Studio mixes

a brief sketch about mind control and parapolitics.

tracklist:
[sam] - sample

Aaron Dilloway - Psychic Driving Tapes B7
[Icarus Redux DJ tag] Planes (2013)
Beppu - Suggestive Questioning
Jeff Mills - Hatsumi
DHS - Hypnosis
Jens - Psycho Strings
Kuniyuki Takahashi - Mind Madness
Phase Fatale - De-Patterning
Fun Da Mental - Cointelpro (Human Rights For Humans Left)
Meat Beat Manifesto - Your Mind Belongs to the State
Kryptic Minds - Bust It Up
Beaumont - Foreign Intrigue
Fatima al Qadiri - Oil Well
Shackleton - Blood On My Hands
[sam] Greystone (Blackwater) Promotional Video
DJ Stingray - Strategy of Tension
Common & Pharrell - Universal Mind Control (Instrumental)
Onra - My Mind Is Gone (feat. Olivier Daysoul)
Otik - Psyops
Spac Hand Luke (Luke Vibert) - Psycho

Charas 008: Noided

When I was DJing with @erlaab as part of our short-lived Two Doves radio show (shout out Christian of @particlefm for taking a chance on us), the structural conceit for our shows was developed via shared Google Doc's discussing current events, and what of them we wanted to put into the mix. I was surprised and encouraged by what came out of those sessions.

This mix is a continuation of that theme. Discussion of current events as an emotional lens. No sugarcoating, no bullshit, because the world is rough out there right now.

tracklist:
[sam] - sample

Steve Lehman - Time is the First Track
Teleseen - Work Will Not Set You Free
Time is Away - Turn On Arabic Radio Oscura (SSIEGE/Muslimgauze)
Skull Valley - Ghost Story
DJ Screw - Genesis - It's Gonna Get Better
Tony Price - TELECOMM
Demdike Stare x Dolo Percussion - DOLO DS 2
Lenky & Snapple Dapple - Desert Storm
Serengeti & Polyphonic - Call The Law
DJ Shadow + Depeche Mode - Painkiller (Kill The Pain Mix)
DJ Krush - Shinjiro (Harsh Mix) (feat. Mos Def)
Scorn - Silver Rain Fell (Meat Beat Manifesto Mix)
[sam] DJ Shadow & Hrishikesh Hirway - Song Exploder: "Mutual Slump"
Cocktail Party Effect - Explaining Death To A Dog
Holly Herndon - Home
Gille' Loves - Burning World -崩壊の序曲-
Will Long - Pigs (Sprinkles Overdub)
Stereolab - Ticker-Tape of the Unconscious
Ron Obvious - Group Mind
[Icarus Redux DJ tag] Icarus was on an ego trip - Smallville S9E22
ADI - War Outside
Tensnake - In the End (I Want You to Cry)
[sam] UNKLE - Outro

Charas 009: Sisters, I Don't Know What This World Is Coming To

originally premiered the first two hours of this mix on August 4, 2021 on @coopersaver's Far Away radio show on Dublab. Re-uploaded to my profile after the Far Away project went dormant.

What does it mean to relive uncut human experience? Not just a memory, not just a dream, but something more. The past inside the present.

In his seminal “In/Flux”, the EP from which Mixmag dubbed the term “trip-hop”, DJ Shadow opens with a narcotic vocal sample, “It's a song about life, death, love, hate, wealth, poverty, racism...Just a few things been running through my head...” That quote, along with the souls of a whole host of talented musicians and DJs, both living and dead, inform the work you’re about to hear.

Later, in Endtroducing, Shadow uses his “Transmission” interludes as a sort of frame story, suggesting that his album is being beamed to the subconscious of his listener from the future. This mix operates in a similar way, and has its own interludes, though from the past, a wiretrip, a blackjack clip à la Strange Days. Because this is a story about Minneapolis, about the Twin Cities community of activists and ravers, about me, living breathing sleeping shitting pissing doping our way from January 2020 to the Derek Chauvin trial. It is a chronological mix, though there are tributes sprinkled in to the dearly departed. There is George Floyd, there is Philando Castile, there is MF DOOM Andrew Weatherall Phil Asher and DMX, there is dodging rubber bullets and tear gas and flashbangs and kettles and watching a precinct burn. There is mutual aid. There is the despair and desperation of it all, as incremental reform takes over anarchic energy. There is a retreat to chemicals and its fallout. There is the strange, ambiguous sense of relief at some measure of justice, and there is anger at seeing new administrations retreat to the clinical and brutal doublespeak of late capitalism. It’s all there, if you hear it with the right set of ears.

tracklist: https://imgur.com/a/yzdZjDE

Far Away Guest Mix (2021)

tracklist:
[sam] - sample

The Alchemist - Soundcheck
Новые Композиторы - Чайка
Peshay - The Real Thing (90 BPM Version)
Кровосток - Пурга
Hive - Sci-Clone
Exael - L-Theanine
Sangam & Thugwidow - Messenger Of God
[sam] The music at a rave helps you to feel
Steve C & Monita - The Razors Edge
Nectax - Body Talk
Dan White - Precognitive Dreams
The Truper - Street Beats Vol.2 [Side A]
Ontology - Take Me Away
Yoko Kanno - The Real Man
Tom & Jerry - The One Reason
DJ Assault - Tyrone (Remix)
DJ 3D - How Many Ways (Refreshers Rework)

Percussive Complexity (for Alina Trukhina)

RIP Future Classic.

tracklist:
[ai] - AI-extracted
[sam] - sample

[sam] You a dreamer? (Waking Life, 2001, dir. Richard Linklater)
Jules Reidy - World in World
Barn Owl - The Stones Speak Through The Fire
Transit Express - The Whisperer of Dreams
Kassel Jaeger - Dissipation of Light
Sabi - Sleepy Emerald vs He Ostrich
Parco Palaz - Prelude To A Dream
J.A.M. - The Spell (Hypnotic Mix)
FaltyDL - She Sleeps (2000Black Remix)
Si Begg - Hair Roller
Red Snapper - Last One
[ai] [sam] DJ Shadow on music archival and ego (Scratch, 2001, dir. Doug Pray)
Ginsberg - Hold The Hand Of Your Dreams
DJ Sprinkles - A Crippled Left Wing Soars With The Right (Steal This Record Club Remix)
Pantha Du Prince - Bohemian Forest
[ai] [sam] Life is only a vision, a dream (The Adventures of Mark Twain, 1985, dir. Will Vinton)
LB Dub Corp - How You Play It
[ai] [sam] This is a dreamy party (The Prisoner, 1967)
René Audiard - Glow
Ploy - Sending
Pure Science - Ooaahh
Jesse Somfay - Can You See Me I'm Waving
Efdemin - Acid Bells (Martyn's Bittersweet Mix)
[sam] Exercise your human mind (Waking Life, 2001, dir. Richard Linklater)

Charas 010: Dreams

tracklist:

Bendik Giske - High
Andrea Belfi - Cera Persa 1
Phillip Sollmann - U / O
Carl Craig - The Melody (Acoustic Version)
Oliver Coates - Another Fantasy
Brandt Brauer Frick - Bop (Video Version)
Hauschka - Radar
Toshio Matsuura Group - At Les
Nisennenmondai - B-2
Archie Pelago & Grenier - Two If by Sea
Rough Fields - Music for 18 Musicians: VII. Section V

Charas 011: Acoustic

some commentary on US imperialism and the situation in Palestine.

tracklist:

The Fugs - CIA Man
Désormais - Gaza Strip
Fatima Al Qadiri - Endzone
Mark Pritchard - I'm Going to War
Spooky - Little Bullet (Dum Dum Mix)
Front De Cadeaux - There Is Something Wrong
Muslimgauze - Analog Zikr 1
Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure (Oliver Coates Edit, Aftersun, 2022)
Muslimgauze - United States of Islam (Pt. 1)
L-Wiz - Egyptic
Sikka Rymes - Seh Dem Bad
Walton - PJD
Samrai - End the Occupation Now
Riad Awwad, Hanan Awwad and Mahmoud Darwish - I'm from Jerusalem

Charas 012: Palestine

tracklist:
[sam] - sample

[sam] Soul Brother Goes On A Trip (The Spook Who Sat By The Door, 1973)
Muslimgauze - Satyajit Eye
[Icarus Redux DJ tag] Modern Family S05E03
Hanz Zimmer (feat. Baba Maal) - Hunger (Black Hawk Down, 2001)
Ranking Mandey - Conflict And War
Broomsfield Corporate Jam - Does Anybody Really Know
Yesterdays New Quintet - Superstition
SSIEGE - Sogno In Bb
Neneh Cherry - Faster Than the Truth
Kouji Nagahashi - Lost Crown
Cottam - Rivers Of Blood
Anima Mundi - Smoke Signal
Daft Punk - Musique
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Black Hot Soup (DJ Shadow "My Own Reality" Re-Write)
Primal Scream - If They Move, Kill 'Em (My Bloody Valentine Arkestra)
Bob Desper - Darkness Is Like A Shadow
Hofuku Sochi (feat. Benjamin Wild/Miss Alaska) - Demain
Jorge C. - A Little Beat (The World Is Ova Megamix)
[sam] It's Useless To Wait (The Coming Insurrection, The Invisible Committee, 2009)
Andrew Weatherall - End Times Sound
Robert Owens - Living In A Land
DJ Overdose - Watch The City Burn Instrumental
Nicolette - No Government (Plaid Remix)
DJ Gregory - Head Dubbing
Primal Scream - Swastika Eyes (War Pigs) (Chemical Brothers Mix)
Villager, Waleed - Pig
Scratchclart - Log Out
Gantz (feat. Rider Shafique) - Rockstar
Paul Leonard-Morgan - Ma-Ma's Requiem (Dredd, 2012)
Ekkehard Ehlers - Strange Things
[sam] Soul Brother Meets His End (The Spook Who Sat By The Door, 1973)

Charas 013: Conflict And War

tracklist:

SSIEGE - Regina
Bola - Dog in America
Car Culture - Coping Mechanism Dub
Depeche Mode - Barrel of a Gun (Soft Underworld Mix)
Toshinori Kondo - Introspection
Madlib - Hopprock
Dead Prez - Police State
David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans (V1)

Charas 014: 'Murica

for a crush. is it you?

tracklist:
[ai] - AI-extracted
[sam] - sample

[sam] Client_03 - Interpersonal Relationship Assessment
Joel Webster - Love Is A Sweet Taste In My Mind
Actress - Rap
Amel Larrieux - Berries and Cream
Taprikk Sweezee - Peek
AJ Tracey - Crush (Feat. Jorja Smith)
Rune Bagge - Ghostly Touch
Wambonix - Deep Affection
Elliott Duquai - Only Seduction
Lockgroove - Feel the Joy
McGregor - Wanna E
Mr. Reds - Get Into The Music
Zed Bias - In Your Mind
Off The Meds - Belter (a cappella)
Epoch - Attraction Dub
Borai - Dub Fi Dub
Bigshot x Janet Jackson - Someone To Call My Lover (Zaleel Glitch Edit)
Borrowed Identity - Feelings for You
Courtesy - Crush (Deconstructed)
Unknown/HATE - Cunning Love
[sam] Quest - Mind Games (a cappella)
OSSX - DON'T U SEE I'M OFF THE CLOCK
Genesis Owusu - Gold Chains (Harvey Sutherland Remix)

Charas 016: Crush Mood

tracklist:
[ai] - AI-extracted
[sam] - sample

[sam] Theo Parrish @ LEME '14 - "overdoing things with your bullshit"
Dominic Coles - learning-music
Ali Farka Touré - Wakata Gouna
African Head Charge - Stebeni's Theme (St. Echo Mix)
Orang - Nahoojek ~ Fogou
Karl Hector & Nicolas Tounga - Ngunga Yeti Fofa (The Joaquin Joe Claussell's Electric Afrika Mix)
[ai] [sam] Madlib - Homeboy tryna mix (Brasilintime)
Dosis - Naranja (Dub)
Tony Allen - Kilode Remix
Ivan Conti - Mamao's Brake (IG Culture Remix)
[ai] [sam] Station Eleven S01E09 Decoded
Family Atlantica - Cacao
Cesaria Evora - Carnaval De Sao Vicente (Jazzy Carnaval Mix)
Viva Brasil - Ronco Da Cuica
Red 7 - I Lost My Shoes On Acid

Charas 015: Post-African Repetitions

techno at the edge of noise and listenability, to ring in the screaming void that is the Present.

tracklist:
[ai] - AI-extracted
[sam] - sample

Basic Soul Unit - Soulspeak (Shed Remix)
Perc & Truss - Spiker
Olēka - Ostentiferous
Beau Wanzer - The Table Scrap
Errorsmith - Never Enough (Empty Bottle, Chicago 21.4.2003 + Blowout, 23 Windows, New York 21.9.2002)
Four Tet - Kool FM (Container Remix)
Fret - List Is Full
Caustic Window - The Garden Of Linmiri
Tuning Circuits - It's In My Brain Too (Screaming Oscillator Version)
Converter - Coma
Pete Swanson - Life Ends at 30
Sponge - Plowed (Acoustic Pilot Mix)

Charas 017: Screaming Oscillators

a collection of tracks that remind me of M|A|A|R|S's "Anitina (The First Time I See She Dance) (Remix)" and Orang's "Nahoojek ~ Fogou". Guitars, dubwise stylings, hand percussion, punk energy. Shout out to hurfyd's Cosine Club music similarity engine.

tracklist:
[ai] - AI-extracted
[sam] - sample

Doctor L, Tony Allen, Jean Phi Dary, Jeff Kellner, Cesar Anot - Pictures Talk
Exclusive DJ's Vogue Company -  Fall in Love (Dub Mix)
Soft - Uneri To Yuragi (Kuniyuki's A. Live DMT Dub)
[ai] [sam] DJ Koze - XTC
Kris Baha - Nowave
Jinjé - Ngoma
Little Dragon - When I Go Out
Blast Head - New Words
Mi Ami - African Rhythms

Charas 020: Anitina

tracklist:
[ai] - AI-extracted
[sam] - sample

Sir Real - Backwash (reversed)
DJ Rels - Diggin In Brownswood
Roisin Murphy - Sow Into You (Bugz In The Attic Remix)
Rude Ass Tinker - Get Wicked
Human Resources - Desilu (U Edit)
Forme - Percussive Thinking
Benga / Fis-T - Rhythm Of The Night Hunter (L-Vis 1990 Edit)
Nubian Mindz - Black Science (Restless Soul Looptime Mix)
Plex - Afro Breaks
Dave Clarke - No One's Driving (The Chemical Brothers Remix) (Skee Mask Refix)
Lone - Triple Helix
Joi - E.Sy (Spring Heel Jack Mix)
Evian Christ - Thrown Like Jacks

Charas 023: Syncopation Overload

A concept I have been returning to again and again in making autobiographical mixes is Annea Lockwood's idea of a sound map, "an aural tracing [of a specified place] interleaved with the memories and reflections of its people". Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately, *actually?*), I have been bouncing around a few different cities and countries the last couple of years, so my experiences have been super varied. I recently completed a marathon (for me, at least) 6 hour such mix-as-sound-map, with its own distinct emotional "beats". It begins *in media res*, in that it opens with a DJ Shadow sample with which I closed a previous mix (https://soundcloud.com/icarus-redux/the-great-beyond-2022-domeland), which I haven't heard of other people doing just yet! It also describes...how shall I say this delicately, my experience as a voice-hearer and targeted individual, something that I have experienced since the start of my DJ career thusfar (and in bits and pieces up to as early as 2012).

tracklist:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H86ndE_kwZM6hFFpn4EqHRqXes43thT-rvQ5cw4LKlE/edit?usp=sharing

Charas 019: Psychosis

tracklist:
[ai] - AI-extracted
[sam] - sample

Saucy Lady - Magic Dust (E. Live Remix)
The Internet - Roll (Burbank Funk)
De La Soul - A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays"
Vaughan Mason & Crew - Bounce, Rock, Skate (Roll, Bounce)
Liquid Liquid - Cavern
Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime (Joey Negro Edit)
Justin Warfield - B Boys On Acid
Bobby Konders & Massive Sounds - Bad Boy Dance
Aquasky - Blue Thunder (DJ Shanti Edit)
UNKLE - The Knock (Drums Of Death, Pt. 2)

Charas 022: Roller Skate/Break Reverse Candyflip

tracklist:
[ai] - AI-extracted
[sam] - sample

The Obsession Project - Untitled (AA1)
Onirico - Echo
DJ Boom/Matthew Herbert - Kinda Kickin'
Rhythm Workshop - Aftershock
The Formula - The Ritual (Hard Hit Mix)
F.M. Inc. - Dub Me Anytime
T.P.M. - Boogaloo (David Alvarado And Lord Sadat's Mix)
G Flame & Mr. G - Swing Crewz II
Symetrics - Persuasion
M.T.C. - All That Jazz (Jazz à Vu Mix)
O.D.C. - My Mind Is Going (Deranged Version)
Ten City - Devotion (Voice Of Paradise Mix)

Charas 021

a discussion of an ongoing relationship.

tracklist:
[ai] - AI-extracted or -synthesized
[sam] - sample

Rhythm Devils - Napalm for Breakfast
YS - Dreams We Share
The Third Eye Foundation - Once When I Was An Indian
Andy Stott - Numb
Earl Sweatshirt - Grief
Sockethead - All My Days Are Dark As Night
[sam] Theo Parrish - empathy, sympathy, introspection...these are places to start (LEME '14)
Theo Parrish - I Can Take It
[ai] [sam] Simon Reynolds - the idea that the choice of chemicals could have any cultural repercussions or effects on music’s evolution (You Remind Me of Gold: Mark Fisher and Simon Reynolds dialogue about the state of dance music and the state of "the future", 2010)
Sim Hutchins - (Let's) Find Love in the Club
Alicia Keys - Unthinkable (Physical Therapy Real Heavy Vibe)
Leon Vynehall - Beau Sovereign
Jocelyn Enriquez - A Little Bit Of Ecstasy (Booker T Vox Dub)
Vikter Duplaix - Manhood
Baths - Ocean Death
Sim Hutchins - (Can't) Find Love in the Club
DJ Slyngshot - OF XTC (Action Mix)
Mickey Oliver (feat. Shanna Jae) - Never Let Go (Strip Steve RMX)
Simbad (feat. Melo) - After the Dance (Bugz In The Attic Remix)
Janet Jackson - Pleasure Principle (Special Request Offworld Mix)
Sim Hutchins - (Won't) Find Love in the Club
[sam] Earl Sweatshirt - I prostrated myself to the music (Microphone Check: "I'm Grown")
Rhye - Waste (Mishti's Disintegrated Version)
Stars of the Lid - A Meaningful Moment Through a Meaning(less) Process
[ai] [sam] Simon Reynolds - The comedown from ecstasy is like having your heart broken (You Remind Me of Gold: Mark Fisher and Simon Reynolds dialogue about the state of dance music and the state of "the future", 2010)

Charas 025: Love Hertz

a re-imagining of a set I originally performed at a private kink party at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, back in 2021.

tracklist:
[ai] - AI-extracted or -synthesized
[sam] - sample

Armand Van Helden (feat. Mita) - Entra Mi Casa
Rinf - Big Bondage (Kinky Sex Wet Mix)
Mappa Mundi - Sexafari
DJ Sprinkles - Masturjakor (Bonus Beats Edit)
Ste Spandex - Undress Me
Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette (Club 69 & Danny Tenaglia Remix)
Juju & Jordash - Clubsex
Delicious, Inc. - Eau De Chanté (For Sex)
Paul Johnson - Women Masturbate Too
Bored Lord - Spit In Your Mouth
DJ Technics - Change Positions
Anthony Rother - Sex With The Machines
Annanan & Maroje T. - Confrontation In Terms Of Sexuality
Martyn - Like That
Djrum - Sex

Charas 027: Sexafari

tracklist:
[ai] - AI-extracted or -synthesized
[sam] - sample

Felix Kubin - Musik für neue Büromaschinen
O/H - Wage Slave
Ruby My Dear - Karoshi
Beyoncé - Ghost
[sam] Joy O - £$%£$%
[sam] Joy O - Bup
DJ Sprinkles - Meditation on Wage Labor and the Death of the Album (Sprinkles’ Unpaid Overtime)
[ai] [sam] Mark Fisher - Refusal of work in the countercultural 1960s (Acid Communism)
[sam] Andrew Ramdayal - Project "lifecycles" (PMP Certification Exam Prep Course on Udemy)
[sam] Joy O - Mi Nuh Care
[sam] Andrew Ramdayal - Project "lifecycles" (PMP Certification Exam Prep Course on Udemy)
[ai] [sam] Herbert Marcuse - The demand for liberation implies the recognition that freedom is possible only where the compulsion to work and to perform can be replaced by a new form of human existence. (Eros and Civilization)
[ai] [sam] Freddie Gibbs on Ikigai (Alfredo: The Movie)
Coldcut & Hexstatic - Timber
Powder - New Tribe
BEAK> - Welcome to the Machine
Fatboy Slim - Machines Can Do The Work
Client_03 - Decommission Me
Lemme Kno - 1234567
Loft - Funemployed
[sam] Joy O - Mi Nuh Care
Marie Davidson - Work It (Soulwax Remix)
[sam] Joy O - £$%£$%
[sam] Andrew Ramdayal - Project "lifecycles" (PMP Certification Exam Prep Course on Udemy)

Charas 026: Work

// PAST: @WRGW, @ALPHAPUP, @dublab, @ninja-tune (LA office), Moony Habits, @rootnotecollective, @particlefm
// PRESENT: @daytimers_uk
// FUTURE: orbis non sufficit