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For Ella
Ella, I’m sorry I couldn’t contain myself. This grew into a 3-sided tape.Contents, artists and song titles withheld for the sake of surprise. I will never ask you questions like “Did you listen yet?” because life is busy enough. This tape is intended to be enjoyed as “time out”, not as a fulfillment of a […]
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Rob and Sarah’s Wedding Mixtape
Two of my best friends got married last night and I was tasked with providing an hour of music for the reception party. This is the result. Steppenwolf – Magic Carpet Ride (intro: excerpt from the movie The Wild Angels) Prince – Kiss Fatboy Slim / Jefferson Airplane – Praise You / Somebody To Love […]
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Vital Disconnect: Why The Weeknd’s Blinding Lights Will Outlive Us All
I’m not a betting man, but I’m willing to wager my left hand that fewer than 1% of the people reading this have heard of Thomas D’Urfey. I hadn’t either until I googled him four minutes ago, and I still had to check the spelling twice before I typed it above. He was a songwriter […]
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Public Mixtape #8: Dead Hard Drive Blues
Recently my beloved long-suffering external hard drive packed in, thus deleting my entire collection of hoarded music and videos. This tape was made in the initial stages of rebuilding my digital libraries. As always, it’s some wobbly reflection of my current internal narratives. Some stroppy paranoid hip-hop, some celestial jazz, some spooky atmopsheric country, and […]
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Teach Yourself Bird Sounds vol. 1: Garden Birds
I finally found a way of digitizing cassette tapes on my current set-up. The audio file below is a complete rip of an educational tape I used to fall asleep to when I was a child. I listened so often across so many years that I can remember almost everything from it by heart, over […]
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Suite For Charles and Daniel
This composite piece is a blending experiment. Just as yellow and red become orange, red and blue become purple, and blue and yellow become green, this long suite overlaps long blocks of sound to expose new shades in between. Dedicated to the memory of Charles Kellogg and to the enduring good health of Daniel Cwirka. […]
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Quarantine Trilogy Sample List
Almost complete. Samples in order of appearance Tape 1: The Idea of No The Books – PS Lemon Jelly – Nervous Tension Cowards Herb Alpert – Spanish Flea Bagpuss Home Alone Fleetwood Mac – Albatross Cowards God’s Own Country Christian Bale on the set of Terminator Salvation Gas – Zauberberg 1 The Alan Davies Show […]
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