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poetry, myth and field recordings

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Daniela Huerta & Henri Lakis - Support stream mix

Really putting the Weird in Weirdos inc. We have long time bristolian oddball wizard friends Escalator To Nowhere. These boys have been playing the slow and strange ever since the inception of now world famous Noods Radio since the days it basically started on a sofa. This is a refreshing none-dance-head-bop-detune-your-ears-look-at-the-wall-and-say-whatthefuckisthat-kinda-mix. Eclectic avant-garde business. Thanks for the mix, and I hope you enjoy as much as I do. Here are some words form the ETN lads:

"We had lots of fun leaning into our weirdo side for this! Basically made a big playlist of all our favourite dumb, silly, wobbly, strange tracks and then Gav fashioned some sort of Spy Kids clay sculpture out of it (that's a reference for the heads). 

There's a few ETN classics in here, like 'O Superman' straight out the blocks and 'Simple Headphone Mind' bringing it home, then the rest of it is a bit of a world-tour of wonkiness, including Indonesian percussion, Austrian gibberish into Kraftwerk, Czechoslovakian synth-pop, a Swiss interlude about a crazy monster killing people at a university (I think?) and then I thought it would be fitting to follow that with Martin Newell's University Challenge parody track and then some Captain Beefheart half-gibberish and then a track with a made-up Deep South "good old boy" talking to his daughter about drag racing which turns into a domestic. Then there's a few slightly more normal tracks but also a Michal Turtle track about condiments and a very wobbly synth tune by Cybe with some swirly bleep bloops that turn into a melody from a famous film which I won't spoil. Then there's another Cleaners From Venus track with an arrestingly beautiful karimba tune bookended with some unsettling mad-hatter's tea party nonsense, then a track made by some 14-year-old Australians about their parents getting divorced that has no business being so good, then hot cross buns into Ivor Cutler singing about bugs, and then another fantastic Japanese track we got from Mr Ho (shout-out Mr Ho). 

The first draft of the mix ended with 'Ealing Hygienic Laundry' by the Wibbley Brothers, but it felt wrong for the melting/powering-down voice saying "milky white" at the end of Simple Headphone Mind to not be the end of the mix. But then it felt wrong to not have any Wibbley Brothers track in the Weirdos mix. Thankfully the opening track from their album "Go Weird" is just a 4-second track called "Weird" in which they just sing the word "Weird!" and it fit perfectly as the finish line."

Tracklist:

Laurie Anderson - O Superman
Regno Maggiore - Magipellice
Uwalmassa - Untitled 03 (Bumi Uthiri LP)
Djif Sanders - The Campsite
Xaõ Seffcheque - Ja-Nein-Vielleicht
Kraftwerk - Antenna
Máma Bubo - Planeta Haj
Hum Prójimo - Floh Im Ohr
Carlos Peron - Her Heäd Is Bräkin Intu Foör (Primal Version)
Cleaners From Venus - University Challenge
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Abba Zaba
Drag Racing Underground - Hellfire
Elephant Chateau - Dreaming
Thomas Leer - Tight As A Drum (Bullion Remix)
Yello - Bananas To The Beat
Frank Chickens - Cheeba Cheeba Chimpira
Jin Cromanyon - Zombie Pop
Cybe - Chaos
Aladdin - Girls In Uniform (Graal Dub)
Sea Urchin - Mish Hata'ref tesHa
Michal Turtle - Phil #5
Cleaners From Venus - The Winter Palace
Foot And Mouth - I Want My Mummy
Dragibus - Hot Cross Bun
Ivor Cutler - I Believe In Bugs
Syunsuke Ono - Disco Is
Stereolab & Nurse With Wound - SImple Headphone Mind
The Wibbley Brothers - Weird

Escalator To Nowhere (Bristol) ~ inc.ternational Mix Series 06 [Weirdos Inc.]

Dive into Donna Leake's ever developing taste, drawing sounds from all over the globe and all over the clock including jazz, reggae and psych. 
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/donna-leake/episodes/donna-leake-11th-july-2024

Donna Leake 110724

Lighthouse Festival w/ sucre sucre

..rohamléptekben a világégés felé..
..esetleg ha valaki még nem tudna róla..

curd leather"_RUKAMI

Hour long explorations with Melbourne experimental pop producer & artist Sui Zhen. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/sui-zhen/episodes/sui-zhen-27th-january-2025

Sui Zhen 270125

Torn Hawk, also known as Luke Wyatt, brings his comedy talk show to the NTS airwaves.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/torn-hawk/episodes/torn-hawk-27th-january-2025

Torn Hawk 270125

There is no boundaries in chasing the most ordinary to the most peculiar sounds. 

Recorded at Experiment Intrinsic 03 
09 April 2016 - London
Water View Room

@oswaldo-nicoletti

Water View Room • Oswaldo

Objekt: "Here’s the recording of my set from Dekmantel Selectors festival in Tisno, Croatia, summer 2017.

This was definitely a lucky case of snatching victory from the jaws of defeat and there are endless caveats with this recording – I had a terrible cold; I’d lost my earplugs about an hour earlier and this was the first set I’d played without them in about 6 years; the needles kept jumping (long story but kinda my fault) – but somehow the environment, the energy of the crowd and liberal quantities of vodka sent me flying through 2.5 hours of techno, house, electro, IDM, ghettotech, jungle, DnB and all the way back again. You’ll have to excuse the skipping records but otherwise I hope you enjoy the recording as much as I enjoyed playing."

Dekmantel Selectors 2017

Objekt at Dekmantel Selectors 2017

5ive of Cos/Mes, a long time friend and source of inspiration! We first stumbled upon his music back in them MySpace-days when we flew over to Tokyo the hang out in his Sadistic Skatepark. This time he gave us a mix of different field recordings, that gives us a glimpse of dance floors, dj booths, streets, bars, markets, shores and after hours from around the globe. 

When listening to this , what first came to my mind were some deep down inside childhood memories. From when my parentes were throwing parties and me hanging out under a table listening to the music and the grown ups chatting, drinking and smoking. So put on some headphones close your eyes and get with the program! /Sling

BORN FREE Radio - 18 - 5ive (Cos/Mes)

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Over the course of eleven albums - not to mention an avalanche of side projects, remixes and collaborations - Jan St Werner and Andi Toma of Mouse on Mars established themselves as two of the most inventive and unpredictable artists in electronic music.

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