Songs from Beneath the Spaghetti Tree Vol. 110

 

  1. Radhika - Theme from R.A.D.H.I.K.A. (for David Lynch) (2:13)
  2. Syndrom Samazvanca - Masty (4:09)
  3. Elias Hulk - Been Around Too Long (3:01)
  4. The Owl Service - The Waters of Sweet Sorrow (3:23)
  5. Vintage Cucumber - Peach is the Colour (4:40)
  6. Shack - I Know You Well (3:39)
  7. Baby Cool - Mirage (3:26)
  8. The Bombillas - Senebi (4:45)
  9. Teddy Lasry - Happy Street (2:26)
10. Khun Narin - Poet Wong Pt. 2 (3:49)
11. Sons of Zöku - The Moth (3:29)
12. Cyril Cyril - Microonda Sahara (3:14)
13. Tall Dwarfs - Rorschach (3:04)
14. Nick Drake - 'Cello Song (4:42)
15. Slapp Happy - Child Then (4:16)
16. Anadol - Felicita Lale (3:21)
17. Binario - Jazzhole (4:35)
18. Earth and Fire - Ebbtide (3:07)
19. Sphinxes in Paradise - You Won't Guess Her Right Away/ Угадаешь Ты Её Не Сразу (4:44)
20. Broadcast - Man Is Not a Bird (3:47)
21. Three Dimensional Tanx - Racing Car #9 (5:33)

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Songs from Beneath the Spaghetti Tree Vol. 100 (Man Erg Special)

 

Here, at long last, is volume 100 of Songs from Beneath the Spaghetti Tree. As I started off DJing back in the day with Man Erg, for this special volume I asked him to pick a few of his favourites from the past few years/decades/century. Hope you enjoy!


Part 1:
  1. The Clean - Point That Thing Somewhere Else (5:25)
  2. Broadcast - The Book Lovers (3:32)
  3. Markley - Little Ruby Rain (2:59)
  4. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore - The L.S. Bumble Bee (2:42)
  5. Supersister - She Was Naked (3:42)
  6. Wire - Outdoor Miner (2:48)
  7. Television - Days (3:11)
  8. Cockney Rebel - Such a Dream (5:00)
  9. Hüsker Dü - The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill (3:04)
10. The Chills - Flamethrower (3:12)
11. Traffic Sound - Simple (3:29)
12. The Search Party - The News is You (4:39)
13. Another Sunny Day - Kilburn Towers (3:07)
14. The Action - Brain (4:21)
15. Keith Christmas - Forest and the Shore (7:03)
16. Mighty Baby - Egyptian Tomb (5:28)
17. Subway Sect - Ambition (3:07)
18. Delia Derbyshire & Anthony Newley - Moogies Bloogies (2:24)
19. Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains (2:51)
20. Shudder to Think - Rag (3:11)
21. Tapir! - On a Grassy Knoll (We'll Bow Together) (4:17)


Part 2:
   1. Faust - Jennifer (7:08)
  2. Magick Brother & Mystic Sister - Echoes From the Clouds (4:06)
  3. The Mice - Little Rage (4:47)
  4. Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action (3:34)
  5. Bird Nest Roys - Joringel (3:18)
  6. The Beautiful Daze - City Jungle (5:39)
  7. Susan Christie - No One Can Hear You Cry (2:20)
  8. Kevin Ayers - Song for Insane Times (4:01)
  9. A Certain Ratio - Do the Du (Casse) (2:49)
10. Look Blue Go Purple - Cactus Cat (3:18)
11. Downliners Sect - White Caterpillar (2:27)
12. The Factory - Try a Little Sunshine (3:32)
13. The Chesterf!elds - Ask Johnny Dee (2:57)
14. The Moles - Bury Me Happy (3:02)
15. Stereolab - Ping Pong (3:01)
16. The Poets - That's the Way It's Got to Be (2:33)
17. Dorothy Ashby - Soul Vibrations (3:19)
18. Anona - The Boy and the Lion (5:40)
19. Love - August (5:03)
20. The Fall - New Face in Hell (5:39)

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Man Erg's ∞th Monumental Mix

 

Happy New Year, everyone! To kick off 2025, here is Man Erg's ∞th Monumental Mix, a selection of some of his favourite artists and tracks from 2024. While Man Erg and I have quite similar wide tastes in music, each year his song selection features a few artists I'm not familiar with, plus a few I somehow missed. I'm never disappointed, and need to check out their other releases. I hope you enjoy diving into this mix as much as I loved putting it together. Here's to discovering new favourites and celebrating another year of amazing music. Cheers!

Part 1:
  1. Louis Fontaine - Insalata Russa (4:05)
  2. Kit Sebastian - Odyssey (3:40)
  3. Astral Bakers - Within a Heartbeat (3:40)
  4. Isobel Campbell - Do or Die (2:34)
  5. Beak> - Hungry Are We (5:00)
  6. Magick Brother & Mystic Sister - The Tower (3:15)
  7. Brown Spirits - Mind Rocker (Part 1) (3:34)
  8. Stick in the Wheel - Steals The Thief (7:20)
  9. Jane Weaver - Happiness in Proximity (3:44)
10. BaBa ZuLa - Arsiz Saksagan (Cheeky Magpie) (6:10)
11. Goat - Dollar Bill (5:46)
12. Trust Fund - New University (3:03)
13. The Greek Theatre - Who Was That Man (4:58)
14. Kim Deal - Summerland (3:01)
15. SHOLTO - The Pony (3:05)
16. Aquaserge - Le Saut du Tigre (3:08)
17. Sababa 5 & Yurika - Empty Hands (3:20)
18. Julia Holter - Who Brings Me (3:30)
19. Club Kuru - Before the World (5:43)

Part 2:
  1. Asher White - Downstate Prairie (4:02)
  2. The Rowan Amber Mill - Keep On (6:10)
  3. La Luz - Poppies (3:29)
  4. The Panturas - Lasut Nyanggut (4:20)
  5. Beautify Junkyards - Here Everything is Still Floating (3:58)
  6. Cosmic Analog Ensemble - The Patterns of a Hand (2:14)
  7. The Bookshop Band - Dirty Word (3:40)
  8. anaiis & Grupo Cosmo - Toda Cor feat. Luedji Luna (3:47)
  9. Mdou Moctar - Imouhar (5:06)
10. Georgian - Soleil (3:28)
11. Fievel Is Glauque - It's So Easy (2:08)
12. Cabane - Italian Mysteries feat. Kate Stables (3:25)
13. Christopher Owens - White Flag (5:01)
14. Stephen Pastel and Gavin Thomson - We Have Sex (2:56)
15. Dummy - Minus World (2:32)
16. The Soundcarriers - Wider Arcs (3:45)
17. Bananagun - Free Energy (4:35)
18. Chrysanths - Fleet (3:49)
19. Laetitia Sadier - Une Autre Attente (2:38)
20. Tapir! - Mountain Song (7:12)

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Songs from Beneath the Spaghetti Tree Vol. 99

 

  1. 12Twelve - Seiza (4:19)
  2. Bananagun - Children of the Man (5:06)
  3. Caleb Landry Jones - Toocan Soup (2:24)
  4. Nick Ingman - Thrust (3:22)
  5. Terry Brooks & Strange - High Flyer (3:48)
  6. Orchestre tout puissant Marcel Duchamp - Smile Like a Flower (4:29)
  7. A Certain Ratio - Surfer Ticket (3:17)
  8. Laurence Vanay - Le Couer Lourd (3:04)
  9. Wire - Kidney Bingos (4:07)
10. Julia Holter - The Laugh Is in the Eyes (4:33)
11. Peter Perrett - There For You (2:52)
12. Grantby - The Beast System  (4:43)
13. Pretty - Electric Hand (4:06)
14. Demon Fuzz - Fuzz Oriental Blues (6:43)
15. Haley Heynderickx - Spit in the Sink (2:20)
16. The Feelies - Find a Way (7:00)
17. Sholto - Flo & Joe (1:49)
18. Soft Hearted Scientists - Rode My Bike Versus the Dandy Horse (Frank Naughton remix) (3:49)
19. Parsnip - L.O.N.E. (1:41)
20. Endless Valley - Kaskashir (6:05)

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The Memory Band - Time and Space

 

Bio:
The Memory Band is an English folk group founded by Stephen Cracknell, featuring a rolling cast of collaborators from across the musical spectrum. High profile members over the years have included Al Doyle, Adem, Simon Lord (from Simian and The Black Ghosts), Nancy Wallace and Lisa Knapp. Cracknell’s intention from the outset was for the band to be "an imaginary band, built inside a computer and made flesh by the contributions of numerous musicians. Live an acoustic band of ever changing numbers and on record a new approach to traditional music."

After releasing a couple of EPs in 2002/2003, they released their first self-titled album in 2004, which mostly comprised of re-recorded tracks from the first 2 EPs. Since then they have released several more EPs/singles and 5 more studio albums, plus an archival collection released this year which features alternative takes, mixes and arrangements of songs from the past 20 years.

 Click here for their Bandcamp page.

Although The Memory Band have been around for several years, I didn’t know much about them until I started compiling Manerg's Wyrdology mix in April 2021. Manerg included two excellent tracks from the band, prompting me to buy a couple of their albums right away. Then, just a couple of months ago, they offered their entire digital discography on Bandcamp for under £25, an offer I couldn't resist! I paid a bit more than the asking price to show appreciation, but it was still an incredible bargain, and I wasn’t disappointed. Every release is a delight. As for my favourites, I’d say the albums "Apron Strings" (2006) & "A Fair Field" (2016), plus the "Further Navigations" EP (2014) truly stand out.
As ever, origin of each track & year of release is tagged in the music files and in the download file. I hope you enjoy this latest band anthology!


  1. Calling On (3:27)
  2. Catch As Catch Can (3:04)
  3. I Don't Believe in You (2:34)
  4. The Mason and the Lark (2:55)
  5. The Wearing of the Horns (Weyhill On My Mind) (3:04)
  6. I Wish I Wish (7:53)
  7. Blackberry Way (2:44)
  8. Hobby Horse [with Belbury Poly] (3:21)
  9. After Night (2:43)
10. Bells (1:58)
11. This Is How We Walk on the Moon (3:40)
12. Why (4:51)
13. Demon Days (3:17)
14. Green Grows the Laurel (Jon Hopkins remix) (4:12)
15. The Ballad of Imber Down [with Grantby] (5:48)
16. So Fleet Runs the Hart (3:15)
17. The Landscape Movement (3:00)
18. Children of the Stones (3:46)
19. A New Skin (2:38)
20. Voices (2:06)
21. Facing the Granite Country (3:36)
22. Time and Space (2:43)
23. The Poacher (2:58)

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Manerg's Beş of 2021 - Volume Two

 

 

Here's Manerg's final selection of favourites from 2021. I thoroughly enjoyed compiling this 2nd volume, I hope you all enjoy listening to it as much as I did. I will post my 3rd and final volume of highlights from the past year this weekend, and after that it will be back to "normal". As usual, info containing origin of each track is tagged in the music files and in the download file.

 

  1. El Michels Affair - Dhuaan (4:04)
  2. Kit Sebastian - Rain (2:43)
  3. Evolfo - Broken Hills (2:47)
  4. Jorge Elbrecht - The Clouds are Gone (3:22)
  5. Chantal Acda - Disappear (6:55)
  6. Chet Sounds - Off the Beaten Track (3:11)
  7. Ryley Walker - Pond Scum Ocean (7:07)
  8. Stealing Sheep & The Radiophonic Workshop - The Free Oms (3:53)
  9. Jaubi - Insia (5:14)
10. Richard Dawson & Circle - Ivy (8:52)
11. Orchestre tout puissant Marcel Duchamp - Flux (4:57)
12. Squid - Narrator ft. Martha Skye Murphy (8:29)
13. Grasscut - Windfarm (4:38)
14. Matt Berry - Story Told (2:31)
15. James Yorkston and The Second Hand Orchestra - To Soothe Her Wee Bit Sorrows (7:26)
16. Soccer96 - Sitting on a Satellite feat. Salami Rose Joe Louis (4:04)
17. Black Country, New Road - Athens, France (6:22)
18. Sunburned Hand of the Man - Prix Fixe (4:50)
19. Ghosts of Jupiter - Northern Road (3:13)
20. Vanille - Solstice (5:12)
21. Tonstartssbandht - Pass Away (7:46)
22. Cobalt Chapel - It's the End, the End (5:26)

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Best of 2021 mix - Volume 2

Happy new year to you all! As I mentioned before, 2021 has seen several great releases, so here is my 2nd volume of particular favourites from the past year. Following this will be Manerg's 2nd volume, and after that I will post my 3rd, and final, selection of great singles/EPs/albums from 2021.

Thanks to everyone for the kind comments, each one inspires me to carry on with the blog, especially when I'm finding things quite tough as my personal situation isn't too great right now. But compiling these mixes helps see me through the hard times. Here's to a hopefully better 2022, and I hope you enjoy this second volume. Cheers!

  1. Badge Epoch - Fruit Cocktail in Heavy Syrup (3:37)
  2. Ty Segall - Feel Good (feat. Denée Segall) (2:55)
  3. Cobalt Chapel - A Father's Lament (3:40)
  4. International Music - Spiel Bass (2:11)
  5. Azmari - Fat Ari (5:36)
  6. Glowbones - Hurricane Season (4:01)
  7. Gatien - Moi Tout Seul (3:37)
  8. Mod Con - Cool It! (3:22)
  9. Clinic - Miracles (2:37)
10. Veik - Honesty (I Don't Wanna Know) (3:54)
11. Aloa Input - Desert Something (4:57)
12. Gates of Light - In My Dreams (3:51)
13. Skullcrusher - Prefer (3:24)
14. Yves Tumor - Crushed Velvet (3:07)
15. Altin Gün - Sevda Olmasaydi (3:13)
16. Triptides - It Won't Hurt You (3:01)
17. Maston - First Class (1:57)
18. Sons of Zöku - Sun Son (3:55)
19. Les Conches Velasques - Fluorescencia (3:14)
20. James Yorkston & The Second Hand Orchestra - There Is No Upside (6:40)
21. Lambchop - Drop C (3:19)
22. Vanishing Twin - Phase One Million (5:25)
23. Mt. Mountain - Second Home (3:17)
24. The Emerald Isle - Overcraig (2:44)
25. Djinn - Jaguar (4:46)

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Songs from Beneath the Spaghetti Tree Vol. 74

 

  1. Glass Beams - Kong (4:47)
  2. Magick Brother & Mystic Sister - Echoes From the Clouds (4:05)
  3. Erasmo Carlos - Dois Animais Na Selva Suja da Rua (3:06)
  4. Barry Dransfield - Be Your Own Man (2:59)
  5. Leila - Ur Train (2:35)
  6. Boduf Songs - Thwart by Thwart (5:07)
  7. Dale Crover - I'll Never Say (3:45)
  8. David Jaycock - March of the Dissonant Few (2:45)
  9. Young Flowers - 25 Øre (7:56)
10. Satan's Pilgrims - Tracers (Of Love) (2:55)
11. Vanishing Twin - The Lift (3:06)
12. Один в оленьем парке - Я не дома (3:34)
13. The Deviants - First Line (Seven the Row) (2:44)
14. 3 Hür-El - Ömür Biter Yol Bitmez (3:52)
15. Tangerine - Liberté (3:51)
16. The Bats - You Don't Belong Here (3:30)
17. Nick Haeffner - Breaths (2:39)
18. La Luz - Watching Cartoons (3:27)
19. Kit Sebastian - Elegy for Love (3:37)
20. Macie Stewart - Mouthful of Glass (3:52)
21. Yôkaï - Petit Indien N°3 (4:25)
22. Caribou - Sundialing (4:37)

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Midlake - Particle Separation Room (2001-2013)

 

Bio:
Midlake formed in Denton, Texas, in 1999 by a group of musicians who had attended the North Texas School of Music together: Paul Alexander (bass, keyboards), Eric Nichelson (keyboards, guitar), Eric Pulido (guitar, keyboards, background vocals), Tim Smith (vocals, keyboards, guitar), and Mckenzie Smith (drums). They issued their debut  EP, Milkmaid Grand Army, in 2001.

Their first full-length album, Bamnan and Slivercork, was released in July 2004. It showed a move in the direction of lo-fi psychedelic electronica, embracing influences such as Grandaddy and The Flaming Lips. For their next album, Midlake changed gears and moved away from the psychedelic leanings of their debut toward a more '70s-influenced sound. Released in 2006, The Trials of Van Occupanther featured the same lineup and a sound reminiscent of harmony-rich soft rock bands like America and Laurel Canyon troubadours like Neil Young and Gene Clark.

Their 3rd LP, The Courage of Others, arrived in February 2010. The album, which showcased Tim Smith's brooding baritone vocals, had a slower pace and denser musical arrangements inspired by British prog-folk acts like Pentangle, Fairport Convention, and The Incredible String Band.

In 2011 they headed to Buffalo, Texas and began writing new material for their fourth album. After playing a few live shows in 2012, lead singer and songwriter Smith decided to leave the band and formed a new project, Harp. Undeterred by his departure, the remaining members returned to the studio and scrapped two years of work to start from scratch. Pulido was installed on lead vocals and new members Jesse Chandler (piano/flute) and Joey McClellan (guitar) joined the outfit.

Their fourth release, Antiphon, was released in October 2013. "Antiphon is the most honest representation of the band as a whole, as opposed to one person's vision that we were trying to facilitate," Pulido remarked in the album's press release, which characterizes the new music as "free-flowing in feel, concise in structure ... it's very much Midlake, but uncannily rebooted, and relaxed". Antiphon is more rooted in progressive rock than their earlier records.

 

I was a bit of a latecomer to Midlake, not really coming to my attention until I heard their 2nd album "The Trials of Van Occupanther". I didn't think that much of it on first listen, but with repeated plays it soon became one of my favourite releases of 2006. This collection features tracks from their 4 studio albums, and a couple of EP tracks. Also featured are some "bonus" tracks such as "Rose of Dawn" which was released on the Japanese edition of "The Courage of Others", and the re-animation of "Roscoe" by Beyond the Wizards Sleeve, which I prefer to the original version. "Festival" was previously unreleased, not seeing the light of day until appearing on the 10th anniversary edition of "Van Occupanther", and finally an excellent version of Black Sabbath's "Am I Going Insane" from their LateNightTales compilation. All info containing track origin & year of release is tagged in the music files and in the download file. I hope you enjoy this latest collection and as ever keep staying safe!

  1. In This Camp (5:41)
  2. Mopper's Medley (4:57)
  3. It's Going Down (3:16)
  4. Fortune (2:02)
  5. Roller Skate (Farewell June) (3:31)
  6. Roscoe (Beyond the Wizards Sleeve Re-Animation) (6:48)
  7. It Covers the Hillsides (3:10)
  8. The Courage of Others (3:13)
  9. The Old and the Young (5:35)
10. Mornings Will Be Kind (2:44)
11. Rose of Dawn (2:59)
12. They Cannot Let It Expand (2:52)
13. Festival (5:11)
14. Young Bride (4:50)
15. Am I Going Insane (6:02)
16. Bring Down (3:35)
17. This Weight (3:32)
18. Kingfish Pies (4:15)
19. Head Home (5:43)

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Songs from Beneath the Spaghetti Tree Vol. 61

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Matt Berry - Moonlight Flit (2:42)
  2. Fugu - Sol y Sombra (2:41)
  3. String Driven Thing - It's a Game (3:34)
  4. Fenne Lily - Solipsism (3:02)
  5. That Petrol Emotion - It's a Good Thing (2:33)
  6. The Dragons - Food for My Soul (4:01)
  7. The Bees - Silver Line (3:35)
  8. Binario - Tarde Demais (5:06)
  9. Turtle Skull - Rabbit (3:59)
10. Om - Waiting of Godot (4:35)
11. Stretch - Why Did You Do It (3:30)
12. Peter Hammill - White Dot (6:21)
13. Chelo Lares - Vox Day (3:04)
14. Moonshake - City Poison (3:57)
15. Aphrodite's Child - Break (2:54)
16. Radio Stars - Macaroni 'n' Mice (2:38)
17. Jeanne-Marie Sens - Méli Mélo (1:59)
18. Clau Aniz - Iuá Uru (4:25)
19. Yves Jarvis - Semula (2:58)
20. Mint Field - Contingencia (3:13)
21. Unified Field Theory - Aptenodytes Patagonicus (3:05)
22. The Teardrop Explodes - The Culture Bunker (5:27)

 

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Songs from Beneath the Spaghetti Tree Vol. 49

  1. Turtle Skull - Take It or Leave It (8:12)
  2. Heaven's Gateway Drugs - Hate/Love (3:41)
  3. Gillian McPherson - It's My Own Way (3:14)
  4. Tunng - Peanuts (4:44)
  5. Nicole Yun - Tommie (3:29)
  6. The Dukes - The Dentist (2:38) 
  7. The Budos Band - Arcane Rambler (3:28)
  8. Us and Them - Time (3:22)
  9. Vanishing Twin - Cryonic Suspension May Save Your Life (5:28)
10. Lost Crowns - Midas X-Ray (5:21)
11. Colin Scot - Confusion (2:52)
12. Yoshida Takuro - Aoi Natsu (3:00)
13. Mote - Magnetic Space (5:19)
14. Cate Le Bon - Mother's Mother's Magazines (4:17)
15. Kathy Smith - Seven Virgins (3:48)
16. The Graham Walker Sound - Young Scene (From the Big Match) (2:29)
17. Big Block 454 - Upside-Down & Dirty (3:35)
18. Peter Perrett - War Plan Red (3:51)
19. The Golden Fleece - Behold/Nightfall (abridged) (6:55)

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Songs from Beneath the Spaghetti Tree Vol. 40

 

If anyone has recently visited and wondering what is going on, I'll repost this from earlier:

With the forthcoming changes in Mixcloud, I have decided to post all of my Spaghetti Tree mixes here as downloadable. All tracks will be separate, unlike on mixcloud, which should please some of you.

Many years ago, I used to DJ live, with my pal Manerg, in various pubs/clubs. Our main objective was to play mostly obscure stuff with the odd familiar tune thrown in, and to be as diverse as possible. So for one gig we'd play something really poppy like Soft Cell's What then follow it up with The Chills' Flame-Thrower, just to test our audience and ourselves! More recently I've been DJing online, keeping the same objective, then trying to recreate those shows on mixcloud. No speaking between songs, we never did that when DJing in the past, it just got in the way of the music and disrupted the flow.

Admittedly the first few volumes I posted on mixcloud were a bit more extreme in content, some abrupt changes in tempo/genre, or even too many consecutive songs of similar genre. I like to think that improved somewhat the more shows/volumes I compiled. There's one main theme to all of these volumes though, that being all cover art was supplied by my pal Katie for which I usually manipulated the photos to a certain degree, or left as they were.

  1. Richard Reed Parry - I Was in the World (Was the World in Me) (7:12)

  2. Gruff Rhys - Architecture of Amnesia (4:39)
  3. Happy End - Haikarahakuchi (2:51)
  4. Country Joe and The Fish - Mara (2:50)
  5. Mercury Rev - You've Gone With So Little for So Long (3:27)
  6. Mireille Darc - Hélicoptère (2:45)
  7. The Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band - Show Wong Molam International (3:35)
  8. Terry Durham - Crystal Telephone (3:08)
  9. Alexander Tucker - Visiting Again (4:26)
10. Klaus Morlock - Rustic Nudity (2:43)
11. Brian Protheroe - Mickey Dollar Dreams (3:26)
12. Jim Ford - Spoonful (2:44)
13. Mythic Sunship - Last Exit (8:52)
14. Belle Gonzalez - Michael (3:45)
15. Phosphorescent - C'est La Vie No.2 (3:25)
16. Medline - Running Fast (4:23)
17. Can - I'm So Green (3:03)
18. Richard Swift - Wendy (3:11)
19. Billy Nicholls - White Lightning (4:07)
20. Kikagaku Moyo - Fluffy Kosmisch (3:40)

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