Domestic Tourism

(Picture by Ray Caesar)

Here we go again… Another week another continent… Forever suspended mid-air… Would rather be taking a journey around my room: around the world in 80 minutes.

Domestic Tourism

Memoria - Murcof

Diferente - Gotan Project

Arianna and I - Bruno Pronsato

O Fantasma - Laolu

El Bandido - Nicolas Jaar

L2 - Martin Buttrich

Farafinya - Rosa Lux ft. Doussou Koulibaly

At Home I'm a Tourist - Bruno Pronsato

Seraglio - Onur Özer

Chopsticks - Mihalis Safras

Soultan - Butch ft. Julie Marghliano

Quicktime (Roska Remix) - Naughty

Te Quiero - Zero dB

Erika Kohut

I thought I didn’t have much stomach for the piano. Then I remembered a thing or two.

Erika Kohut

What We Wish - Bruno Pronsato

Dr Whisker's Theme - Damian Lazarus

Firn - Hauschka

The Student - Nicolas Jaar

Shousetsu - Radicalfashion

Acid Bells - Efdemin

Deleuze's Will - Nicolas Jaar

Immune - Bodycode

Intensive Spot - Bocca Grande

As We Are - Ezechiel Pailhes

Inchworm on a Star

So we come to the end of my summer in Copenhagen, a city where the main drag is named after a writer of fairy tales and the main attraction is the world’s oldest funfair. Every bicycle carries a Rapunzel and every bureau a Rumpelstiltsken. Caught up in this world of childlike fancy, I was inspired to make a mix that yearns for long-lost dreamworlds of gilded youth. There is something about a country without topography – everyone is equal and there ain’t a hill in sight – that makes sehnsucht (that untranslatable concept) all the more poignant. We are earthbound worms longing for the stars.

Inchworm on a Star

Desolation Theme – Nordine, Frisell & Horvitz

Amalia – Dinky

The Micro Disneycal World Tour – Cornelius

Blanche Neige (Kinder Cut) – dOP

Swiss Glide – Michna

Moon River – Como Carousel

Luchin – Chica & The Folder

The Snow Queen – Vikki Jackman

The Fine Art of Poisoning – Jill Tracy

Maybes – Mount Kimbie

Twin Lake – Arve Henriksen

Chim Chim Cheree – The Postelfonia

The Tinderbox – Our Sleepless Forest

Foller (Zan Lyons Remix) – Various Production

Die Glückliche Familie – Christian Al-Kadi

Weer Alle Sind Qualle – Felix Kubin

Sugar Plum Fairy Coda (Recoda) – DJ BC

March On Swan Lake – Tomas Barfod & Fredski

White Rabbit – Noveller

Blinkende Stjerne – Kontext

Inchworm – Danny Kaye

Shoals – Taylor Deupree

Wish Upon a Star – Ringo Starr

Building and Jumping

Building and Jumping by strcprstskrzkrk

Mainly done on an iPad with large quantities of bourbon helping the liberal use of loops. Film samples from Whirlpool (Otto Preminger, 1949) - despite The Wire deciding that film samples are passé - fuck you!

The track listing is approximate:

Something's Jumpin' In Your Shirt (Featuring Bootsy Collins & Introducing Lisa Marie) - Malcolm Mclaren & The Bootzilla Orchestra

Discipline09-3 - Ras G

Towers Fall (Cassette Mix) - Mi Ami

Wir Bauen Eine Neue Stadt (Alva Noto Remodel) - Greie Gut Fraktion

Break Down - SIS

Mainline Robags Relokk Tokk Mikks - Brendon Moeller

Running Out - Morphosis

Lacan - Claro Intelecto

Opiate of the People

With the start of the World Cup today, I was inspired to make a mix at the musical melting point where South Africa meets Afrophilic Europe and America. This is not the place for discussion of the ethics and economics of cross-continental filching – good food for thought in that direction is here. But does it seem like the distinctions are blurring? Viva miscegenation!

Melting Pot

Wavin' Flag (The Celebration Mix) - K'Naan

Radio Freedom (DJ Zhao Edit) - Terre Thaemlitz

African Rhythms - Bookworms

Don't Go Lose It Baby (Dub Mix) - Hugh Masakela

The Centre Of Time - Bodycode

Radio Freedom - Terre Thaemlitz

Pitch Black Afro - Pitch Black Afro

Mugwanti / Sgwejegweje (Schlachthofbronx Mix) - Mujava

Grounation (Berghain Drum Jack) - Deadbeat

Drumbeat - Jim Ingram

I Exist Because of You (Live Version) - Henrik Schwarz & Amampondo

Leka-Leka - Kalahari Surfers

Endroduncing Kadebostan - Kadebostan

African Drug (Coldcut Edit) - Bob Holroyd

Radio Freedom (DJ Zhao Edit) - Terre Thaemlitz

Hippocampus

The hippocampus is a paired structure, with mirror-image halves in the left and right sides of the brain. This mix is a tribute to good speakers.

Hippocampus

Wrong - Abstract Elementz

Désorienté - Galerie Stratique

Isotope - Function

Sarg Wualb - Olene Kadar

Phased Out, Oscillation, Funkalogic,

Monoplex, Multiplex, Panback,

Blue: Prussian - Frank Bretschneider

Loomin - Actress

Suashi - Chris Herbert

Victoria Station - Berg Nixon

Picnic On A Minefield - Warren Suicide

From Within (Marcel Dettmann mix) - Scuba

SphericalType GasHolder - Alfred Brown

Taps - Mount Kimbie

Wunschen Brunnen - 19 26 1 18 5

Beacon - LV & Untold

Gengis

Berlin has taken a sudden slip back in to winter- time to wrap up warm, close to the horses, make more tea and keep singing. Been making up for a lack of vinyl purchases with a trawl through my cd collection digitising stuff I like. The throat singers appear on a compilation called The Musical Silk Road and the track title translates as the Eulogy for Gengis Khan. I started randomly listening to some of the tracks and a couple with voices seemed to suggest Secondo as accompaniment. The track is off his album A Matter of Scale, which I've had for some time but never connected with-it felt too bright. But on re-listening the more slowed-up whacked-out ones sound great. When I looked for pictures to go with this I googled Gengis and the first pics to come up incuded this one above. I have the same postcard in 'my postcards of men' collection. But I'd always assumed he was some Buddhist scholar. The mix was done with Technics, Traktor and Wavelab.

Gengis Khan vs Secondo - AZ201 by Crawford