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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

Featureless Site.

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NC GUEST MIX#53: BRUSQUE TWINS

Sunday, April 15th, 2012

Continuing with our twin series (LOL!), we bring you a mix from Hollie Hensman and Derek George, better known as Brusque Twins. The Montréal duo has a fine new EP called A Voice in the Night out now on the awesome Visage Musique. You can get it from their Bandcamp, or order a physical copy here. The first single from the EP, ‘Speaking in Colour’, is included in the mix. Speaking of the mix, we’ll let Hollie and Derek introduce it themselves.
“Essentially, we did our best Veronica Vasicka impression – jumping around from post-punk, minimal synth, house, italo, funk as well as giving our Visage Musique fam some love. It’s a rougher punk mix – we used some vinyl so the sound quality varies a little bit. C’est la vie.” Now go and listen to it, what else is there to say:

NC GUEST MIX#53: Brusque Twins

01. Cabaret Voltaire – The Set-Up
02. Kazino – Binary
03. Police des Moeurs – Tremblements
04. Malaria! – You You
05. Severed Heads – Dead Eyes Opened (Remix Three)
06. Brusque Twins – Speaking In Colour
07. Digits – Rachel Marie (GOLD ZEBRA Remix)
08. Master C&J – Dub Love
09. Funky Family – Funky Is On
10. Tony Cops – Umberto
11. Glass – Let Me Feel Your Heartbeat

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Facebooque Twins.

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NC GUEST MIX#52: TWIN-GEMZ

Friday, April 6th, 2012

Twin-Gemz are comprised of Bunny Michael and Amber Ibarreche. We wrote about the Brooklyn-based duo’s sweet video for ‘Car Windows’ back in January. So far they only have a few tracks up on their Soundcloud page, but we’re hoping for a proper release some time soon.
Their “Cherry Blossom mix” opens with my ultimate party closer ‘Dancing in Slow Motion’ and, whaddayaknow, it works. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony continue to take it in the chilled out mood until the girls drop some freestyle and two of their solo songs, with Physical Therapy’s already classic take on ‘Unthinkable’ fitting snuggly in between. (Also, Kim Gordon should take a dive into hip-hop.) And then Light Asylum’s latest smash hit strikes. Yup, Shannon Funchess appears twice on the mix, but that is hardly a bad thing. It all ends with two of our favorite songs from the past year, the last one being Telepathe’s upbeat gem ‘Throw Away This’. Guess that’s when the party starts. Mix-gemz:

NC GUEST MIX#52: TWIN-GEMZ – Cherry Blossom Mix

01. Teengirl Fantasy – Dancing in Slow Motion (feat. Shannon Funchess)
02. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony – Mo’ Murda
03. Lil Suzy – Take Me in Your Arms
04. Bunny Michael – Only in My Dreams (Debbie Gibson cover)
05. Alicia Keys – Unthinkable (Physical Therapy remix)
06. Sonic Youth – J.C.
07. Amber Ibarreche – Kewl Girl
08. Light Asylum – IPC
09. Nine Inch Nails – Terrible Lie
10. Planningtorock – The Breaks
11. Telepathe – Throw Away This

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TWIN-WEBZ.

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NC GUEST MIX#51: KOOL THING

Monday, March 26th, 2012

Guest mix #51 comes from Kool Thing, the Berlin-based duo made up of Jon Dark and Julie Chance. (How hasn’t anyone thought of naming their band “Kool Thing” before?) Their debut Light Games EP, which came out in January, made for a perfect soundtrack to walks in the cold winter nights, its only fault being that it is merely three tracks long. It’s available as free download so go and check it out if you haven’t already. The duo has also made remixes for Austra and Light Asylum. They are currently residing in Sydney, working on new stuff and doing shows. A new EP should be out before the Summer.
The mix starts off quietly, slowly building up to some house jams and club bangers, including Kool Thing’s take on ‘The Beat and the Pulse’ and a remix of their own track by Maya Postepski (of Austra and TRUST). They close the mix with Arthur Russell’s ‘Arm Around You’, a perfect come down and one of my favorites by him. Do I say that every time someone puts an Arthur Russell track on their mix? SO WHAT, the man happens to have loads of great songs. If you too need to be told what to do – stream and/or download this mix:

NC GUEST MIX#51: KOOL THING

01. Phil Collins – In the Air Tonight
02. Molly Nilsson – Hiroshima Street
03. Austra – Beat and the Pulse (Kool Thing remix)
04. CoMa – Raindrops (Original mix)
05. Omar S, Ob Ignitt – Wayne County Hill Cop’s (Original mix)
06. Kool Thing – Light Games (Maya Postepski Austra/TRUST remix)
07. Soundstream – Love Jam (Original mix)
08. Arthur Russell – Arm Around You

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Kool Website.

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NC GUEST MIX#50: BUTTERCLOCK

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

The honor of making the jubilee 50th NC guest mix was given to Berlin-based artist Laura Clock a.k.a. Butterclock. Surely you’ve heard ‘NoWayBack’, the gorgeous recent single with oOoOO, with whom she has collaborated on a few other tracks from his upcoming EP. Clock is currently working on her debut full-length.
While most artists’ mixes reflect their own music to a greater or lesser degree, this one sounds like it couldn’t have been made by anyone else but Butterclock. Over only eight tracks she guides us through her world of dark r’n'b where popular hip-hop and r’n'b songs merge with their creepy reworks and obscure weirdo pop tunes by the likes of o F F Love (who also made a mix for NC) and Berlin duo Easter. The line between the three is blurrier than one might think. And if Cat Power seems out of place on the tracklist, just wait until the closing track, the stripped-down version of ‘NoWayBack’. I know what you want:

NC GUEST MIX#50: BUTTERCLOCK

01. Kelly Rowland – Motivation
02. Mariah Carey – I Know What You Want (Cyan Kid remix)
03. M.E.S.H. – Dusk Balm
04. Easter – Psychobitch
05. Gucci Mane & Waka Flocka Flame – Feed Me (feat. Frenchie)
06. Cat Power – Hate
07. o F F Love – Let u Know
08. Butterclock – No Fantasy Back

Butterclock @ Facebook.

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NC GUEST MIX#49: PRINCE INNOCENCE

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

Prince Innocence is the project of Talvi Faustmann and Josh McIntyre, whom you may know as the Little Girls dude. The duo is currently dividing their time between Montreal and Toronto recording their first album. They’re also working on a music video with Sandy Miranda of Fucked Up.
The mix is a collection of thirteen awesome songs picked by both Talvi and Josh, featuring an ideal measure of some of the finest minimal synth acts, some recent hip-hop gems, a few classics, and a few discoveries that might get posts of their own in the near future. Innocent mix:

NC GUEST MIX#49: PRINCE INNOCENCE

01. Tensnake – Holding Back My Love
02. Tezeta – Loss
03. David Lynch – Good Day Today
04. Oppenheimer Analysis – Scorpions
05. Tonetta – I’ll Remain As I Am
06. Deux – Paris/Orly
07. Metro Area – Miura
08. Q Lazzarus – Goodbye Horses
09. Dam-Funk – Hood Pass Intact
10. Kendrick Lamar – Cartoons & Cereal (Feat. Gunplay)
11. Grimes – Genesis feat. Deniro Farrar (Ryan Hemsworth remix)
12. Brassica – The Centre
13. Soft Powers – Mary Never Sings Our Songs

Prince Zuckerberg.

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NC GUEST MIX#48: JEWELS OF THE NILE

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

Continuing a string of excellent NC guest mixes, Jewels of the Nile‘s Meghan Christine and Jessy Montaigne deliver another collection of gloomy electronic and post-punk jewels. The band is currently working on releasing a 12″ single through their own label, Marchesa Records. The single will be a part of the forthcoming full-length that should be ready by the fall. Jewels of the Nile’s debut album Pleasure is available from Desire Records and Sweating Tapes.
Back to the mix – what do we have here? Some Soft Metals, Tropic of Cancer, Liars, Bestial Mouths, Terminal Twilight, probably the best Pink Industry song (also featured on our last mixtape)… Oh and those Friends and Darktown Strutters songs? Get out! If you’re a fan of weirdo dark electronics, minimal synth pop and mutant disco (which is likely if you’re reading this blog), don’t miss out on this one. Pleasure:

NC GUEST MIX#48: JEWELS OF THE NILE

01. Tuxedo Moon – Desire
02. Berlin Blondes – Neon Probe
03. Darktown Strutters – Silver Bullets
04. Pink Industry – Pain of Pride
05. Soft Metals – Do You Remember
06. Velvet Condom – Kalter Lippenstift
07. We Are The World – Clay Stone (Turbotito remix)
08. Friends – I’m His Girl
09. Tropic of Cancer – A Color
10. WMX & Bestial Mouths – Suffer (Gulls WMX remix)
11. Liars – A Visit From Drum
12. Terminal Twilight – The Lovers
13. Die Selektion – Raben
14. Clique Talk – Tight Like a Nun
15. Animal Bodies – Venus Transit

Jewels of the Net.

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NC GUEST MIX#47: WHITE CAR

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

Recent White Car stuff got us pretty excited about his first LP Everyday Grace, coming out in a couple of weeks on Hippos in Tanks. So we thought we’d try and get a little something to keep us amused while we wait for the record to drop. Imagine our delight upon receiving a mix entirely made up of – White Car material! Here’s what Elon Katz said on the mix: “I hate when people put their own songs and remixes on a mix so for this mix I compiled it entirely from my remixes ;-) Many of these remixes didn’t surface or didn’t get much attention, I thought it would be nice to have them all in the same place and I am pretty tired of ‘taste maker’ style mixes. It’s a collection of my favorite remixes I have done and a few of my favorites others have done for White Car.” Don’t you just hate mixes with a bunch of rare stuff?! Get this baby:

NC GUEST MIX#47: WHITE CAR

01. //TENSE// – Work Hard Short Life (White Car Ephemeral Employment Mix)
02. Detachments – Audio Video (White Car Weirdo Edit)
03. Gatekeeper – Serpent (White Car Acid Slither Mix)
04. Von Haze – Outside the Night (White Car Ethereal Booty Power Acid)
05. White Car – No Better (Mahjongg Remix)
06. //TENSE// – Turn It Off (White Car Rubber House Mix)
07. D’eon – Keep the Faith (White Car Remix)
08. Trust – Candy Walls (Elon Katz E-MU Dub)
09. Cleared – No Better

White Car Net.

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NC GUEST MIX#46: XANDER HARRIS

Monday, January 30th, 2012

The latest guest mix comes from Xander Harris, Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s buddy  the project of Austin, Texas based musician Justin Sweatt, whose peachy debut Urban Gothic came out on Not Not Fun last year. He has a split 7 inch with Dylan Ettinger coming out on Moon Glyph in late February/early March.
This rather urban gothic mix is comprised of some tracks that he’s “really enjoying at the moment”. Featured artists include several Skinny Puppy-related projects, some of our latest sweethearts such as Water Borders and Trust, as well as the sadly disbanded These Are Powers. The collection of more and less recent dark electronic stuff perfectly fits his Tumblr description which reads “EBM Industrial Grave Wave Horror Dance”. I want more than just a mix:

NC GUEST MIX#46: XANDER HARRIS

01. Doubting Thomas – Father Don’t Cry
02. Water Borders – What Wiwant
03. Front Line Assembly – Threshold
04. These Are Powers – Candyman
05. Cyberaktif – Meltdown
06. Klinik – Moving Hands
07. Noise Unit – Collapsed
08. Clock DVA – Sound Mirror
09. Frank Alpine – Heart is Grey
10. MR666 – Murder By Phone
11. Trust – Sulk (Single Edit)
12. Robedoor – Afterburners
13. LA Vampires & Zola Jesus – Eulogy

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Xander Harris’ Tumblr & Bandcamp.

Photo by Devaki Knowles.

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NC GUEST MIX#45: O F F Love

Thursday, January 5th, 2012

Kinda got used to having other people (ie. artists we like) write for the blog. So we’re gonna start the year with yet another guest feature – a guest mix by o F F Love. (Apparently he will only make a mix for your site if it’s guest mix number 45.) Artwork used for cover was made by Aude Levere for “oFF is Loved” fan art project, featured in the video for ‘Close to U, I’m Not’. o F F Love’s debut album Probably Love is coming out in two weeks via M=Maximal.
The combination of mainstream hits, r’n'b, avant-pop and fragile vocals featured on the mix reflects his music pretty well. Also, it works great.
o F F is Love. This is mix is love? What Rihanna said:

o F F Love MY LOVE IS YOUR LOVE, YOUR LOVE IS MY LOVE

Tracklisting in a random order:
Palmistry, Backstreet Boys, Cyan Kid + Allie, Thom Yorke, Metallic Falcons, Panda Bear, o F F Love, Chris Brown, CocoRosie, Rihanna, Arthur Russell, Min Ronnersjö, pan pipe sound.

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If you can guess the exact tracklist you’ll get, um… A mention on our profile on the social network of your choice. Whoa!

o N line Love.

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NC GUEST MIX#44: ZAMBRI

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

Zambri is a duo comprised of  sisters Cristi Jo and Jessica Zambri. We already mentioned their recent Glossolalia EP, out now on Kanine Records. Just a few hours ago Stereogum premiered their beautiful new video for ‘To Keep Back’, directed by Meringuemeringue. And now we give you a very special mix by Zambri! Sweet, but slightly weird. Just like their music.
This is what Cristi Jo told us about the mix: “I find this mix really nice to listen to alone, but it’s also really friendly. Consider passing around (sharing) your favorite drink. You might have a light, but very important night. Choose the right people, and if you close your eyes, make sure your friend’s eyes are open just in case of something extraordinary. Put on a sweater; get a breeze going. It’s possible you, too, enjoy cross ventilation. You’ll feel alive, I hope.” Feel alive:

NC GUEST MIX#44: ZAMBRI

01. Goblin – School at Night (Lullaby Echo Version)
02. Spacemen 3 – Just To See You Smile
03. Tricky – Makes Me Wanna Die
04. Autre Ne Veut – Sweetheart
05. Shangri-Las – He Cried
06. Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich – Zabadak!
07. Boards of Canada – Julie And Candy
08. Broadcast – Hawk
09. DPony – Lessmi
10. The Magnetic Fields – Underwear
11. Françoise Hardy – Oh Oh Cheri
12. Goblin – Mad Puppet
13. Bear In Heaven – Drug a Wheel
14. The Shirelles – Baby It’s You
15. Dpony – Desert Of Calculations
16. Spacemen 3 – I Love You

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Zambri.net

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NC GUEST MIX#43: ENSEMBLE ECONOMIQUE

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

Brian Pyle, better known as Ensemble Economique, is one busy guy. His new album Crossing The Pass, By Torchlight just came out on Dekorder, he has a wonderful new video for ‘Everything I Have, I Give to You’ (watch it here), plus there are already some new songs up on his Soundcloud. Last but not least – he made a beautiful mix for us.
Instead of trying to demonstrate how eclectic his musical tastes are, Pyle gives us a pretty balanced mix entirely made up of contemporary music, with the exception of Cocteau Twins. But you can’t make such a dreamy mix without Cocteau Twins, now can you? With some Swedish pop and some recent favorites such as Maria Minerva and Clams Casino thrown in for good measure, this makes for a perfect mix for the winter holiday season. Also, I thought I was crazy when I heard James from Twin Peaks singing that song of his, but it turns out it was sampled in the Foxes in Fiction remix of Raw Moans’ song. Hah! Mix economique:

NC GUEST MIX#43: ENSEMBLE ECONOMIQUE

01. CEO – Come With Me
02. Air France – Hold on to Me
03. jj – 5 Minuter
04. Police Academy 6 – The Chills (feat. Raw Moans)
05. Krusht – Back To the Forest
06. Clams Casino – I’m God
07. Dream Boat – Imissu
08. Phantogram – Mouthful of Diamonds
09. Blood Diamonds – Grins
10. Real Magic – No Things Left
11. Cocteau Twins – Crushed
12. Cults – You Know What I Mean
13. Raw Moans – Aqua Net (Foxes in Fiction remix)
14. Maria Minerva – Ruff Trade
15. CEO – Love And Do What You Will

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Ensemble Economique Tumblr.

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