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Fresh monthly mixtape for February: sixteen tracks ideal for soundtracking activities such as i those have been participating in this month, including: writing sarcastic letters to government agencies, rediscovering a love for sushi, driving around at night a lot as usual, and admiring the redheaded hawtness of Christina Hendricks from TV's Mad Men.

1. Oliver Nelson — Stolen Moments (The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Impulse!, 1961)
2. Balanescu Quartet — Computer Love (Possessed, Mute, 1992)
3. The Mountain Goats — Standard Bitter Love Song #7 (Zopilote Machine, Ajax, 1994)
4. Tower of Power — Only So Much Oil in the Ground (Urban Renewal, Warner Bros., 1974)
5. Saul Williams — The Government (MP3 release, 2009)
6. Michael Krikorian — Animal Farm (excerpted from Liz Berg's WFMU show)
7. Philip Jeck — Chime Again (Sand, Touch, 2008)
8. ehafh — Caught in a Helix!! (unless you're busy stepping on bugs, Glitch City, 2009)
9. DJ Citalopram — Clean As You Go (The Poorhouse, Glitch City, 2009)
10. Desert Island Dicks — USC (Clearance Sale (forthcoming), Glitch City/Amoebic Industries, 2009)
11. Magic Lantern — At the Mountains of Madness (Magic Lantern, Woodsist, 2008)
* incorporating dialogue from Mad Men, S01E08 ("The Hobo Code")
12. Wendy Mae Chambers — When Johnny Comes Marching Home (7" single, Artmusic, 1983)
13. The Charioteers — Wade In the Water (from Gospel : Negro Spirituals / Gospel Songs 1926-1942, Frémeaux & Associés, 1993)
14. The Rock Steady Crew — (Hey You) The Rock Steady Crew (12" single, Virgin, 1983)
15. National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation — Rappin' With Gas (7" flexi, Sou, 1988)
* after hearing this record you will never cook with anything else.
16. Cheer-Accident — Heaven (Sever Roots, Tree Dies, Complacency, 1988)

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A Autechre
B Balanescu Quartet
C CM Von Hausswolff
D Dmitri Shostakovich
E Erik Satie
F Fennesz
G György Ligeti
H Hermann Kopp
I Ingrid Caven
J John Zorn
K Kraftwerk
L Luigi Nono
M Meri von Kleinsmid
N Nocturnal Emissions
O Organum
P Pan Sonic
Q Q.R. Ghazala
R Residents
S Severed Heads
T Troum
U Univers Zero
V Vladimir Ussachevsky
W Wim Mertens
X Xiu Xiu
Y Yasunao Tone
Z Z’EV
AutechreBalanescu QuartetCM Von HausswolffDmitri ShostakovichErik SatieFenneszGyörgy LigetiHermann Koppingrid cavenJohn ZornKraftwerkLuigi NonoMeri von KleinSmidNocturnal EmissionsOrganumPan SonicQ.R. GhazalaResidentsSevered HeadsTroumUnivers ZeroVladimir UssachevskyWim MertensXiu XiuYasunao ToneZ'EV

Marissa Nadler - The Saga Of Mayflower May
Magnetophone - The Man Who Ate the Man
Balanescu Quartet - Maria T
Blood on the Wall - Blood on the Wall
Living Things - Ahead of the Lions
We Are Scientists - With Love and Squalor
Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die
Timo Maas - Pictures
Lemon Jelly - '64 - '95
ADULT. - Gimme Trouble
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Amorphous Androgynous - Alice In Ultraland
of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
Sigur Ros - Takk
Alexander Hacke - Sanctuary
The Vera Violets - Sunshine Dust

Okay, so keystothecity and I were chatting at work today about the Southbank Meltdown festival, and who we would invite to perform if it was up to us. I'm assuming it goes on for 2 weeks, so that's 14 acts. Here's my dream line-up.

Julee Cruise and Angelo Badalamenti performing those two amazing albums they produced, turning the Southbank into Twin Peaks for the night.

Altered Images, I'd definitely get them to reform to perform some of my all time favourite pop songs.

I'd love to get the Pet Shop Boys and The Magnetic Fieldsto perform an evening of Stephen Sondheim songs with an army of guest vocalists and west end Wendys.

It's be super to get Kraftwerk to perform, but if they couldn't make it, maybe the Balanescu Quartet could perform their rather brilliant string quartet versions of those electro classics.

I'd love to see The Art of Noise perform Close to the Edit live. And imagine seeing Malcom McClaren with them, performing Madame Butterfly and Double Dutch. Amazing!

Luke Haines needs to be there with Black Box Recorder or The Auteurs, maybe both, I'm not fussy.

Imagine how great it would be to get some new wave stars out of retirement. I'm seeing an amazing double bill of Lene Lovich and Propaganda.

I want Richard X and Annie there, maybe with Kelis and Deborah Evans-Strickland from the Flying Lizards for some jerky electropop.

And we need The Beastie Boys to perform Hey Ladies and Body Movin'. Imagine that in the Festival Hall.

I think an all-star cast needs to sing the Kate Bush songbook, though I may need some suggestions as to who would do it best. I'm thinking Kathryn Williams and Mary Coughlan for starters.

Saint Etienne, those patron Saints of the Festival Hall, need to perform. I might confine them to a synths only nights, so they do all my faves like Lightning Strikes Twice, Heart Failed In the Back of a Taxi and B92.

There's no way it could happen without Laurie Anderson adding a bit of minimalist genius to the proceedings.

Le Tigre vs The Gossip, now that'd be fun!

And I know Morrissey had them at his Meltdown, but Sparks are such genius live, and I'd get them to perform all of Lil Beethoven, my favourite album of theirs.

I think that's it. I'd love it. It's maybe lacking a bit of noisy geetar action, some spoken word, but maybe in the foyer there's room for that.

Bloody hell, I'm knackered. Right, keystothecity, do your worst! Who's at your Meltdown, huh? Less electronic handclaps and orchestra hits, more banjos and viols I'm guessing...

Another one that could've beaten the Duracel bunny hands-down.

100 GREAT ALBUMS OF 1992!
Compiled at MAC.



The 25th of May - Lenin & McCarthy
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Annie Lennox - Diva
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Babes in Toyland - Fontanelle
The Balanescu Quartet - Possessed
Bauhaus - Rest in Peace: The Final Concert
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
The Chills - Soft Bomb
Chris Bell - I Am the Cosmos
Cracker - s/t
The Cure - Wish
Current 93 - Thunder Perfect Mind
Curve - Doppelgänger
Daisy Chainsaw - Eleventeen
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Das EFX - Dead Serious
Diamond D - Stunts, Blunts & Hip Hop
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Eddi Reader - Mirmama
Erasure - Abba-esque EP
Faith No More - Angel Dust
The Fall - Code: Selfish
The Family Cat - Furthest From The Sun
Fear Factory - Soul of a New Machine
The Flaming Lips - Hit to Death in the Future Head
Gang Starr - Daily Operation
Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience
Go West - Indian Summer
Heavenly - Le Jardin de Heavenly
Helmet - Meantime
House of Pain - House of Pain
Iris DeMent - Infamous Angel
James - Seven
The Jazz Butcher - Condition Blue
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Honey's Dead
The Jesus Lizard - Liar
Julian Cope - Jehovah Kill
King Crimson - The Great Deceiver: Live 1973-1974
L7 - Bricks are Heavy
Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray
Leonard Cohen - The Future
Los Lobos - Kiko
The Loud Family - Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things
Love Spirals Downwards - Idylls
Lush - Spooky
Lyle Lovett - Joshua Judges Ruth
The M25 Experience - Sunshine On Mars
Madness - Divine Madness
Madonna - Erotica
Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists
Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come On, Come On
Mega City Four - Sebastopol Road
Ministry - Psalm 69
Morphine - Good
Morrissey - Your Arsenal
Neil Young - Harvest Moon
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Henry's Dream
Nine Inch Nails - Broken EP
Opus III - Mind Fruit
The Orb - U.F. Orb
Orbital - Orbital II
Original Flavor - This Is How It Is
Pantera- Vulgar Display of Power
Paul Weller - Paul Weller
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - Mecca & The Soul Brother
The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
Phish - A Picture Of Nectar
Pop Will Eat Itself - The Looks Or The Lifestyle?
PJ Harvey - Dry
The Prodigy - Experience
Pulp - Seperations
Radical Dance Faction - Wastleland
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Ride - Going Blank Again
The Shamen - Boss Drum
Showbiz & A.G. - Runaway Slave
Skinny Puppy - Last Rights
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Spirea X - Fireblade Skies
Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies
Stereo MCs - Connected
Steve Roach & Robert Rich - Soma
Sugar - Copper Blue
The Sugarcubes - Stick Around For Joy
Suzanne Vega - 99.9 F°
Swans - Love of Life
T-Bone Burnett - The Criminal Under My Own Hat
Therapy? - Nurse
These Immortal Souls - I'm Never Gonna Die Again
They Might Be Giants - Apollo 18
Throwing Muses - Red Heaven
Tom Waits - Bone Machine
Tool - Opiate EP
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Wolfsheim - No Happy View
Young Fresh Fellows - It's Low Beat Time
The Young Gods - T.V. Sky

Thanks to everyone at the 1990's Hotdesk.

So, I was just walking across the street to get myself a cup of coffee, and the iPod shuffled up Still With Me from the Balanescu Quartet. Something about the slightly gloomy overcast weather combined with the music suddenly took me back to the summer of 1996 when I got to see the Balanescu Quartet play in a small tent next to the river in Kassel, Germany. IIRC, it was part of an arts festival going on that summer in Kassel. Anyway, it was a wonderful show, one of my highlights from my time in Germany.

I love when music does that little time machine thing to my brain.

1.Balanescu Quartet - Hanging Upside Down
2.Ada Milea - Doina
3.Gotan Project - Una musica brutal
4.Frank Zappa - Valley Girl
5.Sigur Ros - Mea Bloanasir
6.The Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning
7.The Dandy Warhols - Horse Pills
8.Antonin Dvorak - Scherzo Vivace [Serenade for Strings]
9.Pulp - Ansaphone
10.Amon Tobin - Creatures
11.Beach House - Childhood
12.Louis Armstrong - Stompin' at the Savoy
13.Coldplay - A Rush of Blood To the Head
14.La Rue Ketanou - Sur les chemins de la boheme
15.J.S.Bach - Suite No. 6 S.1012 Gavotte
15.Beth Orton - Worms
16.Regina Spektor - I Want to Sing
17.Underworld - Born Slippy
18.Red Hot Chili Peppers - Warm Tape
19.Mr Scruff - Travelogue
20.Dub Pistols - Running in a Cyclone
21.The Verve - Lucky Man
22.Erik Satie - Jack In The Box: Entracte
23.Medeski, Martin and Wood - Everyday People
24.Air - Empty House
25.Georges Brassens - La chasse aux papillons
26.Louis Armstrong - Shadrack
27.The Beatles - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
28.Thievery Corporation - Air Batucada
29.Dj Shadow - High Noon
30.Tom Waits - Heartattack and Wine
31.Goran Bregovic - Mesecina (Moonlight)
32.The Doors - When the Music's Over
33.Why? - Early Whitney
34.Les Negresses Vertes - Il
35.Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
36.Tom Waits - I'm Still Here
37.The Cardigans - Lovefool
38.Radiohead - Sail to the Moon
39.Sarmalele Reci - Sprit de vara
40.Sage Francis - Inherited Scars

01.Do you prefer #1 or #40?
Tough decision, but I guess I'll go with the poetic imagery, pain and self-destruction in deconstructing hip-hop in # 40.

02. Have you ever listened to #12 continuously on repeat?
No, but I did listen to the Django Rheinhardt version for quite some time. Then there's the Mr Scruff potpourri, quite a smashin' piece.

03. What album is #26 from?
Louis and the Goodbook, only the greatest King Louie album ever to tickle my ears.

04. What do you think about the artist who did #15?
This is her only solo song I know, but I know her work with the Chemical Brothers and I absolutely adore it, plus I find this song quite amazing.

05. Is #19 one of your favorite songs?
Nope, it's one of his songs I don't like all that much.

06. Who does #38 remind you of?
A friend who is so keen on Radiohead, he would give his left lung to go to a concert.

07. Does #20 have better lyrics or music?
Music, makes me all jumpy, happy and, eventually, I start looking like a whirlpool.

08. Do any of your friends like #3?
Well, yeah quite a few actually.

09. Is #33 from a movie soundtrack?
Nope, they're quite obscure. But # 31 and #37 are.

10. Is #18 overplayed on the radio?
It was a couple of years ago.

11. What does #21 remind you of?
My senior year in college on the Djs spot for the break music, also one of my deskmates.

12. Which song do you prefer, #5 or #22?
I'm not really keen on #22, it's music I work to, so it has to be #5, for Sigur Ros were my soundtrack to many a day.

13. What album is #17 from?
Trainspotting Soundtrack 1.

14. When did you first hear #39?
On TV, a long time ago.

15. When did you first hear #7?
When I first listened to a whole Dandy Warhols album, at a friend's.

16. What genre is #8?
Baroque music.

17. Do any of your friends like #14?
One does for sure, and I'm absolutely over the top with it.

18. What color does #4 remind you of?
Gaudy red.

19. Have you ever blasted #11 on your stereo?
No, but I drove my friends crazy with this particular lo-fi band.

20. What genre is #37?
I'll go with early indie/ pop/rock.

21. Can you play #13 on any instrument?
Nope. But I used to be able to play Melc-Melc-Codobelc on the guitar and Blowin' in the Wind on the blockflote.

22. What is your favorite lyric from #30?
"doctor lawyer beggar man thief,
philly joe remarkable looks on in disbelief,
if you want a taste of madness,
you'll have to wait in line,
you'll probably see someone you know
die on heartattack and vine."
"Don't you know there ain't no devil,
There's just god when he's drunk"
Love this song, but it gets me really down.

23. What is your favorite lyric from #23?
'T has no lyrics, but my fav lyrics from #25 are:
"Un bon petit diable à la fleur de l'âge,
La jambe légère et l'oeil polisson,
Et la bouche plein' de joyeux ramages,
Allait à la chasse aux papillons."

24. Would you recommend #24 to your friends?
Yeah, if they want to get hooked on sth.

25. Is #2 a good song to dance to?
Whatever mirrah said. Can't wait to take pictures.

26. Do you ever hear #16 on the radio?
Nope. But her new [commercial, lamer] album has been making quite a fuss.Ugh.

27. Is #32 more of a "nighttime" or "daytime" song?
Well it says "when the music's over, turn out the lights...", that could only make you arrive to the conclusion that it's....... [fill in the blanks].

28. Does #36 have any special meaning to you?
It reminds me of a past relationship that tore me to pieces.

29. Do any of your friends like #31?
What's this with my friends liking it? How abt meself? My cat? Well, my cat is nuts abt it, doing some weird cat-and-mouse waltz to it.

30. Is #25 a fast or slow song?
Fast, but with a slow meaning and amazing lyrics if you pay attention.

31. Is #35 a happy or sad song?
Well, it's the "best let's-get-it-on song ever written", mutually agreed on by me and a really good friend. But it's got the unattainable Cohen sad,smug,end of the world vibe.

32. What is one of your favorite lyrics from #9?
"But I don't want to cry
Or talk for hours to a machine
On the end of a telephone line"
This song kills and brings about the worst trips ever.

33. Is #34 better to listen to alone or with friends?
Both. Still depressing.

34. When did you first hear #27?
Errr...when I was 3 or so... But didn't get to completely adore it until I turned 12-13, understood it completely at 14.

35. Name 3 other songs by the artist who did #29?
Personal favs: Long Stem, Dj Shadow & Cut Chemist - Product Placement Side A & B, Dj Shadow and Cut Chemist - Rare Equations.

36. Do you know all the words to #6?
Yes. I also sing them in the shower.

37. Does #28 have better lyrics or music?
No lyrics. Nice music tho'.

38. What album is #10 from?
Bricolage.
Balanescu QuartetAda MileaGotan ProjectFrank ZappaSigur RosThe Velvet UndergrounfThe Velvet UndergroundThe Dandy WarholsAntonin DvorakPulpAmon TobinBeach HouseLouis ArmstrongColdplayLa Rue KetanouJ.S. BachBeth OrtonRegina SpektorUnderworldRed Hot Chili PeppersMr ScruffMr ScruffDub PistolsThe VerveErik SatieMedeski, Martin & WoodAirGeorges BrassensThe BeatlesThievery CorporationTom WaitsGoran BregovicThe DoorsWHY?Les Negresses VertesLeonard CohenThe CardigansRadioheadSarmalele ReciSage Francis

Indie Rock & Indie Electronica

Lali Puna - I Thought I Was Over That: Rare, Remixed And B-Sides [Morr Music]
Sébastien Schuller - Happiness [Catalogue]
Gravenhurst - Fires In Distant Buildings [Warp]
Broadcast - Tender Buttons [Warp]
Maxïmo Park - Missing Songs [Warp]
Maxïmo Park - A Certain Trigger [Warp]
The Coral - Invisible Invasion [Sony]
Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die [Bar/None]
Sigur Rós - Takk... [Geffen]
Roisin Murphy - Ruby Blue [Echo UK]
The Bravery - The Bravery [Island]
The Shortwave Set - The Debt Collection [Independiente]
Editors - The Back Room [Kitchenware]
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better [Sony]
We Are Scientists - With Love and Squalor [Virgin]
Archer Prewitt - Wilderness [Thrill Jockey]
Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness [Leaf]
Arap Strap - The Last Romance [Transdreamer]
Decemberists - Picaresque [Rough Trade]
Death Cab for Cutie - Plans [Atlantic]
British Sea Power - Open Season [Rough Trade]
Richard Hawley - Coles Corner [Mute]
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene [Arts&Craft]
Compilation - Late Night Tales: Flaming Lips


Electronica & IDM

Matias Aguayo - Are You Really Lost [Kompakt]
URBS - Toujours Le Même Film... [G-Stone]
Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase [Warp]
Jackson and His Computer Band - Smash [Warp]
The Black Dog - Silenced [Dust Science]
Modeselektor - Hello Mom! [Bpitch Control]
AFX - Analord 4 [Rephlex]
Prefuse 73 - Read The Books E.P. [Warp]
Harmonic 33 - Music for Film Television and Radio Vol.1 [Warp]
Kelley Polar - Love Songs of Hanging Gardens [Environ]
Jan Jelinek - Kosmischer Pitch [~scape]
Tosca - J.A.C. [!K7]
Brian Eno - Another Day On Earth [Hannibal]
Justus Köhncke - Doppelleben [Kompakt]
Ezekiel Honig & Morgan Packard - Early Morning Migration [Microcosm]
Biosphere - Dropsonde [Touch]
Infantjoy - Where The Night Goes [ Sony BMG]
Isolée - We are Monster [Playhouse]
Ellen Allien - Thrills [Bpitch Control]
Röyksopp - The Understanding [EMI]
Scanner - The Radiance of A Thousand Suns Burst Forth At Once [Steamin' Soundworks]
Apparat - Silizium EP [Shitkatapult]
Murcof - Remembranza [Leaf]
Monolake - Polygon Cities [Monolake]
Nitin Sawhney - Philtre [V2]
The Orb - Okie Dokie It's The Orb On Kompakt [Kompakt]
Jamie Lidell - Multiply [Warp]
Ark - Caliente [Perlon]
Ricardo Villalobos - Achso [Cadenza]

Alternative Rap
DANGERDOOM - Mouse and The Mask [Epitaph]
Gorillaz - Demon Days [Parlophone]

Afro Pop
Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche à Bamako [Nonesuch]


Modern Classic
Balanescu Quartet - Maria T [Mute]

Soundtrack
Yann Tiersen - Les Retrouvailles [Virgin]
Massive Attack - Danny The Dog [EMI]
Compilation - Broken Flowers: Music From The Film [Decca]