tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70677366745489980162024-03-13T03:40:21.125-07:00MixamorphosisA personal music blog where I will share my own DJ mixes and promote some of the music I love.Mixamorphosishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10606702657490975872noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067736674548998016.post-23035788257447650512024-02-21T06:27:00.000-08:002024-02-21T06:27:20.887-08:00Thematic #01<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYZYI7fvmLsTh6G67WTVKiDUHoIu6oZ-PNm7Tu3gLi32T5ZeimZWTCbFLueiOAXXX4-2Zolsj_0fIOvl66kZitYyDC3Pwi915Ucxnyf6hhQN9QKaT6yYESy_akO-cRsXlvA_gI6baKadke-DXB1P3YSdBmPC3Wu-_J_nMJMAGG7vxhPDlewc1H-zShutCX/s1400/IMG_0287(1)(1).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1400" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYZYI7fvmLsTh6G67WTVKiDUHoIu6oZ-PNm7Tu3gLi32T5ZeimZWTCbFLueiOAXXX4-2Zolsj_0fIOvl66kZitYyDC3Pwi915Ucxnyf6hhQN9QKaT6yYESy_akO-cRsXlvA_gI6baKadke-DXB1P3YSdBmPC3Wu-_J_nMJMAGG7vxhPDlewc1H-zShutCX/w640-h640/IMG_0287(1)(1).jpeg" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I've tried a couple of different ways to put selections up that don't put any weight on the mix aspect and lean entirely into sharing great music that a lot of people might not otherwise encounter; this is true at least where I grew up and spent most of my life. The musical palate in Aberdeen in the 1980's was pretty limited, it improved marginally in the 1990's but mostly due to rave culture that swept through the UK in that era, but it was never a hotbed of variety or diversity in the North East of Scotland. Things have changed quite a bit since then in the faces you see and voices you hear on the street, but I couldn't say if it's broadened the culture or not, I'm not in the town very often these days but you'd have to hope it would enhance the range of options available.<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Anyway, I always liked dipping into things I was never exposed to, I used the public libraries and mail order through magazines and newspapers and these Thematic selections are really geared towards that line of thought from my younger days. Sometimes they will be considered quite commercial to someone who may have grown up in a very diverse area, but not everyone did, and perhaps many haven't explored music outwith narrow parameters, so perhaps these will bring something to the table in that regard.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I'm not sure why I've felt uneasy at sharing these in recent years, perhaps because of the lack of interest or feedback. I have actually had them hidden from public view for the most part since they were done in 2016. Although there's no focus on mixing, I do still try to create a nice flow so that the tracks sit well together. This one leans into funk and disco though not in the most commercial sense, there's a definite 'world music' vibe through this selection. Anyway, enough words, the music is where it's at and you can decide yourself how it flows and where it sits in terms of the genres. I'll link up to where you'll be able to easily grab the tracks for your own collection.<br /></p><p> </p><p></p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1000265287&color=%23a49875&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=false" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="mixamorphosis">mixamorphosis</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis/thematic-01" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Thematic 01">Thematic 01</a></div><p> </p><p><b><u>Tracklist</u></b> </p><p>01. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1058305-Jeremy-Underground-Beauty-A-Journey-Through-Jeremy-Undergrounds-Collection" target="_blank">Ron Rinaldi - Mexican Summer (Spacetalk)</a><br />02. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1031316-Various-Surinam-Funk-Force" target="_blank">Jam Band '80 - Jammin' (With The Jam Band) (Rush Hour Music)</a><br />03. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/6663791-Various-Balearic-Blah-Blah-005" target="_blank">Sunset Gun - Be Thankful For What You Got (Thanks But No Thanks Edit) (Balearic Blah Blah)</a><br />04. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/876871-Carrie-Cleveland-Looking-Up" target="_blank">Carrie Cleveland - Love Will Set You Free (Kalita)</a><br />05. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/725962-Nana-Love-Disco-Documentary-Full-Of-Funk" target="_blank">Nana Love - Love Feeling (Dance Mix) (BBE)</a><br />06. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/470779-Rob-Make-It-Fast-Make-It-Slow" target="_blank">Rob - Make It Fast, Make It Slow (Soundway)</a><br />07. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/138144-Baby-Huey-The-Baby-Huey-Story-The-Living-Legend" target="_blank">Baby Huey - California Dreamin' (Curtom)</a><br />08. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/209707-Experience-Unlimited-Free-Yourself" target="_blank">Experience Unlimited - Functus (Black Fire)</a><br />09. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/66631-Marvin-Gaye-Whats-Going-On" target="_blank">Marvin Gaye - Right On (Tamla)</a><br />10. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/907249-Jeff-Floyd-Best-Of-Friends-Dont-Leave-Me" target="_blank">Jeff Floyd - Don't Leave Me (City Of Dreams)</a><br />11.<a href="https://tooslowtodisco.bandcamp.com/album/the-ladies-of-too-slow-to-disco" target="_blank"> Jaye P. Morgan - Let's Get Together (How Do You Are?)</a><br />12. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/349455-Reuben-Wilson-And-The-Cost-Of-Living-Got-To-Get-Your-Own" target="_blank">Reuben Wilson & The Cost Of Living - Together (Cadet)</a><br />13. <a href="https://lengrecords.bandcamp.com/album/psychemagik-presents-magik-sunset-part-2" target="_blank">Frederic Castel - Open Up (Leng)</a><br />14. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/827834-Billy-Paul-Bring-The-Family-Back" target="_blank">Billy Paul - It's Critical (12" Version) (Philadelphia International Records)</a><br />15. <a href="https://soundwayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/doing-it-in-lagos" target="_blank">Oby Onyioha - Enjoy Your Life (Soundway Records)</a><br />16. <a href="https://spaziale-recordings.bandcamp.com/album/john-ozila-funky-boogie" target="_blank">John Ozila - Funky Boogie (Spaziale)</a><br />17. <a href="https://strut.bandcamp.com/album/afro-rock-vol-1" target="_blank">Bokoor Band - Onukpa Shawarpo (Strut)</a><br />18. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/122574-Roy-Ayers-Africa-Center-Of-The-World" target="_blank">Roy Ayers - Africa, Centre Of The World (pitched up) (Polydor)</a><br />19. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/931342-B-B-Seaton-Dancing-In-The-Moonlight" target="_blank">BB Seaton - Dancing In The Moonlight (Studio One)</a><br /></p><p> </p><p>Download available via <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/thematic-01/" target="_blank">Hearthis</a></p><p> </p><p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" allowtransparency="" frameborder="0" height="150" id="hearthis_at_track_10830192" scrolling="no" src="https://app.hearthis.at/embed/10830192/transparent_black/?hcolor=&color=&style=2&block_size=2&block_space=1&background=1&waveform=0&cover=0&autoplay=0&css=" width="100%"><p>Listen to <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/thematic-01/" target="_blank">Thematic 01</a> <span>by</span><a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/" target="_blank" >Mixamorphosis</a> <span>on</span> <a href="https://hearthis.at/" target="_blank">hearthis.at</a></p></iframe> </p><p> </p>Mark Mcleodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727319448748090505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067736674548998016.post-12852750499718779672024-02-21T03:46:00.000-08:002024-02-21T03:46:27.810-08:00Dusk Dubs Selection - DD0305<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsezNRIaEN0x74i7-2g4XoSwMwWcIIT0dOH3UWW1rLuIotO-ciDgGL9qQ0pW9IEFwVrhE6N8o5l1qfNcD4-doGU8C2QsoVcCbvCnnsVTz-pIf5gbW835JUHatwRBLOPJDh4DTDKGG6arOPGKU_FeETnW0oU0RjXwd5iDtL1QCAk-lduBzyOmv7G7bSdvNl/s1920/Dusk%20Dubs%20Guest%20Mix.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsezNRIaEN0x74i7-2g4XoSwMwWcIIT0dOH3UWW1rLuIotO-ciDgGL9qQ0pW9IEFwVrhE6N8o5l1qfNcD4-doGU8C2QsoVcCbvCnnsVTz-pIf5gbW835JUHatwRBLOPJDh4DTDKGG6arOPGKU_FeETnW0oU0RjXwd5iDtL1QCAk-lduBzyOmv7G7bSdvNl/w640-h640/Dusk%20Dubs%20Guest%20Mix.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Dusk Dubs was a podcast series, in a similar vein to the Back To Mine series. My contribution is from back in 2015. There were so many great names contributing to this series, I'm not sure how my name managed to be put in as an option, but it was and I was really happy to be a part of it. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The brief was to provide tracks that meant something to me for some reason or another, to write a little about each track and the guys would segue the tracks together. Or as they put it to me, no mixing, just letting the tracks breathe. As is often the case with these things, I'm not sure everyone followed the brief... I know from my dealings with Box Frequency FM that even the simplest of guides, like time limits to mixes, were often not followed very well. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Sadly, Dusk Dubs is no more, and the website is down too, otherwise I'd have shared some links and the writing I contributed with my tracklist. The tracks each have a meaning to me in one way or another though, and as mentioned, this isn't about mixing (and it wasn't me doing that part in any case). The final aspect was providing an image to use as a cover for my show and I opted to use one from a bike trip I had been on and this is of Glen Coe in the Scottish Highlands.</p><p><br /></p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/930150694&color=%235c7478&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=false" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="mixamorphosis">mixamorphosis</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis/dd0305-dusk-dubs-guest-selection-2015" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="DD0305 - Dusk Dubs Guest Selection (2015)">DD0305 - Dusk Dubs Guest Selection (2015)</a></div><p> </p><p><b><u>Tracklist</u></b> </p><p>01. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/173462-Ella-Fitzgerald-And-Louis-Armstrong-Ella-And-Louis" target="_blank">Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Moonlight In Vermont (Wax Time / Verve)</a><br />02. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/92867-Bill-Withers-Just-As-I-Am" target="_blank">Bill Withers - Hope She’ll Be Happier With Him (Sussex)</a><br />03. <a href="https://bj-smith.bandcamp.com/album/between-ship-and-shore-part-one" target="_blank">B.J. Smith - We Can Sail (NuNorthern Soul)</a><br />04. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/122261-Nina-Simone-Nina-Simone-Sings-The-Blues" target="_blank">Nina Simone - Do I Move You? (RCA)</a><br />05. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/78395-James-Brown-King-Heroin" target="_blank">James Brown - King Heroin (Polydor)</a><br />06. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/13924-Nick-Drake-Five-Leaves-Left" target="_blank">Nick Drake - Saturday Sun (Island Records)</a><br />07. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/301423-Nilsson-Aerial-Ballet" target="_blank">Harry Nilsson - Everybody’s Talking (RCA Victor)</a><br />08. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/484276-Jellybread-First-Slice" target="_blank">Jellybread - I Pity The Fool (Blue Horizon)</a><br />09. <a href="https://fatfreddysdrop.bandcamp.com/track/hope-for-a-generation" target="_blank">Fat Freddy’s Drop - Hope (The Drop)</a><br />10. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/32634-Massive-Attack-Protection" target="_blank">Massive Attack - Better Things (Virgin)</a><br />11. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/132468-Gwen-Mc-Crae-Gwen-Mc-Crae" target="_blank">Gwen McCrae - 90% Of Me Is You (RCA Victor)</a><br />12. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/201043-Lani-Hall-Sun-Down-Lady" target="_blank">Lani Hall - Love Song (A&M Records)</a><br />13. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/274302-Junip-Fields" target="_blank">Junip - Without You (City Slang)</a><br />14. <a href="https://suzannekraft.bandcamp.com/album/talk-from-home" target="_blank">Suzanne Kraft - Flatiron (Melody As Truth)</a><br />15. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/9332-Kings-Of-Convenience-Riot-On-An-Empty-Street" target="_blank">Kings Of Convenience - Misread (Source / Virgin)</a><br />16. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/133279-The-Detroit-Experiment-The-Detroit-Experiment" target="_blank">The Detroit Experiment - Highest (Ropeadope Records)</a><br />17. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/95292-The-Doobie-Brothers-Takin-It-To-The-Streets" target="_blank">The Doobie Brothers - Losin’ End (Warner Bros. Records)</a><br />18. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/118213-Christian-Prommers-Drumlesson-Drum-Lesson-Vol-1" target="_blank">Christian Prommer’s Drumlesson - Plastic Dreams(Sonar Kollektiv)</a><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Download via <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/dd0305-dusk-dubs-mixamorphosis/328/" target="_blank">Hearthis</a></p><p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" allowtransparency="" frameborder="0" height="150" id="hearthis_at_track_10824850" scrolling="no" src="https://app.hearthis.at/embed/10824850/transparent_black/?hcolor=&color=&style=2&block_size=2&block_space=1&background=1&waveform=0&cover=0&autoplay=0&css=" width="100%"><p>Listen to <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/dd0305-dusk-dubs-mixamorphosis/" target="_blank">DD0305 Dusk Dubs - Mixamorphosis</a> <span>by</span><a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/" target="_blank" >Mixamorphosis</a> <span>on</span> <a href="https://hearthis.at/" target="_blank">hearthis.at</a></p></iframe> </p><p> </p>Mark Mcleodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727319448748090505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067736674548998016.post-46447960084535623172024-02-20T04:44:00.000-08:002024-02-20T04:44:47.544-08:00Reflect - Guest Mix for Corsica One<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhidwrN9vSluEEVWRJRIbzeZKDyNjbwz1hdL1B5606PDcrweQTGycBKVBQ1BmWgA-fOVVY2E2vvAO2kYaa6iLrC9PPG0dkSmKMfBbaZpak4RPdQI2krf4hOzNpJTH1j6aNho2VmxG491ibeq7HTC6wDAIz8XQhJ3m2KQnzNnVl_0PjTs77JWsJK2ThAuGC5/s1932/Reflect.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1932" data-original-width="1932" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhidwrN9vSluEEVWRJRIbzeZKDyNjbwz1hdL1B5606PDcrweQTGycBKVBQ1BmWgA-fOVVY2E2vvAO2kYaa6iLrC9PPG0dkSmKMfBbaZpak4RPdQI2krf4hOzNpJTH1j6aNho2VmxG491ibeq7HTC6wDAIz8XQhJ3m2KQnzNnVl_0PjTs77JWsJK2ThAuGC5/w640-h640/Reflect.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This one comes from back in 2021. It had been a good couple of years since I'd been asked to do any guest mixes, and it was always something that gave me a bit of a thrill. Putting mixes together has been a big part of my life, but only in the sense of being a hobby I've loved through the years. At one point I wanted it to be more than that, but opportunity only knocked a couple of times and it was the right opportunities, nor the right times, so a hobby it has remained. Being asked to do a guest mix though, it's nice because it gives me the feeling like someone else has actually enjoyed the selections and stitching together of tracks, and who doesn't like to feel they're doing something they enjoy but getting it right in the sense others do too. That feeling has been few and far between, so when Alessio of <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/corsica-one/" target="_blank">Corsica One</a> asked me to put something together for him to host on Mixcloud, of course I was happy to get on the case. As it stands, this was the last guest mix I put together for anyone, so maybe I'm not getting it quite right for others after all... but it's right for me and I'll go with that 🙃<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">This mix straddles the ambient / electronica sphere, sounds like I've grown to love more as I have explored the genres over time. I'm not altogether content with the cover image but I've opted to leave it as it is. The photo is one I took during my bike trip to Europe in 2019 and is from a few days I spent in Vienna, Austria where I managed to take in a gig with José González.</p><p> </p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1136502946&color=%2365b0bd&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=false" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="mixamorphosis">mixamorphosis</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis/reflect-corsica-one-guest-mix" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Reflect - Corsica One Guest Mix">Reflect - Corsica One Guest Mix</a></div><p> </p><p><b><u>Tracklist</u></b></p><p>01. <a href="https://biosphere.bandcamp.com/album/dropsonde-reissue-with-bonus-album" target="_blank">Biosphere - From A Solid To A Liquid (Biophon)</a><br />02. <a href="https://tigersushirecords.bandcamp.com/album/musique-ambiante-fran-aise-vol-1" target="_blank">Cosmic Neman - ProximaB (Tigersushi)</a><br />03. <a href="https://music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/album/virtual-dreams-ambient-explorations-in-the-house-techno-age-1993-1997-2" target="_blank">Sun Electric - Love 2 Love (Music From Memory)</a><br />04. <a href="https://jojohnson.bandcamp.com/album/knowledge-of-the-possible" target="_blank">Jo Johnson - Discontent Arises From A Knowledge Of The Possible (Self Released)</a><br />05. <a href="https://paulineannastrom.bandcamp.com/album/angel-tears-in-sunlight" target="_blank">Pauline Anna Strom - The Eighteen Beautiful Memories (RVNG Intl.)</a><br />06. <a href="https://soundstory.bandcamp.com/album/field-recordings" target="_blank">Soundstory - Rainstorm (Self Release)</a><br />07. <a href="https://tigersushirecords.bandcamp.com/album/musique-ambiante-fran-aise-vol-1" target="_blank">Etienne Jaumet - Orage Dans Le Creuse (Tigersushi)</a><br />08. <a href="https://fitoussi-hourriere.bandcamp.com/album/jonathan-fitoussi-and-clemens-hourri-re-five-steps-verlp030" target="_blank">Jonathan Fitoussi & Clemens Hourriére - Five Steps (Versatile)</a><br />09. <a href="https://carbonbasedlifeforms.bandcamp.com/album/alt-02" target="_blank">Carbon Based Lifeforms - Dreamshore Forest (Analog Remake) (Leftfield Records)</a><br />10. <a href="https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/unreleased-works-1994-1999-volumes-1-2" target="_blank">James Bernard - UWA10 (A Strangely Isolated Place)</a><br />11. <a href="https://masayoshifujiitajanjelinek.bandcamp.com/album/bird-lake-objects" target="_blank">Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek - Workshop For Modernity (Faitiche)</a><br />12. <a href="https://music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/album/virtual-dreams-ambient-explorations-in-the-house-techno-age-1993-1997-digital-version" target="_blank">David Moufang - Sergio Leone's Wet Dream (Music From Memory)</a></p><p> </p><p>Download available via <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/reflect-corsica-one-guest-mix/" target="_blank">Hearthis</a></p><p><br /></p><p>
</p><p></p><p><iframe allow="autoplay" allowtransparency="" frameborder="0" height="150" id="hearthis_at_track_10822554" scrolling="no" src="https://app.hearthis.at/embed/10822554/transparent_black/?hcolor=&color=&style=2&block_size=2&block_space=1&background=1&waveform=0&cover=0&autoplay=0&css=" width="100%"><p>Listen to <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/reflect-corsica-one-guest-mix/" target="_blank">Reflect - Corsica One Guest Mix</a> <span>by</span><a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/" target="_blank" >Mixamorphosis</a> <span>on</span> <a href="https://hearthis.at/" target="_blank">hearthis.at</a></p></iframe></p><p><br /></p><p> </p>Mark Mcleodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727319448748090505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067736674548998016.post-1475725890832476242024-02-19T08:16:00.000-08:002024-02-19T08:40:13.049-08:00Restore The Soul<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio4AIXCMoX_9T8QeotlwdbsYUcVo8ne5wZ_Iv_FkmPA5D2NFieehOrbrQxvnGoxTfKy938pEeh6HxD804j8M2zxiy5zaPn2qUfSRj5Q5_pIopvO__nnEL8HZe2VQeAGF3K4jdiauddvIgTWCuuG1OI_ncUZMCuVsb2nPAIi6sImjQLRAJQ3-Ooz78GYYJI/s1024/Restore%20The%20Soul%20(Updated).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio4AIXCMoX_9T8QeotlwdbsYUcVo8ne5wZ_Iv_FkmPA5D2NFieehOrbrQxvnGoxTfKy938pEeh6HxD804j8M2zxiy5zaPn2qUfSRj5Q5_pIopvO__nnEL8HZe2VQeAGF3K4jdiauddvIgTWCuuG1OI_ncUZMCuVsb2nPAIi6sImjQLRAJQ3-Ooz78GYYJI/w640-h640/Restore%20The%20Soul%20(Updated).jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I've been out of action the last week or so, but slowly getting back into things and what better way to do it than sharing a mix that was put together in the spirit, and (I think) with the feeling of restoring the soul. There's no real back story, I put the mix together following a period where I wasn't doing too great and the music within feels like it connects to healing and rebuilding, or at least to my ears and mind. I had used a different cover originally that I wasn't as keen on, so I've updated that. Perhaps it'll pick up a few more plays, this one went so far under the radar that it was barely worth sharing.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1135489330&color=%23484848&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=false" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="mixamorphosis">mixamorphosis</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis/restore-the-soul" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Restore The Soul">Restore The Soul</a></div><p> </p><p><b><u>Tracklist</u></b> </p><p>01. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/luftrum-1/dawn-chorus-sound-devices-702-dpa-4060" target="_blank">Luftrum - Dawn Chorus (Self Released)</a><br />02. <a href="https://andrewwasylyk.bandcamp.com/album/balgay-hill-morning-in-magnolia" target="_blank">Andrew Wasylyk - Blossomness #2 (Clay Pipe Music)</a><br />03. <a href="http://www.claypipemusic.co.uk/2021/05/d-rothon-memories-of-earth.html" target="_blank">D. Rothon - The Ghost We Bring (Clay Pipe Music)</a><br />04. <a href="https://preservedsound.bandcamp.com/album/black-ocean" target="_blank">Trigg & Gusset - Blue Shades (Preserved Sound)</a><br />05. <a href="https://jazzmanalbums.bandcamp.com/album/after-dark" target="_blank">Amanda Whiting - After Dark (Jazzman)</a><br />06. <a href="https://natbirchallmusic.bandcamp.com/album/ancient-africa" target="_blank">Nat Birchall - Mirror Mind (Ancient Archive Of Sound)</a><br />07. <a href="https://ishmaelensemble.bandcamp.com/album/a-state-of-flow" target="_blank">Ishmael Ensemble - The River (Reprise) (Severn Songs)</a><br />08. <a href="https://dwighttrible.bandcamp.com/album/inspirations" target="_blank">Dwight Trible ft. Matthew Halsall - Deep River (Gondwana)</a><br />09. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/6105468-Yusef-Lateef-The-Blue-Yusef-Lateef" target="_blank">Yusef Lateef - Like It Is (Music On Vinyl)</a><br />10. <a href="https://chipwickham.bandcamp.com/album/la-sombra" target="_blank">Chip Wickham - Pushed Too Far (Lovemonk)</a><br />11. <a href="https://metronrecords.bandcamp.com/album/multiply-intentions" target="_blank">Katya Yonder - Mood (Meteron)</a><br />12. <a href="https://aroojaftab.bandcamp.com/album/vulture-prince" target="_blank">Arooj Aftab - Last Night (New Amsterdam Records)</a><br />13. <a href="https://aotns.bandcamp.com/album/language-of-the-birds" target="_blank">Warren Hampshire - Eye Of The Deluge (Athens Of The North)</a><br />14.<a href="https://lukehoward.bandcamp.com/album/the-sanctuary" target="_blank"> Luke Howard Trio - Phases (Hobbledehoy)</a></p><p> </p><p>Download available via <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/restore-the-soul/" target="_blank">Hearthis </a></p><p> </p><p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" allowtransparency="" frameborder="0" height="150" id="hearthis_at_track_10816081" scrolling="no" src="https://app.hearthis.at/embed/10816081/transparent_black/?hcolor=&color=&style=2&block_size=2&block_space=1&background=1&waveform=0&cover=0&autoplay=0&css=" width="100%"><p>Listen to <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/restore-the-soul/" target="_blank">Restore The Soul</a> <span>by</span><a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/" target="_blank" >Mixamorphosis</a> <span>on</span> <a href="https://hearthis.at/" target="_blank">hearthis.at</a></p></iframe> </p><p> </p>Mark Mcleodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727319448748090505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067736674548998016.post-41026088668776216642024-02-09T09:52:00.000-08:002024-02-09T09:52:58.874-08:00All Night Long<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC0TF4v5jTYKvJBbEJHDOsX74q-VcOPdkVS1GATxjPEVE5jiVbNogBnz7Tv0KbiKPA9CunVPN9E0dNh_sV5vjHUsNaZ5OR7Ag2O0H7r9xdiLHGB-Rut5PEmaqArNyYFdyuUDU3bQQwhYyOZdo6VLNUQ_kYHZRhDe0Q78iUcBXQjm8V-RPLbYBj3d_O9CtP/s1024/Default_a_very_dark_and_very_busy_acid_house_rave_1%20(1).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC0TF4v5jTYKvJBbEJHDOsX74q-VcOPdkVS1GATxjPEVE5jiVbNogBnz7Tv0KbiKPA9CunVPN9E0dNh_sV5vjHUsNaZ5OR7Ag2O0H7r9xdiLHGB-Rut5PEmaqArNyYFdyuUDU3bQQwhYyOZdo6VLNUQ_kYHZRhDe0Q78iUcBXQjm8V-RPLbYBj3d_O9CtP/w640-h640/Default_a_very_dark_and_very_busy_acid_house_rave_1%20(1).jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I have no backstory to share here, I can't actually remember when this was recorded but think it was around 2019. There was a different cover attached to it that I was never very happy with, so I've updated it. This was made using an Ai programme and a bit of editing from me with a design app.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/928764136&color=%23bcc396&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=false" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="mixamorphosis">mixamorphosis</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis/all-night-long" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="All Night Long">All Night Long</a></div><p><br /></p><p><b><u>Tracklist</u></b> </p><p><a href="https://caribouband.bandcamp.com/album/swim-remixes" target="_blank">Caribou - Leave House (Motor City Drum Ensemble Mix) (Merge Records)</a><br /><a href="https://studiobarnhus.bandcamp.com/album/sideral" target="_blank">Talaboman - Sideral (Matt Karmil Remix) (Studio Barnhus)</a><br /><a href="https://pamparecords.bandcamp.com/album/reincarnations-part-2-the-remix-chapter-2009-2014-pampacd010" target="_blank">Mount Kimbie - Made To Stray (DJ Koze Mix) (Pampa Records)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/410034-BNJMN-Black-Square" target="_blank">BNJMN - Keep The Powers Out (Rush House Direct Current)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/7757564-Siggatunez-Oliver-Bernstein-When-Mia-Meets-Rosi-EP" target="_blank">Siggatunez - Dreamcatcher (Tieffrequent)</a><br /><a href="https://freerangerecords.bandcamp.com/album/freerange-almanac-vol2" target="_blank">Jimpster - Ceilings (Freerange)</a><br /><a href="https://bpdigitalcompilations.bandcamp.com/album/banoffee-pies-digi-06" target="_blank">Adam Stromstedt - Rent (Banoffee Pies)</a><br /><a href="https://quentinhivern.bandcamp.com/album/mirage-rain" target="_blank">Quentin - Mirage (Hivern Discs)</a><br /><a href="https://peacefrog.bandcamp.com/album/mayasongs-album" target="_blank">David Alvarado - Beautification (Peacefrog Records)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/310870-KDJ-Freeki-MF" target="_blank">Moodymann - Freeki Mutha F cker (KDJ)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/620901-KiNK-Lost-Found-EP" target="_blank">KiNK - Bitter Sweet Special Dub (liebie*detail spezial)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/5275699-Bratha-Wisedom-For-The-Youngsters" target="_blank">Bratha - Untitled (Self Released)</a><br /><a href="https://cocktaildamoremusic.bandcamp.com/album/sfire-sfire3-john-talabot-remixes" target="_blank">Sfire - Sfire 3 (John Talabot's Bubble Metrolopis Rework) (CockTail d'Amore Music)</a><br /><a href="https://marvinandguy.bandcamp.com/album/fire-fire" target="_blank">Marvin & Guy - Moreno (Permanent Vacation)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/3547491-Mark-E-Oranges" target="_blank">Mark E - Oranges (Space Dub) (Spectral Sound)</a><br /><a href="https://delorean-band.bandcamp.com/album/ayrton-senna" target="_blank">Delorean - Seasun (John Talabot Remix) (Fool House)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/5605525-Lorenzo-Kurizu-Cinta" target="_blank">Lorenzo Kurizu - Lauwerecht (Neo Vinyl Recordings)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1014343-Carrot-Green-Selvagem-Disco-Halal-Brazil" target="_blank">Carrot Green & Selvagem - Vandre (Disco Halal)</a><br /></p><p> </p><p>Download available via <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/all-night-long/" target="_blank">Hearthis</a></p><p> <br /></p><p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" allowtransparency="" frameborder="0" height="150" id="hearthis_at_track_10737779" scrolling="no" src="https://app.hearthis.at/embed/10737779/transparent_black/?hcolor=&color=&style=2&block_size=2&block_space=1&background=1&waveform=0&cover=0&autoplay=0&css=" width="100%"><p>Listen to <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/all-night-long/" target="_blank">All Night Long</a> <span>by</span><a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/" target="_blank" >Mixamorphosis</a> <span>on</span> <a href="https://hearthis.at/" target="_blank">hearthis.at</a></p></iframe> </p><p> </p>Mark Mcleodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727319448748090505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067736674548998016.post-31313178987690816122024-02-09T06:49:00.000-08:002024-02-09T07:00:58.698-08:00Farewell<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBl4aeb5AidpnQCjWMcAFbdayjUPoL5vh0gTEQxT0ieArGRBPL_N_N9xdK9umDKayF6XJgU2OA87iL7DQfPFNyl5MaewBpIIjmtfAOew9Y4KFOpgD8Tfjj29GKQufcsRhpO6s0BoAudcQKLQjUqEKJXMP2eMLu7ibfyuks6LYSMnzyi9TPllQ0a-AccIUq/s1024/IMG_0267.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBl4aeb5AidpnQCjWMcAFbdayjUPoL5vh0gTEQxT0ieArGRBPL_N_N9xdK9umDKayF6XJgU2OA87iL7DQfPFNyl5MaewBpIIjmtfAOew9Y4KFOpgD8Tfjj29GKQufcsRhpO6s0BoAudcQKLQjUqEKJXMP2eMLu7ibfyuks6LYSMnzyi9TPllQ0a-AccIUq/w640-h640/IMG_0267.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">There's a few things to say about the background to this mix from back in 2019. The first thing to say is I've updated the cover. The original cover portrayed a particular aspect of the back story, one which isn't quite reflecting where things are now that a few years have passed. Also, I'm breaking from the normal blog post layout by putting the player and tracklist ahead of the main blog post. Why? Well, the post is likely going to be quite long, even though next to nobody will read it, it's just a case of me wanting to have some things written down to share thoughts and meanings on things, in my own corner of the internet. So, this post will continue below. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">One more point before the music and the further part of the post... if you listen to this mix, please pay attention to the tracks used. These were picked out very purposefully, to convey a message or a story. It could be the titles, or the words within the tracks or indeed the general vibe of the music. This was done to reflect the points I'll try and make later in the post.<br /></p><p><br />
<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/738250915&color=%23ffdd00&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=false" width="100%"></iframe></p><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="mixamorphosis">mixamorphosis</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis/farewell" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Farewell">Farewell</a></div><p><br /></p><p></p><p> Tracklist<br /><br />01. <a href="https://slowmeadow.bandcamp.com/album/happy-occident" target="_blank">Slow Meadow - Everything Is A Memory (Hammock Music)</a><br />02. <a href="https://umber.bandcamp.com/album/this-earth-to-another" target="_blank">Umber - It Just Fills The Hollow Spaces (Sound In Silence)</a> (w/ extracts from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Parker" target="_blank">Sean Parker</a> <b><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPwR1i-sWpo" target="_blank">interview</a></u></b>)<br />03. <a href="https://homeassemblymusic.bandcamp.com/album/prismatic" target="_blank">The Green Kingdom - The Largest Creature That Ever Existed (Home Assembly Music)</a><br />04. <a href="https://preservedsound.bandcamp.com/album/dyrholaey" target="_blank">Thomas Méreur - Moving On (Preserved Sound)</a><br />05. <a href="https://facture.bandcamp.com/album/antonymes-the-licence-to-interpret-re-interpret-dreams" target="_blank">Antonymes - Strains Of Doubt (Facture)</a><br />06. <a href="https://latenighttales.bandcamp.com/album/shrigley-forced-to-speak-with-others" target="_blank">David Shrigley - Questions (Late Night Tales)</a><br />07. <a href="https://selffish.bandcamp.com/album/he-she-them-us-3" target="_blank">Selffish - I Came To Leave (Serein)</a><br />08. <a href="https://kutiman.bandcamp.com/album/kutiman-6am-vinyl-cd-digital" target="_blank">Kutiman ft. Adam Scheflan - Dangerous (Siyal Music)</a><br />09. <a href="https://sereinlabel.bandcamp.com/album/expiration-compositions" target="_blank">The Greatest Hoax - Left You Behind (Serein)</a><br />10. <a href="https://timereleasedsound.bandcamp.com/album/spaces-in-between" target="_blank">Hoshiko Yamane & Mikael Lind - Getting The Message Across (Time Released Sound)</a><br />11. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1564401-Kate-Tempest-The-Book-Of-Traps-And-Lessons" target="_blank">Kate Tempest - Hold Your Own (American Recordings)</a><br />12. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1564401-Kate-Tempest-The-Book-Of-Traps-And-Lessons" target="_blank">Kate Tempest - Lessons (American Recordings)</a><br />13. <a href="https://penelopetrappes.bandcamp.com/album/penelope-one" target="_blank">Penelope Trappes - Puppets (Optimo Music)</a><br />14. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1192259-London-Grammar-Truth-Is-A-Beautiful-Thing" target="_blank">London Grammar - Truth Is A Beautiful Thing (Metal & Dust)</a><br />15. <a href="https://cass0.bandcamp.com/album/postclub-prism" target="_blank">Cass. - Leaving (Into The Light Records)</a><br />16. <a href="https://eileanrec.bandcamp.com/album/the-clyde-parker-project" target="_blank">Oubys + Monolyth & Cobalt - Parallax Review (eilean Records)</a> (w/ extracts from Carole Cadwalladr <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSMr-3GGvQ" target="_blank"><b>Ted Talk</b></a>)<br />17. <a href="https://penelopetrappes.bandcamp.com/album/penelope-two" target="_blank">Penelope Trappes - Farewell (Houndstooth)</a><br />18. <a href="https://melodyastruth.bandcamp.com/album/postcards-from-nowhere" target="_blank">Gigi Masin & Jonny Nash - Postcards From Nowhere (Melody As Truth)</a><br />19. <a href="https://kryshe.bandcamp.com/album/march-of-the-mysterious" target="_blank">Kryshe - Underlying Reality (Serein)</a><br />20. <a href="https://matthewhalsall.bandcamp.com/album/colour-yes-special-edition" target="_blank">Matthew Halsall - Ai (Gondwana Records)</a><br />21. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/909005-Seahawks-Deep-Haul" target="_blank">Seahawks - Didn't Know I Was Lost (Land Of Shadows Dancing Mix) (Ocean Moon)</a><br />22. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/36238-4hero-Play-With-The-Changes" target="_blank">4 Hero ft. Ursula Rucker - The Awakening (Raw Canvas Records)</a><br />23. <a href="https://kutiman.bandcamp.com/album/kutiman-digital-cd" target="_blank">Kutiman - And Out (Melting Pot Music)</a><br />24. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/223726-Nina-Simone-In-Concert-Emergency-Ward" target="_blank">Nina Simone - Isn't It A Pity? (RCA Victor)</a><br />25. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/419576-Air-Air" target="_blank">Air - Realize (Be With Records)</a><br />26. <a href="https://soundstory.bandcamp.com/album/field-recordings" target="_blank">Soundstory - Rainstorm (Self Released)</a><br />27. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/338251-Earth-Wind-Fire-Evil" target="_blank">Earth, Wind & Fire - Evil (CBS)</a><br />28. <a href="https://gregfoat.bandcamp.com/album/the-dreaming-jewels" target="_blank">Greg Foat - Not That It Makes Any Difference (Athens Of The North)</a><br />29. <a href="https://williamryanfritch.bandcamp.com/album/deceptive-cadence-music-for-film-volume-i-ii" target="_blank">William Ryan Fritch - Our Thirsting World (Lost Tribe Sound)</a><br />30. <a href="https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/attachment" target="_blank">Jason Van Wyk - Away (Home Normal)</a><br />31. <a href="https://channelers.bandcamp.com/album/the-depth-of-rest" target="_blank">Channelers - A Quiet Invitation (Inner Islands)</a><br />32. <a href="https://slowmeadow.bandcamp.com/album/happy-occident" target="_blank">Slow Meadow - Artificial Algorithm (Hammock Music)</a><br />33. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/59313-Beanfield-Beanfield" target="_blank">Beanfield - To Be Alienated (Street Beat)</a> (w/ extracts from <a href="https://twitter.com/krishgm" target="_blank">Krishnan Guru-Murthy</a> & <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaron_Lanier" target="_blank">Jaron Lanier</a> <b><u><a href="https://youtu.be/kc_Jq42Og7Q?si=CpejqpHii7LLyu9o" target="_blank">Interview</a></u></b>)<br />34. <a href="https://porticoquartet.bandcamp.com/album/memory-streams" target="_blank">Portico Quartet - Ways Of Seeing (Gondwana Records)</a><br />35. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/142282-Up-Bustle-And-Out-Light-Em-Up-Blow-Em-Out" target="_blank">Up, Bustle & Out - Clandestine Operations (Ninja Tune)</a> (w/ extracts from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamath_Palihapitiya" target="_blank">Chamath Palihapitiya</a> <b><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMotykw0SIk" target="_blank">Interview</a></u></b>)<br />36. <a href="https://emotional-response.bandcamp.com/album/live-sessions-vol-2" target="_blank">Saint Petersburg Spin Disco Club - Simple Customers (Emotional Response)</a><br />37. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/10303542-Various-Seafaring-Strangers-Private-Yacht" target="_blank">Breathers - Don't It Make You Feel (Numero Group)</a><br />38. <a href="https://evadney.bandcamp.com/album/the-unfurls" target="_blank">Evadney - Anchor Me (Self Released)</a><br />39. <a href="https://anthologyrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/sad-about-the-times" target="_blank">Perth County Conspiracy - If You Can Wait (Anthology Recordings)</a><br />40. <a href="https://musicfordreams.bandcamp.com/album/moments-in-time-compiled-by-moonboots" target="_blank">Colorama - Anytime (Music For Dreams)</a><br />41. <a href="https://anthologyrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/sad-about-the-times" target="_blank">Dennis Stoner - Maybe Someday / Maybe Never (Anthology Recordings)</a></p><p><br /></p><p>As ever, I've opened downloads on <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/farewell/" target="_blank">Hearthis</a></p><p><br /></p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" allowtransparency="" frameborder="0" height="150" id="hearthis_at_track_4235584" scrolling="no" src="https://app.hearthis.at/embed/4235584/transparent_black/?hcolor=&color=&style=2&block_size=2&block_space=1&background=1&waveform=0&cover=0&autoplay=0&css=" width="100%"><p>Listen to <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/farewell/" target="_blank">Farewell</a> <span>by</span><a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/" target="_blank" >Mixamorphosis</a> <span>on</span> <a href="https://hearthis.at/" target="_blank">hearthis.at</a></p></iframe>
<p> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Right, so back to the backstory and main blog post. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The main thinking for me behind this mix was about deleting all of my 'Meta' accounts, so Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp. I really did a thorough job on that, downloading my data, going through the official process of removing personal data stored by them, manually deleting all the content and connections. I hit a hurdle when I realised that you could not delete the app from a Samsung Galaxy phone, merely 'disable' it. Having said that, the 'Farewell' wasn't just a nod towards ditching social media platforms to some extent, it was also about how I felt we were losing certain things that we may have taken for granted.<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I've always felt quite uneasy about social media. Let's take the corporate, data scraping and feed manipulation to one side and just focus on the human aspect. Being of an age where I grew up without the internet, but then seeing and experiencing the social, cultural and commercial shifts in society as a result of the growing capacity and functionality of the internet, perhaps gives people of my age bracket (and thereabouts) quite a unique perspective. We're old enough to know life before it, we're perhaps young enough and (generally) tech aware enough to be able to adopt things that have developed over the last 25 years better than the previous generation are generally able to. I think with that perspective in mind, we've seen the toxicity in society, the polarisation and entrenchment of viewpoints, the ability of individuals to hide behind a moniker and express things in ways and to people they never would have been able to previously, and on a scale that is difficult to get your head around. For every positive aspect of the connectivity and function the internet has given, there is without doubt an equal proportion of negative implications that comes hand in hand. So, my general unease about social media stems from that, but is far from limited to that. I think it's also very hard to discern truth, sincerity and quality of connection or interaction because of the impersonal nature of it and I've certainly felt and experienced a massive drop off in genuine real life connections too. That latter part is perhaps a personal thing, I don't know.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">With regards to how the social media companies operate, I think we're seeing things play out even more clearly now than when this mix was put together, and we now have another big player on the field in Tik Tok. It was only a few years ago that many people were shouting very loudly about this. Algorithms being manipulated, the addictive nature of receiving dopamine hits for likes, comments and shares, the scraping of data, the monitoring of movements, the fact that if you aren't paying to use a product - then <b><i>you</i></b> are the product. Then we have the bullying, the gaslighting, the pile on's to people with differing opinions, the cancel culture, false and misleading information and the bots that amplify those messages, the lack of transparency, the normalising of extreme content, the restriction of growth outwith the social media platforms (people don't leave these sites and visit very many websites outwith the platform). The list really could go on and on and on.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">We have a handful of men controlling the largest parts of the online world and they are pretty much free to operate as they wish, they aren't elected, they don't answer to anyone, they have the means to access the highest levels of legal experts, they can hire and fire as they choose, and circumvent rules and laws by exploiting loopholes or passing the buck to someone they view as dispensable. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">When I opted to ditch Meta a few years ago, it was clear in my mind that it, and Zuckerberg, were by far the most dangerous and damaging pairing on the scene. The scale, the reach, the lack of transparency and the documented evidence was clear and overwhelming. Although Twitter was viewed as a cesspit, you could still find navigate your way around it, make it useful and ensure your feed was accurate and trustworthy. For me the biggest problem was the anonymous trolls that would often inhabit the replies. However, since Musk took control it has become an incredible mess of misinformation, gaslighting and a manipulated propaganda hell hole. The amplifying of misinformation has gone off the scale with the 'free speech' given as the regular fall back from his bootlickers, when in reality it's pushing agendas that suit him and his own goals. My feed has become pretty useless, the people who I trust and would like to see on my feed are throttled and demoted in prominence because they don't pay for the 'verified' status, which no longer means what it should and simply serves to diminish the clarity and trust of the original intent of the blue tick.<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> I suppose the tl:dr (too long, didn't read) of all that is that social media has never been more dangerous, more manipulated and more impactful on society than it is now. I intend to step back from it as much as possible, without fully disconnecting myself because despite the overwhelming negativity I feel about it, there are some things that are useful to me. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">So, I think, for the most part moving forward, unless it changes, I'll be a lurking reader of Twitter and no longer posting though I haven't for a few months anyway. On top of that I'm going to delete all content on there. I don't feel happy to have things hosted on there when Musk is pushing the extremes and giving a safe haven to very extreme views and content. Free speech shouldn't mean free from responsibility, especially when the ramifications can be extreme.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I have reopened a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mixamorphosis" target="_blank">Mixamorphosis</a> account on Facebook, very reluctantly, and it still appears that news feeds are as useless as they were a few years ago. Really, I wanted a reliable source for music news on artists and labels I follow, and since Twitter has gone so far downhill, I'd hoped that the alternative would be better. I also think I need a presence to some extent, though I very much doubt it will be much use. At the time of writing, I've had the page open for a couple of months and only gained a couple of connections. I guess I'll just see how it goes, though I won't be having a Facebook presence of my own in a personal sense. Follow or don't follow, I'll just keep doing what I think is right for me and block out the external noise as much as I can. I've thought about trying to utilise Tik Tok, but it's really not likely. There's so much utter mind melting drivel on there, though there are a few good and informative accounts, they're few and far between. You know, maybe I'm just not cut out for it all. I can't help but feel we're too far down the rabbit hole now; the genie has been let out the bottle, it's unlikely to be put back. I've got a Bluesky account, but I'm not sure if that will become as useful as Twitter once was, it's certainly missing a lot of the key accounts that I'd like to see.<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br />I've waffled on long enough. I'll leave you with a couple of points of reference, things that are useful to be aware of - </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjn6Iqm5fzsAhXFlFwKHZlNBdUQtwIwAHoECAEQAg&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.netflix.com%2Ftitle%2F81254224&usg=AOvVaw3fvNi_1RUdTnH46UuyDYWD" target="_blank">The Social Dilemma</a> - This is a link to a Netflix documentary. It gives a good overview of what I've tried to go into, far better than I could. It's worth watching, it's definitely worth being aware.<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80117542" target="_blank">The Great Hack</a> - This is another link to a Netflix documentary. This one is about the Cambridge Analytica scandal and Facebook specifically.<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I could go on. In reality, not many people care or pay attention to these things. Similarly with the issues going on around the world, people don't care until it arrives on their doorstep, or the algorithm triggers enough outrage.<br /></p>Mark Mcleodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727319448748090505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067736674548998016.post-54616535131950578522024-02-06T16:14:00.000-08:002024-02-06T16:14:37.121-08:00The Drifter<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-KV_Wa9J4GjdQ5uRsIniULwdsuHAFPMdv1KQbK68NdvLkcofSS-Sne0eR1Y1dokDKLkHbnRRDlXhtTrpw5A8GVIMo9IWfmjkxbPCRbvMVGmaERtlJgfc29sslzwuUu1hCdoM9XJqgI0ZHjwaWUmJVX_ObjwlI1FsqiV8QWdH8tTKvwUTPtyPzOwZRRD-L/s1024/The%20Drifter.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-KV_Wa9J4GjdQ5uRsIniULwdsuHAFPMdv1KQbK68NdvLkcofSS-Sne0eR1Y1dokDKLkHbnRRDlXhtTrpw5A8GVIMo9IWfmjkxbPCRbvMVGmaERtlJgfc29sslzwuUu1hCdoM9XJqgI0ZHjwaWUmJVX_ObjwlI1FsqiV8QWdH8tTKvwUTPtyPzOwZRRD-L/w640-h640/The%20Drifter.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">A guest selection for Salvatore Muscat, aka Sequenchill. A man with a huge <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/salvatore-muscat/" target="_blank">Mixcloud</a> following and regularly putting out great musical selections. I really liked how this one turned out and it seemed to be well received at the time. I think I've only done one more guest mix since then though, so perhaps it's just good to my ears in reality 😂 Just as an FYI... I had no idea that I'd used a few tracks from the same label until I came to link them up. I often forget what labels things are on, tracks are organised by genre for me, so it was coincidental and shows the label picked some great music!<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The cover image is a photo I had taken a year or two earlier when I was on a camping / biking trip to the North West of Scotland. The title refers to how I felt at the time, like life was just drifting, not really under my control. It still does, but I'm working on it.</p><p><br /></p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/684769552&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=false" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="mixamorphosis">mixamorphosis</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis/the-drifter" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="The Drifter - Sequenchill Guest Mix">The Drifter - Sequenchill Guest Mix</a></div><p> </p><p><b><u>Tracklist</u></b> </p><p>01. <a href="https://soundstory.bandcamp.com/album/field-recordings" target="_blank">SoundStory - Rainstorm (Field Recordings)</a><br />02. <a href="https://maxananyev.bandcamp.com/album/water-atlas" target="_blank">Max Ananyev - Laurel Forest (Serein)</a><br />03. <a href="https://slowmeadow.bandcamp.com/album/palemote-ghosts-in-the-brazos" target="_blank">Slow Meadow - Ghosts In The Brazos (Self Released)</a><br />04. <a href="https://eileanrec.bandcamp.com/album/crossing" target="_blank">Seabuckthorn - The Observatory (eilean rec.)</a><br />05. <a href="https://preservedsound.bandcamp.com/album/piafs-boyfriend" target="_blank">Tess Said So - Black Light (Preserved Sound)</a><br />06. <a href="https://scrimshire.bandcamp.com/album/wont-get-better-remixed" target="_blank">Scrimshire - Won't Get Better (Rebecca Vasmant Remix) (Albert's Favourites)</a><br />07. <a href="https://kryshe.bandcamp.com/album/march-of-the-mysterious" target="_blank">Kryshe - Queen's Court (Serein)</a><br />08. <a href="https://ishmaelensemble.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-knotty" target="_blank">Ishmael Ensemble - Song For Knotty (Banoffee Pies)</a><br />09. <a href="https://gregfoat.bandcamp.com/album/the-mage" target="_blank">Greg Foat - Driftin' (Athens Of The North)</a><br />10. <a href="https://brambles.bandcamp.com/album/charcoal" target="_blank">Brambles - Aréte (Serein)</a><br />11. <a href="https://sereinlabel.bandcamp.com/album/sky-song" target="_blank">Colourist - Where Will You Go? (Serein)</a><br />12. <a href="https://musicfordreams.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-mindfulness-vol-2" target="_blank">Copenema - Some Di Some Day (Music For Dreams)</a><br />13. <a href="https://mammalhands.bandcamp.com/album/shadow-work" target="_blank">Mammal Hands - Three Good Things (Gondwana Records)</a><br />14. <a href="https://lowercasenoises.bandcamp.com/track/ochre" target="_blank">Lowercase Noises & Blurstem - Ochre (Self Released)</a><br />15. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/rjsfoundsounds/relaxing-rain-and-loud-thunder?in=mauricio-leon-d-ettorre/sets/nature-sounds" target="_blank">Foundsounds - Relaxing Rain & Loud Thunder (Self Released)</a><br />16. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/817841-Kettenkarussell-Easy-Listening" target="_blank">Kettenkarussell - Drift (Giegling)</a><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Download available via <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/the-drifter/" target="_blank">Hearthis</a></p><p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" allowtransparency="" frameborder="0" height="150" id="hearthis_at_track_4235530" scrolling="no" src="https://app.hearthis.at/embed/4235530/transparent_black/?hcolor=&color=&style=2&block_size=2&block_space=1&background=1&waveform=0&cover=0&autoplay=0&css=" width="100%"><p>Listen to <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/the-drifter/" target="_blank">The Drifter</a> <span>by</span><a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/" target="_blank" >Mixamorphosis</a> <span>on</span> <a href="https://hearthis.at/" target="_blank">hearthis.at</a></p></iframe> </p><p> </p>Mark Mcleodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727319448748090505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067736674548998016.post-82421384743917028352024-02-06T11:38:00.000-08:002024-02-06T11:39:21.394-08:00We Dig Deeper Guest Mix<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0hYwXFpcWr-BJ0mfP2MqDY_dhnvb3PZc6Vuwwh_CtyefY2gLk7PF8TCHKh01BjplfkW4WMdjZw2Q1OaQQpNuMroG-exLrIy0GZNmpYQvVVJd29PHk3RBk_3KO8BnLaWiRjOc5E9IB1JwAxMsPHPIfhvfzh-tEyz7mC9vV-Iy1nB0NjNX_-6u_DfjN5Izr/s1440/IMG_0261.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0hYwXFpcWr-BJ0mfP2MqDY_dhnvb3PZc6Vuwwh_CtyefY2gLk7PF8TCHKh01BjplfkW4WMdjZw2Q1OaQQpNuMroG-exLrIy0GZNmpYQvVVJd29PHk3RBk_3KO8BnLaWiRjOc5E9IB1JwAxMsPHPIfhvfzh-tEyz7mC9vV-Iy1nB0NjNX_-6u_DfjN5Izr/w640-h640/IMG_0261.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This was a guest 'mix' I was asked to do for Mark Gardner (aka Strange Cargo) back in 2019. The concept of this being as if it were being recorded to a 90 minute cassette tape - this idea was very much up my street because that's my era. If any young folk should happen upon this post, that's a cassette in the cover image, you could have 45 minutes on each side, you couldn't skip, though you could have your finger pressed equally on 'play' and 'fast forward' on some devices which would let you hear roughly where you were as you fast forwarded through the tape. Sometime, the actual tape would get chewed up by the player, if you were luck it didn't destroy the tape and you could rewind the tape into the cassette manually with your finger or a pencil. In a lot of ways, I love how we moved on in the digital world, but the physical aspect of media, whether newspaper, cassette, video, cd, vinyl and all that came with it feels like a lost experience. Everything is convenient and instant these days, which is great, but I can't help but miss some aspects and of course, I don't particularly trust these big companies to give us good value as the digital only era starts to really bite... you just need to look at the price of digital games as an example of where we're headed. Anyway..... I've digressed massively.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Back to the concept behind this. It was meant to be one side (45 minutes) with a light theme and the other side leaning into the darker side. I'm not sure I really achieved that, but the listener can decide for themselves. This came about at a really busy time for me, there was a huge amount going on with my Mum and I was loosely thinking about heading off on my bike for a tour around Europe on my own. That was daunting and extremely spontaneous...as they all have been! Literally deciding to go on the morning I leave and just going with the flow. As it turned out, I was staying in an amazing hotel on the border between Switzerland and Germany, called the <a href="https://www.eckert-grenzach.de/e/de.html#room" target="_blank">Eckert</a>, well worth a visit and the food is a real amazing experience, and of course, you're on the doorstep of the most beautiful areas in mainland Europe!</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">For the cover image, I've gone with my own design. The original was really just an advert for the show, that's been and gone a long time now, so I've allowed myself to put my own spin on it. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I'm quite sure I could have been a bit more focussed with this post, but anyway, on to the music.<br /></p><p><br /></p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/684774475&color=%23d7d1d7&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=false" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="mixamorphosis">mixamorphosis</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis/we-dig-deeper-guest-mix-the-light-dark-sessions" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="We Dig Deeper Guest Mix - The Light & Dark Sessions">We Dig Deeper Guest Mix - The Light & Dark Sessions</a></div><p> </p><p><b><u>Tracklist</u></b> </p><p> </p><p><b>Light - A-side</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><a href="https://goodweatherforanairstrike.bandcamp.com/album/zones" target="_blank">Good Weather For An Airstrike - Mesopelagic (Self Released)</a><br /><a href="https://levipatel.bandcamp.com/album/a-shifting-lightness" target="_blank">Levi Patel - As She Passes (Nocturne) (Self Released)</a><br /><a href="https://gregfoat.bandcamp.com/album/the-honeybear" target="_blank">Hampshire & Foat - The Promise (Athens Of The North)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/201043-Lani-Hall-Sun-Down-Lady" target="_blank">Lani Hall - Sun Down (A&M Records)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/422993-Aktuala-Aktuala" target="_blank">Aktuala - Dejanira (Bla Bla)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/90089-Alela-Diane-To-Be-Still" target="_blank">Alela Diane - Lady Divine (Rough Trade)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/9407247-Psychemagik-Ritual-Chants-Love" target="_blank">Joseppa & Musyl - Follow Me (Eskimo Recordings)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/298846-Various-Diggin-Deeper-The-Roots-Of-Acid-Jazz" target="_blank">Deodato - Also Sprach Zarathustra (Columbia)</a> <br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/9407247-Psychemagik-Ritual-Chants-Love" target="_blank">Family Four - En Hast Utan Namn (Eskimo Recordings)</a><br /><a href="https://dreamtimerecords.bandcamp.com/album/moon-lovers" target="_blank">Master Phil - Waporday (Dreamtime Records)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/67467-David-Axelrod-David-Axelrod" target="_blank">David Axelrod - Fantasy For Ralph (Mo Wax)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1021660-Alice-Clark-The-Complete-Studio-Recordings-1968-1972" target="_blank">Alice Clark - Looking At Life (BGP Records)</a></p><p> <br /></p><p><b>Dark - B-side</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><a href="https://touched.bandcamp.com/album/touched-3" target="_blank">Ralf Hildenbeutel - Promenade (An Unpleasant Dream) (Touched)</a> - Proceeds go to Macmillan Cancer Research<br /><a href="https://thegreenkingdom.bandcamp.com/album/ephemera" target="_blank">The Green Kingdom - Momentary (Rusted Tone Recordings)</a><br /><a href="https://kutiman.bandcamp.com/album/kutiman-lines-from-different-sources" target="_blank">Kutiman - Line 1 (Siyal Music)</a><br /><a href="https://gregfoat.bandcamp.com/album/the-honeybear" target="_blank">Hampshire & Foat - Rain Clouds (Athens Of The North)</a><br />Mason Proffit - Everybody Was Wrong (Ole Smokey Edit) (Self Released)<br />Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound Of Silence (T2MM Edit) (Self Released)<br /><a href="https://soundcloud.com/redaxes/axes-in-the-sky-edit" target="_blank">Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In The Sky (Red Axes Remix) (Self Released)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/301423-Nilsson-Aerial-Ballet" target="_blank">Harry Nilsson - One (RCA Victor)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/59392-Various-The-Future-Sound-Of-Jazz-Vol-4" target="_blank">A Forest Mighty Black - Everything (Compost Records)</a><br /><a href="https://leifurjames.bandcamp.com/album/a-louder-silence" target="_blank">Leifur James - Mumma Don’t Tell (Late Night Tales)</a><br /><a href="https://soundcloud.com/solarno/go-solarnos-lounge-attack-mix" target="_blank">Moby - Go (Solarno’s Lounge Attack Mix) (Self Released)</a></p><p> <br /></p><p> </p><p>Download available via <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/we-dig-deeper-guest-mix-the-light-dark-sessions/" target="_blank">Hearthis </a></p><p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" allowtransparency="" frameborder="0" height="150" id="hearthis_at_track_4235563" scrolling="no" src="https://app.hearthis.at/embed/4235563/transparent_black/?hcolor=&color=&style=2&block_size=2&block_space=1&background=1&waveform=0&cover=0&autoplay=0&css=" width="100%"><p>Listen to <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/we-dig-deeper-guest-mix-the-light-dark-sessions/" target="_blank">We Dig Deeper Guest Mix - The Light & Dark Sessions</a> <span>by</span><a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/" target="_blank" >Mixamorphosis</a> <span>on</span> <a href="https://hearthis.at/" target="_blank">hearthis.at</a></p></iframe> </p><p> </p>Mark Mcleodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727319448748090505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067736674548998016.post-40943464521622301952024-02-06T04:55:00.000-08:002024-02-06T04:55:16.212-08:00Be Kind<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE_KwDibGeOzNQBRORO_glJKdL2cH1gRSc7pGAmfkWEJw-WUXRlv-UtesZPuoNhFckv8hmPQ8nVsPZC6PJI2KeOjU38xC9OiVR-t27XeRaAHxpvo6pkSlhMH5zLmWGwawXGUZNJjb08b4l1e0WvMzT00UDSO5Os0pmIF5wpkkcJXTNYmdKuH83kJ_WGF3x/s2800/Be%20Kind.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2800" data-original-width="2800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE_KwDibGeOzNQBRORO_glJKdL2cH1gRSc7pGAmfkWEJw-WUXRlv-UtesZPuoNhFckv8hmPQ8nVsPZC6PJI2KeOjU38xC9OiVR-t27XeRaAHxpvo6pkSlhMH5zLmWGwawXGUZNJjb08b4l1e0WvMzT00UDSO5Os0pmIF5wpkkcJXTNYmdKuH83kJ_WGF3x/w640-h640/Be%20Kind.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">There's a couple of tracks I wish I hadn't used in this mix, and a few that I wish I had. That's the nature of recording mixes without planning them in advance, or it is for me. I look back with a critical ear. I think there's a good chance of a follow up to this at some point. The message in the cover is extremely important to me. There is far too much of all those words I nestled into the background in this world. If it wasn't true, then moments of kindness wouldn't be celebrated as they are, it would be accepted as the norm, and that's the direction we should be travelling, but instead we seem to be moving further away from that. Anyway, the emphasis is, Be Kind, find joy in simple things, move away from things in life that bring you or others down. It's a start point and one I need to look to myself.</p><p><br /></p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/603936621&color=%237c9ca4&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=false" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="mixamorphosis">mixamorphosis</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis/be-kind" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Be Kind">Be Kind</a></div><p> </p><p><b><u>Tracklist</u></b><br /><br />01. <a href="https://slowmeadow.bandcamp.com/album/palemote-ghosts-in-the-brazos" target="_blank">Slow Meadow - Palemote (Self Released)</a><br />02. <a href="https://kankyongaku.bandcamp.com/album/kanky-ongaku-japanese-ambient-environmental-new-age-music-1980-1990" target="_blank">Fumio Miyashita - See The Light (Abridged) (Light In The Attic)</a><br />03. A conversation with Rickie Lee Jones (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erba5If9f30" target="_blank">Youtube</a>)<br />04. <a href="https://umber.bandcamp.com/album/sunshine-young" target="_blank">Umber - All The Ships (Oxide Tones)</a><br />05. <a href="https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/salaam-for-yemen" target="_blank">Birds Of Passage - On Our Hands (Dronarivm) </a>- Proceeds go to Warchild<br />06. <a href="https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/losing-today" target="_blank">Caught In The Wake Of Forever - Faultless Youth Declined (Dronarivm) </a>- Proceeds go to National Suicide Prevention Helpline<br />07. <a href="https://weyesblood.bandcamp.com/album/a-certain-kind-b-w-everybodys-talkin" target="_blank">Weyes Blood - Everybody's Talking (Mexican Summer)</a><br />08. <a href="https://thegreenkingdom.bandcamp.com/album/ephemera" target="_blank">The Green Kingdom - Bell Garden (ambimix) (Rusted Tone Recordings)</a><br />09. candysomething - Sellotape (Self Released)<br />10. <a href="https://levipatel.bandcamp.com/album/a-shifting-lightness-i" target="_blank">Levi Patel - Her Angled Beauty (Self Released)</a><br />11. <a href="https://bluetech.bandcamp.com/album/borderlands" target="_blank">Evan Bartholomew - Medicine / Healing (Newlands Music)</a><br />12. <a href="https://goodweatherforanairstrike.bandcamp.com/album/a-home-for-you" target="_blank">Good Weather For An Airstrike - Breathing (ft Inachus) (Hawkmoon Records)</a><br />13. <a href="https://latenighttales.bandcamp.com/album/late-night-tales-floating-points" target="_blank">William S. Fischer - Chains (Late Night Tales)</a><br />14. <a href="https://cinematicorchestramusic.bandcamp.com/album/to-believe" target="_blank">The Cinematic Orchestra - To Believe (Ninja Tune)</a><br />15. <a href="https://gregfoat.bandcamp.com/album/saint-lawrence" target="_blank">Hampshire & Foat - The Solitude Of Certitudes (Parts 1 & 2) (Athens Of The North)</a><br />16. <a href="https://manwatchingthestars.bandcamp.com/track/fields" target="_blank">Man Watching The Stars - Fields (Self Released)</a><br />17. Charles Bukowski on life<br />18. <a href="https://latenighttales.bandcamp.com/album/late-night-tales-agnes-obel" target="_blank">Agnes Obel - Poem About Death (Late Night Tales)</a><br />19. <a href="https://endlessmelancholy.bandcamp.com/album/fragments-of-scattered-whispers" target="_blank">Endless Melancholy - In Transition From Anxiety To Acceptance (Dronarivm)</a><br />20. <a href="https://furtherrecords.bandcamp.com/album/imaginary-lines" target="_blank">Jonathan Fitoussi - Aquarius (Further Records)</a><br />21. <a href="https://katarzynaborek.bandcamp.com/album/space-in-between" target="_blank">Katarzyna Borek - Uranus for Craig Armstrong (Weather Storm) (BITTT)</a><br /> </p><p> </p><p>Download available via <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/be-kind/" target="_blank">Hearthis</a></p><p> </p><p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" allowtransparency="" frameborder="0" height="150" id="hearthis_at_track_3005980" scrolling="no" src="https://app.hearthis.at/embed/3005980/transparent_black/?hcolor=&color=&style=2&block_size=2&block_space=1&background=1&waveform=0&cover=0&autoplay=0&css=" width="100%"><p>Listen to <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/be-kind/" target="_blank">Be Kind</a> <span>by</span><a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/" target="_blank" >Mixamorphosis</a> <span>on</span> <a href="https://hearthis.at/" target="_blank">hearthis.at</a></p></iframe> </p><p> </p>Mark Mcleodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727319448748090505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067736674548998016.post-41479669474627753502024-02-05T14:18:00.000-08:002024-02-05T14:22:10.499-08:00Just A Sample<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9w4jhuqG3zHN277D0eNiJalaKmiP9q-IiDZzCwkqCCQnFEKTkJ1hylBV35xRDIrc12wjYNqnC7vTAbbzV24AhdznNS7YLhhv3lnFH2IwvhVneD73FMRVqmz_56di7EQpR9UZCOY1mi5RJGVcHVjWtivWz8_Cl6v7cXjCcwYRZsGWopsiuQvRTomI5KdVN/s2564/Just%20A%20Sample.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2564" data-original-width="2564" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9w4jhuqG3zHN277D0eNiJalaKmiP9q-IiDZzCwkqCCQnFEKTkJ1hylBV35xRDIrc12wjYNqnC7vTAbbzV24AhdznNS7YLhhv3lnFH2IwvhVneD73FMRVqmz_56di7EQpR9UZCOY1mi5RJGVcHVjWtivWz8_Cl6v7cXjCcwYRZsGWopsiuQvRTomI5KdVN/w640-h640/Just%20A%20Sample.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I thought this was a good idea as means to try and increase engagement on my Soundcloud and social media channels and the back end of 2018 (I think). It didn't quite have the desired effect but I still think it was a good idea.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I've always loved hearing the creativity that is involved in the art
of sampling, and there is no genre that embraced and mastered the art more than Hip
Hop. So, to do something a little different and interactive (or maybe not, it might have
been done before), I thought I'd put together a wee selection of tracks
that have been sampled by Hip Hop artists. The Soundcloud player below are of the original tracks, played in all their glory, very little in the way of mixing.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">So, the challenge, should you choose to accept it is to listen to the Soundcloud player and try and identify the hip hop tracks that they were used in. Some are well known, some are quite obscure - trainspotter-ish if you know what I mean. At the very bottom of the post, I'll share a Youtube link that gives the answers. A word of note - some are extremely NSFW and only for adult ears, especially track 6; they don't get much more explicit, so fair warning. If you want to cross reference (try not to cheat though) you can make use of the amazing website <a href="https://www.whosampled.com/">whosampled.com.</a><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">For those of you that don't know, the thing in the picture above is a sampler - a Boss SP 202, something I had many, many moons ago though I never quite got to grips with it. </p><p><br /></p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/579952167&color=%238c9c9c&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=false" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="mixamorphosis">mixamorphosis</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis/just-a-sample" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Just A Sample">Just A Sample</a></div><p> </p><p><b><u>Tracklist</u></b> </p><p>01. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/403216-Dizzy-Gillespie-Freddie-Hubbard-Clark-Terry-Meets-The-Oscar-Peterson-Big-4-The-Trumpet-Summit-Meets-" target="_blank">Dizzy Gillespie & The Oscar Peterson Big Four - Chicken Wings (Pablo Today)</a><br />02. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/103232-Smokey-Robinson-A-Quiet-Storm" target="_blank">Smokey Robinson - Quiet Storm (Tamla)</a><br />03. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1857495-Bob-James-Nautilus" target="_blank">Bob James - Nautilus (Evosound)</a><br />04. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/81895-Stan-Getz-Luiz-Bonf%C3%A1-Jazz-Samba-Encore" target="_blank">Stan Getz & Luiz Bonfá - Saudade Vem Correndo (Verve Records)</a><br />05. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/19493-Herbie-Hancock-Head-Hunters" target="_blank">Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man (Columbia)</a><br />06. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/84973-Brick-Brick" target="_blank">Brick - Fun (Bang Records)</a><br />07. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/118069-Otis-Redding-The-Dock-Of-The-Bay" target="_blank">Otis Redding - Let Me Come On Home (Atlantic)</a><br />08. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/14132-Average-White-Band-Cut-The-Cake" target="_blank">Average White Band - School Boy Crush (Atlantic)</a><br />09. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/119199-Silver-Convention-Silver-Convention" target="_blank">Silver Convention - Fly, Robin, Fly (Polydor)</a><br />10. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/34014-James-Brown-Black-Caesar-Original-Soundtrack" target="_blank">Jame Brown - The Boss (Polydor)</a><br />11. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/384836-Koko-Taylor-Koko-Taylor" target="_blank">Koko Taylor - Wang Dang Doodle (Chess)</a><br />12. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/566009-Galt-MacDermot-Woman-Is-Sweeter-Original-Soundtrack" target="_blank">Galt MacDermot - Space (Kilmarnock)</a><br />13. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/92843-Bill-Withers-Justments" target="_blank">Bill Withers - Make A Smile For Me (Sussex)</a><br />14. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/349526-The-Flamingos-Flamingo-Serenade" target="_blank">The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes For You (End)</a><br />15. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/204404-Ronnie-Foster-Two-Headed-Freap" target="_blank">Ronnie Foster - Mystic Brew (Blue Note)</a><br />16. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/284733-Gary-Burton-Good-Vibes" target="_blank">Gary Burton - Las Vegas Tango (Atlantic)</a><br /></p><p> </p><p>Download available via <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/just-a-sample/" target="_blank">Hearthis</a></p><p> </p><p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" allowtransparency="" frameborder="0" height="150" id="hearthis_at_track_2840773" scrolling="no" src="https://app.hearthis.at/embed/2840773/transparent_black/?hcolor=&color=&style=2&block_size=2&block_space=1&background=1&waveform=0&cover=0&autoplay=0&css=" width="100%"><p>Listen to <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/just-a-sample/" target="_blank">Just A Sample</a> <span>by</span><a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/" target="_blank" >Mixamorphosis</a> <span>on</span> <a href="https://hearthis.at/" target="_blank">hearthis.at</a></p></iframe> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>The Answers</u></b></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center;">
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XvqEE2rN3mg?si=g0sSSMoMgJc_hAuk" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe> </p><p style="text-align: center;"> <br /></p><p>01. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/19511-Jurassic-5-Jurassic-5" target="_blank">Jurassic 5 - In The Flesh (PAN)</a><br />02. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/65662-De-La-Soul-Buhloone-Mind-State" target="_blank">De La Soul - Breakadawn (Tommy Boy)</a><br />03. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/24813-Ghostface-Killah-Ironman" target="_blank">Ghostface Killah ft Raekwon & Cappadonna - Daytona 500 (Razor Sharp Records)</a><br />04. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/56124-The-Pharcyde-Labcabincalifornia" target="_blank">The Pharcyde - Runnin' (Delicious Vinyl)</a><br />05. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/79703-LL-Cool-J-Walking-With-A-Panther" target="_blank">LL Cool J - 1-900 LL Cool J (Def Jam)</a><br />06. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/1033405-Akinyele-Put-It-In-Your-Mouth" target="_blank">Akinyele ft. Kia Jeffries - Put It In Your Mouth (Stress)</a><br />07. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/82891-EPMD-Strictly-Business" target="_blank">EPMD - The Steve Martin (Fresh Records)</a><br />08. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/58284-Ultramagnetic-MCs-New-York-What-Is-Funky" target="_blank">Ultramagnetic MC's - Grip The Mic (Ol' Skool Flava)</a><br />09. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/240069-Redman-Method-Man-How-High" target="_blank">Red Man & Method Man - How High? (Remix) (Def Jam)</a><br />10. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/20292-Nas-Get-Down" target="_blank">Nas - Get Down (Columbia)</a><br />11. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/119075-Boogie-Down-Productions-Edutainment" target="_blank">Boogie Down Productions - Breath Control II (Jive)</a><br />12. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/50851-Busta-Rhymes-Woo-Hah-Got-You-All-In-Check" target="_blank">Busta Rhymes - Woo Hah! (Elektra)</a><br />13. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1491676-Citizen-Kane-Black-Rain" target="_blank">Citizen Kane - Blackrain (Treehouse Records)</a><br />14. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/124666-Fugees-The-Score" target="_blank">Fugees - Zealots (Columbia)</a><br />15. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/45947-A-Tribe-Called-Quest-Midnight-Marauders" target="_blank">A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation (Jive)</a><br />16. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/16855-Cypress-Hill-III-Temples-Of-Boom" target="_blank">Cypress Hill - Illusions (Columbia)</a><br /></p><p> </p><p> </p>Mark Mcleodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727319448748090505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067736674548998016.post-31980463865618040322024-02-05T11:08:00.000-08:002024-02-05T11:08:25.697-08:00Back To Mine 2<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzAguyVkEKFemDMcxmD4X6LJwv5OrmJHz9DnsSpRJbVvlqgj8fUj60UYjLsIA6R4wehI4yJ-RJMi0iSl2CVanuUqbBmbfPR6FXd_WHTUKdCFZvEVrL5ncaH8rbVvnTQxjDmpRixHgSK1Ug-ev9q_FwEenYTwtRqjadk85F1BnBE-x4OTUxWsOn2_mmVPZp/s4284/IMG_0259.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4284" data-original-width="4284" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzAguyVkEKFemDMcxmD4X6LJwv5OrmJHz9DnsSpRJbVvlqgj8fUj60UYjLsIA6R4wehI4yJ-RJMi0iSl2CVanuUqbBmbfPR6FXd_WHTUKdCFZvEVrL5ncaH8rbVvnTQxjDmpRixHgSK1Ug-ev9q_FwEenYTwtRqjadk85F1BnBE-x4OTUxWsOn2_mmVPZp/w640-h640/IMG_0259.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> I originally had this posted as 'Back To Mine 2019' but I've decided to
rename the two Back To Mine posts (as it stands). Having the date
within the title seemed unnecessary and even more so given the time span
through the selection.<br /><br />The concept isn't new, it's been done by
countless others in various guises, but the whole 'Back To Mine' feel
was / is such a great concept to share great music without worrying too
much about mixing or sticking within a narrow parameter of genre. Even the
title evokes memories of heading home after a good night out and digging
through tape, record and cd collections finding gems that carry
meaning, memories or simply sounds to get lost in until the morning
light starts filling up your room.<br /><br />I do want to emphasise that
this isn't a "mix" and it's not about pulling out obscure, underground
tunes from my collection or throwing the latest hot tracks from the Beatport charts into a mix.
It's a compilation that is a personal journey of music that has some
memories or meanings attached to it. I really enjoyed digging through my
music and pulling things out to use for this so don't be surprised if
there is more of these down the line. I'll add the caveat that I've used
(perhaps liberally on occasion) a touch of reverb to help get those
tracks to sit together through some of the intros / outros - it's still
not a mix though! As always I'll link the tracklist up as best I can so you can pick things up for yourself, most of the links are going to be Discogs, but you might find things cheaper via Ebay or the bald spaceman's platform (you know, the rich book seller).<br /><br />Finally, the image has been updated from the
one I originally had used, which I think was a bit rubbish, not to put
too fine a point on it. The photo used for this updated version is a
couple of miles from where I currently live. It is a spot I've been
walking my dogs (2 current Irish Red Setters and my beloved Border Collie that was my world before the red heads arrived) for about 14 or 15 years now and is looking towards
Cothiemuir, the place where my Mum's Cherry Blossom is planted and her
ashes were scattered. It's a beautiful and peaceful part of the
Aberdeenshire countryside. <br /></p><p><br /></p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/574123338&color=%23c6b095&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=false" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="mixamorphosis">mixamorphosis</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis/back-to-mine-2019" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Back To Mine 2">Back To Mine 2</a></div><p> </p><p><b><u>Tracklist</u></b></p><p><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/143216-rejazz-Point-Of-View" target="_blank">[Re:Jazz] - That Night (INFRACom!)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1325128-Various-Serve-Chilled-2" target="_blank">Jazz Vandall's - Summertime (Hed Kandi)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/175459-LTJ-Bukem-Producer-01" target="_blank">LTJ Bukem ft. DRS - Constellation (Good Looking Records)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/175519-Gak-Sato-Tangram" target="_blank">Gak Sato - Green City (Temposphere)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/799686-Jos%C3%A9-Gonz%C3%A1lez-Vestiges-Claws" target="_blank">Josè Gonzàlez - The Forest (Imperial)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/776611-Taj-Mahal-Martin-Scorsese-Presents-The-Blues" target="_blank">Taj Mahal - Queen Bee (Legacy / Columbia)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1214412-Maurice-Moore-And-Family-Affair-Band-Everything-That-Shines-Aint-Gold" target="_blank">Maurice Moore & Family Affair Band - Everything That Shines Ain't Gold (Melodies International)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/3277374-Jackie-Wilson-Soul-Time" target="_blank">Jackie Wilson - No Pity (In The Naked City) (Brunswick)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/77382-Nina-Simone-Baltimore" target="_blank">Nina Simone - Baltimore (Album Version) (CTI)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/32634-Massive-Attack-Protection" target="_blank">Massive Attack - Better Things (Wild Bunch Records)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/65858-Bob-Marley-The-Wailers-Exodus" target="_blank">Bob Marley - Waiting In Vain (Island Records)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/181065-Nuyorican-Soul-The-Remixes" target="_blank">NuYorican Soul ft. George Benson - You Can Do It (Baby) (NuYorican Style Remix) (Cutting Edge)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/44782-Lamb-Cotton-Wool" target="_blank">Lamb - Cotton Wool (Fila Brazillia Remix) (Fontana)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/26629-Daft-Punk-Homework" target="_blank">Daft Punk - Fresh (Virgin)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/55605-Badly-Drawn-Boy-The-Hour-Of-Bewilderbeast" target="_blank">Badly Drawn Boy - The Shining (Twisted Nerve / XL Recordings)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/51901-Kings-Of-Convenience-Versus" target="_blank">Kings Of Convenience - The Weight Of My Words (Four Tet Remix) (Source)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/34416-Nightmares-On-Wax-Carboot-Soul" target="_blank">Nightmares On Wax - Les Nuits (Warp Records)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/15431-Sad-Rockets-Once-Upon-A-Time-Called-Now" target="_blank">Sad Rockets - Sad (Morbid Records)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/36220-JJ-Cale-Naturally" target="_blank">J.J. Cale - Magnolia (Shelter)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/840126-Terry-Callier-Ordinary-Joe-Golden-Circle-Of-Your-Love" target="_blank">Terry Callier - Ordinary Joe (Cadet)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/101741-Minnie-Riperton-Perfect-Angel" target="_blank">Minnie Riperton - Reasons (Epic)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/2257192-Sly-Stone-Listen-To-The-Voices-Sly-Stone-In-The-Studio-1965-70" target="_blank">Sly & The Family Stone - I Ain't Got Nobody (Ace)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/11062006-Various-Capitol-Disco-Sampler-EP" target="_blank">Brief Encounter - What About Love (Capitol Records)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/545711-Gloria-Jones-Vixen" target="_blank">Gloria Jones - Tainted Love (EMI)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/179607-Merry-Clayton-Merry-Clayton" target="_blank">Merry Clayton - Light On The Hill (Repertoire Records)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/150263-The-Staple-Singers-Ill-Take-You-There" target="_blank">The Staple Singers - I'll Take You There (Stax)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/185738-Billy-Paul-Bring-The-Family-Back" target="_blank">Billy Paul - It's Critical (12"Version) (Philadelphia International Records)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/551994-Various-Taking-Woodstock-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack" target="_blank">Country Joe McDonald - I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag (Rhino Entertainment)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/380719-The-Doors-The-Best-Of-The-Doors" target="_blank">The Doors - Roadhouse Blues (Elektra)</a><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/361539-Top-Drawer-Solid-Oak" target="_blank">Top Drawer - Song Of A Sinner (Guerssen) </a></p><p> </p><p>Download available via <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/back-to-mine-2/" target="_blank">Hearthis</a></p><p> <br /></p><p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" allowtransparency="" frameborder="0" height="150" id="hearthis_at_track_2813665" scrolling="no" src="https://app.hearthis.at/embed/2813665/transparent_black/?hcolor=&color=&style=2&block_size=2&block_space=1&background=1&waveform=0&cover=0&autoplay=0&css=" width="100%"><p>Listen to <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/back-to-mine-2/" target="_blank">Back To Mine 2019</a> <span>by</span><a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/" target="_blank" >Mixamorphosis</a> <span>on</span> <a href="https://hearthis.at/" target="_blank">hearthis.at</a></p></iframe> </p><p> </p>Mark Mcleodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727319448748090505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067736674548998016.post-7105537067334631852024-02-04T12:15:00.000-08:002024-02-04T12:15:00.785-08:00Dum Spiro Spero<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_r2K3OnhArV9eSYJZui6sVBVGiPDsKzQFRuE_ms6S4hch6kqw-H0GSzglwpHo9ZnNkXzq1as2wY5wOJKv4U4mlbLGtFUZyc97jYgbFS5DJcBwW5u5zUPi4-qZc_xgiGydNv_WnumFwiO_SEguY3mpVsJeIcbhPKuKk1IG1ZGIQnbctMg14lFd1cZtxCi4/s2560/Dum%20Spiro%20Spero.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="2560" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_r2K3OnhArV9eSYJZui6sVBVGiPDsKzQFRuE_ms6S4hch6kqw-H0GSzglwpHo9ZnNkXzq1as2wY5wOJKv4U4mlbLGtFUZyc97jYgbFS5DJcBwW5u5zUPi4-qZc_xgiGydNv_WnumFwiO_SEguY3mpVsJeIcbhPKuKk1IG1ZGIQnbctMg14lFd1cZtxCi4/w640-h640/Dum%20Spiro%20Spero.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I don't remember exactly when this mix was put together. I think it might have been in the Autumn of 2018, but you could tell me it's a year older and I'd not know for sure. I've never had it posted on the blog for some reason. I suppose it kind of followed on from the mix I shared in my previous post '<a href="https://www.mixamorphosis.com/2024/02/the-fragility-of-life.html" target="_blank">The Fragility Of Life</a>', and so when I explain (should you need it) that Dum Spiro Spero is a latin phrase that means something along the lines of 'While I breathe, I hope'. With everything that had gone on with my Mum I think that did sum up where my mind was - I'm still breathing, she's still breathing, so we hope for the best. Quite a few years have passed by since then and that feeling has been around for the most part, but the hope part feels like it's evaporated.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Anyway, that's the back story out the way. I really love the music and the flow of this one. It's had hardly any plays at all and I think that's perhaps because most people that followed me did so when I was playing house, tech house, then edits of disco and soul etc. So, as I started experimenting with other genres, play counts fell off a cliff. I don't mind, it's just a shame that a lot of people aren't open minded to lots of different music and approaches, I can't help but feel this music deserves mores ears, hence me sharing it in mixes (unsuccessfully).</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The image for the cover is a photo I took of Bennachie, near where I currently live. The photo is taken from just next to the Harlaw monument on the outskirts of Inverurie.</p><p><br /></p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/549022779&color=%23ac0c0d&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=false" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="mixamorphosis">mixamorphosis</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis/dum-spiro-spero" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Dum Spiro Spero">Dum Spiro Spero</a></div><p> </p><p><b><u>Tracklist</u></b></p><div class="sc-type-small sc-text-body">
<div><p>01. <a href="https://oorlab.bandcamp.com/album/field-recordings" target="_blank">Oorlab - Dawn Chorus (Self Released)</a><br />02. <a href="https://tigersushirecords.bandcamp.com/album/musique-ambiante-fran-aise-vol-1" target="_blank">Romain Turzi - Vers Un Nouvel Age (Tigersushi)</a><br />03. <a href="https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/salaam-for-yemen" target="_blank">Snow Palms - Zoetropia (Dronarivm)</a> - proceeds go to War Child<br />04. <a href="https://musicvine.com/track/abstract-aprils/playing-records-on-sunday" target="_blank">Abstract Aprils - Playing Records On Sunday (Self Released)</a><br />05. <a href="https://innerislands.bandcamp.com/album/entrance-to-the-next" target="_blank">Channelers - Soft Dance (Inner Islands)</a><br />06. <a href="https://lukehoward.bandcamp.com/album/ten-sails" target="_blank">Luke Howard & Nadje Noordhuis - Ten Sails (Self Released)</a><br />07. <a href="https://marcus-fischer.bandcamp.com/track/lighting-the-shadows" target="_blank">Marcus Fischer - Lighting The Shadows (Self Released)</a><br />08. <a href="https://aimusic1.bandcamp.com/album/ai-ii" target="_blank">Ai - Amberica (Hauch)</a><br />09. <a href="https://goodweatherforanairstrike.bandcamp.com/track/every-days-new" target="_blank">Good Weather For An Airstrike - Every Day's New (Self Released)</a><br />10. <a href="https://penelopetrappes.bandcamp.com/album/carry-me" target="_blank">Penelope Trappes - Carry Me (Houndstooth)</a><br />11. <a href="https://emotional-rescue.bandcamp.com/album/passage" target="_blank">Chris Spheeris & Paul Voudouris - Mosaic (Emotional Rescue)</a><br />12. <a href="https://soundstory.bandcamp.com/album/field-recordings" target="_blank">Soundstory - Rainstorm (Self Released)</a><br />13. <a href="https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/salaam-for-yemen" target="_blank">The Green Kingdom - Frost Cracks (Dronarivm)</a> - proceeds go to War Child<br />14. <a href="https://soundinsilencerecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-earth-to-another" target="_blank">Umber - Harvest (Sound In Silence)</a><br />15. <a href="https://archeorecordings.bandcamp.com/album/roberto-aglieri-ragapadani-2xlp" target="_blank">Roberto Aglieri - Sogno Di Mezzogiono (Archeo Recordings)</a><br />16. <a href="https://hawkmoonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hawk-moon-records-volume-vii" target="_blank">Briq A Braque - Pax Vobiscum (Hawkmoon Records)</a> - All proceeds go to Young Dementia UK<br />17. <a href="https://facture.bandcamp.com/album/antonymes-the-licence-to-interpret-re-interpret-dreams" target="_blank">Antonymes - Lost In Waves Of Light (Antonymes Edit) (Fluid Audio)</a></p></div>
</div><p><br /></p><p>Download available via <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/dum-spiro-spero/" target="_blank">Hearthis</a></p><p> </p><p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" allowtransparency="" frameborder="0" height="150" id="hearthis_at_track_2687803" scrolling="no" src="https://app.hearthis.at/embed/2687803/transparent_black/?hcolor=&color=&style=2&block_size=2&block_space=1&background=1&waveform=0&cover=0&autoplay=0&css=" width="100%"><p>Listen to <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/dum-spiro-spero/" target="_blank">Dum Spiro Spero</a> <span>by</span><a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/" target="_blank" >Mixamorphosis</a> <span>on</span> <a href="https://hearthis.at/" target="_blank">hearthis.at</a></p></iframe> </p><p> </p>Mark Mcleodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727319448748090505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067736674548998016.post-13806670432434638462024-02-02T06:34:00.000-08:002024-02-02T08:42:12.182-08:00The Fragility Of Life<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO9-T6V-UQ_Rmz7lND0LYVAmKytaz2isMRu2ljhIAmszprQUkdyl6p8l-UtVtK5nhGTFbafSN3g0sCEdId6D6dLEA_5YAiGVqAkqF75KQ14nQL6Zrk_t6QR62IOITmEtsiPMIIHh2FHSkNqrVp8RbucnhMB4aXK70_HFdmMkT-_ly-1yfWvhDinrQF74hB/s2560/The%20Fragility%20Of%20Life%20Cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="2560" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO9-T6V-UQ_Rmz7lND0LYVAmKytaz2isMRu2ljhIAmszprQUkdyl6p8l-UtVtK5nhGTFbafSN3g0sCEdId6D6dLEA_5YAiGVqAkqF75KQ14nQL6Zrk_t6QR62IOITmEtsiPMIIHh2FHSkNqrVp8RbucnhMB4aXK70_HFdmMkT-_ly-1yfWvhDinrQF74hB/w640-h640/The%20Fragility%20Of%20Life%20Cover.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This mix is from around 2018 and it came following a break of a few months of doing any mixes or blogging. In and around this period things were really challenging in terms of dealing with care and health issues for my Mum. Not that things weren't always difficult in that regard, they were, the systems in place don't function as well as you might think. All the various moving parts do not align, and that was often a role that fell to me - being aware, vigilant, pressing the right people for the right things; it was a constant battle. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">This period of time was around the point where between the nursing, gp's and hospital consultants, they had really dropped the ball, and it was only because I pushed very hard for them to check specifically that they found a kidney stone the size of a 50p piece. Clearly it had been there a long time and the cause of many problems and it should have been picked up by professionals long before getting to this point. Choices were laid out to me that she could be put on palliative care (she wasn't far from that anyway) or risk an operation to remove it, which the chances of her surviving was put to me as being no more than 50/50. As her power of attorney and her voice, and due to her lack of capacity to make the decisions at this stage, this decision landed on my shoulders, and let me tell you, deciding that is not something anyone prepares you for. Leave her as she is and be consigned to pain and infections until her body gives up, which she had been dealing with for a long time already, or take action and hope that it might improve her quality of life and underlying health, but if it goes wrong in terms of post-op infection (a certainty because of the scale of the issue), that might see her off. It wasn't easy to be the one to decide, but I decided for her it was better to try and improve things, knowing if it went wrong it would end things quickly and wouldn't drag out the inevitable with pain, discomfort and impacting her dignity (as if it could be any more impacted), and conversely the hope that it would go right, and although her health through M.S had deteriorated extremely badly by this point, that it might stabilise things more generally and that perhaps some of that deterioration might have been through the kidney issues and may see improvements. So, she had the operation, she did remarkably well coming through it and things did stabilise in some regards for a while, but there weren't any improvements and she lost her battle at the end of the 2020, during the peak of the covid period. I am sure that it was the right thing to do, it gave her a chance and although her decline continued, there was no way of knowing how it would go. I carry that though, I often wonder if I did or did not do the right thing, there's little support or guidance and that's where this mix stems from, this period of time really made me acutely aware of the fragility of life. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">It's fair to say that I still live with the knock on effect of that decade, though it's not for a lack of trying to find a way forward. Dealing with health issues of my own among other things, well, it's all part of life really and not a patch on what my Mum had to deal with, but it feels like a very sad and sorry reflection on our systems and society as a whole that we do not look after one another as well as we could, that until things land on your doorstep, we too easily turn our cheek to what others are going through or fighting against. When I think of the way the UK has gone over the last 14 years, the purposeful dismantling and eroding of the NHS and other organisations, while nepotism in politics allows huge sums to be funneled into the hands of crooks, and worse that they get away with it and think it's fair game. It makes me mad, and I'd love to see these people held to account, but people are apathetic and generally people do not care. How did we get here?</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">So, I've gone on a bit of a ramble here. Oversharing / info dumping? Perhaps, but it's the honest background to the moment where I put this together, reflecting how I felt and still do feel, expressed to some extent in a soundscape. As I get the blog filled with more of the content, that vibe will probably be more evident and again it just reflects the mood, place and mindset of the moment for the most part, though not always. Though I'll try and punctuate that with some older mixes that are more upbeat, but perhaps not as good quality wise. It's all part of me having this corner of the internet, reflecting things I've tried to do over the years, whether good or bad.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The image by the way, is a photograph that has had very light touch editing, taken at sunset from a house I lived in for 8 months on the outskirts of Huntly in Aberdeenshire. If I could turn back time, I'd have carried on there, at least for a while instead of moving back to a house I've never felt settled in. Anyway... I've digressed, again.<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">So, onto the music and apologies for rambling.....</p><p><br /></p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/549021153&color=%23b18f5d&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=false" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="mixamorphosis">mixamorphosis</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis/the-fragility-of-life" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="The Fragility Of Life">The Fragility Of Life</a></div><p> </p><p><b><u>Tracklist</u></b> </p><p>01. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/field-recording/2013-02-14-london-liverpool-street" target="_blank">Fritz Schl - Liverpool Street Station Field Recording (Self Released)</a><br />02. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/11384487-Jonny-Nash-Lindsay-Todd-Fauna-Mapping" target="_blank">Jonny Nash & Lindsey Todd - Mushroom Omelette (And The Prevailing Cosmic Anxiety) (Island Of The Gods)</a> <br />03. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/9424336-Suzanne-Kraft-What-You-Get-For-Being-Young" target="_blank">Suzanne Kraft - Zé (Melody As Truth)</a> <br />04. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/9800828-Vermont-II" target="_blank">Vermont - Hallo Von Anderen Seite (Kompakt)</a><br />05. <a href="https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/song-of-the-highest-tower" target="_blank">Halo - An Isolated Railway (A Strangely Isolated Place) </a><br />06. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/10320961-Hampshire-and-Foat-Galaxies-Like-Grains-Of-Sand" target="_blank">Hampshire & Foat - Lullaby (Athens Of The North) </a><br />07. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/11489611-Moonboots-Moments-In-Time" target="_blank">David Darling - Cello Blue (Music For Dreams)</a> <br />08. <a href="https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/the-places-series-collection" target="_blank">36 - Heather Spa (A Strangely Isolated Place) </a><br />09. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/1997124-Matthew-Halsall-Colour-Yes" target="_blank">Matthew Halsall - I've Been Here Before (Gondwana Records) </a><br />10. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/9385967-Vangelis-Katsoulis-If-Not-Now-When" target="_blank">Vangelis Katsoulis - If Not Now, When? (Utopia Records)</a> <br />11. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/10665477-Arovane-Hior-Chronik-Into-My-Own-" target="_blank">Arovane & Hior Chronik - Morning Fog (A Strangely Isolated Place) </a><br />12. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/11991035-Abul-Mogard-Works" target="_blank">Abul Mogard - Desires Are Reminiscences By Now (Ecstatic)</a> <br />13. Unknown Artists - Field Recording - Thunderstorm <br />14. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1284925-Various-Musique-Ambiante-Fran%C3%A7aise-Vol-1" target="_blank">Etienne Jaumet - Orage Dans La Creuse (Tigersushi)</a> <br />15. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/10628151-Tommy-Awards-Inre-Rymden-Remixes" target="_blank">Tommy Awards - Hans Logan (Bartosz Kruczynski Remix) (Origin Peoples)</a> <br />16. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/10523174-Trance-Tapes" target="_blank">Trance - Ikarus (Growing Bin Records) </a><br />17. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1284925-Various-Musique-Ambiante-Fran%C3%A7aise-Vol-1" target="_blank">Jonathan Fitoussi & Clemens Hourriere - Le Chant des Dunes (Tigersushi) </a><br />18. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1260767-Wilson-Tanner-69" target="_blank">Wilson Tanner - Odd Low (Growing Bin Records) </a><br />19. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/12257088-Various-Moon-Lovers" target="_blank">Peter Pearson - Come Closer (Dreamtime)</a> <br />20. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/4720-Troublemakers-Express-Way" target="_blank">Troublemakers - Highway Blues (Blue Note)</a></p><p> </p><p>Download available via Hearthis</p><p> </p><p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" allowtransparency="" frameborder="0" height="150" id="hearthis_at_track_2168248" scrolling="no" src="https://app.hearthis.at/embed/2168248/transparent_black/?hcolor=&color=&style=2&block_size=2&block_space=1&background=1&waveform=0&cover=0&autoplay=0&css=" width="100%"><p>Listen to <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/the-fragility-of-life/" target="_blank">The Fragility Of Life</a> <span>by</span><a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/" target="_blank" >Mixamorphosis</a> <span>on</span> <a href="https://hearthis.at/" target="_blank">hearthis.at</a></p></iframe> </p><p> </p>Mark Mcleodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727319448748090505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067736674548998016.post-89459461282098962542024-02-01T07:43:00.000-08:002024-02-01T07:43:51.843-08:00Fire Starter<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVRBSqoQM0pYlr0QeOrT_CJP3sHhtyJoOWLs3yDkRGezR9tC3viGSVg6NIdd2m3NSm6EqCEe-VHpMqxhgaEMYth6drpWq9rzb4WCWR1c6mvz3gbQieXkQ4NT8uBLTTItZCnPcLPIr4xEMx-9lLw5QWoZwy_DK8Tu6HUfVeCrmGYct2PzAHuTKvdszrguMF/s1024/IMG_0256.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVRBSqoQM0pYlr0QeOrT_CJP3sHhtyJoOWLs3yDkRGezR9tC3viGSVg6NIdd2m3NSm6EqCEe-VHpMqxhgaEMYth6drpWq9rzb4WCWR1c6mvz3gbQieXkQ4NT8uBLTTItZCnPcLPIr4xEMx-9lLw5QWoZwy_DK8Tu6HUfVeCrmGYct2PzAHuTKvdszrguMF/w640-h640/IMG_0256.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Looking back at notes I had attached to this one, I was just letting off some steam with a couple of ciders and a mix on the decks. At the time I was feeling like I needed to shake things up, I didn't, I normally don't. I've never been good at setting boundaries, saying 'no', though I may want to; so yeah, it was just how I was feeling at the time and probably still often do, I'm sure most feel that way from time to time.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The original cover I used was an image I found on Tumblr, so I've freshened it up with the help of some Ai graphic design with a little tweaking from a couple of design apps.</p><p><br /></p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/350989705&color=%2317171c&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=false" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="mixamorphosis">mixamorphosis</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis/fire-starter" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Fire Starter">Fire Starter</a></div><p> </p><p><b><u>Tracklist</u></b></p><p>01. <a href="https://psychemagik.bandcamp.com/album/psychemagik-archive-2009-2017" target="_blank">Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody (Psychemagick Edit) (Self Released)</a><br />02. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/2305651-LTJ-They-Call-It-Edit" target="_blank">LTJ - Light (It's A Small World Disco)</a><br />03. Paul McCartney & Wings - Let 'Em In (Dicky Trisco & Innerwest Soul Edit) (Unknown Label)<br />04. The Dead Rose Music Co. - Listen (Unknown Label)<br />05. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/6565448-Free-Association-Hristo-Free-Sensation-Heat-Market" target="_blank">Hristo - Heat Market (Common Edit)</a><br />06. <a href="https://eddiec.bandcamp.com/album/bike-014" target="_blank">Eddie C - From Afar (Red Motorbike)</a><br />07. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/4352975-LNTG-Tuff-Cut-01" target="_blank">Toto - Africa (LNTG Mix) (Tuff Cuts)</a><br />08. Keni Burke - Risin' To The Top (Matthew Kyle Edit) (Self Released)<br />09. Marvin & Guy - Alma Sagha (Self Released)<br />10. Mary Jane Girls - All Night Long (Unknown Edit) (Unknown Label)<br />11. Steely Dan - The Fez (Laura Ingalis WTF Is A Fez Edit?) (Self Released)<br />12. Marv N' Gaye - Make Me Wanna Holler (Magic Hat Edit) (Unknown Label)<br />13. Bill Withers - The Same Love (Whiskey Barons Edit) (Unknown Label)<br />14. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/158999-Various-OST-Original-Block-Party-Edits" target="_blank">Timmy Thomas - Why Can't We Live Together? (Block Party Edit) (EMI)</a><br />15. <a href="https://mojofilter.bandcamp.com/album/aor-disco-vintage-edits-vol-3" target="_blank">David Bowie - Fame (Mojo Filter Cognito Dub) (Self Released)</a><br />16. Capannis - Miracles (V Edit) (Unknown Label)<br />17. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/spaghetti-legs/stevie-wonder-i-wish-spaghetti" target="_blank">Stevie Wonder - I Wish (Spaghetti Legs Re-jig) (Self Released)</a><br />18. George McCrae - I Get Lifted (Mischief Brew Edit) (Unknown Label)<br /></p><p> </p><p>Download available at <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/fire-starter/" target="_blank">Hearthis</a></p><p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" allowtransparency="" frameborder="0" height="150" id="hearthis_at_track_1617404" scrolling="no" src="https://app.hearthis.at/embed/1617404/transparent_black/?hcolor=&color=&style=2&block_size=2&block_space=1&background=1&waveform=0&cover=0&autoplay=0&css=" width="100%"><p>Listen to <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/fire-starter/" target="_blank">Fire Starter</a> <span>by</span><a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/" target="_blank" >Mixamorphosis</a> <span>on</span> <a href="https://hearthis.at/" target="_blank">hearthis.at</a></p></iframe> </p><p> </p>Mark Mcleodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727319448748090505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067736674548998016.post-39843309974906934922024-01-30T09:36:00.000-08:002024-01-30T09:36:38.606-08:00Looking For The Light<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBAtReG5W8ZmKK2IPut-N2buJWsAtS0uyXI19HZ8QwmiD7TH0okXCTvVM5u465JRwztBAlFdF4uM9FT4btJbyxcO6H_HUcagetYqAk6etd7-6P4k5zc_xnFOQ0mzqZHgu2fIXpzpdkRD-ftKuhgGrpFs5lf1p2SIci5XK0Yl74cVQCwM29YeUVj45LG0Qq/s1024/IMG_0253.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBAtReG5W8ZmKK2IPut-N2buJWsAtS0uyXI19HZ8QwmiD7TH0okXCTvVM5u465JRwztBAlFdF4uM9FT4btJbyxcO6H_HUcagetYqAk6etd7-6P4k5zc_xnFOQ0mzqZHgu2fIXpzpdkRD-ftKuhgGrpFs5lf1p2SIci5XK0Yl74cVQCwM29YeUVj45LG0Qq/w640-h640/IMG_0253.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">According to what I wrote in the description on Soundcloud, I recorded this mix after doing nothing in a music / blog sense for a six month period. I can't remember exactly what it was that I had going on at the time, I think it was autumn 2017. I remember my Mum being in hospital a lot around that time. I think I had just lost a lot of hope and during the years where she needed increasing levels of care, support was minimal and my own life felt like it had fallen by the wayside. Social media and it's highlight reels compounded things over a long period and the title summed up how I was feeling - I was genuinely looking for something to aim for.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I wrote this down at the time and I think it reflects how I felt about being inundated with the highlight reels of social media versus where I was in my own mind and thinking of how my Mum would have been feeling - </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Some breeze through life, basked in a warm glow.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Some float in and out of the shadows,</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Whilst others have a seemingly unbroken search for the light.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I was never really happy with the original cover image. It was a photo of me, surrounded by darkness, with just a faint light on me. I had ran it through loads of filters and although it did come out great, I wasn't happy with me being in the image. So, as I'm doing with some of the cover I don't like, I've given it an update and I've been experimenting with Ai, photos, filters and various editing apps. I like this one much better!</p><p><br /></p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/348275399&color=%234c4c4c&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=false" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="mixamorphosis">mixamorphosis</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis/looking-for-the-light" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Looking For The Light">Looking For The Light</a></div><p> </p><p><b><u>Tracklist</u></b> </p><p>01. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/999472-Satie-Reinbert-de-Leeuw-Gnossiennes-Gymnop%C3%A9dies" target="_blank">Reinbert de Leeuw - Gymnopedie No. 3 (Philips)</a><br />02. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1229132-Arovane-Hior-Chronik-Into-My-Own-" target="_blank">Arovane & Hior Chronik - Stars Collide (A Strangely Isolated Place)</a><br />03. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/7547681-Commodity-Place-Requiem-For-a-Living-Planet" target="_blank">Commodity Place - Clouds Inside Me (Pocket Panther Records)</a><br />04. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1202341-Fovea-Hex-The-Salt-Garden-II" target="_blank">Fovea Hex - Piano Fields 1 (Headphone Dust)</a><br />05. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/7687465-Massimo-Amato-La-Centrale-Elettrica" target="_blank">Massimo Amato - 4 A.M (Affordable Inner Space)</a><br />06. <a href="https://scrimshire.bandcamp.com/album/ten" target="_blank">Scrimshire - A Place For Everything (Wah Wah 45's)</a><br />07. <a href="https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/uncharted-places" target="_blank">Parks - Black Day, Silver Sea (Stray Theories Mix) (A Strangely Isolated Place)</a><br />08. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/10484185-Jonny-Nash-Suzanne-Kraft-Passive-Aggressive" target="_blank">Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft - See Yourself Out Of The Way (Melody As Truth)</a><br />09. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/683116-Seahawks-Paradise-Freaks" target="_blank">Seahawks - Didn't Know I Was Lost (Ocean Moon)</a><br />10. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1199718-Hampshire-and-Foat-Galaxies-Like-Grains-Of-Sand" target="_blank">Hampshire & Foat - The Solar Winds (and Cadenza) (Athens Of The North)</a><br />11. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/306632-Mark-Almond-Rising" target="_blank">Mark-Almond - Monday Bluesong (Harvest)</a><br />12. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/281177-Chet-Baker-Chet-Baker-Strings" target="_blank">Chet Baker - The Wind (DOL)</a><br />13. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1092843-Sue-Barker-Sue-Barker" target="_blank">Sue Barker - Lover Man (Hot Casa Records)</a><br />14. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1073875-Beverly-Glenn-Copeland-Keyboard-Fantasies" target="_blank">Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Old Melody (Séance Centre)</a><br />15. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/9407247-Psychemagik-Ritual-Chants-Love" target="_blank">Man Parrish - Water Sports (Eskimo Recordings)</a><br />16. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1131829-Vangelis-Katsoulis-If-Not-Now-When" target="_blank">Vangelis Katsoulis - If Not Now, When? (Utopia Records)</a><br />17. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/17696-The-Cinematic-Orchestra-Ma-Fleur" target="_blank">The Cinematic Orchestra - Time & Space (Ninja Tune)</a><br /></p><p> </p><p>Download available via <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/looking-for-the-light/" target="_blank">Hearthis</a></p><p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" allowtransparency="" frameborder="0" height="150" id="hearthis_at_track_1600713" scrolling="no" src="https://app.hearthis.at/embed/1600713/transparent_black/?hcolor=&color=&style=2&block_size=2&block_space=1&background=1&waveform=0&cover=0&autoplay=0&css=" width="100%"><p>Listen to <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/looking-for-the-light/" target="_blank">Looking For The Light</a> <span>by</span><a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/" target="_blank" >Mixamorphosis</a> <span>on</span> <a href="https://hearthis.at/" target="_blank">hearthis.at</a></p></iframe> </p><p> </p>Mark Mcleodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727319448748090505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067736674548998016.post-76857681136548305042024-01-30T05:14:00.000-08:002024-01-30T05:14:04.059-08:00The Summer Of Malcontent<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9zAmhyROXDDRwkzAToJRzCxu-WrVjKhy6V2CxLAIy8F5zrBEtsCivxSUsCB4knSa3N5os2zNLwejazzjCIPR_zc9qr9fZZCcuKZQCGO8FfGX5MhAI4xhzSAH3cBy_mE12BlHoDidCQ3guSKoMfAOrLmh3tqbmxWXQugq0Uruh7BgDkxQmXPa40cJ8vZUT/s2048/The%20Summer%20Of%20Malcontent.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9zAmhyROXDDRwkzAToJRzCxu-WrVjKhy6V2CxLAIy8F5zrBEtsCivxSUsCB4knSa3N5os2zNLwejazzjCIPR_zc9qr9fZZCcuKZQCGO8FfGX5MhAI4xhzSAH3cBy_mE12BlHoDidCQ3guSKoMfAOrLmh3tqbmxWXQugq0Uruh7BgDkxQmXPa40cJ8vZUT/w640-h640/The%20Summer%20Of%20Malcontent.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This mix from 2017 was recorded before the Summer, but I remember feeling like we were either on the verge, or already in, a state of crisis. Whether speaking climate/environment, the polarisation in politics and the knock on to society, the self harming of Brexit, the unpredicatble nature of Trump. 2016 had been a turbulent year with terror attacks around the world, there was a lot of services breaking apart at the seams, people were struggling to make ends meet, there were strikes happening and protests around the world; so it just felt like things were coming to the boil. Who'd have thought we'd have ended up looking back from 2024 and thinking things were not so bad! </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Another factor in my thinking for the title was that back in the late 1970's there was a period of time in the UK where there
the economy was in a mess, there were frequent strikes, power cuts, 3
day working weeks and more besides. This period was known as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_Discontent" target="_blank">Winter of Discontent</a> and I played on that for the title of this mix. The mix wasn't planned at all, sometimes I listen back to a recording and think about what would suit the vibe or the progression of the sounds, the mood I am in, the feeling of the moment in current affairs. That's really how a lot of mixes get their names and covers.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The cover image is just looking through the trees I planted in my back garden (Himalayan Birch trees that have striking and beautiful white trunks all year round), towards the sunset, with a little added graphics from a design app on my phone.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/321426599&color=%23da894d&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=false" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="mixamorphosis">mixamorphosis</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis/the-summer-of-malcontent" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="The Summer Of Malcontent">The Summer Of Malcontent</a></div><p> </p><p><b><u>Tracklist</u></b></p><p>01. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/14539-UNKLE-Psyence-Fiction" target="_blank">UNKLE - Outro (Mo Wax)</a><br />02. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1131103-Lav-Purl-A-State-Of-Becoming" target="_blank">Lav & Purl - All Is Breath (A Strangely Isolated Place)</a><br />03. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1167102-Billow-Observatory-II-PlainsPatterns" target="_blank">Billow Observatory - Plains (Azure Vista Recordings)</a><br />04. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1165992-Gaussian-Curve-The-Distance" target="_blank">Gaussian Curve - T.O.R (Music From Memory)</a> <br />05. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1260767-Wilson-Tanner-69" target="_blank">Wilson Tanner - Further Than Your Headlights (Growing Bin Records)</a><br />06. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/9342338-Jonny-Nash-Suzanne-Kraft-Cristina-And-Carolina-Roberto-And-Giovanni" target="_blank">Suzanne Kraft - Roberto & Giovanni (Melody As Truth)</a><br />07. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1154699-Okinawa-Delays-Feat-Satoko-Ishimine-Nariyama-Ayagu" target="_blank">Okinawa Delays - Nariyama Ayagu (Claremont 56)</a><br />08. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/464247-Chris-Coco-Freedom-Street" target="_blank">Chris Coco - Splash Point (Melodica Recordings)</a><br />09. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/909005-Seahawks-Deep-Haul" target="_blank">Seahawks - Didn't Know I Was Lost (Black Peaches Remix) (Ocean Moon)</a><br />10. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/9830906-Bendith-EP" target="_blank">Bendith - Dinas (Aficionado Recordings)</a><br />11. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/707108-Mark-Barrott-Sketches-From-An-Island" target="_blank">Mark Barrott - Sacred Islands (International Feel Recordings)</a><br />12. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/8629150-Wolf-M%C3%BCller-Cass-The-Sound-Of-Glades" target="_blank">Wolf Muller & Cass. - Applepie Dreams (International Feel Recordings)</a><br />13. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/805674-Jon-Hopkins-LateNightTales" target="_blank">Evenings - Babe (Late Night Tales)</a><br />14. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/5702423-Slow-Magic-x-Sun-Glitters-Too-Much-To-Lose-Feel-Flows" target="_blank">Slow Magic - Feel Flows (Sun Glitters Remix) (LebenStrasse Records)</a><br />15. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/10087444-Various-Moon-Rock-4" target="_blank">Cale Parks - 36 Questions Sunset (Throne Of Blood)</a><br />16. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1157850-Farbror-Resande-Mac-Farbror-Resande-Mac-LP" target="_blank">Farbror Resande Mac - Vardagsrummet (Horisontal Mambo)</a><br />17. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/43000-Various-Xen-Cuts" target="_blank">Arcane - The Arc (Ninja Tune)</a><br />18. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/778932-36-Pulse-Dive" target="_blank">36 - Pulse Dive (3six Recordings)</a><br />19. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/124474-Telefuzz-Sleep" target="_blank">Telefuzz - If The Vice Is Right (Upstairs Recordings)</a><br />20. <a href="https://ambientsketchbook.bandcamp.com/album/the-bright-side" target="_blank">ambientsketchbook - Life In Slow Motion (Self Released)</a><br />21. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/jaschahagen/laurie-anderson-o-superman-jascha-hagen-remix" target="_blank">Laurie Anderson - Oh Superman (Jascha Hagen Remix) (Self Released)</a><br /></p><p> </p><p>Download available via <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/the-summer-of-malcontent/" target="_blank">Hearthis</a></p><p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" allowtransparency="" frameborder="0" height="150" id="hearthis_at_track_1316344" scrolling="no" src="https://app.hearthis.at/embed/1316344/transparent_black/?hcolor=&color=&style=2&block_size=2&block_space=1&background=1&waveform=0&cover=0&autoplay=0&css=" width="100%"><p>Listen to <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/the-summer-of-malcontent/" target="_blank">The Summer Of Malcontent</a> <span>by</span><a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/" target="_blank" >Mixamorphosis</a> <span>on</span> <a href="https://hearthis.at/" target="_blank">hearthis.at</a></p></iframe> </p><p> </p>Mark Mcleodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727319448748090505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067736674548998016.post-69332871073149485002024-01-29T14:16:00.000-08:002024-01-29T14:16:08.952-08:00Chilled Spring - Recolo<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbfphNwqypMuJpYhfDLvoNE8SmFoXbtvhZCbgs1yxc1V1K51sGpGlUXw3oY9ndiorSkoGeJawl4oUEZUV2o39qoEeSgUvEAYBcl-nCQ_K0z3ciCb7azxRavrcwayO2FoxnOGuQZXTjN3u53eaFbgI8JaJRdOiI9R1CyHFgSmbZSYwXe8VFYIK_9azIEX_Z/s1280/Chilled%20Spring%20Recolo.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1280" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbfphNwqypMuJpYhfDLvoNE8SmFoXbtvhZCbgs1yxc1V1K51sGpGlUXw3oY9ndiorSkoGeJawl4oUEZUV2o39qoEeSgUvEAYBcl-nCQ_K0z3ciCb7azxRavrcwayO2FoxnOGuQZXTjN3u53eaFbgI8JaJRdOiI9R1CyHFgSmbZSYwXe8VFYIK_9azIEX_Z/w640-h640/Chilled%20Spring%20Recolo.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">There's no huge back story to this. I really enjoyed doing the seasonal ambient / chillout mixes the year before, it was a new and interesting way of doing things for me and I wanted to go again, so I did. Recolo is Latin for 'recall' or 'revisit'. Just a lovely laid back selection from my shelves, ideal for relaxing and reading a book, or soaking in the bath. As it turned out, and I've no idea how or why, this is my most played mix on Soundcloud and is well into 4 digits at the time of writing.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The picture comes from a walled garden in Tenerife and I added a small design with an app on my phone, it strangely works, well for me.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/317321067&color=%238c7c84&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=false" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="mixamorphosis">mixamorphosis</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis/chilled-spring-recolo" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Chilled Spring - Recolo">Chilled Spring - Recolo</a></div><p> </p><p><b><u>Tracklist</u></b> </p><p><a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/10096847-Akis-Space-Time-and-Beyond-Selected-Works-1986-2016" target="_blank">Akis - Biofields (Into The Light Records)</a><br /> <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1123582-Cass-Youth-Sessions" target="_blank">Cass. - Your Beautiful Look Is Looping Endlessly In My Head (Emotional Response)</a><br /> <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/9932096-Suso-Saiz-Rainworks" target="_blank">Suso Saiz - The Hiding Place (El Escondite) (Music From Memory)</a><br /> <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1131829-Vangelis-Katsoulis-If-Not-Now-When" target="_blank">Vangelis Katsoulis - Liquidity (Utopia Records)</a><br /> <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/9887696-Jonny-Nash-Eden" target="_blank">Jonny Nash - Lime (Melody As Truth)</a><br /> <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/8289778-Mood-Hut-Snaker-007" target="_blank">Mood Hut - Late Mantra (Snaker)</a><br /> <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/26764-Susumu-Yokota-Sakura" target="_blank">Susumu Yokota - Azukiiro No Kaori (Leaf)</a><br /> <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/10087444-Various-Moon-Rock-4" target="_blank">Steve Cobby - Arvan (Out Take) (Throne Of Blood)</a><br /> <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1123608-Midori-Takada-Through-The-Looking-Glass" target="_blank">Midori Takada - Mr Henri Rousseau's Dream (We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want Records)</a><br /> <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1126871-36-Tomorrows-Explorers" target="_blank">36 - Poekhali (3six Recordings)</a><br /> <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1022856-Mark-Barrott-Sketches-From-An-Island-2-" target="_blank">Mark Barrott - Over At Dieter's Place (International Feel)</a><br /> <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1090456-Lord-Of-The-Isles-In-Waves" target="_blank">Lord Of The Isles - Obar Liobhaite (ESP Institute)</a><br /> <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1148324-Talaboman-The-Night-Land" target="_blank">Talaboman - Midnattssol (R&S Records)</a><br /> <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1132438-Vermont-II" target="_blank">Vermont - Ki-Bou (Kompakt)</a><br /> <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/9442906-P-Relief-D-PD-01" target="_blank">D - City Boy (Ambient Mix) (P&D)</a><br /> <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/786547-Jonny-Nash-Phantom-Actors" target="_blank">Jonny Nash - Retreat (Melody As Truth)</a><br /> <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/6888907-The-Phantom-12-Sad-City-Schlei%C3%9Fen-2" target="_blank">Sad City - Limbo (Emotional Response)</a><br /></p><p> </p><p>Download available via <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/chilled-spring-recolo/" target="_blank">Hearthis </a></p><p> <iframe allow="autoplay" allowtransparency="" frameborder="0" height="150" id="hearthis_at_track_1287971" scrolling="no" src="https://app.hearthis.at/embed/1287971/transparent_black/?hcolor=&color=&style=2&block_size=2&block_space=1&background=1&waveform=0&cover=0&autoplay=0&css=" width="100%"><p>Listen to <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/chilled-spring-recolo/" target="_blank">Chilled Spring - Recolo</a> <span>by</span><a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/" target="_blank" >Mixamorphosis</a> <span>on</span> <a href="https://hearthis.at/" target="_blank">hearthis.at</a></p></iframe> </p><p> </p>Mark Mcleodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727319448748090505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067736674548998016.post-66637069941792945422024-01-29T13:28:00.000-08:002024-01-29T13:53:32.132-08:00Back To Mine 1<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTYIWoC1BRzJ00o8X9bUFXGztYZ1NjQJx-pqa_cLOnY7dIXJ6XPSzAsCqkbH-hOV6NDcD0bTsbvniHgUUZR4gBQyrcac9I-QM_B68yTHMwGD7_9kKvGbYO0jqsDieTnn0-XnI3COsUFfSQtU02LBDIKDzTbm7nyaWR46_VX7jkr9SC8BtjAmoDIwHpVplC/s1440/Back%20To%20Mine%201.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTYIWoC1BRzJ00o8X9bUFXGztYZ1NjQJx-pqa_cLOnY7dIXJ6XPSzAsCqkbH-hOV6NDcD0bTsbvniHgUUZR4gBQyrcac9I-QM_B68yTHMwGD7_9kKvGbYO0jqsDieTnn0-XnI3COsUFfSQtU02LBDIKDzTbm7nyaWR46_VX7jkr9SC8BtjAmoDIwHpVplC/w640-h640/Back%20To%20Mine%201.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This "mix" (it's not a mix) was part of the planned contributions to follow on from the seasonal mix series that I was a part of on Balearic Social. That series originated from a fairly off the cuff comment I posted on my Facebook, if you look back through previous posts, you'll find the background to that.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Towards the end of that series, I had suggested a follow up series to emulate the wonderful <a href="https://www.discogs.com/label/400162-Back-To-Mine" target="_blank">Back To Mine</a> series that ran through the DMC label from the late 90's to late 00's and featured some excellent acts like Groove Armada, Faithless, Underworld and Carl Cox, to name but a few. That original series was about (as far as I can remember) music that you'd hear if you went "<i>back to theirs</i>", after your night out clubbing etc, but it was also often used as a vehicle to plug their own musical projects. The idea to do a Back To Mine type thing was always in the back of my mind and it <i>seemed</i> like a good time to try take that forward. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The original cast from the seasonal series were mostly involved, but this one started growing arms and legs in a direction that didn't work for me. To my mind, the whole idea was that it was a platform to express a wider flavour of music that you love, perhaps introduce listeners to things they might not otherwise hear, or remember things you'd forgotten about, with a clear emphasis on <b>not</b> being focussed on dj-ing or mixing, or pulling the most expensive records out of your collection, and it felt like as more people got on board, that was the way contributions went, and the original concept was devalued. That's just my opinion of course, people can (and did) do what they want.... but if I wanted to listen to bog standard dj mixes, the latest releases off Juno's chart, I could just go to their mixcloud and pick anything randomly and it wouldn't sound much different to what some were sharing as Back To Mine. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">So, for my own part (and I've got more Back To Mine style selections to come), there's no focus on mixing, it's not about trying to be obscure, or showing off vinyl rarities on my shelves. It's just music that I love, from over a long time, different points of life with different meaning and stories behind them. Like the opening track, was a song I used on a DVD I made for my Mum where I compiled lots of photos that meant something to her and backed them up with a combination of music she loved and music I picked. Or, the Darondo track which I first heard through the amazing scene in Breaking Bad where Walter White blew up the loudmouth bankers car in the petrol station, and Walter walks away feeling very proud and bad ass about himself. There's something behind each of them for me, and there's little point in writing it all out here seeing how there's very little interest in what I'm doing here. It's taking a lot of effort just bringing some order to the blog as it is, and that's my main focus for here just now.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">So, onto the music. I think that as most of these tracks aren't too difficult to track down if you want them for yourself. Ebay will probably be the cheap option, but I'll link to the Discogs sources from where I have them on my own shelves and if you decide to hunt via ebay it might make it easier.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">** Oh, I almost forgot to add a little about the cover image! Behind where I took the photo for the cover (by around a mile) is where I currently live. So, literally I have my back to mine. Now.... music.....</p><p><br /></p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/929101480&color=%23782f1d&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=false" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="mixamorphosis">mixamorphosis</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis/back-to-mine-march-2017" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Back To Mine - March 2017">Back To Mine - March 2017</a></div><p> </p><p><b><u>Tracklist</u></b> </p><p>01. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/6950806-Sarah-Vaughan-Sarah-Vaughan" target="_blank">Sarah Vaughan - September Song (DOL)</a><br />02. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/7049826-Nina-Simone-At-The-Village-Gate" target="_blank">Nina Simone - House Of The Rising Sun (Live At The Village Gate) (Vinyl Passion)</a><br />03. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/3051333-Odetta-The-Essential-Odetta" target="_blank">Odetta - Down On Me (Vanguard)</a><br />04. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/3951778-Harry-Nilsson-Nilsson-Schmilsson" target="_blank">Harry Nilsson - The Moonbeam Song (Fame)</a><br />05. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/102034-Mark-Almond-Mark-Almond" target="_blank">Mark-Almond - The City (Harvest)</a><br />06. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/20861473-Jos%C3%A9-Gonz%C3%A1lez-Veneer" target="_blank">Jose Gonzalez - Crosses (Peacefrog)</a><br />07. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/487203-JJ-Cale-Anyway-The-Wind-Blows-The-Anthology" target="_blank">JJ Cale - Magnolia (Mercury)</a><br />08. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/1831459-Fink-Sort-Of-Revolution" target="_blank">Fink - Sort Of Revolution (The Cinematic Orchestra Mix) (Ninja Tune)</a><br />09. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/27201-Bruce-Springsteen-The-Rising" target="_blank">Bruce Springsteen - Nothing Man (Columbia)</a><br />10. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/303154-Lesley-Duncan-Sing-Children-Sing" target="_blank">Lesley Duncan - Love Song (CBS)</a><br />11. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/156978-Darondo-Let-My-People-Go" target="_blank">Darondo - Didn't I? (Luv N' Haight)</a><br />12. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/77520-Arrested-Development-People-Everyday" target="_blank">Arrested Development - People Everyday (7" Metamorphosis Edit) (Cooltempo)</a><br />13. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/337086-Pastor-T-L-Barrett-And-The-Youth-For-Christ-Choir-Like-A-Ship-Without-A-Sail-" target="_blank">Pastor T.L Barrett & The Youth For Christ Choir - Like A Ship (Light In The Attic)</a><br />14. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/45922-A-Tribe-Called-Quest-The-Low-End-Theory" target="_blank">A Tribe Called Quest - Jazz (Jive)</a><br />15. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/161304-William-DeVaughn-Be-Thankful-For-What-You-Got" target="_blank">William de Vaughn - Be Thankful For What You Got (Chelsea)</a><br />16. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/159670-Cody-ChesnuTT-The-Headphone-Masterpiece" target="_blank">Cody ChesnuTT - Serve This Royalty (One Little Indian)</a><br />17. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/62684-KRS-One-KRS-ONE" target="_blank">KRS One - Health, Wealth & Self (Jive)</a><br />18. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/1363823-Marvin-Gaye-Whats-Going-On" target="_blank">Marvin Gaye - What's Going On? (Tamla)</a><br />19. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/172839-Margie-Joseph-Margie-Joseph" target="_blank">Margie Joseph - I Been Down (Atlantic)</a><br />20. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/9246742-Arnold-Blair-Trying-To-Get-Next-To-You-I-Won-The-Big-Deal-This-Time" target="_blank">Arnold Blair - Trying To Get Next To You (Soul Jazz)</a><br />21. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/4986365-Sylvia-Striplin-You-Cant-Turn-Me-Away-Searchin" target="_blank">Sylvia Striplin - You Can't Turn Me Away (Uno Melodic)</a><br />22. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/36564-The-JBs-Funky-Good-Time-The-Anthology" target="_blank">Fred Wesley & The JB's - If You Don't Get It The First Time, Back Up And Try Again (Polydor)</a><br />23. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/4789128-Joe-Bataan-Under-The-Streetlamps-Anthology-1967-72" target="_blank">Joe Bataan - Gypsy Woman (Fania)</a><br />24. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/30117-Curtis-Mayfield-Curtis" target="_blank">Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up (Extended Version) (Curtom)</a><br />25. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1173696-Various-Northern-Soul-20-Original-Classics" target="_blank">Gloria Jones - Tainted Love (Spectrum)</a><br />26. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/3364858-Jackie-Wilson-Sweetest-Feelin-The-Very-Best-Of" target="_blank">Jackie Wilson - (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher (Music Club)</a><br />27. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/17110-Steely-Dan-The-Very-Best-Of-Steely-Dan-Reelin-In-The-Years" target="_blank">Steely Dan - Reelin' In The Years (MCA)</a><br />28. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/136128-Tritons-I-Cant-Get-No-Satisfaction" target="_blank">Tritons - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Barclay)</a></p><p> </p><p>Also available on <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/back-to-mine-mixamorphosis/" target="_blank">Hearthis</a></p><p> <iframe allow="autoplay" allowtransparency="" frameborder="0" height="150" id="hearthis_at_track_1263518" scrolling="no" src="https://app.hearthis.at/embed/1263518/transparent_black/?hcolor=&color=&style=2&block_size=2&block_space=1&background=1&waveform=0&cover=0&autoplay=0&css=" width="100%"><p>Listen to <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/back-to-mine-mixamorphosis/" target="_blank">Back To Mine</a> <span>by</span><a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/" target="_blank" >Mixamorphosis</a> <span>on</span> <a href="https://hearthis.at/" target="_blank">hearthis.at</a></p></iframe> </p><p> </p>Mark Mcleodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727319448748090505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067736674548998016.post-6355228209145357852024-01-29T09:32:00.000-08:002024-01-29T09:32:59.122-08:00Autumn Chillin'<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCnYLesVGxO-To2mkmx5yoiLVdKyHhezM7Ox8UpyapOUOgkWQYeqOgb4oBB9W0ylQilMbVS3TrCCqZW0SMfY5d7jJvr6oy-wn5TFh8dnbqTza3AYCpZAcvA-YcUXrDmYUT9vggxhLsX5LJelS77RT83ChYzx0CvkmTOOQEvX_G2tTDEQgUvMQfAckggFJH/s1440/result(2)(1).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCnYLesVGxO-To2mkmx5yoiLVdKyHhezM7Ox8UpyapOUOgkWQYeqOgb4oBB9W0ylQilMbVS3TrCCqZW0SMfY5d7jJvr6oy-wn5TFh8dnbqTza3AYCpZAcvA-YcUXrDmYUT9vggxhLsX5LJelS77RT83ChYzx0CvkmTOOQEvX_G2tTDEQgUvMQfAckggFJH/w640-h640/result(2)(1).png" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This was my final contribution to the seasonal series of mixes that started at the tail end of 2015. You'll find <a href="https://www.mixamorphosis.com/2024/01/chilled-summer.html" target="_blank">Chilled Summer</a>, <a href="https://www.mixamorphosis.com/2024/01/chilled-spring.html" target="_blank">Chilled Spring</a> and <a href="https://www.mixamorphosis.com/2024/01/winter-chill-part-1.html" target="_blank">Winter Chill</a> (plus the bonus <a href="https://www.mixamorphosis.com/2024/01/winter-chill-peractio.html" target="_blank">Winter Chill Peractio</a>) on the links behind each title. You'll find out more about the series via those links, though it's probably self explanatory. I actually quite like the contributions I put in, perhaps not so much the Summer one, but this one and the Winter ones do feel to me that they represent the season quite well in terms of atmospherics, perhaps that's just my own interpretation though. This was aired on Balearic Social radio show on Halloween, 2016 which is why I included the final track.<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I'll be posting lots more chillout mixes as I get this blog sorted out. I want it to be my corner of the internet that reflects me, what I've done and what I've enjoyed (or not sometimes), so if you enjoy this, there'll be more to come.</p><p><br /></p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/928779142&color=%23523222&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=false" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="mixamorphosis">mixamorphosis</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis/autumn-chillin-part-9" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Autumn Chillin'">Autumn Chillin'</a></div><p> </p><p><b><u>Tracklist</u></b> </p><p>01. <a href="https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/in-memory" target="_blank">Parks - The Breath Of Autumn (A Strangely Isolated Place)</a><br />02. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/8735684-Quinn-Lamont-Luke-Temporadas" target="_blank">Quinn Lamont Luke - Invierno (Aficionado)</a><br />03. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/8543487-Various-VA-2" target="_blank">Commodity Place - Life Is A Gorgeous Lie (La Beauté du Négatif)</a><br />04. <a href="https://aimusic1.bandcamp.com/album/ai-2" target="_blank">Ai - Archaic Iftar (Hauch)</a><br />05. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/9053302-Wolf-M%C3%BCller-Cass-The-Sound-Of-Glades-Remixes" target="_blank">Wolf Muller & Cass. - Aiolos (Cass. Version) (International Feel)</a><br />06. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/8633224-Bartosz-Kruczy%C5%84ski-Baltic-Beat" target="_blank">Bartosz Kruczynski - Supplement 1 (Growing Bin Records)</a><br />07. <a href="https://sasha.bandcamp.com/album/late-night-tales-presents-sasha-scene-delete" target="_blank">Sasha - Linepulse (Late Night Tales)</a><br />08. <a href="https://touched.bandcamp.com/album/touched-3" target="_blank">Paolo Morena - Oh Yeah (Black Chapel 6am Remix) (Touched)</a><br />09. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/996766-Cantoma-Just-Landed" target="_blank">Cantoma - Claudio's Theme (Highwood Recordings)</a><br />10. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/9096896-Krakatau-Tharsis-MontesApogean-Tide" target="_blank">Krakatau - Apogean Tide (Growing Bin Records)</a><br />11. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/335818-Various-Psychedelic-Jazz-16-Smoking-Tunes" target="_blank">Julie Driscoll with Brian Auger & The Trinity - Season Of The Witch (Boutique)</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Download available via <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/autumn-chillin-ix-mixamorphosis/" target="_blank">Hearthis</a> <br /></p><p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" allowtransparency="" frameborder="0" height="150" id="hearthis_at_track_1093403" scrolling="no" src="https://app.hearthis.at/embed/1093403/transparent_black/?hcolor=&color=&style=2&block_size=2&block_space=1&background=1&waveform=0&cover=0&autoplay=0&css=" width="100%"><p>Listen to <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/autumn-chillin-ix-mixamorphosis/" target="_blank">Autumn Chillin'</a> <span>by</span><a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/" target="_blank" >Mixamorphosis</a> <span>on</span> <a href="https://hearthis.at/" target="_blank">hearthis.at</a></p></iframe> </p><p> </p>Mark Mcleodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727319448748090505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067736674548998016.post-47221850842672546412024-01-29T08:08:00.000-08:002024-01-29T08:24:11.203-08:00The Chillout Sessions - Guest Mix<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVtB98bYoo2o_L-o71iNDk9bsretbNrQTo6es4cbm47x1g-SSoZBH-GrbokKTCpg3q70TCpO6hrtibBPEoKpjNlNcmUrocSHx_riRUJlCttX0-wdEEDIMt7w_y0TPQPGjYi4AcKiq48nUMWrWniUhPwHgsn3fGXTs_OyNbqdFLffUnsNheiUqHdc2zpHBY/s1440/result(1).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVtB98bYoo2o_L-o71iNDk9bsretbNrQTo6es4cbm47x1g-SSoZBH-GrbokKTCpg3q70TCpO6hrtibBPEoKpjNlNcmUrocSHx_riRUJlCttX0-wdEEDIMt7w_y0TPQPGjYi4AcKiq48nUMWrWniUhPwHgsn3fGXTs_OyNbqdFLffUnsNheiUqHdc2zpHBY/w640-h640/result(1).png" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This mix was put together for Woodzee who was the host of The Chillout Sessions show on Box Frequency FM and it was my last ever contribution to the station, aired on Christmas Day 2016. 21 mixes I provided, 7 guest mixes and 14 from myself. It closed for good around a year or so later.<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I still miss the station, I think I said in a previous post, it wasn't just a music station, there was a real community feel around it with a lot of regular names and faces, not just in terms of shows and hosts but also people tuning in to listen, chatting in the website chatroom and interacting on social media. It was all lost at the flick of the switch. I also felt really disappointed that I didn't get the chance to be involved in any of the final shows during the final run in, but it is what it is. As much as I'd like these things to come back and re-establish that community feel, I think the time has been and gone, which is genuinely a sad thing.</p><p><br /></p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/303390154&color=%235090a5&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=false" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="mixamorphosis">mixamorphosis</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis/the-chillout-sessions-guest-mix-dec-2016" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="The Chillout Sessions Guest Mix - Dec 2016">The Chillout Sessions Guest Mix - Dec 2016</a></div><p> </p><p><b><u>Tracklist</u></b> </p><p>01. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/8596120-Tongues-Of-Light-Channelled-Messages-At-The-End-Of-History" target="_blank">Tongues Of Light - Awakening (Ending) (Pre-Cert Home Entertainment)</a><br />02. <a href="https://55cancrie.bandcamp.com/album/att-l-mna-tellus" target="_blank">55 Cancri e - Alltid Du (Music For Dreams)</a><br />03. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/9325755-Samo-DJ-Maxxxbass-Snaker-008" target="_blank">Samo DJ & Maxxxbass - Free Yourself From The Misery Of Existence (Snaker)</a><br />04. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1079127-36-The-Infinity-Room" target="_blank">36 - Room 5 (A Strangely Isolated Place)</a><br />05. <a href="https://phantomisland.bandcamp.com/album/postcards-from-phantom-island-international-edition" target="_blank">Fuga Ronto - Daydreams (Phantom Island)</a><br />06. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/7376561-Klaus-Lunde-Exerxes-EP" target="_blank">Klaus Lunde - Goodbye (Drum Island Records)</a><br />07. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/9325755-Samo-DJ-Maxxxbass-Snaker-008" target="_blank">Samo DJ & Maxxxbass - Transfer 2 Nangijala (Snaker)</a><br />08. <a href="https://dreemsdreems.bandcamp.com/album/in-dreems" target="_blank">Dreems - In The Desert (Album Version) (Multi Culti)</a><br />09. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/920035-Karamika-Karamika-" target="_blank">Karamika - Ton 5 (ESP Institute)</a><br />10. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/604361-Darkside-Psychic" target="_blank">Darkside - Metatron (Other People)</a><br />11. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/7391490-Vakula-Dedicated-To-Jim-Morrison" target="_blank">Vakula - For Jim (Leleka)</a><br />12. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/8044882-Various-Leo-Mas-Presents-Mediterraneo-Rare-Balearica-Vol-1-Sampler-2-" target="_blank">Aktuala - Dejanira (Music For Dreams)</a><br />13. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/817841-Kettenkarussell-Easy-Listening" target="_blank">Kettenkarussell - Of Course (Giegling)</a><br />14. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/8596120-Tongues-Of-Light-Channelled-Messages-At-The-End-Of-History" target="_blank">Tongues Of Light - Healing (Ending) (Pre-Cert Home Entertainment)</a><br /></p><p> </p><p>Download available via <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/the-chillout-sessions-guest-mix-dec-2016/" target="_blank">Hearthis </a></p><p> <br /></p><p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" allowtransparency="" frameborder="0" height="150" id="hearthis_at_track_1643625" scrolling="no" src="https://app.hearthis.at/embed/1643625/transparent_black/?hcolor=&color=&style=2&block_size=2&block_space=1&background=1&waveform=0&cover=0&autoplay=0&css=" width="100%"><p>Listen to <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/the-chillout-sessions-guest-mix-dec-2016/" target="_blank">The Chillout Sessions - Guest Mix</a> <span>by</span><a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/" target="_blank" >Mixamorphosis</a> <span>on</span> <a href="https://hearthis.at/" target="_blank">hearthis.at</a></p></iframe> </p><p><br /></p>Mark Mcleodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727319448748090505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067736674548998016.post-72945795634558788172024-01-29T07:03:00.000-08:002024-01-29T07:03:29.858-08:00On Vacation 4<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxShr6JwzwxWhtlgI45x30O0X3XZCHoY6p3GCuDnpFcs0h1LvKophfubqwkjfPgq4QJkOjeFISpHGQ_WRqld5aNCODG04btc7XUGIBIHBVsHD2VO-WrJoyAkPFrAQ1OjJhSNtDUsgr7zPZXeMeRU3NKZ8kE8APrE8Ny2BVIa1RBeqCOk8v7ChdKQ_FSXEY/s5760/On%20Vaction%20IV%20(02).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5760" data-original-width="5760" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxShr6JwzwxWhtlgI45x30O0X3XZCHoY6p3GCuDnpFcs0h1LvKophfubqwkjfPgq4QJkOjeFISpHGQ_WRqld5aNCODG04btc7XUGIBIHBVsHD2VO-WrJoyAkPFrAQ1OjJhSNtDUsgr7zPZXeMeRU3NKZ8kE8APrE8Ny2BVIa1RBeqCOk8v7ChdKQ_FSXEY/w640-h640/On%20Vaction%20IV%20(02).jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This is the most recent installment of the On Vacation mixes that I would post before I headed off on a short break, and this one is from 2016/17 and it hasn't been posted on the blog before. It's a mix of house music with heavy lean into funk, soul and disco and edits that work well in amongst those kind of tracks. As David Kenney from APR once said... Everything's An Edit Anyway, and I think this mix with the samples and cheeky reworkings shows that isn't too far from the truth.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">As for the mix itself, I really enjoy this one BUT there is one very frustrating bit during the Blueboy track where the recording glitches momentarily. The recording software on my computer can freeze on occasion, and then clicks back into action a moment or two later. I can only assume that happened here but as annoying as it is, I like the mix and I share it regardless... at least it's not a train wreck mix from me!</p><p><br /></p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/295941319&color=%23dbe993&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=false" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="mixamorphosis">mixamorphosis</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis/on-vacation-iv" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="On Vacation - IV">On Vacation - IV</a></div><p> </p><p><b><u>Tracklist</u></b></p><p>01. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1474796-Keyboard-Masher-KM-Editions-8" target="_blank">Keyboard Masher - I'm Still Qualified (KM Editions)</a><br />02. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/9218866-Admin-Ltd-10s-Vol-4" target="_blank">Admin - Reach For Love (Kolour Ltd)</a><br />03. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1076676-Folamour-Make-Believe-Disco-No-1" target="_blank">Folamour - Dream To Love (Make Believe Disco)</a><br />04. <a href="https://lumberjacksinhell.bandcamp.com/album/from-hell-with-love-5-years-of-lumberjacks-in-hell" target="_blank">FYI Chris - Banana Bread (Lumberjacks In Hell)</a><br />05. <a href="https://frankbooker.bandcamp.com/album/dd-edits" target="_blank">Frank Booker - Sequence Of Movement (Frank Booker Edit) (Disco Deviance)</a><br />06. <a href="https://pontchartrain.bandcamp.com/album/ld01-burnin-ep" target="_blank">Pontchartrain - Huggin' (Lovedancing)</a><br />07. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/74137-The-BlueBoy-Sandman" target="_blank">The Blueboy - Sandman (Sidewalk Music)</a><br />08. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/4901489-Fatneck-Lucci-Capri-Messalina-Volume-9" target="_blank">Fatneck - Fool (Fatneck Edit) (Messalina)</a><br />09. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/3027858-Various-Eros" target="_blank">Marvin / First Choice - After The Dance / Let No Man Put Asunder (Eros)</a><br />10. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/6625144-Various-Long-Weekend-Volume-2" target="_blank">Closed Paradise - You Got It Goin' On (Long Weekend Records)</a><br />11. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/5030750-Various-Editors-Kutz-2" target="_blank">Late Nite Tuff Guy - Say U Love Me (Editor'z Kutz)</a><br />12. <a href="https://banoffeepiesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-feelings-bp001" target="_blank">Mr Mendal - Freakin' (Banoffee Pies)</a><br />13. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/7168413-BG-Baarregaard-Closed-Paradise-Summer-Of-My-Life-EP" target="_blank">Closed Paradise - Breakin' Down (Whiskey Disco)</a><br />14. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/8342192-Djsounds-Moving" target="_blank">Djsounds - Casa Suave (Djsounds)</a><br />15. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/8649345-Man-Power-Thnk-U-Ablett" target="_blank">Man Power Thnk U (Stamp Records)</a><br />16. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/8748468-The-Popular-Peoples-Front-EP" target="_blank">The Popular Peoples Front - Risky (Sleazy Beats Black Ops)</a><br />17. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/923979-Tim-Zawada-Tugboat-Edits-Volume-3" target="_blank">Tim Zawada - Do You Like Me? (Tugboat Edits)</a><br />18. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/marvin-and-guy/walter-jackson-good-to-see-you-marvin-guy-disco-deluxe-edit" target="_blank">Walter Jackson - Good To See You (Marvin & Guy Edit) (Self Released)</a><br />19. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/pontchartrain/david-bowie-lets-dance-pontchartrain-remixfree-dl" target="_blank">David Bowie - Let's Dance (Pontchartrain Edit) (Self Released)</a><br />20. Fleetwood Mac - World Turning (Ray Mang Edit) (Unknown Label)<br />21. <a href="https://psychemagik.bandcamp.com/album/psychemagik-archive-2009-2017" target="_blank">Wings - Love Is Strange (Psychemagik Edit) (Self Released)</a><br />22. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/luxxedits4u/feel-that-heat?in=luxxury/sets/luxxury-edits-1" target="_blank">Luxxury - Feel That Heat (Self Released)</a><br /></p><p> </p><p>Download available via <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/on-vacation-iv/" target="_blank">Hearthis</a></p><p> <br /></p><p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" allowtransparency="" frameborder="0" height="150" id="hearthis_at_track_1292537" scrolling="no" src="https://app.hearthis.at/embed/1292537/transparent_black/?hcolor=&color=&style=2&block_size=2&block_space=1&background=1&waveform=0&cover=0&autoplay=0&css=" width="100%"><p>Listen to <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/on-vacation-iv/" target="_blank">On Vacation - IV</a> <span>by</span><a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/" target="_blank" >Mixamorphosis</a> <span>on</span> <a href="https://hearthis.at/" target="_blank">hearthis.at</a></p></iframe> </p><p> </p>Mark Mcleodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727319448748090505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067736674548998016.post-53852910196469682932024-01-28T09:53:00.000-08:002024-01-28T09:53:38.356-08:00The Mix With No Name<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipQQF4VVl6H9I72Ve6Sw-7PL6lAEVUbZEtPchvryY1HTPC-DFAz6jrDbP292Fi8HwyJ60eIBcmqvbJKoTjRoRj1pI4S7e1eGbc6cMg3shY7Lmy5pKZZvejE-GWMsKcZAC2MtIhZvwG1lPOjgAHZpTsdNxYmKCPgsZtQ-OaTk9gJ5LCX1NORV9TaKe6ZIAa/s750/The%20Mix%20With%20No%20Name.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="750" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipQQF4VVl6H9I72Ve6Sw-7PL6lAEVUbZEtPchvryY1HTPC-DFAz6jrDbP292Fi8HwyJ60eIBcmqvbJKoTjRoRj1pI4S7e1eGbc6cMg3shY7Lmy5pKZZvejE-GWMsKcZAC2MtIhZvwG1lPOjgAHZpTsdNxYmKCPgsZtQ-OaTk9gJ5LCX1NORV9TaKe6ZIAa/w640-h640/The%20Mix%20With%20No%20Name.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This was just another mix where I hit the record and this came out of it. I think for the most part it's not too bad and there are some really fantastic tunes on here. It's another occasion where I'm listening back to an older mix and finding love for tracks that I've not heard probably since doing this mix. I thin the name came about because I'd watched The Man With No Name, so I adopted it for my own needs.</p><p>I kind of struggle to get my head around genres, sub genres, sub sub genres, alt genres.... you get the idea. For me, this is a mix of deep house that moves into shade of tech/techno. Perhaps that wouldn't be everyone's definition, don't @ me.<br /></p><p><br /></p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/281177192&color=%232c2c2c&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=false" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="mixamorphosis">mixamorphosis</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis/the-mix-with-no-name" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="The Mix With No Name">The Mix With No Name</a></div><p> </p><p><b><u>Tracklist</u></b> </p><p>01. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/8508694-Various-Limited-Series-02" target="_blank">Contours & Yadava - Pistachios (Banofee Pies)</a><br />02. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/8636802-Various-20-Years-Of-Freerange" target="_blank">Soul Of Hex - Jynmu (Freerange)</a><br />03. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/5375889-Walter-Jones-A-Night-In-Newark" target="_blank">Walter Jones - A Night In Newark (Permanent Vacation)</a><br />04. Vin Sol - Atlantic Avenue (Unknown Label)<br />05. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/328923-Todd-Terje-Ragysh" target="_blank">Todd Terje - Bonysh (Running Back)</a> <br />06. <a href="https://rbma.bandcamp.com/album/various-assets-not-for-sale-red-bull-music-academy-madrid-2011" target="_blank">The Heartbreak Kids - Walking Into A Prior Dream (Red Bull Music Academy)</a><br />07. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/623653-John-Talabot-DJ-Kicks" target="_blank">Samo DJ - Tai Po Kau (!K7)</a><br />08. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1050914-Dude-Energy-Dude-Energy" target="_blank">Dude Energy - Renee Running (Animals Dancing)</a><br />09. <a href="https://www.junodownload.com/products/apple-jazz-human-ep/2067617-02/" target="_blank">Apple Jazz - Church Street (Black Error Recordings)</a><br />10. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/507200-Barnt-Is-This-What-They-Were-Born-For" target="_blank">Barnt - Is This What They Were Born For? (Magazine)</a><br />11. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/503188-BotOx-Basement-Love" target="_blank">Bot ‘Ox - Basement Love (Pachanga Boys Remix)</a><br />12. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/8333700-Marvin-Guy-Music-For-Race" target="_blank">Marvin & Guy - Targa (Long Drive Version) (Correspondant)</a><br />13. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/2511037-Caribou-Sun-Leave-House-Motor-City-Drum-Ensemble-Remix" target="_blank">Caribou - Leave House (MCDE Remix) (City Slang)</a><br />14. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/367265-Julio-Bashmore-Everyone-Needs-A-Theme-Tune" target="_blank">Julio Bashmore - Battle For Middle You (PMR Records)</a><br />15. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/8649657-Hardway-Bros-Pleasure-EP" target="_blank">Hardway Bros - Pleasure Cry (Tuff City Kids Remix) (Throne Of Blood)</a><br />16. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/8191916-Tee-Mango-Tribute-4" target="_blank">Tee Mango - Time Is Up (Millionhands Black)</a><br />17. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/4865126-Mzkbx-Dumm-Beat" target="_blank">MZKBX - Dumm Beat (Samo DJ Remix) (Macadam Mambo)</a><br />18. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/7121290-Junto-Club-Club-Junto" target="_blank">Junto Club - Leaving Forever (Optimo Music)</a><br />19. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/6951100-Red-Axes-Rouge-M%C3%A9canique-Special-Delivery" target="_blank">Red Axes - Der Sexa (Edit Service)</a><br />20. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/8591686-AA-Special-Delivery" target="_blank">Unknown - Lapi (Edit Service 002) (Edit Service)</a><br /></p><p> </p><p>Download available via <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/the-mix-with-no-name/" target="_blank">Hearthis</a></p><p> </p><p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" allowtransparency="" frameborder="0" height="150" id="hearthis_at_track_1026270" scrolling="no" src="https://app.hearthis.at/embed/1026270/transparent_black/?hcolor=&color=&style=2&block_size=2&block_space=1&background=1&waveform=0&cover=0&autoplay=0&css=" width="100%"><p>Listen to <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/the-mix-with-no-name/" target="_blank">The Mix With No Name</a> <span>by</span><a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/" target="_blank" >Mixamorphosis</a> <span>on</span> <a href="https://hearthis.at/" target="_blank">hearthis.at</a></p></iframe> </p><p> </p>Mark Mcleodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727319448748090505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067736674548998016.post-40303445985659191992024-01-28T06:53:00.000-08:002024-01-28T06:53:06.628-08:00Chilled Summer<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf-qPcG9AtbFifTJnLYeg2setaX6yn7tS0XBTxp-peF0VmnlTZLqxqekLY5O6xCNe1PSkz7D5wMJSsoeKIUuC0WxiZYVy4mj6zVEfEV-giuV5gRQI-j6kyNu9ZqGwgm93lfgVmDhJXFMJfLgjgWt72p0o302sMePv7K9he0W9u6bk7fAkfJhg-0-tS4eZf/s1440/result(3)(1).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf-qPcG9AtbFifTJnLYeg2setaX6yn7tS0XBTxp-peF0VmnlTZLqxqekLY5O6xCNe1PSkz7D5wMJSsoeKIUuC0WxiZYVy4mj6zVEfEV-giuV5gRQI-j6kyNu9ZqGwgm93lfgVmDhJXFMJfLgjgWt72p0o302sMePv7K9he0W9u6bk7fAkfJhg-0-tS4eZf/w640-h640/result(3)(1).png" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This was my contribution to the continuing series of seasonal chillout mixes that were aired on the Balearic Social radio show. I don't think this is my best selection, not that it's bad, or that I don't like the tracks, I just think it's a bit all over the place and it doesn't really scream summer chill to me. If I could do any of the mixes from that series again, it would be this one for sure. Anyway, here it is, despite how I feel about it. There'll be more that I like even less that I'll be re-posting down the line in my aim to have this space reflecting the things I've done over the years - good, bad or in between; what's amazing to one might be terrible to another, and vice versa, so I figure why not just share them all, regardless of my own thoughts.</p><p><br /></p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/929653912&color=%23983498&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=false" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="mixamorphosis">mixamorphosis</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis/chilled-summer-part-6" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Chilled Summer - Part 6">Chilled Summer - Part 6</a></div><p> </p><p><b><u>Tracklist</u></b> </p><p>01. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/Wilson-Tanner-69/release/8321610" target="_blank">Wilson Tanner - Sun Room (Growing Bin Records)</a><br />02. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1022856-Mark-Barrott-Sketches-From-An-Island-2-" target="_blank">Mark Barrott - Der Stern, Der Nie Vergeht (International Feel)</a><br />03. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/8629150-Wolf-M%C3%BCller-Cass-The-Sound-Of-Glades" target="_blank">Wolf Muller & Cass. - Glade Runner (International Feel)</a><br />04. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/913652-Various-Pop-Ambient-2016" target="_blank">Sicker Man - Turns (Kompakt)</a><br />05. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/8505365-Morrison-Kincannon-To-See-One-Eagle-Fly" target="_blank">Morrison Kincannon - To See One Eagle Fly (Mudd Extended Edit) (Spacetalk)</a><br />06. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/8633224-Bartosz-Kruczy%C5%84ski-Baltic-Beat" target="_blank">Bartosz Kruczynski - Parco Degli Acquedotti (Growing Bin)</a><br />07. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/8718506-CAR-Red-Axes-Caraxes-" target="_blank">C.A.R / Red Axes - Incognito (Tom Farse Extrapolation) (Kill The DJ)</a><br />08. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/8354012-Ryo-Kawasaki-Selected-Works-1979-To-1983" target="_blank">Ryo Kawasaki - You Are The Sunlight (Nu Northern Soul)</a><br />09. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/790959-Various-Europe" target="_blank">Carbon Based Lifeforms - Vakna (A Strangely Isolated Place)</a><br />10. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/507181-Land-Of-Light-Land-Of-Light" target="_blank">Land Of Light - Isle Of Tears (ESP Institute)</a><br />11. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/222937-Mr-Hermano-O-Globo" target="_blank">Mr Hermano - Christina (Disorient)</a><br /></p><p> </p><p>Download available via <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/chilled-summer-part-vi-mixamorphosis/" target="_blank">Hearthis</a></p><p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" allowtransparency="" frameborder="0" height="150" id="hearthis_at_track_982771" scrolling="no" src="https://app.hearthis.at/embed/982771/transparent_black/?hcolor=&color=&style=2&block_size=2&block_space=1&background=1&waveform=0&cover=0&autoplay=0&css=" width="100%"><p>Listen to <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/chilled-summer-part-vi-mixamorphosis/" target="_blank">Chilled Summer - Part 6</a> <span>by</span><a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/" target="_blank" >Mixamorphosis</a> <span>on</span> <a href="https://hearthis.at/" target="_blank">hearthis.at</a></p></iframe> </p><p> </p>Mark Mcleodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727319448748090505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067736674548998016.post-38304998231638611412024-01-28T04:23:00.000-08:002024-01-28T04:24:14.807-08:00Weekend Funk Up<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnvC6pe5EC0osAJHDlnUE7BQvSmplf9d7mK-ynpIHbJpURRxFwJSqTKNI8n_CePHm4DMx73-Q2nHOqsme9PilERA4bHLmKndXTM4KsF_3_bPLmdCbaE8cjmuqi0U5-6lG8a1CrOhdIVsZKgOa_XYaMueHWIgoXxH5BE6YhsnAmy7RNh8uPoftSR6lWoJ2H/s1424/Weekend%20Funk%20Up(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1424" data-original-width="1424" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnvC6pe5EC0osAJHDlnUE7BQvSmplf9d7mK-ynpIHbJpURRxFwJSqTKNI8n_CePHm4DMx73-Q2nHOqsme9PilERA4bHLmKndXTM4KsF_3_bPLmdCbaE8cjmuqi0U5-6lG8a1CrOhdIVsZKgOa_XYaMueHWIgoXxH5BE6YhsnAmy7RNh8uPoftSR6lWoJ2H/w640-h640/Weekend%20Funk%20Up(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p>No great back story to this. It was a Friday evening, I had a couple of ciders and had a wee spin of some tunes, no planning, no forethought, just hit record and post the outcome. In my Soundcloud description I wrote that I had been thinking about doing a Deep House mix and that rather than that, this edit heavy mix came out the other side, so I imagine that's where the name 'Weekend Funk Up' came from.</p><p> </p><p>This mix seemed well received by those who listened to it and one thing that I find amusing and confusing in equal measures is when a mix of mine appears in other people's playlists. This one is in a handful on Soundcloud, and when I scroll through the playlists I generally see my mix sitting there with a playcount in the hundreds, in amongst mixes with tens, or even hundreds of thousands of plays, this one is even in someones playlist where another mix has 1.6 million plays, and here's this one with just over 900. How do people find my mixes? How do others get such high play counts? Anyway, it's just something I notice now and then and it really stands out on occasion, like this one.</p><p><br /></p><p>I already know before I get to the tracklist, it won't be easy to find a lot of these tracks. Many edits have come from folks on Soundcloud who have had them removed, or in some cases entire accounts were removed. I'll do my best, but if you want some of these you will likely need to dig around online yourself.</p><p><br /></p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/278071922&color=%23315c74&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=false" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="mixamorphosis">mixamorphosis</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis/weekend-funk-up" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Weekend Funk Up">Weekend Funk Up</a></div><p> </p><p><b><u>Tracklist</u></b> </p><p>01. <a href="https://starkiller.bandcamp.com/track/here-come-ol-flat-top" target="_blank">The Starkiller - Here Come Ol' Flat Top (Self Released)</a><br />02. David Bowie - Golden Years (Luxxury Edit) (Unknown Label)<br />03. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/868443-LNTG-Tuff-Edits-Volume-3" target="_blank">Late Nite Tuff Guy - Pull Us Apart (Lightspeed Recordings)</a><br />04. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/thenoodleman/roy-ayers-running-away-the-noodleman-rework" target="_blank">Roy Ayers - Running Away (Noodleman Rework) (Self Released)</a><br />05. Billy Ocean - Loverboy (Drvg Cvltvre Edit) (Self Released)<br />06. Latimore - Out To Get'cha (Soulist & DJ Vas Edit) (Self Released)<br />07. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/timzawada/tugboat-edits-014-love-sounds" target="_blank">Tugboat Edits - Love Sound (TZ Intimate Strangers Edit) (Self Released)</a><br />08. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/760512-The-Gino-Fontaine-Revnorev-Konkondo" target="_blank">The Gino Fontaine - Revnorev (Revno Records)</a><br />09. <a href="https://www.beatport.com/track/frontin-original-mix/4006105" target="_blank">Lonely Smoker - Frontin' (Midnight Riot)</a><br />10. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/3973252-James-Brown-Mind-Power-Mr-Mendel-Edit-Make-It-Good-Copycat-Edit-Jay-Soul-Retouch" target="_blank">James Brown - Mind Power (Mr Mendal Edit) (Not On Label)</a><br />11. <a href="https://www.junodownload.com/products/groovedown-edits-to-remember/2101972-02/" target="_blank">Groovedown - Walk To Mississippi (Los Grandes)</a><br />12. Ojah with Hugh Masekela - Afro Beat Blues (The Owl Edit) (Not On Label)<br />13. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/3517020-Pillow-Talk-Soul-Edits" target="_blank">Pillow Talk - The Real Thing (W&L Black)</a><br />14. Chicago - If You Leave Me Now (JP Source Edit) (Self Released)<br />15. Dr Packer - Contemplating (Discodat)<br />16. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/spaghetti-legs/stevie-wonder-i-wish-spaghetti" target="_blank">Stevie Wonder - I Wish (Spaghetti Legs Re-jig) (Self Released)</a><br />17. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/midnightcityamsterdam/ltj-xperience-want-ltj-for-midnight-city-edit" target="_blank">LTJ Xperience - Want (LTJ for Midnight City Edit) (Midnight City)</a><br />18. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/2030680-Unknown-Artist-Cry-Love-Extra" target="_blank">Sylvia Love - Extraterrestrial Lover (LTJ Rework) (It's A Small World Disco)</a><br />19. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/5912937-Various-Mangiami-Edits-001" target="_blank">Disco/Very - Get It On (Dr Dunks How We Do In NYC Edit) (Edit Channel)</a><br />20. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/209850-Mary-Clark-Take-Me-Im-Yours" target="_blank">Mary Clark - Take Me, I'm Yours (La Shawn)</a><br /></p><p> </p><p>Download available via <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/weekend-funk-up/" target="_blank">Hearthis</a></p><p> </p><p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" allowtransparency="" frameborder="0" height="150" id="hearthis_at_track_989375" scrolling="no" src="https://app.hearthis.at/embed/989375/transparent_black/?hcolor=&color=&style=2&block_size=2&block_space=1&background=1&waveform=0&cover=0&autoplay=0&css=" width="100%"><p>Listen to <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/weekend-funk-up/" target="_blank">Weekend Funk Up</a> <span>by</span><a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/" target="_blank" >Mixamorphosis</a> <span>on</span> <a href="https://hearthis.at/" target="_blank">hearthis.at</a></p></iframe> </p><p> </p>Mark Mcleodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727319448748090505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067736674548998016.post-90014676747669855582024-01-27T15:28:00.000-08:002024-01-27T15:28:26.414-08:00Chilled Spring<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmQ95BfEMfeqlRl3Tgu45ARSutbsJopKTvZmbGFHxJGIH3KaQ5_vN1BfGybfdgU9y9K-mzo6wRKDl3tZA956cy3QgZiiFpQLeEkCRu5NtADCwcajjNj__B92jRST-guB87R-SuujBgcRKrSW2v-p-WSPKzG5nwI-lcSDbXOy5sDF-wMlOaffqUMT6lnNpK/s1440/result(2)(1).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmQ95BfEMfeqlRl3Tgu45ARSutbsJopKTvZmbGFHxJGIH3KaQ5_vN1BfGybfdgU9y9K-mzo6wRKDl3tZA956cy3QgZiiFpQLeEkCRu5NtADCwcajjNj__B92jRST-guB87R-SuujBgcRKrSW2v-p-WSPKzG5nwI-lcSDbXOy5sDF-wMlOaffqUMT6lnNpK/w640-h640/result(2)(1).png" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This was my contribution to the year of seasonal mixes, which started with the Winter Chill series. Where the first series was about ambient and beat free mixes, Chilled Spring was about transitioning from that to something that felt a bit more upbeat, just as moving from Winter to Spring does.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br />The cover image shows Dunnideer hill and the castle ruins that sit on top, dating from 17th Century, a couple of miles from where I currently 'live'.<br /></p><p><br /></p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/266446023&color=%23746464&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=false" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="mixamorphosis">mixamorphosis</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mixamorphosis/chilled-spring-part-10-mixamorphosis" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Chilled Spring - Part 10">Chilled Spring - Part 10</a></div><p> </p><p><b><u>Tracklist </u></b></p><p>01. <a href="https://altarsaltars.bandcamp.com/album/1994-7-vinyl" target="_blank">Cass. - Moiré (Self Released)</a><br />02. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/507181-Land-Of-Light-Land-Of-Light" target="_blank">Land of Light - Flares (ESP Institute)</a><br />03. Seahawks - Didn't Know I Was Lost (Black Peaches Remix) (AOR Disco)<br />04. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/6740764-Nev-Cottee-If-I-Could-Tell-You" target="_blank">Nev Cottee - If I Could Tell You (Aficionado)</a><br />05. <a href="https://music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/album/odisea" target="_blank">Suso Sâiz - La Mano Transparente (Music From Memory)</a><br />06. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/8285276-Land-Of-Light-Land-Of-Light-Remixes" target="_blank">Land Of Light - Bell Rock Outpost (Seahawks Remix) (ESP Institute)</a><br />07. <a href="https://touched.bandcamp.com/album/touched-two" target="_blank">Shammen Delly - Sumer Is Icumen In (Touched)</a><br />08. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/908559-Floating-Points-Elaenia" target="_blank">Floating Points - Silhouettes (I, II, & III) (Luaka Bop)</a><br />09. <a href="https://gaussiancurvemusic.bandcamp.com/album/clouds" target="_blank">Gaussian Curve - Red Light (Music From Memory)</a><br />10. <a href="https://claremont56.bandcamp.com/album/serpent-strut-feat-david-harks-larry-heard-remixes" target="_blank">Jack Cutter - Serpent Strut (Claremont 56)</a><br />11. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/43102-A-Reminiscent-Drive-Mercy-Street" target="_blank">A Reminiscent Drive - Life Is Beautiful (F Communications)</a><br />12. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/4746383-Hatchback-Marin-County" target="_blank">Hatchback - Paradise Drive (Adult Contemporary)</a><br />13. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/6119616-F%C3%BCxa-Dirty-Frequencies" target="_blank">Füxa - Cool Breeze (Emotional Response)</a><br />14. Appo ft. Jon Elliott - Always (The Drop Mix) (Self Released)<br />15. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/7630831-Gryningen-EP" target="_blank">Gryningen - Slöa Dagar I Rymdlaboratoriet (Aficionado)</a><br />16. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/672738-Trabant-Moment-Of-Truth" target="_blank">Trabant - Happy Sunny Song (TMT Entertainment)</a><br />17. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/8149480-Imperfect-Product-Solina" target="_blank">Imperfect Product - Solina (Aficionado)</a><br />18. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/127695-Cantoma-Cantoma" target="_blank">Cantoma - Early Till Late (Music For Dreams)</a><br />19. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/799468-Craig-Smith-Love-Hate-Everything-Inbetween-" target="_blank">Craig Smith - Let Love Live (Roar Groove)</a><br />20. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/44775-Incognito-Out-Of-The-Storm" target="_blank">Incognito - Out Of The Storm (Carl Craig Planet E Mix) (Talkin' Loud)</a><br /></p><p> </p><p>Download available via <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/chilled-spring-part-10/" target="_blank">Hearthis</a></p><p> </p><p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" allowtransparency="" frameborder="0" height="150" id="hearthis_at_track_1643739" scrolling="no" src="https://app.hearthis.at/embed/1643739/transparent_black/?hcolor=&color=&style=2&block_size=2&block_space=1&background=1&waveform=0&cover=0&autoplay=0&css=" width="100%"><p>Listen to <a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/chilled-spring-part-10/" target="_blank">Chilled Spring - Part 10</a> <span>by</span><a href="https://hearthis.at/mixamorphosis/" target="_blank" >Mixamorphosis</a> <span>on</span> <a href="https://hearthis.at/" target="_blank">hearthis.at</a></p></iframe> </p><p> </p>Mark Mcleodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727319448748090505noreply@blogger.com0