The Fall - Ersatz-Unutterable-Imperial-etc.

 

  

This collection is my tribute to the late great Mark E Smith who sadly died a few days ago. I imagine most old Fall fans, on hearing of his passing, will listen to their earlier albums, but I've been a dedicated fan for 35+ years and I decided to concentrate on some of my favourite songs since the turn of the century. Maybe much of their later work wasn't of the high standard of those early days, many dismiss anything they recorded after the 1980s, but for me there were always at least 3 or 4 excellent songs on (almost) every studio album they released. I hope you all enjoy this collection of songs, and sink a beer or two in memory of the genius that was Mark Edward Smith.

  1. I Wake Up in the City (4:38)
  2. Cowboy George (3:22)
  3. Exploding Chimney (2:29)
  4. Mountain Energei (3:20)
  5. Serum (4:54)
  6. Hittite Man (5:46)
  7. Wise Ol' Man (3:34)
  8. Blindness (6:27)
  9. Junger Cloth (4:56)
10. New Facts Emerge (4:02)
11. Dr. Bucks' Letter (5:17)
12. Latch Key Kid (3:18)
13. Midnight in Aspen (3:11)
14. Mister Rode (7:36)
15. Last Commands of Xyralothep Via M.E.S. (3:20)
16. Fall Sound (3:53)
17. Taking Off (3:58)
18. Crop-Dust (5:30)

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Track 1 from the album "2G+2", 2001
Track 2 from the album "Your Future Our Clutter", 2010
Tracks 3 & 12 from the album "Imperial Wax Solvent", 2008
Tracks 4 & 15 from the album "The Real New Fall LP", 2003
Tracks 5 & 11 from the album "The Unutterable", 2000
Track 6 from the album "Re-Mit", 2013
Track 7 from the EP "Wise Ol' Man", 2016
Track 8 from the box set "The Complete Peel Sessions 1978–2004", 2005 [Session 24, 4 August 2004]
Track 9 from the album "Sub-Lingual Tablet", 2015
Track 10 from the album "New Facts Emerge", 2017
Track 13 from the album "Fall Heads Roll", 2005
Track 14 from the EP "The Remainderer", 2013
Track 16 from the album "Reformation Post TLC", 2007
Track 17 from the album "Ersatz G.B.", 2011
Track 18 from the album "Are You Missing Winner", 2001

 

Oozings from the Inner Mynde - Volume 24: Locomotives, Amplified & Dreaming

 

The new Oozings are slowly trickling out, but hopefully Volume 25 will appear before the year is out... 

Note that there is yet another band here going by the name Kaleidoscope, but this bunch hail from Mexico. As ever the album each track comes from, plus the year released, are tagged in the comments of all the files. Enjoy!

   1. The Griffin - Magic Carpet Ride (3:59)
   2. Kaleidoscope - Colours (2:31)
   3. Art Boys Collection - Love (3:44)
   4. The JuJus - Sometime or Other (2:45)
   5. Wilkinson Tri-Cycle - Antique Locomotives (5:24)
   6. Os Mutantes - Mágica (4:37)
   7. Aubrey Small - Country Road (3:50)
   8. People - Lucky John (4:09)
   9. Teddy & The Pandas - Raspberry Salesman (4:08)
 10. Glad - Johnny Silver's Ride (3:37)
 11. Ministry of Sound - Midsummer Dreaming (2:44)
 12. The Dragons - Amplified Emotion (3:41)
 13. Los Ovnis - Fe (2:29)
 14. Salloom, Sinclair and the Mother Bear - Griffin' (3:35)
 15. Arcadium - It Takes a Woman (3:49)
 16. Chamaeleon Church - Off With the Old (4:19)
 17. Wool - If They Left Us Alone Now (3:33)
 18. The Third Rail - No Return (1:56)
 19. Country Funk - Really My Friend (4:02)
 20. Racket Squad - The Minstrel (5:47)
 21. Wild Silk - Just a Game (4:17)

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Manerg's Monumental Mix

 

Instead of doing a 3rd volume of my favourite tunes from 2017, I asked my good pal Manerg to bring together a few of his favourites, and this is the result. As we share a similar taste in music, I'm sure you'll all (hopefully) enjoy!

    1. Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Coffee (3:18)
    2. OCS - On and On Corridor (5:37)
    3. Big Hogg - Devil’s Egg (4:39)
    4. Inner Ear Brigade - Black and White Taste (5:53)
    5. Grizzly Bear - Systole (3:14)
    6. Once and Future Band - I'll Be Fine (6:28)
    7. Maud Octallinn - De Ma Cabane (3:41)
    8. The Greek Theatre - Broken Circle (5:39)
    9. Midnight Sister - The Crow (2:22)
  10. Jane Weaver - Did You See Butterflies? (3:44)
  11. Vespero - Isidore's Dance (8:35)
  12. L'Rain - A Toes (Shelf Inside Your Head) (2:44)
  13. Reptaliens - Simulation (3:28)
  14. Aquaserge - L'Ire Est au Rendez-Vous (5:38)
  15. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard with Mild High Club - Tezeta (3:38)
  16. Magic Bus - Kepler 22b (6:38)
  17. Carmen Villain - Quietly (4:24)
  18. Melange - Río Revuelto (5:07)

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Sour Kraut Volume 2 (unmixed)

As requested here's the unmixed version...!

  1. Michael Rother - Zeni (5:08)
  2. Cornucopia - Morning Sun (3:02)
  3. Thirsty Moon - Tune In (4:58)
  4. Between - Devotion (3:45)
  5. Faust - Party 9 (6:00)
  6. Cluster - Caramba (3:54)
  7. Annexus Quam - Osmose II (3:08)
  8. Dzyan - Electric Silence (4:29)
  9. Embryo - End of Soul (4:10)
10. Can - Bubble Rap (9:22)
11. Eulenspygel - Untertanenfabrik (3:53)
12. Popol Vuh - Selig Sind, Die da Willig Arm Sind (3:12)
13. Sperrmüll - No Freak Out (6:41)
14. My Solid Ground - The Executioner (3:30)
15. Kraftwerk - Heimatklänge (3:45)
16. A.R. & Machines - Als Hätt Ich Das Alles Schon Mal Gesehen (5:27)
17. Krokodil - Light of Day (5:19)

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Best of 2017 mix, Volume 2

 

  1. Meatbodies - Scavenger (3:40)
  2. Nabihah Iqbal - Zone 1 to 6000 (3:22)
  3. Flowers Must Die - Hey, Shut Up! (5:06)
  4. Trupa Trupa - Love Supreme (3:32)
  5. The Feelies - Been Replaced (2:53)
  6. Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel - Fuzz Phantom (2:30)
  7. The Heliocentrics - The Brotherhood of Eternal Love (2:00)
  8. Mary Ocher - To the Light (3:39)
  9. Oh Sees - Nite Expo (2:56)
10. The Residents - Shroud of Flames (5:37)
11. Carmen Villain - She's Gone to California (3:49)
12. Unsane - Distance (3:47)
13. Kondi Band - Without Money, No Family (Chief Boima Remix) (5:35)
14. Mermaidens - Smothering Possession (3:19)
15. Magic Bus - Zeta (4:28)
16. Doug Tuttle - Home Again (1:45)
17. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - In the World (2:58)
18. John Matthias & Jay Auborn - Actress (4:01)
19. Six Organs of Admittance - Threshold of Light (4:17)
20. LuneApache - Les Persiennes (3:13)
21. CFM - Lethal Look (3:28)
22. Kelly Lee Owens - Lucid (3:30)

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Best of 2017 mix

 

   1. Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble - Committed (3:52)
   2. Electric Eye - Invisible Prison (5:14)
   3. Guided by Voices - Boy W (2:32)
   4. Kiss the Floor - This Desire (3:02)
   5. Canari - L'Aube (3:42)
   6. Fazerdaze - Little Uneasy (3:36)
   7. Yorkston/Thorne/Khan - Recruited Collier (4:59)
   8. The Paperhead - Duly Noted (3:16)
   9. King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana (2:32)
 10. BODYKIT - Gut$ (5:30)
 11. Cobalt Chapel - Two (3:36)
 12. faUSt - La Poulie (6:35)
 13. Maud Octallinn - Prince FLAT (2:45)
 14. Big Hogg - Augogo (2:37)
 15. Peter Perrett - Take Me Home (4:20)
 16. Gnoomes - Maria (3:12)
 17. Prins Thomas - Villajoyosa (5:06)
 18. Pere Ubu - Prison of the Senses (2:11)
 19. Gnod - Paper Error (4:47)
 20. Jane Weaver - Slow Motion (5:06)

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Vortex of Fuzz - Volume Five: I Keep Tryin'

 

This will be the last volume for a while, and is the usual mix of the more well known with the ultra obscure! The bands on the cover this time are: The Hangmen at bottom left, The Emperors bottom right, and the main pic is The Easybeats.

Like before, more band info can be found by clicking here!

  1. The Others - Revenge (1:58)
  2. The Hangmen - Faces (2:31)
  3. Q65 - I Got Nightmares (2:27)
  4. Shon Dels Unlimited - Like It or Lump It (3:25)
  5. Something Else - Let Me Say Now Love (2:48)
  6. The Emperors - I Want My Woman (2:36)
  7. D'4 Ever - Mungkir Janji (2:34)
  8. Jan Panter - Scratch My Back (2:33)
  9. The Jay-Jays - I Keep Tryin' (1:58)
10. The Spirits - Almost There (3:13)
11. The Talula Babies - Hurtin' Kind (2:28)
12. Craig - I Must Be Mad (2:38)
13. Davie Allan & The Arrows - Invasion (2:07)
14. The Grim Reepers - Joanne (2:32)
15. Sonny Flaharty and The Mark V - Do It (2:44)
16. The Music Explosion - Let Yourself Go (2:31)
17. Les Problemes - Je Ne Vois Rien (2:57)
18. The Maniacs - Now I Know (1:54)
19. The New Breed - One More for the Good Guys (4:25)
20. The Mourning Reign - Satisfaction Guaranteed (2:19)
21. Druids of Stonehenge - Pale Dream (2:33)
22. The Mojo Men - Sure of Your Love (2:02)
23. The Key Boys - untitled (3:12)
24. Phase 4 - Think I'll Sit Down and Cry (2:30)
25. Question Mark & the Mysterians - Girl (You Captivate Me) (2:15)
26. Illés Zenekar - Ne Gondold (2:51)
27. The Chessmen - When I'm Not There (2:04)
28. The What Four - I'm Gonna Destroy That Boy (2:04)
29. The Easybeats - I'll Make You Happy (3:09)
30. The Electras - Dirty Old Man (2:41)

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Sour Kraut Volume 2

 

6+ years since the first krautrock mix, here's Volume 2. Whereas the first volume featured mostly the better known bands from this era, this one concentrates on many lesser heard bands. I've included Faust again because... why not?!? I've also gone against my previous declaration of not having Can on any of these mixes, but this is one of their less familiar tunes, a 1972 recording which was previously unheard until the 2012 collection "The Lost Tapes" was released. Once again this was made using the program Mixmeister, and all the tracks segue from one song to the next, so this mix is best played in order. Enjoy!

  1. Michael Rother - Zeni (4:56)
  2. Cornucopia - Morning Sun (2:59)
  3. Thirsty Moon - Tune In (4:53)
  4. Between - Devotion (3:40)
  5. Faust - Party 9 (5:48)
  6. Cluster - Caramba (3:38)
  7. Annexus Quam - Osmose II (3:00)
  8. Dzyan - Electric Silence (4:22)
  9. Embryo - End of Soul (4:07)
10. Can - Bubble Rap (9:15)
11. Eulenspygel - Untertanenfabrik (3:51)
12. Popol Vuh - Selig Sind, Die da Willig Arm Sind (3:06)
13. Sperrmüll - No Freak Out (6:32)
14. My Solid Ground - The Executioner (3:27)
15. Kraftwerk - Heimatklänge (3:35)
16. A.R. & Machines - Als Hätt Ich Das Alles Schon Mal Gesehen (5:10)
17. Krokodil - Light of Day (5:19)

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Sour Kraut (2017 lossless remix)

 

 While compiling what will be Sour Kraut Volume 2, I figured I should go back to the original and recreate it but this time in lossless. Like before the mix was created using Mixmeister so all the tracks segue into each other. No change in the tracklisting, the original can still be downloaded from here.

01. Agitation Free - Pulse (4:50)
02. Harmonia - Monza (Rauf und Runter) (6:54)
03. Paternoster - Paternoster (3:47)
04. Gila - Sundance Chant (4:07)
05. Walter Wegmüller - Der Wagen (5:08)
06. Vinegar - Sawmill - Teil I (5:15)
07. Faust - It's a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl (7:16)
08. Witthuser & Westrupp - Lasst uns auf die Reise Gehn (3:30)
09. NEU! - Lila Engel (Lilac Angel) (4:24)
10. Amon Düül II - Archangels Thunderbird (3:29)
11. Sand - On the Corner (4:22)
12. Eloy - Floating (3:48)
13. Guru Guru - Next Time See You at the Dalai Lhama (5:51)
14. Brainticket - The Space Between (2:55)
15. La Düsseldorf - Time (9:18)

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Vortex of Fuzz - Volume Four: Mind Destruction

 

More fuzz and frolics for you all to enjoy! Like before, each volume features mostly obscure bands with a few more familiar names. The three bands starring on the cover this time are: bottom left are Thor's Hammer, on the right The Eyes, and above them the legendary 13th Floor Elevators. 

For a little bit of info about each band, click here.

  1. The Caravelles - Lovin' Just My Style (2:54)
  2. The Shanes - I Don't Want Your Love (2:18)
  3. The Donshires - Sad and Blue (2:27)
  4. Thor's Hammer - I Don't Care (2:39)
  5. Lyn & The Invaders - Boy Is Gone (2:35)
  6. The Darelycks - Bad Trip (2:43)
  7. Count Five - Peace of Mind (2:16)
  8. 4 PK - Down and Out (2:17)
  9. Los York's - Se Que No Cambiaras (2:17)
10. Paul Martin - Echo (2:16)
11. Crystal Garden - Peach Fuzz Forest (3:57)
12. Chords Five - Universal Vagrant (2:49)
13. The Unusuals - I Could Go On (1:59)
14. The Dovers - People Ask Me Why (2:42)
15. The Shandells - Gorilla (2:53)
16. The 13th Floor Elevators - Tried to Hide (2:19)
17. Unknown Artist - I'm Gonna Have My Fun (2:29)
18. I Bisonti - Ma Se Ci Penso (2:07)
19. The 5: P.M. - How Many Days (2:26)
20. The Chicks - The Rebel Kind (2:28)
21. The Plastic Blues Band - Gone (2:03)
22. The Spiders - Hey Boy (1:46)
23. The Barons - Drawbridge (2:19)
24. The Thingies - I'm Going Ahead (2:14)
25. The Eyes - I'm Rowed Out (2:54)
26. The Belles - Come Back (2:10)
27. The Standells - Did You Ever Have That Feeling (3:02)
28. The Blue Birds - Sweet Polly (3:00)
29. Six Minus One - Fun and Games (2:50)
30. Oxford Circle - Mind Destruction (5:13)

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