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

MYSTIC BISCUIT MIX

I'm happy to present the first multi-artist/multi-genre Polle Van De Gash mix for quite some time. Recorded on the 10th November, it's taken me nearly a month to get around to putting the various bits together and get it uploaded. It's business as unusual, a truckload of weird and wonderful tracks mixed and moulded together into a gloriously disorientating and engaging 75 minutes. Rock, psych, library music, electronics, French nutters, Chubby Checker. Well, I hope it's engaging anyway. I'm pretty happy with it so it's tough if your not. You can always drop it in your trash and play some of your usual fare on your iTunes instead. Tidy.

Thanks to everyone that's downloaded some of the stuff on the blog so far. Most downloads are in double figures by now!

It's a pretty big file, 320 kbps. 38 tracks. Running time 75:44.

BITE THE BISCUIT

THE HELDON MIXES

Ah, the mighty Heldon! Fresh from my Human League post a couple of days ago I got the urge to follow it up quickly. So here we have a C90's worth of Heldon action. If you don't know Heldon then I'm not going to fill you in with too much detail. Suffice to say this is seriously heavyweight French prog/RIO music - in turn harsh, cold, abstract, cosmic and intense but always utterly beguiling. I hope I haven't undermined these qualities by botching together these mixes from their varied LPs. Both the mixes are self-contained but intended to flow one after the other for a 95 minute Heldon-megablast! Go on you buggers, see what you think...

HELDON MIX I - 47:52

ZIND
PERSPECTIVE II
PERSPECTIVE III
COCAINE BLUES
MECHAMMENT ROCK
ELEPHANTA
MOEBIUS
VIRGIN SWEDISH BLUES
BACK TO HELDON
ICS MACHINIQUE
BALLADE POUR PUIG ANTICH
UNE DROLE DE JOURNEE
LE FILS DES SOUCOUPES VOLANTES (VERTES)
MVC II
BAL-A-FOU

HELDON MIX II - 46:52

IN THE WAKE OF KING FRIPP
ZIND DESTRUCTION
BASSONG
OUAIS MARCHAIS MIEUX QU'EN 68 (LE VOYAGEUR)
DR. BLOODMONEY
PERSPECTIVE IV
OMAR DIOP BLONDIN
NORTHERNLAND LADY
LES SOUCOUPES VOLANTES VERTES
STAND BY

320 kbps.

HELDON I
HELDON II

more Heldon linkage...

INTERFACE (WHAT A SLEEVE)
UN REVE SANS CONSEQUENCE SPECIALE
IT'S ALWAYS ROCK AND ROLL

THE HUMAN LEAGUE MIX

There's been a bit of a Human League thing going down in my corner of Bethnal Towers recently. I think it started when we were playing 'Black Hit of Space' while testing out K-Dog's 'new-old' amp and speaker combo at his place in Aalst a couple of weeks back. To my mild surprise, my girlfriend (hey zoeteke!) was digging it. So I thought a Human League compilation for her would be in order. The compilation covers the first four albums and I think offers a pretty good selection. However, there's an absence of most of the weird and wonderful instrumental stuff and early works so I thought I'd have a bit of fun with it and generate a new blog post in the process.

By the way, thanks to those of you who've downloaded mixes so far. No one's downloaded the Raj & Rolex album yet though. Go on, don't be shy, give it a try!

THE HUMAN LEAGUE - A POLLE VAN DE GASH MIX
21 tracks, running time 43:31.

BUDDHA'S WAITING

LIBRARY MUSIC III - SPACE COMMODITIES

The third and final part (for now) of the Library Mix series. It was done on the 4th of July shortly after Parts I and II but extensive holiday activities over the summer (lucky me!) means a delay in posting it. More of the same
multifarious melodies and abstractions - 39 tracks squeezed into a 66 minute mix.
320kbps for extra pleasure.

TRACKLISTING

NINO NARDINI - ENCHANTED LAKE
DOMINIQUE GUIOT - BALLET AMOUREUX DES DAUPHINS
THE BIGROUP - WHAT'S COMING
KLAUS WEISS - TIME SIGNALS
CECIL LEUTER - PROTOTYPE
ROGER ROGER - THE HOBSTERS
WILFRED JOSEPHS - SCENE IN MINIATURE
BERNARD FEVRE - CONTEMPLATION OF THE MOUNTAINS
MARK CHANTEREAU & PIERRE ALAIN DAHAN - SYNTHEMETRO
JANNICK TOP & ROLAND ROMANELLI - HELIUM 111
DANNY EDWARDSON & SEAMUS SELL - STUCK IN
GUY PEDERSEN - PRETEXTE POUR INDICATIFS
DOMINIQUE GUIOT - LA DANCE DES MEDUSES
OSKAR SALA - IN A LIGHT MARCH
FRANK REIDY & ERIC ALLEN - COLLISION COURSE
ROBERT CONFORD - BEACHY HEAD
STEFANO LIBERATI - LA MILLE ISOLE
CLAUDE LARSON - HIGH TECH
PIERO UMILIANI - BAMBOLA
DIDIER THIBAULT - RIRE DE PEINE
ROLAND BOCQUET - ASIA
SAUVEUR MALLIA - MACADAM LOCOMOTION
JOEL VANDROOGENBROEK, ERIC ALLEN & FRANK REIDY - CHINESE TORTURE
POWERHOUSE - ROUGH RIDE
NINO NARDINI - JUNGLE MOOD
JOEL VANDROOGENBROEK, ERIC ALLEN & FRANK REIDY - SPACE WALK
JOHANNA GROUP - DREAMING WITHOUT HER
PAUL LEWIS - THIS LOVE OF OURS
ROLAND BOCQUET - ROBOT BLEU
CECIL LEUTER - WEIRD SPACE
BERNARD FEVRE - LE MONDE AVAIT 5 ANS
JOEL VANDROOGENBROEK - ENERGETICS
JOHANNA GROUP - CYMATIQUE DANCE NO.6
JOHANNA GROUP - CYMATIQUE DANCE NO.5
GUY PEDERSEN - INDIAN POP BASS
KLAUS WEISS - DRUMCRAZY
SAUVEUR MALLIA - AFRICAN BREAK
PAUL LEWIS - SAD HERO LINKS
THE JOHANNA GROUP - SBULLP BABY

SPACE

RAQUEL WELCH: SPACE GIRL DANCE

Two super sweet minutes of YouTube action. Filmed for a Rachel Welch TV special. If you know what the track is then please let me know.

LIBRARY MUSIC MIXES

A veritable flurry of activity at the end of this week has resulted in not one but two quickly cobbled together library music mixes. All as a result of a prolonged library music listening session earlier in the week. This isn't the elevator/supermarket music some might think it is. It's tough, funky, cosmic and concrete stuff from KPM, IM, CAM, April Orchestra, Tele Music, De Wolfe and the like.


Big props to The Library Hunt and Library Music Rarities blogs where I downloaded most of the tracks from. If you like library music you really should be checking those blogs out.


LIBRARY MIX I : POP DISTORTIONS



TRACKLIST

VLADIMIR COSMA - 'LES COUPS DU DESTIN'
JOHN FIDDY - 'LAME DUCK'
ANTHONY KING - 'FILIGREE FUNK'
JOE UFER & HIS DRUMS - 'DRUMS ON PHASING 7'
TERRY COX - 'GONE WEST'
BRUNO NICOLAI - 'ESPANZIONE'
SAUVEUR MALLIA - 'GALAXY WARS'
JOHN FIDDY - 'LEADER OF THE PACK'
NICO GOMEZ - 'AQUARELA'
CLIVE HICKS - 'SPOT THE BALL'
BRIAN DEE - 'HAPPY TWO STEP'
JOHN FIDDY - 'SCOOP'
STEFANO TOROSSI - 'SOLITUDE'
ANTHONY KING - 'LOST STAR'
GEOFF BASTOW - ' SATELLITE'
FRANCIS MONKMAN - 'HOT SHOT'
JEAN-JACQUES PERREY - 'ASTRONIC COMPUTER'
ARMANDO TROVAJOLI - 'KINKY PEANUTS'
SAUVEUR MALLIA - 'BABY BASS'
BRIAN BENNETT & ALAN HAWKSHAW - 'THE EXECUTIVE'
ANTHONY KING - 'FUNKADILLY'
SAUVEUR MALLIA - 'COSMIC NEWS'
STEFANO TOROSSI - 'ATTENTION DANGER!'
FRANCIS MONKMAN - 'FOCUS ON THE STARS'
JEAN-JACQUES PERREY - 'BOYS & GIRLS'
CLAUDE LARSON - 'GENESIS'
SAM SPENCE - 'DUMPH'
ANTHONY KING - 'MISTY RIVER'
BRUNO NICOLAI - 'VARIABILE'
GERHARD TREDE & HIS ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS - 'RED DOG FLY'
SAUVEUR MALLIA - 'METEOR ONE'
ANTHONY KING - 'DONNA'S DILEMMA'
VLADIMIR COSMA - 'MONTEE AU CALVAIRE'
JEAN-JACQUES PERREY - 'REVELATION SUR LE MONT SINAI'

POP


LIBRARY MIX II : COSMO-SYNTHETICS



TRACKLIST

KEITH MANSFIELD - 'NEWS REPORT'
GEORGES RODI - 'ACTUAL 34'
HANS GUNTER LEONHARDT - 'JET RHYTHM'
BERNARD ESTARDY - 'ANGOISSE INTENSE'
SAUVEUR MALLIA - 'AUTOMATIC METEOR'
ROLAND KOVAC - 'LOST ELECTRON'
CARAVELLI - 'OBSESSIONELLEMENT VOTRE'
TONIO RUBIO - 'ROYAL SHUFFLE NO.1'
JOHNNY PEARSON - 'DANGER MAN'
SYLVANO SANTORIO - 'OK COB'
JEAN-JACQUES ROBERT & JEAN MICHEL GUISE - 'LOVE CALL'
FIORELLA FRATINI - 'TOURBILLON'
LAURIE JOHNSON - 'THE OJUKA SITUATION PT. 1'
MICHEL BERNHOLC - 'NORFOLK FOG'
THE RAINBOW ORCHESTRA - 'SEVEN DAYS LATER'
PIERO UMILIANI - 'DYNAMIQUE EN BEAT'
ERIC PETERS - 'ELECTROFEAR'
PIERO UMILIANI - 'TIMBALES'
ERIC PETERS - 'SPACE MOVEMENT'
ROGER ROGER & NINO NARDINI - 'TOMORROW'
PIERO UMILIANI - 'DYNAMIQUE EN TENSION'
D. EDWARDSON - 'HOT & HEAVY'
ASPERUD & LORCK - 'HEIA VALENGA'
THE FRITZ MALDENER ORCHESTRA - 'ARGENTINIAN FLIGHT'
JEAN BERNARD RAITEUX - 'LA BARAKA DU BARAQUE'
DON HARPER - 'MOVING SHADOWS'
RON GEESIN - 'HOLIDAY FIZZ'
ROGER ROGER - 'RECORDER'
A. SIGGS - 'MAUREEN'
THE MACHINES - 'ROBOT DANCE'
BOB ELGAR & HIS ORCHESTRA - 'A WOMAN IS BORN'
MAGICAL RING - 'SPATIAL FEELING'
DELLE HAENSCH & HANS CONZELMANN - 'GO AHEAD'
M. HELMLINGER, D. THIBAULT, G. BERTRAM & G. PONS - 'GELATINE'
ANDRES LEWIN - 'HORNS'
ORCHESTRA GARY PACIFIC - 'ALL MY WAY DOWN'

COSMIC

RAJ & ROLEX - CUP OF TEA, GAME OF FOOTBALL

.........WILLIAM RAJ...................JK ROLEX..............




Back on the blog. It's only been 7 months since the last post. No mix this time but a proper album. Proper may be a bit of a misnomer though. This Raj & Rolex set consists of nine tracks produced one afternoon a few years ago during a couple of hours of loosely improvised electronic jam-foolery. Over the 38-odd minutes you'll be treated to field recordings from supermarkets and art galleries, cartoons, Faustian acts of damnation, gypsy strings and helicopters sketchily attached to stuttering electronic and cosmic soundscapes.

TRACKLIST

1. KNOW HOW (5:46)
2. GO DOWN (4:28)
3. SWAN ARCHIVE I (3:30)
4. SWAN ARCHIVE II (5:00)
5. TESCO BABIES (5:14)
6. ASTRAL GTX (5:03)
7. ABKERDABATURKI (1:26)
8. BEEPING SWIRLING (4:22)
9. ALL THE WAY FROM CHINA (3:28)

CUP OF TEA ANYONE?

POLLE VAN DE GASH - IT'S A GASH GASH GASH GASH WORLD

I was having a rummage around Lupin House yesterday whilst Alex G was getting his techno mix (see below) ready, I found the a copy of 'It's A Gash Gash Gash Gash World'. Trouble is with all my old home made CDs is that I would always put a nice printed CD sticker on the disc. A lot of CD players, especially computers, get really arsey about it and refuse to go further that about a third of the way into the disc before giving up. So, I stuck the disc in the computer and it worked it's way through to the end without a care in the world. Bless. This joyous news means I can share it with you now. 33 tracks over 74 minutes covering electronics, psychedelia, library, spoken word, pop, avant-rock and more.

QUINITRIX
BASIL KIRCHIN
H.P. LOVECRAFT
MAX RICHTER
JONA LEWIE
JOHN RENBOURN
THE FACTORY
ESPERS
ALDOUS HUXLEY
BRIAN ENO
BARRY GRAY
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
STARK REALITY
IAN HUNTER
BLACK DICE
A HAWK AND A HACKSAW
SHIT AND SHINE
SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN
JACK BRUCE
AMMON CONTACT
SI BEGG
CECIL LEUTER
GHOST
THE TROGGS
WIMPLE WINCH
WEVIE STONDER
BRUCE HAACK
ROLF HARRIS
WHITE NOISE
LIGHTNING BOLT
THE SIGHTINGS
FLANAGAN AND ALLEN
H CHAPPELL

WORLD OF GASH IS HERE

ALEX G - A QUESTION OF RE-ENTRY - TECHNO MIX

A bit of a change of scene for this post. Amateur Athlete Alex G delivers a sterling 47 minute techno mix selecting classics and personal favourites from the 90s. When I say techno, obviously I mean proper techno. There's no tracklisting as such - Alex was too busy at the time to make a note and now it just doesn't seem necessary. Once you get listening though, expect to find some Carl Craig, Anthony 'Shake' Shakir and Mark Bell (as both LFO and his lesser known Detroit style alias Clark). Expect a follow up mix soon(ish) people!

GET 'A QUESTION OF RE-ENTRY' HERE

POLLE VAN DE GASH - CREPUSCULAR MIX APRIL 08

It's been a long time but finally there's a new post. Not that anyone will have noticed. None of this changes the glorious news that I've popped out another springtime mix which, naturally, was destined to end up on here. Loosely speaking, it's a synth/electronics [though not entirely] thing. Mostly 70s/80s but with a splash of 21st Century action for good measure. There's some sublime and a touch of ridiculous too. Obviously, I like it. Give it a sniff and see what you think!

PART ONE

MICHAEL BUNDT
HARUOMI HOSONO & TADANORI YOKOO
RON GEESIN
RALPH LUNDSTEN
RUTH WHITE
BERNARD LUBAT
NINO NARDINI
GERADO IACOUCCI
STAFF CARPENBORG & THE ELECTRIC CORONA

PART TWO

BERNARD PARMEGIANI
AUTECHRE
BERNARD FEVRE
WARNING
WARNING
MERRY CLAYTON
MARTIN DENNY
JOE MEEK
RALF NOWY
BLONDIE

PART THREE

TWINK
JEAN-JACQUES PERRY
ARTURO STALTERI
FRANCOIS DE ROUBAIX
PIERO UMILIANI
ANDREA TICH
CONRAD SCHNITZLER
JOHN FOXX
MICHAELA MELIAN

GET SOME GASH HERE

KWINTON 'LESI' JONSON - GRAND MIXES 2005

aLOSTaSOULS Sound Sound System presents KWINTON 'LESI' JONSON Grand Mixes 2005

aLOSTaSOULS are a small, perfectly formed team of promoters/DJs based in Aalst (or Alosta) in Belgium.

Here you get three excellent action packed mash-up mixes produced in August, October and December 2005. 50-odd tracks cut, chopped and spliced together to create three relentlessly propulsive mixes. It's a fun-filled ride from start to finish. Ideal for high speed motorway driving or for when you have a few friends back after a good night out and aren't ready to kick back just yet...

KWINTON 'LESI' JONSON MYSPACE

GRAND MIXES ARE HERE

LIQUID SOUNDS VOL 1

A MAN MADE DISASTER COMPILED BY MIKE, NOBBY & CHERRYSTONES


Everybody needs at least one storming surf-rock mix in their collection - surely!
So here you go then. This one's a killer. Lovingly created a few years ago as a professionally produced CD-R by three London based surf music fiends, it's a superb, action-packed, mash up of surfin' rock 'n' roll singles and soundtracks.

67 minutes. 192 kbps.

CATCH THE BREAK HERE

POLLE VAN DE GASH - AA MOVIE MIX

Another Polle Van De Gash mix. This one was produced to celebrate the Halloween Amateur Athletics event, 31st October 2007. The night itself was a launch party for the Trunk Records release of the fabulous 'Blood On Satan's Claw' soundtrack. If you don't know the film or the soundtrack then I would strongly recommend checking either/both out.

The mix is in six parts.There's no tracklist for this mix. As well as plenty of dark and horror tracks there's plenty of gentle flighty moments too. Enjoy!

Trunk Records website

Movie Mix Parts 1-3
Movie Mix Parts 4-6

IT MIGHT AS WELL BE SPRING

This is a mix produced for DC Recordings and is available to listen to on Samurai FM (along with many other fine mixes). It's a 39 track mix of retro-electronics, library music, prog, kraut and soundtracks. Heavy headspace material basically. Download, turn on, freak out!..

Tracklist
NEGATIVLAND - ANNOUNCEMENT
IKE REIKO - 私と言う女
LAURENT PETITGIRARD - ASPHALTE OST EXCERPT
DAVID VORHAUS - LAUGHING GAS
YVES & ALAIN LORENTZ - FARFADET LUNAIRE
JEAN CLAUDE VANNIER - L'ENFANT LA MOUCHE ET LES ALLUMETTES
AREA - IMPLOSION
TANGERINE DREAM - ULTIMA THULE PART ONE
MOOLAH - REDEMPTION
RAJ & ROLEX - GO DOWN
DICK HAYMES - IT MIGHT AS WELL BE SPRING
ARIEL KALMA - OSMOSE CHANT
MANUEL GOTTSCHING - PLURALIS
PUTNEY SWOPE OST - VIOLENCE IS A CLEANSING FORCE
WOLFGANG DAUNER'S ET CETERA - LADY BLUE
AFFINITY - I AM AND SO ARE YOU
MORT GARSON - EXORCISM
DAVID CAIN - WAR OF THE WORLDS
LE GROUPE X - CRAWLING
AMADEO TOMMASI - ULTIMA ATTO
ENNIO MORRICONE - SEDUCTION AND MAGIC
MUSEO ROSENBACH - AL DI LA DEL BENE E DEL MALE
OSANNA - PRELUDE
PIERROT LUNAIRE - SONDE IN PROFONDITA
NURSE WITH WOUND - PARAPARAPARALLELOGRAMMATICA
MUSTAFA OZKENT - LORKE
CONRAD SCHNITZLER - 12 Stücke Aus Dem Jahr 1974 Pt 10
DAMENBART - Space Invocation
DAVID VORHAUS - SNIDE RHYTHMS
BERNARD FEVRE - SUBCONSCIENT LAMENTATION
DELIA DERBYSHIRE - FREEZE FRAME
REMEGIO DUCROS - SCHERZI PESANTI
IGOR WAKHEVITCH - LICORNES
THE MOONTREKKERS - NIGHT OF THE VAMPIRE
AMADEO TOMMASI - IPERTENSIONE OSSESSIVA
INTERSYSTEMS - 2 APPLES
JERRY FIELDING - CLOSING CRAWL
LUBOS FISER - AND THE LAST
THINK - ONCE YOU UNDERSTAND

It Might As Well Be Spring

THE AMATEUR ATHLETICS BLOG

Welcome to Amateur Athletics. We run a monthly night at the Social in London. We love all manner of weird and wonderful music as I'm sure you do. There will be sporadic postings of DJ mixes from the Amateur Athletics crew and other musical ephemera to come. We intend to also feature many of the bands and DJs that perform at our nights. So, please check in from time to time.