But for Their Thoughts, They are Innocents – A Mix

  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.

Massage Music for a New Age – A Mix

  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.

And This is What the Blank Stare Conjured – A Mix

 

  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.

Mementos Won’t Change a Thing – A Mix

  1. Adrian Sherwood/Doug Wimbish – Karma-Cola
  2. Luc Ferrari – Place des Abbesses [excerpt]
  3. Firewitch – Villain
  4. KK Null – 7 (from ERG per GALAXY)
  5. Robert Black – Look She Said: IV (Christian Wolff)
  6. Davy Graham – Better Get Hit In Your Soul (Charles Mingus)
  7. The Jazztet – Blues March (Benny Golson)
  8. Moppa Elliott’s Mostly Other People Do the Killing – Moanin’ (Bobby Timmons)
  9. Barnacled – Rattles
  10. Guillermo Klein & Los Guachos – Yeso
  11. Gudrun Gut – The Land

The mix can be downloaded here.

Also posted at Making Mixtapes.

If We Never Get to Memories – A Mix

  1. Christian Wallumrød Ensemble – Arch Dance with Trumpet
  2. Joan La Barbara – Slow Waltz [Morton Feldman]
  3. David Grubbs – The Not-So-Distant
  4. Christina Carter – Original Darkness
  5. Gamelan Son of Lion – Random Chords
  6. Humi – Seki No Gohonmatsu
  7. Aidan Baker/Tim Hecker – Dream of the Nightmare
  8. Grails – The Natural Man
  9. Ugur Dogan – Vital
  10. Jan Jelinek – Moiré (Strings)

The mix can be downloaded here.

Also posted at Making Mixtapes.

Penetrate Then Redivide

Music – My Bloody Valentine, Reunited, Rediscovers the Love – Review – NYTimes.com

Mr. Shields, 45, who leads My Bloody Valentine, is soft-spoken and shy, and he rarely gives interviews. But he spent much of the festival amid the audience, eager to hear the music he had booked. Occasionally he was recognized by respectful fans. In a brief conversation a few hours before his band’s set, sitting on the hotel lawn, where he could smoke, he spoke about the re-emergence of My Bloody Valentine.

Autumn Blooms – A Mix

  1. Triptych Myth – Robinia Pseudoacacia
  2. Yusef Lateef – Purple Flower
  3. Mauger – Meddle Music
  4. Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut Quintet – Allemansratten: Picking Wild Flowers
  5. Ornette Coleman – The Legend of Bebop
  6. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers – I’m Not So Sure
  7. Arthur Blythe – Odessa
  8. Muhal Richard Abrams – Quartet to Quartet
  9. Greg OsbyHumility
  10. Marilyn Crispell – Stilleweg

The mix can be downloaded here.

All the Color Washed from Him – A Mix

Through the Noise

  1. Ed Askew – Red Woman-Letter to England
  2. Eliza Carthy – Simple Things
  3. Blitzen Trapper – Fire & Fast Bullets
  4. Yeasayer – Worms
  5. Grizzly Bear – Little Brother
  6. The Beach Boys – That’s Not Me
  7. Sandy Denny – Solo
  8. Rale – Moondance
  9. Fred Frith – Jigsaw
  10. Machinefabriek – Porselein
  11. Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet – A Fond Farewell
  12. Corey Dragel/Margaret Lancaster – Robin Redbreast [Eve Beglarian/Stanley Kunitz]

The mix can be downloaded here.

She Was the Only Girl in Your Eye

Trip Inside This House: 10 Questions

I have the honor to present you… Barbara Manning!

Another must-read edition of “10 Questions,” this time with the wonderful Barbara Manning. Now Barbara, enough with this interview stuff, get with the recording of “Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy” already, huh?