Neanderthal versus Seagull

qaStaH nuq?

That, I am told is Klingon for 'hey what's happening?'. I don't understand why they capitalise letters in the middle of words, but then again these are a race of people with foreheads that look like the folds of pastry in a cornish pasty. Klingons are not real, though you could be fooled for thinking otherwise these days. Neanderthals were once very real though, and this week it was revealed that the first Homo sapiens enjoyed Neanderthal meat....sort of disturbing, where is the line drawn with meat for most people? I think there is an increasing chain of unpalatability that goes something like this: Chicken, cow, horse, rat, dog, monkey, chimpanzee, neanderthal, human.

A few weeks ago Darragh asked myself and coLoUrS mOvE (yes, he is of Klingon descent) to put together two wee mixes for this blog. Colours Move did his stuff nicely, and if you scroll down the page it's there for download. I've finally got round to putting my own mix together. I'm off work sick you see, and I am hobbying the shit out of it. Mixtapes, songs, reading...good times all round. So anyways, here's my mix. I made it this morning and it's rough round the edges, but it's just a few good tunes that I think kind of work together.

I'm going to bullet point the tracks.

• The first track is by Moderat (Modeselektor and Apparat mutually masturbating), it's called A New Error and it's easily the best track on their recent album. It comes over all Boards of Canada at first before the big Berlin sound kicks in. The rest of the album is patchy to say the least; and a very poor cousin of the much more integrated work that Apparat did with Ellen Alien.

• The second track is Euphoria by Zomby. It's more bonkers than a bag of spiders at the Berlin love parade. I love this sound. That's all I am saying.

• Almost 20 years ago LFO released Frequencies on Warp. Have a listen to track three of my mix, Simon from Sydney, and tell me that the phuture aint the past bro!

• Track four is perhaps my favourite techno track of all time. A melancholy descent into the pulsing labyrinths of mongville with Ricardo Villalobos. The majestic Dexter. I could listen to this tune forever. How did he do it? I will never know, but it is the benchmark against which I compare all other techno.
  

• Track five is by Pink Floyd, Comfortably Numb. I'm not a huge fan of Pink Floyd, but I love this tune and it seems to be coming from the same beautiful anaesthesised place as Dexter. It was playing in the background when Christopher crashed his car in The Sopranos. Powerful stuff altogether as they say in Mayo.

• Gang Gang Dance, only got into these dudes recently. St Dymphna is savage stuff, this track (vacuum) is a pure My Bloody Valentine rip off, but it's forgivable because they are progressive and as far removed from insipid shoe-gaze revivalism as you can get. Tynchy Stryder does a nice collaboration with them.

• Finally, I only said, by My Bloody Valentine...sound like anything you just heard?

That's my mixtape. I enjoyed assembling it. I hope you guys enjoy listening to it. The link is below:

MP3 STORKBOY'S SAVAGE FUCKING MUSIC