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Recorded, mixed, mastered in BangOn Recordings Spring 2018

Sex2 [2018]

Recorded in Humboldt Park, Chicago 2023
Produced By Takemaro Yokoyama

Don't Let Me [demo]

0:00 FA 004 Side B 1978 Fred Anderson Group at the 500 Room

11:45 ESS Archive 2011 Jeff Parker Solo Performance SET 2

19:18 SR V002 Sun Ra "Calling Planet Earth"

34:52 TA 016 1999 Fred Anderson, Hamid Drake, Tatsu Aoki, Jeff Parker at the Velvet Lounge 

51:35 MR 0760 1989 Derek Bailey Solo Performance at Lower Links

62:44 FA 004 Side A 1978 Fred Anderson Group at the 500 Room

77:24 ESS Archive 1988 Bill Frisell, Ikue Mori, Jim Staley trio 04

81:03 ESS Archive 2011 Jeff Parker Solo Performance SET 1 excerpt

This mix was so much fun to put together, and I feel really outlines the common threads through a lot of my favorite aesthetics that make up what I feel is so important to the Chicago scene(s) and its histor(y/ies). One thing I have loved about Chicago since even before I moved here, is the natural sense of this music feeling so earthy, organic, and natural, as well as ethereal, otherworldly, and alien at once. I feel that in many other historic scenes, one end of this dichotomy might take precedence over the other, but only here in Chicago do I get a beautiful sense of balance and simultaneity in this respect. The Fred Anderson selections here follow a familiar “jazz” format in some ways, but the way everyone plays is so unique, so fresh, and so engaging to me.

The tunes and lineup are not credited on these Fred Anderson tapes, but I do wonder, is this one of the earliest recordings we have of Hamid Drake? If my quick google research is accurate, this is the same year Fred Anderson put out his first record “Another Place” with Hamid on drums at age 23. There’s a drum beat about a minute and a half into this first track that I associate with his kind of approach, and I feel it really encapsulates this era and scene in a way. The rubato drumming is so free flowing, so melodic, and so sonically expressive, AND when the time comes to play a groove, the pocket is so perfectly heavy and light. Hamid and a few other notable Chicago drummers have this way of playing a dance groove (whether it’s slow or mid tempo swing, or an R&B backbeat) with such a beautifully heavy open-ended bounce that both anchors the rhythm of the improvisation, while leaving the door open to play things against the beat without it sounding like a conflict of interest. Both grounded and ethereal at once.

One thing I love about the archive is, especially in the Malachi Ritscher collection, the great musicians coming in from out of town to play for Chicagoans. Here I’ve included some solo Derek Bailey music as well as a trio including Ikue Mori, Bill Frisell, and Jim Staley. I think about the ways that that music was recycled through our artistic ecosystems, what people must have thought about it, who would have come out to see it, what it inspired. I love hearing the little fragments of conversations before the music starts in these recordings, it really makes me feel so connected to these people 40 or 50 years ago doing the exact same things that my friends and I do now.

Thanks so much to James and everyone ESS for having me put this together, it was really my pleasure :)

Tyler Wagner / ESS CAA Mixtape Series 003

In All Fairness

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Mina Mills is a Chicago based DJ and producer from Des Moines, Iowa.

RND 123 - Mina Mills

Here’s a track From an unreleased EP that I have Quite Expertly laid yet another Kelela acapella over, first featured in my NTS mix from last November. I have been Pulling A lot of inspiration from the production of 2010s deconstructed club and Applying it to Footwork. I am excited to share NTMC-001 with the world but for now I have got to let you hear one of my favorite tracks in full. 

Okay Love You,

ADLAI

HOLD IT ++ KELELA BANKHEAD SCRAPE.mp3

Lyrics:

I got a wiener in my jeans, a tip that’s big and white
You can’t deny your bitch wants me, my GPA sky high
up whippin in the streets, asphalt burning in my ford focus
Big shoes up in the city, take ur bitch like hocus pocus

Ding dong ditchin is my game, come at me, mom is next
sleepovers with girlies but I’m homo so no sex
 Getting bags and scats, i don’t even know what that is
I’m from the suburbs bitch i don’t have a 9 or a switch

Pp pp i got a big pp
Pp pp my schlong is hella drippy
Pp pp i got a freakishly large cock
Pp pp i swear i don’t have a micropenis

Rolling in the cash, i can’t see my feet or my pickle
Try breath in these stacks, face go blue like periwinkle
I can’t do Monday nights, I’m getting sweaty at jiujitsu
Big burly men can throw me, don’t even know what I’m into

Some people ask me fetus cleatus, which side do you be on
I’m still confused as hell but i can bet ill turn ur mom on
licking up that pussy so good that they call me lesbo
I’m big on booty cheeks and calling out my innuendo

I DONT HAVE A MICROPENIS

YOU ASKED 4 IT !!!!!!! NOW YOU GOT IT !!!! S/O TO MARTYN 

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