15 January 2013

Mix Archive Re-Ups!



RE-UP Mix 1 (A.K.A. March Mix 2011) Tracklist:

1. Hum Hum – Doubts and Convictions – Troublemakers – Guidance
2. Besame Mas – The Exotic Sounds of Love – 101 Strings – A/S Records
3. Venice and Love – The Anonymous Venetian OST – Stelvio Cipriani – United Artists
4. Amofen – Overground – Sandro Brugnolini – Cinedelic/S.E.M.
5. Pussy Cola – Deep Throat OST – Unknown Artist – D.T. Music Productions
6. Le Grand Marc – Apres Ski OST – Illustration – Les Disques Pluton
7. Tears In Brazil – Camille 2000 OST – Piero Piccioni – Easy Tempo
8. Centrales Thermiques – Courts Metrages – Francois De Roubaix – Weme Records
9. Corallo Nero – Pericolo Negli Abissi OST – Stefano Liberati – CAM Italy
10. Psychovision – An Italian Story – Daniele Luppi – Rhino
11. Karma Sitar – The Exotic Sounds of Love – 101 Strings – A/S Records
12. Capricorno – Amadeo Tomassi
13. Incidental Blackcloth No. 3 – KPM 1035: Underscore – Keith Mansfield – KPM
14. Vespucci – Fourth Dimension – BBC Radiophonic Workshop – BBC
15. Sex Radio Suite – Sex Shop OST – Serge Gainsbourg – Fontana
16. Nadine – Il Serpente OST – Ennio Morricone – General Music
17. Xylo Spleen – Eddie Warner
18. Bass In Love – Guy Pedersen – Tele Music
19. Suite One (Main Theme) – Sitting Target OST – Stanley Myers – Finders Keepers

**PLEASE NOTE**
As many of you fellow music fans (and DJ's) may have noticed, SoundCloud has been becoming increasingly difficult for DJ's to work with. They have really stepped up their copyright policing and as a result, made it quite tricky for DJ's to work with. While I can totally understand their position from a business perspective, I have nevertheless decided to start uploading both my archived AND future DJ mix files onto Mixcloud. I think SoundCloud is great for music artists and labels to share and promote their original work, but Mixcloud is geared more for the purpose of DJ mixes (I guess that's why it's called MIXcloud). And just for clarification, I will NOT be closing my SoundCloud account, rather just re-uploading some files that I had to remove from there for some reason or another (mainly because I have run out of storage space :)).

Thanks for reading. And now on to the music!

12 December 2012

RENDEZVOUS! on Viva Radio!



On Friday, 23 November, RENDEZVOUS! DJs Alfonso and George Ben Sun broadcasted an hour-long mix of French and Italian library and soundtrack selections on Brooklyn-based Viva Radio. In case you didn't hear it at your local American Apparel store while shopping on Black Friday, the fine folks at Viva have since archived our episode and is available for streaming on their blog here.


Tracklist:
 Pursuit (Katadioksh) – George Hatzinasios
 That’s Nice – Alan Moorehouse
 Martinica Feeling – Stelvio Cipriani
 Tropical – Nino Nardini
 La Prima Iscita – Piero Umiliani
 Dance On – Ennio Morricone
 Pubblica Informazione – Alessandro Alessandroni
 Albert e L’Uomo Nero – Franco Micalizzi
 Rhythm & Rock – Johnny Hawksworth
 Sun Goddess – Keith Mansfield
 Escape – Paolo Vasile
 Wildspot – The Advisory Circle
 Tenebre – Simonetti, Morante, & Pignatelli
 Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin – Dialogue from the film ‘Slogan’
 Electronic Dimensions – Generation Match
 Sixth Dimension – Stefano Torossi
 Funky Express – Duncan Lamont
 Underworld – Franco Bixio
 Astaroth – Stelvio Cipriani
 Una Corsa Verso La Verita – Franco Micalizzi
 Mister Cool – R. Morcombe
 Two Partners – Jean Pierre Pouret
 Sex Radio – Serge Gainsbourg

04 November 2012

'Berberian Sound Studio' Original Soundtrack


(from the Warp Records website...) 
Warp Records has announced the release of Broadcast's original soundtrack to 'Berberian Sound Studio' - Peter Strickland’s brilliant homage to 1970s Italian horror. The film's integral soundtrack was composed by Broadcast before Trish Keenan's untimely passing last year.
Watch the film trailer and stream a track 'The Equestrian Vortex' below. 'The Equestrian Vortex' is the title sequence from the film of the same name, within the Berberian film (see the synopsis below if that's, naturally, very confusing).
Synopsis: "It’s 1976 and timid, Dorking-based sound engineer, Gilderoy, has been transplanted to Italy’s run-down Berberian Sound Studio to work on “The Equestrian Vortex”, the latest low-budget horror movie by notorious exploitation maestro Giancarlo Santini.  Gilderoy’s task is a seemingly simple one: to create, record and mix the sounds of bloodcurdling screams, limbs being severed and the insertion of red hot pokers into human orifices, mostly using a variety of everyday household items such as old vegetables and a hammer".
The Berberian Sound Studio soundtrack by Broadcast will be released January 7th 2012 (January 8th in N. America) on CD, Vinyl, and download.
The CD and LP are now available for pre-order at Boomkat!

Stream 'The Equestrian Vortex' (taken from the OST)

Initially conceived as the soundtrack to The Equestrian Vortex, the film-within-a-film around which Berberian Sound Studio unfolds, this collection of compositions would eventually spill outwards to encapsulate the entire world Strickland creates in the film. On it’s own, the music sets a sinister and atmospheric tone that still exists well within Broadcast’s sonic universe.

The film’s plot, which involves a British sound recordist’s slowly degenerating mental state while working in an Italian film studio, has clearly been one driving force behind the music as has the work of pioneering Italian composers such as Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai. Working closely with Strickland as well as the film’s supervising sound editor Joakim Sundstrom, Cargill wove in sound effects, screams and snatches of dialogue in order to bring elements of the film back into the soundtrack. The outcome is the rare piece of film music that not only enhances the visual, but exists on it’s own as an independent work, and one that is an invaluable edition to Broadcast’s inimitable history.

Broadcast - Berberian Sound Studio

WARPCD233 - Out on January 7th/8th

Tracklisting

01 A Breeze Through the Burford Spur
02 The Equestrian Vortex
03 Beautiful Hair
04 Malleus Maleficarum
05 Mark of the Devil
06 Confession Modulation
07 Monica’s Fall
08 Teresa’s Song (Sorrow)
09 The North Downs Dimension
10 Collatina is Coming
11 Such Tender Things
12 Teresa, Lark of Ascension
13 Monica’s Burial (Under the Junipers)
14 Found Scalded, Found Drowned
15 Monica (Her Parents Have Been Informed)
16 The Fifth Claw
17 Saducismus Triumphatus
18 The Gallops
19 They’re Here, They’re Under Us
20 Collatina, Mark of Damnation
21 Treatise
22 A Goblin
23 The Equestrian Library
24 The Serpent’s Semen
25 Burnt at the Stake
26 All Chiffchaffs
27 The Curfew After the Massacre
28 Poultry In Mind
29 The Sacred marriage
30 Valeria’s Burial (Under the Fort)
31 Edda’s Burial (Under the Clumps)
32 The Game’s Up
33 It Must’ve Been the Magpies
34 The Dormitory Window
35 Anima di Cristo
36 His World is My Shed
37 Collatina’s Folly
38 Here Comes the Sabbath, There Goes the Cross
39 Our Darkest Sabbath

Watch the film trailer

Film stills




03 November 2012

'Corpus Octo 2' Collaborative Mix Project


8 obsessive record collectors, musicians, producers and mix creators found a common sound and built a small community around it in Mixcloud. Corpus Octo is an International Collaborative Mix Project born from this community that has winged it's way digitally between each contributor. For our second project we have delved into the darker regions of our collections, digging up cult British Horror Soundtracks, Heavy Giallo Grooves and Rare TV Incidental Music to create a unique soundtrack for a film that exists only in our minds and the ether. 

Corpus Octo 2 has been made for you by- 

Jonny Redman 
www.lovelockandload.net
September 70 
September_70
Nick Faber 
www.nickfaber.com
DJ Alfonso 
djalfonso.com
DJ Fraser 
Fraserfunk
Douglas Craters 
VinylMiners
DJ George Ben Sun {AM} 
www.amsounds.com
Extra Unseen 

To download the mix, please click here!

Promotional trailer:



Artwork and packaging by Bodie Cameron

Front Cover


Credits (incomplete draft)

Limited DVD packaging



13 September 2012

'O Venezia, Venaga, Venusia' (Il Casanova OST) by Nino Rota



This is one of my favorite cues by Nino Rota (for Fellini's 'Il Casanova' - 1976). I am so fond of this track actually, that I included it on my Tutti I Colori Del Fumo podcast for Finders Keepers (it's the last track)!