Sound Contours

New wave poses. Art rock techniques. Cyberpunk poetry. Gothic moods. Alien synths. Caterwauling guitars. Scrap yard funk. Tractor tire basslines. Abandoned factories. It's post-punk, it's' Holland, it's the 80s. Tracklist: Mecano - Autoportrait, The Tapes - March, Coitus Int. - Bonanza, Nine Circles - The Rose, Mekanik Kommando - Money For Pleasure, De Div - Lichaam Op Het Laken, Kiem - Time Doesn’t Heal, Das Ding - Makimo, Vice - Stirring Up The Fire, Ensemble Pittoresque - Lovesong, Minny Pops - Ice Cube Wall, Nasmak - Duel (With Unequal Arms), Mick Ness - You In Me, De Div - Marianne H., Neon - Standing On The Other Side, The Gentry - Escape, Storung - Radio Lines, Sammie America’s Mam - Find a Form, Vice - The Beast, Flue - Esmafarja, Edward Ka-Spiel - Tick Tock, Tent - Chase Horizons, Mekanik Kommando - First Reprise, Nasmak - Silhouette, Stephen Emmer - Teracotta Trimmings, Mecano - March of The Iron Workers, Ensemble Pittoresque - Ash Grey As Sunday, Nine Circles - What’s There Left, Tent - You Will Fa

It's magic. Tracklist: D/P/I - Dead Hearts, Durlin Lurt - Magic, Knxwledge - BuildMyWrld[ArowndJew], J Dilla - So Far To Go (Instrumental), Bullion - You Still Believe In Dee, Charles Trees - Memories, Gobby - Immortality, Sharpshooters - Don’t Turn Away, FloFilz - Paramahansa, mieksneak. - Script, Lone - 2 Is 8, TOKiMONSTA - Fool, Sweet Valley - Where Will I Go, Mndsgn - On (Paralysis), Samiyam - Ronald, Blank Blue - Eyes Closed, Jib Kidder - Recognition, Nobody - Girls Alone (Muzak mix, with Ikey Owens), Teebs - While You Doooo, Axton Frick - That Moment When Everything Feels Right, Baths - Lovesick Synthetic, Bibio - You, Koushik - Coolin’ (Instrumental), Grass Mirror - Suunrizer, Knxwledge - Remember Who You Are, oriJanus - Sol Love, Odd Nosdam - Sisters,Animal Collective - What Would I Want? Sky

Rum punch from a coconut. Plastic hula skirts. Vivid fantasies. More dreamy 70mm music, tuned in to terra-cotta tiles, potted palms and those infinity pools behind your eyelids. Many thanks to the incredible Exotica 45s project and of course astral exploration affionado Flash Strap for pointing me in the direction(s) of so many solid old slabs of wax, mixed here with a few contemporary cuts that harken to those original years of le exotique. Tracklist: Jimmy Nanaro Trio - Driftwood, The Surfmen - Fire Goddess, Bill Justis - The Dark Continent Contribution, Esquivel and His Orchestra - La Bikina, Eden Ahbez - Myna Bird, Roger Roger and Nino Nardini - Coconut Coast, Les Baxter - Batumba - Bruno Nicolai - Shan, Gene Moles and The Softwinds - Maria (The Wind), Mike Cooper - Paumalu Sunset Beach, Arthur Lyman - Shangri-La, Terry Snyder and The All Stars - Aloha Oe, Jun Miyake - Relaxn’, Martin Denny - Stardust, Dominic Frontiere - Venus Girl (Ix-Koben), Armando Scascia - Nostalgic Sea, The Sound Breakers - Maroone

Don your rose-colored glasses as the beach vibes flourish on this hypnagogic springtime mix, and let yourself traverse a coastal trail of cooled out beats, rich chords and pleasant, sunny textures. Tracklist: Hammafest - Wunderer, Sweet Valley - Bros Beyond, The Avalanches - Since I Left You (Cornelius Remix), Towa Tei - Technova (La em Copacabana), Kiraz - Daydream, [offbeatninja] - $enpai [Walkin’], Jib Kidder - Cruising 1, Karriem Riggins - Summer Maddness S.A., sealab 2012 - raddest of them all, Co.fee - Liv Inn, Co La - Come Softly (Accumulation Version), Daedelus - Pre-munitions, Caribou - Boreal Forrest Opper, Koushik - Forest Loop, Tim “Love” Lee - Everybody Loves the Jungle, Lone - Jaded, Brother Mynor - drew barrymore watches saturday morning cartoons (feat. Ojmacoj), Afterhours - Night and Day, Black Monk - Hummin In The Sun, Hint - Plucker, Olof Melander - Forward, Yesterday’s New Quintet - Broken Dreams, Floating Points - For Marmish, Cornelius - Tone Twilight Zone, Malcolm McLaren - Obatala

Our second modern classical episode focuses on the dynamic between words, other mouth-made sounds and music. Talking, spoken word, speech as composition, speech in composition, lyrics sung as if meant to be spoken, poetry: It's all here. Tracklist: Bang on a Can All-Stars, John Cage - An Open Cage, Philip Glass - Knee 5, Gavin Bryars - A Man in a Room, Gambling: #3, Christopher Tignor, John Ashberry - A Boy, David Lang, Anonymous 4 - Love Fail: Forbidden Subjects, David Byrne - Social Studies, John Cage - The City Wears a Slouch Hat: Pt. 8, Roberto Cacciapaglia - Sei Note in Logica: Part II, John Cale - Legs Larry at Television Centre, Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks, Laurie Anderson - World Without End, Robert Ashley - Perfect Lives: The Park (Privacy Rules), Dean Blunt - 8, Bang on a Can All-Stars - A Wonderful Day, Mutamassik - Not Having To Choose Between Killing And Being Killed (P.S.A.), Scott Johnson - John Somebody: Involuntary Song #3, Julia Wolfe - Flowers, Steve Reich - Different Trains: 3. After

The first in our percussion-heavy Wild Gems series, this episode is an exotic time travel odyssey taking place between 1959 to 2012, visiting tons of great moments in hard funk, psych rock and groovy Latin music along its journey. Selections hail from the international psychedelic continuum, and the exploitative proto-"world music" LPs of orchestrators like Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman, among other sources like Peruvian chicha and French soundtracks. Tracklist: Martin Denny - Temptation, John Hill - Amalthea, Ersen - Kozan Daği, Alessandro Alessandroni feat. I Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni - Spiagge Azzure, Sam Spence Orchestra - Wie Ein Blitz, The Wrecking Crew (as Christopher Monte) - Giants of Bombora, Atomic Forest - Obession ’77, Resonnance - O.K. Chicago, Adventure Time - Kick It, Gérard Levecque & Claude Romat - Grey Pepper (Africadelic In Safari Mood); (Montparnasse: Africadelic's the Name N° 2; with percussion by Black Colored Drums), M. Ashraf (feat. A. Nayyar) - Main Hoon Play Boy, Fred Weinberg

The second in our Electronic(a) series, this tasty 90-minute installment of diverse electronic gems is sure to dislocate listeners to a whole new season. Tracklist: Penguin Cafe Orchestra - The Snake and the Lotus (The Pond), Illangelo - Shattered Paradise, Ccolo - Peace Me Babi Dub, Anchorsong - Oriental Suite, Gold Panda - I Suppose I Should Say ’Thanks’ Or Some Shit, Inner Science - Lighting, submerse - whyarentyou, Four Tet - Plastic People, [offbeatninja] - You and I (You’re Not Alone), Henry Wu - Just Negotiate (feat. Simeon Jones), James Blake - Postpone, Tribilin Sound - El Carmen, Co La - Smooth Solidarity, Jib Kidder - My Baby (feat. Julia Holter), Twin Sister - Kimmi In a Race Field (Balam Acab Remix), IRIS - Planetarium, Javelin - Goal \Wide, Sam Spence - Sunken Ship (Version 2), Virtual Flannel - Black Bunnyhug, DTCPU - Lucky Dragon feat. Geodesic, Deantoni Parks - Down, J Dilla - Oh Oh, GOALS - Ghost Run, Dudley Perkins - Falling, submerse - thinking about you, Nicolas Jaar - Shame, Cross Record

I’m excited to share a new mix I’ve curated with dublab for the organization’s upcoming event Sleepless: The Music Center After Hours at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. This set traverses many eras, weaving together decades in an exhibition of classical ambient music’s various roots and branches. From the awesome folks at dublab: “Travel through the Light Lock corridor as it is transformed by a dublab produced soundtrack of “furniture music.” Considered as the origins of ambient music and coined by French composer Erik Satie, this soundtrack along with lighting inspired by the work of James Turrell will be the perfect passage between the Grand Stern Hall and the Founders Room.” Tracklist below. Overture: Claude Debussy – Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun: Très Modéré (Herbert Von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker) (c. 1894) - First Movement: Frédéric Chopin – Nocturne No. 11 in G minor Op. 7 No. 1 – Andante sostenuto (Nelson Freire, piano) (c. 1840), Erik Satie – Gnossienne No. 5 (Jean-Yves Th

Fire up up your eardrums with some essential cuts of global electonica, alternative pop and other sounds from around the world. Tracklist: Mexican Institute of Sound - Cumbia Meguro, Souleance - Secoue, The Very Best - Guju Guju, M.I.A. - Space, The 2 Bears - Muizenberg (Remix), Armadillo - Neón, Chancha Via Circuito - Jardines feat. Lido Pimienta, Domenico + 2 - Possibildade, Cornelius - Night People, Moreno + 2 - Enquanto Isso (Meanwhile), Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and The Rajasthan Express - Azov, Ibibio Sound Machine - Got to Move, Got to Get Out! (Ana), Mbongwana Star - Shégué, Alsarah & The Nubatones - Fugu (Chancha Via Circuito Remix), Shigeto - Pulse, Nicola Cruz - Colibria, Rebel Musical - The Silver feat. Full Violet, Ibeyi - Stranger Lover, Afroelectro - Omin, Jorge Drexler - El Triángulo de las Bermudas, Orchestra of Spheres - Dieuleul-Dieuleul (Remix), Populous - Brasilia feat. Giorgia Tuma, Algodon Egipcio - La Condicion (La Prueba A), Gepe - Estado de Vista, Amon Tobin - Nova, Romperayo -

Launch head-first into a 2-hour set of nocturnal beats and compositions, all hailing from 2015. Tracklist: Jun Miyake - Mad Funny Balance Town, Nosaj Thing - Uv3, sealab 2012 - long. too long, El Mahdy Jr. - B Side (Excerpt), Shigeto - Do My Thing, Arca - Front Load, Puto Anderson & Deejay NinOo - Gravidez, Normal Nada - Tarraxinha da Calopsita v2, Dawn Richard - Swim Free, yuk. - purple, Gossamer - 3d Relief, Iller - Healings, Lilacs & Champagne - Euro Blow, Gantz - Supreme A, Nomine - To the Sky (feat. lustina), Event Cloak - Care and Control, Suzanne Kraft - Never Heated, Nicolas Jaar - Don’t Break My Love, John Lemke - Grass Will Grow, Julia Holter - Vasquez, Rival Consoles - Low, Max Cooper & Tom Hodge - Remnants, Beauty Pill - Dog With Rabbit in Mouth Unharmed, James Pants - My Body, katie dey - fear o the dark, Tito Wun & Lorenzo Merluzzo - Drugs, Fifto - Dan Lo

Launch head-first into a 2-hour set of songs, sounds and surprises. Tracklist: George Delerue - Capri, DJ Raff - Sudakaizbeautiful, Flying Lotus - Camera Day, Caribou - Silver, Gobby - Quickie, Harbour - Heartbeat (Prettymuch), Spectre - Black Abstract Italiano, Lifted - Medicated Yoga, Clark - Com Re-Touch / Pocket for Jack, Le1f - Fry Dem, Kitkkola - Blue Winking, Heathered Pearls - Perfume Catalogue, Tujiko Noriko - Tablet for Memory, Airhead - Masami, Stereolab - Rainbow Conversation, Ahnnu - Elastic, Kutmah - 3rd Eye (Short Version), Múm - Faraway Swimmingpool, Ikonika - Let a Smile Be (Y) Our Umbrella, Pantha du Prince - Welt Am Draht (Animal Collective Remix), John Wizards - Limpop, Mount Kimbie - Sketch on Glass (Original Mix), Deru - Drink it In, Dalhous - DSM-III, Oneohtrix Point Never - Nassau, DVA - No Survi, King Krule - Brain’s Dead, DRC Music - Three Piece Sweet Part 1 & 2 (feat. Bebson), Tortoise - As You Said, Burnt Friedman & Jake Liebezeit - Sikkerhead, Nu Sound - Wordless Piece