The 'What Song Are You Listening To Now' Thread

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RA.823 Clark

Resident Advisor

• Tracklist
  Bartok - Dorian Mode From Mikrokosmos 
  Sun Ra - Love In Outer Space
  Basil Kirchin - My Unintended
  Basic Channel - Mutism
  Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity 
  Bendik Giske - Adjust
  Todd Dockstader - Water Music 
  Clark - Dark Acid Climbs
  C Yoshiu Wada - Reed modulations 
  Eliane Radigue - Opus 17
  Eliane Radigue - Vice Versa
  Bernard Parmegiani - Premiere Series 
  Positive Centre - Mycelial Culture
  Gajek - Connected By Pipes (Live Version) 
  Clark - Entropy Polychord
  Suicide - Ghost Rider
  Clark - Unreleased dmx jam
  Clark - Untitled
  PTP - Show Me Your Spine
  Blawan - Underbelly
  Thomas Bangalter - Spinal Scratch 
  Clark - Unreleased
  Steve Poindexter - Computer Madness 
  Clark - Unreleased
  Clark - Unreleased
  Clark - Unreleased
  Burial - New Love/Anti Dawn
  Clark - Abyss Thick And Wide
  Mary J Blige - Real love
  Ricardo Villalobos - Ichso
  Clark - Already Ghosts
  Black Dog - Olivine
  Clark - Springtime Epigram
  Balil - Choke And Fly
  Clark - Unreleased
  Nathan Fake - Unreleased
  Clark - Unreleased
  Archetype - Chant
  Laguna Seca - Twin Set
  Current Value - Atonement
  Nathan Fake - Untitled
  Clark - Slow Haunt
  Clark - Lambent Rag (Alt Version) Arseny Avraamov - Symphony Of Sirens
• Connecting the dots from classical to Burial
• Chris Clark's music is hard to describe, but if you wanted to explain it to an electronic music fan, you might use the dreaded term "IDM" to encompass the many strange and alluring records, some frantic, some chill, the UK producer has put out through Warp over the years. We can be a bit more specific: he uses field recordings, out-there drum patterns and all kinds of hardware (seriously, there's a lot) to make make meticulously processed music, some of which you can dance to. Lately, though, he's turned his attention to classical music, scoring films and televisions shows and culminating in last year's Playground In A Lake for vaunted label Deutsche Grammophon, which featured guests like AFRODEUTSCHE and Oliver Coates and a member of Grizzly bear on a moving, string and horns-led suite about climate change. You hear all these ideas at once on Clark's stirring RA Podcast, which features music, as he explains, from 1922 all the way to 2022. Classical rubs elbows with Burial and Ricardo Villalobos, as once familiar tracks melt into new (mis)shapes. It also features plenty of Clark originals—maybe some glimpses of the new album? The best part isn't even the formidable selections, but the way he puts it altogether. Far from a seamless DJ mix, this one is full of peaks and valleys and clever transitions that'll make you check the tracklist and wonder what you just heard. It's the kind of all-over-the-place mix that captures the brilliance of Clark's in a DJ format. Maybe he should do this more often.

   

  What are you grateful for these days?

   

  People in my life. Being able to carry on doing what I love, making music, progressing, inching along, stitch by stitch improving it all a bit everyday.

   

  How and where was the mix recorded, and can you tell us the idea behind it?

   

  Some in Australia, then some more on a flight on the way back and the rest in my studio back in Brighton which is where I am now, jetlagged but buzzing. It started off as a DMX drum machine rinse out, I've been enjoying that thing, I wanted to play some old electro stuff but felt I needed to justify it by making my own alongside it. That was fun, but felt a bit norms, so I started crafting this slab of material from older music, musique concrète classical, jazz and some of my own unreleased tunes as well. This was very engaging, but obviously a bit of a mess. So I decided to go right back to 1922 with Symphony Of Sirens. So it's now music that I like from 1922 to 2022, and you can't possibly call it a mess, because it's because it's music from 1922 to 2022, ok? There's a definite wink to John Peel in there in terms of ground covered. Actually the more I went on, the more I began to see abstract parallels between the pieces chosen.

   

  How is it recording with string ensembles, and how does the composition, writing or recording process and approach differ from your previous, more electronic albums?

   

  I played in orchestras as a kid so strings are a distant but native part of my language, it's just felt more normal to go between the two as worlds as time has gone. When I first worked with orchestra for the film Daniel Isn't Real I was kinda freaked out at how much I liked the sound, but also how different it was to techno, or say the more pure electronic of a record like Turning Dragon. I wasn’t like, "yeah this is EXACTLY the same as that album." But I gradually started integrating voices from my more electronic world. For instance, like the cat synth, I layered a line from that over the string session and this track became "I'm Pulling My Face Off." It shouldn't really work like this, but it does. My favourite kind of flavour combination discovery. Maybe it's something in the harmonics between sawtooth waves/noise and orchestra slamming it on the chromatic spider lines, it just clicks.

   

  Why did you choose to go so far back into electronic music history for this mix—and do you think older electronic music and musique concrete informs the way you make music now?

   

  It was actually just a very natural thing of thinking "what do I like?" And I like plenty of current music but I'm not actually a DJ, so I'll never have 400 tracks that were released in the last six months on my hard disk, it would be weird if I did, like procrastinating on all of my own music by losing myself in other peoples. Some people do that exceptionally well, with full commitment, and entertain thousands of people in the process. But I'm from much more of a producer/composer/musician mindset. I just know what I enjoy, some music has a potent quality that transcends our particular moment, it's always good to be aware of what's going on outside our particular moment, you realize it's all connected, it's a conversation. You can see the links between hip-hop, techno and musique concrete, Bach chorales inform gospels, jazz harmony. Blues to funk, funk to Kraftwerk back to Detroit techno again. It’s a massive ever growing feast, basically. I'm sure I've missed some links in that chain, there are always hidden links in the chain

   

  What's one social or political cause you want the world to pay more attention to?

   

  Tackling the ongoing ecological collapse of our planet seems like a good place to start in terms of causes. I'm reading a really good book at the moment by Jason Hickel about the idea of "degrowth," called Less Is More. I heartily recommend it, but I'm not going to badly paraphrase it here in an interview about some music I mixed.

   

  What are you looking forward to in the near future?

   

  Finishing my album so I can go on holiday. Been too long. My album is fun though. I don't wanna finish it! I wanna stay in this place forever.

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999 - Fortune Teller

Label:    Albion Records – ITS 999
Format:    
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:    UK
Released:    1981
Genre:    Rock
Style:    New Wave, Punk

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Leftfield + Lydon - Open Up (Dervish Overdrive)

Label:    Hard Hands – HAND 009T
Format:    
Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Single
Country:    UK
Released:    1 Nov 1993
Genre:    Electronic
Style:    Progressive House, Breakbeat

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Tommy TuTone ~ 867-5309/Jenny (Album Version Dance Mix)

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The Business - Product (Carry on Oi! Version)

Label:    Secret Records – SEC 2
Format:    
Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country:    UK
Released:    1981
Genre:    Rock
Style:    Punk, Oi!

 

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Blitz - Voice of a Generation etc

Label:    No Future Records – PUNK 1
Format:    
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:    UK
Released:    6 Nov 1982
Genre:    Rock
Style:    Punk, Oi

 

 

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The Mekons - Not a Bitterman (Born To Be Mild)

The Mekons - Eden

The Mekons - This Sporting Life

 

 

Label:    CNT Productions – cnt 009, CNT Productions – CNT 009
Format:    
Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition
Country:    UK
Released:    1982
Genre:    Electronic, Rock
Style:    New Wave, Punk

 

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Crass ‎- Penis Envy LP (1981) [VINYL RIP] *HQ AUDIO* *RE-ENGINEERED*

Side B first, the uploader has the ultra rare misprint vinyl.

Tracklist order for this vid:

Where Next Columbus?
Berkertex Bribe
Smother Love
Health Surface
Dry Weather
Our Wedding

Bata Motel
Systematic Death
Poison In A Pretty Pill
What The Fuck?

Label: Crass Records – 321984/1
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1981
Genre: Rock
Style: Punk

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Freeez – I.O.U. (Megamix) 1983

Label:    Beggars Banquet – BEG 96(T), Beggars Banquet – BEG 96T
Format:    
Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, Single, Stereo, Picture Cover
Country:    UK
Released:    Jun 1983
Genre:    Electronic
Style:    Electro, Disco

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The Cassandra Complex – Grenade (Full Album 1986)

Label:    Rouska – CXRA 001
Format:    
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:    UK
Released:    1986
Genre:    Electronic, Rock
Style:    EBM, Industrial, Post-Punk

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Rubella Ballet - At Last It's Playtime LP (1985 UK)

Label:    Ubiquitous Records – dayglo two
Format:    
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:    UK
Released:    1985
Genre:    Rock
Style:    Goth Rock, Post-Punk

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Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)

(Full Album)

 

Label:    Island Records – ILPS 9309
Format:    
Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold
Country:    UK
Released:    Nov 1974
Genre:    Electronic, Rock
Style:    Art Rock

 

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Charli XCX - CRASH - Official Album Playlist

Label:    Asylum Records – 0190296409981
Format:    
Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Red Opaque & Black Marbled
Country:    Europe
Released:    18 Mar 2022
Genre:    Electronic, Pop
Style:    Dance-pop, Synth-pop

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The Magnificent – Hit And Run Full LP + Skins'N'Punks Volume 3 Split LP

super 80's Oi/Pub Rock from Nijmegen, Netherlands. Follow-up of Nijmegen's first punk band, The Squats

Label:    Link Records (4) – LINK LP 027
Format:    
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:    UK
Released:    1988
Genre:    Rock
Style:    Punk, Oi

Label:    Oi! Records – OIR 009, Oi! Records – OIR-009
Series:    Skins 'N' Punks – Volume 3
Format:    
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:    UK
Released:    1987
Genre:    Rock
Style:    Oi, Punk

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2012 LP from these Greek punk legends from Athens. Shreds.

ΑΝΤΙΔΡΑΣΗ / Antidrasi (GREECE) – Όρκος Του Μίσους (LP, 2012) [VINYL RIP] *HQ AUDIO* *RE-ENGINEERED*

Label:    E Records (2) – 002
Format:    
Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition
Country:    Greece
Released:    18 Jan 2012
Genre:    Rock
Style:    Hardcore Punk

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The Fratellis - Costello Music [Full Album] (2006)

Label:    Fallout Recordings – 1707193, Drop The Gun Recordings – 1707193, Island Records Group – 1707 193
Format:    
CD, Album, Special Edition, Stereo
Country:    Europe
Released:    2006
Genre:    Rock
Style:    Pop Rock, Indie Rock

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Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not [Full Album] (2006)

Label:    Domino – WIGLP162
Format:    
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:    UK & Europe
Released:    23 Jan 2006
Genre:    Rock
Style:    Indie Rock