33] White NOISE - "Your Hidden Dreams" (An Electric Storm, 1969)
08 [20:36] Paolo RENOSTO - "Confronto" (Here and Now Vol. 2, 1974)
09 [22:50] Ian LANGLEY - "Frantique" (Reggae for Real, 1973)
10 [25:27] Blue PHANTOM - "Equilibrium" (Distortions, 1971)
11 [29:11] Braen's MACHINE - "Obstinacy" (Underground, 1971)
12 [32:46] Karl Heinz SCHAFER - "La Victime" (Les Gants Blancs du Diable, 1973)
13 [36:23] Jacques SIROUL - "See" (Midway, 1973)
14 [39:53] David AXELROD - "Holy Are You (Instrumental)" (Release of an Oath, 1968)
15 [44:14] Piero UMILIANI - "La Rinuncia" (La Ragazza Fuoristrada, 1973)
16 [46:23] GOBLIN - "School at Night (Lullaby)" (Profondo Rosso, 1975)
17 [50:00] ORGANISATION - "Silver Forest" (Tone Float, 1970)
18 [52:27] Franz AUFFRAY - "Sweet Popcorn Part 2" (Original Popcorn, 1969)
19 [55:13] Guy BOYER - "Pop Sticks" (Ballad Pour un Vibra, 1971)
20 [58:12] Ennio MORRICONE - "The Victim" (Maccie Solari, 1974)
21 [61:41] Alan PARKER & John CAMERON - "Survival" (Afro Rock, 1973)
22 [64:47] Ananda SHANKAR - "Metamorphosis" (Ananda Shankar, 1970)
23 [68:02] United States of AMERICA - "Cloud Song" (The United States of America, 1968)
24 [71:32] Billy GREEN - "The Death of Doctor Death" (Stone, 1974)
25 [72:58] Alessandro ALESSANDRONI - "Galleria di Immagini" (Prisma Sonoro, 1974)
26 [76:52] Alain GORAGUER - "Valse des Statues" (La Planete Sauvage, 1973)
27 [79:14] Jacqueline THIBAULT - "Le Loup Quie Pleure" (Laurence Vanay, 1974)
28 [81:12] Manfred HUBLER and Siegfried SCHWAB - "Necronomania" (Der Teufel Kam Aus Akasava, 1971)
29 [83:33] Tom DISSEVELT and Kid BALTAN - "Moon Maid" (Electronic Music, 1962)
30 [86:34] Free DESIGN - "An Elegy" (You Could Be Born Again, 1968)
31 [89:25] Philippe BESOMBES - "Theme Grave" (Libra, 1975)
32 [91:21] Gianni ODDI - "Omerta" (Style, 1974)

I'll update when I have the up for download. Hope you enjoy!

Nice...can't wait to dive in to these

How have I been missing these? I guess this is what the 'bookmark thread' is for..

Hi all, just wanted to pass along that the above new mixes are now available for download from the blog:

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/musicophilia_00_various_-_memories-of-tomorrow_1997-2015_cover.jpg?w=500&h=500

https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2015/08/23/tribute-memories-of-tomorrow-1997-2015/

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/musicophilia_00_various_-_la-diffusion_1957-1975_front.jpg?w=500&h=500

https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2015/08/23/musique-du-mondetribute-series-la-diffusion-1957-1975/

Thanks!

On the DL. Thanks, Ian!

Soundslike IS THE MAN

Man Andrew, hope you dig them! Can you point me to where your latest mixes can be found?

And thanks, Obstacle!

Is the original crush mix online anywhere?

xp I stick stuff up at Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/ettiem). There's a few things up there now. If they haven't been removed yet by the copyright bots or whatever. And some original tidbits too.

Hi all, another new mix is up--only three months between, this time! It's like the old days where I finished a mix a week. . .

This one goes into that Blue Nile/80s Scott Walker/This Mortal Coil/Scritti Politti/Arthur Russell/David Sylvian world, whatever you'd want to call it. Up now for download and streaming:

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/musicophilia_00_various_-_the-dawning_1981-1989_cover.jpg?w=500

Various - 'The Dawning'
(1981-1989)

Part I

01 [00:00] The Blue Nile – “Over the Hillside” (Hats, 1989)
02 [05:00] Heaven 17 – “Let Me Go” (The Luxury Gap, 1983)
03 [09:16] Hot Gossip – “Morale” (Geisha Boys and Temple Girls, 1981)
04 [12:18] Dif Juz – “The Last Day” (Extractions, 1985)
05 [16:13] Tears for Fears – “Start of the Breakdown” (The Hurting, 1983)
06 [21:03] Mick Karn – “Tribal Dawn” (Titles, 1982)
07 [25:12] Thomas Dolby – “The Flat Earth” (The Flat Earth, 1984)
08 [31:34] Peter Gabriel – “Zaar” (Passions, 1989)
09 [35:56] Nona Hendryx – “Off the Coast of Love” (Skin Diver, 1989)
10 [40:23] Cocteau Twins – “Lazy Calm” (Victorialand, 1986)
11 [44:34] Talk Talk – “I Believe In You” (Spirit of Eden, 1988)

Part II

12 [50:40] Comsat Angels – “After the Rain” (Fiction, 1982)
13 [54:31] King Crimson – “Two Hands” (Beat, 1982)
14 [57:48] Bel Canto – “Without You” (White Out Conditions, 1987)
15 [61:43] Scott Walker – “Dealer” (Climate of Hunter, 1984)
16 [66:33] Scritti Politti – “Absolute” (Cupid & Psyche ’85, 1985)
17 [70:53] Arthur Russell – “This Is How We Walk On the Moon” (Another Thought, 1984)
18 [75:34] David Sylvian – “Orpheus” (Secrets of the Beehive, 1987)
19 [80:20] Durutti Column – “Love No More” (Vini Reilly, 1989)
20 [83:06] Kate Bush – “Never Be Mine” (The Sensual World, 1989)
21 [86:42] David Byrne – “Ghosts” (The Knee Plays, 1985)
22 [89:54] Colin Newman – “I Can Hear You” (Commercial Suicide, 1986)
23 [94:16] This Mortal Coil – “Ivy and Neet” (Filigree & Shadow, 1986)
24 [99:04] Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – “Of All The Things We’ve Made” (Dazzle Ships, 1983)

https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2015/11/15/post-post-punk-the-dawning-1981-1989/

Thanks, and hope you like it!

yes yes thank you

Hope you dig it, Calstars.

Planning to put more of the old mixes up on the Mixcloud account soon, especially since a number of them have been removed by Mediafire and can't be downloaded anymore.

Hi all, a new (old) mix is up--an expanded version of the post-punks covering classics mix, 'No Heroes' from 2009:

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/00_various_-_no-heroes-reissue_3xlp_1982_sleeve-01.jpg?w=1080

Various Artists - 'No Heroes'

SIDE A

A1 [00:00] A Certain Ratio [Banbarra] - "Shack Up" (1981)
A2 [03:07] Creatures [The Troggs] - "Wild Thing" (1981)
A3 [06:17] Gun Club [Robert Johnson] - "Preaching Blues" (1981)
A4 [10:15] Lydia Lunch [Dusty Springfield] - "Spooky" (1980)
A5 [12:45] Yellow Magic Orchestra [The Beatles] - "Daytripper" (1979)
A6 [15:28] Tom Tom Club [The Drifters] - "Under The Boardwalk" (1981)

SIDE B

B1 [21:37] Flying Lizards [Berry Gordy, Jr.] - "Money" (1978)
B2 [23:42] The Feelies [The Beatles] - "Everybody's Got Something to Hide..." (1980)
B3 [27:56] Dolphins [Syd Barrett] - "She Took A Long Cold Look" (1981)
B4 [28:57] The Cure [Jimi Hendrix] - "Foxy Lady" (1979)
B5 [30:53] Psychedelic Furs [Frank Sinatra] - "Mack The Knife" (1980)
B6 [34:18] Plastics [The Monkees] - "Last Train to Clarksville" (1979)
B7 [37:29] Japan [The Velvet Underground] - "All Tomorrow's Parties" (1979)

SIDE C

C1 [43:09] Lene Lovice [Tommy James & The Shondells] - "I Think We're Alone Now" (1979)
C2 [45:41] XTC [Bob Dylan] - "All Along the Watchtower" (1978)
C3 [50:27] Hector Zazou [The Beatles] - "Strawberry Fields Forever" (1979)
C4 [52:29] Lizzy Mercier-Descloux [Lalo Schifrin] - "Mission Impossible 2.0" (1979)
C5 [54:56] Antena [Antonio Carlos Jobim] - "The Boy From Ipanema" (1982)
C6 [57:40] Bauhaus [Brian Eno] - "Third Uncle" (1982)
C7 [62:26] Pretenders [The Kinks] - "I Go To Sleep" (1981)

SIDE D

D1 [65:14] Devo [Lee Dorsey] - "Working In A Coalmine" (1981)
D2 [67:55] Selecter [Monty Norman] - "James Bond" (1980)
D3 [70:15] Soft Cell [The Supremes] - "Where Did Our Love Go?" (1981)
D4 [73:35] Trio [Lee Dorsey] - "Ya Ya" (1981)
D5 [75:27] Talking Heads [Al Green] - "Take Me To The River" (1978)
D6 [80:27] The Slits [Marvin Gaye] - "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (1979)
D7 [84:31] Orange Juice [Al Green] - "L-O-V-E Love" (1982)

SIDE E

E1 [87:46] Grace Jones [Roxy Music] - "Love is the Drug" (1980)
E2 [94:20] The Beat [Andy Williams] - "Can't Get Used to Losing You" (1980)
E3 [97:48] Half Japanese [Buddy Holly] - "Rave On" (1980)
E4 [99:11] Agent Orange [Dick Dale] - "Miserlou" (1981)
E5 [101:23] Tracey Thorn [The Velvet Underground] - "Femme Fatale" (1982)
E6 [104:04] Siouxsie & The Banshees [The Beatles] - "Helter Skelter" (1978)
E7 [107:41] Y Pants [Lesley Gore] - "That's The Way Boys Are" (1982)

SIDE F

F1 [110:47] Magazine [Sly & The Family Stone] - "Thank You (Falettenme Be Mice Elf Agin)" (1981)
F2 [114:16] Family Fodder [Erik Satie] - "The Big Dig" ("Gnossienne No. 1") (1982)
F3 [116:59] Material [Ennio Morricone] - "For a Few Dollars More" (1981)
F4 [120:54] Dalek I Love You [The Kinks] - "You Really Got Me" (1980)
F5 [122:47] The Mo-Dettes [The Rolling Stones] - "Paint it Black" (1980)
F6 [125:07] Klaus Nomi [Marlene Dietrich] - "Falling in Love Again" (1982)
F7 [127:56] The Human League [The Righteous Brothers] - "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" (1979)

[Total Time: 133:34]

Download it here, or stream it here at Mixcloud.

Nice work, as always.

awesome

loving this.

god damn is this good

Just under the wire, I finally had the chance to finish a new Musicophilia mix so 2016 wasn't without one. A bit of summer to interrupt the endless winter 2016 has felt like:

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/musicophilia_00_le-monde-du-funk_vol-09_1973-1979_2016_covers-01-front.jpg?w=1440

Various – ‘Le Monde du Funk’ Volume 9
1973-1979 | Musique du Monde

SIDE A

01 [00:00] Jan HAMMER GROUP – “Don’t You Know” (Melodies, 1977)
02 [02:37] Herbie HANCOCK – “I Thought It Was You” (Directstep, 1979)
03 [09:11] PARLIAMENT – “Placebo Syndrome” (Funketelechy Vs. The Placebo Syndrome, 1977)
04 [13:44] Haruomi HOSONO – “Bara To Yajuu” (Hosono House, 1973)
05 [18:04] Baris MANCO – “Gesi Baglari” (Yeni Bir Gun, 1979)

SIDE B

06 [22:45] 801 – “Listen Now” (Listen Now, 1977)
07 [28:35] Al STEWART – “Midas Shadow” (Year of the Cat, 1976)
08 [31:23] Space ART – “Melodie Moderne” (“Nous Savans Tout/Melodie Moderne”, 1978)
09 [36:54] CAN – “Sunday Jam” (Can, 1978)
10 [41:10] SIMONE – “Jura Secreta” (Face A Face, 1977)

SIDE C

11 [45:43] Hamilton BOHANNON – “I Found My Love on a Saturday” (On My Way, 1977)
12 [49:25] Colin BLUNSTONE – “Never Even Thought” (Never Even Thought, 1978)
13 [54:55] William DEVAUGHN – “Be Thankful For What You’ve Got” (Be Thankful For What You’ve Got, 1974)
14 [60:41] Walker BROTHERS – “Nite Flights” (Nite Flights, 1978)
15 [64:58] Munich MACHINE – “Bolectro” (Body Shine, 1979)

SIDE D

16 [68:57] Hall & OATES – “Alone Too Long” (Daryl Hall & John Oates, 1975)
17 [72:17] Dexter WANSEL – “Theme From the Planets” (Life on Mars, 1976)
18 [77:12] Jean-Michel JARRE – “Oxygene IV” (Oxygene, 1976)
19 [81:04] Les MCCANN – “Sometimes I Cry” (Layers, 1973)
20 [86:36] AZYMUTH- “Linha Do Horizonte” (Azimuth, 1975)

[Total Time: 1:30:23]

Download it here or stream it here at Mixcloud. Hope you dig it, and have a happy new year!

Downloaded and queued up. Thanks !

totally sold, looks awesome

all set for weekend listening, thanks

Hope you guys enjoy it--thanks for listening! This one was percolating for a long time--some of these tracks have been earmarked for years (Bohannon's "I Found My Love on a Saturday" was the first song at my wedding six years ago!). Real life has almost entirely gotten in the way of making mixes, but I'm always listening (and purchasing, for better or worse) to so much new-to-me music and thinking of mixes I want to make. So really hope to do better next year than the one mix I finished this year. But at least the back catalogue is well over 50 mixes and people seem to trickle in.

Can I poll folks--does anyone here prefer the streaming (mixcloud) set up to downloadable mp3s? It takes a good amount of time to get the mixes on there with timestamped tracklists, but I'd like to have all the old mixes (or at least the best ones) on there, just not sure if it's worth the time...

Thanks again!

Personally I much prefer downloads but YMMV. If Mixcloud had a direct download option I wouldn't care either way.

I prefer downloadable as I do all my listening on a Sansa clip or iPod classic.

Download for sure - to keep this for posterity

Great funk mix. I'm new to your blog, but if it's all as good as this new mix, count me in. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks guus--I'll always do the downloads (for as long as they last, since some get pulled down for whatever reason), but just wondering if setting up streams for old mixes is worth the time. Young people I talk to seem to stream exclusively, and then only if theres an app (which there is for Mixcloud). But it's probably a rare millenial who is interested in this sort of music...

Mom, sorry I missed your comment. Glad you like it! I'd say I put a similarly stupid amount of time and effort into culling, refining, sequencing and "packaging" all the mixes as this one, so you'll hopefully find a lot you like.

Always impressed with your mix comps. This one no exception.

As far as my format preference... dealer's choice. I like streaming, so I can listen to it in different places, but I've also downloaded your mixes before. Either way.

Thanks!

I'll make an effort to upload old mixes for streaming--at least the ones for which I have timestamped tracklists and can quickly get onto Mixcloud.

Just got the email about the new one "Funk 85" and psyched to delve into it!

me too! (though i am waiting for one-day 60s funk which is my favourite funk)

I think the Pointer Sisters' Hey You or Automatic would be right at home on this one.

Where does the email get sent from? Hope you like it!

For everybody else, two new mixes focused on stuff from '83-'85: boogie, post-disco, r&b, pop, elctro, hip-hop, etc., one more up-tempo and the other more down:

'Le Monde du Funk '85'

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/musicophilia_00_various_-_le-monde-du-funk-85_cover-disc-01.jpg?w=1440

01 [00:00] D-TRAIN – “Music” (Music, 1983)
02 [08:11] CHANGE – “Got My Eyes On You” (Change of Heart, 1984)
03 [12:41] MANTRONIX – “Fresh Is the Word” (“Fresh Is the Word” single, 1985)
04 [18:09] Toshiki KADOMATSU – “Step Into the Light” (After 5 Clash, 1984)
05 [21:33] CYBOTRON – “Cosmic Cars” (Enter, 1983)
06 [25:59] David BOWIE – “Shake It” (Let’s Dance, 1983)
07 [29:41] Herbie HANCOCK – “Rough” (Future Shock, 1983)
08 [36:23] Afrika BAMBAATAA – “Looking For the Perfect Beat” (“Looking For the Perfect Beat” single, 1983)
09 [43:19] LIME – “Extrasensory Perception” (Sensual Sensation, 1984)
10 [48:09] KRYSTOL – “Information)” (Gettin’ Ready, 1984)
11 [52:26] Human BODY – “Desire” (Cosmic Round Up, 1985)
12 [57:36] SHALAMAR – “You’re The One for Me” (The Look, 1984)
13 [63:28] NEWCLEUS – “I’m Not A Robot” (Jam On Revenge, 1984)
14 [67:00] Hamilton BOHANNON – “Let’s Start the Dance III” (The Bohannon Drive, 1983)

[Total Time: 1:14:00]

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/musicophilia_00_various_-_le-monde-du-funk-85_cover-disc-02.jpg?w=1440

01 [00:00] Unlimited TOUCH – “Reach Out (Everlasting Lover)” (“Unlimited Touch” single, 1984)
02 [05:40] 52nd STREET- “Tell Me (How It Feels)” (Children of the Night, 1985)
03 [09:32] The GLOVE – “Perfect Murder” (Blue Sunshine, 1983)
04 [13:31] The Egyptian LOVER – “I Cry (Night After Night)” (On the Nile, 1984)
05 [18:22] Tones on TAIL – “Shakes” (“Performance” single, 1984)
06 [22:01] Run-D.M.C. – “Sucker M.C.’s (Krush-Groove 1)” (Run-D.M.C., 1984)
07 [25:07] Gwen GUTHRIE – “Family Affair” (Portrait, 1983)
08 [29:39] MTUME – “Juicy Fruit” (Juicy Fruit, 1983)
09 [35:25] Depeche MODE – “Lie to Me” (Some Great Reward, 1984)
10 [40:20] Loose ENDS – “Hangin’ On A String (Contemplating)” (So Where Are You?, 1985)
11 [46:13] ZAPP – “Computer Love” (The New Zapp IV U, 1985)
12 [50:09] KASHIF – “The Mood” (Kashif, 1984)
13 [54:13] Patrice RUSHEN – “To Each His Own” (Now, 1984)
14 [58:16] Andre CYMONE – “M.O.T.F.” (Survivin’ in the 80’s, 1983)
15 [62:32] This Mortal COIL – “Song to the Siren” (It’ll End in Tears, 1984)
16 [65:47] S.O.S. BAND – “Just Be Good to Me” (On the Rise, 1983)

[Total Time: 1:14:00]

You can download or stream them here.

Thanks all!

It must be your mailing list I'm assuming?

Didn't know I had one! Something Wordpress sends out if you subscribe perhaps? It's a bummer for all blogs that the days of Google Reader ended--have to imagine almost everyone's audience became a fraction of what it was. Part of it was that I could make a new mix every few weeks a decade ago, and I'm lucky if I manage two a year now; but it used to be any mix I put up got hundreds or thousands of downloads, now they're lucky to top a hundred or two. Oh well--still makes me happy to put them together, and if a few folks find things that are new to them then I'm content.

Totally man. I remember getting your original 1981 box in the mail and freaking out, so cool.

It likely won't last long, but thanks to Mediafire doing away with file size restrictions, I've finally shared the *truly* complete '1981' box set, with the never-before-shared-online 'Briefcase' disc. Brings the total collection to well over 500 tracks, 28 hours or so. Enjoy, and pass the blog post along. Thanks!

https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/post-punk-1981-complete-collection-including-the-briefcase/

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/1981_all-mixes_animated-gif_reversed_large.gif?w=936

Now that's quite something.

Still a thing of wonder

such incredible work. thank you, Soundslike - have greatly enjoyed your mixes over the years (though I admit I haven't kept up in the last few, life getting in the way and all that).

yes yes yes
Thank you

sweet, nicely done

don't pass this up, I still listen to it all the damn time... so good!

I've had and listened to a few of the 1981 sets for like a decade, adding the briefcase now. Damn! Thanks so much.

nice!

Thanks guys--hope you're able to download before they inevitably go down--got posted to a website that sent about 3,000 people so far today, so it'll likely get taken down much sooner than expected. It's still fun thinking how so much of this music could be new to somebody--heck, 25 year olds today were 12 when I first put this out! Wish I still had the time to make a so many mixes--but I will say only getting to do a couple a year means I really put them together with a lot of thought.

So it's pretty unlikely, but--does anybody have a physical copy of the box set that they'd be willing to part with? I managed to send out a few hundred, but failed to keep a copy for myself. Thanks!

Just put up another of the more popular series as a collection: 'The Young Lady's Post-Punk Handbook' from 2009, with a brand-new fourth mix, featuring female post-punk artists including:

Laurie Anderson, Delta 5, The Go-Go’s, Raincoats, X, Flying Lizards, Jane Hudson, Crass, Blondie, Sonic Youth, Selecter, Marine Girls, Lizzy Mercier-Descloux, Weekend, Family Fodder, Au Pairs, Chris & Cosey, Plastics, Pylon, The Slits, Siouxsie & The Banshees, The B-52’s, Swamp Children, Y Pants, Antena, Vivien Goldman, Cocteau Twins, Thick Pigeon, Creatures, Eurythmics, Phew, E.S.G., Maximum Joy, Los Microwaves, Ludus, Crash Course in Science, Grace Jones, Lydia Lunch, Marilyn & The Movie Stars, Young Marble Giants, The Pretenders, Bush Tetras, Cha Cha Guitri, Malaria, Dog Eat Dog, The Glove, Noh Mercy, KUKL, The Lo Yo Yo, Tracy Thorn, Fall of Saigon, Krisma, Ut, Rip Rig & Panic, and This Mortal Coil

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/00_various_-_the-young-ladys-post-punk-handbook_vols-01-3_1978-1983_covers.gif?w=936

Download here at Musicophilia:

https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2017/04/16/post-punk-collected-young-ladys-post-punk-handbook-expanded-edition/

Wow. Unfortunately interesting probs with the mediafire link tho

Permission Denied.
"Miss the Girl" by The Creatures may be available for download from Amazon.

For whatever reason, I've found recently that if you close mediafire, and click the link again a minute or two later, it will usually then work. That seems to be the case with this one--the file is still up for download.

If they eventually do go down, I'll upload all the mixes to the Mixcloud account so at least they are streamable.

Thanks!

hey, if you still needed a physical copy of your box set, I have one... I love it, but if you haven't got one of your own you should have it!

Thank you so much, Erry--I think a friend who ended up with two copies is going to send me one. But that's really kind of you!

A new mix in the 'Le Monde du Funk' series, which is really turning into my favorites--definitely helping get me through the Trump Era so far!

This one hones in on '80-'82:

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/musicophilia_00_le-monde-du-funk-82_1980-1982_2017_cover.jpg?w=1536

Side A

01 [00:00] The BLACKBYRDS – “Without Your Love” (Better Days, 1980)
02 [03:20] Andre CYMONE – “Get It Girl” (Livin’ In the New Wave, 1982)
03 [07:36] Rick JAMES – Give It To Me Baby” (Street Songs, 1981)
04 [11:36] Peter GABRIEL – “Games Without Frontiers” (Peter Gabriel 3, 1980)
05 [15:25] IMAGINATION – “Music and Lights” (In the Heat of the Night, 1982)
06 [19:53] BREAKWATER – “Release The Beast” (Splashdown, 1980)
07 [24:39] KOMIKO – “Feel Alright” (“Feel Alright” single, 1982)
08 [29:48] ZAPP – “Doo Wa Ditty (Blow That Thing)” (Zapp II, 1982)
09 [34:32] Edwin BIRDSONG – “Funtaztik” (Funtaztik, 1981)
10 [40:55] SHALAMAR – “There It Is” (Friends, 1982)

Side B

01 [45:28] D-Train – “You’re the One For Me” (You’re The One For Me, 1982)
02 [50:23] Mass PRODUCTION – “Weird” (In A City Groove, 1982)
03 [53:46] Grandmaster FLASH – “Scorpio” (The Message, 1982)
04 [58:34] Inner LIFE – “Moment of My Life” (Inner Life II, 1982)
05 [64:57] The TIME – “777-9311” (What Time Is It?, 1982)
06 [72:51] Scritti POLITTI – “Faithless” (Songs To Remember, 1982)
07 [77:02] SKYY – “Here’s To You” (Skyyport, 1980)
08 [82:09] One WAY – “Cutie Pie” (Who’s Foolin’ Who, 1983)
09 [87:25] Yasuaki SHIMIZU – “Dots” (Kakashi 1982)

[Total Time: 1:32:41]

Download or stream it here: https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2017/04/26/musique-du-monde-le-monde-du-funk-82-1980-1982/

Most excellent.. I still listen to 1981 regularly. Thanks for all this!

excellent so far, thanks!

Each release is more appealing than the one before! Great work dude.

Thanks guys, hope you're digging it. Besides my stated ulterior motive of getting people to buy music they didn't know/have, my other motive with the Musicophilia blog has been trying to parlay the popularity of the post-punk/'1981' stuff into some ears on all the other stuff I love. So if one or two people who never thought they liked 80s funk/boogie/post-disco/R&B/etc. hear these mixes and dig them, I'll be happy ; )

I've put up another collection, gathering the late-1960s to mid-1970s globe-spanning, genre-defying 'Musique du Monde' series, including the 'Le Tour du Monde' mixes, the 'Le Mystere de la Musique' mixes, and a couple of other related mixes including an homage exploring the roots of Broadcast/Stereolab.

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/musicophilia_musique-du-monde_collection-1.gif?w=768

Some key artists: Dorothy Ashby, Janko Nilovic, Faust, Karen Dalton, Franco Battiato, John Cale, Terry Riley, Milton Nascimento, The Millennium, Caravan, Duncan Browne, Bernard Estardy, Ron Geesin, Free Design, Augustus Pablo, Serge Gainsbourg, Ennio Morricone, Nino Nardini, Syd Barrett, L’Infonie, Jonny Teupen, Kraftwerk, Os Mutantes, The Feed-Back, Kevin Ayers, Martin Circus, Donovan, Alan Moorhouse, Gil Gilberto, Pierry Henry, Moondog, White Noise, Shuggie Otis, Colin Blunstone, Roland Kovac, El Kinto, Silver Apples, Jean-Michel Jarre; Henri Texier, Joni Mitchell, Arthur Russell, Bernard Parmegiani, Lou Reed, Alan Parker, John Cameron, Brigitte Fontaine & Areski, Le Orme, Sun Ra, Harmonia, Iggy Pop, Laurie Anderson, Robert Wyatt, Roy Ayers, Television, Brian Eno, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, David Axelrod, Roxy Music, Jorge Ben, Willie Nelson, Miles Davis, Cymande; Todd Rundgren, Silver Apples, Ananda Shankar, 10cc, Amon Duul II, Syreeta, Hall & Oates, Catherine Ribiero, Francisco, Placebo, Harry Nilsson, Marcos Valle, Wolfgang Dauner, These Trails, Tim Buckley, Michael Chapman, Jacqueline Thibault, Comus; Barry Forgie, Braen’s Machine, Karl Heinz Schafer, Jacques Siroul, Piero Umiliani, Goblin, Franz Auffray, United States of America, Alessandro Alessandroni, Manfred Hubler, Free Design, Philippe Besombes, Gianni Oddi, and many others.

Download or stream the collection here

Thanks!

Truly a labor of love.

that's a formidable roster

(do you allow yourself to use bootleg stuff in your mixes? Because some of Gil Melle's soundtrack work would fit right in there but almost none of it has been commercially available)

I'm sure I'd use things that fit, even if they were never officially released--thanks for the recommendation, I'll definitely check out Gil Melle!

I think you'll love him! Enormously reductive description: freak-jazz with a bristling array of self-built non-keyboard-driven synthesizers

Ok, this one came together quickly, but it's been spinning in the back of my head forever: a mix focused on cyclical music, music that feels like it's turning and pulling you along. Includes Ashra, Jack DeJohnette, Eno & Cluster, Jean-Philippe Goude, Michael Rother, Jan Hammer, Roxy Music, Robert Wyatt, Gunter Schickert, Heldon, Essendon Airport, This Heat, Harald Grosskopf, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Gong, and Le Orme, and I'm really happy with how it came together:

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Various - 'Le Son de l'Infini' (Volume 4)
1974-1980 | Musique du Monde

Part I

01 [00:00] ASHRA - "Sunrain" (New Age of Earth, 1977)
02 [06:21] Abercrombie, HOLLAND, DeJOHNETTE - "Back-Woods Song" (Gateway, 1976)
03 [14:16] Eno, MOEBIUS, ROEDELIUS - "The Belldog" (After the Heat, 1978)
04 [20:24] Jean-Philippe GOUDE - "Machine" (Drones, 1980)

Part II

05 [24:07] Michael ROTHER - "Flammende Herzen" (Flammende Herzen, 1977)
06 [31:23] Jan HAMMER - "Darkness - Earth In Search of a Sun" (The First Seven Days, 1975)
07 [35:54] Roxy MUSIC - "Spin Me Round" (Manifesto, 1979)
08 [40:40] Robert WYATT - "Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road" (Rock Bottom, 1974)

Part III

09 [48:11] Günter SCHICKERT - "Wanderer" (Überfällig, 1979)
10 [56:38] HELDON - "Bal-A-Fou" (Interface, 1977)
11 [61:29] Essendon AIRPORT - "Wallpaper Music" (Sonic Investigations of the Trivial, 1980)
12 [67:06] This HEAT - "24-Track Loop" (This Heat, 1979)

Part IV

13 [73:10] Harald GROSSKOPF - "Synthesist" (Synthesist, 1980)
14 [80:14] Penguin CAFE ORCHESTRA - "The Sound of Someone. . ." (Music From the Penguin Cafe, 1976)
15 [87:07] GONG - "Percolations, Pt. 1 & 2" (Gazeuse!, 1976)
16 [94:13] Le ORME - "Fine di un Viaggio" (Florian, 1979)

[Total Time: 1:38:49]

Download or stream it here at the Musicophilia blog

Fifth entry into the 'Le Monde du Funk' series is up now:

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Various – ‘Le Monde du Funk 1972‘
1970-1972 | Musique du Monde

Side A

01 [00:00] Roberta FLACK – “Go Up Moses” (Quiet Fire, 1971)
02 [05:25] OSIBISA – “So So Mi La So” (Heads, 1972)
03 [08:17] Sly & THE FAMILY STONE – “Family Affair” (There’s A Riot Goin’ On, 1971)
04 [11:36] Allen TOUSSAINT – “From A Whisper To A Scream” (Toussaint, 1970)
05 [14:27] SYREETA – “I Love Every LIttle Thing About You” (Syreeta, 1972)
06 [19:49] Roy AYERS – “We Live In Brooklyn, Baby” (He’s Coming, 1972)

Side B

07 [23:34] The METERS – “Stay Away” (Cabbage Alley, 1972)
08 [28:37] NIAGARA – “Gibli” (S.U.B., 1972)
09 [32:37] Bobbi HUMPHREY – “Smiling Faces Sometimes” (Dig This!, 1972)
10 [38:05] Donny HATHAWAY – “I Believe in Music” (Donny Hathaway, 1971)
11 [41:12] Johnny Jenkins – “I Walk on Gilded Splinters” (Ton-Ton Macoute!, 1970)

Side C

12 [47:36] Jimi HENDRIX – “Angel” (The Cry of Love, 1971)
13 [51:57] Bill WITHERS – “Ain’t No Sunshine” (Just As I Am, 1971)
14 [54:04] Marvin GAYE – “‘T’ Plays It Cool” (Trouble Man, 1972)
15 [58:14] Mulatu ASTATKE – “Mulatu” (Mulatu of Ethiopia, 1972)
16 [63:03] Serge GAINSBOURG – “Cargo Culte (Instrumental)” (Histoire de Melody Nelson, 1971)

Side D

17 [70:45] CYMANDE – “Bra” (Cymande, 1972)
18 [75:49] Kuni KAWACHI – “Works Composed Mainly By Humans” (Kirikyogen, 1970)
19 [81:32] Leon WARE – “Tamed To Be Wild” (Leon Ware, 1972)
20 [85:26] FUNKADELIC – “Maggot Brain” (Maggot Brain, 1971)

[Total Time: 1:35:40]

Download or stream it here at Musicophilia

Thanks!

In case anybody is more into streaming, I have all the new mixes made in the last couple years, plus a bunch of "archival" earlier mixes, available here on Mixcloud:

https://www.mixcloud.com/musicophilia/

Thanks!

Very nice.

these mixes been taking up a lot of my time recently

Per some requests in a Blue Nile thread, I've put together a direct sequel to 'The Dawning' from a couple years back: a crepuscular mix of music from 1985-1995, featuring R.E.M., Sade, The Cure, Depeche Mode; Portishead, Bjork (with Hector Zazou), Tortoise, Massive Attack, Low, Slowdive; Michael Brook & Pieter Nooten, Shelleyan Orphan, Stina Nordenstam, Evelyn Glennie, The Innocence Mission, Disco Inferno, Bark Psychosis, It’s Immaterial. . .

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‘Evensong’
(1985-1995)

Part I

01 [00:00] It’s Immaterial – New Brighton” (Song, 1990)
02 [05:31] Tears for Fears – “The Working Hour” (Songs From the Big Chair, 1985)
03 [12:06] Tortoise – “His Second Story Island” (Tortoise, 1994)
04 [14:14] Michael Brook & Pieter Nooten – “Searching” (Sleeps With the Fishes, 1987)
05 [17:07] Shelleyan Orphan – “One Hundred Hands” (Helleborine, 1987)
06 [21:29] Stina Nordenstam – “A Walk In the Park” (Memories of a Color, 1991)
07 [24:54] Sade – “Pearls” (Love Deluxe, 1992)
08 [29:38] Massive Attack – “Protection” (Protection, 1994)
09 [37:26] The Cure – “The Same Deep Water As You” (Disintegration, 1989)
10 [46:19] Depche Mode- “Waiting For the Night” (Violator, 1990)

Part II

11 [52:41] Evelyn Glennie – “Light in Darkness” (Light In Darkness, 1991)
12 [55:59] R.E.M. – “Sweetness Follows” (Automatic For the People, 1992)
13 [60:21] The Innocence Mission – “Medjugorje” (The Innocence Mission, 1989)
14 [61:53] Disco Inferno – “Second Language” (Second Language EP, 1994)
15 [66:52] Slowdive – “Rutti” (Pygmalion, 1995)
16 [76:53] Rain Tree Crow – “Cries and Whispers” (Rain Tree Crow, 1991)
17 [79:26] Bark Psychosis – “Pendulum Man” (Hex, 1994)
18 [82:37] Peter Gabriel – “Mercy Street” (So, 1986)
19 [88:27] Low – “Sunshine” (I Could Live In Hope, 1994)
20 [91:35] Portishead – “Roads” (Dummy, 1994)
21 [96:44] Hector Zazou & Bjork – “Visur Vatnsenda-Rosu” (Songs From the Cold Seas, 1994)

[Total Time: 1:40:43]

Download or stream it here. Hope you enjoy it!

In a certain sense, this whole mix is trying to create the incredible intimate feeling of the 'Sleeps with the Fishes' album, through a lot of peoples' music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=904LPgUhctY

Back with another volume of the 'Le Monde du Funk' mix, and frankly, it feels like the exact antidote to the pathetic basement-dwelling white "supremacist" cretins and their favorite dog-whistling fascist orange.

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'Le Monde du Funk (et Soul et Jazz) 1974' (1973-1974)

Side A

01 [00:00] Ohio PLAYERS - "Hustle Bird" (Quiet Fire, 1973)
02 [02:44] Betty DAVIS - "They Say I'm Different" (They Say I'm Different, 1974)
03 [06:46] Curtis MAYFIELD - "Love Me (Right In The Pocket)" (Got To Find A Way, 1974)
04 [11:50] The METERS - "What'cha Say" (Rejuvenation, 1974)
05 [15:11] Jack DeJOHNETTE - "Epilog" (Sorcery, 1974)
06 [18:15] Lewis RAMSEY - "If Loving You Is Wrong I Don't Want To Be Right" (Funky Serenity, 1973)

Side B

07 [23:41] 24-Carat BLACK - "24-Carat Black (Theme)" (Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth, 1973)
08 [28:45] Ann PEEBLES - "I Can't Stand the Rain" (I Can't Stand the Rain, 1974)
09 [31:02] David AXELROD - "Everything Counts" (Heavy Axe, 1974)
10 [38:05] Bobbi HUMPHREY - "Chicago, Damn" (Blacks And Blues, 1974)
11 [44:40] D. J. ROGERS - "March On" (D. J. Rogers!, 1973)

Side C

12 [47:33] PARLIAMENT - "Up For the Down Stroke" (Up For the Down Stroke, 1974)
13 [52:29] Stevie WONDER - "You Haven't Done Nothin" (Fullfillingness' First Finale, 1974)
14 [56:28] The O'JAYS - "'For the Love of Money" (Ship Ahoy, 1973)
15 [61:08] Dr. JOHN - "Life" (In the Right Place, 1973)
16 [63:18] Fatback BAND - "Keep On Steppin'" (Keep On Steppin', 1974)
17 [67:54] George DUKE - "Feel" (Feel, 1974)

Side D

18 [73:37] MSFB - "Love Is The Message" (Love Is The Message, 1973)
19 [77:55] Manu DIBANGO - "African Carnaval" (Africadelic, 1973)
20 [81:00] Skull SNAPS - "It's A New Day" (Skull Snaps, 1973)
21 [84:23] Donny HATHAWAY - "The Slums" (Extension of a Man, 1973)
22 [87:46] James BROWN - "The Payback" (The Payback, 1973)
23 [93:02] Kool & THE GANG - "Summer Madness" (Light Of Worlds, 1974)

[Total Time: 1:37:05]

Download or stream it at Musicophilia

Thanks man. I just put this on when I got the email. Nice stuff.

A new "box set" is up, the collected 'Their Hearts Had Six Strings' singer-songwriter mixes vol. 1-6, including four mixes from 2010-2013, and two brand-new mixes. The box features 100 artists, including:

Pierre Akendengue, Areski, Arthur, Kevin Ayers, Joan Baez, Sibylle Baier, Pierre Barouh, Robbie Basho, Jorge Ben, Big Star, David Bixby, Tia Blake, Colin Blunstone, Curt Boettcher, Lo Borges, Anne Briggs, Duncan Browne, Tim Buckley, Vashti Bunyan, Michael Chapman, Susan Christie, Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, Ry Cooder, Don Cooper, Mike Cooper, Jim Croce, Karen Dalton, Sandy Denny, Bob Desper, Dillard & Clark, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, Mimi Farina, Bill Fay, Roberta Flack, Brigitte Fontaine, Jackson C. Frank, Ruthann Friedman, Lewis Furey, Tim Hardin, Donny Hathaway, Richie Havens, Heaven & Earth, Gary Higgins, Catherine Howe, Michael Hurley, Bert Jansch, Wizz Jones, Carole King, Carol Kleyn, Leo Kotke, Lavender Country, Ted Lucas, John Martyn, Eduardo Mateo, Jose Mauro, Shelagh McDonald, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Joni Mitchell, Jerry Moore, Van Morrison, Mickey Newbury, Nico, Harry Nilsson, Odetta, Shuggie Otis, Emmanuell Parrenin, Dolly Parton, Annette Peacock, The Pentangle, Linda Perhacs, Susan Pillsbury, John Prine, Procol Harum, Bonnie Raitt, Lou Reed, Relatively Clean Rivers, Rodriguez, Arthur Russell, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Judee Sill, Paul Simon, Nina Simone, Bridget St. John, Candi Stanton, Jim Sullivan, Tax Free, Henri Texier, These Trails, Richard & Linda Thompson, Steve Tilston, Dave Van Ronk, Townes Van Zandt, Tom Waits, Peter Walker, Cris Williamson, Larry Jon Wilson, and Bill Withers

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Stream and download it here at Musicophilia

Thanks!

A on-hour 'Sampler' mix of tracks from the forthcoming '1979: Post-Punk' box set is up for streaming at Mixcloud:

01 [00:00] A Certain Ratio - “Do the Du (BBC)” [from 'Fire']
02 [02:40] The Pop Group - “Thief of Fire” [from 'Fire']
03 [07:14] Talking Heads - “I Zimbra” [from 'Fire']
04 [10:22] Gang of Four - “Damaged Goods” [from 'Amplifier']
05 [13:46] The Slits - “Love und Romance” [from 'Amplifier']
06 [16:11] This Heat - “Horizontal Hold” [from 'Brain']
07 [23:02] Scritti Politti - “Double Beat” [from 'Brain']
08 [26:43] Josef K - “Chance Meeting (Early)” [from 'Cassette']
09 [29:36] Wipers - “Is This Real?” [from 'Cassette']
10 [32:12] The Raincoats - “No Side to Fall In” [from 'Cassette']
11 [34:00] Yellow Magic Orchestra - “Technopolis” [from 'Computer']
12 [38:15] Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - “Almost” [from 'Computer']
13 [42:00] Blondie - “Dreaming” [from 'Convertible']
14 [45:02] The Cure - “Boys Don’t Cry” [from 'Convertible']
15 [47:39] Japan - “Alien” [from 'Ice']
16 [52:36] Joy Division - “24 Hours (BBC)” [from 'Ice']
17 [56:43] Wire - “40 Versions” [from 'Ice']

https://www.mixcloud.com/musicophilia/musicophilia-1979-post-punk-box-set-sampler/

I'm really happy with how the box has turned out--don't know why I waited 13 years to do it! Hope you'll enjoy.

exciting!

The next volume of the 'Le Monde du Funk' series is up, this time going heavily into the best disco of 77-78:

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Various – ‘Le Monde du Funk 1978’
1977-1978 | Musique du Monde

Side A

01 [00:00] DROIDS – “Shanti Dance (Parts 1 & 2)” (Star Peace, 1978)
02 [06:25] CHIC – “Le Freak” (C’est Chic, 1978)
03 [11:50] DINOSAUR – “Kiss Me Again (Version)” (“Kiss Me Again” single, 1978)

Side B

04 [23:34] VOYAGE – “Golden Eldorado” (Fly Away, 1978)
05 [28:24] The BLACKBIRDS – “Lookin’ Ahead” (Action, 1977)
06 [33:42] Dexter WANSEL – “Disco Lights” (What The World Is Coming To, 1977)
07 [37:50] CERRONE – “Supernature” (Cerrone 3: Supernature, 1977)

Side C

08 [46:40] SYLVESTER – “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)” (Step II, 1978)
09 [53:14] Kuwana HARUKO – “Akogare no Sundown” (Million Stars, 1978)
10 [56:57] SPACE – “Magic Fly” (Magic Fly, 1977)
11 [60:35] Brian BENNETT – “Chain Reaction” (Voyage, 1978)
12 [67:30] KRAFTWERK – “The Man-Machine” (Man Machine, 1978)

Side D

13 [72:36] Black DEVIL – “No Regrets” (Disco Club, 1978)
14 [77:40] Hamilton BOHANNON – “‘Come Dance With Me” (On My Way, 1977)
15 [81:45] Giorgio MORODER – “From Here To Eternity” (From Here To Eternity, 1977)
16 [87:28] Donna SUMMER – “I Feel Love'” (I Remember Yesterday, 1977)

[Total Time: 1:33:15]

Download or stream here

Great mix as always. Enjoy the flow.

Even cool how the two "discs" are almost even in time!

This is great. I enjoyed the kraftwerk moroder summer stuff towards the back giving me a clear anticipation of how pop and dance were def anticipating and leading into next steps.

I realized I never put this here, so just in case this thread is where anyone is finding out about things on the blog:

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7 themed mixes a-la '1981,' exploring the range of post-punk as it ramped up into a wide-reaching and eclectic phenomenon during the titular year, featuring:

A Certain Ratio · Adam & The Ants · Alternative TV · Animals & Men · Au Pairs · Bauhaus · The Blackouts · Blondie · The Boys Next Door · The B-52’s · The Beat · David Bowie · British Standard Unit · Buzzcocks · Cabaret Voltaire · James Chance & The Contortions · Chrisma · Chrome · The Clash · Comsat Angels · Elvis Costello & The Attractions · The Cramps · Crass · Cult Hero · The Cure · Holger Czukay · The dB’s · Delta 5 · Devo · Door & The Window · The Durutti Column · Echo & The Bunnymen · The Embarrassment · Essendon Airport · Essential Logic · Fad Gadget · Marianne Faithful · The Fall · Family Fodder · The Feelies · The Flying Lizards · John Foxx · Frank Sumatra · Gang of Four · Gina X Performance · Glaxo Babies · Half Japanese · The Homosexuals · The Human League · Richard Hell & The Voidoids · Industry · Joe Jackson · The Jam · Japan · Josef K · Joy Division · Killing Joke · L Voag · Lizard · M · Magazine · Material · Lizzy Mercier Descloux · Monochrome Set · Anthony Moore · Martha & The Muffins · The Mekons · Metal Urbain · Mo-Dettes · New Musik · Noh Mercy · Gary Numan · The Only Ones · Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark · P-Model · Pere Ubu · Plastics · Iggy Pop · The Pop Group · Pylon · The Raincoats · Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers · Rosa Yemen · Scritti Politti · The Selecter · Simple Minds · Siouxsie & The Banshees · The Slits · Patti Smith Group · The Soft Boys · The Sound · The Specials · Spherical Objects · Squeeze · The Static · Walter Stedding · Suicide · Swell Maps · Talking Heads · The Teardrop Explodes · Theoretical Girls · This Heat · Throbbing Gristle · Urinals · Vice Versa · Voigt 465 · Wipers · Wire · XTC · The Years · Yellow Magic Orchestra · Young Marble Giants

https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2017/09/04/1979-post-punk/

Enjoy!

Ok all, a couple new box sets to pass along!

The first is a seven-mix, 130-artist set exploring post-punk, alive and well (to my surprise a short while ago), from 2007-2017:

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A Projection · Ablebody · Agent Side Grinder · Anika · Ashrae Fax · Ausmuteants · Aviaries · Band Aparte · Behavior · Beach Fossils · Beak · Bent · Black Marble · Blau Blau · Blood Sound · Blood Sport · Bobsleigh Baby · Carola Bony · Bootblacks · Cellular Chaos · CFCF · Chromatics · Cold Beat · Cold Cave · Cold Waste · Corners · Corridor · Cowtown · Crumbs · The Dance Asthmatics · Daphni · Death & Vanilla · Dirt Dress · Dirty Ghosts · Disappears · Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein · Drab Majesty · Eagulls · Eat Skull · Electrelane · Electricity In Our Homes · Erase Errata · Esses · Estrambote · The Estranged · Explode Into Colors · Exploded View · Factory Floor · Fear Of Men · Forests · Foster Body · Freak Heat Waves · Frustration · Fujiya & Miyagi · Gesture · Glintshake · Gold Cross · Golden Teacher · Grass Is Green · Grass Widow · Joana Guerra · Hdspns · Holograms · The Knife · Koban · The Kurws · The Lanskies · Lithics · LCD Soundsystem · Lunch · M!R!M · Massicot · Mazing Vids · Melt Yourself Down · Mere Women · Mermaidens · Micachu & The Shapes · Minuit Machine · Mode Moderne · Moss Lime · My Disco · Naked Lights · New Blood · New Fries · The New Sound of Numbers · No Zu · Normal Love · Omni · Opposite Sex · Otzi · Ought · The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart · Parquet Courts · Peaking Lights · Plastic People · Pow! · Preening · Preoccupations · Priests · Primitive Motion · Primitive Parts · Prinzhorn Dance School · Protomartyr · Ravioli Me Away · Frankie Rose · Sacred Paws · Savages · Shadowlands · Shopping · Sneaks · The Soft Moon · Surplus 1980 · Taiwan Housing Project · Talk Normal · Terrible Truths · Terry · Total Control · Total Victory · Trash Kit · Tunabunny · Unur · Uranium Club · Var · Varsovia · Vats · Viet Cong · Virginia Wing · Vivian Girls · Winkie · Wint · The World · Yvette · The Zygotes

Post-Punk 2007/2017 - download or stream here

And another, just uploaded, collecting the last year worth of 'Le Monde du Funk' mixes, plus three brand-new mixes, covering funk in its many permutations and tributaries from 1970 to 1985, with each of 10 mixes covering a couple years and/or a particular sound and feeling.

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160 artists, including:

Gyedu-Blay Ambolley · Mulatu Astatke · David Axelrod · Roy Ayers · Azymuth · Afrika Bambaataa · Geoff & Trevor Bastow · Jorge Ben · Brian Bennett · La Bionda · Edwin Birdsong · The Blackbyrds · Black Devil · Blo · Colin Blunstone · Hamilton Bohannon · David Bowie · Breakwater · James Brown · Burning Spear · Can · Cerrone · Change · Chic · Cloud One · Michel Columbier · Con Funk Shun · Cybotron · Cymande · Andre Cymone · D-Train · Betty Davis · Jack DeJohnette · Depeche Mode · William Devaughn · Manu Dibango · Dinosaur · Djavan · Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band · Dr. John · Droids · George Duke · 801 · The Egyptian Lover · Electronic System · Yvonne Elliman · Brian Eno · Coke Escovedo · The Fatback Band · 52nd Street · Roberta Flack · Funkadelic · The Funkees · Peter Gabriel · Serge Gainsbourg · Marvin Gaye · Jacky Giordano · The Glove · Grandmaster Flash · Gwen Guthrie · Hall & Oates · Jan Hammer Group · Herbie Hancock · Harari · Harlem Pop Trotters · Dan Hartman · Kuwana Haruko · Donny Hathaway · The Headhunters · Jimi Hendrix · Haruuomi Hosono · Human Body · Bobbi Humphrey · Imagination · Inner Life · The Isley Brothers · The Jacksons · Rick James · Jean-Michel Jarre · Jonny Jenkins · The Jones Girls · Toshiki Kadomatsu · Kashif · Kuni Kawachi · Krystol · Komiko · Kool & The Gang · Kraftwerk · Leda · Lime · Lipps, Inc. · Loose Ends · Makers · Baris Manco · Mantroniz · Manzel · Mass Production · Pino Massara · Curtis Mayfield · McFadden & Whitehead · Les McCann · The Meters · Ras Michael & The Sons of Negus · Giorgio Moroder · Harry Mosco · MSFB · Mtume · Munich Machine · Milton Nascimento · Newcleus · Niagara · The O’Jays · Ohio Players · Taeko Ohnuki · One Way · Osibisa · Parliament · Ann Peebles · Phantom Band · Phreek · Platypus · Prince · Ramp · Lewis Ramsey · D. J. Rogers · Rufus & Chaka Khan · Run D.M.C. · Patrice Rushen · Scritti Politti · Shalamar · Yasuaki Shimizu · Simone · Sister Sledge · Skull Snaps · Skyy · Sly & The Family Stone · S.O.S. Band · Space · Space Art · Al Stewart · Donna Summer · Sylvester · Syreeta · Talking Heads · This Mortal Coil · The Time · Tirogo · Tones on Tail · Allen Toussaint · 24-Carat Black · The Undisputed Truth · Unlimited Touch · Voyage · The Walker Brothers · Dexter Wansel · Leon Ware · Wee · Bill Withers · Stevie Wonder · Tatsuro Yamashita · Zapp

Le Tour du Monde 1970-1985 - download or stream here

Forgot to mention, there are "sampler" mixes for both of these sets, if the whole thing at once is a little daunting. Streamable at the links above. Thanks!

A new stand-alone mix went up earlier this week, inspired by Brian Eno and the news of his upcoming unreleased/rare ambient work:

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Various – ‘Translucence‘
A Tribute to Brian Eno | (1974-2018)

01 [00:00]
Yazz Ahmed – “Exhale” (2017)
Egisto Macchi – “Le Genti del Deserto” (1974)
Mnemonists – “Limbs” (1981)

02 [05:00]
Earthen Sea – “Delicately In the Sunlight” (2017)
Cliff Martinez – “Will She Come Back” (2002)

03 [09:50]
Pauline Oliveros – “Suiren” (1989)
Francisco – “Cosmic Beam Experience” (1976)
Susumu Yokota – “Saku” (2000)

04 [15:50]
Passengers – “Theme From ‘The Swan'” (1995)

05 [18:50]
Luciano Cilio – “Studio for Winds” (1977)
Paul Motian – “Psalm” (1982)
Bernard Parmegiani – “Geologie Sonore” (1975)

06 [24:20]
Daniel Littleton – “Elegy #1” (2002)
Monoton – “HZ Waltz” (1982)
David Sylvian – “The Wooden Cross” (1986)

07 [29:20]
Huun Huur Tu – “Harmonics in the Wind” (1999)
Brian Eno – “Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills)” (1982)
Peter Gabriel – “Powerhouse at the Foot of the Mountain” (1985)
Matthew Herbert – “Forest Montage” (2002)

08 [34:20]
Shoko Hikage – “Sakura Zukiyo” (2013)
Chuck Johnson – “Riga Black” (2017)

09 [41:50]
Yo La Tengo – “Shortwave” (2018)
Tod Dockstader – “Approach” (2005)
Gigi Masin – “Tharros” (1986)
Michael Brook with Brian Eno – “Pond Life” (1985)

10 [46:00]
Arvo Part – “Spiegel im Spiegel” (1976)
Robert Fripp & Brian Eno – “Wind on Water” (1975)
The Haxan Cloak – “The Mirror Reflecting (Part 1)” (2013)

[Total Time: 56:30]