LIGHT ON THE HORIZON

 RIPPED & DUBBED mixtape #13

This mix has been a few months in the making, and reflects a transformative reorientation toward optimism in future days. These are the sounds that have accompanied recent major life shifts, and I hope they find resonance with your lives and ears as the apex light of Summer Solstice approaches. 

- ML

LIGHT ON THE HORIZON

1. Nicklas Sørensen - "L I V E 3" from L I V E 1 [Aural Canyon]
2. Seawind of Battery - "Light on the Horizon" from Clockwatching [Island House Recordings]
3. Tarotplane - "Transitions Of Possibility" from Light Self All Others [Impatience]
4. x.y.r. - "secret path to north cliff" from vision quest [Good Morning Tapes]
5. Spiral Galaxy - "Volo Bog" from Live [Cardinal Fuzz]
6. Ariel Kalma - "Astral Enigma" from MetaMorPhantasy [self-released]
7. Etran de L'Aïr - "Toubouk Ine Chihoussay" from Agadez [Sahel Sounds]
8. Bent Arcana - "Sprites" from Bent Arcana [Castle Face]
9. Chris Forsyth & Koen Holtkamp - "Early Astral Part 2" from Early Astral [Blackest Rainbow]
10. Les Rallizes Dénudés - "The Last One (version 2)" from The OZ Tapes [Temporal Drift]
11. Kryssi B - "Earthlings" from DotDash Radio Presents - Guitar Works [WFMU]
12. Permafrost AC - "Just nu kan man i alla fall låtsats" from 16e Januari, blekt solsken [Fluere Tapes]
13. Katie Lou McCabe - "Evanescence of Colour" (single) [self-released]
14. Rosa Beach Mason & Sean Conrad - "Ardor" from Wake [Inner Islands]
15. 音羽信 (Shin Otowa) - "山小僧 (Mountain Child)" from わすれがたみ (Memento) [Eye Vybe Records]

NEW ENERGY

RIPPED & DUBBED mixtape #12

Back with a new Ripped & Dubbed just before the calendar turns to April! This mix winds through some longform drone and beautiful abstractions of sound, with a few psychedelic jams and fingerstyle guitar pieces woven in, and ending on a suite of songs subsumed by the music of the natural world. Enjoy these sounds as spring breaks in your world and ours.
-ML

NEW ENERGY

1. The North Sea - "Lavaliere" from Sunless Tropics [The Jewel Garden]
2. Creation VI - "Sacred Caves" from Kyle Landstra & Creation VI [Feathered Coyote]
3. Jeffrey Alexander - "Water Meditations (version)" from Flutterings [Feeding Tube]
4. Ivy Meadows - "New Energy" from Memoria [Fluere Tapes]
5. Wet Tuna - "Raw Food" from Warping All By Yourself [Three Lobed Recordings]
6. Rosali - "Modern-day Lizards" from Chokeweed [Unifactor]
7. Eternal Tapestry - "Enchanter's Nightshade" from Wild Strawberries [Thrill Jockey]
8. Camino Sound - "Joule" from Camino Sound EP [self-released]
9. J.R. Bohannon - "Love in Action" from Compulsions [Astral Editions]
10. Buck Curran w/ Jodi Pedrali - "Slow Air" from Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity [Obsolete Recordings]
11. Will Csorba - "Side A" (excerpt) from Neandertalis [Garden Portal]
12. Shining Lotus - "Side A" from Mountain Magic [self-released]
13. Our Solar System - "Naturligt Samspel" from Origins [Beyond Beyond Is Beyond]
14. Vague Imaginaires - "Montagnes Flottantes" from L'ile D'or [Not Not Fun]

ECHOES OF TIME

  RIPPED & DUBBED mixtape #11

The first new Ripped & Dubbed mix of 2022! Apologies for the few months' hiatus - between the Red Resonant Earth release this fall and the holidays, I didn't find much time to collect the sounds that have been echoing through the halls of our home since October (or longer). These are all instrumental, quite abstract, mostly solo performances that seem to align with this particular part of winter in the Northeast. Perfect for meditation, yoga, studying, writing, or painting to. Enjoy, til soon!       -ML

ECHOES OF TIME

1. Qi Hammer - "Jhana 1" from Jhana [self-released]
2. Aaron Dooley - "Ütiwaah" (single) [self-released]
3. Hama - "Tagout" from Torodi [Sahel Sounds]
4. Doug McKechnie - "The First Exploration @ SF Radical Laboratories, 1968" from San Francisco Moog: 1968-72 [VG+ Records]
5. Nimbudala - "Gather Round" from Universal Compassion [Inner Islands]
6. Oxherding - "An Echo" from An Echo Across The Lake [Distant Bloom]
7. x.y.r. - "Echoes Of Time" from Pilgrimage [Not Not Fun]
8. V. Kristoff - "Inland Hymn" from Sydra [Not Not Fun]
9. Norah Lorway - "swans" from another world [Distant Bloom]
10. Joseph Allred - "Frosted Mane" from Lute Music [self-released / Reverb Worship]
11. Matthew J. Rolin - "The Dreaming Bridge" from The Dreaming Bridge [Feeding Tube]
12. Ava Mendoza - "Apart From" from New Spells [Astral Spirits / Relative Pitch]
13. J.R. Bohannon - "For Marc" from Compulsions [Astral Editions]

TRANSMUTATION

 RIPPED & DUBBED mixtape #1o

Ripped & Dubbed #10 lands with 2+ hours of contemporary underground sound, charting a course from experimental stringwork through New Age and Berlin school electronics, jazz- and roots-deep rhythms, and psychedelic astral jams. Bandcamp links to all tracks below!

TRANSMUTATION

1. Richard Youngs - "Solo Guitar 2" from Solo Guitar [No Fans]
2. Gerycz/Powers/Rolin - "Lamplighter" from Lamplighter [American Dreams]
3. Hakobune - "A Fan, Strings, and Two Guitars" from A Fan, Strings, and Two Guitars [Patient Sounds]
4. Channelers - "Serpent In The Sky" from Another Entrance [Inner Islands]
5. Green-House - "Peace Piece" from SC25 Anniversary [Secretly Canadian]
6. Hiram - "Breath Escapes" from Artemisia [Home & Garden]
7. Ulrich Schnauss - "Improvisation #5 Part 2" from Improvisation #5 / Improvisation #6 [self-released]
8. Nimbudala - "Exaltation" from Universal Compassion [Inner Islands]
9. Tikkun Olam - "Sentient Ocean" from World Ov Light [The Jewel Garden]
10. Kafari - "the gift" from Blanket of Black [Hot Record Societe]
11. Luka Productions - "Forêt" from Falaw [Sahel Sounds]
12. Les Filles de Illighadad - "Chakalan" from At Pioneer Works [Sahel Sounds]
13. Oriente Lux - "The River" from Oriente Lux [The Jewel Garden]
14. Osmium House - "Tidal Recital" from Mendocino County [self-released]
15. Alligator Crystal Moth - "No Wave Nor Pulse Can Render" from Spectral Lysergics [The Jewel Garden]
16. Jakob Battick - "Slow Motion Heavy Syrup" from Rabbit's Moon [self-released]
17. Daniel Bachman - "Transmutation" from Axacan [Three Lobed Recordings]

STAR STITCH

 RIPPED & DUBBED mixtape #9

This month's Ripped & Dubbed mix gathers disparate threads from different eras, areas, and genres, with the usual lean toward experimental underground music released in the past few months. The set opens with a selection of tracks I picked up during August's Bandcamp Friday, from Arushi Jain's stunning translation of traditional Indian classical music onto ambient modular synthesizers to Kafari's transcendent and highly emotive melding of piano loops with synth pads and staggering beats. Links to all tracks (where available) included below!

STAR STITCH

1. Arushi Jain - "My People Have Deep Roots" from Under the Lilac Sky [LEAVING]
2. Grant Beyschau - "Nama" from Munds Spring [Astrological Unfolding Music]
3. Field Patterns - "Salamandering" from Field Patterns [Aural Canyon]
4. Arian Shafiee ft. Chuck Johnson - "Luscher Cascades" from Pastorale [Constellation Tatsu]
5. Kafari - "way of the intercepting fist" from Blanket of Black [Hot Record Societe]
6. Wednesday Knudsen & Willie Lane - "Star Stitch" from Long Time 'Til Tomorrow [Feeding Tube Records] aka NATCH 9 [Black Dirt Studios]
7. Rob Noyes & Ryan Lee Crosby - "Improvisation 3" from Modal Improvisations on 34 Strings [Cabin Floor Esoterica]
8. Répéter - "The Armchair Explorer" from Bad Twang [Bokeh Versions]
9. Brenda Ray - "Swirlin Hearts" (Scientist Production ft. Sir Freddie Viadukt aka The Minister Of Noise) from Walatta [Tamoki-Wambesi-Dove]
10. Lucas Santtana - "Awô Dub" from 3 Sessions In A Greenhouse [ Diginois / Mais Um Discos]
11. Sir Tad - "Deeper & Deeper" from Sir Tad Goes Deeper & Deeper [Purple Akronym]
12. Rob Frye - "Jupiter Control" from Exoplanet [Astral Spirits]
13. Osmium House - "Dawn of Pisces (Full)" from Live Elements [self-released]
14. xPOEMSx - "We Were Golden" from Who Makes The Summers (do ya mind tellin' me?) [Easy Tapes Subcult]
15. Nashville Ambient Ensemble - "Conversion" from Cerulean [Centripal Force]
16. Charlatan - "Saturnine" from The Glass Borders [Moon Glyph]
17. Six Organs of Admittance - "Messier 42" from Sleep Tones [Hermit Hut]
18. Drew Gardner - "The Road To Eastern Garden" from Drew Gardiner [Eiderdown Records]
19. Rosali - "If Not For Now" from No Medium [S P I N S T E R]

EARTHSEED

 RIPPED & DUBBED mixtape #8

Ripped & Dubbed is back with our first new mix of the summer! Earthseed connects 18 tracks that commingle with the season's environment: drones, field recordings, terrestrial folk experiments, odes to the cosmos and its elements, and genre-melted beats. Settle in for a two-hour communion with the Earth and its resonance.

EARTHSEED

1. Daniel Bachman - "Blue Ocean 0" from Axacan [Three Lobed]
2. Powers / Rolin Duo - "Tea Lights" from Strange Fortune [Astral Editions]
3. Claire Rousay - "a kind of promise" from a softer focus [American Dreams]
4. The North Sea - "Last of the Silverbacks" from Internal Monologue: A Collection of Solo Bouzouki Recordings [The Jewel Garden]
5. rootless - "earthseed" from places remember us [Aural Canyon]
6. Lake Mary & Oxherding - "Traces of Water" from With The Windows Open [Distant Bloom]
7. Aura Gaze ft. Ariel Kalma - "Cloud Temple" from Sky Mind [Aural Canyon]
8. Green-House - "Rain" from Music for Living Spaces [Leaving Records]
9. Solid Waste - "Deep Forest Portal" from City Of The Cosmos [Distant Bloom]
10. Inner Travels - "Ocean's Edge" from Yonder [Sounds Of The Dawn]
11. Kenji Kihara - "Early Summer" from Scenes of Scapes [Inner Islands]
12. Jusell, Prymek, Sage, Shiroishi - "Shepherd's Stroll" from Setsubun (節分) [Cached Media]
13. Future Museums - "Shelving the Mist" from Transitional Spirit Mirror [Aural Canyon]
14. Six Organs of Admittance - "Somewhere in the Hexagon of Saturn" from The Veiled Sea [Three Lobed]
15. Répéter - "Excellency, Black Pyramids!!" from Bad Twang [Bokeh Versions]
16. Tikkun Olam - "Daughter of the Moon" from World Ov Light [The Jewel Garden]
17. Hiiragi Fukuda - "Breeze" from Seacide [Sloow Tapes / Trouble In Mind]
18. Lucas Santtana & Seleção Natural ft. Gilmar Bola 8 - "Pela Orla Dos Velhos Tempos" from 3 Sessions In A Greenhouse [ Diginois / Mais Um Discos]

The Ripped & Dubbed Generations mixtape series debuts today with Midnight's Road: 16 tracks ripped from self-released or underground/indie label CDs or CD-Rs, originally released between 2001-2013. All songs were sourced from my own personal collection - discs acquired through my life as a musician and underground label head; a cross-section of the underground as I perceived it in those years. Most of the songs featured on this mix were only released on the CD format, and many have never made the online transition from bricked Myspace pages to today's standard streaming services. A handful of songs featured here were only ever heard by the 50-or-so people who landed a CD-R at the merch table or through a small distro mailorder ten or more years ago, and the Generations project seeks to make this music available for discovery in a whole new era to a new generation of experimental music enthusiasts.

Though you won't be able to add most of these tracks to your Spotify playlist, I'm including links to Discogs listings for each if you'd like to try to snag an original CD-R (usually for very few dollars). Bandcamp links are also included when available.

GENERATIONS #1: MIDNIGHT'S ROAD

1. Muntjac - "Sprouts" from Imaginary Conservation Sounds [Azriel, 2007]
2. Starbird - "Mushrooms" from Night Keep Moving [Spirit Of Orr, 2006]
3. Elm - "Covered In Blankets And Moss" from Nemcatacoa [Digitalis Arts & Crafts Editions, 2009]
4. Jackie-O Motherfucker - "Pray" from Liberation [Road Cone 2001; ripped from 2004 ATP reissue]
5. MV & EE with The Bummer Road - "Big Deal" (edit) from Green Blues [Ecstatic Peace! 2006]
6. Feathers - "Ibex Horn" from Gnomeozoic Live [Feathers Family, 2004]
7. Ashtray Navigations - "Outside Air" from Cinderella Stamps [Memoirs Of An Aesthete, 2011; ripped from 2020 Greatest Imaginary Hits VHF reissue]
8. B.R. Garm - "Over Laketown" from The Zeros [Dontrustheruin, 2007]
9. Expo '70 - "Your Beard Is Growing Psychic" from Sonic Messenger [Beta-Lactam Ring, 2009; Bandcamp digital]
10. Evan Caminiti - "Midnight's Road" from Psychic Mud Shrine [Digitalis Arts & Crafts Editions, 2009]
11. The North Sea - "The Sun Went Out" from On The Endless Golden Skyway [Black Petal, 2007]
12. Enfer Boreal - "Untitled (track 4)" from The Birth Of Venus [Stunned, 2009]
13. Bird People - "Deep In The Forests Of Kashyyyk" from The Decompression Sessions Vol.1: Piloting a Vapor-Powered Spacecraft Into the Heart of the Void [self-released 4xCD-R, 2013; Bandcamp free download]
14. Many Mansions - "Metanoia" from Return To Source [Whitehaus Family Record 2009; Bandcamp free download]
15. Nick Castro & The Poison Tree - "Music For Mijwiz" from Further From Grace [Strange Attractors Audio House, 2005]
16. GHQ - "Drop City Blues" from Everywhere At Once [Three Lobed Recordings, 2008; Bandcamp digital]