Word The Cat

i’ve been silent on the recent hardcore continuum handbags (despite being a certain gentleman’s chosen straw_man), but there was a debate that i wasn’t at. i’m reliably informed kode9 and kodo eshun were very good though. a couple of things springboarded from it: socaerobics write up. and words against words which are wise.

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elsewhere zhao got his hands on a fine seamus ennis album. here’s a track from it.

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Seamus Ennis – The Frieze Britches

i used to have a few ennis records, but my hard drive died. i posted them a while ago but they’re not on the server now either. does anyone out there in the mirrorland still have a copy? (the fox chase is the track – if you ever find it in one of those pub mp3 juxeboxes, it’s interesting to see how a room responds over the ensuing 15 minutes)

the city just tripped into a cloud of paranoia. work is cancelled. all the masks have been sold. my brain is dragging and pushing a wheelbarrow of tinned food over a hill and into the woods, here is some countryside music to make the flu dance…

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from 40 years ago vashti bunyan imagines moving out from the city tending sheep in the countryside and curling up by a log fire. 30 years later the music from the same album was eaten by a more urban setting.

vashti bunyan – window over the bay

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martyn remixing efdemin on a stripped back piano remix. bird songs in the background and aphex deep in front. stones clatter gently underneath. keep it calm, not airborne.

Efdemin – Acid Bells Martyn’s Bittersweet Mix (192k)

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finally field-recordings from the tanzawa mountains in kanagawa prefecture. from Kiyoshi Mizutani who formerly operated as Merzbrow alongside Masami Akita. rain, hail and electricity.

Kiyoshi Mizutani – Hail at Mt. Tanzawa
Kiyoshi Mizutani – Kurokura power plant

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I saw a dog wearing a dress do a shit by a lampost this morning, which is not only a true story but another way of saying here are mixdump. still if you bend an ear, like a dog eating specially prepared pizza you shall be spoilt.

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Tokyo’s BacktoChill kru (famously featuring but not limited to Goth Trad) have started running a radio wireless show on their site. the latest can be found here. don’t watch the dodgy vocal on the first track, there’s a lot of goodness here. it’s all about the ‘roots of btc’ section where they play a load of influences to their raved out dub sound. beyonce, scotty hard, tortoise, l double, ed rush, mark stewart, company flow etc. It starts at about the 44 minute mark.

mp3 tracklist and streaming here.

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Cooly G also has a new mix up at Fact. It’s 75 minutes plus of fine rolling house (house rollers? something stone age like moving giant rocks into place with treetrunks?). She has material forthcoming through Hyperdub in the not too distant future.

mp3 (mediafire) mp3 (divshare) hype.

tracklist –

01 Cooly G – Weekend Fly
02 Martin Kemp – No Charisma
03 Sami Sanchez – What
04 Fingaprint – Print Rolla (Cooly Special)
05 Fuzzy Logik – Safari
06 Cooly G – Narst
07 Audio Halls Beat – Dougs Wana
08 Mista P – Funky Interlude
09 Cooly G – Dis Boy Pt 4
10 Mista P – Physic
11 T. Williams – Tight
12 T. Williams & Smokey – Dub
13 NB Funky – Riddim Box (Sami Sanchez Remix)
14 Unknown – Unknown
15 Halo & Kemal – African Dream
16 Hard Soul – Self Religion (Believe In Me)
17 Bopstaz at Work – Always Into Journey
18 DJ Gregory – Vasefa Argy Mix
19 Cooly G – Hard
20 Slisonic – Can U
21 Cooly G – Love Dub Refix
22 Dennis Ferrer – Touch the Sky
23 DJ Gregory – Attend 2
24 Frank Rodger – Nothing Feels the Same
25 Jovonn – New York City Banger
26 Iza Tonic – Full Eclipse

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“Yes Future”, 2009 by Jérémie Egry. via vvork.

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a late one. we can call this mix winter into spring. more space than usual. more fours.

wordthecat – winter to spring 2009 …44mins

tracklist

appleblim – over here (beat pharmacy remix)
stereotyp – keepin me (fauna flash remix)
monolake – cctv
carl craig & moritz von oswald – movement (C2 version)
lil w4yne – me and my dr4nk
hermanos borachas – cumbia del anniversario
chris watson – vatnajökull
untold – test signal
osunlade – april (break)
william basinski – disintegration loops 3.2
popol vuh – vuh
mark ashken – myndescreen wider (original mix)
bj nilsen & stilluppsteypa – heilir, thorn eirs hlyddu
animal hospital – good times