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Soft Machine icon Hugh Hopper dies

June 9th, 2009 · No Comments

Soft Machine icon Hugh Hopper dies .

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Like Lines of Clean Dangling Limbs - A Mix

May 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

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  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.

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My Champion Marble - A Mix

March 7th, 2009 · No Comments

  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.

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But for Their Thoughts, They are Innocents - A Mix

February 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment

  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.

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Massage Music for a New Age - A Mix

January 11th, 2009 · 3 Comments

  1. Arve Henriksen - Ascent
  2. Robert Fripp/Brian Eno - Ankaa
  3. Naked City - Fleurs du Mal
  4. KTL - Game
  5. Günter Müller/Toshimaru Nakamura - …..tint
  6. Roscoe Mitchell Quintet - For Now
  7. Gavin Bryars - Last Hymn (from The Sinking of the Titanic)
  8. Vladimir Spivakov/Sergej Bezrodny - Spiegel im Spiegel - 1 [Arvo Pärt]
  9. Philip Jeck - Residue
  10. Aphex Twin - Lichen

The mix can be downloaded here.

Also posted at Making Mixtapes.

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The Doll

December 21st, 2008 · No Comments

The Doll, originally uploaded by that.turtle.

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And This is What the Blank Stare Conjured - A Mix

December 14th, 2008 · No Comments

 

  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.

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Fleeing Birds Paint the Sky

December 7th, 2008 · No Comments



Fleeing Birds Paint the Sky, originally uploaded by that.turtle.

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Photography, and the Tolerance for Courageous Sucking | 43 Folders

December 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

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.

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After the Rush

December 1st, 2008 · No Comments



After the Rush, originally uploaded by that.turtle.

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