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 Neuromancder 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. 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