Showing posts with label mix. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mix. Show all posts

Friday, January 30, 2015

This Wondercast celebrates the death of the geocentric model, our departure from anthropocentrism. It celebrates all forms of life, humility, and respect. It rejects of nationalism and borders, and discourages misunderstanding of others. It celebrates our ability to travel around, and meet different folks. Last but not least, it is celebration of the freedom we have to listen to music from nearly every corner of the inhabitable Earth, and to feel it it as if it was coming from a neighbor’s window. We are all neighbors, and brothers and sisters, and this mix celebrates that wonderful fact.
Ikue and Olive sprinkled with mbira gives way to some fruits of Laswell down in Cuba, bolstered with a trojan guitar skank loop. Every click matters. Defragmentation, /Rupture’ed., Jelinektronic forest funk, stopped by Billy, Ikue, and Olive. Brown Bag, Lunchbox! A minimal techno sandwich from Perth, Córdoba, and Zurich. Mutate, Mutek…then right back to Brooklyn. ‘Back to Cuba?’ Dave Aju asks. It’s A Story With A Touch, for sure. Midnight poppies lead to more Defragmentation. Arto’s Complicity, remixed, and plopped on Skull Disco mixed with John Lurie’s haunting horn. Back for a World Trance. Across the pond again to Switzerland via Storlon, and Germany via Berk. Where Do You Run To? Sub Dub! Nico Dubliners, Thoughts Like Rain. NY, Zorn.

Monday, September 12, 2011

FatCat Records Podcast - John Zorn Mix 1

Here's a mix done by John Zorn, showcasing some great music in his massive music collection.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Audio Entropy (with dl!)

Same post from the other day, now with a download link :)

Wednesday, April 06, 2011

the heavies of dubstep

quick set I did for my current radio show at Brown, which has some flavors appropriate for this blog.

Clearly I love Shackleton and Badawi.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Eleveneleven podcast

For some time I've been a fan of the eleveneleven podcast series, now part of Alias Frequencies. I'm super excited to report that I'm this month's guest programmer!

You can stream and download here. Right click to download of course.

Hope it's as fun to listen to as it was to create!

Sunday, August 29, 2010

early morning mix for the G-spot camp @ Burning Man

This is a mix I created for my friends at the G-spot camp, at Burning Man. It starts off very quiet, designed for the pre-dawn hour, for people who aren't really awake (or who aren't quite asleep). Moving through the mix, tracks were selected with the intention of escorting people from sleep, through the waking moments, to the savory scents of bacon.

What was a solid idea on paper turned out to have a fatal flaw----I completely forgot that generators are needed to power our sound system. As you'll hear, this mix does not go with gas generators. So, after a year, I've put this up here for other sleepy heads around the world, who can play music without a generator. This may lend itself nicely to other situations such as reading, nursing, working, yoga'ing, and so on.

Huge thanks and much respect to DJ Olive for his excitement and support in this effort (the first 20 min or so are parts from DJ Olive's 'sleeping pill' works), and for the amazing music he makes for the world. And, to my friends at the G-Spot. I'll be thinking of you this week.

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Summer Mix

I felt a little rusty working on this mix. First one on this blog in a year! Hopefully there's some stuff that interests you.

The mix I posted in Sept 09 qualified as a "fall" mix.... so it looks like we've just snuck in a summer mix.







John Lurie - The Invention of Animals

Ben Frost - Theory of Machines
Fred Frith - Nowhere to Run
Zeena Parkins - Inyoufrom
Mapstation - Ensemble of Four
Marc Ribot - New Sad
John Lurie - Men with Sticks (noble version)
Mapstation - After all this Freedom
Billy Martin - Stridulations - Monkey
Lucky Dragons - Don't Lie (bonus)
Strategy - Summer Tour Bird Windows
ROVA & The Nels Cline Singers - Cesar Chavez
Morton Feldman - Projection 5
Taylor Dupree - Rusted Oak
Lucky Dragons - Face Down (bonus)

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

blog direction

For a long time I've allowed my fascination with funky oddball techno music to infiltrate this blog (weirdly) named Misterboots, which I suspect confused stoppers-by or regular listeners. I started the blog with only one intention, which was to provide homemade mixes of music, showcasing strange-but-beautiful combinations of musics from every nook and cranny.

In the first year of this blog, I had been playing around (and still am) with mixing of said electronic music---the problem being, I've never thought that this sort of music format fit very well within the framework of my blog, yet put it up anyway. Post-happy, I guess.

From now on, this blog will no longer feature any of my techno mixes, not only because they don't adhere to the format described above, but also because they sort of stick out like a swollen thumb compared to all of the other mixes or posts.

Due to my breach of proposed blog structure, I know I've got some readers who visit for the quirky techno, but not so much for the other stuff. For this camp, I direct you to my new weekly radio show on BSR named The Fieldhouse, streaming live on the internet (and on the FM dial in the Providence area). This show starts this Saturday, May 22nd, at 11pm-midnight, EST. The archives to the show will be listed on this same show page, in case it's past your bed time, or you live in Europe, Asia, Africa, etc.

For everyone else, please stay tuned for some great mixes coming up over the next several months!

Friday, April 09, 2010

Anticipate Mix 2


Here's a great mix (the 2nd one) of tracks from the Anticipate Recordings label.

Friday, January 08, 2010

Unshow

Tomorrow (saturday) night from 11-12midnight I’ll be DJ’ing on Brown University Radio, playing a set of unique, quirky-woozy-thumpy-funky-fresh electronic music from mainly the unfoundsound/Foundsound crew , via Berlin, Philly, Argentina, The Canary Islands, Japan, and Baltimore. Streaming at www.bsrlive.com, or listenable in the Providence area on 88.1 FM.

Aesthetically, it sounds like music that steelyard/scrap metal sculpture-people would dance to, if they could dance.

Monday, September 14, 2009

the quelformat? Fall Mix Partie Deux


Art: John Lurie: The Skeleton in my Closet Has Moved out to the Garden
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Just realized the last mix of avantgard-y of songs I threw together (not under the guise of a "spring mix"), named the Quelformat? mix, happened in the fall. So, with the leaves already changing here in the northeast, I figured I'd make this mix a partie deux.

The beginning starts with a beautiful accordion solo rendition of a Phillip Glass piece, followed by a dive (through a bit more accordion) into some Alvin Curran (representing Providence!), followed by some percussion, improvised structures..oh just see below. And as always, an eternal indebtedness to John Lurie, not only for the use of his artwork, but also for all of the great music he created over the years.

  • What Capitalism Was - Facades
  • The Beat Circus - Hypnogogia
  • The Beat Circus - The Good Witch
  • Alvin Curran - Music is not Music
  • Ben Frost - Leo Needs a New Pair of Shoes
  • Billy Martin - Killing the Drought
  • Ches Smith - The Contra Alto Clarinet in E Flat
  • Fred Frith - Screen
  • Fred Frith - Bricks for Six
  • Vincent Courtois, Sylvie Courvoisier & Ellery Eskelin - Extended
  • DJ Spooky - Claude DeBussy (excerpt from Rhythm Science)
  • Morgan Packard - A Place Worth Keeping Part 2
  • DJ Spooky - Disjecta (excerpt from Rhythm Science)
  • Hal Willner - We Travel the Subways
  • David Shea - Canto I-Xx
  • Raz Mesinai - The Blind Owl
  • The Susie Ibarra Trio - Trance No. 1
  • Kim Gordon/DJ Olive/Ikue Mori (SYR 5) - Olive's Horn
  • Marc Ribot - The End

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Music for the desert


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Continuing on the loose theme of podcasts for specific times or locations, here is music for the desert. This one is best cued up upon departure from the last town in civilization. While its duration probably wont last through the entire desert trip, the structure of the mix is designed to emulate three segments of a trip into the desert; departure from civilization, penetration into and through the desert, and (hopefully) exodus from the desert.

This mix is for Wootie and Birdie, and our trip out to Black Rock Desert for Burningman. Just like the scenes in our drive from Reno to the playa, this mix will start off with a touch of western, heading into an uneasy period (caused by dehydration and that nasty left turn around the mountain, no doubt), followed by some straight out craziness. The last part we'll get on the way back, as it returns to more serene, civilized sounds----exodus deserves such.

  • Unfields02 - Field Recordings
  • Tin Hat Trio - Bill
  • Bill Frisell - Wildwood flower
  • Ikue Mori with Robert Quine and Mark Ribot - Cheyenne
  • Badawi - Arrival Shackleton - The Rope Tightens (Badawi remix)
  • Nettle - Duende
  • Fred Frith And Marc Ribot - Second Nature
  • John Zorn - Koryojang (end credits)
  • John Zorn - Once Apon a Time In the West (Morricone)
  • David Shea - Prisoner (part #1)
  • Sub Dub - 19.5
  • DJ Spooky - Giancinto Scelsi "Suite number 11" / Bill Laswell with Trilok Gurtu "Nothing"
  • Marina Rosenfeld vs. Badawi- Badawileaf
  • Unfields03 - Allumette
  • Ikue Mori with Robert Quine and Mark Ribot - Medicine Man
  • Klimek - for Michael Gira & Vladimir Ivanovich
  • Wayne Horvitz & Zony Mash - 9 to 4
  • Tim Hecker - Blue Ember Breeze

Friday, June 19, 2009

An(other) Unmix!


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Yea, back so soon with another unfoundsound mix! Enjoy these rippin, funky ditties made with some sounds from our small world.

  • Roberto Clementi -Valencia
  • Alex Medina - 2 Bailes Con Martini Sisters
  • Kriss - Jazz Club
  • Roberto Clementi - 1939
  • Alex Medina - Dinner in Jakarta
  • Ben Parris - Chris Needs a Nickname (seph mix)
  • Mike Uzzi and Ben Recht - A Fitness Counterrevolution (Ben Parris rmx)
  • David Last - Where it Falls (suz rip up the rug rmx)
  • Miskate - Strange String

Monday, May 25, 2009

It's Spring Again!


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The winter chill is gone for good, with (it better be) our last frost behind us. This springtime mix is just like a New England spring----lots of variability. With that in mind, here are some songs that have about as much in common as snow and baseball.

  • John Zorn - Opening Credits/Hawaiian Postcard
  • Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years
  • Pamelia Kurstin - Copingheaven
  • Frivolous - The Long Way
  • Tito Puente - Tito on Timbale
  • Miskate - Hear the Ahhh
  • So Inagawa - Batai
  • Los Mirios - La Danza de Los Mirios
  • Secret Chiefs 3 - Sheburiel
  • Nettle - Duende (version 2)
  • Sabu Martinez and Sahib Shihab - Nus
  • Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou - Se We Non Nan
  • Santos Resiak - Timba
  • HAR-YOU Percussion Group - Barrett's Bag

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Unfoundsound: An Unmix

Somewhat vaguely similar to my appreciation of art welded from junk, I am fascinated by the capture, tweaking, and collaging of raw sounds in order to make music. Beauty can come from lots of things- even discarded metal, or random noise waves propogating through the air.

That's why I've got lots of love for Unfoundsound! A netlabel out of Philly, they release quirky, dj friendly dance music that is made with (among other things) found sounds and field recordings from natural or unnatural environments. Besides releasing great music under creative commons licensing, they also have a series of field recordings which make for great fun in making your own music.

From their site:

through monthly releases, unfoundsound offers worldwide exposure to promising new artists as well as established artists from around the globe. in addition, unfoundsound provides a series of free downloadable field recordings (the unfields) available to everyone for creative sampling, musical composition and whatever your fuzzy, little heart desires. enjoy!


Damn Skippy! Thanks to Unfoundsound for their really solid, interesting releases. I hope everyone enjoys this little collection of songs which I put together rather roughly. Also check out their sister label Foundsound for more great music.

* Ditch - Yack
* David Last - Halitosis Rockers
* Kriss - Undersun
* Mike Uzzi and Ben Recht - Slack Talk Space Dub
* So Inagawa - Kada
* Ben Parris - Desktop Willage
* Theilaxu - Highlite (Marc Ashken remix)
* Roberto Clementi - Real Fun
*Ben Parris - Breakfast with Thorialanus (Seth Troxler rmx)
*Alex Medina - Too Much Botox
*Roberto Clementi - Exigent

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Klimek mix on Mnml Ssgs

Mnml Ssgs recently featured a great mix by Klimek, which you can download by clicking here.

Their following post contains the set list, as well as a great interview.

If you aren't familiar with the Mnml Ssgs blog, or Klimek's own music, I strongly suggest checking them out. Thanks to both for a great mix and interview.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Happy Birthday Brandy!

Happy Birthday to the woman that I love, who ages like fine...Brandy. Here's a collection of mostly old schoolers for you, hope you like! All my love and birthday wishes to the best woman this side of the Milky Way. 

    * DJ Vadim - Getting Friendly
    * Breakestra -  Easy to be Hard
    * Bjork - Human Behavior
    * Andy Vaz feat. N. Gratin - We're Not Going to Diss You Right Now
    * Herbalizer - Sensual Woman
    * Bootsy Collins - Ahh... The Name is Bootsy, Baby
    * Charlie Feathers - Tear it Up
    * Roy Burrowes, Clifford Jordan, Charles Davis - Reggae au Go Jazz
    * DJ Vadim - Dig Yourself Baby!
    * De La Soul - Saturday
    * Femi Kuti - Eh Oh
    * Frivolous - Can't Stop the One Two
    * Mermen - Heart Beatitude
    * Leonard Bernstein - Dance at the Gym (West Side Story)
    * DJ Olive - Funky Cortado
    * Fantomas - 04-25-05 Monday
    * John Zorn - Arsenal Dance Mix
    * DJ Logic - Something Distant
    * Frivolous - Every Day of My Life
    * Nicola Ratti - Above
    * Ruben Gonzalez - Como Siento Yo
    * Joe Jackson - Stepping Out

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Dubby Vermont

There are many fine things in the great state of Vermont; maple syrup, Shawn White, Jay Peak, the Burton factory, Phish, and cows, to name a few. There are also lots and lots of reggae fans. Big reggae fans-- ones that would establish an annual international reggae festival. It's practically the official state music. During a recent trip up for some snowboarding, I was reminded of just how much reggae you can hear coming out of cars, bars, gondolas, and ski shops, and houses. Here's a collection of some good ol' reggae---just like what comes out of the green mountain state, heavy on the early dub, with a few Trojan classics, and a few modern dubs.

  • Lee Perry - Bathroom Skank
  • Boy Friday - Virgin Girl
  • Augustus Pablo - Kid Ralph
  • Twilight Circus Dub Sound System - Achou
  • King Tubby and Friends - Chapter of Money
  • Tapper Zukie - Man A Warrior
  • Susan Cadogan - Fever
  • Once11 - Bottled Paycheck
  • U Roy - Your Ace from Outer Space
  • Mafia Allstars and King Tubby - Don't Think about Me (I'm alright)
  • Scientist - One Man Dub
  • Ladyman - Sexy Beast
  • Lee Perry - One Armed Boxer

In Vermont you can do what you want!

pre visit, clear air

Saturday, November 22, 2008

the quelformat? Fall mix


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Not much of a theme to this mix, just a sampling of mostly great songs I have noted over the last several months. I suppose a tip of the hat to WFMU. Watch out now! It has some teeth, but also lots of beautiful moments. Let me know if you like!


~Down the Line from Harvey - Dave Miller
~Latino Interactive - Ikue Mori
~Me Susurra Un Secreto - Trevor Dunn
~Shore Leave - Tom Waits
~Foot in Hole - Skeleton Crew
~ track #7? - DJ/rupture + Andy Moor
~Density 21.5 - Riccardo Chailly - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Plays Varese
~For Ezekiel Honig and Young (pan) Americans - Klimek
~Frontside Boardside shovit out - Agata
~Dead Season - Tin Hat
~Poison Ivy - Mephista
~Geek Love - Ikue Mori
~Black Thursday - Tin Hat
~Along the Line - DJ Olive Vs. JP Dessy
~Dance for Burgess - Riccardo Chailly - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Plays Varese
~Locus Solus - David Shea
~Process Part 093 (Spiritual Airport) - Kate Simko

painting by John Lurie "Some Animals Noah Only Had One Of, The Ones That Came By Two Put On A Musical, Which Like Most Musicals Was Bad". Special thanks to John Lurie.