Bandcloud Guest Mixes

We have DJ Clock Town at the controls for the first guest mix this month, and his contribution is a delight that's perfectly suited to the Bandcloud ethos. Hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

https://soundcloud.com/videogamemusic-3

teresa & azlee - pennies
nadia khan - untitled
cloudface - on none
biographs - ground felt softer that day
no ufo's - specious narrative ( agencement flørist remix )
roger west - soaked house
ondness - untitled
skyler x kinlaw - amelia

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DJ Clock Town (videogamemusic) - Bandcloud Mix January 2015

This is a very special mix. I first discovered Blue Tapes when the magnificent Katie Gately released a tape with them in late 2013. Their outlook is simple - according to their Facebook page, they are "a boutique cassette label specialising in handmade packaging, alternative process artwork, and curious audio". They keep it weird, in other words. From Katie's sonic explorations to death metal acappellas, not to mention keyboard meanderings from a cot-damn 13-year-old, everything they do is considered, intriguing and brilliant. So it's my delight to have them contribute a mix.

1. Threes and Will & Huerequeque - Amudjara (version 1) [from blue thirteen]
2. Henry Plotnick - Wapiti [from blue fourteen]
3. Pour Le Plaisir - C-T [from Tin Machine 12"/x-ray two]
4. Father Murphy - Calvary (excerpt) [from blue fifteen]
5. Map 71 - XV [from blue sixteen]
6. Stillsuit - 16 (excerpt) [from blue sixteen]
7. Trupa Trupa - Rise and Fall [from forthcoming Headache CD, unreleased]
8. Benjamin Finger - Headspincrawl [from forthcoming Amorosa Sensitiva/x-ray three LP, unreleased]
9. Plains Druid - Super Real Islands B1 (Matt Collins' Live at Rad Living Room remix) [unreleased]
10. Shaman B + Den Mate - SunnnO [unreleased]
11. Elkkle - Just Fake Never
12. Joseph Buchan - Her (demo)
13. Nico Niquo - Virgo Landscapes
14. Oba - Babylon Airport

Blue Tapes - Bandcloud Mix March 2015

In an unforeseen moment of serendipity, early last month I got in touch with US artist April Larson (https://soundcloud.com/april-larson) about doing a mix for me. In all honesty I only copped what month her mix would be for last week. Derp. When I first featured her work in June of last year, I wrote that "Swooning drone and ambient pastures float and caress", and that could just as easily describe her mix here. She's provided a collection of gorgeous ambient jams, haunting and soothing in equal measure. I hope you enjoy this as much as I have.

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April Larson - Bandcloud Mix April 2015

This month we've gone straight for the floor. Toronto DJ CL (@cl_lit) has put together a mix of gloriously sunny house, titling the mix Sprung, even though as I type it's a dank and grey day here in Dublin. 

CL is passionate about representation in dance music, and to that hosts a regular show on Toronto Radio Project showcasing the best in electronic music produced by women. Get to know!

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Sprung (mixed by CL)

Chloe Frieda has been behind the various facets of Alien Jams since it started as a radio show on NTS in 2011, broadcasting every Sunday from 5-6pm. Last year Alien Jams the label kicked off with a wonderful realese from oMMM called 'Parallel Lines Converge'. I included it in Bandcloud 20, not saying much other than that I couldn't stop listening to it, closing the entry with "JUST BUY IT". 

On top of that Chloe runs events under the Linear Space banner with our friend DEBONAIR, recently hosting such incredible artists as Karen Gwyer, HOLOVR, An Trinse and Rosen. 

She's put together a wonderful mix for us here, dancing superbly from dank techno and vibrant house to crunching electro, all underpinned by a skyward-leaning mood fitting her chosen moniker.

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Chloe Frieda (Alien Jams) - Bandcloud Mix July 2015

Check this superb mix from De Leon, the artist who's released two stunning tapes for the /\\ • Aught label based in Philadelphia (that's where their tapes are shipped from, anyway). I talked about both tapes for Truants, and I wondered how those interested in learning more about gamelan and such music could do so given the anonymity and singularity of these releases. I reached out to the Aught crew, and they offered "a mix of gamelan, other southeast asian music, and some other random bits". Naturally, I nearly bit their digital hand off.

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Bandcloud Guest Mix : De Leon
"Thalong Tha Ka-Nying"- Brao Ka-nying men, Southern Laos
“Circular Thoughts”-Gamelan Son of Lion
“Timber: Part 1”- Slagwerk Den Haag (Comp. Michael Gordon)
“Doi Rup”- Bunyong Ketkhong
“Pedat”- Tongtong ensemble, Pamekasan, Madura
"Ile-Ile”- Ropaoen Batoebara
"Untitled"- Unknown
"HorZtial Tracking SyStem”- Omit
“Jipang Walik”- Handoyo, Ali Wijaya, Sujana Arja, Keni Arja, R.Y. Yusef, Sandrut, Sidem Permanawati, Bodong, Darja Ammuddy, Rasita Cas, Masdi, YoYo Andoyo Sudibyo, Wachiono, Sukendri
"Untitled"- Unknown

These are all things that helped inspire /\\08. 

Bandcloud Guest Mix - August 2015 - De Leon

This week we have a wonderful mix from Kit Records (https://soundcloud.com/kitrecords) boss Richard Greenan, who's put together 40ish minutes of oddities — eastern funk, ambient wash, more metallophonic goodness — it's some Kit goodies in there too of course. Speaking of Kit, check out the utterly charming Collages I from Cosmic Neighbourhood, which came out last week. It's been on heavy rotation.

N. Rajam - Darbari (Sarathy Korwar remix)
Machinefabriek - Slapping Dance
The Nag's Head - Gluud Und Scruud
Pergola - Ibis
Mary Lattimore - For PTD
Gavin Prior - 롯데리아
Laurie Nouchka + Auclair - The Shard
Lung Dart - Found Sound
LRAO - Sister
Devon Loch + Antidröm - Untitled
Mariah - 心臓の扉
Biber – Battalia
Nestor Burma - To Turku

Kit Records - Bandcloud Mix

Guest mix. Roslyn Steer (https://soundcloud.com/ros-steer/) of Morning Veils blew me away with her recent tape on her own KantCope label. Called Still Moving, the release from the Dublin-born, Maynooth-based artist ties together her interests - her PhD is in screaming and Morning Veils specialise in "forgotten folk". I asked her to do a mix cause I wanted to see inside her head. What follows is a wonderful cross-section of weird jams, electro symphonies and noise oddities.

Christina Carter - I Fall In Love Too Easily
Olivier Messiaen - Vocalise-Etude (Nadia Ratsimandresy - Ondes Martenot;  Matteo Ramon Arevalos - Piano)
Pharmakon - Body Betrays Itself
Delia Derbyshire - The Wizard's Laboratory 
Bruce Gilbert - Epitaph for Henran Brenlar 
Space Art - Watch It
Phew - Being
This Heat - S.P.Q.R
No More Cane On The Brazos - Odetta

Roslyn Steer - Bandcloud Mix September 2015

Jessica Ekomane (https://soundcloud.com/jessica-ekomane) really impressed me with her track "To Whoever Shall Inherit the Earth", which featured on the Urban Arts Synthesis Vol 1 compilation last year. Born in France, she's now based in Berlin. Her work is inspired by such subject matter as German expressionism, sex work and Ballard, as well as more abstract notions of space and technology. She has won numerous awards and has presented her work in countries such as Germany, China and Australia. She recently took part in a discussion on the role of women in electronic music that took place at Kantine am Berghain.

The mix she's made for us features sound recordings of marginalised voices, musique concrète and intriguing modern songwriting. It's short, but nonetheless fascinating.

Jessica Ekomane - Bandcloud Mix November 2015

Robin Smith works at Norman Records, writes for Coke Machine Glow and this year established a label called Don't Drone Alone. The label's first release, from Hardworking Families aka Tom Bench, featured in Bandcloud in July and was a wonderful mélange of sounds artfully strung together — I mean that literally; I called him a clank wizard. This mix from Robin, with input from label co-conspirator Laurie Johnson, pulls together influences and inspirations new and old (some 2015 highlights, many of which I sent to your inbox this year; great minds etc) in this beautiful hour-long drift, which opens with startling blasts of sound, moves towards decayed ambience and closes with some stirring post-rock that reminds me of Friday Night Lights; I'm imagining Netflix subtitling it as "heartfelt instrumental music". I've just listened to it all twice in a row, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I have. 

And once again; don't drone alone! Do it with friends.

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Bandcloud Monthly Mix - Don't Drone Alone

The latest Bandcloud Guest Mix is from journalist and friend Aurora Mitchell (https://soundcloud.com/aurora-mitchell). I asked her for a mix after loving her CHILL TRAX series. Beautiful, sumptuous house, new and old. 

Yutaka Hirose - Epilogue 
O Yuki Conjugate - Waiteri 
Ondo Fudd - The Fludd 
Vril - Torus XXXII 
Andreas Bender - Cruise Control 
Simkin - Paleozoic 
Nuron - Slipstream 
Prism - Aurora Mind 
Earth Boys - Should B Wit U

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Bandcloud Guest Mix - March 2016 - Aurora Mitchell

https://soundcloud.com/mmmmmmmmmmmmimmmmmmmmmm

This latest one comes from Michael McGregor aka M/M. Born in New York and now based in Mexico City after a decade in Brooklyn, he's released a small but impressive amount of music in the last few years, dropping ambient tapes as Meadowlands and murky techno and some more ambient as M/M for 1080p, videogamemusic and, most recently czaszka (rec.). He's behind the really excellent Sound + Vision mailout, in which he finds old/forgotten music and shares it with his readers. A bit like this, but older and weirder, and more sporadic. Disco, gamelan, psych. Anything goes. 

This mix is a really interesting one, he recorded it shortly after coming back from Japan with a stack of new records. He writes: "Super spacey chill out mix with a ton of tracks i was listening to pre/post a solo road trip through the Yucatan of mexico — exploring centuries old mayan ruins, spiritual cenotes, and jungles on the coast."

I've played it a bunch of times, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

Eitetsu Hayashi - コスモス (Cosmos)
Futuro Antico - Eco Raga
Sussan Deyhim & Richard Horowitz - Jum Jum
Gervay Briot - Feu
Joël Fajerman - Flowers Love
Haroumi Hosono - The Image of a View
Vinicius Cantuária - Rio Negro
Larkin - From a Distance
Love, Peace, and Trance - Yeelen
Nelson Angelo e Joyce - Hotel Universo
Roland Bocquet - Paradia
Wally Badarou - Voices
Miharu Koshi - Laetitia
Anenon - Mouth
Joe Sembene - Autrefois
MacGregor - Nan Ye Li Kan
DJ Sotofett - Assa Med Open Derpe Floyta
Woo - A Little Long Way 
Ujang Suryana - Karatagan Pahlawan

Bandcloud Guest Mix - May 2016 - M/M

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/ipekgorgun

This month's mix comes from Ipek Gorgun, a genuinely multi-talented artist from Istanbul in Turkey. She's on my radar because of her wonderful music, but she's a PhD candidate in sonic arts who's got an MA in philosophy, as well as being a published poet and photographer. She took part in RBMA Tokyo in 2014, and has composed work for film and recital halls alike. Her debut album Aphelion came out this year, a striking body of work that falls somewhere between chilling ambient and electroacoustic menace.

This mix came through with no blurb, just a tracklist, and features a huge range of music, from metal and drone to Night Slugs (via Toronto), Cretan lute, minimalism and more. Most lovely to me was Vincenzo Zitello's 'Urdh', but I'll leave it there. Enjoy.

1. Jozef van Wissem & SQÜRL - Sola Gratia Part 1 [ATP Recordings]
2. Zoät Aon - Totem Owl [Aural Hypnox]
3. Ulver - Søfn-ør paa Alfers Lund [Head Not Found]
4. Sunn O))) - It Took the Night to Believe [Southern Lord]
5. Murcof - Mapa [Leaf]
6. Frank Bretschneider - Construction Shack [Raster-Noton]
7. Lawrence English - Soft Touch [Baskaru]
8. Egyptrixx - Naples [Night Slugs]
9. Roly Porter - Rossak [Subtext]
10. Vincenzo Zitello - Urdh [Stile Libero]
11. Bola - Glinc [Skam]
12. Signal - Waves + Lines 3 [Rastermusic/Noton.Archiv für Ton und Nichtton]
13. Die Sonne Satan - Razor Cut [Slaughter Productions]
14. Sakana Hosomi - Out [CMJ 24]
15. Cex - Am I Soundboy [Tigerbeat6]
16. Aaron Dilloway - Labyrinths & Jokes [Hanson Records]
17. Roxanne Turcotte - Yellow [Compact-Compact]
18. Nico - Mütterlein [Reprise Records]
19. Terry Riley - The Pipes of Medb / Medb Blues [New Albion]
20. Xylouris White - Old School Sousta [Other Music Recording Co.]

Bandcloud Mix - June 2016 - Ipek Gorgun

New mix! This one comes from Kev Cahill, the man behind the wonderful Power Moves Library. Initially a "Label", it switched the Library late last year. The releases are all on tape, limited run, and downloads are free. My favourites have been from Missing Organs (him again), Sealadder and Nate Scheible. Kev also writes fascinating free-form thoughts on music at Rotational Review. This mix is weird and great. He accompanied it with a small amount of text, and provided the above image. Thank you Kev! 

"First ten or eleven minutes is a collage of unreleased and newer recordings from my Running Point and Downer Canada projects. The pieces sit nice together in a free-flow way, though maybe a hair on the downer side. The microcassette recording of Clifford Brown and Max Roach's ‘Daahoud’ is especially lo-fi but I think it fits.

"Then I mixed some vinyl continuing with the collage-motif, mind the crackle. It jumps into some folk/country slow-down blues and starts off turtle-paced but deceivingly/sneakily catches a second wind.

"Hang in there. First thought was best thought. Really hope you enjoy."

Tracklist:
Downer Canada/Running Point Unreleased
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Roy Acuff - This World Can’t Stand Long
Stewart Robb - Corrente
Emmylou Harris - Satan’s Jewel Crown
George Winston - Lotus Feet
Georgia Sea Island Singers - See Aunt Dinah
Arve Henriksen - Alhambra
Muddy Waters - Still A Fool
Clocktower Productions/Brad Osborne - Ista Episode
Krzysztof Penderecki - Te Deum (beginning) 
James Brown - Doing The Best I Can
Jason Ajemian’s Daydream Full Lifestyles - Let Live
Junior Kimbrough - I’m In Love With You

Bandcloud Mix - July 2016 - Power Moves Library

This one comes from Wonja (@wonj), who you may remember as being a regular stand-in contributor in my absence. Based in Oakland CA, she's a DJ/producer who loves to dig. She contributed a track to the Bandcloud compilation in 2014, and to be honest I'm not sure why I never asked her for a mix before now — her Wood Glass Metal series is sublime — but there you go. This one covers a huge range of stuff: current bangers from John T. Gast ‎and Equiknoxx, blissful 80s gems from Japan, eclectic in the best way possible. It drifts and moves like a perfectly varied collection of short stories.

Bandcloud Guest Mix — September 2016 - Wonja

"Thanks to Aidan for the invitation to contribute to his excellent mix series, and for his patience as I cycled through four different iterations each time I changed my mind about theme, concept and tracklist. The idea to focus on soundtracks came from the inclusion of Max Richter and Symmetry in version 2, then watching Interstellar and finishing the amazing game Inside that subsequent weekend. All are represented here, as are various other modern film compositions, a handful of similarly atmospheric game soundtracks and a couple from older, Eighties film scores that are not as celebrated as the likes of Carpenter and Vangelis but are in my opinion no less excellent.  

"I tried to steer away from anything too obvious (hence no Vangelis or Carpenter), and draw only from films and games I have personally watched/played, even if not necessarily "enjoyed" in the strictest sense (hello Lost River). The end result is something I think pretty well captures a broad swathe of my personal tastes in film, music and gaming, all of which I am more than happy to geek on about interminably. I hope you enjoy it."

@driscollobos, 2016

Bandcloud Guest Mix - October 2016 - Dean Driscoll

This free-form mix comes from Daryl Worthington, who releases music as https://soundcloud.com/beachers. Based in Riga, Beachers makes drifting, droning music that's not quite ambient. I featured a track from his tape for J&C Tapes on my recent(ish) mix for Spool's Out. Speaking of which, Daryl also runs the https://soundcloud.com/bezirk-320997557 label with Spool's Out's Tristan Bath, putting out cassettes by artists like Delphine Dora. He's also recently released music as part of the duo Ibal Zeb. 

His mix features some great music released on tape and other formats, a wide-ranging collection of electronic stuff, reflective of Bandcloud's own broad remit.

Tracklist
Artist: Track: Label
Nate Scheible: Matter002: Power Moves Library
Subject: Be Careful: STROOM
Missing Organs: Duet for Wind & Rain: A Giant Fern
Takahiro Mukai: #168: Czaszka (rec)
Dane Law: Drowning: Self Release
Joey Fourr: Play: Self release
Jay Glass Dubs: Compound Dub: Bokeh Versions
Dan Hayhurst: Azo: LTR Records
.zigo: sensol: Pakapi Records
A i w A: Project Tiahuanco: Seagrave Records
RKSS: WAVE: Alien Jams
Cult Club: All The People: Domestica
hhhnihhh: SaborobaS: Pakapi Records
Blood Room: COLD (Boliden remix): SØVN

Bandcloud Guest Mix - November 2016 - Beachers

Hello! Here we have the first guest mix of the year. It comes from Yorkshire-based act worriedaboutsatan, who make emotive electronic music that defies categorisation. Not doofy enough for the floor, often too urgent to be termed ambient, it's always slightly heartbreaking. Fittingly, they've provided music for Adam Curtis's HyperNormalisation doc last year. This mix features some of their own tracks, a Luke Abbott remix of their old alias Ghosting Season, and one of my favourite ever tracks, the timeless 'Sun Can't Compare' by Larry Heard. I hope you enjoy it!

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/worriedaboutsatan
Tracklist: http://eepurl.com/cyQYzn

Bandcloud Guest Mix - January 2017 - worriedaboutsatan

Bandcloud Guest Mix — February 2017: Tuuun

"This piece of music is a recording of a half-hour improvised performance on the Serge synthesizer in Studio 6 of EMS Elektronmusikstudion in Stockholm, Sweden. It was recorded live in one take with no edits or overdubs. 

"It is designed to range in frequency from low to high, to excite the natural resonances of human body cavities and bone structures. Repetition causes cell membranes to vibrate in a state of perpetual stimulation. The presence of infrasound promotes the growth of bone marrow and may help to decrease blood pressure.

"Ask not what you can do to this music, but ask what this music is doing to you."

https://soundcloud.com/tuuunuuut
https://soundcloud.com/flufrecs

Bandcloud Guest Mix - February 2017 - Tuuun

I don't know who ISSHU is. He put out a tape on Seagrave recently, fittingly enough called Greyscale. I described it as "muted and murky dance music" in Bandcloud 148. This mix is a brief but invigorating trip through some high-energy tempos, moving nicely from the rhythms of Africa Hitech (who also appears here as Harmonic 313) into the lush beauty of Lukid's 'USSR'. I hope you enjoy it! 

https://soundcloud.com/isshumusic
https://soundcloud.com/seagrave-3

Bandcloud Guest Mix - March 2017 - ISSHU

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