lowlight wrote:

One of my favorite mixes from last year was Sustain & Decay. It was fun digging up old recordings & mixing them with new releases.

So I decided to do a follow-up, with the result being "revenants of the past". It follows the same basic formula of last years mix(which was also released in October). I browsed through a ton of files at archive.org, looking for things like old vinyl records & Edison cylinder recordings from as far back as 1888. I mixed these recordings with current music that either sounds old or in some cases actually uses old recordings as a sound source to be manipulated into something new.

In the last mix The Caretaker figured prominently and here too there is an extended track in the middle of this sequel mix. The track is an excerpt from a mix James Leyland Kirby, AKA The Caretaker, did for Fact Magazine.

I think "revenants" is a good mix of familiar & unfamiliar artists here. I had to get William Basinksi's Disintegration Loops in somewhere & so the mix closes with a track from Loops #2.

Enjoy the entropy.

Download : 82mb, 60 min.
revenants of the past

T R A C K L I S T :

* 00:00 Around the world on a phonograph 1888
* 00:15 Szilágyi Imre Zenekara - kurucz motak (from 78rpm record)
* 02:25 SIGHUP - city heart (from the album "end of")
* 05:20 Cylon - 4feb1912pt12 (from the ep "winter")
* 12:30 Joe Belov - Air for G String 1920 Edison cylinder
* 12:30 Krzysztof Orluk - the girl the melody in the head (from the album "blurred reflection")
* 16:00 Glim - puszta (from the album "music for field recordings")
* 19:00 Okkyung Lee - sky (from the album "nihm")
* 25:30 Montauk - Tranquility (from the album "the moment lasts a second but the memory lives on forever")
* 26:15 Skye Boat Song (from 78rpm record, Edinburgh, Scotland)
* 26:30 The Caretaker - Fact Mix #45, May '09 (excerpt from Fact Magazine mix)
* 35:40 Asher - Minatures #11 (from the album "minatures")
* 38:00 Rae Eleanor Bal - Gypsy Love Song 1927
* 40:20 Lucky Pierre - velbon (from the album "touchpool")
* 42:40 Jaudas Society Orchestra - Beautiful Ohio Waltz 1919 Edison cylinder
* 43:10 Philip Jeck - 1986(Frank was 70 years old) (from the album "surf")
* 44:00 relmic statute - 1rhet ednalnge (from the album "sitting under the lantern's glow")
* 47:30 Bronnt Industries Kapital - maggots in the rice (from an untitled cd)
* 49:50 Alessandro Moreschi - Ave Maria 1904 Edison cylinder
* 51:50 36 - signal (from the album "Hypersona")
* 53:00 Sub Loam - ohr (part 3) stones, sunlight, morning (from the album "Ohr")
* 55:50 William Basinksi - dlp 3 (from "The Disintegration Loops")
* 1:00:00 end

Barry_Crumbcheeks wrote:

looks interesting, will be giving this a listen!

Barry_Crumbcheeks wrote:

well it's 1.00 am christmas eve/christmas day and this mix is goin down a treat in the small and snowy hours. cheers lowlight!

lowlight wrote:

glad you like the mix! xmas cheer to the UK from middle america.

Diognes_The_Fox wrote:

If you can find it, anything on this label might be up your alley. Also probably all public domain by now.
http://www.discogs.com/label/E...liner%27s+Gramophone