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

The Unhemlich Manouver

As spring pulls in, not least in my heart, by some deft sleight of hand this mix appeared. It burrows down most tenaciously and explores some techno wormhole I've long wished to visit. Then there is the obligatory ethnic track just to tempt you back into the fold plus a dab stab at euphoria.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0adlav285t09x02/unheimlich%20manouverings.mp3?dl=0

The Unheimlich Manouver

Flug 8 – Sie schaut

Digitaline – oz

dOP – Dein Verlangen (Kalabrese rmx)

Matthias Tanzman – chano _second mix

Oni Yahun – 003

Cio D’Or – Goldbrokat

Sian – Red Cloud (Minilogue rmx)

Chaton + Hopen – life is wonders (donato dozzy reconstruction)

Baeka – Right at it (Michel Cleis rmx)

Sian – World Within

MRI - Pilgrimage

Catalogue

'The greatest masterpieces created by man are now bound to a freedom from death as they are contained in records, and a child of three may hold weighty spititual secrets in small hands.'
Maurice Maeterlink
(picture and quote from http://blindpony.blogspot.com/

As promised, a full and frank disclosure of consumption. Records I've bought this year:

Alex Smoke – lux+

ALOG / ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB -39/40

Baeka – Right At It

Basti Grub – See Seniol

Big Strick – 7 Days

Brandt Brauer Frick – Iron Man

Camp Vidab (day 1-4) – Various

Choice/ Ricardo Villalobos –Acid Eiffel/ H.E.I.K.E.

Digitaline -080808 ep

DJ Sprinkles – Masturjakor ep

dOP- Dein Verlangen rmx ep Portable/Kalabrese remixes

Fanatstic Mr Fox –Sketches ep

Field,The –Yesterday and Today Remixe

Flug 8 –Löscht dein Profil

Hieroglyphic Being - +++ 01

Joker - Untitled_RSN / Flying Lotus

Kadebostan – Vodka Wedding

Leon Segka: Kude - Bodycode mix

Mark Pritchard – Elephant Dub

Matthias Tanzmann –channo

MRI - Pilgrimage

Noze – Minimal Elvis/Maximal Michael

Pangaea – Pangaea ep

Patrick Cowley & Jorge Socarras –Burn Brighter Flame Oni Ayhun rmx

Ravi Shankar –four raga moods

Shellak 2 The Future Gets Involved - Various

Tom Demac/ Kink –draw me in/ bitter sweet

Tony Lionni – figure spc E

Tribal Music From East Africa - Various

XX, The - album

House Captain

Here is a mix made especially for Sasha - in other words pure shameless champagne-shouldered house. Perhaps one not so much for Cubby as for one or other of the imaginary audience of this blog?

House Captain

I Wanna Be Everything - Gadi Mizrahi ft. Baby Prince

Who to Call - Soulphiction presents Missing Linkx

This Heart - Delano Smith

Everyday House Music - Tevo Howard

Just a Track – Efdemin

Makes Me Wanna Dance – Prosumer & Murat Tepeli

Gimme Your Love (Belocca & Soneec Mini Dub Mix) - Gary Blade

In the Mood - Damian Schwartz

We Cannot Turn Back - Francois K Minitek Sunday Sessions

Free Your Mind - Tony Lionni

A New Day (Oliver Koletzki Remix) - Chopstick & Johnjon ft. Fritz Kalkbrenner

MDMazing - Lee Jones

Plus extracts from:

President House (Acappella Mix) - Roland Clark ft. Urban Soul

Sermon of Jack (Jacks Old Skool Mix) - Jon Kennedy ft. Tasha

Top of the Class

My top tunes of 2009

Lowtec - Angstrom EP

Long, hypnotic and of uncertain mood.

dOP - Dein Verlangen; The Genius of the Crowd; Change!A Various ep

Basically, last year they could do no wrong. The unassailable charm of the French.


Starkey - Miracles Jamie Vexd remix

Pure synaesthesia, a head banging, bass worrying earworm

Brackles - LHC

Wayward synth action, more bass and a soul diva laments. This and Miracles are the dubstep fruit I've been waiting to get my teeth into.

Pangaea - Memories

Another wailing RNB lament with skippity bass. And I'm off.


Hieroglyphic Being -So much noise to be heard

Oh, baby I like it raw and Jamal delivers as usual.Machine music handed down by the gods.

Hauntologists - EP2

Loping, hermetic excursions

Bodycode -What did you say

It's the Imitation Lover dub that does it-all his distinctive sounds roughened up and leavened with melancholy


Jimi Tenor - Selfish Gene

An ageing bachelor tells it like it is.

Oni Ayhun 03

Techno steeped in the early 90s which neatly sidesteps nostalgia.Don't ask me how they do that.

Omar S

My introduction to him-like Autechre discovering a big button marked JACK.

Winterpracht

Listen to this voice...
Like two people whose paths seem to cross and then they don't...
There is some neutrality here. No, I wouldn't call it neutrality ... but a need to concentrate on each sound, so that every blade of grass would be as important as a flower...
It could be like a break on the radio. Such signals sometimes sound as if they lasted an entire life.
Of future, or past, and outside time...
Listen.

~ Arvo Pärt playing and speaking of "Für Alina" in Arvo Pärt: 24 Preludes for a Fugue

(Kirlian photograph of meadow grasses by Tarrl Lightowler)
(photo and quote from the the fascinating woolgathersome.blogspot)

Winterpracht

Winterpracht

Fm3 - Zheng

Lawrence English & Sawako - Manufacturing Content

Chihei Hatakeyama - Starlight Reflecting on the Surface of the River

Biosphere - Birds Fly by Flapping Their Wings

Jan Jelinek - A Concert for Television

Voices, field recordings, throat singing and drumming from Smithsonian Folkways Tuva Among the Spirits

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The XX - Space Bass (Jamie XX's mix)


After 5 weeks on holiday, returning to Berlin in mid January feels somewhat like being cast out of Eden. Fortunately, unlike those other postlapsarians, I've been exiled with a decent record collection.
This mix was done on Traktor with edits in Wavelab.