* Mount Eerie, “Black Wooden” [Southern Records]
* The Apartments, “Mr. Somewhere” [Rough Trade]
* Deepchord presents Echospace, “Winter in Seney” [Modern Love]
* Colleen, “A Little Mechanical Waltz” [Mort Aux Vaches]
* Sibylle Baier, “Softly” [Orange Twin Records]
* Bedhead, “Roman Candle” [Trance Syndicate Records]
* Heldon, “Marie Virginie C.” [Wea]
* Amon Düül II, “Archangel’s Thunderbird” [Strand]
* Bardo Pond, “Isle” [ATP]
* Deep Purple, “Anthem” [Harvest]
* Terre Thaemlitz, “My Song of Peace, Friendship and Solidarity” [Mille Plateaux]
* Rod Modell, “Hotel Chez Moi” [Plop]
* Alva Noto, “Prototype N.” [Mille Plateaux]
* Terre Thaemlitz, “Love Theme from Ai No Bakudan” [Mille Plateaux]
* Tim Hecker, “I’m Transmitting Tonight” [Mille Plateaux]
* Jaz, “Show Me On The Doll” [Sixty Five]
* Holger Czukay, “Fragrance” [EMI, original version]
* Tantra, “A Place Called Tarot (Idjut Boys Re-Edit)” [Tirk]

Unfortunately, I did not record my set live. I may attempt to re-construct the parts and do a studio mix in the near future. Look for SLOW THRILLS to make another Late Bar appearance sometime in March (?) and a huge thanks to all who came out, we had a blast.

A Mix In Two Parts, Part 1 by hissnlissn

A Mix In Two Parts, Part 2 by hissnlissn

a mix in two parts
by hissnlissn
http://hissnlissn.com
~112 bpm

part 1, 76m:00s
1. Joy Orbison, “Hyph Mngo (part)” – Hotflush Recordings
2. Al Usher, “Lullaby for Robert (Bogdan Irkük Remix)” – Internasjonal
3. Shinsuke Matsumoto, “Orbit” – Millions of Moments
4. Das Volt, “Gestures (Toby Tobias Remix)” – Late Night Audio
5. Tensnake, “Holding Back (My Love)” – Running Back
6. MAKESHIFT, “Time Creeps” – Pawn Shop Records
7. Mark E, “Pulse Friction” – Running Back
8. I:Cube, “Supernovac” – Versatile
9. The Echologist, “Honeyslide” – Rek’d
10. 6th Borough Project, “McLovin” – Permanent Vacation
11. Agoria, “Libellules” – Infine Music
12. Linkwood, “Nectarine” – Prime Numbers

part 2, 77m:25s
1. Linkwood, “Nectarine (part)” – Prime Numbers
2. Alex Picone, “Mina” – Bosconi Records
3. Discreet Unit, “Unit 1″ – Prime Numbers
4. Federico Molinari, “Party Faktor (Robert Dietz Disco Desafinado Remix)” – Tsuba
5. Terrence Dixon, “Building Blocks” – Background
6. Actress, “Ivy May Gilpin” – Werk Discs
7. Peace Division, “Eh Oh Um” – Tsuba
8. Stereociti, “Track No 1″ – Deep Explorer
9. Arken, “Arken 10″ – Sonar Kollektiv
10. Patchworks, “Minotaur” – Patchworks Productions
11. Lawrence, “Spark” – Ghostly International
12. Pawas & Beume, “Flam” – Brut!
13. The Asphalt, “8 Mile Road (Juju & Jordash Mix)” – Deep Explorer
14. Charles Webster, “I Am Falling (Pépé Bradock Paris-Bordeaux Remix)” – BBE
15. Paul Frick / Scott, “What You Got” – The Gym
16. Planetary Assault Systems, “Hold It (Deuce Remix)” – Ostgut Tonträger
17. Omar S, “Psychotic Photosynthesis” – FXHE
18. Joy Orbison, “Hyph Mngo” – Hotflush Recordings

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Enjoy

Saturday, September 26th, 2009 @ Club Amore, 8166 W. Grand Av., River Grove IL, 9p-3a.

First of a two week guest residency @ Club Amore featuring fresh edits, deep cuts, and unexpected sounds.

FREE to get in, with drink specials, outdoor patio, Sox frosties, and a fully functioning disco ball.

Will be going in to the studio again this week to begin work putting the polish on another remix for Val’s track “Kazachok.” It’s already much different from the sample posted below – looking forward to having it complete. By the way, TCR is now available on Beatport, which is a huge step for the label. Cheers to Val and Josh for all the hard work they’ve put in.

Have some other news I can’t quite let on about at the moment. Between now and January 2010 I’ll say more. Should be especially exciting for those who love vinyl. That’s all I’ll say. Zipped.

I had a lot of fun putting this interview together. Aki is an incredibly thoughtful guy in addition to being a unique and brilliant artist. Latvamäki’s words, as well as the mix of unreleased/forthcoming material he put together for the site,  are well worth your time.

Cecil’s response to a similar scenario, detailed here, includes the following nifty turn of phrase²:

In 2007, the latest year for which detailed statistics are available, index crime in the 24th police district, which includes Rogers Park, was roughly half what it had been in 1996, and fell faster than for the city overall. It ought to be conceded that the 24th district also includes West Ridge, which to hear some tell it is a sylvan fastness with no crime to speak of, possibly distorting the numbers.

That striking combination of terms, “sylvan fastness,” set me on a quick hunt to define the words and seek out other instances from the Web.

Webster’s defines sylvan (adj.)  as:

1. b. of, relating to, or characteristic of the woods or forest

and American Heritage on fastness:

3. a. A secure or fortified place; a stronghold.

b. A remote, secret place.

Some noteworthy instances of the phrase appear below the cut.

From the essay “Signs and Symbols” by Joyce Kilmer, in an argument against those whose aim was to preserve the American countryside from roadway advertising:

But the aesthete-reformer, in condemning such monstrosities as these, condemns merely an hy pothesis. And since the hypothesis obviously is condemnable, he starts a crusade against the inno cent facts upon which the purely hypothetical evil is based. It is wrong to mar the snowy splendor of the Alps ; therefore, he says, the Jersey meadows must not bear upon their damp bosom the jubilant banner of an effective safety-razor. The sylvan fastness of our continent must be saved from the vandal; therefore, he says, you may not advertise breakfast food on a hoarding in the suburbs of Paterson.

From some sort of Lord of the Rings fan fiction:

In his tower of Barad-dúr the Dark Lord Sauron was’t wrenched from his preoccupation with the combat inside the fiery mount, for returning thence to his lands in defeat came the host he had sent forth unto Rhovanion. Thither they had been ordered, to lay waste to all the lands ‘twixt the Morannon and Greenwood, then thence to conquer that sylvan fastness and enslave all the Elven folk within. Yet instead he heard now, ‘cross the desolation of Gorgoroth, not boasts and bragging of victors nor the cheers of a host returning triumphant, but rather the wails of dismay, the impotent curses, and the whimpering of the wounded as they fled back to the Black Land.

And a forum post arguing for urban decentralization³:

Better/faster transportation and instant communication as well as de-industrialization means that you tend to need fewer, bigger cities or (given Anglo-American preference for pseudo-sylvan fastness) lots of very small suburban ones.

The majority of the other instances I found as a result of a cursory Google search fall under what I would call archaic usage, typically  lyrical flourishes rather than as an essential tool of description. However, as evidenced by the Cyburbia forum post and the inciting instance snarkily authored by Cecil Adams, this odd bit of language isn’t totally obsolete, though it may have aged well past the point of relevance.

1. one in which just about everyone knows one another offline, ’social forum’ is the best I can come up with to describe it as such
2. emphasis within blockquotes mine
3. From a forum site entitled Cyburbia, which claims to be the web’s oldest English language urban planning forum in existence

Substance & Vainqueur, “Resonance” [Scion Versions]
Ben Klock, “Pulse” [Klockworks]
Marko Fürstenberg, “Espenhain [Baum]
Substance, “Relish (Shed remix)” [Scion Versions]
Ramadanman, “Humber (Sven’s Rumber Remix)” [Apple Pips]
Ellen Allien, “Go (Marcel Dettman remix)” [BPitch Control]
Ben Klock, “Before One” [Ostgut Tontrager]
NSI, “Clara Ghavami (extended mix)” [Cadenza]
Kollektiv Turmstrasse, “Heiligendamm” [Connaisseur Recordings]
Jens Zimmerman, “Audio8″ [Snork Enterprises]
Radio Slave, “Neverending” [Ostgut Tontrager]
Jerome Sydenmham, “Judgement” [Apotek]
Marko Fürstenberg, “Espenhain (sgi_s remix)” [Baum]
Peter Van Hoesen, “Trusted (Norman Nodge reconstruction)” [Time to Express]
October, “Raw (Agnès & Ripperton’s twisted reshape)” [Caravan Recordings]
Pinch, “136 Trek” [Punch Drunk]
dadaBLEEP, “Ghipwe (Andomat 3000 digital only mix)” [Fear of Flying]
EQD, “EQD 1 (b)” [Equalized]
Brendon Moeller, “Pink Noise” [Third Ear Recordings]
WAX, “WAX 10001 (b)” [WAX]
Point G, “Headache” [Innervisions]
John Roberts, “Hesitate” [Dial]
Ramadanman, “Humber” [Apple Pips]

Recorded this a few months back when I was dreaming up ideas for the new site. This is the new site. Thanks for stopping by.