Made this mix for my yearly guest appearance on KEXP's long running electronic music show, Expansions for Sharlese last December. I started out wanting to make a moody, EBMish, synthed out mix... but when all was said and done, it turned out all hot and bothered (So much so, that Sharlese almost yanked it off air in mid mix during the sexed up Jamie Principle vocals...lol). The joke was that the mix was going to give someone the wrong idea, hence the name.  Enjoy!!!

The "Wrong Idea" Mix

Exclusive original track from the 50th release on Thoughtless Music: ERA ONE...

Unsung

A Mixlr broadcast I did on 26/03/20 during Coronavirus isolation.

Live vinyl set during Corona Isolation

Rachel Torro has carved out a unique space in the San Francisco House Music scene with an aesthetic that draws from her adventurous musical background and song selections that weave a voice that is all her own. She combines a mature breadth of taste with a youthful playfulness colored by her post-adolescent history of rave antics & psychedelic revelry. Minimal, deep and tech house sensibilities build upon and support each other in a grounded but intricately textured experience.

Rachel Torro | Fault Radio DJ Set | Relief Sessions in Sacramento, California (March 29, 2020)

In my new studio mix series I want to offer some mixes in different genres, and with a little different feel than you might get from a live mix.

I've been exploring tracks I don't play out much or else in a long time, that are not necessary dance-driven but more interesting conceptually...

This first mix is a techno mix which starts gently and escalates quickly before coming back down to a nice close.

It would be a lot to ask a dance floor to have this much change in energy but this isn't for the dance floor necessarily

It's more a reflection of the chaos all of us feel in our lives right now.

I've done a few LiveStreams, all house, and really been dying to play some techno.

This set even started as a livestream, but had some tech issues so I just played for my wife an I, and opened up a bit more musically than I probably would have if live

Anyway, hope you are well out there wherever you are! 
And hope you enjoy the mix!

Coral Chaos (Techno) Ben Annand - Studio Session # 1 - May 2020

For better and worse, 2020 has been an emotional rollercoaster for most of us and so I set out to create a mix that could capture the range of emotions we've been through. The first half of the mix is all about the beautiful, lush deep house that has been a vital source of comfort and peace in an alarming time. It's like a hug from someone who understands you when you really need it, a kind of music therapy if you will. Toward the end of that initial movement you start to hear some bittersweet and darker tones mixed into the progression; the mood inevitably changes in order to take things to a darker place. The Damian Lazarus track "Holy" serves as a portal between the emotionally tender, melodic first half and the darker feelings of the second half of the mix. 

I like to think of the second half as a sort of ode to Halloween, an embrace of the darkness if you will. This part of the ride takes the energy up a notch in order to deliver some pulsing, hardened techno like a rocket sending you into the darkest parts of space. The last few tracks, especially "Vampire Nightclub," are a great reminder of the fun you can have in darkness too. It was also necessary to remind everyone that I'm "straight gangsta" after all that emotional stuff. Muahahahah Don't get it twisted!

Hope you enjoy the journey and can appreciate the dynamic nature of this set. I hope it accurately reflects the duality of life and that you might be able to see the beauty in all of it - light and darkness. Much love! <3

Summer Became Fall 2020

1	.	Toàn	.	Flocon
2	.	Jake Muir	.	like sweet thoughts in a dream
3	.	Leigh Toro	.	The Grand Union
4	.	Kane Ikin +David Wenngren	.	Veil
5	.	K'an	.	Vessel, Phoneme
6	.	Kane Ikin	.	In the Arc
7	.	Julien Neto	.	Sketch
8	.	José Silva	.	Installing - Meeting
9	.	Ital Tek	.	The Speed of Darkness
10	.	Helios	.	Nature People
11	.	F.S. Blumm & Nils Frahm	.	Is Love What You Don't Know
12	.	En	.	Awkward Paws
13	.	Deru	.	Midnight In The Garden With Ghosts (Remix)
14	.	Deaf Center	.	Lobby
15	.	Taylor Deupree	.	Shutter
16	.	Tim Linghaus*	.	At The End All Is Black
17	.	Willamette	.	Inland Empire
18	.	arovane	.	endolp
19	.	Wil Bolton	.	Shadows On The Wall
20	.	Halftribe	.	Sacred
21	.	Blochemy	.	Fo In
22	.	Warmth	.	Decade (Robert Farrugia Remix)
23	.	Esem	.	v l or
24	.	Jacek Doroszenko	.	External Island
25	.	Lee Gamble	.	Fata Morgana
26	.	OHIO	.	Ohio
27	.	Offthesky	.	Lucere
28	.	Other Joe	.	Feels Real
29	.	Rafael Anton Irisarri	.	Downfall
30	.	Rival Consoles	.	Fragment
31	.	Secede	.	Foliage Pathway
32	.	Sven Laux	.	Sleep In C Minor
33	.		.	Broken Chip - Camphill_SC_Master_1644
34	.	r beny	.	streams of light
35	.	Cyril Secq / Orla Wren	.	Troisième Brabche
36	.	Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm	.	03:06
37	.	Burial	.	In McDonalds
38	.	Geotic	.	And Upon Awakening
39	.	Islands Of Light	.	Joses
40	.	Christopher Bissonnette	.	Epoch
41	.	Nils Frahm	.	Passing
42	.	Roel Funcken	.	Nebula Messir amb
43	.	Tim Hecker	.	In mother earth phase
44	.	Simon Scott	.	Silenne
45	.	thme	.	obsolete form of beauty
46	.	Max Ananyev	.	Palace on the Hill
47	.	THIS VALLEY OF OLD MOUNTAINS	.	Luriel
48	.	Halftribe	.	A Thousand Colours
49	.	thme	.	anchor
50	.	Max Ananyev	.	Images in Time
51	.	Benoît Pioulard	.	The Very Edge Of Its Flame
52	.	Bing & Ruth	.	09 Flat Line_Peak Color
53	.	Brambles	.	Such Owls As You
54	.	Nils Frahm	.	No Step On Wing
55	.	Daniel W J Mackenzie	.	Confound II
56	.	Dedekind Cut	.	Descend from now
57	.	En	.	Already Gone
58	.	Nest	.	Amroth
59	.	r beny	.	blue kings
60	.	Rafael Anton Irisarri	.	Traces
61	.	Willamette	.	Fresnal Variation (For Jeanne Moreau)
62	.	Ocoeur	.	4-Kofski
63	.	ASC	.	Endless Blue
64	.	Rafael Anton Irisarri	.	Transeúntes
65	.	Rafael Anton Irisarri	.	Every Scene Fades
66	.	ghost and tape	.	Eostre
67	.	Burial	.	State Forest
68	.	Purl	.	Violante (Lost In a Dream)
69	.	Bibio	.	PHANTOM BRICKWORKS
70	.	Federico Durand	.	Los Juguetes De Minka Podhájská
71	.	Daniel Wohl	.	Melt
72	.	Ben Rath	.	Deliverance
73	.	Willamette	.	Codeine Catnap
74	.	Willits + Sakamoto	.	Abandoned Silence
75	.	Wil Bolton	.	Weatherboard
76	.	Wil Bolton	.	Honeywood
77	.	Warmth	.	Dust (Chris Weeks Remix)
78	.	tim hecker	.	kaito
79	.	Max Würden	.	Fernfeld
80	.	Unrecognizable Now	.	Simon Scott "Two Rooms" Remix
81	.	Taylor Deupree & Marcus Fischer	.	Migrations
82	.	Richard Ginns	.	Cycles
83	.	Oneohtrix Point Never	.	Submersible
84	.	Ocoeur	.	Time to go

ambient dj mixes

Ambient mixlr 19 & 20 Nov 2020

www.openlab.fm | 106.4FM in Ibiza & Formentera

Tune in for this month’s episode of Francesca's Architextures, where she creates a musical journey inspired by a different art movement each month. 
In this instalment she goes deep into Surrealism. Emerging in Europe post WW2, Surrealists sought to alter the human experience, and unite the conscious and unconscious realms; the omnipotence of fantasy within the rational world, a “surreality”. Join her on her musical journey.

Join Francesca on her musical exploration this evening, featuring tracks by Pni Floyd, Gong, Pete Namlook and Suzanne Kraft among many others! 💫

Track List:
Daniel Lanois - The Deadly Nightshade
Hawkwind - The Awakening
Cocteau Twins - The Thinner the Air
Bombay Dub Orchestra - The Orange Terrace
Pete Namlook - Travelling without Moving (Track 11) Robert Leiner - Dream or Reality
Coti - Shoal
Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene, Pt. 1
Morcheeba - Who Can you Trust?
Gong - A PHP’s Advice (Gong with the Wind Remix, the Orb) The System - Pendy! You’re In Some Awful Danger
Yello - Blue Green
Tim Hecker - Ghost Writing Pt. 2
King Crimson - The Sheltering Sky
Pink Floyd - Obscured by Clouds
Suzanne Kraft - Renee Sleeping

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Architextures 008 by Francesca - Surrealism

This was a year of wild contrast. Pain and joy; confusion and clarity; hard cuts and blurry transitions. 

As we cross through the imaginary gate into the new year, this mix is a sonic journal that captures a spectrum of feeling from this strange time.

CHAPTER I: EXPAND
[0:00] Dauwd - Theory of Colour
[2:27] Bella Boo - Can't Leave You Like This
[6:51] John Monkman - In Between
[10:17] Lake People - Drifting Red
[15:17] Tibi Dabo - The Distance We Share
[21:11] Neyo - So Sick (KH VERSION)
[25:43] popstack - yew tree

CHAPTER II: DRIVE
[27:36] Tristan Arp - Oblique House
[31:03] Leftfield - Afro Left (Hodge & Peverelist Mix)
[35:30] Com Sin - Persona
[38:31] August Artier - Hina
[43:29] Audiojack - Turya
[48:13] Luke Slater - Love (Marcel Dettmann City Remix)
[53:53] Answer Code Request - Zeitspielraum
[58:05] Skee Mask - Shred 08
[60:09] Artefakt - Somatic Dreams
[63:27] Jacques Greene - Avatar Beach

CHAPTER III: DECELERATE
[66:49] Skee Mask - Session Add
[71:53] Aphex Twin - Ageispolis
[74:33] VC-118A - Face the Waves
[77:00] Nils Frahm - All Melody
[84:32] Neil Cowley, Ben Lukas Boysen - Solitary Refinement

tim wood - spectrum (2020 year end mix)

1.Kontinum - Frozen Train
2.Substak - Hypnosis (Twin Peetz's Anesthesia) 
3.Shagshag - Tout a l'eglise 
4.Mr. Cloudy - Lumen 
5.Kontinum - Polarwalk (Markus Masuhr Remix) 
6.Kontinum - Penguin Diaries (XYIZ Your Touch Remix) 
7.Martin Stürtzer - Trees 
8.PWD - Black 
9.Deepcut - No Cover 
10.Luss - Journey (Upwellings remix)

Knolios - Dub Techno Mix 21

This month's mix comes from up-and-coming band Hanegi Koen, all the way from Tokyo, Japan! Set to release their debut album on vinyl on Subtempo in March, they prepared this special mix through some mellow beats ranging from ambient to downtempo, to house, creating a seamless journey. We got to catch up with them and how their project started in this insightful interview. Take a read while you listen! 

Tracklist + Interview: subtempo.com/mixes/hanegi-koen
Follow Hanegi Koen: @hanegikoenband

Tracklist + Interview

Subtempo Mix 029 - Hanegi Koen

Coaxing nuanced expression from analog machines and digital possibilities alike, Noah Pred has been envisioning the future through electronic music for over twenty years. Following his 2018 release of two full-lengths charting the territories between deep space experimentalism, intricate polyrhythms, delicate soundscapes, evocative acid, and expansive dub frontiers, 2019 saw him reinterpreting his signature production style anew with a slew of raw, minimalist, hypnotic techno EPs.

A two-time Juno Award nominee in his native Canada, a music educator and technologist in his adopted hometown Berlin, an alum of Cynosure, Highgrade, and Trapez LTD, and founder of the acclaimed Thoughtless imprint, Noah is also a DJ whose past residencies at Stereobar in Montreal and Fukhouse in Toronto helped lay the framework for his dynamic yet fluid sets that continue to resonate with diverse communities.

A notable member of Canada’s burgeoning underground of the early 2000s, Pred’s distinctive production style earned him a place among his peers with releases on Immigrant, Intrinsic Design, and Consigned Recordings. Driven by the fuel that fired up Thoughtless, Noah relocated to Berlin in 2011, where his creative horizons continued to expand via collaborative projects with Tom Clark as False Image on Get Physical, with Pablo Bolivar on Apparel and Biotop, with Tim Xavier on Alphahouse, and with Deepchild as Concubine.

Between his recent solo EPs for Traumraum, Compute, and Face To Face, his vivid sets of techno, house, and electro, the advanced sound design of his haunting atmospherics, and the ever-evolving scope of his technical capabilities, Noah’s commitment to electronic innovation remains as strong as ever - and in the face of global uncertainty, his utopian sonic narratives have never felt so vital.