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NC GUEST MIX#68: MADDEN

Friday, February 22nd, 2013

gm68maddenAfter a string of mostly experimental and weird-ass guest mixes, we figured it was about time for one full-on party mix. Or, well, we didn’t actually – we just asked MADDEN to do a guest mix and what he came up with sounds pretty much like a perfect soundtrack to a wild night out. That shouldn’t be particularly surprising, considering that MADDEN has made a name for himself making interesting remixes for the likes of Bruxa and Men in Burka, as well as some wonderfully weird takes on pop hits. You should also check out his aptly named TUMBLRWAV EP, released late last year on Post-Religion. As for this mix, in a little under an hour, MADDEN takes us through a bunch of crazy and mostly lesser known remixes/edits, including a few of his own. If I decide to throw a spontaneous birthday party tonight, this is definitely getting a spin.

NC GUEST MIX#68: ??? M4DDXN’s No Conclusion Mix 2013 ???

01. Ca$h Out – Cashin’ Out (M?DDEN Horsedog Named Keisha Mix)
02. Mariah Carey – I’ll Be Lovin U (DESIGNER DRUGS REMIX)
03. $LUDGEHAMMER feat. HONEYCOMA – DHAT
04. 2 Chainz x Skudge – Riot x Convolution (Wak Lyf Left Knuckle Edit)
05. jvxcvm – M?DDEN
06. Dj Big O feat. Dj Sliink – Make Me Proud(CartelMusicRemix)
07. 2 Chainz feat. Drake – No Lie (Cashmere Cat Remix)
08. Dj K Millz x VERB & BLEEP BLOOP – Tap Dat Donk Opulence (M?DDEN Mix)
09. $1 Bin + M?DDEN – We Don’t Feel Like You Do ($WVZY Remix)
10. Nadus x Kuddie J – Make Me Feel
11. Lao – If It’s Lovin’ (GIRL Bootleg)
12. Salem x Rotterdam Terror Corps x Westside Schmucks – Lemme King Night (M?DDEN Mix)
13. Usher – Climax (Duchovny Remix)
14. Willy Joy – With Eyes Wide Open
15. Major Lazer – Get Free (Andy C Remix)

MADDEN on Soundcloud.

NC GUEST MIX#67: PETE SWANSON

Wednesday, February 6th, 2013

gm67peteswansonWe’re more than happy to present you with a guest mix by the mighty Pete Swanson. His new EP, entitled Punk Authority and set for release on March 12 via Software, is now available for pre-order. If the fabulous first single “Life Ends at 30″ is anything to go by, the forthcoming release may be his most exciting work to date.
Here, Swanson delivers an expectedly unexpected selection of more and less obscure tracks from the realms of experimental, electronic, drone, noise, and contemporary classical music. He also includes a couple of unreleased tracks and edits, but hey, I guess it’s best that we let him introduce the mix himself: “There’s not much of a theme other than this being music I’ve been listening to lately. This is what my roommates have to put up with on a daily basis. Lately they’ve been thwarting my efforts with Solange and AlunaGeorge, which I find to be far from the worst music that could be blasted at you. Most of the music that I’ve been playing lately, that I wish I could include is unfinished work from Howse and Goodwin, who are both working on really fantastic tracks right now. A lot of these tracks are from records that I attempted to “recommend” to another magazine that wasn’t receptive to my suggestions, so I’ll take this opportunity to give those albums their due.” Those are some very lucky roommates. Also, I wonder what that magazine was, and what exactly did they expect to get from someone like Pete Swanson? Anyway, better for us!

NC GUEST MIX#67: PETE SWANSON

01. Emptyset – Core (edit)
02. Roberto Cacciapaglia – Sonanze (3rd movement)
03. Pete Swanson – unreleased
04. Charles Dodge – Speech Songs – A Man Sitting in the Cafeteria
05. Pierre Henry – Variations For A Door And A Sigh (edit)
06. Hair Police – Scythed Wide
07. Brooks Arthur Ensemble – Hang on Sloopy
08. Darius Dolat-Shahi – Razm
09. Ruth White – Hanged Man
10. Sensate Focus vs. Heatsick – Deviation Heat-Treated Y (edit)
11. Akos Rozmann – 12 Stationer Cross III (edit)
12. Bulbs – Sees
13. Leech – Sense Enjoyer
14. Jerome Notinger/Will Guthrie – Carpet Burn

Pete Swanson on Twitter.

NC GUEST MIX#66: MUSHY

Friday, January 11th, 2013

gm66mushyOur first guest mix of 2013 was made by Valentina Fanigliulo, the Italian artist better known as Mushy. Her second full-length, Breathless, a collection of ice-cold dreamy synth-pop gems, was released on Mannequin Records last year. Apparently a new release will have to wait at least until spring. Mushy is currently on tour in Europe, promoting the latest album; check out the  live dates here.
Her mix, entitled “Formless Wolrds Pass By Me”, is pretty much the perfect soundtrack to the shitty-weathered snowless winter that we’re having here, but I’m sure you’ll be able to appreciate it regardless of the climate circumstances. It opens with a Tim Hecker cut from his phenomenal 2011 album Ravedeath, 1972, which appropriately sets the tone for the rest of the mix. All kinds of experimental electronic goodness – from ambient and drone through industrial and noise to techno, from last year’s favorites to some lesser known eighties’ acts, are all blended together in one perfectly flowing, dark yet pleasant set.

NC GUEST MIX#66: MUSHY – Formless Wolrds Pass By Me

01. Tim Hecker – Hatred of Music II
02. Ramleh – Bite The Bolster
03. Ricardo Donoso – Reflection & Rotation
04. Andy Stott – We Stay Together
05. Factrix – Phantom Pain
06. Raime – You Cast Will Tire
07. Psychic TV – Terminus
08. Ssaliva – Tridimensional
09. Nagamatzu – Watch & Waste

Mushy on FB.

NC GUEST MIX#65: RACHEL HAIRCUT

Monday, December 17th, 2012

gm65rachelhaircutThe 20th and final guest mix of the year comes from the electronic act Rachel Haircut. Comprised of Hayden Quinn and James Hewson, the Melbourne duo say that we can definitely expect a new release from them in 2013, perhaps even a few releases. Their magnificent Reserve EP, released via Aural Sects this summer, is available for free download: If you haven’t heard it yet, well, better get on it.
Much like their own productions and remixes,  this live mix features an eclectic blend of various different styles – spanning from from left-field future garage and downtempo, through hip-hop and dubstep, to IDM and some trippy electronics, while clocking in at barely thirty minutes. Consider this an early Christmas present, should the world not end on Friday, of course. Stream and/or download:

NC GUEST MIX#65: RACHEL HAIRCUT

01. Inkarv – I’m Falling
02. King L – My Hoes They Do Drugs
03. Mr. Mitch – Bethlem Royal
04. Seraph – The Rush
05. Wiz Khalifa – On My Level (Instrumental)
06. Machinedrum – Whatnot
07. Kahn – Dread
08. DJ Funeral – Last Breakfast
09. 618 – Freak You
10. Slew Dem – Playground Vocal
11. XTC – Functions on the Low
12. Groundislava – Cool Party
13. Unicorn Kid – Need U
14. Chuck Person – Eccojam A3

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Rachel Haircut online.

NC GUEST MIX#64: CLAY RUBY (BURIAL HEX)

Tuesday, December 11th, 2012

We’re kicking off the end of the world *slash* Holiday season with this sick mix by Clay Ruby of Burial Hex fame. He has a new 7″ called Fantasie und Fuge über das Thema B-A-C-H coming out this winter – the stunning A-side is featured on this mix, and is streaming here. Winter will also see the release of Burial Hex remixes of the likes of Young Hunting, ?AIMON, and Madden. As for a new full-length, that will have to wait until spring, but don’t worry, we’ll keep you posted. Now let’s take a look at “Our Final Eclipse Mix”; instead of writing a classic tracklist and description, we’ll just let the man introduce the mix himself.

“The first half of this mix is simply an eclectic mix of outsider dancefloor, sex/death electro, featuring a couple choice Death Coast mash-ups, the A-side of a new Burial Hex single, a new Feral Love demo, mixed with selections by DJ Nate, Reload, House Shoes featuring Danny Brown, Reso, Miguel, Rihanna and much more.
The second half of this mix is something I have always meant to indulge in, it is a lengthy mega-mix of various tracks from the catalogs of Booty Bar and GTI Records. I first got into Disco D and some of his associates in 2005, just a couple years before he took his own life. A tragedy which gave a jarring and sad new context for a style of music that was usually so much fun. Though, it always seemed to me that his labels were the ones to offer the more dark and sinister electro flavors of the Booty House / Ghettotech sound; and though this is what I liked about his label’s records in particular, the unique mood of these records might also have been an indicator of his own depressive inclinations. Long live Disco D!”

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Burial Bandcamp Soundcloud Hex.

NC GUEST MIX#63: INDIAN JEWELRY

Tuesday, November 20th, 2012

We first asked Indian Jewelry to make a guest mix for NC a couple of years ago, but for whatever reason it didn’t happen then, and I guess it just slipped our minds or something. However, when we learned that they were putting out a new record, the thought that instantly came to mind was “Wait, whatever happened with that Indian Jewelry mix?!” So we just had to ask them again, and they were kind enough to send something over pretty soon.
With twenty tracks clocking in at around forty minutes, and stretching from rock classics to experimental obscurities, this mix is expectedly insane and all over the place. And although the tracklist might look a little schizophrenic, the mix never sounds like Indian Jewelry are trying particularly hard to be eclectic; after all, we’re talking about a band whose sound was never really easy to pin down. Oh, one more thing – I can’t believe it took 63 guest mixes for someone to finally include Tina Turner. Cheers guys!

NC GUEST MIX#63: INDIAN JEWELRY

01. Leonard Cohen – Who By Fire
02. Crash Worship – Pyru
03. Serge Gainsbourg – Nazi Rock
04. A.R. Kane – A Love from Outer Space
05. Paul Simon – You Can Call Me Al
06. Betty Davis – Walking Up the Road
07. Royal Trux – Another Year
08. Lubricated Goat – In the Raw
09. Nick Cave – The Singer
10. The Wiggins – Sick
11. Brian Eno – Ring of Fire
12. Josef K – Romance
13. Von Sudenfed – The Rhinohead
14. Plastic de Reve – Rodeo Mechanique
15. Prince – Soft and Wet
16. Ike and Tina Turner – Nutbush City Limits
17. T. Rex – The Slider
18. Gene Vincent & The Echoes – Mr Loneliness
19. Electric Set – Ghost
20. Roxy Music – Avalon

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Their new album Peel it is out today via Reverb Appreciation Society, you can order it here. Indian Jewelry online.

NC GUEST MIX#62: CIRCUIT DES YEUX

Thursday, November 8th, 2012

If we haven’t posted anything in a while, that’s because we were in Berlin. And if it’s taking us too long to get back in the loop, that’s because we’re still recovering. And what better way to get things going again than by posting a new guest mix, right?
Number 62 comes from Haley Fohr, the young musician performing under the name Circuit Des Yeux. *Watch out for her upcoming Magnetic South release this winter!* Onto the mix. In Fohr’s own words, “they are records that are just my favorites, go-to’s, and ones that have miraculously survived many record purges I have done through the years, so that must mean they’ve done something to my psyche.” You can sure tell how this mixture of noisy lo-fi, experimental, industrial and psychedelic folk sounds might have informed her sound. Now get on this:

NC GUEST MIX#62: CIRCUIT DES YEUX

01. Throbbing Gristle – Weapon Training
02. Throbbing Gristle - Eeh Ahhoooh
03. Desperate Bicycles – Medium Was Tedium
04. Jonathan Halper – I Am a Hermit
05. The Front – Aluminum Room (at 33 rpm)
06. Kaleidoscope – Dive Into Yesterday
07. The Electric Bunnies – All the Pretty Girls Have Gone to the Beach
08. Ron House & The Harrisburg Players – Our Love to the 3rd Power
09. Black Humor – Undancing in the Dirt
10. Bill Orcutt – Crossroads

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Circuit des Likes.

NC GUEST MIX#61: DUBAI

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012

We have this little feature on the blog that we ocasionally forget about – it’s called “guest mix“, and the last one was posted back before the summer break. Now we’re finally ready to kick off the new season of the series with a mix from Dubai, a Franco-American duo comprised of Anna Barie and Johannes Buff. They have recently put out a fab split EP with another guest mix’d act Ensemble Economique for Clan Destine Records.
This short mix is a gorgeous hazy affair that reminded me of some stuff I haven’t listened to in ages, like The Fun Years. One of the side-effects the mix might induce is going through the Broadcast discography and crying like a baby. Oh well! Perhaps I’d better leave it to Barie and Buff to introduce their mix: ”It’s called ‘Franco-American Girlfriend’ and features songs by friends and people we admire, as well as dreamily uncomfortable samples from The Night of the Hunter (1955) and Badlands (1973). Like honey, lemon and blood.” Sweet.

NC GUEST MIX#61: DVBAI – Franco-Americain Girlfriend Mix

01. Beak – Backwell
02. GaBLé – “Drunk Fox in London” / “Pretty Fly” from The Night of the Hunter
03. FAY – Shadow II
04. Matthew Dear – Around a Fountain
05. Badlands Mickey & Sylvia “Love Is Strange” /  GaBLé ghost track
06. Broadcast – I Found the F
07. The Fun Years – Little Vapors
08. Bear In Heaven – Space Remains
09. Charlotte Gainsbourg – IRM

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Dubai online.

NC GUEST MIX#60: BLOUSE

Wednesday, July 18th, 2012

The excellent self-titled debut full-length by Portland trio Blouse definitely counts as one of our favorite 2011 albums discovered in 2012. So we were more than pleased to get a mix from Blouse’s Patrick Adams. As he informs us, the band is currently recording new music; they are playing a couple of festivals in the States this Summer, and hope to hit Europe in the Fall. Follow them on Facebook for updates.
On to the mix! It guides you through a brief history of dreamy mellow pop songs, from dusty psych pop and rock to eighties’ indie classics, plus a pair of obscure dream-pop gems. Primal Scream into This Mortal Coil’s epic Big Star cover: why not? Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna go and put on some old Go-Betweens albums while you listen to this:

NC GUEST MIX#60: Blouse

01. Simon & Garfunkel – Scarborough Fair/Canticle
02. Dorothy – Softness
03. The Go-Betweens – Cattle and Cane
04. Love – Andmoreagain (Alternate Mix Version)
05. Françoise Hardy – Voilà
06. Antena – Achilles
07. The Byrds – 5D (Fifth Dimension)
08. Primal Scream – Love You
09. This Mortal Coil – Kangaroo
10. Tommy James & The Shondells – Crimson and Clover (Single Version)

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BlouseBlouseCom.

NC GUEST MIX#59: VALIS

Sunday, July 8th, 2012

After the recent discovery of the serious under-representation of VALIS on this blog, getting them to participate in our guest mix feature seemed like the right thing to do. Chicago industrial/EBM force are set to follow a stream of face-melting demos and remixes with an EP coming out soonish on Something Cold.
As for the mix, they preferred not to give away the tracklist. The perfectly fitting combination of disco, house, 80′s synth pop and contemporary industrial gems reflects the band’s own aesthetic quite well. And if the inclusion of songs by the likes of Depeche Mode and White Car doesn’t come as a surprise, a late eighties’ sleazy pop hit featured towards the end of the mix just might. But not only does it not hurt the flow of the mix, it actually adds a certain charm to it. Without further ado, we present you with VALIS’ exquisite mix:

NC GUEST MIX#59: VALIS

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VALIS @ Soundcloud.

NC GUEST MIX#58: BRUXA

Wednesday, June 27th, 2012

The latest guest mix comes from the up and coming Portland trio Bruxa, comprised of Bianca Radd, Derek Stilwell and Saint Michael. ”Witch-step”, “horror-gaze”, call it what you like, Bruxa draw from a bunch of very different influences, creating a fresh take on the now-hip dark bass-heavy beat-based music. Their debut EP was released via Sweating Tapes last Summer, and the new one is supposed to drop soon. If you haven’t heard Bruxa’s killer remix of ‘Killing Time’ by labelmates Nightmare Fortress, do yourself a favor and grab it right here right now. Peep Bruxa’s Soundcloud for more goodies. As for their heavy-chillout trip-hop guest mix, Bruxa hooked us up with some classic, more and less known 90′s electronic, trip-hop and hip-hop gems. D?WNL??D:

NC GUEST MIX#58: BRUXA

01. Tricky – 6 Minutes (Greg Nice Mix)
02. Gravediggaz – Defective Trip (Trippin)
03. Primal Scream – Give Up But Don’t Give Out (Portishead Mix)
04. Massive Attack – Sly (Underdog Mix)
05. Monkey Mafia – Ward 10 (Voodoo Mix)
06. DJ Shadow – Dark Days (Main Theme)
07. REQ – Razzamatazz
08. Wagonchrist – Rexcist
09. Method Man – Sub Crazy
10. Björk – Possibly Maybe

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NC GUEST MIX#57: PALMISTRY

Wednesday, June 13th, 2012

Palmistry is the moniker of the London-based producer Benjamin Keating, who is hopefully just about to break through. Last month saw the release of his excellent mixtape I Swear, which you can check out here. He is currently working on “LP worth of new material” for his Palmistry project, preparing a collaboration with Haleek Maul and working on the new Triad God record for Hippos in Tanks. A busy man indeed! In between all that he found some time to put together an impressive mix for us. ’Chung & Dangerous Mix’ features twenty-four mostly obscure, rare and/or hard to find songs, stylistically ranging from electronic and contemporary classical to East African hip-hop and Korean traditional music, all kept together by Palmistry’s trademark gloomy downtempo approach. Lay low rhythms:

NC GUEST MIX#57: PALMISTRY – Chung & Dangerous Mix

01. Triad God – I Never Told You
02. IVVVO – Mavado-Messiah
03. Arvo Pärt/Tallinn Chamber Orchestra – Berliner Messe: Zweiter Alleluiavers
04. Palmistry – Fyre Gyal Riddim
05. John Taverner – Funeral Ikos
06. DJ Mafia Boy – Tarrachinha Pesada
07. K Koke – Grass (R U Home?)
08. Rameses B – Every Cloud
09. Palmistry – 2046
10. Byungki Hwang – Sounds of the Night: 1. Mysteriously
11. Jua Cali – Ngeli Ya Genge
12. M.E.S.H. – On My Body
13. Max B – Green Gain
14. Fraud Freud – Only You (I Think of)
15. Maniac – Grinding
16. Supreme Cuts – Gully (feat. Haleek Maul)
17. Nowa Huta – Beautiful Dreamer
18. Sneakbo – Touch a Button (feat. Vybz Kartel)
19. Palmistry – Lay Low Rhythm
20. IVVVO – Hunter
21. Felicita – Hounslow
22. Palmistry – NXB
23. Howse – Digi 222
24. Triad God – Pok

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Palmistry @ Soundcloud.

NC GUEST MIX#56: LED ER EST

Tuesday, June 5th, 2012

When commissioning a mix from a band usually labeled as coldwave and minimal synth, you probably don’t expect them to get back to you with a chilled out summer mix, right? Well, that’s exactly what we got from the NYC trio Led Er Est, but not to worry, it’s not your typical summer mix. ‘Summer Beltdriver’ takes you on a fourty-minute journey through a world where italo disco, experimental electronics, Russian post-punk, German pop and minimal synth all live happily together and not even a pitched down Jean Paul Gaultier song (?!) can disrupt their harmony. ”All scratchy vinyl mix on belt drive turntables”, said Led Er Est’s Samuel Kklovenhoof, hence the name of the mix.
“Summer time weirdness”:

NC GUEST MIX#56: LED ER EST – Summer Beltdriver

01. Art of Noise – Yebo
02. Jean Paul Gaultier – How to do that (pitched way down)
03. Nena – Das land der elefanten
04. Jean-Michel Jarre – Zoolookologie
05. KNHO – War
06. Laser Cowboys – Ultra warp
07. Zombi – Sapphire
08. Delta Force Soundtrack Theme
09. Alexander Robotnick – Computer Sourire
10. Martin Lloyd – Science Fiction Man

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Led Er Est’s new album The Diver is out now on Sacred Bones Records.
Web Er Est.

NC GUEST MIX#55: FUNERALS

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

It’s been over a month since our last guest mix, but not to worry, we have a few rad mixes to make up for it. Let’s start with Funerals, a Columbus, OH based act made up of Mollie Wells and Casey Immel-Brown.
The self-proclaimed “midnight techno” duo gives us a short lesson in contemporary electronic music. They start the mix with uk funky bass sounds of Girl Unit, Roska and L-Vis 1990, with a pinch of juke. What follows is a set of minimal techno – the party starts once we learn drums with Boris Brejcha. The closing track is their own ‘K-Motion’, taken from the new Funerals and Ritualz companion EP that we mentioned last week. Hypermotion X/B is out today on Mishka, go and download it *for free*! Can you think of another cool Funerals-related thing available for free download? Me neither:

NC GUEST MIX#55: FUNERALS

01. Girl Unit – Club Rez
02. Munchi – Murda Sound
03. Roska – Jackpot
04. L-Vis 1990 – United Groove
05. Boris Brejcha – Learning Drums
06. Alex Young – Minimarket (Mark Denken remix)
07. Autistic – Minimal Polizei (Kanio Mix)
08. Dusty Kid – The Twister (Nathan Detroit edit)
09. Julian Jeweil – The Cube
10. Ossie – Tarantula
11. FUNERALS – K-Motion

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Funerals’ site.

NC GUEST MIX#54: FEATURELESS GHOST

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

It’s time for a new guest mix! No. 54 comes from the Atlanta duo Featureless Ghost. Their fine new EP MindBody was recently released by Night People – you can get it from the label, and stream it in its entirety on the duo’s Soundcloud. Featureless Ghost are currently on tour so if you happen to be so lucky as to live in one of these cities, go and see them!
Here’s what Matt and Elise said about their killer mix: “This mix is a collection of songs we’re really into at the moment. The songs and artists appeal to us because of their strong vision. They are unafraid to get deeply experimental without abandoning pop-music tropes. It’s a blend of old and new, classic and obscure, good and better. And they all happen to rely on the skilled use of synthesizers, drum machines, and in some cases, killer vocals.” Nothing to add there! Get to know mix:

NC GUEST MIX#54: Featureless Ghost

01. Philippe Laurent – Rapide 5
02. Polysick – DCO2
03. Cabaret Voltaire – Code
04. Jeff & Jane Hudson – Up From Hell
05. Gary Allen – What’s So Atomic?
06. Femminielli – Estados Alterados
07. Michael Garrison – Take A Chance
08. Chris & Cosey – Moorby
09. Ti-Tho – Die Liebe Ist Ein Abenteuer
10. Dylan Ettinger – Blue and Blue
11. D-Video – CM Hacker
12. Telepathic – We Are Telepathique
13. Fingers, Inc. – Never No More Lonely

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Featureless Site.