~ Deep Breakfast 139 by Halftribe ~

Tracklist:
00'00 Halftribe - Lucent Forms Travelling
06'23 Jens Pauly - Tyne
10'46 Porya Hatami - Kani (day)
19'02 Halftribe - Drops
21'17 Ishmael Cormack - Feral
28’07 SineRider - Lapis
32'03 Mehrdad Kanani - Warm White Sun
35'56 Carlo Giustini - A Letizia
40'31 Jupi/ter - Tree
45'00 Innesti - Compelled By Indifference
53'00 Jacob David - Mormor
56'17 Tomosla - Possum
1'01'00 Grotta Veterano - Slumber (part 1)
1'07'23 Halftribe - Pneuma
1'12'00 Andrew Heath - This Island Of Blue
1'19'48 taennya - natural serenity
1'25'16 Moss Covered Technology - Untitled Quiet Loop #6

Photo: Jan Erik Waider

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Deep Breakfast 139 - Halftribe

Sequel to Sean McCann's heavy reggae/dancehall mix of 2020 which bedded the late Jean-Marie Massou's cave recordings under the likes The Summertaires, Barrington Levy and Freddie McKay. Vol 2 marries Caetano Veloso's sound poetry with the Jack Ruby Soundsystem, Horace Andy and The Wailers. Very much what we need to drag us into 2022 - thanks Sean.

Sean McCann is a Los Angeles-based composer, sound artist, curator, and audio engineer. He concurrently operates Recital, a label dedicated to sound poetry, new music, and Fluxus archival recordings. In 2022 Recital will celebrate it's 10 year anniversary - congrats to Sean and all the artists who make it such a special label.

We should say that we initially wrote to Sean asking him to contribute to our festive mailout with a mix, and we were a little slow with the idea - Silk House shared a brilliant choral / sound poetry mix he made in December. Definitely worth checking out after this.
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Barrington Levy - Mine Yuh Mouth
Wailing Souls - Old Broom
Augusto de Campos & Caetano Veloso - Dias Dias Dias
Freddie McGreggor - Bandulo
Icho Candy - Selassie I
Augusto de Campos & Caetano Veloso - Quazar
Cornell Cambell - Broken Hearted Girl
Don Carlos - Infra Red Dub
Augusto de Campos & Caetano Veloso - Pulsar
Tenor Saw - Roll Call
Sugar Minott & John Wayne - Jamming In The Street
Lenox Miller - Better Must Come
Carlton Livingston - 100 Weight of Collie Weed
Horace Andy - Elementary
Hubert Lee - Pressure & Slide
Angus MacLise - Humming In The Night Skull
The Wailers - I Need You
Toots & the Maytals - Oh Yeah
The Martinis - Second That Emotion
Icho Candy - Where Do They Play
Noel Ellis - Marcus Garvey
Barry Brown & Brigadier Jerry - Chalice
Jack Ruby Soundsystem

DS157 - Sean McCann - The Game of the Leaves Vol. 2

A mix of guitar based tracks that Evan and I were listening to, influenced by, etc. while working on our album. 

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Talisman Mix

Friday morning, @jakemuir opened Hemlock Hole with an absolutely spellbinding morning ambient set. The 'Jake Fan Club' were front and center with a comfortable chair in tow. This wasn't a 4x4 dancefloor moment and those who didn't know quickly understood the magic that Jake was creating. It was a beautiful way to start the day and we are grateful for Jake's ability to generate such a special atmosphere.

Campout Mix Series: Jake Muir

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Jake Muir @ The Lot Radio 02-14-2023

Live today is Ukrainian Muscut records 11 years x Mutant Radio takeover! Today, when Georgia and Ukraine are fighting for the same cause and against the same enemy, it’s important to stay united. On International Women’s Day, we’re honoring the brave women who are leading the charge for change in both our countries, and we send a message of hope and solidarity to all those who are still fighting.

Rezo Glonti [Muscut records 11 years ] [08.03.2023]

A rare club mix from the ever-evolving artist, with 90 minutes of shadowy, atmospheric pressure.

Music's therapeutic value is often linked to relaxation—gongs, singing bowls and the like. Dense passages of foggy droning and eerie static aren't traditionally considered restorative, but Laurel Halo makes a pretty good case for it.

The Detroit-born, Los Angeles-based musician's abstract, often improvised productions are heavy on sound design and emotional climax. Driven by atmosphere rather than rhythm, they push listeners to grapple with their innermost insecurities, fears and dreams. "I'm lucky my music has helped people through crises," Halo once told Discwoman. It's easy to see why.

Since her 2010 debut King Felix, Halo has built a stunningly diverse catalogue of classically-informed records. A multi-instrumentalist—piano, violin, guitar, keys—her sharpest instrument is arrangement. Inspired by the surrealism of Italo Calvino and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, her releases, from Atlas to Behind The Green Door, unfold with slow-burning narrative and dense emotional weight. Her soundworlds are layered and labyrinthine—an architectonic space where self-reflection happens almost by force.

Even in the club, the sought-after composer excels in immersion. Her sets extend the expressionist palette of her records, trading traditional rhythm for tension, space and surprise. It’s no wonder she takes a genre-agnostic approach to the dance floor—her deep roots in freeform radio began at WCBN-FM in Michigan, followed by Berlin Community Radio, Rinse FM, and now a regular show on NTS.

RA.992 stitches foggy ambient loops, propulsive techno, mutant percussion and heady left turns with care. Tracks from DJ Rush, Octave One and Eddie Fowlkes nod to her Midwestern heritage, balanced out by deeper, psychedelic fare from the likes of Polygonia and Cousin. It's the mark of an artist revealing both deep curiosity and a precise hand as a selector. Rare, indeed.

@laurelhalo

Find the full interview at ra.co/podcast/992

RA.992 Laurel Halo

For RA.1000, DJ Sprinkles' first mix in over a decade is a powerful meditation on the genocide in Gaza.

Dance music often relies on simple narratives: release, escape, unity. But those narratives can often feel inadequate, and even at times, hollow. Or, as Terre Thaemlitz might bluntly put it, just "shitty."

For her first mix in around 15 years, Terre Thaemlitz AKA DJ Sprinkles, challenges us to think differently. "I felt this 1000th podcast should reflect the moment in which it was made," she told us in her Q&A.

And what is this moment? Every day since Israel's 2023 assault on Gaza began, an average of 28 children have been killed. That's an entire classroom, every day, for over 600 days (at the time of writing). It's a staggering figure that only captures a fragment of the listless cruelty imposed on the strip.

Faced with such a genocide, what can music really do? How political can it truly be?  For their RA.1000, Thaemlitz gives us an unflinching rebuke to the idea that music should provide escapism. The mix weaves ambient fragments and jazz passages, woven around samples from Israeli media and the voices of outspoken Jewish critics like Gabor Maté and Norman Finkelstein. 

The result is not just a protest, but a document of our time. For Terre Thaemlitz, music is never just music. Her RA.1000 serves as a reminder that in an age of relentless suffering, the most political act is to reject the illusion of escape, and search for something greater.

Read the interview and find the tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1013. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Terre Thaemlitz / DJ Sprinkles

Evergreen

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter LXXXIX. Pianos In The Wild by Andrew Pekler. 
Cover photo courtesy of Candace Price.

 
This mix features some favorite (mostly unaccompanied) piano meanderings from Australia, Algeria, Ethiopia, Italy, South Africa and the US set against a shifting backdrop of various nocturnal field recordings.

Tracklist: 
1. Joanna Brouk - The Space Between 
2. Chris Abrahams - Roller 
3. Abdullah Ibrahim - The Pilgrim 
4. Mustapha Skandrani - Mode Ghrib 
5. Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou ‎– Golgotha 
6. Domenico De Clario - June 5 
7. William Duckworth - Time Curve Prelude III 
8. William Duckworth - Time Curve Prelude XIII 
9. Adrian Klumpes - Be Still 
10. Raul Lovisoni & Francesco Messina - Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo

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Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter LXXXIX

Mysteries of the Deep LXXXIX - ANDREW PEKLER | PIANOS IN THE WILD

A late-stage rehearsal straight to cassette for reference. Recorded shortly before going into the studio, probably at John Henry rehearsal rooms. This is Mark on guitar, Lee on drums, and myself on piano and organ (the bass was always addressed in the studio once the basic track was down, which is why it doesn't feature here).
It's best to take the 8 minutes out and listen to the end, preferably in headphones, and in a quiet space,

Evergreen

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