Here’s another wax-only new purchases mix. It’s probably the weirdest yet, featuring Madlib, Dosh, MF Doom, Soviet Funk, Frank Zappa, A Reggae Interpretation of Kind of Blue, Oh No, and Four Tet. No pre-planning on this one. (In fact, I hadn’t even listened to the new Madlib record yet. Guilty Simpson gets a little raunchier than I’d like on some of those. Plug your ears if necessary.)
This being New Year’s Day, I figured it was a good time for a bit of a retrospective.
I’m not that interested in creating Best Of lists, but I did want to take the time to make a mix that traces a bit of my listening history over the last 10 years or so. Not every track was released in that time frame (I’m looking at you, Tricky), but most were.
We start in Minnesota, land of Carleton, and home to Atmosphere, Heiruspecs, and Lateduster, who all played at The Cave my freshman year. (Yes, I went to Minnesota for college. No, I wasn’t in search of Paul Bunyan.) P.O.S. is from there, too, but I didn’t catch him until later.
It was at Carleton that I was introduced to electronic music and a whole new breed of sample based music. Sure, I’d heard radio hip hop, but Tricky was something else entirely (thanks, Brady!). And Lev lent me Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives a few years later, which blew me away – sounds I’d never heard. Lucas got me a prerelease copy of Amnesiac about the same time. (Their label organized listening parties before the official release date, and Lucas talked the guy into letting him record it.)
Meanwhile, Mike was getting me caught up on Mos Def, and MF Doom followed. (Not to be missed: Mos going nuts over Doom’s rhymes.) I’m not sure how I stumbled upon that Mark Ronson track, but the production is impeccable – a skill he applied a few years later on Amy Winehouse’s albums.
The Grey Album isn’t likely to be new to anyone, but it was a big enough milestone to earn its place here.
The next phase was really fueled by Mashit and Beat Research. That’s where all that crazy jungly mashup insanity springs from, so thanks to that crew and DJ C and Ripley in particular for driving that sound to my ears.
As for 2010+, who knows…
Tracklist
Ok, here it is, the real deal: a live set in front of actual people.
The location? This crazy party. The theme? Space.
This is only the first hour and a half, which was my set. The mayhem continued long past that, including John, Joey, and the occasional fader flipping of yours truly. The full set is here.
Many thanks to the Tolvas for hosting the party, and to John for letting me wreck havoc. And for renting a Kaoss pad.
(I abused the preamps a little bit. Sorry if it sounds crunchy at times.)
Tracklist
0:00 - T.R.O.Y / Mr. Chop / For Pete’s Sake
4:39 - Birds / Radio Citizen / Berlin Serengetiit
8:59 - Don’t Front / Joe Beats / Diverse Recourse
12:19 - Akaire / DJ Food / A Dub Plate of Food
14:26 - Metrorail Thru Space / Cut Chemist / The Audience’s Listening
18:13 - Utopia / Jackson and His Computer Band / Smash
23:22 - Crush Mode / The Glitch Mob
27:49 - Just A Test / The Beastie Boys / Hello Nasty
29:45 - High Roller / The Crystal Method / Vegas
33:13 - Portishead / Wandering Star / Dummy
34:32 - Ghostwriter / RJD2 / Deadringer
37:32 - Raw Ingrediets / The Quantic Soul Orchestra / Stampede
39:54 - Creator / Santogold / Santogold
43:11 - Cozza Frenzy / Bassnectar / Cozza Frenzy
46:16 - Clearcut (bomb the bass) / Lali Puna / I Thought I Was Over That
49:09 - Lonely Soul / U.N.K.L.E. / Psyence Fiction
51:25 - The Premise / Wagon Christ / Musipal
54:37 - Sophisticated Honky / Orgone / The Killion Floor
57:28 - Arecibo Message / Boxcutter / Arecibo Message
1:00:16 - The Walk (Infusion Remix) / The Cure / Future Retro
1:05:40 - Are We Here? (Industry Standard Version) / Orbital / Work 1989-2002
1:08:27 - Telephasic Workshop / Boards of Canada / Music Has the Right To Children
1:09:34 - Man on the Moon / The Flight of Apollo 11
1:14:09 - Trip Like I Do / The Crystal Method / Vegas
1:20:33 - The Horror / RJD2 / Deadringer
1:23:38 - Black is the Color / Nina Simone and Jaffa / Verve Remixed 2
1:25:56 - Ready or Not / The Fugees / The Score
1:29:20 - Come Around / M.I.A. / Kala
30(ish) Minutes of (Mostly) Soul
or
Respect Yourself
or
Thanks for the Records, Dad
[Historical: Jan 2009] Celebrating the inauguration. track listing
