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...:::... from 'the shape of content' by ben shahn:
the subconscious may greatly shape one's art; undoubtedly it does so. but the subconscious cannot create art. the very act of making is an intending one; thus to intend and at the same time relinquish intention is a hopeless contradiction, albeit one that is exhibited on every hand.
i've been thinking about how i come to know things and why it is i make. and then i turn that off and just get to making, and everything, with wonder & magic, changes....:::...
download: 070625-modyfier-part01
luci – fantex : apr 2007 on titbit music
ben mono – beatbox feat. capitol a (kalbata remix) : jun 2007 on compost
krak street boyz – street power : may 2007 on tuning spork family affair
djazzy & alex santos – the look into your eyes (phonique remix) : jun 2007 on stir 15
paco osuna – freak : may 2007 on wow!
gabriel black – atmosphere (q-burns abstract message remix) : jun 2007 on eight tracks
lincoln six echo – nevada dub : jun 2007 on plastic city
funzion – random mood girl (butane remix) : may 2007 on alphahouse
dachshund – lariam side effect : may 2007 on num
prosumer & murat tepeli – what makes you go for it : may 2007 on ostgut ton
the chap – space = volume (pier bucci remix) : jun 2007 on loeb
matthew dear – shy : jun 2007 on ghostly international
davor o. – moka bay (juho kahilainen modern pop remix) : may 2007 on home made electronica
download: 070625-modyfier-part02
delta 7even – dao : may 2007 on 32 bit records
alec troniq – passengers : jun 2007 on etui records
chaim – c factor (audio sould project remix) : may 2007 on missive music
david k – incoming (motorcitysoul mix) : jun 2007 on tsuba
lee curtiss – over the influence : jun 2007 on dumb unit
novox – one night stand : jun 2007 on plasteline
girresse & erb – how : jun 2007 on connaisseur recordings
agnes – controversial advantages (ripperton’s game set & match remix) : jun 2007 on respoal red
blake – rock over you (paolo martini remix) : jun 2007 on ocean dark
simon baker & infant – plastik : jun 2007 on playhouse
paul brtschitsch – rude knox : jun 2007 on root knox
tolga fidan – tanbulistan : jun 2007 on vakant
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GUILLAUME SORGE
this selection was made in 20 minutes on traktor then edited on wavelab while my two kids (louis 6, gabin 3) were playing in the bath. this mix is made of slow/ambient/ childish/naive/sad songs + some kids choirs (i like the innocence of their voices as much as i like brian wilson's voice). the first part of the mix can work if your kids have trouble getting to sleep, the end is more about freaky/trippy/analogic stuff. i like the idea that the music you hear before falling asleep influences your dreams. i also think that music for children doesn't have to be always joyful (because life isn't). appearing in disorder : belbury poly, nobukazu takemura, jeremy dower, the focus group, yamasuki, nino nardini, michael andrews, tipsy and more stuff that i already can't remember...have a good night, guillermo (dirty sound system)
download: guillaume sorge - process part028: quiet music for wild children
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ERIC CLOUTIER
one of the most important things to me while creating a mix for mass online distribution is that its programming is as perfect as it can possibly be. i'm not the type of person to just grab 15 of the hottest new tracks and work them together. typically, i spend days, if not weeks, selecting and carefully dissecting the songs i will use for a set. its the thoughtful analysis of each and every track i own that allows me to go back through my memory banks and pull this information to create the same experience live that i do when creating a studio mix.
this new two hour set of mine was created out of necessity. not only was i long overdue for one, but i felt the need to remind people that everything people perceive to be "good" and "party-starting" doesn't have to be fast, glitchy, and melodramatic. sometimes the softest and slowest beats work a listener twice as well as the banger.
after a weekend to my home of detroit for the detroit electronic music festival, i was struck with inspiration stemming from one of my heroes, steve bug, and someone i've been dying to see for a long time, paco osuna. between the two of them, they rekindled a fire inside of me that needed to be relit, and, without even knowing it, brought to focus something that i have been struggling to get others to understand - slower bpm's, swirling vocals, and particular atmospherics enclose you in the music and make you one with the crowd around you and the dj you've come to enjoy. these coupled with particular track selection, careful and precise mixing, and a true connection with your audience will yield results not often seen anymore.
01. duoteque - amarcord (my my remix) [boxer recordings]
02. fabio della torre + david c - magenta [tenax]
03. plasmik - pearls on a string [crosstown rebels]
04. let's go outside - i'll lick your spine (repeat/repeat remix) [pnuma]
05. solomun + stimming - feuervogel (guido schneider remix) [diynamic]
06. giles smith + two armadillos - tunnel of light [dessous]
07. kerri chandler - the invaders (the panic) [deeply rooted house]
08. guido schneider - transmission ft. florian schirmacher [pokerflat recordings]
09. peace division - poke [nrk]
10. seth troxler - satisfy [beretta grey]
11. shane berry - fillertet 2 (gabriel ananda remix) [trapez ltd]
12. paco osuna - cretine [plus.8 recordings]
13. phonique - bang [dessous]
14. move d - anne will (vincenzo remix) [liebe detail spezial]
15. polder - strange ways [intacto]
16. rene breitbarth - graveyard swing one [neopren]
17. fraktion - bukl [resopal red]
18. tom clark - meteor im eis (guido schneider remix) [highgrade]
19. james mowbray + leiam sullivan - lost in the tropics (matthias tanzmann remix) [four:twenty]
20. trentemoller - moan (radio slave's remix for k) [pokerflat recordings]
21. k3 + alice lascelles - play to win (radio slave dub) [big love]
xx. lil' louis + the world - i called u (acapella) [house acapellas]
22. right side reverse - invisible (nathan's hide + seek dub) [cyclo]
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...:::...i recently worked with rafael at kupei musika to design/produce the artwork for flavius e's new ep 'indicios'. the digital release is available on beatport, bleep, kompakt mp3, etc. and the 12" is coming soon. below is the track list and selected download. enjoy!...:::...
flavius e - indicios : jun 2007 on kupei musika
a1 ocres (w/ dany nijesohn)
a2 dni rosa
b1 carbon
b2 ocres (andres bucci remix)
cultural amnesia...
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...:::...i find myself off-kilter. accelerating into an unsteady and blind orbit. mostly, i just need to slow down. but pace aside, what i find much more disturbing is that many of these 'task-oriented' work habits have begun to trickle into other parts of my life. it's a little like traveling with the shade pulled on the plane window (you are either here or there but nowhere in between)...i've been missing content in context...
the urbanist thinker and writer jane jacobs wrote a collection of essays shortly before she died a year or two ago called the dark age ahead. in it, she posited that today’s society is so overwhelmed by digital information that the world faces the looming threat of slipping into cultural amnesia…of finding itself lost and disoriented in haven forgotten where it came from. detached from it’s past...
i wonder what that means for music, especially as mp3’s become more and more prevalent. i’d say my own listening habits have suffered from a kind of sonic attention deficit disorder. similar to michael gill’s process piece, there is an enormous amount of rapid-fire shuffling and discarding of information that goes on. so many songs are lost and found and re-lost. there are very few i find again outside a 2-week window of procurement. i think that is the very warning jacobs’ was trying to make in her book… that there is this attitude of disposability related to digital information and if that doesn’t shift soon, if we don’t find a way to make the binary tangible (at least in our thoughts about it), than we will have forgotten what it is that was worth remembering. there will be no guide, no precedent to launch from...
i was reading the liner notes (written by benny green) on an old ella fitzgerald album saturday night and this line grabbed my attention:
the truth is that such songs are more representative of the society that produced them than anybody, composers included, ever suspected at the time. if poets were the unacknowledged legislators of shelly’s world, then the songwriters have been the unacknowledged poets of our own. only the other day there was a letter which surfaced in a london salesroom, written by dylan thomas to his wife, in which he observed, with a perception beyond the capacity of most literary critics, “dance tunes are always right: i love you body and soul. i suppose soul means that i can hear you and see you and love you in every single, single thing in the whole world asleep or awake."...
i read that twice and it gave me hope despite the possibility of a darkness ahead. it gave me hope because i believe that love letters will still be written, that music will continue to reflect world orders and lonely hearts…that i can find friction in the things that bring me meaning, things that start with slow...:::...
download: 070609-modyfier-part01
apparat – hailin from the edge feat raz ohara : may 2007 on shitkatapult
agoria – les violons ivres (super remix) : jun 2007 on different
sierra – natursekt (lopazz remix) : may 2007 on anny-jack recordings
touane – morso : may 2007 on persona
pakt – carousel : may 2007 on the dlame recordings
soul ad – get all hot (indo phunqe remix) : may 2007 on mode music
paul kalkbrenner – altes kamuffel : may 2007 on bpitch control
nick muir – i feel real (chopstick remix) : may 2007 on mashtronic
tg – cave the speakers (konrad black remix) : may 2007 on four:twenty recordings
kiki – jako tai : may 2007 on bpitch control
dj herr – litte me (u make me feel like junior lopez mix) : may 2007 on acktivism recordings!
julian poker & john-e & diego miranda – wahnzinn (phonique remix) : may 2007 on new breed
gui boratto – mr decay (robert babicz universum disco mix) : jun 2007 on konpakt
download: 070609-modyfier-part02
pan-pot – lancelot von camelot (barem remix) : may 2007 on einmaleins musik
dapayk solo – didn’t i (3dots remix) : may 2007 on mo’s ferry
dave robertson & jon gurd – our execution (phonogenic remix) : may 2007 on cr2 records
jamie anderson – time is now (radio slave panorama garage mix) : may 2007 on nrk
dole & kom – twenty four (deutschmann & pornbugs remix) : may 2007 on bondage music
trentemoller & buda – gamma (perc remix) : may 2007 on kickin records
spektre – dark horse (audiofly x) : may 2007 on dance electric
looseheadz – the party (guido nemola remix) : may 2007 on sound division
mr. g. – u askin (marcel dettmann remix) : may 2007 on rekids
oliver klein & martin eyerer – tiflis : may 2007 on mbf
elon – tamingo (rekleiner mix) : may 2007 on infant records
mihell – the gritt (dos mix) : apr 2007 on mono-type
plasmik – pitch it : may 2007 on connoisseur recordings
venturi & aquilina – disco bus : may 2007 on traum
16 bit lolitas – non verbal language (loafer remix) : apr 2007 on hope recordings
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APOTHICARE
the idea for this mix was to bring together tracks and sounds which represent for me the best way to explain why i love music.
music lets me travel in my head and takes me places in the world. i travel by travelling. this project has the intent to be smooth and invigorating...i kept the ball rolling until the end with this amazing track from gui boratto.
all the tracks in this mix we recently heard and reheard during after parties at the french music festival, nuits sonores. the objective during this time was to spend four days with people who shared similar musical interests and a vision of partying at this unique festival. it was a beautiful part of life.
01. Puzzle Bubble - Matzak On Boxer Recording
02. Milk - Dusty Kid on Systematic Rec
03. Rygar - Martin Skogehall on Mezzo
04. Runny - D'Julz on Poker Flat
05. A Thousand Nights - Gregor Tresher on Cocoon
06. The Dawn - DJ T on Get Physical
07. Just Electricity - Patrice Baeumel on Trapez
08. Beautiful Life - Gui Boratto (Supermayer Remix) on Kompakt
