This mix was for the Xenomorph Sounds series and was broadcast on Threads Radio on 26 August 2020. 
It was fun to make with a wide assortment of favourites from the last six decades.
Big thanks to Ludovico for the invitation.

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There's more of my stuff at https://shanewoolman.uk

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Phantom Signals: Guest mix for Xenomorph Sounds 26 August 2020

SAMIYAM
“SAM BAKER’S ALBUM”
(Brainfeeder)

Download the track here from Altered Zones: http://dld.bz/abzkd
Release Date: June 28, 2011

Blazing back onto the radar with one of the most anticipated and long-awaited albums yet on Brainfeeder is SAMIYAM. Sam Baker's Album is 40 minutes of deviant listening pleasure, a series of woozy, off-center hip hop instrumentals drawing heavily on Baker's love of electronic funk but never obligated to it.

Intensely detailed and carrying considerable emotional weight, this is not Rap Beats Vol. 2, but rather an album of fully realized tracks that stand on their own, knee-deep in the groove and bent to the side. Sludgy, chunky beats mesh with organic sounds and fractured stops and starts, all coming together like the pieces of a demented dream.

SAMIYAM moved to Los Angeles from Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2006; in his short time on the West Coast he has become one of the city's most progressive and recognized producers, a man who has helped spearhead the revival of interest in instrumental hip-hop music. His album Rap Beats Vol. 1 was the first release on the Brainfeeder label, and SAMIYAM’s raw hip hop sound with a psychedelic edge and off-kilter beats could be called the quintessential Brainfeeder style.

SAMIYAM - Where Am I

recorded live on the john peel session at bbc london 13.11.1989
the cd is available at www.billieraymartin.com/mart
3 songs

Electribe 101 - Talking With Myself (The John Peel Session)

Muslim Trance

Track made in October 2009 that will never see the light of day

Masq

Come peruse Collections 01, a menagerie of songs from Teebs on the Brainfeeder label. Like a cluster of exotic birds, anthology of short stories or secret case of sparkling gemstones, Collections 01 further explores the world expressed in Teebs' previous album Ardour from several new perspectives.

While drawing from the universe of Ardour, Collections 01 is more varied with more samples, each song containing specific elements that give it a unique character. Featuring tracks with harpist Rebekah Raff and Brainfeeder cohort Austin Peralta, Collections 01 offers a range of sentiment, always elegantly displayed. From hypnotic, dust-covered beats and languid daydreams to cascading shuffles and bright bursts of color, this beautiful collection is a further glimpse into the world behind the mind's eye of Teebs, painter of sound.

From Teebs:

"With this record I'm trying to imagine a side project or group of mine that just so happened to make the same exact music as I'm making now. These records are neither EPs or full albums. Just mini collections of ideas...I hope to release them randomly through my life as if they were paintings in a drawn out series. The vibe I want people to be sent off with is a feeling of going out and buying some kind of rare library record they always wanted and not a "new album/EP." This will be the first Collections."

Teebs - Cook, Clean, Pay The Rent (New House Version)

First track from the 2011 release "Sakura".

Longstone - Sakura Part 1

Forthcoming 12" release on Eat Concrete
Also featured on The Wire Tapper CD (Issue #338, Apr 2012)
http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/8719/
© 2011 - Baconhead

Baconhead - Flytraps

Free download via bandcamp

Unbreak My Dub - it didn't appear on any of the retrospective compilations
Originally appearing on limited DJ vinyl 7" in 2005 (!!), with 'Snoop n Seeed' on the b-side
here it is in it's raw n gritty beauty with a rumbling lo bass.
complete with cobwebs
I haven't made an effort to match it to todays production values - it was a fairly basic production using samplers, vinyl, echo unit, some extra keys for organs
just as it was


FREE DOWNLOAD

JSTAR - Unbreak My Dub (Original mix)

Poise - The Remixes

Scalene (Jackie Remix)

The free download option for this track has now been disabled with the commercial release of the download version of the Pavilion album (available worldwide from iTunes, Amazon etc). The CD version of the album (with a twelve page full colour booklet) is due for release soon.

Longstone - Pavilion (machine mix)

I work at The Wire magazine and present regular shows on Resonance FM & New New World Radio, and occasional ones on Radio Alhara, NTS and more. DJ as part of The Wire Soundsystem and also as @Spinello. Addicted to coffee.

Phantom Signals: Guest mix for Xenomorph Sounds 26 August 2020

shanewoolman

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