luv457

abstract house

luv457 Big City Styli

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 1963, when a giant celestial stylus descended from the heavens and played the streets of downtown Montreal like grooves on a record.

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Tracklist:
  1. Formation – ALSO – R&S Records (2015)
  2. Trivial Habitat – [a]pendics.shuffle – Leftroom (2006)
  3. Dimensions – M500 (Juan Atkins) – Buzz/ Life’s Good (1992/2018)
  4. Repeat After Me (DJ Deep & Traumer – Free Your Soul) – Klauss & Craig – Planet E (2018)
  5. Nodes – The Huggy Factor – 20:20 Vision (2001)
  6. Pow Pow (Idjut Boys Remix) – LCD Soundsystem – DFA (2024)
  7. Tronk – Mpari – Pssst Music (1995)
  8. Foodalg – Cabanne – Telegraph (2004)
  9. Edge Of Life – Len Lewis – Swag Records (1998)
  10. Subpad – Ricardo Villalobos – [a:rpia:r] (2017)
  11. Mattithyahû – Pépé Bradock – Atavisme (2020)
  12. Wanna Do – Byron “B Rude” Burke – Continuemusics (1996)
  13. Moment – Lee Jones – Aus Music (2011)
  14. Beautiful World – Paul Hester – Paper Recordings (1999)

luv456

electronic listening music, krautrock

luv456 Elektronika-1

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.

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Tracklist:
  1. Rattenweisel – Moebius – Sky Records / Bureau B (1983/2023)
  2. Atlantisches Intermezzo – Pyrolator – Ata Tak / Bureau B (1984/2013)
  3. Beat For Ikutaro / Tape 52 – Heiko Maile – Bureau B (1985/2021)
  4. Pitch Control – Moebius-Plank-Neumeier – Sky Records / Bureau B (1983/2009)
  5. Surrender (from Angst) – Klaus Schulze – Inteam GmbH / Brain / Vertigo (1984/2017)
  6. Time Machine – Adelbert Von Deyen – Sky Records (1980)
  7. Desert Drive (from Wavelength) – Tangerine Dream – Varèse Sarabande (1983)
  8. Tanz Der Vampire – Elektronische Musik aus Köln – Origination West / EMI Electrola / Universal Sound (1983/2010)
  9. Auf Dem Schwarzen Kanal – Conrad Schnitzler – RCA Victor / Bureau B (1980/2020)
  10. Stahlherz – Rheingold – EMI Electrola (1982)
  11. Geradewohl – Roedelius – Sky Records (1980)
  12. Deutscher Wald – Deutsche Wertarbeit – Sky Records (1981)
  13. Metaluna – Supersempfft – Wunderwerke / Bureau B (1981/2023)
  14. Synthesist – Harald Grosskopf – Sky Records / Bureau B (1981/2014)

luv455

jazz

luv455 Outside The Lines

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 changes or just plain old jaw-dropping virtuoso playing, these cats were feeling out the new sounds. by coloring outside the lines these musicians expanded the boundaries of what jazz is and became the solid foundation for the next wave of jazz giants to build upon.
image : Lobo Thiorn

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Tracklist:
  1. The Way You Look Tonight – Dave Brubeck Octet – Fantasy / Book-of-the-Month Records (1956/1980)
  2. Lydian M-1 – The Teddy Charles Tentet – Atlantic (1956/1986)
  3. Medicine For A Nightmare – Le Sun-Ra and his Arkestra – DOXY Music (1956/2009)
  4. Line Up – Lennie Tristano – Atlantic (1955/1986)
  5. Amoeba’s Dance – Herbie Nichols – Blue Note (1955/2021)
  6. Four Hands – Charlie Mingus – Period Records / Get Back (1954/1955/2002)
  7. Liberian Suite : Dance No. 5 – Duke Ellington And His Orchestra – Columbia / CBS (1949/1967)
  8. Tone Paintings II – Dodo Marmarosa – Spotlite Records (1947/1975)
  9. It’s Only A Paper Moon – Art Tatum – Book-of-the-Month Records (1953/1980)
  10. Morpheus – Miles Davis Sextet – Prestige / Original Jazz Classics (1951/1956)
  11. Four In One – The Thelonious Monk Quintet – Blue Note (1952/1956)
  12. It Could Happen To You (Alternate Master) – Bud Powell – Blue Note (1951/1955)

luv454

electronic listening music, trip hop

luv454 Radio Junkie

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

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Tracklist:
  1. excerpt from Radio Junkie – Da Slyme – Celluloid Lunch Records (1979/2023)
  2. Back To The Old School (Scratch Mix) – DJ Mike Dred – Rephlex (1998)***
  3. Spatial Convolution – Funckauma – Djak-Up-Bitch (DUB) (1999)
  4. Pentin Din – Geiom – Neo Ouija (2001)
  5. 30 ft Jelly – Echo Park – Lo Recordings (1999)
  6. Lord Calrec – Alexanders Dark Band – DC Recordings (2000)
  7. If That Were To Occur – Future Sound Of London – fsoldigital.com (2022)
  8. Carpenter – Cube & Sphere – Cheap (1998)
  9. Conundrum – DJ Faust, Shortee and Craze – Bomb Hip-Hop Records (1998)
  10. The Dead Chair – Mr. Oizo – F Communications (1999)
  11. The Prophecy – DJ Shadow – Mass Appeal (2023)
  12. Sub Species – Techno Animal – Matador / Relapse Records (2001/2024)
  13. Sluta Leta – Sluta Leta – Uptight (1996)
  14. APE – Mouse On Mars – Monkeytown (2012)
  15. Singing Distance – Kettel – Neo Ouija (2001)
  16. excerpt from Junky Relations – William S. Burroughs – Sub Rosa (1961/1986/2013)
***track played at wrong speed, on 33rpm instead of 45rpm.

luv453

odd pop

luv453 At The End Of Your Rope

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 from the beasts that hunt us but other times we use the information to help those around us that are suffering. music connects people on a deeper level and reassures us that we are not alone in our thoughts and in the world. the intangible communication that comes from art provides a much needed connection. music has always been there for me when i have been at the end of my rope. i share these mixtapes in the hope that music is there for others when they are at the end of theirs.
image : a still from Frederico Fellini‘s 8½

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Tracklist:
  1. Ready For Duty – Ape School – Hometapes (2012)
  2. Holiday – Teebs ft. Jonti – Brainfeeder (2014)
  3. Ofrenda-Flanger-Ego-à Gogo – Of Montreal – Polyvinyl Record Company (2022)
  4. Whirlpool – Panda Bear & Sonic Boom – Domino (2022)
  5. The Wilhelm Scream – James Blake – Atlas Recordings (2011)
  6. Tales From The Trash Stratum – Oneohtrix Point Never & Elizabeth Fraser – Warp (2021)
  7. Krumville – Oneohtrix Point Never ft. Xiu Xiu, Lee Ranaldo & Nathan Salon – Warp (2023)
  8. Miles Away – Yo La Tengo – Matador (2022)
  9. She’s Not – Lee Gamble – Hyperdub (2023)
  10. Light & Grace – Schneider TM – Editions Mego (2021)
  11. Magicians From Baltimore – Animal Collective – Domino (2023)
  12. Ship – The Notwist ft. Saya – Morr Music (2020)
  13. Dreams – Dntel ft. Mystic Chords Of Memory – Sub Pop (2007)
  14. Enough – Fred again… & Brian Eno – Text Records (2023)

luv452

original soundtracks

luv452 Barry's Bonds

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 of the franchise’s output over the first 3 decades (spanning 4 different actors portraying Secret Agent 007) John Barry’s work has left an indelible mark on Hollywood. this mix showcases music from all of the James Bond films John Barry scored, plus a few related extras, and loosely follows the “Bond Formula” (the general plot structure most of the movies follow).
image : from the cover of the Ian Fleming novel You Only Live Twice

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Tracklist:
  1. The James Bond Theme (from Dr. No) – The John Barry Orchestra – United Artists Records / Easy Action (1962/2014)
  2. Goldfinger (instrumental Version) (from Goldfinger) – John Barry – United Artists Records (1964)
  3. May Day Jumps (from A View To A Kill) – John Barry – Capitol (1985)
  4. Diamonds Ar Forever (from Diamonds Are Forever) – John Barry ft. Shirley Bassey – United Artists Records (1971)
  5. Capsule In Space (from You Only Live Twice) – John Barry – United Artists Records (1967)
  6. This Never Happened To The Other Fella (from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service) – John Barry – United Artists Records (1969)
  7. Bond Meets Stacey (A View To A Kill) (from A View To A Kill) – John Barry – Capitol (1985)
  8. Arrival At The Island Of Octopussy (from Octopussy) – John Barry – A&M (1983)
  9. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service – John Barry – Columbia (1970)
  10. Hercules Takes Off (from The Living Daylights) – John Barry and Paul O’Duffy – Warner Bros. (1987)
  11. Bond Arrives In Rio And Boat Chase (from Moonraker) – John Barry – United Artists Records (1979)
  12. Let’s Go Get ‘Em (from The Man With The Golden Gun) – John Barry – United Artists Records (1974)
  13. 007 And Counting (from Diamonds Are Forever) – John Barry – United Artists Records (1971)
  14. Bond Below Disco Volante (from Thunderball) – John Barry – United Artists Records (1965)
  15. 007 Takes The Lektor (from From Russia With Love) – John Barry – United Artists Records (1963)
  16. Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (from Thunderball) – John Barry – United Artists Records (1965)
  17. You Only Live Twice – End Title (from You Only Live Twice) – John Barry ft. Nancy Sinatra – United Artists Records (1967)
  18. The James Bond Theme – The John Barry Seven And Orchestra – Columbia / EMI (1962/1979)

luv451

dub, reggae

luv451 Rocky Road

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

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Tracklist:
  1. A Reasoning – Creation Rebel – Cherry Red / Lantern Records (1982/2022)
  2. Young Generation – Prince Far I – Joe Gibbs Record Globe / VP Records / 17 North Parade (1977/2023)
  3. The Children Rise – Earl 16 with The Heptones – Satiera Records /Trench Town Records (????/2002)
  4. Touching The President – Tall T. and The Touchers – Splash / Flashforward (1972/2002)
  5. Are You Sure? – Silvertones – Black Art Records / Trojan Records / Antarctica Starts Here (1973/2022)
  6. Quantum Physics Revisited – Scientist – Real Authentic Sound / Tafari Records (2000/2023)
  7. Brotherly Love – Henrick Nicholson / Lee Perry – Seven Leaves Records / Pressure Sounds (1978/2021)
  8. Truthful Dub – U-Roy – Sound System Records (1976/2021)
  9. Shupe Dub – Boris Gardiner Happening – Now-Again Records (????/2022)
  10. Mr. Bassie – Horace Andy – On-U Sound (2022)
  11. Vegetable Matter – Singers & Players – On-U Sound / Cherry Red / Lantern Records (1984/2023)
  12. Park Lane Special – Augustus Pablo – Pablo International / Nature Sounds (1978/2023)
  13. Buck Town Corner – The Jay Tees – Studio One / Soul Jazz (1980/2022)
  14. Viego – Tapper Zukie – Count Shelly / Lantern Records (1973/2023)
  15. Anti-Christ – Yabby You & The Prophets – Micron Music Limited / Pressure Sounds (1975/2021)
  16. Samia – Count Ossie and The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari – Right On / New Dimensions / Soul Jazz (1971/2023)

luv450

abstract house, breaks, drum 'n' bass 'n' jungle, footwork 'n' juke, robot rock, techno

luv450 Luv Language

Luv Language

pulsing electronic music that makes robots rock.
sharing music is a love language.
image : Ginsing Harry

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Tracklist:
  1. You Are In A Clearing – James Holden – Border Community (2023)
  2. Metro Esc – Global Goon – Central Processing Unit (2023)
  3. Benbut – Polygonia, Popp – Squama (2023)
  4. Wolves Don’t Chase Hope (They Chase Rabbits) – W.R.F. – Facility 4 (2023)
  5. BBC Beach – Shit And Shine – The State51 Conspiracy (2023)
  6. Houzz 13 – μ-Ziq – Balmat (2023)
  7. Swell | Repeat (Renato Ratier Remix) – youANDme – Rotary Cocktail Recordings (2023)
  8. Modernation – Isolée – Resort Island (2023)
  9. Aquatrance – Eomac – Emika Records (2023)
  10. Wick And Wax – Barker – Smalltown Supersound (2023)
  11. Pulse II – Peverelist – Livity Sound (2023)
  12. King Cobra – Böhm – Eudemonia (2023)
  13. Zin2 Test5 – Aphex Twin – Warp (2023)
  14. Reform – LNS & DJ Sotofett – Tresor (2023)
  15. Arles – Tin Man – Bureau B (2023)
  16. Neon Harmonies – Oscean – Tresor (2023)
  17. Long Ago – Nondi_ – Planet Mu (2023)
  18. Lagrange Point – Kode9 – Hyperdub (2023)
  19. DntSayMuch – No Nation – Banoffee Pies (2023)
  20. Lost In Da Jungle – DJ Manny – Planet Mu (2023)
  21. Ignite – Meemo Comma – Planet Mu (2023)
  22. Duality – Jlin – Planet Mu (2023)

luv449

blues 'n' folk, funk 'n' soul, jazz, rock 'n' roll

luv449 Streetlife Entropy

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

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Tracklist:
  1. The Funky Waltz – The Eleventh House with Larry Coryell – Vanguard (1974)
  2. What About It? – Eddie Hazel – Warner Bros. / Be With Records (1977/2016)
  3. Midnight Sun – Harvey Mandel – Janus Records (1971)
  4. Chicken Fat – Mel Brown – Impulse! (1967/2023)
  5. Ride, Sally, Ride – Dennis Coffey – Sussex (1972)
  6. Do It Now, Worry About It Later – Clifford Coulter – Impulse! / ABC Records (1972)
  7. Chunga’s Revenge (Basement Version) – Frank Zappa – Zappa Records / UMe (1970/2023)
  8. Binky’s Beam – John McLaughlin – Polydor (1972)
  9. Shape Of Things To Come – George Benson – A&M / CTI Records (1968)
  10. Crying Blue Rain – Jimi Hendrix – Experience Hendrix / Legacy (1969/2010)
  11. De Blooz – Howard Roberts – Impulse! / ABC Records (1971)
  12. A Day In The Life – Grant Green – Blue Note (1970/2023)

luv448

abstract house

luv448 A Luv Supreme

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

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Tracklist:
  1. excerpt from The Music Is Like A Mirror – Sun Ra – Norton Records (2013)
  2. M.E.A.N.D.N.J.B. – Moodymann – Peacefrog Records (1998)
  3. Yeah… (Tribal Inflection Mix) – Oscar G. presents Tilt – One Records (1992)
  4. Mangroove – Isolée – Maeve (2017)
  5. Do It Your Way – Mood II Swing – Groove On (1996)
  6. Citizen Kane (Ron Trent Vocal Remix) – Nightmares On Wax ft. Mozez – Warp (2017)
  7. Space And Time – Heaven & Earth – Prescription (1995)
  8. Solo (untitled remix 2) – Prince – Color Purple (1994)
  9. untitled from side B, track 1 on 12” KMS 054 – Ron & Chez D – KMS (1994)
  10. Tripping Among The Stars (Still Trippin’) – Derrick Carter’s Sound Patrol Orchestra – Organico (1997)
  11. Save The Bluebird – Timeline ft. Jon Dixon & De’Sean Jones – Underground Resistance (2011)
  12. I Rise (François K Journey Vocal) – Emilie Nana– Compost Records (2018)
  13. Tribal Sessions (Brothers’ Tribe Mix) – Brothers’ Vibe – On Track Records (1996)
  14. It’s All Right (House Mix) – Sterling Void & Paris Brightledge – D.J. International Records (1987)
  15. A Love Supreme (Skinnerbox Edit) – John Coltrane – Darkroom Dubs (2014)