Chilled / non-techno mixes

Valentine's Mixtapes

Romance Is Dead - Valentine's Mixtape 2022
Romance / Celine Dion - I've Been Blown By The Wind
Britta Phillips - Drive (The Cars cover, live)
Julee Cruise - Floating (Demo x Original)
Mojave 3 - Love Songs On The Radio
Yo La Tengo - Our Way To Fall
Lightning Dust - Antonia Jane
Helen - Right Outside
Beverly - Yale's Life
Chris Connelly & The Bells - Blonde Exodus II
Grant Lee Buffalo - Arousing Thunder
Talking Heads - Naive Melody (This Must Be The Place) Live
The B-52's - Topaz
Low - What Part Of Me
Cyndi Lauper - When You Were Mine
A Flock Of Seagulls - Wishing (12" Mix)
Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
Suede - Pantomime Horse
Lala Lala - The Flu
Chastity Belt - Lydia
Winter - Wherever You Are
Shana Falana - Shine Thru
Throwing Muses - Two Step
Jane's Addiction - Classic Girl
Big Country - Sailor
Pale Saints - Blue Flower
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You

Romance Is Dead - Valentine's Mixtape 2022 (Chillout / ambient / shoegaze / dreampop / ballads etc)

One for the lonely hearts - an hour of torch songs about heartache and broken relationships, from 90s shoegaze and indie up to modern ambient and dreampop.
Jeff Buckley - You And I
Romance - I Close My Eyes
Yo La Tengo - Shadows (Loops Version)
Mojave 3 - Pictures
Allison Lorenzen & Midwife - Glycerine
Lala Lala - Destroyer
Chastity Belt - Elena
Galaxie 500 - Pictures
Chris Connelly - My East Is Your West
Lightning Dust - Led Astray
Ashley Shadow - Tonight
Jesus And Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
Beverly - You Said It
Daydream Twins - Slovakia Sun Dance
Last Tourist - Lust
Suede - The Wild Ones
My Bloody Valentine - Cigarette In Your Bed
Medicine - All Good Things
Slowdive - Alison

Valentine's Mixtape 2K23 (ambient, dream-pop, shoegaze, alternative etc)

Current mood - wishing it was warmer, wishing everything wasn't going to shit. But discovering and rediscovering old bittersweet music like Area, discovering new music like Spivak and having the promise of new Slowdive has me all gushy

NGC2020 - Deep Sky
Pale Saints - A Deep Sleep For Steven
Medicine - 'Til I Die
Ride - Today 
Marie Davidson & L’Œil Nu - Persona
Winter - Endless Space (Between You & I)
Cocteau Twins - Lorelei
No Joy - Lunar Phobia 
Daysailer - Escape Room
Chapterhouse - In My Arms
White Poppy - Hardly Alive
Area - Sweet Revenge
Yo La Tengo - Moby Octopad
The Cure - High
Kekko - Within You
Shana Falana - That Girl
Slowdive - Kisses
Low - Sea
Spivak - You Win Again

midsummer night's dream(pop . . . and shoegaze, slow core, sadcore etc)

One of the weirdest summers in years, with the stop-start weather and shifting moods - it never really got started so I'm both kinda glad it's over but also a bit wistful for what could have been. Oh well, spooky season to look forward to! Here's a few tunes to help with the transition . . .

Boards Of Canada - 1986 Summer Fire
Sun's Signature - Golden Air (CUTS Remix)
Kate Bush - An Architect's Dream
Porno For Pyros - Porpoise Head
Daydream Twins - Sunnmaschine
Medicine - Long As The Sun
Last Tourist - Riding Seas
Shana Falana - Gone
Galaxie 500 - Flowers
Ride - Here & Now
Jesus And Mary Chain - Happy When It Rains
Low - Walk Into The Sea
Slowdive - The Slab
Guisers - Boys Of Summer (Don Henley cover)
Chapterhouse - Summer's Gone
Rachel Goswell - Warm Summer Sun

Summer's Gone Mix (shoegaze, dreampop, IDM, ambient)

Gothic Hangover - Boys Don't Cry (The Cure cover)
Yo La Tengo - The Whole Of The Law (The Only Ones cover)
Sóley - N.Y. Hotel (The Knife cover)
Valet - Fire
Spivak - Satellites
Area - Michael Writes His Parents
Martina Topley-Bird - Lullaby
Sinead O'Connor - Black Boys On Mopeds
Tim Trainer with Redrose Collage - Sometimes Always (Jesus And Mary Chain cover)
Ashley Shadow - All For You
Julee Cruise / Angelo Badalamenti - Falling (demo)
Low - Will The Night
Jane's Addiction - I Would For You (live)
Slowdive - Here She Comes
Shana Falana - Come And Find Me
Grant Lee Phillips - Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me (The Smiths cover)
The Smashing Pumpkins - Landslide (Fleetwood Mac cover)
The Cranberries - Linger (acoustic)
Jeff Buckley & Elizabeth Fraser - All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun

Valentine's Mixtape 2K24 (acoustic, folk, dreampop, indie, covers etc)

Recent events, travels and a lovely hillwalk had me in a reflective seasonal mood, so threw this together - still feel like winter is lingering but maybe just mentally, bring on the proper good weather (one day isn't enough) . . .

Kate Bush - Under Ice 
Penelope Trappes - Bleak Midwinter
IKSRE - Dawn In A Foreign City 
Julianna Barwick - Nod feat Nosaj Thing
Boards Of Canada - You Could Feel The Sky
Massive Attack - Teardrop feat Elizabeth Fraser 
Yo La Tengo - Sea Urchins
Sam Rosenthal - Dark Mist, Rain
Sam Rosenthal - From Within The Cold (A Fragment)
Aphex Twin - Acrid Avid Jam Shred
Nicolette - Beautiful Day
Spivak - The One In Front Of The Sun
Xarah Dion - Delight Frozen Over Ether 
Closed Mouth - Icehouse 
Daysailer - Wandered Lonely
The Black Dog - Pot Noddle
Beaumont Hannant - Departure

Into Springtime Mix (ambient, trip-hop, IDM, synth, chillout)

Recently been lots of gigs, football, outdoors stuff but still not quite feeling like it's summer yet - all of this has me in the mood for this bunch
Layday  休息日 - Sun Machine
Future Nostalgia - U
Weezer - Undone (The Sweater Song)
Adorer - Unkind
Smashing Pumpkins - Today
Slowwves - Anywhere Else
Winter - The Lonely Girl
Animal Ghosts - Sometimes (feat Japanese Heart Software)
Daydream Twins - Bombinate
Superdrone - In A Dream
No Joy - Everything New
The Cure - Pictures Of You (Remix)
Big Country - Just A Shadow
Yo La Tengo - Decora
Chastity Belt - Hollow
Beverly - Madora
Mannequin Pussy - I Don't Know You
Slowdive - Chained To A Cloud
Flyying Colours - Wavy Gravy
My Bloody Valentine - When You Sleep
Ride - Time Of Her Time
Shana Falana - Everyone Is Gonna Be OK
Wire - Blessed State
Darksoft - Endless Day

Dream of Summer (shoegaze, dreampop, grunge, post-punk etc)

Wee hour worth of love- and sex-themed tunes done for Butterfly Effect on Valentine's Day 2018. Pretty random selection!
Beaumont Hannant - Woven 
Ministry - The Angel
Matthew Dear - You Put A Smell On Me
Revolting Cocks - Da Ya Think I'm Sexy
Final Cut - She Destroys
Ontario Hospital - Perfect Skin
Gesloten Cirkel - feat. Liette
Egyptian Lover - Freakaholic
Prince - U Got The Look
Erik Blood - Today's Lover
Furfriend - Touch Myself
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - A Girl Doesn't Get Killed By A Make-Believe Lover . . . Cuz It's Hot
Depeche Mode - I Feel Loved (Danny Tenaglia remix)
Lords Of Acid - Lover (KMFDM Cake Mix)  
Bjork - Hyperballad
Cyndi Lauper - I'll Kiss You
Medicine - Good For Me
A Flock Of Seagulls - Space Age Love Song
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love

FNOOB Valentine's Dave Set 2018 (techno, industrial, IDM, synthpop etc)

Glasgow-based DJ, has played alongside the likes of Keepsakes, Christina Sealey of Orphx, DJ Andi of Synthicide (NYC) and JD Twitch of Optimo, and put on international live guests such as Multiple Man, Celldod, Autumns, and Qual.

Romance Is Dead - Valentine's Mixtape 2022 (Chillout / ambient / shoegaze / dreampop / ballads etc)

Dave NULL / VOID