Name: Alienation by Negative Response in Fresh on the Net - Eclectic Picks 540
Duration: 4 min 1 s
Description: A 4 minute track using minimal recording methods on an old 1990s Boss BR8 8 track zip drive. About the modern way of life and how we hide behind our smart phone rather than engaging with real people.

Thank you for having me back so soon, and so unexpectedly.

I was already a third of the way through the entire inbox when I was asked to create the Eclectic Picks playlist for a second week in a row. I love picking music and telling people how much I appreciate them for their creation, and hearing how happy it has made them to be understood as an artist.

To compliment the fine work of everyone at Fresh on the Net, I am working on a project to turn the new music I find into eclectic DJ sets, and play this wonderful sound offline, in the real world. The focus will be on playing underrepresented music through quality sound systems in new-music friendly venues, with displays and links to the artists so that they can be studied, followed, enjoyed, and hopefully contributed to financially by the music-curious public. I love challenges.

I’m also going to have to start using social media in order to promote everyone’s music, and these DJ sets. I don’t want to think about that heinous step right now.

Reach out if you would like to know more, or would like to hear a person like me playing all new music in your ears.

If you like this playlist, you’ll also like my previous ones. You can hear those via my Soundcloud page.

As usual, please share and comment on this work and any music you enjoy. Creating and releasing music to silence is a bit like saying “I love you” for the first time and not being sure if the other person heard what you said over the sound of the band saw, and not being able to look Mrs Keggs in the eye again before you had to change schools for a reason that was never made entirely clear.

I usually write more about each track. This week I am doing someone else’s homework and only have time to write a (shit) haiku for each, though I could write forever. Clearly.

The playlist:

1 J.G.W.Parker – In the Mountains and the Valleys and Nowhere Else

You did dreamy right
Enjoyed this as the sun rose
waking my lover
2 Little Juke – Down The Rabbit Hole

I really like that
Sounding a lot like Thom Yorke
she said with a wow

3 Marble Stars – Wood Pigeons Coo

Man speaks. Impartial,
but still the words bring feeling.
Beats summon the birds

4 Solessence – Corduroy

I don’t have a lounge.
So this must be the soundtrack
of relaxed pretence

5 The Gamels – 02 The Gamels – Bittersweet

Effortless audio.
Despite being so damn cool,
makes my tummy melt

6 boycalledcrow – magic medicine

Stuttering glory
generates sonic landscape
at home to corvids

7 DAVID STANLEY – Don’t You Ever Stop

I’d love to drop this
in a heavy techno set.
Sunglasses at night

8 the march afternoons – if you find please KILL KILL KILL

Your composition
inspires admiration in
those who understand

9 Negative Response – Alienation

strip away human
analyse the raw data
a system you trust

10 pecq – stronger

Perfect party track
with an unholy bassline.
Wish it was longer.

11 Benjamin Mace-Crossley – We Have Ghosts – Red Wall Colliers

Two-person mosh pit
broke out in our studio
Must see in person.

12 The Glitterbombs – LGB (with The TNB)

Making your statement
with passion and energy
motivates others

13 Eeade – Sally the Monster Slayer

eclectic playlist
uncovering your treasure
for all to enjoy

14 The B – Roads – Upper Street

Everyone here
welcomes everyone else,
your music tells me

15 Fluid Armstrong – Mirage

dripping musical honey
onto a midnight ice cream
thats a nice image

16 Graham Graham Beck – A Spatial Oddity

My captured spirit,
calling out from your music.
Looks better on you.

17 Anna Skoyles – Baking Cookies Song

Mad ingredients
mixed together with magic.
Conjured many smiles.

That’s it, I hope you loved it too. Please go out and see music and talk to people and remember that the world on the screen isn’t the actual world.

Will x

Fresh on the Net - Eclectic Picks 540

Down The Rabbit Hole

A 4 minute track using minimal recording methods on an old 1990s Boss BR8 8 track zip drive. About the modern way of life and how we hide behind our smart phone rather than engaging with real people.

Alienation

There’s a permanent click track in my mind,
The metronome like a clock.
Tick tock Tick tock.
Within the head space.
The grasses grow long in the overground garden.
A simple mow will fill a wonderful smell of freshly cut grass into the metasphere.
Another track, control New, controlling you!
Press record. The subtleties of presumption transpire into a grey triangle.
A click track, bait, got to catch them all.
A catcher in the rye.
Slowly we sigh, expanding air through our mouths.
Clickerty clickerty clickerty clack.
The stop bar stopped so did our track.
We derailed, we failed, we bailed.
CTRL N, CTRL N, CTRL N.
We renewed and sat back and observed for a while.

Where the Wood Pigeons Coo,
Where the Wood Pigeons Coo,
Sat waiting for the news,
Sat waiting for the news,
Soon they can renew,
Soon they can renew,
Sat waiting for the blues.
Sat waiting for some clues.

Badgers stripe, scutterling, connected to ground.
Above the majestic kite, circling.

Where bats wings flap, 
Where bats wings flap,
Sonar waves.
Bouncing bouncing.
Soon we can renew.

In the forest; pine scent tickles nose hair,
Bare feet in bracken.

Baths of magnesium sulphate, floating, floating.
Stagnant Meres, Where wood pigeons coo.
Floating floating.
Ducks bath, floating floating
In stagnant Meres
Floating floating.

There’s a permanent click track in my mind,
The metronome like a clock.
Tick tock Tick tock.
Within the head space.
The grasses grow long in the overground garden.
A simple mow will fill a wonderful smell of freshly cut grass into the metasphere
Another track….
In stagnant meres.
In stagnant meres.
Stagnant meres.

Where Wood Pigeons Coo

Full album on Bandcamp:

https://jgwparker.bandcamp.com/album/trying-learning-to-care-and-not-to-care

Trying, Learning To Care and Not To Care

In the Mountains and the Valleys and Nowhere Else

A fresh take on the electronic genre from a new outfit based in Tampere, Finland. An album spanning turn of the millenium influenced electro with styles ranging from jungle, French house and triphop to jazz and psychedelic blues.

Bittersweet

Corduroy

I'm just a warm meaty lump mixing the music I love to support the artists who made it. Reach out and tell them if you like their work. Share and comment, and spread these wonderful sounds to anyone who loves to hear wonderful sounds.

Tracks and Artists in the this mix:

1. Music and Words for Money - Tim McInnes
2. The Jazzmaster - Matt Finucane
3. Keep the balance - Roller Disco Death Party
4. Humming - You dirty blue
5. Steals My Sleep - Girobabies
6. BRZL (Will Farr Remix feat. Lo Tea) - Meat and Prawns
7. What Happens Now - The Empty Page
8. Suddo Tonnau - Worldcub
9. Holding Up - Wyse
10. Living Arrangements - Hot  Air
11. Life - Mistrust
12. I Feel - Good Hugg
13. You're My Favorite Drugs - The Shops
14. Nicer - Low Bridge
15. Highlighter Pens Will Keep The Chaos At Bay - Gaylips
16. Nervous Bird - Popfuture
17.  Your Thing - Head Gardener
18. Achieved very little but felt peaceful - Astrakan
19. Jazz Cafe - Vickram Bhamra
20. All the good times - Driftwood
21. When the wind blows - Rochelle Rochelle
22. You & Me - Retro Kid
23. Lucy in the sky with Dolphin - South Acid Mimi
24. The Incredible Shrinking Man - Exposed Brick
25. S(he)'s a Rake - Vanessa Van Ness
26. Mandem Say ft. DJ Black Low - Apple Digital Master 2448 - King Nilote
27. Nevergreen - Andrew Anderson 
28. FLIES - DohB
29. Hiding Through Fear (VIP Dub) - Spectre Horsemen Pale With Dust
30. The Old Gardener - Richard Trethewey
31. Alienation - Negative Response
32. Crawl (M2) - Julia Dales
33. Ghost Man - Soli Vive
34. where are we now - daniel iorio
35. Croydon Fox - Strange Flesh
36. Dirac Sea - Particle Drift
37. Automation Nation - Mike Pendegast
38. Dark Matter - W^(Will Arneil)
39. Make it Matter (Radio Edit) - Malibu Hot Flush
40. Heaven Knows mp3 - David Stanley
41. Nostalgic for the violence of his youth - Victor Serge
42. Amygdala Algorithm - We Have Ghosts
43. The Meditation - Debrison
44. Bonnie & Clyde - the kahunas
45. Diamonds and Pearls - Ben P Williams
46. Contain Control - Fibres
47. Hermosa Vida en Verano - Jimena Fama 
48. Low Song - Subordinate Clause
49. Sadist - BIG big SKY
50. The Ship - Superboo
51. Strange One - Man at Q & M
52. It Starts Again - Band Spectra
53. Wake Up! Its Another Day mp3 - GO VOLTA
54. Bee Side - Shrube
55. Advance [Radio Edit] - Gates of Light
56. England’s Glory - Johnny Panic & the Bible of Dreams (Jimmy Andrex)

Will Farr's Eclectic Mix Volume 3

You can find quality new music from actual artists here:

www.willfarrmusic.com 
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Beyond promoting enjoyment of new music from undiscovered musicians, Will is an experienced DJ, producer and general performer of music & nonsense with no fiscal agenda. He also writes, does a bit of weird art, and tries to help people in distress. 


"the Bristol based cultured producer of promiscuous troll-tech with anti-Gongoristic tendencies and a penchant for the absurd"

Bookings, remixes, collaborations, feedback, criticism and praise are all welcome.


+447545963526
will.farr@gmail.com

 The best people are performing in the unpixellated universe, so put your phone down and explore that one.

Minimal synth project that began in 1981. Negative Response released 3 cassette collections between 1981 and 1983. Since then tracks have appeared on Bedroom Cassette Masters Volume 8 and the sampler Volume 2 in 2016. A  very limited 5 track retrospective collection was released on cassette by Manufactured Desire Records in October 2016 (sold out). Retrospective 8 track vinyl, "Oblique Angles", LP issued in July 2017 through Medical Records (300 copies).
Released on 25 Jan 2018 a 7 track vinyl or 12 track CD "Reunion" on Manufactured Desire Records. Very limited and sold out within 24 hours.
New material such as Dancing on the Head of a Pin, Til Its Over, Changing Skylines and Coral Pink are on a 9 track album "Submersion Therapy".  New double vinyl album featuring retrospective and cover versions "A Blur in the Distance" issued in February 2023 on Minimalkombinat. 

Alienation

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