compost mix 4: the clouds are piling up

Tweet This is the first continuous compost mix. The main reason it is continuous is because it is full of techno tracks that would have me busted in a second if I individually hosted them in dropbox. The secondary reason is that I wanted to create a mix with a feel (cold and plunging) without learning the sophisticated tricks of proper mixing.

Kingscourt brickworks in the early 90s. I found this cool pic on flickr

If compost mix 4 sounds too relentlessly techno, fear not. My next mix will be very pastoral and dreamy. Sure the last two tracks on this one are a clue.

MP3: Compost Mix 4 - The Clouds Are Piling Up

1: Mr Kirk's Nightmare - 4Hero

(Mr Kirk's son is dead. The news is broken over a mean breakbeat)

2: Morphosis - Too Far

(A cool thing that happens in Berghain sometimes is the portentous vocal that explains to everyone in the club that they are fucked up and have gone too far in their hedonism. The vocal normally gets the knowing cheer of the night or morning)

3: Silent Servant - Moral Divide (Endless) 

(This is a track off one of the Sandwell District producers' latest albums. It's completely representative of the current resurgence of 'proper techno'; i.e. it's beefy, completely melody free, and white label)

4: The Groove - Austin Cesear 

(Some American freak smoking skipfuls of dank and corroding his techno down to a fascinating toxic weirdness that you probably could not dance to. See also: Actress/ Vessel)

5: D'marc Cantu - The Power

(John From Solar Bears turned me on to this. It's just muscular, paganistic house. Pretty effin class)

6: Peter Van Hoesen- Nefertiti-Always Beyond

(If you own a pair of Beats by Dre headphones...)

7: Drexciya - Journey Home

(Kraftwerk had an Autobahn. Drexciya proposed an Aquabahn. This is a pitt-stop along the Aquabahn).

8: Robert Hood - Drive (The Age of Automation)

(The ghost in the machine - techno's love affair with the automobile continues)

9: Neu! - Negativland

(Winding down now with the first motorik song. I was wrong on what was actually the first motorik song until my friend Dan corrected me a couple of weeks ago)

10: Grateful Dead - Ripple

(None of their songs are catchy but this has so much love)