Back. / Ascending mixtape

Hiya! So sorry i've been away un-blogging for so long... i actually have a fairly good reason - done 8 weeks of an NCTJ diploma to become a, like proper journalist and everything. If i also told you that course is a mere 20 weeks till full qualification and therefore somewhat intense, and that to get there i wake up at 6.45am daily and don't get home till 7pm, and the fact that there's also 30KB, label administration, writing for other blogs, sleeping and some other stuff i also have to do, y'can probably why the blogging's dropped off a bit.

i promise to get more done soon, but in the meantime: a) you might wanna catch me instead as @diss1 on Twitter [HA! you hypocrite! caught you! etc.] where i now find communicating in sub-SMS chunks to actually be useful, manageable and actually kinda fun [yeh yeh i was wrong in this article i admit it, but hey in the last week or so Charlie Brooker's come out and basically admitted that the last several years of his work was nihilistic gallery-playing so i think i'm allowed one].

Now, a brief return to mix-making. i used to do a load of mixes before Google started summarily shutting down music blogs for copyright infringement. i still make them, but now i just don't post them up any more. Maybe i should start a separate blog just for mixes! That'd actually be a pretty good idea. OK, just realised my stream of consciousness is now conversing with itself, this is no good. Anyway.

According to Windows Media Player i currently have 1344 hours of audio on my laptop hard drive. So what i've done is yam all that into a playlist, order it all in track length order (shortest to longest) and then made a mix of the first 80 minutes¹ of that. As bewildering sound collages go, i think it's a pretty neat one!

i've edited out some repeat artists at my discretion (basically so it doesn't start off with an entire JAPSHITFUN album) but otherwise the whole mellifluous mess is verbatim.

Track listing

Oh Yes, By All Means - To Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany 

Atma - Minterlude Universal Enlightenment

DAISY CUTTER - SATURDAYNIGHT, WATCHING ANIME, GOOD JOB

The Watts Prophets - The Meek Ain't Gonna

Lil' B - Soulja Boy Checks In

Oh Yes, By All Means - Sentry

Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - ...

Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Neotropolis Euphoria

Alan Tew - The Detectives (Link 2a)

JAPSHITFUN - Gay

Unknown - power chord [C#]

Unknown - drum loop 7

Alan Tew - The Detectives (Link 4a)

Alan Tew - The Detectives (Link 1)

Daisy Cutter - NTERNAL GUTTERAL RAPE (Rorikiller cover)

Four Tet - Pablo's Heart

The Watts Prophets - Listen

Vague Terrain Recordings - Coming Soon

Atma - Interlude

Santiago Gómez Cou - Pedro Y El Lobo

Phil Dirt - An Introduction By

Reflection Eternal - Black Gold Intro

La Gringa Inga - Inglés En Un 2x3

Unknown - drum loop 01b

Nicki Minaj - I Was First

shorthand dications, 60-70wpm

Formosa Tiene Su Hechizo - Formosa Tiene Su Hechizo

Human Skab - Phone Goof Off

Scissor Shock - Johnny Merzbow Psychic Contact

Apples in Stereo - The Code

The Watts Prophets - We Must Love Black People

Jaga Jazzist - The Thing Introduces...

Formosa Tiene Su Hechizo - Formosa Tiene Su Hechizo [2]

El-P - Wacky Interlude Is Back

Sage Francis - Commercial Radio Advice Intro

Lucky Dragons - Cleanhouse

The Watts Prophets - Instruction

Laura Huxley - Introduction

Spektrum - Shall I Jump?

Boards of Canada - I Saw Drones

The Deep Freeze Mice - Untitled

Spektrum - SP-Spektrum

Circle Jerks - Deny Everything

Retribution Gospel Choir - The Last of the Blue Dream

Spektrum - Spek-t-t-t-trum

Wire - Field Day

L'Homme Fatal - Murdah On The Dancefloor DAISY CUTTER REMIXXX

Spektrum - New Sound Word Power

Frank Zappa - Theme from "Bonanza"

The Magnetic Fields - Experimental Music Love

Atma - Insterlude Earthlings

Lexie Mountain Boys - Stop and Discuss Part Four

Frank Zappa - "Godfather Part II" Theme

Indian Jewelry - Sirens

R Stevie Moore - Explanation of Artist

Yola Polastri - Los Niños Y Su Mundo

Clint Mansell - Dreams

Sam Cooke - 8 Bars of Soul

Lil Jon - What is Crunk Rock (Interlude)

Lucky Dragons - Haley Chaser

Spektrum - Release the Sugar

Spektrum - Ikerlude

Lexie Mountain Boys - Stop and Discuss Part Two

Nervous Cop - Setting the Bushes on Fire

Audrey Saint-Coeur - Diddlage

Scissor Shock - Codeine Dream of Sunset Eyeball

Boards of Canada - Energy Warning

Richard Pinhas - Short Transition

Circle Jerks - Don't Care

Burial - Untitled

Nervous Cop - Rice Precipitation

Bus - Intro feat. MC Soom T

Sax Ruins - Zurna Taksim

Saccharine Trust - Mad at the Co.

Frank Zappa - I Left My Heart in San Francisco

Sin 34 - Not

J.G. Thirlwell - Brock Graveside

Nervous Cop - Get Wolf Boy and Get in Context

Boards of Canada - Beware the Friendly Stranger

Scissor Shock - Let's Foot Fuck!

Scissor Shock - Codeine Dream of Sunset Eyeball [again]

Spiritualized - All of My Thoughts (Strings)

Burkhard Stangl & Christof Kurzmann - Las Hijas de Nieve

DAISY CUTTER VS OH YES, BY ALL MEANS - EXPLODE ALL DIMENSIONS

Analog Rebellion - North Korea and Kim Jong Il's Fat Fucking Face

Eels - Apple Trees

Nathan Johnson with the Cinematic Underground - Laura's Theme

Notorious B.A.C.H. - Gimme the Lute

Gordon Easton - The Drunken Piper

The Roots - Tunnel Vision

Men's Recovery Project - Get the Fuck Out of My Office

The Deep Freeze Mice - Bottles reprise

Wire - Brazil

The Watts Prophets - They Shot Him

Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen (original oratone ideas)

Dick Limerick Academy - Fazakerly

Circle Jerks - Waster

Retribution Gospel Choir - '68 Comeback

JAPSHITFUN - this is the only song that scrobbles so you can stop listening after this

Smog - Hole in the Heart

Wire - Different to Me

Walls - Gaberdine

Revo - Fuck the School

R Stevie Moore - The Voice

Clint Mansell & the Kronos Quartet - Dreams

Santiago Gómez Cou - Pedro Y El Lobo

Wire - Straight Line

Lärm - Pigeon

TUMBLEWEAVE - Pornstars Built the Pramids

Sick of It All - Braveheart

Burial - [untitled]

Scissor Shock - Piranha (I Wanna)

shorthand dications, 70-80wpm

Mugstar - It was too cold to go looking for Brancusi

Frank Zappa - When Irish Eyes Are Smiling

Nik Bärtsch's Mobile - Modul 4 II

Yo La Tengo - Tijuana Taxi

Scissor Shock - No Scissor, No Shock

Scissor Shock - Know Scissor, Know Shock

Nia Ben Aur - Chi Sydd Ar Fai

Da Stupids - Allen

Aspects - Rev. Soul

Foals - Fugue

John MacDonald - Strathspey/The Reel of Tulloch

R Stevie Moore - Explanation of Listener

Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - ...

Low - Untitled

XharoldshitmanX - Open You'r Card

Tommy Gunn - Lilting With Fiddle, Guitar and Bones

Guilty Simpson - Preacher's Wife Interude

Micachu & the Shapes - Sweetheart

Credit to the Nation - Honey

Nervous Cop - Pow Strikes Pow Implosion

J Dilla - Digi Dirt feat. Phat Kat

Burial - Untitled

Lucky Dragons - Unkefriend

J.G. Thirlwell - No Vacancy

Tom Waits - Let Me Get Up On It

Jetset - Tot Hier En Niet Verder

J Dilla - Kaklow (Jump On It)

Lexie Mountain Boys - Hairy Rainbow

Chrome Hoof - Core Delusion

Human Skab - Guitar of Africans

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¹ It's actually 75 minutes so, if for some bizarre reason you want to, you can put it on a CD.