so long & farewell.

no long paragraph about how much of a pleasure this has all been. i'll keep this real short & on brand. this is the final post of spookcity. thank you to everyone who has been here for the ride, catch y'all on the other side amigos.

music for presence.

nice house from the early 90s perfect for when yr two chugs of syrup & four gabapentin deep at midnight.

eleven thousand dreams.

of course everyone knows this one, but i'm clearing out my itunes & posting everything i had in backlog. never bad to revisit this gem.

ascending into nowhere.

i don't know how y'all feel about her, but i'm a big fan of hers, especially 70s/80s era lydia.

descending into space.

hey gang, sorry for not being around very much, it's summer & life has gone left for me. anyway, i'll be moving to portland in the beginning of september, so i'm selling off some of my tapes & vinyl to help fund the move. i'll try to be more active in the next month & a half because after the move there will probably be radio silence for a while. forever forward.

ps this hisaishi joint is real nice, just don't expect any fireworks.

pps buy my stuff here

smoke signals vol VIII.

hey, it's been a minute. just in time for the dead heat of summer here is my latest mix of chopped & screwed ratty europop records & dubious chillout spa comps. meant to be listened to loudly on a porch with yr heads in the clouds. hope everyone is enjoying their summer.

listen here.

ps if y'all want a d/l link just lemme know.

there is a place.

some real lovely early 80's breezy japanese yacht rock to help you get through wednesday.

meet me by the clocktower.

this kikuchi momoko record is fire. has a bunch of folks that have played on records that will probably get reissued at some point soon. everything about this is perfect.

neither more nor less.

i don't see a lot of folks talking about this vangelis album, which is a shame because it's amazing. perfect score for getting high at seven in the morning while enjoying a nice cup of tea.

washed away in a sea of red.

a synth score for a crappy 80's horror film. posting this for the mpcs.

the whole city between us.

before i run off to work here is some spot on mid 80's jpop featuring a fella from mariah. if that doesn't whet yr appetite enough, then i don't know what will.

the soft dissolve.

dub inflected cold wave from chris & cosey of throbbing gristle released in 85. nuff said.

swallow this swell.

beautiful jazz album featuring pharoah sanders so you know it's a go.

if you know you know.

mid 80's british boogie that wouldn't be out of place on 4ad. perfect jams to smoke weed to on a rainy afternoon.

an abandoned garden.

anything with klaus schulze is always a go.

a music of the eighth house.

a great way to kick off a saturday night with this post punk classic. not really a fan of later xymox, but this hits the sweet spot between 4ad gothic dream pop & post punk.

under the jaguar sun.

this is a really lovely piano album that came out through windham. love to put this on in the afternoon with the windows open & the sun shining through.

time shapes the lens.

heading down to portland to record, so i'll be away for a bit. leaving you with some more swishy piano shit. it's on narada, you know what's good.

a circular ceremony.

& of course some more hassell for y'all.

pale prophecy.

some classic mid 80's boogie.

paper window.

more joe hisaishi from the mid 90's for y'all.

dream of my love.

some swishy shit for a lazy afternoon.

goodbye dreaming fields.

deep zones for the clouds.

from a distant hill.

a wonderful slice of sophisticated mid 80's j-pop produced by masataka matsutoya who you might recognize from the aegean sea album which also features hosono & shigeru suzuki.

hold yr breath.

i know i've said some shit about jim ferraro in the past, but have been revisiting this album from his peak & i've been thoroughly enjoying it's gloopy glue sniffing mutant lo-fi rock & roll.

children of the wind.

starting out an early sunday morning with don byrd's fantastic jazz funk fusion album from 75.

inner suggestions.

some real lovely minimal japanese ambient jams that harry hosono produced in 1983.

wall of early morning light.

let's follow that up with some more jon hassell.

the earth keeps its secrets.

some more hisaishi to satiate yr needs.

subtle strains.

cold minimal techno from 02. if yr into what voigt & co has been laying down over the last 20+ years, then you'll dig this.

dreamer awakens.

to kick the week off right, here is some cosmic dub from 81. straight fire.

rogue waves.

bewitching malian jams for a lazy sunday morning.

in a night of thirteen moons.

this canadian cheeseball had a brief moment as a disco sensation in the 70s tried to get shit going with a veritable grab bag of mid 80s sounds, some to much better effect than others. young lover is the fucking cut though.

going in.

let's keep it pushing with this slice of early 80's jazz funk.

andrew weathers // qualchan. split c26 out now!

hey! just wanted to drop a quick line to say my latest tape, a split with the phenomenal andrew weathers, is out through the stellar aescape sounds outta austin, tx. & of course i have to thank evan of flash strap notoriety for the gorgeously stunning artwork! my piece is a b-side to last year's here, tyrant death, exploring the now age while andrew's is some fantastic noisy drone.

purchase here.

though i may be dreaming.

i am obsessed with everything that jon hassell does, you should be too.

in the clouds.

an underrated gem from vangelis. not everything on here is great, but there are plenty enough moments to make this worthwhile.

choirs of the eye.

let's keep it pushing with some mid 80's mutant argentinian synth pop weirdness.

ps not my rip, many many thanks to og whoever ye may be.

qualchan. ~ one hundred years. c26 out now!

hey there! the first qualchan. tape of the year has come out today through the amazing czaszka records. a rumination on the end times for humanity, the tape is comprised of faded tape loops, processed synthesizers & mangled field recordings. riyl ~ basinski, turman, voigt.

purchase the tape here.

incidental boogie.

i know i know, everyone is already hip to this gem, but i hadn't heard it in years, been real nice to catch up again after all this time. still a really stunning album!

nothing ever happened.

this'll be the last japanese drop for a while.

other lives.

let's keep it pushing with more 80's japanese synthpop.

a long drive home.

gorgeously zonked out mid 80's japanese art pop.

wasted view.

more fire from my man joe hisaishi.

you were there with me.

what, another slice of mid 80s japanese weirdo avant pop? you betcha.

surfing yr life away.

really gorgeous late 70's new age.

mansion of invention.

now for some kraut synth shit from 79. i'm not wild about the vocals, but klaus schulze is laying down some dreamy jams on here.

when you walk into my dreams.

some fun upbeat reggae to combat the cold outside.

even if yr not awake.

let's jump back to japan for some squiggly early 80's post punk.

let it take yr mind.

let's go a little north for hazy afternoon zones.

the pattern emerges.

jumping across the pacific for this brazilian loveliness from 1970.