"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 Datsun11:40 aKido - Mrchf Thftr13:10 Morgan Packard - Again15:25 Jon Hopkins - Wire19:50 Marconi Union - Stationary26:20 Lights out in Asia - Attempt No Landings There31:00 John Murphy - Kanada's Death, pt. 2 (adagio in d minor)33:20 James Murray - Eleven(decades_mix)40:10 Jon Hopkins - Monsters Theme43:50 Parks - Perfect Silence49:45 aKido - Carrousel54:05 Tropics - Soft Vision59:20 end