Tightly spacious

Courtesy of the excellent No Pain in Pop, a compelling, crafted slab of tightly spacious boundary-blurring: Martyn mini-mix (lo-res version of a Rough Trade bonus with the imminent Great Lengths...).

Unconfirmed track list: 

Can - Future Days (Carl Craig Blade Runner mix) (white label)
Martyn - Vancouver (3024)
Martyn - Hear Me (3024)
2562 - Old Town (unreleased)
Pangaea - Router (unreleased)
Martyn - Twenty Four (3024)
Flying Lotus - Roberta Flack (Martyn’s Heart Beat mix) (Warp)
Martyn - Vancouver (2562 off dub) (3024)
Martyn - Natural Selection (acapella) (3024)
Martyn - Natural Selection (Flying Lotus conference clense mix) (3024)

Martyn/3024 label blog; recent interview; album preview. 

The Whole History of Piano Music

A tip of the LMYE hat to daniel: he chided us for the Aphex/Eno mash-up re-upped yesterday as part of our BreakThru Radio week - to these ears it's still incredibly moving, so we have to agree to disagree - but also directed us to a Blu Mar Ten mix that kicks off in the same brainy ambient territory. 

This splices Eno talking (about dissolving personality, the revival of interest in acoustic instruments, & cultural history & tradition informing performance) over the burbling intro to an Aquasky remix of Omni Trio's Who Are You? (from The Haunted Science; hear both the original & the Eno-free remix at OT's MySpace). It's a lovely thing. 

Pole position

#1 in an occasional series: Fantasy Remixes...

The re-release of Pole's staggering 1, 2 & 3 on ~scape makes me want to hear his huge talent in other contexts. A dose of all that smear & buzz & textured dubby weight would do wonders for LTJ Bukem's gorgeous but perhaps too perfect Horizons (from Logical Progressions, Level 1) - imagine its glossy brilliance reframed by the spacey crackle of Pole's Fragen (from 1), say.