mondaymastersmix

For the next fews of months, I'm going to be posting ± hour long music mixes every Monday. During my masters, I made playlists of my favourite songs to write and work to. I've compiled these playlists into mixes that I will hope you will listen to and enjoy. #indie | #hiphop | #electropop | #folk var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-5666403-6']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();

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this is literally just a minute of pop punk bands saying the word “friends” clipped together and it is amazing

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Play House

Sound installation by Alex Allmont uses old LEGO to create a machine to generate electronic music - video embedded below:

Play house is an automata that mechanically computes and performs hooky and hypnotic acid house. Like a generative musical loom, a single drive turns a sequence of LEGO gears, levers and latches that mutate riffs and rhythm patterns. These are played out on analogue drums and synthesisers from the halcyon days of 1980’s dance music while the machine gradually shifts the timbre and space of the sound. In the piece the process of creation is laid bare so one can indulge in picking apart the interactions driving the score, seeing sound as it changes in sculpture, exploring our expectations in music, or simply rocking out to some fruity acid.

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when i saw and heard chaoscontrolled123's wonderful post about the 600 years old butt song from hell i just knew that i had to bring the piece to life

i present to you, the butt song from hell, with lyrics, so you can even sing along if you want:

butt song from hell

this is the butt song from hell

we sing from our asses while burning in purgatory

the butt song from hell

the butt song from hell

butts

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Luke and I were looking at Hieronymus Bosch’s painting The Garden of Earthly Delights and discovered, much to our amusement, music written upon the posterior of one of the many tortured denizens of the rightmost panel of the painting which is intended to represent Hell. I decided to transcribe it into modern notation, assuming the second line of the staff is C, as is common for chants of this era.

so yes this is LITERALLY the 600-years-old butt song from hell

EDIT: I still can’t believe this took off like it did this is crazy??? Just wanted to let people know that there are indeed errors in the transcription and this is indeed not a very good recording (I threw this together in like 30 minutes at 1 in the morning,) but I’m working with the music department at my college to get the transcription more accurate!

in the meantime enjoy this fantastic choral arrangement by wellmanicuredman i’m in love

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mix0012 | voice and voicing

The voice is an amazing instrument on its own. For some artists, they wish to adjust it, modulate it, give it space and give it room. This playlist caters to such effects that have made the familiar sound unique. Although, to be honest, I salt the playlist with a few extra songs that I just plain like ;)

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You can count on me | Panda Bear

Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space | Spiritualized

Can't help falling in love with you | Revolver

Hide and seek | Imogen Heap

O Superman (for Massenet) | Laurie Anderson

Postcards from Italy | Beirut

My Sweet Lord | George Harrison

You never know | Wilco

Touch me I'm going to scream pt.1 | My Morning Jacket

Hoeing weeds sowing seeds | The Russian Futurists

Silver screen | Beat Connection

Strawberry Fields | The Beatles

Winter Sunshine | Evgeny Grinko

I am sitting in a room | Alvin Lucier

Infra [excerpts] | Max Richter

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mix0011 | then the fool awoke

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Walk in the Park | Beach House

Forget That You're Young | The Raveonettes

The Waves | Tamaryn

Death In Vegas - Girls | Lost In Translation

Goin' Against Your Mind | Built To Spill

Outta My System | My Morning Jacket

Montezuma | Fleet Foxes

Baby Blue Sedan | Modest Mouse

Too Many Birds | Bill Callahan

Machinery Of The Heavens | Patrick Watson

Fog (again) - live | Radiohead

Drone | Panda Bear

Feeling Yourself Disintegrate | The Flaming Lips

La Valse D'amelie (Piano Version) | Yann Tiersen

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mix0010 | what am I for (if not to die)

Death and heartbreak. If you pause to think of what sort of music would express these words, you would expect to hear something sombre and morose. However, this week's playlist features songs that subvert this expectation.

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Gore veil | The Deadly Snakes

Two lovers | The Rural Alberta Advantage

In the aeroplane over the sea | Neutral Milk Hotel

The violet hour | Sea Wolf

Shape of my heart | Noah and the Whale

Six forty five | Firewater

Firewood | Patrick Watson

Blowout | Radiohead

On the beach | Neil Young

Hangman | Fire on Fire

I see a darkness | Bonnie Prince Billy

I lied | Orillia Opry

Ramona | Beck

Grown oceans | Fleet Foxes

Love dog | TV on the Radio

Death is the road to awe | Clint Mansell & Kronos Quartet & Mogwai

A blessing [excerpt] | James Wright

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mix0009 | rock swoon

When I was in undergrad, I read Alan Moore’s The Watchmen with The Vines’ Autumn Shade on repeat. I can’t put my finger on why it seemed so appropriate, but it felt just right. It brought me somewhere sad and romantic, to a place that was fit for pining away on something half-remembered. I’ve built this playlist around that feeling.

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Welcome Commander Jameson | Jim Noir

Waving Flags | British Sea Power

The World At Large | Modest Mouse

Happiness Is A Warm Gun | The Beatles

A White Demon Love Song | The Killers

Leif Erikson | Interpol

Dreamboat | The Walkmen

Autumn Shade | The Vines

Chicago Train | The Besnard Lakes

You Wish You Were Red | Trailer Trash Tracys

Staircase | Radiohead

Baby Says | The Kills

Always One Step Ahead | Gold Motel

Iron | Woodkid

The Fifty Minute Hour | The Hylozoists

The Party | St. Vincent

How Darwinian | Dan Mangan

Suddenly Everything Has Changed (Death Anxiety Caused By Moments of Boredom) | The Flaming Lips

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mix0008 | radiohead interpreted

Since high school, Radiohead has been my favourite band. Like many great bands, they influence the next new wave of musicians. As evidence of this fact, this week's playlist features some of my favourite covers, interpretations, and remixes of Radiohead songs.

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Reckoner vs Veridis Quo | Radiohead vs. Daft Punk

Set It Off | Girl Talk

Just (Radiohead) | Mark Ronson feat. Phantom Planet

Exit Music (For A Film) | Vampire Weekend

Climbing Up The Walls | Easy Star All Stars

Everything in Its Right Place (Radiohead) | DJ Spooky & Joshua Roman

Skttrbrain | Four Tet Remix

Nude Holy F Remix 2 | Holy Fuck

Packt Like Sardines in a Crushed Tin Box (Radiohead) | Punch Brothers

Idioteque | Amanda Palmer

Codex (Radiohead) | Robotanists

Creep (Radiohead) | Carrie Manolakos

Exit Music (For A Film) | Brad Mehldau

All I Need | Ian Kamau

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mix0007 | the folk

As a small departure from my regular playlists, this set focuses on songs that carry folk traditions. While some of these songs come to us after several if not tens of generations of oral history, some are relatively new, spurred on by recent political events or by the collision of cultures.

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Scotland The Brave | The Scottish National Pipe & Drum Corps and Military Band

Delio Haidutin | Nevena Tsoneva

I Am Free My Word Is Free | Tunisian Girl Singing during candle vigil 14-1-11

Dixieland funeral march | James Bond: Live and Let Die

Super Mario Bloco em Santa! | Youtube

Egyptian Intifada! | Sheikh Imam / Ahmed Fouad Nagm

Great Amen | Youtube

I will never forget you, my people | Isaiah 49, 14-16

Great street musician | Youtube

The odd accent of Tangier VA | American Tongues

Oj Moj Rozmaryniu Polka | Greg Zudor & Troy Gawlak

Kapela Grodziszczoki | Youtube

Kapela Jany i Maliny z Niebylca 02 | Youtube

Kitka - The Rusalka Cycle | Mariana Sadovska

Clapping Music | Steve Reich

Aria From Act III Of Satyagraha | Plays Philip Glass on Accordion

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mix0006 | southern sadies

This week I am posting a straight-forward genre mix of country, blues, and folk music. Coming off of last week's heatwave, I've chosen songs that manifest the oppressive heat, the slow moving humidity, and the melancholy of lethargy. Take these tracks with you to the veranda and sip on a sweet lonely lemonade.

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Alone again or | Calexico

You love me | Devotchka

The sun ain't gonna shine anymore | Scott Walker & The Walker Brothers

Thieves | She & Him

Hard believer | First Aid Kit

Two wrongs don't make it right | Tarnation

Sleepwalkin' | Modest Mouse

Golden | My Morning Jacket

Helicopter | M.Ward

Radio cure | Wilco

In the pines | Lead Belly

Louisiana | The Walkmen

Furr | Blitzen Trapper

Fourth time around | Bob Dylan

Drover | Bill Callahan

Ain't no grave (can hold my body down) | Johnny Cash

Will the circle be broken | The Carter Family

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mix0005 | songs of betterment

Writing my thesis was difficult. Beyond that, it was the most challenging project I have ever taken on. With a thousand potential avenues opening up at the start of every new sentence and a thousand more questions all begging to be asked in the next, it was, at times, completely overwhelming. It was exhausting. I meandered too long on reading a tangential thread of authors or spent days writing an introduction to a chapter that I would force myself to cut completely. These kinds of antics were common, numerous, and daily. The question soon presented itself "How do I do this better?”. I needed something of a mantra to move me forward and so I constructed this playlist. In a way, it functions as a mental shortcut. Listening to it now, I hear its crashing cymbals, its roll of drums and its voices cresting deep bodies of bass. It sings to my hands, and my hands put fingers to keys.

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Helplessness Blues | Fleet Foxes

Objects of my affection | Peter Bjorn and John

You Got Yr Cherry Bomb | Spoon

Family Tree | Black Lips

White Shadow Waltz | Okkervil River

There There (The Boney King Of Nowhere) | Radiohead

Future Starts Slow | The Kills

Sail | Awolnation

The Lazerbeams | Fresh Espresso

Like I Do | Starslinger

Punch Drunk Love * Part 12 | Teams vs. Starslinger

Rose Garden | Shad

Travel Light | The Do

The Rip | Portishead

The Rip Tide | Beirut

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This is amazing: A mesmerizing Beach Boys vocals inspired by the physics of church bells from Alexander Chen, who wrote code to draw a circle for each note of the song using a mathematical relationship between a the circumference of a circular surface and pitch. A fine addition to these synesthetic visualizations of music.

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mix0004 | and yet you will leave

This playlist is a continuation of last week's ode to teenagers. The difference in this mixture of indie rock and electropop is that it celebrates the journey of departure. While these 20 tracks highlight the movement between adolescence to adulthood, it also speaks to the realization that one does not simply _become_ an adult. Instead, we are always becoming adults and that the process continues with a spectrum of awkward successes and careful failures. Hopefully, you can hear all of that in the mix.

A minor note, this mix was crafted to be followed by last week's post, totalling in two hours and ten minutes of awesomeness.

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On My Way | Passion Pit

Those To Come | The Shins

Home | Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

Oh My God | Ida Maria

Brittany's Back | The Love Language

Oh Paris! | Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele

Jamelia | Caribou

Fresh Hex (Feat. Beck) | Tobacco

Now Or Never (Feat. Phonte, Dice Raw) | The Roots

Guess I'm Strange | Don't Talk To The Cops

Hearing Damage - Thom Yorke

Slow Life | Grizzly Bear (With Victoria Legrand)

Rosyln | Bon Iver & St. Vincent

Love Will Tear Us Apart | Evelyn Evelyn

Black Sheep Boy | Okkervil River

The Good In Everyone | Sloan

Malibu | Hole

Weighty Ghost | Wintersleep

Leaves, Trees, Forest | Dan Mangan

Drumheller | Caribou

LSD girl | Youtube

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mix0003 | you belong teenager ones

Part of me wanted to make a mix of favourite songs from when I was a teenager. But when I listened to music from that time the old histories well up unforgivingly. It transported me to another time and place, to another sense of self. Instead, I wanted this mix to conjure a different set of emotions, a set that reflects what it means to be in your twenties and thirties looking back. In the place of nostalgia and loss, I've tried to convey the sort of acts of forgiveness, kindness, and comfort one must offer the memories of ourselves as we mature. In other words, to tell that old self that they belong, that they are welcome, and we couldn't have gotten here without them.

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Teenage Dream | T-Rex

Wake Up | Arcade Fire

Pretty Pet | Aberdeen City

You Wanna Freak Out | My Morning Jacket

Coax Me | Sloan

We've Got A Lot to be Glad For | Rock Central Plaza

Kids | MGMT

Cruel | St. Vincent

Awkward | San Cisco

Hands | Alpine

You Know What I Mean | Cults

Chapel of Love | Dixie Cups

Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl | Broken Social Scene

Us Ones In Between | Sunset Rubdown

Distortions | Clinic

How It Ends | DeVotchKa

No One Said It Would Be Easy | Cloud Cult

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mix0002 | mountain burrowing home

This mix of bluegrass, folk, and affiliated indie songs attempts to tap into some of the questions and anxieties we all have about _home_. How close to our origins do we need to be to stay honest to them? How far must we journey to appreciate them for what they are? The singers of this mix are pulled by these two contrasts, revealing themselves through odes to remorse, periphery, death, old love, hidden gods. What remains consistent through each is the constraint of a dual anger, both for leaving and for failing to escape.

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Go Back Home | Agnostic Mountain Choir

Will You Return? | The Avett Brothers

Summons Song | Phillip Roebuck

The Deathbridge in Lethbridge | The Rural Alberta Advantage

Boyd's Journey | Damon Albarn & Micheal Hyman

Float On | Iron Horse

Holland, 1945 | Neutral Milk Hotel

Ragged Wood | Fleet Foxes

Furr | Blitzen Trapper

Seven Swans | Sufjan Stevens

One in the Same | My Morning Jacket

All I Want Is You | Barry Louis Polisar