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Soft Machine icon Hugh Hopper dies .

1. If Not Now, Whenever - The Books
2. In Crowded Rooms, On Empty Streets - Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words
3. Bending Spoons - Jasper TX
4. The Drum Also Waltzes - Max Roach
5. Installation 1 - Seaworthy
6. Those of the Void Will Re-Enter - Absu
7. Pink Lady Lemonade You’re from Outer Space (Part 2) - Acid Mothers Temple & the Cosmic Inferno
8. Ghost of Karelia - Mastodon
9. Only Shallow - Nadja
10. Haxanic Stairway - Wrnlrd
11. Verdrinkwater - Machinefabriek

The mix can be downloaded here.

Also posted at Art of the Mix and Zen Running Order.

1. Billy the Kid [excerpt] - Jack Spicer
2. Middle Cyclone - Neko Case
3. Port Authority - Opsvik & Jennings
4. Star Fruits Surf Rider - Cornelius
5. Meh No Mae - Asobi Seksu
6. The Chain - Fleetwood Mac
7. Petits son appétissants - Faust
8. Prédications - Ulan Bator
9. Rubidoux - Kristin Hersh
10. Offend Maggie - Deerhoof
11. Kalimba - Suí Vesan

The mix can be downloaded here.

Also posted at Making Mixtapes and Zen Running Order.

1. My Gospel Song for You - Mark Olson & Gary Louris
2. I’m Not in Love - 10cc
3. Alone On Piano - Colin Newman
4. Fonograf - Machinefabriek
5. Not a Robot, But a Ghost - Andrew Bird
6. Woa - Zazou/Bikaye/CY1
7. No Name Tune - Guillermo Klein & Los Guachos
8. Africa Anteria - Magma
9. Egypt Strut - The Sun Ra Arkestra
10. Long Distance Runaround - The Bad Plus
11. Go Rest High on that Mountain - Frank Newsome

The mix can be downloaded here.

Also posted at Making Mixtapes.

1. Thom Yorke - And it Rained All Night
2. Apparat - Birds
3. Terre Loves Robin (a.k.a. Scanner & Terre) - Terre Loves Robin
4. Theo Bleckmann - An den kleinen Radioapparat
5. The Bowed Piano Ensemble & Victoria Hansen- Evening on Como (Stephen Scott)
6. Necronomicon - Wenn die Haifische Menschen wären
7. Einstürzende Neubauten - U-Haft-Muzak
8. Jackie-O Motherfucker - Native Einstein
9. Muslimgauze - Extract 2
10. Sightings - The Last Seed
11. Fennesz/Dafeldecker/Brandlmayr - Mi Son
12. Robert Horton - Requiem for Padma
13. Fit & Limo - Haga’s Painting
14. The Ex - Morning Star
15. So Takahashi - PMS 1235C (M15, Y60)

The mix can be downloaded here.

Also posted at Making Mixtapes.

Photography, and the Tolerance for Courageous Sucking | 43 Folders

…as I struggle to absorb the insane physics of capturing light with some glass and a black box, I accept upfront that the improvements to my actual photos will be slow, incremental, and, largely undetectable to anybody but me…

A must read post.