15 minute piece made for White Review's programme on Resonance FM, illustrating and extending ideas from Ghosts Of My Life

The Slow Cancellation Of The Future

Earthworm Jim X Wu-Tang Clan = Whatever the heck this is

Gravel Pit [Gutter Edit]

Quick mix to explore some of the moods in the wake of the election defeat: initial shock then renewed militancy and sense of purpose ....

All the straws we clutched at have burst into flames

01. Yo La Tengo - "Everyday"
02. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - "Round and Round"
03. Roxy Music - "End of the Line"
04. The Moles - "Lonely Hearts Get What They Deserve" [excerpt]
05. Colin Newman - "Alone"
06. The Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Fujiyama"
07. The Breeders - "Do You Love Me Now?"
08. Nicolas Jaar - "Colomb"
09. Fever Ray - "Keep the Streets Empty for Me"
10. Women - "Penal Colony" / "Bells"
11. Scott Walker - "The World's Strongest Man"
12. Harry Nilsson - "I'll Never Leave You"
13. Fairport Convention - "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?"
14. Brian Eno - "The Big Ship"
15. Vampire Weekend - "Hanna Hunt"
16. Colin Newman - "Alone on Piano"
17. Robert Wyatt - "Memories of You"

I want a laugh a minute without fail

Umberto "Someone Chasing Someone Through a House"
Gucci Mane "My Shadow (SALEM Remix)"
SPACEGHOSTPURRP x James Pants
Talking Heads "Psycho Killer (#1 Bud Remix)"
Roni Griffith "Mondo Man"
Chromatics "Healer"
Justice "Phantom"
Sunn O))) + Boris "N.L.T." x Ronald Gertz "Criminally Insane"
Fever Ray "If I Had a Heart"
Joy Division "Heart and Soul"
Chrome "Meet You in the Subway"
Dennis Michael Tenney "Night of the Demons"
Gravediggaz "Diary of a Madman"
Ralph Nielsen + The Chancellors "Scream"
Whitehouse x The Overlook Hotel

Tony, I'm Scared...

Mark - piano interlude

Not a "Greatest Hit" per se, but easily my favorite (early) Mac song, edited across multiple versions & fidelities to play somewhat seamlessly for over 2 hours, with the mix slowly being eroded by a cavernous echo that is being gated by the dynamics of the dry signal.

EDIT, 06/17/18. I was taken aback by Danny Kirwan's passing a few days after I originally posted this. One of my all-time favorites, esp. within the context of both this lineup of Mac & this particular song; the original studio session which starts off the proceedings here was his first recorded appearance with the band! 

I've taken the original premise & fleshed it out a bit further, so that it can be put it to rest; this revised version uses the following versions of "Albatross" in a program that loops three times; almost entirely dry, then slowly fading in the reverb signal, finally slowly fading out the dry signal:

UK Mono 7"
Stereo from "Pious Bird" 
1968-11-05
1968-11-17
1969-02-28
1969-09-24
1969-11-06
1969-11-11
1970-01-02 (Radio)
1970-01-02 (Bootleg)
1970-01-31
1970-03-18
Stereo from "English Rose"

Fleetwood Mac; Albatross (Blend)

01. December 25, 1999
02. 12_25_99 (y2k bug mix)

https://cfcf.bandcamp.com/album/december-25-1999

The end of the millennium. Our hopes for the future manifest as good tidings to all as we celebrate the last holiday of a lifetime. But it's impossible to deny that it feels as though something is about to be lost forever. After all, it wouldn't be Christmas if it didn't feel like we'd lost something... In the glowing 21st century, will we be nostalgic for our lost future? Will we ever get to the impossible place we seem to think we're going? 


All proceeds from this single will go to Projet 10, a local, community-oriented nonprofit based in Montréal, Québec that works to promote the personal, social, sexual and mental well-being of lesbian, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, two-spirit, intersexed and questioning youth and adults aged 14-25.
http://p10.qc.ca


This is a digital-only, Bandcamp-exclusive release (for now)

December 25, 1999

NIGHT BUS 4: MEMORY OF NIGHT BUS
http://doulikenightbus.com

AFTER THE DEATH OF NIGHT BUS, ITS DESICCATED CORPSE TURNED TO DUST, GRADUALLY DISSOLVING INTO INFINITELY SMALLER UNTRACEABLE PARTICLES. THESE "GHOSTS" ONCE HAUNTED OUR EVERYDAY WORKINGS IN CURATED NETSPACE UNTIL THEY BECAME UNDETECTABLE AND WERE EVENTUALLY SUBSUMED BY THE UTTER MASS OF ACTIVITY. NOW, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO TRULY INTERFACE WITH NIGHT BUS. WE CAN ONLY GATHER PARTIAL INTEL FROM SHORT, REPEATED MISSIONS INTO "MEMORYSPACE" -- PART NOSTALGIC TRIP, PART DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGY, PART SHARED COMMUNAL MYTH. THIS ARTEFACT, "NIGHT BUS 4: MEMORY OF NIGHT BUS", IS ENTIRELY COUNTERFEIT. OBSCURE DETAILS MUST GIVE WAY TO OBVIOUS TOUCHSTONES FOR THE SAKE OF AN APPEALING REPRODUCTION: A DASH OF BJÖRK HERE, A TWIST OF YOUNG THUG THERE, CULMINATING WITH AN EMOTIONAL FINISH THANKS TO A RE-APPROPRIATED R&B QUEEN. A MELODRAMATIC NIGHTMARE 'IMITATION OF LIFE'. AT BEST, A FORGED OSSUARY; AT WORST, BAD TAXIDERMY. LIKE THE JAMES OSSUARY, IT IS A FABRICATION CARVED ONTO AN AUTHENTIC BUT EMPTY CONTAINER SO AS TO CONVINCINGLY DECEIVE, OR, LIKE THE LION OF GRIPSHOLM CASTLE, IT IS AN ABSURD ATTEMPT TO RE-CAPTURE MAJESTIC LIFE FROM A CORPSE FOR THE SAKE OF DECORATION; LIKE THE LION, IT CACKLES STUPIDLY AT US FOR EVEN TRYING. HYUCK. IN ANY CASE, THESE NIGHTS JUST AIN'T GETTING ANY EASIER, AND WHO COULD JUDGE US FOR SEEKING COMFORT IN THE HAZY COUNTERFEIT LAND OF MEMORY.

RIP MARK HOLLIS
RIP SUSUMU YOKOTA
RIP PRODIGY
RIP ROBERT MILES

Ed Tomney - Safe
Goldie - Letter of Fate
Susumu Yokota - Sea Blue
PNL - Sur Paname
Moby - Feeling So Real
Lorenzo Senni - Angel
Chemical Vacation - Real Style
Yves Tumor - Role In Creation
Babyfather ft. Arca - Meditation
Carla dal Forno - Fast Moving Cars
Marie Davidson - La chambre intérieure
Sky H1 - Air
exael - flowered knife shadows
Oval - Do While (Command+X)
ANOHNI - Marrow
Bjork - Hyperballad
The Blue Nile - Stay Close
Portishead - It Could Be Sweet
Kuedo - Slow Knife
Massive Attack - Man Next Door
Andrea Parker - Ballbreaker
Basement Jaxx - Just 1 Kiss (nb fix)
Oblivion - Last Dance
Terre Thaemlitz - Love Theme From Ai No Bakudan
Jon Hassell - Slipstream
Intense - The Genesis Project
Tim Hecker - Up Red Bull Creek
Mobb Deep - Quiet Storm
Actress - Ascending
Sonic Youth - Dirty Boots
Underworld - King of Snake
The Future Sound of London - Spineless Jelly
Young Thug - Safe (nb remix)
Aphex Twin - Rhubarb
Rihanna - Sex With Me (nb remix)
Jennifer Lopez - Waiting for Tonight (nb remix)
Faye Wong - 童 (Child)
Alexander O’Neal - If You Were Here Tonight
EMBACI - Walk on May 5th
Pentagon - Heal
Talk Talk - Wealth
Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet - Loss
Yves Tumor - Limerence
Julia Holter - Hello Stranger

conceived & arranged by cfcf, November 2016 - November 2018
3d artwork by nicole ruggiero http://www.nicoleruggiero.com

Night Bus

Night Bus 4 : Memory of Night Bus

excerpt from a synth improvisation, realized live (controller-korg volca-through an OD/distortion pedal; pocket operator 32 through a korg monoton delay, both fed through a Roland amp)

There's this stretch from California Blvd, behind the jail, to 31st past the tech hub stuff toward the tortilla factory to Western Blvd heading south over the river on bike where you encounter so much wonder & horror of living in post-industrial Chicago

I want a laugh a minute without fail

mattstan