January 2024

~ Remixes ~ Appearances ~ Bound for Destinations Unknown Collaborative EPs

Hello! I make entire EPs, with complete strangers, on occasion. I have rules for this operation. Here they are. 

We make 5 tracks, with a total run time of approximately half an hour. When it is finished, I will release the record on Bandcamp, for free, with no option to pay more.  I will also make them downloadable here. Participants are encouraged to do the same. You read correctly... no money for anyone... If for some reason we manage to encode the secret to immortality, or the true path to God, in an audio waveform... it is still FREE to all. I'll be asking collaborators for a square piece of art that they do not fear me mangling for the cover. These EPs have a design ethic consistent with all of my personal stuff, and will stay that way... with the initial input from the collaborators.

So far, I have mixed all the tracks, and mastered all of the EPs myself. This isn't a rule set in stone, though. It is just the way that it has worked so far. In fact, the plan with, Belial, is to trade starting and finishing , back and forth until the record is done. Perhaps we will arm wrestle for who masters it, when the 5 tracks are done. Anyway, the point is I will figure out how things work for each EP, with the collaborators, as we go.

Interested? Tell me. However, if you would want our record to sound like the music at an EDM festival... then you are expressing interest in working with the wrong person. You should only be interested, if you want to make music unlike the music you make on your own, and for the natural sharing of appreciators, that would occur when the music is shared. These are the reasons that I do it.

Bound for Destinations Unknown Collaborative Free EPs

All of the streamable material from my three recording projects: @xixistix @still-breathing-fire and @mlshoneyworks, plus the tracks I was involved in during my time with Pixelgasm.

All of the Luv

A playlist of tracks I have collaborated on.

Collaborations

A Peek at Xixistix & Simon Irvine Slap the Keys

My tracks are all over Soundcloud now. I have brought them together here - my tracks, my tracks as SERGIO, collaborations, remixes and remixes of me - so they are all in the one place.

Everything

Written, arranged, produced and engineered by Mike Luv
Mike Luv: Sequencing

Angels Sing You To Sleep

Written, arranged, produced, performed and engineered by Mike Luv
Mike Luv: Sequencing, Looping, Guitars, Bass, Electronics
Corey Garland: Drums (intro and outro)
Shawn Smith: Engineering (guitars) 

You Come in Screaming and Spitting [Circles in Circles LP 10.7.14]

Still Breathing Fire's contribution to @muterial 's "Off the Rails" open collaboration, which has spawned a "Bound for Destinations Unknown" EP. More to come...

Written, Arranged, Produced & Engineered by Rollo Carpenter & Mike Luv

RC- Field Recording, Filtering, Processing
ML- Generative Patching in VCV Rack, Edits, Sequencing, Mix

Original track: https://soundcloud.com/muterial/off-the-rails
A playlist of varied & wonderfully inventive renditions: https://soundcloud.com/muterial/sets/off-the-rails-collaborations

muterial & Still Breathing Fire: Silt (Off the Rails Rework)

Surviving

Resist

"From the evening sky, drops of fire pour down.
Like a fountain, drops of fire pour down."

https://soundcloud.com/user-920947015/

Mood Exhibit & anon8924 - Drops Of Fire

Written, arranged, produced, performed and engineered by Mike Luv
Additional arrangement and performance by Patrick Williams
Mike Luv: Sequencing, Looping, Keys
Patrick Williams: Synth

Circles In Circles Part II

Written, arranged, produced, performed and engineered by Mike Luv
Additional arrangement and performance by Patrick Williams and Shawn Smith.
Mike Luv: Sequencing, Looping, Keys
Shawn Smith: Processed and treated Guitar
Patrick Williams: Synth

Circles In Circles Part III

Circles In Circles Part I

Outstanding synergy between the Moog Mother32, Subharmonicon, and DFAM. Each synth brings its own unique voice, coming together to create an engaging and immersive sonic experience.

Sit back and let the music take you away.

hive mind

Written, arranged, produced, performed & engineered by Michael Southard @timerival
Additional arrangement, production & engineering by Mike Luv

MS - Sequencing, Keys
ML - Sequencing, Mix
Original: https://soundcloud.com/timerival/bottlenap

Time Rival: Bottlenap (Knee Bounce Mix by Xixistix)

My participation in, Sqaurepusher's, open collaboration: MIDI SANS FRONTIÈRES 
http://www.squarepusher.net/  @squarepusher

Written, arranged, produced, performed & engineered by Tom Jenkinson
Additional arrangement, production & engineering by Mike Luv

Squarepusher: MIDI SANS FRONTIÈRES (Share Mix by Xixistix)

Written, arranged, produced & engineered by @random_url.
Additional arrangement, production & engineering by Mike Luv
NMN said he'd steal my milk money, all this month, if I didn't remix his first track, so I fucked it up royally out of spite.
Original: https://soundcloud.com/random_url/amorahzoan

NMN: Amorahzoan (Multi-Cellular Mix by Xixistix)

Written, arranged, produced & engineered by George Evans @suncastle-303
Additional arrangement, production & engineering by Mike Luv

GE - Sequencing
ML - Sequencing, Mix
Original here: https://soundcloud.com/suncastle-303/life-tree

Suncastle: Life Tree (Regrowth Mix By Xixistix)

Beat Monster Beats Bad Guys by Simon Irvine
Written and Produced by Simon Irvine
Recorded in Brisbane, Australia - June, 2017

Beat Monster Beats Bad Guys

Written, Arranged & Produced by @oscurito-music
Additional Arrangement & Production by Mike Luv

Not quite done in time for Osurito's remix competion with @bricolage-collective, but here to listen to all the same. Me and homework, man. Me and homework...

Oscurito: Find Your Centre (Onion Mix by Xixistix)

Furtive (Extended Mix) by aNIofaDES and Simon Irvine
Written and Produced by Simon Irvine and aNIofaDES
Recorded in Australia and Switzerland - September, 2017

Furtive (Extended Mix)

Furtive (Extended Mix) by aNIofaDES and Simon Irvine

Popping Candy by TRIP and Simon Irvine
Written and Produced by Simon Irvine and TRIP
Recorded in Brisbane, Australia and West Sussex, Britain - October, 2017

Popping Candy

Popping Candy by TRIP and Simon Irvine

Moments Pass by Simon Irvine
Music and Lyrics by Simon Irvine
Recorded in Brisbane, Australia - October, 2017

Moments Pass

So Long, My Queen by Simon Irvine
Written and Produced by Simon Irvine
Recorded in Brisbane, Australia - December, 2017
Mastered by aNIofaDES

So Long, My Queen

Simon Irvine + Optapus + All Buttons In - Mindfcuk

Unfavorable Semicircle by Tony+Morris and Simon Irvine
Written and Produced by Tony+Morris and Simon Irvine
Recorded in Brisbane, Australia and Glasgow, Scotland - October - December, 2017
Inspired by the mysterious YouTube channel - read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfavorable_Semicircle
For more tracks by Tony+Morris, check -https://soundcloud.com/tony-morris-308328247

Unfavorable Semicircle

Unfavorable Semicircle by Tony+Morris and Simon Irvine

Written, Arranged, Produced & engineered by Simon Irvine,  @stuffamebobs & Mike Luv

SI - Sequencing
ML - Sequencing, Mix

Simon Irvine & Xixstix - Polysynthetic

Written, Arranged, Produced & engineered by Simon Irvine & Mike Luv
SI - Sequencing, Guitars
ML - Sequencing, Mix, Mastering

Xixistix and Simon Irvine - Upright

Written, Arranged, Produced, Pefrormed & Engineered by Simon Irvine @stuffamebobs & Mike Luv

SI - Sequencing, Guitar
ML- Sequencing, Mix

Simon Irvine & Xixistix: Slowly Dying Inside

After creating the original track 'Infinite', I realised that I wasn't happy with the end result, so decided to give out the wav, stems and just about everything to do with it to anyone interested in remixing it. Simon took up the challenge and I love what he has done with it. Those beautiful big pads in the background take this piece of music to new places and new worlds. Thanks Simon. I really appreciate what you have done here.
You can contact him at: https://soundcloud.com/stuffamebobs
Mastered by aNIofaDES

Infinite (Simon's 65 Remix)

Written, Arranged, Produced & engineered by Simon Irvine & Mike Luv
SI - Sequencing
ML - Sequencing, Mix, Mastering

In For A Penny

Xixistix and Simon Irvine - In For A Penny

Enjoy the long awaited collab of my dear friend https://soundcloud.com/tomas-horn and me. :)
We combined my track Spherical Pyramid, my vocals and his synth-work.
pic: 3d-graphic sulevia
MANY THANKS FOR YOUR GREAT COMMENTS ON BEHALF OF BOTH!! <3

Spherical Pyramid / Tomas Horn X sulevia

Genre Smashing Here
Cymatic Repair @still-breathing-fire

I pronounce it, Zixy-Sticks. It came from a nonsensical play on the name of the truly vile candy-dust-in-a-cardboard-tube, Pixy Sticks. Then again, there is meaning everywhere. 

Creative Friends @mangledmusic
& @unitedmusicfront

Ancient Childishness @mlshoneyworks