By request the download is higher quality than previous ones have been. Mixcloud is still stuck on the 100mb limit sadly but I encoded the download version with high quality (260?) vbr. Why vbr and not just full-on 320? Well... a huge part of my collection was bought from emusic 2003-2008. All that stuff is 192 vbr so doing the files at 320 is kinda silly. I could re-find it all at 320, but there are always more mixcloud listeners than downloaders anyways and all those people are listening at 160 until mixcloud ups their limit. Also, laziness. I honestly have trouble hearing the difference but I know it matters to some people. I may go through and update all the old ones anyways though since it finally occurred to me I should have been embedding artwork all along and the fact that I didn't is now tickling the back of my brain in an OCDish manner.
As far as the mix itself goes, this week is a collection of darkish songs. Not trying-to-fill-you-with-dread Lustmord style ambient, more like you're in a factory, the power went out and the machines are still clanging around in a rhythmic manner. As usual a mix of old and new tracks - if you're not familiar with the artists try to guess which one is from 1982! Unlike most of my other mixes this one is doesn't really have any sort of progression to it, it maintains a constant atmosphere and the song order was driven purely by which transitions were best. You can loop it and pretty much start whenever.
Hope you enjoy it!
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Jneiro Jarel - Shadoze
Knossos - Slow Descent
Oblq - Machine Drum (Much Dreamin Mix)
Qpe - More Gavin Less Macleod
Morgan Packard - I Think I. . .
Seefeel - Rupt
Davwuh - Dark and Empty
Lorn - Tomorrow
Pig - Silt
Chris & Cosey - Radio Void
Pinch - Trauma
Dizz1 - Konontakosuke Yaro
The Bug - Tune In
Gescom - Key nell 2
Eleven Tigers - Prosthesis
Spiders - Spiders
Knossos - Slow Descent
Oblq - Machine Drum (Much Dreamin Mix)
Qpe - More Gavin Less Macleod
Morgan Packard - I Think I. . .
Seefeel - Rupt
Davwuh - Dark and Empty
Lorn - Tomorrow
Pig - Silt
Chris & Cosey - Radio Void
Pinch - Trauma
Dizz1 - Konontakosuke Yaro
The Bug - Tune In
Gescom - Key nell 2
Eleven Tigers - Prosthesis
Spiders - Spiders
+ Show Spoiler [Previous mixes] +
intriguing ambient
return of the robots
things get weird
quiet night
upbeat
beats again
jazz
still glitchy
horns
minimal/repetitive
downtempo/ambient
speech samples
more classical
female vocals
more beats
acid
alone
robots
classical
relaxed
glitchy
beats
flying dream
cold and grey
shrooms
original flavor
= most neglected
return of the robots
things get weird
quiet night
upbeat
beats again
jazz
still glitchy
horns
minimal/repetitive
downtempo/ambient
speech samples
more classical
female vocals
more beats
acid
alone
robots
classical
relaxed
glitchy
beats
flying dream
cold and grey
shrooms
original flavor
= most neglected
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