Count Zer0 - All Purpose Beats Since 1996

no, really, it’s not. these guys posted a supposed “todd terje re-kutt” of a moodymann track that’s exactly the same as the original (and originally mislabeled) moodymann track. more later.

Last August I recorded my first two hour Essential Mix style DJ set, and posted it on my website.  This year I wanted to do something similar, but instead of culling tracks from my many years of DJing, and to coincide with my recent top 60, I decided to limit my selection to cuts released in the first half of the year.  So, as promised, here’s the tracklist for my latest long form mix.  You can listen by streaming in the player in the sidebar, or download a higher bitrate version below.

Track #. ARTIST - TITLE - LABEL - DATE REL.
01. Raiders of the Lost Arp - Beyond the Dark - Nature Records - 5/19/2008
02. Dj Minx - Crack’d House - Women On Wax Recordings - 6/17/2008
03. Raiders Of The Lost Arp - Submarine Theme - Nature Records - 5/19/2008
04. Dazzle Drums - Elem (Kiko Navarro Reprise Mix) - Centric Music - 1/8/2008
05. Andrew Grant - Harriet Lane - Plastic City - 4/1/2008
06. Andrew Grant - Molly - Plastic City - 4/1/2008
07. Los Hermanos - Message Of Hope - Submerge Recordings - 1/1/2008
08. Henrik Schwarz Feat Amampondo - I Exist Because Of You - Innervisions - 4/21/2008
09. Foo Foo - Drummo - Yoke Recordings - 1/8/2008
10. Perc - Bumble’s Collar - Stolen Moments - 5/14/2008
11. Cassy - Poem - Uzuri Recordings - 4/28/2008
12. Hakim Murphy - Wiggles - Metamorphic Recordings - 3/3/2008
13. Unphixt - Siva (Killer K Mix) - K Alexi Digital - 5/13/2008
14. Layo & Bushwacka - Things Change (Deep Mix) - Olmeto Records - 4/14/2008
15. Milton Jackson - Andorms - Tronicsole - 4/16/2008
16. Williams - Unbearable Truth - Get Physical Music - 2/25/2008
17. Steadycam - Get On Up There - Kompakt Extra - 3/10/2008
18. Edwin Starr - Contact (Hypno Edit) - Unreleased - 4/13/2008
19. John Tejada - La Mer - Palette Recordings - 6/30/2008
20. Markus Enochson - These Won’t Put Me Down (Markus Enochson & The Subliminal Kid Mix) - Miso - 6/16/2008
21. Ian Pooley - What I Got - Ministry Of Sound Germany - 6/13/2008
22. Nate Manic - It’s Never Easy (Manic’s Brown Note Re Rub) - Bad Advice Inc. - 3/27/2008
23. Fabrice Lig as Soul Designer - Molecular Song - Third Ear - 6/27/2008
24. Ian Pooley - It’s You - Ministry Of Sound Germany - 6/13/2008
25. Quentin Harris - Can’t Stop (Feat. Jason Walker) - Strictly Rhythm - 4/14/2008
26. Shawn Rudiman - Hard Shit - Unreleased - na
27. Luke Dzierzek - Unleash - Fling Recordings - 4/28/2008

BPM averages around 127, I think, which is a little higher tempo than what I’ve been doing recently, but I think it fits this mix.  Download here and let me know what you think!

Here’s the final third of my top 60 for the long since finished first half of the year (January - June) (here’s part 1 and part 2.  In the music player on the sidebar of the blog you can find a low-bitrate streaming mix of 26 of the 60 tracks and a bonus unreleased Shawn Rudiman track! Some of the others wound up on previous mixes from earlier this year.

behind the cut…  (more…)

do i love them because they’re exactly like me, or i am exactly like them because i love them?

chicken. egg. lather. rinse. repeat.

Picking up with April, where Part One left off, behind the cut you can find the next 20 in top 60 tracks from the first half of the year.

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This post is long overdue. It’s part one of a three part series of my top 60 tracks for the first six months of this year. As it turns out, there aren’t exactly ten tracks per month, but that’s not really important. What follows is the first 20 of my favorite cuts of the year, with Discogs and MySpace links for each track. I solicited commentary from the artists via MySpace, about a third of them answered even after I gave everybody a couple weeks to reply.  The list is in chronological order by release date behind the cut, the format of each entry is as follows:

Artist - Title - Label - Release Date  (Linked to Discogs entry)

Link to artist’s MySpace profile

Comment by artist

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I’m a little worried now about my planned interview because nothing I can write will ever be as illuminating as this article, one of the best that I’ve ever read about Genesis P-Orridge.

So a couple weeks ago I ran into Genesis P-Orridge near Union Square.  S/he and I had a brief chat, we agreed to an interview in the near future, and s/he told me there’s a new Psychic TV album due out in October.  “Our best album yet” she said (though I don’t really know how anything can top Dreams Less Sweet) it’s titled:

MR ALIEN BRAIN versus THEE SKINWALKERS

“The majority of tracks were recorded in Philadelphia in May 2008 LIVE for “WORLD CAFE” a program on NPR (National Public Radio).

The track listing is:

1. A THIN GARDEN
2. NO GOOD TRYING ( cover of SYD BARRETT song)
3. TRUSSED
4. THEE ALIEN BRAIN
5. PAPAL BREAKDANCE (definitive version)
6. HAY HAY HAY (Pickles And Jam)
7. FOGGY NOTION ( cover of Velvet Underground song)
8. I’M MAKING A MIRROR ( Lady Jaye’s song/poem for Genesis)
9. NEW YORK STORY ( Michael Gira mix)
10. I LOVE YOU…I KNOW

Tracks 2;3;4;5;6;and 7 were recorded direct to “tape” at NPR Studios. There are NO overdubs, no remixing. What you hear is what we played. PTV3 had not played together for 6 months. Basically not since Lady Jaye dropped her body on October 9th 2007. We had ONE short, one hour rehearsal the night before. Then went in and played our hearts and souls out for Lady Jaye. We are amazed how sensitive and exact the breaks and textures are considering we were relying totally on our instinct in the moment.

This album is, of course, dedicated to LADY JAYE BREYER P-ORRIDGE.

S/he is (STILL) her/e.

For the realisation of this project Psychic TV/PTV3 were:-

Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge - Vocals, percussion, samples.
Edley ODowd - drums, noise bass and percussion
Hanna Haddix - samples and percussion
Marrkus Aurelius Cirkus Maximus Fabulous Perrson - Keyboards
David XXX Maxxx - Lead Guitars and vocals
Alice Genese - Bass Guitar and vocals
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge - Noise Bass, vocals and percussion

A BREYER P-ORRIDGE/EDWARD ODOWD HYPERDELIC PRODUCTION.
Mastered by BRYIN DALL and GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE at Waxy Yellow Build Up Studios, New York July 2008.
Recorded live at “WORLD CAFE”, National Public Radio, Philadelphia May 2008 and at GALAPAGOS Arts Space, Brooklyn, New York 2007.

This album is lovingly dedicated to LADY JAYE BREYER P-ORRIDGE 1969-2007.”

I kind of can’t wait to hear the album. Here’s a link to the original NPR piece the album was recorded for.

Is Yoke Recordings a beatport only joke label? I was trying to find information just now on the artist known as Foo Foo, whose cut “Drummo” is one of my top 60 favorites from the first half of the year, and came up with very little via Google. One of the few results was the Beatport link above. I started looking at some of the artist names, like King of Kiev, Clapsaddle, and Nivek Tsoy, and realized that last one is Kevin Yost backwards. Huh. None of the other artists have discogs entries, so is this some sort of yoke joke? Perhaps a way for Yost to quietly try his hand at the mnml trend without blatantly selling out his deep house roots?  Not that there’s any sell-out going on, really, because there’s enough of a crossover between mnml and deep house that the transition works, the way I see it at least.

In 1996 the NE-RAVES mailing list - hosted at seminal US rave info portal Hyperreal - threw its first list party, Mosaic (link for archival info and photos). The lineup consisted entirely of list member talent, filling two rooms at Lonnie Fisher’s now historic Raza space. Though the party was a turning point in many ways, some good, some bad, it is to this day referenced as one of the most intensely positive vibes of any party in the US to date.  People shared a number of great mixtapes that night, including a fantastic D&B tape from Method One, a killer house and acid techno tape from Craig D, and many others. I’m posting one today in the spirit of sharing and because I desperately need a tracklisting. Dan Curtin’s wife Sista Spinsta (pictured above, at Mosaic) handed out her 60 minute mix The Dame on the Decks, Vol. 2. Enjoy, and please comment here with any track IDs!

I recently found a box full of tapes from ‘94-’98 and I’ll post more as I encode them.