luv090

rock 'n' roll

Freak Scene

this grungy mixtape comes from the underbelly of 80’s & 90’s rock that grew from punk and hardcore. it’s for the freaks who come as they are.
photo : Adam Cohen from the album cover for Fugazi – Fugazi.

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Tracklist:
  1. Fume – Beck – Bong Load Records / Geffen (1994) > buy link
  2. Jack Pepsi – Tad – Sub Pop (1990) > buy link
  3. In The Meantime – Helmet – Amphetamine Reptile Records (1992) > buy link
  4. Touch Me I’m Sick – Mudhoney – Sub Pop (1988) > buy link
  5. Killy Kill – Rocket From The Crypt – Headhunter Records (1992) > buy link
  6. Reprovisional – Fugazi – Dischord (1990) > buy link
  7. You Made Me Realise – My Bloody Valentine – Creation Records (1988)
  8. Dreams Reoccurring – Hüsker Dü – SST (1984) > buy link
  9. Indecision Time – Hüsker Dü – SST (1984) > buy link
  10. Buzzbomb From Pasadena – Dead Kennedys – Alternative Tentacles (1987) > buy link
  11. Death Valley ’69 – Sonic Youth with Lydia Lunch – Homestead Records / Blast First (1985) > buy link
  12. My Black Ass – Shellac – Touch and Go (1994) > buy link
  13. Can You Speak This? – Henrietta Collins and the Wifebeating Childhaters featuring Henry Rollins – Texas Hotel (1987)
  14. Cannibal Cafe – SNFU – Better Youth Organization (1984) > buy link
  15. RV – Faith No More – Slash Records (1992) > buy link
  16. Ted, Just Admit It… – Jane’s Addiction – Warner Bros. (1988) > buy link
  17. Subliminal Fascism – Fishbone – Columbia (1988) > buy link
  18. Institutionalized – Suicidal Tendencies – Frontier Records (1983) > buy link
  19. Sliver – Nirvana – Sub Pop (1990) > buy link
  20. Where Is My Mind? – Pixies – 4AD (1988) > buy link
  21. Freak Scene – Dinosaur Jr. – SST / Blast First (1988) > buy link

luv089

abstract house, thump

Viciously Throwing Down On His Box

a selection of abstract house from the Record Canyon molded on three phonographs to show you where the THUMP is at.
photo : Herman Fisher & Irving Price

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    Tracklist:
  1. Girl I’m A Free Man – Disco Elements – Azuli Records (1993) > (searching for buy link)
  2. Holdin’ On – Jacques Greene – Lucky Me (2010) > buy link
  3. Moon Menace – Padded Cell – DC Recordings (2007) > buy link
  4. You Gotta Work – Laszlo Becket and Steve Taylor – Hand On The Plow (2004) > (searching for buy link)
  5. White Rhino – Layo & Bushwacka! – Plus 8 (2010) > buy link
  6. Last night a dj killed my dog – Mr. Oizo – F Communications (2000) > buy link
  7. Butt-Head – Herbert – Phono (1998) > (searching for buy link)
  8. Illustrious Part II – Bluejean – Easy Trax (1993) > buy link
  9. 66 (E2C-Z) – Motorbass from Paris – UMM (1994) > (searching for buy link)
  10. Ultrasong (Hard Sell) – Floppy Sounds – Wave Music (1995) > (searching for buy link)
  11. My Piano (dub) – Hot Chip – Studio K7 (2007) > buy link
  12. Tranz – MAW Electronic – MAW Records (2002) > (searching for buy link)
  13. It’s Gonna Rain (B52 Mix) – Urban DK – Critical Mass (1999) > (searching for buy link)
  14. Blind Beast – Ari – 20000ST (2002) > (searching for buy link)
  15. My Bleep (original mix) – Radio Slave – REKIDS (2006) > buy link
  16. Music People – Moodymann – Planet E (1997) > (searching for buy link)
  17. Rambon – Reboot – Cadenza Records (2010) > buy link
  18. Fireball Disco – Hertz – Hertz Recordings (1999) > (searching for buy link)
  19. Forward (Stop On Jack Mix) – Stoopid Kid – Auto Recordings (1999) > (searching for buy link)
  20. Together (Classic dub mix) – Interceptor – Murk Records / Tribal America (1992/1994) > (searching for buy link)
  21. Honey n Cream – Funky Transport – 20:20 Vision (2001) > (searching for buy link)
  22. What Do I Want From You? (Paul Woolford Remix) – Freeform Five – Fine (2005) > (searching for buy link)

luv064

beats 'n' pieces, dub, dubstep, heart of the bass, trip hop

The Blue Dance

this chaotic crash up is a swampy blend of dub, industrial noise, anger and echo. chant down Babylon. peace to all disquieted by turmoil and dispute.
photo : Stephen Lebovits

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Tracklist:
  1. Dust of Seqqara – Muslimgauze – BSI Records (1999)
  2. Five Nights Of Bleeding – Linton Kwesi Johnson – Rough Trade (1985) > buy link
  3. Eight-Nine-Zero-Zero (Beat Mix) – Dual Tone – DC Recordings (1995) (x2) > buy link
  4. Murderah – Deleta ft. Bounty Killer & Elephant Man – Sub-Carnage Recordings (2008)
  5. Boom Version – Razor X Productions – Rephlex (2006)
  6. I Hold The Mic! – Meat Beat Manifesto ft. Daddy Sandy – Planet Mu (2008) > buy link
  7. Movements – Elektro Robotic Dub Orkestra – Ariwa (1984)
  8. Jerusalem – Mark Stewart & The Mafia – Soul Jazz (1981/2005) > buy link
  9. Fear – Appleblim – Skull Disco (2006) > buy link
  10. Concentrated Poverty – Scientist – Aunty Mirry Music (1999) (defective record that plays backwards, yay!)
  11. Outside The Circles Of Time – Tactile vs. Scorn – Rawkus (1997)
  12. Spacehall – Twilight Circus Dub Sound System – M Records (2001) > buy link
  13. Plainsong – Seefeel – Astralwerks (1994) > buy link
  14. Freak Freak – The Bug – Ninja Tune (2008) > buy link
  15. Asp – Depth Charge – DC Recordings (1995) > buy link
  16. Tsok Choe #2 – Nunnery Prayer Room, Tibet – Soul Jazz (1997)
  17. bells from the Church of The Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem – Soul Jazz (1997)
  18. Fir Bolg – Extramadura – Universal Egg (1995)
  19. E.MOTIV – Pinch – Planet Mu (2008) > buy link
  20. Version – Noel Davy – Pressure Sounds (2001)

luv088

electro

A Streetcar Named PCC 4001

the flanged metal rings of the wheels on an old streetcar are as much an influence on electro as sci-fi, the 8o8 cowbell, Kraftwerk, vocoders, skittering hi hats , booming bass and Bambaattaa. the clattering of the tracks are hypnotic rhythms for the weary returning home, a prototype for mechanized urban tribal soul.
photo : Stephen Lebovits

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Tracklist:
  1. Toronto Streetcar P.C.C. 4001 making it’s way through the carhouse ladder track starting it’s daily run September, 1962 – HRN Productions (????)
  2. Fuqpulga – Takeshi Muto – Schematics (1999) > buy link
  3. Stokers Motor (Version) – 7-Hurtz – Output (2000) > buy link
  4. Trash Scape (Anthony Rother remix) – Ellen Allien – Bpitch Control (2003) > buy link
  5. Acrobat – Voice Stealer – Subvert (1998)
  6. Biting The Dragon’s Tail – The Octagon Man – Electron Industries (1995)
  7. Base – The Wee Djs – Touchin’ Bass (2006) > buy link
  8. Subsonic Sound Scape – Shiver – Shiver Records (1994)
  9. Nine – RAC – Warp (1995) > buy link
  10. Attack Formation – Sprawl – Plasmek (1999)
  11. Theme From PACK – I-f – Disko B / Viewlexx (1999) > buy link
  12. Never Fall Again (Subfunk Remix) – Transparent Sound – Electrix Records (2001)
  13. Another Place – Si Begg – Drought Records (1997)
  14. Pepper Spray (Capsicum Edit) – Cylob – Monkeytown Records (2011) > buy link
  15. Muspel – Bitstream – Touchin’ Bass (2008) > buy link
  16. Surface Terrestrial Colonization – Drexciya – Tresor (1999) > buy link
  17. The Freezing – Lowfish – Satamile Records (2007) > buy link
  18. OFI – Model 500 – R&S Records (2010) > buy link
  19. Electric 4 Bird – 2 Lone Swordsmen – Warp (1998) > buy link
  20. +NXTLVLNXTLVL – Jimmy Edgar – Nonplus Records (2010) > buy link

luv083

ambient revolution, electronic listening music, funk 'n' soul, jazz, rock 'n' roll

Can’t Nothing Be Love But Love

at least 50% of all recorded music is about “love”, so when asked to make a mix on this theme i was truly daunted. here’s my attempt to tell a story about “love” with words and music. I hope you love it.

image : photo by Stephen Lebovits, manipulated by luv

* originally commissioned by Oliver Blank for his Kiosk show on Bassoradio in Helsinki, Finland.

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Tracklist:
  1. excerpt from Walt Disney’s Story of Bambi – Disneyland Records (1969)
  2. The Love Bug – The Little Rascals – Mark 56 Records (1974)
  3. The Color Of The Fire – Boards of Canada – Warp/Skam (1998) > buy link
  4. Moments In Love (beaten) – The Art of Noise – ZZT Records (1985) > buy link
  5. A Love Supreme Part I – Acknowledgement – John Coltrane – Impulse! (1964) > buy link
  6. excerpt from Love – Maharishi Maheshi Yogi – World Pacific Records (1967)
  7. Love Is Love – Alemayno Eshintay – Mississippi Records (2006)
  8. excerpts from “As the twig is bent…” – Fr. Gene Jakubek, S.J. – Jesuit Seminary Guild (????)
  9. Happier Than The Morning Sun – Stevie Wonder – Tamla (1972) > buy link
  10. I Love You – Peter E. Tevis & Kelly Jean Peters – PET Records (1984)
  11. excerpts from Do You Love Me? – Archie & Edith Bunker – Atlantic (1971)
  12. I Love You – Dennis Wilson – Caribou / Sundazed (1978/2008) > buy link
  13. excerpt from Airplane! – Ted Striker & Elaine Dickinson – Regency Records (1980)
  14. Lovesick Blues – Hank Williams & The Drifting Cowboys – MGM / Polygram (1948/1985) > buy link
  15. Lonesome Tears – Beck – Geffen (2002) > buy link
  16. Theme Amour Universal – Art Ensemble Of Chicago – Pathe Marconi / Universal Sound (1970/2000)
  17. excerpt from Bridge Over Troubled Waters – Tom Clay – Tamla Motown (1971)
  18. Love – John Lennon – Apple / Capitol (1970) > buy link
  19. Martha – Tom Waits – Asylum Records (1973) > buy link
  20. Let’s Do It Again – The Staple Singers & Curtis Mayfield – Curtom Records (1975) > buy link
  21. Love and Affection – The Wailing Wailers – Studio One (1965) > buy link
  22. Love Can Be Anything (Can’t Nothing Be Love But Love) – The Temptations – Tamla Motown (1971) > buy link

luv002b

hip hop

Light Up

this exploration of millennial hip hop concludes by dragging us out of the dark and into the light, showing us the only way to find satisfaction is by doing it yourself. these last two mixes are a snapshot of where independent hip hop was at 10 years ago… i wonder where it will be 10 years from now?

photo : dadrafdaja

* the lighter side of a two part mix originally aired on Brave New Waves, CBC Radio, 2/21/02.

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Tracklist:
  1. Stop (And Listen) – Jel – Mush Records – (2000)
  2. You Don’t Understand – Runaways UK feat. J-Zone – Three*Sixty Records (2000) > buy link
  3. Crunch Time – Droop Capone – PUTS Records (1998)
  4. Sparkdala – DJ Design feat. Madlib & Quasimoto – Stones Throw (2001)
  5. Til The Sun’s In Your Eye – DJ Vadim feat. Motion Man & Blu Rum 13 – Ninja Tune (2002) > buy link
  6. Twelve – Nautilus feat. Arcee – Innera Music (2001)
  7. Head Exercise Remix Movement 2 – Lifesavas – Quannum Projects (2001)
  8. Atomic Zen – Styles Of Beyond – Rocketship Records (1999)
  9. Culture – Micranots – Subverse Music (2000)
  10. Paste – Sonic Sum – Ozone Music (2000)
  11. As It Goes – Phil Crumar – Asphodel (2000)

luv002a

hip hop

Dark Down

at the turn of the millennium hip hop was over 20 years old and main stream. luckily there was an underground alternative created by cats who made hip hop because they had to. whose free expression wasn’t concerned with Billboard and bling; only a passion for hip hop… and it shows.

photo : Derek Smith

* the darker side of a two part mix originally aired on Brave New Waves, CBC Radio, 2/21/02.

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Tracklist:
  1. Swollen Brain Fish – The Shape Shifters – Shape Shifters (1999)
  2. Digi Destruction – Projecto – Hiero Imperium (2001) > buy link
  3. Saboteur (Roots Manuva version) – Amon Tobin – Ninja Tune (2000) > buy link
  4. F*ck Rap – Antipop Consortium – 75 Ark (2000)
  5. Shock Therapy – Atmos – Vecta / Mo’ Wax (2001)
  6. Foxwood’s – Mike Ladd – Ozone Music (2001)
  7. Grey – cLOUDDEAD – Big Dada (2001)
  8. Instrumental 4U – Reachout – Oh-Eye Records (1999)
  9. Amethyst Rocks – Saul Williams – Immortal (1999)
  10. Will I Get Shot By A Dope Fiend? – Third Sight – Disgruntled Records (2001) > buy link
  11. Sneak Preview – Mr. Lif & Murs – Def Jux (2001) > buy link
  12. Put Your Quarter Up – Slug, Aesop Rock, MF Doom – Molemen Inc. (2001) > buy link
  13. Super Brooklyn (inst.) – Cocoa Brovas – Duck Down Records (2000)

luv073

beats 'n' pieces, funk 'n' soul, jazz, reggae, rock 'n' roll

What I Was Born Into

a small collection of sounds that were floating around our world when I came along in 1973.

image : The Longines Symphonette Society

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Tracklist:
  1. Keep Yourself Alive – Queen – Elektra (1973) > buy link
  2. intro from 1973 in Review – General Air Features – The Longines Symphonette Society (1973)
  3. Richard Nixon soundbite from 1973 in Review – The Longines Symphonette Society (1973)
  4. Over the Hills and Far Away – Led Zeppelin – Atlantic (1973) > buy link
  5. Richard Nixon soundbite from 1973 in Review – The Longines Symphonette Society (1973)
  6. I’m So Green – Can – United Artists Records (1973) > buy link
  7. Richard Nixon soundbite from 1973 in Review – The Longines Symphonette Society (1973)
  8. Dueling Banjos – Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandel – Warner Bros. (1973) > buy link
  9. excerpt from Pagan Ritual – Mandingo – E.M.I. / Columbia (1973)
  10. excerpt from 1973 in Review – General Air Features – The Longines Symphonette Society (1973)
  11. Apache – Incredible Bongo Band – Pride (1973) > buy link
  12. Don’t Bug Me – Cheech & Chong – Ode Records (1973) > buy link
  13. Parade Strut – J.J. Johnson – MCA (1973)
  14. excerpt from Hamhock’s Hall Was Big – Lightnin’ Rod – Celluloid (1973) > buy link
  15. 125th Street Congress – Weather Report – Columbia (1973) > buy link
  16. excerpt from The Shit Hits The Fan Again – Lightnin’ Rod – Celluloid (1973) > buy link
  17. radio promo ad for Coffy – XXX Black Label (1973)
  18. Coffy Is The Color – Roy Ayers – Polydor (1973) > buy link
  19. U.S. Senator Mark Hatfield soundbite from 1973 in Review – The Longines Symphonette Society (1973)
  20. We Need Order – The Chi-Lites – Brunswick Records (1973) > buy link
  21. Richard Nixon soundbite from 1973 in Review – The Longines Symphonette Society (1973)
  22. Commercialization – Jimmy Cliff – Reprise (1973) > buy link
  23. And Then There’s Maude – theme from tv show Maude – TVT (1972/1987)
  24. U.S. Senators Sam Ervin & Howard Baker soundbite from 1973 in Review – The Longines Symphonette Society (1973)
  25. My Hero, Zero – Scholastic Rock, Inc. – Capitol (1973)
  26. Paris 1919 – John Cale – Reprise (1973) > buy link
  27. Harmonika – Kraftwerk – Vertigo (1972/1973)
  28. excerpt from Tubular Bells – Mike Oldfield- Virgin (1973) > buy link
  29. I Am The Sea – The Who – MCA (1973) > buy link
  30. Lost In The Flood – Bruce Springsteen – Columbia (1973) > buy link
  31. Money – Pink Floyd – Harvest (1973) > buy link
  32. U.S. Senators Ted Stevens & Mike Gravel soundbite from 1973 in Review – The Longines Symphonette Society (1973)
  33. excerpt from What Is Money, Anyway? – The Standard Life Assurance Company (1973)
  34. He’s Misstra Know-It-All – Stevie Wonder – Tamla/Motown (1973) > buy link
  35. Henry Kissinger soundbite from 1973 in Review – The Longines Symphonette Society (1973)
  36. Mamunia – Paul McCartney & Wings – Apple Records(1973) > buy link
  37. excerpt from the story of Robin Hood – Disneyland Records (1973)
  38. Out The Blue – John Lennon – Apple Records (1973) > buy link
  39. outro from 1973 in Review – General Air Features – The Longines Symphonette Society (1973)
  40. Stir It Up – Bob Marley and The Wailers – Island (1973) > buy link

luv086

beats 'n' pieces, jazz, trip hop

Leaps & Bounds

as the far out sounds of processed synths and unknown samples blend with live improvisation, the drum beat of human funk and the strict rhythm of electronic music we begin to map out the correlation between jazz, trip hop, 70’s movie themes & the almighty head nod.
photo : Melissa A. Phillips

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Tracklist:
  1. Make Your Own Temple – Cannonball Adderley with the Nat Adderley Sextet and Rick Holmes – Capitol (1972) > buy link
  2. Yesterdays Hero – O.H. Krill – DC Recordings (2000) > buy link
  3. Yo-Yo – DJ Vadim – Jazz Fudge Recordings (1995) > (searching for buy link)
  4. Distant Land – Donald Byrd / Madlib – Blue Note (2003) > buy link
  5. Death Wish (Main Title) – Herbie Hancock – Columbia (1974) > buy link
  6. Le dub du spleen – Ingrid de Lambre – Yellow Productions (1996) > (searching for buy link)
  7. Lo-beam – Red Snapper – Warp (1996) > buy link
  8. Ten et Medor – Alain Goraguer – DC Recordings (1973/2000) > buy link
  9. Blueprint (Richie Hawtin’s Slakked Plastik Remix) – Attica Blues – Mo’ Wax (1995) > (searching for buy link)
  10. Smurf – Aardvarck – Nod Navigators / Kindred Spirits (2008) > buy link
  11. Urban Blues – Marc Mac – Omniverse Records (2005) > (searching for buy link)
  12. Black Destiny (Beneath Autumn Sky remix) – Phil Ranelin – Hefty Records (2001) > buy link
  13. Cowboys – Runaways – Ultimate Dilema (1997) > (searching for buy link)
  14. Pull, Jubal, Pull – J.J. Johnson & Quincy Jones – Sussex Records (1971) > (searching for buy link)
  15. Gangsta Shit – DJ Cam – Street Jazz Records (1995) > buy link
  16. The Human Fly – Lalo Schifrin – Warner Bros. (1973) > buy link
  17. A Divine Image – Sound Directions – Stones Throw (2005) > buy link
  18. Obscure – The Mighty Bop – Yellow Productions (1994) > (searching for buy link)
  19. Sunrise Over Bklyn – EL-P featuring the Blue Series Continuum -Thirsty Ear (2003) > buy link

luv009

beats 'n' pieces, drum 'n' bass 'n' jungle, dub, post-punk

Rockers

all city rockers
photo : Stephen Lebovits

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Tracklist:
  1. 2010 – Lenky – Vecta / Mo Wax (2000)
  2. Killer – The Bug – Rephlex (2003) > buy link
  3. Up To Jah (inst.) – DJ Vadim – Ninja Tune (2002) > buy link
  4. Rockers – Digital – Reinforced (2000) > buy link
  5. ? – Krinjah – Krinjah (????)
  6. Mafia Man – Radic – Pharaoh (1995)
  7. Godsent (Deep In The Jungle) – Operator – D’Lux Drops (2003)
  8. E.V.A. – Animals On Wheels – iLL (1997)
  9. excerpt from Slope – Richard Thomas & Tom Jenkinson – Lo Recordings (1999)
  10. Generation X (Krush U) – Lemon D – Valve (2003) > buy link
  11. Mirror – The Rapture – Gravity (1998) > buy link
  12. Carousel – Twilight Circus Dub Sound System – M Records (1999) > buy link
  13. Private Armies (dub version) – Vivien Goldman – Select Cuts (1981/2003)
  14. Preacher Dub – Jah Shaka – Jah Shaka Music (1983)
  15. Give up the Bad Dub – The Revolutionaries – Jamaican Recordings (2001)
  16. Unitone Skank – Dr. Alimantado – Greensleeves (1978) > buy link