non-club / "ambient" mixes • cover from ben shahn

wandering

i have a running playlist called the "cutting-edge coffee shop" where i dump tracks that work enough in a café setting • ambient enough to allow your mind to flow and wander but distinct enough to jostle you out of those states and ask "hey, who's playing right now?" • not as much real mixing here, but my mindset was to cut some of the fat that would have arose if these tracks fully played out like on a real coffeeshop playlist, and i ended up returning to the sensations of doing a late-night college radio show where only a handful of people listen, but that handful absolutely loves it

cover image is david wojnarowicz "savarin coffee" (1983) turned black and white

TRACKLIST:
leo james - what happened to you (3rd wave remix) [neubau]
shackleton feat. the bug - deadman (crackle remix)
ø - maan valosa [sähko]
taylor e burch - i wanna be your girl [downwards]
nvst - morningface (notwelcomingface edition) [big science]
shoc corridor - khartoum [shout]
adult fantasies - cage [stroom]
the paradox - a new rain [contactdisc]
malvern brume - tarmac shakes into new shapes [left alone]
zoviet france - drive [charm]
dirty beaches - elli [zoo music]
einstürzende neubauten - installation nº1 [mute]
six six seconds - tearing down heaven [blackest ever black]
soisong - dtorumi [soisong.com]
???? - ???? [????]

proof of concept 008 • missive from the cutting-edge coffee shop

"i struggle with words for fear that they'll hear / but orpheus sleeps on his back still dead to the world"

proof of concept 009 • spoken word nightwalk

live dj set on the artemis stage at the department in marlborough, ma on august 13th 2023

tracklist:
akira yamaoka - float up from dream
sabla - danzaguida
gouren - cloak & dagger (w/ bossman wines)
time cow - birds of passage dub
störung - warschau pact
the bug & dis fig - forever
joe cotch - psalm 666
tsvi - modulatrum
x-tg feat. marc almond - the falconer
john t gast - angela
lena platonos - cyaniris (june remix)
croatian amor - dark cut ft. jonnine standish
vromb - formation triangulée
einstürzende neubauten - beauty
aphrodite's child - loud, loud, loud
coil - i don't want to be the one
simon fisher turner - i love you more than my eyes
a.r. kane - lollita

Hippolytus and The Curse of Aphrodite

Live digital set at Faro Cafe in Cambridge, MA on a rainy/muggy summer evening in June. A mix of intimate and introspective ambient, folk, leftfield pop, and post-punk, among other things. 

Recorded through Rekordbox with a limiter, and mastered to a peak of -12 dB.

Live @ Faro Cafe (6-14-24)

𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳, 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘳 • 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘯𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘴, 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴

𝘛𝘙𝘈𝘊𝘒𝘓𝘐𝘚𝘛
Zoya Z. - баюшки баю
Once - Maybe
Chen Ming Chang - Rainwater
The Gamelan Son of Lion - Braid
goat - G-H-S
Once - The Empty Deck
Silzedrek - Kristopher Kolumbo Inaction Ark
Juho Toivonen - En Enää Koskaan
Brantenn Schnüre - Afra Altar Maidbronx
TKB - River D
Grady Steele - Sibylle
Jonnine - As You Sleep By My Feet
claire rousay - Breakfast in Bed
Danielle Boutet - En attendant l’aube
Akira Rabelais - Sarabande No.2
K. Yoshimatu, T. Isotani, A. Koshi, T. Kamada, T. Nakamura - Untitled part 1
Dali Muru & the Polyphonic Swarm - Un Cavretico
Baldruin - Ohrenwurm
Cop Tears - Harmony 38 (The Lord is Ris’n - William Billings)
Simon Fisher Turner - Café of the Moors
Jabu - Košice Flower
Deux Filles - Children of Clay
K. Leimer - Intervene

Dog Days

wending
~
menace (downtempo, new beat),
mania (ebm, electro, techno), and
melancholy (folk, ambient, experimental)

Live @ Faro Cafe (6-14-24)

Vogue Memory