Almost 10 years ago, I made a mix inspired by late-period Talk Talk and the Mark Hollis solo album that followed, called Watershed. I’ve made a sequel to that mix, called Headlands. I hope you enjoy it. Happy Epiphany to you all. Rest in peace, Mark Hollis.

(91 min)

The concept behind this mix was very simple and concrete in my head, but hard for me to articulate coherently for whatever reason. Here’s some ways I tried: “organic futurism” “rainforest cyborg” “greenhouse A.I.”… uh hopefully one of those makes sense. Anyway here it is, enjoy!

1. Visible Cloaks – Lex
2. Raime – Some Things Can Happen Just Like This
3. Isomov – Origin, Emergence, and The One
4. Björk ft. Kelis – Oceania (remix)
5. Kenji Kawai – Making of Cyborg
6. Leif – Borage
7. Celestial Trax – Peace
8. 猫 シ Corp. & t e l e p a t h – Building a Better World
9. Laurie Anderson – O Superman (For Massenet)
10. Motion Graphics – Vistabrick
11. Nuage – Prints of You (Ital Tek remix)
12. Lockah x Taste Tester – U Don’t Know Me (Slick Shoota remix)
13. Kara Lis Coverdale and LXV – Buffering Landscape
14. Barker – Hedonic Treadmill
15. Topdown Dialectic – A1
16. Deena Abdelwahed – Tawa (M.E.S.H. remix)
17. James Bangura – AllTheGirls
18. Endless Mow – Possession Chamber
19. CYPHR – Brace
20. 猫 シ Corp. – Eden Transit
21. FKA Twigs – Fallen Alien
22. Suda – Idiopath
23. Vessel – Paplu (Love That Moves the Sun)
24. Dog & Fox – Who Gets The Cows?

This is the third Halloween mix by Scholastics, the follow-up to The Shadows Are A Mercy and Lies are Cheaper than Thrills, but departs from the horror disco & synthwave template of those two mixes for a sound that’s a bit noisier.

1. Phoenix Chorale – Ola Gjeilo: Serenity (O Mangum Mysterium)
2. John Luther Adams – Inuksuit Part IV
3. Puce Mary – To Possess Is To Be In Control
4. SHCCHCHCHCXSH – Shudududu
5. Deena Abdelwahed – Fdhiha
6. Austra – Beat and the Pulse
7. 33.10.3402 – (100 Drone Passive Scape)
8. Äisha Devi – Dislocation of the Alpha
9. Dis Fig – Purge
10. Paul Jebanasam – Rites II
11. Richard Skelton – Rapture
12. Fever Ray – Red Trails
13. Villages – Temper of the Age
14. Hyph11e & Sharon Stewart – Speak to Me
15. Bliss Signal – Bliss Signal
16. Holly Herndon – Eternal

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Scholastics – Marginalia № 5

1. David Wenngren & Christopher Bissonnette – Their Hunted Expression

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Marginalia № 4 by Scholastics

1. Lusine – Two Dots (Pezzner remix)

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Scholastics – Marginalia № 3

1. Argoman – Chimicalissimo

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Marginalia No. 2

ambient, electronic, dream pop, downtempo

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This is the sequel to 2013’s Wakanda Astronautics and Space Agency, and follows a Wakandan world ship through a wormhole and into uncharted reaches of deep space and beyond. Like its predecessor, WASA II is half footwork/juke and half other stuff, but everywhere focused on rhythms. Turn on your subwoofer.

Scholastics – Wakanda Astronautics and Space Agency II: The Other Side of Time

Interlude (Slight Return)

V. The Bridge

VI. Uncharted Reaches

VII. Cusp

VIII. A Planet All Their Own

This is the first in a new series of mixes. The general idea is to be a little more free than the Live for the Library series, which turned out to be pretty house-focused.

1. Tafi All Stars – Outside Rhythm

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The last Lampshade mix of 2017 is also the final volume in the Live from the Library series. It’s afrohouse.

1. Haloed – Human

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