Big City Styli went out and got me some brand new needles for my trio of Technics. figured i would take them for a test spin and made this abstract house mixtape. to make things interesting each track selected is from a different year, spanning over three decades. abstract house survives the trends and continues to go deep. photo : that time, in 19…

Elektronika-1 – electronic – abstract – krautrock – synthpop – minimal – new wave – experimental – industrial – ambient – Berlin-School – all words used to describe the amazing machine music coming out of Germany in the early 1980s. image : Elektronika-1, the first LED watch made in the U.S.S.R. Tracklist: Rattenweisel – Moebius – Sky Records / Bur…

Outside The Lines a small sliver of jazz from the decade spanning 1947 to 1956. a time where jazz musicians started coloring outside the lines, pushing traditional forms to explore sonic terrains creating new styles and harmonic theories in the post-bop era. whether it be expanding the palette of big band or experimenting with rhythms and chord cha…

Radio Junkie this next mix of lo slung beats is about the djs who pollute our airwaves… it’s called Radio Junkie. photo : Telly Amster Tracklist: excerpt from Radio Junkie – Da Slyme – Celluloid Lunch Records (1979/2023) Back To The Old School (Scratch Mix) – DJ Mike Dred – Rephlex (1998)*** Spatial Convolution – Funckauma – Djak-Up-Bitch (DUB) (19…

At The End Of Your Rope music, and all art in general, is a way of conveying feelings, emotions and ideas that are too complex to explain with just the basics of communication offered by language. we survive by using all our senses in tandem to help us understand and navigate our surroundings. sometimes we use our collective senses to protect us fr…

Barry’s Bonds between 1962 and 1987 John Barry scored 11 movies from the James Bond canon of suspenseful spy flicks based on Ian Fleming’s novels from the fifties and sixties. even though ‘The James Bond Theme’ was originally written by Monty Norman, it is John Barry’s arrangement that is seared into our collective unconscious. having scored much o…

Rocky Road in a vain attempt to keep 2024 as chill as possible here is a deep mix of reggae and dub to keep us unshaken while we’re out on this rocky road. in a world of catch-22 you can always rely on luv for a peace of mind. image : R. U. Reddy Tracklist: A Reasoning – Creation Rebel – Cherry Red / Lantern Records (1982/2022) Young Generation – P…

Luv Language pulsing electronic music that makes robots rock. sharing music is a love language. image : Ginsing Harry Tracklist: You Are In A Clearing – James Holden – Border Community (2023) Metro Esc – Global Goon – Central Processing Unit (2023) Benbut – Polygonia, Popp – Squama (2023) Wolves Don’t Chase Hope (They Chase Rabbits) – W.R.F. – Faci…

Streetlife Entropy here’s a musty mixtape of sixties & seventies relics from your grand-dad’s basement collection. where electric guitarists do what they do best, let loose on endless groovy jams. a blend of funk, jazz, rock and blues that maybe Pop’s would have dug. image : Brian Hagiwara + time Tracklist: The Funky Waltz – The Eleventh House with…

A Luv Supreme a raggedy mix of deep uplifting house music that tugs on strains of jazz, gospel and pop; dragging them across the dancefloor and dropping them at our feet. photo : the satellite of luv Tracklist: excerpt from The Music Is Like A Mirror – Sun Ra – Norton Records (2013) M.E.A.N.D.N.J.B. – Moodymann – Peacefrog Records (1998) Yeah… (Tri…