MIX - GLANGLE JAM GEMS

~2HR
GENRE: JANGLY GLAMMY JAMMY-PSYCHE JAMS (...clearly)

01) The Church - Constant in Opal
02) Hugh Cornwell - Long Dead Train
03) Avantgarde De Luxe - Run Run
04) Dream Command - Sleepwalking
05) Random Hold - Precarious Timbers
06) Alan Parsons Project - Some Other Time
07) The Gun Club - The Breaking Hands
08) The Jacobites - Liquor, Guns, and Ammo
09) Madness - My Girl
10) Peter Gabriel - Animal Magic
11) Blue Oyster Cult - Veteran of the Psychic Wars
12) Close Lobsters - Skyscrapers of St. Mirin
13) Dance Chapter - Nil Foundations Prophet
14) The Originals - Steven on the Radio
15) Stitched-Back Foot Airman - Through These Days
16) Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Egyptian Reggae
17) Faust - It's a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl
18) The King of Luxembourg - Straits of Malacca
19) David Thomas - Man's Best Friend
20) Psychic TV - Firewoman
21) Java Jive - Letting Go
22) Pulp - A Little Soul (Lafayette Velvet Revisited mix)
23) The Phantom Payn - Spooks
24) Sensations' Fix - Faux Batard
25) Kingdom Come - Spirit of Joy
26) Atomic Rooster - Hold Your Fire
27) The Id - Julia's Song
28) The Perc Meets The Hidden Gentlemen - Standing By Your Hero

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MIX - POP GEMS IX : VOLUME TWO

107MIN
GENRE: LA-LA-LA

01) The Waking Hours - Threw It All Away
02) Enemies in the Grass - Day After Day
03) Northern Pikes - Love Will Break You
04) The Grapes of Wrath - Backward Town
05) Mandlebrot Set - Landslide
06) The Hang Ups - Sittin' In My Room
07) Gritty Kitty - Little Neutrino
08) Straitjacket Fits - Down in Splendour
09) Rodney Allen - Whistling in the Dark
10) Windmills - The Day Dawned on Me
11) A.R. Kane - Haunting
12) Nikki Sudden - Every Girl (Cuts Me in Half)
13) The Clientele - An Hour Before the Light
14) The Orchids - Moon Lullaby
15) Far Out Corporation - Montreal
16) Umpteens - Party All the Time
17) Days - Simple Thing
18) Next Time Passions - Untitled
19) Clergy - Warm
20) Penelope's Web - Potboiler (demo)
21) Brazzaville - 1983
22) Episode Four - Strike up Matches
23) Riverside - Cinnamon Eyes
24) Fanuelle - I Live for the Holy Name
25) Simon Raymonde - It's a Family Thing
26) King of Luxembourg - Lee Remick
27) Dent May - When You Were Mine
28) The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy - Come On, Marie
29) Lou Reed - New Sensations

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MIX - POP GEMS IX : VOLUME ONE

105MIN
GENRE: LA-LA-LA

01) Frank Sidebottom - Electricity
02) The Jacobites - It'll All End Up in Tears
03) The Dream Academy - Life in A Northern Town
04) No Work For The Hangman - Can You Hear Me?
05) Yukio Yung - Fixmille
06) On The Pulsebeat - Discovery
07) Blue Shoes - Better
08) It's Immaterial - Ed's Funky Diner (Friday Night, Saturday Morning)
09) Up and Running - Johnny and Marie
10) English McCoy - Give Me Something to Believe In
11) Stacks - You're On My Mind
12) Bob - Come Winter
13) The Band of Holy Joy - Because It was Never Resolved
14) The Enormous Room - 100 Different Words
15) Hurt - Take My Breath
16) Close Lobsters - Let's Make Some Plans
17) Whirlpool Guest House - The Plumber's Daughter
18) Episode Four - Doctor P
19) Holiday Makers - Beginning at The End
20) Doctor's Children - Cold Climate
21) Most Wanted Men - Still Dreaming
22) The Spinning Wheels - Because We're Queers
23) The Hollow Men - White Train
24) The Crystal Set - Benefit of The Doubt
25) Aluminum Group - Girl's Bike
26) Elephant Noise - New Town Tom
27) Hoorah! Boys Hoorah! - So Long

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MIX - POP GEMS VII : VOLUME TWO

103MIN
GENRE: LA-LA-LA

01) Feargal Sharkey - One Night in Hollywood
02) Sétima Legião - Noutro Lugar
03) The Big Dish - Bonafide
04) China Crisis - Without the Love
05) Dream Academy - This World
06) Yazoo - Only You
07) The The - This Was the Day That Is (Funkorelic instrumental)
08) Chumbawumba - Don't Try This at Home
09) Max Eider - It Has to Be You
10) The Damned - Edward the Bear
11) Endgames - We Feel Good
12) 4" Be 2" - Frustration
13) B.A. Robertson - Bang Bang
14) Carl Myrén - E=mc²
15) Walter Steding - Dancing in Heaven
16) Frank Sidebottom - I've Got Something to Shout About
17) Go-Kart Mozart - Here is a Song
18) The Fallen Angels - I Love You
19) Fiction Factory - The First Step
20) Gangway - Believe in Me
21) Pony Boys - My Orange Flower
22) The Ocean Blue - Ice Skating at Night
23) Ninth Arena - The Room
24) Tac-Tix - Heaven is Where You Make It
25) Aztec Camera - Walk Out to Winter (7" Tony Mansfield version)

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MIX - POP GEMS VII

A 'new' PG edition will be appear sometime this week. In the meantime, this has been sitting around my mix folder for a while, as somehow I forgot how to count and skipped it entirely...

98MIN
GENRE: LA-LA-LA

01) Purple Submarine Orchestra - Acapulco
02) Bob and Vi - Keep Lying, I Love It
03) Artery - Perhaps
04) Courage of Lassie - All That I Know
05) Gargoyles - In the Leafy Lanes of Stratford
06) The Jazz Butcher - Southern Mark Smith (original)
07) Hookline and Silverfish - Headlong
08) How Things? - Keep the Beat Alive
09) Climb - I Can't Forget
10) Word - Immaculate
11) Tirez Tirez - Uptight (12" version)
12) Jan & Dean - Save For a Rainy Day Theme
13) Little Creatures / Bruton - Little Dance
14) Mathilde Santing - Easy to Love
15) Kings of Convenience - Toxic Girl (David Whitaker)
16) Faye Wong - Ever-Changing
17) Smoking Room - Celeste
18) Eliot Ness - Nos Plus Belles Annees
19) Nixon - There's Too Much Soul on Your Mixtape
20) Soda Fountain Rag - You Can't Stop Me
21) Le Sport - Eurosport Music Baby
22) The Purelove - Ascendancy
23) The Bilinda Butchers - Japan Time
24) Jens Lekman - Your Beat Kicks Back Like Death
25) Altered Images - Love to Stay
26) Kuryakin - 1234
27) Anthony Adverse - Maria Celeste
28) Colourbox - Arena
29) A Certain Ratio - Every Pleasure

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PLAYLIST - VELVET VESPERS (PART TWO: NIGHTTIME IS THE FLIGHT TIME)

The second part of this playlist. Divided to operate within sendspace file size limitations, but intended as one giant collection of songs. Tracks were strung together over a period of several months, (hopefully)  infused with some half-coherent dream-logic in a way that provides an experience that is simultaneously calming and exhausting, if endurance allows, by the time the 'tape clicks.'

~2.3 HR
GENRE: Klonopin Hypnobeat, Deep Sea Diving, Starbucks-Elevator selections (the occasional), Nerd-Rave

32) Sunmoonsekt - Adventures
33) Celtic Cross - Hicksville
34) Blank & Jones with Steve Kilbey - Revealed (Late Night Dub)
35) Anne Clark - Letter of Thanks to a Friend
36) Indigo Falls - Feed the Fire
37) Violet Indiana - Hiding
38) James - Skindiving
39) Akira Yamaoka - True
40) Yoko Shimomura - Out of Phase
41) TV Mania - What's in the Future?
42) Elite Gymnastics - Here, In Heaven 4 & 5 (Remix by CFCF)
43) Koji Kondo - Wood Temple (X-Dream Trance Version)
44) Absolute Body Control - Eat This
45) The Weathermen - Godbless
46) West India Company - Dreamtime
47) Yasunori Mitsuda - Time Chill OC Remix
48) The Bilinda Butchers - Luminous
49) Dark Arts - Somewhere Between
50) Mikel Rouse - In Cold Blood
51) Eugene Bowen - Amethyst
52) 2 8 1 4 - 悲哀
53) Elysia Crampton - Wing (ft. Money Allah)
54) TV Mania - Grab the Sun
55) The Fallout Club - Dream Soldiers
56) Martin Wester & Bernhard Hering - Zikade
57) Godley & Creme - When Things go Wrong
58) Fra Lippo Lippi - Come Summer
59) Jarboe - The Never-Deserting Shadow
60) Circuit 7 - Eastern Dream
61) The Band of Holy Joy - Goodnight, God Bless and Goodbye

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PLAYLIST - VELVET VESPERS (PART ONE: THE NIGHT IS LARGE)

An extended playlist -  created by my insomnia, for your insomnia - to make up for the stretch of absence. Enjoy. [PS. Many new Pop Gems editions to come.]

~2.5 HR
GENRE: A LITTLE LOUDER THAN LUNESTA, ALL OVER THE MAP

01) Ben Watt - Cant
02) The Beach Bullies - Sob Story
03) Chumbawamba - Nestles
04) Odolites - Threshold
05) Sad Lovers & Giants - Imagination
06) Eleven Pond - Days Hence
07) The Happy Family - March in Turin
08) Berlin Blondes - Zero Song (Instrumental Mix)
09) The Chameleons - Prisoners of the Sun
10) Jarboe - In An Open Sea
11) Colin Newman - May
12) Jack - The End of the Way It's Always Been
13) Gary Marx - Blood Moon
14) Should - Resonate
15) My Bloody Valentine - Belinda Song
16) A.R. Kane - Anitina (The First Time I See She Dance)
17) The Reegs - Start to See
18) Bourbonese Qualk - Gridlock
19) A.R. Kane - Cool as Moons
20) The Plain People of England - Siren
21) Bark Psychosis - Blue (Edit)
22) In Camera - Colour in the Home (1991 Mix)
23) Ian Astbury - Metaphysical Pistol
24) Colin Newman - Turn
25) The Chameleons - Is It Any Wonder?
26) Dark Arts - Selene
27) Cocteau Twins - Alice
28) Gnac - Hennebert Sleeve
29) Milpatte - Lotor
30) Thomas Leer - Sad Telepath
31) Yukio Yung - The End of Wild Strawberries

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MIX - RIPPED ON A QUARK

 95MIN
GENRE: YOU NEED TO CHILL OUT, BRO

01) David Harrow - Secret Agent
02) Deux Filles - Drinking At the Stream
03) Farflung - Future Days
04) Eric Random & The Bedlamites - Dream Web of Maya
05) Spectrum Meets Captain Memphis - Confederate Dead
06) Spectrum Meets Captain Memphis - Mary Reprise
07) Dif Juz - Trance
08) FK9 - Complete Surveillance
09) Far East Family Band - Kokoro
10) Daniel Berthiaume - Desert Solitaire
11) Cafe Jacques - Eberehtel
12) Clifford T. Ward - Gaye
13) Serpentina - Nana Sin Letra
14) Donny Hathaway - Someday We'll All Be Free
15) Legendary Pink Dots - Clockwise
16) Evie Sands - But You Know I Love You
17) Hangman's Beautiful Daughters - Darkside
18) Echolyn - On Any Given Night
19) The Teardrop Explodes - The Great Dominions


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Postscript : Being OCD, I can't help but notice the alphabetical patterns of the sequence of artists in the order, and feel I should (unnecessarily) disclaim that this is anything but purely coincidental. As with every mix I put together, the track-selection is derived cumulatively based upon a loose theme of style or atmosphere that develops autonomously and organically from there until I have a better idea of a conceptual gestalt. In this sense the concepts for mixes are arbitrarily borne. Once the selection is complete, further more anal-retentive arrangement of the tracks occurs until I feel the songs flow fluidly from start to finish, and the mix itself is a progression that suits and hopefully stimulates certain  conceptually related scenarios. For example, intended appropriate scenarios for this mix could be anything from introversion to psychotropic simulation to sleep, but typically related to submerged relaxation. TLDR: I'm neurotic, especially with this creative hobby -  enjoy the music.

MIX - DEATH DRIVES / PSYCHOFLEXIN'

115MIN
GENRE: TRANCE BERSERKA

00) Flex 13 - Ditch I'm In
01) Industrial Arts - Move to the Groove (or Be Removed)
02) Jarboe - Red
03) Dr. Calculus m.d.m.a. - Perfume From Spain
04) Giant Claw - DARK WEB 002
05)  Magic Fades + Soul Ipsum - Top Flex Kush
06) Lee Gamble - Motor System
07) Malcolm McLaren - D'ya Like Scratchin' (remix)
08) Freddie Gibbs + Madlib - High (feat. Danny Brown)
09) Signaldrift - Driving Somewhere
10) A.T.R.O.X - In the Playtime
11) Aphex Twin - aisatsana
12) Bleep + Booster - Glock
13) Shabazz Palaces - Solemn Swears
14) Kane West - Preview
15) Mr. Twin Sister - Twelve Angels
16) Ninos D Brasil - Sombra Da Lua
17) Lil Herb - 4 Minutes of Hell Part 3
18) E+E - FIRE GUT
19) Copeland - DILIGENCE
20) Dean Blunt - 50 Cent
21) Big Audio Dynamite - Free (WTF 12")
22) Falling Infinities - Cadillac Nights
23) Jesus Loves You (Boy George) - Love's Gonna Let U Down (Popcorn mix)
24) Blue Pearl - Running Up That Hill
25) Colourbox - Sleepwater

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MIX - FRICTIONALLY GROOVED

~120MIN
GENRE: KISSES + HITS

01) Television Personalities - Smashing Time
02) O.M.D. - Waiting For the Man
03) The Associates - Heart of Glass
04) Indian Summer - Electric Kiss
05) Denim - Glitter All Over Again
06) Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Dreams (Remix)
07) Cuba - Urban Light
08) Chapterhouse - Losing Touch With my Mind
09) In Camera - Deflowered (1991 Mix)
10) Cud - Vocally Speaking
11) Gaz Nevada - Japanese Girls
12) Think Tree - Memory Protect
13) The Residents - Hard & Tenderly
14) Big Butter - We Change the Same
15) Bene Gesserit - Tonight
16) Ariel Pink - Black Ballerina
17) Saada Bonaire - You Could Be More as You Are
18) Art Fleury - Somewhere Else
19) A.T.R.O.X. - The Warm Current
20) Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Richard X extended instrumental)
21) Georgia Morandi - Children of the Sky (Figli Delle Stelle)
22) Kid Creole & The Coconuts - There But For the Grace of God Go I (12' Mix)
23) Bleep & Booster - Find the Light
24) Colourbox - Just Give'em Whiskey
25) Honey Bane - 10's  Burning
26) The Shop Assistants - Ace of Spades
27) The Jazz Butcher - Grooving in the Bus Lane
28) The Wolfhounds - Anti-Midas Touch (Peel session)
29) The Feelies - Sweet Jane (live with Lou Reed)
30) Boston - More than a Feeling (home tape demo)

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MIX - GOURMET LEFTOVERS

106MIN
GENRE: GENERAL POP, SPRINGTIME SOFT PROGRESSIVE TECHNO, DREAM POP TRIP HOP, DOWNTEMPO SHOEGAZER, HARMONIES

01) Poi Dog Pondering - Entrance
02) Electric Sound of Joy - Night and Day
03) Azure Blue - Fingers
04) Cody - Sleep Park Royal
05) Bowery Electric - Freedom Fighter (Vocal Remix)
06) Soul Kitchen - A Low Mood Operation
07) Lowlife - Sense of Fondness
08) Bron Area - Dancing
09) Anna Domino - Tyranny (of Your Company)
10) 17 Pygmies - Monday
11) The Kane Gang - What Time is It?
12) China Crisis - St. Saviour Square
13) Epitaphe - La Joie
14) Bill Nelson - Dancing in the Wind
15) The Bilinda Butchers - When I'm Alone (demo)
16) Malory - Cany
17) Lotus Eaters - When You Look at Boys
18) Cleaners From Venus - The Jangling Man
19) For Against - Times Square Go-Go Boy
20) Music in the External World - Bad Blood
21) Moose - You Don't Listen
22) The Apartments - The Failure of Love is a Brick Wall (You Prayed for Me to Hit It)
23) Cath Carroll - The Divine Miss A.
24) Richard Hawley - The Only Road
25) Sharon Van Etten - Every Time the Sun Comes Up


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MIX - POP GEMS VIII: VOLUME TWO

116MIN
GENRE: LA-LA-LA

01) Should - Soothed
02) Electric Sound of Joy - Mysteries of Love
03) Jack - Sleepin' Makes me Thirsty
04) Al Stewart - Necromancer
05) Bel Canto - Images
06) Inspiral Carpets - Mermaids
07) Felt - Rain of Crystal Spires (Andy Kershaw Session '86)
08) Lilac Time - You've Got to Love
09)  Poi Dog Pondering - The Big Walk
10) Go-Kart Mozart - New World in the Morning
11) Suntime Glorious - I'm Too Good For You
12) Bill Pritchard - I'm in Love Forever
13) Jimmy Jimmy - I Met Her in Paris
14) Idle Race - Morning Sunshine
15) Brazzaville - The Clouds in Camarillo (with Minerva)
16) Cannon Heath Down - A Charming Sound
17) Strange Acquaintance - I Don't Care About It
18) The Kane Gang - Take Me to the World
19) The Gist - Fool For a Valentine
20) Jean-Paul Sartre Experience - I Like Rain
21) The Kensington - Intercity Baby '94
22) The Beautiful South - Woman in the Wall
23) Helen Love - Golden Summer
24) Kirsty Maccoll - He's On the Beach (Extended version)
25) Terry Britten - 2,000 Weeks
26) Tin Tin - Toast and Marmalade For Tea
27) The Housemartins - Swansea
28) Bluebells - No One Ever Waves Goodbye

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MIX - POP GEMS VIII : VOLUME ONE

107MIN
GENRE: LA-LA-LA

01) Kevin Harrison - Ink Man
02) Television Personalities - TV on in Bed
03) Die Bruder - I'm Going Alone
04) The Feelies - Dancing Barefoot
05) Pictures of Innocence - Love War
06) Suprete - Septiembre
07) The Woodentops - Good Thing
08) Faith Brothers - That's Just the Way That it is With Me
09) Glo-Worm - Change of Heart
10) Moose - I Wanted to See You to See If I Wanted You
11) Kevin Rowland - Tonight
12) Cinderpop - Latest of the Five
13) Gangway - Biology
14) German Humour - Many Lives
15) Herzfeld - Do You Want This Job or Not?
16) After This - Fields
17) Chris Spedding - Video Life
18) Box of Toys - When Daylight is Over
19) Stephen Harrison - Sad & Blue
20) Fire Next Time - Too Close
21) Bob Hope - Can't Stop Thinking About Her
22) The Cherry Orchard - Love Comes to Town
23) Newcolours - A Dream of Yesterday
24) Tac-Tix - See the Love
25) The Pale Fountains - ...From Across the Kitchen Table (12" Extended)
26) Danny Wilson - Mary's Prayer
27) Al Stewart - Don't Forget Me
28) The Comsat Angels - After the Rain (demo)


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