Here's our December mix, with no (obvious) Christmas music (apart from 1). It'll see you through all the way to January
1. It's Blue - Scribble2. Angeline - John Martyn3. Weltweit - Wolfgang Riechmann4. Blue Joy - Mark Mothersbaugh5. A Girl In Winter - Ben Watt & Robert Wyatt6. Song Of The Sleeping Forest - Susumo Yokota7. Winter: Sleep - Claire Hammill8. Through The Night Softly - Jim O'Rourke9. Praise The Lord - Mary Lou Williams10. Come Sunday (live) - Cannonball Adderley11. The Winter Hymn (Ambient Version) - Pantha Du Prince12. 25 Dec 1983 - Haruomi Hosono
Chilly European 80s electronica, lopsided English post-punk, Japanese experimental pop, and a few stop offs elsewhere too
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Seems we've neglected to post our recent mixes up here, so if you're not following us on social media you'll likely have missed them. We've just posted our July mix, which is definitely weather influenced (hot weather music). We've also updated our ongoing playlist on Spotify, with what's available there (which isn't all that much tbh)
Listen below to the last couple, or dig in to all of them here
June mix
July mix
There's loads of great stuff out recently so we've got a few tracks in here; there's the Kankyo Ongaku boxset on Light In The Attic - a great boxset of Japanese ambient and environmental music - Kate NV's brilliant album, Michele Mecure's reissue on RVNG Intl, and we've revisited some old favourites - Kosmischer Laufer, Baffo Banfi, Mort Garson (currently subject of a ridiculous documentary idea) and Roedelius. We're also compiling all the mixes (what's available anyway) on our Spotify 1 Ode To An African Violet - Mort Garson 2 дуб OAK - Kate NV 3 Alphaville - Motohiko Hamase 4 Steady State - Rimarimba 5 Das Neue Japanische Elektronische Volkslied - Ryuichi Sakamoto 6 Jenseits Des Horizons - Kosmisher...
When it comes to opinions and tastes, lists are pretty stupid, one mans ceiling is another's floor and all that. But in music, despite being the opposite of what (I'd hope) most people make music for, lists get churned out on a daily basis ("10 Best Hats Worn By Left Handed People In Bands" etc). Everybody can get overwhelmed by all the new stuff that's out there, so with unerring uniformity record shops (and magazines, blogs, gobby people etc) will always do an end of year list. Some would list their best sellers of the year, most however pick the records they genuinely like, think are brilliant and deserving of your time, that's what this list is. These records aren't "the best",...
