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hello, fellow spookcity residents and vagrants. I'm the one entrusted to keep the sounds coming on, not without questioning my competence on the duty and trying to dissuade our good buddy ryan from leaving in the first place. while I can't guarantee amusing and spot-on descriptions like his, I promise to do my best in contributing to the fine assortment of sounds he collected here. until he's back full-force, of course.

namaste

so long & farewell.

after more than a year of this, i'm walking away from spookcity. i have lost interest in the internet, & spend much more of my time outside instead of in front of a screen these days. i'll be handing the reins over to the quite capable hands of a brasilian compatriot of mine. thanks for following this humble blog amigos.

for my final post, here is a mix i have been working on for the last month or two now. there are inferior versions of this floating around, this is the final mix. a lot of hard work & love went into this one. think of this as a response to brother flash's exotiste mixes. screwed library, funk & soundtrack jams for summer afternoons when the heat is heavy & lazy dust motes float through hazy shafts of sunlight.

thank you, & good night.

saturnin rhythms.

based benin funk workouts.

technological slavery.

more desert blues for my main man mike.

beat boutique.

the spanish end of yeh yeh. fun sunny pop for summertime!

sun ship.

This is one of those albums that encapsulates the very raison d'etre of a reissue label like Finders Keepers, or Trunk for that matter. John Hill's Six Moons Of Jupiter is a dizzying cocktail of avant-garde jazz, cosmic psychedelia and electronic experimentation, intermittently augmented by the poetry of Susan Christie who recites text over parts of certain tracks. There are drum-fuelled beat tracks like 'Io' or the David Axelod-like 'Amalthea', and then there's some woozy, electroacoustic soundscaping on the hazy, effects-laden 'Ganymede', all of which are ideal fodder for library hounds, but 'Callisto' and 'Elara' mark the real creative peaks here, eschewing the kind of exotica-appeal that tends to taint reissues with a hint of kitsch. The latter of these compositions draws a certain amount of influence from Messaien's Turangalila Symphonie in its ambitious, often erratic harmonies and its mingling of conventional and electronic instrumentation. The album is capped off with an alternate, instrumental rendition of 'Europa', which it has to be said, benefits from the absence of Christie's reading - which itself is isolated as a final piece on the album, 'I Am The Storm Of Dawn'. This amazing concept album will undoubtedly appeal greatly to anyone who fell under the spell of Jean-Claude Vannier's L'Enfant Assassin Des Mouches and generally to followers of weird and wondeful musics from the archicives. Wonderful stuff - Essential Purchase. - boomkat (sorry, i have to leave for work so i have to use their description)

amazing avant future library cosmic jazz. this is a mind warper.

a profound hatred of man.

for those days when you want to destroy civilization.

still in our dreaming.

avant garde nu classical... drone pieces & cut ups on first cd. second cd is long form guitar meditations. get on it.

pt. 1

&

pt. 2

propagation of civilization.

gorgeous songs about guns, violence, & the fast life sung by a man with the voice of an angel.

i shall soon rest in the desert.

a real honest to god mountain woman playing beautiful bluegrass.

walkin' after midnight.

eerie musique concrète-ish library jams from a well known yet mysterious bloke (my money is on andy votel or one of the demdike dudes). ideally suited for midnight listens while heading to the crossroads to sell yr soul.

ps not my rip, so thanks to whoever original upper is.

a new dawn rising.

really good compilation of downtempo minimal drone, ambient, & dance tracks from wanda group, huerco s., bantam lions & a grip of others.

be brave.

eccentric french cold wave from the mid eighties.

coming close to an end.

modern day drone with beats... mirroring maybe hype williams at their most abstracted point of dance? there are also cats who call this vaporwave, & in the same breath mention hypnagogic pop, & then go onto describe it as close in sound to rangers... i don't know about all that shit. it's pretty good, whatever you want to call it. if yr into laurel halo/notnotfun/oesb, this will be right up yr alley.

a western tale.

pure beautiful harsh noise.

return of the reyog ponorogo!

one of my most popular posts, rising from the grave like some modern day lazarus. if you didn't get this the first time around, here is yr chance. revel in the sheer mindfuck that is this tape. ecstatic chants mingle with beautiful gamelan & tribal rhythms to make one of the best things i have ever heard, ever. not sheer hyperbole my friends, genuinely this was/is a record that i visit & hear something new that always is expanding my mind every single time! wfmu, here's looking at you bb!

the solitary ohm.

holy shit. this is probably the most i've liked a new-ish record in quite some time now. this cat is on some umberto/zombi/vangelis/claudio simonetti shit. i hate when people use the term synth wizard, but this guy is a bona fide sorcerer.

emptying out the archives.

pretty great funk from a cat who releases records every twenty years or so.