Name: Bittersweet by The Gamels in Fresh on the Net - Eclectic Picks 540
Duration: 4 min 4 s
Description: 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.

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

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

PLAYLIST BELOW  - PLEASE SUPPORT THE ARTISTS YOU LIKE THE SOUND OF!

This is my first recording as part of my plan to take a wide range of new and unheard music into venues around the UK to promote the overlooked talent that surrounds us.

My performances in venues will be accompanied by screens showing information and links to each artist as they are played. Feedback and support will be encouraged. It is my aim to integrate live performances from artists local to where each show takes place, once I am happy with how it is running. 

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this mix and read your comments. If you love it, share it. Let's support each other and make the music scene better for everyone in it. Music and life isn't a competition, that's just a lie perpetuated by wankers who don't want you to be happy.

Thank you,

Will x

(I don't suppose you artists could tag yourself in the waveform so people can click directly on your username, could you?)

1. Joe Marsalis - Century
2. Marble Stars - Where Wood Pigeons Coo
3. Julia Dales - Bite It (M2)
4. DAAY - Who Am I
5. Little Juke - Down The Rabbit Hole
6. PartyOnMachinePlanetZero - SetConditionRed
7. Slow Bones - Sunzu
8. sarya - i don't know where i'm going (but that's okay)
9. Mr Bewlay - Honey
10. J.G.W.Parker - In the Mountains and the Valleys and Nowhere Else
11. Kid Scaramouche - Cabooser Child
12. The B Roads - Upper Street
13. Alien Alarms/Ieva Dubova/TimSC - The Spirit Of Gravity
14. Pulses - Hammer Swing
15. Aurora Engine - Miniature Self
16. PRZDNT - Rosso
17. Michael Donoghue - Cosmic Whisper
18. Andy Smythe - Tears Can Heal
19. Cynthia's Periscope and Didactic MK - Step into the Vortex
20. Demon 11 - Boom Band
21. Jimmy Andrex - Adultification
22. punkdISCO - Bleach Scented Skin
23. Cyrano - To Make You Feel
24. West Wickhams - This Is A Hangup
25. Spectre Horsemen Pale With Dust - The Stars Gaze Back
26. Play Misty - All the Pain
27. Cumsleg Borenail - The Baby Isnt Yours (Pink & Yellow Remix)
28. RJ Phillips Band - Stagecoach Mary
29. The Silent Era - Bela Lugosi's Dead
30. The Bone Tree - Ghosts
31. Ghostfield ft Silly Peach - Flight
32. Eeade - Sally the Monster Slayer
33. The Gamels - Bittersweet
34. Combover Beethoven - Mars
35. Leg Puppy - Your Profile is Dope
36. Nano Tone - Crypto Lingo
37. Faux Hex - Hierophant
38. Five Minute Pop Promo - All I Need
39. pecq - stronger
40. Vasi - CANTBUYMYLOVE
41. Reid Anderson -  We Would Have Noticed The Moon
42. Dharma Hounds - Chomp
43. Alex Hitchcock - ABAQUA
44. Catford Gyrations - Land of 1000 presets
45. Peter McDonnell - Nightlights
46. Arpraxis - Monte's
47. Particle Drift - casimir fields
48. Geography of the Moon - Pick it up and put it down
49. MARKETPLACE - Fruit
50. Ned Swarbrick - Davy Jones
51. The Fantom Man - Intrusion
52. Lost Signal - belong
53. Fluid Armstrong - Mirage
54. Adventsong - AI Stole My Art and All I Got Was This Lousy NFT-Shirt
55. shredddflanders - Cry in the Bathroom
56. Crocus Sunday - Cometh the Hour

Will Farr's Eclectic Mix Volume 1

Track list below, and hopefully the artists will tag their own tracks in the waveform.

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I hadn't planned to make this a regular online affair, but my live shows are slightly held up whilst the perfect website is being conjured from mouse clicks and imagination.

Something of an autumnal feel in this latest instalment of my Eclectic Mix project, and certainly a little darker than the Volume 1 demo. I've made an effort to include artists who didn't feature heavily in the first recording, and I will continue to do that to the best of my abilities whilst maintaining some coherence. It's not perfect, but that makes it all the more human.

Please reach out to the artists if you enjoy their music, and to me if you don't.

I recorded this before my Eclectech mix, and I realise there is some overlap but they are very much two different things.

Volume 3 will come in the Fresh on the Net Christmas break.

In Jimmy Andrex we trust,

Will x 

1. Mum does the washing by Joshua Idehen
2. Big Machine by Combover Beethoven
3. Carnage (feat. Matrace) by Artinho
4. Ostrich Farm  by Glass Frogs
5. Always by Nature Kids
6. Pay me what I'm worth by Shredddflanders
7. You've  Been Useless by Cumsleg Borenail
8. Drop a Drop by Leg Puppy 2.0
9. Crazy (Or a Cog Short of a Clock) by Grungy Bill
10. The Worst by Anelie
11. Queen of the Living Dead by Ron D Bowes
12. Worst of all Women by Mr Bewlay
13. Island States by Divisions
14. Little Sister by Gumflower
15. Just Yours by Hannya White
16. No One by So Only
17. Fingers on the Triggers, Boots on the Ground by Alexys
18. Can’t Save The World by Autjoy
19. Stay Sticky by Dead Anyway
20. Joyride (Flipside Remix) by Flipside
21. Echoes (Original Mix) by Kanesz
22. Mind the gap by Lolita Terrorist Sounds
23. 7 Deadly Bins by Jimmy Andrex
24. Chasing Down Mountain Goats by Blokeacola
25. I could watch you all day by Michael Donoghue
26. Same Old Head by The New Music Sculptors
27. Like Mikey by TIJ & The Subversive (feat Marie Fontaine)
28. Tension by Electric Tape Recorder
29. Rich Man by Rogue Siesta
30. Tritiated Water Master by St3v3L33
31. Purest Expression by The Gamels
32. Matte Black Batman by Lilac Angel
33. Live Well For Less (Edit) by Tiger Mendoza vs Killer Kowalski
34. Edroom by MARKETPLACE
35. SUN sun + by boycalledcrow
36. Tomorrow's Here to Stay by Andy Korg
37. Give You Love  by Daveyhub
38. Reflektion by Above my station vs Arcade Fire
39. Alec Cleg by Jimmy Andrex

For reasons that I hope are obvious, I've decided to finish every live set with Alec Cleg by Jimmy Andrex, but I think this is the only Eclectic Mix recording where I will do that. However, I may change my mind, for it is my mind to change.

Will Farr's Eclectic Mix Volume 2

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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.

Bittersweet

The Gamels

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