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interesting

cool ahh samples

interesting pt. 2

Piero Piccioni - Easy Lovers

Cortex - Huit octobre 1971

This mix is admittedly a bit outside of the kind of music we usually feature in our mixes, but we have always prided ourselves on our range. The influence of Brazilian music is far reaching, and can be heard in musicians as different as the Sea and Cake, Jon Hassell, Madlib, and Chick Corea's Return To Forever. As a flutist in my youth, I had encountered some of the standard Bossa Nova and Samba tunes through the jazz world, most notably via Stan Getz's classic collaboration with João Gilberto. But in 2007 Matthew Hayes Jacobs passed me two CDRs he'd burned of an excellent playlist he'd compiled of Brazilian music, introducing me to Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Quarteto Em Cy, Djavan, and many others. I found Veloso's "Lost in Paradise" to be so disorienting—with its psychedelic lead guitar,  surreal lyrics in broken English, and smooth string accents punctured by discordant brass arrangements—that I quickly found myself down the rabbit hole of Tropicalia, Oswald de Andrade's "Cannibalist Manifesto," the fiction of Clarice Lispector, and the history of Brazil's military dictatorship. I owe a lot to those two CDRs. So when my old friend Matthew recently released a couple songs under the moniker Sage of New England, I thought I would invite him to produce a new mix to share his love of Brazilian music with our readers. 

I'd always heard rumors from mutual friends of Matthew's skills as a musician and songwriter, but he had never released any recordings. Luckily that's finally changed, and in 2021 he's begun to release singles on Bandcamp and other platforms. Sage of New England is Matthew's new project with producer Justin Tracy, taking its name from a one of Matthew's songs about a woman who becomes disillusioned by her search for inner peace, but who learns from a farmer that wisdom can be found anywhere. There is an undercurrent of Buddhist imagery and narrative in Matthew's work, which reminds me that I am also indebted to him for introducing me to the writings of Shunryu Suzuki. I think you'll find some of that spirit in his songs "Fire Tales" and "Encounter with a Guide," which their rhythmic propulsion, beautiful chord voicings, and plaintive singing style. The influence of his beloved Brazilian music should be apparent, but he also brings this mindful attention to the careful pacing of this mix. Enjoy.

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Find Matthew's music at https://sageofnewengland.bandcamp.com/




TRACKLIST

0:00 Milton Nascimento - Ponta De Areia

5:10 Joyce - Aldeia de Ogum

9:34 Vinicius de Moraes - Voce Abusou

12:07 Milton Nascimento - Os Escravos de Jo

15:05 Herbie Mann - Consolocao

19:25 Baden Powell feat Quarteto Em Cy - Canto de Xango

24:01 Sergio Ricardo - Conversacao de paz

27:09 Milton Nascimento - Dancing

29:32 Milton Nascimento and Lo Borges - Um Girassol da Cor de Seu Cabelo (1997)

31:01 Milton Nascimento and Lo Borges - Clube Da Esquina N°2 (1997)

33:45 Gal Costa - Lagrimas Negras

37:17 Joyce and Elza Soares - Samba De Silva

40:38 Antonio Carlos Jobim and Paulinho Jobim - Eu E O Meu Amor

42:12 Milton Nascimento - Os Povos

MHJ's Brazilian Classics Mix (with plenty of Nascimento)

blackmayo - interlude (slowed + reverb)

CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST

BLESSED

all credit goes to Pinkpantheress!! 
tracks:
Close to you 0:00
Noticed I Cried 1:42
Just a waste 3:00
Pain 5:07
Attracted to you 6:39
Take me Home 7:46
Break it off 9:36
Evian 11:12
Passion 13:22
Last Valentines 15:39
Your touch that I need (snippet) 16:49
Myself (snippet) 17:11
Calling me up (snippet) 17:27

Pinkpantheress Mix!~

United In Grief

Chances

Mama

Wait A Little Longer

Summertime - A COLORS SHOW

Let This Go

It seems like all the versions of this song are shitty quality; so I decided to re-make it using the original sample from the Michal Urbaniak song "A Day in the Park".

It gave me some wonderful insight into Madlib's sampling techniques and composition flow. Also, I didn't just take the sample and chop it up. I wanted to be as true to the mix as possible. That involved using a vintage compressor plugin for the warmth, EQ tweaking for that aged effect, some crackle and machine hiss, as well as erosion on the highs. I'm pretty happy how it turned out.

Madlib - What A Day (unreleased)

203 Years taken from the album 'The Sleeper Awakes' released on the 4th May 2015 through Village Green.

The track features a 19th Century 'Dulcitone' - A piano-like instrument using tuning forks instead of strings.  Limited numbers of them were made in Glasgow in the late 1800's.

Available on LP / CD / DL here - https://benchatwin.bandcamp.com/album/the-sleeper-awakes

203 Years

Ambient loop i made 
when the first reverb starts the chord sequence is Eminor Dmajor Cmajor Dmajor

Ambient Space

RIP MF DOOM!!! ALL CAPS WHEN U SAY HIS NAME!

MF DOOM - Doomsday

Skyrim - Music  Ambience - Night

Skyrim Ambience - A Mix

Produced by VIK & lastnamedavid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovClC1IPfDc

Time

Plume Valley

Kylin Forest - Windows 96

(Skyrim) Tundra + Winter Ambience

ProfJam - À Vontade Ft. Fínix MG(Slowed + Reverb)

Drake - Feel No Ways + Slowed + Choppped and screwed

Slowed down version of Down with the clique by Solange
No Copyright intended.

Solange-Down With The Clique (Slowed Down)

Miraa May- Nobody (slowed)

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