LIBRARY MIX IV: COLOURSOUNDS

I've been meaning to get this one done for a little while now. The three previous library mixes that I posted last summer have been the most downloaded mixes by some margin. So I'm pleased to present a new volume in the series. Essentially it's more of the same - loads of lively, weird and wonderful music from a variety of classic Library music labels.

COLOURSOUNDS

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Time: 1:04:31

Tracklist

CORVIRIA - PASSI

J.P. DECERF & MARK SACLAYS - MAG

JANKO NILOVIC - DRUG SONG

PAUL PIOT & PAUL GUIOT - NE TIREZ PAS SUR LE BASSISTE

WALTER DÜHRER - SWEET & GENTLE

ROY KENT - AFTER DARK

NINO NARDINI - POP RIVIERA

FRANCOIS AUGER - HARD ROCK COFFEE

THE IAN LANGLEY GROUP - REGGAE CHICK

PUCCIO ROELENS - CONVERSATION IN THREE

MIDAS TOUCH - BLACK BISON

DUNCAN LAMONT - BULL'S BLOOD

PIERRE LOUVET - KENACONTAQUINE

PHILIPPE BESOMBES - LES OISEAUX DE L'ATLANTIQUE

PIERO UMILIANI - DESERTO CHE AVANZA

WALLY ASP - CUMULUS

VLADIMIR COSMA - PAVANE SPATIALE

BENITO BERNADO GROUP - THE COOL ONE

DAVID PERIAN & ALBERTO BALDAN - SENTIMENTAL CRAZY

BASIL KIRCHIN - THE REBEL

KEITH MANSFIELD - CITY LIMITS (D)

ALAN HAWKSHAW - COLLECT

ALAN PARKER - BLACK PEARL

BRIAN BENNETT - CORRIDORS OF POWER

THE SOUNDWORK-SHOPPERS - DISCOMANIA

SAUVEUR MALLIA - REGGAE DIRECTION

PIERRE DUTOUR - SERGEANT DISCO

J.P. DECERF & MARC SACLAYS - THE DODGE

PANTHER - MAGIC TOUCH

PIERRE ARVAY - STILL WATERS

TEDDY LASRY - SQUAW VALLEY PART 1

WILLIAM GUM-BOOT & LAURENCE WIFFIN - PSYCHIC

JOHNNY PEARSON - DELHI DISCOTHEQUE

SAUVEUR MALLIA - DISCOMAX

CLAUDE PERRAUDIN - MONTE CARLO RALLYE

COLOUR ME IN

AUTUMN MIX 2010

Another multi-genre mix for hungry ears. Unlike this year's Summer Mix there is no seasonal theme to the mix. It's the usual unusual fair with pop and proper songs colliding with with more abstract passages, hopefully creating a satisfying listening experience for those who get involved!

Autumn Mix 2010

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Time: 1:00:10

Tracklist

LARS STROSCHEN - ALL JOCON

LARS STROSCHEN - GOOD MORNING MR. FRIEND

WALLACE COLLECTION - PERU

THE FREAK SCENE - GROK!

ANGELO MCHAJLOV - HIDE AND SHEIKH

DORY PREVIN - ANGELS AND DEVILS THE FOLLOWING DAY

GIAMPIERO BONESCHI - STIMULATING STRIP

E.M.A.K. - ARANEA

THE GASLAMP KILLER - MONSTERFROMTHEUNDERGROUND

CHRONICLE GRIME - CAREER CATS GET TIGER SUITS

UNKNOWN - NIGHT LOTUS POOL

EVENSONG - TAKE YOUR SON TO CHURCH MOTHER

HOLGER CZUKAY - EARTH

DEMETRIO STRATOS - SEGMENTI QUATTRO

UMBERTO - TEMPLE ROOM

EARTH - MIRAGE

BRUCE HAACK - ANGEL CHILD

SVEND CHRISTIANSEN - URVAERK

RAPLH CARMICHAEL - THE ADDICT'S PSALM

COSMOS FACTORY - A HIDDEN TRAP

CAPTAIN TARTHOPOM - AB HOC ET

"DEXEM PO MULTO SHUMPOPLEX"

SPIRIT OF VOODOO - VOODOO JUJU OBSESSION

TRINITY - EL CUMBANCHERO

MOEBIUS - FALSHE RUHE

CORVIRIA - SEAGULL SONG

DOUG RANDLE - VIVE LA COMPANY

BJORN JAYSON LINDH - YOUR OWN HOUSE

ZEUS B. HELD - EUROPIUM SUITE

ENSEMBLE ECONOMIQUE - MONSOON CLOUDS

CEEPHAX - PROMENADE

SPARKS - EQUATOR

FOREVER AUTUMN

WATER CYCLES

The first of three new mixes going up on the blog in quick succession. Here we have another themed mix with 'round about 1 hours worth of water related sounds and song-craft.

Water Cycles

320kbps

55:25

Tracklist

ROXY MUSIC - SEA BREEZES

ENNIO MORRICONE - BUBBLES

ENNIO MORRICONE - UNDERWATER WAH WAH

JOHN SANGSTER - RAIN

RAGLIANI - RIVERS IN THE PROMISE OF WOOD

DUETER NIGHT - RAIN

TERRY RILEY - ZEN OF WATER

BRUCE NORMAN QUINTET - KEEPER OF THE SEA

PIERO UMILIANI - TROPICAL RIVER

UNKNOWN - RIVER SPIRITS

DONOVAN - THE RIVER SONG

HARMONIA & ENO - BY THE RIVERSIDE

RUTH WHITE - MISTS & RAINS

MARTIN DENNY - THE ENCHANTED SEA

FAR EAST FAMILY BAND - RIVER OF SOUL

DELIA DERBYSHIRE & BARRY BERMA - THE DREAMS -SEA

PIERRE DUTOUR - MAGIC LAKE 3

JEAN-JACQUES PERRY & GERSHON KINGSLEY - MOON RIVER

PIERRE ARVAY - RUNNING WATERS

BOB SMITH - OCEAN SONG

SUNBIRDS - OCEAN SONG

BOB THOMPSON - SEA-SPRAY (SPEED BOAT)

APHRODITE'S CHILD - AEGIAN SEA

MAY BLITZ - VIRGIN WATER

DIVE IN

UOVA DI ORO

A portentous title for this recent mix of Italian only progressive and psychedelic music. I've include plenty of the heavy hitters from the Italian 1970's progressive scene as well as a few more avant-garde favourites and some quality psychsploitation action.

UOVA DI ORO (76:56)

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SPANISH PIES PART ONE

Ooh, Spanish Pies! A few months ago I was checking out a whole series of compilations called 'Spanish Bizarro'. They are full of wild Spanish obscurities, pop hits and 60's/70's sonic ephemera. So after overdosing on the stuff for an afternoon I decided to bang a quick mix together. This mix is also a kind of continuation of the 'I Like Short Songs' mix theme. There'll be more of those in the future (I still have a Piero Umiliani one that I haven't uploaded yet).

Anyway, back to the pies. It a schizoid mélange (mezcla perhaps?) groovy beats, flamenco pop, adverts, latin vocal histrionics and burping. Oh yes, there's one hell of a burping song. I shared my findings with Memo and he quickly produced a Spanish Pies Part Two - following a smother and sexier path through the Iberian bizarreness. You can check his mix out on his MEMOGRAMMAFON blog.

SPANISH PIES PART ONE (30:21)

320 kbps

MEMO'S 'SPANISH PIES PART TWO' IS HERE

SEX AND COPS

I am very happy to present a special new mix project I have been producing on and off over the last month or so.

My friend Martin Brass has an exhibition entitled 'Sex & Cops II' starting on Saturday 25th September (further details here). We were discussing it a few months ago and I suggested that it would be good fun to do a mix for the event. It's actually ended up as two different mixes, one for the Sex and one for the Cops! Both mixes clock in around 36 minutes and are packed with relevant sample material and groovy music. Needless to say that the 'Sex' mix in particular contains plenty of material that you might not want to expose impressionable young people to!

I'll be DJing at the Sex & Cops II party in Aalst on Saturday 25th so maybe I'll see you there!

Details and download links below. As I'm doing this post in Belgium and not with my usual set up I've had problems uploading a zip file containing both mixes and artwork. Therefore the two mixes have to be downloaded separately. They are meant to go together so please download them both!

SEX AND COPS
1. Sex (Not Just Fucking) - 36:55
2. Cops (Probably A Robbery) - 36:00

KOSMISCHE DRIFT

Thanks to everyone who's had a little download or two from the blog. I seem to have a steady little trickle of interest in the Amateur Athletics activities to match the steady little trickle of uploads I produce.

I did this mix on the 4th of July and have just got around to knocking up a cover for it and doing the necessary organising and uploading. Been away to the lowlands of Europe for most of the last month so I think this is a fairly fast turn around for me! It was going to be called 'The End of Rationing' (the 4th July 1954, fact fans) but it's a rubbish title with no real relevance to the mix itself. So Kosmische Drift it is - a pretty corny title but a reasonably descriptive one.

Contains 25 tracks, running a few seconds short of an hour, the mix combines plenty of electronic and kosmische artists old and new. Hopefully, some entertaining late night moody fodder to drift off with.

320kbps

GET MY DRIFT?

SUNNY SUNSHINE SUMMER MIX 2010

I did this mix in early June when we had the first bout of proper summer heat in the UK. So I thought it was about time I got this one out and about as time is getting on and there are holidays to be had. Almost every track was chosen for it's titular reference to sun and summer. This ensures plenty of proper summer fun as well as a few more abstract sequences for good measure. I've also sprinkled a few field recordings and samples in for the ambience of it all.

Here's the artists listed in order of appearance....

VANGELIS

NINO NARDINI & THE POP RIVIERA GROUP

SUNSHINE

SPINACH

PAUL MAURIAT

FRANCOISE HARDY

BONZO DOG BAND

MICHAEL LEGRAND

STELVIO CIPRIANI

T.I.M.E.

EVENING COLOURS

CLAUDE VASORI

JOHNNY HAWKSWORTH

ELECTRO KEYBOARD ORCHESTRA

UNKNOWN

RAY CONNIFF & HIS SINGERS

J.K. & CO.

LEE HAZLEWOOD & NANCY SINATRA

UNKNOWN

CHEVAL FOU

PAUL LEWIS

KLAUS WUNDERLICH

GOLD

CHRYSALIS

FRANK & THE TOP TEN

THE PRETTY THINGS

NINO FERRER

320kbps. Running time - 1:07:22.

SHINE ON

I LIKE SHORT SONGS - ZAPPAMIX

Following on from the full-blown 'I Like Short Songs' mix (posted earlier)

comes the next in a sure-to-continue-sporadically series of mixes following the theme.

The track length was extended out to a lengthy 2:30 for this one. I've stuck to tracks from the 6 or 7 albums that I have. That still provided plenty of variety with Frank's multitude of sonic stylings all represented and a fair spread of bona fide classics buried in amongst it all. Tracklist included if you want to keep up with the proceedings.

320 kbps. 50 tracks. 55:14.

LUMPY GRAVY

ENOMIX

Pretty self-explanatory this one. A load of Eno tracks from the 70's and 80's

(and a splash of 90's) lobbed together in the customary Gash style. Shortly after I did it

I saw the DJ Food 'Funky Eno Mix' on Soundcloud. I'd certainly recommend that to Eno fans as well. link here

320kbps. 35 tracks. 1:09:53.

freak with a masochistic streak

I LIKE SHORT SONGS!

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IMAGINATION CAME INTO MY BRAIN

JOHN GOODALL - IMAGINATION CAME INTO MY BRAIN

John's an old colleague of mine from way back who emigrated to New Zealand at the end of the nineties. I hooked up with him again through Facebook so I asked John sometime towards the end of 2009 if he wanted to make a mix for the blog. Sure enough, he sweated away at the height of the Antipodean summer and he delivered the goods during January this year. Finally after a (by now) standard AA delay here it is for your download enjoyment.

John DJs in Wellington on a local radio station - Radio Active 89FM. The show is called The Soul Affair (every Sunday night 9pm-11pm) and as you'd expect treats listeners to sack load of premium quality soul, funk and the like. He's part of the Soul Affair Collective (with 4 others) and they rotate the show each week. You can also check out his Soul Affair blog with posts of his shows available to download.

John's musical interests reach out far wider than that so it was no problem to produce a mix in keeping with the Amateur Athletics principles. Fact fans will note that his excellent feature-length mix is named after a lyric from the Scorpions track - tasty.

Here's John's nice tracklist with annotations!

320kbps. 80 mins. 191MB.

JUST AN ILLUSION

EASTER BUNFIGHT

EASTER BUNFIGHT MIX - GOOD FRIDAY 2010

A nicely weird beard mix-up for Easter. It's not especially Easter-like
(there's no religious ho-ha for a start) although there are a couple of brief moments to justify the theme. I haven't had time to sort out a tracklist for this one. It may follow, it may not.
It's abstract electronic stuff largely with a few library grooves thrown in. Amongst others there's Richard Pinhas, Monty Python, Pierre Arvay, George Harrison, Omar Khorshid, William Basinski, Moebius and Robin Gibb!

EASTER BUNNIES

COLDFINGER - 80'S MIX

Well, I was being a bit optimistic a couple of weeks ago when I threatened several posts in one weekend. Nice idea but didn't quite happen. Anyway, we're here now, and this ones a mix of 80's tracks. Sorry no Kajagoogoo this time - maybe the next time. Loads of favourites from back in the day though, with a few more recent discoveries thrown in for good measure.

320 kbps. 25 tracks. 72m 36s.

EIGHTIES - I HAVE TO PUSH, I HAVE TO STRUGGLE

KOSMISCHE MOUND

Kicking off 2010 with a veritable flurry of activity that will see three

mixes going onto the blog in quick succession (hopefully all this weekend).

First up is another of my mixes. It started out being a typically broad spectrum mix with plenty of rocking tracks but I was really happy with the flow of the first 10 minutes or so and felt

it would be nice to go back and start with the same tracks and go somewhere quite different. The end result is more coherently cosmic and with plenty of friendly faces from cosmic/electronic scenes new and old! Music for some late night head space.

Polle Van De Gash

Kosmische Mound

320 kbps

Running Time: 1:07:10

THE MOUND