Just My Type(records)

 

Recently I was messaging with LLM guest mixer, Roquen Lómë, about Type records - an experimental record label that was active from 2003 to 2013. Founded by John Twells & Stefan Lewandowski in the U.K., Type released some creative music in those ten years ranging from delicate piano to sculptured noise to glitchy electronica to ambient to psych folk.

I thought it would be fun to create a mix of music from Type records catalog - then I looked at that catalog and, wow they sure did release a ton of music. There's no way to make an exhaustive review of their releases so I decided to go chronologically through some of my favorites. That still only scratched the surface, I think I have more than 40 Type records in my collection. 

It was nice listening to some of the recordings for the first time in years and I hope you too enjoy this little trip into the past.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00   Mokira - Untitled #3 (Album 2003)
• 04:25   Deaf Center - Walk (Neon City 2004)
• 07:21   Golden - Door of Our Home (Corduroy Road 2005)
• 10:37   Julien Neto - I(one) (Le Fumeur de Ciel 2005)
• 13:35   North Sea & Rameses III - Night Blossom Written in Sanskrit (Night of the Ankou 2005)
• 19:19   Xela - Bobble Hats In Summer (For Frosty Mornings And Summer Nights 2007)
• 25:08   The Alps - Trem Fanstasma (iii 2008)
• 31:14   Richard Skelton - Grange (Marking Time 2008)
• 34:00   Koen Holtkamp - You Mean The World To Me (Field Rituals 2008)
• 36:20   Grouper - We've All Time To Sleep (Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill 2008)
• 39:12   Helios - Hope Valley Hill (Caesura 2008)
• 44:05   Black To Comm - Hotel Freund (Alphabet 1968 2009)
• 47:57   Jóhann Jóhannsson - Pods (And in the Endless Pause There Came the Sound of Bees 2009)
• 50:55   Ezekiel Honig - Drafting Foresight (Folding In On Itself 2011)
• 54:35   Sylvain Chauveau - The Unbroken Line (Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) 2010)
• 57:41   end

JAZZ - ish

 

I'm not exactly sure how this mix started. I think I was listening to the track, Outlook Remains Untouched, by ||||||||||||||||||||, yes that's the actual name the artist goes by.

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I like the jazzy vibe the tune has. It reminded me of similar tracks from the heyday of glitch and idm that also have a jazz feel to them. Sort of Jazz-ish.

So I grabbed some older tracks from 2001, 2002, 2006, and mixed them with new tunes to come up with this electronic mix that isn't really jazz...more like Jazz-ish.

Links to all the music used in this mix:

• https://barcodenoun.bandcamp.com/track/outlook-remains-untouched
• https://robagwruhme.bandcamp.com/album/thora-vukk-pampacd002
• https://www.amazon.com/Mizoknek-Iso68/dp/B0018CCMZU
• https://triosk.bandcamp.com/album/the-headlight-serenade
• https://ambarchiberthlingwerliin.bandcamp.com/album/ghosted
• https://prefuse73.bandcamp.com/track/clean-up-scene-apprentice
• https://josiahsteinbrick.bandcamp.com/album/mouthfeel-serene
• https://nalasinephro.bandcamp.com/album/space-18
• https://rockinghorse.net/products/cd95049
• https://memetune.bandcamp.com/album/indicator
• https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/album/three
• https://flau.bandcamp.com/album/reverberate-slowly
• https://boomkat.com/products/we-think-as-instruments
• https://laurencepike.bandcamp.com/album/prophecy
• https://elikeszler.bandcamp.com/album/live-2-1

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00 |||||||||||||||||||| - Outlook Remains Untouched (Outlook Remains Untouched 2021)
• 05:06 Robag Wruhme - Tulpa Ovi (Thora Vukk 2011)
• 09:00 Iso68 - Catzen (Mizoknek 2002)
• 13:40 Triosk - Lost Reprise (The Headlight Serenade 2006)
• 19:00 Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, Andreas Werliin - II (Ghosted 2022)
• 25:36 Prefuse 73 - Clean Up Scene Apprentice (New Strategies For Modern Crime Vol. 1 2024)
• 28:30 Josiah Steinbrick & Sam Gendel - Mouthfeel 1 (Mouthfeel, Serene 2021)
• 30:00 Nala Sinephro - Space 5 (Space 1.8 2021)
• 33:10 Andrew Pekler - you are here (Station To Station 2002)
• 34:10 Oblong - sketches of staines (Indicator 2006)
• 37:21 Four Tet - So Blue (Three 2024)
• 42:02 El Fog - Smoke and Satellites (Reverberate Slowly 2015)
• 44:35 I’m Not A Gun - Soft Rain in the Spring (We think as instruments 2006)
• 49:20 Laurence Pike - Prophecy (Prophecy 2020)
• 53:09 Eli Keszler - Copenhagen Part III (LIVE 2 2024)
• 60:00 end

Moteer - sounds like this

 

I recently stumbled upon a post or tweet that mentioned Moteer, a UK record label active in the 2000s. I was like - oh man, I have listened to that stuff in a while, time to give some a spin. It was fun going back into that world of clicks, loops, vinyl records pops, and glitchy ambience. So I decided to make a mix.

Moteer released music from 2003 to 2011. It was run by Andrew Johnson and Craig Tattersall, who record as The Remote Viewer. The label specialized in, as Harry Towell, founder of Whitelabrecs records, put it -  "lo-fi folk and glitchy, electro-acoustic goodness." They don't even have a website anymore to link to so you're on your own in tracking down some of the releases.

This set starts at the beginning with the first Moteer release, Commercial Body Fittings by Clickits. And it continues chronologically to the last release, On Fell. In between we get music from The Boats, Part Timer, El Fog, Need More Sources, Tokyo Bloodworm and more.

Sit back and enjoy this little journey back to the 2000s for some off-kilter, clicky, twinkling ambience.

Cheers

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Clickits - september sounds like this (commercial body fittings 2003)
• 03:30    Manyfingers - Ballybane (Manyfingers 2004)
• 08:55    The Boats - And There Are Stars That Fell (Songs by The Sea 2004)
• 12:45    Clickits - Natural Theatre (Express Gifts 2005)
• 16:48    The Boats - Donna, Paul and Grace (We Made It For You 2005)
• 18:50    Minimum Chips - Snow Pea (Lady Grey 2006)
• 22:10    Part Timer - hear... to something (part imer 2006)
• 25:25    The Boats - this song is one colour (Tomorrow Time 2006)
• 28:11    Aus - apt (Curveland 2007)
• 32:33    El Fog - Own Frequency, Own Time (Reverberate Slowly 2007)
• 37:11    Theodore & Hamblin - Lacie (The Scientific Contrast 2007)
• 41:00    Need More Sources - Sun (Shed 2007)
• 43:44    con cetta - ker (micro 2008)
• 48:05    Brael And Tokyo Bloodworm - Saturn Shine (Living Language 2008)
• 56:15    Yuri Lugovskoy - untitled #3 (Yuri Lugovskoy 2010)
• 60:30    Tokyo Bloodworm - Pale The Clerics Pass (Palestine 2011)
• 65:05    On Fell - On Fell B (On Fell 2011)
• 68:28    end

City Centre Offices - Impact & Inspiration

This week marks the final transmission of the wonderful record label, City Centre Offices.  Their style of electronic music was new to me at the time and I devoured their releases with a rapacious glee.  I think I have somewhere between 40 - 50 CCO recordings.

City Centre Offices has been silent for a number of years and I hate to admit that I'd sort of forgotten about them.  But now this week brings one final release, Boy Robot - Final Transmission.  So with the end of CCO officially here, I thought I'd collect a few favorites in a new mix.  There is so much great music that came from CCO that I could have done mixes that were hours long but I kept this one to the standard 1 hour.

Rather than go on and on rhapsodically about what a marvelous label City Centre Offices is, I'll direct you to this excellent article over at A Strangely Isolated Place - http://www.astrangelyisolatedplace.com/blog/2017/3/14/city-centre-offices-interview-the-final-transmission

Great stories, insight and music in that ASIP reminiscence.  The good folks at ASIP also put together a terrific Spotify playlist of CCO music.

I hope you enjoy this little stroll down memory lane as much as I did.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T:

• 0:00    Arovane - A Secret
• 04:00    Casino versus Japan - Late for School
• 09:45    Herrmann & Kleine - Transalpin
• 15:40    Ulrich Schnauss - Between Us & Them
• 22:00    Xela - Softness of Senses
• 26:06    Christian Kleine - Guitar Interrupt
• 29:48    Dub Tractor - 50Hz Guitar
• 35:17    Opiate - Open
• 37:26    Boy Robot - Glamorizing Corporate Lifestyle
• 40:40    Bitstream - Stream One
• 44:40    Styrofoam - Cashier Escape Song
• 50:33    Dictaphone - Dictaphone II
• 53:24    Swod - Intro
• 54:14    Marsen Jules - Chanson Du Soir
• 58:42    Ulrich Schnauss - Gone Forever
• 66:23    END

A glitch in time

Sometime around 2001 I discovered the album Tides by Arovane.  I'm not sure if it qualifies as "post-digital" or "blip hop" or "micro" music but it was through that album that I began a brief love affair with the style of music known as "glitch."

I have always loved electronic & ambient music but at the end of the 1990s I had lost interest in berlin style electronics and mostly listened to straight ambient.  But with the emergence of glitch, and it's use of complicated beats, noise and samples, I found a new rhythmic electronic music to dive into.

The biggest purveyor of glitch music back then was the Mille Plateaux label.  With their Click & Cuts series they introduced me to a whole new range of sound in music.  There is definitely a lot of music from that time period that, while interesting, could become annoying as well.  I'm not a fan of loud and aggressive glitch.  I definitely am more in tune with the sort of stuff put out by 12k.

Over time I grew tired of much of the glitch scene and the never ending little pops & clicks & wee little sounds intruding on the music.  Although I still enjoy much of 12k music.

Recently I was organizing some of my collection & revisited some old glitch material.  I found that I am still very fond of some of it.  I started collecting tracks for this mix and was surprised at how much I enjoyed it.

So this mix is a little step back in time to the early 2000s.  A small glitch in the passing of time to when glitch ruled, for me anyway.

Btw, I made the clock gif myself!  Woo hoo!  Can't wait to try more.

Enjoy.


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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Arovane - Tides (2000)
• 04:45    Carpet Musics - Phone Lines (2001)
• 08:24    Clickits - No Clickedy (2003)
• 11:35    Xela - Impulsive Behavior (2002)
• 15:30    offthesky - Down the Stream (2005)
• 20:50    Shuttle358 - I'm Not Afraid (2003)
• 25:05    Twerk - From Brown to Green (2003)
• 29:55    Jan Jelinek - Facelift (2003)
• 34:55    Bexar Bexar - Kt (2002)
• 38:30    Christopher Willits - The Seaweed Machine (2003)
• 40:45    Christian Kleine - Several (2002)
• 47:15    Arovane - Ambelio (1999)
• 52:20    Shuttle358 - Calty (2000)
• 57:11    end

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