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mrpretzel_

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Member Since: 2/27/2007
Total Mixes: 55
Total Feedback: 9

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CD | Mixed Genre
CD | Mixed Genre
CD | Pop
CD | Electronic - Ambient

Selling Iceboxes to Eskimo

Artist Song
Selling Iceboxes to Eskimo, 75MB
   Deerhoof 
"Sound the Alarm" (0:20)  
   Red Sparowes  "Alone and Unaware, the Landscape Was Transformed in Front of Our Eyes" (8:23) 
     1st interlude (4:42) 
   The Arditti String Quartet  Elliott Carter's fragment for string quartet (4:02) 
   Aphex Twin  "[lichen]" (3:05) 
   Excelsior  "Orbiting Bodies" (3:41) 
     2nd interlude (8:45) 
   Bolander  "Winter, 1973" (6:42) 
   Sonic Youth  "Providence" (2:35) 
   Godspeed You! Black Emperor  Excerpt from "The Buildings They Are Sleeping Now" (2:35) 
   Sigur R=s  Excerpt from "Svefn-g-Englar" (2:15) 
     3rd interlude (6:10) 
   Four Tet  "My Angel Rocks Back and Forth" (5:07) 
   Cornelius  "Scum" (0:37) 

Comment:

An ambient mix, dark and icy in places.

The interludes I made from samples from these tracks:

1st
Sufjan Steven's "Dumb I Sound""DFD 21" from the Conet ProjectThrobbing Gristle's "Zyclon B. Zombie"Mark Templeton's "Not Alone Anymore""Earth", pt. 5 of David Darling's Darkwood
2nd
Boards of Canada's "Sherbet Head"Black Moth Super Rainbow's "Hazy Field People"Darcy Odrai's "Fargemetrics 2""The Swedish Rhapsody" from the Conet ProjectBibio's "It Was Willow"Colophon's "The Reassuring Glow of Streetlights"3rd interpolation from Edgar Varese's DTsertsPaolo Ippoliti's "Adesso Vola Via"
3rd
Joe Stone's "Hittin' the Bottle", pt. 2M·m's "Awake on a Train"Boards of Canada's "Beware the Friendly Stranger"Explosions in the Sky's "Welcome, Ghosts"Pelican's "Mammoth"Boards of Canada's "Into the Rainbow Vein"

Feedback:

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njr
Date: 7/9/2008
Sends chills up & down my spine!
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Malaise
Date: 7/10/2008
This is gorgeous.
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avocado rabbit
Date: 7/12/2008
Sound the alarm, after 6 months Mr. Pretzel returns with a beautiful mix. Some of the best mixes on aotm come from Pretzel. Don't be a stranger anymore.
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Barrydali
Date: 7/13/2008
Lovely, I think the Rabbit has a point.
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doowad
Date: 7/18/2008
I'm with those guys.
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p the swede
Date: 7/28/2008
enjoyable