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Erik XVI – The Fading Splendour of a Technological Future

In a parallel dimension not often intruded upon by the living, the sounds to which we dance took a decidedly different turn around the time of the latest millennium change. In this twilight world at the 90th parallel, the custodians of the 90 drums beat out their steadfast but languid rhythm at an ever-decreasing pace year after year. Ghostly apparitions flicker in the dusk and mysterious semblances shimmer in the cold, entranced by disembodied choirs of haunted voices singing in the distance.

As the dance progresses, the plaintive hymn to the machines gradually escalates into a preparation for battle, as the holy technocrats push their sacred machines to ever more intense configurations of desire. The cascading shards of ice that envelop this polar scene give rise to magnificent and otherworldly echoing tones, but sadly also contribute to the terminal decay of the ancient technology favoured by the undead to create their hypnotic sounds.

Intrepid explorer Erik XVI gained unprecedented access to the fading splendour of this parallel future, and succeeded in bringing back this unique audio artefact, a field recording of what happened to the music we call techno in an alternative universe.

The tracklist is hidden in the mp3.

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Alextronic – Dingle at 2am

This mix was originally created to soundtrack the Sculpture Remixed exhibition at Tate Liverpool in 2009. Alextronic is the DJ and co-founder of the Hive Collective. The Hive Collective are a group of audio and visual artists that has been at the forefront of developing innovative electronic music and audiovisual performance in Liverpool since the organisation was established in 2003.
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Arnold Dreyblatt and the excited strings – High Life
Chris Watson – Low Pressure Glen Cannich
Charlemagne Palestine – Jamaica Heinekens in Brooklyn Part 2
Philip Jeck – Vienna Faults
Zoviet France – Mudbast Boys
Marcia Blaine School for Girls – We
S – Express – Coma
Zoviet France – Decriminalisation of Country Music
JD Twitch – Drone 3
Throbbing Gristle – Hamburger Lady (Carter Tutti mix)

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Rose and Sandy – 4NSD

Podcast 2 comes from two thirds of the Broken20 team in the guise of Rose and Sandy. This podcast was originally hosted on the NSD podcast series in April 2006 but the series stopped soon after and all episodes have been unavailable since.
This mix was a mixture of djing and live sketches that were a dry run for a performance that month, interspersed with some field recordings from Glasgow.
The track listing is sadly missing – here is a very rough indication of what’s on it…
Tracklist has finally reappeared!

1.  Field recording
2.  Hazard – Wood (Touch)
3.  Sutekh – Privacy (Orthlong Musork)
4.  Rose and Sandy – Work in Progress #1
5.  Jim O’Rourke – 2 Organs (Die Stadt)
6.  William Burroughs – Meeting of the International Conference (Sub Rosa)
7.  Field recording
8.  Rose and Sandy – Work in Progress #2
9.  Rose and Sandy – Work in Progress #3
10. Porter Ricks – Zebul (Barooni)
11. Alejandra & Aeron – The Tale of Pip (Lucky Kitchen)
12. Rose and Sandy – Work in Progress #4
13. Donnacha Costello – Your New God (Mille Plateaux)
14. Pan American – Quarry B (Kraaak)
15. Coil – Magnetic North (Eskaton)
16. Rose and Sandy – Work in Progress #5
17. Ultra Red – Lewd Conduct (Mille Plateaux)
18. Production Unit – Work in Progress
19. Rose and Sandy – Work in Progress #6
20. Orphax – In a Long Night (self released)
21. C-shulz & Hajsch – 1 (Sonig)
22. Rose and Sandy – Work in Progress #7
23. Marcia Blaine School for Girls – Milk and Honey (Highpoint Lowlife)

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Erstlaub – On Becoming Invisible

For our first podcast Dundee-based artist Erstlaub kicks things off with an hour or more of dark drone, ambient and post-rock textures. It features an exclusive excerpt from the first release on the label.

Basil Kirchin – Once Upon a Time
Oneohtrix Point Never – Physical Memory
The Zephyr Skate Team – Horse Walking
Tim Hecker – Paragon Point
Slowdive – Souvlaki Space Station
Windy & Carl – Lighthouse
Dirty Hope – Turtles
Stars of the Lid – Virginia (20.30)
Throbbing Gristle – Perception Is The Only Reality
TVO – We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (excerpt)
Dopplereffekt – Hyperelliptic Surfaces
Kraftwerk – Kometenmelodie 2
Samoyed – Simmer Lunt
The Caretaker – Friends Past Re-United
Angelo Badalamenti – Blue Frank

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