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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Best of 2024 mix - Volume 2

 

Part 1:
  1. io audio recordings - Paranormal Champion (8:49)
  2. Tess Parks - Koalas (3:32)
  3. David Lance Callahan - Kiss Chase (5:33)
  4. VuVuVu and Alice Libertas - Beste (2:38)
  5. Bananagun - Feeding the Moon (3:41)
  6. Sons of Zöku - O Saber (3:07)
  7. Doug Tuttle -Draw Blood (3:38)
  8. Bitmap - Can You Match The Colours? (2:17)
  9. Dana Gavanski - Ribbon (3:55)
10. Shellac - Chick New Wave (2:18)
11. Gnoomes - Ule (8:48)
12. Julian Cope - The Dogshow Must Go On (2:07)
13. Fontanarosa - Endless Tracks (3:09)
14. Emilie Zoé - Tiny Miracles (3:39)
15. Louis Fontaine - Cocktail di Gamberi (3:19)
16. Altin Gün - Bir Sigara iç Oglan (3:21)
17. MEMORIALS - Book Stall (3:40)
18. Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan - A New Town With an Old Sense of Community (5:01)
19. Goat - Ouroboros (7:16)

Part 2:
  1. Opinion - Cimetière (3:02)
  2. The Soundcarriers - The City Was (3:54)
  3. Perilymph - Les Yeux (6:54)
  4. toechter - Epic Wonder (2:59)
  5. Gustaf - Here Hair (4:40)
  6. Cosmic Analog Ensemble - Vitesse & Précipitation (2:26)
  7. LAIR with Monica Hapsari - Setan Dolbon (3:47)
  8. Orchestre tout puissant Marcel Duchamp - Tout Haut (4:59)
  9. Beautify Junkyards - Somersault (4:03)
10. The Greek Theatre - Byrd of Prey (5:35)
11. Peter Perrett - Mixed Up Confucius (3:17)
12. EMZYG - Cows & Predators (5:21)
13. Joe Ghatt - Hold on You (4:14)
14. Ty Segall - My Best Friend (3:15)
15. The Silver Abduction - Thermocline (4:21)
16. Los Tayos - Bright Sorrow (9:00)
17. Crumb - Sleep Talk (2:47)
18. Triptides - Slip Away (4:42)

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Songs from Beneath the Spaghetti Tree Vol. 77

 

  1. Limiñanas / Garnier - Saul (5:38)
  2. Darondo - Qualified (2:49)
  3. The Soundcarriers - Falling Back (3:43)
  4. Charlotte Walters - Angel of Sin (2:10)
  5. L. Voag - Kitchen (2:19)
  6. Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Semi-Multicoloured Caucasian (4:19)
  7. Justen O'Brien & Jake - Are You Ready to Leave (4:03)
  8. Mission of Burma - Trem Two (4:09)
  9. Papete - Se Num Samba (3:42)
10. Tony Allen - Get Together (5:54)
11. The High Voices - Halilit Kesem (3:59)
12. Bill Wilson - Pay Day Give Away (3:56)
13. Smog - Held (3:57)
14. Yard Act - Land of the Blind (2:59)
15. Emmanuelle Parrenin & Detlef Weinrich - A Zombie's Passport (4:35)
16. Et Cetera - The Really Great Escape (4:08)
17. Dougie Stu - Another One for Slug (4:06)
18. Spindrift - Joe Medicine Crow (2:36)
19. Franco Micalizzi - Laure (# 3) (4:18)
20. Amit Kumar & Chorus - Y.O.G.A. (6:01)

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Songs from Beneath the Spaghetti Tree Vol. 63

 

  1. The Brian Marshall Orchestra & The Silencers - Wheelspin (3:23)
  2. Propeller - Sugar Pudding (3:56)
  3. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Honey (4:29)
  4. Spirit - What Do I Have (1:56)
  5. Ennio Morricone - Lui Per Lei (3:08)
  6. United States of Existence - Gone (2:17)
  7. Camera - Roehre (4:07)
  8. Festival - Warm Me (2:01)
  9. Spunky Onions - How I Lost My Virginity (3:24)
10. The Twelve Hour Foundation - Watching the Wires (2:40)
11. Godcaster - All the Feral Girls in the Universe (2:54)
12. Pell Mell - Spy vs Spy (2:51)
13. The 5th Dimension - Carpet Man (3:05)
14. Matching Mole - Signed Curtain (3:03)
15. David Nance - This Side of the Moon (2:44)
16. Syd Arthur - Morning's Calling (4:40)
17. Lithics - Hands (3:24)
18. Alco Frisbass - Les Cartes Vivantes (8:08)
19. Mosses - MSR (5:34)
20. Von Südenfed - Chicken Yiamas (2:33)
21. Louis Philippe - Anna Doesn't Live Here Anymore (3:20)
22. Paddy Kingsland - Vespucci (3:16)
23. Walter Wanderley Set - Open Your Arms (Let Me Walk Right In) (2:33)
24. Thee More Shallows - Freshman Thesis (5:01)

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Songs from Beneath the Spaghetti Tree Vol. 60

  1. Sospetto - Il Sonno Leggero (2:59)
  2. Big Dwarf - Bobby (The Boy With the Reversible Head) (2:07)
  3. Nathan Hall and the Sinister Locals - Tarantula! (2:51)
  4. Bendith - Mis Mehefin (3:39)
  5. Homunculus Res - Supermercato (6:17)
  6. Viv Stanshall - Terry Keeps His Clips On (3:38)
  7. Os Tropies - Lua Escura (4:48)
  8. Colorama - Crosville (3:35)
  9. Ray Torske - 666 (3:06)
10. The Amazing New Chico Hamilton Quintet - Lonesome Child (5:52)
11. The Young Sinclairs - Same Old Now (3:51)
12. Moebius & Beerbohm - Clarks Shiraz (4:29)
13. Still Corners - Eyes (2:36)
14. Nikki Sudden - Chelsea Embankment (2:21)
15. The Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Jackie Blue (4:07)
16. Halasan Bazar - Lucky You (4:51)
17. Even As We Speak - Leaves (2:53)
18. Roberto Cacciapaglia - Find Your Way (3:58)
19. La Logia Sarabanda - Cajon de Castanas (3:09)
20. Stereolab - Fried Monkey Eggs (1:59)
21. Sky Picnic - Half the Queen's Face (3:08)
22. Alan Jenkins and The Thurston Lava Tube - The Slow Fat Pudding Explodes Naked (2:51)

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Songs from Beneath the Spaghetti Tree Vol. 58

  1. The Kiwi Animal - Flying (Again!) (2:06)
  2. Ghost - Piper (6:41)
  3. The Remo Four - In the First Place (3:20)
  4. Cosmic Letdown - Paranoia (3:44)
  5. Dynammo - Voces (2:55)
  6. Janko Nilovic & Dave Sucky - Improvisation Pour Deux Voix (2:33)
  7. Traffik Island - Something Sweet (2:48)
  8. The Düsseldorf Düsterboys - Nenn Mich Musik (3:04)
  9. Groundhogs - Status People (3:33)
10. Melange - Armas Preparadas (4:27)
11. Volcano Suns - Truth Is Stranger Than Fishing (2:36)
12. Nadine Shah - Dillydally (3:47)
13. Matt Berry - The Badger's Wake (3:27)
14. Captain Beyond - Myopic Void (3:30)
15. Wire - Underwater Experiences (2:16)
16. Tobin Sprout - Exit Planes (3:20)
17. Marden Hill - Curtain (2:52)
18. that dog. - Old LP (4:07)
19. Mark Lanegan - Daylight in the Nocturnal House (3:03)
20. Julian Cope - Berlin Facelift (6:23)
21. This Kind of Punishment - The Sleepwalker (3:34)
22. Mateo - Fièvre Tranquille (1:46)
23. Electric Looking Glass - Dream a Dream (3:57)

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A Collection of Oddities - Volume 3

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Songs from Beneath the Spaghetti Tree Vol. 45

 

  1. Frankie and the Witch Fingers - ZAM (8:25)

  2. Key - And the Rain (2:57)
  3. Principles of Geometry - Dans la Doublure du Veston (3:42)
  4. The Humblebums - Rick Rack (2:49)
  5. Schnauser - Split (4:06)
  6. The Choir - Boris' Lament (2:48)
  7. The Lettermen - Hello, I Love You (2:12)
  8. Vuelveteloca - Carnaval (4:24)
  9. Alicia May - Borderline (3:57)
10. Needlepoint - Shadow in the Corner (3:10)
11. Sunwatchers - Ptah, the El Daoud (7:01)
12. Starry Eyed and Laughing - Thought Talk (4:44)
13. Nathan Hall and the Sinister Locals - Spider Skin (2:35)
14. The Forum - Trip on Me (2:17)
15. Sabine Happart - LXVII (2:28)
16. Marc Jonson - Rainy Dues (3:49)
17. Moody Blues - Ride My See-Saw (3:40)
18. The Chemistry Set - The World Is Hollow and I Touched the Sky (6:00)
19. Medicine Boy - For the Time Being (4:18)
20. Cymbeline - Stolta Vingar (3:32)

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A Collection of Oddities - Volume 2

 

Once more, what the title says.... A few odd tunes from the 1950s to the 1980s. Some are peculiar/insane cover versions, some are songs you wouldn't expect from a certain artist, and the rest are just... rather odd!

Just a few words about some of the artists on this mix:
With the onset of psychedelia in the mid 60s, a few well known acts jumped on the bandwagon with usually peculiar results, or in the case of The Four Seasons (mostly known for songs such as Big Girls Don't Cry) releasing an unheralded masterpiece of an album, called "The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette". I thought it fitting to end this volume with one of the finest tracks from that album. The Everly Brothers made a couple of attempts at psychedelia, and the track featured here, if you removed the brass and bongos (insane bongos!) could easily be mistaken for a mid 60s lost classic from The Byrds. Howlin' Wolf was another unlikely artist to take on psychedelia, but you just need to hear the acid drenched revisions of some of his blues classics on the album he recorded in 1969 with Rotary Connection backing him. Also featured is probably one of the earliest "psych" recordings, a track from the Alan Watts album "This is It", from 1962.

Away from the psych phenomenon I've featured a track from the actor Robert Mitchum's calypso album from the late 50s, and keeping with the actors recording albums theme a song from Peter Wyngarde's solo release in 1970, a quite bizarre album where he daren't sing on, so just spoke to us in his most "seductive" voice. I purposely avoided putting on the track "Rape" from this album, which it's probably most infamous for and why a reissue of it was cancelled quite recently.

A peculiarity is the song by Dib Cochran & The Earwigs, who released the one single back in 1970. In reality this was Marc Bolan and Tony Visconti (on lead vocals) in disguise, and the song could easily have been a big hit if released in the mid 70s as disco took off. Now we come to Jon Wayne, and no it isn't the actor. I remember coming across, and buying, this album in the mid 80s, and it remains one of the most hilarious albums I've ever heard. The best way I could describe the sound is "country slop". One reviewer remarked on it as "a hideous, drunken, sloppy mess that grafts the musicality of Merle Haggard etc onto a very loose/chaotic California punk sound. If that sounds like a bad combination...you're right. It is."

I may write some more about the acts featured on this latest volume, but for now I hope you enjoy!
 
   1. Lieutenant Pigeon - Opus 300 (2:08)
   2. The Everly Brothers - Mary Jane (2:57)
   3. Jon Wayne - Texas Jailcell (3:12)
   4. Chubby Checker - Autobahn Baby (1:56)
   5. Peter Wyngarde - The Way I Cry Over You (3:28)
   6. Kevin Ayers and The Whole World - Hat (5:27)
   7. Sroeng Santi - Kuen Kuen Lueng Lueng (3:32)
   8. The Kaplan Brothers - Happy (4:31)
   9. Robert Mitchum - Mama Looka Boo Boo (Shut You Mouth-Go Away) (2:53)
  10. Rajput & The Sepoy Mutiny - Up, Up & Away (2:11)
  11. Bruce Haack - Cherubic Hymn (2:16)
  12. Armand Schaubroeck Steals - Ratfucker (3:47)
  13. Dib Cochran & The Earwigs - Oh Baby (2:46)
  14. Mystery Artist - Mystery Track (0:59)
  15. Rita Lee - Frique Comigo (3:23)
  16. Ivor Cutler - Go and Sit Upon the Grass (2:06)
  17. Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning (3:54)
  18. Stud Cole - The Devil's Comin' (2:18)
  19. R. Stevie Moore - Ditch Me (1:39)
  20. Oho - Pale Hippo (1:48)
  21. Moondog - Wine, Woman and Song (2:22)
  22. Alan Watts - Love You (3:05)
  23. Eden Ahbez - Eden's Cove (2:39)
  24. David Hemmings - Talkin' L.A. (7:16)
  25. The Four Seasons - Genuine Imitation Life (6:16)


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