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Remixes and Mash Ups

Calm music

Mon pantalon est décousu

"warm and comforted
he will hear all night
the truth as lullaby"
/ John Berger

October 2016

Music for write

Remixes I Like

Farewell...
Farewell/Gratitude now available to download at http://piearesquared.bandcamp.com

Farewell

I heard this song (https://soundcloud.com/rynweaver/ryn-weaver-octahate) two days ago and loved the melody, the production, the layers in each section and of course Ryn Weaver's voice. Unable to think of anything else, I buckled down all day yesterday and made this remix. Whereas the song itself is an upbeat summery track, this maintains that summer vibe but more laid back, a dozing off at the beach kind of vibe I guess. Anyways, enjoy.

Ryn Weaver - OctaHate [Pie Are Squared Remix]

Our first mixtape is called "Day &amp; Night." Here's the Day mix, and Night can be downloaded here: http://soundcloud.com/poolside/night-mixtape

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Poolside - Day Mixtape

The second track off my "Farewell/Gratitude" featuring extra percussion & synth work by https://soundcloud.com/ali-soliman, available for download here: https://piearesquared.bandcamp.com/


Gratitude (feat. Ali Soliman)

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Alessandro Cortini "Scappa" from Forse 3  2xLP   Pre -Orders available now

from the Hospital Productions record  "Risveglio", out July 27 2015.

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COIL - 'Backwards' CD / 2LP (CSR203CD/LP)

After the ground-breaking release of 1990's "Love's Secret Domain" album, Coil were not dormant; the main project was "Backwards", which was started in 1992, updated considerably between 1993 and 1995, and transferred in 1996 to New Orleans, where it was finished in the magic of the Nothing studios of Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails). The album saw the fruition of Jhonn Balance's recent vocal coaching, producing haunting, passionate vocals, while reaching new heights.

23 years after its initiation, these tracks have been beautifully preserved by Danny Hyde and are finally available in highest quality audio. Differing substantially from the later, remixed incarnation, "The New Backwards" (2008), "Backwards" contains the original versions of Coil's much-loved tracks; 'A Cold Cell' and 'Fire Of The Mind', which have appeared on various compilations over the years, and are now presented as originally intended.

This album is the essential bridge between "LSD" and the later "Musik To Play In The Dark" series. It is an essential conduit, to understand the journey that was taken. It was to be released... it should have been released... but for boring legal issues it wasn't. It is now, so enjoy. (Danny Hyde).

Track listing:

1. Intro
2. Backwards
3. Amber Rain
4. Fire Of The Green Dragon
5. Be Careful What You Wish For
6. Nature Is A Language
7. Heaven's Blade
8. CopaCaballa
9. Paint Me As A Dead Soul
10. AYOR (It's In My Blood)
11. A Cold Cell
12. Fire Of The Mind

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COIL Fire Of The Mind (Excerpt)

Tycho sunrise dj set from the Dusty Rhino at Burning Man on Thursday, September 3rd, 2015. 

Don't really know how to express my gratitude for the experience with everyone out there this year, it was so perfectly beautiful. Thanks to everyone who made it possible. See you next time!

Special Thanks to: David and The Space Between camp, Dane and the Dusty Rhino crew, Christopher Willits, Kirk & Karey, Nitemoves (Rory O'Connor), Heathered Pearls (Jakub Alexander), Rob Garza, Kiyoka, Katie, Seth, Tobias, and the whole Disco Space Shuttle crew.

RIP Mike Reigle and Jon Horvath

Track Listing:

Brothomstates - Mdrmx
Photek - T'Raenon
Casino Versus Japan - It's Very Sunny
Dominik Eulberg - Datenübertragungsküsschen ( Sistema Remix)
Dauwd - Kolido
Cubenx - First Wave Front
Jon Hopkins - Open Eye Signal
Daniel Bortz - Tomorrow We Start a New Life Again
Few Nolder - Clouds (Boso Reversion)
Daniel Avery - Knowing We'll Be Here
Daniel Bortz - Monkey Biznizz
What You Need (Downtown Party Network Remix)
John Tejada - Orbiter (Simian Mobile Disco Mix Version 2)
Dauwd - And
Jamie XX - Gosh
Aphex Twin - Avril 14th
Boards of Canada - ROYGBIV

<<<< SUNRISE >>>>

Bibio - Lover's Carvings (Bruno Be & Eddie M Remix)
Roosevelt - Sea (Dub)
Downtown Party Network - No Drama Afterhours
Telephones - Blaff
Tame Impala - The Moment
Tycho - Awalk

Elsewhere - Burning Man Sunrise 2015

IP025 - Saåad - Verdaillon LP
Pre-order the vinyl https://inparadisum.bandcamp.com/album/verdaillon
Out September 15th 2016

Descending from the Toulousian post-hardcore scene, Romain Barbot and Gregory Buffier have produced more than a dozen tormented ambient-drone records under the name Saåad, such as the remarkable Deep Float (Hands In The Dark, 2014). Upon invitation of the local Les Orgues festival, giving them access to the Puget organ located in the Church of Notre-Dame de la Dalbade, they composed an original creation that In Paradisum is proud to publish under the form of the album Verdaillon. 

Through dynamics of elevation, suspension and tension, Saåad’s music reaches altered states. Consisting of thick patches of sound, it gathers powerful harmonies and buries them under samples of the world’s rustling sounds. The sources are rarely identifiable, which makes for the singularity to each record. 

Verdaillon goes against the lyrical outbursts that are familiar to a certain register of ambient music, and towards an extremely rare quality of dynamic and detail. The record’s singular and discreet beauty is due to the organ in all of its most secular aspects, and to a certain « something in the air » of that particular place, on those particular days. The finale of Vorde provides the key to the record: it takes the listeners back to the instrument’s origins, at a time when the spiritual was part of ordinary life.

Saåad - The Harvest

From Media In The Service Of Terror due June 10 via Hospital Productions

Vatican Shadow - 'More Of The Same'

SONOIO's "Blue" is probably my most listened to album in the past two years and Alessandro Cortini (https://soundcloud.com/alessandrocortini) is a personal hero of mine, so it only seemed fitting to remix one of my favourite tracks of his. This is meant to be listened to as loud as possible through decent headphones/speakers.
Here's the original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vh00BFxl3M
Enjoy x

SONOIO - Hold On, Let Go [Pie Are Squared Remix]

Physical: Sold Out
Digital: shiningskullstudio.bandcamp.com/album/in-summer
Catalog #: GN35
Barro negro cassette, limited to 100

For nearly two decades, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma has led an ambitious and exploratory trail through a variety of sounds and genres. As a member of longtime underdogs Tarentel, Cantu-Ledesma broadened the horizons, challenged genre constraints, and pushed the boundaries of the entire post rock genre. Later, Jefre established with several experimental bands (the Alps, Portraits, Moholy-Nagy, etc.) and collaborative projects (Raum, with Grouper). But Jefre has also operated a bit behind the scenes, issuing heady sets of experimental music and film through Root Strata, the label he co-runs with Maxwell August Croy.

As a solo artist, Cantu-Ledesma creates deeply emotional sets of drone, noise, tape collage, and field recordings on the likes of Type, Mexican Summer, Digitalis, Students of Decay, and more. 

Jefre now joins Geographic North with In Summer, a cassette that furthers the nostalgia and melancholy portraits of 'A Year with 13 Moons' (2015 Mexican Summer) and 'Songs of Forgiveness' (2014 BARO) for briefer, yet more potent tape loop meditations. 

"Love's Refrain" opens the cassette by plunging into depths of reeling, Cocteau Twins-esque clouds of guitar and patient drum machine. Riddled with static and glorious, hypnotic tape warble, the song perfectly sets the stage for In Summer's emotional arc. "Little Deer Isle" meditates on a series of field recordings and unbelievable calmness.

"In Summer" exists in a rolling simmer of aural infidelity and physical, circumstantial magic. "Blue Nudes (I-IV)" creates a deep and undulating traipse through various vignettes of hope, love, loss, and admiration, while "Prelude" closes things out with a calm, understated but permeating sense of calm optimism.

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - "Love's Refrain"

So I posted a video of me playing this song last Saturday and the response has been amazing, 12k views and counting, which is insane. Anyway, for the people who wanted to have it as an audio file (and people who didn't) here's a rough mix/master of the song and if you want to watch the video here are the links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/piearesquared/videos/10153786412597957/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KIE7CxFIqg
Here's the original video's description:
A reverb drenched, tipy-tapy, live-loopy song for summer, probably the most upbeat thing I've made in a very long time. Very much influenced by bands like And So I Watch You From Afar and From Monument To Masses 
Thanks

36 Degrees on a Saturday (Rough Mix)

From Croatian Amor - Love Means Taking Action 
Out Sep 30th 


Croatian Amor - Love Means Taking Action

play loud. speak loud. act loud.

Happy Birthday MLK Jr.

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My remix of Steven Wilson's "Perfect Life" off 2015's Hand.Cannot.Erase

Those who know me, and I guess quite a bit of those who don't, know that Steven Wilson is my all-time music idol, so trying to remix something of his was a huge personal challenge. That said, I am pretty happy with the result. Enjoy x

Steven Wilson - A Pefect Life (Pie Are Squared Remix)

Alessandro Cortini, live instrumental set at Death By Audio, NYC, December 11 2011. Performed on a Buchla Music Easel.

Alessandro Cortini - live at Death By Audio, december 2011

Mix of the first two minutes from each of the tracks on the new collaborative LP from Alessandro Cortini & Merzbow.

Alessandro Cortini (Nine Inch Nails) and Japanese noise legend Massami Akita (Merzbow) share a mutual love for the EMS Synthi, a British synthesizer from the early 70's notorious for it's patch matrix, portability and distinct tone.

Astonishingly, these two disparate artists meld into a single sound as they flex the analog circuitry of the EMS Synthi in new ways; giving this classic synth a modern workout and proving that, in capable hands, a 40 year old analog synthesizer is a tool for the ages.

180 gram double vinyl. Metallic shimmer print on heavy duty jackets.

Alessandro Cortini & Merzbow

ALESSANDRO CORTINI & MERZBOW 2xLP - MIX EDIT - Shipping April 2017

Ursula Bogner: Winkel Pong
Format: 7” Vinyl/DL
Label#: faitiche15
Release date: Sept 8th 2017
 
Faitiche is delighted to announce the release of a new Ursula Bogner record (faitiche15). Winkel Pong contains three previously unreleased pieces from the archive of the sound researcher who died in 1994. In 2008, Jan Jelinek put together a first album from Bogner’s tape archive (CD/LP Recordings 1969-1988, faitiche01). A second followed in 2011, compiled this time by Andrew Pekler (CD/LP Sonne = Blackbox, accompanying the book of the same name with texts, photographs and Bogner’s graphic oeuvre). For Winkel Pong the tape archive was passed on to Lucrecia Dalt. The Berlin-based Colombian sound artist and musician chose three tracks from the 1980s (exact dates unknown), editing the tape recordings for their release on Winkel Pong.
 
Gundrun Gut (Malaria!, Einstürzende Neubauten), an activist and reluctant chronicler of Berlin’s underground scene since the 1980s, has worked with Lucrecia Dalt. She is also familiar with Ursula Bogner’s work. Reason enough to ask her for an interview:
 
Jan Jelinek: Gudrun, how does it feel to be constantly obliged to talk about the 1980s Berlin underground as someone who was there at the time?
 
Gudrun Gut: I’ve learned to live with it as there are clearly too few people who witnessed it first-hand. Maybe it’s even important to do these interviews as a woman – so that someone actually says that women, too, have written music history. Men tend not to mention this. But it’s true, people do always ask the same questions.
 
JJ: Did you know about Ursula Bogner in the 1980s? Did you ever meet her?
 
GG: No, I never met Ursula Bogner in person and I only discovered her in 2008 thanks to Faitiche. But that’s no surprise: firstly, I don’t know every single woman artist, and secondly, far too many women artists never see the light of day. In the male-dominated art and music market, women are not considered important – or worse still, they are not understood. Look at artists like Sonia Delaunay, Eva Hesse, Bebe Baron, Delia Derbyshire and Daphne Oram. Some of them have now been discovered – but only recently. A lot has changed in the last few years: there is a growing awareness of art and music made by women.
 
JJ: But isn’t it annoying that the conventional distribution of roles still applies? One example: in many articles, Ursula Bogner has been presented as an “electronic housewife”.
 
GG: When Ursula Bogner is referred to as an electronic housewife, then sadly that reflects the situation of many women artists at the time. Women could only pursue artistic activities in private – transcendence was reserved for men. This has still not been overcome. But today, the home has become a site of professional production for all. I’m talking about bedroom producers: it is totally normal to make art and music at home. And that makes things interesting, because “working at home” is no longer associated solely with women.
 
JJ: For Winkel Pong, Lucrecia Dalt compiled and remixed three pieces from the Bogner archive. You know Lucrecia and you’ve already worked with her. How did you meet?
 
GG: I met Lucrecia through MySpace – I think it was 2007. Back then she was still living in Medellin, Colombia. Lucrecia’s father made loop machines for her that she still uses. The Sound of Lucrecia was part of my 4 Women no Cry compilation series on Monika Enterprise, each with four producers from different countries. She’s great fun to watch as a performer because she has a unique sense of rhythm and feel for music. Above all I’m impressed by her sustained approach as an artist, someone who can and does think around corners. I’m thinking specifically of her album Ou, for which she ploughed her way through post-war German cinema, using it as a source of inspiration for a soundtrack. This is proof that she thinks like an engineer – so it makes perfect sense that she would want to explore the work of Ursula Bogner.
 
Berlin, 2017

Ursula Bogner: Atmosphärische Energie (edited by Lucrecia Dalt)

Consider this the counterpoint to "Stabbed in the Ear...", a song meant to linger in the background, played at the lowest volumes...


Hushed to a Whisper

This song came up on my reddit feed last week and has been stuck in my head ever since, so I thought I'd try remixing it. I must admit that I don't listen to a lot (read: any) hip hop or rap, so this was extremely challenging.

The original song is featured on KIDS SEE GHOSTS self-titled album, released on G.O.O.D. Music

KIDS SEE GHOSTS - Reborn (Pie Are Squared Remix)

Whenever a song comes along that forces me to listen to it over and over again, on loop for hours, I feel I have to try remixing it in order to know it better, to try to break it down to its elements and find what it is that makes me incapable of stopping to listen to it. This was exactly the case with https://soundcloud.com/telefon-tel-aviv's first single off his upcoming album. I hope I did it justice.
Original Track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYKBmokneWw

Telefon Tel Aviv - standing at the bottom of the ocean; (Pie Are Squared Remix)

"Seasons Change" is our new mix for the crisp days of Autumn as Winter approaches and the daylight get shorter and shorter. It's a collection of melancholy tunes we put together while driving through the Northeastern States this past October to fit the moods that come with the changing of seasons.

Track List here: http://poolsidemusic.com/seasons-change-track-list

Poolside - Seasons Change Mixtape

Part of the "Screws Reworked" Project. No additional soundsources were used.
You can buy it here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP079

Nils Frahm - You (Bug Lover Rework)

HAIM - Send Me Down (Dan Lissvik Remix)

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HAIM - Send Me Down (Dan Lissvik Remix)

From the Gazelle Twin 'Mammal EP' Out on Sugarcane Recordings January 28th
With Remixes by Clint Mansell, Kuedo, Renaissance Man, Alixander III

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GAZELLE TWIN - I TURN MY ARM (KUEDO REMIX)

Sally Shapiro - Starman (Miami Nights 1984 Remix)

UK: Everything Is Embarrassing EP out April 8, pre-order now at http://smarturl.it/SKYEEITUNES

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Sky Ferreira - Everything Is Embarrassing (Krystal Klear Remix)

Taken from "ProtoVision EP", first single taken from Kavinsky's first album "OutRun", which will be released on February 25th.

Order your vinyl copy here : http://bit.ly/i3l9q7 
w/ remixes of : Boys Noize, Sébastien Tellier, Blood Orange, and STS !

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ProtoVision

ProtoVision (Blood Orange Remix)

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Pie Are Squared is Italy-based Egyptian musician Mohammed Ashraf. 
One-half of Bennu.
One-half of Śruti.
One-half of Aken's Sleep.
One-sixth of Postvorta.
One-fifth of Void of Sleep.