Crazy World

Its been a slow january with lots of snow here in MN (14" last night). Busy writing new Iceblink recordings, and revisiting my favorite vimeo for some inspiration

a few more mixes

Been at it again with a couple more playlists, attempting to capture some sort of influence or aesthetic. this time, in relation to the certain feeling I got while reading and then watching norweigan wood.

I had this vision of a lazy dormatory hippy 60s japan. Curious what it was like to be alive during the student riots: the westernization and counterculture, beatnik and stoner, digging whatever through imported music you could get; I created this playlist. It ranges from krautrock to 60s folk to "punk" to jazz.

Murakami's japan

Next I looked at steve reich's musical style and what it has lended to in music of recent years. Ranging from space-age to lofi to chamber to orchestral.

Reichly

I may revisit these and maybe compile them to a continuous mix. Particularly would like to return to murakami's japan with some of the more difficult to find japanese psychrock and jazz that i found on youtube, and of course "of broken lines" is clearly missing some more "toys" touch

Playlists for the new year

been busy making some mixes on spotify for fun here

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sweeps:

 Kraut lent something to the early experiments of electronic score in the eighties, and echoed in the present ambient electronic. I was just searching for whatever mike ratledge might sit well next to, and why the word "sweeps" makes me think of a particular synth sound

of broken lines:

 Somewhere between the folk of the blacklands and the strange incantations of the spectres of electronics. Trying to form the missing link between broadcast and the focus group, in their collaborative album. Some very dark folk and softer musique concrete.