television sky

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
> _ William Gibson, Neuromacer

I love that line from "Neuromancer" & it's the jumping off point for this mix.

Now if I was going to do a true Neuromancer mix I'd use stuff like Autechre & other noisy, abrasive electronica. But this isn't really a Neuro mix, I'm not a big fan of later Autechre & music that gets so noisy as to be annoying.

In addition to that line, some new music I discovered at the end of last year got me thinking about an electronica style mix. The excellent music blog, A Strangely Isolated Place, posted their A - Z of 2010 list on December 27th. I discovered some great electronica like Lights Out In Asia, Tropics, aKido, Com Truise, Horizon Fire and more. I listened to enough of the new stuff to know that I wanted to do a related mix.

The mix is fairly straight forward but takes a different turn when it hits the two soundtrack pieces, "Kanada's Death, pt. 2" & "Monsters Theme", from John Murphy & Jon Hopkins. I absolutely love those two tracks & figured this was the best chance to incorporate them into a mix. They actually fit pretty well.

Enjoy.


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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00 Milieu - Ghosts In The Trees, Songs In The Breeze (Am-Boy Alternate Remix)
• 07:32 Horizon Fire - Passed out in a Datsun
• 11:40 aKido - Mrchf Thftr
• 13:10 Morgan Packard - Again
• 15:25 Jon Hopkins - Wire
• 19:50 Marconi Union - Stationary
• 26:20 Lights out in Asia - Attempt No Landings There
• 31:00 John Murphy - Kanada's Death, pt. 2 (adagio in d minor)
• 33:20 James Murray - Eleven(decades_mix)
• 40:10 Jon Hopkins - Monsters Theme
• 43:50 Parks - Perfect Silence
• 49:45 aKido - Carrousel
• 54:05 Tropics - Soft Vision
• 59:20 end

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