Best Of 2007

Surgeon - Whose Bad Hands Are These? (one of the greatest techno releases EVER!)
Substance & Vainqueur - Libration
Burial - Untrue
Grovskopa - Balamber
Milanese - Adapt
Makaton - Slush Fund
Radial - Premium
Jeroen Liebregts - Killer Door
Innasekt - Archetype
Ulterior - Weapons
Kohbia - Ohio (Inigo Kennedy Remix)
Vaccine - Anaesthetic
Takaaki Itoh - Bloom After Broken Life
Asian Dynasty - Perfect Strangers (Various)
Distance - Fallen (Vex'd Remix)

Mix 7: TranscenDance/Eternal Energy

Transcend:
to go beyond a limit or range, e.g. of thought or belief.
to go beyond something in quality or achievement.
to exist above and apart from the material world.

Energy is becoming one of our country's greatest concerns. If we don't start working on energy conservation, there may not be enough energy to go around by the time I'm a parent. We're going to learn about how we can solve some of our problems through alternative energy choices. You can learn more about energy too: call your County Cooperative Extension Service for more information. Conserving energy is everyone's responsibility. Call 4-H to find out how you can do your part.

Tracklist:

TranscenDance

01---Foremost Poets - Moonraker (Acapella)
02---Marco Bailey vs Redhead - KombatöNen
03---Ra X - Kontrol
04---John Selway - Unearthly
05---Zeta Reticula - EP 2 (A1)
06---The Advent - Light Years Away
07---Vex'd - Lion VIP
08---Reeko - Emergence 11 (Part 2)
09---Anthony Rother - Red Light District
10---DJ Rolando - Mi Raza
11---Transllusion - Crossing Into The Mental Astroplane
12---David Tarrida - Horrormone
13---Chris McCormack - What Kind Of Sound?
14---Aphex Twin - Donkey Rhubarb
15---Alter Ego - Betty Ford
16---Inigo Kennedy - Jednu Dvanactku
17---Inigo Kennedy - Losing My Reflection

Eternal Energy

18---Surgeon - Whose Bad Hands Are These? (DisinVectant 'Dislocated Finger' Mix)
19---T Raumschmiere - Energiekrise
20---Surgeon - Klonk
21---Boards of Canada - Energy Warning
22---Makaton - Swarms of New Flies
23---Go Hiyama - Car 1937
24---Lift Syndrome - Internal War
25---Jamie Ball - The Machinist

Run Time: 1:15:05

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Mix 6: At The Heart Of The City At Night

The sequel to ‘At The End Of The Day’

All the animals come out at night, whores, skunkpussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies. Sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.


1. Thomas Bangalter – Rectum
2. Burial – Night Bus
3. Monolake – North
4. Joy Division – Twenty Four Hours
5. DJ Shadow – Changeling
6. Cannibal Ox – Stress Rap
7. Animals On Wheels – Build A Church With Your Fear
8. DJ Food feat. Ken Nordine – Ageing Young Rebel (Gentle Cruelty)
9. Surgeon – Whose Bad Hands Are These? (Roly Vex’d Remix)
10. Suicide – Super Subway Comedian
11. Tricky – Strugglin’
12. Zoviet France – Music For A Spaghetti Western
13. Underworld – Tongue
14. The Young Gods – She Rains

Run Time: 1:12:23

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Mix 5: Disturbances

As it is Halloween week I thought I would put up a special mix. I have always wondered why so many people are prepared to watch a disturbing horror film but so few will challenge themselves in the same way with music. I asked myself the question, Can music be frightening?

1...Wolf Eyes - Dead In A Boat
2...Dinosaur Jr. - Poledo
3...Trent Reznor - Damnation
4...Non - Serpent of the Abyss
5...Coil - Are You Shivering?
6...Gyorgy Ligeti - Lontano
7...James Horner - Bad Dreams (Alternative)
8...Future Sound Of London - Vertical Pig
9...Boards Of Canada - The Devil Is In The Details
10...Randy Grief - You Are Old Father Williams
11...Suicide - Frankie Teardrop
12...Rapoon - Southbound
13...Whitehouse - Never Forget Death
14...Swans - Half life
15...David Lynch - Mulholland Drive
16...The Body Haters - 34:14

Run Time: 70 mins

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Warning, strictly for adults only. Please do not download this mix if you are easily made afraid.

Mix 4: At The End Of The Day

Inspired by Amon Tobin's track. I was on my way home from work in Belfast one early evening and I was listening to this particular song and I thought it captured the feeling of the cold city at twilight so well. It's when everything is winding down from a day and people are rushing home, on trains, cars or on foot. There is a real desire in the air, to get home, to get away from the madness, only to start it all again the very next day. I wanted a collection of songs that captured a similar feeling of busy cities. Sounds that echoed the skyscrapers and alleyways, people, vechiles and the city descending into darkness.

01...Clark - The Autumunal Crush
02...The Aloof - Stuck On The Shelf
03...Massive Attack - Man Next Door
04...Adam Beyer - Dissolve
05...Plaid - Zeal
06...Speedy J - Borax
07...Surgeon - Whose Bad Hands Are These? (DisinVectant Dislocated Finger Mix)
08...Meat Beat Manifesto - 1979
09...Orbital - Philosophy By Numbers
10...Mr. Sliff - Child's Play
11...Adam Beyer - Ignition Key
12...Amon Tobin - At The End Of The Day

Run Time: 1:03:34


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Epiphany

I am completing a mix inspired by this animated short from the Broken Saints series.

Mix 3: Our Future Sound

A perspective on how the current wrongs of the world have implications not only on the future generations but also on our journey to the afterlife.

01. Makaton feat. George W. Bush - Slush Fund
02. Ulterior - Weapons
03. Autechre - V-Proc
04. Milanese - Peggy Flynn III
05. ScanOne - Reckless
06. Meat Beat Manifesto - Cancer
07. DisinVectant - Concrete Ethereal Filter
08. Whitehouse - Killing Hurts Give You The Secrets
09. Innasekt - Archetype
10. Vex'd - Angels
11. Speedy J - Patterns (Remix)
12. Pelican - Angel Tears (Justin K Broadrick Remix)

Run Time: 70:58 mins

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Mix 2: It's War!

One of my first experiments with Ableton software.
Pounding Techno bombshells for your scarred mind...Shit, I'm still only in Saigon...


Tracklist:

Makaton – Last Wish Of A Dying Man
Exium – Dummies
Vandross – Hurt Me, I’m Waiting (Ian J. Richardson Remix)
Paul Bailey - Cosmic Dust
Thomas Rantanen – Bionic Paratroops
Ian Lehman - Cataphract
Gunjack – Outlands (A2)
Gunjack – Outlands (B1)
Oscar Mulero – Routine Operations
Christian Wunsch – Vengeance
Takaaki Itoh – We Are The Attack (Gunjack Remix)
Ben Sims – Encounter (Max Duley Remix)
Chris McCormack – The Sirens Of Atlantis

Run Time: 40 mins

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Mix 1: Father Is Dead

This is a dedication to my father who died in 2006.
BPM:140
Running Time:64:54 Minutes

Tracklist:

1. Ryuichi Sakamoto - End Of Europe
2. Steve Bicknell - Why & For Whom? (Surgeon Remix)
3. Regis & Female - Untergang
4. British Murder Boys - Father Loves Us
5. Swans - Time Is Money (Bastard)
6. Alexander Kowalski - Emtec (Deconstructed by the British Murder Boys)
7. British Murder Boys - Splinter
8. Makaton - The Eternal Host
9. Public Information Film - Here & Now
10. Veil - Blindfolded
11. Nine Inch nails - Reptile
12. Techno Animal - Blood Money
13. Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy
14. Archae & Grovskopa - Murdered Angel
15. Paul Bailey - Battery Girl
16. Exium - No Frontiers
17. DJ Boss - Kombacha
18. Damon Vallero - Trial By Fury
19. Vandross - Hurt Me, I'm Waiting (Female Remix)
20. Regis - White Stains
21. Makaton - Last Wish Of A Dying Man
22. Avro Part - Cantus In Memory Of Benjamin Britten

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Civil Radio 18 begins...

This Blog will host a collection of Livefeeds and DJ Mixes, covering the darker side of music.
Techno=Dubstep=Hip-Hop=Industrial=Electronica=Ambient=

Let me begin with the influences or the reason I want to do this.


Art + Expression of the mind. Especially through music.
Music for me is the food and language for the soul. It should be appreciated and enjoyed by everyone.

‘Without Music Life Would Be A Mistake’ - Friedrich Nietzsche

My Father, (1960-2006)
When you grow up with a man who has this understanding and passion for music you cannot ignore it as a child. It also helps if it runs in the genes! I grew up on so much but most notably, Joy Division, Swans, The Young Gods, My Bloody Valentine, The Pixies, Shostakovich, PJ Harvey, PIL.

HR Giger,
The master painter of our future fears and nightmares. The darkside of where technology becomes part of humanity in twisted beautiful imagined figures and landscapes of the unconscious. The CHAOS of REALITY====Visual Techno.

Rodz Konez,
A UK record label ran by Steve Bailey (aka Makaton) Dedicated in producing stunning and innovative dark industrial techno music. They ran a series of Livefeed radio broadcasts featuring some of the best techno musicians to display their vast array of musical influences. This was extremely inspirational for me because I learned so much from them. It reminded me of listening to John Peel. The disturbing brutality of Whitehouse & Merzbow, the beauty and mystery of zoviet france played alongside pounding techno and reggae. The perfect kind of radio show.

British Murder Boys (aka Surgeon + Regis)
Anthony Child and Karl O’Connor have been pushing the boundaries of techno for years. They are pioneers of the sound.
When I first saw them perform live on laptops in a dingy club in Belfast that was a pinnacle moment for me because I also got to meet them afterwards. I told them about the influence of my father and it was because of this intensity that I listened to them today. I told them that I wanted my father to appreciate their music as much as I did. Their next record was titled ‘Father Loves Us’.