I had the pleasure of reviewing Jon Hopkins' latest album for Buzz recently. It's called Music For Psychedelic Therapy and it's well ambient and it's well good. Like five stars good.
I had a quick dig through my likes on SoundCloud after the EGG MIX drew me back to the platform.
Buried way down the list was a short mix from Washed Out. And I mean short, like 20 minutes short. Still, it packs in those 2010 vibes, proper chillwave like.
Tracklist: Washed Out - The Fantastic Symphony Mix for Platform. (March 2010)
Arch M – “Bedrm Band at Caf NVA (edit)”
The Samps – “Magnetic Thys”
Samiyam – “Wrap Up”
Toro Y Moi – “Brubek”
Koushik – “Homage”
Osborne – “Afrika (Bullion Remix)”
Iasos – “Inter-Dimentional Music”
Jack Nitzsche – “Untitled (edit)”
The Khalsa String Band – “Song of Bliss”
I think Platform was the magazine/website that spawned Boiler Room.
If you fancy more of this type of music with terrible attempts at Blue Jam style humour over the top, I made Nos Da around the same kinda time.
[Just as I was finishing writing this post and was sorting the labels out, I found that I wrote about this mix in December 2009. We go round and round and round.]
Another month, another list. Here's nine tracks I've been enjoying in October 2021, featuring moody post-punk, Thom Yorke sampling hip-hop, and lots of synths as per...
Think I'm starting to get obsessed with this band. If you told me even five years ago I'd be digging a folk-rock vocal harmony group from the late 70s etc and so forth...
A bit more like it. Some classic Aphex with the first track from Selected Ambient Works 85-92, made when he was 12 or some shit. Proper ambient techno mate.
So this is CRS AKA Child Rebel Soldier AKA Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West, and Pharrell Williams. And Us Placers was meant to be the first track of a whole album made up of them rapping over Thom Yorke and Radiohead samples. Instead, it all fizzled out and Us Placers made it to Kanye's, sorry Ye's, 2007 mixtape Can't Tell Me Nothing. I completely missed all this somehow.
As featured in Crack Magazine's 10 mixes you need to hear this month, estoc rams, crams, and blends early-to-mid 00s electro and indie rock into an hour of pure joy.
We're talking your Justices, your Metrics (!), your Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
We're talking remixes from your Soulwaxes, your Twelves, your Bloody Beetroots (!).
If you need a lift any time soon, then break out the EGG MIX.
A Llantwit Major-based music blog for things post-punk, electronic and a little bit left of centre, with second-hand cultural musings, third-rate sociological stabbings and very rarely the odd mp3.
I also write the odd album review for Buzz Magazine and used to present Amser Electroneg on Bro Radio.