Dec 8th, 2008 by blackstag
The pictures is London at night taken from the International Space Station.
The mix is thinking about London while in the Cotswolds and should have been posted ages ago but I was in a funk so ner.
Tracks as follows (ish):
00.00 Er, dunno. Sounds very Deepchord/Echospace but it’s go no markings on it. Sorry
01.30 Firstpoint Of Aries by Echospace (The Coldest Season)
07.30 Night Bus by Burial
09.15 Cielo by Murcof (Cosmos)
16.40 Voncextion by Deepchord (Vantage Isles)
24.00 Beautiful Death by Claro Intelecto (Metanarrative)
Plus field recordings taken down my road at night in the rain, at Marylebone Staion, at assorted Underground stations and of police helicopters.
Thinking of London (right click and save)
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Nov 20th, 2008 by blackstag
Here’s a short live mix I did at The Blue Lotus Club as part of their Samhain evening. The mixing is neither big nor clever, and the track selection contains no suprises, but it was great to hear the tracks immensely loud.
Tracklist goes something like:
“Easy On The Bones” - Svarte Greiner Knive LP)
“Testament” - Lustmord (Other (?) LP)
“The Black Line (Forever Waiting)” - Anduin (Forever Waiting LP)
“Fonograaf” - Machinefabriek (Dauw LP)
“Black Sleep Part IV” - Jasper TX (Black Sleep LP)
“Final Sleep” - Svarte Greiner (Knive LP)
Plus a few bits of field recordings.
The evening itself was great: some interesting & genuinely creepy short films, readings and all round pretentious artyness. But most of all it was fun.
The mix went down well. It must have because I’ve been asked to do something similar at their Christmas/New Year/Mid Winter thing.
Thanks chaps.
Download Samhain Sounds (right click and save)
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Mar 21st, 2008 by blackstag
This is the first part of a two-part post and it’s a mix done in London while thinking about the Cotswolds. Part 2 is, rather unsuprisingly, a mix done in Cotswolds while thinking about London and will be posted soon. ish.
00:00 Cotswolds Cottage Sounds - blackstag
02:48 Dead Leaves - muhr
08:48 Trans Siberia - Nest
12:37 You Need To See - The Boats
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Dec 27th, 2007 by blackstag
This is a mix put together using tracks from my favourite albums of 2007. As such it was quite a tricky thing to do as the selection was not made with a mix in mind. But, as is often the case while working on a mix, I found myself pondering something completely unrelated and slowly this exerted an influence that helped focus things in a previously unthought of way. In this instance it was the idea of author Marcus Sedgwick that the days between Christmas Day & New Year are The Dead Days, quiet days when nothing seems to happen yet it is the time “when spirits roam and magic shifts just beneath the surface of our lives.” Hopefully the mix reflects this.
Happy New Year to you and while you wait its arrival, listen or download to Music For Dead The Days (right click and save)
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Nov 7th, 2007 by blackstag
What if I’d remembered her wrong?
Originally inspired while walking early in the morning through fog shrouded woods in the Cotswolds; after a while I found myself thinking about a friend of mine I’m very fond of but haven’t seen for sometime. Anyway, approx running order goes something like this:
00:01 ‘Haunted Ballroom’ - The Caretaker
02ish ‘Fog Animal’ - Deaf Centre
05:30ish ‘In the Cold I’m Standing’ - M83
09:00is ‘Black Dress’ - Svarte Greiner
18:00ish ‘Another Ballard For Heavy Lids’ - Stars Of The Lid
20:00ish ‘Final Sleep’ - Svarte Greiner
25:15ish ‘St.Christopher’ - Mark Isham
27ish ‘Waves Become Wings’ - This Mortal Coil
30:10ish ‘Cad Godddeu’ - Nest
34:15ish Clip from Solaris
37:15ish ‘Stay With Me’ - Clint Mansell
39 ish clip from Solaris
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