Weekend Warrior - along with https://soundcloud.com/mr-squirrel/sets/mr-squirrel-music-for-earphones and the adjacent material - came about after a brief sojourn as Hypothetical Sofa making clumsy stabs at low slung trippy sample mash up trip hop. Very diegetic and cartoony even, fiercely intimate and idiosyncratic - but sofa was a hot mess and by the end of 2005 something - I don't remember what - made me tighten the screws. Starting 2006 a very 18 year old Skwirl (then Mr. Squirrel) was making these mad mashes ripping samples from household/self acquired cds with rudimentary audio editing software and chucking that wildly at a 16 track virtual sequencer that required live performance (no offline or linear arrangement possible) and once a good take had tumbled out then off on a dash over to my stepdad's Sony Vio, which for some reason had Sound Forge on it, to do crazy effects and mental layers of things - that then had to travel via zip disk back to my room...all to make these trippy, dense, kaleidoscopic, intimate, bombastic, experimental, and dare I say dope sample collage, mega mash up style big beat meets downtempo meets trip hoppy tunes from literally hundreds upon hundreds of samples of all sorts of things.

To be fair a lot my memory of making music at that time was excitedly running down the hallway with a zip disk or something of the like so i could put the thing from one thing into another thing to do the thing to then take back to the first thing and make it do that thing. I remember being overwhelmed when I got Logic that i didn't have to do that anymore and that I could arrange things on an offline linear path and didn't have to make half dozen print mix performances of the tunes. Now of course I marvel at the dedication we used to have to doing things when it was much more arduous! Oh dear - geriatric "we" used there. Clearly I digress - check this isht out!

A note: given the obviously profound illegality of claiming any rights to these things they will never see streaming sites so think of here and YouTube as the official drop spots of these ancient nuggets of mad science-y associations and almost wayward ideas.

Mr. Squirrel - Weekend Warrior (2007)

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In The Library with Skwirl

Beat science at its finest from the Berlin-based Skwirl.

Limited run of 50 cassette tapes in the classic mix-tape format.

"For this this record I set out wanting to make a kind of dusty 90s tweaked out beat-tape style affair...like your mate's older brother found a bunch of weird jams and slammed them on a tape, or you found some odd cassette and took it home perplexed with no idea what was actually going to be on it.
I hope you all enjoy it."
-Skwirl

ps. In an effort to keep physical music alive and special, the record in this form will only be available to those who buy the cassette version of this release. That is how I really envisioned the record, and we care about music as a tangible artefact for the listener - not just files. 

released June 26, 2020

on Space Hardware
https://spacehardware.bandcamp.com/

Buy Cassette/Digital

Planned Obsolescence [Tape Sides]

Woodland Features on Threads Radio

changes are shimmering around my life.  at the advice of a friend I lay in the grass in the cool of the night last night and soon felt as if a cosmic ray had beamed from the center of the sky. this is an initial response.

Kathodos- Shīdo

Schuftronics presents: 

"Bring Back Your Smile"


Berlin-based producer Schuftronics (Ducks!, Partefacts) presents a collage
of looped psychedelic soul, 90s rap acapellas, jazz, disco and post-punk 
weirdness. As the records play, fragments of a story come together. 
Stolen voices from radio plays and date-night movies try to piece together
the past and argue about what to do with the future.


Featuring:
Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd – O Pato (The Duck)
Beaver and Krause – Looking Back Now
Vivien Goldman – Laundrette
Isaac Hayes – Joy
Dr John – I Walk on Gilded Splinters
War – Slippin’ into Darkness
Tom Scott – Lookin’ Out for Number Seven
Max Roach – The Profit
The Temptations – I Need You
Cabaret Voltaire – Your Agent Man
Keith Jarrett Quartet – Processional
Yoko Ono – Let the Tears Dry
Deodato – September 13
Archie Bell and the Drells – Strategy
Eric B and Rakim – I Know You Got Soul
Material – Reduction
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Tibetan Dance
Michael McDonald – I Keep Forgetting
Prince – Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got
Salt n Pepa – Hit ‘em with This
The Art of Noise – Opus 4
Mica Paris – Deep Afrika
The Mystic Moods Orchestra – Holly on my Mind
Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes – Pretty Flower
Raymond Scott & Jim Henson – Bufferin (Memories)
Jackie Gleason – I’ll Be Around
Robert Palmer – Through It All There’s You
John Travolta – Saturday Night Fever (dialogue)
Laurie Anderson – Excellent Birds
Miles Davis – Black Satin
Prince – Eye No!
Jan Hammer – Don’t You Know
Robert Palmer – Hey Julia
Parliament – Supergroovalisticprosifunkstification
Grace Jones – Slave to the Rhythm
Steinski and the Mass Media – We’ll be Right Back (12”)
De La Soul – Ring Ring Ring (7”)
De La Soul – Ring Ring Ring (Conley’s Decision)
Rose Royce – Love Don’t Live Here Anymore
Curtis Mayfield – Keep on Trippin’
Grandmaster Melle Mel – Jesse (Instrumental)
Cabaret Voltaire – Sex Money Freaks
David Bowie – Let’s Dance
Yello – Goldrush
Tom Scott – New York Connection
Van McCoy – Swahili Boogie
Kid Creole and the Coconuts present: Coati Mundi – Me No Pop I
Douglas Adams – The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Ralph MacDonald – Calypso Breakdown
Herbie Hancock – Ready or Not
Ian Dury and the Blockheads – Reasons to be Cheerful Part 3 (12”)
Mica Paris – One World

Additional synthesisers and percussion by Schuftronics


Episode 16: original broadcast: 7th December '21

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Woodland Features w/Skwirl Episode 16: Guest Mix: Schuftronics in "Bring Back Your Smile"

For Episode 17 very special guest - Amman, Jordan based @jjiinnjjiinn (https://www.instagram.com/__jjiinnjjiinn) graces the Woodland Features slot with a haunting hour of warm beauty. Each moment a love letter, each track a gorgeous drop of moon kissed tenderness. It's a mix that educates as much as it does stir emotion and really it speaks for itself. 

1.  In The Deep - Riff Raff
2. When You’re Young - Annette Peacock
3. Wild Is The Wind - Larry Young
4. It’s Raining Today - Scott Walker
5. Pra Dizer Adeus (To Say Goodbye) - The Cannonball Adderley Quintet
6. No Lovesong At All - Tomasz Stanko, Michal Urbaniak, Zbigniew Seifert
7. Adeus Batucada - Célia
8. Sunday - Sylvia Robinson
9. Magic Castle - Pierro Piccioni
10. This Boy - Hiroshi Sato
11. Ligia - Vinicius Cantuaria
12. The Look Of Love - Dusty Springfield
13. Eu Amo Você - Tim Maia
14. Opadajcy Windokrg - Henryk Debich
15. Let Love Flow On - Sonya Spence
16. Middle Of The Night - Lalo Schifrin
17. Meaning Of Love - Karin Krog
18. Meditations - Lonnie Liston Smith

Episode 17: original broadcast: 1st February '22

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Woodland Features w/Skwirl Episode 17: Guest Mix: jinjin

Reckoner (www.radioheadremix.com)

Radiohead - Reckoner (Mr. Squirrel Didn't Sleep Mix)

-- Catalyst - Salaam [1972]
-- Yuji Ohno - Cesca's Emergency (非常のチェスカ) [1979]
-- The Heinz Kiessling Orchestra - Roadrunner [1974]
-- Gene Harris - Losalamitoslatinfunklovesong [1974]
-- André Ceccarelli - Gang Progress [1976]
-- Antônio Carlos & Jocafi - Kabaluerê [1971]
-- Amedeo Tommasi - Brasilia [1974]
-- Arthur Verocai - Sylvia [1972]
-- Earth, Wind & Fire - Africano [1975]
-- Caesar Frazier - Sweet Children [1975]
-- Puzzle -State of Mind [1974]
-- Idris Muhammad - Piece of Mind [1974]
-- Alessandro Brugnolini - Sepoltura [1972]
-- Michael Naura - Why Is Mary So Nervous? [1970]
-- Brian Bennett's Collage - Madrid [1973]
-- Curtis Mayfield - Kung Fu [1974]
-- Finished Touch - Need To Know You (Better) [1978]
-- ESG - You Make No Sense [1983]
-- Fela Anikulapo Kuti & The Africa 70 - Opposite People [1977]

In The Library with Skwirl Vol. 1

-- Carlo Savina - Bloody Ceremony [1973]
-- Aktuala - Sar [1974]
-- Richie Havens - Run Shaker Life [1967]
-- Dorothy Ashby - Wax and Wane [1970]
-- Oneness of Juju - African Rhythms [1975]
-- Ali Farka Toure - Soko [1978]
-- Steve Reich - Nagoya Marimbas [1995]
-- Galaxy Lin - Curiosa [1975]
-- Band X - Home [1976]
-- Doug Lucas - Kinshasa Chant [1976]
-- Michel Legrand & The Flemish Radio Orchestra - Wuthering Heights (Suite) [1970/2008]

In The Library with Skwirl Vol. 2

-- Bobbi Humphrey - Chicago, Damn [1973]
-- Freddie Hubbard - Polar AC [1975]
-- Big John Patton - Latona [1965]
-- Antônio Carlos Jobim - Tide [1970]
-- Bob James - You’re As Right As Rain [1975]
-- Jacky Orszaczky - Morning In Beramiada [1976]
-- Yuji Ohno - A Riddle Of Underground Waterworks [1979]
-- Jack DeJohnette - Epilog [1974]
-- Jack McDuff - Dit Do Dat [1977]
-- Joni Haastrup - Greetings [1978]
-- Isaac Hayes - Pursuit of The Pimpmobile [1974]

In The Library with Skwirl Vol. 3

-- André Ceccarelli - 4ème Gauche [1976]
-- Tatsuro Yamashita - Dancer [1977]
-- David Benoit - Heavier Than Yesterday [1977]
-- Eddie Russ - Zaius [1976]
-- Cal Tjader - Mindoro [1975]
-- Gong - Soli [1978]
-- Eero Koivistoinen Music Society - 6 Down [1972]
-- Cymande - Getting It Back [1972]
-- Berto Pisano - Tema di Katerine [1974]
-- John Abercrombie / Dave Holland / Jack DeJohnette - Back - Woods Song [1975]
-- Chico Hamilton - Stu [1973]
-- The Undisputed Truth - Smiling Faces Sometimes [1971]
-- Ash Ra - Don't Trust The Kids [1977]
-- Soft Machine - Virtually Part 4 [1971]
-- Yoshiko Sai 佐井好子 - Yukionna/雪女 [1975]

In The Library with Skwirl Vol. 4

-- Walt Barr - First Visit [1978]
-- Danny Toan - Flightus [1977]
-- Chic - São Paulo [1977]
-- Akira Ishikawa & His Count Buffalos - Get Up! [1975]
-- Sea Level - Tidal Wave [1977]
-- Amedeo Tommasi - Gita Al Mare [1974]
-- Claude Bolling/Jean-Pierre Rampal - Javanaise [1975]
-- Willie Hutch - Brother's Gonna Work It Out [1973]
-- Herbie Hancock - Sly [1973]
-- Seals & Crofts - Wisdom [1973]
-- The Blues Busters - I'm Just A Guy [1978]
-- Tarika Blue - Dreamflower [1977]

In The Library with Skwirl Vol. 5

Sergio Mendes and Brazil '66 - Promise of a Fisherman
Classics IV - Spooky
John Coltrane - Naima
Stereolab - Diagonals

 
(some other things I'm forgetting...)
(2006)

Weekend Warrior

Mr. Squirrel - Friday: After School

how long
will it be
will it take
for me to
calm down?

touch of 
velvet glove
making sure that
i'm above
the surface now...



Guitar: Eric Bernheiden

Skwirl - Calm Down

The Jawns:

Dominik Eulberg - Gelbbauchunke
Holly Waxwing - ⊹ goloboie ⊹
Mount Kimbie - Vertical
Sir Hiss - VHS
Hitpoint - Grave Mistake
Rude Kid - Narcos
DavinChe - I Don't Date (Instrumental)
Invader Spade x Aubrey Trnql - Lovers Intermission
Gundam - So Good 8 Bar
Grace - Be The
Lemzly Dale - Mind Games
CEP - Spree
Crane - Pipe Effect (forthcoming on Woodland Creatures!)
Digital - Down Under
Minotaur - Low Contrast
Stones Taro - Rare
Ca$tle - All
Dominik Eulberg - Goldammer
Crane - Veteran Chariot Racer (forthcoming on Woodland Creatures!)
Velvet Velour - Cash Register
Reynes - 3PM On The 25th
Kassian - Actions (DJ Crisps Remix)
M&H Syndicate - Phishing
Ilyas Sadaoui - 4 To The Step
Hiro - Lakeside Memory
The Westerlies - Saro (DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ Remix)
The Meters - Birds
Dominik Eulberg - Eistaucher

The Blurb:

You know most of the time I write these blurbs in third person - the mystical who is it that everyone knows is me so I don't know why I  bother.  I am beyond stoked to welcome back on the Woodland Features controls - rapturious drum roll and deep throaty gasps from the audience please! - https://soundcloud.com/the-crane! It's been a hot second since we last had him on - and as a moment of behind the scenes, the last time he was on I made a bit of a tit of myself and asked him way too late or something and he couldn't exactly do the set he wanted and we went with the buzziest one...that's not really the finest Sunday dress but it got past the vicar. This time there's an extra special reason I didn't make an ass of myself and annoy my dear friend Stephen gently! Woodland Creatures is putting out his record For The Birds in May (this hasn't been social media announced so you heard it here) and thus this is the perfect time to get him back and doing the kind of set he heard in his mind and I always wanted. From downtempo to garage-y RnB doused skittering grooves and back again and out to IDM moments and back again from that it's really all over the spectrum just as we love it and just like his new record which - let me tell you -is so fucking great. I absolutely adore it, and him, and this mix and I am excited for you to experience all The Crane has in store for you from my good ship Woodland Creatures. First thing's first - this mix! Dig in!!

Episode 22: original broadcast 11 Apr '24

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Woodland Features w/Skwirl Episode 22: Guest Mix w/The Crane (For The Birds Edition!)

“Woodland Wombling” is comprised of:

*  	Shuttle - Tunnel
*  	Luis Bacalov - The Grand Duel (Parte Prima)
*  	Miles Davis - Flamenco Sketches
*  	The Youngsters - The Pink Sox
*  	Robag Wruhme - Ausgang
*  	Skwirl - Park Business
*  	Eighty Mile Beach -	Old Stone Bridge
*  	Sikora - Nebelstrom Linie
*  	Leftfield - Melt
*  	Ghetto Priest - Hercules (North Street West ‘Late Night Tales’ Dub)
*  	Song Sung-  I’m Not in Love (David Holmes 10cc Cover)
*  	Beastie Boys - Dr. Lee PhD
*  	Gorillaz - Orchestral Intro
*  	The Youngsters - Notes for Maichu
*  	Si Begg - Sex (Fade Runner Remix)
*  	Layo & Bushwacka! - Isn’t This a Lovely Day
*  	Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
*  	DJ Koze, Roisin Murphy - Scratch That
*  	Massive Attack, Mos Def - I Against I
*  	Groove Armada - Are Friends Electric
*  	The High & The Mighty - B Boy Document 99 (Skwirl Remix)
*  	Happy Mondays - Hallelujah (Ewan Pearson Remix)

The Blurb:

There could not be a greater friend to https://soundcloud.com/woodland-creatures-label Skwirl, or indeed the decks themselves than Orinoko (known lovingly to us as Dave). For years he's been a quiet but evergreen presence along my journey always championing my efforts and proving himself a veritable fountain of support and well wishes and I could not love him more for it. 

One thing you must know about Dave - he's a whip crack DJ - most at home cranking out techno stormers and devastating club barn burners - with a vast love for far reaching musical vistas...a man after my own heart.

And apparently it was after my heart he was determined to go when he buzzed me up to tell me he'd crafted a journey in honour of Woodland Creatures, various Skwirlisms, and specifically the Woodland Features series. The mix he sent, this mix, is an astounding piece of storytelling and world building and my cup (and my tear ducts) runneth over to be so blessed with such a dude in my life capable and inspired as he is to so delicately and perfectly express the Woodland Creatures/Features ethos and aesthetic. 

The mix is at its heart a loving series of deftly emotional moments of jazzy trip-hop and downtempo but it zooms in and out of eras and locales and styles so splendidly and cheekily that you would not be amiss to dash all notions of genre and instead find yourself overwhelmed by the incredible love and care that has gone into this mastercraft. Sometimes people make things so clearly from the heart and along the very pathways of  the soul that you can only sit back and marvel and whisper "wow" to yourself. This is one of those times. 

What a gorgeous mix by a gorgeous human. Dive now into the world of Orinoko in his stunning "Woodland Wombling"!!


Follow Orinoko: https://soundcloud.com/dave-orinoko


Episode 23: original broadcast May '24

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Woodland Features w/ Skwirl Episode 23: Guest Mix - Orinoko in  "Woodland Wombling"

Childish Gambino - Running Out of Time
Nine Inch Nails - Memorabilia
Duran Duran Duran - Flapped Up (unreleased)
Jacob - Dal
Laxenenchaos - Hound in Beach
Dämtone - Konnichiwa 1980
Sully - Vacancy (Tim Reaper Version)
Torn - Grief
Desmond Murray - A Swell Place (They Cloned Tyrone OST)
dgoHn - Stachyboys (Coco Bryce Rework)
Death Cascade - Tachyon Caustics
H. Takahashi - Labyrinth
Spherical Aberration - Cosmic Bowels
Salma Agha - Come Closer (Kasam Paida Karne Wale Ki)
Howard Shore - Main Title Theme (Scanners OST)

———____———

Ahead of his new record "Supernatural Beast City" dropping fuarking TOMORROW on Woodland Creatures the mighty Duran times 3 has been gracious enough to grab the controls for an unbelievably choice hour of vibe power. 

I really don't want to say too much this time you just have to hear this mix and you have to catch his new LP. Both are testaments as to why DDD is legendary in many circles - foundationally rock solid jungle and breakcore craft, but with heart and whimsy and face melting bone crunching power - sure, but also he's a profoundly versatile being and you know what - he's a fucking awesome dude. I love him to death, I love this mix, I love the new LP - get amongst it!!
___
mix mastered by @jjiinnjjiinn (https://www.instagram.com/__jjiinnjjiinn)

⊚⃝⸜(⸝⸝•ᴗ•⸝⸝)✩♬ ₊˚.

Duran Duran Duran - “Supernatural Beast City” LP
Circadian Rhythms 02: Dusk
WLC006

DDD SBC Feels Swatch: https://tr.ee/DDD-SBC-FeelsSwatch

Duran Duran Duran on…

https://tr.ee/DDD-on-Spotify

https://tr.ee/DDD-on-Soundcloud

https://tr.ee/DDD-on-Facebook
_____________


written, produced, and mixed, by Duran Duran Duran (except “Just Feel It (w/Dev/null)” which was written, produced, and mixed with Dev/null (https://www.instagram.com/petedevnull)

Mastered by Jacob Korn (https://www.instagram.com/jacobkorn.de) @ Tailout (https://www.instagram.com/tailout_tapemasters)

Animations for forthcoming singles by none of this is real (https://www.instagram.com/noneofthisisreal.studio)

Additional Video Direction and Content Direction by Skwirl

Feels Swatch by Brittany Myers

Artwork by Ed Flis and Paulina Raczkowska

Design by Paulina Raczkowska

Vinyl manufactured by Diggers Factory (https://www.instagram.com/diggersfactory)

Executive Produced by Skwirl (https://www.instagram.com/skwirl_shido)

P - 2024 Woodland Creatures
C - 2024 Duran Duran Duran

•////////////•


_____________________

What are Thematic Clusters? What's a Feels Swatch?? - https://tr.ee/WLC-WhatIsTC-WhatIsFS

Woodland Creatures Thematic Release Concept: https://tr.ee/WLC-WhyThematicReleases

•////////////•

Follow us on…

Instagram: https://tr.ee/WoodlandCreatures-Instaflexin
Facebook: https://tr.ee/WoodlandCreatures-on-Facebook

Spotify: https://tr.ee/WoodlandCreatures-on-Spotify
Bandcamp: https://tr.ee/WoodlandCreatures-on-Bandcamp
SoundCloud: https://tr.ee/WoodlandCreatures-on-Soundcloud

YouTube: https://tr.ee/WoodlandCreatures-on-YouTube

Discogs: https://tr.ee/WoodlandCreatures-Discogs

The Woodland Creatures Hub: https://linktr.ee/woodlandcreatures

••●••

Episode 24: original broadcast: 6th June '24

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Woodland Features w/ Skwirl Episode 24: Guest Mix - Duran Duran Duran

Claudio Ambruoso -  Vesuvians
Claudio Ambruoso - Love Always Wins
Adam Janota Bzowski - South London Blood Moon (unreleased)
Claudio Ambruoso - Generational Trauma
Tim Hecker - No Drums
Tujiko Noriko - And Then To Home
Claudio Ambruoso - Equilibrio
Claudio Ambruoso - History Is Now
Marsen Jules - Brouillard
Sulk Rooms - The Stopped Clock Tells The Right Time
Adam Janota Bzowski - The Real Deal
Claudio Ambruoso - 4NICO
Drum & Lace - Richiamo del Mare (feat. Patrick Shiroishi)
Adam Janota Bzowski - Trip
SINK - Safeguard from Erosion
SINK - Tidal Surges
Claudio Ambruoso - Father To Son
Adam Janota Bzowski - O>E>B>B (unreleased)
Claudio Ambruoso - It’s The Sum That Makes The Total
_________

There are moments of serendipity and grace that make life and, for me, this job so fulfilling. Earlier this year I had the great fortune of being on the same distro team as - one of - this month’s featured artists - Claudio Ambruoso. The first I experienced of this beautiful and kindly soul was through and early morning tumble down into the shattering power of his work: raw, clean, and simple but with echoes of meaning and experience that linger long after the piece ends. I have rarely been so moved at first listen - when it happens it is a grounding and memorable thing. In preparing this month’s show I knew as Woodland Creatures has a wee lull that it was the perfect moment to pass on this experience - to exhale in unison before we continue on with our plans, and the perfect person to guide this journey had to be my dear friend Adam - who I’ve known since at least the year of our Lord 2009. He’s since then gone from being a trip hop/IDM producer - annoyingly much better than me - to being a proper profoundly gifted film composer. In addition to being a gorgeous dude, it was this work - bringing narrative to life through light and considered touch - that is why I asked Adam to weave a narrative around my dear friend Claudio’s EPs from this year - to pick up their tales and deliver them to you. I could not be more excited for you to hear this episode. It is nothing but celebration.

____

https://www.instagram.com/adamhalogen

https://www.instagram.com/claudio.ambruoso.music

https://www.instagram.com/enemyagentrecordings

https://claudioambruoso.bandcamp.com/music

Episode 25: original broadcast: 4th July '24

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Woodland Features w/ Skwirl Episode 25: Adam Janota Bzowski presents Claudio Ambruoso

1. Wayne Shorter - Armageddon
2. Troubleman - Lullaby
3. Moff & Tarkin 10Cc
4. Tsodor - ID
5. Rework - You’re So Just Just
6. Masomenos & dOP -  Shaman Academy
7. Tsodor - Flugzeug Melancholie
8. Kris Wadsworth - Uranus 333 (b side)
9. Defex, Tsodor - ID
10. Tsodor - ID
11. Gojnea76 - Leon
12. Nick Beringer - DTC
13. Carl Craig and Moritz von Oswald -- Villalobos "Uli, Mein Ponyhof" RMX

}}}}}} ᡣ • . • 𐭩

Ahead of his lush and expansive new LP "Diffused Nocturne" out 9th August on Woodland Creatures the dear and ruthless groove maniac Tsodor - aka Theodor Striese - grabs the controls for this 26th midsummer instalment of Woodland Features.

What follows is quite predictably unpredictable with shuffling hi fi minimal tech with a twist excursions emerging from and giving way to myriad textures and genre palettes. You’ll notice a few tracks here marked simply “ID” - the dude is always on the craft and has been gracious here enough to drop a few brand new WIP gems that honestly are more ready for the dancefloor than many of us are on any given day of the week.

Profound mastery of groove, childlike energy and endless spirit this is a simply sterling distinctly Woodland Features -y hour of radio for your good selves! GET IN!

•////////////•

https://soundcloud.com/tsodor
https://www.instagram.com/tsodormusic/
https://www.instagram.com/woodland_creatures_label/

Episode 26: original broadcast: 1st Aug. '24

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Woodland Features w/ Skwirl Episode 26: Guest Mix - Tsodor

Grimes Adhesif & Tom Demac - Kitten II
Palace - Element
Liam Geddes - I Got Something Here
DJ Haus - Smell Tha Phonk
Blackchild - Hypin´
Defex & Tsodor - ID
Franco Radetich - L´atmosphere
Emi Ömar - Crack Like A Cracker
Joeski - Techism
Louden - Funky Affair
Cinthie - Back To Garage
Pekkuliar & Driahn - Tokyo Garage Institute
East End Dubs - bRave
David Penn - The Heat (Qubiko Remix)
Kris Wadsworth - Line & Pink (Joedans Bumpy Dub)

____________

For this special Woodland Features takeover episode, Skwirl calls back Tsodor to the controls whilst he frolics in Ibiza and the result is a suitably sassy hour of tech house and proper house stylings with his signature flair and funky groove aesthetics - very very sassy indeed.

•////////////•

@tsodor
www.instagram.com/tsodormusic/
www.instagram.com/woodland_creatures_label/

Original broadcast: 30 Aug. '24

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Woodland Features w/Tsodor - Threads x Hanoi Community Radio Takeover Set Aug' 24

an excursion in long form ambient sculpture.  made for a friend years ago when she was quite ill. 

breathe in/breathe out (well done)

As If An Ocean

Colour Dropped/////////
Which One Of You?//////////
Arps N Klangs///////////
A Joint////////////
Zero Region Player/////////////
Park Business//////////////
I Float Out (Toward the Trees)///////////////

Skwirl- Planned Obsolescence Side B

Multiple Signals/
Just A Thing//
I Been Thinkin'///
You're In Time////
A&E Shuffle/////
Ta//////
Unpak R///////
Ridin'////////

Skwirl- Planned Obsolescence Side A

Default Position releases new VA compilation “Default Position
Associates Vol 1.”

Featuring: Sebastian Mullaert, Charlie Thorstenson, El Choop &
Tim Gee, Monophona, Zirni, Joseph S Joyce, Daniel[i], Altone,
Vidno, Skwirl, Deepcut and Gilberto.

Default Position has been running as a label for a few years now.
Over that time a beautiful collective of artists has developed within
the roster. Most of these artists know each other and are often
inspired by one another’s work. The ‘Default Position Associates Vol.
1’ compilation is a perfect vehicle with which to share the natural
collaboration and creativity of these individuals and bring them
together under one release.

Across the compilation, you will hear a broad cross-section of emotive
dance music, from classic dub techno, through to deep house and
downbeat electronica; crafted with by some of the label’s best-loved constellations.

If you are interested in running a feature, review or premiere,
please contact joe@defaultpositionmedia.com
WAV files are available upon request subject to usage.

Default Position Associates Vol 1

Buy/Stream @ Bandcamp

Skwirl - Ossa

Woodland Features is a monthly series of freestyle and eclectic journeys curated and mixed by Berlin's Skwirl. Sometimes DJ sets, sometimes mixtape style tapestries: this is a space for the conceptual, the deep dive, and the vibey to converge and diverge. Get stuck in.

- Wychwood- The Transcendence Orchestra/14- SND
- Stormur Tvö- Yagya
- Mile Bush Pride- Underworld
- Diligam- Forss
- 150e Jour- Marc Leclair
- Material “Extended DUB”- The Emperor Machine/ Riding (Day)- Manaka Kataoke (The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild OST)
- Array- Poly Sone
- Deferr [M1.1]- Justin Margovan
- 5 Hard- Cuthead
- Beamer- The Crane
- P 2000- Psycholectric (LetKolben Muddy Edit)
- Believe- Portable Sunsets/ Wychwood- The Transcendence Orchestra


Episode 1: original broadcast 03 Sep '19

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Woodland Features w/ Skwirl Episode 1:  03-Sep-19

Skwirl’s Woodland Features makes its first left turn (only one episode in) with a dense trip through musical foliage. Rather than a DJ set this is the first in a sub series of playful explorations of musical geography, pallets, styles and eras—with wisps of diegetic sound design. Plus there are jams init

- Stereolab- Brakhage 
- Àbáse- Sambo [feat. Stevo Atambire] 
- melodiesimphonie- Keep on Searching 
- Shinji- Second Wind
- Badbadnotgood- Confessions Pt II [feat. Colin Stetson]
- Louis Cole- When You're Ugly [feat. Genevieve Artadi]
- The Lewis Express- Dança De Duas Mãos
- Von Spar- A Dream (Pts 1 & 2 [feat. Eiko Ishibashi and Christopher Cummings])
- Yusef Rumperfield- Angelo 
- Trans 4M- Amma/Thomas Fehlmann - With Oil 
- Shīdo- A Gentle Hum

[if it matters to you: this is a vinyl only set. woot.]

Episode 2: original broadcast 01 Oct '19

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Woodland Features w/ Skwirl Episode 2:  01-Oct-19

For the second show in October, Episode 3 of Skwirl’s Woodland Features is a throw back mixtape exactly 10 years old when a young Skwirl was whipped up in a wistful storm of autumnal reverie. Floating from a Todd Terje remix of Jose Gonzales along a path that includes Portishead, Badmarsh and Shri and Pat Metheny before resting upon John Martyn... the mix covers a vast scope equal parts colourful and subdued.

Killing For Love (Todd Terje Brokeback Mix)- José González;
She's My Lover (A Song for R.)- Kid Loco;
It Could Be Sweet- Portishead;
Before Today- Everything But The Girl;
Wonderful World- Tin Star;
Turn It Round Again- Alexkid;
Soaring Beyond- Badmarsh & Shri;
Lakeside- Bibio;
Sculpture- Skalpel;
Rainbo Conversation- Stereolab;
Pop Art Blue- Zero 7;
Into The Dream- Pat Metheny Trio;
Ka7- Uchujin;
Simple Peal 1- Underworld;
Go Down Easy- John Martyn;

Episode 3: original broadcast 29 Oct '19

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Woodland Features w/ Skwirl Episode 3: 29-Oct-19

With winter setting in Woodland Features episode 4 slips under the covers into that wonderful place between winter sleeps and joyful outdoor wanders...all under a subdued sky. Here’s a freestyle bit of blended chillscape from Marconi Union to Yesterday’s New Quintet and Teebs to Mount Kimbie.  Float in…

Always Numb:: Marconi Union/ 
Allow:: Morgan Packard/ 
Dead Arm Blues #b510:: The Internal Tulips/ 
Redux:: Halogen/
Sun Goddess:: Yesterdays New Quintet/ 
Wind Loop:: Teebs/ 
Emotional Draft:: Comfort Fit/ 
The Sound of Graffiti:: iprofess/ 
Hot Cargo:: Architeq/ 
Gentle:: Flako/ 
Dream Within a Dream:: Preybird/ 
Shay-Lo:: Oriol/ 
My Home Is Not Here:: Swede:art/ 
A Little Bit More:: Tim Exile/ 
Paradigm Shift:: Forss/ 
Children At Midnight:: Shigeto/ 
Flux:: Mount Kimbie

Episode 4: original broadcast 26 Nov '19

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Woodland Features w/ Skwirl Episode 4: 26-Nov -19

All That You Give- The Cinematic Orchestra; 
Left Bank- Air;  
Glow- U.N.K.L.E.; 
Atoms For Peace- Thom Yorke;  
Soft- Lemon Jelly;  
Everything About You Is New- Massive Attack; 
Happy Toast- Underworld and Gabriel Yared; 
Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!- Enigma; 
Corsair- Boards of Canada/Blueski- Underworld; 
Deadweight On Velveteen- Jose Gonzalez; 
Tongue Tied- Aqualung; 
Great Expectations- Elbow; 
Ghost Ship In A Storm- Jim O'Rourke; 
Alone Again So- Kid Loco; 
Treefingers- The Tallywood Strings; 
Hong Kong- Gorillaz

This mix is originally from 2007. Episode 5 was going to be a leftfield Chrimbo mix...but indeed in response to all of the endless cycles of holiday tunes that consume the collective airwaves that was dutifully and rightfully scrapped. Instead here's a selection on an emotional and introspective tip from a very different period in life that forgoes the holiday standards for something deep and vulnerable but equally as warm.

Episode 5: original broadcast 01 Jan '20

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M4 or Mr. Squirrel's Royale Collection

Woodland Features w/ Skwirl Episode 5: 01- Jan- 20

saku-susumu yokota/ 
the seaside stage session pt 01-thorsten tuaeschning meets paul frick /
kuni (land)- fennesz+sakamoto / 
under weigh- patrick o’hearn / 
alluring presence- scintillation! /
breathing retake- marconi union / 
yougo (ambient p stretch mix)- eskmo / 
veins-aeron
underneath- motion sickness of time travel / 
gradients of bliss- barker / 
titan one- thomas fehlmann
sunrain- ash ra / 
treefingers (longform)-radiohead / caddie’s day- philippe cam / slate- wil bolton


Winter is beginning to loosen its grip and the hint of spring re-emerges. Episode 7 of Woodland Features is a gentle unfurling of the first breaths of the new amongst the last wisps of winter wind. A deep excursion of contemplative homeostasis.

Episode 7: original broadcast 18 Feb '20

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Woodland Features w/ Skwirl Episode 7: 18- Feb- 20

[tracklist was never recorded I'm afraid-- but not knowing is half of the fun]

Somewhere around the top of summer in 2017 my dear buddy https://soundcloud.com/ralphalfa and I (at the time operating under the collective banner of "Bed Before Midnight") found ourselves with a day to kill and the wild itch to tackle the massive joint library that we'd been amassing over the preceding months (years?). What began as an innocent mix quickly snowballed into an intense and sprawling 6 hour exploration in call and response back to back mixing that remains the most absolutely awe inspiring DJing experience I've ever had.  For those 6 solid hours we swapped one tune each and reached some sublime moments of flow.  Fiercely genre agnostic, and downright cheekily freestyle, it's a deep trip into some dangerously funky territory.

This is an hour from somewhere deep in the mix out of the nearly 4 hours that still remain so expect to hear more of this in the shows to come. 

Massive big ups to Ralph foreva. 


Episode 8: original broadcast 17 Mar '20

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Woodland Features w/ Skwirl Episode 8: 17- Mar- 20

Without qualification spring is my favourite time of the year. It is the return to action and it is the renewal of life: the real beginning of the year. It has been the case that every spring Skwirl fluffs the tail and gets going-- this mix is a celebration of such fluffing. From a particularly joyful spring 2013.  Full disclosure: this mix is 45 minutes long so to appease the radio gods I've whacked on a special jam out coda of motorik triumph courtesy of the ever triumphant Tim Gane.  Fluff yo tails.

'Space Intro'- Steve Miller Band; 
'Land of 1000 Chances'- Day; 
'Jederliebtihn'- Twit One; 
'Blank In The Sky'- Kan Sano; 
'Raindance'- Christoph El' Truento; 
'ithinkfvr'- Melodiesinfonie; 
'BBB'- Repeat Pattern; 
'PhylSexySelf!!!!'- 9th Wonder; 
'Think Twice'- J Dilla; 
'Yum Yum (Spring)'- JayLotus; 
'Pure. Love'- Low Leaf; 
'Lhasa'- Bluesteady Triptik; 
'Sheldon'- Ta-ku; 
'Fuss'n'fight'- Kissey Asplund; 
'Embrace The Chill (feat. Comfort Fit & Persuit Grooves)- Swede:art; 
'Wedjit'- fLako; 
'Get Dis Money (The Planty Herbs Remix)- Slum Village; 
'Jus Relax'- Yestoday; 
'Rock The Boat (Question Remix)'- Aaliyah; 
'DMD'- Sepalcure;  
'Malfunction'- Cavern of Anti-Matter


Episode 9: original broadcast 14 Apr '20

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Woodland Features w/Skwirl Episode 9: 14- Apr- 20

SO in the spirit of cleaning out the 2020 bric-a-brac:

Here's a MESSY AS mix from peak lockdown Twitch streamer-y for my buddy Alex from https://soundcloud.com/skrufix's hype style "Back to Mine" play what you feel series.

I - did play what i felt. with a stream of gin and tonic and spliff in my face - so you best believe this is a wild bronco of a mix and one that in all good faith like...bruh it's a bit of a rough n tumble hoedown.

< looks at "save changes" through fingers>

The Wild Bronco: CC 2020 Skwirl Set

[tracklist not transcribed]

Picking up where Episode 8 left off, as promised here is part 2 of the remaining 3 and some hours of @ralphalfa and my’s 2017 1 to 1, b2b 6 hour mega mix. Playing even more fast and loose with tempos and textures, I would like to say that part 2 is even more wild and furiously freestyle than the first but in truth the whole thing is probably equally bonkers. 

Enjoy the madness and stay tuned for part 3 at some point down the line…


Episode 10: original broadcast 12 May '20

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Woodland Features w/Skwirl Episode 10: 12- May- 20

Having taken a few months off to recharge, Skwirl returns with a whirlwind of beats/grooves/and non sequitur interjections with a copious slathering of irreverence held together by shoe string and compressors. Lovingly dirtied with fresh coats of 40 year old dust is the typhoon of 70s jams that is Woodland Features Episode 12!

[also known internally as 'Skwirl (in) "Back at it Again With the White Vans" (The Mix)'"]

In honour of his new beat tape style cassette tape record "Planned Obsolescence" dropping back in June on Space Hardware, Skwirl has crafted a classic mix tape style 70s set with a cheeky bit of left-field circa Vine/TikTok era interjections woven into a hopeful plea that the boomers and the zoomers may one day come together for the good of stuff and that sort of thing. (In the meantime it's time to get down).

https://spacehardware.bandcamp.com/album/planned-obsolescence

Elements:

Sophie's Gift - Synthesis 1976

—Will Jordan on the Ed Sullivan Show 1968 

— Unknown Artist - The Groupies 1969

Rock Creek Park - The Blackbyrds 1975

—“Just Do It” Shia LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner- 2015

—Family Guy from: S3E4: One if by Clam, Two if by Sea - 2001

Lowdown - Boz Scaggs - 1976

“5 Conversation Mistakes That Instantly Turn Women Off” - Dan Bacon - 2015
“‘I Want A Divorce’ (Man With Arm Around Wife)” - ActingClassSarantos - 2011
“Sex Before Marriage? PREPARE TO DIE!” - Upload of early 90s Christian Abstinence Video - 2012 by Honeydew Wilkins

Solid Slider - Tatsuro Yamashita - 1977

Run Fay Run- Isaac Hayes - 1974

Stories - Chakachas - 1972

Dazz- Brick - 1976

Oye Como Va - Santana - 1970

--contains sample from Neel Kolhatkar: "European EDM DJs" - 2015

Excerpt from “Flying to Brazil” - FunForLouis - 2014 (Contains portions of “No Comprendo (Instrumental)” - Funky DL - 2011

Partido Alto - Azymuth - 1979

Myself When Young - Dorothy Ashby - 1970

A Tear To A Smile - Roy Ayers - 1975

Vitamin C - CAN - 1972

Helelyos - Zia - ~1970
--"Wrap it Up" Chappelle's Show S1E2- 2003

Funky Motion - Jiro Inagaki and Soul Media - 1975
Ft Dam Daniel and Davie504: “He Said I Couldn’t Play This On Bass… So I Played It” 2020

Vines selections from: 
VINES THAT WILL NEVER DIE
classic and rare vines to watch when you lose your will to live
vines that toast my buns
oh shit and there's a sample from Clue [film]- 1985 
and
An Unmarried Woman [film] - 1978


Episode 12 (S2;01) : original broadcast 27 Oct '20

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gwan...download it...

Skwirl (in) "Back at it Again With The White Vans" (The Mix)

so I'll try my best to remember samples:

some Les Baxter thing

Deadweight - Beck

Who Are You? - The Who

(dunno about the flute)

Any Colour You Like - Pink Floyd

the piano is certainly a sample from something but I'm only one man.

Mr. Squirrel - On The Way To School

Juanita/Kiteless [Everything, Everything] - Underworld

Nasty Habits - Liquid Fingers

The Daughter of Time (Audiobook) by Josephine Tey - Read by Derek Jacobi

I think there's an little slice of Massive Attack's Blue Lines in there too...

Mr. Squirrel - Loose Leaves

Oh that bug game that came on that iMac OS thing in the noughts. 

(very emo 17 year old vocals)- web mic business

End Theme - Zero 7

Last Night on Earth - U2

Mr. Squirrel - Motion Sensor

Colours The Soul- Coldcut

Besaid (ビサイド島 Bisaido-jima)	Masashi Hamauzu (Final Fantasy X)

Tongue- Underworld

Menina Flor - Stan Getz · Luiz Bonfa · Maria Toledo

Diamond Girl- Seals and Crofts

don't remember the trumpet and the band stabs I'm afraid...defo from an anime but not sure which....

OMG one of the tunes on the Batman Beyond soundtrack...

Mr. Squirrel - Las Vegas

The Lord Is Close To The Broken Hearted - Shīdo

December '11

Astra

DD2.5

Double Crossing of The Crow/Holding The Lid

For Me - Sergio Mendes and Brazil '66
Happy Feelin' - Earth Wind and Fire
Free As The Wind - The Crusaders
I Wanna Be Myself - The Rimshots
Whatcha See is Whatcha Get - The Dramatics
Datura - Cortex
Two Separate Things - Grand Theft
Diamond Girl - Seals and Crofts
Black Water - The Doobie Brothers
People Make the World Go Round - The Stylistics
夜の翼 (Nightwing) - Tatsuro Yamashita


Spring is always a moment of renewed inspiration at Skwirl HQ and for Woodland Features Ep 14 (aka Happy Feelings w/Skwirl)that means a joyful 70s (with a dash of 60's) mix to celebrate the arrival of warmer climes!! Get stuck into some grade A, lovingly curated, spritely spring time happy feelin's.

Episode 14: original broadcast 10 May '21

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