Fractal - I Should Buy A Boat
( 56:53. 53 MB mp3 @ 128 kbps. Recorded October 2023)
A bunch of angles and view on "pop" music, usually with a nice kickdrum floating around in there somewhere.
1: Ebenezer Obey - Eyi Yato, Elere Ni Wa [Honest Jon's]
2: Mbilia Bel - Mano Monger [Genida]
3: Paul Simon - I Know What I Know [Warner]
4: Mandingo - Harima [Celluloid]
5: Tullio De Piscopo - E Fatto E Sorde [Strut]
6: Cruisin' Gang - Tap Dancing [Crusin']
7: Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loneliest Time [School Boy]
8: Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes – Bad Luck (Dimitri From Paris Re-Edit) [BBE]
9: The Gibson Brothers - Non-Stop Dance [Ariston]
10: Louella - Rapt [Xanadu]
Fractal - Maybe I'll Start A Podcast
( 32:00. 30 MB mp3 @ 128.001 kbps. Recorded October 2023)
Ah, technically this is a podcast, amirite? A set of interludes and bangers, maybe a sub-sub theme of paens to lost pasts sneaking around in there.
1: Natural Wonder Beauty Concept - Sword [Mexican Summer]
2: georg-i - Change [Felt]
3: Underworld - Jumbo [JBO]
4: James Holden - Infinite Fadeout [Border Community]
5: Fixate - Stan Spoons [Pineapple]
6: george-i - Stasis [Felt]
7: Hiroki Kikuta - Whisper and Mantra [Square]
8: Physical Therapy - Emotional Rescue [Allergy Season]
9: Shanti Celeste - Shimmer [Hessle]
10: Physical Therapy - Chain Reaction [Allergy Season]
Fractal - I Have Used My Youth In A Worthy Way
( 46:26. 44 MB mp3 @ 128.001 kbps. Recorded September 2023)
A few huge prog / trance records from The Past, many of which I am shocked I have never recorded – some fodder for the quasi-prog revival, perhaps, or just for a big dance party in a dark room.
1: Yunus Guvenen - Mass Schiozphrenia [Bedrock]
2: Innate - Changes (Killahurtz Kilo Dub) [Plaitpus]
3: Star - Rock Rose (Chab Remix) [Platipus]
4: Skynet UK - Holdin' On (Black Ice Remix) [Whoop]
5: Maurice - Feline (Original Union Mix) [Distinctive]
6: Shiloh - Dream On (Luke Chable Remix)]
Fractal - People Consider Me To Be An Interesting Conversationalist
( 1:22:56. 78 MB mp3 @ 128 kbps. Posted August 2026)
For certain values of "Interesting", I suppose.
1: Berio - Sequenza III (Cathy Berberian) [Candide]
2: Messiaen - Messe de la Pentecote - V [Unicorn-Kanchana]
3: Stockhausen - Gesgan Der Junglinge [Doxy]
4: Messiaen - Et Exspecto Ressurectionem Mortutem - IV [CBS]
5: Shostakovich - Quartet For Strings & Piano - I [Musical Heritage Society]
6: Shostakovich - Quartet For Strings & Piano - II [Musical Heritage Society]
7: Cassandra Miller - About Bach [Another Timbre]
8: Clara Rockmore - Ave Maria [Mississippi Records]
9: Heather Harker & Andrew Dyer - Ave Maria [UVic]
Fractal - I Could Win A Fight
( 54:56. 52 MB mp3 @ 128.001 kbps. Recorded August 2023)
Either a collection of great 1970-esq records, or a medidation about being a 1970s-esq 'tough guy', or perhaps both — or a not-so-secret Lalo Schifrin tribute!
1: Lalo Schifrin - Theme From Enter The Dragon [Warner]
2: The Bar-Kays - Holy Ghost [Stax]
3: Double Dee & Steinski - Lesson 2 (James Brown Mix) [Tommy Boy]
4: Coldcut - More Beats & Pieces (Album Edit) [Ninja Tune]
5: Isaac Hayes - Theme From Shaft [Stax]
6: Brass Construction - Talkin' [United Artists]
7: The Mighty Clouds Of Joy - Mighty High (Slowed) [ABC]
8: Bullion - That's Not Dee []
9: Prefuse 73 - Female Demands [Warp]
10: Bullion - God Only Knows []
11: War - Galaxy [MCA]
12: The Jackson 5 - Hum Along & Dance (Uncut Version)[Reappearing Records]
Fractal - My Physical Form Is Still Attractive
( 39:37. 37 MB mp3 @ 128.001 kbps. Recorded August 2023)
The first of a few "Midlife Crisis" themed DJ sets – this one is basically a collection of big tunes from Nowadays, Ben UFO, etc.
1: Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe (AYA Edit) []
2: Jam City presents EFM - LLTB (feat. Wet) [Mad Decent]
3: Fixate - 129Spaceline [Pineapple]
4: Olof Dreijer - Rosa Rugosa [Hessle Audio]
5: Fantastic Man - Gondwona Dance [Superconscious]
6: O'Flynn - Mesablanca (O'Flynn & Ekhe Dub) [Silver Bear]
7: Kassian - Off World Vehicles [Faux Poly]
8: Anz - Clearly Rushing [Hessle Audio]
9: Pangea - Installation [Hessle Audio]
10: Oklou - God's Chariot (SH Remix) [Welt Discos]
11: Sofia Kourtesis - Madres [Ninja Tune]
Fractal - Lighter Than You Think
( 35:59. 84 MB mp3 @ 320.004 kbps. Recorded October 2022.)
Probably also ravier than you think (or "ravier than u think man") – set the luminosity to 110, and let's goooooo.
1: Four Tet - Watersynth [Text]
2: Daphni - Fly Away [Jiaolong]
3: Two Shell - Dust [Mainframe Audio]
4: Rustie - Hover Traps [Warp]
5: Hudson Mohawke - Is It Supposed [Warp]
6: I. Jordan - For You [2 B Real]
7: SCDKDMMJ - Strings Of Life (Weather Emoji Piano Reversal) []
8: Hudson Mohawke - Sheets To The Wind [Warp]
9: Aphrodite - Summer Breeze (Edit) [V2]
10: Two Shell - No Reply [Mainframe Audio]
11: Two Shell - Home [Mainframe Audio]
Fractal - Skydark
( 43:28. 102 MB mp3 @ 320.003 kbps. Recorded September 2022)
Big swoosh techno vibes, big clouds, big drums, and big, numinous synths.
1: Pulsation - Pulsar [Harthouse]
2: Idealised Formz - Equal [Tide Pool]
3: Aurora Halal - Eternal Blue (Wata Igarashi Crossing Remix)[Mutual Dreaming]
4: Wata Igarashi - Eruption [WIP]
5: Pariah - Caterpillar [VOAM]
6: Idealised Formz - Pulsatile [Tide Pool]
7: Wata Igarashi - Bones [WIP]
8: Objekt - Porcupine [Hessle]
9: Pariah - Rain Soup [Houndstooth]
10: Pulsation - Pulsar [Harthouse]
Fractal - Like Stone Made New
( 49:38. 116 MB mp3 @ 320.003 kbps. Recorded May 2022)
Rock, but not like that – just straightforward house, with a few unexpected swings and peaks and faults.
1: Stefan Ringer - Reach ft. Javonnette [FWM]
2: Jon Dixon - How We Get Down [4evr 4wrd]
3: fleet.dreams - Can't Stop The Momentum [Toucan Sounds]
4: K-Hand - Untitled (Project 5 B1) [Acacia Records]
5: Kush Jones - Big Stepper [Kush Jones]
6: Kush Jones - Earth Note [Kush Jones]
7: Kerri Chandler - The Epilogue [83 West]
8: Hatiras - Spaced Invader [Defected]
9: MoMA Ready - This Version May Heal ft. Spade [Haus of Altr]
10: Robert PM - More Life [Toucan Sounds]
11: Emma-Jean Thackray - Venus (Black Science Orchestra Remix) [Movementt]
Fractal - Dyads + Dryads
( 1:05:06. 153 MB mp3 @ 320.002 kbps. Recorded April 2022)
Big pastoral / Balearic grooves – dryads at the unconcerned peak of springtime frolic. Primavera, indeed.
1: Andrea Daltro - Kiua [Music From Memory]
2: Ekkehard Ehlers - Plays John Cassavetes 1 [Staubgold]
3: DJ Koze feat. Ada - Homesick [Pampa]
4: Johhny Cash - I Heard The Lonesome Whistle Blow (Apparat Remix) [Compadre]
5: Barker - Look How Hard I've Tried [Ostgut Ton]
6: Tyler Drift - Style [Ogre]
7: Amber - Anyway (Steve Porter Mix 1) [Bedrock]
8: Lakou Miziki & Joseph Ray - Sanba Yo Pran Pale (DJ Koze Remix) [Anjunadeep]
9: Photay - The People [Mexican Summer]
10: Paul Simon - That Was Your Mother (Gui Boratto Remix) [Legacy]
11: Enzo Avitabile - Black Out [Blanco Y Nego]
12: Elton Marcus III - Cecelia [Get The Edge]
13: Tullio De Piscopo - Stop Bajon [ZYX]
Fractal - Favour Fire
( 31:02. 73 MB mp3 @ 320.004 kbps. Recorded March 2022)
Salamanders, surprisingly romantic – a collection of torch songs, piano rolls, and maybe even some quiet storm
1: Porgy & Bess - Summertime [Verve]
2: Duke Ellington - My Old Flame [Time-Life]
3: Benny Goodman - Can't Teach An Old Heart New Tricks [Time-Life]
4: George Gershwin - When You Want 'Em You Can't Get 'Em, When You've Got 'Em, You Don't Want 'Em [Nonesuch]
5: Cab Kaye - Don't You Go Away [Honest Jon's]
6: Tony Johnson - Marilyn Monore Calypso [Honest Jon's]
7: Ray Charles - A Fool For You [Atlanic]
8: Mitty Collier - I Had A Talk With My Man Last Night [Atlanic]
9: The Stylistics - Hey Girl, Come And Get It [Avco]
10: Roberta Flack - Feel Like Makin' Love [Atlanic]
Fractal - Lunar Magic
( 33:38. 79 MB mp3 @ 320.004 kbps. Recorded March 2022)
Some bangers, some drama, some r&b, some different phases of the moon – and a long, conjurous comedown
1: Flight Facilities - Lights Up (Channel Tres Remix) [Future Classic]
2: Aluna - Envious [Mad Decent]
3: Prince - Controversy [Warner]
4: Robyn - Between The Lines [Konichiwa]
5: Aluna - Sneak [Mad Decent]
6: fka twigs - tears in the club (ft. the weekend) [Young]
7: Loraine James - Running Like That (ft. Eden Samara) [Hyperdub]
8: L'Rain - Fly, Die [Mexican Summer]
9: musclecars - Prelude (Building It, Still) [Coloring Lessons]
10: Peyton - Pure Imagination [Stones Throw]
Fractal - The Wind Blows Away Our Worlds
( 35:44. 84 MB mp3 @ 320.004 kbps. Recorded February 2022)
Footwork, synth vortexes, ambient trance. There's a local wind that means each of these, but they are each as yet unnamed.
1: Jana Rush ft. DJ Paypal - Intergalatic Battle [Planet Mu]
2: DJ Manny - Chase Me []
3: Authentically Plastic & Nsasi - Galiba [ANTI-MASS]
4: Speaker Music - focus.point.shoot [Tresor]
5: aya - the only solution i have found is to simply jump higher [Hyperdub]
6: Mario Batkovic ft. James Hodel - CHOREA DUPLEX [Invada]
7: Union Jack - There Will Be No Armageddon [Platipus]
8: Jlin - First Interlude (Absence Of Measure) [Planet Mu]
9: Union Jack - There Will Be No Armageddon [Platipus]
Fractal - Water My Friend
( 50:24. 118 MB mp3 @ 320.003 kbps. Recorded February 2022)
Deep cuts, deep tones, deep strings – magic from the bottom of the river bed, let's say.
1: Hollas Longton - How To Get To Arnhem []
2: Leo Chadburn - Freezywater [Library of Nothing]
3: Kali Malone - Pipe Inversions (for Kirnberger III) [Important Records]
4: Zack Nestel-Patt - water fills the void []
5: John Luther Adams - Lines Made By Walking - II - Along The Ridges (JACK Quartet) [Cold Blue Music]
Fractal - Centipede 1985
( 32:44. 77 MB mp3 @ 320.004 kbps. Recorded November 2021)
Post-Baeleric jams, CRJ, the big Aluna vibes, and some bangers, very simple, really.
1: Weekend Affair - Duel Part 1 [Partyfine]
2: Speakman Sound - In Flight (feat. Sharky) [Ears to Learn With]
3: Aluna - I've Been Starting To Love All The Things I Hate [Mad Decent]
4: Carly Rae Jepsen - Now That I Found You [Schoolboy]
5: DOS - Work That [Running Out Of Steam]
6: Tori Amos - Professional Widow (Star Trunk Funkin' Mix) []
7: River Ocean Featuring India - Love & Happiness (Junior Boys Own Super Dub) [Cooltempo]
Fractal - Rollerblade
( 42:42. 100 MB mp3 @ 320.003 kbps. Recorded August 2021)
Starting a subtheme of personal transportion I guess – though these acid-laced jams are a bit too early in the 1990s for in-line skates.
1: S.L.F. - Show Me What You Got (Acid Mix Part 1) [Strut]
2: Colm III - Take Me High (Mansion Mix) [Strut]
3: Innervisions - Chicago (Live Version) [Innervisions]
4: Exocet - Safety Zone [Strut]
5: Strings Of Life (Weather Emoji Intros Edit) []
6: Rhythim Is Rhythim - Emanon [Above Board Projects]
7: Ecstasy Club - Jesus Loves The Acid [Strut]
8: Mentasm - Second Phase [R&S]
Fractal - Rollerskate
( 35:57. 84 MB mp3 @ 320.004 kbps. Recorded July 2021)
Let's go the the park, convince everyone to get their bluetooth speakers to play the same thing, and ...
1: KH - Question [Text]
2: Skipworth & Turner - Thinking About Your Love (Instrumental) [4th & Broadway]
3: D Train - You're The One For Me [Prelude]
4: KC & The Sunshine Band - Get Down Tonight (Tom Moulton Remix) [EMI]
5: Paul Kelly - Take It Away From Him (Put It On Me) [Warner]
6: Aged In Harmony - You're A Melody [Melodies International]
7: Prince - I Wanna Be Your Lover [Paisley Park]
Fractal - A Spell For America
( 31:18. 73 MB mp3 @ 320.004 kbps. Recorded October 2020)
There's a surprising amount of "law and order disco", which this is not – it is some sort of lightweight incantation for the future, for whatever that is worth.
1: Joe Bataan - The Bottle [Epic]
2: Tito Puente - Wata Wasuri [Fania]
3: The Love Unlimited Orchestra - Satin Soul [20th Century]
4: The Pointer Sisters - Yes We Can Can [Blue Thumb]
5: The J.B.'s - Doin' It To Death [Unidisc]
6: African Music Machine - Black Water Gold (Pearl) [Soul Power]
7: B.T. Express - That' What I Want For You Baby [Scepter]
8: B.T. Express - This House Is Smokin' [Scepter]
Fractal - Pre-Apocalypse Solutions
( 42:31. 100 MB mp3 @ 320.003 kbps. Recorded October 2020)
The calm before the store, and a bit of the storm, and the calm after the storm, for that matter.
1: Les Filles de Illighadad - Eliss Wan Anas Douban [Sahel Sounds]
2: Maalem Houssam Ganina - Moussa Barkiyo [Hive Mind]
3: James Holden & Maalem Houssam Gunina - Baba Hamouda [Border Community]
4: Holden / Zimpel - Saturday [Border Community]
5: Shackleton / Zimpel - Primal Drones [Cosmo Rhythmatic]
6: Julianna Barwick - Oh, Memory (ft. Mary Lattimore) [Ninja Tune]
7: Roomful of Teeth - The Magic Constellation [New Amsterdam]
8: Sarah Davachi - Gold Upon White [Late]
Fractal - Imaginary Numbers
( 31:16. 73 MB mp3 @ 320.004 kbps. Recorded July 2020)
That'd be "j", for Jepsen, Jessy, Jai, jams, and the square root of -1, while we're here.
1: Carly Rae Jepsen - Fake Mona Lisa [School Boy]
2: Jessy Lanza - Lick In Heaven [Hyperdub]
3: Jai Paul - Track 7 [XL]
4: Carly Rae Jepsen - Stay Away [School Boy]
5: Jessy Lanza - Over and Over [Hyperdub]
6: Carly Rae Jepsen - Julien [School Boy]
7: Jessy Lanza - Calling Card [Hyperdub]
8: Jai Paul - Track 13 [XL]
9: Carly Rae Jepsen - Want You In My Room [School Boy]
Fractal - Void Void Void
( 32:23. 76 MB mp3 @ 320.004 kbps. Recorded July 2020)
You'll be pleased to know that this collection of obsinate post-house came together as a experiment in indexing my digital music collection into the physical world – but it is not without bangers, for all that.
1: Polymod - PG1000 [17 Steps]
2: Sofia Kourtesis - Home Is Where I Can Dance [Studio Barnhus]
3: Sofia Kourtesis - Sarita Colonia [Studio Barnhus]
4: One Tribe - Is This All (Instinctstrumental) [Above Board]
5: Cascandy - Hills [Cascandy]
6: Joy O - ELLIPSIS [Hinge Finger]
7: Slowlglide - Reigi [Antinote]
Fractal - Saviour Plains
( 40:06. 94 MB mp3 @ 320.003 kbps. Recorded July 2020)
A slowly dis– and re– integrating weave of hope and 105 bpm magic
1: Robyn - Baby Forgive Me [Konichiwa]
2: Maya Jane Coles - Dreamer [I Am Me]
4: Joe - Line To Earth [Comeme]
5: Objekt - 35 [Pan]
6: Elika - You Win Hearts [Chat Blanc]
7: Holly Herndon - SWIM [4AD]
8: Sun Electric - O'Locco (Kama Sutra) [R&S]
9: Mønic - Deep Summer (Burial Remix) [Osiris]
10: Maggie Rogers - Alaska [Capitol]
Fractal - We Must Love One Another Or Die
( 25:18. 59 MB mp3 @ 320.006 kbps. Recorded July 2020)
Auden on death, unions, Black Lives Matter, romance, or, for that matter, brass sections.
1: Kali Malone - Hagakyrka Bells [iDeal]
2: Nobuo Uematsu - March to Narshe [Square]
3: Jóhann Jóhannsson - There is No Safe Side but the Side Of Truth [NTOV]
4: The Cause of Labour is the Hope of the World [NTOV]
5: The Westerlies - In The Morning [The Westerlies]
6: The Westerlies - Robert Henry [The Westerlies]
7: The Westerlies - Saro [The Westerlies]
Fractal - Sidereal
( 42:28. 100 MB mp3 @ 320.003 kbps. Recorded June 2020)
I could say lots about "rates of change" and other theoretical soforths, but let's call this several good records in a row, and call it a day.
1: Neneh Cherry - Dream Baby Dream (Four Tet Remix) [Smalltown Supersound]
2: Bass Clef - Interform [Trilogy Tapes]
3: Chez & Trent - Morning Factory [Slow To Speak]
4: Axel Boman - Eyes Of My Mind [Studio Barnhus]
5: Night Communication - Nocturne Seduction [Safe Trip]
6: Lost Souls of Saturn - The Awakening (James Holden's Past Life Rave Regression) [R&S]
Fractal - Return Air
( 56:12. 132 MB mp3 @ 320.002 kbps. )
Set the summer air conditioning to 170 BPM, and turn it up.
1: Blu Mar Ten - If I Could Tell You [Blu Mar Ten]
2: Björk - It's In Our Hands (Greyarea Lawsuit Remix) []
3: Djrum - Induction [2nd Drop]
4: Skee Mask - Kozmic Flush [Illian Tape]
5: Djrum - Hard To Say [R&S]
6: Homemade Weapons - Svalsat (Donato Dozzy Remix) [Samurai]
7: Signal & Cruk - Illusion [Invisible]
8: Bruce - Ore [Hessle Audio]
9: OL - Kombi [Error Broadcast]
10: Photek - The Third Sequence [Virgin]
11: Brainkillers - Screwface [Above Board]
12: Noise Factory - The Future [Above Board]
13: Fixate vs Double 99 - Ripgroove [Ice Cream]
Fractal - Conspiricy of Fire Nuclei
( 37:30. 88 MB mp3 @ 320.004 kbps. Recorded June 2020.)
Black lives matter.
1: Chaka Khan - I'm Every Woman [Warner]
2: The Salsoul Orchestra - Salsoul Hustle [Salsoul]
3: Boncana Maiga - Yala M'le [Hot Casa]
4: José Casimiro - Morti Sta Bidjàcu (Intro) [Analog Africa]
5: Bana - Pontin & Pontin [Analog Africa]
6: Al Lover & Cairo Liberation Front - Level 1 [Al Lover]
7: Miss Red - One Shot Killer [Pressure]
8: Shanique Marie - Ring The Alarm! [Equiknoxx]
9: Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy [Chess]
10: Otis Redding - Respect [Atlantic]
11: Aretha Franklin - Respect [Atlantic]
12: Sly & The Family Stone - Stand! [Epic]
Fractal - Uptown This Track
( 34:22. 81 MB mp3 @ 320.004 kbps. Recorded May 2020)
Take the A Train, they said.
1: Marvin Gaye - T Plays It Cool [Motown]
2: Forest Law - New Thoughts New Eyes (Extended Mix) [Brownswood]
3: War - Good, Good Feelin' (Original Un-Cut Disco Mix) [Far Out]
4: Boncana Maïga - Koyma Hondo [Hot Casa]
6: War - Corns & Callouses (Hey Dr. Shoals) [Far Out]
7: James Brown - Papa's Got a Brang New Bag (Part 1) [Polydor]
8: Boncana Maïga - Zourou [Hot Casa]
Fractal - Western Approaches Tactical Unit
( 28:17. 66 MB mp3 @ 320.005 kbps. Recorded April 2020)
I am reminded of the Alfred Bester line: "There has been joy. There will be joy again" – or, to be less of a luvvie, this one is one hell of a party.
1: Confidence Man - Out The Window [Heavenly]
2: Little Fluffy Clouds [Big Life]
3: Charlotte Gainsbourg - Deadly Valentine (Soulwax Remix) [Because]
4: Fonkyson - Caresse Feat. Le Couleur [Lisbon Lux]
5: Mt. Si - True [Casince]
6: Four Tet - Teenage Birdsong (Avalon Emerson Remix) [Text]
7: Chvrches - Leave A Trace [Goodbye]
8: Chvrches - Bury It [Goodbye]
Fractal - Tusk
( 53:15. 125 MB mp3 @ 320.003 kbps. Recorded April 2020)
Polyrhythmic heat & kuduro bangers – see you on the dancefloor in Lisbon.
1: P. Adrix - Abetura De Roda [Principe]
2: Nidia - E da Banda [Principe]
3: Dj Nigga Fox - Vicio [Principe]
4: P. Adrix - Bola De Cristal [Principe]
5: Nidia - Toma [Principe]
6: P. Adrix - Zelda Shyt [Principe]
7: DJ Nigga Fox - Poder do Vento [Warp]
8: Nidia - Brinquedo [Principe]
9: Pupilos do Kuduro - Bilo [1138787 Records DK]
10: Nidia - Shane Noah [Principe]
11: DJ Du Marcel - Tribal Sound [Section Cabo]
12: DJ Amorim - The Next Level [Section Cabo]
13: DJ Nigga Fox - Maria Costa [Warp]
14: DJ Du Marcel - Moto Cross [Section Cabo]
15: DJ Joca Moreno - Levanta Moral [Section Cabo]
16: Mr. Bow - Meu Assunto [MZ Inc]
17: Mr. Bow - Massinguitane [MZ Inc]
Fractal - Forest Megaphone
( 47:07. 110 MB mp3 @ 320.003 kbps. Recorded April 2020)
I was certain I had late-90s-ed at least a few of these records into some sort of high quality drug experience at some point – and yet here we are.
1: Ozel AB - Sunfire [Workshop]
2: Seofon - Prota-Rmx [Transmigration]
3: Hybrid - Beachcoma [Distinct'ive]
4: LSG - Bengal Rose [Superstition]
5: BT - Embracing The Sunshine (Sasha Remix) [Perfecto]
6: Digital Witchcraft - Brindanavan (Ambient Mix) [Opek]
7: Moby - Move (Volume Mix)[Volume]
Fractal - We're Not Planners
( 40:59. 96 MB mp3 @ 320.003 kbps. Recorded March 2020)
Reeling in spring, forming invocations for warmer, lighter times
1: Mandingo - Dewgal (ft. Herbie Hancock) [Celluloid]
2: Joutro Mundo - Revale [Barefoot Beats]
3: Tony Allen - Moyege (Mark's Mix) [Honest Jon's]
4: Bicep - Ayaya [Ninja Tune]
5: Ana Roxanne - I'm Every Sparkly Woman [Leaving]
6: Wally Badarou - Keys [Island]
7: Wally Badarou - Hi-Life [Island]
8: JKriv - Povo De Zambia [Barefoot Beats]
9: Fallout - The Morning After (Sunrise Mix) [Above Board]
Fractal - Sand Cat
( 18:08. 43 MB mp3 @ 320.008 kbps. Recorded March 2020)
"Sand Cat" in the sense of "tiny and adorable", not in the sense of "having to do with deserts", as it were.
1: Caribou - Ravi [City Slang]
2: Hiroshige Tonomura - The Moon [Capcom]
3: Hiroshige Tonomura - The Moon (Jake Kaufman Orchestral Remaster) [Capcom]
4: The Beach Boys - Do It Again (A Cappella) [Capitol]
5: ⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ - ･✧⃛(ཽ๑ඕัළ*.。 *¨°。[00000ooooo]
6: Jai Paul - Do You Love Her Now [XL]
Fractal - Eschatons
( 37:41. 88 MB mp3 @ 320.004 kbps. Recorded March 2020)
Digital echoes and FM synthesis as religion or as future - whatever you like.
1: The First Revolution Singers of New Orleans, La - Soldier In The Army Of The Lord [504]
2: Padlock - Seventh Heaven (Intro) [Island]
3: D Train - Thank You [Prelude]
4: Wally Badarou - Mambo [Island]
// Remarks By The Reverend C. L. Franklin [Atlantic]
5: Herbie Hancock - Earth Beat [Columbia]
6: Strafe - Set It Off (Walter Gibbons 12" Mix) [Strut]
7: Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock (Instrumental) [Tommy Boy]
// Louis & Bebe Barron - Main Titles & Overture [Warp]
Fractal - South Brooklyn Casket Co
( 48:59. 115 MB mp3 @ 320.003 kbps. Recorded March 2020)
Percussion and dubby melodies - some sort of Dante-esq tour, resolution, and eventual ascension
1: Artefakt - Agents Of Reality [De Stijl]
2: 33EMYBW - Arthropods Continent (Ikonika Remix) [SVBKVLT]
3: DJ Nigga Fox - Nhama [Principe]
4: Loraine James - Hand Drops [Hyperdub]
5: Off The Meds - Belter (Joy O Belly Mix) [Studio Barnhus]
6: Nkisi - II [UIQ]
7: Jlin - Carbon 7 (161) [Planet Mu]
8: Foul Play - Being With You [Above Board Projects]
9: 33EMYBW - Seeds Of The Future [SVBKVLT]
10: AYA - That Hyde Trakk [Tri-Angle]
Fractal - Five Out Of Six Sacred Centres
( 57:06. 134 MB mp3 @ 320.002 kbps. Recorded March 2020)
Don't call it loopy industrial techno - we've been here for years.
1: Maxime Iko - Acahartade [Bpitch]
2: Pedder Mannerfelt - Black Alert [Voam]
3: Karenn - Raz [Voam]
4: Wata Igarashi - Adrenochrome [The Bunker]
5: Aphelion - Temple 7 [De Stij]
6: Justin Cudmore - Real Shock [The Bunker]
7: Pedder Mannerfelt - A Queen [Voam]
8: Donato Dozzy - Cleo [Eerie]
9: Microworld - Signals [Transmat]
10: Korridor - VI [De Stij B2]
11: Maxime Iko - Timeline's Wrong [Bpitch]
Fractal - Gust
( 31:14. 73 MB mp3 @ 320.004 kbps. Recorded February 2020)
Catch my hat, it's time to go – or however that Spider Robinson story went. Spider would dig these jams, one would have to think.
1: Doris Matte & The Lake Charles Ramblers - Les Traces De Mon Boghei [Swallow]
2: Iry Le June & His Accordion - Donnez Mol Mou Chapeau [Gold Band]
3: Salum Abdallah & Cuban Marimba Band - Beberu [Domino Sound]
4: Rais Haj Omar Wahrouch - Ask Our Brothers The Immigrants [Dust to Digital]
5: Danan Hargeysa - Mama [Ostinato]
6: Salum Abdallah & Cuban Marimba Band - Kutenda Maovu [Domino Sound]
7: Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo de Contonou - Koutome [Analog Africa]
8: Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo de Contonou - Ma Tafou Gnin O [Analog Africa]
9: Angelique Kidjo - Seen and Not Seen [Kravenworks]
Fractal - Rogues Waves
( 38:45. 91 MB mp3 @ 320.004 kbps. Recorded January 2020)
Winter chill-rooom vibes, washing over it all.
1: Karima Walker - Hands In Our Names [Baby Tooth]
2: Hite - Old Crow [Six Degrees]
3: Sarah Davachi - Perfumes I [West 25th]
4: Tuarrah - Almost Invisible [La Reserve]
5: Julianna Barwick - afternoon [Commend There]
6: Kali Malone - Sacrificlal Code [iDEAL]
7: Carla del Forno - Push On [Kallista]
8: King Princess - 1950 [Zelig]
9: Hannah Epperson - Iodine (Amelia) [Listenrecords]
10: Ana Roxanne - Immortality [Leaving]
11: Immaculate Machine - Blinding Light [Mint]
Fractal - December, Opera, Void, Chant
( 1:12:58. 171 MB mp3 @ 320.002 kbps. Recorded December 2019)
Epochal voices, spacious silences, post-Catholic percussion
1: FKA twigs - Mary Magdalene [Young Turks]
2: Hildegard von Bingen - Honey & Milk Beneath Her Tongue [Celestial Harmonies]
3: Hildegard - O Virga Mediatrix [Deutsche Harmonia Mundi]
4: Zeena Parkins - Captiva II [Good Child]
5: Kelly Moran - Helix II [Warp]
6: Holly Herndon - New Ways To Love [RVG]
7: Hildegard - Ave Maria, O Auctrix Vite [Deutsche Harmonia Mundi]
8: Hildegard - Because It Was A Woman [Celestial Harmonies]
9: Holly Herndon - Frontier [4AD]
10: Deena Abdelwahed - Rabbouni [InFiné]
11: Jlin - Kundalini [Planet Mu]
12: Deena Abdelwahed - Fdhiha [InFiné]
13: Kelela - A Message (DJ Spinn Teklife Remix) 14: Hildegard - O Tu Suavissima Virga [Deutsche Harmonia Mundi]
15: FKA twigs - Mary Magdalene [Young Turks]
Fractal - November, Ambiences, Fades, Sunsets
( 57:20. 134 MB mp3 @ 320.002 kbps. Recorded November 2019)
Woooooosh, aaaaaaaaah, shhoooooooom - pretty much
1: Tomoyoshi Date - Hochu [Home Normal]
2: Oren Ambarchi - Palm Sugar Candy [Editions Mego]
3: Ryan Lott - Possibility Bells []
4: Stanleystanley - Palace of Steam [The Ambient Zone]
5: MATStudio - Maybe This Is Something You Should Think About [Melody As Truth]
6: BT - All That Makes Us Human Continue [Binary Acoustics]
Fractal - October, Morocco, Somalia, Nigeria
( 38:44. 91 MB mp3 @ 320.004 kbps. Recorded October 2019)
North to south, old to new, with a hidden DX-7 solo!
1: Cheikh Mohamed Rifi - Sidi M'Bark [Dust to Digital]
2: Waaberi Band - Oktoobar Waatee? Waa Taayadii! [Ostinato]
3: Asiko Rock Group - Everybody Get Down [Academy]
4: Mandingo - Dewgal [Celluloid]
5: Salum Abudallah & Cuban Marimba Band - Ngoma Iku Hulu [Domino Sound New Oreans]
6: Dur Dur Band - Gorof [Ostinato]
7: Geraldo Pino - African Hustle [Academy]
Fractal - October, Weddings, Pianos, Repetitions
( 41:59. 98 MB mp3 @ 320.003 kbps. Recorded October 2019)
Always trust piano riffs, Chicago, Detroit - and just a touch of New York
1: Flørist - Dvote (Bank Holiday Edit) [Pacific Rhythm]
2: Black Rascals - Blaze Theme Track [Sumo]
3: Ron Trent - Making Love [Prescription]
4: Loleatta Halloway - Can't Let You Go (Yvonne Turner Dub) [Vega]
5: Farley "Jackmaster" Funk & Jesse Saunders - Love Can't Turn Around [House Records]
6: Mr. Fingers - Washing Machine [Trax]
7: Daphni - If [Jiaolong]
8: Eddie Flashin' Fowlkes - Goodbye Kiss [Metroplex]
Fractal - August, Electronics, Dystopias, Utopias
( 39:17. 92 MB mp3 @ 320.004 kbps. Recorded August 2019)
Certain values of electro, certain runs through classics, certain vocoder settings.
1: D'Arcangelo - Saba Tree [Happy Skull]
2: GRXGVR - GOYARD GLIZZI [Stolen Noise]
3: My Girlfriend - Believe In Something [Apron]
4: The System - Now I Am Electric [Mirage]
5: The Jonzun Crew - Space Is The Place [Tommy Boy]
6: Yello - Oh Yeah [Mercury]
7: Pitch - What Am I Gonna Do For Fun? [Idle Press]
8: Armand van Helden - The Witch Doktor (Dark Ages Mix) [Soul JAzz]
9: Marie Davidson - Work It [Ninja Tune]
Fractal - July, Birds, Heat, Future
( 46:05. 108 MB mp3 @ 320.003 kbps. Recorded July 2019)
This one is, as it were, for the birds.
1: Sarah Davachi - Auster [Ba Da Bing]
2: Sarah Davachi - Evensong [Ba Da Bing]
3: Pariah - Seed Bank [Houndstooth]
4: Laurel Halo - Nahbarkiet [Latency]
5: Pariah - Conifer [Houndstooth]
6: James Holden - Disintgration Drone II [Border Community]
7: James Holden - Disintgration Drone III [Border Community]
8: James Holden - Disintgration Drone I [Border Community]
9: Oliver Coates - Sky With Endless Stars [RVNG]
10: Kelly Moran - Love Bids, Night Birds, Devil Birds [Warp]
// Bird Sounds [National Geographic]
Fractal - June, Dub, Summer, Improvement
( 46:47. 110 MB mp3 @ 320.003 kbps. Recorded June 2019)
It's a bit oddball for summer, but it is so hot in NYC you can't expect anything to be totally rational.
1: Holly Herndon & Jlin ft. Spawn - Godmother [4AD]
2: AMET - Imposer Le Savoir [Unexplained Sounds Group]
3: footman - Moyashi Kids [Mad Decent]
4: DJ Nigga Fox - KRK [Warp]
5: Skee Mask - 50 Euro to Break Boost [Ilian Tape]
6: foodman - Tokai Desu [Palto Flats]
7: foodman - Dege [Mad Decent]
8: Yu Su - Words Without Sound [Second Circle]
9: Yu Su ft. Pender Street Steppers - Tipu's Tiger [Second Circle]
10: James Holden - Disintegration Drone I [Border Community]
11: Burial - State Forest [Hyperdub]
12: Massive Attack - Teardrop (Mad Professor Mazaruni Instrumental) [Virgin]
Fractal - May, Emotions, Flowers, Requests
( 39:28. 93 MB mp3 @ 320.004 kbps. Recorded May 2019)
Well, if you had told me I'd be mixing Four Tet and CRJ and a Robyn cover 10 years ago, I would have been surprised, I tell you what.
1: Carly Rae Jepsen - Party For One [Schoolboy]
2: KH - Only Human [Text]
3: Joni Void - Abusers (with Sarah Pagé) [Constellation]
4: bvdub - Ember 2 [n5MD]
5: Sofia Kourtesis - Trains & Airports [Studio Barnnhus]
6: Neu Balance - I Left My Body Alone With You ft. FOREVER [Budget Cuts]
7: Enzo Lee - Honeymoon [Hossh]
8: Ikonia - Bodied (OG Mix) [K7]
9: Bok Bok & Sweyn Jupiter - Papaya Lipgloss (Club Mix) [Night Slugs]
10: Robyn - Call Your Girlfriends [Tide Pool]
Fractal - April, Humidity, Sex, Groove
( 1:10:08. 164 MB mp3 @ 320.002 kbps. Recorded April 2019)
Spring is here, summer is coming, let's warm it up.
1: Dinosaur L - Go Bang (Francois K Mix) [Soul Jazz]
2: Plunky & The Oneness Of Juju - Every Way But Loose (Instrumental) [Unidisc]
3: Bohannon - Let's Start The Dance [Mercury]
4: The O'Jays - Don't Take Your Love Away (Instrumental) [Philadelphia International]
5: MFSB - Zach's Fanfare [Sigma]
6: MFSB - Get Down With The Philly Sound [Philadelphia International]
7: The Salsoul Orchestra - Getaway [Salsoul]
8: The Salsoul Orchestra - How High [Salsoul]
9: Ripple - The Beat Goes On And On [Salsoul]
10: La Flavour - Mandolay [Sweet City]
11: Patrick Cowley ft. Sylvester - Do Ya Wanna Funk [Megatone Records]
12: Patrick Cowley - Menergy [Fusion]
Fractal - March, Sunsets, Distance, Memory
( 37:34. 88 MB mp3 @ 320.004 kbps. Recorded March 2019)
Spring in New York means sunsets over Manhattan, which means thinking about the past, our past, and other pasts.
1: Duke Ellington - Take The "A" Train [MCA]
2: Young Tiger - Calypso Be [Honest Jon's]
3: Count Basie - Sent For You Yesterday And Here You Come Today [MCA]
4: Remy Mondey - Meringue Mondey [Strut]
5: Ambrose Campbell - Ashiko Rhythm [Honest Jon's]
6: Daniel Forestal Et Sa Guitare - Ces P'Tits Je T'aime [Strut]
7: Lord Beginner - No One Wants To Grow Old [Honest Jon's]
8: Lord Beginner - Housewives [Honest Jon's]
9: Violetta Parra - Gracias A La Vida [RCA]
10: Ella Fitzgerald - Oh, Doctor Jesus [Verge]
11: Aretha Franklin - You'll Never Walk Alone [Atlantic]
Fractal - March, Springtime, Patience, Plants
( 1:09:08. 162 MB mp3 @ 320.002 kbps. Recorded March 2019)
Spring is here, and it comes on slow and unstoppable and beautiful and ambient.
1: Lea Bertucci - Sustain and Dissolve [NNA Tapes]
2: Shakleton & Vengeance Tenfold - Before The Dam Broke [Honest Jon's]
3: James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Neverending [Border Community]
4: Pariah - Log Jam [Houndstooth]
5: Steve Reich - Four Organs (Live 1969) [Modern Silence]
6: Lea Bertucci - Patterns for Alto [NNA Tapes]
7: Laurel Halo - Raw Silk Uncut Wood [Latency]
8: Sarah Davachi - Matins [Ba Da Bing]
Fractal - Library of Alexandria
( 3:36:47. 508 MB mp3 @ 320.001 kbps. Recorded September 2018)
Excessions, obscurities, big tunes, past lives, future thoughts.
1: Naima Bedaoui - El Khadem [Casa Disques]
2: Hamid El Kasri - Mousawilne v3 []
3: Al Hassania - A2 (Literate Edit) [Rerenderer]
4: Alice Coltrane - Om Rama [Luaka Bop]
5: James Holden & The Animal Spirits - Spinning Dance [Border Community]
6: James Holden & The Animal Spirits - Pass Through The Fire [Border Community]
7: Steve Reid & Four Tet - Strings of Life [Text]
8: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Abstractions (Side One) [Make Noise]
9: Music For Cats - Freya Purrs [Music For Cats]
10: Done Randrianantoanina- Afindrafindrao [Arion]
11: Ranaivovololona Ratovonirina - Malaso I [Arion]
12: Music From Rwanda - Induru Ni Ndende [UNESCO]
13: Music From Rwanda - Mugore W'Ingare [UNESCO]
14: Ba-Benzele Pygmies - Whistle Solo [UNESCO]
15: War - City, Country, City [United Artists]
16: Tim Maia - Rational Culture [Luaka Bop]
17: Arthur Russell - In The Light of the Miracle [Soul Jazz]
18: Gwen Guthrie - Hopscotch [Garage Records]
19: Wally Badarou - Chief Inspector [Island ]
20: Gwen Guthrie - Seventh Heaven [Garage Records]
21: Dexter Wansel - Life On Mars [Philadelphia International]
22: Wally Badarou - Jungle [Island]
23: Love International - Airport of Love [Polydor]
24: Sparks - Tryouts for the Human Race [Virgin]
25: Mr. Negative - Evacuate (Mr. Negative's Ibiza Dawn Re-Edit) [Fine]
26: Adam Starr - Bad Acid Jesus [Radikal]
27: PTU - A Broken Clock is Right Twice A Day [Trip]
28: Joy Orbison - Big Room Tech House DJ Tool - TIP! [Nonplus]
29: Joe - Tail Lift [Hessle]
30: Mr. Negative - Evacuate (Accapella) [Fine]
31: Battle of Jutland - Invincible (Short Version) [Rerenderer]
32: Gabor Lazar - Crisis of Representation 1 [Shelter Press]
33: DXWYZ9 - #1 VOID STBD [Rerenderer]
34: Iannias Xenakis - Persepolis (Side A Part 2) [Karlrecords]
35: Mahler - Das Liede von der Erde - II - Der Einsame im Herbst [Phillips]
36: Violeta Parra - Volver a los Diecisiete [RCA]
37: Helen Boncheck Schneyer - Wayworn Traveler [Folk-Legacy]
Fractal - Time Walk
( 1:23:54. 197 MB mp3 @ 320.002 kbps. Recorded August 2018)
Time travel not in the 'move around' sense, but rather in the 'experience the infinite' by taking infinite extra turns sense.
1: GL Sutherland - What Works [Firecracker]
2: Carlo - Azizi [Organic Downbeat]
3: Station 17 Feat. Kalabrese - Jabaluu (Chez Damier Edit) []
4: Carlo - Venus 9 [Organic Downbeat]
5: Virgo Four - It's A Crime (Hunee's Go Underground Remix) [Rush Hour]
6: Glimpse & Martin Eyerer - Southern Soul (Chez Damier Edit of Stephan Hinz Remix) []
7: Peggy Gou - Day Without Yesterday [Phonica White]
8: Olin - Biota [Boundary Monument]
9: Benjamin Brunn - Plastic [Third Ear]
10: Massiande - Ode To A Tortured Soul [Phonica White]
11: Underspreche - Mikea [Optimo Trax]
12: Nick Hoppner - Box Drop [Ostgut Ton]
13: Massiande - Straight [Phonica White]
14: Peggy Gu - Six Oh Six [Phonica White]
15: Omar S - Set It Out [FXHE]
16: DJ Koze - Pick Up [Pampa]
Fractal - Mox Sapphire
( 39:52. 93 MB mp3 @ 320.003 kbps. Recorded July 2018)
Not all of these are blue records, but the most blue are like four-island blue.
1: Theo Parrish - Nitedrive [Sound Signature]
2: Tony Allen - Kilode (Carl Craig Remix) [Honest Jon's]
3: William & The Young Five - You Turn Me On (J-Kriv Rework) [Soundway]
4: BLO - Root [Academy LPs]
5: Bola - Tigantabame [Awesome Tapes From Africa]
6: Phoebe Snow - Gone At Last (Literate Edit) [Rerenderer]
7: Penny Penny - Shibandza [Awesome Tapes From Africa]
Fractal - Mox Emerald
( 54:20. 127 MB mp3 @ 320.003 kbps. Recorded June 2018)
Spider-silk-spinning techno, praying mantis breaks; giant growth, reach.
1: Metallurgy - Heaven Carrier [Rerenderer]
2: Octo Octa - Adrift (Avalon Emerson Furiously Awake Version) [HNYTRX]
3: Volte-Face - Blatchington Mill (Wata Igarashi's Stairway Remix) [BleeD]
4: Trevino - Eclipse [Klockwerks]
5: Floorplan - Eclipse [M-Plant]
6: Ploy - Unruly [Hemlock]
7: Chris Cowie - Da Loop [Bellboy]
8: Electrochemie - Mucky Star [Get Physical]
9: Minor Science - Volumes [Whities]
10: Korzi - Primal [Keysound]
11: Pangaea - Bone Sucka [Hessle Audio]
12: Loleatta Holloway - Stand Up (Pangaea's Mix) [Salsoul]
13: Jacques Greene - You See All My Light [Vase]
Fractal - Ancestral Recall
( 48:24. 113 MB mp3 @ 320.003 kbps. Recorded May 2018)
A sort of accidental paen to Hush and some of the secret and not-so-secret heroes of the Victoria rave scene, 1999-2005 or so.
1: Playboy - Paco Di Bango's World [Tag]
2: Thomas Krome - The Real Jazz [DK]
3: Smith & Selway - Move [Intec]
4: Fabrice Lig - Border 2 Border [We Play House]
5: Michael Jackson vs Bushwacka! - Billie Jean []
6: Fabric Lig - Ocean Risings [We Play House]
7: Aaron Carl - Dance Naked (James Holden Remix) [Kickin]
8: Daft Punk - Teachers [Virgin]
Fractal - Mox Pearl
( 1:28:47. 208 MB mp3 @ 320.001 kbps. Recorded April 2018)
Pearlescent is not yet an over-used word in electronic music, but here we are in ultradeep ambient land just the same.
1: Metallurgy - Engine Time [Rerenderer]
2: Eduard Artemiev - Solaris Movement 6 [Superior Viaduct]
3: Zeena Parkins - Tuning Forks [Good Child]
4: Kim Manerikar - All Real Bodies []
5: Tomoko Sauvage - Calligraphy [Shelter Press]
6: Sara Davachi - gentle so gentle [Important Records]
7: Christopher Bissonette - Small Feathers [1631]
8: Kara-Lis Cloverdale - Grafts [Boomkat]
9: Ola Szmidt - Autumn [Ola Szmidt]
10: Roomful Of Teeth - How A Rose… [Roomful Of Teeth]
Fractal - Mox Ruby
( 46:22. 109 MB mp3 @ 320.003 kbps. Recorded April 2018)
Looping techno, house/post oddness, and Russian pathos.
1: Eduard Artemiev - Solaris Movement 13 [Superior Viaduct]
2: Kassem Mosse - IP Mirrors [NonPlus]
3: Leibniz - Ur Qt [Hundert]
4: Lo Shea - Ornithurae [17 Steps]
5: Joy Orbison - Walworth Window [Toss Portal]
6: Svreca & Voices From The Lake - Circa [Spazio Disponibile]
7: Terranova - Labrador (Reinhart Voight Mix) [Kompakt]
8: Svreca & Voices From The Lake - Between The Lines [Spazio Disponibile]
9: Lo Shea - Iterations [17 Steps]
10: Svreca & Voices From The Lake - Isolation [Spazio Disponibile]
11: Inga Mauer - Silences [Shtum]
12: Eduard Artemiev - Solaris Movement 13 [Superior Viaduct]
Fractal - Black Lotus
( 40:32. 95 MB mp3 @ 320.003 kbps. Recorded February 2018)
As weird as possible, but no more weird than that. Look out for the mana burn.
1: John Cage - Third Construction (Intro) [Columbia]
2: WWWater - Presence [WWWater]
3: DJ Nigga Fox - B2 [Principe]
4: Zomby x Burial - Sweetz [Hyperdub]
5: MESH - Search, Reveal [Pan]
6: Errorsmith - My Party [Pan]
7: DJ Nigga Fox - B1 [Principe]
8: Nídia - Sinistro [Principe]
9: Ahmed El Mazouni - B3 (Literate Edit) [RERENDERER]
10: Nídia - Mulher Profissional [Principe]
11: DJ Nigga Fox - A3 [Principle]
12: Errorsmith - Superlative Fatigue [Pan]
13: John Cage - Third Construction (Outro) [Columbia]
Fractal - Mox Jet
( 42:46. 100 MB mp3 @ 320.003 kbps. Recorded January 2018)
The sleekest & deepest of all Moxen gets modern house and old Detroit techno.
1: Willow - Untitled [Workshop]
2: The Paranomasiac - Chill Haze [Normals Welcome]
3: Luv Jam - Quip 22 (Prosumer Remix) [Phonica]
4: Ozel Ab - Positronic Dreams [Workshop]
5: Octave 1 - Nicolette [430 West]
6: Ozel Ab - Sierra Echo [Workshop]
7: Octave 1 - Octivate[430 West]
8: Levon Vincent - Berlin [Novel Sound]
9: Daphni - Tin [Jiaolong]
Fractal - Timetwister
( 49:28. 116 MB mp3 @ 320.003 kbps. Recorded January 2018)
A parallel timestream where Diana Ross recorded Come Together, and Supertramp were a house band for Sigma Sound.
1: Talking Heads - Take Me To The River [Sire]
2: Diana Ross - Come Together [Motown]
3: Midnight Movers - Follow The Wind (Mr. K Edit) [Strut]
4: Supertramp - Cannonball (Instrumental) [A&M]
5: Jesse's Gang - Real Love [Jes Say]
6: George Kranz - Din Daa Daa [Soul Jazz]
7: The Guy & Zinthetyzer - Money Money (Par-T Mix) [Theme Records]
8: David Bowie - Love is Lost (James Murphy Mix) [ISO]
Fractal - ME
( 22:06. 52 MB mp3 @ 320 kbps. Recorded November 2015 - image by Gerald Deo.)
ME is for mesmers, melisma, melancholy, and meditation
1: Stravinsky - The Owl & The Pussy Cat (Heather Harker, Karl Hirzer) []
2: Bjork - Black Lake (Outro Strings) [One Little Indian]
3: Colleen - The Moon Like A Bell [Second Language]
4: Julia Holter - How Long? [Domino]
5: Julia Easterlin & Vieux Farka Toure - In The Pines [Six Degrees]
6: Portishead - Hunter [Mercury ]
7: Julia Easterlin - There There []
8: Bjork - Show Me Forgiveness [One Little Indian]
9: Wilsen - Anahita []
Fractal - NG
( 52:16. 123 MB mp3 @ 320 kbps. Recorded November 2015)
NG is for nrg, ergs, negotiations, and generations.
1: SK Kakraba - Banyere Yo [Awesome Tapes From Africa]
2: Maalam Mahmoud Guinia & Floating Points - Mimoun Marhaba [Eglo]
3: Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid - The Sun Never Sets (Holden Remix) [Domino]
4: Four Tet - Evening [Text]
5: Steve Reich - Drumming (Part 4) [Cantaloupe]
6: Ba-Benzele Pygmies - Invocatory Song Before A Hunt [UNESCO]
7: Mala - Level 9 [Hyperdub]
8: Music Of The Ethiopian Coptic Church - The Kings Come With Gifts [UNESCO]
9: Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place (Hybrid Remix) []
10: Jon Hopkins - Immunity (With King Creosote) [Domino]
Fractal - LI
( 47:12. 111 MB mp3 @ 320 kbps. Recorded November 2015)
Li is for lithe, light, lists like this, and lift-off.
1: Loose Joints - Is It All Over My Face? (Kon Duet Mix) [West End]
2: Arts & Craft - I've Been Searching (Walter Gibbons 12" Remix) [Strut]
3: Sandy Mercer - You Are My Love (Walter Gibbons 12" Version) [Strut]
4: Lace - Can't Play Around (Instrumental) 5: MFSB - Love Is The Message [Philadelphia International]
6: Double Exposure - I Need Your Loving [Salsoul]
7: MFSB - T.S.O.P. [Philadelphia International]
8: Double Exposure - Ten Percent[Salsoul]
Fractal - L
( 51:17. 120 MB mp3 @ 320 kbps. Recorded November 2015)
L is for louche, lost, loose, and lanky.
1: Ricardo Villalbos & Jay Haze - Contexterrior 8.5 A [Contexterrior]
2: DJ Minx - A Walk In The Park (Villalobos 'Til Thursday' Rmx) [M_nus]
3: Joey Anderson - Maiden's Response [Dekmantel]
4: Martyn - Bad Chicago [NonPlus+]
5: Jurgen Paap - Triumph [Kompakt]
6: Four Tet - Ocoras [Text]
7: Leon Vynehall - This Is The Place [Clone Royal Oak]
8: Leon Vynehall Butterflies [Clone Royal Oak]
9: Percussions - March 2013 [Text]
Fractal - KI
( 33:22. 78 MB mp3 @ 320 kbps. Recorded October 2015)
KI is for kilobytes, kismet, kindling, and kink.
1: Koreless - Love [Young Turks]
2: Holly Herndon - Interference [RVNG]
3: fka twigs - figure 8 [Young Turks]
4: Arca - Slit Thru [Mute]
5: Arca - Promise [Mute]
6: M.E.S.H. - Imperial Sewers [Pan]
7: fka twigs - glass & patron [Young Turks]
8: Kuedo - border state collapse [Knives]
9: Holly Herndon - DAO [RVNG]
10: Holly Herndon - Home [RVNG]
Fractal - S
( 30:54. 72 MB mp3 @ 320 kbps. Recorded October 2015)
S is for stunning, seismic, stupendous, and the (somewhat) sublime.
1: Hot Chip - Re-Harmonize [Domino]
2: Ikonika - Beach Mode (Keep It Simple) ft. Jessy Lanza [Hyperdub]
3: Krystal Klear, Broke One & Ghosts On Tape - You Said You Loved Me [RBMA]
4: FPI Project - Risky [S12]
5: Tensnake - Coma Cat [Permanent Vacation]
6: Psychemagick - This Must Be The Place (Naive Edit) [Psychemagick]
Fractal - I
( 38:20. 90 MB mp3 @ 320 kbps. Recorded October 2015)
I is for incindiary, input, intermediates, and illumination.
1: Katcha - Touched by God (Peace Division Remix) [Hooj]
2: Deep Dish - Stranded (BT vs. DD Mix) (Danny Tenaglia's Groovejet Dubby Edit) [Deconstruction]
3: Gaetano Parisio - Southsoul 003 B [Southsoul]
4: Four Tet + Burial - Nova []
5: Barbara Tucker - Beautiful People (Reprise) [Strictly Rhythm]
6: Percussions - Ascii Bot [Text]
7: Oni Ayhun - Oni Ayhun 003 B [Oni Ayhun]
Fractal - K
( 26:45. 63 MB mp3 @ 320 kbps. Recorded July 2015)
K is for killers, klash, kindred, and, kindness
1: Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business [Rough Trade]
2: Tok Tok vs. Soffy O - Missy Queen's Gonna Die [Bpitch Control]
3: DJ Shandy vs. Housetrap - Overdrive [Additive]
4: Cerrone - Love in C Minor [Atlantic]
5: Hannah Read & Charlie Van Kirk - Kids []
Fractal - R
( 44:13. 104 MB mp3 @ 320 kbps. Recorded June 2015)
R is for red, rotation, and recursion, and recursion, and recursion...
1: Kate Simko - Take You There [Ghostly]
2: Marquis Hawkes - Raw Materials [Houndstooth]
3: Endian - Straight Intention [NonPlus+]
4: Dauwd - Silverse [Ghostly]
5: Kate Simko - Margie's Groove [Ghostly]
6: Percussions - Blatant Water Cannon [Text]
7: Boddika - Beats Me [NonPlus+]
8: Percussions - Rabbit Songs [Text]
9: Stellar OM Source - Sudden [RVNG]
10: Bob Moses - Interloper [Domino]
Fractal - O
( 30:56. 73 MB mp3 @ 320 kbps. Recorded May 2015)
O is for odalisques, odd, other, and orgasms.
1: Holly Herndon - Lonley At The Top [RVNG]
2: Pierre Boulez - Le Marteu sans Matire - II [Columbia]
3: Amon Tobin - Mass & Spring [Ninja]
4: Holly Herdon - Interference [RVNG]
5: Boddika - Mercy (Boddika VIP) [NonPlus+]
6: Arca - Bullet Chained [Warp]
7: Pearson Sound - Quivver [NonPlus+]
8: Holly Herdon - DAO [RVNG]
9: Pierre Boulez - Le Marteu sans Matire - III [Columbia]
10: FKA Twigs - Preface [Young Turks]
11: Arca - Failed [Warp]
Fractal - Y
( 31:16. 73 MB mp3 @ 320 kbps. Recorded May 2015)
Y is for youth, yin, yang, and yes.
1: Arthur Russell - Calling All Kids (Walter Gibbons Remix) [Strut]
2: Peech Boys - Don't Make Me Wait (Extended Version) [West End]
3: Carole King - Corazon (Mr. K Edit) [Most Excellent Unltd]
4: MFSB - Summertime [Philidelphia International]
5: MFSB - Touch Me In The Morning [Philidelphia International]
Fractal - W
( 32:29. 76 MB mp3 @ 320 kbps. Recorded April 2015)
W is for wild, widening (as in gyres), whims, and wants.
1: Floorplan - Eclipse [M-Plant]
2: Floorplan - Chord Principle [M-Plant]
3: Octa Octa - 'Cause I Love You [100% Silk]
4: Boddika - &Fate [NonPlus+]
5: Floorplan - Let's Ride [M-Plant]
6: Chris Cowie - Swan Pressure [Bell Boy]
7: Four Tet - For These Times [NonPlus+]
8: Flooplan - Never Grow Old [M-Plant]
Fractal - E
( 30:55. 72 MB mp3 @ 320 kbps. Recorded April 2015)
E is for eliding, entanglement, ego, and egalitarianism.
1: D-Train - Thank You (Dub Mix) [Prelude]
2: Jeffery Osborne - Plane Love (Dub Version) [A & M]
3: Jessy Lanza - Keep Moving [Hyperdub]
4: Jamie Lidell - Blaming Something [Warp]
5: Jai Paul - Track 2 [XL]
6: Bullion - Pet Sounds []
7: Bullion - I'm Waiting For The Day []
8: Jessy Lanza - Strange Emotion [Hyperdub]
Fractal - N
( 28:44. 67 MB mp3 @ 320 kbps. Recorded March 2015)
N is for nihilism, no, negative, and nothing.
1: Varese - Octanre 1 (tres lent) []
2: Arca - Tongue [Warp]
3: Bjork - Lionsong [One Little Indian]
4: Stockhausen - Gesang der Junglinge [Doxy]
5: Arca - Xen [Warp]
6: Holden - Sky Burial [Border Community]
7: Messiaen - Abyss of Birds []
8: PMT - Intensify (Way Out West Remix) [Distinc'tive]
9: Holly Herndon - Chorus [RVNG]
Fractal - The Seven Deadly Sins
( 1:21:24. 116 MB mp3 @ 194.166 kbps. Posted March 2010)
One hell of a ride - through dubstep, custom remixes, huge breaks, ambient, slamming techno, and so on. Dante would be proud - or just jealous.
1: wAgAwAgA - The Wolf [wAgAwAgA]
2: Andy Page - Twitter and Bisted [Noodles]
3: Vogel, K, & Page - Crowd Noise []
// Radiohead - Myxomatosis [Parlophone]
4: Samual Barber - Hermit Songs VII - Promiscuity (Heather Harker & Karl Hirzer) []
// Thom Yorke - Skip Divided - [XL]
5: Clark - Growls Gardens [Warp]
6: Holden & Thompson - Come To Me (Amatuer Guitar Mix) [Loaded]
7: Carl Orff - Carmina Burana (O Fortuna) [Angel]
8: Mauro Picotto - Verdi [BXR]
9: Hybrid - Theme From Wide Angle (Rolling Thunder Mix) [Distinct'ive]
// Nathan Fake - Outhouse (Fluffy Mix) [Border Community]
10: Portishead - The Rip [Island]
11: Pink Floyd - Money (Eric Idle Hands Remix) [Harvest]
12: Aesop Rock - 39 Thieves [Def Jux]
13: Two Fingers - Jewels & Gems [Big Dada]
14: Two Fingers- Bad Girl [Big Dada]
15: Karlkeinz Stockhausen - Kontakte [Ecstatic Peace!]
16: Jay-Z - Encore (B4AFall Layer) [Roc-A-Fella]
17: Anton Webern - 6 Pieces For Orchestra I, II [Columbia]
18: Brian Eno - Lantern Marsh [EG]
19: X-Press 2 - Lazypella [Skint]
20: Morton Feldman - Rothko Chapel - I, III [New Albion]
21: Bell Clap Dance - [Rekids]
22: Audion - Mouth To Mouth [Spectral]
23: Perc & Fractal - Up (Perc Mix) [Kompakt]
Fractal & Matt What - Twisp & Catsby - Live At The Crocotillian
( 1:19:18. 112 MB mp3 @ 192 kbps. )
This is a selected hour and twenty minutes from the ridiculous five hour set that Matt and I played. We used seven decks, two mixers, a guitar, an EFX500, and a lot of rocking out. Art is by Gabe of Penny Arcade fame.
Fractal - Deathmark
( 1:00:00. 84 MB mp3 @ 192 kbps. Recorded October 2007)
This is a set I posted for Radioactivity on Proton Radio that turned out really well, I think. It's very current, with lots of weird techy noises and suchlike.
1: Nero - Lost (C79 Remix) [Pacific Front]
// Perc & Fractal - Up (Original Mix) [Kompakt]
2: Misstress Barbara - Barcelona (Holden Bell Dub / Holden Bass Tool) [Border Community]
3: Dapayk - Hollis (The Wolves Outside Remix) [Mo's Ferry]
// Shirt - Marksman [Tide Pool]
// Armand Van Helden - The Witch Doktor [Strictly Rhythm]
4: Roel H - The Dancing Bears [Manual]
5: Babyl-Tr0n - Responsibility (Dub Mix) [PercTrax]
6: The Sky Patrol - The Ultraviolet Catastrophe [Tide Pool]
7: Strumplasten - Laben [Mmmph]
// Strumplasten - Lunken [Mmmph]
8: Darius Bassiray - Drive By (Nubreed Remix) [Proton]
9: Robsounds - NO UNDO [Tide Pool]
// Bu - D-Bu (In Lim-Bu Remix by Limbo) []
10: Avus - SPNKR [Border Community]
// Lazy Fat People - Big City (Mirko's Tool) [Border Community]
11: Robsounds - Slashwild []
// Lazy Fat People - Big City (Mirko's Tool) [Border Community]
12: Velocirapture - Rubix [Mmmph]
Fractal - Fragile Things
( 1:00:01. 84 MB mp3 @ 192 kbps. Recorded August 2007.)
This is a set I did for B-Sides on Proton - it’s ambient and downtempo and pretty, in roughly that order.
1: Neil Gaiman - Fragile Things (Introduction) [William Morrow]
2: Lostep - 6 AM Sedna [Global Underground]
3: Shirt - Naing [Tide Pool]
4: Antiguru - Pre-Emption [Tide Pool]
5: Neon Tetra - Surroundings [Tide Pool]
6: Shirt - Dirty Ye [Tide Pool]
7: Boards Of Canada - Chromakey Dreamcoat (Outro) [Warp]
8: Four Tet - You Could Ruin My Day [Domino]
9: Boards Of Canada - Chromakey Dreamcoat [Warp]
10: Hills West - Hay-On-Wye [Unsigned]
11: Neon Tetra - Immure [Audio Aubergine]
12: Hills West - Watchman's Cabin Site [Unsigned]
13: Lusine - Still Frame (Lusine Remix) [Spectral Sound]
14: BT - All That Makes Us Human Continues [DTS]
15: Chris Fortier - Despegue (Fractal Ambient Mix) [FDX]
16: Limbo - Pioneer (Fractal's Verb-Tool) [Tide Pool]
17: Dustin H - Receive The Light (Fractal's Photons Are Data Mix) [Pacific Front]
18: BT - Dynamic Symmetry [DTS]
19: Hermann & Kleine - Hello, This One Is For You [Morr Music]
Fractal - A Ritual Of Doors
( 1:16:19. 107 MB mp3 @ 192 kbps. Recorded May 2006.)
A danceable and multifaceted demo mix, with awesome techno, thooming progressive, snappy electro, and so on.
1: AFK - Eclipse (Fractal's Transit of Venus) [Pacific Front]
2: AFK & Dustin H - Cascadia [Emote]
3: Peres & Petersky - Silent Moment [Aurium]
4: Fairmont - Gazebo (Tool) [Border Community]
5: Spada - I Love Acid (Tundra Remix) [Mmmph]
6: Petter - Saw The Sine [Manual]
7: Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone (Qbical Dub) []
8: Robsounds - SCSI Liquid [Tide Pool]
9: Caleb Fox - Play [Tide Pool]
10: Lostep - Because We Can [GU]
11: Andy Page - Serpent [Blueprint]
12: Pob & Taylor - Aura [Bedrock]
13: Group Therapy - Thumbsucker [Audiotherapy]
Fractal - All Tomorrows Parties
( 1:00:29. 87 MB mp3 @ 195.728 kbps. Recorded October 2005.)
A set for Pacific Front Sessions on Proton that turned out really, really well. Any excuse you can get to put Beatles and Sigur Ros and Leftfield into a set is a good excuse.
1: The Beatles - It's All Too Much [Apple]
2: Caribou - I've Lived On A Dirt Road All My Life [Leaf]
3: The MFA - Rinse Time [Bpitch Control]
4: Torley Wong - Xristophan (Fair & Masiello Remix) [Alternative Route]
5: BCML - Mr. Horowitz (Way Out West Remix) [Silver Planet]
6: Libra - Calling Your Name (Fractal Will Call You Back) [Tide Pool]
7: Chable & Fernandez - Before You Beat My Box [M Theory]
8: Leftfield - Inspection [Hard Hands]
9: Sigur Ros - Intro/Milano/Hufupukar (Fractal's Medley Edit) [Geffen]
10: Habersham - MEHS [Audiotherapy]
11: Rouzbeh Delavri - Soup [Maris Music]
12: Royal Assassin - Timing & Precision (Fractal's Dark Ritual) [Inaspace]
13: Santiago Nino - Circuit [Precinct]
14: Hybrid - Lights Go Down, Knives Come Out [Distinctive]
Fractal - Star Eater
( 1:16:46. 111 MB mp3 @ 198.14 kbps. Recorded January 2005.)
A hugely ambitious posted set, complete with piano interlude, classical, and so on.
1: The Rapture - Sister Saviour (Tiefschwarz Remix) [Output]
2: The Operators - Furball (Original Mix) [Lobotomy]
3: Rowan Blades & Chris Lake - Filth (Andy Page Remix) [Alternative Route]
4: The Operators - Furball (Marscruiser Remix) [Lobotomy]
5: Britney Spears - Breathe On Me (Holden Dub) []
6: Moby - We Are All Made Of Stars (Timo Maas Remix) [Mute]
7: Buds Not Bombs - Deladio (Infusion Exorcism Dub) [Baroque]
8: Black Pearl - Rouge Noir [4:20]
9: The MFA - Sphinx [Precinct]
10: Adam Beyer - Remainings III (DK Mix 2) [Drumcode]
11: Holst - Mars, The Bringer Of War []
12: James Holden - Horizons (Torley's Pianomental Cover) []
13: BMEX - Apollonia [Union City]
14: Steve May - Blend Forty-3 (Luke Chable & Steve May Remix) [Baroque]
15: Robsounds - Moya Zenya []
16: Yilmaz Altanhan - Eighties [Ajuna]
17: Mathew Jonson - Followed By Angels [ISWIS]
18: Lucid - Sine In [Epsilon Lab]
19: Rex The Dog - I Look Into Mid Air [Kompakt]
20: Antiguru - Things Get Better (Fractal's Outro Pass) [Tide Pool]
21: Lustral - Everytime (Red Jerry Mix) [Hooj]
Fractal - Leviathan
( 1:15:19. 106 MB mp3 @ 192 kbps. Recorded September 2004.)
This was a demo mix for friday nights at the Lotus in Vancouver. It wasn't housey enough for them, but it's darn fine none the less.
1: Naveen G - Keeper Of 5 [M Theory]
2: Blake Jarrell & Starkid - Apricot [3beat Breaks]
3: Habersham & Numinous - Leaving Tifton [Blueprint]
4: Vangelis - Blush Response [EastWest]
5: Quest - Bitter & Twisted (Luke Chable's Dirty Funktrain Mix) [Vapour]
6: Descent - Gravity Drop [Fade]
7: Gwill Morris - Time [Skyline]
8: Holden - A Break In The Clouds (Beats Tool) [Border Community]
9: Volo - Have No Fear Of Falling []
10: Vapourspace - Gravitational Arch Of 10 [Plus 8]
11: Chris Fraser - Flashpoint (Trendroid Remix) [Release]
12: Nathan Fake - Adamedge [Saw]
13: Kris B - Last Minute Flight [Teknology]
14: Trafik - Your Light (Luke Chable 4.4 Remix) [GU]
15: Breeder - Tyrantanic (Slacker's Kingdom Come Mix) [RSR]
16: Powerplant - Turn It Into Gold (Madoka Remix) [Deep]
Fractal - Down To A Sunless Sea
( 1:08:28. 96 MB mp3 @ 192 kbps. Recorded August 2003)
An old, super-deep set that's still one of my favorites.
1: Kumulus - Cloud Chaser (String Mix) [Electric Soul]
2: Holden - A Break In The Clouds [Border Community]
3: Medway & Sean Cusick - Neutrix [Saw]
4: Yunus Güvenen - Opus 34 [Bedrock]
5: Hybrid - Out Of The Dark [Distinctive]
6: Momu - The Dive (Jondi & Spesh Remix) [Looq]
7: Bedrock - Forge (Orignal Mix) [Bedrock Breaks]
8: James Holden - One For You (Avus' One For The Heads Mix) [Silver Planet]
9: Bedrock - Forge (Fretwell Mix) [Bedrock Breaks]
10: Hiatus - Tactile (Christian West Breakz Mix) [Pacifica]
11: Fractal - Steppin' Razor (Outro Pass) [Tide Pool]
Fractal - Communist Robots
( 53:58. 76 MB mp3 @ 192 kbps. Recorded February 2003.)
Pure, unadulterated silly dance music, complete with a ridiculous fore-spin (is that even a word?) and an accapella talking about penises.
1: Hakan Lidbo - Wall To Wall [Horehaus]
2: Mike Monday - T.F.D.T. [Whoop!]
3: Zoo Brazil - One Day (Laid Remix) [Cuba]
4: Petter - Freak & Love [Deep Focus]
5: Joey Beltram - Energy Flash [Transmat]
6: Steve Lawler - Lost [Subversive]
7: Deetron - Velocity (Adam Beyer Remix) [Phont Music]
8: Chable & Bonnici - Ride [Alternative Route]
9: Mauro Picotto & Riccardo Ferri - New Time, New Place [Primate]
10: Christiaan Kouijzer & Alex Calver - Untitled [Hydraulix]
11: One Finger - Short Dick Man (Like To Move It Mix) [BGM]
12: New Order - Blue Monday [Factory]