This is a follow up to my first library mix, which I put together two years ago. There’s such a huge cache of library music online now, that it felt inevitable that there would be a follow up, and here it is.
It’s really very enjoyable to hear the sheer ingenuity of these musicians grappling with what must have been very new music tech, back in the 70s, and producing things that were previously unimaginable. Some of these people really did pioneer the electronic music that we now know and love – and are mostly unknown, unsung heros.
1. Giampiero Boneschi – Prima Classe – Elettrorama – link 2. Garnegy Et Maties – Biceps – Sports Music II – link 3. Henryk Debich / Orkiestra Polskiego – Zwierzenia – Horyzonty – link 4. Tonio Rubio – Dead Slow – Rhythms – link 5. Les Hurdle & Frank Ricotti – Dissolves – Unusual Sounds – link 6. Stringtronics – Tropicola – Unusual Sounds – link 7. Soul City Orchestra – Waiting In The Wings – Meeting Point – link 8. Alan Feanch & Ted Atking – Snow Song – Kaleidoscope – link 9. James Asher – Cosmos – Bruton Music – link 10. C Cordio & F Vinciguerra – Quips and Cranks – Unusual Sounds – link 11. Geoff Bastow – Tomorrow’s Communication – Bruton – link 12. Tom Elliot – Turbulence – Media Music The Professional – link 13. Alan Parker & Alan Hawkshaw – The Difference – Music De Wolfe – link 14. Noel Mirol – Very Cool – Guamont Music – link
The regular mix series returns after a rather long hiatus. Quite a broad mix this month, covering some 70s funk, late 80s acid house, some classical pieces, and ending with a duo of gloomy electro pop songs.
I’m quite late to the Ramp cover of Everybody Loves The Sunshine – I spotted it recently as it’s been reissued with Daylight on the A Side. Followers of this website will know that D’Angelo’s cover originally featured on my old jazz fudge mixtapes. I do think Ramp’s version is marginally better though!
This is certainly quite a strange mix, but I hope you enjoy it.
This month’s podcast is dedicated to 70s disco music. I am a big fan. In this mix, I’ve tried to dig out the more obscure side of disco, so you won’t be getting any of the big ones, apart from one Chic-produced number.
There’s also a bit of funk at the tail end of the mix, where we slow things down very slightly. Hopefully the sum of this mix is still coherent.
This is a mixtape of exotic music, covering anything with a Latin or Brazilian edge; perfect for a summer barbecue or beach party. Make yourself a pina colada and enjoy…
1. Henry Mancini – Lujon 2. Edu Lobo – Upa Neguinho 3. United Future Organisation – Cosmic Gypsy (Descargo Dub) 4. Ananda Project – Free Me 5. Erik Escobar – Arcanjo Miguel 6. Felbm – Tartufai 7. John Beltran Featuring Sol Set – Aztec Girl 8. Dino & Terry – Summertime Blues 9. Faze Action – Samba 10. Audio Montage – Wild Lights 11. Jazzanova – Fedimes Flight 12. Airto Moreira – Celebration Suite 13. Funkadelic – Brettinos Bounce 14. Toco – Guarapiranga 15. Orlandivo – Onda Anda A Meu Amor 16. Erik Escobar – Samba For Petrucciani 17. Beastie Boys – Song For Junior 18. Antonio Carlos Jobim – Vivo Sonhando (Dreamer)
I am a big fan of the piano, but, to be fair, it’s a pretty ubiquitous instrument, and I can’t think of a style of music that hasn’t employed it at least once.
This mix attempts to encompass any music featuring piano from the last sixty years. The opening track was released in 1962, and this mix runs right the way up the present day.
This is a follow up to the All Lauren Bacall Mix that I put together back in 2019.
The Lauren Bacall as a label doesn’t appear to be in operation any longer…..
However, this closure has now slowed down Grant’s prolific work-rate – in this short space of time he’s released no less than three albums across the Dukes Distribution and Lobster Theremin labels, plus six white label EPs on the GRANT label. Naturally I have bought them all on sight, and that’s largely how this mix was constructed.
As someone who is very much a life-long fan of drum & bass, it’s nice to hear that Grant is clearly also appreciative of the genre; the opening tracks borrows heavily from PFM’s classic Good Looking Records release, The Western….and the final track in the mix features dialogue from Metalheadz chief Goldie….
So, this is the first mixtape of 2022, and it’s pretty broad, as always.
After a brief musical interval from a film to open the mix, I’ve kicked off with some classic jungle from Primary Source. This record has a lot of significance for me because I first heard it on a pirate radio show in 1994, played by Chaos & Julia Set, and I guess I was barely a year into jungle music, at the time; this one, in particular, has a very nice edit of the well-known Apache break.
The Twin Peaks Archive has some amazing material from Angelo Badalamenti, some of it taken from the film Fire Walk With Me, which is one of my favourite David Lynch movies. This collection of cues from the series & film seems to have vanished from the internet; I guess I was lucky to snap it up when it was available.
Later we find the brilliant “Bare” from Dustmite & Kuru, part of the future garage sound that seems to have stalled, a little. This was used in the excellent Photek DJ Kicks mix from around 2012, but it’s taken me ages to find the digital of this individual track.
There’s a dash of film scores and ambient music from out of Japan, courtesy of Kenji Kawai, followed later by Hiroshi Yoshimura. These have been very difficult to track down, but since the introduction of Spotify, I feel that it’s my duty to dig a bit deeper for music that’s not so widely available.
I end the mix with a duo of pretty loud, unapologetic, emo-metal tracks from Placebo, followed by Savages. This is obviously a bit of a diversion from what I normally select for this podcast, but I like to keep you on your toes!
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